Most of it is really true, people can claim toms is PRO-AMD all they want but...
I havent seen a single glowing review ANYWHERE, I mean come on not everyone can be Intel haters, unless theres a reason for that HMMM
I mean come on the whole P4 deal leaves a bitter taste in my mouth
I can go get a 900Mhz processor a thunderbird and make a whole system that outperforms a P4 for about the price of a p4, what gives?
I do know that toms is a little pro amd, but hes not a stupid person so there is prolly some justification for his bias, AMD actually DOES have good chips now...
Oh but people arent allowed to be biased, formulate your own opinions but I feel safe in trusting all the reviews that P4's basically stink.. anyways
... its a marketing game now.. and Intel will prolly do *OK*
I hope AMD crushes them just for the shit they are putting out
I think at some point, diffusing your energies as OSS developers to far creates a negative effect.
Is it worth it having 5 broken software packages all trying to race to finish it just so their name is the one everyone hear. OR people get toghether and create some nice stuff?
I know I know, Im going to get the "choice is good get it through your heads" argument and to an extent you are correct, but I believe there is a point it has a very negative effect
I think were not there yet, but I still think a concnetration of efforts would make some of the software out there much more rich and useable instead of broken and unusable in both cams, sure I love choosing which broken software I want to use
Yeah your also going to call me for being vague and not suppling links, just go to apps.kde.org and then the gnome apps site.. looka round youll see what I mean
Im sorry folks, I really love C/C++ and I have a HUGE book sitting here called Programming Windows with MFC..
Ive been doing MFC for about a year just doing my own little C++ projects under windows, playing with XML parsers, and various nifty little API's and writing my own libraries to interface web applications with
I used GTK muddled through all of the code and I thought I was going crazy with GTK, I dont mind C nor any of the nuances of the language. I just found GTK annoying to use a lot, sure its neat and looks nice but... just.. blah thats my general impression of GTK, its like its written for a crowd of people who cant let go of the past
Then I found QT, I feel in love, in 30 minutes I had found my C++ toolkit that just blows eveyrthing to date (for C/C++ away)
I followed a few of the real cutesey basic Qt tutorials and then followed a few of the cutsey KDE tutorials and KDE just makes so much more sense to me than a lot of GNOME stuff, the code seems to be easier to write and easier to keep free of errors if you write your C++ well
I realize most people dont but, I have always loved Qt, even if you have to pay for it in windows (the only disadvantage) I think its really great.
You wanna port stuff to windows? Your a large development house, Qt is the way to go
You can write cross platform stuff pretty easy, its awesome, anyways
Enough rambling, these are just my own warped opinons..
I agree its foolish, SSE instructions have limited use in day to day processing and only appeal to the power gamer crowd, which Intel just barely sneaks by in, I would much rather have my entire system performing than 3 or 4 fps in QIII..
I just dont see how SSE Is that big of a deal, and AMD can always enahnce SSE (3DNow) etc, its all basically the same thing.
Intel is going to develop all of these instructions and then AMD can just implement them in one of their future chipsets.
They arent "betting" a whole lot on these instructions either, its just something for an edge, even a small one which can mean everything in a highly competative world
You would know that since it keeps the math simple that is also what makes it scale. So it produces some results that say 1minute, its just how it does math its not like its going to kill anyone..
This brings us to the most important point, BSD is far superior to Linux because BSd is already on version 4.2, while Linux lags behind at version 2.4!!! Can you believe that people?
Not many people know this but when MS upgrades/comes out with a new version of a program they BUY back as many copies of the program as they can from resellers etc
So this means you either upgrade if you want SQL 2000 or you scrounge for SQL 7 its HARD to find (okay not HARD) but it is very scarce and it becomes more scarce EVERY day
And woe to you if you need older stuff.. heh anyways
Its a fact, places with higher percentages of gun ownership have less crime.. PERIOD.
Dont buy into all this "tightening gun laws saves lives"
Its total bullshit.
If they took our guns away that would be one step closer to making this country a police state (this country being US)
How would you like the only people who have guns to be the "police", and the "criminals"? Of course your a criminal for owning a gun of they were totally outlawed.
Far to many people jump on a bandwagon they truly understand very little about.
What needs to happen is parents need to take responsibility and teach their children the truth about guns and stop spreading FUD and doing asinine shit because a few accidents happened
Of course gun laws were invented to keep *SLAVES* from getting guns, hows that for nice.
Our country was founded on guns and free people fighting with them, thats the way its always going to stay, at least as long as your free..
Riiiight, Career military people and anyone in it for the next 2 or 3 years will vote for democrats who have stretched out military so thin its pathetic... Anyways, go back to your corner.
I thought this was the last of it? Oh wait you know this is also a great way to sensationalize the event, I almost thought CNN was dragging it out on purpose until I learned about florida
Conspiracy theories abound, I heard on the radio that some poll boxes were just plain missing... Who knows about that one.
I liked the Georgia polls, they had clear boxes sepearting everything, showed who was running with the posible presidents, you used a #2 pencil and filled in the one you wanted, it was real easy... that punch card business does seem a little annoying even if it is not misleading it seems a pain..
As i noted to a previous poster, I take martial arts, exercise, and occasionally sleep
Really, right now its good for me.. Ive been through some tough times the first part of this year so working has kind of pulled me through, contract stuff and all, so I make about 80 dollars an hour, pushing out in reality about 60 billable hours a week, I doubt honestly the market will support this much work for more than 3 or 4 years, I doubt I can handle this much work for more than 4 or 5 years, but I am learning, and I dont have a very fancy degree AA in math from a dinky school, I took a few classes at GA Tech, but it was way to hard to do while working.
Anyways, after about another year I can afford to buy a house and find a much slower paced job if I choose too, after that the rest is icing on the cake right?
Anyways I am not unrealistic about it but I doubt I will ever hace an opportunity like this in all of my life again, and I doubt I would be able to seriously take this kind of working responsibility on again later in my life, so I want to have some nice things and not be tied down with a house morgtage 2 car payments, screaming kids, and your typical stress a family has
I maintain with a LD relationship and its really hard and anyways I just know right now im setting up the rest of my life so im not worried about busting ass a little and chilling in the next 3 or 4 years when most people are just out of college at the age ill own my home
:) I Like the car a lot but if I wanted something faster id just go buy a saleen s351, the car was my grandfathers, so it holds sentimental value for me..
Yeah ive only been doing it two years but I exercise, eat well, and take martial arts all of which decrease my stress greatly.
Maybe some people can do it and some cant, maybe its elitist or arrogant to think I can do something most people cant, maybe in a few more years ill burn out and blow my head off, but I doubt it I like what I do, and stress is a purely mental aspect of life, some is good, to much is bad, I know that i can achieve only so much in a day, and anymore I dont worry about it.
Oh well, if I stroke out thats my luck, it takes a certain mindset , that i fI ever lose im outta the business fast, to stay happy with that kind of work.
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That was an incredibly acidic review.
... its a marketing game now.. and Intel will prolly do *OK*
Most of it is really true, people can claim toms is PRO-AMD all they want but...
I havent seen a single glowing review ANYWHERE, I mean come on not everyone can be Intel haters, unless theres a reason for that HMMM
I mean come on the whole P4 deal leaves a bitter taste in my mouth
I can go get a 900Mhz processor a thunderbird and make a whole system that outperforms a P4 for about the price of a p4, what gives?
I do know that toms is a little pro amd, but hes not a stupid person so there is prolly some justification for his bias, AMD actually DOES have good chips now...
Oh but people arent allowed to be biased, formulate your own opinions but I feel safe in trusting all the reviews that P4's basically stink.. anyways
I hope AMD crushes them just for the shit they are putting out
Jeremy
You should thank bill gates, without him PC's wouldnt have taken over the world...
Anyways, pretty stuck up he does give away lots of his money (throw away your conspiracy theories, what matter sis he does it)
Jeremy
Oh come on be fair. We were comparing programming languages, not women.
Being in "love' with a programming language, and in Love with a woman are totally different, bah.
There is no comparison... but anyways I dont feel like getting into a discussion over it
Jeremy
I think at some point, diffusing your energies as OSS developers to far creates a negative effect.
Is it worth it having 5 broken software packages all trying to race to finish it just so their name is the one everyone hear. OR people get toghether and create some nice stuff?
I know I know, Im going to get the "choice is good get it through your heads" argument and to an extent you are correct, but I believe there is a point it has a very negative effect
I think were not there yet, but I still think a concnetration of efforts would make some of the software out there much more rich and useable instead of broken and unusable in both cams, sure I love choosing which broken software I want to use
Yeah your also going to call me for being vague and not suppling links, just go to apps.kde.org and then the gnome apps site.. looka round youll see what I mean
Jeremy
Can I second that? :)
Im sorry folks, I really love C/C++ and I have a HUGE book sitting here called Programming Windows with MFC..
Ive been doing MFC for about a year just doing my own little C++ projects under windows, playing with XML parsers, and various nifty little API's and writing my own libraries to interface web applications with
I used GTK muddled through all of the code and I thought I was going crazy with GTK, I dont mind C nor any of the nuances of the language. I just found GTK annoying to use a lot, sure its neat and looks nice but... just.. blah thats my general impression of GTK, its like its written for a crowd of people who cant let go of the past
Then I found QT, I feel in love, in 30 minutes I had found my C++ toolkit that just blows eveyrthing to date (for C/C++ away)
I followed a few of the real cutesey basic Qt tutorials and then followed a few of the cutsey KDE tutorials and KDE just makes so much more sense to me than a lot of GNOME stuff, the code seems to be easier to write and easier to keep free of errors if you write your C++ well
I realize most people dont but, I have always loved Qt, even if you have to pay for it in windows (the only disadvantage) I think its really great.
You wanna port stuff to windows? Your a large development house, Qt is the way to go
You can write cross platform stuff pretty easy, its awesome, anyways
Enough rambling, these are just my own warped opinons..
Jeremy
I agree its foolish, SSE instructions have limited use in day to day processing and only appeal to the power gamer crowd, which Intel just barely sneaks by in, I would much rather have my entire system performing than 3 or 4 fps in QIII..
I just dont see how SSE Is that big of a deal, and AMD can always enahnce SSE (3DNow) etc, its all basically the same thing.
Jeremy
Don't you see where this is a really good thing?
Intel is going to develop all of these instructions and then AMD can just implement them in one of their future chipsets.
They arent "betting" a whole lot on these instructions either, its just something for an edge, even a small one which can mean everything in a highly competative world
Jeremy
You would know that since it keeps the math simple that is also what makes it scale. So it produces some results that say 1minute, its just how it does math its not like its going to kill anyone..
Jeremy
This brings us to the most important point, BSD is far superior to Linux because BSd is already on version 4.2, while Linux lags behind at version 2.4!!! Can you believe that people?
:-) (ITS A JOKE LAUGH!:)
Jeremy
Funny.. I paid like 15 bucks total..
Jeremy
tht article had 8 comments also..... doesnt look like many people got to see it, also they werent exactly the same.. so nyah
Jeremy
Common MS Practice
Not many people know this but when MS upgrades/comes out with a new version of a program they BUY back as many copies of the program as they can from resellers etc
So this means you either upgrade if you want SQL 2000 or you scrounge for SQL 7 its HARD to find (okay not HARD) but it is very scarce and it becomes more scarce EVERY day
And woe to you if you need older stuff.. heh anyways
Jeremy
You can live in more freedom without guns.
It is kind of late for that now isnt it?
In an ideal world where no one has guns thats true, this however is *NOT* an ideal world.
There are documented cases of towns with near 100% gun ownership (albeit small) that have virtually no violent type crimes.
Jeremy
And your a fool.
Its a fact, places with higher percentages of gun ownership have less crime.. PERIOD.
Dont buy into all this "tightening gun laws saves lives"
Its total bullshit.
If they took our guns away that would be one step closer to making this country a police state (this country being US)
How would you like the only people who have guns to be the "police", and the "criminals"? Of course your a criminal for owning a gun of they were totally outlawed.
Far to many people jump on a bandwagon they truly understand very little about.
What needs to happen is parents need to take responsibility and teach their children the truth about guns and stop spreading FUD and doing asinine shit because a few accidents happened
Of course gun laws were invented to keep *SLAVES* from getting guns, hows that for nice.
Our country was founded on guns and free people fighting with them, thats the way its always going to stay, at least as long as your free..
Jeremy
Definately, dont want any individuals here G
Jeremy
Riiiight, Career military people and anyone in it for the next 2 or 3 years will vote for democrats who have stretched out military so thin its pathetic... Anyways, go back to your corner.
On the same string, the overseas votes are also military people even larger than the overseas students, which bush has in his shirt pocket.. :)
Jeremy
I thought this was the last of it? Oh wait you know this is also a great way to sensationalize the event, I almost thought CNN was dragging it out on purpose until I learned about florida
Conspiracy theories abound, I heard on the radio that some poll boxes were just plain missing... Who knows about that one.
I liked the Georgia polls, they had clear boxes sepearting everything, showed who was running with the posible presidents, you used a #2 pencil and filled in the one you wanted, it was real easy... that punch card business does seem a little annoying even if it is not misleading it seems a pain..
Jeremy
Heh, dont even bother with java on a 386!!!
Try uhm, Beggining Java from WROX, its not the greatest but it assumes no prior OO nor programming experience..
Jeremy
Contractor.. :) who gives a shit. id never be a corporate monkey again unless I dont need the job.
As i noted to a previous poster, I take martial arts, exercise, and occasionally sleep
Really, right now its good for me.. Ive been through some tough times the first part of this year so working has kind of pulled me through, contract stuff and all, so I make about 80 dollars an hour, pushing out in reality about 60 billable hours a week, I doubt honestly the market will support this much work for more than 3 or 4 years, I doubt I can handle this much work for more than 4 or 5 years, but I am learning, and I dont have a very fancy degree AA in math from a dinky school, I took a few classes at GA Tech, but it was way to hard to do while working.
Anyways, after about another year I can afford to buy a house and find a much slower paced job if I choose too, after that the rest is icing on the cake right?
Anyways I am not unrealistic about it but I doubt I will ever hace an opportunity like this in all of my life again, and I doubt I would be able to seriously take this kind of working responsibility on again later in my life, so I want to have some nice things and not be tied down with a house morgtage 2 car payments, screaming kids, and your typical stress a family has
I maintain with a LD relationship and its really hard and anyways I just know right now im setting up the rest of my life so im not worried about busting ass a little and chilling in the next 3 or 4 years when most people are just out of college at the age ill own my home
Jeremy
Actually, its not really an ego thing.
:) I Like the car a lot but if I wanted something faster id just go buy a saleen s351, the car was my grandfathers, so it holds sentimental value for me..
Jeremy
*chuckle* I think NOT
My car is a 1990 Mustang LX with aging trim
Its just the hardware under the hood and under the car that make is so valuable
I could give a shit about luxury items, I just like my cars and like emm fast, thank you.
Jeremy
I cant say working 60-80 hours a week gets to me
Yeah ive only been doing it two years but I exercise, eat well, and take martial arts all of which decrease my stress greatly.
Maybe some people can do it and some cant, maybe its elitist or arrogant to think I can do something most people cant, maybe in a few more years ill burn out and blow my head off, but I doubt it I like what I do, and stress is a purely mental aspect of life, some is good, to much is bad, I know that i can achieve only so much in a day, and anymore I dont worry about it.
Oh well, if I stroke out thats my luck, it takes a certain mindset , that i fI ever lose im outta the business fast, to stay happy with that kind of work.
the car owns me