I think it's much more interesting to have them running in parallel. I'm envisioning a system where you have a "master" CPU, perhaps chosen at boot, and the other 2 running as slaves. That way you can run binary-only apps on their native hardware and without hurting your uptime. IIRC, the Amiga did something like this, though you couldn't choose the "master" at boot, obviously.
Seems to me this would make for an incredible cross-platform developement tool.
Since criminal and terrorist organisations often have "legitimate fronts" and use perfectly legitimate businesses for various things then it's quite possible for there to be many people involved with such organisations which are perfectly "innocent".
And yet these innocents are still not terrorists or criminals, merely employees of someone who is. But, if the head guy of a corporation gets arrested, the business doesn't necessarily go under since the business is not technically the property of the boss, even if he is the majority (or perhaps even sole, I'm not sure of the details) stockholder. If the business itself is doing something illegal, it's the opposite. The boss or the stockholders can't necessarily be held accountable. That's the whole purpose of creating a corporation.
So in other words you wouldn't be breaking the law if it wasn't illegal?
No, I wouldn't be breaking the law if the MPAA didn't have the gall to try and tell me where and how I can watch a DVD that I've purchased. CSS and region coding are not laws, they are technological measures.
Not sure about the MS Word thing, but I'd say your Diablo II crashes are a Blizzard issue. I've had plenty of problems with that game; lots of crashes, mostly, although crashes are a lot less severe and a lot less frequent with the current patch. The most irritating problem, though, is that my Play disc is unreadable by my DVD drive. This forces me to use my 4x8x CD-R (that's right, no -RW) which is painfully slow. I suspect it's the totally ineffective copy-protection that's causing that particular problem.
That's true, I'm sure I'll be able to pick up unopened boxes on ebay a year from now, but my intention was to buy them direct from Loki. The reasoning being that Loki would get the full benefit from the purchase and I would be furthering my own desires by supporting those who provide what I want, now and in the future (like a copy of Deus Ex that is actually playable because it doesn't hard-lock my machine every 20 minutes).
Along those lines, I've made a personal commitment not to pirate Linux software. Sure, I try Free alternatives first, if available, and if they don't cut it I pay for the non-Free package that does. Again, it comes down to supporting those who produce what I want in the hope that they will continue producing.
The real problem, though, is that I have a very hard time shelling out cash for software that's totally unsupported, as all those boxes at Software, Etc will be next month. What's more, purchasing those boxes will help support only the middlemen, not the actual producers, and unfortunately for them the RIAA has made that an issue for me. The only remaining reason for me to purchase a copy of one of Loki's games is to get a legitimate CD-Key so I can play online (which isn't an issue for some games, UT and Q3 come to mind).
It's more of a moral issue for me than an availability issue. When it get's down to it I can get any software I want. As long as I'm willing to use a pirated copy, someone will be willing to provide it.
Indivuduals are frequently held in jails awaiting trial (and sometimes even whilst awaiting being charged with anything), if not held in jail an accused may have to make some kind of bail bond or be subject to movement restrictions or curfew.
An individual can run away, thus escaping justice. Bail is usually set according to two things: the seriousness of the crime and the likelyhood of flight. I suppose it's theoretically possible for a Corporation to run away, but I don't know how.
None of these are punishment, because at that point the accused have not been found guilty of anything.
It's true that these penalties are not generally considered punishment, since, as you say, they haven't been found guilty of anything, but they often end up serving that purpose. Many convicted of misdemeanors are sentenced to "time served", plus perhaps a fine or community service.
However, time served before a trial is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. We are talking about an entity which has already been convicted and is merely awaiting a reevaluation of their sentence. Name just one indiviudual who has been granted bail under those circumstances.
In which case the obvious option when a corporation breaks the law would be to treat them in the same was as a criminal (or terrorist) organisation.
The problem is, everyone who is a member of a criminal or terrorist is a criminal or a terrorist. Not everyone who is an employee of Microsoft is a monopolist. The vast majority of MS employees had no say in, or probably even knowledge of, MS' abusive business practices. How do you punish the company without punishing the totally innocent employees?
no-one would use the excuse "going after Bin Landen, would cause too many civilan casualties".
They would if he were in the US or Europe. Let's be honest here; it's not civilian casualties that are acceptable, it's Afghan civilian casualties.
I've really enjoyed Tribes2 the past several months. I suppose the patches will stop, the servers will disappear...
Well, at least that's one Linux port that's keeping pace with the windows version. Too bad it's headed the wrong direction...
Everythign about Tribes2 makes me really sad. I bought the windows version when it first came out. It was unstable, but not too bad. I've definitely seen worse. There were a lot of patches that came out in quick succession, but the patches were done very poorly. A patch couldn't be applied to an install with a previous patch, and you couldn't back out of the patches. You had to uninstall it and reinstall it, with all the required reboots, everytime a new patch was released, which in that first month was about every other day. That was the only reason I stopped playing it.
I was planning to buy the Linux port aafter they'd settled down with the patches for a bit, but there's no way I'll have the money by the end of the month. It seems like they could have sold a lot of stuff if they'd given a little more notice.
Based on logic I would agree with you. Law isn't based on logic, though. Netscape is not AOL, it is a company owned by AOL.Saying that AOL is Netscape is equivalent to saying that I am my wife.
Mendocino is a theme park. IIRC buildings can only be painted 3 colors in Mendocino. Almost every building is white, there are a few that are a very pale yellow which is pretty close to white, and I'm not sure what the other color is. This is mentioned briefly on the second page of the article. There are 3 bars, a couple of restaurants, a couple of antique shops, a pretty good coffee place, and a bunch of bed-and-breakfasts.
That's Mendocino. The whole thing. It's a flyspeck. If you want to buy anything useful, like groceries for example, you go to Fort Bragg, which is about 10 minutes north.
The real irony, I think, is that a tower placed in Caspar (an even smaller town that sits between Mendocino and Fort Bragg, consisting of a bar with a kitchen, a small hotel, and a small recording studio) would probably serve all the wireless needs of anyone in Mendocino just fine.
However it is possible to freeze any or even all assets of any entity. This might be a suitable castodial detention analogy.
Yes it is possible, but it isn't done automatically. If an individual is convicted of a crime they are put in jail to await sentencing. In the case of a corporation nothing is done while awaiting sentencing. Freezing assets can certainly be a part of the sentence, but I think the arguement here is that if a corporation is treated as a person the freeze should happen as soon as the corporation is found guilty, just as an individual would be put in jail immediately upon being found guilty.
I'm not saying I agree with this idea. It has it's merits, certainly, but it definately has it's problems as well. Sudden and massive unemployment (at least in MS' case) is one that immediately comes to mind. Perhaps the frozen assets could be used to pay unemployment benefits to the former employees. I don't know, I'm just talking off the top of my head here. I think it's worth looking at, though.
And it is UTTER BS about "too lazy to download netscape". Every damn computer i have had, i've had to download 60 megs of updates to keep current,
Then you are the exception to the rule. Most consumers don't even keep what they have up to date, let alone go out looking for alternatives to software that came preinstalled. This is a big part of why Outlook virii are so successful.
Governments file anti-trust suits. Corporations and individuals sue for relief and damages. There's a big difference there.
Also, even if Netscape did sue them previously (I don't think they did, to my knowledge they only testified for the DOJ), this is now AOL that's suing. Technically it's a different entity.
Also, you can be both tried (criminal) and sued (civil) for the same crime. Remember OJ?
Here's a ludicrous example: Let's say you set off a bomb on my street that damages several houses. Likely, you would be tried in criminal court. Also me, all my neighbors, and all our landlords could also sue you seperately for damages. You could potentially be in court 50 times for the same act, even though you would only be tried (criminal) once.
I wasn't vilifying Alan at all. Where did I say anything bad about him? All I did was say why I wouldn't be able to make a choice like that. Frankly, I envy his freedom to do so.
if you want to talk about your kids or how much trouble you'll have getting a job at the CIA, then go to it. But don't act like it has anything to do with the topic at hand.
It's a threaded discussion. Maybe if you bothered to read the rest of the thread you would see why what I posted is relevant to the discussion I posted in.
I don't disagree with anything you've said necessarily, however I was taking the meaning of the word "ideals" in context of the discussion; that is, quiting a job that you otherwise like because your company is bought by another company who you disagree with.
Everyhting you've said makes perfect sense to someone in my position, my ideals and priorities have changed. However, someone occupying the place in society that I used to would say that I've sold out, and that person is who my post was directed at.
jobs that require you to seriously compromise your ethics are frequently not good jobs to have from the point-of-view of supporting a family.
These aren't the kind of jobs I'm talking about. I still wouldn't join the Special Forces or the CIA, but I'd certainly consider an IT position at a defense contractor or even within the military itself. Previously I would never have considered even that, but now I find the benefits packages strangely appealing.
It's funny how having something to lose changes your perspective.
Without them, you turn into the kind of guy who wakes up at age 55 realizing that his entire life has been a pointless waste of time.
If I hadn't given up some of my previous ideals I would have been that guy. I know you're saying that I've merely changed my ideals, but they guy who would label me as a sell-out would never understand that perspective. If I'm going to make any sense to him I have to use his terms, and in those terms ideals cannot be changed, only given up.
According to AMD "All results have been normalized to a Pentium 4 processor running at 1.5GHz." The white paper describing the numbering system can be found here. Given that the numbering system starts at 1500+, I'd say it's reasonable to asume that the number is intended to be a performance comparison to a Pentium 4 running at that speed, and in fact AMD stated such when the model numbers were first introduced, and continues to say so (pp. 12-17 in the linked white paper).
Using the model number as comparison to older Athlons doesn't make sense, anyway. An AthlonXP 1600+ running at 1.4GHz doesn't perform like a TBird running at 1.6GHz, it performs like a TBird running at 1.4GHz.
If you mean the Athlon Classic, rather than the TBird, there has never been an Athlon Classic that ran at 1.6GHz and it doesn't make sense to compare your product to one that doesn't exist.
The performance ratings AMD uses are based on the performance of the Pentium 4. The Duron isn't intended to compete with the Pentium 4, it's intended to compete with the Celeron. The Duron has maintained clock pace with it with little difficulty and so the performance rating would only cause confusion in the Duron's intended market.
The Athlon, of course, is competing with the Pentioum 4 and is able to keep performance pace, but not clock pace. In that market clock speed causes confusion about actual performance, so the performance rating makes sense there.
That's my best guess as to why they don't use the performance rating system on Durons.
It could also be that AMD has no problem saying that the Duron achieves performance and clock parity with the Pentium 4. I haven't seen any benchmark comparisons between the Pentium 4 and the Duron, nor have I looked for them, but I have no problem believing that a 1.3GHz Duron qualifies for a 1300+ rating, or even a 1500+ rating. Giving it that rating, however, would place it in direct competition with hte Athlon. That maybe seems a little underhanded, but ask yourself what's more underhanded: limiting competition between your high- and low-end products through naming convention, or limiting it by intentionally crippling the low-end product?
I think it's great to have them, and I certainly have some strong beliefs of my own, but if it came down to a choice between a matter of principle and providing for my daughter, I'd toss the principle out the window without batting an eye. My responsibility to her outweighs my hatred of The Man, just as my dad's responsibility to me outweighed his desire to be an artist.
Before my daughter was born I would have been right there with you, but I've learned a lot since then. Self respect is a great thing to have, but next to your responsibility to your progeny it's about as important as the color of your socks. There are much bigger and better things in life than the small amount of self respect gained from sacrificing yourself and your family on the alter of idealism.
I went to AMD's site and into the tech section for the Athlon XP and it contained a link to the Win2k patch, so I guess the bug is still there:(
It doesn't mean anything of the sort. All that means is that AMD recognizes that there are people still using Athlons that have the bug. Every hardware company I've ever had experience with supports everything they put out for a number of years. For example, the last company I worked for supported their stuff for 7 years, then sold all the remaining parts etc. to an interested "independent contractor" (usually a company tech who was "retiring") and refered all further support requests to them. That included all drivers and patches specific to every hardware revision the product had undergone during it's lifecycle.
Anyway, the fact that they still make the patch available for those cores that do have the bug doesn't mean the current core has the bug, but I'd still add mem=nopentium to my lilo boot option string at the first sign of trouble. Always try the cheap/easy fix first, and this one is definately easy.
That said, I'll be extremely disappointed if they didn't fix the bug in the recent core revision.
So, it's just the ones with the morgan/palomino core that are safe? Or am I reading this wrong.
I have to say that this news is somewhat of a relief to me. My Athlon 700 has the bug and I've been going nuts recompiling kernels and nvidia drivers since I first tried to play tuxracer with my little brother christmas eve.
On the upside, it finally motivated me to explore the guts of Linux a little more...:)
That's sort of the point of Microsoft's product lineup you appear to have missed.
I haven't missed it at all, I just prefer the *nix model, where the functionality of several different apps can be integrated together easily and optionally. There is absolutely no reason why my email client should chew up 30M of RAM.
"So, how exactly is Linux as vaporous as.net?"
I don't know, since.Net isn't vaporous. The production release was made available off the web site this week.
You still haven't explained how Linux is vaporous.
Windows.Net server offers IIS 6.0
Wow! IIS 5 was so great! Now IIS 6? I can hardly wait to exploit^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htry it!
COM+ v1.5
I don't have a use for COM, so I have to admit I know nothing about it, but I'm sure that if I did I would be pretty excited.
MSMQ 3.0
I'm sure this is quite useful if your boxen are regularly "temporarily unavailable".
Furthermore there is the new version of.Net Server for Web which will offer compelling pricing.
I'm sure it will, by comparison to other MS products.
But do you want to talk about backwards compatibility between Linux versions?
I didn't think so.
Could you elaborate, please? I haven't had a single problem with updating SuSE.
I have to disagree with some of the points you make.
I have a feeling that everything is going to end up digitally distributed whether the big boys like it or not, and unfortunately, that seems to mean that everything is going to be free.
By this statement you are agreeing with the MPAA/RIAA that piracy will put them out of business. History has proven this assumption to be false. The ability to copy VHS tapes didn't put the kill the MPAA. Certainly, piracy was rampant in the early days, but at that time the MPAA was charging up to $70 per tape. How many people bother to pirate VHS now that the tapes are $10-15? History has proven that the most effective anti-piracy measure is sane pricing!
$20 is too much to pay for a music CD, especially when a cassette can be had for $10 and the cassette is much more expensive to manufacture. Let the RIAA lower the price by $5 and watch what happens to piracy.
The same goes for the MPAA, $30 is too much for a DVD. The price of DVD burners is coming down to the point where they are reasonable, and if the MPAA doesn't lower their prices a bit they're going to be having the same problems the RIAA is.
if music really does turn into a "cottage industry" (as another post suggested) then there will be many more small artists than there are now
No, there will be the same number of artists, music being a cottage industry is not going to magically create more musicians. There will probably be fewer big artists and more medium-sized ones, but by eliminating the middleman these artists will likely be better able to support themselves through their art.
people who don't pay for their work will directly affect those artists
Musicians, even the big ones, don't really make money from CDs, they make money from concerts and merchendise (t-shirts, posters, etc.) If you want to support a band, go to a concert and by a t-shirt. Buying the CD only supports the RIAA.
meaning less high-quality music available.
If you consider manufactured groups like NSynch high-quality music, then you're probably right. The thing is, good music is created by people who love to make music, and those people will continue to create music whether they get rich off it or not. Those who are only in it to get rich and famous create crap. This is a difficult concept for those who aren't artists to grasp, but to artists like myself it's a basic fact of life.
"Most of the time" is the key phrase there. I've had some problems with it, particularly when installing updates/patches. By contrast, su always works.
"The problem is that WinXP adds nothing to Win2k from a corporate point of view. "
That's not true.
Very informative. Thank you for your insight. Now how about some examples to back up your claims?
Oh no! Having frequently used icons in the start menu is disorienting. Oh my god!
What does this really add over the way W2k does it; hiding icons that aren't frequently used, with the option to reveal all if you want something you don't use every day? If I want something on the main Start menu under W2k, I can just drag and drop it there. Personally, I like that a lot better than having Windows decide for me what goes there and what doesn't. This is, after all, the same OS that puts the Internet Connection wizard icon on every users desktop every time I update or patch anything at all connected to networking, even though everything my users need is already set up. And yes, it can be disorienting. Some people don't deal well with change of any sort. You can find at least a hundred examples here of people who literally follow step-by-step "click on Start, then click on Programs..." style directions that somebody wrote down for them. Read through some of the archives, you're bound to find a few before too long. Unfortunately, these are the users IT needs to think about most when making any upgrade decisions.
".net? Pure vaporware so far as far as real-world applications go. "
No more so than using Linux.
Again, thanks for the insight. Now how about some examples? The only thing Linux is missing for me is a 3D CAD package, but nobody's promising one, so that doesn't really count as vaporware, does it.
OpenOffice 6.4 is a very usable office suite, with some features I really wish MS Office had, like displaying non-printing characters and actual WYSIWYG HTML output that's not horribly bloated. And did I mention that it has no problems opening and saving to MS file formats? I've actually been using OpenOffice on my Windows boxes in favor of MS Office for over a month now, and I haven't had a single problem.
Outlook? All of it's useful functionality has been available in *nix since before Windows ever existed, albiet not in one integrated package. But, hey, that's the beauty of pipes, isn't it? I guess the shared calendar thing is "missing", but frankly if I need to know when my CFO's kid gets back from his field trip, I'll call her up and ask her. No need for all that extra email traffic.
So, how exactly is Linux as vaporous as.net?
There is no WinXP server product.
In other words, it's not there! And when it is, what is it going to offer over W2k? Name just one compelling feature for us, please.
"Also, software compatibility is still to be tested."
It's actually pretty good.
Funny, I remember hearing that about W2k, too. And for the most part it's been true, except for that one app/device you use all the time. Network card drivers were a big headache when I upgraded my company to W2k, and I don't look forward to repeating that experience. And can someone please explain why I need to replace my parallel port drivers with the NT ones (which can only be done through a kernel debugger (which I don't have) running on another machine through hyperterminal over a serial connection) in order to share my plotter?
Sorry, MS's history on this has been pretty bad, though ironically they've done better on the consumer OS's than the Professional ones.
And from another of your posts:
Perhaps if people who questioned the value of XP or Win2k did so with intelligent well-thought out comments who could reference facts to back up their opinions.... I would not make such posts.
I thought the parent was quite intelligent and well thought-out, certainly far above the drivel you've posted.
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Seems to me this would make for an incredible cross-platform developement tool.
And yet these innocents are still not terrorists or criminals, merely employees of someone who is. But, if the head guy of a corporation gets arrested, the business doesn't necessarily go under since the business is not technically the property of the boss, even if he is the majority (or perhaps even sole, I'm not sure of the details) stockholder. If the business itself is doing something illegal, it's the opposite. The boss or the stockholders can't necessarily be held accountable. That's the whole purpose of creating a corporation.
No, I wouldn't be breaking the law if the MPAA didn't have the gall to try and tell me where and how I can watch a DVD that I've purchased. CSS and region coding are not laws, they are technological measures.
Along those lines, I've made a personal commitment not to pirate Linux software. Sure, I try Free alternatives first, if available, and if they don't cut it I pay for the non-Free package that does. Again, it comes down to supporting those who produce what I want in the hope that they will continue producing.
The real problem, though, is that I have a very hard time shelling out cash for software that's totally unsupported, as all those boxes at Software, Etc will be next month. What's more, purchasing those boxes will help support only the middlemen, not the actual producers, and unfortunately for them the RIAA has made that an issue for me. The only remaining reason for me to purchase a copy of one of Loki's games is to get a legitimate CD-Key so I can play online (which isn't an issue for some games, UT and Q3 come to mind).
It's more of a moral issue for me than an availability issue. When it get's down to it I can get any software I want. As long as I'm willing to use a pirated copy, someone will be willing to provide it.
This judgement could have far reaching implications, with the judge implying that even playing original imports was illegal.
This effectively upholds region codes, both on games and DVDs.
The irony, in my case, is that I wouldn't go to the trouble of ripping (and very rarely pirating) DVDs if it weren't for CSS and region codes.
An individual can run away, thus escaping justice. Bail is usually set according to two things: the seriousness of the crime and the likelyhood of flight. I suppose it's theoretically possible for a Corporation to run away, but I don't know how.
None of these are punishment, because at that point the accused have not been found guilty of anything.
It's true that these penalties are not generally considered punishment, since, as you say, they haven't been found guilty of anything, but they often end up serving that purpose. Many convicted of misdemeanors are sentenced to "time served", plus perhaps a fine or community service.
However, time served before a trial is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. We are talking about an entity which has already been convicted and is merely awaiting a reevaluation of their sentence. Name just one indiviudual who has been granted bail under those circumstances.
In which case the obvious option when a corporation breaks the law would be to treat them in the same was as a criminal (or terrorist) organisation.
The problem is, everyone who is a member of a criminal or terrorist is a criminal or a terrorist. Not everyone who is an employee of Microsoft is a monopolist. The vast majority of MS employees had no say in, or probably even knowledge of, MS' abusive business practices. How do you punish the company without punishing the totally innocent employees?
no-one would use the excuse "going after Bin Landen, would cause too many civilan casualties".
They would if he were in the US or Europe. Let's be honest here; it's not civilian casualties that are acceptable, it's Afghan civilian casualties.
Well, at least that's one Linux port that's keeping pace with the windows version. Too bad it's headed the wrong direction...
Everythign about Tribes2 makes me really sad. I bought the windows version when it first came out. It was unstable, but not too bad. I've definitely seen worse. There were a lot of patches that came out in quick succession, but the patches were done very poorly. A patch couldn't be applied to an install with a previous patch, and you couldn't back out of the patches. You had to uninstall it and reinstall it, with all the required reboots, everytime a new patch was released, which in that first month was about every other day. That was the only reason I stopped playing it.
I was planning to buy the Linux port aafter they'd settled down with the patches for a bit, but there's no way I'll have the money by the end of the month. It seems like they could have sold a lot of stuff if they'd given a little more notice.
Based on logic I would agree with you. Law isn't based on logic, though. Netscape is not AOL, it is a company owned by AOL.Saying that AOL is Netscape is equivalent to saying that I am my wife.
That's Mendocino. The whole thing. It's a flyspeck. If you want to buy anything useful, like groceries for example, you go to Fort Bragg, which is about 10 minutes north.
The real irony, I think, is that a tower placed in Caspar (an even smaller town that sits between Mendocino and Fort Bragg, consisting of a bar with a kitchen, a small hotel, and a small recording studio) would probably serve all the wireless needs of anyone in Mendocino just fine.
Yes it is possible, but it isn't done automatically. If an individual is convicted of a crime they are put in jail to await sentencing. In the case of a corporation nothing is done while awaiting sentencing. Freezing assets can certainly be a part of the sentence, but I think the arguement here is that if a corporation is treated as a person the freeze should happen as soon as the corporation is found guilty, just as an individual would be put in jail immediately upon being found guilty.
I'm not saying I agree with this idea. It has it's merits, certainly, but it definately has it's problems as well. Sudden and massive unemployment (at least in MS' case) is one that immediately comes to mind. Perhaps the frozen assets could be used to pay unemployment benefits to the former employees. I don't know, I'm just talking off the top of my head here. I think it's worth looking at, though.
Then you are the exception to the rule. Most consumers don't even keep what they have up to date, let alone go out looking for alternatives to software that came preinstalled. This is a big part of why Outlook virii are so successful.
Also, even if Netscape did sue them previously (I don't think they did, to my knowledge they only testified for the DOJ), this is now AOL that's suing. Technically it's a different entity.
Also, you can be both tried (criminal) and sued (civil) for the same crime. Remember OJ?
Here's a ludicrous example: Let's say you set off a bomb on my street that damages several houses. Likely, you would be tried in criminal court. Also me, all my neighbors, and all our landlords could also sue you seperately for damages. You could potentially be in court 50 times for the same act, even though you would only be tried (criminal) once.
if you want to talk about your kids or how much trouble you'll have getting a job at the CIA, then go to it. But don't act like it has anything to do with the topic at hand.
It's a threaded discussion. Maybe if you bothered to read the rest of the thread you would see why what I posted is relevant to the discussion I posted in.
Everyhting you've said makes perfect sense to someone in my position, my ideals and priorities have changed. However, someone occupying the place in society that I used to would say that I've sold out, and that person is who my post was directed at.
jobs that require you to seriously compromise your ethics are frequently not good jobs to have from the point-of-view of supporting a family.
These aren't the kind of jobs I'm talking about. I still wouldn't join the Special Forces or the CIA, but I'd certainly consider an IT position at a defense contractor or even within the military itself. Previously I would never have considered even that, but now I find the benefits packages strangely appealing.
It's funny how having something to lose changes your perspective.
Without them, you turn into the kind of guy who wakes up at age 55 realizing that his entire life has been a pointless waste of time.
If I hadn't given up some of my previous ideals I would have been that guy. I know you're saying that I've merely changed my ideals, but they guy who would label me as a sell-out would never understand that perspective. If I'm going to make any sense to him I have to use his terms, and in those terms ideals cannot be changed, only given up.
Using the model number as comparison to older Athlons doesn't make sense, anyway. An AthlonXP 1600+ running at 1.4GHz doesn't perform like a TBird running at 1.6GHz, it performs like a TBird running at 1.4GHz.
If you mean the Athlon Classic, rather than the TBird, there has never been an Athlon Classic that ran at 1.6GHz and it doesn't make sense to compare your product to one that doesn't exist.
The Athlon, of course, is competing with the Pentioum 4 and is able to keep performance pace, but not clock pace. In that market clock speed causes confusion about actual performance, so the performance rating makes sense there.
That's my best guess as to why they don't use the performance rating system on Durons.
It could also be that AMD has no problem saying that the Duron achieves performance and clock parity with the Pentium 4. I haven't seen any benchmark comparisons between the Pentium 4 and the Duron, nor have I looked for them, but I have no problem believing that a 1.3GHz Duron qualifies for a 1300+ rating, or even a 1500+ rating. Giving it that rating, however, would place it in direct competition with hte Athlon. That maybe seems a little underhanded, but ask yourself what's more underhanded: limiting competition between your high- and low-end products through naming convention, or limiting it by intentionally crippling the low-end product?
I think it's great to have them, and I certainly have some strong beliefs of my own, but if it came down to a choice between a matter of principle and providing for my daughter, I'd toss the principle out the window without batting an eye. My responsibility to her outweighs my hatred of The Man, just as my dad's responsibility to me outweighed his desire to be an artist.
Before my daughter was born I would have been right there with you, but I've learned a lot since then. Self respect is a great thing to have, but next to your responsibility to your progeny it's about as important as the color of your socks. There are much bigger and better things in life than the small amount of self respect gained from sacrificing yourself and your family on the alter of idealism.
It doesn't mean anything of the sort. All that means is that AMD recognizes that there are people still using Athlons that have the bug. Every hardware company I've ever had experience with supports everything they put out for a number of years. For example, the last company I worked for supported their stuff for 7 years, then sold all the remaining parts etc. to an interested "independent contractor" (usually a company tech who was "retiring") and refered all further support requests to them. That included all drivers and patches specific to every hardware revision the product had undergone during it's lifecycle.
Anyway, the fact that they still make the patch available for those cores that do have the bug doesn't mean the current core has the bug, but I'd still add mem=nopentium to my lilo boot option string at the first sign of trouble. Always try the cheap/easy fix first, and this one is definately easy.
That said, I'll be extremely disappointed if they didn't fix the bug in the recent core revision.
I have to say that this news is somewhat of a relief to me. My Athlon 700 has the bug and I've been going nuts recompiling kernels and nvidia drivers since I first tried to play tuxracer with my little brother christmas eve.
On the upside, it finally motivated me to explore the guts of Linux a little more... :)
I haven't missed it at all, I just prefer the *nix model, where the functionality of several different apps can be integrated together easily and optionally. There is absolutely no reason why my email client should chew up 30M of RAM.
"So, how exactly is Linux as vaporous as .net?"
.Net isn't vaporous. The production release was made available off the web site this week.
I don't know, since
You still haven't explained how Linux is vaporous.
Windows .Net server offers IIS 6.0
Wow! IIS 5 was so great! Now IIS 6? I can hardly wait to exploit^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htry it!
COM+ v1.5
I don't have a use for COM, so I have to admit I know nothing about it, but I'm sure that if I did I would be pretty excited.
MSMQ 3.0
I'm sure this is quite useful if your boxen are regularly "temporarily unavailable".
Furthermore there is the new version of .Net Server for Web which will offer compelling pricing.
I'm sure it will, by comparison to other MS products.
But do you want to talk about backwards compatibility between Linux versions?
I didn't think so.
Could you elaborate, please? I haven't had a single problem with updating SuSE.
I have a feeling that everything is going to end up digitally distributed whether the big boys like it or not, and unfortunately, that seems to mean that everything is going to be free.
By this statement you are agreeing with the MPAA/RIAA that piracy will put them out of business. History has proven this assumption to be false. The ability to copy VHS tapes didn't put the kill the MPAA. Certainly, piracy was rampant in the early days, but at that time the MPAA was charging up to $70 per tape. How many people bother to pirate VHS now that the tapes are $10-15? History has proven that the most effective anti-piracy measure is sane pricing!
$20 is too much to pay for a music CD, especially when a cassette can be had for $10 and the cassette is much more expensive to manufacture. Let the RIAA lower the price by $5 and watch what happens to piracy.
The same goes for the MPAA, $30 is too much for a DVD. The price of DVD burners is coming down to the point where they are reasonable, and if the MPAA doesn't lower their prices a bit they're going to be having the same problems the RIAA is.
if music really does turn into a "cottage industry" (as another post suggested) then there will be many more small artists than there are now
No, there will be the same number of artists, music being a cottage industry is not going to magically create more musicians. There will probably be fewer big artists and more medium-sized ones, but by eliminating the middleman these artists will likely be better able to support themselves through their art.
people who don't pay for their work will directly affect those artists
Musicians, even the big ones, don't really make money from CDs, they make money from concerts and merchendise (t-shirts, posters, etc.) If you want to support a band, go to a concert and by a t-shirt. Buying the CD only supports the RIAA.
meaning less high-quality music available.
If you consider manufactured groups like NSynch high-quality music, then you're probably right. The thing is, good music is created by people who love to make music, and those people will continue to create music whether they get rich off it or not. Those who are only in it to get rich and famous create crap. This is a difficult concept for those who aren't artists to grasp, but to artists like myself it's a basic fact of life.
Don't believe me? Then why was John Johanson (sp?) arrested for doing something that's perfectly legal in his country?
That's not true.
Very informative. Thank you for your insight. Now how about some examples to back up your claims?
Oh no! Having frequently used icons in the start menu is disorienting. Oh my god!
What does this really add over the way W2k does it; hiding icons that aren't frequently used, with the option to reveal all if you want something you don't use every day? If I want something on the main Start menu under W2k, I can just drag and drop it there. Personally, I like that a lot better than having Windows decide for me what goes there and what doesn't. This is, after all, the same OS that puts the Internet Connection wizard icon on every users desktop every time I update or patch anything at all connected to networking, even though everything my users need is already set up. And yes, it can be disorienting. Some people don't deal well with change of any sort. You can find at least a hundred examples here of people who literally follow step-by-step "click on Start, then click on Programs..." style directions that somebody wrote down for them. Read through some of the archives, you're bound to find a few before too long. Unfortunately, these are the users IT needs to think about most when making any upgrade decisions.
".net? Pure vaporware so far as far as real-world applications go. "
No more so than using Linux.
Again, thanks for the insight. Now how about some examples? The only thing Linux is missing for me is a 3D CAD package, but nobody's promising one, so that doesn't really count as vaporware, does it.
OpenOffice 6.4 is a very usable office suite, with some features I really wish MS Office had, like displaying non-printing characters and actual WYSIWYG HTML output that's not horribly bloated. And did I mention that it has no problems opening and saving to MS file formats? I've actually been using OpenOffice on my Windows boxes in favor of MS Office for over a month now, and I haven't had a single problem.
Outlook? All of it's useful functionality has been available in *nix since before Windows ever existed, albiet not in one integrated package. But, hey, that's the beauty of pipes, isn't it? I guess the shared calendar thing is "missing", but frankly if I need to know when my CFO's kid gets back from his field trip, I'll call her up and ask her. No need for all that extra email traffic.
So, how exactly is Linux as vaporous as .net?
There is no WinXP server product.
In other words, it's not there! And when it is, what is it going to offer over W2k? Name just one compelling feature for us, please.
"Also, software compatibility is still to be tested."
It's actually pretty good.
Funny, I remember hearing that about W2k, too. And for the most part it's been true, except for that one app/device you use all the time. Network card drivers were a big headache when I upgraded my company to W2k, and I don't look forward to repeating that experience. And can someone please explain why I need to replace my parallel port drivers with the NT ones (which can only be done through a kernel debugger (which I don't have) running on another machine through hyperterminal over a serial connection) in order to share my plotter?
Sorry, MS's history on this has been pretty bad, though ironically they've done better on the consumer OS's than the Professional ones.
And from another of your posts:
Perhaps if people who questioned the value of XP or Win2k did so with intelligent well-thought out comments who could reference facts to back up their opinions.... I would not make such posts.
I thought the parent was quite intelligent and well thought-out, certainly far above the drivel you've posted.