Between Microsoft and Canonical trying to promote a tablet desktop on non-tablet PCs I think Apple and the KDE will be the winners.
Don't forget Debian and XFCE. It's well worth a try. Not to mention that because the XFCE philosophy is generally to provide a stable, straightforward desktop, they're rather unlikely to ever go down the route of totally revamping it to shit. At least I hope not.
BTW ballmer strikes me as the kind of hardline manager who refuses to listen to criticism. Even in the face of negative Vista and WinPhone and Windows8 reviews, he just keeps pressing forward like a bull in a china shop: "Once they see what's in it, I think they will like it. But first we have to release it so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy."
BTW, can anyone tell me what's up with the CWM main page? It seems to have no information whatsoever on the ClockworkMod Recovery thing, which is surely a major feature of ClockworkMod?
Then just don't install Linux. If you like Windows and it suits your needs, why switch?
Because it costs money. Because it's closed-source. Because it doesn't have the same ecosystem of open source software. And because I don't wish to reward the makers of it, given that they're trying their best to turn PCs into Microsoft devices.
After all, it's already on the computer!
Not mine; I build mine from their components (motherboard, RAM, SSD, gfx card, etc.)
I LOVE to cook, and love to be creative in the kitchen, and explore foods...but I draw the line at fucking BUGS.
Look on the bright side, though. If you have a cockroach or ant infestation, that just means you don't have to go shopping. And spiders, well, what a bonus!
Seriously... um, why would anyone download this app considering the VP pick will be all over the news 5 seconds later? Is Romney trying to look "hip" by doing this? If so, it's a pathetically transparent attempt.
So, the Slashdot story summary is a completely fabricated pile of shit, with a little explanation on the bottom, after the preceding propaganda already riled up the prejudices and produced a cascade of comments from the usual Salshdot poster who can't even bother to read the story summary, nevermind the story, before commenting in completely contrived, manipulated outrage.
The face is that there IS a law on the boosk in the UK that means you can be guilty of an offence if you try to annoy someone or send a "grossly offensive" message, whether or not that's what this guy has been arrested for. I think that's worth some serious concern if you care about reasonable free speech. It's a path to allowing every overly-sensitive person to get someone arrested. I don't want to live in such a society.
This kid chose to reach out into a public place to harass and intimidate someone
That is ridiculous. He insulted someone, which should not be illegal.
ha-rass [huh-ras, har-uhs] verb (used with object) 1. to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute. 2. to trouble by repeated attacks, incursions, etc., as in war or hostilities; harry; raid.
On one hand you have live HD/3D streaming of a bunch of different sports events running solidly for a few weeks.
On the other you have something that sure, sounds interesting, but the only access to information on it is the odd article in a newspaper/on the internet about it.
Hey, there's ZERO evidence of religion and yet billions of people spend a lot of time practising it.
Next question: why the hell do we still have to use hideous bash scripting? I've always found it exceedingly difficult to grasp and avoid it like the plague when I can. Some comments just from your code you gave:
if / fi is ugly as hell. Give me "end if" or curcly brackets. square brackets for an if is ugly as hell. I believe whitespace is important, and that if you don't separate the if statement out with whitespace, it errors. This sucks. if requires a semicolon after it. Why??? Variables need to have doublequotes around them. Why??? When setting a variable, you DON'T need to quote its contents. Why???
Passive cooling? I don't know the details, but Wikipedia says:
IFRs are able to withstand both a loss of flow without SCRAM and loss of heat sink without SCRAM. In addition to passive shutdown of the reactor, the convection current generated in the primary coolant system will prevent fuel damage (core meltdown). These capabilities were demonstrated in the EBR-II.[12] The ultimate goal is that no radioactivity will be released under any circumstance.
Erm, no it's not perect, but it does get the waste down to a short-term easily-manageable problem instead of one that will last for the rest of the Earth's lifetime.
Compared to current light-water reactors with a once-through fuel cycle that induces fission (and derives energy) from less than 1% of the uranium found in nature, a breeder reactor like the IFR has a very efficient (99.5% of uranium undergoes fission[citation needed]) fuel cycle.[4] The basic scheme used pyroelectric separation, a common method in other metallurgical processes, to remove transuranics and actinides from the wastes and concentrate them. These concentrated fuels were then reformed, on site, into new fuel elements.
The available fuel metals were never separated from the plutonium, and therefore relatively difficult to use in nuclear weapons. Also, plutonium never had to leave the site, and thus was far less open to unauthorized diversion.
Another important benefit of removing the long half-life transuranics from the waste cycle is that the remaining waste becomes a much shorter-term hazard. After the actinides (reprocessed uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides) are recycled, the remaining radioactive waste isotopes are fission products, with half-life of 90 years (Sm-151) or less or 211,100 years (Tc-99) and more; plus any activation products from the non-fuel reactor components. (Tc-99 and Iodine-129 are also candidates for nuclear transmutation to stable isotopes by neutron capture.)
While renewable energy technology is the answer, nuclear energy is an excellent interim solution.
Why does nuclear need to be an intrerim solution? With IFRs, nuclear "waste" is actually fuel which can be processed, nuclear is cheaper, and safer, than it has been before. I don't see why we should throw this tech away.
I get a bit cynical when I see people grumbling about old nuclear technology. To use the car analogy, it would be akin to banning cars since someone's Edsel or Packard threw a rod.
Or banning skyscrapers because of 9/11.
Well, any new builds, anyway. We'll grudgingly maintain the existing ones but NO NEW SKYSCRAPERS.
Nah, it's even easier to just go to Greenpeace's website. They tell you how to think and speak, you don't even need to process the meaning of the words!
Fukushima was an ancient reactor, from the 1960s, OLDER than Chernobyl. It was still quite badly-designed. Modern reactors with passive cooling would not have melted down EVEN WITH the tsunami (or pretty much any event).
What about Android on the desktop? I bet Google could make a lot of money selling PCs with the ad: "Works just like your phone, with the same android interface you know and love."
Why is everyone so obsessed with unifying interfaces? Sometimes, different interfaces are *necessary* to achieve wildly differing functionalities on the desktop and portable devices.
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Between Microsoft and Canonical trying to promote a tablet desktop on non-tablet PCs I think Apple and the KDE will be the winners.
Don't forget Debian and XFCE. It's well worth a try. Not to mention that because the XFCE philosophy is generally to provide a stable, straightforward desktop, they're rather unlikely to ever go down the route of totally revamping it to shit. At least I hope not.
MATE is worth an honorable mention too.
So you're saying that you travel from North America to North America in order to visit friends on other continents?
BTW ballmer strikes me as the kind of hardline manager who refuses to listen to criticism. Even in the face of negative Vista and WinPhone and Windows8 reviews, he just keeps pressing forward like a bull in a china shop: "Once they see what's in it, I think they will like it. But first we have to release it so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy."
"Now get out before a chair meets your face."
BTW, can anyone tell me what's up with the CWM main page? It seems to have no information whatsoever on the ClockworkMod Recovery thing, which is surely a major feature of ClockworkMod?
Scary as fuck to see it explode though. If it was exploded over a major city, the entire city would be extirpated.
Then just don't install Linux. If you like Windows and it suits your needs, why switch?
Because it costs money. Because it's closed-source. Because it doesn't have the same ecosystem of open source software. And because I don't wish to reward the makers of it, given that they're trying their best to turn PCs into Microsoft devices.
After all, it's already on the computer!
Not mine; I build mine from their components (motherboard, RAM, SSD, gfx card, etc.)
The way Gnome3 handles IM is really exemplary
No it's not; it has IM built into it. A desktop environment shouldn't have that! What if I wish to change my IM program?
I LOVE to cook, and love to be creative in the kitchen, and explore foods...but I draw the line at fucking BUGS.
Look on the bright side, though. If you have a cockroach or ant infestation, that just means you don't have to go shopping. And spiders, well, what a bonus!
Personally, I'm waiting for Kim Jong-Deux.
Why?
Seriously... um, why would anyone download this app considering the VP pick will be all over the news 5 seconds later? Is Romney trying to look "hip" by doing this? If so, it's a pathetically transparent attempt.
So, the Slashdot story summary is a completely fabricated pile of shit, with a little explanation on the bottom, after the preceding propaganda already riled up the prejudices and produced a cascade of comments from the usual Salshdot poster who can't even bother to read the story summary, nevermind the story, before commenting in completely contrived, manipulated outrage.
The face is that there IS a law on the boosk in the UK that means you can be guilty of an offence if you try to annoy someone or send a "grossly offensive" message, whether or not that's what this guy has been arrested for. I think that's worth some serious concern if you care about reasonable free speech. It's a path to allowing every overly-sensitive person to get someone arrested. I don't want to live in such a society.
This kid chose to reach out into a public place to harass and intimidate someone
That is ridiculous. He insulted someone, which should not be illegal.
ha-rass
[huh-ras, har-uhs]
verb (used with object)
1. to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
2. to trouble by repeated attacks, incursions, etc., as in war or hostilities; harry; raid.
One tweet does not a harassment case make.
On one hand you have live HD/3D streaming of a bunch of different sports events running solidly for a few weeks.
On the other you have something that sure, sounds interesting, but the only access to information on it is the odd article in a newspaper/on the internet about it.
Hey, there's ZERO evidence of religion and yet billions of people spend a lot of time practising it.
the only way to effectively deal with sociopathy is through bribery.
Or executions.
Next question: why the hell do we still have to use hideous bash scripting? I've always found it exceedingly difficult to grasp and avoid it like the plague when I can. Some comments just from your code you gave:
if / fi is ugly as hell. Give me "end if" or curcly brackets.
square brackets for an if is ugly as hell.
I believe whitespace is important, and that if you don't separate the if statement out with whitespace, it errors. This sucks.
if requires a semicolon after it. Why???
Variables need to have doublequotes around them. Why???
When setting a variable, you DON'T need to quote its contents. Why???
I really wish this up coming elections had someone with voting for...I am tired of holding my nose when voting in the presidential elections.
The Green party candidate? The Libertarian candidate? I'm tired of people saying they have only 2 choices.
Passive cooling? I don't know the details, but Wikipedia says:
IFRs are able to withstand both a loss of flow without SCRAM and loss of heat sink without SCRAM. In addition to passive shutdown of the reactor, the convection current generated in the primary coolant system will prevent fuel damage (core meltdown). These capabilities were demonstrated in the EBR-II.[12] The ultimate goal is that no radioactivity will be released under any circumstance.
Erm, no it's not perect, but it does get the waste down to a short-term easily-manageable problem instead of one that will last for the rest of the Earth's lifetime.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor, for example:
Compared to current light-water reactors with a once-through fuel cycle that induces fission (and derives energy) from less than 1% of the uranium found in nature, a breeder reactor like the IFR has a very efficient (99.5% of uranium undergoes fission[citation needed]) fuel cycle.[4] The basic scheme used pyroelectric separation, a common method in other metallurgical processes, to remove transuranics and actinides from the wastes and concentrate them. These concentrated fuels were then reformed, on site, into new fuel elements.
The available fuel metals were never separated from the plutonium, and therefore relatively difficult to use in nuclear weapons. Also, plutonium never had to leave the site, and thus was far less open to unauthorized diversion.
Another important benefit of removing the long half-life transuranics from the waste cycle is that the remaining waste becomes a much shorter-term hazard. After the actinides (reprocessed uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides) are recycled, the remaining radioactive waste isotopes are fission products, with half-life of 90 years (Sm-151) or less or 211,100 years (Tc-99) and more; plus any activation products from the non-fuel reactor components. (Tc-99 and Iodine-129 are also candidates for nuclear transmutation to stable isotopes by neutron capture.)
While renewable energy technology is the answer, nuclear energy is an excellent interim solution.
Why does nuclear need to be an intrerim solution? With IFRs, nuclear "waste" is actually fuel which can be processed, nuclear is cheaper, and safer, than it has been before. I don't see why we should throw this tech away.
I get a bit cynical when I see people grumbling about old nuclear technology. To use the car analogy, it would be akin to banning cars since someone's Edsel or Packard threw a rod.
Or banning skyscrapers because of 9/11.
Well, any new builds, anyway. We'll grudgingly maintain the existing ones but NO NEW SKYSCRAPERS.
Yeah, last option sounds easiest...
Nah, it's even easier to just go to Greenpeace's website. They tell you how to think and speak, you don't even need to process the meaning of the words!
Fukushima was an ancient reactor, from the 1960s, OLDER than Chernobyl. It was still quite badly-designed. Modern reactors with passive cooling would not have melted down EVEN WITH the tsunami (or pretty much any event).
What about Android on the desktop? I bet Google could make a lot of money selling PCs with the ad: "Works just like your phone, with the same android interface you know and love."
Why is everyone so obsessed with unifying interfaces? Sometimes, different interfaces are *necessary* to achieve wildly differing functionalities on the desktop and portable devices.
Windows 8 on a desktop just doesn't make any sense.
Especially when it's been superseded by new technology.
I can't believe these reviews are still focussing on Windows 8. I've got Windows 98 for god's sake. Get with the 21st century.