Not really. Back then they had competition from AMD and Cyrix, but both were also-rans with more-or-less inferior product and little market exposure. Now they've been beaten WRT price/and/ performance for years by AMD, ever since the original Athlons in mid-'99, and AMD has a significant portion of the market.
I'm looking with a great deal of interest to some real benchmarks of Core 2 from the Tech Report. If, *if*, it lives up to the hype, I could switch to Intel again, who IMO haven't had a/real/ desktop CPU since the P3 Tualatin.
The 486DX (and the SX at the very low end) continued to sell well for a couple years after the Pentium was introduced. It occupied the "Celeron" area of the market, and same for the 386 when the 486 appeared, and for the 286, and so on.
Huh. I've done pretty much the same thing, but in the Debian Way(tm): having one shell script in/etc/init.d per command that I want to run on startup, then symlinking that into/etc/rc2.d and giving it a start-number (e.g./etc/rc2.d/S20hdparm).
I can hear the wingnuts screaming "activist judges" already. It's harder in this political climate for a judge to stand up & do what's right when we have at least one wingnut politician saying that if a judge makes a call someone doesn't like, then maybe someone will cause that judge physical harm.
I immediately think of all the idiots who:
can't remember their ATM PIN and write it on the ATM card, and/or
can't remember their Windows passwords and write it on a sticky note attached to the monitor.
I think it's a good idea otherwise and would consider using it for myself, though.
One improvement since the Doom days is AI. Contrast a knot of simpleminded Doom imps versus a squad of opponents in Soldier of Fortune II. The latter will work together to kill you and the former just get in each other's way; also the AI has a finer-grained reaction to things like noise. Another improvement is a full-3D environment. Sure, you can fake it to an extent with Zdoom and other ports, but it's not up to the level of (again) SoF II.
Don't get me wrong -- I've been playing Doom since about a week after it was released in December 1993 and still enjoy the hell out of it when playing Zdoom and third-party WADs, but it's just not impressive anymore.
It seems to me that word processors are over-thought if you have to worry about doing things the "right" way (as defined by the programmers). If I want to treat a WP like a TV typewriter and manually format everything just like we did in Bank Street Writer on my Apple//c, it should be perfectly OK with that. If I then want to intersperse some fancy formatting like bulleted lists, handle it without me having to think hard about it. I don't want to care about these things, I just want to write the stupid way and get it over with.
Is there a (preferably cross-platform) word processor that will do what I want? I don't want to have to write code like LaTeX or just use a plain old text editor (though that's what I almost always fall back on).
You don't understand the psychology of creationists. There's no need for proof or disproof in their reality tunnel, just faith. A creationist can just wave his hand and say "God did it for his own reasons", and that's it.
I vaguely remember my optometrist stating that astigmatism couldn't be corrected with contact lenses. He may have qualified that as "soft lenses" (since they essentially hug the contours of your eyes and astig is caused by irregular curvature); I wasn't interested in getting hard lenses due to horror stories I'd heard.
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Not really. Back then they had competition from AMD and Cyrix, but both were also-rans with more-or-less inferior product and little market exposure. Now they've been beaten WRT price /and/ performance for years by AMD, ever since the original Athlons in mid-'99, and AMD has a significant portion of the market.
/real/ desktop CPU since the P3 Tualatin.
I'm looking with a great deal of interest to some real benchmarks of Core 2 from the Tech Report. If, *if*, it lives up to the hype, I could switch to Intel again, who IMO haven't had a
The 486DX (and the SX at the very low end) continued to sell well for a couple years after the Pentium was introduced. It occupied the "Celeron" area of the market, and same for the 386 when the 486 appeared, and for the 286, and so on.
You /do/ know that Doom was meant to run on the 486, right? Did you mean Quake II?
I keep seeing Java 1.4.xx on new Dell boxen. I don't know why they ship an old version like that instead of 1.5.06.
Huh. I've done pretty much the same thing, but in the Debian Way(tm): having one shell script in /etc/init.d per command that I want to run on startup, then symlinking that into /etc/rc2.d and giving it a start-number (e.g. /etc/rc2.d/S20hdparm).
Heh. ISAGN. Taco should code a comment filter that searches for common misspellings like that and deny the comment if any are found.
Of course, that presupposes that Taco can spell.
UTFG.
Can you explain the "local startup file"? I've been a Debian weenie since '99 and so haven't heard of this.
Of course there is. Fuckwad talks to his God all the time, y'know.
I can hear the wingnuts screaming "activist judges" already. It's harder in this political climate for a judge to stand up & do what's right when we have at least one wingnut politician saying that if a judge makes a call someone doesn't like, then maybe someone will cause that judge physical harm.
Perhaps I misunderstand, but isn't the whole point of RISC that its ops are smaller and of uniform size?
Now /that/ is grounds for a class-action lawsuit, IMHO. Subpoena a copy of their mailing list and claim them as co-plaintiffs.
I immediately think of all the idiots who:
can't remember their ATM PIN and write it on the ATM card, and/or
can't remember their Windows passwords and write it on a sticky note attached to the monitor.
I think it's a good idea otherwise and would consider using it for myself, though.
I agree with this post.
And you can smoke it, which is what this is really about.
One improvement since the Doom days is AI. Contrast a knot of simpleminded Doom imps versus a squad of opponents in Soldier of Fortune II. The latter will work together to kill you and the former just get in each other's way; also the AI has a finer-grained reaction to things like noise. Another improvement is a full-3D environment. Sure, you can fake it to an extent with Zdoom and other ports, but it's not up to the level of (again) SoF II.
Don't get me wrong -- I've been playing Doom since about a week after it was released in December 1993 and still enjoy the hell out of it when playing Zdoom and third-party WADs, but it's just not impressive anymore.
It seems to me that word processors are over-thought if you have to worry about doing things the "right" way (as defined by the programmers). If I want to treat a WP like a TV typewriter and manually format everything just like we did in Bank Street Writer on my Apple //c, it should be perfectly OK with that. If I then want to intersperse some fancy formatting like bulleted lists, handle it without me having to think hard about it. I don't want to care about these things, I just want to write the stupid way and get it over with.
Is there a (preferably cross-platform) word processor that will do what I want? I don't want to have to write code like LaTeX or just use a plain old text editor (though that's what I almost always fall back on).
Contrariwise, I've read posts by Englishmen bitching about being called British. There's no pleasing everybody.
You don't understand the psychology of creationists. There's no need for proof or disproof in their reality tunnel, just faith. A creationist can just wave his hand and say "God did it for his own reasons", and that's it.
I vaguely remember my optometrist stating that astigmatism couldn't be corrected with contact lenses. He may have qualified that as "soft lenses" (since they essentially hug the contours of your eyes and astig is caused by irregular curvature); I wasn't interested in getting hard lenses due to horror stories I'd heard.
I'm an idiot. It only does that for the login sequence, like you said.
I take that back. Customize Google already does that with Google Calendar. Cool!
Ask the guy who writes the CustomizeGoogle extension for FF. He's already done that for GMail.
My guess is that it sounds vaguely similar to Mobutu Sese Seko. I never got that vibe off the name, though.