for Firefox I have the bookmarks moved onto the menu bar, and then navigation buttons, url and search bars on the 2nd line
at one point I think I had it down to one bar with the compact-menu extension, where you can put all of the menus into a single menu button or icon, and had less bookmarks in in my "bookmark toolbar" - it made the url and search bars a bit short sometimes, but on my 12" Gateway laptop (before even the first netbook was out) a lot better
in another case, with the 22" monitor on my desktop, it goes from having a ridiculous amount of screen real estate to an insane amount
I was going to ask why MS would be anti-Windows, but then I remembered, Balmer wants to fsking destroy all windows, with which he wages the fight with chairs...
All the nodes run Suse Linux. Unlike traditional Linux clusters, which focus on throughput, these systems are tuned for real-time performance - using features of the kernel such as memory locking, real-time scheduling and low-delay communication.
They didn't use Linux "just because it has zero licensing costs" - they used it because Windows isn't going to give them the real time performance on physics simulations that they wanted, to track every projectile and object within a given area takes power, but also has to be able to give the results instantly.
Everybody on here and Ars seems to be acting like this is the first of the N770/800/810's with a cell connection - when the N810 WiMax edition had support for Sprint's XOHM network since it was released April 1, 2008.
The biggest reason I would say that failed is because the XOHM network only covered like New York and Chicago at the time AFAIK.
Because that still doesn't work. You do realize the kids would still put phones in their pockets, and only pull em out when they wanna send a message, or in their backpacks. For years now backpack makers have had those dangly pouches for cell phones (bad idea though cuz that says "Hey, there's a phone in here! Steal me!"). Even though software and movie piracy is illegal, people still do it. Even though automatic firearms are illegal for people without the proper permits, gang members still obtain and use them. Even though lying under oath in court is illegal, politicians still do it...
I guess this really would teach the kids something useful for the real world - "It's only wrong if you get caught."
What this really is though, is a publicity stunt - like that moron politician or whatever he was a few months back "Let's Kevlar/armor plate textbooks so students can use them if they get shot at!"
Because other cars, like the Tesla Model S, being exclusively electric powered, the base battery pack supposedly good for 160MPG, and a charge from empty to full battery to cost ~$4 USD - yeah, if that's what the majority of Tesla's product line will have, I'd certainly go for the Tesla. Granted the Model S costs your liver, spleen, and kidneys at $100k USD...
Why? The PlayStation 2's DualShock 2 controllers released back in 2000 had pressure sensitive buttons. Why change what you call something, other than to make it seem like you totally didn't rip off a decade old technology.
Any authorized company can sell OEM Windows licenses, and is as a rule of thumb loads cheaper than the retail package. The catch is, if the company you bought it from ever goes under, your Windows license is now illegal. Or at least that's what I was told by my MSDN teacher in my MSDN Windows desktop and server courses...
You mean NeatX? If so, you do realize that's not an X replacement, but an NX server. While X can do remote logins and whatnot by itself, its bad on bandwith. NX and NeatX take X and make it more conservative on the bandwidth...
If that's not what you were talking about, pay no attention to me...
No shit an Athlon 64 and Radeon GPU is going to eat the Acer like a too small bag of doritos - because its apples to oranges here.
My first laptop was a Compaq 15" w/Athlon64 3200+ and Radeon 200M. It also weighed about 8lbs (a lot with or without textbooks in college) and sure, I could run Half Life 2 on it - but it sucked the battery out in 2 hours normal use, maybe 1/2 hour on HL2. Which is why I looked at my priorities, and how since it was for school and browsing the web when visiting family, I replaced it with a 12" Gateway Core Solo ULV and Intel GPU - much lighter and longer battery life of up to 4 or 5 hours.
My point is, too many people don't see that the reason for netbooks in the first place is to have a light weight laptop with decent battery life that costs under $1200 USD. Don't give me that "Oh, but they want it because it's cheap!" crap, because they could just as well go get a $400 luggable desktop replacement like the one I had. If they want a cheap fast computer, they could have my old laptop (if it still worked). If they want something cheap, light weight, and long battery life, they just might have to put up with it being a tad slow.
Now, if they **really** want something light weight, mediocre to long battery life, and whatever the current generation of desktop processor is, they will*definitely* pay out the ass for it. That held true for spec to price ratio when I bought my 12" Gateway 2 years ago, it holds true now, and it will more than likely continue to be true another 2 years from now...
First paragraph here describes how ZFS works in contrast - FTFA:
In my opinion, the basic architecture of btrfs is more suitable to storage than that of ZFS. One of the major problems with the ZFS approach - "slabs" of blocks of a particular size - is fragmentation. Each object can contain blocks of only one size, and each slab can only contain blocks of one size. You can easily end up with, for example, a file of 64K blocks that needs to grow one more block, but no 64K blocks are available, even if the file system is full off nearly empty slabs of 512 byte blocks, 4K blocks, 128K blocks, etc. To solve this problem, we (the ZFS developers) invented ways to create big blocks out of little blocks ("gang blocks") and other unpleasant workarounds. In our defense, at the time btrees and extents seemed fundamentally incompatible with copy-on-write, and the virtual memory metaphor served us well in many other respects.
In contrast, the items-in-a-btree approach is extremely space efficient and flexible. Defragmentation is an ongoing process - repacking the items efficiently is part of the normal code path preparing extents to be written to disk. Doing checksums, reference counting, and other assorted metadata busy-work on a per-extent basis reduces overhead and makes new features (such as fast reverse mapping from an extent to everything that references it) possible.
Now for some personal predictions (based purely on public information - I don't have any insider knowledge). Btrfs will be the default file system on Linux within two years. Btrfs as a project won't (and can't, at this point) be canceled by Oracle. If all the intellectual property issues are worked out (a big if), ZFS will be ported to Linux, but it will have less than a few percent of the installed base of btrfs. Check back in two years and see if I got any of these predictions right!
So they can come up with study results that say "The vast majority of Windows boxen out there are horribly misconfigured and using out of the box defaults, making Windows one of the most insecure OS's in the world." I don't think there are enough chairs for Ballmer to throw when he sees those results...
While its going to be the minority, there would be quite a few sites that model wouldn't work with - Slashdot and Facebook/Myspace for examples.
One of the main attractions of/. is the amount of user created constructive criticism in article comments (usually anyway), which is half of the content/. offers - take away half the readership of/. and take away ~50% of those constructive comments. Would you continue visiting/. (as an individual, not "will a few thousand others leave with you") if it lost 25% of its appeal AND you had to pay? I would think most would not. So now you've lost 50% readership, and another 15% or 20% because people left due to other people leaving...
That pay model wouldn't work with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace since people use those services because their friends are, not the shitty "news" on rap. If you use Facebook and 50% of your friends leave because of introduced fees, and you have to go back to talking/sms/email to keep in touch, how many people do you really think are going to pay for Facebook for 5 or 10 friends, when they could just have all 20 friends use email, save themselves $5 and their friends get to save $5 because now those friends don't need Facebook either. So, that leaves whoever stays and, what, a handful of people on the entire Facebook network? So again, what is the incentive for them to keep paying and stay on such a Facebook when there is no reason to do so?
It seems like the thing a lot of people in the "for pay" mindset commenting on this don't understand is executives like this want *ANY AND ALL* websites that could make a buck charging for service, should - from the NYT Online, to Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia, web-mail, etc. Early 2000 wasn't that long ago, and you probably had the free 10MiB Hotmail, Yahoo, or other free 10MiB inbox email service. You did because there's no way in hell it was worth paying for 100MiB inbox. Now imagine if they had started also charging for the basic 10MiB inbox service also - you would stop using it, because you can just as well go to any other free web-mail service. OK, so Diller's ideal world comes along and everybody in the game of providing web-mail services starts charging. Either an independent newcomer will come along and immediately make a free service that people will flock to, or people will learn to just do without. After Yahoo and most other web-mail providers become irrelevant from following Diller's ideals, that startup company will come along, see "Hmmm, they didn't do so good charging, maybe we should find a way to not have to charge users?" And remember now, in this world created by Diller's thinking, the behemoth of GMail doesn't exist (yet), or it will be created by that rising startup company...
Except when somebody uses Wikipedia as a source (one of the trusted articles that are locked down so only a few people can edit) and these "journalists" put out a column, theirs gets seen as legit simply because they are *professional journalists* and then everybody thinks Wikipedia is the one that stole un-cited info...
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cake
Koala Kola? "Mommy, why's the zookeeper going into the koala cage with a blender and Sprite?"
for Firefox I have the bookmarks moved onto the menu bar, and then navigation buttons, url and search bars on the 2nd line at one point I think I had it down to one bar with the compact-menu extension, where you can put all of the menus into a single menu button or icon, and had less bookmarks in in my "bookmark toolbar" - it made the url and search bars a bit short sometimes, but on my 12" Gateway laptop (before even the first netbook was out) a lot better in another case, with the 22" monitor on my desktop, it goes from having a ridiculous amount of screen real estate to an insane amount
I was going to ask why MS would be anti-Windows, but then I remembered, Balmer wants to fsking destroy all windows, with which he wages the fight with chairs...
They didn't use Linux "just because it has zero licensing costs" - they used it because Windows isn't going to give them the real time performance on physics simulations that they wanted, to track every projectile and object within a given area takes power, but also has to be able to give the results instantly.
Everybody on here and Ars seems to be acting like this is the first of the N770/800/810's with a cell connection - when the N810 WiMax edition had support for Sprint's XOHM network since it was released April 1, 2008.
The biggest reason I would say that failed is because the XOHM network only covered like New York and Chicago at the time AFAIK.
Because that still doesn't work. You do realize the kids would still put phones in their pockets, and only pull em out when they wanna send a message, or in their backpacks. For years now backpack makers have had those dangly pouches for cell phones (bad idea though cuz that says "Hey, there's a phone in here! Steal me!"). Even though software and movie piracy is illegal, people still do it. Even though automatic firearms are illegal for people without the proper permits, gang members still obtain and use them. Even though lying under oath in court is illegal, politicians still do it...
I guess this really would teach the kids something useful for the real world - "It's only wrong if you get caught."
What this really is though, is a publicity stunt - like that moron politician or whatever he was a few months back "Let's Kevlar/armor plate textbooks so students can use them if they get shot at!"
Because other cars, like the Tesla Model S, being exclusively electric powered, the base battery pack supposedly good for 160MPG, and a charge from empty to full battery to cost ~$4 USD - yeah, if that's what the majority of Tesla's product line will have, I'd certainly go for the Tesla. Granted the Model S costs your liver, spleen, and kidneys at $100k USD...
*range is 100 miles
According to the Nissan promo site linked by Wikipedia, the LEAF is also supposed to get 100MPG
Why? The PlayStation 2's DualShock 2 controllers released back in 2000 had pressure sensitive buttons. Why change what you call something, other than to make it seem like you totally didn't rip off a decade old technology.
That's nice and all, but it's still too big, so I'm gonna just wait for the Planck-books to hit the market. Particularly rev. 3.11 for workgroups...
Any authorized company can sell OEM Windows licenses, and is as a rule of thumb loads cheaper than the retail package. The catch is, if the company you bought it from ever goes under, your Windows license is now illegal. Or at least that's what I was told by my MSDN teacher in my MSDN Windows desktop and server courses...
except it doesn't even need to be an addon - just provide options in the browser the exact same why you can choose to load images or not...
Except afaik that feature was added in Vista as far as the Windows family goes...
You mean NeatX? If so, you do realize that's not an X replacement, but an NX server. While X can do remote logins and whatnot by itself, its bad on bandwith. NX and NeatX take X and make it more conservative on the bandwidth...
If that's not what you were talking about, pay no attention to me...
Or you get fired and they spend 20 or 30 minutes pushing out new images and another 10 to restore backups of documents...
No shit an Athlon 64 and Radeon GPU is going to eat the Acer like a too small bag of doritos - because its apples to oranges here.
My first laptop was a Compaq 15" w/Athlon64 3200+ and Radeon 200M. It also weighed about 8lbs (a lot with or without textbooks in college) and sure, I could run Half Life 2 on it - but it sucked the battery out in 2 hours normal use, maybe 1/2 hour on HL2. Which is why I looked at my priorities, and how since it was for school and browsing the web when visiting family, I replaced it with a 12" Gateway Core Solo ULV and Intel GPU - much lighter and longer battery life of up to 4 or 5 hours.
My point is, too many people don't see that the reason for netbooks in the first place is to have a light weight laptop with decent battery life that costs under $1200 USD. Don't give me that "Oh, but they want it because it's cheap!" crap, because they could just as well go get a $400 luggable desktop replacement like the one I had. If they want a cheap fast computer, they could have my old laptop (if it still worked). If they want something cheap, light weight, and long battery life, they just might have to put up with it being a tad slow.
Now, if they **really** want something light weight, mediocre to long battery life, and whatever the current generation of desktop processor is, they will *definitely* pay out the ass for it. That held true for spec to price ratio when I bought my 12" Gateway 2 years ago, it holds true now, and it will more than likely continue to be true another 2 years from now...
So they can come up with study results that say "The vast majority of Windows boxen out there are horribly misconfigured and using out of the box defaults, making Windows one of the most insecure OS's in the world." I don't think there are enough chairs for Ballmer to throw when he sees those results...
While its going to be the minority, there would be quite a few sites that model wouldn't work with - Slashdot and Facebook/Myspace for examples.
/. is the amount of user created constructive criticism in article comments (usually anyway), which is half of the content /. offers - take away half the readership of /. and take away ~50% of those constructive comments. Would you continue visiting /. (as an individual, not "will a few thousand others leave with you") if it lost 25% of its appeal AND you had to pay? I would think most would not. So now you've lost 50% readership, and another 15% or 20% because people left due to other people leaving...
One of the main attractions of
That pay model wouldn't work with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace since people use those services because their friends are, not the shitty "news" on rap. If you use Facebook and 50% of your friends leave because of introduced fees, and you have to go back to talking/sms/email to keep in touch, how many people do you really think are going to pay for Facebook for 5 or 10 friends, when they could just have all 20 friends use email, save themselves $5 and their friends get to save $5 because now those friends don't need Facebook either. So, that leaves whoever stays and, what, a handful of people on the entire Facebook network? So again, what is the incentive for them to keep paying and stay on such a Facebook when there is no reason to do so?
It seems like the thing a lot of people in the "for pay" mindset commenting on this don't understand is executives like this want *ANY AND ALL* websites that could make a buck charging for service, should - from the NYT Online, to Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia, web-mail, etc. Early 2000 wasn't that long ago, and you probably had the free 10MiB Hotmail, Yahoo, or other free 10MiB inbox email service. You did because there's no way in hell it was worth paying for 100MiB inbox. Now imagine if they had started also charging for the basic 10MiB inbox service also - you would stop using it, because you can just as well go to any other free web-mail service. OK, so Diller's ideal world comes along and everybody in the game of providing web-mail services starts charging. Either an independent newcomer will come along and immediately make a free service that people will flock to, or people will learn to just do without. After Yahoo and most other web-mail providers become irrelevant from following Diller's ideals, that startup company will come along, see "Hmmm, they didn't do so good charging, maybe we should find a way to not have to charge users?" And remember now, in this world created by Diller's thinking, the behemoth of GMail doesn't exist (yet), or it will be created by that rising startup company...
Except when somebody uses Wikipedia as a source (one of the trusted articles that are locked down so only a few people can edit) and these "journalists" put out a column, theirs gets seen as legit simply because they are *professional journalists* and then everybody thinks Wikipedia is the one that stole un-cited info...
Hugh Hefner?
Well I'll be, its Scotland Yard and a squad of SAS coming for tea and biscuts! What? They say they're not visiting for tea and biscuts?
I think somebody forgot to tell them DNF finally got canned...