The idea that global climate is never supposed to change is as primitive as any creationist idea.
Oh please keep the cheap "creationist" comments off of Slashdot.
It's wonderful that you seem so superior to everyone else Mr. I-Think-I'm-So-High-And-Mighty but please can we get back on topic for the sake of making something intelligent on slashdot? Or is that impossible?
I don't believe the sun doesn't give a damn about the earth in any sense... If anything wouldn't it have a Earth-Moon relationship?
(Of course I think they're very much a married couple and I can see who wears the pants in that relationship:P)
I'm such an idiot that I didn't even take a moment to realise what GP was getting too...
Give him his troll rating. There are some hardware engineers at microsoft. We all make mistakes. Cut 'em some slack. I didn't think MS had any hardware engineers working on it, or at least not forming the bulk... But then I remembered the cash and how stupid I can be.
Considering Microsoft is a software company and hardly a hardware company (most of their keyboards/mice the only non-gaming hardware sold under their name are produced by other people) so seeing their GPU fail is nothing spectacular...
iMac: ATI HD2400, 26000, or nV 8800GS Except for the 8800GS, these are definately not "gaming" video cards.
HD3650 would be good if they had them, and even then it'd play like crap on the iMac's resolutions. Especially considering they insist to put them with such big monitors.
And aren't these mobile cards?
Mac Pro: ATI HD2600XT Definately not a good card, wasn't this squished in between the 8600GT and HD3650 in terms of age with the performance of a X1650 on a smaller die?
And you're paying a pretty premium for that mac pro, what is it now, 4,000$?
MacBook: Ok, crap integrated on this one And sadly IIRC macbook is the better selling 'book.
MB Pro: nV 8600GT Isn't this the 8600GT-M? There is a small but fair difference between them... And the 8600GT has always been an underwhelmer; it's only worth the 80$ they're starting to sell them that... With the amount of money they charge for a MBP, this feels very underwhelming, but yeah it's better than nothing.
It's incredibly sad that the latest and greatest Apple can muster will cost you in the thousands and will come with a crippled processor & RAM.
Vietnam war was twice as violent, was twice as costly, and you were doing this when a REAL threat to the nation existed (good old CCCP that had nukes and wasn't afraid to use them, not to mention they had a really powerful army sitting right next door to western europe... You know, the same jerks who insult the US every other day).
You kids these days. And Vietnam was so much more pointless. In Iraq there was a dictator who was a threat to neighbouring regions (and invaded its neighbours constantly), who testing chemical and biological weapons on his own people, who violated so many UN human rights charters... And it help fight the slow death of small, often ignored countries like Lebanon. If it wasn't for the occupation of Iraq I doubt Syria would have backed out of there; then what would you do when an entire culture was extenguished before your eyes, Europe?
In vietnam communists wanted to control the country. That's why it was invaded, occupied for oh about 20 years, and firebombed/poisoned/raped/sulfurbombed back to the stone age...
Of course, typical Americans; cleaning up after europe shits all over the place. Abolishing slavery, abolishing monarchies, reinstating civil rights and real courts, cleaning up the mess left in the Middle-East by the English (I'd love to applaud the people who drew those maps up, geniuses amongst men they must have been to mix kurds, sunnis, and shias), and defending Europe as much as they could from facists, from communists.
Yeah, really getting derailed here...
Anyway, shouldn't a weaker USD bring more industries? If I was BMW I'd love to settle back in Detroit; little competition from GM/Ford, tons of skilled workers, all at a time when the USD is looking very attractive in comparaison to the Euro.
This reminds me of possibly the most disturbing image I've ever seen on 4chan... And 4chan of all places! I don't have it saved but it really did make me crap a house, especially when I realised the poster wasn't kidding.
The image?
19.99$: Basic service: Access to MSN, Yahoo, (various other sites) 29.99$: Premium service! Access to MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook, CNet, (other sites)! 49.99$: Extreme service! Access to over 100 web sites! Even youtube!... And I wouldn't put it past them even for a second.
I think what we'd all agree on as the best compromise, is that you are given a certain amount of bandwidth for "free" each month.
With Rogers' Ulralite service, something like ~64kB/s (the hughest speed I've ever seen it go, averaging at 50kB/s-60kB/s), I get 60GB, and it seems they do this for all the plans. Now, I know somebody is going to be like "60GB?!? WOAH THAT'S HORRIBLE!". But look at it this way; running at that speed for 24/7 for 31 days seems to use ~150GB. Assuming you're using it for 12 hours of maximum usage it's about 75GB. That makes it pretty damn fair.
If you're going to be downloading 24/7 your ISP should be allowed to charge you more. If this means cheaper plans for those who need less bandwidth and a quicker network with more upgrades coming, then so be it. If we paid 0.05$ per GB in bandwidth, it's peanuts. Of course, I'm thinking they'd try and charge a bit more, because at that pricing 60GB is only 3$...
But how much does the average torrenter download, anyway?
nVidia is realising a mobile platform that can decode 1080p with 30hours of battery life.
Now, think about it. That's freaking insane. If they manage to package it with HDMI-out (and various adapters coming out of that) and can equip it with WiFi, or give it generous storage, good night bluray. Even VIA's semi-embedded solutions could put an end to bluray.
To top that off, you can select text, then middle-click on the background and it will be just like tossing the text into the location bar and pressing return
Hey! Thanks for mentioning that! Opera does it too suprisingly. Maybe it's a QT feature?
The site is disapointing. I thought it would be an actual shell or something, for your desktop, and not just a website... what's the point of that? =/
Revision 3 needs to persue MediaDefender in both civil and criminal courts, if possible (I can't recall if individuals can actually bring someone to criminal court, or if its based off of the FBI/RCMP's investigations).
Civil because they posted "illegal content", and they should sue for over9000 billion dollars. Really. Word for word. MediaDefender spread copyrighted content against the holder's wishes and claimed to be owners of said artifact, destroyed Revision 3's "business", and was going against R3's ToS, effectively breaching whatever verbal contract they had going. And if the RIAA wants to sue people ~50 million (or was it 500?) per downloaded song, a song being 3MB-6MB, and assuming this was a 700MB-4GB movie, well, MediaDefender is going to get it in the ass for a long time.
And then bring them to criminal court for issuing a DoS attack, for possession of the tools & infrastructure dedicated for DoS (if this applies), and attempted murder (R3 could have easily been part of a hospital's network).
Unless peak is only 4-8 as it should, and even then, there's a reason it's peak, it's because it's the only time many of us use the internet.
However, charging per GB, and possibly dropping the rates for traffic earlier in the day, is a very good idea. But I wonder how much time it will take before they figure out they can do it ala "X to Y gigabytes cost 0.02$, but Y to Z gigabytes cost 10$"...
And still we're forgetting Bell is not maxing out on their infrastructure! Give us uncapped access, charge us per GB, and please get the fuck out Bell.
Isn't the other St-John St-Jean? Of course, it's still pretty confusing... The only possible trick to use is that New Brunswick is officially bilingual, and the newfies are a bunch of freeloadin' hippies who hopped on at the end of WW2.:)
Yes the US will eventually glide to an end as the world's hyperpower, but holy shit guys they've only been it for 18 years! For 45 years the Soviet Union had the military advantage so it was a stalemate.
Compare it to other "empires" that have lasted a fair thousand years...
As for not investing in the US dollar, hah! You kids are wimps. 1970s, there was a real global fuel crisis, a real change in climate, and a real economic issue because 1.38$ USD = 1$ Canadian. In 1970s. Today it's on parity, the euro is 1.4/1.5 times the value. Nothing compared to that considering the massive size of the eurozone, in all aspects.
If anything we'll see another large period of growth in the US. I hear BMW, Toyota, and the other big foreign car makers love to have sources of labour. Well, guess what? At a time where the Detroit auto makers are starving, it would be the perfect time to plop down in the US & Canada with renewed strenght. The USD is now inexpensive, the employees are highly trained, they are central to the demand, and did I mention it's high quality work here?
As for US real estate, hah too. US real estate was so inflated it wasn't funny. That was during a bubble too. What did you expect? Now house prices are more properly adjusted. And really the whole "economic crisis" evaporated in a few months. Bear Sterns made a bad investment or two? And that's an economic crisis?
Finally, of course the EU is going to kick your ass. It's 5-10 countries pilled into one monstronsity!
both hardware mfr. and Linux developers Yes, but their hardware quality, especially in comparaison to Gigabyte (by itself it's fine), has been in a rather harsh decline since the launch of S775/AM2.
Oh, they don't develop anything Linux/GPL IIRC. The linux distro on the eeePC is outsourced to Xandros, a shoddy company that puts my city's already crappy tech sector to shame. They were also one of the companies that signed a deal with MS, another reason to avoid them (Novell's turned out to be not too bad, the ones following it however were a lot worse).
Still, I love the eeePC, because it was the first and the only subnotebook to be under 400$ and released to the "general market", something MSI, Dell, and HP have missed.
Apple using them as their vendor Apple uses Foxconn parts.
Linux has needed a single, unified, vision from the beginning I would like to direct you to kernel.org:)
That said, really, there is no need for a unified Linux distro. Almost everything is "unified". The only thing that really differs amongst distro packagers are slight kernel modifications, small lib changes (basically things that would make an Ubuntu binary not run on Debian), and choice of package managers; even then, only two are relevant;.deb and.rpm.
get past all o fthe choice/freedom crap Why are you using Linux again? Might as well go back to MS/Apple if you have an attitude like that. That's not to say we're all elitists, I even less, but if you don't like the "choice/freedom crap" then you're free to leave you know.
and get on to a unified UI, Why? I freaking hate EDE. I hate gnustep. I hate FLTK. I love GTK. Why should we have a unified UI? All of the major desktops (Xfce, Gnome, KDE) have unified on a set of desktop standards, namely Tango, so there's nothing really non-"unified". Sure, there's different toolkits, but hey buddy:
Yeah, good job Apple and MS! We should really be "unified" too! That's what people want! As opposed to two major ones, GTK, QT, and one minor one, FLTK!
a solid look and feel, Feels solid to me. If you have complaints make 'em verbose & direct so we can fix it.
and most importantly ONE of everything that is best in class and 100% working by default. Yeah, like things on the OSX and Windows side work 100% amirite or amirite? You don't have to install every effing program you know. You're free to use the apps you like, and I'm sure it's in your distro provider's best intentions to give you the nicest experience they can. Otherwise you've got a bad maintainer and should leave.
Since the OSS community will never agree to do this, a company is my only hope (as sad as that is). I'm wishing ASUS nothing but luck. Yeah, like Asus does such a good job; have you ever looked at their xandros desktop? Not exactly farts and sunshine there. I especially like that they mixed IceWM and KDE. That's two toolkits that need to be loaded. Good game, guys.
It is likely however that Ontario soon becomes officially bilingual.
Considering the uproar they received after RÃglement 17, and the fact that there still is a large francophone population in Ontario, I wouldn't doubt it happening.
And already the roots are forming. Want a job in say Ottawa? Can't speak french? The door is that way bub.
And yet 1 CDR 'round here is the same price as two DVDRs.
GP was really just saying let's all use cheap/"old" tech from years earlier to save money (assuming he isn't living in Canada, in which case I have no idea what he's on).
I do deserve whatever flack they give me, because I gave them some in the first place.
The reason I said the romans was because at the time, and throughout much of history, Rome was the cultural and political "centre of the world". It's not like Buddhism or Hinduism had expanded much past China and India; christianity only grew so big so quickly because of where it was. And since we base so much of our politics on Rome's old way of doing things, and so much of their culture became part of ours ("ours" meaning Europe/present americas, and other parts of the Med. area) that they were one of the cultures with the biggest standing imprint on history...
(I've kind of lost my train of thought at this point)
I'm sorry, I had to laugh a bit there. I don't know about you guys, but everyone I know agrees: the English have been doing it wrong forever.
But the start of "civilisation" as stated by the jews is most likely ~4000BC, but otherwise it's just some ass-backwards idiot who thinks he's got it all figured out; namely because the Earth can't be 6000 years old, because the measure of time pretty much came after in christian belief; that God created the sun, moon, and stars only later on in his "week". And even then there really is nothing in the Bible contradicting the belief that Earth was just a little planet made by chance when the rest of the universe was created, and it was there we were really "banished" too.
In some sort of funny little philosophical way it's just saying once we were close to the Creator, but he let us go. Reminds me of a dog my colleague had in Igloolik who we had to let go when he moved to Iqaluit.
No, I didn't say all that. Now you're just putting words in my mouth.
Christians do not feel the need to spread their faith like the plague, infecting everything. They aim to spread the word of their faith. If you'd like to reject it, that's fine; in christian faith God forgives all, even if you reject him he will love you, and we have no right to say you are evil.
Hah, nobody save a christian feel compassion? My ass. The 2nd-7th crusades would like a word with you. The thing is without the large dispertion of christianity in europe and later america, do you really think you'd have more compassion in the world? What other set of beliefs other than the abrahamic religions have a strong sense of compassion, really now? And through all this time, even after christians have been so open to other people, you still hate them so much? Even in Saudia Arabia you could walk the streets as a christian, so long as you follow the cultural "habits". I'd love to see what would happen to a christian in your hateful "we're all atheists no room for this bullshit" world. And if you think I'm blabbing off-topic, you WERE the one who claimed you can't wait for the fall of christianity. Of course, the only plausible "fall" would be a lack of such a large quantity of followers, it's definately not going to be surpassed by your supposed "utopia of atheism" but rather by muslims who for some reason are so radicalised they can't follow their own teachings.
I think you've been burned a bit too much by your own imagination and a bad case with radical evangelicals. It's nice sometimes to ask a real professional about his field, whatever that be. And if he isn't a liar and a cheat, you owe him nothing, you can tell him you believe his religion is flawed, and walk away. But at least you've learned something.
I never understood where the fuck you guys get "the earth is 6000 years old" out of the bible.
The bible never makes a claim at the earth's age. It says God created heaven and earth, universe, sun & moon, and sparked "life". Never did anybody other than retarded atheists with nothing else to do claim that christians or jews say the earth is 6000 years old.
As for political, yes, it has changed the face of politics for good. Where is compassion without christianity or judaism I ask you? Like the romans had any compassion. And what about "good samaritan" laws? I'd like to be helped out if I was in danger, don't know about you. The whole point of the bible is that it brings out what nobody wants to do but what we all want done to us.
To be honest, this will make a great duo in the subnotebook space, but I think VIA is aiming for slightly "higher-power" subnotebooks, and underpowered desktops.
No idea what the hell Intel was aiming for. The C7 wasn't spectacular in sales.
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The idea that global climate is never supposed to change is as primitive as any creationist idea.
:P)
Oh please keep the cheap "creationist" comments off of Slashdot.
It's wonderful that you seem so superior to everyone else Mr. I-Think-I'm-So-High-And-Mighty but please can we get back on topic for the sake of making something intelligent on slashdot? Or is that impossible?
I don't believe the sun doesn't give a damn about the earth in any sense... If anything wouldn't it have a Earth-Moon relationship?
(Of course I think they're very much a married couple and I can see who wears the pants in that relationship
I'm such an idiot that I didn't even take a moment to realise what GP was getting too...
Give him his troll rating. There are some hardware engineers at microsoft. We all make mistakes. Cut 'em some slack. I didn't think MS had any hardware engineers working on it, or at least not forming the bulk... But then I remembered the cash and how stupid I can be.
Considering Microsoft is a software company and hardly a hardware company (most of their keyboards/mice the only non-gaming hardware sold under their name are produced by other people) so seeing their GPU fail is nothing spectacular...
iMac: ATI HD2400, 26000, or nV 8800GS
Except for the 8800GS, these are definately not "gaming" video cards.
HD3650 would be good if they had them, and even then it'd play like crap on the iMac's resolutions. Especially considering they insist to put them with such big monitors.
And aren't these mobile cards?
Mac Pro: ATI HD2600XT
Definately not a good card, wasn't this squished in between the 8600GT and HD3650 in terms of age with the performance of a X1650 on a smaller die?
And you're paying a pretty premium for that mac pro, what is it now, 4,000$?
MacBook: Ok, crap integrated on this one
And sadly IIRC macbook is the better selling 'book.
MB Pro: nV 8600GT
Isn't this the 8600GT-M? There is a small but fair difference between them... And the 8600GT has always been an underwhelmer; it's only worth the 80$ they're starting to sell them that... With the amount of money they charge for a MBP, this feels very underwhelming, but yeah it's better than nothing.
It's incredibly sad that the latest and greatest Apple can muster will cost you in the thousands and will come with a crippled processor & RAM.
Ahh! Thank you! :)
I knew the post was a bit off but the idea was still there...
Oh please, quit it with the Iraq bullshit.
Vietnam war was twice as violent, was twice as costly, and you were doing this when a REAL threat to the nation existed (good old CCCP that had nukes and wasn't afraid to use them, not to mention they had a really powerful army sitting right next door to western europe... You know, the same jerks who insult the US every other day).
You kids these days. And Vietnam was so much more pointless. In Iraq there was a dictator who was a threat to neighbouring regions (and invaded its neighbours constantly), who testing chemical and biological weapons on his own people, who violated so many UN human rights charters... And it help fight the slow death of small, often ignored countries like Lebanon. If it wasn't for the occupation of Iraq I doubt Syria would have backed out of there; then what would you do when an entire culture was extenguished before your eyes, Europe?
In vietnam communists wanted to control the country. That's why it was invaded, occupied for oh about 20 years, and firebombed/poisoned/raped/sulfurbombed back to the stone age...
Of course, typical Americans; cleaning up after europe shits all over the place. Abolishing slavery, abolishing monarchies, reinstating civil rights and real courts, cleaning up the mess left in the Middle-East by the English (I'd love to applaud the people who drew those maps up, geniuses amongst men they must have been to mix kurds, sunnis, and shias), and defending Europe as much as they could from facists, from communists.
Yeah, really getting derailed here...
Anyway, shouldn't a weaker USD bring more industries? If I was BMW I'd love to settle back in Detroit; little competition from GM/Ford, tons of skilled workers, all at a time when the USD is looking very attractive in comparaison to the Euro.
This reminds me of possibly the most disturbing image I've ever seen on 4chan... And 4chan of all places! I don't have it saved but it really did make me crap a house, especially when I realised the poster wasn't kidding.
... And I wouldn't put it past them even for a second.
The image?
19.99$: Basic service: Access to MSN, Yahoo, (various other sites)
29.99$: Premium service! Access to MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook, CNet, (other sites)!
49.99$: Extreme service! Access to over 100 web sites! Even youtube!
I think what we'd all agree on as the best compromise, is that you are given a certain amount of bandwidth for "free" each month.
With Rogers' Ulralite service, something like ~64kB/s (the hughest speed I've ever seen it go, averaging at 50kB/s-60kB/s), I get 60GB, and it seems they do this for all the plans. Now, I know somebody is going to be like "60GB?!? WOAH THAT'S HORRIBLE!". But look at it this way; running at that speed for 24/7 for 31 days seems to use ~150GB. Assuming you're using it for 12 hours of maximum usage it's about 75GB. That makes it pretty damn fair.
If you're going to be downloading 24/7 your ISP should be allowed to charge you more. If this means cheaper plans for those who need less bandwidth and a quicker network with more upgrades coming, then so be it. If we paid 0.05$ per GB in bandwidth, it's peanuts. Of course, I'm thinking they'd try and charge a bit more, because at that pricing 60GB is only 3$...
But how much does the average torrenter download, anyway?
Fits perfectly!
Spectrokid, you are now my personal hero.
nVidia is realising a mobile platform that can decode 1080p with 30hours of battery life.
Now, think about it. That's freaking insane. If they manage to package it with HDMI-out (and various adapters coming out of that) and can equip it with WiFi, or give it generous storage, good night bluray. Even VIA's semi-embedded solutions could put an end to bluray.
Let's see, 1TB hard disc or a blu-ray player?
That's alright, I stocked up on blue LEDs the other day, I'm guaranteed over 9000 FPS.
To top that off, you can select text, then middle-click on the background and it will be just like tossing the text into the location bar and pressing return
Hey! Thanks for mentioning that! Opera does it too suprisingly. Maybe it's a QT feature?
The site is disapointing. I thought it would be an actual shell or something, for your desktop, and not just a website... what's the point of that? =/
Revision 3 needs to persue MediaDefender in both civil and criminal courts, if possible (I can't recall if individuals can actually bring someone to criminal court, or if its based off of the FBI/RCMP's investigations).
Civil because they posted "illegal content", and they should sue for over9000 billion dollars. Really. Word for word. MediaDefender spread copyrighted content against the holder's wishes and claimed to be owners of said artifact, destroyed Revision 3's "business", and was going against R3's ToS, effectively breaching whatever verbal contract they had going. And if the RIAA wants to sue people ~50 million (or was it 500?) per downloaded song, a song being 3MB-6MB, and assuming this was a 700MB-4GB movie, well, MediaDefender is going to get it in the ass for a long time.
And then bring them to criminal court for issuing a DoS attack, for possession of the tools & infrastructure dedicated for DoS (if this applies), and attempted murder (R3 could have easily been part of a hospital's network).
Really, R3, lay the rape, lay it thick and full.
Maybe not charge per peak/non-peak hours...
Unless peak is only 4-8 as it should, and even then, there's a reason it's peak, it's because it's the only time many of us use the internet.
However, charging per GB, and possibly dropping the rates for traffic earlier in the day, is a very good idea. But I wonder how much time it will take before they figure out they can do it ala "X to Y gigabytes cost 0.02$, but Y to Z gigabytes cost 10$"...
And still we're forgetting Bell is not maxing out on their infrastructure! Give us uncapped access, charge us per GB, and please get the fuck out Bell.
Isn't the other St-John St-Jean? Of course, it's still pretty confusing... The only possible trick to use is that New Brunswick is officially bilingual, and the newfies are a bunch of freeloadin' hippies who hopped on at the end of WW2. :)
What are you talking about?
Yes the US will eventually glide to an end as the world's hyperpower, but holy shit guys they've only been it for 18 years! For 45 years the Soviet Union had the military advantage so it was a stalemate.
Compare it to other "empires" that have lasted a fair thousand years...
As for not investing in the US dollar, hah! You kids are wimps. 1970s, there was a real global fuel crisis, a real change in climate, and a real economic issue because 1.38$ USD = 1$ Canadian. In 1970s. Today it's on parity, the euro is 1.4/1.5 times the value. Nothing compared to that considering the massive size of the eurozone, in all aspects.
If anything we'll see another large period of growth in the US. I hear BMW, Toyota, and the other big foreign car makers love to have sources of labour. Well, guess what? At a time where the Detroit auto makers are starving, it would be the perfect time to plop down in the US & Canada with renewed strenght. The USD is now inexpensive, the employees are highly trained, they are central to the demand, and did I mention it's high quality work here?
As for US real estate, hah too. US real estate was so inflated it wasn't funny. That was during a bubble too. What did you expect? Now house prices are more properly adjusted. And really the whole "economic crisis" evaporated in a few months. Bear Sterns made a bad investment or two? And that's an economic crisis?
Finally, of course the EU is going to kick your ass. It's 5-10 countries pilled into one monstronsity!
both hardware mfr. and Linux developers
:)
.deb and .rpm.
Yes, but their hardware quality, especially in comparaison to Gigabyte (by itself it's fine), has been in a rather harsh decline since the launch of S775/AM2.
Oh, they don't develop anything Linux/GPL IIRC. The linux distro on the eeePC is outsourced to Xandros, a shoddy company that puts my city's already crappy tech sector to shame. They were also one of the companies that signed a deal with MS, another reason to avoid them (Novell's turned out to be not too bad, the ones following it however were a lot worse).
Still, I love the eeePC, because it was the first and the only subnotebook to be under 400$ and released to the "general market", something MSI, Dell, and HP have missed.
Apple using them as their vendor
Apple uses Foxconn parts.
Linux has needed a single, unified, vision from the beginning
I would like to direct you to kernel.org
That said, really, there is no need for a unified Linux distro. Almost everything is "unified". The only thing that really differs amongst distro packagers are slight kernel modifications, small lib changes (basically things that would make an Ubuntu binary not run on Debian), and choice of package managers; even then, only two are relevant;
get past all o fthe choice/freedom crap
Why are you using Linux again? Might as well go back to MS/Apple if you have an attitude like that. That's not to say we're all elitists, I even less, but if you don't like the "choice/freedom crap" then you're free to leave you know.
and get on to a unified UI,
Why? I freaking hate EDE. I hate gnustep. I hate FLTK. I love GTK. Why should we have a unified UI? All of the major desktops (Xfce, Gnome, KDE) have unified on a set of desktop standards, namely Tango, so there's nothing really non-"unified". Sure, there's different toolkits, but hey buddy:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/microsoft-learn-from-apple-II.media/vista.png (and they've left out non-MS toolkits too!)
http://bla.st/static/blog/macos_interfaces.gif
Yeah, good job Apple and MS! We should really be "unified" too! That's what people want! As opposed to two major ones, GTK, QT, and one minor one, FLTK!
"Linux" looks rather unified to me. Look at how well GTK and QT can play together.
a solid look and feel,
Feels solid to me. If you have complaints make 'em verbose & direct so we can fix it.
and most importantly ONE of everything that is best in class and 100% working by default.
Yeah, like things on the OSX and Windows side work 100% amirite or amirite? You don't have to install every effing program you know. You're free to use the apps you like, and I'm sure it's in your distro provider's best intentions to give you the nicest experience they can. Otherwise you've got a bad maintainer and should leave.
Since the OSS community will never agree to do this, a company is my only hope (as sad as that is). I'm wishing ASUS nothing but luck.
Yeah, like Asus does such a good job; have you ever looked at their xandros desktop? Not exactly farts and sunshine there. I especially like that they mixed IceWM and KDE. That's two toolkits that need to be loaded. Good game, guys.
It is likely however that Ontario soon becomes officially bilingual.
Considering the uproar they received after RÃglement 17, and the fact that there still is a large francophone population in Ontario, I wouldn't doubt it happening.
And already the roots are forming. Want a job in say Ottawa? Can't speak french? The door is that way bub.
But the internet is a series of tubes and it's doing just fine. :)
And yet 1 CDR 'round here is the same price as two DVDRs.
GP was really just saying let's all use cheap/"old" tech from years earlier to save money (assuming he isn't living in Canada, in which case I have no idea what he's on).
The official excuse is that it has to do with Fujitsu's fab process...
It's incredibly stupid though. It really is a harsh increase in wattage.
I do deserve whatever flack they give me, because I gave them some in the first place.
The reason I said the romans was because at the time, and throughout much of history, Rome was the cultural and political "centre of the world". It's not like Buddhism or Hinduism had expanded much past China and India; christianity only grew so big so quickly because of where it was. And since we base so much of our politics on Rome's old way of doing things, and so much of their culture became part of ours ("ours" meaning Europe/present americas, and other parts of the Med. area) that they were one of the cultures with the biggest standing imprint on history...
(I've kind of lost my train of thought at this point)
Anglican bishop
I'm sorry, I had to laugh a bit there. I don't know about you guys, but everyone I know agrees: the English have been doing it wrong forever.
But the start of "civilisation" as stated by the jews is most likely ~4000BC, but otherwise it's just some ass-backwards idiot who thinks he's got it all figured out; namely because the Earth can't be 6000 years old, because the measure of time pretty much came after in christian belief; that God created the sun, moon, and stars only later on in his "week". And even then there really is nothing in the Bible contradicting the belief that Earth was just a little planet made by chance when the rest of the universe was created, and it was there we were really "banished" too.
In some sort of funny little philosophical way it's just saying once we were close to the Creator, but he let us go. Reminds me of a dog my colleague had in Igloolik who we had to let go when he moved to Iqaluit.
No, I didn't say all that. Now you're just putting words in my mouth.
Christians do not feel the need to spread their faith like the plague, infecting everything. They aim to spread the word of their faith. If you'd like to reject it, that's fine; in christian faith God forgives all, even if you reject him he will love you, and we have no right to say you are evil.
Hah, nobody save a christian feel compassion? My ass. The 2nd-7th crusades would like a word with you. The thing is without the large dispertion of christianity in europe and later america, do you really think you'd have more compassion in the world? What other set of beliefs other than the abrahamic religions have a strong sense of compassion, really now? And through all this time, even after christians have been so open to other people, you still hate them so much? Even in Saudia Arabia you could walk the streets as a christian, so long as you follow the cultural "habits". I'd love to see what would happen to a christian in your hateful "we're all atheists no room for this bullshit" world. And if you think I'm blabbing off-topic, you WERE the one who claimed you can't wait for the fall of christianity. Of course, the only plausible "fall" would be a lack of such a large quantity of followers, it's definately not going to be surpassed by your supposed "utopia of atheism" but rather by muslims who for some reason are so radicalised they can't follow their own teachings.
I think you've been burned a bit too much by your own imagination and a bad case with radical evangelicals. It's nice sometimes to ask a real professional about his field, whatever that be. And if he isn't a liar and a cheat, you owe him nothing, you can tell him you believe his religion is flawed, and walk away. But at least you've learned something.
I never understood where the fuck you guys get "the earth is 6000 years old" out of the bible.
The bible never makes a claim at the earth's age. It says God created heaven and earth, universe, sun & moon, and sparked "life". Never did anybody other than retarded atheists with nothing else to do claim that christians or jews say the earth is 6000 years old.
As for political, yes, it has changed the face of politics for good. Where is compassion without christianity or judaism I ask you? Like the romans had any compassion. And what about "good samaritan" laws? I'd like to be helped out if I was in danger, don't know about you. The whole point of the bible is that it brings out what nobody wants to do but what we all want done to us.
To be honest, this will make a great duo in the subnotebook space, but I think VIA is aiming for slightly "higher-power" subnotebooks, and underpowered desktops.
No idea what the hell Intel was aiming for. The C7 wasn't spectacular in sales.