Interesting news. This gives me yet another reason to buy a pre tested bare bones setup next time I decide to upgrade. Or even go as far as to have the system completely built and ran through the a burn-in cycle. You don't have to sacrifice getting a custom built system either. I've found several custom builders online who provide a wide range of high quality components such as Lian-Li cases and Asus motherboards. I haven't yet reached the point of laziness that I'd be willing to buy a pot luck system from Best Buy. Allthough with PC prices as low as they are, and with CPU speeds and RAM doubling every year, it is sometimes tempting to go with a Dell.
The point (obviously?) being if CPU manufacturers are going to be so stringent with their products, then I may be better off letting resellers deal with the manufacturer so I will just have to deal with the reseller. That may very well be what AMD wants to achieve in the first place.
That about says it all; sure we want more games on Linux but I think we want to see quality games.
I agree about quality being are more important than quanity. I bought a GameCube just so I could play Metroid Prime. (And I went ahead and got a few other games too since I had the console. But Metroid Prime is the reason I bought it.)
Actually I'm about done with PC gaming. I like the idea of tossing in a disc, pressing power, and being "off to the races". As soon as consoles get up to par with Network gaming including Internet and LAN gaming, I doubt I'll ever install a PC game again.
And just think of the money I'll save on hardware!
How is that the fault of the company? I'm a bit of a rebate junkie myself. I don't know why people complain about it being such a "hassle". How is writing your name and address on a piece of paper, sticking it in an envelope along with a copy of the receipt, and mailing it out a hassle? It takes what? 3 minutes tops? I can't remember the last time I paid more than tax + the cost of a stamp for a stack of blank CDRs. Some rebates are slower than others but I always get them sooner or later.
Of course I prefer in store instant rebates, who wouldn't, but I'm not about to pass up a good mail-in rebate because of the "hassle". I've had more of a hassle taking taking certain items out of the bullet proof plastic packaging than I've ever had filling out a rebate form.
The iPod's battery life isn't to great, considering its size
Well, I don't know what kind of digital camera you have, but my Toshisba PDR-M70 burns through batteries much faster than my iPod. I can use my iPod all day and still have power left over. My digital camera usually runs out of power before I can fill up the 64MB flash card.
That was the first thing that occured to me when I read the post. It will probably be like everything else. First comes the technology, then years later everyone slaps themselves on the forhead for not thinking of making it secure from the beginning. Like Telnet, FTP, POP, 802.11, IM's, etc.....
Not true dude. I'm using a Deskstar right now and it has never fai^HHHHHHHHHHHH[no carrier]
Coincidental that I'm reading this since I litterly just got done boxing up a Deskstar drive for RMA less than 5 minutes ago. This is the second time I've sent "this" drive in for RMA. ("This" drive being the original purchase. "This" drive is a replacement for the first one that died.)
I'm not messing with these pieces of junk any more. I've never had hard-drive failures like this. I'm buying a replacement drive, probably WD, and as soon as this one comes back from RMA I'm auctioning it on Ebay. Feel sorry for the winner but wish them the best of luck with it.
You're an AC so I really shouldn't waste my time responding, but...
At no point did I ever say jdoom/Doomsday was going to make the old classic Doom look like what Doom 3 is supposed to be. If you were expecting then that, then I'm sorry but you're a complete idiot. Based on your comments I'm guessing the original Doom predates you. That being the case, you couldn't possibly appreciate how much better jdoom/Doomsday looks than the original Doom.
If you want to see what "the big deal is", go get yourself a 486SX/16 with 4MB of RAM, a 1MB video card, and a 100MB hard-drive with DOS 6.x installed it. Then install the original Doom on it and play it for a while. (Of course you probably wont last 20 minutes.) Dial up directly to your buddy over a 9600 baud modem and play him 1 on 1. If you want to play more than 1 person, grab up your computer and meet up with 3 of your friends at someone's house and you can play up to 4 Players!!! over the 10Mb BNC LAN.
Now go back to your Pentium 3GHz, your 1GB of RAM, your 128MB video card, your 120GB+ hard-drive, your cable/DSL, and then take another look at jdoom/Doomsday.
Not sure what you're using for OpenGL doom but check out this link. (I just installed jdoom/doomsday one week ago today actually.) There's a monster model pack you can download to get better looking monsters. There's also a 180MB texture pack you can download to improve the scenery.
i'm not about to install a p2p programm just to download some file.
I agree. Who the heck wants to install a single purpose applet or program just to get a file?
and if you want me to use my bandwith to upload your file to other people, sorry, forget about it.
I agree. My upstream is only 40KBytes, I don't want to share it.
and p2p downloads are usually much less reliable then http downloads.
I definately agree.
also, those clients are a security hazard.
I definately agree. Downloading from a "trusted" website gives me at least some peace of mind that I'm not downloading a virus. Granted it's not guranteed - but it's far less likely to get infected from a website than it is form Joe Script Kidie.
plus the intregrity of the downloaded files is not guaranteed.
my need for archiving stuff to watch again later is so small as to be unimportant
Some people feel some sense of accomplishment by owning huge archives of "stuff". For exmaple, we probably all know people that brag about having a 100GB of music files (MP3/Ogg). But when the majority of that collection is crap they don't even like, you've got wonder, what's the point?
Based on your comments and by glancing over your resume I can tell your job involves a lot of hand holding and baby sitting. (I'm not being derogatory.) So if you work at some call center or something and have to support a bunch of relatively uneducated employees such as high school kids and mothers who got sick of staying at home, then I can see your point. When I made my original comment, I was thinking more along of the lines of competent end users. That is the work environment I'm most familiar with. As such, I really don't want (or need) someone changing my personal Desktop environment back to some "IT friendly" Microsoft default setting.
I don't think having the certification proves that you know more than the guy next to you who doesn't have the certification. Being certified does not equal having years of experience. That said, I don't agree that all certified people are morons as some people in this thread are saying. I do agree that many people who have no real know-how but have lots of money run out and get certifications just to have them. And that's unfortunate because it makes the rest of "us" (those of us who know our stuff) look bad. But the same thing has been happening for years. A high school diploma used to be optional and you would still be able to land a decent paying job as long as you knew what you were doing. My dad never graduated high school and made over 60 grand a year working at Caterpillar as an electrician. He knew how to do his job and back then, that was all that mattered. But now - a 4 year college degree barely qualifies you for 25k a year and lower management.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting news. This gives me yet another reason to buy a pre tested bare bones setup next time I decide to upgrade. Or even go as far as to have the system completely built and ran through the a burn-in cycle. You don't have to sacrifice getting a custom built system either. I've found several custom builders online who provide a wide range of high quality components such as Lian-Li cases and Asus motherboards. I haven't yet reached the point of laziness that I'd be willing to buy a pot luck system from Best Buy. Allthough with PC prices as low as they are, and with CPU speeds and RAM doubling every year, it is sometimes tempting to go with a Dell.
The point (obviously?) being if CPU manufacturers are going to be so stringent with their products, then I may be better off letting resellers deal with the manufacturer so I will just have to deal with the reseller. That may very well be what AMD wants to achieve in the first place.
That about says it all; sure we want more games on Linux but I think we want to see quality games.
I agree about quality being are more important than quanity. I bought a GameCube just so I could play Metroid Prime. (And I went ahead and got a few other games too since I had the console. But Metroid Prime is the reason I bought it.)
Actually I'm about done with PC gaming. I like the idea of tossing in a disc, pressing power, and being "off to the races". As soon as consoles get up to par with Network gaming including Internet and LAN gaming, I doubt I'll ever install a PC game again.
And just think of the money I'll save on hardware!
well, i've been "predicting" that the end of life as we know it will come, not when though
Ahahahahah... well said! Excellent point.
At times I forget to send them in.
How is that the fault of the company? I'm a bit of a rebate junkie myself. I don't know why people complain about it being such a "hassle". How is writing your name and address on a piece of paper, sticking it in an envelope along with a copy of the receipt, and mailing it out a hassle? It takes what? 3 minutes tops? I can't remember the last time I paid more than tax + the cost of a stamp for a stack of blank CDRs. Some rebates are slower than others but I always get them sooner or later.
Of course I prefer in store instant rebates, who wouldn't, but I'm not about to pass up a good mail-in rebate because of the "hassle". I've had more of a hassle taking taking certain items out of the bullet proof plastic packaging than I've ever had filling out a rebate form.
...new Apple computers are way too fast to run MacOSX. I'd much rather have an older slower one.
The iPod's battery life isn't to great, considering its size
Well, I don't know what kind of digital camera you have, but my Toshisba PDR-M70 burns through batteries much faster than my iPod. I can use my iPod all day and still have power left over. My digital camera usually runs out of power before I can fill up the 64MB flash card.
Security?
That was the first thing that occured to me when I read the post. It will probably be like everything else. First comes the technology, then years later everyone slaps themselves on the forhead for not thinking of making it secure from the beginning. Like Telnet, FTP, POP, 802.11, IM's, etc.....
Not true dude. I'm using a Deskstar right now and it has never fai^HHHHHHHHHHHH[no carrier]
Coincidental that I'm reading this since I litterly just got done boxing up a Deskstar drive for RMA less than 5 minutes ago. This is the second time I've sent "this" drive in for RMA. ("This" drive being the original purchase. "This" drive is a replacement for the first one that died.)
I'm not messing with these pieces of junk any more. I've never had hard-drive failures like this. I'm buying a replacement drive, probably WD, and as soon as this one comes back from RMA I'm auctioning it on Ebay. Feel sorry for the winner but wish them the best of luck with it.
It still looks like crap, sorry.
You're an AC so I really shouldn't waste my time responding, but...
At no point did I ever say jdoom/Doomsday was going to make the old classic Doom look like what Doom 3 is supposed to be. If you were expecting then that, then I'm sorry but you're a complete idiot. Based on your comments I'm guessing the original Doom predates you. That being the case, you couldn't possibly appreciate how much better jdoom/Doomsday looks than the original Doom.
If you want to see what "the big deal is", go get yourself a 486SX/16 with 4MB of RAM, a 1MB video card, and a 100MB hard-drive with DOS 6.x installed it. Then install the original Doom on it and play it for a while. (Of course you probably wont last 20 minutes.) Dial up directly to your buddy over a 9600 baud modem and play him 1 on 1. If you want to play more than 1 person, grab up your computer and meet up with 3 of your friends at someone's house and you can play up to 4 Players!!! over the 10Mb BNC LAN.
Now go back to your Pentium 3GHz, your 1GB of RAM, your 128MB video card, your 120GB+ hard-drive, your cable/DSL, and then take another look at jdoom/Doomsday.
Of course, the monsters are still ugly,
Not sure what you're using for OpenGL doom but check out this link. (I just installed jdoom/doomsday one week ago today actually.) There's a monster model pack you can download to get better looking monsters. There's also a 180MB texture pack you can download to improve the scenery.
Since when is 47% in a non-scientific survey a majority?
:)
Dude, this is Slashdot. Only 47% *admitted* to using Windows. The vast majority of the other 53% probably lied. I know I did.
What is a 1394 connection? If you mean IEEE 1394 compliant connectors, then the official name for the standard is FireWire.
Well we all knew what he meant, and clearly so did you. So what's your point?
i'm not about to install a p2p programm just to download some file.
I agree. Who the heck wants to install a single purpose applet or program just to get a file?
and if you want me to use my bandwith to upload your file to other people, sorry, forget about it.
I agree. My upstream is only 40KBytes, I don't want to share it.
and p2p downloads are usually much less reliable then http downloads.
I definately agree.
also, those clients are a security hazard.
I definately agree. Downloading from a "trusted" website gives me at least some peace of mind that I'm not downloading a virus. Granted it's not guranteed - but it's far less likely to get infected from a website than it is form Joe Script Kidie.
plus the intregrity of the downloaded files is not guaranteed.
That's a bit redudant with the above 2 points.
Defacing that website would be so trivial that I doubt even the usual twits would bother.
So what's your point?
The adult thing to do here...
Get real. This is Slashdot.
my need for archiving stuff to watch again later is so small as to be unimportant
Some people feel some sense of accomplishment by owning huge archives of "stuff". For exmaple, we probably all know people that brag about having a 100GB of music files (MP3/Ogg). But when the majority of that collection is crap they don't even like, you've got wonder, what's the point?
If they don't like something, they can change it.
I guess you didn't read the parent post. He specifically says Make the installer NOT allow the user to change any of this
So once all the *default* user preferences are set, he wants it so the end user can't change them.
Who wants to be TOLD what to watch or listen to, and when?
Me. I watch whatever my dominatrix tells me to watch.
correct me if im wrong
Don't worry, they will. This is Slashdot after all.
Based on your comments and by glancing over your resume I can tell your job involves a lot of hand holding and baby sitting. (I'm not being derogatory.) So if you work at some call center or something and have to support a bunch of relatively uneducated employees such as high school kids and mothers who got sick of staying at home, then I can see your point. When I made my original comment, I was thinking more along of the lines of competent end users. That is the work environment I'm most familiar with. As such, I really don't want (or need) someone changing my personal Desktop environment back to some "IT friendly" Microsoft default setting.
What's the point of forcing all the employees to set their user preferences to settings that are based soley on your own personal opinions?
I dont see why he's been modded up apart from some Linux zealot being biased.
You must be new here.
How much does one of the frontpage /. ads cost? I would like to purchase one.
/. never offers up locally cached copies of articles. They only get paid for the hits they send to other sites.
I guess that explains why
I don't think having the certification proves that you know more than the guy next to you who doesn't have the certification. Being certified does not equal having years of experience. That said, I don't agree that all certified people are morons as some people in this thread are saying. I do agree that many people who have no real know-how but have lots of money run out and get certifications just to have them. And that's unfortunate because it makes the rest of "us" (those of us who know our stuff) look bad. But the same thing has been happening for years. A high school diploma used to be optional and you would still be able to land a decent paying job as long as you knew what you were doing. My dad never graduated high school and made over 60 grand a year working at Caterpillar as an electrician. He knew how to do his job and back then, that was all that mattered. But now - a 4 year college degree barely qualifies you for 25k a year and lower management.
but if you knew how to rebuild your car engine, you would certianly be better suited for when it broke down half way to your grandmas house.
And if you knew how to perform open heart surgery you could save a fortune on hospital bills.