I dont need it, Im sure... unless I start loading pr0n as well as ebooks onto my PDA... byt I sure as shite *want* it for high geek factor;)
Im damn certain my girlfriend wants it for her digital camera... she keeps bitching that 128MB isnt enough and wants to nick my PDA's 512MB; the concept of deleting images seems to be foreign to her:)
(hell, the paradigm discussed predates LINUX!!) I had the other problem when switching from SGI machines to windows boxes (back in the day, 1990 or so, although going from vi + tex to a "wysiwyg" word processor on windows 3.1 didnt seem useful at the time, I couldn't understand why the management was buying these silly home computers for work, lol; clearly *NOT* clairvoyant, me).
Whilst in windows I tend to use shift-del and shift-ins; I *miss* the middle mouse button paste behaviour, especially with good "double click" rules for word/phrase selection.
Both paradigms are pretty basic tho; if you *need* a "clipboard" in *nix, keep a text editor open and when you highlight to copy, paste it in the text editor and continue editing... when you want to copy back, double click the text in the text editor and paste away...
ITs not a "random seed" the passphrase is converted into the WEP key by a structured algorithm (rot13 conversion I believe, but Im not sure; cant be fukd googling).
The passphrase length is limited or truncated to a length which matches the keylenth (64/128bit)...
our glorious governement has already started barking Big Oil's tune, by creating significant cost barriers to the creation of Bio Diesel, even for your own use, even in your own back yard.
Basically only a well funded business can afford to make Bio Diesel in Australia... such a bloody shame.
I mean, who the fuk wants to watch a dodgy camcorder recording of a movie???
Ive seen a couple and just couldn't see why people would pay, no matter how little, for that crap?? HEre in Australia a movie ticket isnt cheap, but its still only $12.50 or so... The only folks who would watch a camcorder pirate of such a movie are the folks who wouldn't pay to see it anyway!
Why fight something that is only likely to increase the number of people who see and talk about a film; I would severely doubt there would be any impact on ticket sales (or even dvd sales) by this... I'd be more worried about cheap asian digital copies of the dvd impacting their sales...
But then I have the same confusion about macrovision and p2p sharing... why fight something that will have a negilgible impact??? use the money you *DONT* spend fighting this crap to make your product a buck or 2 cheaper...
She got jacked with me spending hours glued to UT(insertyearhere) and randomly yelling "stick your head out, I'll cure all your ills" and "dont run, you only die tired"... so I went out and bought her fallout, fallout2 and nwn for her iBook. She was bleh about nwn, but she cacked herself over fallout/fallout 2; the humor and turn based gameplay got her hooked:)
So she camps in the chair next to me and chortles in her headphones whilst I slaughter thousands... ok, get slaughtered:)
detant is a wonderful thing (and dont even bother correcting my spelling, assuming its wrong, I just dont care that much:)
Not true, There are "warmers" where a non-critical ammount of radioactive material is used, with an armature which rotates to generate heat and boil water... ergo power; however, these can NOT go critical, if they fail, the armarture stops and the cool down and if they go mad, the armature can spin as fast as it wants, the reaction cant go critical.
course, I cant remember which bloody japanese company invented them, but there was a slashdot story about one being offered to a town in Alaska I think. Of course, Ive been wrong before.
Yes, right; carry a weapon which, whilst you own and practice with, you dont use on a daily basis.
Turn what was an insurance claim for some missing gear into a life ending experience... IDIOT!
drawing, aiming and firing (or drawing, readying and striking with) a weapon takes far too long, particularly if you have been ambushed.
If you want to be stupid enough to fight, learn martial arts (aikido, kung-fu or kempo are my suggestions), train HARD. In 5 years or so you will be ready; much earlier than if you choose to use weapons. For someone who actually knows what they are doing, the easiest and quickest way to arm yourself is to disarm someone else; if you dont know what you are doing, immediately surrender your gear, the mugger wants your cash and gear so they can score a hit; they know they will almost certainly not get caught but if they kill you they will be hunted...
It is just stuff; if the data isnt backed up; its your fault not the muggers. But, for the love of sanity, do not recommend that civilians arm themselves and attempt to use those weapons in a stressful situation without proper (and by proper I mean 6 years special forces/swat training, no other humans regularly survive getting ambushed without being ready) training.
3d acceleration (nvidia provided kernel dri and glx modlues) work fine on Xorg x11 (presumably on xfree too, but since their poorly adviswed license change, we consider xfree deprecated on gentoo for amd64).
I am using a udev based gentoo system, so the kernel module does not properly create the required device nodes, so I had to create them manually (nvidia, if reading, if the drivers were open source, we would fix this embarassingly poor programming for you!).
but the 64bit drivers released by nvidia work fine, I regulalry play ut2004 64bit:)
As for dual opterons, Im certain it will work a treat, since opterons and their mobos have been around almost a year longer than athlon64 et al. Other than some teething problems with highly optimised kernels and smp, I have heard no major issues working with dual opterons... I recommend a search of the forums on http://forums.gentoo.org/ if you are concerned.
is simple MSI k8t neo FSIR2 motherboard (some issues with slow bios upgrades) MSI Geforce FX5950ultra 256MB Soundblaster Audigy 2 x 120GB ATA4 HDD 1 x 36GB SATA 10k drive 1 x dvd+/-rw CDrw combo amd64 3200+ 1 GB (2 x 512MB) kingston ddr333
This system runs gentoo 2004.1 64bit linux fine. SATA and PATA work fine, but there is not now nor, hopefully, will there ever be support for Software RAID as you find on motherboards (it is pointless feature creep IMHO).
Whilst I would say that ASUS appear to be on the ball with bios updates compared to MSI, my system runs fine (even manages wine using 32bit compatibility libraries and runs windows progs...).
I wholeheartedly recommend 64bit linux and would say that EVERYTHING works except high end ATI radeons (ATI couldn'f find their arsehole with two hands and a roadmap in 64bit terms) and many 802.11g cards (mostly due to the atheros binary driver crap, but support is slowly improving). Couple this with *no* support for software RAID (which is no real use anyway) and you nicely encapsulate most of the problems with 64bit linux. Sure, grub and lilo dont play well at 64 bit, so you will need a liveCD or a chrooted 32bit environment to build them (and some other apps); but 32bit apps execute fine as long as you have a set of 32bit libraries for them to play with.
Go for it, join us, we tools who double as early adopters... then you too can whine at manufacturers for their tardiness in supporting "production ready" 64bit OS'... lol
It is starting to get on my admittedly non-US nerves...
Software companies want it both ways, to retain ownership of the software as "intellectual property" (sic), a publication, but to patent it as if it was an item to be traded; its simple people : if its LICENSED, NOT SOLD then it is covered under copyright law as a publication, if it is an ITEM TO BE SOLD (although possibly licensed to MAKE) it is covered by patent law as an invention.
To be a patentable invention, in needs to be an INVENTION not a PUBLICATION.
Bloody hell, this irritates me... By all means, the iPod deserves a patent (Id trademark the appearance too); it is a fantastic device which loosely qualifies as an invention (ok, since it is an assemblage of existing products differentiated by industrial design, there is arguably no inventive step); the software which is Licensed to you (not sold) and, therefore, a publication CANNOT BE PATENTED.
You cant patent the front page of a bloody newspaper, can you??? same thing!
...years ago Telstra (Australias major Telco) trialled a device that was a GSM cellular phone but when within range of a specific base station functioned as a cordless land line...
I think; I may have just been smoking some mighty fine crack and made the whole thing up...
so you have never wanted to know something just to know it??
you probably arent a geek or a hacker then... By all means, the security services should investigate this... indeed any act that could have a nefarious purpose... but you should NEVER be aware the security services are investigating you until there are sufficient grounds to act.
For all you know, he is a cave clan member or just seeks knowledge for knowledge's sake... but to be subjected to a visible investigation due to a request for information is Draconian at best and definately Fascist; Im just glad Im not an American!
now thats funny... although I suspect starting at cro-magnum man is a little too developed for LFS; one suspects we have to go back to ramapithecus (spelling nazis go home) to get a really effective comparison:)
...flavours of linux. There are philosopical differences, but I would guess most people dont give a flying fuck... my analogy runs thusly:
If you prefer a restaraunt meal, served up by chefs with their own ideas; you pick redhat or suse or whatever...
If you like to potter in the kitchen with "meals in a bag, just add vegetables", then use Debian...
If you like to spend 4 hours at the market choosing meat, vegetables and spices to cook your own killer meal to your taste; pick gentoo (gee, guess my bias:)
If you are a survivalist or a mad hippie who likes to farm it, grow it and kill it yourself; then slackware is the choice for you; this used to by my distro of choice...
But, like food, you need to try it yourself to see if you like it... reviews rarely help unless the reviewers come round and tear your tasting apparatus out of your head and jam it in their own before they go off to eat...
nothing mythical about the drop bears... one day, you will be walking through the scrub with eyes open for jump bats and *wham* a drop bear will get you from behind...
They sleep TWENTY hours a day and are surly and unpersonable.
They are also prone to dropping dead from stress.
The can eat the leaves of only ONE strain of one species of Eucalypt and said leaves have a narcotic effect on them. The dont even drink, getting their fluid from their diet.
Koalas are not just the worst pets, they are bloody shameful animals, if Australia had any serious predators, they would long ago have become extinct.
once a month?? once a year even?? do people *REALLY* re-format their drives this regularly?? what could possibly happen to them that requires this???
Even if you buy new drives, cant you just dd (or windows equivalent) the old primary drive onto the new one, add a new swap partition and reboot (takes maybe 20 minutes and you can keep using your system as if nothing was wrong).
(Note, I am not a windows user and never have been, except for the windows lapdog work provides me )
I mean, I occasionally rebuild X (or replace xfree with xorg-x11, stupid nazi license felchers) or my kernel and, even less often, reboot; but this isnt reinstall or reformat, this is a simple case of running a background task and then hitting ctrl alt backspace when you are done... But hell, Id be lucky to reboot my primary PC once a month, once a quarter maybe, let alone reinstall; my last re-install was slackware to gentoo on my old promary box a few years back now. I did a fresh gentoo build on my amd64 box when I got it last October, but that was because I wanted a true 64bit system.
As for apps, I think Id start with gcc and glibc, then add xorg-x11 and gnome et-al and then open orrifice; that has to be way more than 10 apps. Naturally Id whack in all the basic tools, mans gotta have vi and sed. but when I install software on a new system, its simple.
Boot (live cd) (setup hard drive)/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge system.... emerge sync emerge -U world emerge xorg-x11 emerge gnome USE="sandbox" emerge openoffice-bin etc...:) (how did we live before gentoo??)
I always thought people overstated windows tendancy to unrecoverable bloat, is this guy serious??? I cant think of ever *needing* to re-install...
ok, the time I dd'd/dev/zero all over hdc1 instead of hdd1 (black keyboard, dark room, about a half slab of beer; you work it out):) and the time I borked all my system libraries with a foolish build flag (long story). But mostly any damage I do can be --unmerged, vi'd or otherwise corrected without resort to reinstallation.
Modern CPUs (AMD64's, P4's) will, in a year or so, be ending up in budget machines. However, they will still require quality, high amp, power supplies rather than the basic crap used in budget PCs these days (increasing the cost of a $500 PC by a fair margin).
Motherboards and RAM will require more stringent quality control as mmu's shift to the CPU; further increasing costs... Apple's cost big dollar because they are made in low volumes with large margins; but because they use a higher grade of components too...
I dont think the gulf between quality PC and apple hardware is that large now and it will reduce in the future. Particularly since Apple (quite intelligently) banked on a stable and Free OS and focussed on doing what they do well, making pretty chrome. And their chrome is pretty; I will always be a linux user, but I doubt my next laptop will be an x86 or similar since the powerbooks are starting to exceed the "bang/buck" of high end x86 laptops.
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...have anything to do with want :)
;)
:)
Does anyone need 2GB of memory for their PDA?
I dont need it, Im sure... unless I start loading pr0n as well as ebooks onto my PDA... byt I sure as shite *want* it for high geek factor
Im damn certain my girlfriend wants it for her digital camera... she keeps bitching that 128MB isnt enough and wants to nick my PDA's 512MB; the concept of deleting images seems to be foreign to her
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jak
Thanks for that. It's not often I'm complemented on my testicles ;)
Really, people often comment about the wheelbarrow I push mine around in...
(hell, the paradigm discussed predates LINUX!!) I had the other problem when switching from SGI machines to windows boxes (back in the day, 1990 or so, although going from vi + tex to a "wysiwyg" word processor on windows 3.1 didnt seem useful at the time, I couldn't understand why the management was buying these silly home computers for work, lol; clearly *NOT* clairvoyant, me).
Whilst in windows I tend to use shift-del and shift-ins; I *miss* the middle mouse button paste behaviour, especially with good "double click" rules for word/phrase selection.
Both paradigms are pretty basic tho; if you *need* a "clipboard" in *nix, keep a text editor open and when you highlight to copy, paste it in the text editor and continue editing... when you want to copy back, double click the text in the text editor and paste away...
err!
jak
ITs not a "random seed" the passphrase is converted into the WEP key by a structured algorithm (rot13 conversion I believe, but Im not sure; cant be fukd googling).
The passphrase length is limited or truncated to a length which matches the keylenth (64/128bit)...
err!
jak.
oops :) too early for me... 2^32 is, of course, 4GB... FAT16, 2^16 is 2GB... but its all been said already
hell, Id be surprised if you could get over 2GB (FAT 32, 2^32.... :)
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jak
our glorious governement has already started barking Big Oil's tune, by creating significant cost barriers to the creation of Bio Diesel, even for your own use, even in your own back yard.
:)
Basically only a well funded business can afford to make Bio Diesel in Australia... such a bloody shame.
thats it, no point, just a bitch
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jak.
I mean, who the fuk wants to watch a dodgy camcorder recording of a movie???
Ive seen a couple and just couldn't see why people would pay, no matter how little, for that crap?? HEre in Australia a movie ticket isnt cheap, but its still only $12.50 or so... The only folks who would watch a camcorder pirate of such a movie are the folks who wouldn't pay to see it anyway!
Why fight something that is only likely to increase the number of people who see and talk about a film; I would severely doubt there would be any impact on ticket sales (or even dvd sales) by this... I'd be more worried about cheap asian digital copies of the dvd impacting their sales...
But then I have the same confusion about macrovision and p2p sharing... why fight something that will have a negilgible impact??? use the money you *DONT* spend fighting this crap to make your product a buck or 2 cheaper...
err!
jak
...Fallout and Fallout 2 :)
:)
:)
:)
She got jacked with me spending hours glued to UT(insertyearhere) and randomly yelling "stick your head out, I'll cure all your ills" and "dont run, you only die tired"... so I went out and bought her fallout, fallout2 and nwn for her iBook. She was bleh about nwn, but she cacked herself over fallout/fallout 2; the humor and turn based gameplay got her hooked
So she camps in the chair next to me and chortles in her headphones whilst I slaughter thousands... ok, get slaughtered
detant is a wonderful thing (and dont even bother correcting my spelling, assuming its wrong, I just dont care that much
err!
jak
Not true, There are "warmers" where a non-critical ammount of radioactive material is used, with an armature which rotates to generate heat and boil water... ergo power; however, these can NOT go critical, if they fail, the armarture stops and the cool down and if they go mad, the armature can spin as fast as it wants, the reaction cant go critical.
course, I cant remember which bloody japanese company invented them, but there was a slashdot story about one being offered to a town in Alaska I think. Of course, Ive been wrong before.
err!
jak
Yes, right; carry a weapon which, whilst you own and practice with, you dont use on a daily basis.
Turn what was an insurance claim for some missing gear into a life ending experience... IDIOT!
drawing, aiming and firing (or drawing, readying and striking with) a weapon takes far too long, particularly if you have been ambushed.
If you want to be stupid enough to fight, learn martial arts (aikido, kung-fu or kempo are my suggestions), train HARD. In 5 years or so you will be ready; much earlier than if you choose to use weapons. For someone who actually knows what they are doing, the easiest and quickest way to arm yourself is to disarm someone else; if you dont know what you are doing, immediately surrender your gear, the mugger wants your cash and gear so they can score a hit; they know they will almost certainly not get caught but if they kill you they will be hunted...
It is just stuff; if the data isnt backed up; its your fault not the muggers. But, for the love of sanity, do not recommend that civilians arm themselves and attempt to use those weapons in a stressful situation without proper (and by proper I mean 6 years special forces/swat training, no other humans regularly survive getting ambushed without being ready) training.
*DO NOT* listen to this man.
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jak.
3d acceleration (nvidia provided kernel dri and glx modlues) work fine on Xorg x11 (presumably on xfree too, but since their poorly adviswed license change, we consider xfree deprecated on gentoo for amd64).
:)
I am using a udev based gentoo system, so the kernel module does not properly create the required device nodes, so I had to create them manually (nvidia, if reading, if the drivers were open source, we would fix this embarassingly poor programming for you!).
but the 64bit drivers released by nvidia work fine, I regulalry play ut2004 64bit
As for dual opterons, Im certain it will work a treat, since opterons and their mobos have been around almost a year longer than athlon64 et al. Other than some teething problems with highly optimised kernels and smp, I have heard no major issues working with dual opterons... I recommend a search of the forums on http://forums.gentoo.org/ if you are concerned.
err!
jak
is simple
MSI k8t neo FSIR2 motherboard (some issues with slow bios upgrades)
MSI Geforce FX5950ultra 256MB
Soundblaster Audigy
2 x 120GB ATA4 HDD
1 x 36GB SATA 10k drive
1 x dvd+/-rw CDrw combo
amd64 3200+
1 GB (2 x 512MB) kingston ddr333
This system runs gentoo 2004.1 64bit linux fine. SATA and PATA work fine, but there is not now nor, hopefully, will there ever be support for Software RAID as you find on motherboards (it is pointless feature creep IMHO).
Whilst I would say that ASUS appear to be on the ball with bios updates compared to MSI, my system runs fine (even manages wine using 32bit compatibility libraries and runs windows progs...).
I wholeheartedly recommend 64bit linux and would say that EVERYTHING works except high end ATI radeons (ATI couldn'f find their arsehole with two hands and a roadmap in 64bit terms) and many 802.11g cards (mostly due to the atheros binary driver crap, but support is slowly improving). Couple this with *no* support for software RAID (which is no real use anyway) and you nicely encapsulate most of the problems with 64bit linux. Sure, grub and lilo dont play well at 64 bit, so you will need a liveCD or a chrooted 32bit environment to build them (and some other apps); but 32bit apps execute fine as long as you have a set of 32bit libraries for them to play with.
Go for it, join us, we tools who double as early adopters... then you too can whine at manufacturers for their tardiness in supporting "production ready" 64bit OS'... lol
hope this helps...
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jak.
true that... especially since my karma is only just good again :)
of course, how lame would you have to be to read a tiny thread on an old story????
hmm, brass armour in a lightning storm anybody???
is having a conversation on slashdot normal?? :)
I didnt think I was a polymath :) or were you referring to another of your crack smoking friends... ;)
...patentable
:)
It is starting to get on my admittedly non-US nerves...
Software companies want it both ways, to retain ownership of the software as "intellectual property" (sic), a publication, but to patent it as if it was an item to be traded; its simple people : if its LICENSED, NOT SOLD then it is covered under copyright law as a publication, if it is an ITEM TO BE SOLD (although possibly licensed to MAKE) it is covered by patent law as an invention.
To be a patentable invention, in needs to be an INVENTION not a PUBLICATION.
Bloody hell, this irritates me... By all means, the iPod deserves a patent (Id trademark the appearance too); it is a fantastic device which loosely qualifies as an invention (ok, since it is an assemblage of existing products differentiated by industrial design, there is arguably no inventive step); the software which is Licensed to you (not sold) and, therefore, a publication CANNOT BE PATENTED.
You cant patent the front page of a bloody newspaper, can you??? same thing!
end rant
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jak.
...years ago Telstra (Australias major Telco) trialled a device that was a GSM cellular phone but when within range of a specific base station functioned as a cordless land line...
I think; I may have just been smoking some mighty fine crack and made the whole thing up...
Anyone else in Oz remember this??
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jak.
so you have never wanted to know something just to know it??
you probably arent a geek or a hacker then... By all means, the security services should investigate this... indeed any act that could have a nefarious purpose... but you should NEVER be aware the security services are investigating you until there are sufficient grounds to act.
For all you know, he is a cave clan member or just seeks knowledge for knowledge's sake... but to be subjected to a visible investigation due to a request for information is Draconian at best and definately Fascist; Im just glad Im not an American!
err!
jak.
now thats funny... although I suspect starting at cro-magnum man is a little too developed for LFS; one suspects we have to go back to ramapithecus (spelling nazis go home) to get a really effective comparison :)
...flavours of linux. There are philosopical differences, but I would guess most people dont give a flying fuck... my analogy runs thusly:
:)
If you prefer a restaraunt meal, served up by chefs with their own ideas; you pick redhat or suse or whatever...
If you like to potter in the kitchen with "meals in a bag, just add vegetables", then use Debian...
If you like to spend 4 hours at the market choosing meat, vegetables and spices to cook your own killer meal to your taste; pick gentoo (gee, guess my bias
If you are a survivalist or a mad hippie who likes to farm it, grow it and kill it yourself; then slackware is the choice for you; this used to by my distro of choice...
But, like food, you need to try it yourself to see if you like it... reviews rarely help unless the reviewers come round and tear your tasting apparatus out of your head and jam it in their own before they go off to eat...
just my pointless $0.02...
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jak
nothing mythical about the drop bears... one day, you will be walking through the scrub with eyes open for jump bats and *wham* a drop bear will get you from behind...
:)
Be afraid, be very afraid
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jak
They sleep TWENTY hours a day and are surly and unpersonable.
They are also prone to dropping dead from stress.
The can eat the leaves of only ONE strain of one species of Eucalypt and said leaves have a narcotic effect on them. The dont even drink, getting their fluid from their diet.
Koalas are not just the worst pets, they are bloody shameful animals, if Australia had any serious predators, they would long ago have become extinct.
err!
jak
once a month?? once a year even?? do people *REALLY* re-format their drives this regularly?? what could possibly happen to them that requires this???
/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh .... :) (how did we live before gentoo??)
/dev/zero all over hdc1 instead of hdd1 (black keyboard, dark room, about a half slab of beer; you work it out) :) and the time I borked all my system libraries with a foolish build flag (long story). But mostly any damage I do can be --unmerged, vi'd or otherwise corrected without resort to reinstallation.
Even if you buy new drives, cant you just dd (or windows equivalent) the old primary drive onto the new one, add a new swap partition and reboot (takes maybe 20 minutes and you can keep using your system as if nothing was wrong).
(Note, I am not a windows user and never have been, except for the windows lapdog work provides me )
I mean, I occasionally rebuild X (or replace xfree with xorg-x11, stupid nazi license felchers) or my kernel and, even less often, reboot; but this isnt reinstall or reformat, this is a simple case of running a background task and then hitting ctrl alt backspace when you are done... But hell, Id be lucky to reboot my primary PC once a month, once a quarter maybe, let alone reinstall; my last re-install was slackware to gentoo on my old promary box a few years back now. I did a fresh gentoo build on my amd64 box when I got it last October, but that was because I wanted a true 64bit system.
As for apps, I think Id start with gcc and glibc, then add xorg-x11 and gnome et-al and then open orrifice; that has to be way more than 10 apps. Naturally Id whack in all the basic tools, mans gotta have vi and sed. but when I install software on a new system, its simple.
Boot (live cd)
(setup hard drive)
emerge system
emerge sync
emerge -U world
emerge xorg-x11
emerge gnome
USE="sandbox" emerge openoffice-bin
etc...
I always thought people overstated windows tendancy to unrecoverable bloat, is this guy serious??? I cant think of ever *needing* to re-install...
ok, the time I dd'd
wierdness.
jak.
Remember, CHEAP PC's have numbered days too.
Modern CPUs (AMD64's, P4's) will, in a year or so, be ending up in budget machines. However, they will still require quality, high amp, power supplies rather than the basic crap used in budget PCs these days (increasing the cost of a $500 PC by a fair margin).
Motherboards and RAM will require more stringent quality control as mmu's shift to the CPU; further increasing costs... Apple's cost big dollar because they are made in low volumes with large margins; but because they use a higher grade of components too...
I dont think the gulf between quality PC and apple hardware is that large now and it will reduce in the future. Particularly since Apple (quite intelligently) banked on a stable and Free OS and focussed on doing what they do well, making pretty chrome. And their chrome is pretty; I will always be a linux user, but I doubt my next laptop will be an x86 or similar since the powerbooks are starting to exceed the "bang/buck" of high end x86 laptops.
just my dimented $0.02.
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jak.