But, CPU cores are going to be the MHz of the next 20 years. Remember in the late 80s when 8MHz was alot and 33Mhz and 66Mhz were in the lab? 20 years form now we'll have 2Gigacore CPUs running between 2-3GHz.
So start looking and voting for candidates that are for the reduction of federal power. The problems with the two party system is you have the Democrats creating more power for the government through more government programs, taxes and regulation typically in the name of helping the little guy. It may or may not help but they do it anyway. Then the Republicans can come in and abuse that power. They feed off of each other to continuously grow big brother.
I will always vote Libertarian. Even if I don't 100% agree with them. For two reasons: 1) It's not like a few Libertarian's in government is going to turn us into an anarcho-capitalist society over night. 2) Their base idea of government reduction is far superior to the base ideas of both other two parties of fast government growth or slow government growth.
I'd guess never in a commercial flight. Although there is one humorous story about an incident my father got blamed for. It seems a bunch of his friends and my mother were invited to go on a plane trip and he wasn't invited. About half way through the trip everyone on the plane got sever diarrhea. Including one outright accident. My father was blamed for switching all their gum with laxative gum. He said he wished he could claim that because it was genius, but alas he was unable to claim it. Nobody knows for sure what happened.
I think you are attributing far to much thought and decision making to OS or even software in general selection among the populace. I'd say more than 75% of computer users are extremely apathetic to the OS they use. Many probably barely know the difference between an application and an OS, and most don't care to know.
Many people use a computer at work all day and have no desire to continue to do so at home unless they have a very specific and targeted purpose. I have many friends who have computers that they only turn on once a week or so.
Just because the crowd here is a bit computer obsessed (me included) doesn't mean everyone is and/or wants to be.
Just out of curiosity, do you think the government forcing them to use something in the first place would be better? Nobody thinks Free Market is perfect because people are not perfect. It is just the best way to consistently take advantage of peoples imperfections and greed. Until you find a way for everyone in the world to be nice then this is what we have.
It's not a machine for making a wormhole. You have to have a small wormhole available to you. What the machine does is expand a wormhole to enormous sizes. It is hinted at in the picture if you look closely.
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Wow, I thought the prime target to use encryption against where the people trying to break into my bank account. You learn something every day.
Iraq was just add to show that the subject also contained information about Iraq. We all know the Incompetence there. It is displayed in bold print and on TV every day, but sensitive information leaked like this???
Except now Microsoft is rattling the OSS cage with patents. Although it is very likely they wont get very far, government has made stupid decisions before. Of course the SCO ordeal has probably made it a little harder, Microsoft still has very deep pockets.
citing one example of closed source/development/platform success doesn't mean it isn't a risk over all. I've work with several software packages from companies that went under and lost all support of which we had no further course of action that could be taken. Just because people got lucky doesn't mean they will always get lucky.
Again, I just don't get it. I get decent cups everywhere for any price I feel like paying. I can get a decent cup for $.89 at Circle-K or I can get a decent cup for $5 at Starbux. I've tried all degrees from fresh roast to sat in a bag in the fridge for 3 weeks. Really the differences are minute and nothing to get uppity about.
Always changing location? It is the mac OSX one that is always changing location relative to the work area of a window. If I am browsing a website on a secondary monitor and need to get to the bookmarks menu I have to travel over 28 physical inches from the web browser to the bookmarks bar and I have to shift my focus until the web browser is completely out of my center of vision.
There are two options that should be added to OSX, the ability to tie menus to the title bar of applications (so people like me can change it from what people like you enjoy)
And the ability to set mouse focus follows pointer. (Not window and/or keyboard focus) I want to be able to quit all the double clicking on window buttons not currently in focus. Plus, and mainly so, I'd like to be able to use my mouse wheel to scroll a background application without making it cover up my current application.
"Two words: Fitt's Law. Or: Keyboard Shortcuts. Take your pick." You're kidding right? Fitt's law is completely wrong when a display grows to more than about 15 inches or spans two monitors. The distance traveled is far greater than would be if the menus where with the application as they should be.
Keyboard shortcuts are great. You can use them no mater where the menubar is. Of course then I have to learn, not only the standard UI versions, but then all the application specific versions. And of course it is a pain to browse through the menus if I'm not sure the one I'm looking for. All this and I still have to move the focus of my eyes almost 2 feet away from the application I may be using.
"Plus: System Preferences > Displays, then drag and drop the menu bar in the symbolic displays to the monitor you prefer." Putting the menu bar on the secondary monitor, now that's a great idea. Now instead of being annoyed when accessing menus from my less used applications, I get to be annoyed during use of my primary applications.
I still don't understand the purpose of putting menus as far from the application work area as possible. Don't even get me started on the freaking way MS Office puts all the tool bars at the top of the screen making word/excel etc almost unusable. That has to be the MS way of laughing at OSX.
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Can I get that chick as a replacement for clippy?
No OSX support, no Linux support. Guess I'm sticking with Warcraft for the time being.
But, CPU cores are going to be the MHz of the next 20 years. Remember in the late 80s when 8MHz was alot and 33Mhz and 66Mhz were in the lab? 20 years form now we'll have 2Gigacore CPUs running between 2-3GHz.
Actually I didn't miss it, and my comment still stands. It wasn't "Plenty." In this case it turns out that even a simple majority wasn't plenty.
So start looking and voting for candidates that are for the reduction of federal power. The problems with the two party system is you have the Democrats creating more power for the government through more government programs, taxes and regulation typically in the name of helping the little guy. It may or may not help but they do it anyway. Then the Republicans can come in and abuse that power. They feed off of each other to continuously grow big brother.
I will always vote Libertarian. Even if I don't 100% agree with them. For two reasons:
1) It's not like a few Libertarian's in government is going to turn us into an anarcho-capitalist society over night.
2) Their base idea of government reduction is far superior to the base ideas of both other two parties of fast government growth or slow government growth.
He got elected so apparently it wasn't "plenty."
I'd guess never in a commercial flight. Although there is one humorous story about an incident my father got blamed for. It seems a bunch of his friends and my mother were invited to go on a plane trip and he wasn't invited. About half way through the trip everyone on the plane got sever diarrhea. Including one outright accident. My father was blamed for switching all their gum with laxative gum. He said he wished he could claim that because it was genius, but alas he was unable to claim it. Nobody knows for sure what happened.
Because it is legislation that creates the high barriers to entry.
You forgot, also global warming reporting it is from the sun doesn't get federal money the way human caused global warming reports does.
I think you are attributing far to much thought and decision making to OS or even software in general selection among the populace. I'd say more than 75% of computer users are extremely apathetic to the OS they use. Many probably barely know the difference between an application and an OS, and most don't care to know.
Many people use a computer at work all day and have no desire to continue to do so at home unless they have a very specific and targeted purpose. I have many friends who have computers that they only turn on once a week or so.
Just because the crowd here is a bit computer obsessed (me included) doesn't mean everyone is and/or wants to be.
Just out of curiosity, do you think the government forcing them to use something in the first place would be better? Nobody thinks Free Market is perfect because people are not perfect. It is just the best way to consistently take advantage of peoples imperfections and greed. Until you find a way for everyone in the world to be nice then this is what we have.
---encrypted string---
99366890c85eb3623aa9b893a28dfcae
---end string---
3 years later and millions of $$$ spent
"We've decrypted the email."
"it says, 'hi mom.' Ok, where is the next one he sent?"
It's not a machine for making a wormhole. You have to have a small wormhole available to you. What the machine does is expand a wormhole to enormous sizes. It is hinted at in the picture if you look closely.
Wow, I thought the prime target to use encryption against where the people trying to break into my bank account. You learn something every day.
So that means you have to put your companies name in the credits file of GPL work you do as well?
Yea, we could call it IP and run it over Ethernet. Why do we have to have all these different standards?
What if it goes to court and exposes the court for the unethical organization it is? Right and wrong don't matter, only winning.
Maybe leave of one word from the article
"Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word"
Iraq was just add to show that the subject also contained information about Iraq. We all know the Incompetence there. It is displayed in bold print and on TV every day, but sensitive information leaked like this???
Except now Microsoft is rattling the OSS cage with patents. Although it is very likely they wont get very far, government has made stupid decisions before. Of course the SCO ordeal has probably made it a little harder, Microsoft still has very deep pockets.
citing one example of closed source/development/platform success doesn't mean it isn't a risk over all. I've work with several software packages from companies that went under and lost all support of which we had no further course of action that could be taken. Just because people got lucky doesn't mean they will always get lucky.
Hmm, not one of those things has ever effected the taste of my coffee. Not sure what you're getting at.
Again, I just don't get it. I get decent cups everywhere for any price I feel like paying. I can get a decent cup for $.89 at Circle-K or I can get a decent cup for $5 at Starbux. I've tried all degrees from fresh roast to sat in a bag in the fridge for 3 weeks. Really the differences are minute and nothing to get uppity about.
exactly. I've read through several of the posts here about acidity and body I have really only found two flavors of coffee.
Strong and weak.
otherwise they are all about the same.
Always changing location? It is the mac OSX one that is always changing location relative to the work area of a window. If I am browsing a website on a secondary monitor and need to get to the bookmarks menu I have to travel over 28 physical inches from the web browser to the bookmarks bar and I have to shift my focus until the web browser is completely out of my center of vision.
There are two options that should be added to OSX, the ability to tie menus to the title bar of applications (so people like me can change it from what people like you enjoy)
And the ability to set mouse focus follows pointer. (Not window and/or keyboard focus) I want to be able to quit all the double clicking on window buttons not currently in focus. Plus, and mainly so, I'd like to be able to use my mouse wheel to scroll a background application without making it cover up my current application.
"Two words: Fitt's Law. Or: Keyboard Shortcuts. Take your pick."
You're kidding right? Fitt's law is completely wrong when a display grows to more than about 15 inches or spans two monitors. The distance traveled is far greater than would be if the menus where with the application as they should be.
Keyboard shortcuts are great. You can use them no mater where the menubar is. Of course then I have to learn, not only the standard UI versions, but then all the application specific versions. And of course it is a pain to browse through the menus if I'm not sure the one I'm looking for. All this and I still have to move the focus of my eyes almost 2 feet away from the application I may be using.
"Plus: System Preferences > Displays, then drag and drop the menu bar in the symbolic displays to the monitor you prefer."
Putting the menu bar on the secondary monitor, now that's a great idea. Now instead of being annoyed when accessing menus from my less used applications, I get to be annoyed during use of my primary applications.
I still don't understand the purpose of putting menus as far from the application work area as possible. Don't even get me started on the freaking way MS Office puts all the tool bars at the top of the screen making word/excel etc almost unusable. That has to be the MS way of laughing at OSX.