The point is that 3d acceleration is not a prerequisite for a good desktop environment. Sure, it can make the epxerience better in several ways, but you shouldn't *need* the 3d hardware. The GUI chrome should scale down on weak systems. OS X does this and I expect that Vista will do it too, though I'm sure some would speculate otherwise. Still, the fact that I can boot the current version of Knoppix from an optical drive on a 1ghz Thinkpad with only 128mb of system memory says that Linux does beat Microsoft and Apple in certain aspects of modern desktop computing.
I've always thought wireless mice and keyboards were ridiculous. In gaming it's obvious, but even having lag on my mouse in a desktop environment irked me. Lag when I'm typing irks me too. It was surprising to me the other week when I first thought "damn I wish I had a wireless mouse and keyboard." The situation was that I had a ton of devices on my desk at work, all with wires plugging from one to another, debugging networking hardware and the like. So I had this mess of cat5, serial cables, power cables, usb cables, dangling antennas, and in the mix my mouse for my T30 (damn the nub) and my desktop's mouse and keyboard were getting restricted. There is nothing more frustrating than having a mess on your desk, then being unable to move your mouse because the wire is caught on the mess. And that is the only reason I can come up with to have a wireless mouse; a messy situation.
What's amazing to me is that it took me two seconds to find the dupe in my RSS reader. If I were the editor of a site which syndicated news, I would definitely keep a long history of articles cached in my RSS reader for quick referencing. It's the best way to see if the tidbit has already been posted, and also to find related articles from the past.
Damn, that means that my morning required waking medicine plus my daily apres work stress reliever plus my sleeping in the dumpy apartment that I live in will mean I can continue doing so for many many many years.... what a hoot.
Haha, I'd love to see the movie.:) I found the pic of my cousin and had forgotten about the gun in his other hand. I'll risk the/. effect since this is buried in a thread...
I took a picture of my punk rock cousin standing next to a mural of a soldier in a gas mask stabbing a white dove in the ass with what looks like a scimitar. Freakin weird. Who on earth would paint such a thing in the airport??
It might be the fact that they're watering the grass with non-potable water... sometimes I walk by the park down the street when the sprinklers are on and honestly it smells like sewage. That is yet another thing that makes me miss the country and the mountains... nature. Nature waters with fresh clean rain, not recycled grey water.
The public wants Buck Rogers or Star Trek, not another Mars rover. Bleh!
Since when did the public's thirst for superfluous bedazzlement have any relation to the importance of science? Hoi polloi can find entertainment elsewhere, this Mars stuff is for the discovery of new information about this place we live in and how it all fits together.
I'm sure a lot of people don't go to the movies because the theaters are crap, but that's not the case for me. I don't mind being in a crappy theater. And I don't mind that most movies are crappy either, I wouldn't go see them in any theater. I seriously don't go to the movies because the movies themselves are lame. Most of it is recycled content anyways, and even though sometimes they get it right, such as the case of The Italian Job, the fact is that in my eyes, Hollywood is struggling to come up with anything worth seeing. The last several movies I've watched in the theater, minus my friends dragging me to that episode three movie, were Focus films and computer animated films. From what I've seen, those are the only two studios who are coming up with consistently good stuff. Flash bang boom explosion movies are like cheap thrills (obviously not monetarily speaking), but a movie that I'd actually watch several times has got to have a good story, a new perspective, or something unordinary, and it's sad to think that exploding planes and cars and people dying left and right has become ordinary on the screen. It's boring without a good story, and it's free on television. Same with sex appeal, just look at the failure of Cat Woman. Recycled content with bonus sex appeal clearly isn't cutting it. Look at the Incredibles. A good story, the new perspective offered by CGI, likable characters who you actually care about when they get hurt or die, that's good stuff, and that's why I paid the $15+ for my ticket and food and two hours in line and came out of the theater happy.
I think most clouds are sensitive. That's just a guess by observing them though. I mean, look at Enya videos, they have fluffy dreamy clouds. Then there are the insensitive ones like that Lakitu guy, which I'd say was the target of the "insensitive cloud" statement in question.
Actually, I haven't seen it. But I did read Linus Torvalds' description of how the Linux penguin should look full on herring, and not like a randy penguin. That was my first run-in with the phrase. This may have been before Austin Powers, but I really don't know for sure.
In a post-keynote briefing to reporters, Intel vice president for the Digital Enterprise Group, Stephen Smith, provided some further details about the new architecture. He said Conroe's core may be given as few as 14 pipelines, as opposed to Pentium 4's current 31. He also said Conroe may, possibly, take on as many as four cores by early 2008, though no formal decision has been reached. When pressed about cache size, Smith indicated a possible 8 Mb cache for Conroe, but again, would not officially confirm.
Boy does that bring back some memories... I had this nasty girl one time. She loved for me to talk open and adventurous to her. It really turned her on.
That is hilarious. What adds to it is the fact that 7804 people have rated it, a childrens book, but only 104 people have rated the review right below it.:)
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The point is that 3d acceleration is not a prerequisite for a good desktop environment. Sure, it can make the epxerience better in several ways, but you shouldn't *need* the 3d hardware. The GUI chrome should scale down on weak systems. OS X does this and I expect that Vista will do it too, though I'm sure some would speculate otherwise. Still, the fact that I can boot the current version of Knoppix from an optical drive on a 1ghz Thinkpad with only 128mb of system memory says that Linux does beat Microsoft and Apple in certain aspects of modern desktop computing.
Compusa or Fry's or...
Seriously though, I'd expect the aftermarket price on these things to go up, so reselling them might be a good idea.
I've always thought wireless mice and keyboards were ridiculous. In gaming it's obvious, but even having lag on my mouse in a desktop environment irked me. Lag when I'm typing irks me too. It was surprising to me the other week when I first thought "damn I wish I had a wireless mouse and keyboard." The situation was that I had a ton of devices on my desk at work, all with wires plugging from one to another, debugging networking hardware and the like. So I had this mess of cat5, serial cables, power cables, usb cables, dangling antennas, and in the mix my mouse for my T30 (damn the nub) and my desktop's mouse and keyboard were getting restricted. There is nothing more frustrating than having a mess on your desk, then being unable to move your mouse because the wire is caught on the mess. And that is the only reason I can come up with to have a wireless mouse; a messy situation.
I, for one, welcome our new oppresive Microsoft employee of the month DVD Jon overlord.
Why don't they just patent logical classifcation while they're at it??
What's amazing to me is that it took me two seconds to find the dupe in my RSS reader. If I were the editor of a site which syndicated news, I would definitely keep a long history of articles cached in my RSS reader for quick referencing. It's the best way to see if the tidbit has already been posted, and also to find related articles from the past.
...of this time I was at this strip club and... er... nevermind.
Damn, that means that my morning required waking medicine plus my daily apres work stress reliever plus my sleeping in the dumpy apartment that I live in will mean I can continue doing so for many many many years.... what a hoot.
Um... that's a spam hash buster, right?
Not everybody missed it. I thought it was funny, even before reading all the comments by the people who completely missed it. :)
...not even for comic relief?
Haha, I'd love to see the movie. :) I found the pic of my cousin and had forgotten about the gun in his other hand. I'll risk the /. effect since this is buried in a thread...
http://www.lullabud.com/ryan-dia.jpg
Ya'll, ah ain't nevah hurdah no such thang as tha'ch'all talkin' bout... thet thar internet.
I took a picture of my punk rock cousin standing next to a mural of a soldier in a gas mask stabbing a white dove in the ass with what looks like a scimitar. Freakin weird. Who on earth would paint such a thing in the airport??
It might be the fact that they're watering the grass with non-potable water... sometimes I walk by the park down the street when the sprinklers are on and honestly it smells like sewage. That is yet another thing that makes me miss the country and the mountains... nature. Nature waters with fresh clean rain, not recycled grey water.
I'm sure a lot of people don't go to the movies because the theaters are crap, but that's not the case for me. I don't mind being in a crappy theater. And I don't mind that most movies are crappy either, I wouldn't go see them in any theater. I seriously don't go to the movies because the movies themselves are lame. Most of it is recycled content anyways, and even though sometimes they get it right, such as the case of The Italian Job, the fact is that in my eyes, Hollywood is struggling to come up with anything worth seeing. The last several movies I've watched in the theater, minus my friends dragging me to that episode three movie, were Focus films and computer animated films. From what I've seen, those are the only two studios who are coming up with consistently good stuff. Flash bang boom explosion movies are like cheap thrills (obviously not monetarily speaking), but a movie that I'd actually watch several times has got to have a good story, a new perspective, or something unordinary, and it's sad to think that exploding planes and cars and people dying left and right has become ordinary on the screen. It's boring without a good story, and it's free on television. Same with sex appeal, just look at the failure of Cat Woman. Recycled content with bonus sex appeal clearly isn't cutting it. Look at the Incredibles. A good story, the new perspective offered by CGI, likable characters who you actually care about when they get hurt or die, that's good stuff, and that's why I paid the $15+ for my ticket and food and two hours in line and came out of the theater happy.
I think most clouds are sensitive. That's just a guess by observing them though. I mean, look at Enya videos, they have fluffy dreamy clouds. Then there are the insensitive ones like that Lakitu guy, which I'd say was the target of the "insensitive cloud" statement in question.
Actually, I haven't seen it. But I did read Linus Torvalds' description of how the Linux penguin should look full on herring, and not like a randy penguin. That was my first run-in with the phrase. This may have been before Austin Powers, but I really don't know for sure.
http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html
You meant loose as in tension, not loose as in randy. =/ Back to ICQ...
Boy does that bring back some memories... I had this nasty girl one time. She loved for me to talk open and adventurous to her. It really turned her on.
After that one I thought you'd be here all week.
Table? Oh, right. I thought we were talking about politics.
That is hilarious. What adds to it is the fact that 7804 people have rated it, a childrens book, but only 104 people have rated the review right below it. :)