Wait a minute!. Lets look at this the other way. If MS Office is the 'Same Value" as something that's free. Doen't that mean it's overpriced and over taxed?
First of all no one owns M$ software, they just license it. And Part of that license state you have to prove you paid for that license at any time the owner (M$) asks you to.
The guiltly until proven innocent only works in criminal court, not contract law, which is all about who has more money and better lawyers.
for several reasons. I am currently involved in setting up a new website that just got some money. It is currenly running an assortment of perl and python scripts on a Zeus Server. After looking at a couple of options we decided on PHP on Apache, why? at this point it's cost.
ASP or CF on NT with MS SQL is a little too much up front. And for us that was the bottom line.
Having said that I realize that 5 potheads financing a website with VISA doesn't exactly follow the same rules as 'Enterpise Computing' decisions but hey I just wated to get in my $ 0.02 CDN.
As an aside the most interesting config we looked at was ASP using Python and MySQL on a NT box.
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wow, LEGO computer case I'd never thought of that. That'd be the cooolest. Gotta go up to the attic now.
Okay, make a PCI card with a bunch of 30 pin slots. Get them to run in a cluster. No you have that Seti Accelerator everyone got all bent out of shape about a couple of weeks ago.
here's a freaky thought. What about multiple endings to shows based on different products.
One ending has the bad guy getting away and Scully drinking Gatoraid.
Another they catch the bad guy and drive away in a Ford Explorer.
Or Skinner calls them on his cell phone, from Walmart and tells them to stop chasing him and let it go.
A hopped up Pentium Pro is only gonna go so far. regardless of the die size. don't get be wrong though there is still plently of life left in the line thought.
But with the Athlon being the only 'real' 7th gen chip it has more room to grow.
what I also find interesting is stretching the old (the PII) and also making the jump the 64 bit (Itanium) but they don't seem to have an in between. That of course is where the Sledgehammer coems in.
Ars is a great place for technical articles. I like the hign end technical details, 'cause If I read something and understand all of it, I didn't learn anything. Ars always seems to have something that's just a little over my head, if I find it interesting I'll follow up on.
Any way on the Does anyone else think that there should be some sort of computer proficiency test question.
I think there should be a proficiency test not to buy or use a computer, but to be elligable for tech support. Back in the day I used to do tech support for a very large ISP, and it was bad. Not all bad mind you, but the bits that were bad were very bad. At least once a day I'd get the "I don't want to do that" And I was honestly trying to help these people, they either didn't want to do what I suggested or didn't understand a word I said.
So there it is, Anyone can by a computer but there should be a minimum level of proficency to be eligible for tech support.
I have never owned a Mac Myself. My wife however is from a Mac family, her brother is an animation artist and her father owned a print shop.
However recently I've been following the development of OS X and now I'm thinking my next new computer might be a Mac. I say new 'cause I'm always picking up old junk just to play with. And I don't think I'm alone in my thinking, and here's how it goes, and please this isn't flame bait. Linux is great as a server but it's still a little lacking in the desktop department, (there I said it)
If OS X turns out to be as cool as it's supposed to be it will become my new desktop of choice, and I shall forever banish Windows from my little corner of the world.
No kidding. The client side is almost irrelevant. If the servers are using it it'll happen.
I mean nobody pays for client side software, well browsers anyway. So the browsers compete on features. If the servers are using BXXP then the browsers will too.
unless MS adopts it? this is just asking to be embraced and extended.
That aside I think the browser market will follow the server market, If apache is serv'n up BXXP and managers are seeing improved performance the client side will follow
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Wait a minute!. Lets look at this the other way. If MS Office is the 'Same Value" as something that's free. Doen't that mean it's overpriced and over taxed?
Sure not every app is build for smp, so what the os balances the apps, you can run more stuff!!!!
And my next upgrade will be to a dual athlon, PIII are way over priced.
Okay maybe I didn't but it almost makes sense.
The guiltly until proven innocent only works in criminal court, not contract law, which is all about who has more money and better lawyers.
for several reasons. I am currently involved in setting up a new website that just got some money. It is currenly running an assortment of perl and python scripts on a Zeus Server. After looking at a couple of options we decided on PHP on Apache, why? at this point it's cost. ASP or CF on NT with MS SQL is a little too much up front. And for us that was the bottom line. Having said that I realize that 5 potheads financing a website with VISA doesn't exactly follow the same rules as 'Enterpise Computing' decisions but hey I just wated to get in my $ 0.02 CDN. As an aside the most interesting config we looked at was ASP using Python and MySQL on a NT box.
wow, LEGO computer case I'd never thought of that. That'd be the cooolest. Gotta go up to the attic now.
Uh that big company would probably be IBM. Who could probably afford to take the short term hit to biring it to market.
Okay, make a PCI card with a bunch of 30 pin slots. Get them to run in a cluster. No you have that Seti Accelerator everyone got all bent out of shape about a couple of weeks ago.
here's a freaky thought. What about multiple endings to shows based on different products. One ending has the bad guy getting away and Scully drinking Gatoraid. Another they catch the bad guy and drive away in a Ford Explorer. Or Skinner calls them on his cell phone, from Walmart and tells them to stop chasing him and let it go.
been done. I have an old Sigue Sigue Sputnik album with ads dor ID magazine And Vidal Sassoon Hair stuff.
We used to play Q2 on a Citix/Windows Terminal server. Nobody could do anything else, but it worked.
A hopped up Pentium Pro is only gonna go so far. regardless of the die size. don't get be wrong though there is still plently of life left in the line thought.
But with the Athlon being the only 'real' 7th gen chip it has more room to grow.
what I also find interesting is stretching the old (the PII) and also making the jump the 64 bit (Itanium) but they don't seem to have an in between. That of course is where the Sledgehammer coems in.
and I still hate reambus
Intel shot itself in the foot with this rambus deal.
uuuuhhhhhnuunnnnn, sure, but can I still be janitor?
See The X-Men movie doesn't even have to be really good, I just want it to not suck like so many other comic book films.
Too true, I didn't mean to speak in absolute terms.
And yet the idea of minimum level of competence still hold true. It protected you for an incompetant tech.
Any way on the Does anyone else think that there should be some sort of computer proficiency test question.
I think there should be a proficiency test not to buy or use a computer, but to be elligable for tech support. Back in the day I used to do tech support for a very large ISP, and it was bad. Not all bad mind you, but the bits that were bad were very bad. At least once a day I'd get the
"I don't want to do that"
And I was honestly trying to help these people, they either didn't want to do what I suggested or didn't understand a word I said.
So there it is, Anyone can by a computer but there should be a minimum level of proficency to be eligible for tech support.
It would seem to me this would be a very fast cache/proxy sever. Embed it in hardware and you've a very cool little product.
I still have my extended basic cartridge and cable s for the tape drive.
you could run a multuser Unreal tournement on one box.
hmmmm
However recently I've been following the development of OS X and now I'm thinking my next new computer might be a Mac. I say new 'cause I'm always picking up old junk just to play with.
And I don't think I'm alone in my thinking, and here's how it goes, and please this isn't flame bait. Linux is great as a server but it's still a little lacking in the desktop department, (there I said it)
If OS X turns out to be as cool as it's supposed to be it will become my new desktop of choice, and I shall forever banish Windows from my little corner of the world.
I mean nobody pays for client side software, well browsers anyway. So the browsers compete on features. If the servers are using BXXP then the browsers will too.
not to mention the next version of gnutella.
That aside I think the browser market will follow the server market, If apache is serv'n up BXXP and managers are seeing improved performance the client side will follow
That is a cool idea.
It's going on my things to do list.