Actually, KDE works fine with 512MB of RAM. I have been using KDE4 daily on my PIII 1.3Ghz Thinkpad with 512MB of RAM. The biggest bloated software I use on the Thinkpad is Acroread, which is taking way too much memory.
Or a much better idea would be to NOT use an anti-virus software:p
What's the point? Just how often would you got files from an infected machines these days anyway? Who still transfer files physically these days?
Removing Internet Explorer, putting up a firewall to block all outbound packet beside those from a proxy, and installing a proxy server that filter out malice scripts should be enough, and is much more useful than any anti-virus software, which seems to do nothing beside eating up CPU time.
I was referring to people in civilizations. There are expectations and obligations to live up to. Maybe in some cultures it is the normal and acceptable, but it is not the optimal way to create a happy society.
My point is, race, ethnic, or what-not is meaningless. What matter is the culture. If a ethnic Han Chinese is brought up and raised in different culture, is that person no longer a Chinese? That makes no sense.
Yes. In the consumer perspective, many views it as recreation, and it exists before civilization for a reason. However, it has been proven over time in history that such practice is destructive to society as a whole, and as such marriage was invented. I can get scholar articles to prove my points, but it should be very clear especially considering the psychological implication of sex. So from a producer perspective, sex ought to be after marriage.
Yeah. At the macro-level, it makes no sense at all. Sex (consummation of a marriage) is supposed to be more committing than a plain marriage, which is a promise between two people for their commitment to each other. I am not referring to getting a piece of government piece, although that is what people assume marriage is about these days. Without commitment, and with people just having sex with whoever they like, the children will have to bear the pain later in life, in the form of parental neglects or abuses. I cannot see love in a sexual relationship that has no commitment.
There is a problem with that. If the jail system is meant to exact revenge instead of reform, you will only get bunch of psychopath as a result, even if they were innocent and were only convicted by saying the wrong things at the wrong time.
I don't see anything wrong about that. Having stupid people's genitalia sawn off will remove them from the gene pools. But what about female sexual offenders?
Well, if they did stupid mistakes, it would be their faults. A college boy having sex with a 12 girl isn't that much worse than a someone who used drug to rape someone, but the later would probably also charged with abusing illegal substances and violence, etc... Why would anyone engage in sexual activity before marriage is completely beyond me. Non of these issues would happen if people just behave.
However, there is a serious problem with the jail system if those who are imprisoned do not reform. If jail is merely for containing "dangerous" people, why don't we just ship them all to anarctica or some deserts and asked them to fend for their own? But if they are truely dangerous, they wouldn't be stupid enough to get caught in the first place.
If the word empty means the lack of something, that lack of something by itself is something, so emptiness is a something. So when one can say a full glass of water is empty, because it is empty of air!
Freedom means restricting/compromising certain rights so that people can live freely. By the same definition, totalitarian is freedom, because the dictator is free to do whatever he/she wants.
Open source means restricting the ability to abuse copyright to make software closed. Thus, all license with restrictions are open sourced because they are also restricting something... Hmm... actually, that makes no sense.
Whether it sucks or not is subjective. I found toilet bowl sucks because I don't like sitting on it. I would rather have the old fashion "toilet hole" thingy whatever it is called, because it is much easier to clean. But 99% of people on earth would disagree with me, so what's my point?
Most software sucks, whether it is from apple or orange, and Vista is no exception. Why on earth do I need to click start? Why do I need to install drivers, and what are the drivers doing inside a computer, most people don't fit inside.
I shouldn't need to understand the inner working of the system in order to use it, such as file and folder, copy and paste, etc... Heck, what on earth is a file? And when I clicked copy on a picture, why doesn't my photocopier copy it?
There is a flaw in that logic. Just because a computer have XP installed does not imply it is as old as XP.
Then again, 8 years old is considered new for me; I only replace hardware when it is broken beyound repair, be it a car, an oven, or the kitchen sink. Yeah, I am a tree hugger, I can live without eletricity if it can save the environment.
Why must I forced to use new software, when all I need can be accomplished with a wordperfect 3 running on DOS? 486DX is enough for my use, so don't force Vista on me, pretty please?
Yes. GIMP doesn't support stylesheets, grammar checks, drawing graphs, and doesn't do homework for me. Why should I use GIMP instead of spending $30 on wordperfect?
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I agree. Drawing is what inkscape does well, photo raster image editing is what GIMP does well, there is no point in reinventing everything inkscape has in GIMP.
Not true. E# and F have the same frequency. Even though some instruments like violin can play E# or F in different way (and thus sound differently), it doesn't mean E# and F is different in tone, just that the player played it differently.
Once again, it depends on your need. If the clients are just going to use the computer for legacy DOS applications in a factory, why do they need a sempron?
I don't know where you get the statistic, but I am really skeptical about the deduction that people who don't spend money on graphics card will not spend money on stable motherboard and harddisk. For example, I only use on board video card, but everything else are solid (although not new, because low end new parts are often so fragile these days). Granted, it is just a sample of one, but I am sure there are many other people who just don't buy video cards because they don't play games.
For people who only use computers for school works, occasional videos, audio sequencing, and 2d games like wesnoth, even a $70 graphics card is an overkill. I don't see how that would be a "shitty" performance.
No. Just that having a cracked Linux machine is worth more than over 100 dumb Windows machines. Just look at the potential of having a Postfix server running sending spams, create a website for "fake bank", DNS poisoning, and how cracker can log in remotely peroidically with SSH. The fun!
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Actually, KDE works fine with 512MB of RAM. I have been using KDE4 daily on my PIII 1.3Ghz Thinkpad with 512MB of RAM. The biggest bloated software I use on the Thinkpad is Acroread, which is taking way too much memory.
MacOSX have much better (more reliable, compatible, and easier to use) proaudio software.
Or a much better idea would be to NOT use an anti-virus software :p
What's the point? Just how often would you got files from an infected machines these days anyway? Who still transfer files physically these days?
Removing Internet Explorer, putting up a firewall to block all outbound packet beside those from a proxy, and installing a proxy server that filter out malice scripts should be enough, and is much more useful than any anti-virus software, which seems to do nothing beside eating up CPU time.
I was referring to people in civilizations. There are expectations and obligations to live up to. Maybe in some cultures it is the normal and acceptable, but it is not the optimal way to create a happy society.
Geez, you have no humour.
My point is, race, ethnic, or what-not is meaningless. What matter is the culture. If a ethnic Han Chinese is brought up and raised in different culture, is that person no longer a Chinese? That makes no sense.
What race? There are more race than the human race? I haven't met a martian yet, or did I miss something?
Yeah. And real plant are not butt ugly like their robots.
Yes. In the consumer perspective, many views it as recreation, and it exists before civilization for a reason. However, it has been proven over time in history that such practice is destructive to society as a whole, and as such marriage was invented. I can get scholar articles to prove my points, but it should be very clear especially considering the psychological implication of sex. So from a producer perspective, sex ought to be after marriage.
Yeah. At the macro-level, it makes no sense at all. Sex (consummation of a marriage) is supposed to be more committing than a plain marriage, which is a promise between two people for their commitment to each other. I am not referring to getting a piece of government piece, although that is what people assume marriage is about these days. Without commitment, and with people just having sex with whoever they like, the children will have to bear the pain later in life, in the form of parental neglects or abuses. I cannot see love in a sexual relationship that has no commitment.
There is a problem with that. If the jail system is meant to exact revenge instead of reform, you will only get bunch of psychopath as a result, even if they were innocent and were only convicted by saying the wrong things at the wrong time.
I don't see anything wrong about that. Having stupid people's genitalia sawn off will remove them from the gene pools. But what about female sexual offenders?
Well, if they did stupid mistakes, it would be their faults. A college boy having sex with a 12 girl isn't that much worse than a someone who used drug to rape someone, but the later would probably also charged with abusing illegal substances and violence, etc... Why would anyone engage in sexual activity before marriage is completely beyond me. Non of these issues would happen if people just behave.
However, there is a serious problem with the jail system if those who are imprisoned do not reform. If jail is merely for containing "dangerous" people, why don't we just ship them all to anarctica or some deserts and asked them to fend for their own? But if they are truely dangerous, they wouldn't be stupid enough to get caught in the first place.
Yes, word game it is.
If the word empty means the lack of something, that lack of something by itself is something, so emptiness is a something. So when one can say a full glass of water is empty, because it is empty of air!
Freedom means restricting/compromising certain rights so that people can live freely. By the same definition, totalitarian is freedom, because the dictator is free to do whatever he/she wants.
Open source means restricting the ability to abuse copyright to make software closed. Thus, all license with restrictions are open sourced because they are also restricting something... Hmm... actually, that makes no sense.
Can I drag and drop windows to other virtual desktop, and makes their border,windows decoration, etc.. disappears?
Whether it sucks or not is subjective. I found toilet bowl sucks because I don't like sitting on it. I would rather have the old fashion "toilet hole" thingy whatever it is called, because it is much easier to clean. But 99% of people on earth would disagree with me, so what's my point?
Most software sucks, whether it is from apple or orange, and Vista is no exception. Why on earth do I need to click start? Why do I need to install drivers, and what are the drivers doing inside a computer, most people don't fit inside.
I shouldn't need to understand the inner working of the system in order to use it, such as file and folder, copy and paste, etc... Heck, what on earth is a file? And when I clicked copy on a picture, why doesn't my photocopier copy it?
There is a flaw in that logic. Just because a computer have XP installed does not imply it is as old as XP.
Then again, 8 years old is considered new for me; I only replace hardware when it is broken beyound repair, be it a car, an oven, or the kitchen sink. Yeah, I am a tree hugger, I can live without eletricity if it can save the environment.
Why must I forced to use new software, when all I need can be accomplished with a wordperfect 3 running on DOS? 486DX is enough for my use, so don't force Vista on me, pretty please?
Yes. GIMP doesn't support stylesheets, grammar checks, drawing graphs, and doesn't do homework for me. Why should I use GIMP instead of spending $30 on wordperfect?
I agree. Drawing is what inkscape does well, photo raster image editing is what GIMP does well, there is no point in reinventing everything inkscape has in GIMP.
Not true. E# and F have the same frequency. Even though some instruments like violin can play E# or F in different way (and thus sound differently), it doesn't mean E# and F is different in tone, just that the player played it differently.
Once again, it depends on your need. If the clients are just going to use the computer for legacy DOS applications in a factory, why do they need a sempron?
I don't know where you get the statistic, but I am really skeptical about the deduction that people who don't spend money on graphics card will not spend money on stable motherboard and harddisk. For example, I only use on board video card, but everything else are solid (although not new, because low end new parts are often so fragile these days). Granted, it is just a sample of one, but I am sure there are many other people who just don't buy video cards because they don't play games.
Ray tracing can use a lot of help using GPU accelerations, such as the GPU' vextex shader etc... Whether it is worth the trouble, I don't know.
For people who only use computers for school works, occasional videos, audio sequencing, and 2d games like wesnoth, even a $70 graphics card is an overkill. I don't see how that would be a "shitty" performance.
No. Just that having a cracked Linux machine is worth more than over 100 dumb Windows machines. Just look at the potential of having a Postfix server running sending spams, create a website for "fake bank", DNS poisoning, and how cracker can log in remotely peroidically with SSH. The fun!