Seconded. A water cooled CPU, PSU and GPU and be completely airtight. Display might be more of an issue. Possibly use an iPad or something and remote-login via wifi?

Have any of you ever considered that if we figured out a way to make synthetic meat that tastes as good as the real thing for cheaper that there would be no more cows, apart from in zoos?

With no economical incentive to raise and slaughter cows, we'll just kill them all, and re-purpose the land to grow beef in vats.

To expand a little on this.
A product of the intellect can never be property, in the sense that it is not a tangible thing.

At most, information can be hidden or restricted in some sense, but eventually it will either be completely lost, or be completely free.
Think of it like water in the wilderness, always flowing to the sea.
We humans can pick it up, bottle it, sell it, etc. etc, but eventually it will return to nature, and water is a lot more tangible than some idea someone thought up, or some arrangement of bits in a computer.

So, as long as people are trying to restrict the free flow of knowledge/ideas, other people will pirate and copy and do whatever they can get away with.
This is how it is.

Well, it's more than that.
What we really need is that a motherboard or laptop with secureboot on must be labeled as such.
I got an HP ENVY dv7, and it took me nearly an hour to get it to boot linux from the CD-ROM, and then another bit of time to re-partition to non GPM...
If I knew just how hard they are trying to keep the laptop windows only, I would have bought something else.
The only real way of knowing that before turning on the hardware is by a sticker on it at the shop: "Trusted Computing/ Secureboot" on this computer... then I would be able to effectively vote with my wallet, and I am sure that I am not alone.

Hey, this is in my hometown, and the Yacht Club is one of my favorite hangouts. When they broke the record, there was quite a bit of cheering and booze going around. And the next day it was even more windy - go figure. Seriously, though... this is seriously fast. The fastest I have ever been on water was in a fast rescue boat, and that could only manage 36kt, while this baby was touching 60kt... they are currently doing some checking and final preparation, and then will try again to break the 60kt barrier. Interesting fact... several sailing speed records are held in Walvis Bay... look it up sometime!

Much better, MS, but you will be hard pressed to find a UNIX derivative being able to run 15% of malware out there. Much better, and a definite improvement, but nothing compared to true security. I wonder how this could be spun into something positive, unless you are comparing it to previous versions of MS only.

I happen to use KDE, and like it. It's far more polished than any of the other offerings, and more importantly, I can set it up the way I like, for whichever machine I use.

Sure it uses a lot of system resources, but as a video editor, I have a lot of resources spare, and I enjoy the eye-candy.

Besides, not many distrobutions do not supply KDE in some form.

-Evert Vorster-

You know what the main roadblock is to Linux on the desktop adoption?

Money.

If Linux had a multibillion dollar industry advertizing it, it would be where Android is today. In fact, Android is a rather good example of what I am talking about.

So, If you DO have a gripe about the Linux desktop, file some bugs, or, if you are able, write some apps. Make it into something you enjoy using, and most probably someone else might do the same.

Anyways, what is it with the Linux on the Desktop crusade for the last week? People will use what they want. If you want to have more people using Linux, advertize it.

-Evert Vorster-

I fully agree. I am in the same situation, a happy linux user for the last decade.

I was forced to use Windows 7 from a fresh install the other day. What a mess! Nothing worked, and no apps were installed. Then the constant nagging that I might be using counterfeit software until I had a network connection and could register the software online. Then drivers had to be downloaded for everything, and windows carried on nagging about firewalls and anti-virus....

As a happy Linux user, I can tell you that you don't miss the real freedom Linux gives you until you have to use a lesser OS.

Don't change a thing about linux, and it's desktop.... just wait for people to cotton on to what it is that makes it far superior to anything else out there.

-Evert Vorster-

Well, zero excuses apart from this little thing we call progress. When you make an omelet, you have to break some eggs.

The way UNIX is designed is to have multiple libraries installed alongside each other, and applications taking advantage of the newer features provided in the newer libraries.

This is how it works, and it's been working fine since before Microsoft nicked a windowing interface.

The average linux user don't notice all of this, as a distribution maintainer already did all the hard work, and packaged it up nice for you.

So, all this FUD is getting a little tiresome.

I am a distribution maintainer, and honestly, none of this is a big issue.
In fact, I see a lot of reports that Linux is exceptionally easy to develop on, and that does not surprise me one little bit.

There is no desktop war. There is no "Problem with the linux desktop". Use whatever suits your needs.

Most of the developers in Linux could not care less what you use on your desktop, and conversely they do not care about your opinion of what they use on their desktop.

This "Desktop war" only exists in the minds of people that feel threatened by what's running on someone else's desktop.

KDE has been my default desktop for many years, and it does everything I need, and looks great doing it. I have yet to visit one site where flash player from Adobe does not work. libreoffice is damn close to M$, and the differences there is only because M$ does not follow any standard when making their applications, not even the standards they have written. You can hardly blame Linux or any of the applications it runs natively for the lock-in tactics of Microsoft.

For me, at least, I don't see a reason to add to Apple's war chest, or support Microsoft when both of them use the money to harm the computing field in general. This means I can't play EVERY game out there, but there are a lot of games that run natively in Linux, and a mind-boggling amount that will run fine in wine or dosbox.
I am an avid photographer and video editor, and DigiKam and Kdenlive has me covered there.

There is only one reason I have a dual boot partition to Windows 7. I have an anrdoid phone that only allows it's firmware to be updated in Windows. Same with the linux based GPS I have. It's a slap in the face from the developers of these devices, and if there were any linux only options, I would buy those devices instead.

I guess what I am trying to say is this:
Vote with your wallet, and only support companies which have business practices that you approve of. There is something about voting that seems to be lost on some countries. Sure you only have one voice... but that voice counts. Vote for something you agree with, no matter if it's the third/last whatever. When enough people agree with you, that underdog BECOMES the leading party... but this won't happen unless you vote properly, instead of the lesser of two evils. (Ms/apple or rep/dem)

:)

Me. I am a professional that uses Linux on my desktop exclusively.
As an employed person, I spend money on games, and have bought games for linux in the past.
If Valve can make more games work on my desktop, and make the process of getting said games to my desktop, they deserve my money.

Evert Vorster.

Looking over the comments so far... I want one! Not because I play a lot of games, but because I do some video editing, and even though nVidia's VDPAU is good, it's not as good as having quite a few more cores chewing away at some HD footage. Where do I sign up?

You meddle. Having the benefit of living very far away from both the US and the far east, I can see this. They hate you for coming from your fat rich economy and telling them what to do, and forcing them to sell their oil cheaply, btw.

Think of it like this: Would you be happy if Europeans started telling you to lower your living standards and work for minimum wage because they need things cheaper over there?

I pretty much agree with you. Censorship in all forms are bad.

Hate Speech? - Let the world see what a douchebag looks like for real.

CP? - The damage is already done.. find the bastard who did it, and do bad things to them, but taking the sick depraved things off the net does not do anything to stop it happening in the first place.


I fully believe that people _need_ to see the horrors of what other people are doing, so that they have a sense of perspective.