>Let me clue you into something. Knives do not go 'dull' that easy. You have to try at it. Using them to cut food is not trying at it.
Then, pray tell me, why do professional restaurants have their knives professionally sharpened if knives stay sharp forever without abuse? Are all those thousands of companies scammers? Isn't it hard to scam someone when checking if the problem exists is as simple as resting your knife on a tomato?
YOU HAVE got to be kidding me if you're going to tell me professional chefs haven't a clue how to use knives properly.
Only shitty "laser" knives last forever. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense, but what I mean is that "laser" knives remain at their mediocre sharpness level forever. Real knives, the type that you normally sharpen, go dull from use.
>You are not yet grey and know how much your world appears to have changed.
This might come as a shock, but I have photos form when I was 14 in which I started turning grey. I'm now pretty close to halfway there. It's not just me -- I've had a _lot_ of people comment on it.
My doctor is baffled at why... But then again, it really isn't all that important, so she never bothered to put much effort in.
Why, exactly, moderator, do you find this flamebait? You disagree with something here?
Try responding next time instead of moderating!
I'm requoting the message, since clearly you, moderator, haven't a clue:
>I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why do I always have to defend this processor against such incorrect accusations?
The VIA C3 is about 25% slower than the equivalent PIII processor, in Mhz. Yeah, that's an average between it's spectacular integer performance and dismal FPU performance.
How you could get an application that doesn't use the FPU to perform so badly on this processor is a major feat of poor installation. I don't think I could screw up a C3 install that bad no matter how bad I tried. As proof that the C3 is faster than a P200 MMX, try playing DVDs. Notice the C3 can handle it, but notice what happens when you do the same thing on your P200 MMX.
For squid, you should have gotten FAR more performance on a properly configured system.
For their application (wireless), this CPU is perfect. There's very little FPU activity (perhaps none?) for network routing. They should find this processor running cool and fast.
I suggest you check wether DMA was enabled on your squid server, considering that it is a relatively HDD intensive application. I doubt it's the CPU causing it to run that poorly.
>Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
Let's see:
Assuming a switching power supply has a 70% efficiency rate, and assuming they max out a 300 watt power supply for each board (pretty much right for your selection of processors), we are talking 430 watts consumption per system.
That's 430 * 4 = 1720 watts. In many countries (mine included) that would require a special circuit for such a high power draw (1500 watts is the reccomended maximum, or 1800 watts peak power). That's more than a hairdryer uses. Not a smart choice at all.
>Mac OS X is a single OS, as opposed to a set of OSes that may or may not work together.
Sure, a specific version of Mac OS is a single OS that works with it's own stuff.
How many Mac OS 7.5 apps run well on Max OS X. What about OS 8? OS 9?
What about the many different architectures of the Mac? How do binaries for the 68k Macs work on a G4?
>OS X is also a BSD, which is a much better OS than Linux.
Why? You need to substantiate this much better if you don't want the troll label.
>Also, OS X also has the backing of a long established company that will probably be around in the foreseeable future.
You do realise this company is Microsoft, right? That their money/support has been helping keep the Mac platform alive?
>Lastly, Apple is adopting a less proprietary model and much of the operating system is open source, so many of the benefits of a completely open source OS are there too.
Misinformed. Look how long it took for the iPod to work on non-Mac OSes. Look at the fact that Apple is still such a pathetically proprietary company that they have to take Pioneer DVD burners and change the name of the company in the firmware so that they can keep their propreitary grip on the market. Wouldn't want someone using a non-Apple DVD burner on a Mac, would Apple?
What Apple needs is Steve Ballmer running the company instead of Jobs. That would fix their wagon and it might convince me to get a Mac. 'Till then I'd rather buy a less proprietary machine, like an HP/UX minicomputer (joke).
>I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why do I always have to defend this processor against such incorrect accusations?
The VIA C3 is about 25% slower than the equivalent PIII processor, in Mhz. Yeah, that's an average between it's spectacular integer performance and dismal FPU performance.
How you could get an application that doesn't use the FPU to perform so badly on this processor is a major feat of poor installation. I don't think I could screw up a C3 install that bad no matter how bad I tried. As proof that the C3 is faster than a P200 MMX, try playing DVDs. Notice the C3 can handle it, but notice what happens when you do the same thing on your P200 MMX.
For squid, you should have gotten FAR more performance on a properly configured system.
For their application (wireless), this CPU is perfect. There's very little FPU activity (perhaps none?) for network routing. They should find this processor running cool and fast.
I suggest you check wether DMA was enabled on your squid server, considering that it is a relatively HDD intensive application. I doubt it's the CPU causing it to run that poorly.
>Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
Let's see:
Assuming a switching power supply has a 70% efficiency rate, and assuming they max out a 300 watt power supply for each board (pretty much right for your selection of processors), we are talking 430 watts consumption per system.
That's 430 * 4 = 1720 watts. In many countries (mine included) that would require a special circuit for such a high power draw (1500 watts is the reccomended maximum, or 1800 watts peak power). That's more than a hairdryer uses. Not a smart choice at all.
>It could be used for that (assuming you have a way to rebroadcast the signal later? Without the FCC hunting your signal down?)
100 mW or 1/4 mile at any frequency (Military frequencies might be excepted). Considering your average antenna jack draws 13 mA (1 V/75 Ohms), I think there's no power restriction type problems... Otherwise there'd be no RF modulators!:)
>It would be difficult to imagine a comment more totally wrong than this one. Line printers costed thousands of dollars, had crappy output, and were often the size of a refrigerator. Inkjets are tiny, often cost under $50, have far better print quality, and can print pretty color pictures.
You really think professionals are all using inkjets for high-volume printing?
My college reports are still printed on a line printer. Sure, it's hella big, but it prints fast enough to pump out well over 10,000 pages in a a few days without effort. This is done three times a year.
Yes, line printers have a higher initial investment, but lets compare the _real_ costs for high-output use, using my college as an example:
Inkjet cartridge (for your $50 printer): $50, lasts about 100 pages. Ribbon for impact printer: $20, lasts about 1,000 pages.
TCO per year for my college for the inkjet printer, which needs to print every page 3 times, since inkjets don't handle multipart forms: 900 carts @ $50 ea ($45,000) + 25 hours employee time replacing carts and printers ($375) + $50 printer * 30 (getting 3,000 pages from a cheapie like that would be a miracle in itself) ($1,500) = $46,875.
TCO per year for my college for the impact printer: 30 ribbons @ $20 ea ($600) + 1 hour employee time replacing carts (printer is maintenance free to the point it hasn't been repaired once in the 4 years I've worked there) ($15) + $3,000 printer + $0.10 extra per page for multipart forms ($3,000) = $6,615.
I didn't include costs that would be common to both printers (loading pin-feed can be a bitch, but so would having to re-load the inkjet printer every 25 pages), you have to burst apart the forms on the line printer, but you have to collate them on the inkjet, etc, etc.
Replacing line printers with $50 inkjets. Get real! I hope you didn't tell your manager this bright idea... Sorry, but honestly, you and the other guy actually expect _inkjets_ to replace these printers? Especially the cheap plastic Apollo 2550 printers that almost crumble in my hands?
Hell will freeze over before you see $50 inkjets being used for _real_ print jobs. Plus, yes, the output from a $50 inkjet _is_ only an infinitessimal step above a line printer, if it's actually printing more than 1 page an hour.
>There is no good reason to retain the BIOS. The BIOS is not and elegant, refined mechanism. It was a hack 20 years ago and now it's around for legacy reasons only.
It's necessary for embedded systems, and it's necessary to boot your machine. Your computer isn't just going to magically start your hard drive. And, considering all that legacy stuff is down pat and is _never_ changed, we're talking about 256k of extra EEPROM. You might save $0.25 per board if you took it out, but you'd spend $10 per board in re-development costs to do so. Hardly anything to write home about...
>Computers and printers have not been declining in capability (see the Moore's Law article).
Did I say you had to buy a 30 year old line printer? Get with the times man! Impact printers are stink-fast nowadays (they've been fast for a couple of decades, actually). Lasers, of course, are taking over, for all but specialised jobs (printing on stuff like birthday cakes isn't going to work for a laser, and using them for labels and evelopes is a bad idea -- that's inkjet territory).
But, just to see I'm not bullshitting you, do some searches for high-volume impact printers, laser printers, and inkjet printers. Impact printers are slowly on their way out, being replaced with laser printers. Inkjets pick up on all sorts of niches that neither of the other two do well, but there's not a heck of a lot of them that are designed to print regular 8.5" x 11" paper quickly.
I stick with what I said. If I need a workhorse printer, and my choices are inkjet or impact, I'll take the impact printer. If I had any choice, I'd get a laser printer. But, since my choices are inkjet or impact, I'll take the impact printer (or line printer, whatever you want to call it, I really don't care).
Everything has it's place. But, since no homeowner I knew of would have a line printer, and since line printers were designed to print all day and night, I have to compare task to task. And the inkjet just ain't gonna cut it.
However, it's nice at home, gathering dust beside the LJ II printer which is the only one of the two I can afford to use, except for cover pages for my reports.
>hmm you have a line printer that can do more than 15 ppm in full quality mode,
That's easy. I remember reading about a line printer with multiple heads that could do hundreds of pages per minute. I'm sure I can find a link to a high-speed line printer if you'd like. Sure, it cost somewhere around $10,000, but you don't get speed for free.
>has more than 2800 dpi of resolution
Not a problem. Use a Daisy-Wheel line printer. Infinite quality, depending on the printwheel.
>and costs less than $200??
You can't get all of what you said for that price. You might get two of those, but no way will you be able to print a full 15 pages a minute at 2800 dpi for $200. If you can, well, why do laser printers still exist?
>I really, really doubt it but all of that can be had in a decent inkjet.
I doubt all those can be had at the same time at all...
>but you are being compensated...in the form of lower rates.
If only! If there's anything Ma Bell has shown anybody it's that they'll wallet rape anyone in sight.
Remember when an overseas call cost $1.50 a minute? Well, you're still using the same lines when you make the call today. So why the difference in price? Did someone all of a sudden stop charging them for the lines?
Lower rates only come with force from the government or competition from the other phone compies for Ma Bell.
>Um, at least in the US I live in its still innocent until proven guilty. Still up to them to prove I did anything.
Not with the DMCA it isn't. "Offending" materials are to be removed from websites _prior_ to any official legal action being taken. All that's needed is a letter from the supposed true copyright holder that states it's his. Then it's _your_ job to tell them you aren't breaking the law (the counter letter).
Normally, apart from search warrants/being arrested by the police, if you are accused of owning illicit goods, the person being violated has to get court orders or at a minimum chat with the police to get anything done, giving you the opportunity to give your side of the story.
In this case it's strip you of your rights and work your way back up the chain. A very bad way to do "justice", IMHO, and not unlike the Mexican system, from what I've heard.
But the database won't be very useful if their good data is mixed in with a couple of hundred bad results. It's the teergrube idea, except with people instead of SMTP.
...Considering it should have about 10x the battery life of the average notebook running at just under 1 Ghz that doesn't use a C3.
A C3 933 isn't anyware near as slow as that, anyways. If it were, the 666 C3 I used should be about the speed of a PIII 266. It's nowhere near that crappy (it could play DVDs while I surfed the net -- no PIII 266 could ever do that [of course, that would be if they existed]), and that's amazing considering it's a PC Chips board.
Plus it's silent. Tell me what speed a P4 runs at when it's silent (hint: It's less than 1/2 of it's normal speed, which is already 10% - 20% slower than the equivalent PIII in Mhz)?
There's a lot to like about the C3 processor. It's just not for gaming/scientific number crunching. But how many subnotebooks do you know that are replacing gaming rigs or Crays?
>Just like replacing a line-printer with an inkjet doesn't mean you can't use it for text printing.
And, just like replacing a line printer with an inkjet printer, it's a much slower, lower quality, harder to read, and more expensive way to do exactly the same thing.
So, how much did the phone company pay you last time they needed to dig up your land to lay down lines?
How much rent do they pay you for using your property?
What's that? Nothing?
But if I leave my car parked on your property for the rest of the time you own the land but said to you that you'd be allowed to drive it on weekends, would that be OK with you? Would you not want some sort of compensation for that?
So, why can't we do that to Bell? Have compensation for them using land they don't own? The answer to that is same answer to why WE get say over THEIR property.
When you put your crap on my land, I get to set the terms. Don't like it? Don't do it!
Bell's just sore because what they've left on our land is all of a sudden much more valuable than it was when they left it. Since they don't want to rip it up and take their ball of wires home, so to speak, well, they should play fair. Or lose their right to put cables under our streets, homes, and businesses.
How many people do you know on filesharing networks you would trade with? I bet if you whittled it down you could get it as low as a dozen and still have access to all sorts of great stuff.
Make a 1 byte file, call it "U of Wyoming - The modern day 1984.zip", get a friend outside the Uni. to host it, and set your machine inside the Uni. to download it once a minute.
Heh... If a few of you do that, the database could be full of useless info in no time!
>A killer DivX collection is not the same as a your grades. One is obtained legally, the other is not. You make the call.
Hmmm... Since I timeshifted my DivX collection of Music Videos from TV myself, I'd say they're totally legal. Now, if I were to have hacked the mainframe to get my grades, yup, that'd make them illegal.
Thanks for making me clarify this! My DivX is private, but any illicitly gotten grades aren't! I feel much better now, since it'd be really hard to tell which (if any) of my grades were hacked or real.
>Then please, explain to me (and other readers) how the programs would exchange keys without the spy intercepting them?
Mail. Not email. Printer + OCR Font + Paper + Scanner + Security Envelope + Stamp == Secure transmission. That is, assuming mail tampering laws aren't tampered with.
Or get creative and mail each other disks with the key on them.:-)
Apart from that, you could always just talk to each other, as long as you don't do it in the ever growing panopticon of police spy cameras.
>Pennslyvania needs to provide ISPs a list of websites it says contains child porn.
More than that, they need to provide that list to everyone.
Just like banned books in my country, there is a list that Canadians can read to see what it is my government doesn't want them to learn.
And so should there be a list of links to websites that are banned from this state. That way people have the right to contest their validity. This is the only way to avoid the 1984 scenario.
Most here disagreee with you. I don't think I have to add to that.
>The Amy Boyer murder was a tragic event and this case will allow the family some chance of holding the "information clearinghouses" liable for the information that they doled out for a healthy profit and Amy's life.
So, the world should stop turning because of this? It was tragic when people in the early 20th century were killed by poorly designed machinery, but people are happy that the end result of court battles over safety issues at work resulted in people being protected from such wrongdoing. Is it wrong to take pleasure in what amounts to a good ending from a bad tragedy? Schadenfreude, this isn't, since nobody is taking pleasure in her death. They're taking pleasure from the good judgement in the court case.
Should people feel terrible that people like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson were put in prison?
>Making the connection of spyware to satisfy you personal conspiracy theorist mentality to this case revolving around a real and tragic event is just ridiculous.
Suggesting that people's emotions are as fragile as you seem to think they are and then insulting them is pretty ridiculous as well, don't you think?
>And, moderating the above comment Offtopic is just too typical.
And grousing about it is too. Not that I agree with it, and not that I haven't done it myslef, but the fact I do makes me a pretty typical hypocritical slashdotter, I suppose.
Oh, I know Bill Gates is the richest man of today.
However, he made his fortune from windows. DOS was his stepping stone. Windows is what made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
So, when windows 2.0/3.0/3.1 hit the scenes, sure he doing really well, but not at the level of IBM. Windows 3.1 was arguably good enough for end users at the time and it sold accordingly. Then enter windows 95... Bill Gates' extremely good marketing of windows 95, IBM's pathetic marketing of OS/2, and the fact that windows 95 was, at the time, more than enough quality for end users, meant that windows 95 sold BIG. I know windows 95 (and the entire 9x series + M.E.) sucks rocks compared to what users _could have_, but that doesn't mean it isn't good enough to get most jobs done.
So basically these are not exclusive conditions. One can be rich while having good marketing and a high enough quality product. High enough doesn't mean good, it just means that enough quality is there to make people want it.
Now, if Astalavista were all of a sudden actually able to return some results instead of constant trash, and the hell was marketed out of it, it would crush google. But I think it's FUBAR and the market is saturated with search engines, so I don't see how they can pull it off without a miracle.
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>Let me clue you into something. Knives do not go 'dull' that easy. You have to try at it. Using them to cut food is not trying at it.
Then, pray tell me, why do professional restaurants have their knives professionally sharpened if knives stay sharp forever without abuse? Are all those thousands of companies scammers? Isn't it hard to scam someone when checking if the problem exists is as simple as resting your knife on a tomato?
YOU HAVE got to be kidding me if you're going to tell me professional chefs haven't a clue how to use knives properly.
Only shitty "laser" knives last forever. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense, but what I mean is that "laser" knives remain at their mediocre sharpness level forever. Real knives, the type that you normally sharpen, go dull from use.
>You are not yet grey and know how much your world appears to have changed.
;-)
This might come as a shock, but I have photos form when I was 14 in which I started turning grey. I'm now pretty close to halfway there. It's not just me -- I've had a _lot_ of people comment on it.
My doctor is baffled at why... But then again, it really isn't all that important, so she never bothered to put much effort in.
Just trying to ruin another colloquialism.
And no, I don't have any of these problems.
Lots of bad moderations lately!
Why, exactly, moderator, do you find this flamebait? You disagree with something here?
Try responding next time instead of moderating!
I'm requoting the message, since clearly you, moderator, haven't a clue:
>I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why do I always have to defend this processor against such incorrect accusations?
The VIA C3 is about 25% slower than the equivalent PIII processor, in Mhz. Yeah, that's an average between it's spectacular integer performance and dismal FPU performance.
How you could get an application that doesn't use the FPU to perform so badly on this processor is a major feat of poor installation. I don't think I could screw up a C3 install that bad no matter how bad I tried. As proof that the C3 is faster than a P200 MMX, try playing DVDs. Notice the C3 can handle it, but notice what happens when you do the same thing on your P200 MMX.
For squid, you should have gotten FAR more performance on a properly configured system.
For their application (wireless), this CPU is perfect. There's very little FPU activity (perhaps none?) for network routing. They should find this processor running cool and fast.
I suggest you check wether DMA was enabled on your squid server, considering that it is a relatively HDD intensive application. I doubt it's the CPU causing it to run that poorly.
>Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
Let's see:
Assuming a switching power supply has a 70% efficiency rate, and assuming they max out a 300 watt power supply for each board (pretty much right for your selection of processors), we are talking 430 watts consumption per system.
That's 430 * 4 = 1720 watts. In many countries (mine included) that would require a special circuit for such a high power draw (1500 watts is the reccomended maximum, or 1800 watts peak power). That's more than a hairdryer uses. Not a smart choice at all.
>Mac OS X is a single OS, as opposed to a set of OSes that may or may not work together.
Sure, a specific version of Mac OS is a single OS that works with it's own stuff.
How many Mac OS 7.5 apps run well on Max OS X. What about OS 8? OS 9?
What about the many different architectures of the Mac? How do binaries for the 68k Macs work on a G4?
>OS X is also a BSD, which is a much better OS than Linux.
Why? You need to substantiate this much better if you don't want the troll label.
>Also, OS X also has the backing of a long established company that will probably be around in the foreseeable future.
You do realise this company is Microsoft, right? That their money/support has been helping keep the Mac platform alive?
>Lastly, Apple is adopting a less proprietary model and much of the operating system is open source, so many of the benefits of a completely open source OS are there too.
Misinformed. Look how long it took for the iPod to work on non-Mac OSes. Look at the fact that Apple is still such a pathetically proprietary company that they have to take Pioneer DVD burners and change the name of the company in the firmware so that they can keep their propreitary grip on the market. Wouldn't want someone using a non-Apple DVD burner on a Mac, would Apple?
What Apple needs is Steve Ballmer running the company instead of Jobs. That would fix their wagon and it might convince me to get a Mac. 'Till then I'd rather buy a less proprietary machine, like an HP/UX minicomputer (joke).
>I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why do I always have to defend this processor against such incorrect accusations?
The VIA C3 is about 25% slower than the equivalent PIII processor, in Mhz. Yeah, that's an average between it's spectacular integer performance and dismal FPU performance.
How you could get an application that doesn't use the FPU to perform so badly on this processor is a major feat of poor installation. I don't think I could screw up a C3 install that bad no matter how bad I tried. As proof that the C3 is faster than a P200 MMX, try playing DVDs. Notice the C3 can handle it, but notice what happens when you do the same thing on your P200 MMX.
For squid, you should have gotten FAR more performance on a properly configured system.
For their application (wireless), this CPU is perfect. There's very little FPU activity (perhaps none?) for network routing. They should find this processor running cool and fast.
I suggest you check wether DMA was enabled on your squid server, considering that it is a relatively HDD intensive application. I doubt it's the CPU causing it to run that poorly.
>Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
Let's see:
Assuming a switching power supply has a 70% efficiency rate, and assuming they max out a 300 watt power supply for each board (pretty much right for your selection of processors), we are talking 430 watts consumption per system.
That's 430 * 4 = 1720 watts. In many countries (mine included) that would require a special circuit for such a high power draw (1500 watts is the reccomended maximum, or 1800 watts peak power). That's more than a hairdryer uses. Not a smart choice at all.
>It could be used for that (assuming you have a way to rebroadcast the signal later? Without the FCC hunting your signal down?)
:)
100 mW or 1/4 mile at any frequency (Military frequencies might be excepted). Considering your average antenna jack draws 13 mA (1 V/75 Ohms), I think there's no power restriction type problems... Otherwise there'd be no RF modulators!
>It would be difficult to imagine a comment more totally wrong than this one. Line printers costed thousands of dollars, had crappy output, and were often the size of a refrigerator. Inkjets are tiny, often cost under $50, have far better print quality, and can print pretty color pictures.
You really think professionals are all using inkjets for high-volume printing?
My college reports are still printed on a line printer. Sure, it's hella big, but it prints fast enough to pump out well over 10,000 pages in a a few days without effort. This is done three times a year.
Yes, line printers have a higher initial investment, but lets compare the _real_ costs for high-output use, using my college as an example:
Inkjet cartridge (for your $50 printer): $50, lasts about 100 pages.
Ribbon for impact printer: $20, lasts about 1,000 pages.
Inkjet printer price: $50.
Impact printer price: $3,000 (at most).
TCO per year for my college for the inkjet printer, which needs to print every page 3 times, since inkjets don't handle multipart forms: 900 carts @ $50 ea ($45,000) + 25 hours employee time replacing carts and printers ($375) + $50 printer * 30 (getting 3,000 pages from a cheapie like that would be a miracle in itself) ($1,500) = $46,875.
TCO per year for my college for the impact printer: 30 ribbons @ $20 ea ($600) + 1 hour employee time replacing carts (printer is maintenance free to the point it hasn't been repaired once in the 4 years I've worked there) ($15) + $3,000 printer + $0.10 extra per page for multipart forms ($3,000) = $6,615.
I didn't include costs that would be common to both printers (loading pin-feed can be a bitch, but so would having to re-load the inkjet printer every 25 pages), you have to burst apart the forms on the line printer, but you have to collate them on the inkjet, etc, etc.
Replacing line printers with $50 inkjets. Get real! I hope you didn't tell your manager this bright idea... Sorry, but honestly, you and the other guy actually expect _inkjets_ to replace these printers? Especially the cheap plastic Apollo 2550 printers that almost crumble in my hands?
Hell will freeze over before you see $50 inkjets being used for _real_ print jobs. Plus, yes, the output from a $50 inkjet _is_ only an infinitessimal step above a line printer, if it's actually printing more than 1 page an hour.
>There is no good reason to retain the BIOS. The BIOS is not and elegant, refined mechanism. It was a hack 20 years ago and now it's around for legacy reasons only.
It's necessary for embedded systems, and it's necessary to boot your machine. Your computer isn't just going to magically start your hard drive. And, considering all that legacy stuff is down pat and is _never_ changed, we're talking about 256k of extra EEPROM. You might save $0.25 per board if you took it out, but you'd spend $10 per board in re-development costs to do so. Hardly anything to write home about...
>Computers and printers have not been declining in capability (see the Moore's Law article).
Did I say you had to buy a 30 year old line printer? Get with the times man! Impact printers are stink-fast nowadays (they've been fast for a couple of decades, actually). Lasers, of course, are taking over, for all but specialised jobs (printing on stuff like birthday cakes isn't going to work for a laser, and using them for labels and evelopes is a bad idea -- that's inkjet territory).
But, just to see I'm not bullshitting you, do some searches for high-volume impact printers, laser printers, and inkjet printers. Impact printers are slowly on their way out, being replaced with laser printers. Inkjets pick up on all sorts of niches that neither of the other two do well, but there's not a heck of a lot of them that are designed to print regular 8.5" x 11" paper quickly.
I stick with what I said. If I need a workhorse printer, and my choices are inkjet or impact, I'll take the impact printer. If I had any choice, I'd get a laser printer. But, since my choices are inkjet or impact, I'll take the impact printer (or line printer, whatever you want to call it, I really don't care).
Everything has it's place. But, since no homeowner I knew of would have a line printer, and since line printers were designed to print all day and night, I have to compare task to task. And the inkjet just ain't gonna cut it.
However, it's nice at home, gathering dust beside the LJ II printer which is the only one of the two I can afford to use, except for cover pages for my reports.
>hmm you have a line printer that can do more than 15 ppm in full quality mode,
That's easy. I remember reading about a line printer with multiple heads that could do hundreds of pages per minute. I'm sure I can find a link to a high-speed line printer if you'd like. Sure, it cost somewhere around $10,000, but you don't get speed for free.
>has more than 2800 dpi of resolution
Not a problem. Use a Daisy-Wheel line printer. Infinite quality, depending on the printwheel.
>and costs less than $200??
You can't get all of what you said for that price. You might get two of those, but no way will you be able to print a full 15 pages a minute at 2800 dpi for $200. If you can, well, why do laser printers still exist?
>I really, really doubt it but all of that can be had in a decent inkjet.
I doubt all those can be had at the same time at all...
>but you are being compensated...in the form of lower rates.
If only! If there's anything Ma Bell has shown anybody it's that they'll wallet rape anyone in sight.
Remember when an overseas call cost $1.50 a minute? Well, you're still using the same lines when you make the call today. So why the difference in price? Did someone all of a sudden stop charging them for the lines?
Lower rates only come with force from the government or competition from the other phone compies for Ma Bell.
>Um, at least in the US I live in its still innocent until proven guilty. Still up to them to prove I did anything.
Not with the DMCA it isn't. "Offending" materials are to be removed from websites _prior_ to any official legal action being taken. All that's needed is a letter from the supposed true copyright holder that states it's his. Then it's _your_ job to tell them you aren't breaking the law (the counter letter).
Normally, apart from search warrants/being arrested by the police, if you are accused of owning illicit goods, the person being violated has to get court orders or at a minimum chat with the police to get anything done, giving you the opportunity to give your side of the story.
In this case it's strip you of your rights and work your way back up the chain. A very bad way to do "justice", IMHO, and not unlike the Mexican system, from what I've heard.
But the database won't be very useful if their good data is mixed in with a couple of hundred bad results. It's the teergrube idea, except with people instead of SMTP.
...Considering it should have about 10x the battery life of the average notebook running at just under 1 Ghz that doesn't use a C3.
A C3 933 isn't anyware near as slow as that, anyways. If it were, the 666 C3 I used should be about the speed of a PIII 266. It's nowhere near that crappy (it could play DVDs while I surfed the net -- no PIII 266 could ever do that [of course, that would be if they existed]), and that's amazing considering it's a PC Chips board.
Plus it's silent. Tell me what speed a P4 runs at when it's silent (hint: It's less than 1/2 of it's normal speed, which is already 10% - 20% slower than the equivalent PIII in Mhz)?
There's a lot to like about the C3 processor. It's just not for gaming/scientific number crunching. But how many subnotebooks do you know that are replacing gaming rigs or Crays?
>Just like replacing a line-printer with an inkjet doesn't mean you can't use it for text printing.
And, just like replacing a line printer with an inkjet printer, it's a much slower, lower quality, harder to read, and more expensive way to do exactly the same thing.
GO INTeL!
So, how much did the phone company pay you last time they needed to dig up your land to lay down lines?
How much rent do they pay you for using your property?
What's that? Nothing?
But if I leave my car parked on your property for the rest of the time you own the land but said to you that you'd be allowed to drive it on weekends, would that be OK with you? Would you not want some sort of compensation for that?
So, why can't we do that to Bell? Have compensation for them using land they don't own? The answer to that is same answer to why WE get say over THEIR property.
When you put your crap on my land, I get to set the terms. Don't like it? Don't do it!
Bell's just sore because what they've left on our land is all of a sudden much more valuable than it was when they left it. Since they don't want to rip it up and take their ball of wires home, so to speak, well, they should play fair. Or lose their right to put cables under our streets, homes, and businesses.
>What then???
:-)
Take it, and pay their Ma' Bell bill for 'em instead!
Proft: $550. Per month. That should cover the trouble of paperwork.
Not to mention making sure there's a 2 year waiting period to get phone service. That should do...
>Of course, you'd have to prove that you "timeshifted" your DivX files
:-)
Maybe in the US or Mexico!
Elsewhere it's innocent until proven guilty. They'd need to prove that I didn't timeshift 'em.
How many people do you know on filesharing networks you would trade with? I bet if you whittled it down you could get it as low as a dozen and still have access to all sorts of great stuff.
Make a 1 byte file, call it "U of Wyoming - The modern day 1984.zip", get a friend outside the Uni. to host it, and set your machine inside the Uni. to download it once a minute.
Heh... If a few of you do that, the database could be full of useless info in no time!
>A killer DivX collection is not the same as a your grades. One is obtained legally, the other is not. You make the call.
Hmmm... Since I timeshifted my DivX collection of Music Videos from TV myself, I'd say they're totally legal. Now, if I were to have hacked the mainframe to get my grades, yup, that'd make them illegal.
Thanks for making me clarify this! My DivX is private, but any illicitly gotten grades aren't! I feel much better now, since it'd be really hard to tell which (if any) of my grades were hacked or real.
>Then please, explain to me (and other readers) how the programs would exchange keys without the spy intercepting them?
:-)
Mail. Not email. Printer + OCR Font + Paper + Scanner + Security Envelope + Stamp == Secure transmission. That is, assuming mail tampering laws aren't tampered with.
Or get creative and mail each other disks with the key on them.
Apart from that, you could always just talk to each other, as long as you don't do it in the ever growing panopticon of police spy cameras.
I don't think they're too worried about you, considering that playing an MP3 on that laptop will likely bring it down to a P-90...
>Pennslyvania needs to provide ISPs a list of websites it says contains child porn.
More than that, they need to provide that list to everyone.
Just like banned books in my country, there is a list that Canadians can read to see what it is my government doesn't want them to learn.
And so should there be a list of links to websites that are banned from this state. That way people have the right to contest their validity. This is the only way to avoid the 1984 scenario.
A little from column A and a little from column B! ;)
>It has nothing to do with spyware.
Most here disagreee with you. I don't think I have to add to that.
>The Amy Boyer murder was a tragic event and this case will allow the family some chance of holding the "information clearinghouses" liable for the information that they doled out for a healthy profit and Amy's life.
So, the world should stop turning because of this? It was tragic when people in the early 20th century were killed by poorly designed machinery, but people are happy that the end result of court battles over safety issues at work resulted in people being protected from such wrongdoing. Is it wrong to take pleasure in what amounts to a good ending from a bad tragedy? Schadenfreude, this isn't, since nobody is taking pleasure in her death. They're taking pleasure from the good judgement in the court case.
Should people feel terrible that people like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson were put in prison?
>Making the connection of spyware to satisfy you personal conspiracy theorist mentality to this case revolving around a real and tragic event is just ridiculous.
Suggesting that people's emotions are as fragile as you seem to think they are and then insulting them is pretty ridiculous as well, don't you think?
>And, moderating the above comment Offtopic is just too typical.
And grousing about it is too. Not that I agree with it, and not that I haven't done it myslef, but the fact I do makes me a pretty typical hypocritical slashdotter, I suppose.
Oh, I know Bill Gates is the richest man of today.
However, he made his fortune from windows. DOS was his stepping stone. Windows is what made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
So, when windows 2.0/3.0/3.1 hit the scenes, sure he doing really well, but not at the level of IBM. Windows 3.1 was arguably good enough for end users at the time and it sold accordingly. Then enter windows 95... Bill Gates' extremely good marketing of windows 95, IBM's pathetic marketing of OS/2, and the fact that windows 95 was, at the time, more than enough quality for end users, meant that windows 95 sold BIG. I know windows 95 (and the entire 9x series + M.E.) sucks rocks compared to what users _could have_, but that doesn't mean it isn't good enough to get most jobs done.
So basically these are not exclusive conditions. One can be rich while having good marketing and a high enough quality product. High enough doesn't mean good, it just means that enough quality is there to make people want it.
Now, if Astalavista were all of a sudden actually able to return some results instead of constant trash, and the hell was marketed out of it, it would crush google. But I think it's FUBAR and the market is saturated with search engines, so I don't see how they can pull it off without a miracle.