At the risk of being moderated down by mozilla utopians, I'd just like to point out that I've been using Opera almost exclusively for about 2 1/2 years and will continue to do so for three simple reasons:
It's less bloated than IE/Netscape/Mozilla
It's faster than IE/Netscape/Mozilla
It believes in things called standards
Granted, the third one counts negative for most people due to the fact that some pages are being designed based on "looks fine in IE" when if they simply adhered to the standards, it would probably "look fine" in ALL browsers! Now don't get me wrong, I'll be more than happy if Mozilla can ever take over as king in those three categories, but lets get real here, at the rate they're going, I'm going to be using Opera for at least another year.
Anyway, that's just my $.02, you may now proceed with "Score:-1 Doesn't suck the dick of open source"...
I think most Libertarians are perfectly well-meaning, and their perception that government is horribly broken is dead-on. But it's as if the nation was a great mansion with a leaky roof, and they're telling us, "Hey, if we remove the roof entirely we won't have to worry about leaks anymore!" Well, yeah, but....
For the analogy to be complete, you have to recall that I am being forced to pay for this roof, and you're telling me that it's better than no roof at all, even though I know that if I had that money that I was forced to pay for my share of the roof, I could easily buy myself a good tent or umbrella that would do much better. Just becuase some idiots might spend their tent money on beer and whores, then die of pneumonia in the rain, doesn't mean its the duty of a federal government to protect them from themselve by creating something to screws over everyone else.
Harry Browne is the candidate for people who have enough sense to get a tent and are bloody tired of that damn roof of bureaucracy dripping on them! Nader and all the rest just think we need more and better roofs, then all will be well, but they just don't get it: for the big roof to exist, it has to be made by people (roofers) who inherintly, no matter how hard they try, cannot meet the varying needs of our citizens, and they are also going to make mistakes, which we ALL will have to sufer for. I don't want to live in a big Mansion, and I don't think the big mansion is a very American idea. It should be a neighborhood you're free to build whatever kind of shelter you want, or none at all, and long you don't build it on my land.
Call me crazy, but I'd like the rest of my freedom, please, and I'm voting Libertarian.
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Actually, all you'd have to do is get a 1.2Ghz chip and a motherboard that can adjust the multipliers. Downclock the multiplier to 11 and up the bus speed to 110; 11 * 110Mhz = 1210Mhz = 1.21Ghz:)
The only problem is that I've heard bus speed overclocking is pretty hard to do on athlons past 105 or so.
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
More importantly, the guy is way ahead of all the other third party candidates, is on the ballot in 30 states already (including Montana:-) Thank you Mr. Wachs and co.) with more to come, and he has eight percent popularity. If enough people vote for him, the Green Party (I was a staunch Democrat before I found the Greens) will become a "recognized" political party.
I find it hard to see Nader as "way ahead" when libertarianHarry Browne is on the ballot in all 50 states already. And while it's true that Browne trails Nader in the polls by a noticable margin, Nader is a celebrity, and Browne isn't. Would somelse running as the Green Party (?, ?, ?) candidate get as much attention? Maybe, but I would guess not. So although Browne will probably get less votes, the LP is certainly growing more steadily than the Green Party.
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the Libertarian Party is the nation's third largest political party with more members than most of the other 3rd parties combined. You'll get a better idea by reading their site, but their core belief is that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds and needs to be scaled back with a sledgehammer. They oppose the "War on Drugs," think the income tax should be abolished, and basically feel that the individual (and in some cases the state and local governments) should be responsible for most of what the federal government is trying to do (and in their opinion completely fumbling) for you.
Considering that both of these candidates have more down-to-earth time schedules than the two majors, and seem to be popular among the/. crowd, I think a pair of interviews would be a great idea. For example, I know what Browne thinks of Carnivore, but what about Nader? It'd be great if I could just ask him.
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Actually, that whole duron heatsink thing is fluff. People were simply using socket 370 heatsinks and assuming they would work. AMD has a very diverse list of recommended socket A heatsinks. If you use one of those, you will NOT experience these problems (or void your warranty).
If you are cracking your Duron then you are doing something wrong. Most likely you are using a non socket A heatsink, and you are using too much force to put it on. It is very important that the heatsink is designed for your CPU. This article is full of so much misleading information that I can not believe it. I suppose this is what happens on sites that just spit out as many articles as they can write in a day, don't do any research, and then spam news sites to get posts about it. It is ridiculous. Spacers will only redirect heat back into the CPU die, taking off the support pads is a bad idea, not using a correct heatsink is playing with fire, and there is no defective packaging going on, that is ridiculous, what is going on is a string of websites not knowing what they are doing and screwing up their CPUs and then crying about it, like it is AMDs fault, and that is a joke.
~full tide~ "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Actually, it did show up on the front page (in a portions of Slashback V submitted by me), even though it was a week later, a little obscured by the Microsoft/DDOS stuff, and surrounded by the other slashback stuff.
~tide~ "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
I'm really starting to get tired of people mis-representing BeOS on slashdot... From The BeOS FAQ:
The underlying infrastructure for supporting multiple logins and multiple users' preferences is there, and the facility will likely appear in a future release.
Meaning a file system (the BFS; you know, the 64-bit, multithreaded, fully-journaled, database-like one) with fully-working owner/group/all and read/wrtie/execture permissions is already in place (it just happens that root (or "baron" as they call it) owns everything for now). Also, home directories (for now there's only one) with both global and user-specific locations for settings, drivers, file system add-ons, and all that jazz are already implemented elegantly, beautifully, and functionally.
In addition, the BeOS's new networking stack, code-named BONE and due out pretty soon (not long after R5) will be "around twenty times (2000%) the speed of the current net_server" and "in the same league as Linux and FreeBSD" (BONE designer Howard Berkley from The Be newsletter, further explained in a BeOS Central Interview and a followup )
And let's don't forget the usual arguments of prevasive multithreading, multiprocessor optimization, high-efficiency modular I/O, the clarity and simplicity of a 100% object-oriented design, and those wonderful multithreaded direct access graphics capabilities.
Given enough market demand (not likely), Be could spend the time to finish the multi-user functionality, OR after what I see as the eventual (but not any time soon) open-sourcing of the cureently free, but closed-source desktop version of BeOS (keeping the appliance version (BeIA/"Stinger") closed-source) under something like the Mozilla license, we could just do it ourselves. Hopefully, if Be succeeds financially in the Internet Appliance market, they will be able convince the stockholders that open-source has enough advantages, and then we'll get to the really fun stuff:-)
Come on, people, at least give the little guy a chance! I sincerely believe that Be could become a much larger player in the OS wars if people would be more open-minded to something that isn't open-souce (yet).
Long live the underdog, ~tide "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
While they were giving a few of these guys out at the '99 Atlanta Linux Showcase my cohorts and I managed to sneak away with some. We tried them out when we got back and sure enough they worked great, had a cute LinuxCare bootlogo, most cd drives read them (except for the slot-load pionners...), but I thought I remember them only having 30MB (must have been version 1.1, b/c it also lacked the penguin on the left). I started carrying mine around in my wallet and got some great reactions when I used it good effect in BSOD-like situations.
Anyway, the lesson is, dont carry the damn things in your wallet, b/c it eventually got cracked and is now useless decoration.
~tide "Linux is only free if your time has no value."
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I'm a bad speller too, but damn....that's REALLY bad.
FBI To Require Background Checks For Child-Care Providers: Child-Havers Unaffected
It's less bloated than IE/Netscape/Mozilla
It's faster than IE/Netscape/Mozilla
It believes in things called standards
Granted, the third one counts negative for most people due to the fact that some pages are being designed based on "looks fine in IE" when if they simply adhered to the standards, it would probably "look fine" in ALL browsers! Now don't get me wrong, I'll be more than happy if Mozilla can ever take over as king in those three categories, but lets get real here, at the rate they're going, I'm going to be using Opera for at least another year.
Anyway, that's just my $.02, you may now proceed with "Score:-1 Doesn't suck the dick of open source"...
very funny, entirely offtopic, and 2.15% + 98.85% > 100%
For the analogy to be complete, you have to recall that I am being forced to pay for this roof, and you're telling me that it's better than no roof at all, even though I know that if I had that money that I was forced to pay for my share of the roof, I could easily buy myself a good tent or umbrella that would do much better. Just becuase some idiots might spend their tent money on beer and whores, then die of pneumonia in the rain, doesn't mean its the duty of a federal government to protect them from themselve by creating something to screws over everyone else.
Harry Browne is the candidate for people who have enough sense to get a tent and are bloody tired of that damn roof of bureaucracy dripping on them! Nader and all the rest just think we need more and better roofs, then all will be well, but they just don't get it: for the big roof to exist, it has to be made by people (roofers) who inherintly, no matter how hard they try, cannot meet the varying needs of our citizens, and they are also going to make mistakes, which we ALL will have to sufer for. I don't want to live in a big Mansion, and I don't think the big mansion is a very American idea. It should be a neighborhood you're free to build whatever kind of shelter you want, or none at all, and long you don't build it on my land.
Call me crazy, but I'd like the rest of my freedom, please, and I'm voting Libertarian.
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Actually, all you'd have to do is get a 1.2Ghz chip and a motherboard that can adjust the multipliers. Downclock the multiplier to 11 and up the bus speed to 110; 11 * 110Mhz = 1210Mhz = 1.21Ghz :)
The only problem is that I've heard bus speed overclocking is pretty hard to do on athlons past 105 or so.
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
I find it hard to see Nader as "way ahead" when libertarian Harry Browne is on the ballot in all 50 states already. And while it's true that Browne trails Nader in the polls by a noticable margin, Nader is a celebrity, and Browne isn't. Would somelse running as the Green Party (?, ?, ?) candidate get as much attention? Maybe, but I would guess not. So although Browne will probably get less votes, the LP is certainly growing more steadily than the Green Party.
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the Libertarian Party is the nation's third largest political party with more members than most of the other 3rd parties combined. You'll get a better idea by reading their site, but their core belief is that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds and needs to be scaled back with a sledgehammer. They oppose the "War on Drugs," think the income tax should be abolished, and basically feel that the individual (and in some cases the state and local governments) should be responsible for most of what the federal government is trying to do (and in their opinion completely fumbling) for you.
Considering that both of these candidates have more down-to-earth time schedules than the two majors, and seem to be popular among the
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
To quote amzone who put it bluntly, but accurately (of this tweaktown article):
~full tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
I can verify this one; "works" like a charm, even on win2k ;-)
EZ-CD 4.0 was too bloated for me, so I just switched to Nero Burning Rom, which lets you overburn (something adaptec doesn't)
~tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
By any chance, are you processors overclocked? For whatever reason, BeOS seems hang on OC'd systems much more than windows, etc.
I don't really know why this is so, but I've seen it on _many_ systems. Just try reseting your clocks to normal and see what happens.
~tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Actually, it did show up on the front page (in a portions of Slashback V submitted by me), even though it was a week later, a little obscured by the Microsoft/DDOS stuff, and surrounded by the other slashback stuff.
~tide~
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
Meaning a file system (the BFS; you know, the 64-bit, multithreaded, fully-journaled, database-like one) with fully-working owner/group/all and read/wrtie/execture permissions is already in place (it just happens that root (or "baron" as they call it) owns everything for now). Also, home directories (for now there's only one) with both global and user-specific locations for settings, drivers, file system add-ons, and all that jazz are already implemented elegantly, beautifully, and functionally.
In addition, the BeOS's new networking stack, code-named BONE and due out pretty soon (not long after R5) will be "around twenty times (2000%) the speed of the current net_server" and "in the same league as Linux and FreeBSD" (BONE designer Howard Berkley from The Be newsletter, further explained in a BeOS Central Interview and a followup )
And let's don't forget the usual arguments of prevasive multithreading, multiprocessor optimization, high-efficiency modular I/O, the clarity and simplicity of a 100% object-oriented design, and those wonderful multithreaded direct access graphics capabilities.
Given enough market demand (not likely), Be could spend the time to finish the multi-user functionality, OR after what I see as the eventual (but not any time soon) open-sourcing of the cureently free, but closed-source desktop version of BeOS (keeping the appliance version (BeIA/"Stinger") closed-source) under something like the Mozilla license, we could just do it ourselves. Hopefully, if Be succeeds financially in the Internet Appliance market, they will be able convince the stockholders that open-source has enough advantages, and then we'll get to the really fun stuff
Come on, people, at least give the little guy a chance! I sincerely believe that Be could become a much larger player in the OS wars if people would be more open-minded to something that isn't open-souce (yet).
Long live the underdog,
~tide
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
While they were giving a few of these guys out at the '99 Atlanta Linux Showcase my cohorts and I managed to sneak away with some. We tried them out when we got back and sure enough they worked great, had a cute LinuxCare bootlogo, most cd drives read them (except for the slot-load pionners...), but I thought I remember them only having 30MB (must have been version 1.1, b/c it also lacked the penguin on the left). I started carrying mine around in my wallet and got some great reactions when I used it good effect in BSOD-like situations.
Anyway, the lesson is, dont carry the damn things in your wallet, b/c it eventually got cracked and is now useless decoration.
~tide
"Linux is only free if your time has no value."