Mandriva Linux. Especially if you get the Powerpack. It has all the extras built right into the DVD so you don't have to go out and find it. I would also recommend getting the 32-bit version since it's more stable. I also site this article in Linux magazine:
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7643/1.html
Look. You make Apple look bad by selling a PC for fraction of a Mac's price that run's OSX. You aren't making diddly on each PC you ship. Then Apple sues you for $50,000,000.00. Fine you say, make it $50,000,000,000.00, because we don't have it and you keep selling them. Finally Apple says they'll give you $100,000,000.00 if you quietly stop making them. VOILA! You're rich!
A pox on all their houses! Any idiot that thinks either the Democrats or Republicans is going improve their way of life is deluded. Anything run by a commitee is sure to F up just about anything they set out to do. Government is a big commitee. I tend to be more Libertarian and just want to be left alone by all those busy bodies. Let them start to control speech on the Internet and were all doomed. Heck, we're probably doomed already. Yes we need them to regulate road traffic and national defense. But don't give them anymore power. Ugh!
I lined an old satellite with a bunch of small tiles I made from cutting a few glass mirror tiles. I then mounted a grill on the end of the LMB and aimed it at the sun. It made a pretty good solar cooker!
I don't know why they would buy ATI or Nvidia. ATI's and Nvidia's chips work great at accelerating shader based 3D rendering. But what use will they be when real time ray tracing becomes practical on home PC's? Ray tracing is idealy suited to SMP processors too. If multi-core fast processors start running all your 3D games and visual simulations using RT, what value will there be in a shader?
(1)Make it so the children of illegal aliens born here are not automatically citizens.
(2)Make English the official language and make official government business in it only
(3)Require all government computer business be done with FOSS.
I could not have said it better myself. The pursuit of truth will get you much further than supporting a bias derived hypothesis. It is better to find the facts then create a hypothesis. Creating a hypothesis then collecting arguments to support it is a technique for creating propaganda.
One thing that is a huge theme throughout the Bible is the worship of God through music. God created music. He likes it. He thinks it's beautiful. Like God (since we're made in His image) we like music too. Yet from a materialist perspective, I can find biological reasons for many senses we have. Women look good because of an innate imperative to procreate. Food tastes good because we need it to build our bodies and for energy. Smell's attraction can be good to motivate us toward mates and food. The sense of touch can be exhilarating for many obvious biological reasons too. But sound is unusual in the context of music. Why do rhythmically and harmonically organized vibrations of air sound good? What biological imperative is fulfilled by music?
Then I got to thinking about this. String theory. The entire existence of everything in the universe is explained the best (so far) by a scientific theory known as string theory. Is music the hint that God gave us to how He did it all?
Consider, only string theory so far can explain the 4 dimensions we can conceive (length, width, height and time) but also the electromagnetic force, gravity, the weak sub atomic force, the strong sub atomic force in addition to the 4 dimensions. It postulates that the difference in protons, neutrons, electrons and all other sub-atomic particles can be explained as being different vibrating little strings. This theory can explain other things like dimensions beyond our 4. It postulates other dimensions as many as 6 though 26!
It can explain things like black holes, wormholes, parallel universes and other cosmic anomalies.
In other words, everything can be explained by the way little strings vibrate. Is it a Grand Unifying Theory (in physics known as a GUT) of everything? You can break a longer string that is a neutron down to a shorter strings that are combinations of quarks. Quarks are particles even smaller than our basic hadrons (neutrons, protons and electrons). They're explained as the constituents of these larger particles. They're tinier strings in theory.
The very fabric of the universe can be explained as an analogy of music? Is it all organized vibrations in harmonies and rhythms? Maybe. Worship music certainly must transcend the vibrations of air molecules in heaven. Sound here is limited to a wave propagating through air at 769 mph at sea level atmospheric pressure and at an ambient temperature of 70 degrees F. It has to be beyond that in eternity. That's a crude physical limitation.
Then does music point to its originator? Is this the hint He gives us on how it's all held together? Is it the key that points to the beauty of God Himself? Is it that simple?
I think so and it maybe. I see a pattern emerging. This is just one little gray wet bag of warm protoplasm trying to makes sense of it all.
Now, how 'bout them Dodgers?
http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless?bcpid=716091875&bclid=686943766&bctid=687029421
Rudeman
I just added some more memory to my machine and I had to re-activate. I had 1G and added another 1G. Then it started nagging me about re-activating. I couldn't believe it. Really lame.
There isn't a perfect distro out there. I install and fiddle with them as a hobby of sorts. Also as a business aside. There are some that are rock solid, but conservative and not appealing. There are other bleeding edge distros that just don't work. I tend towards the pretty distros with lots of features. There are a few that I had to spend a great deal of time finding pieces to make everything work. You know, codecs, plugins, yadda yadda. Ubuntu takes alot of time making me do this stuff. I prefer KDE anyway. So....Mandriva by default supports KDE. They also are pretty close to the edge, but their stuff works. I thought Sabayon had alot of sex appeal, but it locked up alot. One thing though, their inclusion on LinDVD is limited. I use the SPDIF on my machine for digital audio output, and LinDVD doesn't support changing your audio settings. That is kinda lame. 2008 is the best distro I have ever used. I'm going to have to get all those unspeakable codecs for Xine again to play DVD's. But....Mandriva 2008 is a keeper.
Rudeman
Well, I agree that making your own machine will get you exactly what you want. That is, if you know. But candidly, if you're a word processing, spreadsheet only kinda person, almost anything at 1GHZ and above will smoke. And guess what. That's a huge segment of the market. So manufacturers have to create new reason for you to upgrade. Multi media and games are the biggest reason. Oops. But consoles do a good job at that.
I like doing 3D modeling and rendering too. But, how many people do that? So, the PC companies have to invent reasons to upgrade. My laptop is a Thinkpad A30 with a 1.2G PIII. It works great still. If it ain't broke don't fix it. But I use it for email, web, and word processing only. That's 90% of the market.
Would I like a 10GHz 8 core monster with 64G of RAM? Sure! But that's a luxury. Necessity is filled by my lesser machines. Everybody in the business is trying to convince you otherwise to justify their existence.
Rudy
Well, Windows has a huge driver problem that Apple basically doesn't have. Mac has much more limited hardware it needs to run on. Right there from that standpoint, it's easier to keep OSX consistent. I like the look and feel of OSX better than XP too. Vista is better than XP, but not as nice as OSX. So....Having said all that. I can get many of the benefits of Unix and lots of other software, I can get the look and feel of OSX on my PC and I can do it for a fraction of those two adversarial OSes. I just installed Xandros 4 Professional and SuperKaramba. I love my computer again. It looks like a Mac and it cost me very little. Everything works great too. If only there was a Linux version of Quicktime. I just installed Flash 9.
Rudy
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Mandriva Linux. Especially if you get the Powerpack. It has all the extras built right into the DVD so you don't have to go out and find it. I would also recommend getting the 32-bit version since it's more stable. I also site this article in Linux magazine: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7643/1.html
Look. You make Apple look bad by selling a PC for fraction of a Mac's price that run's OSX. You aren't making diddly on each PC you ship. Then Apple sues you for $50,000,000.00. Fine you say, make it $50,000,000,000.00, because we don't have it and you keep selling them. Finally Apple says they'll give you $100,000,000.00 if you quietly stop making them. VOILA! You're rich!
A pox on all their houses! Any idiot that thinks either the Democrats or Republicans is going improve their way of life is deluded. Anything run by a commitee is sure to F up just about anything they set out to do. Government is a big commitee. I tend to be more Libertarian and just want to be left alone by all those busy bodies. Let them start to control speech on the Internet and were all doomed. Heck, we're probably doomed already. Yes we need them to regulate road traffic and national defense. But don't give them anymore power. Ugh!
I lined an old satellite with a bunch of small tiles I made from cutting a few glass mirror tiles. I then mounted a grill on the end of the LMB and aimed it at the sun. It made a pretty good solar cooker!
Nvidia should buy Via or Transmeta.
I don't know why they would buy ATI or Nvidia. ATI's and Nvidia's chips work great at accelerating shader based 3D rendering. But what use will they be when real time ray tracing becomes practical on home PC's? Ray tracing is idealy suited to SMP processors too. If multi-core fast processors start running all your 3D games and visual simulations using RT, what value will there be in a shader?
Hey. Is a Googleplex ever counted in as one of these big a$$ multi-processor monsters? If not, why? Those suckers are ginormous. R
(1)Make it so the children of illegal aliens born here are not automatically citizens. (2)Make English the official language and make official government business in it only (3)Require all government computer business be done with FOSS.
I could not have said it better myself. The pursuit of truth will get you much further than supporting a bias derived hypothesis. It is better to find the facts then create a hypothesis. Creating a hypothesis then collecting arguments to support it is a technique for creating propaganda.
This wasn't meant to be a troll. I was being sincere. Sheesh! Rudeman
One thing that is a huge theme throughout the Bible is the worship of God through music. God created music. He likes it. He thinks it's beautiful. Like God (since we're made in His image) we like music too. Yet from a materialist perspective, I can find biological reasons for many senses we have. Women look good because of an innate imperative to procreate. Food tastes good because we need it to build our bodies and for energy. Smell's attraction can be good to motivate us toward mates and food. The sense of touch can be exhilarating for many obvious biological reasons too. But sound is unusual in the context of music. Why do rhythmically and harmonically organized vibrations of air sound good? What biological imperative is fulfilled by music? Then I got to thinking about this. String theory. The entire existence of everything in the universe is explained the best (so far) by a scientific theory known as string theory. Is music the hint that God gave us to how He did it all? Consider, only string theory so far can explain the 4 dimensions we can conceive (length, width, height and time) but also the electromagnetic force, gravity, the weak sub atomic force, the strong sub atomic force in addition to the 4 dimensions. It postulates that the difference in protons, neutrons, electrons and all other sub-atomic particles can be explained as being different vibrating little strings. This theory can explain other things like dimensions beyond our 4. It postulates other dimensions as many as 6 though 26! It can explain things like black holes, wormholes, parallel universes and other cosmic anomalies. In other words, everything can be explained by the way little strings vibrate. Is it a Grand Unifying Theory (in physics known as a GUT) of everything? You can break a longer string that is a neutron down to a shorter strings that are combinations of quarks. Quarks are particles even smaller than our basic hadrons (neutrons, protons and electrons). They're explained as the constituents of these larger particles. They're tinier strings in theory. The very fabric of the universe can be explained as an analogy of music? Is it all organized vibrations in harmonies and rhythms? Maybe. Worship music certainly must transcend the vibrations of air molecules in heaven. Sound here is limited to a wave propagating through air at 769 mph at sea level atmospheric pressure and at an ambient temperature of 70 degrees F. It has to be beyond that in eternity. That's a crude physical limitation. Then does music point to its originator? Is this the hint He gives us on how it's all held together? Is it the key that points to the beauty of God Himself? Is it that simple? I think so and it maybe. I see a pattern emerging. This is just one little gray wet bag of warm protoplasm trying to makes sense of it all. Now, how 'bout them Dodgers? http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless?bcpid=716091875&bclid=686943766&bctid=687029421 Rudeman
I just added some more memory to my machine and I had to re-activate. I had 1G and added another 1G. Then it started nagging me about re-activating. I couldn't believe it. Really lame.
There isn't a perfect distro out there. I install and fiddle with them as a hobby of sorts. Also as a business aside. There are some that are rock solid, but conservative and not appealing. There are other bleeding edge distros that just don't work. I tend towards the pretty distros with lots of features. There are a few that I had to spend a great deal of time finding pieces to make everything work. You know, codecs, plugins, yadda yadda. Ubuntu takes alot of time making me do this stuff. I prefer KDE anyway. So....Mandriva by default supports KDE. They also are pretty close to the edge, but their stuff works. I thought Sabayon had alot of sex appeal, but it locked up alot. One thing though, their inclusion on LinDVD is limited. I use the SPDIF on my machine for digital audio output, and LinDVD doesn't support changing your audio settings. That is kinda lame. 2008 is the best distro I have ever used. I'm going to have to get all those unspeakable codecs for Xine again to play DVD's. But....Mandriva 2008 is a keeper. Rudeman
Well, I agree that making your own machine will get you exactly what you want. That is, if you know. But candidly, if you're a word processing, spreadsheet only kinda person, almost anything at 1GHZ and above will smoke. And guess what. That's a huge segment of the market. So manufacturers have to create new reason for you to upgrade. Multi media and games are the biggest reason. Oops. But consoles do a good job at that. I like doing 3D modeling and rendering too. But, how many people do that? So, the PC companies have to invent reasons to upgrade. My laptop is a Thinkpad A30 with a 1.2G PIII. It works great still. If it ain't broke don't fix it. But I use it for email, web, and word processing only. That's 90% of the market. Would I like a 10GHz 8 core monster with 64G of RAM? Sure! But that's a luxury. Necessity is filled by my lesser machines. Everybody in the business is trying to convince you otherwise to justify their existence. Rudy
Well, Windows has a huge driver problem that Apple basically doesn't have. Mac has much more limited hardware it needs to run on. Right there from that standpoint, it's easier to keep OSX consistent. I like the look and feel of OSX better than XP too. Vista is better than XP, but not as nice as OSX. So....Having said all that. I can get many of the benefits of Unix and lots of other software, I can get the look and feel of OSX on my PC and I can do it for a fraction of those two adversarial OSes. I just installed Xandros 4 Professional and SuperKaramba. I love my computer again. It looks like a Mac and it cost me very little. Everything works great too. If only there was a Linux version of Quicktime. I just installed Flash 9. Rudy