>there are a few neat features under the hood I'd really like to have. For instance the vector-graphics GPU-accelerated desktop.
The composite extension for xorg, together with the appropriate drop-shadows/window transparency options in KDE do Just that (it gets really low without a good deal of DRI, andit works fine with my Radeon 9250).
"freedom of information is what is lacking in these countries"
What's lacking in these countries is education, and
a good dose of logic and reason, something that they will
never get so long as Islam continues to dominate their lives, and
Christians only strengthen their resolve by trying to kill them en
masse.
Freedom of information is only meant for those who are mature
enough to handle it responsibly. This does NOT include those certain
white people who use the First Amendment of the US constitution to
justify advocating pedophilia, and the spreading of anti-semetic and
other racist propaganda. Nor does it include mad mullahs with a Quran
in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. Islam needs to go
completely from these countries before we can start to bring them into
the civilized world, and intelligently conducted warfare, targeting the
REAL enemy (The religion itself, not the people or the race) is the
answer.
"you aught to try looking at things from a positive angle for a change."
Which is what? That Jesus saves sinners and I need to kill
Jews or whoever to avenge him and achieve favor with god? No thanks. I
don't believe in taking a life for any reason, least of all some sick
book written by deranged maniacs with explicit intent to spread malice
towards any group of people who choose not to follow their ways.
"I think in the next 30 years Islam is going to go through a
transformation"
The only transformation it needs it to disappear altogether.
It's a religion that brings nothing but misery and grief to those who
follow it, and concentrated all the power and wealth in the hands of a
few greedy mullahs, sheikhs, zamindars, mansabdars, or whatever. It is
a religion that is in direct contradiction with the modern principles
of democratic government (despite the fact that the Bush-Cheney Reich
have misused this to the point of it being trite, the fact is that
constitutional democracy and elected government are in contradiction to
direct Islamic doctrine, which says that all laws should be based on
the Quran).
Bear in mind, though that Christianity is only marginally
better. It needs to go too.
"we're in the information age"
Hamas and al-Quaeda don't seem to have any probems there.
They've cheerfully adapted their mania to this 'information age' by
spreading antisemetic and antihindupropaganda on the internet.
"Christianity went through a pretty significant transformation."
The only transformation it went through was that they were
printing their bible hate-book thing instead of writing it.
"around here are mostly split on the war"
I know who the Mormons are. It's bad enough that Christians
tout passion plays of this imaginary Christ person to the disgust and
annoyance of all thinking men, but to say that he magically appeared
again in America just for the benefit of these people than told
somebody to write something that looks just like the Quaran is beyond
insane.
"If you look at Iran as a government, without any religious influence,
it is a corrupt one"
News flash, ALL governments are corrupt and greedy. The
difference is that all governments don't kill people and then try to
hide it bhind religious preachings. Only Germany, Uganda, Palestine,
Algeria, Afghanistan and Iran have or have had that that distinction in
the last few decades.
"The younger generation will eventually transform Iran into a
more"people-friendly government"
Yeah, right. I'll believe that when I see it. Most Islamic
(and Christian ) terrorist drones of the rank-and-file are between the
ages of 20-30.
I am suprised by many comments that there is an
underlying racism
It used to surprise me too, but I've become somewhat inured.
I used to believe that only the ignorant westerners were the racists,
but after having read a few posts on/., and correlating that with the
race propaganda strewn out by people like them over the last few
centuries or so, I've come to expect nothing more out of them.
*************
Many would probably settle for merely not being genocid-ed.
*************
Like the Native Americans?
It's rather amusing (in a sad way) to see Nordic Americans who think
they are educated making libelous generalizations based on ignorance,
hate and bigotry.
Mosque sanctioned actually, and I rest my case as far as Islam goes.
Granted, Rushdie is a pusillanimous prick, but not even
pricks deserve fatwas.
**************
I think the problem is not the Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus,
etc. so much as the churches who have been created to subvert the
teachings of the (purported) originators of the religions.
***************
You make a good point there. However, consider this for a
minute. Every religion preaches goodwill, love, charity blah blah blah,
so using that to cloak the actions of extremists is meaningless.
Ultimately a religion is gauged by the actions of their followers, not
by their doctrine, which is always made to sound goody-goody.
Every religion has a corrupt priesthood, a business class
that exploits poor people in the name of that religion, and fanatics
who use religion as an excuse to hate somebody foreign to them. The
differences lie in degree and extent, which are abnormally high among
Christians and staggeringly high among Muslims, while being
reasonablylow among Jews and otherJudaic-type
religions, significantly low among Hindus and their various branches,
and (barring Sri Lanka) almost nonexistent among Buddhists.
I have friends in the middle east who say that Judenhass and
hatred towards Hindus iswidespread and rampant among the
general population in most Arabic and Persian countries. I've seen
television programs broadcast by the Saudi government that say "All
Jews are bad, all Jews are children of satan, all Jews drink the blood
of small children, all Hindus are urine drinkers, all Hindus are
sexually depraved etc etc". A civilized society would consider such
mindless propaganda unacceptable, and more so when sanctioned by the
ruling establishment. This type of extreme hatred is not practiced by
any other long established administrative and majority-political body
anywhere, other than predominantly Islamic countries. Even among
Christians, only the the most radical of right wing zealots
wouldgo so far as to publicly defamethe Judaic
civilization through anti-semetic rhetoric (though they do it a LOT).
As far as Palestine is concerned, I used to be a supporter
of Hamas, until they started distributing flyers, both physically and
over the web, saying that ALL Jews should be killed and drowned in the
sea. That is when they crossed the line from being freedom fighters to
becoming a bunch of nut jobs who belong in rooms with rubber walls
rather thana country of their own.
This is why I say that all religions are bad and an
enlightened society should stop endorsing their practice altogether
eventually, but Islam and Christianity are by far the worst of the lot
and need to go NOW, before they bring us all down with their
race/religious wars.
Don't preach to the converted. I said that christians suck. I'm just saying that she did some smidgin of good (like cleaning up slums and giving food to the starving). You're right about the condom part. Christians have done worse in Ethiopia. However that action by Teresa is not as big a deal as the Taleban destroying a 2200-year old Mauryan pillar, a priceless monument of Indian (ahem, sorry, SOUTH ASIAN) cultural heritage, or the 30,000 Hindus that Idi Amin killed in Uganda, anything else that the radical muslims have done. Would YOU like it if somebody blew up Mount Rushmore, or burnt the original copy of the American Declaration of Independence?
"But, to say that the
damage perpetrated by
Christians may not be as bad as that perpetrated by Muslims shows a
gross misunderstanding of history."
****************
Read up on Aurangzeb,
Ziauddin Babar, Iltutmish, Muhammad bin-Tughlaq, Ibrahim Lodi and
Aurangzeb again and tell me that Muslims haven't been worse than
christians. I intensly dislike christians and all christianity
(especially the Nordic variety), but even I'm willing to admit that
some christians have done some good over the course of history (Mother
Teresa, for instance) . In contrast, any muslim who ever tried to make
amends and live in peace with non muslims was condemned as a heretic by
other muslims in Arabia and armies of Jihadis and/or Azazians pounced
upon him and his people to make sure that said 'heretic' was either
dead, or wishing that he was, (examples: Akbar, Razia Al-Din).
While Christians have
committed barbaric atrocities against Jews, they have been reasonably
at peace with each other in recent years (barring the occasional
anti-semetic event here-and-there). America supported the
foundation of Israel, and east-european christians are paying
restitution for the Holocaust carried out by;the so-called Third Reich in
which many of them had participated.In contrast,
Zoroastrians, Hindus, Jews, and Buddhists in predominantly Islamic
countries are routinely butchered like cattle by people like the
Taleban, Hamas, and whoever. 500 Hindu families in Afghanistan
slaughtered 4 years ago., over 2 million Hindus in Kashmir persecuted
and disaporized (like the Jews were once long ago), Egyptian pyramids
ruined, priceless Buddhist relics destroyed like rag dolls, mass
conversions, anti-semetic programs aired publicly in Arabic television,
religious clerics making blood-libels against Jews, the list goes on...
I'm sorry, but
Islam and muslims have a lot for which to answer...
"Nevermind Islam. Christianity never did you any harm."
Except eradicate the entire South-American Civilization, and
kill hundreds of millions of Jews (I'm not just talking about WW-2, but
pogroms from the middle ages as well). Not to mention evangelical
christians leading armies of mass-murderers in India, China, the
Phillipines and gods only know where else all throughout the 19th
century.
While the damage perpetrated by chrisians may not be as bad as
that perpetrated by muslims, it's still bad enough to warrant an end to
the cult-minded religion from any secular moral standpoint.
Yes, but that's not a logical deduction. That's a conclusion based on the assumption that Brownian motion is true, something seen by experiment. There is no a-priory way by which the existence of atoms can be deduced (like the parent implied). IF that were possible, then people would have figured it out long before Einstein and/or Thompson.
Well, if you ever leave
your chair (sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me if
some of you shrugged just now) and actually go outside then
I’m sure
that you’ve used Windows at some point and time during your
outing.
Nah!
For
emphasis, let me explain to you my full day’s schedule on
average: I
wake up, take a shower and then groom myself. I then head downstairs
and turn my television on which just so happens to have a Windows Media
Center PC hooked up to it.
What's wrong with mythtv or knoppmyth???
I then head over to the
kitchen which
happens to have a Windows powered laptop which I use to somberly browse
the net while I eat Captain Crunch out of the box and throw milk down
my throat.
Easily remedied with a Linux laptop.
I run off and get
dressed but not before I synch my Windows
CE powered pocket PC and then I drive off to school.
Zaurus with openzaurus or the myriad sharp roms out there
will take care of that.
On my way I forget
I have no money on me and so I must stop by the bank to withdraw some
and guess what? The ATM machine happens to run embedded Windows!
Some atms run Linux. Anyways we don't have control over that. Even the
USPS automatic mailer boxes run windoze, & I found that out
when one of them BSODDED.
"there are no innocent people in the country you go to war with."
Hamas, Al-Quaeda and the bloody IRA say the exact same thing.
I guess white people don't like it when the same rule is applied to
their women and children, but have no propblem using it to massacre
those they consider to be 'der untermenschen'.
The existence of atoms cannot be proven logically...
Thompson, Poincare, Rutherford and others tried, but his deduction had many flaws. that were revealed by John Synge.
Try it yourself and see if you don't go mad.
We don't know how to (analytically) solve anything exactly other then the 2-body problem. All else involved perturbative approximations. Solving an n>3 body problem requires enormous computational power (if you want it to be accurate enough for interplanetary navigation).
The most efficient way to go to Mars is to plot an orbit that'll take you to Venus first, then use it's momentum to slingshot a faster orbit to mars.
Amazing, since the bomb has had precisely the opposite effect to what the parent describes. Japan practically owns your country now, thanks to their intelligence and your avarice, and about time too. Humanity will be a safer species with an America that is controlled and regulated by the civilized orient.
An odd statement to make in the defense of the British, whose
'soldiers' have committed more acts of genocide than the Reich, Khmer
Rouge and Hutus put together,
RTFA'd (Among the key
features of
Vista as it currently stands are:security enhancements:)
Don't make me laugh!!! Still broadcasting on netbios.
Still using ActiveX! Still running Internet Explorer. Still using that
ridiculous firewall that Nessus plugins can easily bypass.
RTFA'd( a new searching mechanism )
Big deal. Linux has had that for a while now:
RTFA's( parental
controls and better home networking )
squid proxy caching and good old ifconfig guis: all on
Linux/FreeBSD/Whatever
RTFA"d(
here will also be visual
changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny
translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a
document itself.
)
shiny transluscent windows. Like
this (Composite Extension in xorg + KDE 3.4)??? Hah!
icons that are tiny representations of a document itself. Like
this (any recent KDE or GNOME version) ??
RTFA'd (
...Promises also said
the idea of giving laptops the ability to turn on
quickly is something customers want and a quality that is arguably
better delivered today by the rival Linux operating system.
)
Hate to say I told you so, but...
RTFA'd(
The company is also considering setting up a "mobility center" within
the Longhorn software that would be a centralized place to adjust
settings, such as power management, display and networking.
)
What about amanda (http://www.amanda.org/)? Just use any old 486+ over an internal network & put it in a Faraday cage or something (so magnetic fields from storms don't get to it)
That's still debated. Most calculations seem to indicate that only noise can be transmitted thru entanglement, and the only really legit reason provided is that entanglement violates causality. But the fact remains that quantum mechanics is correct and it does demonstrate entanglement, and given a choice between qmech & causality, the former is preferable.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. Right, no vector graphics yet.
>there are a few neat features under the hood I'd really like to have. For instance the vector-graphics GPU-accelerated desktop. The composite extension for xorg, together with the appropriate drop-shadows/window transparency options in KDE do Just that (it gets really low without a good deal of DRI, andit works fine with my Radeon 9250).
"freedom of information is what is lacking in these countries"
What's lacking in these countries is education, and a good dose of logic and reason, something that they will never get so long as Islam continues to dominate their lives, and Christians only strengthen their resolve by trying to kill them en masse.
Freedom of information is only meant for those who are mature enough to handle it responsibly. This does NOT include those certain white people who use the First Amendment of the US constitution to justify advocating pedophilia, and the spreading of anti-semetic and other racist propaganda. Nor does it include mad mullahs with a Quran in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. Islam needs to go completely from these countries before we can start to bring them into the civilized world, and intelligently conducted warfare, targeting the REAL enemy (The religion itself, not the people or the race) is the answer.
"you aught to try looking at things from a positive angle for a change."
Which is what? That Jesus saves sinners and I need to kill Jews or whoever to avenge him and achieve favor with god? No thanks. I don't believe in taking a life for any reason, least of all some sick book written by deranged maniacs with explicit intent to spread malice towards any group of people who choose not to follow their ways.
"I think in the next 30 years Islam is going to go through a transformation"
The only transformation it needs it to disappear altogether. It's a religion that brings nothing but misery and grief to those who follow it, and concentrated all the power and wealth in the hands of a few greedy mullahs, sheikhs, zamindars, mansabdars, or whatever. It is a religion that is in direct contradiction with the modern principles of democratic government (despite the fact that the Bush-Cheney Reich have misused this to the point of it being trite, the fact is that constitutional democracy and elected government are in contradiction to direct Islamic doctrine, which says that all laws should be based on the Quran).
Bear in mind, though that Christianity is only marginally better. It needs to go too.
"we're in the information age"
Hamas and al-Quaeda don't seem to have any probems there. They've cheerfully adapted their mania to this 'information age' by spreading antisemetic and antihindupropaganda on the internet.
"Christianity went through a pretty significant transformation."
The only transformation it went through was that they were printing their bible hate-book thing instead of writing it.
"around here are mostly split on the war"
I know who the Mormons are. It's bad enough that Christians tout passion plays of this imaginary Christ person to the disgust and annoyance of all thinking men, but to say that he magically appeared again in America just for the benefit of these people than told somebody to write something that looks just like the Quaran is beyond insane.
"If you look at Iran as a government, without any religious influence, it is a corrupt one"
News flash, ALL governments are corrupt and greedy. The difference is that all governments don't kill people and then try to hide it bhind religious preachings. Only Germany, Uganda, Palestine, Algeria, Afghanistan and Iran have or have had that that distinction in the last few decades.
"The younger generation will eventually transform Iran into a more"people-friendly government"
Yeah, right. I'll believe that when I see it. Most Islamic (and Christian ) terrorist drones of the rank-and-file are between the ages of 20-30.
I am suprised by many comments that there is an underlying racism
It used to surprise me too, but I've become somewhat inured. I used to believe that only the ignorant westerners were the racists, but after having read a few posts on
*************
Many would probably settle for merely not being genocid-ed.
*************
Like the Native Americans?
It's rather amusing (in a sad way) to see Nordic Americans who think they are educated making libelous generalizations based on ignorance, hate and bigotry.
********
This is church sanctioned murder
*******
Mosque sanctioned actually, and I rest my case as far as Islam goes. Granted, Rushdie is a pusillanimous prick, but not even pricks deserve fatwas.
**************
I think the problem is not the Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. so much as the churches who have been created to subvert the teachings of the (purported) originators of the religions.
***************
You make a good point there. However, consider this for a minute. Every religion preaches goodwill, love, charity blah blah blah, so using that to cloak the actions of extremists is meaningless. Ultimately a religion is gauged by the actions of their followers, not by their doctrine, which is always made to sound goody-goody.
Every religion has a corrupt priesthood, a business class that exploits poor people in the name of that religion, and fanatics who use religion as an excuse to hate somebody foreign to them. The differences lie in degree and extent, which are abnormally high among Christians and staggeringly high among Muslims, while being reasonablylow among Jews and otherJudaic-type religions, significantly low among Hindus and their various branches, and (barring Sri Lanka) almost nonexistent among Buddhists.
I have friends in the middle east who say that Judenhass and hatred towards Hindus iswidespread and rampant among the general population in most Arabic and Persian countries. I've seen television programs broadcast by the Saudi government that say "All Jews are bad, all Jews are children of satan, all Jews drink the blood of small children, all Hindus are urine drinkers, all Hindus are sexually depraved etc etc". A civilized society would consider such mindless propaganda unacceptable, and more so when sanctioned by the ruling establishment. This type of extreme hatred is not practiced by any other long established administrative and majority-political body anywhere, other than predominantly Islamic countries. Even among Christians, only the the most radical of right wing zealots wouldgo so far as to publicly defamethe Judaic civilization through anti-semetic rhetoric (though they do it a LOT).
As far as Palestine is concerned, I used to be a supporter of Hamas, until they started distributing flyers, both physically and over the web, saying that ALL Jews should be killed and drowned in the sea. That is when they crossed the line from being freedom fighters to becoming a bunch of nut jobs who belong in rooms with rubber walls rather thana country of their own.
This is why I say that all religions are bad and an enlightened society should stop endorsing their practice altogether eventually, but Islam and Christianity are by far the worst of the lot and need to go NOW, before they bring us all down with their race/religious wars.
**********
Christians are a pretty big group. You're saying they all suck?
***********
99.99% of them are zealots and either mass murderers, or endorsers of the same.
*********
So what does it make you, I wonder, to say that ALL Christians suck?
I mean, besides an asshole?
************
It makes me right, and the asshole is the one who goes into insult mode first.
Don't preach to the converted. I said that christians suck. I'm just saying that she did some smidgin of good (like cleaning up slums and giving food to the starving). You're right about the condom part. Christians have done worse in Ethiopia. However that action by Teresa is not as big a deal as the Taleban destroying a 2200-year old Mauryan pillar, a priceless monument of Indian (ahem, sorry, SOUTH ASIAN) cultural heritage, or the 30,000 Hindus that Idi Amin killed in Uganda, anything else that the radical muslims have done. Would YOU like it if somebody blew up Mount Rushmore, or burnt the original copy of the American Declaration of Independence?
******************
"But, to say that the damage perpetrated by Christians may not be as bad as that perpetrated by Muslims shows a gross misunderstanding of history."
****************
Read up on Aurangzeb, Ziauddin Babar, Iltutmish, Muhammad bin-Tughlaq, Ibrahim Lodi and Aurangzeb again and tell me that Muslims haven't been worse than christians. I intensly dislike christians and all christianity (especially the Nordic variety), but even I'm willing to admit that some christians have done some good over the course of history (Mother Teresa, for instance) . In contrast, any muslim who ever tried to make amends and live in peace with non muslims was condemned as a heretic by other muslims in Arabia and armies of Jihadis and/or Azazians pounced upon him and his people to make sure that said 'heretic' was either dead, or wishing that he was, (examples: Akbar, Razia Al-Din) .
While Christians have committed barbaric atrocities against Jews, they have been reasonably at peace with each other in recent years (barring the occasional anti-semetic event here-and-there). America supported the foundation of Israel, and east-european christians are paying restitution for the Holocaust carried out by ;the so-called Third Reich in
which many of them had participated.In contrast,
Zoroastrians, Hindus, Jews, and Buddhists in predominantly Islamic
countries are routinely butchered like cattle by people like the
Taleban, Hamas, and whoever. 500 Hindu families in Afghanistan
slaughtered 4 years ago., over 2 million Hindus in Kashmir persecuted
and disaporized (like the Jews were once long ago), Egyptian pyramids
ruined, priceless Buddhist relics destroyed like rag dolls, mass
conversions, anti-semetic programs aired publicly in Arabic television,
religious clerics making blood-libels against Jews, the list goes on...
I'm sorry, but Islam and muslims have a lot for which to answer...
"Nevermind Islam. Christianity never did you any harm."
Except eradicate the entire South-American Civilization, and kill hundreds of millions of Jews (I'm not just talking about WW-2, but pogroms from the middle ages as well). Not to mention evangelical christians leading armies of mass-murderers in India, China, the Phillipines and gods only know where else all throughout the 19th century.
While the damage perpetrated by chrisians may not be as bad as that perpetrated by muslims, it's still bad enough to warrant an end to the cult-minded religion from any secular moral standpoint.
What is this, the 3rd one in recent years? Why can't people make fun of something else?
Yes, but that's not a logical deduction. That's a conclusion based on the assumption that Brownian motion is true, something seen by experiment. There is no a-priory way by which the existence of atoms can be deduced (like the parent implied). IF that were possible, then people would have figured it out long before Einstein and/or Thompson.
Well, if you ever leave your chair (sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of you shrugged just now) and actually go outside then I’m sure that you’ve used Windows at some point and time during your outing.
Nah!
For emphasis, let me explain to you my full day’s schedule on average: I wake up, take a shower and then groom myself. I then head downstairs and turn my television on which just so happens to have a Windows Media Center PC hooked up to it.
What's wrong with mythtv or knoppmyth???
I then head over to the kitchen which happens to have a Windows powered laptop which I use to somberly browse the net while I eat Captain Crunch out of the box and throw milk down my throat.
Easily remedied with a Linux laptop.
I run off and get dressed but not before I synch my Windows CE powered pocket PC and then I drive off to school.
Zaurus with openzaurus or the myriad sharp roms out there will take care of that.
On my way I forget I have no money on me and so I must stop by the bank to withdraw some and guess what? The ATM machine happens to run embedded Windows!
Some atms run Linux. Anyways we don't have control over that. Even the USPS automatic mailer boxes run windoze, & I found that out when one of them BSODDED.
"there are no innocent people in the country you go to war with."
Hamas, Al-Quaeda and the bloody IRA say the exact same thing.
I guess white people don't like it when the same rule is applied to their women and children, but have no propblem using it to massacre those they consider to be 'der untermenschen'.
The existence of atoms cannot be proven logically... Thompson, Poincare, Rutherford and others tried, but his deduction had many flaws. that were revealed by John Synge.
Try it yourself and see if you don't go mad. We don't know how to (analytically) solve anything exactly other then the 2-body problem. All else involved perturbative approximations. Solving an n>3 body problem requires enormous computational power (if you want it to be accurate enough for interplanetary navigation). The most efficient way to go to Mars is to plot an orbit that'll take you to Venus first, then use it's momentum to slingshot a faster orbit to mars.
George Orwell proposed all this way before anybody else (doublethink, duckspeaking etc)
Amazing, since the bomb has had precisely the opposite effect to what the parent describes. Japan practically owns your country now, thanks to their intelligence and your avarice, and about time too. Humanity will be a safer species with an America that is controlled and regulated by the civilized orient.
Unlike people like you, I don't kill people in the name of my beliefs either.
>terrorists intentionally target innocents,soldiers don't
An odd statement to make in the defense of the British, whose 'soldiers' have committed more acts of genocide than the Reich, Khmer Rouge and Hutus put together,
Heh! Exactly.
...Promises also said
the idea of giving laptops the ability to turn on
quickly is something customers want and a quality that is arguably
better delivered today by the rival Linux operating system.
Looky:
RTFA'd (Among the key features of Vista as it currently stands are:security enhancements:)
Don't make me laugh!!! Still broadcasting on netbios. Still using ActiveX! Still running Internet Explorer. Still using that ridiculous firewall that Nessus plugins can easily bypass.
RTFA'd( a new searching mechanism )
Big deal. Linux has had that for a while now:
https://infserver.unibz.it/kat/
RTFA's( parental controls and better home networking )
squid proxy caching and good old ifconfig guis: all on Linux/FreeBSD/Whatever
RTFA"d(
here will also be visual changes, thanks to Avalon, ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself.
)
shiny transluscent windows. Like this (Composite Extension in xorg + KDE 3.4)??? Hah!
icons that are tiny representations of a document itself. Like this (any recent KDE or GNOME version) ??
RTFA'd (
)
Hate to say I told you so, but...
RTFA'd(
The company is also considering setting up a "mobility center" within the Longhorn software that would be a centralized place to adjust settings, such as power management, display and networking.
)
And this is new???
What about amanda (http://www.amanda.org/)? Just use any old 486+ over an internal network & put it in a Faraday cage or something (so magnetic fields from storms don't get to it)
That's still debated. Most calculations seem to indicate that only noise can be transmitted thru entanglement, and the only really legit reason provided is that entanglement violates causality. But the fact remains that quantum mechanics is correct and it does demonstrate entanglement, and given a choice between qmech & causality, the former is preferable.
Hey, how's about this way for desktops?