I never had a bad experience buying from Craigslist. At first, I wasn't very sure about sending sellers emails using my personal email, but to this day, I have not had any massive spam increases (gmail filters them out anyway), nor any crazy stalkers bothering me. I've furnished my entire studio with craigslist, for about maybe $400 and that's because I decided to spend a little money. For that I got:
a. a super heavy and sturdy office desk with 3 drawers. It supports 2 21" CRT monitors and computer and receiver. Looks like it could take a lot more too. The seller offered to help me assemble it for free, which I took on his offer but decided to give him $10 extra for it. Total cost: $60. b. a recliner. I was looking for a recliner to put my feet up. All recliners I saw for new were like lazyboy ugly craps, or some designer stuff that costs about $900 at least. I found an old school leather recliner for $30. c. a dinner room table with 2 chairs. Fits my space perfectly. Cost $50. d. a bed side table with 3 drawers. Nice looking dark wood and not some assemble it crap. Cost: $90? e. two designer lamps. I springed for these and paid I think $200. These were brand new.
I also purchased: a. 21" sweet CRT monitor for $10. b. a nice road bike that fits me well for $600. The seller was really cool and gave me a whole bunch of stuff for free and even gave me some technical support after. c. old clicky keyboard. New would've cost $85 but I got this one for $25. Turned out I couldn't use it and so I returned it. The seller gladly refunded my money. d. nikon lenses.
I sold some computer memory through it and some other stuff. But generally I buy more than sell.
Some things I wouldn't use craigslist for: 1. personals. They are interesting/voyeuristic to browse, but you never know who is on the other side. 2. cars. too expensive to bring cash. I watched on this tv show this murder happened because the seller knew the buyer was going to bring lots of cash so they arranged to meet at a secluded place and murdered the buyer.
Some tips: 1. You know what they say: if it's too good, it probably is. 2. Don't meet at a deserted place late at night. Meet at a place that you are comfortable with and with lots of people around. 3. Don't give out personal information, ever.
Craigslist is also more useful in larger metropolitan areas. I used to live in a small town and hardly used it. But now I live in a larger city I use it a lot. Craigslist + RSS is also a major win.
No, not the KDE Mplayer, but this guy?
http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/
I used it briefly but it seems like it has too many customization options for the average user, but many advanced users rave about it. They have a forum here and it seems like the place to go for latest info and downloads.
Google's designs supply only 12-volt power, with the necessary conversions taking place on the motherboard.
Googles data center efficiency has been improving gradually.
That adds $1 or $2 to the cost of the motherboard, but it's worth it not just because the power supply is cheaper, but because the power supply can be run closer to its peak capacity, which means it runs much more efficiently.
From that I assumed it is a custom board since I'm not aware of any boards out there that doesn't rely on 5V to be delivered by the PSU.
I kinda liked that they didn't spend money all these years to make better/deadlier nukes. Making nuke has little value in my mind and I wouldn't mind that the technology is somehow lost or becomes obsolete because it is no longer needed. Imagine a day when the US lets all the nukes retire as they age and not replace them with newer models or other crazy weapon systems because the world is at peace. Sounds far fetched, but I rather have that than advancing the state of the art in making WMDs.
Have you tried it for sure? And besides, it's not a fair comparison. Say you could get linux the kernel running, and then you tried loading windows 7 and discover that aero runs like a snail, and declare linux a winner. Is that fair? Now, how about running KDE 4.2 on it and then try the comparison again? Since we can't strip the gui out of windows 7, I would say it's not an apple-apple comparison (You might be able to try some headless windows 2008r2 server, but I don't know). And for driver compatibility, since MS changed the driver model as its line of OS evolved from the DOS days, the old drivers no longer work on newer OSs. Hence, if you really want to run some old hardware, make sure you have the OS that it was using during its day and the driver disks that came with it. With linux, you would probably have to compile some kernel modules for some really old stuff, I'd imagine, and probably not everything will just work after you install from floppy - which is kinda ridiculous. Which distro comes with floppy images these days? And how long would it take for you apt-get X/KDE/XFCE/LXDE over your 28.8K modem, and would you have the space to do so??? But plop down some win3.1 disks and you'll have an OS with GUI running faster than linux.
And as for modern hardware support - windows wins hands-down. Which hardware manufacture would DARE to make a device that isn't supported under windows? (MS screwed up with Vista, but learned their lesson and will have more vendors onboard sooner with 7.) Not the same for linux. Sure, most will work, but you'll always end up with one that'll take a huge amount of googling and forum time to get running, and only then it's still a hack.
I looked into a bunch of BeOS clone projects a while back to try and get started on them. My conclusion was that it was painful for casual developers/newbies to get involved because it was too hard to have it running on real hardware. Even then there are a lot of drivers missing. TFA states that there are some problems with booting and how it is a hit or miss experience, but I wonder about drivers for video (3d), sound, ethernet, modem, etc, etc. But since the GCC toolchain is available I suppose drivers will come. But given how long it took Linux to get to where it is today, and still behind Windows in terms of driver suppose, I wonder how long it will take Haiku?
I don't buy it. All languages have rules. C++ have its rules. You don't just put down on your resume that you are a C++ expert if you don't know anything about templates or meta programming.
It's more of a language vs library argument again. Java/C# has a lot more standard library functions that you can use, where as C++ has a lot more language rules. It's equally unproductive for a C# person to have to think about.. oh yeah, what was that function's name again? search...
I always thought KDE was closer to Windows than Gnome, at least with no customization. I mean, look at the big K vs Start. The K/Start menu, the dialog, konqueror as FM and Web browser, like Explorer BACK in Win98. BTW, MS no longer does this. Plasma widgets vs vista widgets, the k taskbar vs windows taskbar...
I wish XP does everything Vista does. For most user programs it is true, but for developers, like DX 10 devs, I need a Vista machine. Remote desktop with 32-bit support and font anti-aliasing need Vista on both ends. Um, what else... oh, Apple chose not to support iTunes 64 on XP without some user hacks.
mod parent up. I think their manufacturing facility was not able to fulfill the demand from the B1G1 program, let alone the entire impulse-buying US consumer market. That left a sour taste in people who actually participated in B1G1 and left OLPC's image tarnished.
I guess there is difference between making a joke between your friends and posting it to the web for millions to read. I still like these juvenile sites that review hardware, because not a lot of site will throw four expensive SSD drives together and benchmark them in such a silly way just to say, "there I did it". It's entertaining, but not very educational. As I was writing this reply, I said, "self, go find some educational tech/sci sites and waste your time on those instead". I think I'll go do that.
We'll be focusing our attention on RAID 0 today, but the card supports a whole host of other array configurations, including RAID 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, and 36DD. Ok, so maybe not the last one.
I like Tech Report but, seriously? I found that joke to be very juvenile and I have a hard time reading the rest of the article without a prejudicial eye.
Good points, I want to add that if we call 7 a service pack for Vista, then where does it end? Was 98 a service pack for 95, 2000 for NT?
I've been using 7 beta as my production machine since it was released. Sure, I'm careful by using acronis to snapshot the system every major step, and so far that has kept the system problem free. I had installed far cry 2 and it was having some problems so I reverted the system back, although I'll try again tonight with the new Nvidia drivers.
point is, 7 is so good/shiny and stable as it is, in beta, and provides a better much better user experience that I rather use it than the tried and true xp 64. It will also be the first MS OS that I will buy when it is released (maybe also because I am no longer in school too).
will you give it a rest already with the Windows 7 bashing? So many people (myself included) have already given you evidence that Win7 will run just fine on many hardware out there, and will not FORCE people to upgrade just to use it. You are still choosing not to pay any attention despite having no one coming to your rescue, _even_ on slashdot. So just give it a rest. Try the beta (it's free). Try it, and if it sucks for you, tell us why it sucks. But ranting about how miserably it will sell because of FUD is just trolling.
You are mistaking usage for capable. According to wikipedia, 66% to 78% of people are using XP. Of those, how many have computers that cannot run Vista, even with Aero turned off?
For example, I have three machines (counting two from work) that run XP, by choice. All of them can run Vista with all effects turned on, but decided for other reasons not to upgrade. The point is that plenty of people can run Vista, and therefore Win7, but aren't choosing to. When Win7 is released, if it is as good as people hoped, it should prompt those people on the sideline (like me) to upgrade. Whether or not the economy is a factor, is another story which I chose not to get into in my first post, "economic issue aside".
So who is left to buy their OS (which most likely will require a new computer as they always do)?
The current users who are running Vista, since they will not need to fork out more money for hardware.
There are plenty of computers out there that can run Vista (even if the user opt to downgrade to XP. Some do it because Vista annoys them, or whatever), hence, those machines can run Win7 when it is released.
The same people who forked out money to upgrade their machine to run Vista won't have to do it again for Win7. The people who bought a machine since Vista was released two years ago won't have to worry about an upgrade to Win7.
But seriously I shouldn't even reply to you because your responses to everyone in this thread has been snide, and belligerent.
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I never had a bad experience buying from Craigslist. At first, I wasn't very sure about sending sellers emails using my personal email, but to this day, I have not had any massive spam increases (gmail filters them out anyway), nor any crazy stalkers bothering me. I've furnished my entire studio with craigslist, for about maybe $400 and that's because I decided to spend a little money. For that I got:
a. a super heavy and sturdy office desk with 3 drawers. It supports 2 21" CRT monitors and computer and receiver. Looks like it could take a lot more too. The seller offered to help me assemble it for free, which I took on his offer but decided to give him $10 extra for it. Total cost: $60.
b. a recliner. I was looking for a recliner to put my feet up. All recliners I saw for new were like lazyboy ugly craps, or some designer stuff that costs about $900 at least. I found an old school leather recliner for $30.
c. a dinner room table with 2 chairs. Fits my space perfectly. Cost $50.
d. a bed side table with 3 drawers. Nice looking dark wood and not some assemble it crap. Cost: $90?
e. two designer lamps. I springed for these and paid I think $200. These were brand new.
I also purchased:
a. 21" sweet CRT monitor for $10.
b. a nice road bike that fits me well for $600. The seller was really cool and gave me a whole bunch of stuff for free and even gave me some technical support after.
c. old clicky keyboard. New would've cost $85 but I got this one for $25. Turned out I couldn't use it and so I returned it. The seller gladly refunded my money.
d. nikon lenses.
I sold some computer memory through it and some other stuff. But generally I buy more than sell.
Some things I wouldn't use craigslist for:
1. personals. They are interesting/voyeuristic to browse, but you never know who is on the other side.
2. cars. too expensive to bring cash. I watched on this tv show this murder happened because the seller knew the buyer was going to bring lots of cash so they arranged to meet at a secluded place and murdered the buyer.
Some tips:
1. You know what they say: if it's too good, it probably is.
2. Don't meet at a deserted place late at night. Meet at a place that you are comfortable with and with lots of people around.
3. Don't give out personal information, ever.
Craigslist is also more useful in larger metropolitan areas. I used to live in a small town and hardly used it. But now I live in a larger city I use it a lot.
Craigslist + RSS is also a major win.
market it as sustainable, green, and battling climate change it will sell! Did I miss any other catch-phrases?
No, not the KDE Mplayer, but this guy? http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/ I used it briefly but it seems like it has too many customization options for the average user, but many advanced users rave about it. They have a forum here and it seems like the place to go for latest info and downloads.
Google's designs supply only 12-volt power, with the necessary conversions taking place on the motherboard. Googles data center efficiency has been improving gradually. That adds $1 or $2 to the cost of the motherboard, but it's worth it not just because the power supply is cheaper, but because the power supply can be run closer to its peak capacity, which means it runs much more efficiently.
From that I assumed it is a custom board since I'm not aware of any boards out there that doesn't rely on 5V to be delivered by the PSU.
I kinda liked that they didn't spend money all these years to make better/deadlier nukes. Making nuke has little value in my mind and I wouldn't mind that the technology is somehow lost or becomes obsolete because it is no longer needed. Imagine a day when the US lets all the nukes retire as they age and not replace them with newer models or other crazy weapon systems because the world is at peace. Sounds far fetched, but I rather have that than advancing the state of the art in making WMDs.
http://www.bash.org/?197845
Have you tried it for sure? And besides, it's not a fair comparison. Say you could get linux the kernel running, and then you tried loading windows 7 and discover that aero runs like a snail, and declare linux a winner. Is that fair? Now, how about running KDE 4.2 on it and then try the comparison again? Since we can't strip the gui out of windows 7, I would say it's not an apple-apple comparison (You might be able to try some headless windows 2008r2 server, but I don't know). And for driver compatibility, since MS changed the driver model as its line of OS evolved from the DOS days, the old drivers no longer work on newer OSs. Hence, if you really want to run some old hardware, make sure you have the OS that it was using during its day and the driver disks that came with it. With linux, you would probably have to compile some kernel modules for some really old stuff, I'd imagine, and probably not everything will just work after you install from floppy - which is kinda ridiculous. Which distro comes with floppy images these days? And how long would it take for you apt-get X/KDE/XFCE/LXDE over your 28.8K modem, and would you have the space to do so??? But plop down some win3.1 disks and you'll have an OS with GUI running faster than linux.
And as for modern hardware support - windows wins hands-down. Which hardware manufacture would DARE to make a device that isn't supported under windows? (MS screwed up with Vista, but learned their lesson and will have more vendors onboard sooner with 7.) Not the same for linux. Sure, most will work, but you'll always end up with one that'll take a huge amount of googling and forum time to get running, and only then it's still a hack.
Your sig is just disturbing.
linux can run on a 386, but so can dos. who cares? running on a x86 processor != good driver support.
I looked into a bunch of BeOS clone projects a while back to try and get started on them. My conclusion was that it was painful for casual developers/newbies to get involved because it was too hard to have it running on real hardware. Even then there are a lot of drivers missing. TFA states that there are some problems with booting and how it is a hit or miss experience, but I wonder about drivers for video (3d), sound, ethernet, modem, etc, etc. But since the GCC toolchain is available I suppose drivers will come. But given how long it took Linux to get to where it is today, and still behind Windows in terms of driver suppose, I wonder how long it will take Haiku?
I don't buy it. All languages have rules. C++ have its rules. You don't just put down on your resume that you are a C++ expert if you don't know anything about templates or meta programming.
It's more of a language vs library argument again. Java/C# has a lot more standard library functions that you can use, where as C++ has a lot more language rules. It's equally unproductive for a C# person to have to think about.. oh yeah, what was that function's name again? search...
it just really depends...
I always thought KDE was closer to Windows than Gnome, at least with no customization. I mean, look at the big K vs Start. The K/Start menu, the dialog, konqueror as FM and Web browser, like Explorer BACK in Win98. BTW, MS no longer does this. Plasma widgets vs vista widgets, the k taskbar vs windows taskbar...
not to troll, but that has been my observation.
or maybe there are more vista users than linux/wine?
yeah, I was wondering about server 2008.
by GP's logic, Windows 7 is indeed a new home OS!
I wish XP does everything Vista does. For most user programs it is true, but for developers, like DX 10 devs, I need a Vista machine. Remote desktop with 32-bit support and font anti-aliasing need Vista on both ends. Um, what else... oh, Apple chose not to support iTunes 64 on XP without some user hacks.
But other than that I think you are right.
mod parent up. I think their manufacturing facility was not able to fulfill the demand from the B1G1 program, let alone the entire impulse-buying US consumer market. That left a sour taste in people who actually participated in B1G1 and left OLPC's image tarnished.
I actually hope that LHC creates a BH and destroys the world, too, just so we can look back and say, "nope, not us this time."
I guess there is difference between making a joke between your friends and posting it to the web for millions to read. I still like these juvenile sites that review hardware, because not a lot of site will throw four expensive SSD drives together and benchmark them in such a silly way just to say, "there I did it". It's entertaining, but not very educational. As I was writing this reply, I said, "self, go find some educational tech/sci sites and waste your time on those instead". I think I'll go do that.
We'll be focusing our attention on RAID 0 today, but the card supports a whole host of other array configurations, including RAID 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, and 36DD. Ok, so maybe not the last one.
I like Tech Report but, seriously? I found that joke to be very juvenile and I have a hard time reading the rest of the article without a prejudicial eye.
Is 2009 finally the year of the real-time raytracing on the desktop?
how the hell do you make a SP3 without a SP2?
so by your statement they are developing sp2 and sp3 simultaneously? think about it.
Good points, I want to add that if we call 7 a service pack for Vista, then where does it end? Was 98 a service pack for 95, 2000 for NT?
I've been using 7 beta as my production machine since it was released. Sure, I'm careful by using acronis to snapshot the system every major step, and so far that has kept the system problem free. I had installed far cry 2 and it was having some problems so I reverted the system back, although I'll try again tonight with the new Nvidia drivers.
point is, 7 is so good/shiny and stable as it is, in beta, and provides a better much better user experience that I rather use it than the tried and true xp 64. It will also be the first MS OS that I will buy when it is released (maybe also because I am no longer in school too).
will you give it a rest already with the Windows 7 bashing? So many people (myself included) have already given you evidence that Win7 will run just fine on many hardware out there, and will not FORCE people to upgrade just to use it. You are still choosing not to pay any attention despite having no one coming to your rescue, _even_ on slashdot. So just give it a rest. Try the beta (it's free). Try it, and if it sucks for you, tell us why it sucks. But ranting about how miserably it will sell because of FUD is just trolling.
Last response from me on this.
You are mistaking usage for capable. According to wikipedia, 66% to 78% of people are using XP. Of those, how many have computers that cannot run Vista, even with Aero turned off?
For example, I have three machines (counting two from work) that run XP, by choice. All of them can run Vista with all effects turned on, but decided for other reasons not to upgrade. The point is that plenty of people can run Vista, and therefore Win7, but aren't choosing to. When Win7 is released, if it is as good as people hoped, it should prompt those people on the sideline (like me) to upgrade. Whether or not the economy is a factor, is another story which I chose not to get into in my first post, "economic issue aside".
So who is left to buy their OS (which most likely will require a new computer as they always do)?
The current users who are running Vista, since they will not need to fork out more money for hardware.
There are plenty of computers out there that can run Vista (even if the user opt to downgrade to XP. Some do it because Vista annoys them, or whatever), hence, those machines can run Win7 when it is released.
The same people who forked out money to upgrade their machine to run Vista won't have to do it again for Win7. The people who bought a machine since Vista was released two years ago won't have to worry about an upgrade to Win7.
But seriously I shouldn't even reply to you because your responses to everyone in this thread has been snide, and belligerent.