Nothing wrong with it until you have to download 100MB of Java to run a simple bittorrent app, 55MB of Mono runtime to use an ID3 tag editor, 30 Python libraries for the volume control dial...
It probably just returns what it found after a certain amount of time. That'd also explain why you can get 10 pages of results some times, but keep clicking forward and it seems to quadruple.
My last new PC came with a Windows XP SP1 disc, 10 CDs of software, and I still had to spend 5 hours downloading bloated drivers on dialup (who the fuck needs 30MB of software for a sound card?). I installed slackware 9 on the thing, and the only hardware that didn't work with the default install was the winmodem.
In my own experience, it's not necessary to upgrade at all. Just offer to "recycle" other people's discarded hardware for no charge. You'll still be about 3 years behind the curve, but you'll have it all at others' expense. Plus, it's helping the environment.
Well, they could've made it a distinct acronym by calling it "Penryn New Instruction Set", but I don't think that'd go down too well with their marketing department.
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Remind me again, how big was the IE7 installer? 50, 60 megabytes?
Yep, that 5MB firefox download sure is bloated.
Nothing wrong with it until you have to download 100MB of Java to run a simple bittorrent app, 55MB of Mono runtime to use an ID3 tag editor, 30 Python libraries for the volume control dial...
Okay, so the last one was a made up example.
UDF isn't a Microsoft-prorpietary format. These corrupt discs will be broken on any OS where workarounds aren't used.
We'll go from having 2 major GUI APIs to just one, but with bindings for about 400 programming languages.
It probably just returns what it found after a certain amount of time. That'd also explain why you can get 10 pages of results some times, but keep clicking forward and it seems to quadruple.
The one thing I found most interesting is that this can display black correctly. That's the one thing that really really pisses me off with LCDs.
I think he responded to the real point quite well: Just because it exists doesn't mean it's not a con.
Ever heard of subtlety?
Long answer: Game Boy.
Source? 2 trillion on what? It's definitely not on the space program.
Higher than 128MB VRAM!
Funny you should say that, because you won't be able to buy PS3 games used anyway.
Millions of stars discovered in Milky Way! Film at 11.
Vista may work fine with 128MB VRAM, but other OSes can do better with just a quarter of that. Even OS X.
Sorry, but your third point is way off target.
My last new PC came with a Windows XP SP1 disc, 10 CDs of software, and I still had to spend 5 hours downloading bloated drivers on dialup (who the fuck needs 30MB of software for a sound card?). I installed slackware 9 on the thing, and the only hardware that didn't work with the default install was the winmodem.
Unless you - accidentally or otherwise - end up with a PC that comes with Vista preinstalled.
Oh god.
Don't make me remember being forced to play that game. Please.
You buy a $400 system and games, then pay someone else $300 to play it for you?
WTF is wrong with people these days, seriously?
In my own experience, it's not necessary to upgrade at all. Just offer to "recycle" other people's discarded hardware for no charge. You'll still be about 3 years behind the curve, but you'll have it all at others' expense. Plus, it's helping the environment.
Well, they could've made it a distinct acronym by calling it "Penryn New Instruction Set", but I don't think that'd go down too well with their marketing department.
They were never nerds to begin with, or they would've been able to produce a finished product.
9 average for 20 years is pretty good, considering 20 years of fossil-powered electricity will end up costing you 10x that.
Interesting... the hardware seems to have a bug. It seems to be setting bit 6 of every byte you send to "1".
It's called "groupthink".
Firstly, most of those attacks probably come from one person. Secondly, after reading that post I'm not surprised.