If you want an excellent RSS +more sidebar (That LongHorn is actually based on) check out http://desktopsidebar.com/... I have used it for a very long time now and find it to be very actively developed.
For you rabid fanbois (like me) here is how AMD scored:
Rank Site Country/Year Computer/Processors Manufacturer Rmax Rpeak 10 Sandia National Laboratories 11 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 31 Shanghai Supercomputer Center 32 Los Alamos National Laboratory 33 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 39 US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) 46 Grid Technology Research Center, AIST 57 Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS) 75 DOE/Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 76 DOE/Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory 109 The University of Nottingham 144 Automotive Manufacturer (F) 155 Los Alamos National Laboratory 156 Government 167 Universitaet Wuppertal 174 United Institute of Informatics Problems 244 DaimlerChrysler 300 Veritas DGC 306 Ford Motor Company 347 Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 348 Japan Adv. Inst. of Science and Technology (JAIST) 388 Umea University / HPC2N 490 Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing 499 Doshisha University
I am honestly trying to wrap my brain around why "desktop searching" is such a big deal, and I can only think of a few possibilities.
a) MS will copy Gnome in future versions and users will be stuck with Spatial file navigation.
- rendering any file/folder deeper then 3 levels a nightmare to get to.
b) Mom&Pop Users have become such cattle that they refuse to learn how to find stuff that they download or save, and search companies see $$ with all those helpless Baby Boomers now that the geeks have moved out of the home (or they are now in nursing homes and we got kicked out).
c) Through a magical process that has eliminated the need for human intervention and good IDv3 (metadata) tags, these new searches have indexed all the lyrics to your MP3/movie collections so you can now search your collection for:
"That song with the girl who tries to act like an '03 version of Madonna"
"that tune that had "some day I'll get laid" in the chorus".
Programs like iTunes that are a Db are fine and good, but only if all the data needed to search is there in the first place.
Teaching end users proper file structure will last a lot longer then this hand-holding, because at the end of the day the folks being "helped" are still idiots.
Lets just give them a remote controll, and scroll the programs/files on the PC like the TV-Guide does for thier TV shows. "OOh, freecell is on at 7:30!"
------------- c:\mp3\rock\ACDC\Who Made Who\ACDC - Shook me all night long.mp3
Result: music (to some)
Start -> New Search -> Music -> ACDC -> Who Made Who -> Shook Me all night long.
Result: Would you like to buy ACDC music online? Are you interested in an ACDC Concert? Search Ebay for ACDC stuff? Would you like to know who made you? Are you searching for God? Would you like to meet others who have bad taste in music too? Are you stuck in the 80's and need help? Do you want $$ to get out of your parents basement?
yeah I can't wait to see the financial models that predict Desktop Searching being profitable.
A little education sure will go a long way to avoiding pain.
That's easy! History has taught us: 1/ MS will offer this as a 'critical' update. 2/ Sheeple will install it 3/ IE7 automagically becomes the new default browser 4/ Profit!! (sorry I couldn't resist)
Hmm let me guess, this 'less-priviledged' IE "user" will be unable to install 3d party apps & addons (let's call them "plug-ins").
Idiot #1: I want to install these smile-themes and weather app, but IE won't let me. It says that these "plug-ins" are unsafe and operate at a higher priviledge level. I don't know what that means BUT I WANT MY SMILES!...... you guys know the rest of the story.
This entire manifesto is nothing more then self-serving bitching and moaning.
"...we need more innovation in games...." I call BS. Goto any library and you can classify ANY book into one of two 'genres'. Fiction & Non-Fiction
Everything else is a sub-classification or sub-genre.
We don't need NEW ideas for games, we just need a better evolved game.
My wife has a handfull of games that she loves. The Sims, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Creatures, Lemmings, Zoo Tycoon.
None of those were groundbraking at the time, they are simply evolved from an existing game style.
Repeat after me: Just because it's old doesn't mean its bad.
Games do not need to be shiny or flashy to be fun, some excellent old games just need a tune-up to be awesome again. (MOO2, Space Taxi, DOTT, Civ2 (great job on FreeCiv guys), Tribes (if it could only be patched to use OpenGL. Legends always crashes on me).
Here is an idea: look at the games that were made for the C64, and let those evolve! It was a very large "game-platform" and because of limited resources focused on gameplay.
A lot of us got our start with non-MS OS's, but we all owe Billy a thank-you for making PC's available to non-business's.
If it wasn't for MS, IBM would prolly still be stong-arming the MainFrame Only sales pitch. Yes Apple was first, but it just didn't catch on the way that Windows did.
I don't like his products (although Outlook2003 is damn spiffy), I don't like his embrace/engulf style, but I do love the fact that without him I wouldn't have the career that I do today. I owe him thanks.
C64 -> WFWG 3.11 -> OS/2 v3 & v4 -> Linux
I believe that MS-DOS 6.22 was the best OS that Microsoft has ever made.
Without the millions of home PC's running Windows, we would still be using 486's running at 100MHz.
I am honestly trying to wrap my brain around why "desktop searching" is such a big deal, and I can only think of a few possibilities.
a) MS will copy Gnome in future versions and users will be stuck with Spatial file navigation.
- rendering any file/folder deeper then 3 levels a nightmare to get to.
b) Mom&Pop Users have become such cattle that they refuse to learn how to find stuff that they download or save, and search companies see $$ with all those helpless Baby Boomers now that the geeks have moved out of the home (or they are now in nursing homes and we got kicked out).
c) Through a magical process that has eliminated the need for human intervention and good IDv3 tags, these new searches have indexed all the lyrics to your MP3/movie collections so you can now search your collection for:
"That song with the girl who tries to act like an '03 version of Madonna"
"that tune that had "some day I'll get laid" in the chorus".
Programs like iTunes that are a Db are fine and good, but only if all the data needed to search is there in the first place.
Teaching end users proper file structure will last a lot longer then this hand-holding, because at the end of the day the folks being "helped" are still idiots.
Lets just give them a remote controll, and scroll the programs/files on the PC like the TV-Guide does for thier TV shows. "OOh, freecell is on at 7:30!"
------------- c:\mp3\rock\ACDC\Who Made Who\ACDC - Shook me all night long.mp3
Result: music (to some)
Start -> New Search -> Music -> ACDC -> Who Made Who -> Shook Me all night long.
Result: Would you like to buy ACDC music online? Are you interested in an ACDC Concert? Search Ebay for ACDC stuff? Would you like to know who made you? Are you searching for God? Would you like to meet others who have bad taste in music too? Are you stuck in the 80's and need help? Do you want $$ to get out of your parents basement?
yeah I can't wait to see the financial models that predict Desktop Searching being profitable.
A little education sure will go a long way to avoiding pain.
Yes I am biased, I hate stupid people. Can somebody please help me to understand WHY?
The reason: even when a CPU is busy doing x number of things, (maxxing out the CPU graph to 100%) it still manages to be "idle" for a good chunk of those CPU cycles. Might have something to do with the way that threads are sliced for multi-tasking.
Why couldn't IBM 'donate' it's OS/2 code to the WINE team to (a) allow even more support for Windows apps. (b) get some of that groovy 32-bit multi-threading goodness out to the public (c) flip Microsoft the bird for what MS actually did to OS/2 when it launched.
I'd give them a lollipop for that. (OS/2 was the ONLY operating system that I have ever bought. and I still think it handled multi-threading better then anything else I have run since then.)
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The best (and my favorite) surround-effect start-up was the THX one with the little robot and the 'cows'.
M-O-O-N That spells moon.
If you want an excellent RSS +more sidebar (That LongHorn is actually based on) check out http://desktopsidebar.com/ ... I have used it for a very long time now and find it to be very actively developed.
Here is my screenshot: http://www.mnsi.net/~n0spam/I_broke_Google.PNG
For you rabid fanbois (like me) here is how AMD scored:
/Processors Manufacturer Rmax Rpeak
Rank Site Country/Year Computer
10 Sandia National Laboratories
11 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
31 Shanghai Supercomputer Center
32 Los Alamos National Laboratory
33 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
39 US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
46 Grid Technology Research Center, AIST
57 Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS)
75 DOE/Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory
76 DOE/Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
109 The University of Nottingham
144 Automotive Manufacturer (F)
155 Los Alamos National Laboratory
156 Government
167 Universitaet Wuppertal
174 United Institute of Informatics Problems
244 DaimlerChrysler
300 Veritas DGC
306 Ford Motor Company
347 Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
348 Japan Adv. Inst. of Science and Technology (JAIST)
388 Umea University / HPC2N
490 Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
499 Doshisha University
Dyslexics of the world are excited to hear about a new Apple product.
Apple introduces the new iNac and has selected 2005 Winners!
Oh what is it? Who won?
ack... As I read further on, it has nothing to do with Apple. But you did get me at first.
Because I didn't RTFA the headline grabbed my attention.
Your problem, is that you are an intelligent person who has learnt HOW to use a computer.
Shame on you! =)
Why can't you be just as dumb as the majority of people who save every document to the first folder that MS Word opens to.
Bah, I don't want to download, I want to open/run that application from the web-site.
I am honestly trying to wrap my brain around why "desktop searching" is such a big deal, and I can only think of a few possibilities.
a) MS will copy Gnome in future versions and users will be stuck with Spatial file navigation.
- rendering any file/folder deeper then 3 levels a nightmare to get to.
b) Mom&Pop Users have become such cattle that they refuse to learn how to find stuff that they download or save, and search companies see $$ with all those helpless Baby Boomers now that the geeks have moved out of the home (or they are now in nursing homes and we got kicked out).
c) Through a magical process that has eliminated the need for human intervention and good IDv3 (metadata) tags, these new searches have indexed all the lyrics to your MP3/movie collections so you can now search your collection for:
"That song with the girl who tries to act like an '03 version of Madonna"
"that tune that had "some day I'll get laid" in the chorus".
Programs like iTunes that are a Db are fine and good, but only if all the data needed to search is there in the first place.
Teaching end users proper file structure will last a lot longer then this hand-holding, because at the end of the day the folks being "helped" are still idiots.
Lets just give them a remote controll, and scroll the programs/files on the PC like the TV-Guide does for thier TV shows. "OOh, freecell is on at 7:30!"
-------------
c:\mp3\rock\ACDC\Who Made Who\ACDC - Shook me all night long.mp3
Result: music (to some)
Start -> New Search -> Music -> ACDC -> Who Made Who -> Shook Me all night long.
Result:
Would you like to buy ACDC music online?
Are you interested in an ACDC Concert?
Search Ebay for ACDC stuff?
Would you like to know who made you?
Are you searching for God?
Would you like to meet others who have bad taste in music too?
Are you stuck in the 80's and need help?
Do you want $$ to get out of your parents basement?
yeah I can't wait to see the financial models that predict Desktop Searching being profitable.
A little education sure will go a long way to avoiding pain.
Is this the death of the legacy DOS commands that we have all used?
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom' ??
Will the c: conventions be replaced (or simply aliased) alias d:='mount
or EVEN WORSE: will I have to swap all my "\" to "/" =)
Are they finally moving to A Better Place(tm) ?
Wow, it must be fast.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
It was false, but now it's true?
Brain... melting...
Then my job here is done.
That's easy! History has taught us:
1/ MS will offer this as a 'critical' update.
2/ Sheeple will install it
3/ IE7 automagically becomes the new default browser
4/ Profit!! (sorry I couldn't resist)
Hmm let me guess, this 'less-priviledged' IE "user" will be unable to install 3d party apps & addons (let's call them "plug-ins").
...... you guys know the rest of the story.
Idiot #1: I want to install these smile-themes and weather app, but IE won't let me. It says that these "plug-ins" are unsafe and operate at a higher priviledge level. I don't know what that means BUT I WANT MY SMILES!
Something that I have never understood is why the need for the hyphen.
I am Canadian (born and lived for 31 years), if I move to the US, do I become a Canadian-American ?
NO. I will always be a Canadian, regardless of where I live.
I wish you hadn't of said that phrase...
"....Now the time has come for geek persecution to end...."
"Nerd!"
"Nerd!"
"Nerd!"
Ahh Revenge of the Nerds. Can a quote be anymore pathetic? =)
"....we cant just vacuum up the atmosphere..."
Sure you can.
"Go MegaMaid! Suck! SUck! SUck! Suck!"
I saw it in a movie so it must be true.
This entire manifesto is nothing more then self-serving bitching and moaning.
"...we need more innovation in games...."
I call BS. Goto any library and you can classify ANY book into one of two 'genres'.
Fiction & Non-Fiction
Everything else is a sub-classification or sub-genre.
We don't need NEW ideas for games, we just need a better evolved game.
My wife has a handfull of games that she loves. The Sims, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Creatures, Lemmings, Zoo Tycoon.
None of those were groundbraking at the time, they are simply evolved from an existing game style.
Repeat after me: Just because it's old doesn't mean its bad.
Games do not need to be shiny or flashy to be fun, some excellent old games just need a tune-up to be awesome again. (MOO2, Space Taxi, DOTT, Civ2 (great job on FreeCiv guys), Tribes (if it could only be patched to use OpenGL. Legends always crashes on me).
Here is an idea: look at the games that were made for the C64, and let those evolve! It was a very large "game-platform" and because of limited resources focused on gameplay.
You just made my day...
Obscure enough to annoy most, funny enough to pee.
A lot of us got our start with non-MS OS's, but we all owe Billy a thank-you for making PC's available to non-business's.
If it wasn't for MS, IBM would prolly still be stong-arming the MainFrame Only sales pitch. Yes Apple was first, but it just didn't catch on the way that Windows did.
I don't like his products (although Outlook2003 is damn spiffy), I don't like his embrace/engulf style, but I do love the fact that without him I wouldn't have the career that I do today. I owe him thanks.
C64 -> WFWG 3.11 -> OS/2 v3 & v4 -> Linux
I believe that MS-DOS 6.22 was the best OS that Microsoft has ever made.
Without the millions of home PC's running Windows, we would still be using 486's running at 100MHz.
Thank-you Bill. Now please just go away.
All they have to do is install it under the siding of the house, and it is legit, code-worthy, and kinda cool.
IANAL but I bet this treatment violates neighbourhood 'quality' standards.
One thing to remember, pot-houses do this to minimise the heat signature.
I am honestly trying to wrap my brain around why "desktop searching" is such a big deal, and I can only think of a few possibilities.
a) MS will copy Gnome in future versions and users will be stuck with Spatial file navigation.
- rendering any file/folder deeper then 3 levels a nightmare to get to.
b) Mom&Pop Users have become such cattle that they refuse to learn how to find stuff that they download or save, and search companies see $$ with all those helpless Baby Boomers now that the geeks have moved out of the home (or they are now in nursing homes and we got kicked out).
c) Through a magical process that has eliminated the need for human intervention and good IDv3 tags, these new searches have indexed all the lyrics to your MP3/movie collections so you can now search your collection for:
"That song with the girl who tries to act like an '03 version of Madonna"
"that tune that had "some day I'll get laid" in the chorus".
Programs like iTunes that are a Db are fine and good, but only if all the data needed to search is there in the first place.
Teaching end users proper file structure will last a lot longer then this hand-holding, because at the end of the day the folks being "helped" are still idiots.
Lets just give them a remote controll, and scroll the programs/files on the PC like the TV-Guide does for thier TV shows. "OOh, freecell is on at 7:30!"
-------------
c:\mp3\rock\ACDC\Who Made Who\ACDC - Shook me all night long.mp3
Result: music (to some)
Start -> New Search -> Music -> ACDC -> Who Made Who -> Shook Me all night long.
Result:
Would you like to buy ACDC music online?
Are you interested in an ACDC Concert?
Search Ebay for ACDC stuff?
Would you like to know who made you?
Are you searching for God?
Would you like to meet others who have bad taste in music too?
Are you stuck in the 80's and need help?
Do you want $$ to get out of your parents basement?
yeah I can't wait to see the financial models that predict Desktop Searching being profitable.
A little education sure will go a long way to avoiding pain.
Yes I am biased, I hate stupid people. Can somebody please help me to understand WHY?
I like the info about /proc/uptime, thanks!
for me a more-telling stat is:
# uptime
16:42:03 up 314 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The reason: even when a CPU is busy doing x number of things, (maxxing out the CPU graph to 100%) it still manages to be "idle" for a good chunk of those CPU cycles. Might have something to do with the way that threads are sliced for multi-tasking.
That's my guess atleast.
I have always found Konq to be the best alternative to FireFox on sites that are "IE-only". (including my companies intranet.)
As a general web-browser I find Konq to be slow and kludgy, but it has never dissappointed me on the stubborn sites.
Anybody found similar situations?
Why couldn't IBM 'donate' it's OS/2 code to the WINE team to
(a) allow even more support for Windows apps.
(b) get some of that groovy 32-bit multi-threading goodness out to the public
(c) flip Microsoft the bird for what MS actually did to OS/2 when it launched.
I'd give them a lollipop for that. (OS/2 was the ONLY operating system that I have ever bought. and I still think it handled multi-threading better then anything else I have run since then.)
Yes, sorry I goofed that up. It's been a long time since Grade 12 Chemestry.
Could somebody please tell me what a mole of these weighs so that I can compare it to something I can actually wrap my brain around?
ie. H2O = 18amu's
H = 1 (x2)
O = 16