...and the price drops to $20 after 6 months. I got Myth: The Total Codex (Contains both Myth1 and 2 and the an expansion pack) and Tribes for $20 apeice. When I see a CD for $15+ I barf. Why, Cost enjoyment ratio. Sorry, I got tons of MP3's and have I no shame about it. CD's cost too much for what you get and I am not going to pay for them. RIAA just needs to sell CD's for $8 or $9 and I would buy them, but not at $15+
Good point. However my counter point is that some of us do not buy hardware from companies that do that. In fact, I lean heavy in the buying department to make sure we favor companies that have some form of open source policy that I and most./ readers would like. As the market gets tighter, companies soon find themselves without customers who are sick of this tatic.
I think that if someone says, "Buy this, and it can do this" you should be able to sue the person(s)|company that promised.
The problem with the software industry is that it promises but does not deliver. If you say "it will do xxxxxxx" then it should. If you sell me a new car that you say does "xxxxxxx" but does not deliver then I can return the car (In the state of California). If you build a building and it cracks or falls or I can not have people on certain levels, then you are responsible for the building. What people have to realize is that a software product is a REAL product. It is what people run businesses on, like buildings or cars.
I might just add that i2o is pretty damn cool. There some flaws like i2o controller software currently only runs on Intel's i960 chip (That is off the top of my head) and manufactures are adding their "extensions" to the i2o protocol. However, i2o is pretty damn fast and suppose to be driver OS independent (That's right, the same driver will run on all OS's.)
Right now, the only major flaw is that the throughput is faster than what PCI 32bit can handle. Ya, I know, most i2o controlers are not going to reach that limit, but big SCSI RAID setups will (9+ drives and such). I guess that what Big Iron is for.
i20 drivers are in FreeBSD SNAP 128 and greater. Although they are there, and seem to be pretty stable, they still lack many features; no CDROM support and some bugs.
Bands don't make much money when it comes to album sales. Many bands owe the record company money if there album sales are not in the millions and millions. Infact, a band will not make money off their album sales until their 2nd or 3rd really successful album. So where do they make their money? Concerts. There is a reason that bands do 250+ shows in a year. Same crap night in and night out. There is a reason you pay $40+ to see a band. If the band does not own their own label, they are getting screwed. Even the big names get screwed, and there is a reason they all own their own labels.
I have alway wondered this. The US population is comparable to Europe and we are just as technical. How come BSD is kinda known in the US and not Europe? Is the Linux from Finland thing a big deal or is that BSD is North American Centric? Any Euro-Daemons out there?
I forgot to add in all of this, D.J. Bernsteins explanations of how things work are some of the best. Just check out the qmail documentation and the TinyDNS FAQ's on how things work. Its just nice to see someone make good quality software and documentation.
What a bunch of children! I have alway heard of the NetBSD breakup as being pretty petty, but posting is quite clear on thing. They need to grow up.
I think this is why Linux is so hot. Just about everyone in the kernel development is pretty damn cool. Linus is a real 'net personality. In fact, I saw a long interview with him and his wife on Finish TV and was quite impressed with how nice and down to earth he and his wife is. Alan Cox and the other major contributors are also seem very nice. I have had email conversions with some of them and they seem to be down to earth people (Ya, I know its email, everyone sounds like that).
This may not sound like much; "Big deal, who cares if they are nice". When your getting started into something you have never done before, you would like people to be alittle friendly, even if they are not helpful. Sounds silly, but have you ever done something, in an area, where the people who also did it were assholes? Didn't think so.
For example, I wanted to try out FreeBSD a couple of years ago, but all the FreeBSD people talked crap about Linux and Linux people. Everything was, "X is better in FreeBSD than X in Linux.", "Linux sucks...blah blah blah". Worst of all, they were plain ole' dickheads. That kept me from trying out FreeBSD for a couple years until I had to for work. Now I work in a FreeBSD shop, and now I like FreeBSD, I just hate FreeBSD people.
I hate to give you crap on this, as a sysadmin, I feel your pain, but....
after about 2 yrs being on the net (public email/web/cgi/ssh/sql services being run), I was broken into 3 times. each time it costed me a lot of effort and pain. plus downtime. and even lost files;-(;-(
It just sounds like your using the wrong software. Linux is not the most Secure OS out of the box, but if you work with it, it can be very secure.
One problem I notice is that people use the same crappy bug ridden buffer overflow software all the time. I am still amazed that anyone runs sendmail, wu-ftpd or bind (Well, bind is the only choice in DNS). How many exploits are there for just these three packages? Sendmail is the worst of all time.
What people need to do is black list bad software. Get X amount of security problems in previous versions, use different software. I won't touch sendmail since it has such a poor history of security. So what do I use? qmail! Same story for wu-ftpd. I use proftpd (Yes, they had an overflow in a beta, but it was only for writeable directories) since it is pretty secure. And for bind? Well, I am waiting for the author of qmail to finish up his DNSd package so I can use that. Until then, I keep an eye open on the mailing lists for the next bind exploit.
A company I just got a job with is having the same problems with NT. It use to allow open relying for customers, but guessed what happened? Yep, spammers found us. Now were closed, but the mail package is a real peice of crap and I got the boss to let us switch over to qmail. I guess enough with the side story.
But cold pizza does not taste good. Pizza was made to warm or hot. The melted cheese, the smell of the topings right under your nose, the soft warm crust as it hits your togue when you first bite into it. How easy the pizza folds in half as hold it in your hands. Cold pizza just sits there, no smell, no warmth, no folding. Cold pizza is like bad sex, ya its still good, but it just sits there, does nothing, does not tantilze you, does not tempt you, does not call your name in the form a smell. It just lays there waiting for you.
Well, I am one of the many who are very glad to see this game coming out. Its one of those games thats been promised, but has not made the shelves.
Two other games that are like this are Tribes 2 (Which should be out in the summer and looks HOT!) and Team Fortress 2: Brothers in Arms (When it will be released is anyones guess). Both of which I wish would come out in linux, but I dont think are. In any case, I am buying all three.
Okay, ya, nice project, but once you take an iMac out of the pretty case its an overpriced piece of shit. Oh wait, its a piece of shit in the pretty case.
When I see an iMac dsign, I think of stupid people with too much money, calmering for the Next Big Thing That Will Save Apple but really only helps it put it other foot in the grave because any person with a clue buys a IBM PC and runs Windows or Linux or FreeBSD or BeOS and does not become another sucker that paid too much for a dream of Steve Jobs, whom is a tool of Bill Gates, which does not have enough software, who users are too stupid to learn how use something with more power.
Death to iMac Death to Steve Jobs Death to Pretty Machines Death to clueless computer users
Sounds dumb to me for another reason. They are going to kill the ISPs and thus Internet industary in France. ISPs have to prove the identity's of all persons having a web page. So if they can't they get fined or jailed. So what do the ISP's do instead, remove all pages. If someone in France wants a page they have to goto another country (Hopefully the USA, since I am resident of that country and it would make our economy stronger). No ISPs? Then French will leave France and work in other countries when it comes to eCommerce, they Next Big Thing.
That's the Nuclear Rocket Launcher your talking about. I forgot the name, but it was pretty colorful for what it was. Two guys with a tube that fire rockets and tips with low yield nuclear weapons. I remember a weapon specialist saying it was a step above a Nuclear Grenade.
I totally agree on this. I use Bank of America, which use to really good bank until about early '90's when they started buying out people and I think bought out themselves. Anyways, they wanted to charge me to pay bills through them in the same matter as the topic discusses. I don't get it. They have my money, and who I do business with is also at BofA, and they want to charge me money so I can be a happy customer!?!
However, I think in the near future this will stop. Banks will relize that if someone like Yahoo can provide services like a bank, they will stop charging money. These kinds of services will simply become no cost additions to your account.
As a guy who just got his first job out of College and used headhunters and online resume websites, forget it. Those things are shit. I got all my interviews with good companies from friends, and newspaper ads. Headhunters are complete waste of time.
This is a valid consern. However, in the big picture some is going to stop and think before doing this. When you use the example of the Kudzu, the person who brought that in to the midwest was probably not a PhD, or even a high school graduate for that matter.
I think any of the bacteria that are being made to "eat" toxins only feed on those toxins and thus die if they have a lack of them. In a sense, they starve to death. However, makeing and introducing a bacteria that lives on toxins and other naturally local material is bad idea. However, this made not be true, but to me it seems to put a backdoor or some other trap so that the bacteria no longer can live when they have done their job.
It seems everyone and their mother wants to run this card in Linux. Why not? It's fast, stable, 32Meg card that has a good refresh rate at high rez. Everything you want in a 2D/3D card. Oh wait, it does not run 3D too fast in Linux and the 2D performence is not max'ed out. Time to use something else.
I think, as well as everyone else, this a HUGH mistake on NVIDIA's part. In the free market, someone is going to make a card is much like NVIDIA's, but not only does it have good drivers in Win32, but also in Linux/FreeBSD* (XFREE86 in general). So all people like me, who run both Win32 systems and Linux/FreeBSD systems are going to buy something else. Word will get around and soon NVIDIA cards will be something to be avoided. Voodoo and Matrox sales in the Linux/FreeBSD area will increase and continue to increase as the use of Linux/FreeBSD increases (Well, DUH!) because their drivers are Open Source and supported in the Kernel.
You might say to yourself, "big deal". Who cares if a handfull of Open Source people who run Linux/FreeBSD don't buy NVIDIA cards. Well, Linux/FreeBSD users tend to be the Alpha Geeks in their areas. I myself can get the company I work for to buy what I recommend. Why? I am a knowledgable Geek that knows his hardware. If NVIDIA does not satisfy me, I will recommend some other video card to the company and a lot of other people. Word gets out and NVIDIA loses a couple more sales. The same happens with other Alpha Geeks at other companies. Soon it starts to add up. Sounds dumb, but it happens. That is what word of mouth is all about.
NOTE: I speak of Linux/FreeBSD in this topic although it is about XFree. Support for the video card in the kernel is big step to getting max speed out of the video card. You can do all you want to XFree, but without support in the kernel it will not be the fastest it can be.
Ya, but dont forget about the problems with the i820 and i840 chip sets. Also lets not forget the poor access time of the Rambus. I guess it comes down to BX boards and chips being the only thing to get if you REALLY want stability.
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Sorry, I got tons of MP3's and have I no shame about it. CD's cost too much for what you get and I am not going to pay for them. RIAA just needs to sell CD's for $8 or $9 and I would buy them, but not at $15+
Good point. However my counter point is that some of us do not buy hardware from companies that do that. In fact, I lean heavy in the buying department to make sure we favor companies that have some form of open source policy that I and most ./ readers would like.
As the market gets tighter, companies soon find themselves without customers who are sick of this tatic.
I think that if someone says, "Buy this, and it can do this" you should be able to sue the person(s)|company that promised.
The problem with the software industry is that it promises but does not deliver. If you say "it will do xxxxxxx" then it should. If you sell me a new car that you say does "xxxxxxx" but does not deliver then I can return the car (In the state of California). If you build a building and it cracks or falls or I can not have people on certain levels, then you are responsible for the building. What people have to realize is that a software product is a REAL product. It is what people run businesses on, like buildings or cars.
I might just add that i2o is pretty damn cool. There some flaws like i2o controller software currently only runs on Intel's i960 chip (That is off the top of my head) and manufactures are adding their "extensions" to the i2o protocol. However, i2o is pretty damn fast and suppose to be driver OS independent (That's right, the same driver will run on all OS's.)
Right now, the only major flaw is that the throughput is faster than what PCI 32bit can handle. Ya, I know, most i2o controlers are not going to reach that limit, but big SCSI RAID setups will (9+ drives and such). I guess that what Big Iron is for.
i20 drivers are in FreeBSD SNAP 128 and greater. Although they are there, and seem to be pretty stable, they still lack many features; no CDROM support and some bugs.
Bands don't make much money when it comes to album sales. Many bands owe the record company money if there album sales are not in the millions and millions. Infact, a band will not make money off their album sales until their 2nd or 3rd really successful album.
So where do they make their money? Concerts. There is a reason that bands do 250+ shows in a year. Same crap night in and night out. There is a reason you pay $40+ to see a band. If the band does not own their own label, they are getting screwed. Even the big names get screwed, and there is a reason they all own their own labels.
I have alway wondered this. The US population is comparable to Europe and we are just as technical. How come BSD is kinda known in the US and not Europe? Is the Linux from Finland thing a big deal or is that BSD is North American Centric?
Any Euro-Daemons out there?
Hmmm...if my memory of history serves me right; sounds alot like Hitler.
How gross. If *they* are not like *me* then off to the gas chambers. Wake up and smell the ovens, buddy.
I forgot to add in all of this, D.J. Bernsteins explanations of how things work are some of the best. Just check out the qmail documentation and the TinyDNS FAQ's on how things work. Its just nice to see someone make good quality software and documentation.
Ya, that is the one I was talking about. I just could not remember the name. Shame on me since I am such a qmail fan.
Wow!
What a bunch of children! I have alway heard of the NetBSD breakup as being pretty petty, but posting is quite clear on thing. They need to grow up.
I think this is why Linux is so hot. Just about everyone in the kernel development is pretty damn cool. Linus is a real 'net personality. In fact, I saw a long interview with him and his wife on Finish TV and was quite impressed with how nice and down to earth he and his wife is. Alan Cox and the other major contributors are also seem very nice. I have had email conversions with some of them and they seem to be down to earth people (Ya, I know its email, everyone sounds like that).
This may not sound like much; "Big deal, who cares if they are nice". When your getting started into something you have never done before, you would like people to be alittle friendly, even if they are not helpful. Sounds silly, but have you ever done something, in an area, where the people who also did it were assholes? Didn't think so.
For example, I wanted to try out FreeBSD a couple of years ago, but all the FreeBSD people talked crap about Linux and Linux people. Everything was, "X is better in FreeBSD than X in Linux.", "Linux sucks...blah blah blah". Worst of all, they were plain ole' dickheads. That kept me from trying out FreeBSD for a couple years until I had to for work. Now I work in a FreeBSD shop, and now I like FreeBSD, I just hate FreeBSD people.
I hate to give you crap on this, as a sysadmin, I feel your pain, but....
;-( ;-(
after about 2 yrs being on the net (public email/web/cgi/ssh/sql services being run), I was broken into 3 times. each time it costed me a lot of effort and pain. plus downtime. and even lost files
It just sounds like your using the wrong software. Linux is not the most Secure OS out of the box, but if you work with it, it can be very secure.
One problem I notice is that people use the same crappy bug ridden buffer overflow software all the time. I am still amazed that anyone runs sendmail, wu-ftpd or bind (Well, bind is the only choice in DNS). How many exploits are there for just these three packages? Sendmail is the worst of all time.
What people need to do is black list bad software. Get X amount of security problems in previous versions, use different software. I won't touch sendmail since it has such a poor history of security. So what do I use? qmail! Same story for wu-ftpd. I use proftpd (Yes, they had an overflow in a beta, but it was only for writeable directories) since it is pretty secure. And for bind? Well, I am waiting for the author of qmail to finish up his DNSd package so I can use that. Until then, I keep an eye open on the mailing lists for the next bind exploit.
A company I just got a job with is having the same problems with NT. It use to allow open relying for customers, but guessed what happened? Yep, spammers found us. Now were closed, but the mail package is a real peice of crap and I got the boss to let us switch over to qmail. I guess enough with the side story.
But cold pizza does not taste good. Pizza was made to warm or hot. The melted cheese, the smell of the topings right under your nose, the soft warm crust as it hits your togue when you first bite into it. How easy the pizza folds in half as hold it in your hands.
Cold pizza just sits there, no smell, no warmth, no folding. Cold pizza is like bad sex, ya its still good, but it just sits there, does nothing, does not tantilze you, does not tempt you, does not call your name in the form a smell. It just lays there waiting for you.
PS. I think too much about pizza.
Well, I am one of the many who are very glad to see this game coming out. Its one of those games thats been promised, but has not made the shelves.
Two other games that are like this are Tribes 2 (Which should be out in the summer and looks HOT!) and Team Fortress 2: Brothers in Arms (When it will be released is anyones guess). Both of which I wish would come out in linux, but I dont think are. In any case, I am buying all three.
Okay, ya, nice project, but once you take an iMac out of the pretty case its an overpriced piece of shit. Oh wait, its a piece of shit in the pretty case.
When I see an iMac dsign, I think of stupid people with too much money, calmering for the Next Big Thing That Will Save Apple but really only helps it put it other foot in the grave because any person with a clue buys a IBM PC and runs Windows or Linux or FreeBSD or BeOS and does not become another sucker that paid too much for a dream of Steve Jobs, whom is a tool of Bill Gates, which does not have enough software, who users are too stupid to learn how use something with more power.
Death to iMac
Death to Steve Jobs
Death to Pretty Machines
Death to clueless computer users
Sounds dumb to me for another reason. They are going to kill the ISPs and thus Internet industary in France. ISPs have to prove the identity's of all persons having a web page. So if they can't they get fined or jailed. So what do the ISP's do instead, remove all pages. If someone in France wants a page they have to goto another country (Hopefully the USA, since I am resident of that country and it would make our economy stronger).
No ISPs? Then French will leave France and work in other countries when it comes to eCommerce, they Next Big Thing.
That's the Nuclear Rocket Launcher your talking about. I forgot the name, but it was pretty colorful for what it was. Two guys with a tube that fire rockets and tips with low yield nuclear weapons. I remember a weapon specialist saying it was a step above a Nuclear Grenade.
I totally agree on this.
I use Bank of America, which use to really good bank until about early '90's when they started buying out people and I think bought out themselves. Anyways, they wanted to charge me to pay bills through them in the same matter as the topic discusses. I don't get it. They have my money, and who I do business with is also at BofA, and they want to charge me money so I can be a happy customer!?!
However, I think in the near future this will stop. Banks will relize that if someone like Yahoo can provide services like a bank, they will stop charging money. These kinds of services will simply become no cost additions to your account.
No, today he would say that if the Black guy who got his brain cut out in the movie, had a gun those Apes would have not messed with him.
Or if his character would have had his 2nd Admendment rights, he would have not been captured in the first place.
And last, but not least. If the humans in the movie had legel access to guns, they would not be oppressed by the Apes.
But lets not forget the tyranny of Ape government would have been kept in check by the people if they were NRA members!
As a guy who just got his first job out of College and used headhunters and online resume websites, forget it. Those things are shit. I got all my interviews with good companies from friends, and newspaper ads. Headhunters are complete waste of time.
This is a valid consern. However, in the big picture some is going to stop and think before doing this. When you use the example of the Kudzu, the person who brought that in to the midwest was probably not a PhD, or even a high school graduate for that matter.
I think any of the bacteria that are being made to "eat" toxins only feed on those toxins and thus die if they have a lack of them. In a sense, they starve to death. However, makeing and introducing a bacteria that lives on toxins and other naturally local material is bad idea. However, this made not be true, but to me it seems to put a backdoor or some other trap so that the bacteria no longer can live when they have done their job.
It seems everyone and their mother wants to run this card in Linux. Why not? It's fast, stable, 32Meg card that has a good refresh rate at high rez. Everything you want in a 2D/3D card. Oh wait, it does not run 3D too fast in Linux and the 2D performence is not max'ed out. Time to use something else.
I think, as well as everyone else, this a HUGH mistake on NVIDIA's part. In the free market, someone is going to make a card is much like NVIDIA's, but not only does it have good drivers in Win32, but also in Linux/FreeBSD* (XFREE86 in general). So all people like me, who run both Win32 systems and Linux/FreeBSD systems are going to buy something else. Word will get around and soon NVIDIA cards will be something to be avoided. Voodoo and Matrox sales in the Linux/FreeBSD area will increase and continue to increase as the use of Linux/FreeBSD increases (Well, DUH!) because their drivers are Open Source and supported in the Kernel.
You might say to yourself, "big deal". Who cares if a handfull of Open Source people who run Linux/FreeBSD don't buy NVIDIA cards. Well, Linux/FreeBSD users tend to be the Alpha Geeks in their areas. I myself can get the company I work for to buy what I recommend. Why? I am a knowledgable Geek that knows his hardware. If NVIDIA does not satisfy me, I will recommend some other video card to the company and a lot of other people. Word gets out and NVIDIA loses a couple more sales. The same happens with other Alpha Geeks at other companies. Soon it starts to add up. Sounds dumb, but it happens. That is what word of mouth is all about.
NOTE: I speak of Linux/FreeBSD in this topic although it is about XFree. Support for the video card in the kernel is big step to getting max speed out of the video card. You can do all you want to XFree, but without support in the kernel it will not be the fastest it can be.
Ya, but dont forget about the problems with the i820 and i840 chip sets. Also lets not forget the poor access time of the Rambus. I guess it comes down to BX boards and chips being the only thing to get if you REALLY want stability.