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Less Might Be More
Quantum Skyline writes "Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3. Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough. Why debate this? DevHardware has an opinion piece on 'leaner computing' and the author thinks that less might be more." This reminds me of a modern desktop system I saw sitting in a store, running Windows XP just so that it could connect via a terminal to another server and run the store's application. It would seem that even an old VT100 would have sufficed, but someone was able to sell the store a full blown PC.
...Microsoft taketh away!
yeah maybe a dumb terminal would suffice, but how would the clerk play doom3 while ignoring the customers?! It'd be unfair
FYI, I still have my first-gen Power Mac G4 from 1999, which has outlasted three of its hard drives, two displays (a sony CRT and an Apple Studio display), the original video card, keyboard and mouse, and hp deskjet printer. This is the least problematic Mac I've owned yet.
Youngster!
AT&ROFLMAO
Personally I'm a fan of the AMD FX-53 with a 10,000 RPM SATA-150 drive GeForce 6800 and 2GB of DDR400* running a 2.6.8 Linux kernel and utilitizing 6+ desktops with at least 1 memory-hog running on each one. But that's me, I just like to leave all my programs running and switch to the desktop that has the one I need.
*the only part I don't have yet
Less is More!
Now who wants to trade my 486 and PII boxes for P4EE and AthlonFX??
Jebus, you'd think they could apply the "less is more" concept to their advertising on that site. I could barely find the article through all the blinky and flashy ads, and the textads, and the banner ads, etc. I realize they need to make money off ads but that is plain overkill... an argument that parallels the one the article tries to make.
(yes, I know how to block them)
501 Not Implemented
subscribe to the less is more principle
/usr/bin
$ ls -li
[...]
69687 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96720 Dec 6 2003 less
69687 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96720 Dec 6 2003 more
[...]
$ _
Correctamundo!
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
Is your workspace constantly bombarded with gamma radiation? I have a G4 from 99 with all the original hardware still in great shape. In addition, I've got a handfull of PII 266 boxen that were in heavy office use from 1997 to 2002. Now they've retired to miscellaneous server status, but still plug away faithfully on original hard disks/monitors/video cards/keyboards. Maybe you need better cooling in your office, or plug those leaky holes in the roof. Your situation sounds pretty alarming from a hardware point of view.
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You have an IBM 704? Wow. That's amazing. Are you doing anything special to celebrate the anniversary?
Spending is better than mending.
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If your tire blows out, do you blame Ford?
Oh, er, umm... bad example.
No relation to Happy Monkey
Whippersnappers!
Now that you mention it -- yes! Yes, it is.
Sincerely,
Bruce Banner
Sucker!
- Signed, Texas!
Most Slashdotters probably have $50k in student loans, a mortgage (or equivalent rent, which is actually more expensive than a mortgage even in the short run since there are few tax breaks and no equity) in a major metropolitan area, a car payment and on average .75 kids instead of 2.5, since education and income have an inverse relation to birthrate, but they probably have 30% above average incomes and can write-off their computers as "tools," in effect making them roughly 20% cheaper at the end of the year than for those who buy them like Playstations.
My C64 boots off a Betamax tape drive that's powered by the potato battery I planted in 6th grade. I overclocked it or something to run Oregon Trail V, which totally rules all over Zork. AND it has a display mode that is capable of presenting over 30 colors. I guess that means your apples SUCK! Nyeah.
NYEAH!
"The Borba"
I have a computer desk from the 50's, does that count for anything? It still works great. I was thinking of upgrading it with a keyboard tray as they obviously did not need one back then. Another thought was to use some thermal grease and overclock the side drawer slides but I'd have no way to monitor the drawer opening speed. I'd hate for the drawer to fall victim to thermal runaway and crash to the floor.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Really? Let me check this right now.
/bin/more /usr/bin/less /bin/more and /usr/bin/less differ
$ diff
Binary files
So the answer is a resounding "no". "less" is definitely *not* "more".
Hope that helps.