Also, newer (as in I'm not sure how far back it goes) versions of ATI/AMD's Catalyst drivers and control center installation defaults to installing Folding@Home. So when a PC gamer new to building their own PC goes with ATI, figure 1/4 don't bother to check what's going in the installation, and increasing the number of machines with Folding@Home...
So who wants to guess they'll use this with their newly announced "Chrome OS" along with a custom URI scheme handler (ex: "telnet://xxxx" or "apt:xxxxx") where following that link launches the appropriate program. Chrome OS would basically only need 2 or 3 apps for the user to interact with - X-server, Chrome, and NeatX. You wanna use an actual office suite instead of Google Docs? Launch K-Office via the a custom Google homepage, it runs remotely on cloud servers (which you may or may not need a subscription for). This allows manufacturers to use even more low power hardware, you get better battery life, Google gets to mine your data for advertising, and it uses that cell carrier 3G connection even more, allowing the carrier to charge you more...
You seem to be missing the entire point - the Rapide is gas, Tesla's are all electric and still get great performance/torque/etc
Wikipedia: The Roadster's 0-60 mph (0-97 km/h) acceleration time is 3.9 seconds for the Standard Model and 3.7 seconds for the 2009 Sport Model.
Aston Martin Rapdide: 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph): 4.7 seconds
Model S: 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds
Nissan Sentra (2007+): 6.4 seconds. (for comparison)
So the Tesla Roadster actually has better acceleration than the Rapide, and considering Wikipedia quotes the Rapide at $240k USD compared to the $110~120k USD for the 2009 Roadster, I'd say the roadster wins on bang for buck there. The Model S in tfa is set to cost ~$49k USD and is still one helluva luxury car. And more than just the initial price, the Model S (supposedly according to Tesla marketing anyway) will cost only $4 dollars to fully recharge from empty.
I could probably rant all day, but the point is, the offerings from Tesla Motors puts an electric car with performance as high as the gas equivalent in the price range of mere mortals and doesn't require you to be an Apple stock millionaire or sell your ocean front property just to buy the damned car...
No, Symantec provides a removal tool so that they can make it such a pain in the ass for any home or small business user trying to uninstall it that they just stick with the Symantec product, but that the people who are *really sure about being sure about being sure they wanna uninstall Symantec* can go find the "easily listed" removal tool on the website - because they have to provide at least that to get through the legal loopholes about the customer being the one to choose if they drop the product and go somewhere else...
If all these traders are so damned concerned about a half millisecond of latency anywhere in the process, you'd think they'd use the most barebones GNU/Linux or even *BSD configuration with only an X-server installed and their GUI apps written purely for X - and that's for the ones that insist on a GUI instead of CLI
While all the corporations go for "cloud computing" and turning your computer usage into a service paid for by hourly or monthly subscription, to the point that if you want ANY corporate backed OS and/or userland and GUI you pay a subscription, people who actually care about controlling their hardware and what their clock cycles are used for will turn to FOSS so they can have a real OS to do their work with, unlike all the idiots buying into cloud computing that could get by with a simple SSH tunnel...
and since most of these speed tests go by JavaScript speed, throw in no-script and render just HTML half the time, probably making it even faster than any of the compared browsers, or at least on the pages where the webmaster is sane enough to keep a pure HTML/CSS fallback in-case his.js fancywork fails
Which is exactly his point - all this hype about "Oh Company X has a new app store for their 1 or 2 of their phones!" because they forget that as the GP mentioned, repos have been around much longer in the *nix world, have better/more useful apps, works better/and tends to be free as in beer (works better because if your phone crashes and deletes the app, and they *somehow* loose the info that you purchased an app, you have to pay for it a 2nd time - vanilla repos you just go re-download the software and are back in business). The apps themselves will tend to be better in a regular repo due since most of the apps you hear about on the iPhone always sound like the same calendar/weather/calculator/popcap games crap - *maybe* a note taking or spreadsheet app. Now go look at the Ubuntu or Debian repos and see numerous full featured office suites, music players, email apps, web browsers, et al...
The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,[3] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.[4]
Also, they should have included Go-OpenOffice, as this is what is in most mainstream GNU/Linux distro repositories and not the vanilla OpenOffice that you download from Sun. Also, as you mentioned comparing with IBM Lotus Symphony, they should mention that it's based on the older OpenOffice 1.1.4 due to that being the last version the upstream with a particular dual license of LGLP and one of Sun's licenses...
I'm gonna throw out a number here, and say that out of any site worth checking that often, 1/3 of them will have an RSS or Atom feed - maybe you oughta look into using an RSS aggregator/reader (myself I use Feedreader which displays the content in the reader). It's usually a helluva lot easier than leaving that tab open. For example instead of leaving/. open all week, just run the reader on the side, check it every now and then, and select only the articles you want to read. And then when you're done with that article, close it and free up the memory.
Whether its news, tech support forums or leisure forums, or most anything else - that would hugely decrease your count of always open tabs. The aggregator I mentioned using, Feedreader, takes up as little as ~1.5MiB when its sitting idle minimized to the status bar to ~50MiB when browsing feeds - minimize it back to the status bar and its back down to 1.5MiB. When it pulls down new feeds, it'll update the icon in the status bar to show you have unread feeds - so you don't have to keep going back to that tab and hitting reload just to see if there's something new...
If you don't find RSS readers useful enough, go back to your current method - but I'd say its certainly worth checking it out to save yourself some time and resources...
To further that - once they do get that $30k USD car on the market and people start really buying it up, the "Big 3" type manufacturers will follow. Now you have $30k E-V's from all the brands, showing their marketing and bean counters that there is indeed a market there, leading to all of those companies putting out $13k "good enough" E-V cars. Or at least that's what happens if we're lucky here. If not, this is put off by another 5 or maybe 10 years - but it will happen eventually, but better sooner than later...
As for the "image" of the US among the rest of the world, it doesn't really matter what the US government does - you see, if we help the Iranian voters, everybody hates us for interfering yet again in somebody's business when they may well have been able to get through it themselves, only to have the US fuck it up for them. On the other side, if we don't do anything, as some people on here are advocating, and the Iranian voters all get slaughtered by the new regime, the whole world goes and says "Look at those hypocritical bastards in the US! They claim to love democracy and give full support to any nation that wants to oust a tyrant to put democracy in, but see what they do in the real world! Nothing!"
So like I said, its not like anything good is going to come out of it for the US anyway. We help them and are seen as warmongers, or not and seen as hypocrites...
Reminds me a lot of that show "Maximum Exposure" where the telephone repairman in South America didn't believe in electricity because he couldn't see it, up to the point where he got the shock of his life and fell at least one building story to the ground...
Electronic Firing and Metal Storm should make things a bit easier. I would think that since the drone would already have a good battery, at the least electronic firing lowers the weight from even small firearms, along with ammo weight due to being caseless ammo...
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In other news, office cubicle productivity has coincidentally soared to heights not seen since before the launch of Youtube... Next up...
Also, newer (as in I'm not sure how far back it goes) versions of ATI/AMD's Catalyst drivers and control center installation defaults to installing Folding@Home. So when a PC gamer new to building their own PC goes with ATI, figure 1/4 don't bother to check what's going in the installation, and increasing the number of machines with Folding@Home...
So who wants to guess they'll use this with their newly announced "Chrome OS" along with a custom URI scheme handler (ex: "telnet://xxxx" or "apt:xxxxx") where following that link launches the appropriate program. Chrome OS would basically only need 2 or 3 apps for the user to interact with - X-server, Chrome, and NeatX. You wanna use an actual office suite instead of Google Docs? Launch K-Office via the a custom Google homepage, it runs remotely on cloud servers (which you may or may not need a subscription for). This allows manufacturers to use even more low power hardware, you get better battery life, Google gets to mine your data for advertising, and it uses that cell carrier 3G connection even more, allowing the carrier to charge you more...
You mean like this?
Anybody with a hint of interest in the Maemo platform already knows this from Wikipedia and the project home page (at least 4 to 6 months)...
Actually its set to have swappable batteries also...
So the Tesla Roadster actually has better acceleration than the Rapide, and considering Wikipedia quotes the Rapide at $240k USD compared to the $110~120k USD for the 2009 Roadster, I'd say the roadster wins on bang for buck there. The Model S in tfa is set to cost ~$49k USD and is still one helluva luxury car. And more than just the initial price, the Model S (supposedly according to Tesla marketing anyway) will cost only $4 dollars to fully recharge from empty.
I could probably rant all day, but the point is, the offerings from Tesla Motors puts an electric car with performance as high as the gas equivalent in the price range of mere mortals and doesn't require you to be an Apple stock millionaire or sell your ocean front property just to buy the damned car...
No, Symantec provides a removal tool so that they can make it such a pain in the ass for any home or small business user trying to uninstall it that they just stick with the Symantec product, but that the people who are *really sure about being sure about being sure they wanna uninstall Symantec* can go find the "easily listed" removal tool on the website - because they have to provide at least that to get through the legal loopholes about the customer being the one to choose if they drop the product and go somewhere else...
If all these traders are so damned concerned about a half millisecond of latency anywhere in the process, you'd think they'd use the most barebones GNU/Linux or even *BSD configuration with only an X-server installed and their GUI apps written purely for X - and that's for the ones that insist on a GUI instead of CLI
While all the corporations go for "cloud computing" and turning your computer usage into a service paid for by hourly or monthly subscription, to the point that if you want ANY corporate backed OS and/or userland and GUI you pay a subscription, people who actually care about controlling their hardware and what their clock cycles are used for will turn to FOSS so they can have a real OS to do their work with, unlike all the idiots buying into cloud computing that could get by with a simple SSH tunnel...
and since most of these speed tests go by JavaScript speed, throw in no-script and render just HTML half the time, probably making it even faster than any of the compared browsers, or at least on the pages where the webmaster is sane enough to keep a pure HTML/CSS fallback in-case his .js fancywork fails
Which is exactly his point - all this hype about "Oh Company X has a new app store for their 1 or 2 of their phones!" because they forget that as the GP mentioned, repos have been around much longer in the *nix world, have better/more useful apps, works better/and tends to be free as in beer (works better because if your phone crashes and deletes the app, and they *somehow* loose the info that you purchased an app, you have to pay for it a 2nd time - vanilla repos you just go re-download the software and are back in business). The apps themselves will tend to be better in a regular repo due since most of the apps you hear about on the iPhone always sound like the same calendar/weather/calculator/popcap games crap - *maybe* a note taking or spreadsheet app. Now go look at the Ubuntu or Debian repos and see numerous full featured office suites, music players, email apps, web browsers, et al...
Also, they should have included Go-OpenOffice, as this is what is in most mainstream GNU/Linux distro repositories and not the vanilla OpenOffice that you download from Sun. Also, as you mentioned comparing with IBM Lotus Symphony, they should mention that it's based on the older OpenOffice 1.1.4 due to that being the last version the upstream with a particular dual license of LGLP and one of Sun's licenses...
I'm gonna throw out a number here, and say that out of any site worth checking that often, 1/3 of them will have an RSS or Atom feed - maybe you oughta look into using an RSS aggregator/reader (myself I use Feedreader which displays the content in the reader). It's usually a helluva lot easier than leaving that tab open. For example instead of leaving /. open all week, just run the reader on the side, check it every now and then, and select only the articles you want to read. And then when you're done with that article, close it and free up the memory.
Whether its news, tech support forums or leisure forums, or most anything else - that would hugely decrease your count of always open tabs. The aggregator I mentioned using, Feedreader, takes up as little as ~1.5MiB when its sitting idle minimized to the status bar to ~50MiB when browsing feeds - minimize it back to the status bar and its back down to 1.5MiB. When it pulls down new feeds, it'll update the icon in the status bar to show you have unread feeds - so you don't have to keep going back to that tab and hitting reload just to see if there's something new...
If you don't find RSS readers useful enough, go back to your current method - but I'd say its certainly worth checking it out to save yourself some time and resources...
Maybe a bad papercut?
Also, it would make sense to be able to tag it, ala GMail or Firefox 3.x bookmarks
To further that - once they do get that $30k USD car on the market and people start really buying it up, the "Big 3" type manufacturers will follow. Now you have $30k E-V's from all the brands, showing their marketing and bean counters that there is indeed a market there, leading to all of those companies putting out $13k "good enough" E-V cars. Or at least that's what happens if we're lucky here. If not, this is put off by another 5 or maybe 10 years - but it will happen eventually, but better sooner than later...
As for the "image" of the US among the rest of the world, it doesn't really matter what the US government does - you see, if we help the Iranian voters, everybody hates us for interfering yet again in somebody's business when they may well have been able to get through it themselves, only to have the US fuck it up for them. On the other side, if we don't do anything, as some people on here are advocating, and the Iranian voters all get slaughtered by the new regime, the whole world goes and says "Look at those hypocritical bastards in the US! They claim to love democracy and give full support to any nation that wants to oust a tyrant to put democracy in, but see what they do in the real world! Nothing!"
So like I said, its not like anything good is going to come out of it for the US anyway. We help them and are seen as warmongers, or not and seen as hypocrites...
Reminds me a lot of that show "Maximum Exposure" where the telephone repairman in South America didn't believe in electricity because he couldn't see it, up to the point where he got the shock of his life and fell at least one building story to the ground...
For some reason that sounds like a Command & Conquer storyline...
Exactly - so their buddy sits outside the stadium and shoots it with a WW2 rifle first... Goodbye blimp!
No, it's obviously the power to remember things backwards! Granted it's completely useless since he can't remember things that haven't happened yet...
Hey, that's a nice boat you've got there!
Electronic Firing and Metal Storm should make things a bit easier. I would think that since the drone would already have a good battery, at the least electronic firing lowers the weight from even small firearms, along with ammo weight due to being caseless ammo...