What are you talking about? I see it all the time. For example, Bayer has TV advertisements for aspirin. Sure, they're selling their brand of aspirin, but the patent on aspirin expired long ago.
If you're using Gnome, then it should be called GNU/x.org/Linux. What if you're using KDE on FreeBSD? It should be called KDE/x.org/FreeBSD, right?
The problem with GNU/Linux is that it's awkward and cumbersome (especially if you use the officially sanctioned hard "g" sound, yuck!). Personally, I just tell people I'm using Debian 4.0 and where to get it and be done with it. None of this need for a 10-20 minute dissertation on the appropriateness of Linux vs. GNU/Linux
Actually, if you buy your ticket on-line, there's no need to show your ID to get a boarding pass. Every airport I've gone to, after having bought my ticket on-line, I just go to the express check-in booth, swipe my credit card, and I get issued my boarding pass. No ID needed.
Yeah no kidding. In terms of the system I'm using, the majority of the files taking up my harddrive space comprising the system are: KDE, x.org, GNU userland, Linux kernel in that order. Should I call my system KDE/x.org/GNU/Linux? It does get a little ridiculuous. You don't see the KDE people advocating this. You don't see the x.org people advocating this, espeically when the sheer amount of space taken up by KDE + x.org on the harddrive dwarfs the amount of space taken up the the GNU userland + Linux.
Because it's in the context of MMO games perhaps? Most of real-life is PvP from a game of football to corporate takeovers to government espionage. Should the article mention all of these examples of PvP?
Sure you can. However, depending on the parameters, the result may or may not be correct. For example, if a group of people vote to change the sky to yellow, they'll need to change the definition of yellow, or they could be completely color-blind.
The Bluegene/L uses a PowerPC 440 chip. However these chips don't include an FPU in the core, unless IBM made special ones with an FPU or they're using a separate FPU chip on the processor boards. I think it's interesting their Linpack score/processor is on par with the #3 spot consisting of quad-core Xeons.
I certainly didn't, especially when Sony's proclamation of the PS2 being a supercomputer resulted in no actual emotion engine based system other than the PS2 being produced.
Military taking the lead on computing as usual. Why is the military so much more progressive (with practical results) than any other institution of government?
I wouldn't say "as usual." The prior computer at the top for more than 2 years was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
Why did parent get modded up? x86 may be ugly, but it gets the job done fast at a much lower price point than other architectures. Besides, who actually writes pure assembly nowadays? Almost all programming is done in higher level languages anyway.
He's talking about things that happened in the x86 line of processors, not the 8086. for example, superscalar and out-of-order execution did not originate in the x86 processors before another architecture had it.
The self-printing machine is another step to Star Trek's "matter replicator". Society will have some sweeping changes when physical property is as easy and cheap (or beer-free) as intellectual "property" (imaginary property) is to replicate.
That's an interesting idea. Do different words that mean the same in different languages light up the same areas of the brain when a person thinks about it? Would a Spanish person who is told to think of "coche", have a similar brain scan of an English person told to think of "car"?
Counterstrike is also an MMO (not a MMORPG), although that depends on your definition of massively multiplayer. For a really massively multiplayer FPS, how about Sony's Planetside?
Most of the posts here are in regards to Dell (with small mentions of HP). Well, what about the other computer manufacturers including Apple? Besides, if you want an OS-less computer, you can always go to your local computer shop and buy one. You don't have to go with the big named manufacturers.
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What are you talking about? I see it all the time. For example, Bayer has TV advertisements for aspirin. Sure, they're selling their brand of aspirin, but the patent on aspirin expired long ago.
Sure, except that, so far, no one's been able to devise any experiments to prove or disprove string theory.
If you're using Gnome, then it should be called GNU/x.org/Linux. What if you're using KDE on FreeBSD? It should be called KDE/x.org/FreeBSD, right? The problem with GNU/Linux is that it's awkward and cumbersome (especially if you use the officially sanctioned hard "g" sound, yuck!). Personally, I just tell people I'm using Debian 4.0 and where to get it and be done with it. None of this need for a 10-20 minute dissertation on the appropriateness of Linux vs. GNU/Linux
Actually, if you buy your ticket on-line, there's no need to show your ID to get a boarding pass. Every airport I've gone to, after having bought my ticket on-line, I just go to the express check-in booth, swipe my credit card, and I get issued my boarding pass. No ID needed.
You don't actually need GNU or Linux to run KDE/x.org since those can be run on any unix-like system or even MS Windows
Right, so I should call my system KDE/x.org/GNU/Linux? Otherwise GNU/Linux would just imply that you're just using the command-line interface.
Yeah no kidding. In terms of the system I'm using, the majority of the files taking up my harddrive space comprising the system are: KDE, x.org, GNU userland, Linux kernel in that order. Should I call my system KDE/x.org/GNU/Linux? It does get a little ridiculuous. You don't see the KDE people advocating this. You don't see the x.org people advocating this, espeically when the sheer amount of space taken up by KDE + x.org on the harddrive dwarfs the amount of space taken up the the GNU userland + Linux.
Because it's in the context of MMO games perhaps? Most of real-life is PvP from a game of football to corporate takeovers to government espionage. Should the article mention all of these examples of PvP?
Who cares about that? What about the nudity???
The Bluegene/L uses a PowerPC 440 chip. However these chips don't include an FPU in the core, unless IBM made special ones with an FPU or they're using a separate FPU chip on the processor boards. I think it's interesting their Linpack score/processor is on par with the #3 spot consisting of quad-core Xeons.
I certainly didn't, especially when Sony's proclamation of the PS2 being a supercomputer resulted in no actual emotion engine based system other than the PS2 being produced.
Because general elections are just a few months away.
How exactly would you break up Intel in any way that makes sense?
Why did parent get modded up? x86 may be ugly, but it gets the job done fast at a much lower price point than other architectures. Besides, who actually writes pure assembly nowadays? Almost all programming is done in higher level languages anyway.
You forgot more expensive. IBM chose the Intel chip precisely because it was less expensive for what they were trying to make.
He's talking about things that happened in the x86 line of processors, not the 8086. for example, superscalar and out-of-order execution did not originate in the x86 processors before another architecture had it.
No, but my cat can. I also think she's trying to kill me...
Exactly! I prefer emacs...
That's an interesting idea. Do different words that mean the same in different languages light up the same areas of the brain when a person thinks about it? Would a Spanish person who is told to think of "coche", have a similar brain scan of an English person told to think of "car"?
Counterstrike is also an MMO (not a MMORPG), although that depends on your definition of massively multiplayer. For a really massively multiplayer FPS, how about Sony's Planetside?
Most of the posts here are in regards to Dell (with small mentions of HP). Well, what about the other computer manufacturers including Apple? Besides, if you want an OS-less computer, you can always go to your local computer shop and buy one. You don't have to go with the big named manufacturers.
And then have it run Linux (or some other free OS)? I think that'd be pretty neat.