The GP can go buy anything he wants instead of an OLPC, but in the end all he's got is a bland generic x86 PC/laptop. This is the first time I've ever seen any attempt at major innovation in a PC. It's a shame really... if other companies put this much effort into trying something original, the world probably wouldn't still be stuck using a UI from 14 years ago.
This is one reason I gave up using the GPL2 for PHP code. If someone took my freely-offered code and added a bunch of changes, I'd like to get some of that code back in return rather than just having my generosity exploited. And it has been, quite a few times now.
Doing common operations in hardware sounds like a much better plan than just throwing more general-purpose processing at it.
I really wish they'd add hardware accel for text rendering, considering it's something everything would benefit from (using a terminal with antialiased TTFs is painfully slow). There's supposedly graphics cards that do this, but I've never come across one.
A better way would be to make a CPU that doesn't waste so much energy that it requires a huge metal brick strapped to the top in the first place, like the good old P1 days.
Not quite. If you really wanted to you could set an ATA password in the hard disk's firmware, effectively bricking it until you unlock it by booting from something that supports it (e.g. a custom LinuxBIOS).
That's the wrong idea. They should be teaching about fair use at least as much, and in addition teach people who's responsible for it being stripped away. If nobody knows about it, nobody can fight to keep it.
I've been following the power management stuff in Linux for a few months out of interest (I'm stuck with a P4 desktop which overheats in the summer). The one thing that sounds promising is the tickless kernel feature, which from what I gather makes the kernel timer use the system clock hardware instead of running a loop on the CPU, allowing it to go completely idle. They also un-broke the P4 cpu frequency driver in 2.6.20, which I'd have to say I'm pretty grateful for.
I couldn't care less about having another format for obnoxious animated ads, TBQH. What really pisses me off is that an actual useful format got killed off for BS political reasons.
I might do that, but my luck tends to be that I file a bug and it gets duped to an unfixed 5 month old one within minutes. Also Bugzilla's search really sucks.
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But what happens when you tell the car to "double killer delete select all"?
The wallrunning bug on Doom is better IMO. Especially when you can do it from one end of the map to another (pretty common on most doom2 DM maps).
You brought up a good point there.
The GP can go buy anything he wants instead of an OLPC, but in the end all he's got is a bland generic x86 PC/laptop. This is the first time I've ever seen any attempt at major innovation in a PC.
It's a shame really... if other companies put this much effort into trying something original, the world probably wouldn't still be stuck using a UI from 14 years ago.
but they also have a web spider that ignores robots.txt and will happily leech your entire site, copyrighted or not.
I'd rather use it for burning ISOs... of video cards.
This is one reason I gave up using the GPL2 for PHP code. If someone took my freely-offered code and added a bunch of changes, I'd like to get some of that code back in return rather than just having my generosity exploited. And it has been, quite a few times now.
Doing common operations in hardware sounds like a much better plan than just throwing more general-purpose processing at it.
I really wish they'd add hardware accel for text rendering, considering it's something everything would benefit from (using a terminal with antialiased TTFs is painfully slow). There's supposedly graphics cards that do this, but I've never come across one.
I remember the days when such an announcement would be taken as an insult or a joke... and here it is for real.
Hmm.
Well... I suppose we could all organise and take up arms against the RIAA. At this point I wouldn't have any moral objections to it.
A better way would be to make a CPU that doesn't waste so much energy that it requires a huge metal brick strapped to the top in the first place, like the good old P1 days.
Not quite. If you really wanted to you could set an ATA password in the hard disk's firmware, effectively bricking it until you unlock it by booting from something that supports it (e.g. a custom LinuxBIOS).
Yes, especially considering almost every linux distro boots you up to a waiting login prompt on VT 1 or 7 without any prior keyboard input whatsoever.
That's the wrong idea. They should be teaching about fair use at least as much, and in addition teach people who's responsible for it being stripped away. If nobody knows about it, nobody can fight to keep it.
I've been following the power management stuff in Linux for a few months out of interest (I'm stuck with a P4 desktop which overheats in the summer). The one thing that sounds promising is the tickless kernel feature, which from what I gather makes the kernel timer use the system clock hardware instead of running a loop on the CPU, allowing it to go completely idle.
They also un-broke the P4 cpu frequency driver in 2.6.20, which I'd have to say I'm pretty grateful for.
And a cable splitter/switch is what, $5?
I couldn't care less about having another format for obnoxious animated ads, TBQH. What really pisses me off is that an actual useful format got killed off for BS political reasons.
What are you talking about? Openoffice loads in under 10 seconds on my machine and I don't even have a JVM installed.
I might do that, but my luck tends to be that I file a bug and it gets duped to an unfixed 5 month old one within minutes. Also Bugzilla's search really sucks.
I used to use that, but less common initscripts like Folding@Home don't like it - sometimes things will just fail to start randomly on boot.
I believe they've evolved a bit since XPSP0 - you get a VESA framebuffer driver by default in SP1, last time I checked.
I have yet to see a console controller that will easily fit in my pocket.
In VerizonDollars(tm), that's almost enough to buy a PS3!
I stopped reading there, as this is completely backwards.
Damn right! I _tried_ to tell them Pokémon was a satan-worship and bestiality simulator, but all I got were funny looks!
I don't know if this works in Windows, but The Gimp's Linux version has an option to take a window screenshot without the window manager decoration.