With regard to the prize for best female whatever, the equal opportunity angle is that those prizes are attracting female students into the field, through the university. The prize's purpose isn't to reward current female students over current male students, it's there to encourage potential female students to pursue that course of study. They can't do the second thing without the first, in the current system.
As far as the insurance thing goes, insurance companies dont owe you shit. If you want better rates, then make all (young) men drive more safely.
So the consumer (me) gets shafted now (through shitty service contracts, etc) and will continue to get shafted while the manufacturers have their fun (through overpriced handsets, etc).
Please, I'm honestly asking - how is this good for me?
The thing is, with no swap file, you'll never get that 2-3 second pause when you're coming back to the computer after an hour or two.
I think basically, I'm happy to buy the extra 512mb of ram because it means I dont get that momentary annoyance when I get back to my machine. I think that theres no need for a swap file (with win XP) if you've got 1GB+ ram.
Well, thats cool, at least you know now that you dont like watching movies of books you've read, so you won't do it again, and we wont have to read your whiny comments about it in the future. Everyone wins!
As long as getting my Alcatel Speedtouch USB dsl modem to work requires a 10 step process that can only be found on the internet (that's right, the same internet I need the modem to connect to), Redhat installs are not easier than Windows installs. Now, I appreciate that the drivers only being available online is the fault of alcatel, not Redhat, but my point is that there were 5 or 6 patches or pieces of software I had to download, and a long (and ultimately futile, but I'll take the blame for that) process I had to go through to get a USB modem to work. What was the advantage of USB again? Ease of installation? Not under Linux.
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With regard to the prize for best female whatever, the equal opportunity angle is that those prizes are attracting female students into the field, through the university. The prize's purpose isn't to reward current female students over current male students, it's there to encourage potential female students to pursue that course of study. They can't do the second thing without the first, in the current system.
As far as the insurance thing goes, insurance companies dont owe you shit. If you want better rates, then make all (young) men drive more safely.
So the consumer (me) gets shafted now (through shitty service contracts, etc) and will continue to get shafted while the manufacturers have their fun (through overpriced handsets, etc).
Please, I'm honestly asking - how is this good for me?
A good 7200RPM disk will give you a sustained 30MB/s read and write (ish - close enough anyway).
A really good 100Mb/s network will give you 10MB read and write (up and down).
So you've pretty much made the point that at the moment, 100Mbit networks arent good enough, but gigabit networks are.
(You might want to pay attention to the case of those little 'b's after the numbers, next time)
The thing is, with no swap file, you'll never get that 2-3 second pause when you're coming back to the computer after an hour or two.
I think basically, I'm happy to buy the extra 512mb of ram because it means I dont get that momentary annoyance when I get back to my machine.
I think that theres no need for a swap file (with win XP) if you've got 1GB+ ram.
Well, thats cool, at least you know now that you dont like watching movies of books you've read, so you won't do it again, and we wont have to read your whiny comments about it in the future. Everyone wins!
And you don't even miss the spellcheck?
Interesting, I thought that your post was simply written backwards until you pointed out that the middle letters were left unchanged.
How many times are people going to confuse this?
From the story you link to - "Opteron, in keeping with the company's original launch date, is set to officially debut on April 22 in New York City."
The *Opterons* have not been delayed. It is the *desktop* 64bit procs that AMD will release later in the year.
It's not that tricky, people.
As long as getting my Alcatel Speedtouch USB dsl modem to work requires a 10 step process that can only be found on the internet (that's right, the same internet I need the modem to connect to), Redhat installs are not easier than Windows installs.
Now, I appreciate that the drivers only being available online is the fault of alcatel, not Redhat, but my point is that there were 5 or 6 patches or pieces of software I had to download, and a long (and ultimately futile, but I'll take the blame for that) process I had to go through to get a USB modem to work. What was the advantage of USB again? Ease of installation? Not under Linux.