I just don't care. I use linux as my primary and only desktop os for 5+ years. I don't try to convince anyone to use it. I wouldn't go back to windows. As long as there is a group of enthusiasts who make this happen and a group of enthusiasts who use it, it won't vanish. And to be true it is the only os where you can see the latest (maybe not the greatest after all) ideas concerning desktop, user interface paradigms, etc. It's the cutting edge. Period.
As far as I remember there already was an episode about this. Using mirror or carefully aligned set of mirrors to light up/burn wood. Or maybe it was some other show, was it?
The truth is that WiFi (even draft-n) doesn't compare - in terms of speed and stability - to plain old 100BASE-TX. I recently decided to get rid of the wires going to my desktop and now something like copying a few GB file from laptop to desktop is a pain in the ass. That's as far as LAN's are concerned.
On the other hand, wireless WAN access is good when you have no other options. MikroTik embedded in an directional antenna can give you decent speed over few kilometers. However the connection uptime still sucks, outages are frequent during storms. I doubt it'll give you more than 5-10Mbit/s so no HD streaming.
I really don't understand this. We have wider monitors, greater resolutions and everybody has to break longer function calls? If I have more space on the screen I use it. If somebody else has less space, then he can activate the automatic line break.
I once owned fuck-microsoft.com domain. Made it look similar (colors, fonts, gradients, etc.) to a MS site, but it was just kind of my homepage. Nobody even wrote me an e-mail.
1) I wasn't even born then. It's completely different experience being able to follow the whole endeavour - live - from the beginning, I imagine.
2) Now we have way better AV equipment.
I'd like to live long enough to see a manned mission to moon or maybe mars. I don't care who does it, as long as they will share the experience with the rest of the world.
I saw the title and wondered what is that *additional* license fee for. I read the TFA and realised that that handset manufacturers (or rather we) are just paying for using windows. How's that news? Shouldn't the title be rather something like "windows is the only non-free mobile os left".
I skimmed TFA and from what I understand (and I don't understand much to be true) they merely suppose there is "super conduction phase" within this material based on some observations (sharp change in resistance(temp) function or something [not measured directly?]). Neither they directly observed superconductivity, nor they claim so. They state that their conclusion is true assuming that some theory is true ("The data have been interpreted in the framework of above model", which probably isn't yet confirmed).
I'd say that this article is far from stating that room-temperature superconductor of any kind has been found. No breakthrough here.
I don't know why but back in the day when I used Windows games (suppose they were id games) which could switch between OpenGL and DirectX ran noticeably smoother on OpenGL and also the texture filtering looked better. I suppose there is no way to make such comparison now as almost nobody writes games which can run both.
Nostalgia aside, from what I've been hearing from devs who had contact with DX and then picked up OGL, OGL API seems way more elegant and easier to deal with...
I don't want to start a flame war but haven't OGL almost always surpass DX in terms of features by the means of extensions?
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I just don't care. I use linux as my primary and only desktop os for 5+ years. I don't try to convince anyone to use it. I wouldn't go back to windows. As long as there is a group of enthusiasts who make this happen and a group of enthusiasts who use it, it won't vanish. And to be true it is the only os where you can see the latest (maybe not the greatest after all) ideas concerning desktop, user interface paradigms, etc. It's the cutting edge. Period.
As far as I remember there already was an episode about this. Using mirror or carefully aligned set of mirrors to light up/burn wood. Or maybe it was some other show, was it?
The truth is that WiFi (even draft-n) doesn't compare - in terms of speed and stability - to plain old 100BASE-TX. I recently decided to get rid of the wires going to my desktop and now something like copying a few GB file from laptop to desktop is a pain in the ass. That's as far as LAN's are concerned.
On the other hand, wireless WAN access is good when you have no other options. MikroTik embedded in an directional antenna can give you decent speed over few kilometers. However the connection uptime still sucks, outages are frequent during storms. I doubt it'll give you more than 5-10Mbit/s so no HD streaming.
I really don't understand this. We have wider monitors, greater resolutions and everybody has to break longer function calls? If I have more space on the screen I use it. If somebody else has less space, then he can activate the automatic line break.
I once owned fuck-microsoft.com domain. Made it look similar (colors, fonts, gradients, etc.) to a MS site, but it was just kind of my homepage. Nobody even wrote me an e-mail.
It has already happened.
1) I wasn't even born then. It's completely different experience being able to follow the whole endeavour - live - from the beginning, I imagine.
2) Now we have way better AV equipment.
I'd like to live long enough to see a manned mission to moon or maybe mars. I don't care who does it, as long as they will share the experience with the rest of the world.
I saw the title and wondered what is that *additional* license fee for. I read the TFA and realised that that handset manufacturers (or rather we) are just paying for using windows. How's that news? Shouldn't the title be rather something like "windows is the only non-free mobile os left".
Fuck Gnome. Seriously, who wants a desktop with a smelly foot on it?
There, fixed that for you.
I skimmed TFA and from what I understand (and I don't understand much to be true) they merely suppose there is "super conduction phase" within this material based on some observations (sharp change in resistance(temp) function or something [not measured directly?]). Neither they directly observed superconductivity, nor they claim so. They state that their conclusion is true assuming that some theory is true ("The data have been interpreted in the framework of above model", which probably isn't yet confirmed).
I'd say that this article is far from stating that room-temperature superconductor of any kind has been found. No breakthrough here.
Check out Illusion's games, boob physics as good as it gets
I don't know why but back in the day when I used Windows games (suppose they were id games) which could switch between OpenGL and DirectX ran noticeably smoother on OpenGL and also the texture filtering looked better. I suppose there is no way to make such comparison now as almost nobody writes games which can run both.
Nostalgia aside, from what I've been hearing from devs who had contact with DX and then picked up OGL, OGL API seems way more elegant and easier to deal with...
I don't want to start a flame war but haven't OGL almost always surpass DX in terms of features by the means of extensions?