Comment Government Money for Studies (Score 0) 256
It really took a pile of government money to fund some geniuses at a university to figure that out, huh? And people wonder why the planet is going broke!
Comment I Lost Patience With Adobe (Score 2) 658
I lost patience with Adobe long ago. I know Gimp isn't as good as Photoshop. But it does 98% of the stuff I need to do and it's hard to argue with FREE. Inkscape is coming along very nicely now too. Getting off of their upgrade treadmill is a relief.
Comment Steven Sinofsky Was Probably Fired for This (Score 1) 737
Steven Sinofsky was the head of the Windows division of Microsoft. He was probably fired. But he says he left for his own reasons. Yeah, sure. That should tell us that even Microsoft realizes they pooched this deal. Everybody I know that got a computer with 8 on it has begged me to put 7 on it for them. But I actually put OpenSuse 12.3 on a bunch of machines lately. UEFI is a pain in the a$$ too.
Comment Re:Far Cry 3!!!! (Score 0, Redundant) 73
I was making a joke. But I actually have an HP XW8600 as my desktop machine. It has 2 quad core Xeons with 12M cache running at 3Ghz. I also have 32G of ram and an Nvidia GT520 graphics card with 2G ram. It runs games pretty nice. I have a dual boot with Win7 Ult 64-bit and OpenSuse 12.3 64-bit. Most of my games are now on Steam for Linux. Actually works quite well. But those big burly Xeons arouse my techno lust.
Comment Far Cry 3!!!! (Score 3, Funny) 73
Hey, I want a pair of these new CPU chips from Intel with 10 cores each and 30M of cache in my next PC. These CPU's will now directly access a measly 12TB of ram. Heck, they're only $4616 each. Why not use them to run Far Cry 3 real fast?
Comment Change for the Sake of Change (Score 1) 1010
Windows 8 takes a decent interface and hoses it up. But Microsoft had to change something to keep you on the upgrade treadmill. It's not about better, its about money. Told ya so.
Comment Fienstein = Moron (Score 1) 424
These people spend all their time trying to deny other people of freedom. If we need any kind of control, it's Senator control.
Geez.
Comment Not In Those Countries (Score 1) 114
If it was gaining in Botswana, Outer Mongolia or Paraguay it might have been believable. Nah.
Comment Microsoft Rip Off (Score 1) 502
Since Microsoft is so good at ripping off other ideas, they might as well be consistent. Why not steal KDE for their next brilliant idea.
Comment Re:Mint. (Score 4, Informative) 573
The latest Mint is a Debian based distro too. Much better than that crazy Ubuntu distro.
Comment Re:SuSE (Score 1) 573
OpenSuse has as the default desktop KDE 4.10.1. It's a stable UI and very customizable too. I love it. I just installed it on a bunch of computers.
Submission + - Playing Games Using Linux (pcworld.com)
RudyHartmann writes: "If you are running Linux and are also a gamer, it is getting much easier to get your Windows games to run under Linux. But and even better option is to install native Linux versions of PC games. I have used many of the tricks listed on this website URL below. They work great, but NOTHING works flawlessly. Not all Windows games play flawlessly on Windows and you can expect the same from Linux. I would also encourage you to make sure you have selected the best hardware to run your games with Linux. Though other graphics options have seen improvement, Nvidia is still the Linux Gold Standard for Linux graphics performance and compatibility."
Comment Re:Tinfoil Hats? (Score 1) 160
Shakespeare, in Henry IV, Part One, 1596:
Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'
I'm with Billy Boy on this one. If there was one inkling of a national security issue, I would opt for a different choice than these Chinese companies.
Comment Tinfoil Hats? (Score 2) 160
Okay, I'm not a big conspiracy theorist. But if there isn't a good chance of a backdoor in their software, I'm a monkey's uncle. Aren't these companies partly owned by the People's Liberation Army?
Submission + - Nuclear Fusion Reactors (prometheusfusionperfection.com)
RudyHartmann writes: "While government has been useful in the implementation of huge project developments, they often miss many significant small developments bubbling to the surface. In the energy research field, the Manhattan Project changed the world. But using the same approach for nuclear fusion reactors using tokamaks is probably a dead end government "make work" project. Billions have been spent on tokamaks without success.
There are small research projects which may actually offer the breakthoughs that government behemoth projects may never fulfill.
One of them is the current work to harness nuclear fusion through polywell fusors.
In the 1920's an American farmboy by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television. Another invention he created was a means of creating nuclear fusion through a device known as a fusor. The fusor has been a good source of neutrons for research, but it has never achieved a greater energy output than the energy required to create the reaction. This may sound crazy, but its all true. Really.
This may all change soon. A variation of the Farnsworth fusor was pioneered recently by Robert Bussard. Although Bussard died, his research is being carried on by many small scale research facilities in many places. They may have a good chance at a "civilization changing" breakthrough.
I encourage you to view these sites to see what may be happening in this interesting energy research field.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143026-fusion-power-at-home-or-how-small-science-will-defeat-big-science
http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/"
There are small research projects which may actually offer the breakthoughs that government behemoth projects may never fulfill.
One of them is the current work to harness nuclear fusion through polywell fusors.
In the 1920's an American farmboy by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television. Another invention he created was a means of creating nuclear fusion through a device known as a fusor. The fusor has been a good source of neutrons for research, but it has never achieved a greater energy output than the energy required to create the reaction. This may sound crazy, but its all true. Really.
This may all change soon. A variation of the Farnsworth fusor was pioneered recently by Robert Bussard. Although Bussard died, his research is being carried on by many small scale research facilities in many places. They may have a good chance at a "civilization changing" breakthrough.
I encourage you to view these sites to see what may be happening in this interesting energy research field.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143026-fusion-power-at-home-or-how-small-science-will-defeat-big-science
http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/"
