The Adblock extension blocks flash ads as well as text, iFrame, and embedded adverts as well, if you know how to view source on the page. All you have to do, in order to get the biggest annoy-ware culprits, is visit myspace, foxnews, and tom's hardware guide, click on ADBLOCK, and then block any url that doesn't originate with the domain you are currently on.
They already showed a "young" Elrond in LOTR during the battle against Sauron - he was the one trying to convince Isildur to throw the ring into Mount Doom.
Sucks too, I work at a datacenter with several ESX servers, each is running up to 9 2000 and 2003 servers on top of it. Most reliable thing you could ever do to Windows... run it on top of Linux!
By going with a competitor instead of the pack leader, they really do appear to be taking a side.
Of course, MySpace just moved up to Flash 9 in order to view their videos on their site. This was due to "security concerns". Peh... now I'm two versions behind the masses.
Just wait... OpenSUSE is coming, which I am sure will become a festering cesspool of illegal activities and breeding ground for virus development, because of the inherent danger in using the word "Open" in a software title.
Again, I am talking "perfect world"
Right now, the only cost-competitive Macintel boxes available from apple are the Mini's and the iMacs (to a lesser extent costwise), which have no room for expansion, except via USB/Firewire. No room for new drives, no place to install new videocards, etc... Additionally, even though "bleeding edge" hardware dosen't always work, if it did, wouldn't you like the option/freedom of trying it?
For some background, in my 10 or so years of personal computing I have never personally bought an off-the-shelf PC. For the past few years, I have not used an off-the-shelf OS. OS10 + Intel has been the main selling points of turning me onto that change... but old habits are hard to break... I don't feel like giving up freedom for a robust system, even if that freedom is percieved or unnecessary.
Biodiesel works fine in warm climates, I understand that it can gel at temperatures over 40*F/4.5*C, and most in the cooler climates have simply mixed approx 30% of petrol diesel to prevent this reaction. I would love to see a biodiesel blend replace straight petrodiesel here in the states, and more autos built for this technology instead of the seeming industry reliance on E85, which takes energy to make (as it is a distilled product). Biodiesel dosen't require an excessive amount of energy to produce, as it is really just lipids seperated from glycerine with a reactionary compound blended then siphoned off.
I am surprised more/.'ers are not biodiesel zealots. I grew into a DIY'er from linux, to homebrewing beer, what's more DIY than making your own diesel fuel for your car?
Let's play pure speculation...
In a perfect world...
1. Apple would release a Macintel box with Core 2 chips in a G5-styled case with room for expansion and upgradability (Optical drives and PCIX video especially).
2. The use of Intel processors would spur on game developers to push [b]native[/b] MacOS support.
3. Prices of Macintosh PC's would become comparable to their PC counterparts, as well as components. As it currently stands, you are paying high prices for systems that are well built and designed, yet not bleeding edge as far as hardware is concerned... you could take the same amount of cash, put it into a beigebox that would be years ahead of the same system, with software and aesthetics being the main differences.
Will these things happen? I know if they do, a new Mac would be on my desk rather quickly.
My name is ArcherB and I am an AMD fanboy.
This processor, imho, is as much an AMD product as it is and Intel one. Not because AMD developed it, but because it would not exist if it were not for AMD. If AMD were to go under tomorrow, this would be the last processor we can expect to see from Intel for at least 10 years. For this reason alone, I will continue to buy AMD.
While I applaud you sticking to your guns, I do not understand this stance at all. "Since Linux desktop distros would have never progressed with the user-friendliness they have today without Microsoft Windows, I'll continue to use Microsoft Windows".
I personally believe that we should acknowledge Intel for making a revolutionary product, and look forward to AMD's response. Being a fanboy just means that you purposely put blinders on yourself for something as trivial as hardware... something normally reserved for politics or religion.
I can just imagine a westside story-styled streetfight... except with a horde of Microsoft guys against the Google guys. Trade the switchblades for slide rulers, RJ45 crimpers, and philips head screwdrivers.
"That's OUR TURF MAN!"
I would make a suggestion to google the "Paleo" diet. My allergies were gone in a week's time, my wife's asthma symptoms were not existant in as much time, and I lost approximately 80lbs of bodyfat in a year. It is based on avoiding "foreign" proteins such as gluten, dairy, and legume proteins - instead opting to eat meat, veggies, nuts, and fruit.
The logic behind this diet is to follow a diet more familiar to what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, and avoiding food that requires technology in order to be edible, i.e. milling and cooking for grains, cooking for legumes, and could you imagine a caveman chasing down a bison for milk?
I am running ubuntu a P3 850 on an ASUS P3BF... I don't really know what I would do with a faster PC. My last PC was an windows on an athlon 2700, and I had to put her out to pasture when something quirky happened with the chip or mobo (I haven't looked into it, just placed the whole kit in my box of "maybe someday tech") - that system was only for gaming, but there really hasn't been a game I have been interested in for at least a year... and dosen't look like there will be many more to catch my eye in the future...
Not only does it seem to late, but wouldn't prospective users be somewhat turned off at the lack of a cleaner look in lieu of the Windows 95 look-alike shell?
Granted ReactOS is in Alpha stage, but it really looks like fvwm95, which I always thought looked like a poorly rendered "copy" of an OS that was pretty ugly in the first place.
I hope that once the functionality is in place, they work on aliased fonts, and general, yet resource-friendly UI enhancements. That would definately help new users in their transition.
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The Adblock extension blocks flash ads as well as text, iFrame, and embedded adverts as well, if you know how to view source on the page. All you have to do, in order to get the biggest annoy-ware culprits, is visit myspace, foxnews, and tom's hardware guide, click on ADBLOCK, and then block any url that doesn't originate with the domain you are currently on.
They already showed a "young" Elrond in LOTR during the battle against Sauron - he was the one trying to convince Isildur to throw the ring into Mount Doom.
It's the end of EMO as we know it, and I feel fine...
Much agreed. Sums up the article nicely.
Almost Penny Arcade-ish in its delivery. Well done.
Sucks too, I work at a datacenter with several ESX servers, each is running up to 9 2000 and 2003 servers on top of it. Most reliable thing you could ever do to Windows... run it on top of Linux!
By going with a competitor instead of the pack leader, they really do appear to be taking a side.
Of course, MySpace just moved up to Flash 9 in order to view their videos on their site. This was due to "security concerns". Peh... now I'm two versions behind the masses.
Just wait... OpenSUSE is coming, which I am sure will become a festering cesspool of illegal activities and breeding ground for virus development, because of the inherent danger in using the word "Open" in a software title.
Again, I am talking "perfect world"
Right now, the only cost-competitive Macintel boxes available from apple are the Mini's and the iMacs (to a lesser extent costwise), which have no room for expansion, except via USB/Firewire. No room for new drives, no place to install new videocards, etc... Additionally, even though "bleeding edge" hardware dosen't always work, if it did, wouldn't you like the option/freedom of trying it?
For some background, in my 10 or so years of personal computing I have never personally bought an off-the-shelf PC. For the past few years, I have not used an off-the-shelf OS. OS10 + Intel has been the main selling points of turning me onto that change... but old habits are hard to break... I don't feel like giving up freedom for a robust system, even if that freedom is percieved or unnecessary.
Biodiesel works fine in warm climates, I understand that it can gel at temperatures over 40*F/4.5*C, and most in the cooler climates have simply mixed approx 30% of petrol diesel to prevent this reaction. I would love to see a biodiesel blend replace straight petrodiesel here in the states, and more autos built for this technology instead of the seeming industry reliance on E85, which takes energy to make (as it is a distilled product). Biodiesel dosen't require an excessive amount of energy to produce, as it is really just lipids seperated from glycerine with a reactionary compound blended then siphoned off.
/.'ers are not biodiesel zealots. I grew into a DIY'er from linux, to homebrewing beer, what's more DIY than making your own diesel fuel for your car?
I am surprised more
Let's play pure speculation... In a perfect world... 1. Apple would release a Macintel box with Core 2 chips in a G5-styled case with room for expansion and upgradability (Optical drives and PCIX video especially). 2. The use of Intel processors would spur on game developers to push [b]native[/b] MacOS support. 3. Prices of Macintosh PC's would become comparable to their PC counterparts, as well as components. As it currently stands, you are paying high prices for systems that are well built and designed, yet not bleeding edge as far as hardware is concerned... you could take the same amount of cash, put it into a beigebox that would be years ahead of the same system, with software and aesthetics being the main differences. Will these things happen? I know if they do, a new Mac would be on my desk rather quickly.
My name is ArcherB and I am an AMD fanboy. This processor, imho, is as much an AMD product as it is and Intel one. Not because AMD developed it, but because it would not exist if it were not for AMD. If AMD were to go under tomorrow, this would be the last processor we can expect to see from Intel for at least 10 years. For this reason alone, I will continue to buy AMD.
While I applaud you sticking to your guns, I do not understand this stance at all. "Since Linux desktop distros would have never progressed with the user-friendliness they have today without Microsoft Windows, I'll continue to use Microsoft Windows".
I personally believe that we should acknowledge Intel for making a revolutionary product, and look forward to AMD's response. Being a fanboy just means that you purposely put blinders on yourself for something as trivial as hardware... something normally reserved for politics or religion.
I can just imagine a westside story-styled streetfight... except with a horde of Microsoft guys against the Google guys. Trade the switchblades for slide rulers, RJ45 crimpers, and philips head screwdrivers. "That's OUR TURF MAN!"
I would make a suggestion to google the "Paleo" diet. My allergies were gone in a week's time, my wife's asthma symptoms were not existant in as much time, and I lost approximately 80lbs of bodyfat in a year. It is based on avoiding "foreign" proteins such as gluten, dairy, and legume proteins - instead opting to eat meat, veggies, nuts, and fruit.
The logic behind this diet is to follow a diet more familiar to what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, and avoiding food that requires technology in order to be edible, i.e. milling and cooking for grains, cooking for legumes, and could you imagine a caveman chasing down a bison for milk?
I am running ubuntu a P3 850 on an ASUS P3BF... I don't really know what I would do with a faster PC. My last PC was an windows on an athlon 2700, and I had to put her out to pasture when something quirky happened with the chip or mobo (I haven't looked into it, just placed the whole kit in my box of "maybe someday tech") - that system was only for gaming, but there really hasn't been a game I have been interested in for at least a year... and dosen't look like there will be many more to catch my eye in the future...
Just like Mortal Kombat, Houses of the Dead, and Super Mario Brothers...
Oh, wait...
Not only does it seem to late, but wouldn't prospective users be somewhat turned off at the lack of a cleaner look in lieu of the Windows 95 look-alike shell? Granted ReactOS is in Alpha stage, but it really looks like fvwm95, which I always thought looked like a poorly rendered "copy" of an OS that was pretty ugly in the first place. I hope that once the functionality is in place, they work on aliased fonts, and general, yet resource-friendly UI enhancements. That would definately help new users in their transition.