The fact that Mars as no global magnetic field, and any carbon based life would in theory die within a short period of time because of the solar radiation. I do think we are gasping for straws thinking of having a colony on the planet.
The icons are ugly and the styles never seem to get there. The layout does though.
KDE has the same issue. So many things done right, but missing the polish.
The two should really merge and create a desktop that doesn't suck. KDE 4.x is buggy, and mediocre at best. Gnome 3 is, from what I have experienced, trying to hard. Both rip off OSX instead of ripping off KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2x.
I find KDE 4.7.1 to be quite stable and IMHO a better desktop than Gnome 3 or Win7, However I do think Mac OS X is still the best but not but a wide margin. AA YMMV
I buy AMD for the fact they are so kind to FOSS and stay away from anything Nvidia like its a disease. I do not get those that advocate for Linux and tells someone to buy Nvidia, Buying Nvidia and being an Open Source fanboi is like voting Republican and being a black lesbian cancer patient with no medical insurance.
It has been tried but not under the term Communism. There was a form of primitive Communism in the Bible read the book of Acts. So yes Christianity and socialism are very compatible.
Acts 2
44: And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45: And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Acts 4
32: And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33: And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34: Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35: And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. 36: And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37: Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
The current situation is Intel is slaughtering AMD. AMD hasn't had an architecture update in a long, long time and it is hurting them. Clock for clock their current architecture is a bit behind the Core 2 series, which is now two full generations out of date. Their 6 core CPU does not keep up with Intel's 4 core i7-900 series CPU, even on apps that can actually use all 6 cores (which are rare). Then you take the i5/7-2000 series (Sandy Bridge) which are a good bit faster per clock than the old ones and there is just no comparison.
Intel only beats AMD with their most recent SandyBridge chips, If you go by the sites that get Intel kickbacks doing synthetic benches then yeah Intel wins, however if you search for realword benches not using crap like superpi or cinebench then AMD cpus win some/ lose some and Intel is not a overall faster chip.
Been a lurker here since 1999 and I come here at least 10 times a day. Thanks for your hard work and making this site informative and fun. Let me buy you a beer next time your in Detroit.
The metric system is NOT metric is a totally superior system in every way. Its not even as good as the Babylonian base 60.
"The metric system, being decimal, is not well-suited to working
with fractions. Officially, you aren't even supposed to say
"1/3 meter," but rather "333 milliliters." For everyday uses, such
as cooking, it is much more natural to use fractions.
Metric units are not always appropriate amounts for convenient
use. The 2-liter bottle seems to have become "natural," but if you
want to buy a single drink, it's easier to say "a pint" or even "a
12-ounce cup" rather than "400 milliliters." The metric system's
rigidity prevents designing units for convenience.
These practical issues lead to the use of "folk units" alongside
the official metric units, which can lead to conflict when laws
are too rigid."
x86 is not open at all. It is one of most closed archs still around and there's less than a handful of companies license that can make x86 cpus, and Intel is never going to be selling you a license. One cannot compare the x86 arch to other arches such as Power(PC), SPARC, and say that x86 is open unless you mean open means closed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CPU_architectures
look at the table for open and/or Royalty-free
Probably because there are royalty free, freely available ARM designs available for use by anyone. Its not their leaded edge designs, but ARM is freely available.
Until ARM is like say OpenSPARC or LEON where you can get the source code of the chips and logic for free under the GPL or some other open source license, without the cost of paying any fee, then ARM is anything but free available.
I just don't get the love for the 3.5 series. I liked 3.5.x and used almost everyday, but 4.x series is sooo much better in terms of speed, looks and apps. The KDE 4 series is IMHO right behind the Mac OS X in terms of goodness.
"After attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland in June, Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg, announced that she had solved the cyberbullying issue: Prohibit anonymous Internet activity."
I see the name Bilderberg come up a lot when reading about the new world order. Aww so her comments make sense now in light of where she was speaking.
Culture not race is bigger bearing on the IQ and test scores of a person. In fact it is noted that 5th-8th generation Asian-Americans score lower on tests than 1st-3rd generation Asian-Americans. The same is noted for the 1st-3rd generation Africans(i.e Nigerians, Senegalese) vs 8+ generations deep African-American cousins.
To each his or her own then. Windows will always be the red headed step child of UI design in my opinion. Windows is the definition of putting lipstick on a pig.
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Easier to get there but it would be impossible for humans to live on Mars.
The fact that Mars as no global magnetic field, and any carbon based life would in theory die within a short period of time because of the solar radiation. I do think we are gasping for straws thinking of having a colony on the planet.
Not jobs but the Woz. Woz Made Apple Jobs was just a design marketing guy.
The icons are ugly and the styles never seem to get there. The layout does though.
KDE has the same issue. So many things done right, but missing the polish.
The two should really merge and create a desktop that doesn't suck. KDE 4.x is buggy, and mediocre at best. Gnome 3 is, from what I have experienced, trying to hard. Both rip off OSX instead of ripping off KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2x.
I find KDE 4.7.1 to be quite stable and IMHO a better desktop than Gnome 3 or Win7, However I do think Mac OS X is still the best but not but a wide margin. AA YMMV
Already there, they support the open source, freesoftware version of a BIOS replacement... Coreboot
UEFI needs to die a fast death.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/1115235/AMD-To-Support-Coreboot-On-All-Upcoming-Processors
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2011/05/06/amd-commits-to-coreboot/
I buy AMD for the fact they are so kind to FOSS and stay away from anything Nvidia like its a disease. I do not get those that advocate for Linux and tells someone to buy Nvidia, Buying Nvidia and being an Open Source fanboi is like voting Republican and being a black lesbian cancer patient with no medical insurance.
FreeBSD had always ran Linux binaries faster than Linux.
Maybe 10 years ago, but not today unless you have some recent benchmarks that say otherwise.
It has been tried but not under the term Communism. There was a form of primitive Communism in the Bible read the book of Acts. So yes Christianity and socialism are very compatible.
Acts 2
44: And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45: And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Acts 4
32: And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33: And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34: Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35: And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. 36: And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37: Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
The current situation is Intel is slaughtering AMD. AMD hasn't had an architecture update in a long, long time and it is hurting them. Clock for clock their current architecture is a bit behind the Core 2 series, which is now two full generations out of date. Their 6 core CPU does not keep up with Intel's 4 core i7-900 series CPU, even on apps that can actually use all 6 cores (which are rare). Then you take the i5/7-2000 series (Sandy Bridge) which are a good bit faster per clock than the old ones and there is just no comparison.
Intel only beats AMD with their most recent SandyBridge chips, If you go by the sites that get Intel kickbacks doing synthetic benches then yeah Intel wins, however if you search for realword benches not using crap like superpi or cinebench then AMD cpus win some/ lose some and Intel is not a overall faster chip.
"Anyone who uses Godwin's Law as a comeback or a way to end an debate loses." -- Common Sense
Been a lurker here since 1999 and I come here at least 10 times a day. Thanks for your hard work and making this site informative and fun. Let me buy you a beer next time your in Detroit.
Maybe he ought to use a laptop with OpenBSD, you think?
The OpenBSD is secure myth as got its fanbois out in droves on this thread it seems.
The metric system is NOT metric is a totally superior system in every way. Its not even as good as the Babylonian base 60.
"The metric system, being decimal, is not well-suited to working
with fractions. Officially, you aren't even supposed to say
"1/3 meter," but rather "333 milliliters." For everyday uses, such
as cooking, it is much more natural to use fractions.
Metric units are not always appropriate amounts for convenient
use. The 2-liter bottle seems to have become "natural," but if you
want to buy a single drink, it's easier to say "a pint" or even "a
12-ounce cup" rather than "400 milliliters." The metric system's
rigidity prevents designing units for convenience.
These practical issues lead to the use of "folk units" alongside
the official metric units, which can lead to conflict when laws
are too rigid."
Since when has China been a Communist country?
Liberal still means that outside the the of the USA. We in the states are a bunch of stupid folk.
x86 is not open at all. It is one of most closed archs still around and there's less than a handful of companies license that can make x86 cpus, and Intel is never going to be selling you a license. One cannot compare the x86 arch to other arches such as Power(PC), SPARC, and say that x86 is open unless you mean open means closed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CPU_architectures look at the table for open and/or Royalty-free
Open? How is ARM open?
Probably because there are royalty free, freely available ARM designs available for use by anyone. Its not their leaded edge designs, but ARM is freely available.
Until ARM is like say OpenSPARC or LEON where you can get the source code of the chips and logic for free under the GPL or some other open source license, without the cost of paying any fee, then ARM is anything but free available.
Let me vent for one second please. FUCK APPLE!!!
I just don't get the love for the 3.5 series. I liked 3.5.x and used almost everyday, but 4.x series is sooo much better in terms of speed, looks and apps. The KDE 4 series is IMHO right behind the Mac OS X in terms of goodness.
I never needed mysql for Amrok in the 4 years I been using it, mine always used sqlite.
"After attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland in June, Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg, announced that she had solved the cyberbullying issue: Prohibit anonymous Internet activity." I see the name Bilderberg come up a lot when reading about the new world order. Aww so her comments make sense now in light of where she was speaking.
Culture not race is bigger bearing on the IQ and test scores of a person. In fact it is noted that 5th-8th generation Asian-Americans score lower on tests than 1st-3rd generation Asian-Americans. The same is noted for the 1st-3rd generation Africans(i.e Nigerians, Senegalese) vs 8+ generations deep African-American cousins.
I swear I saw this headline 20 years ago.
This is a pretty swell example of fair justice and a fitting punishment. So much common sense this judge doth hath.
To each his or her own then. Windows will always be the red headed step child of UI design in my opinion. Windows is the definition of putting lipstick on a pig.