I would rather facebook had it, as at least I know who they are and that I know its insecure.
You know who 'Facebook' is as much as kids in Africa know who Steve Jobs is. Not only is Facebook insecure, but they're reaping the benefits of tards everywhere putting their entire lives up for grabs. The amount of information and pictures of people they sell (and are entitled to sell because you agreed by signing up!) behind the scenes supports the massive server base needed to run the entire clusterfuck that is Facebook, it's not just ad revenue. No one ever questions why Facebook happens to be absolutely free of charge, same with Blogspot. (Tinfoil Hat Time)Google bought blogspot to move the information on the blogs hosted there to it's own servers to make it easier/faster to datamine and sell the information in them.
In a response to your post, I think you're right in saying 72 MHz processors fed to each other by serial connections is a bit preposterous versus the 3GHz chips we have powering nearly every computer these days. However, what if we start amping those chips up to 500-1000MHz per chip, and throw a better connection between them (I'm assuming something must be faster and easier than serial, I don't know speeds or electronics well enough to guess), more RAM/EPROM and voila!
This would have a much higher chance of competing with the chips we currently have and still have a pretty low production value methinks.
Only problem is getting enough bandwidth to/from New Zealand to make the data center worth it. It's one thing to build one there and have it be super efficient and climate effective, but it's another to have all that greatness and not be able to get enough information to/from it.
This picture only shows 1 cable from NZ to NA, and none to Europe, so I'd say it's out of the picture.
In windows and OSX, cli is reserved for when things have gone very wrong, or you are trying to do very power-user level stuff, not everyday things like adjusting sound settings or installing programs that aren't in your distro's repository.
I do understand where you're coming from here, but for me, and I think a lot of others, the entire Linux experience with the command line being an integral part of operations made my OS experience so much better, that I wouldn't know what to do if I had to live inside Windows with a crippled CLI. (yes, I know about powershell, it's still not bash)
I don't know why everyone wants Linux to be more like Windows or OSX. I enjoy it the way it is, I don't want it to compete with the rest of them on a huge level, because then things will start becoming proprietary. Linux is free, and gives the end-user nearly complete freedom, without any guidance or annoyance, to do exactly what he/she/it wants and that's why I enjoy it.
With how good Natal *allegedly* is I highly doubt this development started as soon as the Wiimote dropped out of the womb. This is far from a me too play, the Wiimote is like a shitty sawed off magic wand you use to control things like tennis rackets, golf clubs and boxing gloves. Project Natal could provide actual running/walking around on a treadmill like interface which could allow virtual worlds (See RPGs) to be so much more real and involving.
A relative of mine was working for KLM 25 years ago and said they could remotely take off a 747 from New York and land it in Amsterdam with 0 persons onboard. Now, I'm not sure if they specially rigged stuff into it to accomplish that, but that leads me to believe that the infrastructure is already in the planes and it's A) not being used because of the ethical pile of mud, or B) not many people know about it.
Don't want to flame, but *ubuntu is usually a pretty bloated install. I built KDE 4.2 from scratch on Debian installed on a P4 with 768 ram and an old Intel onboard, it ran perfect. *shrug*
IMO both KDE/Gnome meet their real potential if you take some time to customize them and work out what makes you, as an individual, happy. I don't think they're going to satisfy many people left just on default settings.
As someone who played in beta and then on to quit just before release of The Burning Crusade, I have to say how much I hate the fact that nigh 4 years after the game was launched the blizz dev's are finally implementing changes that all of us hardcore raiders proposed in beta and the first months of molten core's launch.
The Burning Crusade made the game terribly easy, and it's gone wayyyy downhill since then. This game has literally become a seething addiction for it's player base since around the time Blackwing Lair came out and blizz has turned to being in the business of trying to give everyone everything they want. Which is a great business model by any means, it keeps the money flow increasing or at very least stagnant. It's grown into such a shitty game. Don't get me wrong, I loved every minute I played from 0-60, and then my time raiding at 60 was awesome as well, but the game has turned into complete shite.
I was terribly bothered (and still am) by the amount of people who were all about to jump ship from KDE to Gnome when 4.0 was released, and even pre-4.0. If anyone would have stopped and listened to the developers, or read any of the mailing list stuff, hung out in their IRC, they would have discovered the disclaimer that came with 4.0. The dev's themselves said 'yeah, it's going to be buggy, it's going to probably suck for a little while because we're revamping everything. It's a new approach for us, and for the entire desktop environment.'
They were also waiting on some things from QT4 developers as well. This can't entirely be 'blamed' on the KDE team IMO. They went off the deep end(in a great way) on KDE4, and what I saw in the beta/alpha/concept versions made me want them to keep going. Yet I saw so many ignorant people just slander KDE and jump ship. Now they'll come crying back and say zomg look >4.2 is amazing! It's the classic scenario of an individual or group being innovative, yet only a few catch on to what's happening and are supportive all the way through. The rest who've abandoned or ridiculed the aforementioned innovators will then come crawling back in love and adoration. Patience and understanding will sometimes lead to great things.
Strangely enough I'm in college taking a course called Business Information Systems, which is more about learning fundamentals across the board (Databases, programming, network engineering, hardware, software, etc) and then learning what you need as you go. I'm pretty resourceful by myself, so I asked a 2nd year CS student how to deal with arrays and he didn't know. They hadn't worked with arrays yet. I was kind of appalled.
You must be fucking kidding me. It would be impossible for even the government to be less efficient than what we have today. Socialized systems in other western countries are far more efficient. We spend TWICE what England and Canada do per capita on health care.
Seriously, you need to actually READ about this stuff before you spout your mouth off. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Ditto this statement. As a Canadian, I'm bloody well scared to come to the US and get hurt because there's so much up front cost involved. You're literally a walking pile of debt if fate or lack of common sense decides to hit you with a bus or a car and you survive.
The only people in my family that have moved to the US are doctors. I know why they're there too; they make double what they would here, and not because they work harder, but because they can charge for all kinds of random shit. We have an extreme lack of doctors in Canada because our Doctors can't leech and suck dry the citizens they're supposedly serving. Sad innit.
You don't roll out half baked software over the top of working software. If KDE 3.5 was working for people releasing something that would cause users significant grief is simply irresponsible. We are beyond the days where Linux users were all geeks who used Linux as a learning platform, and who wouldn't care too much about broken features.
Linux is now being used seriously by people in their day job. Yes - Linux is "free" - but it is also such a vital piece of infrastructure that there is an expectation that delivery is equal quality OR BETTER THAN commercial alternatives. Open source should be an evolutionary process - you don't expect things that were previously working to become broken.
You do realize that and entire shell redesign like KDE 4.x is not going to have just-add-water quality in comparison to something that's been maturing for the last 5-8 years like 3.5 has been. None of the KDE devs said to the Linux world 'hey, guys, you HAVE to use 4.0!' nor did they tell Kubuntu to put 4.0 in their new release, etc etc. They're on a quest to futureize KDE. It's not something that in the first year, or 2 years even is going to be perfect or have 0 bugs. You seem quite disillusioned and demanding in your little rant here, I feel bad for dev's these days when people like you are out in the wild trashing them for putting hard work into something.
Not even just selling, it is "legal" to rent your data to other companies for a certain contracted time so that they can claim 'yeah we'll never sell your data to anyone, you're covered'.
Regardless, I don't really care who has what information about me. My credit card company will call me at any event my credit card is swiped wrong and I'm not one for buying into the ID Theft FUD because I'm fairly smart with how I give out my info.
Make a system that has the latest technology from trusted manufacturers, put it in an attractive functional case, don't install a ton of crapware on it, and charge a reasonable price. Done. Gamers will buy that shit. You keep selling crap boxes, well don't expect to get much gamer market.
To further on this, there is a trickle down effect around guys/gals who know how to customize their PC's and who build themselves. By saying this I mean that for every one of these people, there's 2 or 3 or even 10-20 friends or family of theirs who will come to them to have them buy/build/customize their PC too. Those people are often unaccounted for as far as market scope. I've had many of my friends and family come to me asking me to build machines for them. Some aren't even 'gaming' machines that I build, but it's still at least 10-15 sales that a company like Dell/HP has lost simply because one person knows that they're cheap crap. Furthermore, they'll usually stick with that person, because he/she will provide complete support, fixes, and a new box the next time they need one for free/cheap because of the friend/family connection.
As soon as you say presumably, or if you would have spelled it correctly, you're removing any real need to go further into discussion about things. Presuming anything about university students doesn't work.
I'm 20 years old, attended university last year (in Canada) in hopes that there would be this amazing, mature group of students all around me with the same mindset as me. I'd hoped everyone would be up for learning and interesting discussion and helping each other out. Instead I discovered almost the exact opposite. The same drama and bs flowed right through from high school and I was confronted with all kinds of idiots who were running on daddy's money thinking they were the best of the best just for being at university.
I quickly dropped that and went to college, and here I actually found a group of people who want to succeed based on their own skills, not based on what someone else will give them for a price.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe we could use this to absorb any Gamma Ray Bursts that happen to come our way.
Disclaimer: didn't read TFA
I would rather facebook had it, as at least I know who they are and that I know its insecure.
You know who 'Facebook' is as much as kids in Africa know who Steve Jobs is. Not only is Facebook insecure, but they're reaping the benefits of tards everywhere putting their entire lives up for grabs. The amount of information and pictures of people they sell (and are entitled to sell because you agreed by signing up!) behind the scenes supports the massive server base needed to run the entire clusterfuck that is Facebook, it's not just ad revenue. No one ever questions why Facebook happens to be absolutely free of charge, same with Blogspot. (Tinfoil Hat Time)Google bought blogspot to move the information on the blogs hosted there to it's own servers to make it easier/faster to datamine and sell the information in them.
In a response to your post, I think you're right in saying 72 MHz processors fed to each other by serial connections is a bit preposterous versus the 3GHz chips we have powering nearly every computer these days. However, what if we start amping those chips up to 500-1000MHz per chip, and throw a better connection between them (I'm assuming something must be faster and easier than serial, I don't know speeds or electronics well enough to guess), more RAM/EPROM and voila!
This would have a much higher chance of competing with the chips we currently have and still have a pretty low production value methinks.
Anyone else with more knowledge care to comment?
Thanks for that link, was a good read.
Only problem is getting enough bandwidth to/from New Zealand to make the data center worth it. It's one thing to build one there and have it be super efficient and climate effective, but it's another to have all that greatness and not be able to get enough information to/from it.
This picture only shows 1 cable from NZ to NA, and none to Europe, so I'd say it's out of the picture.
This looks astonishingly like TF2.
Can someone who's played both give some feedback on differences/similarities?
Shouldn't it be they plead as plural?
In windows and OSX, cli is reserved for when things have gone very wrong, or you are trying to do very power-user level stuff, not everyday things like adjusting sound settings or installing programs that aren't in your distro's repository.
I do understand where you're coming from here, but for me, and I think a lot of others, the entire Linux experience with the command line being an integral part of operations made my OS experience so much better, that I wouldn't know what to do if I had to live inside Windows with a crippled CLI. (yes, I know about powershell, it's still not bash)
I don't know why everyone wants Linux to be more like Windows or OSX. I enjoy it the way it is, I don't want it to compete with the rest of them on a huge level, because then things will start becoming proprietary. Linux is free, and gives the end-user nearly complete freedom, without any guidance or annoyance, to do exactly what he/she/it wants and that's why I enjoy it.
With how good Natal *allegedly* is I highly doubt this development started as soon as the Wiimote dropped out of the womb. This is far from a me too play, the Wiimote is like a shitty sawed off magic wand you use to control things like tennis rackets, golf clubs and boxing gloves. Project Natal could provide actual running/walking around on a treadmill like interface which could allow virtual worlds (See RPGs) to be so much more real and involving.
it shocks me how ignorant most of my fellow Americans are of their entire history. This is especially true of everything.
Fixed that for you.
A relative of mine was working for KLM 25 years ago and said they could remotely take off a 747 from New York and land it in Amsterdam with 0 persons onboard. Now, I'm not sure if they specially rigged stuff into it to accomplish that, but that leads me to believe that the infrastructure is already in the planes and it's A) not being used because of the ethical pile of mud, or B) not many people know about it.
Don't want to flame, but *ubuntu is usually a pretty bloated install. I built KDE 4.2 from scratch on Debian installed on a P4 with 768 ram and an old Intel onboard, it ran perfect. *shrug*
IMO both KDE/Gnome meet their real potential if you take some time to customize them and work out what makes you, as an individual, happy. I don't think they're going to satisfy many people left just on default settings.
Uh.. What's the point of buying Quake 3 anymore when Quake Live exists?
How much longer do you want a stable platform?
Preferably as long as humanly possible, it's why I use Linux :)
As someone who played in beta and then on to quit just before release of The Burning Crusade, I have to say how much I hate the fact that nigh 4 years after the game was launched the blizz dev's are finally implementing changes that all of us hardcore raiders proposed in beta and the first months of molten core's launch.
The Burning Crusade made the game terribly easy, and it's gone wayyyy downhill since then. This game has literally become a seething addiction for it's player base since around the time Blackwing Lair came out and blizz has turned to being in the business of trying to give everyone everything they want. Which is a great business model by any means, it keeps the money flow increasing or at very least stagnant. It's grown into such a shitty game. Don't get me wrong, I loved every minute I played from 0-60, and then my time raiding at 60 was awesome as well, but the game has turned into complete shite.
I was terribly bothered (and still am) by the amount of people who were all about to jump ship from KDE to Gnome when 4.0 was released, and even pre-4.0. If anyone would have stopped and listened to the developers, or read any of the mailing list stuff, hung out in their IRC, they would have discovered the disclaimer that came with 4.0. The dev's themselves said 'yeah, it's going to be buggy, it's going to probably suck for a little while because we're revamping everything. It's a new approach for us, and for the entire desktop environment.'
They were also waiting on some things from QT4 developers as well. This can't entirely be 'blamed' on the KDE team IMO. They went off the deep end(in a great way) on KDE4, and what I saw in the beta/alpha/concept versions made me want them to keep going. Yet I saw so many ignorant people just slander KDE and jump ship. Now they'll come crying back and say zomg look >4.2 is amazing! It's the classic scenario of an individual or group being innovative, yet only a few catch on to what's happening and are supportive all the way through. The rest who've abandoned or ridiculed the aforementioned innovators will then come crawling back in love and adoration. Patience and understanding will sometimes lead to great things.
Strangely enough I'm in college taking a course called Business Information Systems, which is more about learning fundamentals across the board (Databases, programming, network engineering, hardware, software, etc) and then learning what you need as you go. I'm pretty resourceful by myself, so I asked a 2nd year CS student how to deal with arrays and he didn't know. They hadn't worked with arrays yet. I was kind of appalled.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obligatory
;)
Family Guy is anything but obligatory mate.
You must be fucking kidding me. It would be impossible for even the government to be less efficient than what we have today. Socialized systems in other western countries are far more efficient. We spend TWICE what England and Canada do per capita on health care.
Seriously, you need to actually READ about this stuff before you spout your mouth off. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Ditto this statement. As a Canadian, I'm bloody well scared to come to the US and get hurt because there's so much up front cost involved. You're literally a walking pile of debt if fate or lack of common sense decides to hit you with a bus or a car and you survive.
The only people in my family that have moved to the US are doctors. I know why they're there too; they make double what they would here, and not because they work harder, but because they can charge for all kinds of random shit. We have an extreme lack of doctors in Canada because our Doctors can't leech and suck dry the citizens they're supposedly serving. Sad innit.
Since when did WoW use any brain power for any of it? I'm lost...
You don't roll out half baked software over the top of working software. If KDE 3.5 was working for people releasing something that would cause users significant grief is simply irresponsible. We are beyond the days where Linux users were all geeks who used Linux as a learning platform, and who wouldn't care too much about broken features.
Linux is now being used seriously by people in their day job. Yes - Linux is "free" - but it is also such a vital piece of infrastructure that there is an expectation that delivery is equal quality OR BETTER THAN commercial alternatives. Open source should be an evolutionary process - you don't expect things that were previously working to become broken.
You do realize that and entire shell redesign like KDE 4.x is not going to have just-add-water quality in comparison to something that's been maturing for the last 5-8 years like 3.5 has been. None of the KDE devs said to the Linux world 'hey, guys, you HAVE to use 4.0!' nor did they tell Kubuntu to put 4.0 in their new release, etc etc. They're on a quest to futureize KDE. It's not something that in the first year, or 2 years even is going to be perfect or have 0 bugs. You seem quite disillusioned and demanding in your little rant here, I feel bad for dev's these days when people like you are out in the wild trashing them for putting hard work into something.
Not even just selling, it is "legal" to rent your data to other companies for a certain contracted time so that they can claim 'yeah we'll never sell your data to anyone, you're covered'.
Regardless, I don't really care who has what information about me. My credit card company will call me at any event my credit card is swiped wrong and I'm not one for buying into the ID Theft FUD because I'm fairly smart with how I give out my info.
Make a system that has the latest technology from trusted manufacturers, put it in an attractive functional case, don't install a ton of crapware on it, and charge a reasonable price. Done. Gamers will buy that shit. You keep selling crap boxes, well don't expect to get much gamer market.
To further on this, there is a trickle down effect around guys/gals who know how to customize their PC's and who build themselves. By saying this I mean that for every one of these people, there's 2 or 3 or even 10-20 friends or family of theirs who will come to them to have them buy/build/customize their PC too. Those people are often unaccounted for as far as market scope. I've had many of my friends and family come to me asking me to build machines for them. Some aren't even 'gaming' machines that I build, but it's still at least 10-15 sales that a company like Dell/HP has lost simply because one person knows that they're cheap crap. Furthermore, they'll usually stick with that person, because he/she will provide complete support, fixes, and a new box the next time they need one for free/cheap because of the friend/family connection.
Someone with an actual degree will presumable
As soon as you say presumably, or if you would have spelled it correctly, you're removing any real need to go further into discussion about things. Presuming anything about university students doesn't work.
I'm 20 years old, attended university last year (in Canada) in hopes that there would be this amazing, mature group of students all around me with the same mindset as me. I'd hoped everyone would be up for learning and interesting discussion and helping each other out. Instead I discovered almost the exact opposite. The same drama and bs flowed right through from high school and I was confronted with all kinds of idiots who were running on daddy's money thinking they were the best of the best just for being at university.
I quickly dropped that and went to college, and here I actually found a group of people who want to succeed based on their own skills, not based on what someone else will give them for a price.