Pfft, I was sticking my fingers in sockets at that age.
Then I was forced down route B and had almost two decades of my life stolen on being trained to pass exams so some bureaucrat wanker can give themselves a raise when the school gets high up the league tables.
I failed them (by then I couldn't care less, I just wanted out) yet still ended up with a decent programming job. The only thing I learned from high school and college "computing" classes is how fucking painful it is to actually get any work done in Microsoft Office.
I will admit that I'm not familiar with the Kindle as a device, but personally I consider the addition of just about any new mobile that can run vim (at least) to be a good thing.
It *sounds* perfect... but that keyboard looks like it'd give me permanent arthritis in a day. If someone sold something like this in big-laptop format I'd buy one instantly.
No, just that fucktards like you have been around for a long time.
Actually, a consequence of rising living standards over 1000 years means that undesirable people like you and the GP, who in older times would likely be left for (or made) dead by others, now get it easy.
They actively employ people to use open source, and foster it's development, and yet they are supporting patents? Am I missing something in that general concept?
Lotus Notes! The biggest cause of internal miscommunication since the Berlin Wall.
I could also make a smartass remark, about how the US government decided to bury billions of dollars in cable companies a few years later in return for infrastructure that never happened.
Windows is about options for consumers, Mac is about using a computer tha way Apple sees fit
If that is the case then why do Microsoft Windows users have to beg, over an expensive telephone call, for permission to use the software they paid for if they reinstall the software they paid for too many times?
The answer is in your own statement: because Mac is about using a computer, Windows is about being a consumer. The only option is that you get to choose how often you want to bend over before you jump ship to better alternatives like Ubuntu.
Does it add anything original that isn't just stolen verbatim like the window effects from KDE 4, coalesceable timers from GTK, backwards compatibility from OpenGL 3, Wifi VAPs from Linux 2.6.I-cant-remember-that-far-back, persistent device IDs from udev, multi-touch from MPX, USB 3 (oh wait, it doesn't even have that), loopback-mounted partition images (which you can't even use outside the installer and $Overpriced versions)...
Come on, name one thing from that list where Microsoft actually does something new for once. More DRM? Whoopee-fucking-doo.
ASCII is cheap. Their radio streams are horribly compressed to begin with, so they can afford to allow some of those outside the UK too. The video bandwidth costs would kill them.
Maybe it crashed because they outsourced the control software to a backward, third world country of broken-english speakers who can't cope with metric measurements.
For 1KB the difference is 24 bytes. For 1MB, 2**20 - 10**6 = 48576, 48KB difference or 4.6% less than the larger of the two. For 1GB, 2**30 - 10**9 = 73741824 (73MB), 6.9%.
For a 1TB hard disk you're being short-changed by 9%: 94 gigabytes!
1. The GPU has to become 570-fold more efficient
2. The GPU has to become ~570-fold smaller so they can fit 570 of the things onto a card
Both seem highly unlikely.
If graphics card development in the last 10 years is anything to go by, nVidia's plan is that the GPU will become 570 times larger, draw 570 times more power and the fan will spin 570 times faster
If those drivers are really old, then just upgrading them might fix it without needing to turn off DRI. There was a patch ages ago to turn off graphics chip IRQs unless it actually needed them (i.e. for doing vsync).
Have fun writing your own ATI and nVidia drivers then. Oh, and sound card, input, USB, network card drivers. Did I miss any? Oh yeah, SATA and IDE for the CD. Or maybe it's a USB-attached drive? Don't forget the high end DisplayPort graphics cards! Oh by the way my sound card was made in 1998, the manufacturer went bust without releasing specs or code, and I see no reason to throw it out just for one game.
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Pfft, I was sticking my fingers in sockets at that age.
Then I was forced down route B and had almost two decades of my life stolen on being trained to pass exams so some bureaucrat wanker can give themselves a raise when the school gets high up the league tables.
I failed them (by then I couldn't care less, I just wanted out) yet still ended up with a decent programming job. The only thing I learned from high school and college "computing" classes is how fucking painful it is to actually get any work done in Microsoft Office.
Wow, $119 for a ripoff of Ubuntu 8.10?
I will admit that I'm not familiar with the Kindle as a device, but personally I consider the addition of just about any new mobile that can run vim (at least) to be a good thing.
It *sounds* perfect... but that keyboard looks like it'd give me permanent arthritis in a day. If someone sold something like this in big-laptop format I'd buy one instantly.
No, just that fucktards like you have been around for a long time.
Actually, a consequence of rising living standards over 1000 years means that undesirable people like you and the GP, who in older times would likely be left for (or made) dead by others, now get it easy.
They actively employ people to use open source, and foster it's development, and yet they are supporting patents? Am I missing something in that general concept?
Lotus Notes! The biggest cause of internal miscommunication since the Berlin Wall.
Free Software interprets patents as damage and routes around it.
Then we'd all be able to focus energy on invalidating a patent once, instead of once per country.
Show me an application so badly designed it needs that kind of support at the FS level.
I could also make a smartass remark, about how the US government decided to bury billions of dollars in cable companies a few years later in return for infrastructure that never happened.
Windows is about options for consumers, Mac is about using a computer tha way Apple sees fit
If that is the case then why do Microsoft Windows users have to beg, over an expensive telephone call, for permission to use the software they paid for if they reinstall the software they paid for too many times?
The answer is in your own statement: because Mac is about using a computer, Windows is about being a consumer. The only option is that you get to choose how often you want to bend over before you jump ship to better alternatives like Ubuntu.
Does it add anything original that isn't just stolen verbatim like the window effects from KDE 4, coalesceable timers from GTK, backwards compatibility from OpenGL 3, Wifi VAPs from Linux 2.6.I-cant-remember-that-far-back, persistent device IDs from udev, multi-touch from MPX, USB 3 (oh wait, it doesn't even have that), loopback-mounted partition images (which you can't even use outside the installer and $Overpriced versions)...
Come on, name one thing from that list where Microsoft actually does something new for once. More DRM? Whoopee-fucking-doo.
640MB?! I knew hard drive manufacturers were artificially distorting their numbers, but dear god...
Most African nations do have shockingly high death rates, but that is due to murder.
Actually I've heard that almost every continent in the world has a shockingly high death rate: 100%
You're (5^-1)/2?
Wait... wrong golden rule...
Now if only someone would wise up and build a 15" laptop with an Atom chip, and LED display and a 9-cell battery... mmm, 8+ hours of battery life.
They can't. Intel doesn't allow the Atom in full-size laptops at all, or something stupid along those lines.
What's worse is that this might encourage SSD manufacturers to start "rounding down" their capacity too.
ASCII is cheap. Their radio streams are horribly compressed to begin with, so they can afford to allow some of those outside the UK too. The video bandwidth costs would kill them.
Maybe it crashed because they outsourced the control software to a backward, third world country of broken-english speakers who can't cope with metric measurements.
For 1KB the difference is 24 bytes.
For 1MB, 2**20 - 10**6 = 48576, 48KB difference or 4.6% less than the larger of the two.
For 1GB, 2**30 - 10**9 = 73741824 (73MB), 6.9%.
For a 1TB hard disk you're being short-changed by 9%: 94 gigabytes!
1. The GPU has to become 570-fold more efficient
2. The GPU has to become ~570-fold smaller so they can fit 570 of the things onto a card
Both seem highly unlikely.
If graphics card development in the last 10 years is anything to go by, nVidia's plan is that the GPU will become 570 times larger, draw 570 times more power and the fan will spin 570 times faster
Since it's running Linux, you could put a 30GB swapfile on there if you wanted to.
using packed data can seriously slow down your memory access.
In my /proc/cpuinfo/flags there's one called "misalignsse"; I'm guessing it's not quite as serious on this hardware...
If those drivers are really old, then just upgrading them might fix it without needing to turn off DRI. There was a patch ages ago to turn off graphics chip IRQs unless it actually needed them (i.e. for doing vsync).
Cause I have been using Linux exclusively for my servers, desktops and notebooks for years and I didn't know there was a "laptop" ubuntu.
Well then quite frankly you must be fucking blind not to see it at the top of Ubuntu's own front page.
Have fun writing your own ATI and nVidia drivers then. Oh, and sound card, input, USB, network card drivers. Did I miss any? Oh yeah, SATA and IDE for the CD. Or maybe it's a USB-attached drive? Don't forget the high end DisplayPort graphics cards! Oh by the way my sound card was made in 1998, the manufacturer went bust without releasing specs or code, and I see no reason to throw it out just for one game.