Depends.. Are you talking desktop, or laptop?
If you're talking a desktop, I'd say build it yourself, put the right hardware in it, and enjoy. A laptop is a bit harder. Buy one preinstalled.
I recently went through and searched the various vendors that sell linux-based laptops. I've had dells before that I've put linux on, and 1 HP. They all worked to an extent, but getting wireless to work on them was a pain. I couldn't game well on either one due to the video cards either. After a lot of searching, I found a company that offered the features I wanted, and a decent price. All told, it was worth the time, effort, and money to get the hardware I wanted.
http://www.system76.com/ is where I finally bought mine. Serval performance, and I couldn't be happier. They provide online support via the ubuntu forums, and between them and the community there I have had no problems.
Global warming religious fanatics will use this for more fear-mongering in the media and everywhere else in 4... 3... 2... 1... Is that like saying "nuke a gay whale for jesus" ?
we now have a 60 year experiment that could tell us about long term effects but they are silent. That's because nobody cares about two headed coconuts. Someone start a special interest group for them, and get them federal funding, quick!
Okay, it's hard enough to be evil with the shortage of sharks with laser beams on their heads, but requiring me to teach them how to fly is just too damn much.
(Can I use ballistae, and just be a short range evil overlord?)
Religion boils down to "My Imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend." It's mass brainwashing/hypnotism/therapy/counseling for people, depending on the intentions of whoever is preaching it.
Make a donation/tithe/whatever, and listen to a speech, then feel better about yourself. Sounds like a psychiatrist to me. Oh wait.. they don't exist, according to CoS....
It took out the garbage, washed the dog, mowed the lawn, loaded the dishwasher, ironed my pants, and erased Vista from my harddrive. And someone will write a virus, which will make one of them wash the garbage, load the dog in the dishwasher, wear your pants around its head, and start bumping its torso against your computer in a rather rhythmic pattern.
It's the next reality TV show.
Perhaps it has something to do with the virus she caught--it suppressed the immune system to the point where it had to 'reboot', as it were, and apparently recognized the new hardware on boot?
Which would seem to indicate that the immune system BIOS has some kind of PnP support--I guess that'd explain some of the viruses... A BSOD would truly suck on this type of reboot.
It used to be that companies would spy on each other, steal idea, etc, to try to be first to market. A patent would help protect you from that, as it gave a baseline date for innovation.
Anymore, it's like mass registering URLs. You know someone is doing it, or has done it, and you can either wait for them to come to you with money, or have your lawyers tell them to come to you with money.
Sounds like Microsoft's portfolio is a lot of the latter anymore. Some of them in there look like honest innovations, but the last spate of mass patenting appears nothing more than legal posturing on existing technology.
The actual innovators now face an uphill battle to be able to do anything with their ideas, or hope that MS will let them continue on out of their good graces. (try to say that with a straight face.)
Patents don't protect anything anymore. It's the latest corporate sword that the lawyers are wielding.
Hopefully Sony doesn't get into this business. If you thought exploding laptop batteries were bad, wait until you get a Sony exploding nuclear reactor. Sony can't figure out how to put a rootkit on one, or they'd already be making them.
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The article reeked of condesention towards the Russians. It's no way to report on your partners in space. Fixed:
The article reeked of CONDENSATION towards the Russians. It's no way to report on your partners in space.
Iowa had this done in 1998. I was visiting there with the Army, and got a tour of their disaster management center near Des Moines. They showed us that every county was tied into this network, and they used it for everything from government communications to parole board hearins (via webcam), to emergency communications for natural disasters.
Great tool. Hope they talked to Iowa in planning this, as I got the firm impression that Iowa had their act together in their implimentation.
http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=statistics
Their numbers don't match the original articles numbers though. I'm sure there are others out there that report exploits, but this is the one I had bookmarked and could quickly share.
ecklesweb : And what is the standard error on the particular IQ test they used? Second son.
Daniel Dvorkin : What you're talking about is standard deviation, not standard error. SE = SD/sqrt(n), and given that in this case SD = 15 (by definition of IQ) and n = 241310, we have a standard error approaching 0.
It's a little more complicated than that, of course, since the "n" here has to be applied to each group separately; for the sake of argument, let's assume the sample was equally divided between first-, second-, and third-borns, that means about 80000 in each group, which means the SE is about 0.053. This is plenty to detect the kind of differences they're talking about. First son.
In the end, GNU/Linux will prevail, but never on the traditional high-end desktop that Joe Sixpack buys for web surfing, games, and porn. Yeah, the codecs and other software necessary to see the good porn is too hard to install for Joe Sixpack.
Look at the history of the GUI, and you'll realize that it was being used by others long before Microsoft was even a company. Here's a Wikipedia link with a timeline. Yeah, I know wikipedia is "suspect" at times, since everyone can edit entries pretty much, but read it, and then look at the references at the bottom. Microsoft wasn't first. Not by 20 years or so.
After all those years of saying things like "she's breaking up cap'n, she can't take much more of this", it was bound to eventually happen. The engineer had to pass away before his ship even had a chance of malfunctioning like this, after all.;)
I played Midtown Madness for years, my favorite mode being the variant where you pick up the gold and run with it. You got the other guy to drop it by ramming his car.
I played GTA for years now too. The level of violence you can get away with in a car there is amazing.
Don't get me started on Burnout 3. I love crash mode.
I have no tickets in real life other than parking, and I've never shot a weapon at another person. I have both a motorcycle and a nice car, as well as a handgun and shotgun for range and skeet shooting. I'm capable of it, I choose not to.
The games don't bleed over into reality unless you let them. The kind of weak minded findings that all these studies come up with boggles my mind. Sweeping generalizations for the loss.
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Depends.. Are you talking desktop, or laptop? If you're talking a desktop, I'd say build it yourself, put the right hardware in it, and enjoy. A laptop is a bit harder. Buy one preinstalled. I recently went through and searched the various vendors that sell linux-based laptops. I've had dells before that I've put linux on, and 1 HP. They all worked to an extent, but getting wireless to work on them was a pain. I couldn't game well on either one due to the video cards either. After a lot of searching, I found a company that offered the features I wanted, and a decent price. All told, it was worth the time, effort, and money to get the hardware I wanted. http://www.system76.com/ is where I finally bought mine. Serval performance, and I couldn't be happier. They provide online support via the ubuntu forums, and between them and the community there I have had no problems.
... who says we escaped inbreeding as a species??
Okay, it's hard enough to be evil with the shortage of sharks with laser beams on their heads, but requiring me to teach them how to fly is just too damn much.
(Can I use ballistae, and just be a short range evil overlord?)
Religion boils down to "My Imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend." It's mass brainwashing/hypnotism/therapy/counseling for people, depending on the intentions of whoever is preaching it.
Make a donation/tithe/whatever, and listen to a speech, then feel better about yourself. Sounds like a psychiatrist to me. Oh wait.. they don't exist, according to CoS....
It used to be that companies would spy on each other, steal idea, etc, to try to be first to market. A patent would help protect you from that, as it gave a baseline date for innovation. Anymore, it's like mass registering URLs. You know someone is doing it, or has done it, and you can either wait for them to come to you with money, or have your lawyers tell them to come to you with money. Sounds like Microsoft's portfolio is a lot of the latter anymore. Some of them in there look like honest innovations, but the last spate of mass patenting appears nothing more than legal posturing on existing technology. The actual innovators now face an uphill battle to be able to do anything with their ideas, or hope that MS will let them continue on out of their good graces. (try to say that with a straight face.) Patents don't protect anything anymore. It's the latest corporate sword that the lawyers are wielding.
They filtered out "wristwatch" in Earth and Beyond because of the word in the middle of it, too. (Starts and ends with the Ts.)
Iowa had this done in 1998. I was visiting there with the Army, and got a tour of their disaster management center near Des Moines. They showed us that every county was tied into this network, and they used it for everything from government communications to parole board hearins (via webcam), to emergency communications for natural disasters.
Great tool. Hope they talked to Iowa in planning this, as I got the firm impression that Iowa had their act together in their implimentation.
http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=statistics Their numbers don't match the original articles numbers though. I'm sure there are others out there that report exploits, but this is the one I had bookmarked and could quickly share.
No, because if they won, they lawyers would find a way to find an ancient Norseman who would then help them sue Tolkien / Turbine.
It's like throwing blood in the water.
I can't remember seeing a Microsoft Indy car... They must have all crashed early.
Look at the history of the GUI, and you'll realize that it was being used by others long before Microsoft was even a company. Here's a Wikipedia link with a timeline. Yeah, I know wikipedia is "suspect" at times, since everyone can edit entries pretty much, but read it, and then look at the references at the bottom. Microsoft wasn't first. Not by 20 years or so.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graph
Perhaps NASA already calculated the difference in asking for 150kg here.
They're pretty good at conversions.. well.. except for meters to feet...
After all those years of saying things like "she's breaking up cap'n, she can't take much more of this", it was bound to eventually happen. The engineer had to pass away before his ship even had a chance of malfunctioning like this, after all. ;)
It is submersible.....
once.
Teach it to cook and mix drinks, and I'll buy one.
I played Midtown Madness for years, my favorite mode being the variant where you pick up the gold and run with it. You got the other guy to drop it by ramming his car.
I played GTA for years now too. The level of violence you can get away with in a car there is amazing.
Don't get me started on Burnout 3. I love crash mode.
I have no tickets in real life other than parking, and I've never shot a weapon at another person. I have both a motorcycle and a nice car, as well as a handgun and shotgun for range and skeet shooting. I'm capable of it, I choose not to.
The games don't bleed over into reality unless you let them. The kind of weak minded findings that all these studies come up with boggles my mind. Sweeping generalizations for the loss.
I'll let you go back and read your own postings.
The first step is always the hardest to get past, but if you try really hard, you might get there.
The whole community is telling you you're way off base. Step back, re-assess, and just let it go, dude.
I'm not going to bother to respond to you after this. The thread is old and dead at this point, and you should just let it die.