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Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper
greg_barton writes "At first I thought this was a joke, but this article from Microsoft Watch confirms it: 'Microsoft is expected to recommend that the 'average' Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.'"
Yup, this is post #1! (mine that is)
ROFFLE ROFFLE LAWL LAWL
Troll, my ass. This is ridiculous. When are we going to hear that we need Ferrari to go grocery shopping?
* If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
* There is absolutely nothing wrong with a company being upset that its product is being pirated freely over online networks. A recent Slashdot poll showed that the majority of Slashotters are unemployed or are students ("academics"), which explains a lot. Try getting a real job sometime and see what it feels like when your work is everywhere, and you start worrying that your days are numbered. Does John Carmack want you to "sample" his new game via the "free advertising" happening on eMule?
* At the 2004 WinHEC, Allchin demonstrated an alpha version of Longhorn that played six high-resolution videos at the same time while playing Quake III in the background. An equivalent XP machine couldn't play more than four videos. Meanwhile, I can't even get xmms to play without skipping, and windows to drag without visual tearing! That's because KDE and GNOME are hacks to emulate a desktop on top of the crufty XFree86 architecture that people won't let die (Linux users absolutely fear change).
* VA Linux-owned Slashdot thinks its niche opinion represents the majority of the world. This is a result of people visiting every day and buying into the groupthink. Nobody outside of Slashdot knows or cares about "Linux," "RIAA", "M$," or anything else Slashdotters think is such a huge issue in today's society. Go to a mall or coffee shop sometime and see what people actually talk
about.
* Speaking of VA Linux--it's a Linux company...that owns a "tech news" site...that posts news stories negative toward competitors like Microsoft. If a Windows company or even Microsoft itself owned a "tech news" site and posted anti-Linux articles all the time, everyone would be up in arms. But with VA Linux, it's a-okay.
* Slashbots think people don't like the music coming out these days, which is the cause of the piracy. Never mind that if people didn't like the music they wouldn't be pirating it, most Slashbots--again, this goes back to the niche opinion thing--don't realize that most people these days love the music coming out and want to hear all of it. Probing around, you discover that Slashdot is made up of nerds and fogies who listen to things like The Who and Blind Guardian and techno--not what mainstream society enjoys.
* Any company ending in "AA" is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
* The inevitable result of all this is a world in which nothing can be profitable because people simply pirate free copies. Is that really what Slashbots want? OSS and free-ness in general reminds me of the hippie era of the 60s--idealistic socialism that only exists because of the surrounding capitalism around it that provides the environment for it to exist. We all know what happened to that idea.
* Linux rules the desktop, when in reality: Windows = 91%; Mac = 4%; Linux = 1%
* Slashdot editors are abusive. We all remember The Post. It's amusing the editors never mention the issue. The worst editor is michael, who will mod you down, insult you for your post count, and post unprofessional color commentary along with the article. This is the same bizarre person who cybersquatted Censorware for years--even as Slashdot posted articles negative toward cybersquatting! Michael played it off like he was some sort of stalking victim, which made it all the more bizarre.
* The moderation system is broken. If you mod someone as "Overrated," you can't be metamodded. People abuse this all the time to gang up and knock you down into oblivion.
* If "Linux" just refers to the kernel and not the operating system, how can "FreeBSD" refer to the operating system (userland tools, standard libraries, etc.) and not just the kernel? Face it, "GNU/Linux" looks and sounds ridiculous.
Sorry to disagree here, but I see something majorly wrong with these estimates.
Every time they make a computer, it generates lots of times' that computers' weight in crap. You go through a load of clean water, you burn lots of fossil fuels, you create lots of packaging that'll probably never be re-used, and more. Hundreds of kilograms by some estimates.
And because Longhorn will require such a computer, that will mean that practically all the computers around today will be useless for anyone who wants to run the latest version of Windows. So this will massively contribute to an already significant problem of the 'computer mountains' that are starting to appear alongside the fridge mountains.
And okay, maybe in fifty years, it won't matter that we've used all these resources up so pointlessly. What about in 100 years, or 500 years? Aren't people then going to be a little pissed off at us at the mess we've left them?
Yes, yes, yes, we are all impressed by your computer. . . Now let me take my turn in this pissing contest.
How does something like this get modded +1 Interesting? Sounds like an obvious attempt to brag about your computer.
YOU'RE WINNER !
Another lame blog
Donald Duck would love to have a SCREAMING ORGASM looking at Daisy Dcuk pr0n on a machine like that! ohmg, it feels so goooooooooooooood.
Both FireFox and Mozilla have this memory leak bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22266
Still, FireFox is the best browser I've used, by far.
Not only does FireFox crash, but it makes Windows XP so unstable that it is necessary to reboot. That's the real story.
I have a brand new athlon64 with 512 megs of ram and SATA RAID1 10k drives,
So far Netscape/Mozilla loads in 2 seconds. The problem is not the software, its the hardware. RAID should be the standard setup, and it should be raid 0+1
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
My LFS installation beats the pants off of XP with respect to loading time, and it's not even a competition for shutting down (which only occurs when there's lightning nearby).
Two things:
.sig. (I gotta have more cowbell!)
1) Awesome
2) I like that your handle is "Bad As Scat." I, personally, am only as bad as masticated pomegranates.
0x0D 0x0A
Wheres jon katz you ask?
He went away after being constantly harassed and flamed by some of the adult children trolls who from time to time inhabit this place.
I thought katz was a fine writer, but clearly some folks didnt care what he had to say, only that they where offended he said it eloquently.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
Seriously though, this title is offensive to Italians, you insensitive clod!
Best Buy can have you arrested
WOW that's a great post! Could I have your permission to make copies of it?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
I always knew timothy was a dolt.
Clearly he must be a friend of an admin - why else would he be allowed to post crap like this