There's nothing wrong with it. In fact, it's miles better than any console. An I5/I7 paired with a midrange graphics card blows them out of the water. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the software writers who write for consoles and then port that back to PCs... Case in point, Skyrim, which has about the most awful interface ever inflcited on the keyboard & mouse using public ever. More first-person shooters that all look the same. No innovation any more. No, the problem is the game companies and their crap.
This is an example of one joke calling another one a joke. John McAfee has just about doomed the company he founded and sold, in just a short time with his crazy drug-addled antics. Meanwhile, Anonymous may be popular with a few hackers and the Slashdot crowd, but they're a bunch of collectivists who get no sympathy from the general public, the internet equivalent of gangbangers with spray paint cans.
My Asus P8H67M-Pro is the first UEFI board I've ever had. It's run every distro I ever threw at it; SUSE, Mint, Debian, etc. You may need to disable AHCI and ACPI during install.
Metro is clearly a bunch of shit. *Everyone* I know who's tried it says so. I don't know a single business that plans to upgrade to it. W8 may have improvements under the hood that make it superior to 7, but Metro is a regression, plain and simple.
Absolutely! I'd give a nut to have full-time work in IT making even $20/hr. I've been in the field since the mid-90s and can't find anything but temporary contract jobs, and those are few and far between.
Not on the 330 Series; those are three-year. When I bought a 520 recently I did a lot of studying first. From what I gather the 520 and the 330 are hardware-identical, but the 520's chips are "binned" as being more reliable, hence the longer warranty. I highly recommend the 520s. Mine's been flawless so far (admittedly only about 6 weeks). I just ordered a new UPS a few minutes ago; they're pretty much needed if you're running and SSD, and advisable even if you aren't.
OCZ's had some troubles recently. I don't know how they can stay in business much longer with DOA rates on some of their products in the range of 40%. That's just embarassingly bad.
The Russians already have proven the ability of a man to live 15 months in space. Mind you, that was in low earth orbit. Still, within Earth's magnetic field.
Going to Mars will require either invulnerable spacemen, or (b) adequate shielding. The current candidate for that is the water needed for the trip.
This is bullshit. Weightlessness is a problem because of atrophy and bone loss, yes. But *The Russians already did that. They sent up guys in a can in orbit for a LONG time* on Mir. Due to bungee cords, they came home fine. The most rational response to their work is to conclude that any manned missions to Mars should have artificial gravity. It's also bullshit because *we already know from plenty of Earth-based observations that radiation is bad!* and that once outside our planet's magnetic field the particles need to be shielded from.
Okay, put a man in a chamber and expose him to high levels of radiation for 18 months? No, you build a spaceship with shielding. But no one loves me. No one listens to me. The goal should be really and truly be boots on Mars, not political grandstanding about nothing.
You lost me at Metro being "clean and spiffy," but you're right otherwise. I give it one or two years before some bright bulb dreams up an OS or even hardware to force feed advertising to the user, all the while claiming it reduces costs... Consoles already do.
That's exactly what I was saying, but I got modded down. There were *tons* of tweets from idjit kids promising, "Imma start a riot!" and "Kill that cracker Romney if he wins!".
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They're fully accredited and make you actually study. wgu.edu
I need to think about that one. Let me mullet over.
There's nothing wrong with it. In fact, it's miles better than any console. An I5/I7 paired with a midrange graphics card blows them out of the water. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the software writers who write for consoles and then port that back to PCs... Case in point, Skyrim, which has about the most awful interface ever inflcited on the keyboard & mouse using public ever. More first-person shooters that all look the same. No innovation any more. No, the problem is the game companies and their crap.
This is an example of one joke calling another one a joke. John McAfee has just about doomed the company he founded and sold, in just a short time with his crazy drug-addled antics. Meanwhile, Anonymous may be popular with a few hackers and the Slashdot crowd, but they're a bunch of collectivists who get no sympathy from the general public, the internet equivalent of gangbangers with spray paint cans.
My Asus P8H67M-Pro is the first UEFI board I've ever had. It's run every distro I ever threw at it; SUSE, Mint, Debian, etc. You may need to disable AHCI and ACPI during install.
I ran OS/2 Warp in 4MB! Now get off my lawn.
Metro is clearly a bunch of shit. *Everyone* I know who's tried it says so. I don't know a single business that plans to upgrade to it. W8 may have improvements under the hood that make it superior to 7, but Metro is a regression, plain and simple.
Good luck with that. Don't forget to turn out the lights before the building gets reposessed.
Not a scientific sim, but it does accurately describe the hardware used to get to the Moon during the space race. http://www.raceintospace.org/
I'm still bummed Archie McPhee's out of Bibo clocks!
My parrot Bud has handled the steering wheel a few times and caused no crashes.... yet.
Give me a list then, of all the IT people in North Korea, or Cuba, or (name the communist country) who are rich from their skills.
Absolutely! I'd give a nut to have full-time work in IT making even $20/hr. I've been in the field since the mid-90s and can't find anything but temporary contract jobs, and those are few and far between.
I thought the same thing as I read this. *Another* first-person shooter. Yawn.
Slashdot covered the whole torrid Hans Reiser affair too. I think it's important.
I guess this is what happens when the Devil gets in bed with the Devil. They're both evil & deserve to die.
Not on the 330 Series; those are three-year. When I bought a 520 recently I did a lot of studying first. From what I gather the 520 and the 330 are hardware-identical, but the 520's chips are "binned" as being more reliable, hence the longer warranty. I highly recommend the 520s. Mine's been flawless so far (admittedly only about 6 weeks). I just ordered a new UPS a few minutes ago; they're pretty much needed if you're running and SSD, and advisable even if you aren't.
OCZ's had some troubles recently. I don't know how they can stay in business much longer with DOA rates on some of their products in the range of 40%. That's just embarassingly bad.
The Russians already have proven the ability of a man to live 15 months in space. Mind you, that was in low earth orbit. Still, within Earth's magnetic field.
Going to Mars will require either invulnerable spacemen, or (b) adequate shielding. The current candidate for that is the water needed for the trip.
This is bullshit. Weightlessness is a problem because of atrophy and bone loss, yes. But *The Russians already did that. They sent up guys in a can in orbit for a LONG time* on Mir. Due to bungee cords, they came home fine. The most rational response to their work is to conclude that any manned missions to Mars should have artificial gravity. It's also bullshit because *we already know from plenty of Earth-based observations that radiation is bad!* and that once outside our planet's magnetic field the particles need to be shielded from.
Okay, put a man in a chamber and expose him to high levels of radiation for 18 months? No, you build a spaceship with shielding. But no one loves me. No one listens to me. The goal should be really and truly be boots on Mars, not political grandstanding about nothing.
I love listening to the people in their forties complain. Warms the very cockles of me heart.
You lost me at Metro being "clean and spiffy," but you're right otherwise. I give it one or two years before some bright bulb dreams up an OS or even hardware to force feed advertising to the user, all the while claiming it reduces costs... Consoles already do.
Mod +6 insightful
I use KDE4 and I like it. I will say I agree with the OP that it was a piece of crap early on, and I still miss KDE3.
That's exactly what I was saying, but I got modded down. There were *tons* of tweets from idjit kids promising, "Imma start a riot!" and "Kill that cracker Romney if he wins!".
What will Zippy put his taco sauce on now?