And if just the US government would REALLY care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't need a big part of that 250 billion dollar defense budget, but could spend it on the development of medication and a solution to world hunger. Or just that yearly 30 billion from the 'black' defense budget. What if all other countries would just halve their defense budget (let's not just piss on the US for once). What if everybody with a decent income would donate 10% of it to a good cause. Hey... What if every country would raise their taxes with only 1% and use that for a better world (you know... environmental things (let's just all sign the freakin' papers and not think anybody should be treated differently... (oh.. damn... did it again) food, medication.
Damn... with all those what ifs, we would all be happy...
"Contrary to the/. crowd, *nix isn't a popular desktop platform,"
I never knew the/. crowd was a popular desktop platform... LOL
But seriously. If apple created a GOOD (and popular) desktop product with OS X which has BSD underneath, then why wouldn't Sun be able to do a similar thing with Solaris on x86 ? Ok... it doesn't look like they are planning anything like that, but OS X is the proof that a *nix CAN be a good and popular desktop OS.
LOL That's true... but with a little more searching you would've found out that that domain is hosted somewhere... and that that somewhere is probably not my home... And a server can do much much more than just host a website....
Ok... I misunderstood... my appologies. But memorymanagement is a good thing. It means less processes hangin' around doing nothing or just eating recources. If they keep hanging around you will run out of recources even with computers 100x better than current ones. Not to mention that more memory would be more helpful than faster CPU. Good memorymanagement IS part of the quality of software. And I'm not even talking about CPU power hungry apps that could do with half the power if they were better written.
Actually... that is a very good reason to DO buy one. As you've read I mentioned feeding my family. By buying a new CPU... you feed your sim-family......
Ehm... yes... If you read the comment, you would've seen that I DIDN'T say that NOONE needs it... The things that you talk about DO need it, but people are not using these things (yet). So they DON'T need it YET. And yes... Developers probably have a bigger chance of needing faster CPU's but that is not the group I was talking about.
"Some catastrophic event brings everyone together and the locking up of ideas with overly broad patents finally ends?" Well... There was a catastrophic event, and although the people DID get together, it seems that other parties are just locking up peoples freedoms to A: make a filthy profit or B: get more control themselves. In the meantime trying to create another war to hide the fact that they themselves are listening less and less to their own people and the rest of the world.
"a sign for how we might eventually get out of the patent mess we're in now" Not likely... That was a time when corporations weren't as powerful as countries.
You are right... but I didn't get my daily dose of cafein yet, so I got a little cranky:-)
People do need to be educated about these things. Because a LOT of people don't think of a new computer as being of value, but as a necessity, which it often isn't.
And although it happens more often than not, having people constantly buy things they don't need (yet) just to keep the economy afloat is one of the worst reasons I've heard to support kapitalism. If that's what keeps us going then something is terribly wrong with the western system. And yes, I knew that allready...
And the argument of better tech support because of the quantity of new pc's is a little shaky as well... If so much people buy new computers, they should have funds enough to make quality products so we don't need that tech support. And isn't tech support better when they have product to support that don't change every 6 months ?
on x.x Ghz processors that they actually still don't need... my server runs beautifully with a pentium 166 and 64Mb of RAM, AND I still have money to feed the family. C'mon people... I'm not saying nobody needs this (it does say high-end), or that 166Mhz is enough for everybody (it certainly isn't for a desktop), but why aren't people still not smarting up? Why do they keep buying a completely new PC every 2 years while they don't need it to write their word-document? (and i'm not even asking why they buy such crap that a pc with only half of the specifications could perform equally well).
"In particular it has cartain chemicals which are extremely difficult to make inorganically."In our perspective that is.. and... it says extremely difficult, and not impossible... put 20 IFs together and you have life.... yeah right... Come up with FACTS...
If mdk 8.2 (running KDE) is dog slow on your 333p2 128RAM and 16 meg videocard,.... then your box is f*cked up. Have been running same config at home and it was running just fine. Or maybe you have a weird interpretation of dog slow... Or maybe I have:-) And you can't compare it to win98... they're completely different OS'es... If you'd like to compare it to a MS OS, then you should use XP as a comparison. mdk 8.2 is about 6 months old. If you use a mdk distro from 1998 (was there a mdk in '98 btw?... nevermind), you'll notice that it is much faster as 8.2 as well. But just FYI. Yes... 9.0 feels faster and more responsive (running KDE).
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And if just the US government would REALLY care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't need a big part of that 250 billion dollar defense budget, but could spend it on the development of medication and a solution to world hunger. Or just that yearly 30 billion from the 'black' defense budget.
What if all other countries would just halve their defense budget (let's not just piss on the US for once).
What if everybody with a decent income would donate 10% of it to a good cause.
Hey... What if every country would raise their taxes with only 1% and use that for a better world (you know... environmental things (let's just all sign the freakin' papers and not think anybody should be treated differently... (oh.. damn... did it again) food, medication.
Damn... with all those what ifs, we would all be happy...
Sorry, someone had to say it.
Ehm... it's America... every loon can buy a gun.
And modding an xbox isn't about making it easier to commit crimes with it.
I just hope they won't try to sell me one by spamming my mailbox to its limit ;-)
"Contrary to the /. crowd, *nix isn't a popular desktop platform,"
/. crowd was a popular desktop platform... LOL
I never knew the
But seriously. If apple created a GOOD (and popular) desktop product with OS X which has BSD underneath, then why wouldn't Sun be able to do a similar thing with Solaris on x86 ? Ok... it doesn't look like they are planning anything like that, but OS X is the proof that a *nix CAN be a good and popular desktop OS.
"Real men use Debian"
That's right... All 3 of 'em do !
"So what's the verdict on Null or Bluecurve or whatever it's called? Good idea, bad idea? "
Yes... one of those 2. Or maybe something in between.
Show me where I can order a Walmart PC in the Netherlands...
They already know where they live...
Let's ask ourselves not wat the net is doing to us... but what WE are doing to the net... ;-)
LOL That's true... but with a little more searching you would've found out that that domain is hosted somewhere... and that that somewhere is probably not my home... And a server can do much much more than just host a website....
Ok... I misunderstood... my appologies.
But memorymanagement is a good thing. It means less processes hangin' around doing nothing or just eating recources. If they keep hanging around you will run out of recources even with computers 100x better than current ones. Not to mention that more memory would be more helpful than faster CPU.
Good memorymanagement IS part of the quality of software.
And I'm not even talking about CPU power hungry apps that could do with half the power if they were better written.
*grin*
Actually... that is a very good reason to DO buy one. As you've read I mentioned feeding my family. By buying a new CPU... you feed your sim-family......
Ehm... yes... If you read the comment, you would've seen that I DIDN'T say that NOONE needs it... The things that you talk about DO need it, but people are not using these things (yet). So they DON'T need it YET. And yes... Developers probably have a bigger chance of needing faster CPU's but that is not the group I was talking about.
"Some catastrophic event brings everyone together and the locking up of ideas with overly broad patents finally ends?"
Well... There was a catastrophic event, and although the people DID get together, it seems that other parties are just locking up peoples freedoms to A: make a filthy profit or B: get more control themselves. In the meantime trying to create another war to hide the fact that they themselves are listening less and less to their own people and the rest of the world.
"a sign for how we might eventually get out of the patent mess we're in now"
Not likely... That was a time when corporations weren't as powerful as countries.
You are right... but I didn't get my daily dose of cafein yet, so I got a little cranky :-)
People do need to be educated about these things. Because a LOT of people don't think of a new computer as being of value, but as a necessity, which it often isn't.
And although it happens more often than not, having people constantly buy things they don't need (yet) just to keep the economy afloat is one of the worst reasons I've heard to support kapitalism. If that's what keeps us going then something is terribly wrong with the western system. And yes, I knew that allready...
And the argument of better tech support because of the quantity of new pc's is a little shaky as well... If so much people buy new computers, they should have funds enough to make quality products so we don't need that tech support. And isn't tech support better when they have product to support that don't change every 6 months ?
on x.x Ghz processors that they actually still don't need... my server runs beautifully with a pentium 166 and 64Mb of RAM, AND I still have money to feed the family.
C'mon people... I'm not saying nobody needs this (it does say high-end), or that 166Mhz is enough for everybody (it certainly isn't for a desktop), but why aren't people still not smarting up? Why do they keep buying a completely new PC every 2 years while they don't need it to write their word-document? (and i'm not even asking why they buy such crap that a pc with only half of the specifications could perform equally well).
"In particular it has cartain chemicals which are extremely difficult to make inorganically."In our perspective that is.. and... it says extremely difficult, and not impossible... put 20 IFs together and you have life.... yeah right... Come up with FACTS...
If mdk 8.2 (running KDE) is dog slow on your 333p2 128RAM and 16 meg videocard,.... then your box is f*cked up. Have been running same config at home and it was running just fine. Or maybe you have a weird interpretation of dog slow... Or maybe I have :-) And you can't compare it to win98... they're completely different OS'es... If you'd like to compare it to a MS OS, then you should use XP as a comparison. mdk 8.2 is about 6 months old. If you use a mdk distro from 1998 (was there a mdk in '98 btw?... nevermind), you'll notice that it is much faster as 8.2 as well. But just FYI. Yes... 9.0 feels faster and more responsive (running KDE).
Yes you would... but 95% of the people won't see it that way. We've seen this thing before...
They've changed their name to "The Alliance Project"
Genius is often recognized only after the person that contained and displayed that genius has passed away... I think that is true because they forgot ME.... AGAIN !
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Or right of course...