as far as I know are things you can only excise within your borders...and the internet isn't quiote within the United States' borders. Do the Senators that suggest these types of legistlation even understand what they are talking about? Most likely not. If this actually goes into effect we'll probably see e-commerce sites opening up Canadian, Mexican, or Christmas Island branches, anywhere the US won't be able to impose it's taxes. Hmmm...ebay.cx?
the US government trusts their own systems enough they think they need a Y2K bunker? Bill Clinton is a raving idiot, I feel horrible for defending him in the Monica scandal. Someone needs to kidnap this hapless okie and teach him something about technology, even though his vice president invented the internet. First the Clipper chip, then the CDA, now a Y2K bunker. You would think the billions of dollars spent on SDI would have leftover a few bunkers in case of a global nuclear war...which is slightly more destructive than stupidity.
that RedHat "didnt realize" how restrictive E*Trade's qualifications were going to be for IPO investment. I don't think i'm going to be buying stock from a company that "doesn't realize" how restrictive and dangerous the stock market can be. E*Trade has such harsh rules because they don't want Joe Idiot losing his life savings on Acme Linux and then suing E*Trade because they didn't warn him that he was an idiot. Although I think E*Trade's qualifications were a bit too harsh, RedHat should have gotten their information before they offered developers first dibs on their IPO. This makes me believe RedHat isn't quite ready for the intensity of Wall Street.
I think one of the main reasons behind SGI's recent embrace of x86 is it's compatibility with existing software. It's expensive to maintain a hardware and software division (just ask Apple) so in going with x86 they can put on existing software with basically no porting. Porting IRIX to x86 would cost them alot of money and probably wouldnt pay off in the long run, but using linux and NT, operating systems more people are familiar with, they stand to make a much larger profit from these boxes, because their investment is almost entirely in hardware, with a few linux patches to get their machines running well. Supporting NT means that 3,000 dollar program suite you bought for your old systems can be used on your brand new SGI machines, supporting linux means you basically have a support base of thousands of developers and gurus. You dont have either of those with IRIX.
This is all crap. I mean really, did anyone pay any attention to the 80's? The tailored suit business man "corporate raider" was the coolest thing in the world, which everyone thought would be the cool thing in the future. Now it's geeks? Give me a break, the coolness of geeks will last another decade, if that, then some other social strata would be cool and hip and chic. You know, the computer isn't everything, there was a world before it and there will be one after it.
I think the PC as we know it is going to become the serial port and ISA of the modern computer, some people will still use it and swear by it religiously, but they will eventually be forced to move on. We're seeing all incarnations of set top boxes for net access and some basic word processing, running all sorts of kernels, most noteably linux. Connections are getting faster for Joe User's home so the idea of network computers running remote applications is no longer something reserved for Bill Joy's wet dreams. Here's what I see happening in the next few years. 1. Sun buys Star Office-a cross platform, MS Office compatible, relatively small office suite-and rewrites the Java version to be smaller and much more efficient processor wise. Then they release NC's with microSPARC or JavaChip processors in them (both run Java natively and therefore much faster than say an x86 or PPC chip). With cable and xDSL available in many parts of the country, people find these NC's easy to use and good for what they need. 2. AOL releases their set top box, which with AOL's popularity deals a heavy blow against Micro$oft's WebTV. AOL offers cheap @home service to it's box owners which increases the set top box and AOL's user base. The AOl box runs an uber-hacked linux kernel. 3. Platforms like Nintendo's Dolphin and the PSX2 offer WebTV-like net access and multi player gaming over the internet. 4. Intel's 810 chipset becomes widely used in the sub-500$ PC market making PC's less and less upgradeable but drastically reducing their price while adding a little more *umph* to their multimedia capability. 5. SGI changes their logo yet again. Their campus is stormed by angry nerds who attack them with all forms of pointy metal objects. SGI changes their logo back to the cool infinity cube, the nerds rejoice. 6. Amiga never decides what to base their new kernel on and merely changes the version number to 4.0 and hope no one notices. 7. With the popularity of the iMac pretty undistputed, many other PC makers get the idea that your average user probably will never open up their computer to add anything so cute cuddly user friendly designs flood the market. Only techies and true believers build and use legacy systems and are never bothered with annoying questions like "How do I turn it on?" ever again. 8. Silicon Valley sinks into the ocean.
does everyone keep coming out with these enormous screens on laptops. Laptops are meant to be portable, not desktop replacements. These bigger screens only reduce battery life even more than the Pentium II chips running them. Come on, two hours battery life? Thats horrible, a Powerbook G3 will get you about 6 hours, an AMD powered notebook will probably get you about 3-4 hours. Laptop makers are missing the point, you buy a PORTABLE computing because it's supposed to be something you can use to take your work on the road with you, without needing an AC outlet. Instead of making screens that make laptops impossible to fit into a backpack, how about working on getting a longer battery life out of laptops, making them a little cheaper wouldnt hurt either. The iBook is a great example of a Good Thing in laptops. It's relatively inexpensive, it's got a long battery life and powerful processor, not to mention it's built-in v.90 modem and 10/100 ethernet. What's Apple's secret? A 12.1 inch screen that doesn't use much power and a processor with better conductors. The 12 inch screen isn't a problem because it comes with 4MB of video RAM for a high resolution even on the small screen. Given the choice between a PC notebook and an iBook, the iBook would definitely get my money, which it probably will when it's released.
we all out to be thankful that we don't even have to think for ourselves anymore. No longer do I have to sit at home and wonder how morally uplifting a movie is. All I have to do is ask one of my thought contollers and they will tell me. Geez, what would I do without them? I just realized i would have to make my own decsions and think for myself. I can't understand how society went through a day without being told what to think. I'm glad there are churches, governments and large companies to take care of me. I hope when I finally have kids they will be as well taken care of as I am. I wouldn't want them to be exposed to bad language or sex, not until they were out of school, then they could learn about it. I know if I ever watched R rated movies I would probably boink anything with legs or probably shoot someone. Waiting till I was 17 to watch those naughty movies sure was good for me. I'm going to find all my bookswith bad words in them and take a black marker to them, I wouldn't want someone seeing that and think I was a bad person by having a book with a bad word where a child could possibly see it.
Sun really need a good office suite to further compete with M$. Although you hear half as much about Sun as you do M$, Sun has almost as many employees and makes their fair share of cash. But like SGI they are looking to further compete with M$ and maybe even the desktop/NT workstation market. Sun and SGI rule the 3D workstation and heavy super duper server market, places where Intel and M$ can't compete with near the same quality. But M$ and Intel own the desktop and low cost workstation market. Why? Because Intel has the fast yet not terribly expensive chips and M$ has the support of hundred of not thousands of companies helping them out with more applications every year. So what do these 3D and server powerhouses do? Dive into the low cost market. SGI is trying with it's NT Workstation line (and is supporting Linux along with it, woohoo!) Which means that copy of Office 2000 you just bought will work on your new SGI boxes, major plus. Sun can't abandon their UltraSPARC and microSPARC chips like SGI did with MIPS. So they buy out an already existing multiplatform office suit (Star Office), keep all the multi-platform ports, but redo the Java port which just happens to run very well on the *SPARC processors. Then get into the low-cost workstation market which is making everyone else so much money. Not only does having an office suite make Sun's boxes look more attractive, but they can read and write MS Office documents, which means with Sun's boxes you're able to remain in competition with your competition. Sun: 1. Don't abandon your *SPARC chips. 2. Don't change your logo to a real crappy one. 3. Don't make Star Office unfree for personal users. 4. Don't force my box to run Star Office in Java, I like Java (especially when I dont have to do memory management mineself), but my box doesn't do a good job of running it quickly. 5. my toaster doesn't need to be on the internet, don't try to put Jini in it or I'll put a bottle where the Sun don't shine.
Someone finally paid some attention to what NSI has been doing, claiming the Whois database is their property...even though they own not a bit of the information, only the locations where it's stored and possibly a copyrighted format. Remember when Pacific Bell (IIRC) tried to claim their phone directory was propeietary and only they could make phone books and got slapped down for it. Now maybe the DoC will do that with NSI so we can get the domain registering service back from their greedy corporate claws.
from the megacorps trying to control everyone's access to information/communication. I don't know why they talk about different e-mail clients, unless I accidently slipped into an alternate timeline it seems M$ has been letting Outlook use HTML to format e-mail messages so they can't be read properly by any other e-mail clients (real e-mail clients use plain old ASCII). Microsoft wants standards so they can make a buck off advertising with their universally accepted message standard, only to later add their own proprietary format later on so you need MSN's messager to read it. Does this really suprise anyone? I use ICQ simply because I've been using it since the very first betas were out, i was pissed that AOL bought it, but since I can still use their networks with a free linux client, I don't care.
Geez this is what makes M$ laugh at people like us when we talk about replacing Windows on the desktop, arguing about a license agreement. If you read the article it says that you can't really say which license is "better". If you have read either the BSDL or the GPL you would understand this is true. GPL forces you to provide source code, which is a good thing for non competitive, usually non commercial (unless you're a service provider like Red Hat or SuSE). The BSDL license says you can release source code if you'd like, but you're not forced to, which helps competitive commercial groups to release just binaries for their work, even if they base it on someone else's work. Why does the GPL license always fall into the Linux catagory and BSDL always fall into the *BSD catagory, the GNU license was written by RMS well before Linus finished v.01, so I could put the GPL on my program I just wrote for BSD. Both licenses and both flavours of Unix have their uses and are both good at different things. BSD servers tend to be able to handle higher loads than linux servers, while linux has begun to appeal to the Joe Average user while still being a powerful server and workstation OS. Fighting about which one is better is like children arguing over who's a bigger fartface. It's not M$ and it works, don't complain.
I can't seem to figure out why people who aquire a technology such as the internet consider everything that is of a lower technology level to be inferior and therefore obsoltete. Less than 50% of the US uses the internet on a regular basis, there are actually people who dont have cable television (gasp! the horror!!). The internet is still the toy of the rich and middle class. It isnt the worldwide phenomenon that most people think it is, most of the planet has no idea what email is or even how to type on a keyboard. I still prefer getting papers letters than electronic files, I also like my hand wound pocket watch. With my watch and letters I dont need to worry about any millennium bugs.
turn off our TV's and monitor's and go outside to enjoy ACTUAL reality instead of our virtual realms we think are so cool. I sound like a hypocryte saying that on slashdot, but it's true, the time we spend leisuring in front of a glowing box could be better spent oftenmost doing something else. When I'm board, i go outside and read a book, not an eBoook, but a plain old fashioned paper book. When I need to work I use a computer, when it becomes hazardous to go outside to read I'll read indoors or maybe even watch something saterical on TV. Did you realize your cable box leaks about 15 watts an hour when it's NOT turned on? Thats about a dollar a month added to your bill.
they're looking for a better provider of video cards to go along with their LCD displays other than Number 9. Number 9 cards were the first with 32 megs of video memory...but their chips suck, they don't even begin to compare to 3Dfx and nVidia's chips at least to me they don't. I like the fact that both companies are supporting linux at least in some small way, and something is usually better than nothing.
If i wanted a robot controling my universe I would live in a VR world. this planet has existed for several billion years without humans even THINKING they could control it in any way, I see no need to start now. Nature should be accepted and contended with, no one should attempt to control it.
That many people feared would take over the Internet. Everyone thought it would be Microsoft, but they only buy money makers, NSI has a leash on EVERYONE. From what I've read of their practices it sure seems like they are just a bunch of nerds who have way too much power. I dont know how they ever ended up with the TLD contract, but it should be revoked. It's horrible paying 70$ for two years, then if you need to change the address of a name server or have it point somewhere, they sit on their asses and take their sweet time. One would think that 70$ would be enough to pay for the domain for several years, considering the volume of domains registered every week. I know other people have suggested it but i will too just to show I'm in favor of it. A set of free TLD's owned by a non profit organization. Instead of trying to get support from the community at large we could work on the linux community, both commercial and personal, for support. It would even be pretty nice publicity for linux: "New TLD root servers run on Linux"
I've lived in California all my life, and in many ways I agree with the people calling it's cities cesspools. But then there's cities like Irvine that make it all worth while. I can't understand how all these people are flocking to Silicon Valley, I mean are they expecting to run into some rich CEO or something in a Starbucks? And the living/working conditions. Horrible. At least from what I've heard from friends who moved up there. Sure you have a nice house, but your 80 hours work week doesnt let you enjoy it much, neither does the 400k price tag. Some of these startups could always come down here to southern California, housing is cheap, workers are abundant, and if you know how to properly use the net in your business, you're never too far away from anyone.
finally are the benchmarks including the Xeon, which is what the Athlon is really supposed to be a competitor for. While it handily beats the PIII it is still planned for use in servers/workstations and not in home PC's, yet.
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as far as I know are things you can only excise within your borders...and the internet isn't quiote within the United States' borders. Do the Senators that suggest these types of legistlation even understand what they are talking about? Most likely not. If this actually goes into effect we'll probably see e-commerce sites opening up Canadian, Mexican, or Christmas Island branches, anywhere the US won't be able to impose it's taxes. Hmmm...ebay.cx?
the US government trusts their own systems enough they think they need a Y2K bunker? Bill Clinton is a raving idiot, I feel horrible for defending him in the Monica scandal. Someone needs to kidnap this hapless okie and teach him something about technology, even though his vice president invented the internet. First the Clipper chip, then the CDA, now a Y2K bunker. You would think the billions of dollars spent on SDI would have leftover a few bunkers in case of a global nuclear war...which is slightly more destructive than stupidity.
that RedHat "didnt realize" how restrictive E*Trade's qualifications were going to be for IPO investment. I don't think i'm going to be buying stock from a company that "doesn't realize" how restrictive and dangerous the stock market can be. E*Trade has such harsh rules because they don't want Joe Idiot losing his life savings on Acme Linux and then suing E*Trade because they didn't warn him that he was an idiot. Although I think E*Trade's qualifications were a bit too harsh, RedHat should have gotten their information before they offered developers first dibs on their IPO. This makes me believe RedHat isn't quite ready for the intensity of Wall Street.
I think one of the main reasons behind SGI's recent embrace of x86 is it's compatibility with existing software. It's expensive to maintain a hardware and software division (just ask Apple) so in going with x86 they can put on existing software with basically no porting. Porting IRIX to x86 would cost them alot of money and probably wouldnt pay off in the long run, but using linux and NT, operating systems more people are familiar with, they stand to make a much larger profit from these boxes, because their investment is almost entirely in hardware, with a few linux patches to get their machines running well. Supporting NT means that 3,000 dollar program suite you bought for your old systems can be used on your brand new SGI machines, supporting linux means you basically have a support base of thousands of developers and gurus. You dont have either of those with IRIX.
This is all crap. I mean really, did anyone pay any attention to the 80's? The tailored suit business man "corporate raider" was the coolest thing in the world, which everyone thought would be the cool thing in the future. Now it's geeks? Give me a break, the coolness of geeks will last another decade, if that, then some other social strata would be cool and hip and chic. You know, the computer isn't everything, there was a world before it and there will be one after it.
I think the PC as we know it is going to become the serial port and ISA of the modern computer, some people will still use it and swear by it religiously, but they will eventually be forced to move on. We're seeing all incarnations of set top boxes for net access and some basic word processing, running all sorts of kernels, most noteably linux. Connections are getting faster for Joe User's home so the idea of network computers running remote applications is no longer something reserved for Bill Joy's wet dreams. Here's what I see happening in the next few years. 1. Sun buys Star Office-a cross platform, MS Office compatible, relatively small office suite-and rewrites the Java version to be smaller and much more efficient processor wise. Then they release NC's with microSPARC or JavaChip processors in them (both run Java natively and therefore much faster than say an x86 or PPC chip). With cable and xDSL available in many parts of the country, people find these NC's easy to use and good for what they need.
2. AOL releases their set top box, which with AOL's popularity deals a heavy blow against Micro$oft's WebTV. AOL offers cheap @home service to it's box owners which increases the set top box and AOL's user base. The AOl box runs an uber-hacked linux kernel.
3. Platforms like Nintendo's Dolphin and the PSX2 offer WebTV-like net access and multi player gaming over the internet.
4. Intel's 810 chipset becomes widely used in the sub-500$ PC market making PC's less and less upgradeable but drastically reducing their price while adding a little more *umph* to their multimedia capability.
5. SGI changes their logo yet again. Their campus is stormed by angry nerds who attack them with all forms of pointy metal objects. SGI changes their logo back to the cool infinity cube, the nerds rejoice.
6. Amiga never decides what to base their new kernel on and merely changes the version number to 4.0 and hope no one notices. 7. With the popularity of the iMac pretty undistputed, many other PC makers get the idea that your average user probably will never open up their computer to add anything so cute cuddly user friendly designs flood the market. Only techies and true believers build and use legacy systems and are never bothered with annoying questions like "How do I turn it on?" ever again.
8. Silicon Valley sinks into the ocean.
If linux won't run on any of your boxes, you don't know what you're doing.
does everyone keep coming out with these enormous screens on laptops. Laptops are meant to be portable, not desktop replacements. These bigger screens only reduce battery life even more than the Pentium II chips running them. Come on, two hours battery life? Thats horrible, a Powerbook G3 will get you about 6 hours, an AMD powered notebook will probably get you about 3-4 hours. Laptop makers are missing the point, you buy a PORTABLE computing because it's supposed to be something you can use to take your work on the road with you, without needing an AC outlet. Instead of making screens that make laptops impossible to fit into a backpack, how about working on getting a longer battery life out of laptops, making them a little cheaper wouldnt hurt either. The iBook is a great example of a Good Thing in laptops. It's relatively inexpensive, it's got a long battery life and powerful processor, not to mention it's built-in v.90 modem and 10/100 ethernet. What's Apple's secret? A 12.1 inch screen that doesn't use much power and a processor with better conductors. The 12 inch screen isn't a problem because it comes with 4MB of video RAM for a high resolution even on the small screen. Given the choice between a PC notebook and an iBook, the iBook would definitely get my money, which it probably will when it's released.
are indeed the greatest rock band ever! long live The Who, long live Rob, long live Tom, and long live purple yogurt!
we all out to be thankful that we don't even have to think for ourselves anymore. No longer do I have to sit at home and wonder how morally uplifting a movie is. All I have to do is ask one of my thought contollers and they will tell me. Geez, what would I do without them? I just realized i would have to make my own decsions and think for myself. I can't understand how society went through a day without being told what to think. I'm glad there are churches, governments and large companies to take care of me. I hope when I finally have kids they will be as well taken care of as I am. I wouldn't want them to be exposed to bad language or sex, not until they were out of school, then they could learn about it. I know if I ever watched R rated movies I would probably boink anything with legs or probably shoot someone. Waiting till I was 17 to watch those naughty movies sure was good for me. I'm going to find all my bookswith bad words in them and take a black marker to them, I wouldn't want someone seeing that and think I was a bad person by having a book with a bad word where a child could possibly see it.
Sun really need a good office suite to further compete with M$. Although you hear half as much about Sun as you do M$, Sun has almost as many employees and makes their fair share of cash. But like SGI they are looking to further compete with M$ and maybe even the desktop/NT workstation market.
Sun and SGI rule the 3D workstation and heavy super duper server market, places where Intel and M$ can't compete with near the same quality. But M$ and Intel own the desktop and low cost workstation market. Why? Because Intel has the fast yet not terribly expensive chips and M$ has the support of hundred of not thousands of companies helping them out with more applications every year. So what do these 3D and server powerhouses do? Dive into the low cost market. SGI is trying with it's NT Workstation line (and is supporting Linux along with it, woohoo!) Which means that copy of Office 2000 you just bought will work on your new SGI boxes, major plus. Sun can't abandon their UltraSPARC and microSPARC chips like SGI did with MIPS. So they buy out an already existing multiplatform office suit (Star Office), keep all the multi-platform ports, but redo the Java port which just happens to run very well on the *SPARC processors. Then get into the low-cost workstation market which is making everyone else so much money. Not only does having an office suite make Sun's boxes look more attractive, but they can read and write MS Office documents, which means with Sun's boxes you're able to remain in competition with your competition.
Sun:
1. Don't abandon your *SPARC chips.
2. Don't change your logo to a real crappy one.
3. Don't make Star Office unfree for personal users.
4. Don't force my box to run Star Office in Java, I like Java (especially when I dont have to do memory management mineself), but my box doesn't do a good job of running it quickly.
5. my toaster doesn't need to be on the internet, don't try to put Jini in it or I'll put a bottle where the Sun don't shine.
Someone finally paid some attention to what NSI has been doing, claiming the Whois database is their property...even though they own not a bit of the information, only the locations where it's stored and possibly a copyrighted format. Remember when Pacific Bell (IIRC) tried to claim their phone directory was propeietary and only they could make phone books and got slapped down for it. Now maybe the DoC will do that with NSI so we can get the domain registering service back from their greedy corporate claws.
from the megacorps trying to control everyone's access to information/communication. I don't know why they talk about different e-mail clients, unless I accidently slipped into an alternate timeline it seems M$ has been letting Outlook use HTML to format e-mail messages so they can't be read properly by any other e-mail clients (real e-mail clients use plain old ASCII). Microsoft wants standards so they can make a buck off advertising with their universally accepted message standard, only to later add their own proprietary format later on so you need MSN's messager to read it. Does this really suprise anyone? I use ICQ simply because I've been using it since the very first betas were out, i was pissed that AOL bought it, but since I can still use their networks with a free linux client, I don't care.
Geez this is what makes M$ laugh at people like us when we talk about replacing Windows on the desktop, arguing about a license agreement. If you read the article it says that you can't really say which license is "better". If you have read either the BSDL or the GPL you would understand this is true. GPL forces you to provide source code, which is a good thing for non competitive, usually non commercial (unless you're a service provider like Red Hat or SuSE). The BSDL license says you can release source code if you'd like, but you're not forced to, which helps competitive commercial groups to release just binaries for their work, even if they base it on someone else's work. Why does the GPL license always fall into the Linux catagory and BSDL always fall into the *BSD catagory, the GNU license was written by RMS well before Linus finished v.01, so I could put the GPL on my program I just wrote for BSD. Both licenses and both flavours of Unix have their uses and are both good at different things. BSD servers tend to be able to handle higher loads than linux servers, while linux has begun to appeal to the Joe Average user while still being a powerful server and workstation OS. Fighting about which one is better is like children arguing over who's a bigger fartface. It's not M$ and it works, don't complain.
I can't seem to figure out why people who aquire a technology such as the internet consider everything that is of a lower technology level to be inferior and therefore obsoltete. Less than 50% of the US uses the internet on a regular basis, there are actually people who dont have cable television (gasp! the horror!!). The internet is still the toy of the rich and middle class. It isnt the worldwide phenomenon that most people think it is, most of the planet has no idea what email is or even how to type on a keyboard. I still prefer getting papers letters than electronic files, I also like my hand wound pocket watch. With my watch and letters I dont need to worry about any millennium bugs.
turn off our TV's and monitor's and go outside to enjoy ACTUAL reality instead of our virtual realms we think are so cool. I sound like a hypocryte saying that on slashdot, but it's true, the time we spend leisuring in front of a glowing box could be better spent oftenmost doing something else. When I'm board, i go outside and read a book, not an eBoook, but a plain old fashioned paper book. When I need to work I use a computer, when it becomes hazardous to go outside to read I'll read indoors or maybe even watch something saterical on TV. Did you realize your cable box leaks about 15 watts an hour when it's NOT turned on? Thats about a dollar a month added to your bill.
they're looking for a better provider of video cards to go along with their LCD displays other than Number 9. Number 9 cards were the first with 32 megs of video memory...but their chips suck, they don't even begin to compare to 3Dfx and nVidia's chips at least to me they don't. I like the fact that both companies are supporting linux at least in some small way, and something is usually better than nothing.
Your screaming seems to scream out "moderate me"
If i wanted a robot controling my universe I would live in a VR world. this planet has existed for several billion years without humans even THINKING they could control it in any way, I see no need to start now. Nature should be accepted and contended with, no one should attempt to control it.
in the immortal words of Stan Lee " 'nuf said."
Motorola is already in the CPU production market. Who do you htink Apple gets it's CPU's from? Not all CPU's begin and end with x86.
That many people feared would take over the Internet. Everyone thought it would be Microsoft, but they only buy money makers, NSI has a leash on EVERYONE. From what I've read of their practices it sure seems like they are just a bunch of nerds who have way too much power. I dont know how they ever ended up with the TLD contract, but it should be revoked. It's horrible paying 70$ for two years, then if you need to change the address of a name server or have it point somewhere, they sit on their asses and take their sweet time. One would think that 70$ would be enough to pay for the domain for several years, considering the volume of domains registered every week. I know other people have suggested it but i will too just to show I'm in favor of it. A set of free TLD's owned by a non profit organization. Instead of trying to get support from the community at large we could work on the linux community, both commercial and personal, for support. It would even be pretty nice publicity for linux: "New TLD root servers run on Linux"
I've lived in California all my life, and in many ways I agree with the people calling it's cities cesspools. But then there's cities like Irvine that make it all worth while. I can't understand how all these people are flocking to Silicon Valley, I mean are they expecting to run into some rich CEO or something in a Starbucks? And the living/working conditions. Horrible. At least from what I've heard from friends who moved up there. Sure you have a nice house, but your 80 hours work week doesnt let you enjoy it much, neither does the 400k price tag. Some of these startups could always come down here to southern California, housing is cheap, workers are abundant, and if you know how to properly use the net in your business, you're never too far away from anyone.
finally are the benchmarks including the Xeon, which is what the Athlon is really supposed to be a competitor for. While it handily beats the PIII it is still planned for use in servers/workstations and not in home PC's, yet.
Guns have two purposes, killing, and intimidation. Which is more deadly?