10 small batteries vs 1 large battery.
Redundancy (well, not completely if all the batteries are acting as one, but at least if one takes a voltage dip, the whole thing won't stop working)?
Let the bash-him-on-head-coz-he's-ignorant fest commence.
why have a PSU for each unit
Redundancy?
larger transformer further down the line
Single point of failure?
Emperor with no clothes on, another reason yer my beeatch. There, pick up that bar of soap for me, heh-heh.
I wouldn't brag too loudly about the Commonwealth btw - last I checked there were a bunch of banana republics as members (an' zim was only recently kicked out - or were they? can't remember).
The only respectable commonwealth member, I believe, is oz. However, they speak funny and have too many flies, so they're owned too. Also, they're american wannabees: they say 'truck' instead of 'lorry'. Dummies.
I'm a bit of an OCD irritable old crank when it comes to keyboards (finally settled on Enermax Aurora - solid aluminium, notebook style keys with scissor tech), so I'm curious, don't you find the horribly deep key-travel (action) on yer model M hinders your style? I mean, jeez, the keys plonk in further than an old harpiscord. Is it similar to the old terminal keyboards connected to an IBM System 36 maindrain? .
Also the size. My God, it's huge. I'm sure you have to park your mouse on the extra desk to your right (or left, depending which way you swing).
Finally a comment from someone who gets it and isn't prancing about like a gay flower she-male squeaking like a piglet because, ooh! ooh!, gmail is no longer beta!
You mean, like, 640K ought to be enough for anybody?
I can think of several real-world uses in our server room next door... but you were probably referring to him using it on a desktop PC, in which case I probably agree with you.
Then again, if one can afford this kind of performance for a desktop PC, why not?
People usually don't like Flash for 3 reasons: - because they only associate Flash to intrusive ads or to badly programmed stuff. - because they never actually used Flash / Flex
...and: - it's proprietary, not really open. - much harder to maintain and make changes compared to other standards. - have to learn *another* language/system, screw that. - it's slower to load (I always click "Skip Intro"). No more snappy load times and performance. - does not index well in search engines. - Generally irritates the shit out of me since I have no interest in animation when navigating a site. - being able to *stop* the stupid distracting animation is not always possible. - Flash reminds of that other irritating phenomena, animated GIFS. - Flash is therefore a cancerous tumour which must be cut out forcefully with a table spoon. - So, I just block all.swf - fuck 'em.
I use FOSS on servers, but windows on the desktop, so no, I'm not a FOSS fanatic.
just some predators who attempted to capitalize off the accomplishments of the old SCO
No doubt the old SCO was an excellent tech company. From a business perspective, though, I wouldn't characterise the creditors as predators. They're also businesses who have bills to pay, shareholders to report to, and would like to recover monies owing...
For programming and sysadmin, where I'm constantly copy/pasting where quick precision is required (often small text in terminals), and when using multiple monitors and the screen desktop spans those monitors, a wired mouse is a piece of crap. If the wire was as thin and flexible as a strand of cotton (they *never* are), then it wouldn't be a problem. I've been using mice for,... dunno, 17 years?...and I've yet to find a wired mouse which doesn't interfere with my movement (the wire keeps bumping into the monitor stand, or the keyboard, etc. I abhor the bloody things.
An alcaline battery lasts a month or three, so this is rarely a problem.
I second this. We'll be proven right, it's just a matter of time. People will play with it, see it's slower, realise the risks, experience a few hiccups (crashes/no connectivity), then they'll finally learn the lesson.
That's one of the many reasons (privacy/security, large documents, limited bandwidth, single point of failure, no control over infrastructure, etc) why online apps such as word processing, etc, are doomed to failure.
Private users may fart around with online apps, but corporates at large will not.
Desktop word processing et al will always rule supreme (more efficient, faster, secure, etc); of course, I was about to respond to another post here about how FUCKING SLOW OO is compared to MS Office - what's up with all this fucked up bullshit Java everywhere? It's pathetic as a desktop development platform for one reason only: I shit faster than it can respond with a Yes/No dialogue. I started checking out Zimbra Desktop yesterday, and my *fuckdog* it's slow. It feels like every click and action is performing an AJAX call to a server located in Siberia linked by a 300 baud fucking acoustic coupler. Jesus. What a fantastic looking and feature rich application absolutely ruined by poor performance.
What happened to doing it properly in C++? So many things are going backwards for the sake of portability WHEN IT'S NOT NEEDED - Windows, like or not (I don't), is the only platform to develop for numerically and economically speaking. For fuck sakes.
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10 small batteries vs 1 large battery.
Redundancy (well, not completely if all the batteries are acting as one, but at least if one takes a voltage dip, the whole thing won't stop working)? Let the bash-him-on-head-coz-he's-ignorant fest commence.
why have a PSU for each unit
Redundancy?
larger transformer further down the line
Single point of failure?
From a business perspective, yes. By business I mean it's adoption by Joe Soap.
Emperor with no clothes on, another reason yer my beeatch. There, pick up that bar of soap for me, heh-heh.
I wouldn't brag too loudly about the Commonwealth btw - last I checked there were a bunch of banana republics as members (an' zim was only recently kicked out - or were they? can't remember).
The only respectable commonwealth member, I believe, is oz. However, they speak funny and have too many flies, so they're owned too. Also, they're american wannabees: they say 'truck' instead of 'lorry'. Dummies.
So, I repeat, say "who's your daddy?"
no. no. You need to embrace The Truth, you'll feel better, trust me.
:D
The USAians kicked yer lilly white bums, then the RSAians kicked yer lilly white bums too
It follows, therefore, that you are owned, beeatches!
Silly colonialist can't get the message. btw, I'm a tri-breed Scot/German/Dutch, so therefore I own you all.
Say, "who's your daddy?"
Yes, they do. They own you too, beeatch.
/does grotch-grabbing hip-hop dance-thingy...
I'm a bit of an OCD irritable old crank when it comes to keyboards (finally settled on Enermax Aurora - solid aluminium, notebook style keys with scissor tech), so I'm curious, don't you find the horribly deep key-travel (action) on yer model M hinders your style? I mean, jeez, the keys plonk in further than an old harpiscord. Is it similar to the old terminal keyboards connected to an IBM System 36 maindrain?
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Also the size. My God, it's huge. I'm sure you have to park your mouse on the extra desk to your right (or left, depending which way you swing).
Finally a comment from someone who gets it and isn't prancing about like a gay flower she-male squeaking like a piglet because, ooh! ooh!, gmail is no longer beta!
Bunch of zwitters. ...sorry, been a long day.
Anyway, mod parent up.
You mean, like, 640K ought to be enough for anybody?
I can think of several real-world uses in our server room next door... but you were probably referring to him using it on a desktop PC, in which case I probably agree with you.
Then again, if one can afford this kind of performance for a desktop PC, why not?
American Association of Stock Car Auto Racing of America
There, fixed that for ya.
Grease monkeys are not a bright lot, so they'll like the name. These are the same folks who watch that fake wrestling crap (hulk hogan, et al)... :-D
This would be funny if it wasn't so scary...
People usually don't like Flash for 3 reasons:
- because they only associate Flash to intrusive ads or to badly programmed stuff.
- because they never actually used Flash / Flex
...and: .swf - fuck 'em.
- it's proprietary, not really open.
- much harder to maintain and make changes compared to other standards.
- have to learn *another* language/system, screw that.
- it's slower to load (I always click "Skip Intro"). No more snappy load times and performance.
- does not index well in search engines.
- Generally irritates the shit out of me since I have no interest in animation when navigating a site.
- being able to *stop* the stupid distracting animation is not always possible.
- Flash reminds of that other irritating phenomena, animated GIFS.
- Flash is therefore a cancerous tumour which must be cut out forcefully with a table spoon.
- So, I just block all
I use FOSS on servers, but windows on the desktop, so no, I'm not a FOSS fanatic.
You have 9000 friends?
wtf, ... oh, facebook.
can we first get cheap/commodity 10Gbps **LANs** please?
Having 10Gbps broadband will be cute 'n all, but useless if my PC only uses 1Gbps...
The Culture drones and Minds also have effector weaponry/manipulators, IIRC :D
Then this should do just fine.
Don't get caught by your mom, though.
+10
Fuck'n aye. My wife has one and I say shoot the fuckers if they invade our home.
They won't hesitate to do the same...
...suddenly the whole globe goes nuts.
Correction, the USA went nuts (and started stomping through the china shop).
Or...do most people just put everything in My Documents?
No, most people store everything on the desktop.
When I see this I get a sharp pain in my gut.
I don't know how many desktops I've seen with almost no real estate left open... my wife's desktop for one. Drives me up the fucking wall.
just some predators who attempted to capitalize off the accomplishments of the old SCO
No doubt the old SCO was an excellent tech company. From a business perspective, though, I wouldn't characterise the creditors as predators. They're also businesses who have bills to pay, shareholders to report to, and would like to recover monies owing...
I think your medulla oblongata has declared independence from your cerebellum... that's just my take though.
imputed?
;)
I purport that I smell a lawyer in our midst
3000 affected of roughly 200 million
um, you do realise that there are countries (and people) out there besides the USA, and that lions don't roam the streets of Joburg central, right? ;)
For programming and sysadmin, where I'm constantly copy/pasting where quick precision is required (often small text in terminals), and when using multiple monitors and the screen desktop spans those monitors, a wired mouse is a piece of crap. If the wire was as thin and flexible as a strand of cotton (they *never* are), then it wouldn't be a problem. I've been using mice for,... dunno, 17 years? ...and I've yet to find a wired mouse which doesn't interfere with my movement (the wire keeps bumping into the monitor stand, or the keyboard, etc. I abhor the bloody things.
An alcaline battery lasts a month or three, so this is rarely a problem.
I second this. We'll be proven right, it's just a matter of time. People will play with it, see it's slower, realise the risks, experience a few hiccups (crashes/no connectivity), then they'll finally learn the lesson.
I work with very basic documents
That's one of the many reasons (privacy/security, large documents, limited bandwidth, single point of failure, no control over infrastructure, etc) why online apps such as word processing, etc, are doomed to failure.
/stalks off to get meds.
Private users may fart around with online apps, but corporates at large will not.
Desktop word processing et al will always rule supreme (more efficient, faster, secure, etc); of course, I was about to respond to another post here about how FUCKING SLOW OO is compared to MS Office - what's up with all this fucked up bullshit Java everywhere? It's pathetic as a desktop development platform for one reason only: I shit faster than it can respond with a Yes/No dialogue. I started checking out Zimbra Desktop yesterday, and my *fuckdog* it's slow. It feels like every click and action is performing an AJAX call to a server located in Siberia linked by a 300 baud fucking acoustic coupler. Jesus. What a fantastic looking and feature rich application absolutely ruined by poor performance.
What happened to doing it properly in C++? So many things are going backwards for the sake of portability WHEN IT'S NOT NEEDED - Windows, like or not (I don't), is the only platform to develop for numerically and economically speaking. For fuck sakes.