Right... If one can find a position where the screen glare doesn't ruin it all. I personally can't use an Apple as the glare drives me insane unless seated in a pitch black room - not the best way to do some work...
In fact that isn't true at all - PCs often have better colors, contrast and/or brightness. Just don't buy the bargain basement level of stuff, select computers with IPS screens.
Remember: that includes you. Yes me too. The only difference is _how_ a person is a gullible idiot.
Fanatics that think the real world is a sci-fi soap opera. Or at least want it to be.
Women can and do rape other people, men and women according to taste and/or circumstances. Thinking otherwise is
And yet, if you open up a mainframe, you will see that on the inside, it is exactly a vastly distributed system with thousands of nodes.
No it isn't. Even this latest monster doesn't have that many actual processors in it.
The main advantage to a mainframe is its ability to shovel around vast amounts of data very rapidly. IBM has offloaded a lot of the I/O work onto the peripheral data controllers ever since the System/360.
Technologically, mainframes are lagging. This is the first IBM mainframe that has had the ability to run multiple instructions at once on a single core the way Intel chips have done for many years now. The processor clock speed isn't anything outstanding for the day, either.
Eh... No.
The Z196 processor (2010) implements superscalarity (5 wide, 3 decode) and out of order execution at 5.2GHz.
The Z12 processor (2012) have 7 wide execution and runs at 5.5GHz.
They are top of the line products.
Install the 8.1 update and select startup to desktop
Install classic start menu
Disable the idiotic touchpad gestures MS "designed" for Win 8
Optionally install something like ModernMix to be able to run metro apps windowed (I have it installed but never use it)
Voila: A usable Windows installation where one doesn't need to use anything metro/"modern" if one doesn't want to. Somewhat like Windows 7 on steroids.
Good thing you don't design user interfaces.
On the other hand, perhaps it was you who designed the Windows 8 metro UI? It would explain a lot...
He may not but I do - and the main railroads here are welded. AFAIK the solution used is allowing the shrinkage/expansion at certain points and having a rigid mount of the tracks.
No. From each according to ability and willingness to work, to each enough to live. Most civilized countries have "according to need" under welfare and medical care though.
You seem to be confusing basic income with utopia. If one want more stuff than the BI provides one can try to get one or more jobs.
Hey I have written a TCP/IP stack* and don't remember the specifics anymore... Thinking that every technical person remembers every thing they ever touched is idiotic. Thinking every technical person knows details of everything is even more idiotic.
(* embedded stuff using good old SLIP)
His reign doesn't seem to be especially merry.
But then your configuration files are code.
Isn't this a picture of the Muhammad that they 'avenged' the same guy who admitted to have 'married' a 9-year-old girl?
No a 6 year old. He just didn't fuck her before the age of 9.
Doesn't that mean his picture would have to be published on the child sex offender website as a statutory rapist?
No as he lived in another country with another set of laws and practices. Practices that wasn't too uncommon and still aren't in some parts of the world.
Besides the fact that he has been dead for a long time.
OTOH You (and I) could be sentenced to death today for insulting the prophet and Islam.
Actually nobody wonders why, in fact nobody cares about you at all.
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