Don't confuse "easy to use" with "similar to Microsoft".
So I guess you built your own car also? Going to a dealership and buying one is beneath you right? And you grow your own food, sew your own clothes, live in a house that you built with your bare hands and had no help? You didn't buy a refrigerator from a retailer did you? No, you built it yourself right?
Perhaps you should consider the fact that not everyone in the world cares as much about computers as you do. Auto mechanics may be their passion. But do they consider *you* an "idiot" because you don't know how to take a car engine apart and put it back together blind folded?
You use Bash? What kind of pussy are you? Why didn't your write your own shell?
It would be fun to do a controlled study to watch average users scratching their heads over the thing and asking to be excused early.
Exactly. There isn't a single Joe-user out there who's going to make it past page 1 of that article.
I mean get real. Lets spend 5 pages talking about a Swap file. A concept most Windows users have never heard of. And lets talk about RAID and multiple IDE controllers. Psh! Then if that wasn't bad enough, lets hop from that idea into talking about IBM ThinkPad mouse pointers. What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Did the author even read the title of his own article?
This is one area of Window Managers in general that has annoyed me for quite some time. That is the doubling up of features. In regards to setting a background though, Gnome has the ability to completely disable its control over setting the background. Therefor whatever else you are doing to set a background will always work... E on the otherhand only allows you to turn off having a background... so if you then set a background through Gnome and then bring up a transparent terminal, the terminal will just show a blank root window as opposed to the background that you set through Gnome. At least that has been my experience.
Look, take the disk speed, multiply it by the cache speed, the L2 cache speed, the fsb speed, the internal bus speed etc, and you will get a number. Then do the same for another cpu, you will get another number. The one with the biggest number is the fastest.
Why not just add instead of mulitply? That would give you a much smaller number to work with and would accomplish the same task. Or possibly use subtraction instead. The smaller the number, the better. Or maybe using an inversely squared number derived from the parts of the whole sum of said number that remain from the left over of the originally inversely squared but not yet sequentially mapped. And then multiply that number by zero.
But, down the road, will AMD change the socket type for its upcoming 64-bit Sledgehammer chip?
All the more reason to buy AMD instead of Intel. Changing the socket type is inevitable, so saving money on the CPU is more important than ever since you will be buying a new motherboard also.
Is it worth it for me to give these chips another go?
Definately give the newer AMD line-up a go. I avoided AMD in the past based on articles I read and such but it was just a bunch of FUD. I own a Duron 700MHz and a T-bird 1GHz and they are every bit as stable as the dozen or so Intel CPUs I have purchased over the years.
I agree completely. AMD is the way to go for the average home user or PC gamer. I would much rather buy an AMD CPU and save money up front so I could then still afford an upgrade down the road - as opposed to forking out a small fortune for a P4 system today and being stuck with it when Intel decides to change the socket type yet again.
I've received so much spam over the past few months that I have been all but completely forced to block *everything* and only allow e-mail from trusted users... It hasn't got quite to that point yet but it's getting close. Friends and family send stupid little cute e-cards to me via e-mail and the place that they send it from feel obligated to spam the shit out of me from that day forth.
I love to skydive. I wonder what it would be like on Mars do to the reduced gravity? What would the terminal velocity be? (Assuming of course that there was an atmosphere like Earths which would slow you down.)
If this would somehow bring broadband to the average consumer for just a few bucks a month (as opposed to $40+/month), then it could be viewed as a good thing.
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Don't confuse "easy to use" with "similar to Microsoft".
So I guess you built your own car also? Going to a dealership and buying one is beneath you right? And you grow your own food, sew your own clothes, live in a house that you built with your bare hands and had no help? You didn't buy a refrigerator from a retailer did you? No, you built it yourself right?
Perhaps you should consider the fact that not everyone in the world cares as much about computers as you do. Auto mechanics may be their passion. But do they consider *you* an "idiot" because you don't know how to take a car engine apart and put it back together blind folded?
You use Bash? What kind of pussy are you? Why didn't your write your own shell?
It would be fun to do a controlled study to watch average users scratching their heads over the thing and asking to be excused early.
Exactly. There isn't a single Joe-user out there who's going to make it past page 1 of that article.
I mean get real. Lets spend 5 pages talking about a Swap file. A concept most Windows users have never heard of. And lets talk about RAID and multiple IDE controllers. Psh! Then if that wasn't bad enough, lets hop from that idea into talking about IBM ThinkPad mouse pointers. What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Did the author even read the title of his own article?
We have tons of open RJ45 jacks around that anyone can plug into...
Why not go to the wiring closet and remove the jumper cable between the patch panel to your switch/hub on those ununsed ports?
For instance, its background selector...
This is one area of Window Managers in general that has annoyed me for quite some time. That is the doubling up of features. In regards to setting a background though, Gnome has the ability to completely disable its control over setting the background. Therefor whatever else you are doing to set a background will always work... E on the otherhand only allows you to turn off having a background... so if you then set a background through Gnome and then bring up a transparent terminal, the terminal will just show a blank root window as opposed to the background that you set through Gnome. At least that has been my experience.
If Debian is so great....
You'll be wishing you never made that comment after you've actually learned enough about Linux to know how to use it.
but I don't know any other distribution that uses 2.2.18 yet
It could come with kernel 1.0 for all I care. It's not like I'm going to use the pre-built one anyway.
I have been developing a webpage that is dedicated to comparig setups via gaming benchmarks.
How about a URL? I would like to check it out.
Look, take the disk speed, multiply it by the cache speed, the L2 cache speed, the fsb speed, the internal bus speed etc, and you will get a number. Then do the same for another cpu, you will get another number. The one with the biggest number is the fastest.
Why not just add instead of mulitply? That would give you a much smaller number to work with and would accomplish the same task. Or possibly use subtraction instead. The smaller the number, the better. Or maybe using an inversely squared number derived from the parts of the whole sum of said number that remain from the left over of the originally inversely squared but not yet sequentially mapped. And then multiply that number by zero.
But, down the road, will AMD change the socket type for its upcoming 64-bit Sledgehammer chip?
All the more reason to buy AMD instead of Intel. Changing the socket type is inevitable, so saving money on the CPU is more important than ever since you will be buying a new motherboard also.
Is it worth it for me to give these chips another go?
Definately give the newer AMD line-up a go. I avoided AMD in the past based on articles I read and such but it was just a bunch of FUD. I own a Duron 700MHz and a T-bird 1GHz and they are every bit as stable as the dozen or so Intel CPUs I have purchased over the years.
I agree completely. AMD is the way to go for the average home user or PC gamer. I would much rather buy an AMD CPU and save money up front so I could then still afford an upgrade down the road - as opposed to forking out a small fortune for a P4 system today and being stuck with it when Intel decides to change the socket type yet again.
I thought Wolfenstein 3D was an Apogee game, not id Software.
I've received so much spam over the past few months that I have been all but completely forced to block *everything* and only allow e-mail from trusted users... It hasn't got quite to that point yet but it's getting close. Friends and family send stupid little cute e-cards to me via e-mail and the place that they send it from feel obligated to spam the shit out of me from that day forth.
830+ games that no one would ever want to play...
News for nerds? I think not...
If I can't just click on an "article" hyperlink and read the article, it's not worth it. I haven't read 1 single NYT post yet.
I love to skydive. I wonder what it would be like on Mars do to the reduced gravity? What would the terminal velocity be? (Assuming of course that there was an atmosphere like Earths which would slow you down.)
Skydive DeLand
If this would somehow bring broadband to the average consumer for just a few bucks a month (as opposed to $40+/month), then it could be viewed as a good thing.
Thoughts?
That is !exactly! what I thought while reading the article. 95% babble and 5% relevant content.
Someone needs to teach that guy the meaning of the word concise.