why do you need improvement with that? I assume you'll probably replace the drive in 10 years... 10 years ago consumer PCs used 8gig hard drives. I don't see many 8gig hard drives lying around today. Assuming you'll replace it in 10 years, you can do 700GB of write-erase per day, which means you could reflash the entire drive 20 times a day... How often do you do that on your Aspire One?
wow 12 years ago? so... 1996? In 1996 there was a little known company called 3dfx that was announcing the release of a graphics accelerator card called the Voodoo 1... it was kind of funny since you had to do this weird video card passthru thing.
I don't think Nvidia even existed back then. Around late 1998 they would release the Riva card though. They're first foray into 3d gaming. And until late 1999, the riva drivers sucked badly.
Yeah that one is nice... much better resolution too (1280x768) and uses a LED bulb as well. The 3M one has VGA input which is probably more suitable for laptops, the Pico only has A/V input so if you don't have one of those laptops with composite A/V output, you're out of luck.
Also I might note that in some cultures, there is less of a male/female oriented names. My sister and I were named off of a variant of the jade stone, which probably has little to do with me being male, or my sister female.
Why would Xie be the last name? I know someone by this name, and Hua happens to be the family name (I'm Chinese btw). I also know someone by the name of Xie Chen. (obviously Chen is the last name here). In the first case, Xie Hua is a guy, in the second case, Xie Chen is a girl.
It is pretty painful whitelisting everything manually in NoScript. They probably don't want to create trusted whitelists since someone could potentially do some dns poisoning and cause the whitelist to be tainted. I usually just turn NoScript off when I'm visiting my usual set of sites, then turn it on when I'm going into uncharted waters. It does make web browsing a painful experience at least until the whitelist contains most of the "good" websites so that your pages don't look all broken.
One doesn't only replace the hard drive due to failure. The last time I replaced my laptop hard drive was when I discovered I needed more room and didn't want to carry around another drive. I'm guessing most people upgrade their laptop drives for this reason.
Hah, and you think the work there was new? Lots of this was done in the smalltalk before it was done in Java VM's JIT. Actually tons of implementation these days are old ideas updated to new languages. Wait 20 years and you'll see these same technologies reimplemented in a different language.
Actually the work can be ported to many other dynamic languages, ruby, python, basically the "hot" dynamic languages on the market today will find uses for this. Some ruby implementations like JRuby have a monomorphic inline cache, which is just a few steps behind from being able to handle multiple class hierarchies.
I guess if you enjoy messing with config files, then yeah you'll like virtualbox. It was nearly impossible for me to get bridging working on my mac. Debian works so well in parallels & fusion, I just don't see a good reason for futzing with config files if you're rich enough to spend $50 on commercial software.
Yes parallels does do accelerated 3D. I use VMware though, more stable than parallels, and doesn't have weird usb & networking issues that virtualbox has.
Yeah well, when they came out with their first version of their iPod music player, it was expensive, bulky, and claimed only a small percentage of the market. Wait a few years and you'll have iPhone Mini/Nanos replacing your Nokia and Sony Ericssons. When the iPod was initially released, one could argue the Mp3 player market was already saturated with no clear winner. One could argue the cell phone market today is pretty similar.
Well yeah, ruby is new to gemstone. But only a few years ago Java was a closed source product too. Closed source vendors like Gemstone are taking notice of Ruby because Ruby is beginning to make significant inroads to the enterprise world. A few large enterprises may take notice of Gemstone and be their customers much like Java in its early days. Java did have its problems too, but I don't see how an open source implementation would have improved it's likelihood of survival. Version 1.0 of any product, closed or open, is going to have a few rough edges.
Just so you know, gemstone isn't exactly new, it might be as old, or older than some of those Oracle products and have been running in production environments for years. Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it's brand new. There's quite a few old financial companies running on smalltalk systems built by gemstone. Unfortunately, much of Smalltalk's history has been closed-source. Even the GPL Squeak was late to the game (1997). Fortunately, smalltalk is a pretty simple language so it's actually relatively easy to get a very good stable VM implementation in a short time.
The that one from newegg is smaller and half the cost. I still love my dime sized PQI 2GB drive though, it fits in my wallet and doesn't cause it bulge.
I have to second this option. This is the first thing I think of when I think of motion-detection-security-camera-software. I've had setups with around 6 cameras per machine, using relatively cheap bullet cameras, some color, some b&w, and some with infrared LEDs to see in the dark. It's definitely the most cost effective solution. All you need is a bunch of composite capture cards for around $30 each, and a bunch of bullet cameras, each costing between $50-150 depending on quality, lux, color, infrared features. Assuming you have some old computers lying around, you can probably build a home grown security system for under $1000 with 8 cameras.
I've been using BT on Comcast for some time now using encrypted streams. So far so good, fast transfers too. I say let Comcast throttle as much as they want, sooner or later users will adapt to using full end to end encryption rendering it basically impossible for them to block without potentially screwing up someone else's https connection to their banking website. I say let them throttle, they'll force all application developers to use encryption which is a good thing.
It would be great for motorcycles! Back in Atlanta, motorcycle theft is pretty rampant. LoJack for motorcycles is pretty expensive, so this is a great solution for inexpensive scooters & mopeds. Also great if you happen to own a moderately expensive carbon fiber bicycle too.
Well new tech is always paid at premium. When LCD monitors first came out, even the largest 22" CRT monitors were cheaper than the smallest sized LCDs. I'm sure when SSD manufacturing scales to the level of platter-based HDDs, the cost won't be prohibitively expensive. BTW, typical "fast" CF cards are now 266x, which is around 20Mb/s. SSDs are around 70Mb/s.
wow, has the computer been around for 80 years already? Unless you're talking about OOP in God's language, in which case OOP existed the day organisms existed and were capable of creating proteins via RNA.
I don't know why Django is compared with Rails here. Normally Pylons would be compared with Rails. Pylons would be the "rails" equivalent in python. Pylons was created after the whole rails thing unlike django...
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why do you need improvement with that? I assume you'll probably replace the drive in 10 years... 10 years ago consumer PCs used 8gig hard drives. I don't see many 8gig hard drives lying around today. Assuming you'll replace it in 10 years, you can do 700GB of write-erase per day, which means you could reflash the entire drive 20 times a day... How often do you do that on your Aspire One?
wow 12 years ago? so... 1996? In 1996 there was a little known company called 3dfx that was announcing the release of a graphics accelerator card called the Voodoo 1... it was kind of funny since you had to do this weird video card passthru thing.
I don't think Nvidia even existed back then. Around late 1998 they would release the Riva card though. They're first foray into 3d gaming. And until late 1999, the riva drivers sucked badly.
I have a hunch that Apple didn't design their laptops for hardcore gamers.
Yeah that one is nice... much better resolution too (1280x768) and uses a LED bulb as well. The 3M one has VGA input which is probably more suitable for laptops, the Pico only has A/V input so if you don't have one of those laptops with composite A/V output, you're out of luck.
They should make the battery replaceable. I think the battery will die long before the LED dies off.
Also I might note that in some cultures, there is less of a male/female oriented names. My sister and I were named off of a variant of the jade stone, which probably has little to do with me being male, or my sister female.
Why would Xie be the last name? I know someone by this name, and Hua happens to be the family name (I'm Chinese btw). I also know someone by the name of Xie Chen. (obviously Chen is the last name here). In the first case, Xie Hua is a guy, in the second case, Xie Chen is a girl.
Yeah, what about Xie Hua? Is Xie a male or female?
It is pretty painful whitelisting everything manually in NoScript. They probably don't want to create trusted whitelists since someone could potentially do some dns poisoning and cause the whitelist to be tainted. I usually just turn NoScript off when I'm visiting my usual set of sites, then turn it on when I'm going into uncharted waters. It does make web browsing a painful experience at least until the whitelist contains most of the "good" websites so that your pages don't look all broken.
One doesn't only replace the hard drive due to failure. The last time I replaced my laptop hard drive was when I discovered I needed more room and didn't want to carry around another drive. I'm guessing most people upgrade their laptop drives for this reason.
Hah, and you think the work there was new? Lots of this was done in the smalltalk before it was done in Java VM's JIT. Actually tons of implementation these days are old ideas updated to new languages. Wait 20 years and you'll see these same technologies reimplemented in a different language.
Actually the work can be ported to many other dynamic languages, ruby, python, basically the "hot" dynamic languages on the market today will find uses for this. Some ruby implementations like JRuby have a monomorphic inline cache, which is just a few steps behind from being able to handle multiple class hierarchies.
I guess if you enjoy messing with config files, then yeah you'll like virtualbox. It was nearly impossible for me to get bridging working on my mac. Debian works so well in parallels & fusion, I just don't see a good reason for futzing with config files if you're rich enough to spend $50 on commercial software.
Has trouble doing host-shared networking, NAT sometimes works... usb crashed my machine a few times. Yeah, it's still beta.
Yes parallels does do accelerated 3D. I use VMware though, more stable than parallels, and doesn't have weird usb & networking issues that virtualbox has.
Yeah well, when they came out with their first version of their iPod music player, it was expensive, bulky, and claimed only a small percentage of the market. Wait a few years and you'll have iPhone Mini/Nanos replacing your Nokia and Sony Ericssons. When the iPod was initially released, one could argue the Mp3 player market was already saturated with no clear winner. One could argue the cell phone market today is pretty similar.
Well yeah, ruby is new to gemstone. But only a few years ago Java was a closed source product too. Closed source vendors like Gemstone are taking notice of Ruby because Ruby is beginning to make significant inroads to the enterprise world. A few large enterprises may take notice of Gemstone and be their customers much like Java in its early days. Java did have its problems too, but I don't see how an open source implementation would have improved it's likelihood of survival. Version 1.0 of any product, closed or open, is going to have a few rough edges.
Just so you know, gemstone isn't exactly new, it might be as old, or older than some of those Oracle products and have been running in production environments for years. Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it's brand new. There's quite a few old financial companies running on smalltalk systems built by gemstone. Unfortunately, much of Smalltalk's history has been closed-source. Even the GPL Squeak was late to the game (1997). Fortunately, smalltalk is a pretty simple language so it's actually relatively easy to get a very good stable VM implementation in a short time.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220247
The that one from newegg is smaller and half the cost. I still love my dime sized PQI 2GB drive though, it fits in my wallet and doesn't cause it bulge.
I have to second this option. This is the first thing I think of when I think of motion-detection-security-camera-software. I've had setups with around 6 cameras per machine, using relatively cheap bullet cameras, some color, some b&w, and some with infrared LEDs to see in the dark. It's definitely the most cost effective solution. All you need is a bunch of composite capture cards for around $30 each, and a bunch of bullet cameras, each costing between $50-150 depending on quality, lux, color, infrared features. Assuming you have some old computers lying around, you can probably build a home grown security system for under $1000 with 8 cameras.
I've been using BT on Comcast for some time now using encrypted streams. So far so good, fast transfers too. I say let Comcast throttle as much as they want, sooner or later users will adapt to using full end to end encryption rendering it basically impossible for them to block without potentially screwing up someone else's https connection to their banking website. I say let them throttle, they'll force all application developers to use encryption which is a good thing.
It would be great for motorcycles! Back in Atlanta, motorcycle theft is pretty rampant. LoJack for motorcycles is pretty expensive, so this is a great solution for inexpensive scooters & mopeds. Also great if you happen to own a moderately expensive carbon fiber bicycle too.
Well new tech is always paid at premium. When LCD monitors first came out, even the largest 22" CRT monitors were cheaper than the smallest sized LCDs. I'm sure when SSD manufacturing scales to the level of platter-based HDDs, the cost won't be prohibitively expensive. BTW, typical "fast" CF cards are now 266x, which is around 20Mb/s. SSDs are around 70Mb/s.
wow, has the computer been around for 80 years already? Unless you're talking about OOP in God's language, in which case OOP existed the day organisms existed and were capable of creating proteins via RNA.
I don't know why Django is compared with Rails here. Normally Pylons would be compared with Rails. Pylons would be the "rails" equivalent in python. Pylons was created after the whole rails thing unlike django...