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http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-sea-temperature-rise/ Makes me wonder...

My old Q6600 with ATI 3870 is getting more than a bit long in the tooth. It is Time for a new system build! Come on *SomeOne* release something worth while already!

Xp was certainly ok...used it for years. I still say Win2k was far nicer overall. The only thing XP had over 2k, as far as I was concerned, was better junk hardware compatibility. :) I enjoy linux these days.

Look is ok...performance is disappointing, price is not so great. All in all...I see no good reason to call this Premium. Really? Pretty sure they could do a lot better than this.

I have had Seagate, Samsung, and WD in the last 5 years. None of them have been really 100% for me. Then again, they have not been outright bad. The only drive I ever had bad out of the box was years ago, it was a Hitachi. They replaced it, and all was golden with that drive. In fact it ran at...

For those of you saying that americans should work for far less than minimum wage...you do realize that illegal workers get full health care, food stamps, wick, and cash aid right? Further, Walmart literally trains their new employees to go apply for cash aid, food stamps etc... So even these...

It is not Ubuntu 12.03.... it is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS... My only problem is I once swore a "Mighty Oath..." to never buy an Fn' console! Now Valve comes along with an open linux gaming platform~! Damn you Gabe!! For those who only want to bash linux gaming: Linux is open, thus if a full on gaming...

@Betaboy1983, In quite a few places here in the states it is either illegal or only semi legal to have your own garden in the city. Sad to put it mildly.

Then again, an upper level manager watches certain employee's take documents, once the ex-employee's take employment for a competitor you file a lawsuit and really drop "the hammer". Gotta have at least one conspiracy theory right? Gary

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs@SirMaster, You need to install the 32bit compat mode

The problem is, if you read any of the better Linux Dev Blogs, UEFI really IS a huge problem. You say "just go buy a cert" ... I do not care if it is Win8 or Linux for a moderately heavy desktop pc user like me that is going to be a big pain in the ass. Now for purely Corporate purposes it would...

Haha, see thats what I am saying... iPad is cool for a few weeks... then they mostly collect dust. I know I would rather watch a movie on my 50" Plamsa TV...or my 24" HP ZR2440w... Hey im not trying to be an ass my friend I am just saying the iPads I played with just did not really wow me. I...

As I said once before, A couple of Dr.s offices I have been to over the last year or so have started using iPads for Customer Data Entry / Interaction. It seemed to work ok for them. Other than that, friends who have bought iPads seem to get burnt out on them within a month. After that they just...

@heatlesssun, Ipad is about the only pad really doing well. How many companies have tried and got burned with the Tablet? So Tablet is the future...ok... I honestly do not think so, but I have been wrong in times past. Now as for the CLOUD.... I have enough problems with my privacy being...

Does the bottom left corner Right Click still work in this new version? I have not tried this one. How about the Top Right / Bottom Right and right click? Just curious. Still not really diggin the Metro on desktop. As a touch interface it seems pretty smooth for the most part. Not sure I have a...

I run Linux these days for most of what I do. This UEFI thing is looking a lot like a fiasco. At the end of the day I highly doubt UEFI will be anymore secure than what we have now. In fact when we look back at some of the famous Corporate Root Kits of the past, UEFI adds in a whole new...

Win8 on a PAD I would seriously consider if I wanted a PAD. Win8 on a desktop, not so much. Hell, even on a phone I might consider it if I did not already have an Android that I like fairly well. It will be interesting to see how Win8 does.

I am passing as well. It should be interesting to see how sales go for Win8. I think mid next year I will be building a new system to replace my ageing Q6600 / ATI 3870 :)

Personally I am watching the ARM space for upcoming, and interesting, products. The ARM 15 series in quad core, with the newer graphics sound pretty decent. Not sure how Win8 will be, but I know Linux support will be reasonable, and it can be made to run reasonable with a UI that fits how I...

As someone who deals with fixing a lot of laptops, and some desktops, I agree fully with what daglesj just said. The sad thing is, I "cold cocked" my brother-in-law with Ubuntu 10-10 if memory serves (from vista) and he took to it fast and easy. He is the type who --fearlessly goes where only...

<<---| :D In reality, I would like to want to go out and buy Win8... I just do not see MS paying enough attention to detail to make me want to go buy it. The last decade or so they have determinedly screwed stuff up enough to make me skeptical. Lets face it Win7 was one of those "Oh shit...ok...

I actually do see what you are saying about MS being behind an EightBall. iOS and OSX are not exactly the same, they are separate. They just shake hands real well. I do not like Apple much, but I do respect what they have achieved with iOS - OSX. I just wish for once they would really go all...

What I am getting at .... is the Metro Paradigm adds in an extra layer that is a minor annoyance. I guess what I am saying is: I can switch from Touch Centric, to Desktop Centric pretty easily. I do get that when you "dock" you can use your keyboard and mouse, but you still have to navigate...

Hmm, I suppose the whole Unity / Gnome 3 / Win3-Metro thing just has me annoyed. You are right, I can BEAT them into submission :) It would be nice if I did not have to pull out the Brawl Stick and get mid-evil however. Honestly, I got used to the touch interface on my Atrix pretty quickly. I...

@mdburkey, You nailed it. Saved me a bunch of typing. @heatlesssun, You remind me of a RL good friend... with all due respect sir, you make me ill. You just truly refuse to get what mdburkey was saying. I do get what you are attempting to say. But if I want a touch device, gee... that is what...

Edit: Wine 1.4 just to be clear...

+1 to what Zarathustra[H] said for sure! That said, the new 1.4, Playonlinux, and Winetricks and some TIME put in initially and Gaming in Linux is actually getting to be not to terrible! Gary

kontact, Yes, and the worst part is... "Dude come ON it don't take this long!!" Yeah a whole 20 minutes have gone by and they are on like a P3 with 256 and an OLD hdd... hell even a Defrag (umm defrag..?? whassdat?) takes forever on some of those old systems. Fortunately I forced him to...

Oh and for those who keep saying Work Station... there is the little company called Red Hat that makes it their business to Just Make Things Work. If you call them and sign up for a support contract, they have engineers who can set stuff up very nicely for you. Yes it does cost $, but hey MS is...

Did you all hear that Iceland government is going all in on linux? MS is pissing enough folks off that some of them are hitting the "Negotiate" button pretty hard :) Kick M$ in the money pit and it squeals a pretty $$ tune real fast... should be interesting to see how long Iceland has to use...

Well, never is a long time.. that being said Metro / Gnome 3 / Unity ... /SIGH !! Fortunately there is KDE and Cinnamon, oh and LXDE, and XFCE... :) and a few dozen others, some of which are a pain in the ass to configure the first time around. For now at least Linux mainstream has lost it's...

Nooo DP, NEXT year is the year of Linux... /promise !!

Oh, and as for InorganicMatter, You really could be a straight up bookend for my RL Brother! I have had this conversation with him more than a few times! Fact: Windows is the dominant platform. Fact: It has quite a few nice "little" things that keep folks tied to it. Then again, Linux does...

Ahh ok, it just seemed like maybe you were more than a bit down on *nix, my bad. I think I missed the whole "Linux Rules for Programming" thing. That of course is untrue as well. One thing that recently happened is that the Android kernel has more or less been incorperated into the Linux...

@ mope54, Not to put Too fine a point on it, but have you ever heard of a tiny little project called KDE? I honestly could go on for quite a while naming C++ projects that are *nix centric, but I will not. Ok, so how about that straight ANSI C... ? Hmm, how about Python, or perhaps Perl is...

@ InorganicMatter, There is little, if any reason to use Linux on a desktop PC, as it offers nothing over Windows. In addition to not offering any features over Windows, it is sorely lacking in two key areas (video games and software development). Video Games and software developement...

@ InorganicMatter, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/252463/microsoft_adds_git_support_to_codeplex_repository.html This is in response to "linux does not have any good programming tools". Ok, GCC anyone? LLVM? There are numerous good IDEs as well. Coding wise Linux is pretty solid...

For me, Basic seemed to help both my english (which I was bad at), and my applied math skills. I never went on to become an avid programmer, but I certainly do not regret my time spent learning a bit of programming. In fact, I have already decided to teach my daughter some programming beginning...

Whew, glad to hear I am only going senile. :) I do not make it over to this subforum much, it takes the "end of the world is near" to make me click on links that have politics in them! For me, Hard OCP = reviews and info about hot new toys :) RL stuff...meh I get plenty of that already. Have...

What happened to edit??? Am I going blind? Senile? WTF?