The problem with what i see here is that nothing's pushing any envelope. The internet is designed to transfer informataion / packets. P2P aps do that. The aps may be new, but the technology isn't. No one had a major breakthrough and designed kazaa. Also, they may be tugging on the bandwidth streams, but that's quantity. Honestly, with the costs of bandwidth, i can't blame anyone. I know kids who get pissed when they can't download movies at 500K/sec. Well, considering a T-1 from sprint costs a little more than 900/month, unless you buy lots of them, and a T-1 transfers ~190K/sec, these kids are getting just plain greedy.
the problem with this is that, unfortunately, the billboard is not the barometer of popular culture anymore, mtv is. Plus if you look at the airplay chart - the hot 100, i consider about half of that pop. But, i mean, it's just awful, the stuff on MTV. Example: I really like system of a down. It took me a year of listning to them a couple of hours a week before i decided i liked them, and in that time they became more popular. But i almost hate myself for liking them, not because they "sold out" or anything like that, its just cause they're on MTV. Which frightens me. It seems like they're the mtv flavor of the month, and then they're going to get screwed by the record label and the media, etc. Plus, look at the other shit i have to wade through to see a system video.
I dunno, its just... it's easier to only like bands off of indie labels.
The absolute first I can remember for the PS2 was Gran Turismo 3, and that was nearly a year after launch.
Tekken Tag was available the first day of the PS2 launch, and i still play it at least 5 hours a week. I know guys that have passed up sex for Tekken Tag. One guy i know has played over a thousand hours per character, in practice mode. (hi Jarrod).
Explains why last season whenever you went into best buy, you were bombarded with ads for that tony hawk tricks and tips vol. 1 and for the band Sprung Monkey. I never heard anything about sprung monkey outside of best buy, but to go in there, you'd think that that album with the lollipop on the front was the most popular album at the time. Just goes to show that it wasn't a quality product, it was a venture capital risk that they thougt could bring income if the demand was artificially inflated.
There's always been shitty music that only teenagers like. "Bubblegum pop" is not a new phenomenon. Hell, don't you remember New Kids on the Block?
The problem with this arguement is that this is all there is now. Back when NKOTB was the big thing, there was new kids, and there was... well... nothing. Now, all there is is bubblegum pop. It's not like the industry's one leading act is bad pop, the entire industry is bad pop.
But I do agree with the economy being down as a principle cause of the drop in demand. I just also think that to raise demand they should focus more on the quality of their product.
~z
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Well, i have to tell you, at 7AM, i'm a little groggy, and at first glance, i thought the headline for this article said Quick Star.
I thought, Now what? Advertisement for a pyramid scheme? Yesterday we had one for that zap station.
I have to document my trolling method - the first part was simply a [p] [ul] [li] blah [li] blah [li] blah [/ul] and two blank lines.
Too many of those and they tell you that it's too few characters per line, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
the next part, i was trying to page widen, which didn't work, but when i noticed that it didn't get me on junk characters or repetition, i went with it.
Basically i wrote random words, beginning each with / or//, randomly, then copied and pasted it a number of times.
The origional text string is here: /Does/this//get/stuff/by/the/lameness / fil ter/cause/it/would/be/cool/if/it/did/i //already//tried/cat/dev/random/but/too//m any/random//junk/characters//stuff/Does/this / / get/stuff/by/the/lameness/filter/cause/it / would/be/cool/if/it/did/i//already//tried / cat/dev/random/but/too//many/random//junk / characters//stuff
Make sure your/etc/apt/sources.list is accurate and up to date. If you do this, than you can't go wrong -
The one you should be using for red carpet is http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian as in: line in sources.list deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
apt-get update apt-get install task-helix-core apt-get install task-helix-gnome apt-get install task-ximian-gnome ...depending on what you're after and what you have.
If you misspell the commands, nothing will happen except that it will tell you incorrect syntax (or that you're not root, you bastard). Just make sure the master list is correct.
Here, i'll even write you a shell script:
#!/bin/csh
set sources=`grep http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian/etc/apt/sourc es.list` | wc -l
if ("$sources"=0) then
echo "deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main" >>/etc/apt/sources.list endif
echo `apt-get update` echo `apt-get install task-ximian-gnome` echo "all done" exit ###end of file
Ohhh, if only i had $4000 to spend on a computer. I'd rule the world. I'd start with an apple cinema display and the adapter kit for the PC, a dual athlon 1900+, 1 gig of ram, 100 gig western digital ata100 hard drives, special edition w/ 8 megs of cache, 2 of em, in raid 0, ohhhhhh.... I'm getting excited just thinking of it.
Not to mention people who want support. Or rack mount servers.
By the time you buy a rack chassis and the compatable parts, you might as well have purchased it from Dell.
Or, if computers is your business, i.e. webhosting, you want something with a warranty, because if it breaks, as far as the clients are concerned, it's *your* problem to fix.
Plus you have to look at: If you can get a system from dell for $500 with a celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 MB ram, and a 20 gigabyte hard drive, you have to think, by the time you get all that from pricewatch, you're going to spend about $400 by the time you include shipping, they send the parts class R mail, and they're not quality pieces anyway, then you have to pay your employees $10/hr to put it together and test it? Not only do you lose time, but you lose money cause the time could have been spent doing something else.
Even walmart sells computers with no windows. Honestly, its hard to save money building your own low end system anymore.
I found a fascinating article on a website which i though was called the word of gourd or something like that, but now i can't find it.
Basically, Sega Saturn v. PSX was where all of this got started, when sony announced the price on the same day as saturn, and announced it lower, and with "real" 3D - they were taking hits on the PSX.
Since then, and to an extent, before then, console manufacturers have been selling consoles below price to compete - i.e. dreamcast.
HOWEVER - the PS2 is NOT one of these. The PS2 has been making money since day one. Something like the production costs of the first batch of PS2's were covered by the cost of the sales of the first 10% of them.
You have to remember, it's not like Nintendo and Sega who outsource their chip manufacturing. Sony develops, designs, and produces the entire thing. They make the whole deal. That cuts out the proverbial middle men and lets Sony keep overhead down.
I love the PS2, and do not want an Xbox or any other system right now. However, I also understand that for a year Sony has made SO MUCH MONEY off the sales of the consoles that it's just sick. Not to mention royalties on games (you know that little PS2 symbol on devil may cry and tekken tag? yah, that costs money).
Just so everyone knows, M$ is losing money on the Xbox. Buying an Xbox and no games hurts M$. Sony is MAKING LOTS OF MONEY on the console sales.
at work we have a lot of servers that run on Sun Sparcstations less than 4. We have a few sparc station 10's, but the majority of them are 1/1+ and 2's, not to mention IPC, IPX, and LX/Classic lunchboxes.
these are all running apache 1.3.19 fine, i wonder if they'll still run 2.0.x without crippling themselves. (IPC's and SPARC 1's are 12 mhz, but still serve like 3 million hits a month)
If you flame me, I have the right to flame you, and rant about the efficiencies of the athlon, but I won't, i'll just quote hard numbers.
The pentium 4 has a "more than" 20 stage pipeline. Intel won't say how many. This is responsible for the chip running so fast. Breaking the instructions down into smaller parts helps accelerate the clock speed of the chip. A classic athlon uses a 12 stage pipeline. I'm not sure about the XP's. The problem with this is that Intel is trying to get the chip to the highest mhz to sell them. Mhz sells. Believe me, I used to work computer retail. People all the time would buy the Emachine pentium 4 instead of the Micron athlon 1.2 system, not because of price, but because the Emachine was "faster" (caugh*horseshit*caugh).
The Intel Pentium 4 error checks at stage 17 in the pipeline. If it guesses wrong about it's next instruction, it doesn't find out about it until step 17. Then it has to flush and refil the pipeline, which means a loss of at least 18 clock cycles.
Anyway, the athlons, for less than 1/2 the price, keep up with the pentium 4 that matches their "performance rating", i.e. the athalon 1700+ definately keeps up benchmark wise with the 1.7Ghz p-4. And costs less.
Just for the record, I drive a 92 accord with 219,800 miles on it and NO upgrades, unless you count that i had to put a new power mirror motor on the driver's side and it's now faster than the other 3 at rolling down.
Now, my point was that IT COULD BE DONE. You can take a 4 cylinder car and make it faster than it's 8 cylinder larger displacement counterpart. Think of the analogy I used. I compared the stock P-4 with a "souped up" athlon. Yeah, you can take you P-4 and cool it with liquid N2 and get it up to 3.4 Ghz, but I meant stock. I was talking about taking a situation in which one car already has a disadvantage and making it faster. That's where the fun lies.
OF COURSE there are advantages to having twice the cylinders and 4 times the displacement. That's why the top fuel cars, hell, that's why nascar does it.
ALL I WAS SAYING is that it could be done. Everyone's saying all this stuff about "well if you soup up the V8 blah blah". OF COURSE IT WILL BE BETTER. The 8 cylinder car had an advantage FROM THE START. Where's the fun in taking two cars that aren't equal, and applying the SAME MODIFICATIONS to them and bragging that the one that was ahead at the start was still ahead?
Sheesh.
All I was saying was that slashdot readers are the kind of readers to walk into a store and play with the pentium 4 1.8 ghz emachine computer and remark that their pentiumIII 800 Mhz overclocked at 900 with better hardware runs just as fast, and even feels zippier, and sure as hell puts out better frame rates in UT than that piece of shit masquerading as a high end system.
So, you see? This is why I'm participating in the blackout. I try to point out something that I think people should just take into account, I didn't flame my parent post (he had some good points), and I was nice about it. AND I GOT FLAMED TO HELL. Jesus Christ does slashdot suck lately.
I believe many slashdot readers would be interested in your "rice burners". Racing a honda is an exercise in science over brute force, something slashdot readers can appreciate. To equate it, it would be the difference between getting just any old pentium 4 1.5 Ghz system, and getting an athalon 1.2 Ghz and tweaking it by using better hardware, a cleaner OS install, faster standards, and some code tweaking to get the performance level up above that of the P-4.
In the same fashion, you could take your '71 Nova SS 350 and blow away a stock 1995 civic. But you could also take the civic, add Nitrous, replace the hood with a fiberglass one, change the gears on the transmission, get a forced air kit, some traction bars, and a new set of cams, and run 11's. You have to remember with that big steel car and the small block 350, you're pulling a lot of weight. You're getting much more horsepower per liter out of a honda.
Just for kicks, check out http://www.nhrasportcompact.com/2002/drivers/S_Pap adakis.html - Stephan Papadakis - who broke just about every record for front wheel drive cars.
And just for the record, I still cringe when I see a honda roll down the street with just the exhaust done, cause it sounds bad and looks retarted. My brother has a '71 Nova SS w/ 350, traction bars, lunati cams, poroso throttle or something, you name it, it's got it. It puts about 410 Hp on the ground and has an ET of 12.2. But it also gets about 5 miles to the gallon. I'd rather have the fast-if-you-want-it-fast honda, which also gets 37 miles to the gallon.
i want tab completion and the ability to use the arrow keys to both go up to previous commands and go backwards in the current command to change the one character i mistyped.
Don't get me wrong, i love/bin/csh that came with solaris 7, and i'm sure that i could find something to add these features, but whatever
Not only that, but it was a 200 Mhz processor. Not exactly a "hot item" by todays standards, meaning both that it is much cooler than, say, an Athelon XP 1800+, and that it's not exactly desireable as a computer system, so it doesn't really matter if it dies.
Sun still does not see Microsoft as a real threat in the datacenter market where reliability, availability, serviceability and security are key," the company said. "As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows."
Way to go, sun. Now, give me better shells and i'll love you and solaris forever...
The point, and target audience, for Lindows OS is cheap useage. Supposedly, people will see Microsoft Windows for $180 and then see Lindows for $50 and say "oh, I want the cheaper one". After working in retail for ~3 years, i can tell you for sure, posatively, that there will always be people looking for the cheapest, damn the quality. I repeatedly saw people buy the "Audiophase" brand portable CD player, even when the phillips was argueably 4x the quality for $10 more, and even when on the back of the audiophase packaging it said: "Audiophase: A division of STARLIGHT market research". Same goes for computers. I see cheap computer manufacturers going for this eventually, i.e. Emachines. Emachines has already ditched the MS works suite in favor of star office, for cost reasons.
Judge the target audience is the moral of the story here. For people that want the most compatability, windows is the choice, and will be. For people who don't know better and can't find a warez site, lindows is the way to go. Which actually brings up an interesting point: How compatablie is Lindows? To illustrate: the other day, I tried to install command and conquer on a windows 2000 instalation. It wouldn't install, citing that it needed "Windows version 95 or later" and i was running "Windows version 5" of course meaning windows 2000, or NT5. Will this happen on lindows? Will software that is supposed to check compatability before install prevent you from installing it? If office checks for the string VERSION: Microsoft Windows, Lindows can't possibly put that string in their registry, how can you install office?
~z
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not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote. He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
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The problem with what i see here is that nothing's pushing any envelope. The internet is designed to transfer informataion / packets. P2P aps do that. The aps may be new, but the technology isn't. No one had a major breakthrough and designed kazaa. Also, they may be tugging on the bandwidth streams, but that's quantity.
Honestly, with the costs of bandwidth, i can't blame anyone. I know kids who get pissed when they can't download movies at 500K/sec. Well, considering a T-1 from sprint costs a little more than 900/month, unless you buy lots of them, and a T-1 transfers ~190K/sec, these kids are getting just plain greedy.
the problem with this is that, unfortunately, the billboard is not the barometer of popular culture anymore, mtv is. Plus if you look at the airplay chart - the hot 100, i consider about half of that pop. But, i mean, it's just awful, the stuff on MTV. Example: I really like system of a down. It took me a year of listning to them a couple of hours a week before i decided i liked them, and in that time they became more popular. But i almost hate myself for liking them, not because they "sold out" or anything like that, its just cause they're on MTV. Which frightens me. It seems like they're the mtv flavor of the month, and then they're going to get screwed by the record label and the media, etc. Plus, look at the other shit i have to wade through to see a system video.
I dunno, its just... it's easier to only like bands off of indie labels.
~z
That, and the fact that the PS1 is still outselling the xbox in japan, makes for interesting insight into the japanese market.
~z
The absolute first I can remember for the PS2 was Gran Turismo 3, and that was nearly a year after launch.
Tekken Tag was available the first day of the PS2 launch, and i still play it at least 5 hours a week. I know guys that have passed up sex for Tekken Tag. One guy i know has played over a thousand hours per character, in practice mode. (hi Jarrod).
~z
Explains why last season whenever you went into best buy, you were bombarded with ads for that tony hawk tricks and tips vol. 1 and for the band Sprung Monkey. I never heard anything about sprung monkey outside of best buy, but to go in there, you'd think that that album with the lollipop on the front was the most popular album at the time. Just goes to show that it wasn't a quality product, it was a venture capital risk that they thougt could bring income if the demand was artificially inflated.
~z
There's always been shitty music that only teenagers like. "Bubblegum pop" is not a new phenomenon. Hell, don't you remember New Kids on the Block?
The problem with this arguement is that this is all there is now. Back when NKOTB was the big thing, there was new kids, and there was... well... nothing. Now, all there is is bubblegum pop. It's not like the industry's one leading act is bad pop, the entire industry is bad pop.
But I do agree with the economy being down as a principle cause of the drop in demand. I just also think that to raise demand they should focus more on the quality of their product.
~z
Well, i have to tell you, at 7AM, i'm a little groggy, and at first glance, i thought the headline for this article said Quick Star.
I thought, Now what? Advertisement for a pyramid scheme? Yesterday we had one for that zap station.
The more they do this the more enemies they will get and the less sympathy they will get from the public!!
Also known as:
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
~z
I have to document my trolling method -
//, randomly, then copied and pasted it a number of times.
/this //get /stuff /by /the /lameness / fil ter /cause /it /would /be /cool /if /it /did /i / /already //tried /cat /dev /random /but /too //m any /random //junk /characters //stuff /Does /this / / get /stuff /by /the /lameness /filter /cause /it / would /be /cool /if /it /did /i //already //tried / cat /dev /random /but /too //many /random //junk / characters //stuff
the first part was simply a [p] [ul] [li] blah [li] blah [li] blah [/ul] and two blank lines.
Too many of those and they tell you that it's too few characters per line, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
the next part, i was trying to page widen, which didn't work, but when i noticed that it didn't get me on junk characters or repetition, i went with it.
Basically i wrote random words, beginning each with / or
The origional text string is here:
/Does
There we go!
/Does
I'd have to say
Eh, i've got 50 karma, always wanted to see what it felt like to troll.
Can i get a hall of fame anyone? For my new method?
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is accurate and up to date. If you do this, than you can't go wrong -
/etc/apt/sourc es.list` | wc -l
/etc/apt/sources.list
The one you should be using for red carpet is
http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian
as in: line in sources.list
deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
apt-get update
apt-get install task-helix-core
apt-get install task-helix-gnome
apt-get install task-ximian-gnome
...depending on what you're after and what you have.
If you misspell the commands, nothing will happen except that it will tell you incorrect syntax (or that you're not root, you bastard). Just make sure the master list is correct.
Here, i'll even write you a shell script:
#!/bin/csh
set sources=`grep http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian
if ("$sources"=0) then
echo "deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main" >>
endif
echo `apt-get update`
echo `apt-get install task-ximian-gnome`
echo "all done"
exit
###end of file
agreed definately.
Ohhh, if only i had $4000 to spend on a computer. I'd rule the world. I'd start with an apple cinema display and the adapter kit for the PC, a dual athlon 1900+, 1 gig of ram, 100 gig western digital ata100 hard drives, special edition w/ 8 megs of cache, 2 of em, in raid 0, ohhhhhh.... I'm getting excited just thinking of it.
Not to mention people who want support. Or rack mount servers.
By the time you buy a rack chassis and the compatable parts, you might as well have purchased it from Dell.
Or, if computers is your business, i.e. webhosting, you want something with a warranty, because if it breaks, as far as the clients are concerned, it's *your* problem to fix.
Plus you have to look at: If you can get a system from dell for $500 with a celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 MB ram, and a 20 gigabyte hard drive, you have to think, by the time you get all that from pricewatch, you're going to spend about $400 by the time you include shipping, they send the parts class R mail, and they're not quality pieces anyway, then you have to pay your employees $10/hr to put it together and test it? Not only do you lose time, but you lose money cause the time could have been spent doing something else.
Even walmart sells computers with no windows. Honestly, its hard to save money building your own low end system anymore.
I found a fascinating article on a website which i though was called the word of gourd or something like that, but now i can't find it.
Basically, Sega Saturn v. PSX was where all of this got started, when sony announced the price on the same day as saturn, and announced it lower, and with "real" 3D - they were taking hits on the PSX.
Since then, and to an extent, before then, console manufacturers have been selling consoles below price to compete - i.e. dreamcast.
HOWEVER - the PS2 is NOT one of these. The PS2 has been making money since day one. Something like the production costs of the first batch of PS2's were covered by the cost of the sales of the first 10% of them.
You have to remember, it's not like Nintendo and Sega who outsource their chip manufacturing. Sony develops, designs, and produces the entire thing. They make the whole deal. That cuts out the proverbial middle men and lets Sony keep overhead down.
I love the PS2, and do not want an Xbox or any other system right now. However, I also understand that for a year Sony has made SO MUCH MONEY off the sales of the consoles that it's just sick. Not to mention royalties on games (you know that little PS2 symbol on devil may cry and tekken tag? yah, that costs money).
Just so everyone knows, M$ is losing money on the Xbox. Buying an Xbox and no games hurts M$. Sony is MAKING LOTS OF MONEY on the console sales.
~z
hrmm...
at work we have a lot of servers that run on Sun Sparcstations less than 4. We have a few sparc station 10's, but the majority of them are 1/1+ and 2's, not to mention IPC, IPX, and LX/Classic lunchboxes.
these are all running apache 1.3.19 fine, i wonder if they'll still run 2.0.x without crippling themselves. (IPC's and SPARC 1's are 12 mhz, but still serve like 3 million hits a month)
In any case, i'm jealous of your sparcstation 20.
And you, sir, are plain wrong.
If you flame me, I have the right to flame you, and rant about the efficiencies of the athlon, but I won't, i'll just quote hard numbers.
The pentium 4 has a "more than" 20 stage pipeline. Intel won't say how many. This is responsible for the chip running so fast. Breaking the instructions down into smaller parts helps accelerate the clock speed of the chip. A classic athlon uses a 12 stage pipeline. I'm not sure about the XP's. The problem with this is that Intel is trying to get the chip to the highest mhz to sell them. Mhz sells. Believe me, I used to work computer retail. People all the time would buy the Emachine pentium 4 instead of the Micron athlon 1.2 system, not because of price, but because the Emachine was "faster" (caugh*horseshit*caugh).
The Intel Pentium 4 error checks at stage 17 in the pipeline. If it guesses wrong about it's next instruction, it doesn't find out about it until step 17. Then it has to flush and refil the pipeline, which means a loss of at least 18 clock cycles.
Anyway, the athlons, for less than 1/2 the price, keep up with the pentium 4 that matches their "performance rating", i.e. the athalon 1700+ definately keeps up benchmark wise with the 1.7Ghz p-4. And costs less.
Clock speed is not everything.
~z
OK.
Just for the record, I drive a 92 accord with 219,800 miles on it and NO upgrades, unless you count that i had to put a new power mirror motor on the driver's side and it's now faster than the other 3 at rolling down.
Now, my point was that IT COULD BE DONE. You can take a 4 cylinder car and make it faster than it's 8 cylinder larger displacement counterpart. Think of the analogy I used. I compared the stock P-4 with a "souped up" athlon. Yeah, you can take you P-4 and cool it with liquid N2 and get it up to 3.4 Ghz, but I meant stock. I was talking about taking a situation in which one car already has a disadvantage and making it faster. That's where the fun lies.
OF COURSE there are advantages to having twice the cylinders and 4 times the displacement. That's why the top fuel cars, hell, that's why nascar does it.
ALL I WAS SAYING is that it could be done. Everyone's saying all this stuff about "well if you soup up the V8 blah blah". OF COURSE IT WILL BE BETTER. The 8 cylinder car had an advantage FROM THE START. Where's the fun in taking two cars that aren't equal, and applying the SAME MODIFICATIONS to them and bragging that the one that was ahead at the start was still ahead?
Sheesh.
All I was saying was that slashdot readers are the kind of readers to walk into a store and play with the pentium 4 1.8 ghz emachine computer and remark that their pentiumIII 800 Mhz overclocked at 900 with better hardware runs just as fast, and even feels zippier, and sure as hell puts out better frame rates in UT than that piece of shit masquerading as a high end system.
So, you see? This is why I'm participating in the blackout. I try to point out something that I think people should just take into account, I didn't flame my parent post (he had some good points), and I was nice about it. AND I GOT FLAMED TO HELL. Jesus Christ does slashdot suck lately.
~z
Respectfully, I disagree.
p adakis.html - Stephan Papadakis - who broke just about every record for front wheel drive cars.
I believe many slashdot readers would be interested in your "rice burners". Racing a honda is an exercise in science over brute force, something slashdot readers can appreciate. To equate it, it would be the difference between getting just any old pentium 4 1.5 Ghz system, and getting an athalon 1.2 Ghz and tweaking it by using better hardware, a cleaner OS install, faster standards, and some code tweaking to get the performance level up above that of the P-4.
In the same fashion, you could take your '71 Nova SS 350 and blow away a stock 1995 civic. But you could also take the civic, add Nitrous, replace the hood with a fiberglass one, change the gears on the transmission, get a forced air kit, some traction bars, and a new set of cams, and run 11's. You have to remember with that big steel car and the small block 350, you're pulling a lot of weight. You're getting much more horsepower per liter out of a honda.
Just for kicks, check out http://www.nhrasportcompact.com/2002/drivers/S_Pa
And just for the record, I still cringe when I see a honda roll down the street with just the exhaust done, cause it sounds bad and looks retarted. My brother has a '71 Nova SS w/ 350, traction bars, lunati cams, poroso throttle or something, you name it, it's got it. It puts about 410 Hp on the ground and has an ET of 12.2. But it also gets about 5 miles to the gallon. I'd rather have the fast-if-you-want-it-fast honda, which also gets 37 miles to the gallon.
~z
i want tab completion and the ability to use the arrow keys to both go up to previous commands and go backwards in the current command to change the one character i mistyped.
/bin/csh that came with solaris 7, and i'm sure that i could find something to add these features, but whatever
Don't get me wrong, i love
Not only that, but it was a 200 Mhz processor. Not exactly a "hot item" by todays standards, meaning both that it is much cooler than, say, an Athelon XP 1800+, and that it's not exactly desireable as a computer system, so it doesn't really matter if it dies.
~z
Way to go, sun. Now, give me better shells and i'll love you and solaris forever...
~z
If nothing else, judge judy would knock it out in a half hour, plus commercials, instead of it taking 3 years.
The point, and target audience, for Lindows OS is cheap useage. Supposedly, people will see Microsoft Windows for $180 and then see Lindows for $50 and say "oh, I want the cheaper one". After working in retail for ~3 years, i can tell you for sure, posatively, that there will always be people looking for the cheapest, damn the quality. I repeatedly saw people buy the "Audiophase" brand portable CD player, even when the phillips was argueably 4x the quality for $10 more, and even when on the back of the audiophase packaging it said: "Audiophase: A division of STARLIGHT market research". Same goes for computers. I see cheap computer manufacturers going for this eventually, i.e. Emachines. Emachines has already ditched the MS works suite in favor of star office, for cost reasons.
Judge the target audience is the moral of the story here. For people that want the most compatability, windows is the choice, and will be. For people who don't know better and can't find a warez site, lindows is the way to go.
Which actually brings up an interesting point: How compatablie is Lindows? To illustrate: the other day, I tried to install command and conquer on a windows 2000 instalation. It wouldn't install, citing that it needed "Windows version 95 or later" and i was running "Windows version 5" of course meaning windows 2000, or NT5. Will this happen on lindows? Will software that is supposed to check compatability before install prevent you from installing it? If office checks for the string VERSION: Microsoft Windows, Lindows can't possibly put that string in their registry, how can you install office?
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not only that, but you know you're down and out when the article says, and i quote:
/. posters could take a lesson from this guy.
"The first time I loaded one, there was two of us working on it and it took us 20 minutes," said Mr. Toms, who lost his job a year ago as an executive in a Los Angeles-based dot-com firm.
"I applied everything I knew about running a dot-com business and merged it with my passion for fun artillery. I'm making a fraction of what I used to make as an executive, but I'm having a hell of a lot more fun."
The guns' inventor, Don Mims, 54, of Fort Worth, Texas, graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, but turned to his woodworking hobby as a career.
endquote.
He was a dot.bomb exec and has an a degree in aerospace engineering, but he's selling rubber band guns. This is a guy who was willing to throw in the towel when he saw the way things were blowing, and do something fun with his life instead of bitching. Lots of
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