The only reason people would want to use Mac OS X is because Apple computers are for people who had it with downloading drivers, reading the manuals, going threw slow as hell load-times for whatever is out there. People want a Mac because of the cut-the-crap please for the love of God give me something that works FFS!
And they buy a legal copy of Mac OS X and go threw the hassle of flashing their BIOSes, collecting parts, porting kernel drivers, compiling from source... sigh...
You can get a fscking tiny, beautiful and powerful Apple Mac Mini with a Core2DUO @ 2,53ghz, 2GB RAM, a GeForce 9400 mobile, DisplayPort and whatnot, passively cooled for $599 freaking US dollars. What the fsck is everyone's problem?
Why go threw the hassle by compiling kernels if you can run Gentoo with KDE4.3, Amarok, Kdenlive, Kopete, Rekonq and whatever quality apps and get a fast UNIX like system too?
I am a Windows and Linux user and I love Apple for their genious approach to computers. I watch every WWDC just because it' s awesome and I paid 1200 euro' s without the monitor on a desktop computer while I could have grabbed a Mac... So why does anyone wants to assemble a hackingtosh?!
Please enlighten me, because this is beyond logic.
PS: Oh and the overprised hardware? It runs faster than your Core i7 on Windows 7 and the enclosure is more expansive, so who cares? If you buy an Apple then you buy a computer, and not a CPU+RAM+whatever+OS... A laptop FFS costs $899 USD...
nVidia slides, yes, marketing crap. Dude just watch that OpenCL video which not only translates the marketing to tech language and the problems and such that it brings along.
Oh an the troll posts... Lol... At least also note that my karma is so awesome that after all this time my karma is still good. It has been excellent for a very, very long time. Very sad though that you lack constructive critisism and points that you had to check my profile to search for something that you could criticise intead.
I got something interesting for you to bitch at next: I didn't use spelling check so my post is probably full of grammar and spelling error. I am not a native English speaker, but go ahead...:)
How about the following?: Microsoft opens up spec. Linux businesses get back to Outlook. Microsoft releases a new upgraded version of the format and keeps it hidden. Lock in product. Doomed.
If a civilisation is so fucking retarted that it worships corn, then one can't realy take their prediction of the end of the world serious, don't you think? Haha xD
Are you stupid? HDD to RAM to CPU to graphics RAM to GPU and back again. Searching databases? Are you kidding me?
GPU's are fucking slow. It's like Google shipping their data around by shipment. The thoroughput is bigger but any idea how long it takes for the ship to arrive?
The trick is not chache coherency management, because you can't adress a performance problem with something that demands performance. Duh! The trick is letting threads scedule themselves without too much overhead. How? This is done in the process of execution. Locking threads is stupid (multi-threaded execution by disabling multiple threads... which idiot ever invented THAT?!); instead you should lock cashe, have a que, skip to another piece of data if a piece of data is currently being processed.
I am still trying to figure out how exactly, but the idea lies in data splitting, and rewritable data parts in arrays... *hint hint hint*
While it is true that too much megapixel on a small 'sensor' size (sorry don't know the English word) usually makes the image crappier, it actually makes very nice high quality pictures. But then again the phone was marketed as an avarge joe digital camera replacement. While I didn't buy the phone for its amount of mega pixels, I couldn't see a difference in image quality when I compared it to a 'consumer' Exilim camera without zooming.
There actually are phones out there that can only call and do text-messaging, but I'd rather have 3G internet and a single device in my pocket instead of two (mp3 player).
Thus far I am very, very pleased with Symbian. It rocks.
From all the phones I could get 'for free' with my subsciption to Vodafone, including the Sony Ericson Experia aka Experience pain, I chose the Samsung Pixon M8800 Symbian OS phone. Want to know why? Because, guess what, it's actually a PHONE instead of a mobile computer that also has a call application somewhere deep down in a hidden folder...
It's, with the exception of the HTC Hero maybe, the best phone created, yet. Opera Mini, Flash player, FM radio, local social network app, 8MP camera that makes brighter pictures in the dark than your eyes can actually see (fsck yeah?!) and with a single tap on the screen you can scroll through your contacts better than any phone has ever done, and well just use it as an actual phone too!
It might not be the newest phone out there, but for me it's the best. Symbian ROCKS. I hope it never dies!
Have you been trying the 4.x series? In the early releases 4.0-4.2.x a lot of KDE 3 series functionality was missing because they just rushed it out of the door. Starting with KDE 4.3.x and beyond things are starting to get back on track. Maybe you need to give KDE 4.4 a try when it comes out...
Gnome ehm... is just for the majority of users I guess. I personally stepped off the cool and sexy bandwagon and started using E16 because the only thing I really want to do with my OS anyway is connecting to the internet, adjust the volume, look at the time and date and run applications and that at the speed you'd expect computers to have in this day and age...
This is ofcourse just personal because I don't think that there are a lot of Enlightenment users out there, let alone version 16 users:P
I am a EU citizen and thus far I have been happy by what seemed to be common sence to me with the cases against Microsoft. However N. Kroes just seems to be absolutely fscking retarted instead of enlightened. Since when does a person or a company need to explain why it is doing good? I thought innocent untill proven guilty? What is this bullshit?!
I can hear the difference just because I spend some time learning about audio. Before I knew about bad audio quality (ignorence is bliss) I just looked for how good centain tones were played. That's obviosly not the point.
The point is hearing more and different sounds (like 'watery' sounds) and now that I know the differences with audio compression quality I hate it, because listening to my favorite radio stations already annoys me because of the low bitrate (128kbps):(
There is a third one: glue. Guess what? What happens when your speakers fibrates so hard that the glue cracks? Yup. You have fucked up your speakers. You see whith ear phones a lot. A workouround for this is suck and blow a little in the earbuds, but after a week or 2 or so you will need to buy ned ones.;)
I am sure that if you feed it with a signal it can't handle it will not blow up. Try +100db on your laptop speakers but don't come crying to me that they went up in smoke. You can achieve a higher tone safely, but then you need to reduce the bass. This is what you get when you listen to pop music. Or you can increase the bass but you need to remove the loudness. You need to have an avarage of 0db as a signal. It's the balance of mid high and low and not the volume.
I can explain you why this is in RL and on paper, but it's a bit hard to explain in text:')
Yes, you have 'em. That's in speakers that have mid-, high-, and low speakers. BUT speakers that do NOT have this are not able to output all sound anymore. But what should adjust/limit output is the sound card in your computer in the first place. It is a waste of money to add that.
That's all very nice until another sound appears, like one in an error mesage for example? And PulseAudio is the only sound server that let's you manipulate sound on a per application basis. Oops?
Recording at -20db is abosuletly 100% FAIL and if the recording is bad then you should adjust the recording instead with mp3gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) under wine or a Linux equivalent.
When a car crashes into wall and you see it, then do assume that it crashed? Or are you going to evaluate E=MC^2 and calculate if it might have been bended space time and maybe it's to early to tell if the car has actually crashed?
Where's the god damn common sence here? Are all scientists complete fscking retards? Is nobody able to think for himself anymore?!?!
In order to even start assuming that CO2 is related to global warming then we must first start to see some FUCKING PATTERN!!!
Now what is happening is that everybody is trying to understand something that might not even be the fucking case.
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The only reason people would want to use Mac OS X is because Apple computers are for people who had it with downloading drivers, reading the manuals, going threw slow as hell load-times for whatever is out there. People want a Mac because of the cut-the-crap please for the love of God give me something that works FFS!
And they buy a legal copy of Mac OS X and go threw the hassle of flashing their BIOSes, collecting parts, porting kernel drivers, compiling from source... sigh...
You can get a fscking tiny, beautiful and powerful Apple Mac Mini with a Core2DUO @ 2,53ghz, 2GB RAM, a GeForce 9400 mobile, DisplayPort and whatnot, passively cooled for $599 freaking US dollars. What the fsck is everyone's problem?
Why go threw the hassle by compiling kernels if you can run Gentoo with KDE4.3, Amarok, Kdenlive, Kopete, Rekonq and whatever quality apps and get a fast UNIX like system too?
I am a Windows and Linux user and I love Apple for their genious approach to computers. I watch every WWDC just because it' s awesome and I paid 1200 euro' s without the monitor on a desktop computer while I could have grabbed a Mac... So why does anyone wants to assemble a hackingtosh?!
Please enlighten me, because this is beyond logic.
PS: Oh and the overprised hardware? It runs faster than your Core i7 on Windows 7 and the enclosure is more expansive, so who cares? If you buy an Apple then you buy a computer, and not a CPU+RAM+whatever+OS... A laptop FFS costs $899 USD...
nVidia slides, yes, marketing crap. Dude just watch that OpenCL video which not only translates the marketing to tech language and the problems and such that it brings along.
Oh an the troll posts... Lol... At least also note that my karma is so awesome that after all this time my karma is still good. It has been excellent for a very, very long time. Very sad though that you lack constructive critisism and points that you had to check my profile to search for something that you could criticise intead.
I got something interesting for you to bitch at next: I didn't use spelling check so my post is probably full of grammar and spelling error. I am not a native English speaker, but go ahead... :)
Fscktard...
How about the following?: Microsoft opens up spec. Linux businesses get back to Outlook. Microsoft releases a new upgraded version of the format and keeps it hidden. Lock in product. Doomed.
I do not trust Microsoft anymore...
I know exactly how a GPU works. You clearly do NOT. So shut up and watch this first: http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode4
And maybe then you can keep your geek card. You have clearly been brainwashed by marketing crap.
Coca Cola executives? xD
If a civilisation is so fucking retarted that it worships corn, then one can't realy take their prediction of the end of the world serious, don't you think? Haha xD
Are you stupid? HDD to RAM to CPU to graphics RAM to GPU and back again. Searching databases? Are you kidding me?
GPU's are fucking slow. It's like Google shipping their data around by shipment. The thoroughput is bigger but any idea how long it takes for the ship to arrive?
Yes it's the iPod all over again: nothing new but done right for the first time. _'
The trick is not chache coherency management, because you can't adress a performance problem with something that demands performance. Duh! The trick is letting threads scedule themselves without too much overhead. How? This is done in the process of execution. Locking threads is stupid (multi-threaded execution by disabling multiple threads... which idiot ever invented THAT?!); instead you should lock cashe, have a que, skip to another piece of data if a piece of data is currently being processed.
I am still trying to figure out how exactly, but the idea lies in data splitting, and rewritable data parts in arrays... *hint hint hint*
GPU's are not massively multicored! That's marketing speak...
While it is true that too much megapixel on a small 'sensor' size (sorry don't know the English word) usually makes the image crappier, it actually makes very nice high quality pictures. But then again the phone was marketed as an avarge joe digital camera replacement. While I didn't buy the phone for its amount of mega pixels, I couldn't see a difference in image quality when I compared it to a 'consumer' Exilim camera without zooming.
There actually are phones out there that can only call and do text-messaging, but I'd rather have 3G internet and a single device in my pocket instead of two (mp3 player).
Thus far I am very, very pleased with Symbian. It rocks.
From all the phones I could get 'for free' with my subsciption to Vodafone, including the Sony Ericson Experia aka Experience pain, I chose the Samsung Pixon M8800 Symbian OS phone. Want to know why? Because, guess what, it's actually a PHONE instead of a mobile computer that also has a call application somewhere deep down in a hidden folder...
It's, with the exception of the HTC Hero maybe, the best phone created, yet. Opera Mini, Flash player, FM radio, local social network app, 8MP camera that makes brighter pictures in the dark than your eyes can actually see (fsck yeah?!) and with a single tap on the screen you can scroll through your contacts better than any phone has ever done, and well just use it as an actual phone too!
It might not be the newest phone out there, but for me it's the best. Symbian ROCKS. I hope it never dies!
Have you been trying the 4.x series? In the early releases 4.0-4.2.x a lot of KDE 3 series functionality was missing because they just rushed it out of the door. Starting with KDE 4.3.x and beyond things are starting to get back on track. Maybe you need to give KDE 4.4 a try when it comes out...
Gnome ehm... is just for the majority of users I guess. I personally stepped off the cool and sexy bandwagon and started using E16 because the only thing I really want to do with my OS anyway is connecting to the internet, adjust the volume, look at the time and date and run applications and that at the speed you'd expect computers to have in this day and age...
This is ofcourse just personal because I don't think that there are a lot of Enlightenment users out there, let alone version 16 users :P
If common sence was depending on personal point of view it wouldn't be called common, now would it?
I was about to start a big ass rant here, but I guess I am too pissed to write it all down :@:@:@
I am a EU citizen and thus far I have been happy by what seemed to be common sence to me with the cases against Microsoft. However N. Kroes just seems to be absolutely fscking retarted instead of enlightened. Since when does a person or a company need to explain why it is doing good? I thought innocent untill proven guilty? What is this bullshit?!
... but a giant leap for mankind!
Please integrate with todays culture and keep up with the evolution of languages you try to speek...
People that think like that need to be shot, seriously :(
I can hear the difference just because I spend some time learning about audio. Before I knew about bad audio quality (ignorence is bliss) I just looked for how good centain tones were played. That's obviosly not the point.
The point is hearing more and different sounds (like 'watery' sounds) and now that I know the differences with audio compression quality I hate it, because listening to my favorite radio stations already annoys me because of the low bitrate (128kbps) :(
There is a third one: glue. Guess what? What happens when your speakers fibrates so hard that the glue cracks? Yup. You have fucked up your speakers. You see whith ear phones a lot. A workouround for this is suck and blow a little in the earbuds, but after a week or 2 or so you will need to buy ned ones. ;)
I am sure that if you feed it with a signal it can't handle it will not blow up. Try +100db on your laptop speakers but don't come crying to me that they went up in smoke. You can achieve a higher tone safely, but then you need to reduce the bass. This is what you get when you listen to pop music. Or you can increase the bass but you need to remove the loudness. You need to have an avarage of 0db as a signal. It's the balance of mid high and low and not the volume.
I can explain you why this is in RL and on paper, but it's a bit hard to explain in text :')
Yes, you have 'em. That's in speakers that have mid-, high-, and low speakers. BUT speakers that do NOT have this are not able to output all sound anymore. But what should adjust/limit output is the sound card in your computer in the first place. It is a waste of money to add that.
That's all very nice until another sound appears, like one in an error mesage for example? And PulseAudio is the only sound server that let's you manipulate sound on a per application basis. Oops?
Recording at -20db is abosuletly 100% FAIL and if the recording is bad then you should adjust the recording instead with mp3gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) under wine or a Linux equivalent.
When a car crashes into wall and you see it, then do assume that it crashed? Or are you going to evaluate E=MC^2 and calculate if it might have been bended space time and maybe it's to early to tell if the car has actually crashed?
Where's the god damn common sence here? Are all scientists complete fscking retards? Is nobody able to think for himself anymore?!?!
In order to even start assuming that CO2 is related to global warming then we must first start to see some FUCKING PATTERN!!!
Now what is happening is that everybody is trying to understand something that might not even be the fucking case.
Now how about that for once?! *sigh*