Check out this benchmark from an article on extremetech: http://www.extremetech.com/image_popup/0,1694,iid= 146710,00.asp The actual article: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2014647 ,00.asp
This isn't surprising at all. I believe its been well known that the FX chips crunches numbers faster than the Core 2 duo chips. Notice how the FX-62 almost ties or beats the X6800 in some tests. However, in the benchmarks that matter for most personal computer users, the Core 2 duo is the right choice, blending the right amounts of power in the right places. The FX looks like the marathon sprinter in some areas, but the Core 2 is the triathlete in others.
I wish I had mod points to mod you insightful. Walking in New York City is an art form. I have walked into insane speeding traffic during rush hour with tourists gawking at me in awe, like I was crazy. Part of the skill is listening and watching the cars coming at you. If you can't hear, its a disaster. Wearing headphones outside is dangerous. You can't hear people walking up behind you, or the crazy dude who wants to punch you in the face, or the good Samaritan yelling for you to watch out for the ice falling from a building or horns from oncoming cars.
Can somebody explain how Unix is different than Linux? Most Linux distributions are mostly POSIX, SUS and ELF compliant. Is the underlying code better somehow?
Yes, the fabulous "beer in the fridge" system has many advantages.
You mean, like having an employee drive home under the influence, and then getting sued under the State's dram shop law when that employee injures someone on the way home?
Whenever they have a problem, they send for money, cavalry and lawyers. Unlike the French, who blame themselves and retreat from battle...I mean, come on, give me a break. It is easy for somebody in a European country to laugh at the number of lawsuits in the US, but remember, the rest of the world has stronger consumer protection laws and socialized medicine.
If a Frenchman gets hurt in an accident, the State picks up the vast majority of the bill. In the U.S., the burden of payment is on the individual and his insurance company, if he has one. So, if you need $10,000 for surgery, where are you gonna get it from? Not from the State, but from an individual, and most likely, the victims insurance company. When the insurance company pays the bill, they want to be recompensed for the money they had to pay out for someone elses negligence. So, they step into the shoes of the injured party and sue the wrongdoer. It's called subrogation.
"Actually, if you look at Windows strength versus Linux, or versus anything, it's done very well, because we have this big ecosystem."
This is official recognition that Linux is a serious threat to Vista OS. Why else would Bill mention this to a MSNBC reporter? A slip of the tongue? This gets me very excited about Ubuntu and other "ready for the masses" Linux OS.
I dual boot XP and Ubuntu, and I can't wait to try out Vista. The more options, the better. I wouldn't mind trying out a triple boot with OS X too.
Well, they probably didn't have a leg to stand on at first, but now that you publicized the name of the business and the specific circumstances, you just opened yourself up to a potential lawsuit for business defamation. Sucks to be you dude.
I think you pretty much summed up my thoughts about flickr in a nutshell. I mean, wtf is the big deal about getting a free yahoo e-mail account? Except for the fact that you can't forward mail from it anymore...
On the otherhand, I hope that in exchange for having to sign in with a yahoo account and limiting contacts and tags, that they will increase the upload limit on photos. I tried to upload 100 pictures from my vacation, and flickr crapped out on me saying that my monthly upload alotment was used up. Screw that. Thats why I use photobucket.
Apparently, this rube is using a distribution which really is inappropriate for a production environment. He should be using Ubuntu 6.06, which provides Long Term Service support.
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The problem with lots of games, but not all, is that the formula is either "Choose Your Own Adventure" oriented, where your actions have profound and unpredictable consequences, often with no rhyme or reason, or the story lines are fixed as you advance through the adventure, with too little interaction, just little movies. There has to be a better model.
Khasim, you've hit the nail on the head with your analysis that companies should use their own fucking domain.
My friend received an email from Allstate yesterday claiming that her insurance payment was overdue. She was very upset, since she always pays on time. I took a look at the email, and I said, "this is fraudulent" because the email was not sent from Allstate, but from allstate.asdfegadfsgsd-or-something.com. However, the email had lots of other proofs of authenticity, such as her agents name and address and phone number. So, I told her to call up Allstate and double check her account, just in case some hackers broke into Allstate's computers. Turns out it was a legit email, and the domain is some sort of email service that Allstate uses.
Attention companies: If you want people to read your important emails about overdue bills, send a freakin email from your company's domain, not some unknown 3rd party.
I enjoyed your list. It was refreshing and insightful. Your list wasn't junk. The search engines, however, are mostly junk. They run the spectrum from interesting/useful (like.com) to "why on earth would someone use a flash front end for a search engine, and why is it flirting with me"(Ms. Dewey). I heartily recommend yubnub to true techies as a command line way to access the internet. It is fast (usually), free, and very versatile. It has its nitch, but it isnt for everyone.
College Students should be citing Primary Sources. Period. Wikipedia is a secondary and tertiary source. If a student cites wikipedia, its pure intellectual laziness. Students should be reading scholarly treatises, and only using wikipedia as background and starting material. The debate really is this simple.
...so, why don't these experts get together and publish online??? I am sure that advertising dollars from banner ads, etc would pay for their time in spades.
@Moraelin Right on. I'd like to go a step further though. A healthy community needs not just "tech" intelligence, but intelligence in other areas as well. I don't want to live in a city that just focuses on broadband access to the detriment of the arts, a vibrant and diverse business community, great schools and a healthy downtown area. All areas need improvement, even in so called good communities.
Is it just me, or am I being overly cautious not wanting to download a rootkit detector from Chinese and Russian software developers? Are these programs opensource? Are they safe? Anyone?
Its all about bootstrapping. The.torrent files are about 45k. These are large files, and they need to be physically present somewhere. Its the key to unlock the safe. Thats what these sites do...they keep the keys public, so anyone can open the safe.
I think that the AD&D analogy is warranted here. Torvalds admits that he dislikes DRM, but doesn't want anyone else to be stopped from using it. He likes the idea of the GPL, but he thinks that all of the broo-haha over v3 is a sideshow and that its just a load of hot air. Torvalds is on the side of Linux, and Linux only. Sort of how druids love nature. They hate fire, but they must also embrace it so that the forest can grow. Torvalds likes opensource, but will be satisfied with any license that protects Linux. Druids hate orcs, but they are also forest creatures...Torvalds dislikes huge businesses, but he needs them for linux to expand. Its a delicate balancing act that he's trying to pull off here.
I agree that most of these examples could have been prevented with "common sense".
But of course, what is common sense to you and me, is not common sense to someone else. Teenagers, the elderly, accountants, and the technically non-proficient and the plain ignorant use dangerous household machinery, like lawnmowers and toasters, and don't appreciate all of the dangers. We have to be taught that doing certain things are dangerous, like not using a hair dryer in the bathtub, or buckling your seat belt (it wasn't always the law, and lots of people still don't...thats why you find warnings in cars still, and all of those traffic safety commercials). Also keep in mind that these machines aren't all standardized and have different safety features, so familiarity with one doesn't imply familiarity with another.
But your missing my major point of my original post. Whose fault it is...does not matter in the eyes of the law. If the company failed to warn...they are liable. It is a policy choice. Common Sense doesn't factor into the analysis.
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Check out this benchmark from an article on extremetech:= 146710,00.asp7 ,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/image_popup/0,1694,iid
The actual article:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,201464
This isn't surprising at all. I believe its been well known that the FX chips crunches numbers faster than the Core 2 duo chips. Notice how the FX-62 almost ties or beats the X6800 in some tests. However, in the benchmarks that matter for most personal computer users, the Core 2 duo is the right choice, blending the right amounts of power in the right places. The FX looks like the marathon sprinter in some areas, but the Core 2 is the triathlete in others.
Actually, having a benifit to both sides does not necessarily result in consideration for a contract. It could be a mutual gift.
However, mutual detriment is enough to establish consideration for a contract.
In general, there must be a benefit to the person making the promise, and a detriment to the agreeing to the promise.
This general rule cuts across civil and common law in most countries, unless modified by statute, which it often is.
I wish I had mod points to mod you insightful. Walking in New York City is an art form. I have walked into insane speeding traffic during rush hour with tourists gawking at me in awe, like I was crazy. Part of the skill is listening and watching the cars coming at you. If you can't hear, its a disaster. Wearing headphones outside is dangerous. You can't hear people walking up behind you, or the crazy dude who wants to punch you in the face, or the good Samaritan yelling for you to watch out for the ice falling from a building or horns from oncoming cars.
Because now they can measure there penis using a camera.
Can somebody explain how Unix is different than Linux? Most Linux distributions are mostly POSIX, SUS and ELF compliant. Is the underlying code better somehow?
Yes, the fabulous "beer in the fridge" system has many advantages. You mean, like having an employee drive home under the influence, and then getting sued under the State's dram shop law when that employee injures someone on the way home?
Whenever they have a problem, they send for money, cavalry and lawyers.
Unlike the French, who blame themselves and retreat from battle...I mean, come on, give me a break. It is easy for somebody in a European country to laugh at the number of lawsuits in the US, but remember, the rest of the world has stronger consumer protection laws and socialized medicine.
If a Frenchman gets hurt in an accident, the State picks up the vast majority of the bill. In the U.S., the burden of payment is on the individual and his insurance company, if he has one. So, if you need $10,000 for surgery, where are you gonna get it from? Not from the State, but from an individual, and most likely, the victims insurance company. When the insurance company pays the bill, they want to be recompensed for the money they had to pay out for someone elses negligence. So, they step into the shoes of the injured party and sue the wrongdoer. It's called subrogation.
"Actually, if you look at Windows strength versus Linux, or versus anything, it's done very well, because we have this big ecosystem."
This is official recognition that Linux is a serious threat to Vista OS. Why else would Bill mention this to a MSNBC reporter? A slip of the tongue? This gets me very excited about Ubuntu and other "ready for the masses" Linux OS.
I dual boot XP and Ubuntu, and I can't wait to try out Vista. The more options, the better. I wouldn't mind trying out a triple boot with OS X too.
Well, they probably didn't have a leg to stand on at first, but now that you publicized the name of the business and the specific circumstances, you just opened yourself up to a potential lawsuit for business defamation. Sucks to be you dude.
I think you pretty much summed up my thoughts about flickr in a nutshell. I mean, wtf is the big deal about getting a free yahoo e-mail account? Except for the fact that you can't forward mail from it anymore...
On the otherhand, I hope that in exchange for having to sign in with a yahoo account and limiting contacts and tags, that they will increase the upload limit on photos. I tried to upload 100 pictures from my vacation, and flickr crapped out on me saying that my monthly upload alotment was used up. Screw that. Thats why I use photobucket.
Apparently, this rube is using a distribution which really is inappropriate for a production environment. He should be using Ubuntu 6.06, which provides Long Term Service support.
The problem with lots of games, but not all, is that the formula is either "Choose Your Own Adventure" oriented, where your actions have profound and unpredictable consequences, often with no rhyme or reason, or the story lines are fixed as you advance through the adventure, with too little interaction, just little movies. There has to be a better model.
Khasim, you've hit the nail on the head with your analysis that companies should use their own fucking domain.
My friend received an email from Allstate yesterday claiming that her insurance payment was overdue. She was very upset, since she always pays on time. I took a look at the email, and I said, "this is fraudulent" because the email was not sent from Allstate, but from allstate.asdfegadfsgsd-or-something.com. However, the email had lots of other proofs of authenticity, such as her agents name and address and phone number. So, I told her to call up Allstate and double check her account, just in case some hackers broke into Allstate's computers. Turns out it was a legit email, and the domain is some sort of email service that Allstate uses.
Attention companies: If you want people to read your important emails about overdue bills, send a freakin email from your company's domain, not some unknown 3rd party.
I enjoyed your list. It was refreshing and insightful. Your list wasn't junk. The search engines, however, are mostly junk. They run the spectrum from interesting/useful (like.com) to "why on earth would someone use a flash front end for a search engine, and why is it flirting with me"(Ms. Dewey). I heartily recommend yubnub to true techies as a command line way to access the internet. It is fast (usually), free, and very versatile. It has its nitch, but it isnt for everyone.
College Students should be citing Primary Sources. Period. Wikipedia is a secondary and tertiary source. If a student cites wikipedia, its pure intellectual laziness. Students should be reading scholarly treatises, and only using wikipedia as background and starting material. The debate really is this simple.
...so, why don't these experts get together and publish online??? I am sure that advertising dollars from banner ads, etc would pay for their time in spades.
@Moraelin
Right on. I'd like to go a step further though. A healthy community needs not just "tech" intelligence, but intelligence in other areas as well. I don't want to live in a city that just focuses on broadband access to the detriment of the arts, a vibrant and diverse business community, great schools and a healthy downtown area. All areas need improvement, even in so called good communities.
Wasn't this an episode of Star Trek???
Is it just me, or am I being overly cautious not wanting to download a rootkit detector from Chinese and Russian software developers? Are these programs opensource? Are they safe? Anyone?
Its all about bootstrapping. The .torrent files are about 45k. These are large files, and they need to be physically present somewhere. Its the key to unlock the safe. Thats what these sites do...they keep the keys public, so anyone can open the safe.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi ?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:s1pcs.txt.pdf
I think that the AD&D analogy is warranted here. Torvalds admits that he dislikes DRM, but doesn't want anyone else to be stopped from using it. He likes the idea of the GPL, but he thinks that all of the broo-haha over v3 is a sideshow and that its just a load of hot air. Torvalds is on the side of Linux, and Linux only. Sort of how druids love nature. They hate fire, but they must also embrace it so that the forest can grow. Torvalds likes opensource, but will be satisfied with any license that protects Linux. Druids hate orcs, but they are also forest creatures...Torvalds dislikes huge businesses, but he needs them for linux to expand. Its a delicate balancing act that he's trying to pull off here.
A chicken and an egg were lying in bed, the chicken sitting back, leaning against the headboard with a big grin on his face.
The egg, looking quite angry and disappointed, rolled out of bed and said, "well I guess we answered that question!".
According to wikipedia, latinum is liquid which cannot be replicated or synthesized which is then suspended into gold bullion and pressed.
I agree that most of these examples could have been prevented with "common sense".
But of course, what is common sense to you and me, is not common sense to someone else. Teenagers, the elderly, accountants, and the technically non-proficient and the plain ignorant use dangerous household machinery, like lawnmowers and toasters, and don't appreciate all of the dangers. We have to be taught that doing certain things are dangerous, like not using a hair dryer in the bathtub, or buckling your seat belt (it wasn't always the law, and lots of people still don't...thats why you find warnings in cars still, and all of those traffic safety commercials). Also keep in mind that these machines aren't all standardized and have different safety features, so familiarity with one doesn't imply familiarity with another.
But your missing my major point of my original post. Whose fault it is...does not matter in the eyes of the law. If the company failed to warn...they are liable. It is a policy choice. Common Sense doesn't factor into the analysis.