I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll ever be convinced that merely looking at something is bad, immoral, or wrong. It might be an indication of a disorder, but more often than not it's just another thing for dirty old men to jerk off to, and I don't have a problem with that.
I think our efforts are much better put to rearing a society that minimizes the demand for such material, and I don't think criminalizing possesion is a means to do that. Maybe we should tighten the laws up on people who actually commit sex crimes, even if it doesn't deter them it is to our advantage to not allow them to re-enter society.
I'm not sure I understand, if they were seperate components than why would opening a malformed web page make my email go bye-bye? If the browser can crash the whole XPCOM subsystem there is something wrong.
So if we remove the 'fake stuff' the only thing left they can do is go for 'the real thing'. That's how I feel. I don't get what the allure to naked children is either, but child rape and molestation has been around a lot longer than child porn, and I think that in societies where there aren't laws that prevent the sharing and posession of such pictures there is a lot less exploitation of children.
I feel the same way about illegal substances. Nobody would get shot over drugs if you could go get them at the liquor store. The prohibition forces the culture to become make-or-break violent.
Also, you fail to address that at least some of the child porn out there is completely consentual and non-coerced. I remember when I was nine a female friend and I took 'child porn' polaroids of each other because it was fun and not-allowed. Is that sick or immoral? I don't think so, just a little weird.
I really don't like when certain page or email brings down all of mozilla. I leave my eamil on one screen and browser window on two others. If I go to Intel.com and their page brings down all that is Mozilla and I lose the email I was composing to my boss, that pisses me off. I think email and browsing and chat should be seperate apps. I like the idea of 'tying' them toghether by building them out of the same stuff, but having them all live in one big binary is a recipe for disaster and makes 'spaghetti-code' development too easy.
Looking and doing are VERY different. I know a lot of people who look at kiddie porn, but don't molest kids. I'd say they're pretty normal well-adjusted folks too. Human sexuality is VERY restricted in America and I think that the perverts are much BETTER OFF looking rather than doing. Please think about that before you draw a line betwen pictures on a computer and kids in therapy.
I fail to see how viewing a picture I obtained for free is harmful to anyone. I didn't PAY anyone to get it, did I? I do think it's repulsive, but it's not destructive, and I think there are MUCH better things we can persecute, like littering and bad traffic etiquette.
It might take a long time to compile, but after three years of fiddling with APT and RPM-based distros I've FINALLY found out HOW LINUX WORKS. Gentoo provides a very detailed set of installation instructions that TEACHES you how linux really boots and runs your programs. After three years of only being able to use linux I can finally configure startup daemons, kernels, bootloaders, and other stuff that actually lets one run a healthy system. 'nano' is as easy (easier?) to use as any XFree text editor, most colleges start users on 'pico' for email anyway.
Gentoo is the perfect system for people learning how to RUN linux, leave how to USE linux to distros like Redhat and Mandrake.
I think Gentoo is going to take a LOT of ground in the Linux market, mostly because the people who give back to the linux community want what Gentoo has. Corporate servers will still run Redhat, but Gentoo will become the de-fecto standard for the intelligent army of geeks out there (the ones who file and fix bugs, and develop free software). 'Emerge' alone is reason enough to switch over, the simplified init processes and ease-of-customization will convince most committed users to take the plunge.
I'm looking forward to Gentoo-1.4 and beyond, I really think the future of linux lies in Gentoo, and I think Redhat and Debian should look into adpoting emerge as their package manager.
I use a lighter Window Manager (WindowMaker) and only the apps I need (Mozilla, OpenOffice, RXVT, GAIM, and a few others). I think the graphical performance of my system is second-to-none. KDE itself is pretty laggy, not XFree86. You give good advice.
Remember, after 1.4 Firebird will be the standard 'browser' for Mozilla. The all-encompassing front-end you know and hate will fade away and separate apps for each purpose (browser, mail, chat, layout, text editing, etc.) will be standard. They'll all compile from the same place and run off a core shared set of library files, but the binaries WILL be separate. I think only the bugzilla/development community will call it 'firebird' because we'll be too busy calling it 'Mozilla.'
Right now Phoenix users say Phoenix to DIFFERENTIATE from normal XPFE Mozilla users, but after we're standardized on Firebird that will fade away. We will evolve.
Get an EpOX ep-8kha+, it's only DDR266, but it's PLENTY fast for pretty much anything.
Put 1GB PC-2xxx or better RAM into it. I suggest Kingmax TinyBGA parts because they've never caused me ANY trouble. Only pay for PC3200 RAM if you intend to move it into your next machine. This board maxes out at PC2100, but 2700 and above work fine.
Then put a Barton core in it and UNDERCLOCK. The mobo won't do 333MHz, it will underclock your CPU for you a bit, but you'll generate MUCH less heat and you'll get the faster 512K barton cache. Your chip will run at 80% the 'native' clock speed if you build this system.
For a hard drive you should get something with ATA-100 or better and 8MB cache. I suggest a Maxtor MaxLine II Plus or a WD Special Edition. Don't get top-of-the-line capacity unless you like to overspend.
Get an ATI card from the RADEON family. Spend more if you game. Get a 32MB DDR Radeon 7500 if you don't game much, it's good enough to game occasionally but not at all pricey. ATI has native linux drivers in xfree86.
Get a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card. They're cheap and the digital out is kewl if you are into hi-fi audio. Don't spend more than $50 on a sound card, please.
[OPTIONAL] Get an adaptec-2940u2w and an ultra2wide 9GB SCSI drive for your / partition if you want to run super-fast. Even though it looks slow on paper, you'll see a MAJOR improvement in launching apps and other intensive random disk activity. Put your/home on the IDE drive.
Follow this advice and you will get an incredibly fast machine for very little money. I've had a similar setup for two years and it still kicks butt, feels faster than my friends' 2.4Ghz PIV boxen. The board has onboard sound, but I prefer the SBLive's digital-out. Also, almost ALL onboard LAN chipsets are trash, put an Intel or 3com NIC into the thing for MUCH improved performance when pumping data over ethernet.
It's sad, but in Providence, RI public (and some private) schools they only cover the basic courses. When I starrted college I was the only student who didn't take a programming class in high school (because they didn't OFFER one). Here you can take Math, English, Science, History/civics, and an art class, but not Shop, Drama, Home Ec., Psychology, Social Studies, Economics, Ethics, or Computer Programming.
Sadly, the next generation of Rhode Island students is well on the path to economic ruin. I'm sure our state will be proud to flip a burger for you in the next decade.
I DID learn them as I needed them later on, and it IS a parnet's job to teach such things, but most parents these days can't handle most of that themselves, I think it's time to reinstitute 'home economics' in high schools and teach all that stuff. I want teachers showing kids how to check their cars' oil levels and how to build good credit so they can buy homes later in life.
I'm upset because I went through twelve years of school and never learned:
1. Office/Workplace Etiquette. 2. Customer Service Skills. 3. How Banking Works. 4. How to build Good Credit. 5. How to PAY A BILL. 6. Landlord/tenant rights. 7. How a car works (basic theory). 8. How to budget monthly. 9. How Insurance works/how to use insurance. 10.So much more.
I was doing that until last November when I moved in with the female. I thought I had a good job and $220/week would pay the bills. I was SO wrong. It's CREEPY finding out how money really works, so far this year I've had eleven days (not contiguous) when there's been no money AND no food. I know I could spend a little bit better, but after rent, bills, car care, and food there's still a maximum of $75 net-gain each month, and that can disappear overnight if I'm not super-disciplined.
Sorry, benchmarks be damned. I've got a 500MHz PIII and an 800 MHz C3 sitting right next to each other. The PIII kicks the C3's ass in EVERY application. I'd rather run an underclocked PIII (which might be able to go fanless if clocked low enough) than deal with the C3 anymore.
The C3/EPIA seems cool, but you can find similar solutions from Intel, built with higher quality and easier to service and support. I used to be a C3 fan but I can't even play a Nintendo emulator on an 800MHz C3 without it choking up, Microsoft Office is laggy on it, and the integrated components all seem second-rate.
I think VIA would be much better off scrapping the C3 and integrating Intel Ultra Low-Volt PIII chips on their boards. It's either that or implement a HUGE 'backside cache' like Apple did with the G3 series, an 8MB L3 memory cache sitting under the CPU would probably help things out a lot.
Also, for linux applications, the C3 has no GCC target so ALL code runs unoptimized on it, the PIII (i686 +mmx +sse) has much more mature compiler support and GCC produces much better results on the Intel chip, this will only get more apparent when GCC 3.3 debuts with a VERY well thought-out PIII scheduler, and the C3 will still be using "-march=i486 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse".
You are saving money from $140/week income? I have a feeling you aren't paying all the rent/bills/food costs. Anybody can live on $140/week if they live with mom and dad (or mom and dad support you at school). Maybe it's that I have a car, but that's not optional for a field technician covering two states. What's your trick?
I make $12/hour, but that's not salary, and the company subtracts an hour from each car ride, so I get paid 2 hours less than I'm disposed for work every day. Also, I LOSE money on the driving reimbursement ($0.28/mile - 15 miles each way) because it costs more than that to drive. In the end my net pay is about $220/week.
gaming has little to do with CPU and most to do with GPU these days. Look at gaming benchmarks of modern PCs, the only thing that makes more than a 5% difference in FPS (and the ONLY difference in quality) is the video card used. Gaming benchmarks are somewhat stupid unless you're comparing graphics cards.
The real question is "Will this get any more software houses publishing for the Mac?" and the answer is "Only if it helps the mac gain marketshare in the 15-30 year-old sector."
Aircraft are supposed to be very flexible so they don't shatter under stress. Aluminum made for aircraft must be more pliable than that used in bikes or other rigid bodies. Apple probably did us all a great favor by making the AlBook a 'bender' rather than a 'breaker' but some folks are naturally gonna get their books bent.
Aren't bikes and Laptops made with aluminum alloys though, I'm sure there's a lot of different ingredients in there along with the aluminum. Maybe the AlumBook is made with a 'wimpy' breed of alloys.
Most of that type of machine were truly abused. My neighbors all lost their power supplies on theirs because it was so easy to stack crap on to of and next to the squarish design, blocking the vents. Our Mac Plus, 512K, and Classic all are still up-and-running (ok, I trashed the 512k last year) because we didn't run them in direct sunlight or with the vents blocked.
Granted, it wasnt good thinking on apple's part, but most of the PSU deaths were user error in my opinion. Not blocking air vents seems like common sense to me, guess it's just how I was raised.
I prefer UNDERCLOCKING. I have a barton running at 1200MHz, it's much cooler than it would otherwise be, and anything over 800MHz seems to 'float my boat' just fine. I'd rather have a quiet, cool, and reasonably paced system than one that heats my room and costs $40 in electricity every month.
I don't understand why you would want to overclock and risk data loss. I guess there are people out there who don't really care, they just want an extra 3 Frames/sec in their games. I strive for uptime and productivity with my systems, overclocking just seems childish and wasteful.
I stand corrected. I think you're right-on about the chipsets, too.
Apple will need someone to glue all the parts together, and AMD can bring HyperTransport to the table (IBM is PCI-X, right?). That makes a lot of sense, they'll be IBM CPUs running on AMD chipsets.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll ever be convinced that merely looking at something is bad, immoral, or wrong. It might be an indication of a disorder, but more often than not it's just another thing for dirty old men to jerk off to, and I don't have a problem with that.
I think our efforts are much better put to rearing a society that minimizes the demand for such material, and I don't think criminalizing possesion is a means to do that. Maybe we should tighten the laws up on people who actually commit sex crimes, even if it doesn't deter them it is to our advantage to not allow them to re-enter society.
I'm not sure I understand, if they were seperate components than why would opening a malformed web page make my email go bye-bye? If the browser can crash the whole XPCOM subsystem there is something wrong.
So if we remove the 'fake stuff' the only thing left they can do is go for 'the real thing'. That's how I feel. I don't get what the allure to naked children is either, but child rape and molestation has been around a lot longer than child porn, and I think that in societies where there aren't laws that prevent the sharing and posession of such pictures there is a lot less exploitation of children.
I feel the same way about illegal substances. Nobody would get shot over drugs if you could go get them at the liquor store. The prohibition forces the culture to become make-or-break violent.
Also, you fail to address that at least some of the child porn out there is completely consentual and non-coerced. I remember when I was nine a female friend and I took 'child porn' polaroids of each other because it was fun and not-allowed. Is that sick or immoral? I don't think so, just a little weird.
I really don't like when certain page or email brings down all of mozilla. I leave my eamil on one screen and browser window on two others. If I go to Intel.com and their page brings down all that is Mozilla and I lose the email I was composing to my boss, that pisses me off. I think email and browsing and chat should be seperate apps. I like the idea of 'tying' them toghether by building them out of the same stuff, but having them all live in one big binary is a recipe for disaster and makes 'spaghetti-code' development too easy.
Looking and doing are VERY different. I know a lot of people who look at kiddie porn, but don't molest kids. I'd say they're pretty normal well-adjusted folks too. Human sexuality is VERY restricted in America and I think that the perverts are much BETTER OFF looking rather than doing. Please think about that before you draw a line betwen pictures on a computer and kids in therapy.
I fail to see how viewing a picture I obtained for free is harmful to anyone. I didn't PAY anyone to get it, did I? I do think it's repulsive, but it's not destructive, and I think there are MUCH better things we can persecute, like littering and bad traffic etiquette.
It might take a long time to compile, but after three years of fiddling with APT and RPM-based distros I've FINALLY found out HOW LINUX WORKS. Gentoo provides a very detailed set of installation instructions that TEACHES you how linux really boots and runs your programs. After three years of only being able to use linux I can finally configure startup daemons, kernels, bootloaders, and other stuff that actually lets one run a healthy system. 'nano' is as easy (easier?) to use as any XFree text editor, most colleges start users on 'pico' for email anyway.
Gentoo is the perfect system for people learning how to RUN linux, leave how to USE linux to distros like Redhat and Mandrake.
I think Gentoo is going to take a LOT of ground in the Linux market, mostly because the people who give back to the linux community want what Gentoo has. Corporate servers will still run Redhat, but Gentoo will become the de-fecto standard for the intelligent army of geeks out there (the ones who file and fix bugs, and develop free software). 'Emerge' alone is reason enough to switch over, the simplified init processes and ease-of-customization will convince most committed users to take the plunge.
I'm looking forward to Gentoo-1.4 and beyond, I really think the future of linux lies in Gentoo, and I think Redhat and Debian should look into adpoting emerge as their package manager.
I use a lighter Window Manager (WindowMaker) and only the apps I need (Mozilla, OpenOffice, RXVT, GAIM, and a few others). I think the graphical performance of my system is second-to-none. KDE itself is pretty laggy, not XFree86. You give good advice.
Remember, after 1.4 Firebird will be the standard 'browser' for Mozilla. The all-encompassing front-end you know and hate will fade away and separate apps for each purpose (browser, mail, chat, layout, text editing, etc.) will be standard. They'll all compile from the same place and run off a core shared set of library files, but the binaries WILL be separate. I think only the bugzilla/development community will call it 'firebird' because we'll be too busy calling it 'Mozilla.'
Right now Phoenix users say Phoenix to DIFFERENTIATE from normal XPFE Mozilla users, but after we're standardized on Firebird that will fade away. We will evolve.
Get an EpOX ep-8kha+, it's only DDR266, but it's PLENTY fast for pretty much anything.
/home on the IDE drive.
Put 1GB PC-2xxx or better RAM into it. I suggest Kingmax TinyBGA parts because they've never caused me ANY trouble. Only pay for PC3200 RAM if you intend to move it into your next machine. This board maxes out at PC2100, but 2700 and above work fine.
Then put a Barton core in it and UNDERCLOCK. The mobo won't do 333MHz, it will underclock your CPU for you a bit, but you'll generate MUCH less heat and you'll get the faster 512K barton cache. Your chip will run at 80% the 'native' clock speed if you build this system.
For a hard drive you should get something with ATA-100 or better and 8MB cache. I suggest a Maxtor MaxLine II Plus or a WD Special Edition. Don't get top-of-the-line capacity unless you like to overspend.
Get an ATI card from the RADEON family. Spend more if you game. Get a 32MB DDR Radeon 7500 if you don't game much, it's good enough to game occasionally but not at all pricey. ATI has native linux drivers in xfree86.
Get a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card. They're cheap and the digital out is kewl if you are into hi-fi audio. Don't spend more than $50 on a sound card, please.
[OPTIONAL] Get an adaptec-2940u2w and an ultra2wide 9GB SCSI drive for your / partition if you want to run super-fast. Even though it looks slow on paper, you'll see a MAJOR improvement in launching apps and other intensive random disk activity. Put your
Follow this advice and you will get an incredibly fast machine for very little money. I've had a similar setup for two years and it still kicks butt, feels faster than my friends' 2.4Ghz PIV boxen. The board has onboard sound, but I prefer the SBLive's digital-out. Also, almost ALL onboard LAN chipsets are trash, put an Intel or 3com NIC into the thing for MUCH improved performance when pumping data over ethernet.
It's sad, but in Providence, RI public (and some private) schools they only cover the basic courses. When I starrted college I was the only student who didn't take a programming class in high school (because they didn't OFFER one). Here you can take Math, English, Science, History/civics, and an art class, but not Shop, Drama, Home Ec., Psychology, Social Studies, Economics, Ethics, or Computer Programming.
Sadly, the next generation of Rhode Island students is well on the path to economic ruin. I'm sure our state will be proud to flip a burger for you in the next decade.
I DID learn them as I needed them later on, and it IS a parnet's job to teach such things, but most parents these days can't handle most of that themselves, I think it's time to reinstitute 'home economics' in high schools and teach all that stuff. I want teachers showing kids how to check their cars' oil levels and how to build good credit so they can buy homes later in life.
I'm upset because I went through twelve years of school and never learned:
1. Office/Workplace Etiquette.
2. Customer Service Skills.
3. How Banking Works.
4. How to build Good Credit.
5. How to PAY A BILL.
6. Landlord/tenant rights.
7. How a car works (basic theory).
8. How to budget monthly.
9. How Insurance works/how to use insurance.
10.So much more.
I was wondering why the aliens in Quake II needed 'the big gun.' It all makes so much sense now.
I was doing that until last November when I moved in with the female. I thought I had a good job and $220/week would pay the bills. I was SO wrong. It's CREEPY finding out how money really works, so far this year I've had eleven days (not contiguous) when there's been no money AND no food. I know I could spend a little bit better, but after rent, bills, car care, and food there's still a maximum of $75 net-gain each month, and that can disappear overnight if I'm not super-disciplined.
Sorry, benchmarks be damned. I've got a 500MHz PIII and an 800 MHz C3 sitting right next to each other. The PIII kicks the C3's ass in EVERY application. I'd rather run an underclocked PIII (which might be able to go fanless if clocked low enough) than deal with the C3 anymore.
The C3/EPIA seems cool, but you can find similar solutions from Intel, built with higher quality and easier to service and support. I used to be a C3 fan but I can't even play a Nintendo emulator on an 800MHz C3 without it choking up, Microsoft Office is laggy on it, and the integrated components all seem second-rate.
I think VIA would be much better off scrapping the C3 and integrating Intel Ultra Low-Volt PIII chips on their boards. It's either that or implement a HUGE 'backside cache' like Apple did with the G3 series, an 8MB L3 memory cache sitting under the CPU would probably help things out a lot.
Also, for linux applications, the C3 has no GCC target so ALL code runs unoptimized on it, the PIII (i686 +mmx +sse) has much more mature compiler support and GCC produces much better results on the Intel chip, this will only get more apparent when GCC 3.3 debuts with a VERY well thought-out PIII scheduler, and the C3 will still be using "-march=i486 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse".
You are saving money from $140/week income? I have a feeling you aren't paying all the rent/bills/food costs. Anybody can live on $140/week if they live with mom and dad (or mom and dad support you at school). Maybe it's that I have a car, but that's not optional for a field technician covering two states. What's your trick?
I make $12/hour, but that's not salary, and the company subtracts an hour from each car ride, so I get paid 2 hours less than I'm disposed for work every day. Also, I LOSE money on the driving reimbursement ($0.28/mile - 15 miles each way) because it costs more than that to drive. In the end my net pay is about $220/week.
$400 is two week's pay (take home) for some of us technicians though. If you live on your own or with a roomate it can take months to save $400 up.
I just saved up for a month and got a Pentium III 1Ghz CPU for $90, now I have to rummage the house for spare change to get gas to go to work.
gaming has little to do with CPU and most to do with GPU these days. Look at gaming benchmarks of modern PCs, the only thing that makes more than a 5% difference in FPS (and the ONLY difference in quality) is the video card used. Gaming benchmarks are somewhat stupid unless you're comparing graphics cards.
The real question is "Will this get any more software houses publishing for the Mac?" and the answer is "Only if it helps the mac gain marketshare in the 15-30 year-old sector."
I didn't say it WAS, I was asking.
Aircraft are supposed to be very flexible so they don't shatter under stress. Aluminum made for aircraft must be more pliable than that used in bikes or other rigid bodies. Apple probably did us all a great favor by making the AlBook a 'bender' rather than a 'breaker' but some folks are naturally gonna get their books bent.
Aren't bikes and Laptops made with aluminum alloys though, I'm sure there's a lot of different ingredients in there along with the aluminum. Maybe the AlumBook is made with a 'wimpy' breed of alloys.
Most of that type of machine were truly abused. My neighbors all lost their power supplies on theirs because it was so easy to stack crap on to of and next to the squarish design, blocking the vents. Our Mac Plus, 512K, and Classic all are still up-and-running (ok, I trashed the 512k last year) because we didn't run them in direct sunlight or with the vents blocked.
Granted, it wasnt good thinking on apple's part, but most of the PSU deaths were user error in my opinion. Not blocking air vents seems like common sense to me, guess it's just how I was raised.
I prefer UNDERCLOCKING. I have a barton running at 1200MHz, it's much cooler than it would otherwise be, and anything over 800MHz seems to 'float my boat' just fine. I'd rather have a quiet, cool, and reasonably paced system than one that heats my room and costs $40 in electricity every month.
I don't understand why you would want to overclock and risk data loss. I guess there are people out there who don't really care, they just want an extra 3 Frames/sec in their games. I strive for uptime and productivity with my systems, overclocking just seems childish and wasteful.
I stand corrected. I think you're right-on about the chipsets, too.
Apple will need someone to glue all the parts together, and AMD can bring HyperTransport to the table (IBM is PCI-X, right?). That makes a lot of sense, they'll be IBM CPUs running on AMD chipsets.