So that would mean you've looked/worked on the NT source right? Is it really as bad as everybody claims it is? Would you trust your life's work to this OS? Inquiring minds want to know!
What is intel thinking trying to sell us RAM at these prices? I could buy a whole eMachine, including monitor and everything for the price of one 128meg stick of RDRAM. Is anybody actually buying these systems and paying these prices? I imagine some must, probably the big corporations that believe nobody ever lost their job buying the latest intel. Does anybody know when the prices for this ram might be going down? Or even better if intel has any plans to support the relatively cheap new DDR ram? I am really dismayed that intel thinks they can gouge us this way. We need to stand up and say "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" and then go buy a nice new Athlon.
The quick rating is that if you've got a sense of humor, you'll enjoy it.
Now this must include everybody, because I have yet to meet a person who believes they don't have a sense of humor, even though I'm pretty sure some of them don't.
But the Athlon motherboards do tend to cost twice as much as their intel counterparts, although I'm not sure if that's true with the new intel boards. But then who'd want to pay $800 for a 128meg RDRAM module anyway. Sales of those new intel boards must be down, way down!
But the Athlon motherboards do tend to cost twice as much as their intel counterparts, although I'm not sure if that's true with the new intel boards. But then who'd want to pay $800 for a 128meg RDRAM module anyway. Sales of those new intel boards must be down, way down!
I keep hearing this argument that even though apache has more sites, Microsoft controls the ecommerce site market. Is this true? Also, I've heard that the 5 million site count is biased because most ISPs use apache and therefore every little piss-ant website counts as a apache. Please fill me in on the straight story so I know how to respond to the FUD. Thanks all!
It's not cheating if everybody can do it? It's just another way of showing that brains, not brawn wins the battle. Somehow us old (20+) software engineers have to even the score against those 13 year olds with unbelievable reflexes and non-carpul wrists. Some of us didn't go to college for nothing you know.
I think Einstein was a fantastic choice because he was not "spiritual" as Gandhi was. This century marked a decay in the spiritual, a decline in Christianity; People finally are looking beyond Christ for answers. Science has overtaken religion finally this century. It is mainstream. People are more likely to have a cell phone or a pda than a cross in this day and age. Now I'm not saying this is an entirely good thing. That probably won't be known for quite some time. Maybe in the next hundred years? But I do know that Einstein would have been my choice as well. It's about time we start appreciating true genius!
Please don't get me wrong, i love the concept of linux, open-sourced, free, community built and driven, and i would switch back in minutes given the chance, but linux really needs that single element that MS still has, Gloss and simplicity.
The linux community really should take this comment to heart, or at least this one word: gloss. Gloss is the one thing that always seems to be missing from open-source apps. The functionality is usually much greater in open-source apps than $$$ apps, but the gloss is almost always missing. Techies don't notice because mostly all they care about is functionality, but we really need to start noticing these things and start adding the gloss to win over Mr. Consumer.
Due to a recent, temporary restraining order (TRO) by US District Court in Seattle, Streambox Ripper, VCR and Ferret are no longer available for download. In view of the serious impact of the TRO with respect to Streambox's business, the Court also ordered that Real Networks post a $1 million dollar bond to cover any loss to Streambox if the Court later finds that the TRO was wrongfully issued. Read press release. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. However, you may still download an altered version of Streambox Ripper (without RealAudio decoding) that supports MP3s, CDs and Windows Media files. Thanks for your understanding, and be sure to check back often in the coming days for updates on the lawsuit, as well as other products. Happy Holidays from the entire Streambox team!
Got this off of the Streambox web site. RealNetworks is really getting to be a little baby Microsoft it seems. Can you imagine if Microsoft ever breaks up? Can you imagine 10-20 of these little companies like RealNetworks trying to crush or at least sue every competetor to death. It makes me think that maybe keeping Microsoft together as one big but slow-moving beast wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Yeah, but what kind of idiots will we look like with our hands in front of our faces moving about rapidly like we are wizards casting spells? Hmm, actually I think I like that analogy: we ARE wizards anyway, so we might as well look like wizards. Ok, at this moment I copyright and patent all Wizard technology, so if I see you waving your hands around like a wizard, I'll cast my magic spell and rain you with a blizzard of lawyers!
From the article: "If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
Ok, this guy Dr. Anderson gets my vote as the coolest Nobel Laureate alive. Why don't you say what you really think, Dr. Anderson!:) I love people that don't beat around the bush and candy-coat what they really think, especially a brillant physics professor who obvious thinks this guy is a loon.
What I don't understand, is why can't we all have one or two common graphical installers instead of one for every distro? So much labor is being wasted as each company tries to create their own version of graphical linux installation nirvana. If there was one or two, then we could all pitch in and help and progress would be a lot faster.
"? Sure there's exposure for Linux now, and we are feeling vindicated finally, but now every idiot who can watch CNN is also touting the wonders of Linux without really understanding anything at all.
It's this kind of elitist view of Linux that hurts Linux. We need to get out of the mentality that there is a 'them' and an 'us'. I would argue that anyone capable of watching CNN ought to be a potential candidate to use Linux. And if your a programmer helping out on Linux then your job isn't done until your grandmother can use linux.
The day your grandmother starts surfing the web and getting her email on Linux is the day Microsoft becomes a footnote in the annuals of software history, and 'we', together, both the most advanced coders and hackers along with the most neophyte users, will move into a more enlightned, richer software future.
This code was worth, what, $10 million 4 years ago?
But now this code is priceless. And it is no longer stagnant; It may grow into what? The greatest game engine of all in the end, just as Linux grew from something simple to something incredible.
Hopefully, all these gigantic companies will spend too much cash on hiring lawyers fighting these pointless "patent" battles with each other and put themselves out of business. The only time I feel bad is when they go on the rampage against a little guy. These patents have gotten out of hand, and somebody has to stand up and say, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Here's an idea. Maybe it's been talked about before, but let me run it by you anyway. In the tradition of "fool.com" why can't we have strongly moderated forums on particular subjects? Some days I just feel like talking about the newest linux distro and there's no related stories so I can't. This makes sense when you realize that usually the threads digress to these popular subjects anyway. Just imagine if there were 50 forums here on linux, each one taking on a slightly different variation? The reason I think the forums should be strongly moderated is to keep the topics on focus. If you are posting on the corel linux distro forum and you digress, then it gets deleted. If you spam, it gets deleted. If you post natalie portman trash, it gets deleted. The goal is not to interfere with free speech, but rather to remove the signal noise that is rapidly overtaking slashdot. The moderation angle seems to be working really well on fool.com, for example, because they have forums on incredibly specific subjects and these are some of the most popular forums on the site. Now I'm not saying we can't still have news articles and respond to the news. I think we can have both, and then see which is more popular. Just an idea, anyway. What do you think?
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So that would mean you've looked/worked on the NT source right? Is it really as bad as everybody claims it is? Would you trust your life's work to this OS? Inquiring minds want to know!
What is intel thinking trying to sell us RAM at these prices? I could buy a whole eMachine, including monitor and everything for the price of one 128meg stick of RDRAM. Is anybody actually buying these systems and paying these prices? I imagine some must, probably the big corporations that believe nobody ever lost their job buying the latest intel. Does anybody know when the prices for this ram might be going down? Or even better if intel has any plans to support the relatively cheap new DDR ram? I am really dismayed that intel thinks they can gouge us this way. We need to stand up and say "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" and then go buy a nice new Athlon.
The quick rating is that if you've got a sense of humor, you'll enjoy it.
Now this must include everybody, because I have yet to meet a person who believes they don't have a sense of humor, even though I'm pretty sure some of them don't.
Sorry bout the double post. I thought Slashdot was hung. It is running awfully slow today.
But the Athlon motherboards do tend to cost twice as much as their intel counterparts, although I'm not sure if that's true with the new intel boards. But then who'd want to pay $800 for a 128meg RDRAM module anyway. Sales of those new intel boards must be down, way down!
But the Athlon motherboards do tend to cost twice as much as their intel counterparts, although I'm not sure if that's true with the new intel boards. But then who'd want to pay $800 for a 128meg RDRAM module anyway. Sales of those new intel boards must be down, way down!
I keep hearing this argument that even though apache has more sites, Microsoft controls the ecommerce site market. Is this true? Also, I've heard that the 5 million site count is biased because most ISPs use apache and therefore every little piss-ant website counts as a apache. Please fill me in on the straight story so I know how to respond to the FUD. Thanks all!
It's not cheating if everybody can do it? It's just another way of showing that brains, not brawn wins the battle. Somehow us old (20+) software engineers have to even the score against those 13 year olds with unbelievable reflexes and non-carpul wrists. Some of us didn't go to college for nothing you know.
I think Einstein was a fantastic choice because he was not "spiritual" as Gandhi was. This century marked a decay in the spiritual, a decline in Christianity; People finally are looking beyond Christ for answers. Science has overtaken religion finally this century. It is mainstream. People are more likely to have a cell phone or a pda than a cross in this day and age. Now I'm not saying this is an entirely good thing. That probably won't be known for quite some time. Maybe in the next hundred years? But I do know that Einstein would have been my choice as well. It's about time we start appreciating true genius!
Does anybody else out there think it's ironic that "The FASTEST OS there is" has the slowest web site I've ever seen?
Please don't get me wrong, i love the concept of linux, open-sourced, free, community built and driven, and i would switch back in minutes given the chance, but linux really needs that single element that MS still has, Gloss and simplicity.
The linux community really should take this comment to heart, or at least this one word: gloss. Gloss is the one thing that always seems to be missing from open-source apps. The functionality is usually much greater in open-source apps than $$$ apps, but the gloss is almost always missing. Techies don't notice because mostly all they care about is functionality, but we really need to start noticing these things and start adding the gloss to win over Mr. Consumer.
Due to a recent, temporary restraining order (TRO) by US District Court in Seattle, Streambox Ripper, VCR and Ferret are no longer available for download. In view of the serious impact of the TRO with respect to Streambox's business, the Court also ordered that Real Networks post a $1 million dollar bond to cover any loss to Streambox if the Court later finds that the TRO was wrongfully issued. Read press release. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. However, you may still download an altered version of Streambox Ripper (without RealAudio decoding) that supports MP3s, CDs and Windows Media files. Thanks for your understanding, and be sure to check back often in the coming days for updates on the lawsuit, as well as other products. Happy Holidays from the entire Streambox team!
Got this off of the Streambox web site. RealNetworks is really getting to be a little baby Microsoft it seems. Can you imagine if Microsoft ever breaks up? Can you imagine 10-20 of these little companies like RealNetworks trying to crush or at least sue every competetor to death. It makes me think that maybe keeping Microsoft together as one big but slow-moving beast wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Yeah, but what kind of idiots will we look like with our hands in front of our faces moving about rapidly like we are wizards casting spells? Hmm, actually I think I like that analogy: we ARE wizards anyway, so we might as well look like wizards. Ok, at this moment I copyright and patent all Wizard technology, so if I see you waving your hands around like a wizard, I'll cast my magic spell and rain you with a blizzard of lawyers!
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
It's amazing how often these old proverbs still apply today!
From the article: "If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
:) I love people that don't beat around the bush and candy-coat what they really think, especially a brillant physics professor who obvious thinks this guy is a loon.
Ok, this guy Dr. Anderson gets my vote as the coolest Nobel Laureate alive. Why don't you say what you really think, Dr. Anderson!
What I don't understand, is why can't we all have one or two common graphical installers instead of one for every distro? So much labor is being wasted as each company tries to create their own version of graphical linux installation nirvana. If there was one or two, then we could all pitch in and help and progress would be a lot faster.
Oh fuck, this is the girl I married!
"? Sure there's exposure for Linux now, and we are feeling vindicated finally, but now every idiot who can watch CNN is also touting the wonders of Linux without really understanding anything at all.
It's this kind of elitist view of Linux that hurts Linux. We need to get out of the mentality that there is a 'them' and an 'us'. I would argue that anyone capable of watching CNN ought to be a potential candidate to use Linux. And if your a programmer helping out on Linux then your job isn't done until your grandmother can use linux.
The day your grandmother starts surfing the web and getting her email on Linux is the day Microsoft becomes a footnote in the annuals of software history, and 'we', together, both the most advanced coders and hackers along with the most neophyte users, will move into a more enlightned, richer software future.
This code was worth, what, $10 million 4 years ago?
But now this code is priceless. And it is no longer stagnant; It may grow into what? The greatest game engine of all in the end, just as Linux grew from something simple to something incredible.
How many karma do you have to have to get the +1 bonus, anyhow?
Hopefully, all these gigantic companies will spend too much cash on hiring lawyers fighting these pointless "patent" battles with each other and put themselves out of business. The only time I feel bad is when they go on the rampage against a little guy. These patents have gotten out of hand, and somebody has to stand up and say, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
Now here's a piece of software that really deserves the nickname "Krash".
Then I would just ask you, if there is no sexism, then how come there's never been a "woman of the year"?
Here's an idea. Maybe it's been talked about before, but let me run it by you anyway. In the tradition of "fool.com" why can't we have strongly moderated forums on particular subjects? Some days I just feel like talking about the newest linux distro and there's no related stories so I can't. This makes sense when you realize that usually the threads digress to these popular subjects anyway. Just imagine if there were 50 forums here on linux, each one taking on a slightly different variation? The reason I think the forums should be strongly moderated is to keep the topics on focus. If you are posting on the corel linux distro forum and you digress, then it gets deleted. If you spam, it gets deleted. If you post natalie portman trash, it gets deleted. The goal is not to interfere with free speech, but rather to remove the signal noise that is rapidly overtaking slashdot. The moderation angle seems to be working really well on fool.com, for example, because they have forums on incredibly specific subjects and these are some of the most popular forums on the site. Now I'm not saying we can't still have news articles and respond to the news. I think we can have both, and then see which is more popular. Just an idea, anyway. What do you think?
I agree. Let's stick to linux and techy stuff. This lizard story was crap. There was not even a picture of the damn lizardman!