I'm a Baptist too, and I know that in John 14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
If you think Jesus was lying here, how can you trust Him with your salvation? Don't succumb to New Age thinking.
OK, Commander Christian. I was born and raised Catholic, and blindly followed the rhetoric until I was 22 and realized that the church follows the creator, and The Church follows The Pope.
In response to what you've written above: you're being a blind follower and taking things too literally. You're taking the words of Jesus, as interpreted by one of his many biographers, and reported through millennea of translations through dozens of man's languages, to mean that he mean himself, Jesus Christ.
My interpretation (and this is not "New Age Thinking," it's non-literal, logical thinking, following the paths of right and wrong) is that Jesus, who was a physical representation of our creator on this earth, was saying that you will not enjoy the benefits of life everlasting unless you walk the path of truth and kindness to others as he instructed. "Only through me"-- as I am the creator, the way, the truth, and the light-- follow my example and I will count you among those worthy of sharing my kingdom.
You can live just, good lives and not believe in Jesus... you can live by his example, and still be "saved." If that is not tru,e you're going to have about four billion people to explain this to in the morning.
You can't take one passage, two passages, even a whole chapter from the Bible and have it stand as "The Word of God," although many people try. If you read any given direct passage from the Bible as we know it, I guarantee you can find an exact passage somewhere else that directly or indirectly contradicts it.
To be a true follower of God, you must accept the whole work of the Bible, accept man's failings in reporting the details... and take the messages of: Honor the Creator, Honor your fellow man, Repent you failings and Live a just life... as what God was trying to say.
It's not only that "the unexamined life is not worth living," but also that "the unexamined faith is not worth practicing."
One of the great passions in my life (one that has led me away from organized religion, oddly enough) is having conversation wih people about the hypocrisy shown by religions throughout history. "God" and "Jesus" in the Judeo-Christian religons, Muhammed, Buddha, et al-- they all stood for peace, love, humanity, and understanding. And oh yeah... righteousness.
The concept of "righteousness" has led to the "My God is bigger than your God" shit that has been going on for oh, about 4-6,000 years now. Invoking God to justify murder and destruction, all becuase you think your God is right and the other guy's God is wrong.
I submit that Gods are all the same. A creator, life-giver, a spiritual leader... we just choose to worhip them in different ways. Americans probably have no problem with this, since most of us are pretty open-minded about religious differences. Except, of course, those crazy rabid Christians who like to call Catholics "Mary fetishists," claim that the King James Version is the "Only True Version" of God's Word, and anyone who disagrees should either be converted or damned to hell by their hand. But I digress...
The point is that in other parts of the world, specifically the Middle East, Religion is everything. Which God you worship and how you worship him determines where you will live, how you will vote, and oftentime whether you will live or die when a particular "party" comes into power.
Take for example, Isreal and Palestine. There's no reason in the world why this little piece of land can't handle people of two differing sets of religious beliefs. Oh, except of course that the Palestinians believe that they own the land by rights, and it was taken by the Israeli's when they claimed it in the name of "The God of Abraham." And the same Israeli's belive that since God gave THEM the land, they should be able to kick the Muslims the hell out.
Maybe that's oversimplification, but the fact is that it's a big pissing contest. Since the governments and religions are one in the same, the diplomatic approach is little different than the religious approach; with neither side wanting to give.
Wanna know how the great King Solomon would have handled the situaion? Drop a 20 megaton nuclear warhead square on the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, and let them sort out the resulting mess. Nothing unites people like working together to recover from Armageddon, eh?
Warning, this may be offtopic. Please don't moderate me down, just ignore this remark; I'm just trying to clarify something for the masses that looks like FUD. I did 60 seconds of research on google and wanted to clear the air.
You said:
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Hold on a moment, here is the ACTUAL quote:
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots," Bush said during an August 27, 1988 press conference, according to an American Atheists spokesman.
So first off, this is the elder Bush, not the current President, whom many folks would assume the quote is attributed to.
Secondly, this is an alleged remark made during a press conference 13 years ago that nobody has any recollection of, other than the President of American Atheists. The former President Bush apparently denies it, and nobody can substantiate that the comment was even made.
I'm no Bush apologist (I voted Libertarian for lack of better options), but the way you present that quote in your sig is bound to incite someone to rail againt George W. Bush for it.
Sorry, I stopped reading that rag MacOSRumors.com long ago... I think it was right around the fifth Apple Product announcement that went by without the "Long-Rumored Apple/Palm Handheld!!!" being actually released.
They had so many posts and mockups of that things, it was ridiculous. Each and every time an Apple event was coming, MacOSRumors would assure me that the Apple/Palm deal would be announced to much fanfare. "Multiple Independent Sources Confirm..." or "Anonymous Apple Source Sent This Information Personally!"
My ass. MOSR is one guy being trolled repeatedly by PC bigots to get their jollies. And he keeps falling for it!:P
Well in this specific case, you appeared to be arguing against the business model for this company providing this service. And in this instance, it is an American company providing a service to Americans.:)
Not that the rest of the world is unimportant, just irrelevent to this particular article.
"The majority of people still use regular dial-up accounts since broadband connections (i.e. DSL) still aren't that readily available in many areas"
I'd buy this if it were still 1998. But the market has exploded in the last 3 years. DSL and/or cable modem access is probably available to 90% of the US population.
The only real barrier to broadband for many consumers (especially young gamers) is cost... it costs a lot more ($40-60 a month) for broadband than the $21.95 dad is shelling out for the family's AOL screennames, or the free Earthlink account you stole.:)
I just fear that the cost of this action could possibly end the academic careers of too many students guilty of nothing more than failing to see how their work could be copied.
Read the article, specifically the last few paragraphs. In your attempt to karma-whore by posting early with some well thought and legitimate concerns, you missed the part of the article where your concerns are addressed.
The article specifically says that half of the folks whose papers came up as duplicates were probably the source of the original material, and most of them were guilty of no more than showing others their work.
The story also says that it would be extremely hard to prove that they meant to plagiarize by giving a classmate a copy of their work for reference, so no action would be taken against them.
I have DSL through Verizon (formerly GTE), and I called December 26th 1999. Day after Christmas, week before Y2K.
Guy came and installed me January 7th, 2000, at the promised time. DSL worked within the hour. 768kbs down, 128kbs up.
My connection has been up, able to pull 90-92KB/s, for 16 months today. Granted, I am a block from the CO, and my apartment complex was built in 1993... but still, I love my connection. No downtime... my ISP (local company) lost outside DNS a couple of time for about 90 minutes, but I could still get my email and such, so my connection has never been down as far as I know.
I hear a lot of griping about forced upgrades and obsolescence of PCs, especially in this thread and in the "Cheap $500 PC" sub-thread of the MacOS X article from earlier today. Here is my experience, in the hopes it might make you realize just how easy it can be to stay "with the curve" with respect to the ever-increasing PC specs.
In March 1999, I bought a new Abit BX6 Revision 2 motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and a Slot1 processor interface. ($125) I assembled a system in an Enlight 7200 series ATX desktop case/PS ($50), 64megabytes of PC100 RAM ($125), Celeron 333 Slot1 processor ($100), 32x CD-Rom ($50), Floppy drive ($15), nVidia Riva128ZX AGP video card ($25), 4.3GB HD ($85), Generic Keyboard and mouse ($25), SoundBlater 16 ISA sound card (Free), 56K external modem left over from my Mac (Free) and reasonable 15" monitor someone gave me (Free). Shares a printer with iMac; cheap Canon printer has USB and parallel interfaces, so we use both. So $600.00 initial investment, less the $200 I received on eBay for the sale of my older Mac Quadra 840av. (My wife had pretty much taken over the "new" iMac we got in November 1998, so I needed a PC for myself).
Since then I have done the following upgrades:
Upgrade to Celeron 366 processor, overclocked to 550MHz ($120 including Alpha Heatsink). Added 128 meg stick of PC100 RAM ($100). Moved everything into new, 10-bay full-tower ATX case ($60 including shipping). Spray-painted case and drive fronts silver and changed power LED to a brilliant blue one like VALinux uses on their servers ($4). Installed "geek." sticker ($3) from thinkgeek.com on side of unit.;)
Got DSL, added 3com 10/100 PCI NIC ($40). Installed 2x DVD-Rom drive ($45) and Creative DXR2-overlay DVD decoder PCI card ($30). Installed SB Live! PCI sound card ($50). Added SCSI CD-R from another old Mac, and bought PCI SCSI card ($200 total). Added PCI Ultra ATA-100 PCI card ($40) and 30GB, 7200RPM ATA-100 hard drive ($130).
Upgraded processor again to Celeron II-600 ($75), running at 927 MHz with Alpha heatsink, with Abit Slotket III FC-PGA to Slot1 adapter card $15). (Had to update BIOS for that one, but since Abit was kind enough to put out updates, this mobo will run processors up to 1GHz, despite being designed when the fastest processor was still 500MHz.)
Upgraded video card to GeForce2MX AGP card ($130). Just added new stick of PC133 RAM, 256 megs ($90). Added speakers + sub from eBay ($30). Bought 19" monitor ($248) from WalMart, REAL nice.25dot pitch job. Not a Trinitron, but hey, a big step up from 15. Total paid for upgrades over 24 months: $1280.00 or so.
Sold all replaced parts (vid card, case, 2 processors) on eBay for about $130.
Here it is March 2001, and guess what: by buying an expandable motherboard, and middle-of-the-road-priced (but quality) components for 24 months... I spent a net of $1550 for a very feature-complete, very fast (almost one gigahertz, with 448 megs of RAM and fast I/O), and spiffy-looking box. That works out to about $65 month hardware allowance, which for somebody like me is NOT all that much. Plus, I can watch DVDs on my TV (video card has SVideo out) and burn CDs.
So my point is, play your cards right and ride the upgrade-frenzied industry out as long as you can. I have at least another year before I'll upgrade my motherboard to a dual-socket AMD motherboard with DDR RAM, so I just set the PC budget aside and enjoy what I have!
Jamie said: "Star Wars Episode IV is going to be first on the chopping block when the Republicans come to censor our movies. And censor they will. (...) Anyway these are the films, ladies and gentlemen, the mass-murdering films and TV shows, that John Ashcroft will ban, in conjunction with the Christian Coalition. Anyone standing up for them will be tarred as defending mass murder. Mark my words."
Let me give you a disclaimer first: I generally vote Independent, occasionally vote Libertarian, and have in the past votes for a random Republican or two in my "youth." I do not vote Democrat, because while in general I hate politicians, I specifically hate the neo-socialism that the Democratic Party has come to embrace over the past 15-20 years. I subscribe to no organized religion, and believe that there are better people to serve as Attorney General of the USA than John Ashcroft.
I will also disclose, possibly unwisely, that I was clicking the "Read More" link with the full intention of clicking "Post Anonymously," then telling Jamie in no uncertain terms that he should attach a certain orifice to a certain part of my genitalia. Which I have never, EVER done on Slashdot before, but felt justified in doing so in this case.
However, when I arrived at the story, I found that I had fresh Moderator Points. And I also remembered the old cliche: "Never raise your voice, when you should be reinforcing your argument." So I was left with the conundrum: Do I spend my mod points here on people who make good points, or try to make points of my own?
That being said, you can now see which choice I selected.
Jamie: Your comments on this article, as quoted above, are the most reckless, biased, FUD-inducing load of crap I have ever seen posted on Slashdot by a contributor. And yes, my fellow commentors, I have read every article JonKatz has posted.
While I fully support your right to speak your mind, and reveal whatever prejudices you might have, there is absolutely no justification for any of the above-quoted text. If you want to modify the behavior of politicians, suggest positive response methods from your audience to let the Christian Coalition and "The Republicans" what the American People are thinking.
These elected officials may be politicians, but they are by no means Hitler-esque fascists or thought police. In much the same way that Bill Clinton and company didn't turn this country into a Socialist welfare-state. This great country, with its checks and balances, usually ends up moderating itself.* The will of the 280,000,000 individuals in this country may not be overwhelmingly obvious, but there always seems to be a happy medium to be found politically. If Gore had been elected, there would be complaints by some part of the populace about this, that, and the other thing as well-- I'm sure you realize that.
* - Ignoring the recent examples where Corporatism seems to have overtaken the Capitalism and Consumerism we're so used to in this country; e.g. RIAA and MPAA. But that appears to be because the politicians (judges) and lawyers involved in those cases are not as good at hiding their sources of funding as politicians in bygone eras.
Before this degenerates into some kind of wild, sweeping manifesto, I just wanted to do a little checking and balancing on my own. I need to take a little bit of wind out of your sails, Jamie, because face it:
The Republicans are NOT going to take away your Star Wars. The Christian Coalition is NOT going to take Sar Trek off the air. John Ashcroft is NOT going to ban violent movies.
Mark MY words: This country will be moderated by the same "anonymous middle" that has elected alternating conservative and liberal groups of politicians for at LEAST the last 100 years.
Your perception of time seems to have been warped by continuously chanting opensource-mantras.
For whatever it's worth, if it makes you feel any better, I'm a Mac-head who support Win32 platforms for a living. I haven't had time to install anything "open source" past a stock install of RH7.0 as a "hobby" on a 486DX33.:)
Maybe my perception of time has been warped by feeding too many trolls on Slashdot...;)
I haven't seen anything out of Be since their free download of BeOS Personal probably 2 years ago. Of course, I haven't been actively checking.
I liked Be a lot better when they were a hardware maker, with dual PPC 603 CPUs and a custom "Geek Port" for hacking the platform. What was it, like 59 pins?:)
But I am glad I didn't tell my boss to buy teh stock last year when she was looking at it. I told her to wait until they had a proven market.
Good luck, Jean-Louis Gassee! Maybe Apple will hire you back?;)
Crimes such as using a $200 bill with Dubya's face on it to pay a $1.50 tab at the Kwik-E-Mart? I about ran off the road laughing when I heard about that one.
It was a Dairy Queen in Danville, KY. And yes, it was an AP story; some guy convinced the chick at the counter that it was legal tender (the bill said "Moral Legal Tender"), and she gave him $198.xx in change.
I wanted to call Dairy Queen an just laugh at them hysterically for a few minutes, but believe it or not, there are two DQs in that city, and I didn't want to harass innocent residents of Danville, KY.;)
In the Cleveland metro area, I am purchasing (for the last 15 months, anyways) 768kbs down/128kbs up DSL plus ISP (mail, news, webspace) for about $60 a month. I pay my phone company (Verizon) for the DSL connection and a separate ISP for the IP and server access/account. I've had zero downtime in 15 months, and I run a Linux box, Mac and PC via NAT on the single IP they gave me. 7 days between my order and the installation, worked from day 1.
My co-worker has a different phone (Ameritech) and internet provider and he gets 608kbs down/128kbs up for $49.99 a month including ISP fees, all through one company (BigNet - seem to be a fly by night provider). He spent 8 weeks between the telco and ISP getting a line repaired, modem installed, and service activated.
In the Cleveland metro area, I am purchasing (for the last 15 months, anyways) 768kbs down/128kbs up DSL plus ISP (mail, news, webspace) for about $60 a month. I pay my phone company (Verizon) for the DSL connection and a separate ISP for the IP and server access/account. I've had zero downtime in 15 months, and I run a Linux box, Mac and PC via NAT on the single IP they gave me. 7 days between my order and the installation, worked from day 1.
My co-worker has a different phone (Ameritech) and internet provider and he gets 608kbs down/128kbs up for $49.99 a month including ISP fees, all through one company (BigNet - seem to be a fly by night provider). He spent 8 weeks between the telco and ISP getting a line repaired, modem installed, and service activated.
If you go through the links above and read Co$ OT-VIII, it reaveals that Jesus Christ was a pedophile, and L.Ron is the anti-Christ... but in a good way!
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If you think Jesus was lying here, how can you trust Him with your salvation? Don't succumb to New Age thinking.
OK, Commander Christian. I was born and raised Catholic, and blindly followed the rhetoric until I was 22 and realized that the church follows the creator, and The Church follows The Pope.
In response to what you've written above: you're being a blind follower and taking things too literally. You're taking the words of Jesus, as interpreted by one of his many biographers, and reported through millennea of translations through dozens of man's languages, to mean that he mean himself, Jesus Christ.
My interpretation (and this is not "New Age Thinking," it's non-literal, logical thinking, following the paths of right and wrong) is that Jesus, who was a physical representation of our creator on this earth, was saying that you will not enjoy the benefits of life everlasting unless you walk the path of truth and kindness to others as he instructed. "Only through me"-- as I am the creator, the way, the truth, and the light-- follow my example and I will count you among those worthy of sharing my kingdom.
You can live just, good lives and not believe in Jesus... you can live by his example, and still be "saved." If that is not tru,e you're going to have about four billion people to explain this to in the morning.
You can't take one passage, two passages, even a whole chapter from the Bible and have it stand as "The Word of God," although many people try. If you read any given direct passage from the Bible as we know it, I guarantee you can find an exact passage somewhere else that directly or indirectly contradicts it.
To be a true follower of God, you must accept the whole work of the Bible, accept man's failings in reporting the details... and take the messages of: Honor the Creator, Honor your fellow man, Repent you failings and Live a just life... as what God was trying to say.
It's not only that "the unexamined life is not worth living," but also that "the unexamined faith is not worth practicing."
-RT
One of the great passions in my life (one that has led me away from organized religion, oddly enough) is having conversation wih people about the hypocrisy shown by religions throughout history. "God" and "Jesus" in the Judeo-Christian religons, Muhammed, Buddha, et al-- they all stood for peace, love, humanity, and understanding. And oh yeah... righteousness.
The concept of "righteousness" has led to the "My God is bigger than your God" shit that has been going on for oh, about 4-6,000 years now. Invoking God to justify murder and destruction, all becuase you think your God is right and the other guy's God is wrong.
I submit that Gods are all the same. A creator, life-giver, a spiritual leader... we just choose to worhip them in different ways. Americans probably have no problem with this, since most of us are pretty open-minded about religious differences. Except, of course, those crazy rabid Christians who like to call Catholics "Mary fetishists," claim that the King James Version is the "Only True Version" of God's Word, and anyone who disagrees should either be converted or damned to hell by their hand. But I digress...
The point is that in other parts of the world, specifically the Middle East, Religion is everything. Which God you worship and how you worship him determines where you will live, how you will vote, and oftentime whether you will live or die when a particular "party" comes into power.
Take for example, Isreal and Palestine. There's no reason in the world why this little piece of land can't handle people of two differing sets of religious beliefs. Oh, except of course that the Palestinians believe that they own the land by rights, and it was taken by the Israeli's when they claimed it in the name of "The God of Abraham." And the same Israeli's belive that since God gave THEM the land, they should be able to kick the Muslims the hell out.
Maybe that's oversimplification, but the fact is that it's a big pissing contest. Since the governments and religions are one in the same, the diplomatic approach is little different than the religious approach; with neither side wanting to give.
Wanna know how the great King Solomon would have handled the situaion? Drop a 20 megaton nuclear warhead square on the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, and let them sort out the resulting mess. Nothing unites people like working together to recover from Armageddon, eh?
And if you can't play nice, nobody gets the toy!
I checked all the sites in question... here we are just two minutes after posting the article, and the sites are all inaccessable due to traffic.
I don't suppose anyone has had a chance to mirror??
Thanks!
(Oh no! My Star Trek Whore status has been unmasked for all to see! The Shame!)
You said:
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
Hold on a moment, here is the ACTUAL quote:
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots," Bush said during an August 27, 1988 press conference, according to an American Atheists spokesman.
So first off, this is the elder Bush, not the current President, whom many folks would assume the quote is attributed to.
Secondly, this is an alleged remark made during a press conference 13 years ago that nobody has any recollection of, other than the President of American Atheists. The former President Bush apparently denies it, and nobody can substantiate that the comment was even made.
I'm no Bush apologist (I voted Libertarian for lack of better options), but the way you present that quote in your sig is bound to incite someone to rail againt George W. Bush for it.
Sorry, I stopped reading that rag MacOSRumors.com long ago... I think it was right around the fifth Apple Product announcement that went by without the "Long-Rumored Apple/Palm Handheld!!!" being actually released.
:P
They had so many posts and mockups of that things, it was ridiculous. Each and every time an Apple event was coming, MacOSRumors would assure me that the Apple/Palm deal would be announced to much fanfare. "Multiple Independent Sources Confirm..." or "Anonymous Apple Source Sent This Information Personally!"
My ass. MOSR is one guy being trolled repeatedly by PC bigots to get their jollies. And he keeps falling for it!
Well in this specific case, you appeared to be arguing against the business model for this company providing this service. And in this instance, it is an American company providing a service to Americans. :)
Not that the rest of the world is unimportant, just irrelevent to this particular article.
"The majority of people still use regular dial-up accounts since broadband connections (i.e. DSL) still aren't that readily available in many areas"
:)
I'd buy this if it were still 1998. But the market has exploded in the last 3 years. DSL and/or cable modem access is probably available to 90% of the US population.
The only real barrier to broadband for many consumers (especially young gamers) is cost... it costs a lot more ($40-60 a month) for broadband than the $21.95 dad is shelling out for the family's AOL screennames, or the free Earthlink account you stole.
Read the article, specifically the last few paragraphs. In your attempt to karma-whore by posting early with some well thought and legitimate concerns, you missed the part of the article where your concerns are addressed.
The article specifically says that half of the folks whose papers came up as duplicates were probably the source of the original material, and most of them were guilty of no more than showing others their work.
The story also says that it would be extremely hard to prove that they meant to plagiarize by giving a classmate a copy of their work for reference, so no action would be taken against them.
I have DSL through Verizon (formerly GTE), and I called December 26th 1999. Day after Christmas, week before Y2K. Guy came and installed me January 7th, 2000, at the promised time. DSL worked within the hour. 768kbs down, 128kbs up. My connection has been up, able to pull 90-92KB/s, for 16 months today. Granted, I am a block from the CO, and my apartment complex was built in 1993... but still, I love my connection. No downtime... my ISP (local company) lost outside DNS a couple of time for about 90 minutes, but I could still get my email and such, so my connection has never been down as far as I know.
My understanding is that GeoCities IMMEDIATELY shuts down pages that induce X hits per hour, because they are likely porn/warez/MP3 sites.
They THEN do investigation, and re-enable TOS-compliant sites.
Kind of sad that they have to do this...
- CWRUton for Life - (sad but true!)
THE Froggy? From CWRU/CFN IRC?
Whazzup?!?
You've been breaking Rules One and Two again, haven't you?
Warning: May be Offtopic.
.25dot pitch job. Not a Trinitron, but hey, a big step up from 15. Total paid for upgrades over 24 months: $1280.00 or so.
I hear a lot of griping about forced upgrades and obsolescence of PCs, especially in this thread and in the "Cheap $500 PC" sub-thread of the MacOS X article from earlier today. Here is my experience, in the hopes it might make you realize just how easy it can be to stay "with the curve" with respect to the ever-increasing PC specs.
In March 1999, I bought a new Abit BX6 Revision 2 motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and a Slot1 processor interface. ($125) I assembled a system in an Enlight 7200 series ATX desktop case/PS ($50), 64megabytes of PC100 RAM ($125), Celeron 333 Slot1 processor ($100), 32x CD-Rom ($50), Floppy drive ($15), nVidia Riva128ZX AGP video card ($25), 4.3GB HD ($85), Generic Keyboard and mouse ($25), SoundBlater 16 ISA sound card (Free), 56K external modem left over from my Mac (Free) and reasonable 15" monitor someone gave me (Free). Shares a printer with iMac; cheap Canon printer has USB and parallel interfaces, so we use both. So $600.00 initial investment, less the $200 I received on eBay for the sale of my older Mac Quadra 840av. (My wife had pretty much taken over the "new" iMac we got in November 1998, so I needed a PC for myself).
Since then I have done the following upgrades:
Upgrade to Celeron 366 processor, overclocked to 550MHz ($120 including Alpha Heatsink). Added 128 meg stick of PC100 RAM ($100). Moved everything into new, 10-bay full-tower ATX case ($60 including shipping). Spray-painted case and drive fronts silver and changed power LED to a brilliant blue one like VALinux uses on their servers ($4). Installed "geek." sticker ($3) from thinkgeek.com on side of unit.;)
Got DSL, added 3com 10/100 PCI NIC ($40). Installed 2x DVD-Rom drive ($45) and Creative DXR2-overlay DVD decoder PCI card ($30). Installed SB Live! PCI sound card ($50). Added SCSI CD-R from another old Mac, and bought PCI SCSI card ($200 total). Added PCI Ultra ATA-100 PCI card ($40) and 30GB, 7200RPM ATA-100 hard drive ($130).
Upgraded processor again to Celeron II-600 ($75), running at 927 MHz with Alpha heatsink, with Abit Slotket III FC-PGA to Slot1 adapter card $15). (Had to update BIOS for that one, but since Abit was kind enough to put out updates, this mobo will run processors up to 1GHz, despite being designed when the fastest processor was still 500MHz.)
Upgraded video card to GeForce2MX AGP card ($130). Just added new stick of PC133 RAM, 256 megs ($90). Added speakers + sub from eBay ($30). Bought 19" monitor ($248) from WalMart, REAL nice
Sold all replaced parts (vid card, case, 2 processors) on eBay for about $130.
Here it is March 2001, and guess what: by buying an expandable motherboard, and middle-of-the-road-priced (but quality) components for 24 months... I spent a net of $1550 for a very feature-complete, very fast (almost one gigahertz, with 448 megs of RAM and fast I/O), and spiffy-looking box. That works out to about $65 month hardware allowance, which for somebody like me is NOT all that much. Plus, I can watch DVDs on my TV (video card has SVideo out) and burn CDs.
So my point is, play your cards right and ride the upgrade-frenzied industry out as long as you can. I have at least another year before I'll upgrade my motherboard to a dual-socket AMD motherboard with DDR RAM, so I just set the PC budget aside and enjoy what I have!
Let me give you a disclaimer first: I generally vote Independent, occasionally vote Libertarian, and have in the past votes for a random Republican or two in my "youth." I do not vote Democrat, because while in general I hate politicians, I specifically hate the neo-socialism that the Democratic Party has come to embrace over the past 15-20 years. I subscribe to no organized religion, and believe that there are better people to serve as Attorney General of the USA than John Ashcroft.
I will also disclose, possibly unwisely, that I was clicking the "Read More" link with the full intention of clicking "Post Anonymously," then telling Jamie in no uncertain terms that he should attach a certain orifice to a certain part of my genitalia. Which I have never, EVER done on Slashdot before, but felt justified in doing so in this case.
However, when I arrived at the story, I found that I had fresh Moderator Points. And I also remembered the old cliche: "Never raise your voice, when you should be reinforcing your argument." So I was left with the conundrum: Do I spend my mod points here on people who make good points, or try to make points of my own?
That being said, you can now see which choice I selected.
Jamie: Your comments on this article, as quoted above, are the most reckless, biased, FUD-inducing load of crap I have ever seen posted on Slashdot by a contributor. And yes, my fellow commentors, I have read every article JonKatz has posted.
While I fully support your right to speak your mind, and reveal whatever prejudices you might have, there is absolutely no justification for any of the above-quoted text. If you want to modify the behavior of politicians, suggest positive response methods from your audience to let the Christian Coalition and "The Republicans" what the American People are thinking.
These elected officials may be politicians, but they are by no means Hitler-esque fascists or thought police. In much the same way that Bill Clinton and company didn't turn this country into a Socialist welfare-state. This great country, with its checks and balances, usually ends up moderating itself.* The will of the 280,000,000 individuals in this country may not be overwhelmingly obvious, but there always seems to be a happy medium to be found politically. If Gore had been elected, there would be complaints by some part of the populace about this, that, and the other thing as well-- I'm sure you realize that.
* - Ignoring the recent examples where Corporatism seems to have overtaken the Capitalism and Consumerism we're so used to in this country; e.g. RIAA and MPAA. But that appears to be because the politicians (judges) and lawyers involved in those cases are not as good at hiding their sources of funding as politicians in bygone eras.
Before this degenerates into some kind of wild, sweeping manifesto, I just wanted to do a little checking and balancing on my own. I need to take a little bit of wind out of your sails, Jamie, because face it:
The Republicans are NOT going to take away your Star Wars. The Christian Coalition is NOT going to take Sar Trek off the air. John Ashcroft is NOT going to ban violent movies.
Mark MY words: This country will be moderated by the same "anonymous middle" that has elected alternating conservative and liberal groups of politicians for at LEAST the last 100 years.
For whatever it's worth, if it makes you feel any better, I'm a Mac-head who support Win32 platforms for a living. I haven't had time to install anything "open source" past a stock install of RH7.0 as a "hobby" on a 486DX33. :)
Maybe my perception of time has been warped by feeding too many trolls on Slashdot... ;)
I haven't seen anything out of Be since their free download of BeOS Personal probably 2 years ago. Of course, I haven't been actively checking.
:)
;)
I liked Be a lot better when they were a hardware maker, with dual PPC 603 CPUs and a custom "Geek Port" for hacking the platform. What was it, like 59 pins?
But I am glad I didn't tell my boss to buy teh stock last year when she was looking at it. I told her to wait until they had a proven market.
Good luck, Jean-Louis Gassee! Maybe Apple will hire you back?
It was a Dairy Queen in Danville, KY. And yes, it was an AP story; some guy convinced the chick at the counter that it was legal tender (the bill said "Moral Legal Tender"), and she gave him $198.xx in change.
I wanted to call Dairy Queen an just laugh at them hysterically for a few minutes, but believe it or not, there are two DQs in that city, and I didn't want to harass innocent residents of Danville, KY. ;)
Uh, I'd really like to know how my comment double-posted. My firewall hiccupped? Double-click submit?
Probably this frickign IE6 beta...
Not to be pedantic, but shouldn't that be 5Mb/1Mb?
It's kind of important in this thread; one means bits, the other means Bytes (Factor of 8 difference).
In the Cleveland metro area, I am purchasing (for the last 15 months, anyways) 768kbs down/128kbs up DSL plus ISP (mail, news, webspace) for about $60 a month. I pay my phone company (Verizon) for the DSL connection and a separate ISP for the IP and server access/account. I've had zero downtime in 15 months, and I run a Linux box, Mac and PC via NAT on the single IP they gave me. 7 days between my order and the installation, worked from day 1.
My co-worker has a different phone (Ameritech) and internet provider and he gets 608kbs down/128kbs up for $49.99 a month including ISP fees, all through one company (BigNet - seem to be a fly by night provider). He spent 8 weeks between the telco and ISP getting a line repaired, modem installed, and service activated.
Just my experience...
In the Cleveland metro area, I am purchasing (for the last 15 months, anyways) 768kbs down/128kbs up DSL plus ISP (mail, news, webspace) for about $60 a month. I pay my phone company (Verizon) for the DSL connection and a separate ISP for the IP and server access/account. I've had zero downtime in 15 months, and I run a Linux box, Mac and PC via NAT on the single IP they gave me. 7 days between my order and the installation, worked from day 1.
My co-worker has a different phone (Ameritech) and internet provider and he gets 608kbs down/128kbs up for $49.99 a month including ISP fees, all through one company (BigNet - seem to be a fly by night provider). He spent 8 weeks between the telco and ISP getting a line repaired, modem installed, and service activated.
Just my experience...
Motion carries. *Slam*
Next order of business...
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Is TurboLinux teh same folks with that whacked out ex-felon CEO?
Or is that someone else?
Who is Satan's right-hand man?
If you go through the links above and read Co$ OT-VIII, it reaveals that Jesus Christ was a pedophile, and L.Ron is the anti-Christ... but in a good way!
(Seriously, it does... I'm not trolling.)
Read the parent... it is actually pretty useful.
I'm really surprised at all the good AC posts I'm seeing lately; why don't you people just register and login?
And moderators, why aren't you setting your threshold at -1, or at least 0??
*sigh* I guess I'm turning into Offtopic now, sorry.