AMD from the beginning treated 64-bit mode as a first-class citizen.
They also treated GCC as a first-class citizen, while Intel is content with trying to compete with it using its own compiler that generates vendor-sniffing code like a bad geocities website.
i'm just curious why VIA hasn't been a major contender in the growing netbook & low power desktop market. haven't low power processors always been their specialty?
Linux drivers. Intel provides them, VIA does not, and Vista is not an option. In a panic they've started dumping out public specs and drivers in the last few weeks, now that the Atom is out and they're in danger of being made irrelevant.
The problem is a lack of over the counter software and the lack of a stable binary driver interface.
First one is a non-problem. Windows doesn't have a package manager with 10000 programs either. Second statement is false. Linux can still run a.out programs from 1991. Last time I checked Win64 still couldn't run a 32-bit browser plugin from last week.
Is the EEEpc coming preloaded with crapware, like Dell and HP products?
Oh yes. Apart from having Adobe's PDF viewer (among other things), it also has all the great UI consistency of Windows - you get GTK2 apps, Qt3, Qt4, that horrible windows xp playschool theme on the window manager, and the app launcher and taskbar seem just thrown together.
And as much as I like Amarok, it just doesn't belong on a 630MHz laptop. Especially as the _primary_ media player.
If it does, why have you or anyone else not bothered to look in the source code for it? You're obviously fine with this "privacy cost" if you can't even be bothered to do that.
Nix machines and the like are novelties for un-evolved engineers.
I'd rather be an unevolved engineer with capability for more self-improvement, than a fully evolved marketing mouthbreather such as yourself who has nowhere left to go but extinct.
If he's going to automate everything, logging everything to a database and then accessing the database using OOo's built in sqlite functionality should be exactly what's needed. Trying to automate direct edits to a spreadsheet is just retarded. And if he's not going to automate everything, he wouldn't be asking this question.
What's the point in the Western countries tanking our economies to bring down emissions if China is bringing dozens of new coal power plants online and adding millions of new vehicles to the road?
If internal combustion engines were going to be completely banned in cars a few years from now, the first thing that'd happen to the economy is it'd explode as several hundred million people rush to build/buy alternative transport and new power sources to run it from. The only question is whether people want to start moving to alternatives now, or whether they'll sit there and wait until they run out of the resources they need to build the alternatives in the first place.
That's easy to say when three quarters of your country's borders are on land and you have the resources to build such a thing. These are a bunch of tiny islands in the middle of the ocean. If they tried building a wall the excavation itself would put them under sea level before they were done.
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(way faster than firewire). AKA 600MB/s.
Just like USB 2's 480mbps was "faster" than Firewire's 400mbps? No thanks.
AMD from the beginning treated 64-bit mode as a first-class citizen.
They also treated GCC as a first-class citizen, while Intel is content with trying to compete with it using its own compiler that generates vendor-sniffing code like a bad geocities website.
i'm just curious why VIA hasn't been a major contender in the growing netbook & low power desktop market. haven't low power processors always been their specialty?
Linux drivers. Intel provides them, VIA does not, and Vista is not an option. In a panic they've started dumping out public specs and drivers in the last few weeks, now that the Atom is out and they're in danger of being made irrelevant.
Yeah... the first thing I thought on reading the headline was "about fucking time". What took them so long?
uh a Mac can't do what I need it to do.
A Mac can't dual boot with XP? When did they take that feature away?
That's supposed to be a joke, right?
The problem is not that you sell Linux PCs, but that you sell Lexmark printers.
The problem is a lack of over the counter software and the lack of a stable binary driver interface.
First one is a non-problem. Windows doesn't have a package manager with 10000 programs either.
Second statement is false. Linux can still run a.out programs from 1991. Last time I checked Win64 still couldn't run a 32-bit browser plugin from last week.
Is the EEEpc coming preloaded with crapware, like Dell and HP products?
Oh yes. Apart from having Adobe's PDF viewer (among other things), it also has all the great UI consistency of Windows - you get GTK2 apps, Qt3, Qt4, that horrible windows xp playschool theme on the window manager, and the app launcher and taskbar seem just thrown together.
And as much as I like Amarok, it just doesn't belong on a 630MHz laptop. Especially as the _primary_ media player.
If it does, why have you or anyone else not bothered to look in the source code for it? You're obviously fine with this "privacy cost" if you can't even be bothered to do that.
I never managed to get Debian Etch to run on my EEE 701 4G. The wired network card isn't even supported. :-(
Try it again with Lenny. It's got working drivers for everything now. The ACPI is still flaky though.
It isn't always necessary to have a bunch of useless crap cluttering up the screen.
You mean like... animated desktop backgrounds? And a taskbar that consumes as much vertical space as KDE4's?
That comparison's a bit outdated now, I'll admit. KDE's one is resizable.
If you think anyone HERE bothered to read TFA it's you who is stupid!
Try this sentence next time: "Why do these things always happen? Like, come on, it's a car!"
How about shortening the second sentence to just "It's a car!". No need to have both English and AOL punctuation in the same sentence.
Nix machines and the like are novelties for un-evolved engineers.
I'd rather be an unevolved engineer with capability for more self-improvement, than a fully evolved marketing mouthbreather such as yourself who has nowhere left to go but extinct.
If you are dumb enough to go to the country, you deserve to be arrested.
Thankfully I'm smart enough never to set foot in the US. _Everyone_ there is a criminal according to their RIAA government!
If he's going to automate everything, logging everything to a database and then accessing the database using OOo's built in sqlite functionality should be exactly what's needed. Trying to automate direct edits to a spreadsheet is just retarded.
And if he's not going to automate everything, he wouldn't be asking this question.
In the developed world, a hand crank is even more a novelty than the XO-1 itself is.
You must have a very boring life if you've never been without AC power for more than 3 hours.
Oh great, you just invented the term "Data Whorehousing".
What's the point in the Western countries tanking our economies to bring down emissions if China is bringing dozens of new coal power plants online and adding millions of new vehicles to the road?
If internal combustion engines were going to be completely banned in cars a few years from now, the first thing that'd happen to the economy is it'd explode as several hundred million people rush to build/buy alternative transport and new power sources to run it from.
The only question is whether people want to start moving to alternatives now, or whether they'll sit there and wait until they run out of the resources they need to build the alternatives in the first place.
That's easy to say when three quarters of your country's borders are on land and you have the resources to build such a thing. These are a bunch of tiny islands in the middle of the ocean. If they tried building a wall the excavation itself would put them under sea level before they were done.
Zero. I stopped using email and can't say I miss it.
The other ones are Internet Disservice Providers.
When are we getting a game where you kill Americans instead?
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