Posts by sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD

Trivial? advantage of the N550...

Just got a 550. I'll keep you posted, but I boot a 64 bit linux on it. It's naturally *WAY* faster than 32 bit W7, haven't benched it properly against a 32 bit linux which I will install soon, but the results should be interesting when I get down to it, performance, battery life etc.

You remember there are arguments about 64 bits being a waste of time on a 2 gig addled machine as you'd expect more ram use. On a proper out-order AMD64/EM64T machine it makes more sense performance wise to go 64 bit, but I think the jury is yet out of 2gig netbooks.

There may be finer driver issues I have yet to encounter, but so far, it works fine (I don't have ion - went for battery life).

One thing I know I don't really have much in way of memory problems thus far.

@Alpine

Hmm.. interesting. Intel or AMD under the hood?

Where I live at present we seem to be stuck with 1024x600... But only with atoms. Seems if you go with AMD you don't have that screen size limitation.

http://www.dell.com/au/p/laptops.aspx?c=au&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn#facets=42443~0~212420&p=1

I've noticed however, if you go up from 10 inch to 12 inch ie Asus Eee 1215N - you transcend the 2Gb RAM limit and resolution limit, because you're no longer quite a 'netbook' or so the theory goes.

Honestly, I have no idea why the big players, M$/intel are deliberately doing this, deliberately hamstringing Atom netbooks. It only forces us to go linux, or XP and not use W7.

It's not like we're likely to use Atoms for heavy lifting anyways, and it comes to a point ie stuff like Asus U31 or even more costly macbooks where you can get a 'core' chip with more grunt, if you need it.

Anyways, hopefully when ARM's come in, we'll see 4gig netbooks (maybe not more than that till they go proper 64 bit). Having said that, I've been waiting for them for years... that tosh AC100 is hardly an excuse for one.

Err...

Probably Windows 2000 in its heyday.

Lies...

Sign at the downtown Pr0n shop:

Free 24 hour viewing booths. Just don't mess up our floor, that's what that bottle in front of you is for.

Dear Old-but-stupid...

I'm not calling you crazy, I'm calling you stupid.

Taught what lesson?

What was he doing that was wrong? I'd like you to tell me.

However...

I agree copyright is required to some degree, but ultimately when you look at what is happening in America with regards to IP, the right of way just appears to go to the ones with the biggest guns, and it is enforced unrealistically and very partially.

Please tell these copyright arseholes (And America) to justly fuck off.

Rally the whole EU round if you have to (I am serious, I would stand by you Brits, whatever referendum needed).

This rubbish needs to stop. I have to be honest with you I have not been so incensed with these lot of aresholes since that Sony business.

Men...

I believe you will find most men:

a) Like women. A lot. For obvious reasons.

b) Being male and mammalian, exhibit competitiveness, perhaps even an innate instinct towards violence. Self preservation and hunting and all that etc.. We are after all, wise as we are, creatures of nature... we are ... animals.

c) on the other hand know how to behave themselves by and large in society (else chaos there be), because we can (or would like to believe we can) transcend more primitive instincts and urges because we can think and learn at a level of abstraction that is unprecedented amongst animals.

Movies like Rambo and pr0n and FPSs/games like this are but a manifestation of whence we came. It is probably instinct to generally like stuff like this.

But... that doesn't mean we can't be upstanding members of society in real life.

Get over it.

Good from far...

but far from good.

Of course, that is but speculation. But I suspect it may well turn out to be true.

@Pidgeon re: Assembler.

Writing an assembler program in Unix is not difficult at all.

In fact it's probably heck of a lot easier that say, for a ZX81 or whatever. For one, there's tons of libraries. Once you got the ABI figured out, you're set. This is not hard (Learning the libraries are). Of course, you're no longer on bare metal, you're in userland on top of the OS which both makes things easier and more difficult.

But ultimately, you will stop and think... damn, I'd get pretty much the same and more done much quicker in C.

Also, I would caution too liberal use of assembler, for the very reason that by and large today compilers (and I can only speak mainly of C compilers) generally do a pretty good job. Chips today, even with the same instruction set, are so heterogenous, think out-of-order intel 'cores' and in-order atoms...These kind of issues.

Don't get me wrong. I grew up having to learn assembly (in fact, before I learnt C). I've just grown to respect the fact that chips now are so complicated, and they keep changing so quickly. C compilers today are also MUCH better than they were before. I'm even talking about gcc, not just intel's.

I'll be honest, in the past few years, there's not been many an occasion that I've been able to beat tuned c code out of a c compiler with assembly with any degree of signficance. I can't think of any instance off the top of my head, apart from correcting occasional silly redundant things a compiler does, but that's really improving on the code put out by the compiler.

I still believe however, a programmer should start learning his craft from bottom up.

Agreed

But concurrency in C or C++ is a real bitch. C++ when it comes to it is down right fugly.

And Java is a real bitch too... One of my pet peeves - I hate it when the GC cuts in just when you don't want it to and slows things down. But it is slightly more elegant than C++.

Scala looks interesting but I've not the time for the moment.

Go?

I'll stick with C and C++ and bitch about that instead.

@Lewis Mettler

Yes, these are the true fuckwits.

I have no tolerance for people who drive yakking away with a phone in their hands.

Likewise to the more cynical amongst you...

You'd be surprised at how many are not.

Ecumenical?

YES!

Bit weird...

Too right... I'm not sure what to make of it meself.

Bit irreverent at some parts but honestly, not as pervy as I thought it would be, but nevertheless, I can see why it could be labelled subversive.

Of course, there have always been somewhat saucy bits in the bible. i.e. Song of Songs.

imho....

Verhoeven completely fucked Starship Troopers up...

But.. Total Recall... excellent.