I've got 3 Optiplexes, one running W2K, one running Linux, one running Win98. I'd say they're ok quality, after you wipe the crap that comes preloaded, and add a real video card. With several hundred of these floating around here, I've seen very few actual hardware problems.
Invasion of privacy! Waaaaa!
They're going to track us all, it'll be a police state!
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Please use the following examples of then and than as a guide to understanding the difference between the two:
1. My dog is bigger than your dog.
2. Fine, if you want it so bad, eat it then!
3. Hobbits are gayer than gnomes.
4. Back then, we had to eat grubs to survive.
Yep, it's great. I went in on xmas eve, even though I wasn't required to, for 2 reasons: 1. the dumbasses were gone from work, so I could get a lot done, and 2. to get a nice little break from my family.
It's not just a case of geeks happening to be the target demographic, and online, so, there you go.
Rabid fans of any film/record/whatever tend to vote early and often. Why are LOTR viewers so rabid? Who cares. Point being, they're rabid. The millions of people who love The Godfather aren't as rabid, won't vote as often.
I was as rabid about the original Star Wars when it came out as many of the LOTR fans are about LOTR. However, over the years, having seen hundreds more movies, I've lost my rabidity and must say that The Godfather, Citizen Kane, heck, even Clockwork Orange, are way better films than Star Wars.
We just happen to have an immense population of people who are easily inclined towards fanaticism and who are able/willing to express this in an online vote.
To whoever doubted Citizen Kane's quality; yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But to see why it's so good, it would be good to compare it to other films of its day, to see why it's different than the other million black-n-white films from back then.
To all you whiny ass, knee-jerk personal-freedom crybabies... take this into consideration.
My passport and birth certificate were stolen, likely by a useless piece of crap crack-head who should be put to death on general principles. Until you have put up with the hassle of trying to straighten out your life and clear your name after your identity was hijacked and used to commit crimes, please, please, please, just go back to whacking off to anime and try think that maybe, just maybe, these Big Brother/Hitler paranoid delusions have very little basis in reality.
Thanks. Really, I mean that.
No shit, Sherlock. People need to enforce the checks and balances, yes, I agree. That doesn't mean requiring proof of identity is a bad thing.
It seems a lot easier to have an embedded chip than rely on very easily forged documentation.
This mysterious Big Brother that people are whining about doesn't exist. I grow more convinced each day that slashdotters are paranoid delusionals that think they're sooooooo important that they're being watched all the time. Really, why would this mysterious Big Brother give a rat's ass about a bunch of techno-weenies? Really.
Do you have any idea how many felons are running loose, robbing, raping, and murdering? How many more innocent people will die because our current security measures aren't sufficient to prevent their acts of violence?
This Police State argument is pure crap. We have checks and balances. This is the US.
Anonymous Coward, I take such stock in your paranoid ramblings. At least have the balls to stand behind what you say. FYI... they caught some Al Qaeda pussies hiding under birkas(sp?), trying to sneak out of Afghanistan. Anonymous Cowards, unite!
Yes, you are required to show ID to get on a plane nowadays.
You can be stopped by the cops at any moment and forced to present ID.
You have finger prints, which are kept on file, and some have DNA kept on file.
What's the big deal?
Anyway, it seems that there are many, many people who have this knee-jerk reaction "NO! YOU'RE VIOLATING MY RIGHTS!" to anything even remotely related to personal freedom.Really, unless you're committing a crime, why worry? And just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean that the government is going to become evil one day and decide that you're a criminal, track you down, and bitch-slap you. Get a clue.
Agreed. What a whiny bunch of ninnies!
I'll take a chip. Maybe then, when I take a trip, I don't have to carry a bunch of tickets and id and stuff; they can just hold a scanner up to my head, read my info, and verify that I purchased a ticket, I'm a law abiding citizen, and I'd like black coffee to drink:) !
Please, all these paranoid bastards make me sick. They're the first to wave their SSN when they're down on their luck, and exclaim "Hey, I'm number XXX, give me my welfare!"
Uh... did you take your medication today?
Really, on your knees praying, with a loaded weapon, to fight off agents of Satan. Maybe you belong in a loony bin, never mind a chip implant.
Good grief!
How is carrying ID a violation of rights? Now, you have to provide at least a drivers license to board a plane. Are your rights being violated? Boo Hoo!
Who cares? Why is this considered a violation of rights?
So what if you can be tracked. If you're a criminal, bummer.
What if you're buried in an avalanche. I bet you'd be damn glad to have a tracking device inside you then.
Really... the only people who object to this are those with something to hide.
Those who are found guilty of crimes DO deserve to lose rights. It's called punishment. It's called responsibility for one's own actions. I'm not a criminal, so I say, tag me, what do I care?
why not provide an option where if the kernel detects it, a driver is loaded at this point, so you can print whatever you want whether you're running X or not? I get a full printer ID string in/from the kernel at boot time. Why not tie it in here?
You're insane.
In Windows, I can physically hook up a printer, run the wizard, add the driver, and print.doc's,.pdf's, whatever, within minutes.
In Linux, getting printing to work is a total pain in the ass. So much so that I don't bother anymore. As much as I would like to run Linux as my main desktop OS, it's just not something I have time for. I've used several distributions, and currently dual-boot win98 and slackware. I know that I could get printing to work if I really wanted to, but don't have the ambition right now. It also doesn't help that I don't own the standard LaserJet 2.
I hate MS as much as the next person, but when it comes down to it, I use what works given the amount of free time I have.
It took a lot to take down HAL.
Of course we have nothing near the AI as that, but if we did, a script kiddie could probably bring it down, or make it talk dirty, etc.
At first glance, it seems like 2.4.9 is bigger than 2.4.17. Obviously, 17 is greater than 9, but maybe the numbers should start with a zero for the 1 digit numbers... like instead of 2.4.9, 2.4.09
My 2 cents.
My main complaint is you pay $$$ for their product, then help them fix it. Then when you've got a stable happy system, you're told to purchase their new product, which is broken, and you help them fix it.
Not only that, you get to pay them to allow you to help them fix it... ie, pay for support on a product you've purchased already, which helps them track down problems they can fix in a future service pack.
I'm not talking about getting help changing your wallpaper or setting up tcp/ip, but things that you find in the KB with the explanation "This is a known problem in XXXXX", or, that you don't find at all in the KB. It's insane.
Unfortunately, MS is rich enough to buy off the government, so nothing will be done to force them to make a better product. Then again, we're not held at gunpoint to purchase their product. However, MS is rich enough that they can afford the super-sexy salespeople to convince the suits to use MS throughout your organization. Plus, there really aren't good non-MS options to such standard office products as Word, Access, etc. Not to mention 3rd party software developed specifically to run on Windows. These 3rd party software companies are not likely to abandon X years' work to switch platforms.
I think it will take a very high-profile (rich) company filing suit against MS for damages before anything will happen. Plus they've got to get around the EULA. Typical end users will just put up with it, knowing they don't a chance in hell against MS, but a big company could. Maybe even the US Government. There's got to be some way to argue that their sales pitch is fraud.
Here's my question: If this mysterious ring is so powerful, why don't the bad guys just make another? Or, why don't they make one that's more powerful than that one? Or, why don't they make a ring that makes hobbits dumb, then go steal it from them?
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I've got 3 Optiplexes, one running W2K, one running Linux, one running Win98. I'd say they're ok quality, after you wipe the crap that comes preloaded, and add a real video card. With several hundred of these floating around here, I've seen very few actual hardware problems.
we can criticize becuz we hide behind the veil of Anonymous Coward!
Invasion of privacy! Waaaaa!
They're going to track us all, it'll be a police state!
1. My dog is bigger than your dog.
2. Fine, if you want it so bad, eat it then!
3. Hobbits are gayer than gnomes.
4. Back then, we had to eat grubs to survive.
Thanks.
Yep, it's great. I went in on xmas eve, even though I wasn't required to, for 2 reasons: 1. the dumbasses were gone from work, so I could get a lot done, and 2. to get a nice little break from my family.
That was an "instant classic" as the kids like to say these days.
It's not just a case of geeks happening to be the target demographic, and online, so, there you go.
Rabid fans of any film/record/whatever tend to vote early and often. Why are LOTR viewers so rabid? Who cares. Point being, they're rabid. The millions of people who love The Godfather aren't as rabid, won't vote as often.
I was as rabid about the original Star Wars when it came out as many of the LOTR fans are about LOTR. However, over the years, having seen hundreds more movies, I've lost my rabidity and must say that The Godfather, Citizen Kane, heck, even Clockwork Orange, are way better films than Star Wars.
We just happen to have an immense population of people who are easily inclined towards fanaticism and who are able/willing to express this in an online vote.
To whoever doubted Citizen Kane's quality; yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But to see why it's so good, it would be good to compare it to other films of its day, to see why it's different than the other million black-n-white films from back then.
To all you whiny ass, knee-jerk personal-freedom crybabies... take this into consideration.
My passport and birth certificate were stolen, likely by a useless piece of crap crack-head who should be put to death on general principles. Until you have put up with the hassle of trying to straighten out your life and clear your name after your identity was hijacked and used to commit crimes, please, please, please, just go back to whacking off to anime and try think that maybe, just maybe, these Big Brother/Hitler paranoid delusions have very little basis in reality.
Thanks. Really, I mean that.
No shit, Sherlock. People need to enforce the checks and balances, yes, I agree. That doesn't mean requiring proof of identity is a bad thing.
It seems a lot easier to have an embedded chip than rely on very easily forged documentation.
This mysterious Big Brother that people are whining about doesn't exist. I grow more convinced each day that slashdotters are paranoid delusionals that think they're sooooooo important that they're being watched all the time. Really, why would this mysterious Big Brother give a rat's ass about a bunch of techno-weenies? Really.
Do you have any idea how many felons are running loose, robbing, raping, and murdering? How many more innocent people will die because our current security measures aren't sufficient to prevent their acts of violence?
This Police State argument is pure crap. We have checks and balances. This is the US.
Anonymous Coward, I take such stock in your paranoid ramblings. At least have the balls to stand behind what you say. FYI... they caught some Al Qaeda pussies hiding under birkas(sp?), trying to sneak out of Afghanistan. Anonymous Cowards, unite!
Yes, you are required to show ID to get on a plane nowadays.
You can be stopped by the cops at any moment and forced to present ID.
You have finger prints, which are kept on file, and some have DNA kept on file.
What's the big deal?
Anyway, it seems that there are many, many people who have this knee-jerk reaction "NO! YOU'RE VIOLATING MY RIGHTS!" to anything even remotely related to personal freedom.Really, unless you're committing a crime, why worry? And just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean that the government is going to become evil one day and decide that you're a criminal, track you down, and bitch-slap you. Get a clue.
Agreed. What a whiny bunch of ninnies! :) !
I'll take a chip. Maybe then, when I take a trip, I don't have to carry a bunch of tickets and id and stuff; they can just hold a scanner up to my head, read my info, and verify that I purchased a ticket, I'm a law abiding citizen, and I'd like black coffee to drink
Please, all these paranoid bastards make me sick. They're the first to wave their SSN when they're down on their luck, and exclaim "Hey, I'm number XXX, give me my welfare!"
Uh... did you take your medication today?
Really, on your knees praying, with a loaded weapon, to fight off agents of Satan. Maybe you belong in a loony bin, never mind a chip implant.
Good grief!
How is carrying ID a violation of rights? Now, you have to provide at least a drivers license to board a plane. Are your rights being violated? Boo Hoo!
Who cares? Why is this considered a violation of rights?
So what if you can be tracked. If you're a criminal, bummer.
What if you're buried in an avalanche. I bet you'd be damn glad to have a tracking device inside you then.
Really... the only people who object to this are those with something to hide.
Those who are found guilty of crimes DO deserve to lose rights. It's called punishment. It's called responsibility for one's own actions. I'm not a criminal, so I say, tag me, what do I care?
why not provide an option where if the kernel detects it, a driver is loaded at this point, so you can print whatever you want whether you're running X or not? I get a full printer ID string in/from the kernel at boot time. Why not tie it in here?
You're insane. .doc's, .pdf's, whatever, within minutes.
In Windows, I can physically hook up a printer, run the wizard, add the driver, and print
In Linux, getting printing to work is a total pain in the ass. So much so that I don't bother anymore. As much as I would like to run Linux as my main desktop OS, it's just not something I have time for. I've used several distributions, and currently dual-boot win98 and slackware. I know that I could get printing to work if I really wanted to, but don't have the ambition right now. It also doesn't help that I don't own the standard LaserJet 2.
I hate MS as much as the next person, but when it comes down to it, I use what works given the amount of free time I have.
It took a lot to take down HAL.
Of course we have nothing near the AI as that, but if we did, a script kiddie could probably bring it down, or make it talk dirty, etc.
At first glance, it seems like 2.4.9 is bigger than 2.4.17. Obviously, 17 is greater than 9, but maybe the numbers should start with a zero for the 1 digit numbers... like instead of 2.4.9, 2.4.09
My 2 cents.
Perhaps you should call Dell or Compaq and ask them?
My main complaint is you pay $$$ for their product, then help them fix it. Then when you've got a stable happy system, you're told to purchase their new product, which is broken, and you help them fix it.
Not only that, you get to pay them to allow you to help them fix it... ie, pay for support on a product you've purchased already, which helps them track down problems they can fix in a future service pack.
I'm not talking about getting help changing your wallpaper or setting up tcp/ip, but things that you find in the KB with the explanation "This is a known problem in XXXXX", or, that you don't find at all in the KB. It's insane.
Unfortunately, MS is rich enough to buy off the government, so nothing will be done to force them to make a better product. Then again, we're not held at gunpoint to purchase their product. However, MS is rich enough that they can afford the super-sexy salespeople to convince the suits to use MS throughout your organization. Plus, there really aren't good non-MS options to such standard office products as Word, Access, etc. Not to mention 3rd party software developed specifically to run on Windows. These 3rd party software companies are not likely to abandon X years' work to switch platforms.
I think it will take a very high-profile (rich) company filing suit against MS for damages before anything will happen. Plus they've got to get around the EULA. Typical end users will just put up with it, knowing they don't a chance in hell against MS, but a big company could. Maybe even the US Government. There's got to be some way to argue that their sales pitch is fraud.
Yeah, what Sue will he start with? Susan Sarandon?
Sue Bee Honey?
Uh, most slashdot readers probably aren't concerned with partners.
FYI, in your sig, that should be "you're ugly too", not "your ugly too".
"you're" is short for "you are"
Here's my question: If this mysterious ring is so powerful, why don't the bad guys just make another? Or, why don't they make one that's more powerful than that one? Or, why don't they make a ring that makes hobbits dumb, then go steal it from them?