I'd prefer 256M, but Win2K will be fine with 128M if you're just running Office-type apps. Honestly, it seems to me that people contrive to create situations in which Windows will fail just to complain about it on/.
The parent post is right on. Why can't more people apply the principles of critical thinking to software? Windows NT 5.0 and higher doesn't suck. They may not be as good for your particular purpose as *n*x, but its becoming more a matter of taste than an actual performance.
Couldn't Apple just hire him? At least that way ownership of any IP that he generated would be Apple's, and all Apple would have to do is stay within the terms of their OSS license.
When I was a first-year student at the University of Michigan I bought a Powerbook 5300. Before that I had been a PC user. I bought the mac for the following reasons:
1. The University was at the time primerily a "mac school". 80% of the machines on campus were macs, and there was a large user community, as well as appletalk networking in the dorms.
2. I liked the GUI. Everyone told me how macs were easier to use. I had never found it difficult to use PCs, but I was impressed by the look and feel of MacOS.
3. I wanted to learn about MacOS and about Mac hardware. Again, I'd heard good things, why not experience it for myself.
Soon after I bought the 5300, I knew something was amiss. After I'd had it out of the box for five minutes it crashed unexpectedly. Unfortunately it kept doing this every couple of hours, and I was starting to question whether my $2300 had been wisely spent. I called apple's SOS-APPL line and with the help of the technician discovered that someone had indeed installed RAM-Doubler on my 5300. Evidently, someone at the U of M computer kickoff office had decided to open up my mac before it was sold to me and install unsupported software on it. According to the support rep, all I needed to do was reinstall the system.
Several hours later, after I had done a clean install of 7.5.1, I went to bed. Soon after I awoke the next day I realized that the problem hadn't been solved.
It is now day 2 and I decide that I am going to attempt to return the 5300 to the computer kickoff office, as I have a hunch that it is defective. I had seen some Toshiba laptops that some of my hallmates had purchased, and they looked pretty nice. Not only that, but they'd been available with a color screen for less than the $2300 that I'd spent for grayscale!
Unfortunately, the computer kickoff people refused to take back the machine. I called Apple and Apple would not take it back either. This machine was 2 days old and clearly defective, as it crashed every couple of hours.
The next step was to send the machine to Apple via Airborn Express for service. The machine arrived back almost a week later with a clean bill of health. Apparently, it had not crashed in the 'lab' and tests had confirmed that nothing was wrong with it. The problem was, it crashed every time I used it.
I started to feel resigned to the fact that I would have to make the relationship work if I wanted to get anything positive out of my decision to purchase the 5300. For me, stability is one of the most important things that I look for in a hardware/os combination.
I configured WordPerfect's autosave to save every 30 seconds, and I avoided using the machine for important tasks (such as papers for my classes), opting to use the computing site instead.
Over the next two semesters I spent upwards of 80 hours on the phone with SOS-APPL. During this time I heard things such as:
- "You don't have 7.5.3? That is very likely the reason your machine has been crashing" - "Apple never should have sold the 5300 with less than 16MB of RAM. Of course yours is crashing." - "You don't have 7.5.5? That MUST be the reason your machine is crashing."
At some point there was finally an official recall of the 5300. I was fairly cynical by this point, because my machine had received a clean bill of health the last time I sent it in. Nonetheless, my machine went back to Apple via Airborn Express for another couple of days, this time coming back with a new logic board. The new logic board helped somewhat, although the machine still crashed way more than any other Apple that I've used. You may be thinking that I had installed nonstandard software or was loading unnecessary extensions. I was not. This was with a subset of the standard extensions and no funny stuff like After Dark or all the weird MS stuff.
By my sophomore year, I decided that the best thing to do was to cut my losses and sell the 5300 and put the money toward an inexpensive desktop PC (the original $2300 was supposed to cover my computing needs for all 4 years of college). I called some local shops that sold used macs and I was offered $300 for it. THE MACHINE HAD DEPRECIATED $2000 IN ONLY ONE YEAR!
Needless to say, I had a very bad experience with Apple and Macintosh. Seeing OSX and knowing that it's built on the mach microkernel gives me hope, but my dissatisfaction has more to do with the way Apple handled the situation rather than with the hardware/OS specifically. Yes, I've heard about that deal where I could get a few hundred bucks off on a new ibook as a 5300 owner. No thank you.
I realize that I was a sucker for buying the 5300, and I would never make the mistake of buying an Apple product again, though I would accept one for free. I have also considered buying an iPod, but since I don't own a Mac it might not really be the best idea at this point.
this reminds me of a trick for telemarketers
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When telemarketers call, I find that the following approach works quite well:
Repeat the word "cornflakes" over and over again until they hang up. My record is 28.
AOL is crappy, most people who use it know its crappy, but its easy. ou putin the disk, it installs, gets the numbes you need, set everything up.
This is a very insightful comment. I wonder when someone will put together a scaled-down linux distro that competes with AOL. You'd have to have the free dial-up numbers, but maybe netzero would be willing to make a deal in exchange for some ads or something.
Imagine putting in the disk, answering a few simple questions, and getting AOL level functionality (chat would be over IRC, AIM, etc.) You might even throw in a simple word processor, spreadsheet, media player, etc.
I know that $20 a month isn't much money, but I would guess that a lot of people would rather not pay it to AOL every month.
Then again, who knows if NetZero is still in business..:)
has any subject ever seemed boring to you at first? If not, then you would not have benefitted from the teaching methods described.
If you have been bored, you will understand the importance of context in how something is presented. Simply showing a Simpson's clip won't necessarily break through any walls, but showing the clip and explaining why it is funny or relevant may just do so. Plus, if it wakes up the class and enlivens the discussion, everyone will benefit. People don't learn in a vacuum. Learning is a social act and is influenced deeply by culture.
Of course, the more you enjoy and appreciate maths, the funnier the references are, so I don't really know where you're coming from with your criticism.
Are either of the families planning on voting with their stock (by selling)?
Re:Because online polls are completely meaningless
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Good point... but in my opinion:
"I've never had any experience with any IBM drives." == "Cowboy Neal"
In other words, "I'm choosing this option because none of the others apply to me".
Re:Because online polls are completely meaningless
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Seriously, though, online polls are completely meaningless. They are swayed by rigging and mass canvasing, and that's ignoring the basic tenent that only the motivated (or bored) bother voting in the first place.
The way I look at it, I am curious what slashdot readers think of the drives, and whether they have a had a lot of problems. Slashdot is an audience of enthusiasts of varying levels of enthusiasm. I think the following poll would be informative:
Q: What has been your experience with IBM Deskstar drives?
I have had a good experience.
I have had a bad experience.
I know someone who has had a good experience.
I know someone who has had a bad experience.
I only use SCSI.
Cowboy Neal.
why not set up a /. poll to help collect data?
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If the editors are reading this, why not link to a/. poll to collect some additional data?
I have a light-duty server that has been running two 60GXP drives for the past 6 months with no trouble. After I heard about the problems with the 75GXP I switched from striping to mirroring in my raid configuration just to be safe.
When I heard about the 120GXP I figured that IBM was releasing the modified (glass plattered) version of the Deskstar drive in order to clear up any perception that the line had problems (due to the issues with the 75GXP). I decided to buy one to put in the new Athlon XP box I was building at the time. I've been using it for 2 months with no trouble (so far), but since I purchased it from a retailer I found on pricewatch, I doubt that I could follow the article's suggestion and return it. The performance benchmarks I've done suggest that the drive performs relatively well (135% of the 7200 RPM ATA100 reference drive in SiSoft Sandra's HD benchmark).
I probably won't buy another IBM drive for a while, however, based on the unresponsiveness of IBM to the problems as reported in the article.
Yes, it is the same principle as David Blaine's trick, only David also uses camera angles to go even higher... (it's a great trick... it can be quite humorous particularly when sound effects are added)...
Anyone ever hear of Daniel Lexington? He originally sought programmers to build a personal electronic organizer. Along with the plan to build the organizer was the need to create an offshore bank, dubbed GenDex Bank.
ok... so i have a similar question that I've wondered about for years...
If you hit a billiard ball so that it takes on a lot of spin, what happens to the friction between the ball and the table relative to if you had hit the ball with the same velocity (minus that which induced the spin)?
It's fine for you to be skeptical, but I really doubt that Microsoft has nothing to show for the past decade's development work.
A lot of ideas are initially conceived before their time, and a lot of skeptics doubt that they will ever become reality. Saying that Microsoft has nothing to show for it is like saying that Einstein had nothing to show for his research until it was published.
Microsoft is banking on the fact that this idea's time has come. Let the market forces decide.
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I didn't know Microsoft had any control over that? I though it was these guys.
I think that's called "geek autism"... there was a /. story on geek autism a year or so ago.
The parent post is right on. Why can't more people apply the principles of critical thinking to software? Windows NT 5.0 and higher doesn't suck. They may not be as good for your particular purpose as *n*x, but its becoming more a matter of taste than an actual performance.
What do you think I could get for it today? It's got 50MB of RAM in it now...
When I was a first-year student at the University of Michigan I bought a Powerbook 5300. Before that I had been a PC user. I bought the mac for the following reasons:
1. The University was at the time primerily a "mac school". 80% of the machines on campus were macs, and there was a large user community, as well as appletalk networking in the dorms.
2. I liked the GUI. Everyone told me how macs were easier to use. I had never found it difficult to use PCs, but I was impressed by the look and feel of MacOS.
3. I wanted to learn about MacOS and about Mac hardware. Again, I'd heard good things, why not experience it for myself.
Soon after I bought the 5300, I knew something was amiss. After I'd had it out of the box for five minutes it crashed unexpectedly. Unfortunately it kept doing this every couple of hours, and I was starting to question whether my $2300 had been wisely spent. I called apple's SOS-APPL line and with the help of the technician discovered that someone had indeed installed RAM-Doubler on my 5300. Evidently, someone at the U of M computer kickoff office had decided to open up my mac before it was sold to me and install unsupported software on it. According to the support rep, all I needed to do was reinstall the system.
Several hours later, after I had done a clean install of 7.5.1, I went to bed. Soon after I awoke the next day I realized that the problem hadn't been solved.
It is now day 2 and I decide that I am going to attempt to return the 5300 to the computer kickoff office, as I have a hunch that it is defective. I had seen some Toshiba laptops that some of my hallmates had purchased, and they looked pretty nice. Not only that, but they'd been available with a color screen for less than the $2300 that I'd spent for grayscale!
Unfortunately, the computer kickoff people refused to take back the machine. I called Apple and Apple would not take it back either. This machine was 2 days old and clearly defective, as it crashed every couple of hours.
The next step was to send the machine to Apple via Airborn Express for service. The machine arrived back almost a week later with a clean bill of health. Apparently, it had not crashed in the 'lab' and tests had confirmed that nothing was wrong with it. The problem was, it crashed every time I used it.
I started to feel resigned to the fact that I would have to make the relationship work if I wanted to get anything positive out of my decision to purchase the 5300. For me, stability is one of the most important things that I look for in a hardware/os combination.
I configured WordPerfect's autosave to save every 30 seconds, and I avoided using the machine for important tasks (such as papers for my classes), opting to use the computing site instead.
Over the next two semesters I spent upwards of 80 hours on the phone with SOS-APPL. During this time I heard things such as:
- "You don't have 7.5.3? That is very likely the reason your machine has been crashing"
- "Apple never should have sold the 5300 with less than 16MB of RAM. Of course yours is crashing."
- "You don't have 7.5.5? That MUST be the reason your machine is crashing."
At some point there was finally an official recall of the 5300. I was fairly cynical by this point, because my machine had received a clean bill of health the last time I sent it in. Nonetheless, my machine went back to Apple via Airborn Express for another couple of days, this time coming back with a new logic board. The new logic board helped somewhat, although the machine still crashed way more than any other Apple that I've used. You may be thinking that I had installed nonstandard software or was loading unnecessary extensions. I was not. This was with a subset of the standard extensions and no funny stuff like After Dark or all the weird MS stuff.
By my sophomore year, I decided that the best thing to do was to cut my losses and sell the 5300 and put the money toward an inexpensive desktop PC (the original $2300 was supposed to cover my computing needs for all 4 years of college). I called some local shops that sold used macs and I was offered $300 for it. THE MACHINE HAD DEPRECIATED $2000 IN ONLY ONE YEAR!
Needless to say, I had a very bad experience with Apple and Macintosh. Seeing OSX and knowing that it's built on the mach microkernel gives me hope, but my dissatisfaction has more to do with the way Apple handled the situation rather than with the hardware/OS specifically. Yes, I've heard about that deal where I could get a few hundred bucks off on a new ibook as a 5300 owner. No thank you.
I realize that I was a sucker for buying the 5300, and I would never make the mistake of buying an Apple product again, though I would accept one for free. I have also considered buying an iPod, but since I don't own a Mac it might not really be the best idea at this point.
Repeat the word "cornflakes" over and over again until they hang up. My record is 28.
This is a very insightful comment. I wonder when someone will put together a scaled-down linux distro that competes with AOL. You'd have to have the free dial-up numbers, but maybe netzero would be willing to make a deal in exchange for some ads or something.
Imagine putting in the disk, answering a few simple questions, and getting AOL level functionality (chat would be over IRC, AIM, etc.) You might even throw in a simple word processor, spreadsheet, media player, etc.
I know that $20 a month isn't much money, but I would guess that a lot of people would rather not pay it to AOL every month.
Then again, who knows if NetZero is still in business.. :)
If you have been bored, you will understand the importance of context in how something is presented. Simply showing a Simpson's clip won't necessarily break through any walls, but showing the clip and explaining why it is funny or relevant may just do so. Plus, if it wakes up the class and enlivens the discussion, everyone will benefit. People don't learn in a vacuum. Learning is a social act and is influenced deeply by culture.
Of course, the more you enjoy and appreciate maths, the funnier the references are, so I don't really know where you're coming from with your criticism.
Are either of the families planning on voting with their stock (by selling)?
"I've never had any experience with any IBM drives." == "Cowboy Neal"
In other words, "I'm choosing this option because none of the others apply to me".
The way I look at it, I am curious what slashdot readers think of the drives, and whether they have a had a lot of problems. Slashdot is an audience of enthusiasts of varying levels of enthusiasm. I think the following poll would be informative:
Q: What has been your experience with IBM Deskstar drives?
I have had a good experience.
I have had a bad experience.
I know someone who has had a good experience.
I know someone who has had a bad experience.
I only use SCSI.
Cowboy Neal.
I have a light-duty server that has been running two 60GXP drives for the past 6 months with no trouble. After I heard about the problems with the 75GXP I switched from striping to mirroring in my raid configuration just to be safe.
When I heard about the 120GXP I figured that IBM was releasing the modified (glass plattered) version of the Deskstar drive in order to clear up any perception that the line had problems (due to the issues with the 75GXP). I decided to buy one to put in the new Athlon XP box I was building at the time. I've been using it for 2 months with no trouble (so far), but since I purchased it from a retailer I found on pricewatch, I doubt that I could follow the article's suggestion and return it. The performance benchmarks I've done suggest that the drive performs relatively well (135% of the 7200 RPM ATA100 reference drive in SiSoft Sandra's HD benchmark).
I probably won't buy another IBM drive for a while, however, based on the unresponsiveness of IBM to the problems as reported in the article.
It makes you wonder how much of this is based on theoretical linguistics and formal semantics, and how much is based on good old fashioned statistics and optimization.
Thanks for letting me know...
...and it was made on a mac.
As anyone involved in corporate America can attest, incredibly stupid things happen in business every single day.
Considering this, what is remarkable is that businesses are as successful as they are.
Before long, he was sought after for other reasons.
Daniel has also created some articles of government and a logo .
It is interesting to see how fate chose PayPal over GenDex, at least thusfar.
Why not just ask someone to host the images?
If you hit a billiard ball so that it takes on a lot of spin, what happens to the friction between the ball and the table relative to if you had hit the ball with the same velocity (minus that which induced the spin)?
A lot of ideas are initially conceived before their time, and a lot of skeptics doubt that they will ever become reality. Saying that Microsoft has nothing to show for it is like saying that Einstein had nothing to show for his research until it was published.
Microsoft is banking on the fact that this idea's time has come. Let the market forces decide.