Everybody will win: more folks will run a more secure OS than Windows.
Is a mac really more secure? Give a mac to an idiot that gets a virus on windows and if macs are popular enough to get virus writers attention they'll get a virus on OS X anyway.
The only advantage will be from heterogeneous environment
And i still enjoy my presents from santa every year.
Also have you ever considerd what eternal bliss/torture would feal like, after the 1st few years both will get pretty lame and maybe im into S&M so i might prefer hell anyway
There are only so many ways you can 'understand' a government that relies on using fear & violence against its own people. As for Chinese culture, well its sort of cute in a historical sense but when the government can declare Maoism is 70% right (the last 30% seams to contain a lot of corruption, oppression and capitalism) you have to wonder how much of the culture remains untainted. Is it a cultural tradition to not talk about the 4th of June or to have only one child?
I have a 'Chinese' friend going on about how proud of china he his, if he thinks its so great maybe he should go live there a while. It seams to me that the rich kids living in west have got a fairly good dose of 'patriotism' that's rendered them blind to human rights abuses.
locals? I don't think you'll find many locals left in Beijing near the Olympic stadium. From the news that gets out it seamed like a robocop style Olympic village build.
Rising water levels in the oceans means more water to dissolve the CO2 (although the temperature of the water is important, too).
Nope, the rise in water levels is due to the density of water decreasing, while the amount of water (moles) is staying the same* and the absorption coefficient of the water is decreasing.
*It may even be decreasing due to the shift in equilibrium causing more water vapour, but i'm not a climatologist so the whole water vapour assumption may have been completely wrong.
More water vapor hopefully means more clouds, and clouds reflect back sunlight, too.
True but i dont think that makes up for the greenhouse effect of the water and due to the shape of water it has a huge absorption spectrum, just in the right/wrong place. Ofc this is all pointless if water vapour doesn't increase.
Its just a shame there are so many positive feedback systems compared to this one negative feedback. as temperature rises: +methane trapped in ice is released +co2 trapped in oceans is released +methane trapped under oceans is released +more water vapour in the air +ice-caps reflect back less heat -deserts absorb more carbon
Perhaps the fact that its a PDF in itself is enough of a PITA to warrent not reading it.
Also he konqueror has no porblems with pdfs and firefox+kpdf works fine as im sure many options on windows do. So in summary all I have to say is STFU mac-boy
...I can't enforce the law by seizing your drugs or stolen property, but authority can.
I can't own a nuke but the government can, and it seems rather reasonable to me, as long as you believe that your electoral process is putting the right people in power. Democracy is just a way of mitigating privileges to a select group of people...
I cant sleep with children, I cant break into your house in the night and kill you and all your family, I cant dope peoples drinks with lsd, etc.
What somebody should do is establish the rights of the people (including the government) and write it out into some sort of document, perhaps bullet point it. If the government needs powers that the people cant have they should be explicit put into this document, NOT implicitly granted because they're the government. hmm i wonder if anybody else has thought of this?
P.s you can seize stolen property if it was stolen from you. If somebody owes you something you can take it.
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must be your hardware. on an intel laptop with a broadcom card + bluetooth, compiz, etc and had no problems from X11, but on a new laptop with an ati card things are a bit less stable
for the record it was a joke, i do realise linux isnt the be all and end all (unfortunatly windows has decided to not work on my computers so its become all i use).
Regarding games, if you go for gameplay over graphics there are a few real opensource gems out there. ufo:ai, assaultcube, etc, but graphics is generally a sorespot for most linux games.
But an SMS is instant, AFAIK the iPhone cant notify you of an IM unless your IN the messenger app when you get it. so the solution is to get a real smartphone.
Correction: Human nature kind of buggered up the plan. The fact that we have a kind of floating aristocracy, divided into a couple of camps depending on which segment of the wealthy and powerful aristocracy they get more support from, is entirely by design. Many of the framers didn't want the common people getting too much control over things for fear that we wouldn't choose to let them run things.
But due to illiteracy and the rules stopping anybody who wasn't wealthy (and therefore already powerful) getting any power (and in many cases not even the right to vote). That's how it worked in europe anyway, I believe America started on a somewhat better footing but has since shifted quite far due to blind faith in capitalism among other things.
you want chaos, try unplugging your computer while an installer is 1/2 way though setting up a partition table, if your lucky youll find that parted now hogs your CPU for a while and never actually reads your 200GB drive corectly, eventually you may run across cfdisk (this will take a while if you've never experienced OMGWTFHAVEIDONETOMYHDD problems before) and after x (where x is a seemingly random integer) attempts solve the issue, still not entirely sure what happened, thats chaos! but enough about my evening/early morning.
surely a real geek will write a bajillion scripts to get the system to behave like he wants. autowireless cracking for when your out of range (although eas/wes side pretty much do that for you), powersaving scripts, etc. maybe download a couple of utilities to aid in the making of these scripts, but a real geek is much more likely to code thier own userchrome than get an extention to do it for them.
When they initially announced the EEE, they said it was going to be a $200 laptop. I still have yet to see one for $200, and with the way they keep on upping the specs, I don't think they will ever get to the $200 price point.
In fairness when they announced the EEE $200 was worth something.
Electronics are built abroad so the value of the dollar can make a real difference to retail price
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Everybody will win: more folks will run a more secure OS than Windows.
Is a mac really more secure? Give a mac to an idiot that gets a virus on windows and if macs are popular enough to get virus writers attention they'll get a virus on OS X anyway.
The only advantage will be from heterogeneous environment
60FPS?, sounds like you have vsync on rather than WINE being slow.
stop watching 2 girls 1 cup then
And i still enjoy my presents from santa every year.
Also have you ever considerd what eternal bliss/torture would feal like, after the 1st few years both will get pretty lame and maybe im into S&M so i might prefer hell anyway
wtf? how the fuck do you firewall one computer connected wirelessly from a 2nd connected wirelessly with the ability to spoof the router?
There are only so many ways you can 'understand' a government that relies on using fear & violence against its own people. As for Chinese culture, well its sort of cute in a historical sense but when the government can declare Maoism is 70% right (the last 30% seams to contain a lot of corruption, oppression and capitalism) you have to wonder how much of the culture remains untainted. Is it a cultural tradition to not talk about the 4th of June or to have only one child?
I have a 'Chinese' friend going on about how proud of china he his, if he thinks its so great maybe he should go live there a while. It seams to me that the rich kids living in west have got a fairly good dose of 'patriotism' that's rendered them blind to human rights abuses.
locals? I don't think you'll find many locals left in Beijing near the Olympic stadium. From the news that gets out it seamed like a robocop style Olympic village build.
Rising water levels in the oceans means more water to dissolve the CO2 (although the temperature of the water is important, too).
Nope, the rise in water levels is due to the density of water decreasing, while the amount of water (moles) is staying the same* and the absorption coefficient of the water is decreasing.
*It may even be decreasing due to the shift in equilibrium causing more water vapour, but i'm not a climatologist so the whole water vapour assumption may have been completely wrong.
More water vapor hopefully means more clouds, and clouds reflect back sunlight, too.
True but i dont think that makes up for the greenhouse effect of the water and due to the shape of water it has a huge absorption spectrum, just in the right/wrong place. Ofc this is all pointless if water vapour doesn't increase.
Its just a shame there are so many positive feedback systems compared to this one negative feedback.
as temperature rises:
+methane trapped in ice is released
+co2 trapped in oceans is released
+methane trapped under oceans is released
+more water vapour in the air
+ice-caps reflect back less heat
-deserts absorb more carbon
Perhaps the fact that its a PDF in itself is enough of a PITA to warrent not reading it.
Also he konqueror has no porblems with pdfs and firefox+kpdf works fine as im sure many options on windows do.
So in summary all I have to say is STFU mac-boy
Doesnt binary compatibility depend on the OS, which id guess to be BSD/linux.
Based on appel II is much more likely to mean in terms of architecture & hardware
...I can't enforce the law by seizing your drugs or stolen property, but authority can.
I can't own a nuke but the government can, and it seems rather reasonable to me, as long as you believe that your electoral process is putting the right people in power. Democracy is just a way of mitigating privileges to a select group of people...
I cant sleep with children, I cant break into your house in the night and kill you and all your family, I cant dope peoples drinks with lsd, etc.
What somebody should do is establish the rights of the people (including the government) and write it out into some sort of document, perhaps bullet point it. If the government needs powers that the people cant have they should be explicit put into this document, NOT implicitly granted because they're the government. hmm i wonder if anybody else has thought of this?
P.s you can seize stolen property if it was stolen from you. If somebody owes you something you can take it.
must be your hardware. on an intel laptop with a broadcom card + bluetooth, compiz, etc and had no problems from X11, but on a new laptop with an ati card things are a bit less stable
prefetchfox extension. it also messes with TFA in that google cant track you as easily if your everywhere.
Isnt that what microsoft did when they had gates?
128 ram on a more powerful processor (1.2 ghz centrino) handled kde + firefox 3 fine a few months ago
for the record it was a joke, i do realise linux isnt the be all and end all (unfortunatly windows has decided to not work on my computers so its become all i use).
Regarding games, if you go for gameplay over graphics there are a few real opensource gems out there. ufo:ai, assaultcube, etc, but graphics is generally a sorespot for most linux games.
But an SMS is instant, AFAIK the iPhone cant notify you of an IM unless your IN the messenger app when you get it. so the solution is to get a real smartphone.
Correction: Human nature kind of buggered up the plan. The fact that we have a kind of floating aristocracy, divided into a couple of camps depending on which segment of the wealthy and powerful aristocracy they get more support from, is entirely by design. Many of the framers didn't want the common people getting too much control over things for fear that we wouldn't choose to let them run things.
But due to illiteracy and the rules stopping anybody who wasn't wealthy (and therefore already powerful) getting any power (and in many cases not even the right to vote). That's how it worked in europe anyway, I believe America started on a somewhat better footing but has since shifted quite far due to blind faith in capitalism among other things.
because DRM is soo effective, that they'd have to resort to that. lol
yeah once you overclock it it plays DNF at 200FPS
why would they do that when they have "internet" "spreadsheet" "wordprocessor" laid out in simple menus
HP makes decent laptops.
The key is — and I've let all my friends know it — to buy a Linux-based laptop
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you want chaos, try unplugging your computer while an installer is 1/2 way though setting up a partition table, if your lucky youll find that parted now hogs your CPU for a while and never actually reads your 200GB drive corectly, eventually you may run across cfdisk (this will take a while if you've never experienced OMGWTFHAVEIDONETOMYHDD problems before) and after x (where x is a seemingly random integer) attempts solve the issue, still not entirely sure what happened, thats chaos! but enough about my evening/early morning.
surely a real geek will write a bajillion scripts to get the system to behave like he wants. autowireless cracking for when your out of range (although eas/wes side pretty much do that for you), powersaving scripts, etc. maybe download a couple of utilities to aid in the making of these scripts, but a real geek is much more likely to code thier own userchrome than get an extention to do it for them.
When they initially announced the EEE, they said it was going to be a $200 laptop. I still have yet to see one for $200, and with the way they keep on upping the specs, I don't think they will ever get to the $200 price point.
In fairness when they announced the EEE $200 was worth something.
Electronics are built abroad so the value of the dollar can make a real difference to retail price