Pathetic. We're fine dumping billions into a new spybird that none of us will benefit from, but a manned space vehicle? Nope... I guess we're cool with bumming rides off the Russians in their capsule designed in the 60's.
Actually that's not true at all. When the Xbox 360 was released you could already get graphics cards for the PC that had more capabilities. Same goes for PS2, PS1, N64, Xbox1, and every other console. There hasn't been one console released that was better than the current generation available on PC.
Well one use of it was to drum up support for the President every time he screwed something up, or it looked like he was slipping in the polls. Terror alerts before, during, and after the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and not one during the entire week of the Republican Convention, as an example. Manipulation was the only use for the system, that I could see.
Why would the LTS release be any different? It would just stay on the same cycle as the LTS does now. There is no reason a rolling release schedule would keep them from building an LTS version.
And your point is? Just because they aren't legally mandated to respect those things, doesn't mean they aren't things an informed consumer should consider.
I have Arch Linux running on an old single core Athlon based machine, and about two months ago I compiled the Arch kernel to use BFS, because I had heard it was good for the type of machine I was using. My experience pretty much agrees with what you're saying here. I wish I would have read something this honest about it before I bothered to set it all up and compile the kernel.
At first glance it really seems to improve system responsiveness in regards to user input. However this comes with a gigantic trade off. As an example: If I had a standard definition xvid file playing, the video would literally pause while the system loaded other programs like Firefox, Nautilus, etc. To me that is unacceptable. User input is nice, but if it's choking the entire rest of the system, it isn't something I want to use. The standard scheduler that comes with the kernel might not be perfect, but it will continue playing video while it opens up other apps.
Heh I wasn't sure if that was something exclusive to Slackware or not, but it's funny to hear that the standard Linux kernel spits out that "kernel taint" message. I see it in Slack, but they must have filtered it from Arch.
It always cracked me up because I would always think to myself "Yep, tainting my damned kernel with a driver that actually has good 3D performance.":D
I swear, some people really need to read about the concept of censorship. I wasn't aware that Fedora was a government entity, and that they just banned an app from ever being used.
Guess what. You can always install this app yourself, if you really want to use it. I'm sure someone wanting a hacking tool can figure out how to install software...
For a place that bills itself as "news for nerds" there certainly is a very large group here who seem to not be interested in any type of scientific research, are seem more interesting in whining about paying taxes.
A lot of us didn't want to invade Iraq, but our tax dollars were used any way. Don't want us to pay for a space telescope? Tough shit!
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Pathetic. We're fine dumping billions into a new spybird that none of us will benefit from, but a manned space vehicle? Nope... I guess we're cool with bumming rides off the Russians in their capsule designed in the 60's.
Which is probably why you shouldn't be relying on Twitter for issues of life and death...
Actually that's not true at all. When the Xbox 360 was released you could already get graphics cards for the PC that had more capabilities. Same goes for PS2, PS1, N64, Xbox1, and every other console. There hasn't been one console released that was better than the current generation available on PC.
Well one use of it was to drum up support for the President every time he screwed something up, or it looked like he was slipping in the polls. Terror alerts before, during, and after the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and not one during the entire week of the Republican Convention, as an example. Manipulation was the only use for the system, that I could see.
Fair enough. That's the beauty of Linux. Plenty of choice. :)
Why would the LTS release be any different? It would just stay on the same cycle as the LTS does now. There is no reason a rolling release schedule would keep them from building an LTS version.
You should try Arch. It's very similar to Gentoo, but without all the compiling.
Well I also use Arch, and I've never had problems when using packages from the official repository, or a maintained AUR package.
I'll bet it makes people's heads explode that he lists Plan9, Windows, and Inferno as what he uses for his daily computing.
Well then I guess it wasn't a failed one, was it?
And your point is? Just because they aren't legally mandated to respect those things, doesn't mean they aren't things an informed consumer should consider.
...Until the power goes out.
Don't use Facebook... They don't value your privacy rights, or even your free speech rights. To hell with them.
Ray LaHood is a Republican. Nice try though.
Yes yes, but what has this got to do with TimeCube?!?!
I have Arch Linux running on an old single core Athlon based machine, and about two months ago I compiled the Arch kernel to use BFS, because I had heard it was good for the type of machine I was using. My experience pretty much agrees with what you're saying here. I wish I would have read something this honest about it before I bothered to set it all up and compile the kernel.
At first glance it really seems to improve system responsiveness in regards to user input. However this comes with a gigantic trade off. As an example: If I had a standard definition xvid file playing, the video would literally pause while the system loaded other programs like Firefox, Nautilus, etc. To me that is unacceptable. User input is nice, but if it's choking the entire rest of the system, it isn't something I want to use. The standard scheduler that comes with the kernel might not be perfect, but it will continue playing video while it opens up other apps.
Having Firefox opened with 50 javascript-heavy sites, in their own tabs, is considered "normal desktop stress"?
But will it play Flash Video smoothly at full screen?
Heh I wasn't sure if that was something exclusive to Slackware or not, but it's funny to hear that the standard Linux kernel spits out that "kernel taint" message. I see it in Slack, but they must have filtered it from Arch.
:D
It always cracked me up because I would always think to myself "Yep, tainting my damned kernel with a driver that actually has good 3D performance."
It makes even less sense when the camera is on him, and the chalk board is out.
Or you could just drive 65 mph, and stop being a whiner...
And yet there is nothing in Fedora to prevent you from installing it if you choose, so again, where is the censorship?
I understand your point, and I agree. However, do you actually think that not including an obscure piece of software in a Linux distro is censorship?
I swear, some people really need to read about the concept of censorship. I wasn't aware that Fedora was a government entity, and that they just banned an app from ever being used.
Guess what. You can always install this app yourself, if you really want to use it. I'm sure someone wanting a hacking tool can figure out how to install software...
For a place that bills itself as "news for nerds" there certainly is a very large group here who seem to not be interested in any type of scientific research, are seem more interesting in whining about paying taxes.
A lot of us didn't want to invade Iraq, but our tax dollars were used any way. Don't want us to pay for a space telescope? Tough shit!