Comment Re:What is sad here (Score -1) 652
I fully agree. For some people the only way to make human contact with somebody else is to be fingered by TSA.
My wife almost killed me when "Rammstein - Feuer Frei" came on full volume at three a.m. one night.
It could have been worse. it could have been "Pussy" instead of "Feuer Frei"
This used to be the Unix Philosophy, before someone decided that it would be really cool to force everyone to use your own specific applications rather than building independent apps and window managers with some kind of standardised communications for anything that needed two apps to talk to each other.
I think this was (and is) called CDE. But windoze lusers dislike it because it's so UNIX. Instead you have windows dll hell replicated in GNOME and KDE.
I use fvwm with a custom menu though usually i start xterm through a key combination and then i type the name of the program i want.
file manager - midnight commander( preferred ) or xfm
web browser - opera
torrent - ktorrent (though it sucks badly but it's able to do the job in the end)
movie player - mplayer
editor - vi(m)
office - openoffice
pdf - gv or xpdf or ( as a last resort if it's a very special pdf file) acroread
Sounds like young Richard missed out on a promising career doing OS design for Microsoft.
He wrote the GNU/Emacs operating system. Isn't that enough ?
When more and more apps leverage OpenCL 1.1 [and the list is growing rapidly] using the likes of LLVM/Clang where AMD has worked hard at leveraging you'll begin to see a lot of these ``benchmarks'' being truly useless and tuned specifically for Intel.
The benchmarks are already useless and tuned for Intel. see http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
