The sad thing is that the slashdot crowd constantly criticizes the corrupting influence of corporate money, but next time election time in the US comes around we'll get dozens of posts from people bragging about how they never vote because their one vote won't make a difference.
Hmmm, I was factoring in the cost of the XP OS, but not the office suite (which I don't really need). With Dell you can get some great prices, and the machine's quality probably isn't too bad (in that it won't break down usually), but the specifications are a little lacking. Like that $499 deal they're offering is pretty nice, but the motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot. If you go up to the $799 (I think) one, you'll get an AGP slot but the graphics card that comes with it isn't really up for gaming.
As for overclocking, I don't really think it's necessary anymore; you can get a fairly high-powered AMD processor for about 60-70 bucks, and most of the bottleneck these days is graphical.
I thought that this was true until I actually started shopping for a new PC. In the past you were better off going with a manufacturer for a sub-1k PC, but nowadays it's not. Perusing newegg a few days ago I was able to put together an $800 computer that would cost several hundred more even from Dell.
Why do half the posts on this story talk about the RIAA? The story isn't about the RIAA. It's not even about CD sales as a whole (though they do mention the declining CD sales); it's about SPECIALTY MUSIC STORES losing market share. Even if you don't want to read the article, at least the story submission. Or at least the first sentence of it.
There are few games that qualify as art, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. If you had a Playstation, you could try Ico; if that isn't art, then no game is.
The popular stuff tends to be what survives, largely because it was actually designed for people to enjoy, rather than praise.
I've got to disagree here; only stuff with real artistic merit tends to survive, while the popular stuff fades away. You occasionally have overlap (think Shakespeare, or Dickens, or Gilbert and Sullivan) but for the most part it's the great artists who last, while the real popular stuff vanishes.
How many people listen to Vaudeville these days, for example?
Kinda like Quake, I think. Like how you could install it on all your friend's computers. Makes it popular.
Yeah, like all those kids pirated Quake and learned it, then when they grew up and went into a professional Quake-using office they told their IT guys, "buy Quake!".
If you have decent union laws, this couldn't happen. In the UK, it's illegal for unions to strike without holding a ballot of members; in which case the members' interests are the deciding factors in what the union does.
I'm not sure about the actual laws here, but it happens that way in the US too. If you want to know anything about labor unions in America, don't come to slashdot, most of the people who talk about them here are profoundly ignorant of how they actually work. They seem to get most of their information from right-wing propanda and movies about organized crime.
The reality is that the US is outpacing our current energy supplies, and we have to explore alternative methods to increase production. I would hardly consider a wind farm among the most harmful to the environment.
We can also put more effort into conservation, which is the best option.
Wind is like solar power; it's very clean, but when you put too much of it into one area it can have harmful environmental effects.
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Multiply that by at least 10 if we were to switch over to fusion, porobably even more than 10X that.
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This is just unbeleivable! Nantucket island is filled with greener than thou environmentalists.
Really? You know everyone on Nantucket Island? They're ALL environmentalists? All of them? Amazing. It's a fair sized town you know, I'm impressed that you know everyone there, and know both their a) environmental views, and b) stance on this specific project.
Please provide us in 77 words or fewer, a better definition of hacker politics than the one ESR posted.
Fine:
"Hacker" politics range widely, from left to right, from intensely political to completely uninterested in political issues.
There, under 77 words. And a hell of a lot more accurate.
Simply combing through the changes to find things to bitch about may get you seat on the Jerry Springer show, but it isn't remotely objective or helpful.
And worshipful toadying of someone who to be honest has never really had anything to say isn't that productive either.
Does anyone else find it thoughtless and ungrateful to criticize one of the communities greatest single person assets because the tremendous efforts he puts forth FOR FREE are colored by his personal experiences?
No. I'm sick of people insisting that someone wasn't paid for their time then somehow they should be immune from criticism from whatever they do with that time. It's idiotic.
He has decided to appoint himself voice of the hacker movement. When he starts trying to distort the truth to feed his own ego and his simple-minded politics, then why the hell shouldn't he be criticized?
Yep, I long ago lost any confidence in the intellectual integrity of TJF. I'm just surprised how surprised everyone else is all of the sudden. I mean, he doesn't hide his politics or social views.
Ahh, who cares. Speed mostly counts for games, and it's not like they release mac games that much. And when they do the graphics are slow, because they don't release topflight graphics cards for macs either.
Since the holodeck routinely causes that kind of severe trouble for the crew, you'd think they'd stop using the damn thing. It's like, if every other week my toaster tried to kill me, I'd eventually get rid of it.
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The sad thing is that the slashdot crowd constantly criticizes the corrupting influence of corporate money, but next time election time in the US comes around we'll get dozens of posts from people bragging about how they never vote because their one vote won't make a difference.
Hmmm, I was factoring in the cost of the XP OS, but not the office suite (which I don't really need). With Dell you can get some great prices, and the machine's quality probably isn't too bad (in that it won't break down usually), but the specifications are a little lacking. Like that $499 deal they're offering is pretty nice, but the motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot. If you go up to the $799 (I think) one, you'll get an AGP slot but the graphics card that comes with it isn't really up for gaming.
As for overclocking, I don't really think it's necessary anymore; you can get a fairly high-powered AMD processor for about 60-70 bucks, and most of the bottleneck these days is graphical.
I thought that this was true until I actually started shopping for a new PC. In the past you were better off going with a manufacturer for a sub-1k PC, but nowadays it's not. Perusing newegg a few days ago I was able to put together an $800 computer that would cost several hundred more even from Dell.
Why do half the posts on this story talk about the RIAA? The story isn't about the RIAA. It's not even about CD sales as a whole (though they do mention the declining CD sales); it's about SPECIALTY MUSIC STORES losing market share. Even if you don't want to read the article, at least the story submission. Or at least the first sentence of it.
There are few games that qualify as art, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. If you had a Playstation, you could try Ico; if that isn't art, then no game is.
The popular stuff tends to be what survives, largely because it was actually designed for people to enjoy, rather than praise.
I've got to disagree here; only stuff with real artistic merit tends to survive, while the popular stuff fades away. You occasionally have overlap (think Shakespeare, or Dickens, or Gilbert and Sullivan) but for the most part it's the great artists who last, while the real popular stuff vanishes.
How many people listen to Vaudeville these days, for example?
Kinda like Quake, I think. Like how you could install it on all your friend's computers. Makes it popular.
Yeah, like all those kids pirated Quake and learned it, then when they grew up and went into a professional Quake-using office they told their IT guys, "buy Quake!".
If you have decent union laws, this couldn't happen. In the UK, it's illegal for unions to strike without holding a ballot of members; in which case the members' interests are the deciding factors in what the union does.
I'm not sure about the actual laws here, but it happens that way in the US too. If you want to know anything about labor unions in America, don't come to slashdot, most of the people who talk about them here are profoundly ignorant of how they actually work. They seem to get most of their information from right-wing propanda and movies about organized crime.
The reality is that the US is outpacing our current energy supplies, and we have to explore alternative methods to increase production. I would hardly consider a wind farm among the most harmful to the environment.
We can also put more effort into conservation, which is the best option.
Wind is like solar power; it's very clean, but when you put too much of it into one area it can have harmful environmental effects.
Multiply that by at least 10 if we were to switch over to fusion, porobably even more than 10X that.
Posting from the future, are we...
This is just unbeleivable! Nantucket island is filled with greener than thou environmentalists.
Really? You know everyone on Nantucket Island? They're ALL environmentalists? All of them? Amazing. It's a fair sized town you know, I'm impressed that you know everyone there, and know both their a) environmental views, and b) stance on this specific project.
Thank you.
These Elites exist to tell the rest of us how to live, not to actually follow any sort of conservation or limited consumption themselves.
You know how you can identify a fanatic? By the inexplicable capitalization of words.
Oh spare us your rabid right-wing/libertarian ranting.
Maybe you suddenly realized that you couldn't actually you know, play any games or use most common applications.
Can you guys think of any reason to use this? I sure cant! probably expensive too. Sorry if its answered in the artical , i just barely skimmed it.
Don't apologize, you did well. If you had actually read the full article in-depth, we would have had to confiscate your slashdot id.
Please provide us in 77 words or fewer, a better definition of hacker politics than the one ESR posted.
Fine:
"Hacker" politics range widely, from left to right, from intensely political to completely uninterested in political issues.
There, under 77 words. And a hell of a lot more accurate.
Simply combing through the changes to find things to bitch about may get you seat on the Jerry Springer show, but it isn't remotely objective or helpful.
And worshipful toadying of someone who to be honest has never really had anything to say isn't that productive either.
Get over yourself. Nobody's going to read your AIM conversations. Nobody cares. You're not that interesting.
Hell, the person you're AIMing probably doesn't want to read your messages either.
Does anyone else find it thoughtless and ungrateful to criticize one of the communities greatest single person assets because the tremendous efforts he puts forth FOR FREE are colored by his personal experiences?
No. I'm sick of people insisting that someone wasn't paid for their time then somehow they should be immune from criticism from whatever they do with that time. It's idiotic.
He has decided to appoint himself voice of the hacker movement. When he starts trying to distort the truth to feed his own ego and his simple-minded politics, then why the hell shouldn't he be criticized?
Yep, I long ago lost any confidence in the intellectual integrity of TJF. I'm just surprised how surprised everyone else is all of the sudden. I mean, he doesn't hide his politics or social views.
Ahh, who cares. Speed mostly counts for games, and it's not like they release mac games that much. And when they do the graphics are slow, because they don't release topflight graphics cards for macs either.
Or, cheap entertainment.
For some people a dollar or two for some pleasant fantasies isn't really that steep a price. I never play it myself, but I can see the appeal.
Since the holodeck routinely causes that kind of severe trouble for the crew, you'd think they'd stop using the damn thing. It's like, if every other week my toaster tried to kill me, I'd eventually get rid of it.
There's hydrogen all around you! Here's how you can get some:
Go to your faucet. Fill a glass with water. Put your mouth as close to the surface of the water as you can. Breathe in all the oxygen.
What will be left is pure hydrogen!
What do .sigs have to do with the subject of the posting???