the general public would write -worse- software
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Even if they could see it, they wouldn't understand it. The general public wouldn't even be able to write software.
Software that -needs- to be as relaible as the golden gate bridge is. It runs medical equipment, aircraft control systems, etc. Your word processor is irrelevant.
Companies no longer want to -sell- you anything, they will only sell recurring licenses to use/hear/view their data for a fixed period of time rather than -selling- a copy of the data to you.
Cyrix hurt themselves because they were way too aggressive on their numbers. Their floating point math performance sucked so their real world performance was never as good to the people most likely to complain about it (geeks and gamers).
(I used 6x86 line chips to the bitter end; then upgraded my 225mhz 6x86mx-300 to a 337mhz amd k6-3 and was much happier)
If AMD is reasonable it -might- just work (calling a 1.4ghz chip a 1600 is accurate for a P4 comparison on chips using their most recent CPU core). The danger is Intel's marketeers trying to make "mhz" a trademark so that its noticed when its not there.
they review Win2Net and complain about Sticker shock, but don't even look at VNC.
Win2Net might intercept calls at the win32 API layer instead of doing compressed differential screen shots like VNC (might not, i have no idea), but try it, the performance will not be much different.
This was not the law applied, the user no doubt agreed to allow the ISP to terminate their connection at any time for whatever reason the ISP wanted (these days specifically listing possible copyright infringement).
Go find another ISP with a better agreement and practices. (good luck, there aren't many).
Even with CVS there would still be two branches and the pain of seperating patches out for merging from one branch to another. Let the patch managers decide if they want to use it. CVS doesn't solve this problem by itself.
Its worth noting that several subsystems of linux are maintained under their own CVS repositories, with patches being seperated out into functional units and sent to Alan or Linus to sync the project up.
i could accidentally put a metal wire between the +5V and ground available on any serial or parallel port. that won't be good for the motherboard (or the cable connecting it to the motherboard which will probably melt first).
sheesh. use a fuse.
do we have to attach everything with an optocoupler these days?
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agreed. anything new for less than $1600 will be a piece of shit that skimps on quality all over the place.
New cheap laptops break easier under heavy use, from the keyboard wearing out to the display hinge failing. Used "cheap" laptops are more likely the higher quality ones that someone has put aside because they wanted a whiz bang upgrade. If they fail, they were cheap and you can generally find a replacement or the parts you need to fix for a low price on ebay.
If you're buying a laptop new and plan on using it as your primary machine, the extended warranty is well be worth it so that repairs of such things are taken care of for at least three years.
feature to not bother with: dvd-rom drive. how often will you use it for the extra $200+ it ads to the price (to pay off the MPAA)? Just buy a PS2, they're more fun and useful and plenty portable.
My K6-3 337 + EDO ram which costs much more than a 6x faster Duron 800 w/DDR ram is still plenty fast for me.
obviously I'm not running windows 2000.
building a new system? always get a the low end of the curve CPU (currently a 1ghz athlon) and a high end motherboard plus lots of ram, you'll be much happier with everything but your dnetc bechmarks.
if that cpu isn't long enough for you you can upgrade it later to a 1.5ghz model when those are old and cheap one year from now.
Rate this up. Let the test results fall where they may, but if they're going to compare to a P4 with RDRAM they need to use DDR 2100 RAM on their 266Mhz FSB Athlon.
This is the obvious reason where a digital currency (read: cash-like, send a "token" automatically or via a single click and away you go without doing any of the above steps or directly revealing your personal info) would be great.
Unfortunately all current governments like to keep their monopoly on minting and controlling currencies so the concept has never been properly implemented in such a way that it could catch on.
The cost of running online services combined with basic greed makes current sites want to collect personal info and subscriber habits because that information is considered valuable and is needed for poor credit card "authentication".
One idea: Paypal or someone similar should make open source browser plugins for all platforms so that a simple tag could be used to indicate when a zero or one click micropayment is needed to the server. (the current several clicks, into another site, system that both they and amazon offer is too cumbersome)
The server should then refuse any more requests from that user (a session id in the URL or a session only cookie is required) until they have paid.
Trusted sites should be configurable (one-click automagically) in the software to say "pay this content provider without asking up to this much over this period of time"
...
get the picture?
that's doable ontop of existing stuff today.
A similar UI structure to the above would be needed for a digital token based content payment system.
Reasons this will never happen anytime soon:
* providers would need to start charging reasonable and consistent tiny fees per chunk of content. haha.
* contracts for royalties as written today would likely require keeping detailed accounting of each micropayment and fraction of where it should go. This makes micropayments useless as the cost of such accounting is too high.
I can not hear either recent 46gb or 80gb maxtor 5400rpm drives operating at all. why do i need quieter than that as long as there are other noiser components in the system (such as my pc power and cooling silencer power supply, the cpu fan, and the cd-rom drive's motor).
now if only the noisy ibm hard drives in laptops would quiet down.
ssh is not a useful network testing tool. it -royally sucks- at transferring data, even with encryption turned off. It performs way too many data copies and does system calls on buffers that are way too small.
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Even if they could see it, they wouldn't understand it. The general public wouldn't even be able to write software.
Software that -needs- to be as relaible as the golden gate bridge is. It runs medical equipment, aircraft control systems, etc. Your word processor is irrelevant.
Companies no longer want to -sell- you anything, they will only sell recurring licenses to use/hear/view their data for a fixed period of time rather than -selling- a copy of the data to you.
eweek article about Intels misleading Mhz.
Cyrix hurt themselves because they were way too aggressive on their numbers. Their floating point math performance sucked so their real world performance was never as good to the people most likely to complain about it (geeks and gamers).
(I used 6x86 line chips to the bitter end; then upgraded my 225mhz 6x86mx-300 to a 337mhz amd k6-3 and was much happier)
If AMD is reasonable it -might- just work (calling a 1.4ghz chip a 1600 is accurate for a P4 comparison on chips using their most recent CPU core). The danger is Intel's marketeers trying to make "mhz" a trademark so that its noticed when its not there.
rate that up!
they review Win2Net and complain about Sticker shock, but don't even look at VNC.
Win2Net might intercept calls at the win32 API layer instead of doing compressed differential screen shots like VNC (might not, i have no idea), but try it, the performance will not be much different.
VNC is free. No sticker shock there.
This was not the law applied, the user no doubt agreed to allow the ISP to terminate their connection at any time for whatever reason the ISP wanted (these days specifically listing possible copyright infringement).
Go find another ISP with a better agreement and practices. (good luck, there aren't many).
Even with CVS there would still be two branches and the pain of seperating patches out for merging from one branch to another. Let the patch managers decide if they want to use it. CVS doesn't solve this problem by itself.
Its worth noting that several subsystems of linux are maintained under their own CVS repositories, with patches being seperated out into functional units and sent to Alan or Linus to sync the project up.
SRP - Secure Remote Passwords. A stanford project that isn't vulnerable to timing attacks found when typing passwords over an interactive connection.
Also, to "fix" ssh, just don't send passwords as you type them; wait until enter is pressed and always send a fixed length chunk of encrypted data.
i could accidentally put a metal wire between the +5V and ground available on any serial or parallel port. that won't be good for the motherboard (or the cable connecting it to the motherboard which will probably melt first).
sheesh. use a fuse.
do we have to attach everything with an optocoupler these days?
this is stupid.
Exactly. I've paid for access so I'm going to access it however I damn well please.
agreed. anything new for less than $1600 will be a piece of shit that skimps on quality all over the place.
New cheap laptops break easier under heavy use, from the keyboard wearing out to the display hinge failing. Used "cheap" laptops are more likely the higher quality ones that someone has put aside because they wanted a whiz bang upgrade. If they fail, they were cheap and you can generally find a replacement or the parts you need to fix for a low price on ebay.
If you're buying a laptop new and plan on using it as your primary machine, the extended warranty is well be worth it so that repairs of such things are taken care of for at least three years.
feature to not bother with: dvd-rom drive. how often will you use it for the extra $200+ it ads to the price (to pay off the MPAA)? Just buy a PS2, they're more fun and useful and plenty portable.
My K6-3 337 + EDO ram which costs much more than a 6x faster Duron 800 w/DDR ram is still plenty fast for me.
obviously I'm not running windows 2000.
building a new system? always get a the low end of the curve CPU (currently a 1ghz athlon) and a high end motherboard plus lots of ram, you'll be much happier with everything but your dnetc bechmarks.
if that cpu isn't long enough for you you can upgrade it later to a 1.5ghz model when those are old and cheap one year from now.
Rate this up. Let the test results fall where they may, but if they're going to compare to a P4 with RDRAM they need to use DDR 2100 RAM on their 266Mhz FSB Athlon.
This is the obvious reason where a digital currency (read: cash-like, send a "token" automatically or via a single click and away you go without doing any of the above steps or directly revealing your personal info) would be great.
Unfortunately all current governments like to keep their monopoly on minting and controlling currencies so the concept has never been properly implemented in such a way that it could catch on.
The cost of running online services combined with basic greed makes current sites want to collect personal info and subscriber habits because that information is considered valuable and is needed for poor credit card "authentication".
One idea: Paypal or someone similar should make open source browser plugins for all platforms so that a simple tag could be used to indicate when a zero or one click micropayment is needed to the server. (the current several clicks, into another site, system that both they and amazon offer is too cumbersome)
The server should then refuse any more requests from that user (a session id in the URL or a session only cookie is required) until they have paid.
Trusted sites should be configurable (one-click automagically) in the software to say "pay this content provider without asking up to this much over this period of time"
...
get the picture?
that's doable ontop of existing stuff today.
A similar UI structure to the above would be needed for a digital token based content payment system.
Reasons this will never happen anytime soon:
* providers would need to start charging reasonable and consistent tiny fees per chunk of content. haha.
* contracts for royalties as written today would likely require keeping detailed accounting of each micropayment and fraction of where it should go. This makes micropayments useless as the cost of such accounting is too high.
will just watch for email addresses of other stupid whiny "admins" who complain without a clue and autofile their email to /dev/null.
I can not hear either recent 46gb or 80gb maxtor 5400rpm drives operating at all. why do i need quieter than that as long as there are other noiser components in the system (such as my pc power and cooling silencer power supply, the cpu fan, and the cd-rom drive's motor).
now if only the noisy ibm hard drives in laptops would quiet down.
their silencer power supplies and personal midtower cases are wonderful.
This hasn't been a viable question since 1993 people, get real! you missed it. moron.
ssh is not a useful network testing tool. it -royally sucks- at transferring data, even with encryption turned off. It performs way too many data copies and does system calls on buffers that are way too small.
Use ttcp or netperf.
wow, "non-bloat" as a goal. Everyone should jump in and help to add their favorite features!
At least that's what I've seen happen to all other projects with non-bloat as an original goal. (linux, mozilla, kde, gnome, etc..)
Their CDs come with all sorts of hardware these days. They are how I know which type of network card or other device to buy in the store.
But who really uses their distribution?
Any word on what its like from any users? deb, rpm or tar.gz based?
Better be glad Tim did that ass kissing, Amazon might have stopped selling the animal books. ;)
2004? That's more vaporous hype than microsoft!
This is just some company's PR trying to get themselves noticed. This is NOT A NEW DISCOVERY (as many others have already pointed out).