I'm in total agreement, Linux really is the future of the desktop (though Microsoft seems to be improving some things so I'll give them that). If I were Canonical I'd be worried they come out with Microsoft Linux and ditch Windows by 2020.
I use OpenGL on nVidia proprietary on a GTX 660. I run many Steam games and some of them are Unity: 7 Days To Die, Beasts Of Prey, Dying Light, Metro Last Light, they all run great. In past years back when I ran Windows XP for games and dual booted into Ubuntu I ran Unreal 2004. One day it crashed (as it did sometimes ending in the BSOD) then I booted into Ubuntu and ran the Linux version and it ran faster and smoother and never crashed. That was the moment I decided it was time to go full time Ubuntu Linux.
Not really. I happen to think that a browser is supposed to enable the browsing of HTML documents but every year the browser becomes more of the one takes all platform. Which means my hopes of seeing JavaScript go out of existence keep waning.
If it's truly better and the only difference is remove Linux and install BSD then what is BSD doing that is better/different/messed up that the packets can flow faster in BSD than in Linux?
I learned enough to know that a lot of people designing electronics taught by civilian colleges should have gone into the military first and learned how electronics works and what it gets subjected to in the field and how it can fail miserably and how us grease monkeys out there had to come up with often extremely clever, unimaginable fixes for the design goofs made by those civilian graduates who thought of themselves so highly.
Actually the quality is superb. It is used to train many fine electronics personnel in the military. The military does not graduate people who do not know how to use what they learned or practical application.
Now that I think about it more, why create all that complex syntax when you could use a client side application like InkScape to create a hamburger icon then just reference it in HTML simply which I thought was how HTML was supposed to work, simple document viewing.
I ask because my wife has complained that some web pages now cause her (aging laptop) to overheat and stop working.
I see, we just noticed the story on Roku Technology News this morning too, didn't realize Google did try to buy them. In that case, it makes complete sense, thanks.
Agreed, the Sun is a massive power we also still don't fully understand, is mostly safe and has all the energy humans will ever need (IMO); we just need to strive at understanding it and how to harness it better.
With Git though, I can and do have many micro repositories scattered around my disks. My bin and Documents directories almost always have their own repositories each. Git works great for this as well as being a tool to help teams with code management. I do have to Google a lot of stuff for it but it works really well and this article is a good summary.
I use vi for files no larger than a page or two unless it's Java then right into Eclipse. I guarantee whatever you think you can do fast without a good IDE, even Visual Studio or NetBeans, I can do 5 to 10 times faster and better and more bug free and prettier and more stable and more maintainable.
If I were rich (which I'm not) I'd offer a higher bounty to black hats to shut down WikiLeaks until they get out of politics and back to exposing secrets for the public good.
I always over time consider options, Microsoft doesn't have Gates running it any more so maybe they really are turning over a new leaf. It was heavy on my mind this week and lead to the question, not making any hasty moves.
During Carter's era or today. In 90 I was trained for a year in computer engineering for our sonar computer mainframe including Assembly. The idea was that if we were on deployment and a bug caused a problem we could potentially figure it out and maybe fix it without stopping the mission. I was programming on my own for 8 years prior to that as a hobby so was actually correcting the instructor on a couple of occasions. There is also the rate DT which does programming all the time I think. I wanted to get into that rate but the wait was a year and I was impatient.
I agree, Minecraft worlds unlike some other sandbox games are backwards compatible mostly. You can create a world with the custom presets that is wild, all hills, all diamonds, massive floating islands in the sky, you name it then go back and play them whenever or as often as you like. Single Player still rocks!