Seriously, smartphones just got their own Samuel L. Jackson-esque wallet
Actually, in my book it's the programmer(s) who deserve that wallet. Seriously, they probably just saved a few people's lives by writing good software. How many of us can claim that?
But for that, wouldn't you be using a dual socket workstation?
In general, the more cores, or higher clocks, that can be brought to bear on my problems, the better.
My main point was that a six-core, high-clocked processor is better for my apps than a similar processor with fewer cores and/or a lower clock rate.
Although I should add one caveat. The AVX instructions supported by Intel's Sandy Bridge processor are likely to be a big deal for many scientific apps, and possibly for some games as well. So that's one thing not going for this pre-Sandy Bridge processor.
Many people regard the medical profession as damn near crooks for, *gasp*, actually wanting to be paid very well because...
That doesn't ring true to me. I can't thing of one person I know who things physicians are overpaid. If anything, my impression is that people feel bad for doctors who face huge student loans and malpractice insurance rates, in addition to several years of sleep-depriving residencies.
An accurate list of piracy must consider theft from the public domain, and robbing future generations of freedom to use their cultural heritage as they see fit.
The USA is #1 on that list.
To get off that list, the US should extradite all MPAA and RIAA to the Hague, as well as those U.S. Congressmen and Presidents who bought by copyright extremists.
With the NSA (and others?) having the power to issue National Security Letters, we really don't know what the truth is regarding anything in this matter.
It's hard to know how to feel about someone waging war against your own society.
Anonymous is fighting partially on behalf of Wikileaks. Wikileaks' recent releases put some sunlight on goverment/industry malfeasance, but also pointlessly harmed some diplomatic efforts by publishing unflattering personal opinions about people the US probably needs to get along with.
And the company Anonymous is going after probably helps stop real security threats that most of us would agree merit stopping; not just Cablegate-related stuff.
Any yet it's almost impossible to get research funding for developing proof systems for computer programs, and/or developing proof-friendly (e.g., non-Turing-complete) languages, which could eliminate whole categories of vulnerabilities and bugs. Epic.
For some of us (including me), the big deal is that Sandy Bridge adds a new set of instructions called "AVX" intstructions, which let us do more floating-point operations at the same time. For some scientific apps this can nearly double the performance of the overall app.
I'd be intersted to see how much "Islamic" terrorism the West and Russia faced if they stopped pissing on so many Muslims.
Oh, we all know we'd be all much better off if, like the UK, we allowed shariah to rule our courthouses for our islamic communities.
I don't see any necessary connection between (just to be concrete in my example) Russia adopts Sharia law, and whether or not Russia forcibly occupies Chechnya.
I do not thing that adoption of Sharia law would be a good thing at all. My point is that maybe the religious arguments that people find compelling when they're under seige by Russia, would be such compelling arguments if they were able to live in peace and independence.
My point is basically that two things are unusual about the Russian suicide bombers, presumably: their religion, and how much Russia is pissing on their region. And maybe its the pissed-on attribute that's a stronger impetus for their suicide bombings than is their religion.
Indeed - any fundie is a danger, no matter what invisible sky being they believe in
My impression is that there's a lot more justification (and impetus) for forcible world domination in the Q'uran than there is in the Bible.
Not that that stopped the Western European powers from using it as a justification. But I suspect it was more a pretense for most of those leaders, than it was anything driven by a desire to be good Christians.
How are we going to rid the world of ISLAM? These peopel make me despair, they won't be happy until they convert or kill us all. There isn't a country in the world that hasn't suffered from this religion of hate
My impression is that this has as much to do with Russian unpleasantness in Chechnya, as it does religion.
I'd be intersted to see how much "Islamic" terrorism the West and Russia faced if they stopped pissing on so many Muslims.
Have you possibly tried changing a setting in KDE before?
Seriously, it's not that hard. My desktop is entirely bare, I have a vertical panel with just a task bar, tray, and clock. My plasma theme almost completely lacks gradients. Oxygen is probably least offensive in this regard - it looks great on my high dpi screen, and isn't ridiculously glassed like certain themes are.
It's not the theming so much as programs like Dophin. It seems like, for whatever reason, KDE programs have really cluttered toolbars and controls around the edges of various frames. It seems like with Gnome, there's more of a design ethos of hiding most details behind menus and configuration dialogs, whereas KDE apps seem to like putting them all in front of you on the main window. Maybe I'm over generalizing, but that's my impression anyway.
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Actually, in my book it's the programmer(s) who deserve that wallet. Seriously, they probably just saved a few people's lives by writing good software. How many of us can claim that?
But for that, wouldn't you be using a dual socket workstation?
In general, the more cores, or higher clocks, that can be brought to bear on my problems, the better.
My main point was that a six-core, high-clocked processor is better for my apps than a similar processor with fewer cores and/or a lower clock rate.
Although I should add one caveat. The AVX instructions supported by Intel's Sandy Bridge processor are likely to be a big deal for many scientific apps, and possibly for some games as well. So that's one thing not going for this pre-Sandy Bridge processor.
I work on high-performance scientific software, and bill at about $200/hour.
If this saves me 3 hours of software tuning for a given customer, it's already a win.
Don't worry, this is Slashdot. You're among friends.
That doesn't ring true to me. I can't thing of one person I know who things physicians are overpaid. If anything, my impression is that people feel bad for doctors who face huge student loans and malpractice insurance rates, in addition to several years of sleep-depriving residencies.
An accurate list of piracy must consider theft from the public domain, and robbing future generations of freedom to use their cultural heritage as they see fit.
The USA is #1 on that list.
To get off that list, the US should extradite all MPAA and RIAA to the Hague, as well as those U.S. Congressmen and Presidents who bought by copyright extremists.
A major decrease in brain activity has been linked to using phones' "SMS" feature.
Your great-grandfather sounds like a dick.
With the NSA (and others?) having the power to issue National Security Letters, we really don't know what the truth is regarding anything in this matter.
It's hard to know how to feel about someone waging war against your own society.
Anonymous is fighting partially on behalf of Wikileaks. Wikileaks' recent releases put some sunlight on goverment/industry malfeasance, but also pointlessly harmed some diplomatic efforts by publishing unflattering personal opinions about people the US probably needs to get along with.
And the company Anonymous is going after probably helps stop real security threats that most of us would agree merit stopping; not just Cablegate-related stuff.
What a tangled mess of virtue and vice.
Of course it's not "ethical", but that's not the point. It's legal, and that's all that matters.
Are you saying that all one should consider, in general, is what's legal rather than ethical?
Or are just just saying that in this particular case?
Any yet it's almost impossible to get research funding for developing proof systems for computer programs, and/or developing proof-friendly (e.g., non-Turing-complete) languages, which could eliminate whole categories of vulnerabilities and bugs. Epic.
It isn't just scientists that we don't value though... It's the whole concept of curiosity that's on its way out.
What do you mean?
Wait, me too! Is that you, Matt?
No, privacy threats plus Sony's willingness to impose phone-home DRM plus consumers' and legislators' willingness to accept DRM were all contributors.
Next in line of succession will be Steve's own ego,
They were going to make it into a product, "iEgo", but that seemed redundant.
A single network you say?
Am I the only one seeing an unexpected sacking by the angry geeks?
What's the big appeal of Sandy Bridge anyway ?
For some of us (including me), the big deal is that Sandy Bridge adds a new set of instructions called "AVX" intstructions, which let us do more floating-point operations at the same time. For some scientific apps this can nearly double the performance of the overall app.
I'm been anxiously waiting for Dell to release its Mobile Precision Workstation with a Sandy Bridge processor.
I had been cursing Dell for their slowness, but I guess it was a blessing.
Oh, we all know we'd be all much better off if, like the UK, we allowed shariah to rule our courthouses for our islamic communities.
I don't see any necessary connection between (just to be concrete in my example) Russia adopts Sharia law, and whether or not Russia forcibly occupies Chechnya.
I do not thing that adoption of Sharia law would be a good thing at all. My point is that maybe the religious arguments that people find compelling when they're under seige by Russia, would be such compelling arguments if they were able to live in peace and independence.
My point is basically that two things are unusual about the Russian suicide bombers, presumably: their religion, and how much Russia is pissing on their region. And maybe its the pissed-on attribute that's a stronger impetus for their suicide bombings than is their religion.
Indeed - any fundie is a danger, no matter what invisible sky being they believe in
My impression is that there's a lot more justification (and impetus) for forcible world domination in the Q'uran than there is in the Bible.
Not that that stopped the Western European powers from using it as a justification. But I suspect it was more a pretense for most of those leaders, than it was anything driven by a desire to be good Christians.
How are we going to rid the world of ISLAM? These peopel make me despair, they won't be happy until they convert or kill us all. There isn't a country in the world that hasn't suffered from this religion of hate
My impression is that this has as much to do with Russian unpleasantness in Chechnya, as it does religion.
I'd be intersted to see how much "Islamic" terrorism the West and Russia faced if they stopped pissing on so many Muslims.
Interesting. I'll probably give 4.6 a try once it hits Ubuntu's repositories.
Have you possibly tried changing a setting in KDE before?
Seriously, it's not that hard. My desktop is entirely bare, I have a vertical panel with just a task bar, tray, and clock. My plasma theme almost completely lacks gradients. Oxygen is probably least offensive in this regard - it looks great on my high dpi screen, and isn't ridiculously glassed like certain themes are.
It's not the theming so much as programs like Dophin. It seems like, for whatever reason, KDE programs have really cluttered toolbars and controls around the edges of various frames. It seems like with Gnome, there's more of a design ethos of hiding most details behind menus and configuration dialogs, whereas KDE apps seem to like putting them all in front of you on the main window. Maybe I'm over generalizing, but that's my impression anyway.
To me, KDE just looks so darn busy compared to Gnome. Until they change that overall aspect of design, I really don't see using KDE regularly.
I like a few KDE programs a lot, especially Kate. But the overall desktop just isn't doing it for me.