It's funny that people spend so much money on thick-fat-wiring - when thick-fat-wireing acts like a capacitor and muddels the signal.
And it's especially stupid when most of it isen't even shielded.
It's the electronic equivelent of a front-wheel drive Honda Civic with a huge rear spoiler.
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I just bought a W2K Pro OEM the other day at my local computer shop. What's your point?
Good for you spanky. Now try it in two years.
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Just try to get an OEM copy of Windows 2000 (not the server). The server is still being activily sold - but the OEM workstation version of W2K is getting hard to find.
Give it two years, and only 25,000+ companies will have a contract with Microsoft enabeling them to but it. Small companies and indvisuals won't be able to, unless the 'buy' it from one of those Russian software shops on Priceline.com.
Hell, only a few Dells can still be shipped with W2K right now.
I do love Canada - it's a great place to visit. It's always amazes me how their can be such a culture diference between two cities that are just across the border from each other.
As a general rule - resuraunts, parks, and museaums are better in Canada than in the states.
I live in Seattle, though, I know poor Vancouver is becoming a magnet for all of Seattles bums, sluts and druggies due to some of the liberal 'Amsterdam-like' policies. Odd times..
The opteron came out to be about $2200 if I remember
$200 case powersupply $100 HD $450 Motherboard $1100 processors $200 CD-Rom, Floppy, etc $200 Memory
Somthing like that. The Opteron is a neet processor, and If I needed a bunch of them - the're a great value. But the G5 is already built - so for one box, it comes out ahead.
I've never seen a Hummer at a trailhead. Hummer owners are posers who coulden't get to the top of a mountain unless their fat asses were air-lifted there.
Lexus owners ususall are too stups to fuggure out thet their buying a Toyota with extra fake wood paneling.
And don't bother playing the "I can build it cheaper" card-- you cannot fairly compare a manufactured system with one that you cobbled together with the cheapest parts you could find.
Actually - I did do the compairson:
The cost of a dual Opteron + the cost of my Time = the cost of a Apple dual G5 + $1500.
Curiosity. Microsoft is giving away demo CD's almost as freely as AOL does. So if you're remotly curious - you can just throw it on a non critical web server just to see what it's like.
I bet that's what going on here - we're talking 'bout a few thousand servers that have Windows 2003 - and only a *few* of those were orgionally Linux.
If the EPA web site under Bush/Cheney (who are pawns of the oil industry) acknowledges global warming as fact, that should give you head-in-the-sand types a clue.
Awww... fuck... I though Bush/Cheney were pawns of the local Quickie-Mart. Just when I thought I could explain all the H1B visa holders 'round here.
Perhaps I'm a bit jaded - I live in a part of town that we're desperatly trying to clean up.
I've turned in two car thieves, three hard-drug dealers and a dealer/pimp in just the last two years. Our local mom and pop hardware store will turn anybody in that buys a bunch of tubing, vinerger and a propaine tank at the same time.
So naturally, I'm a bit defensive when someone equates my noticing blatant behaviour with a quick slip toward socialism/facisism.
We had a meth house catch fire - and most of the neighbours said that "I knew about it" and yet not one of them call the cops. The damn thing spewed out toxic smoke for an hour.\
Gradually, the city is becoming a bit more livable because people around here are pulling their heads out of the sand - and I sympathise with eBay a bit. If their DBA finds someone who bought a GPS, model-plane and 5,000,000 used smoke detectors then they should inform (not 'report') someone who could make a determination.
Just like a gun shop should report somone who buys 500 rounds and keeps mumbeling 'I'll teach them...."
Nobody here is "turning in" the pot smokers, the lesbians, the "black people" or the people who built a shed with out a permit - just the criminals. Hell - if odd behaviour was considered criminal, then I'd be in the pokey.
I think we could both agree that falsifiying evidence should lead to the same punishemnt at the falsified crime - if a cop plants drugs on someone, then then cop should spend a sentance equil to drug possession. Same way with eBay.
I'm also a bit tired of "ivory tower" types who pontificte about things and make a determination without actually seeing what is going on in the real world - I've been guilty of it myself, thinking all bums are wothless peices of garbage and should just starve. When I actually met some of them - I realised that they were just crazy or damaged and diden't actually choose their life of missery.
The cry of "slippey slope" is all to commly uttered by psudo-logicians who are attempting to appear 'wise'.
Sorry for the lack of spelling and use of the passive voice - I've spent to much time in foreign lands to come to a proper understanding of one language.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit. Cleaner, more readable code is easier to bugfix. Cleaner, more readable code is easier to add features to. Cleaner, more readable code is simply Good Stuff.
I think you need to do a bit of re-factoring there.;)
Or was this a "Ha! I can avoid a reasonable argument by making baseless accusations!" sort of thing?
Kind of. I was avoiding a argument with someone who is unreaonable. The kind of peron who has to drum up a little petty hatred now and then to start off.
I'm frankly don't care to debate with people who thing a friendly tip to law enforcement is a magical slippery slope to Hitler/Stallin/Mao-ville.
It's kind of like equating a glass of water with a weapon of mass distruction, 'cause you can drown people in water! AHHH!
Sure, we can all agree to a proper balance, but at some point intelectual development - one learns the fallacy of thinking of everything in terms of the slipper slope, and realises that life is not so perfect that on can have absolutes.
If we followed the 'absolute thinkers' - women woulden't have the right to choice, C++ woulden't have built in arrays, and fatty foods and beer would be banned.
The ISO sucks. Their a monney grubbing orginistation that needs to die.
They charge the comiitie members to *make* the standards. They charge the public to view the standards.
And for what? They provide no value.
The C++/C fiaso is a joke - they are allowing the two language to diverge for no good reason. C++ should be a superset of C, but not accoring to the ISO - it's getting harder all the time to create proper ISO C code that works with an ISO C++ compiler in C++ mode withoug a crap load of macros and kludges.
Idiots.
The C++ committie could be replaced by that Dinkumware guy and Stroustroup and a case of beer.
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I can't rememebr where, but somebody on the FreeBSD also mentioned poring it for 5.3 or so.
It looks like the FreeBSD people are going to pull in OpenBSD's PF to replace the old and crufty IPF.
( OpenBSD PS was created out of a typical Theo spat with the IPF people - and has gone on to kick IPF's ass. PF is cool! )
It's funny that people spend so much money on thick-fat-wiring - when thick-fat-wireing acts like a capacitor and muddels the signal.
And it's especially stupid when most of it isen't even shielded.
It's the electronic equivelent of a front-wheel drive Honda Civic with a huge rear spoiler.
I just bought a W2K Pro OEM the other day at my local computer shop. What's your point?
Good for you spanky. Now try it in two years.
Just try to get an OEM copy of Windows 2000 (not the server). The server is still being activily sold - but the OEM workstation version of W2K is getting hard to find.
Give it two years, and only 25,000+ companies will have a contract with Microsoft enabeling them to but it. Small companies and indvisuals won't be able to, unless the 'buy' it from one of those Russian software shops on Priceline.com.
Hell, only a few Dells can still be shipped with W2K right now.
Ahh....
Meta-sarcasim.....
Perhaps if IncrediMail(tm) made a browser, I could have embedeed one of their 1001 FUUNNY EMOTICONS.
Cheers.
Glad you got the joke.
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I've locked my company into W2K until I have a very, very good reason to switch.
Good luck - It's getting hard to buy W2K now, in two years it will be impossible - Microsoft will stop selling it.
It's Krispy Kreme you insensitive clod!
What's 'Krispy Kerme'??? - I can't find it on KDE.ORG!
Indeed. Spend your money and go the hell home. :)
I do love Canada - it's a great place to visit. It's always amazes me how their can be such a culture diference between two cities that are just across the border from each other.
As a general rule - resuraunts, parks, and museaums are better in Canada than in the states.
I live in Seattle, though, I know poor Vancouver is becoming a magnet for all of Seattles bums, sluts and druggies due to some of the liberal 'Amsterdam-like' policies. Odd times..
No doubt that it is, but the topic at hand involves Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Canada. The 51st State - where your doller goes further(tm).
The opteron came out to be about $2200 if I remember
$200 case powersupply
$100 HD
$450 Motherboard
$1100 processors
$200 CD-Rom, Floppy, etc
$200 Memory
Somthing like that. The Opteron is a neet processor, and If I needed a bunch of them - the're a great value. But the G5 is already built - so for one box, it comes out ahead.
I was just kidding 'bout the skanks..
I've never seen a Hummer at a trailhead. Hummer owners are posers who coulden't get to the top of a mountain unless their fat asses were air-lifted there.
Lexus owners ususall are too stups to fuggure out thet their buying a Toyota with extra fake wood paneling.
But I digress....
If you can afford a Hummer, you can afford a nice luxury sports car
Yeah.... but... The Hummer has room for three skanks.
And don't bother playing the "I can build it cheaper" card-- you cannot fairly compare a manufactured system with one that you cobbled together with the cheapest parts you could find.
Actually - I did do the compairson:
The cost of a dual Opteron + the cost of my Time = the cost of a Apple dual G5 + $1500.
The dual G5 is a bargin.
They are american made out of turned metal, and have a presurised ink cartrige that will work under water, and in the weightlessness of space.
Only $10 to $60 depending on model.
It's the uber-pens.
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Maybe they've learned that lesson now and won't make the same mistake three times.
If they make the mistake two more times, then there won't be *any* more problem to worry about.
I'd like to use bold too, but they diden't cover that in my MCSE training. Where's that paperclip when you need him?
Actually - I know exactly why.
Curiosity. Microsoft is giving away demo CD's almost as freely as AOL does. So if you're remotly curious - you can just throw it on a non critical web server just to see what it's like.
I bet that's what going on here - we're talking 'bout a few thousand servers that have Windows 2003 - and only a *few* of those were orgionally Linux.
If the EPA web site under Bush/Cheney (who are pawns of the oil industry) acknowledges global warming as fact, that should give you head-in-the-sand types a clue.
Awww... fuck... I though Bush/Cheney were pawns of the local Quickie-Mart. Just when I thought I could explain all the H1B visa holders 'round here.
Thanks for your reasoned response.
Perhaps I'm a bit jaded - I live in a part of town that we're desperatly trying to clean up.
I've turned in two car thieves, three hard-drug dealers and a dealer/pimp in just the last two years. Our local mom and pop hardware store will turn anybody in that buys a bunch of tubing, vinerger and a propaine tank at the same time.
So naturally, I'm a bit defensive when someone equates my noticing blatant behaviour with a quick slip toward socialism/facisism.
We had a meth house catch fire - and most of the neighbours said that "I knew about it" and yet not one of them call the cops. The damn thing spewed out toxic smoke for an hour.\
Gradually, the city is becoming a bit more livable because people around here are pulling their heads out of the sand - and I sympathise with eBay a bit. If their DBA finds someone who bought a GPS, model-plane and 5,000,000 used smoke detectors then they should inform (not 'report') someone who could make a determination.
Just like a gun shop should report somone who buys 500 rounds and keeps mumbeling 'I'll teach them...."
Nobody here is "turning in" the pot smokers, the lesbians, the "black people" or the people who built a shed with out a permit - just the criminals. Hell - if odd behaviour was considered criminal, then I'd be in the pokey.
I think we could both agree that falsifiying evidence should lead to the same punishemnt at the falsified crime - if a cop plants drugs on someone, then then cop should spend a sentance equil to drug possession. Same way with eBay.
I'm also a bit tired of "ivory tower" types who pontificte about things and make a determination without actually seeing what is going on in the real world - I've been guilty of it myself, thinking all bums are wothless peices of garbage and should just starve. When I actually met some of them - I realised that they were just crazy or damaged and diden't actually choose their life of missery.
The cry of "slippey slope" is all to commly uttered by psudo-logicians who are attempting to appear 'wise'.
Sorry for the lack of spelling and use of the passive voice - I've spent to much time in foreign lands to come to a proper understanding of one language.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit.
;)
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to bugfix.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to add features to.
Cleaner, more readable code is simply Good Stuff.
I think you need to do a bit of re-factoring there.
Or was this a "Ha! I can avoid a reasonable argument by making baseless accusations!" sort of thing?
Kind of. I was avoiding a argument with someone who is unreaonable. The kind of peron who has to drum up a little petty hatred now and then to start off.
I'm frankly don't care to debate with people who thing a friendly tip to law enforcement is a magical slippery slope to Hitler/Stallin/Mao-ville.
It's kind of like equating a glass of water with a weapon of mass distruction, 'cause you can drown people in water! AHHH!
Sure, we can all agree to a proper balance, but at some point intelectual development - one learns the fallacy of thinking of everything in terms of the slipper slope, and realises that life is not so perfect that on can have absolutes.
If we followed the 'absolute thinkers' - women woulden't have the right to choice, C++ woulden't have built in arrays, and fatty foods and beer would be banned.
The ISO sucks. Their a monney grubbing orginistation that needs to die.
They charge the comiitie members to *make* the standards.
They charge the public to view the standards.
And for what? They provide no value.
The C++/C fiaso is a joke - they are allowing the two language to diverge for no good reason. C++ should be a superset of C, but not accoring to the ISO - it's getting harder all the time to create proper ISO C code that works with an ISO C++ compiler in C++ mode withoug a crap load of macros and kludges.
Idiots.
The C++ committie could be replaced by that Dinkumware guy and Stroustroup and a case of beer.
You are so smug.
Rather that debate somthing, you slander. Ponder this.