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"Leopard had a 32-bit-only kernel, so it was impossible to develop 64-bit drivers before Snow Leopard. The advertised "64-bitness" of Leopard was only about applications." - Kenneth Falck

"Apparently the 64-bit kernel is also useful if you have several video cards with video RAM totalling over 1.5GB. http://developer.apple.com/mac... ... I believe one of the biggest slowdowns of 64-bit code is that the CPU L1 cache fills up faster with the bigger opcodes/pointers and register stacks." - Kenneth Falck

"Did Microsoft actually get all device manufacturers to update the drivers of their past and present products into 64-bit the day that the first 64-bit Windows was released? I don't remember it happening. I think Apple has taken the smart route here. Snow Leopard will raise developer awareness to compile all apps and drivers as 64-bit universal binaries. It will take some years until enough relevant device drivers are up-to-date to change the default boot mode." - Kenneth Falck

"The simple reason for booting the 32-bit kernel by default is that many users will have third party USB devices that only have 32-bit drivers available. If Snow Leopard were to boot 64-bit by default, these users would be unable to use their devices." - Kenneth Falck

".mov has been obsolete for a long time now. QuickTime nowadays uses .mp4 as the standard format (and .mp4 is actually based on the old .mov). Only silly people would create .movs now." - Kenneth Falck

"Luckily, I just sold off all my Second Life property." - Kenneth Falck

"I switched to G1 too, but was really happy to get back to iPhone. Android apps feel complex and unintuitive with the separate physical home/menu/back keys combined with the touch UI. And the browser is horrible without pinch zoom. iPhone is just much nicer to use, regardless of # of features." - Kenneth Falck

"You will not burn that many extra calories if you exercise e.g. 1 hour per week (that's still 167 hours you're not exercising). You can do the math: even if you burned 10 times more than usual for that 1 hour, it would still be only a 6% total increase in consumption. So I'd say that unless you have hours and hours of extra time to spend on it, exercise is not the way to lose weight. Eating smart is. Exercise makes you better and happier in other ways though." - Kenneth Falck

"But where is Firebug for FF3.1! Can't upgrade without.." - Kenneth Falck

"What's with the hair and shirt? He looks like he's sitting in a hair salon while doing the video.." - Kenneth Falck

"My experience comes from trying to theme a Ubuntu installation, googling for various themes, and realizing I need to install Emerald and configure and reload window managers and decorators etc. I just didn't want to learn all that, it was too complicated. I've used Linux as a server since 0.96c but on the desktop only recently. I think the complexity of the underlying desktop architecture is its worst weakness -- even if the default installations are nowadays quite polished and simple." - Kenneth Falck

"Theming Linux is really quite a mess. All these different kind of incompatible theme engines, and all those legacy theme packages that don't work any more... It's horrible to configure this stuff manually and try to figure it all out." - Kenneth Falck

"My dentist (here in Finland) has used lasers for many years now. I find it much more comfortable than plain old drilling, even though you can't use the laser for everything. I only wish more dentists would learn and invest into this stuff." - Kenneth Falck

"Buried because this is misleading old stuff, everybody's waiting for the 3G unlock." - Kenneth Falck

"Easiest solution: also have a desktop computer at the office. Doesn't matter where you forget your laptop, you can at least keep working." - Kenneth Falck

"Silly to put UNIX in the submission title, when even the original title clearly stated it was a *BSD* bug." - Kenneth Falck

"Dugg for pedobear comment :D" - Kenneth Falck

"I think the writer is missing the point that certain filesystem branches exist separately because they can be unavailable depending on the system state, and possibly shared between multiple systems. E.g. /usr is read-only and contains stuff that is not crucial for booting up the system, because it may be network-mounted. And /var might fill up with logs so it's separated from the root, filling only that separated partition. When you understand all these reasons, the whole directory structure actually makes sense..." - Kenneth Falck

"Who the hell uses _paper_ for this stuff, in 2007? If it's not in my inbox, it doesn't exist..." - Kenneth Falck