I think you are misinformed. At high frequencies like this "heat ray" will not even penetrate 1mm into the body. If you would like to be more informed read IEEE C95 standard for RF bioeffects. It would talk a ridiculously long exposure to have serious effects, and the whole point is to have people run away and not stand in the beam. Much lower frequencies are what cause more damage, internal damage. I think resonance for the human body is more like 75 MHz, so closer to that range, you would see the body absorbing most of the energy.
x86 has really been RISC under the hood since the original Pentium. They had too to keep up with Moore's law. The fact of the mater is that x86 is a standard for PCs just as much TCP/IP is a standard for the Internet. Is TCP/IP the best possible protocol ever invented for the Internet? No! Is x86 the best ever CPU architecture? No again! But, we use them because they are standards and most importantly they work. The industry has long ago decided that x86 is the standard and it is easier to add compatibility layers than to use new architectures that are non-standard. Just like we are squeezing performance out of TCP/IP we will still be squeezing out performance of x86 for years to come.
Although using torrents to download movies is not always legal, I would have to agree. This is especially true about the quality if you are downloading DVD ISOs. There are a lot of other torrent sites that specialize in movies.
I don't think Gentoo is only good for servers. I use Gentoo for everything, and in fact I am using it right now as my laptop/desktop machine. Honestly it was much easier to get things like Nvidia drivers to work on Gentoo than Ubuntu. To get a desktop to work in Gentoo is actually simple: specify the drivers you want in your make.conf file, emerge gnome, and start X. You just have to follow the howto the first time.
I think that picking a distro has more to do with how much you want to know about your system. If you really want to learn how your Linux box works, Gentoo is a great choice. It is a lot harder to set up in the first place, but you will learn a lot about Linux while doing it. And when things break, as the invariably do, you will actually be able to fix it. Anther great thing about Gentoo is that they have really good forums and howtos which are essential for noobs to get things started. So, if you really want to get in there and know how things work, try Gentoo or maybe Slackware.
If you want an easy to install and use desktop kind of like Windows, try Ubuntu, Suse, or Fedora. These are good choices if you you don't want to know or mess with the details.
Distros are more a matter of preference. Try out several and see which one "fits" the best for you. At the end of the day, they are all really the same under all those GUIs and package managers.
Or, even worse yet, a brand-new laptop. It would seem that whenever I get a new laptop, it takes the kernel several months to catch up before bleeding edge hardware gets supported. Try getting a new Core 2 Memrom based laptop working with a 64 bit kernel. Most distros will not work without significant headaches.
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I think you are misinformed. At high frequencies like this "heat ray" will not even penetrate 1mm into the body. If you would like to be more informed read IEEE C95 standard for RF bioeffects. It would talk a ridiculously long exposure to have serious effects, and the whole point is to have people run away and not stand in the beam. Much lower frequencies are what cause more damage, internal damage. I think resonance for the human body is more like 75 MHz, so closer to that range, you would see the body absorbing most of the energy.
Obviously Gentoo is the best choice. Why would there be any question?
x86 has really been RISC under the hood since the original Pentium. They had too to keep up with Moore's law. The fact of the mater is that x86 is a standard for PCs just as much TCP/IP is a standard for the Internet. Is TCP/IP the best possible protocol ever invented for the Internet? No! Is x86 the best ever CPU architecture? No again! But, we use them because they are standards and most importantly they work. The industry has long ago decided that x86 is the standard and it is easier to add compatibility layers than to use new architectures that are non-standard. Just like we are squeezing performance out of TCP/IP we will still be squeezing out performance of x86 for years to come.
Although using torrents to download movies is not always legal, I would have to agree. This is especially true about the quality if you are downloading DVD ISOs. There are a lot of other torrent sites that specialize in movies.
I don't think Gentoo is only good for servers. I use Gentoo for everything, and in fact I am using it right now as my laptop/desktop machine. Honestly it was much easier to get things like Nvidia drivers to work on Gentoo than Ubuntu. To get a desktop to work in Gentoo is actually simple: specify the drivers you want in your make.conf file, emerge gnome, and start X. You just have to follow the howto the first time. I think that picking a distro has more to do with how much you want to know about your system. If you really want to learn how your Linux box works, Gentoo is a great choice. It is a lot harder to set up in the first place, but you will learn a lot about Linux while doing it. And when things break, as the invariably do, you will actually be able to fix it. Anther great thing about Gentoo is that they have really good forums and howtos which are essential for noobs to get things started. So, if you really want to get in there and know how things work, try Gentoo or maybe Slackware. If you want an easy to install and use desktop kind of like Windows, try Ubuntu, Suse, or Fedora. These are good choices if you you don't want to know or mess with the details. Distros are more a matter of preference. Try out several and see which one "fits" the best for you. At the end of the day, they are all really the same under all those GUIs and package managers.
Or, even worse yet, a brand-new laptop. It would seem that whenever I get a new laptop, it takes the kernel several months to catch up before bleeding edge hardware gets supported. Try getting a new Core 2 Memrom based laptop working with a 64 bit kernel. Most distros will not work without significant headaches.
Can private citizens buy such a robot? It seems like it would be a good investment
It sure it a big relief to know that we are being so well represented by such well informed congressmen
Haven't we only been measuring temperatures for 130 years?