" Despite the fact that the PPC 970 will be introduced at 1.8 GHz while the P4 is expected to be around 3GHz, the 970 will execute 8 instructions per cycle."
The IBM processors are RISC processors. The Intel ones are CISC. RISC do less per instruction, therefore, it is stupid compare the way you do.
"There is nothing that can destroy the so-called morals of a country like Saudi Arabia or Taliban controlled Afghanistan faster than an unlimited supply of high quality porn."
You are incorrect. As the Taliban have learned, fucking with the USA* is a MUCH faster path to destruction than porn would have been.
*This should say, "allowing people who want to fuck with the USA to keep headquarters in your country", but that is basically the same thing and it doesn't have as much of an impact.
I worked for a market research company. Our company would pick the area code and first 3 didgits of the phone numbers in the area we wanted to research, then our computers would randomly pick the last four digits. If you are unlisted or on a list, it doesn't matter. It is random. When I called someone who was unlisted it always puzzled the hell out of them how I got the number.
It is easy to make a Win2K system with no password. It doesn't complain if you leave the Admin password blank. And 2K/XP *automatically* share the entire contents of the hard drive, *read/write*, to the admin account. 9X and ME don't do this.
What's the problem? You should have seen all of that stuff, at least on a basic level, in high school if you went to school in the USA. This is assuming you took the college prep route of courses.
Slashdot is unknowingly showing disrespect to the USA. It doesn't bother me, and it probably doesn't bother most people, but some take that sort of thing very seriously. It is not hard to fix. Please mod that up so it gets some attention.
You took the time to try and investigate me through my slashdot info. Strange.
I am not in a bubble and rather enjoying my life. What I was trying to say is that I don't feel that my life is any more fragile since I don't fly in helicoptors or things like that. Staying on the ground is nice and safe, and you are wrong, you do not have to risk your life to enjoy it.
Well, it can be pretty fragile when you are flying helicopters in Alaska... but none of use are doing that right now, so we are not nearly so fragile. It is sad that this guy died, but he was participating in risky behavior that caused his life to be unnecessarily fragile, moreso than mine, thats for sure.
I simply can't see how you would prefer sitting hunched over your computer to watch a DVD than using a TV.
This may come as a surprise to you, but many people have bigger, better computer screens than televisions. People in dorms often use their 19" moniters as their TVs by using a tv capture card. My goal is to get a projector screen for my computer so that my entire wall can become my computer screen. That would be great for TV, DVDs, and Counter Strike!
And yes, my computer screen is nice and big, higher resolution than my TV, and in front of a couch. I don't feel 'hunched over' when watching it at all.
"you'll likely be getting analog quality display on the HD signal"
I have a digital receiver which has analog output to my analog TV. The picture quality using the digital receiver is MUCH better that the picture quality using just the analog signal. Colors are brighter and more solid (especially on cartoons). Even if you don't have a digital display, a digital reciever improves your picture quality on your old analog TV.
Guilt-tripping people into buying something they could have for free is NOT a sustainable business model. Unless you are Catholic (a joke! lighten up!). I used slackware before CDs were available for sale, and it is still here. Distros will still exist without CD sales revenue. Anyone who relies on CD sales yet allows.iso downloads from their FTP is not going to be around very long.
If he has never played nethack before, it will take him over 8 hours just to learn how to use the thing. The game has a horrible user interface (and I have tried them all). Spending a flight frustrated with a game is probably not what he has in mind.
And I am not trying to trash nethack. I like the actual game behind the bad interface.
People misunderstand what the internet IS. It gives people what they want. If they want classifieds, they will find them on the internet. If you give them something they don't want (adverts) they will ignore it. Boom. The nature of the internet. Giving people exactly want they want and nothing else.
You don't even realize you made a logical flaw. It should be:
Open Source implies no profit.
Piracy implies no profit.
From here, it is a logically incorrect to state that Open Source implies Piracy. To do that, you would need to make an error of modulos ponens: no profit implies Piracy. But it does not go both ways. To imply is not to equal.
"As has been pointed out in other discussions, when you don't use MS Outlook, you don't get viruses."
If your mom gets a virus and has your name in her address book, it will send crap all over the net using your address. So there is a hole in your plan you hadn't considered. I have tried your method. It doesn't work. You say you get some spam? If the guy who has your address starts selling his list, you are screwed. There would be nothing you can to to stop yourself from being burried except use filters.
Actually, your little keyboard is better for coding if you are a man and use vi. It is really easy to hit the escape key on a laptop, and you don't need those other sitty keys:)
Your technique won't work. If you give your address to friends and family, they will either send a forward (which ads your email address to the headers and is picked up by spammers) or get a virus, which can also pick up your email address. And anybody running an SMTP server that records email addresses could harvest you for spam.
If you spend 30 seconds after installing ICQ to uncheck some options, the windows icq client becomes a small and efficient use of screen space. The defaults do suck, though.
If AOL can't even make ICQ and AIM interchangeable, this will never happen. ICQ is superior in all ways to AIM (it can handle offline messaging, it uses numbers for accounts instead of screen names so you don't have people called Some_Guy__456574, etc). AOL bought ICQ many years ago and has not yet been able to make them interoperate.
Honestly, I would think your problems are being caused by faulty hardware or power flucuations or faulty drivers. A properly configured Win2k box DOES NOT lock up. I mean I have run a desktop machine for months with not a single lockup.
If I want to run software on my PC that blocks or replaces advertisments (weather that is Gator or Mozilla's BannerBlind or JunkBuster) I want to have the right to do that. If it is ruled that ad-interfering software is liable for lost revenue, that would put good software our of business, as well as Gator.
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" Despite the fact that the PPC 970 will be introduced at 1.8 GHz while the P4 is expected to be around 3GHz, the 970 will execute 8 instructions per cycle."
The IBM processors are RISC processors. The Intel ones are CISC. RISC do less per instruction, therefore, it is stupid compare the way you do.
You are incorrect. As the Taliban have learned, fucking with the USA* is a MUCH faster path to destruction than porn would have been.
*This should say, "allowing people who want to fuck with the USA to keep headquarters in your country", but that is basically the same thing and it doesn't have as much of an impact.
I worked for a market research company. Our company would pick the area code and first 3 didgits of the phone numbers in the area we wanted to research, then our computers would randomly pick the last four digits. If you are unlisted or on a list, it doesn't matter. It is random. When I called someone who was unlisted it always puzzled the hell out of them how I got the number.
It is easy to make a Win2K system with no password. It doesn't complain if you leave the Admin password blank. And 2K/XP *automatically* share the entire contents of the hard drive, *read/write*, to the admin account. 9X and ME don't do this.
Software costs as much as it does because people are willing to pay that much. Duh.
What's the problem? You should have seen all of that stuff, at least on a basic level, in high school if you went to school in the USA. This is assuming you took the college prep route of courses.
Mod parent up!
Slashdot is unknowingly showing disrespect to the USA. It doesn't bother me, and it probably doesn't bother most people, but some take that sort of thing very seriously. It is not hard to fix. Please mod that up so it gets some attention.
Samsung has great Linux compatability and they have some good USB laser printers for under $200.
You took the time to try and investigate me through my slashdot info. Strange.
I am not in a bubble and rather enjoying my life. What I was trying to say is that I don't feel that my life is any more fragile since I don't fly in helicoptors or things like that. Staying on the ground is nice and safe, and you are wrong, you do not have to risk your life to enjoy it.
Well, it can be pretty fragile when you are flying helicopters in Alaska... but none of use are doing that right now, so we are not nearly so fragile. It is sad that this guy died, but he was participating in risky behavior that caused his life to be unnecessarily fragile, moreso than mine, thats for sure.
I simply can't see how you would prefer sitting hunched over your computer to watch a DVD than using a TV.
This may come as a surprise to you, but many people have bigger, better computer screens than televisions. People in dorms often use their 19" moniters as their TVs by using a tv capture card. My goal is to get a projector screen for my computer so that my entire wall can become my computer screen. That would be great for TV, DVDs, and Counter Strike! And yes, my computer screen is nice and big, higher resolution than my TV, and in front of a couch. I don't feel 'hunched over' when watching it at all.
I have a digital receiver which has analog output to my analog TV. The picture quality using the digital receiver is MUCH better that the picture quality using just the analog signal. Colors are brighter and more solid (especially on cartoons). Even if you don't have a digital display, a digital reciever improves your picture quality on your old analog TV.
Guilt-tripping people into buying something they could have for free is NOT a sustainable business model. Unless you are Catholic (a joke! lighten up!). I used slackware before CDs were available for sale, and it is still here. Distros will still exist without CD sales revenue. Anyone who relies on CD sales yet allows .iso downloads from their FTP is not going to be around very long.
If he has never played nethack before, it will take him over 8 hours just to learn how to use the thing. The game has a horrible user interface (and I have tried them all). Spending a flight frustrated with a game is probably not what he has in mind.
And I am not trying to trash nethack. I like the actual game behind the bad interface.
People misunderstand what the internet IS. It gives people what they want. If they want classifieds, they will find them on the internet. If you give them something they don't want (adverts) they will ignore it. Boom. The nature of the internet. Giving people exactly want they want and nothing else.
You don't even realize you made a logical flaw. It should be: Open Source implies no profit. Piracy implies no profit. From here, it is a logically incorrect to state that Open Source implies Piracy. To do that, you would need to make an error of modulos ponens: no profit implies Piracy. But it does not go both ways. To imply is not to equal.
"Yours, with tears in my eyes." ??? Is that a joke? What?? Do you want this to sound like satire?
"As has been pointed out in other discussions, when you don't use MS Outlook, you don't get viruses."
If your mom gets a virus and has your name in her address book, it will send crap all over the net using your address. So there is a hole in your plan you hadn't considered. I have tried your method. It doesn't work. You say you get some spam? If the guy who has your address starts selling his list, you are screwed. There would be nothing you can to to stop yourself from being burried except use filters.
Actually, your little keyboard is better for coding if you are a man and use vi. It is really easy to hit the escape key on a laptop, and you don't need those other sitty keys :)
Your technique won't work. If you give your address to friends and family, they will either send a forward (which ads your email address to the headers and is picked up by spammers) or get a virus, which can also pick up your email address. And anybody running an SMTP server that records email addresses could harvest you for spam.
If you spend 30 seconds after installing ICQ to uncheck some options, the windows icq client becomes a small and efficient use of screen space. The defaults do suck, though.
If AOL can't even make ICQ and AIM interchangeable, this will never happen. ICQ is superior in all ways to AIM (it can handle offline messaging, it uses numbers for accounts instead of screen names so you don't have people called Some_Guy__456574, etc). AOL bought ICQ many years ago and has not yet been able to make them interoperate.
Honestly, I would think your problems are being caused by faulty hardware or power flucuations or faulty drivers. A properly configured Win2k box DOES NOT lock up. I mean I have run a desktop machine for months with not a single lockup.
If I want to run software on my PC that blocks or replaces advertisments (weather that is Gator or Mozilla's BannerBlind or JunkBuster) I want to have the right to do that. If it is ruled that ad-interfering software is liable for lost revenue, that would put good software our of business, as well as Gator.
For anyone wondering what the word 'hack' actually means, THIS IS IT.