My first AMD was a K6-233 on a Shuttle board (603? they couldn't list it on their web site because Intel threatened to cut them off if they did, since it used the AMD (640?) chipset)
While it worked fine, I had nothing but trouble when I got an ATI all-in-wonder. The card would work until you tried to capture video - then it would lock up. At the time there was something about this and non-intel chipsets. While I'm more than willing to believe it was crappy drivers on ATI's part - wouldn't be the first or last time - it has stuck in my mind that buying non-intel opens you up to potential future compatablity problems. Sure...it was probably a freak thing, but it left quite the impression on me.
When I do get a new machine, it'll probably be a dual AMD - though I am still nervous about it all. As you said - bang-for-buck, you get more. And while mine was not a CPU issue, it was still a side-effect of not getting Intel. But Athlon does sound neater than Pentium.
Of course, by the time I get the money together, AMD and Intel ma both be out of business:)
Copyright is a way of encouraging people to create works, by saying that as long as Disney owns senators, you can have the rights to your work and decide what can be done with the work.
In other words, you can sell you work without fear of someone else copying the work and selling it as their own or otherwise distributing it, thus depriving you of money to compensate you for the time you spent creating it.
In the case of the GPL, the creators of these works have decided to say they are not greedy and don't care about anything other than making sure that anyone using their work does in a way that fits the GPL - ie, steal it and use it if you want, just if you do, you must make the work you used my work in avail under the same conditions. I'm sure an author could also dictate that "if you want to publish my work, you must do so with a red cover on the book".
It is still copyright, you just get to dictate the terms people can use the work under.
SCO is made because they can't take a work they see in the public domain and do as they wish with it. Either that, or my guess is the relevation the other day that SCO contributed code to some open source projects, and now they are pissed about it and this is how they are attacking that - that they should be able to charge for code they gave away...kinda like doing charity work and then deciding later you would have rather gotten paid for that.
I don't watch Sci-Fi that much - find their stuff damn annoying, but I've been seeing ads for it on quite a few other cable channels, along with lots of ads all over the web (oh crap...I just admitted ads work on the web:)
All I remember is my 7th grade history teacher looking at them with all the zippers and saying "I hope you don't have to go to the restroom in a hurry and can't find the right zipper."
[ ] Click here if you do not want to see results of people trying to sell you something.
[ ] Click here if you do not want to see results of people reviewing something.
That way I could search for something like "Plasma TV" or other things I can't think of without seeing tons of store fronts. It's better than it used to be, but it would be a nice option.
Last I checked, the MPAA was a voluntary organization. Don't like it's rules, go elsewhere.
If I don't like the way my astronomy club is run, I don't have to stay in it, and I certainly wouldn't sue because I wasn't elected treasurer or my logo was voted down.
After seeing The Two Towers, I think I have that feeling of unknowing as well.
But as you said, the cinematics is the reason to see it in this format. Then again, I like the animated ones as well, so I'm an oddball. With the Matrix I think they tried too much on the cinematics and forgot a story was needed.
It sounds like a bunch of made up situations. Either that or the person has the worst luck in finding the dumbest of the dumb - not knowing what a bill is?
As for the easter thing, as my brother-in-law told my wife when he was about 6...good friday is the day Jesus died. Easter is the day the easter bunny came along and dug him up.
The latest round of Bank of America ATM's actually have video playing while it is verifying the transaction. It can remember user preferences (such as do you want a receipt - not that you need windows to do that).
I guess they are trying to make it look so modern and sophisticated instead of a early 80's green mono monitor.
And with all the commercials playing, I still need to have a receipt printed to get my balance...go figure.
I just hate what it has become. It used to be a special time of the year. Everyone was nice.
Now it starts before Halloween, EVERYTHING has a "christmas" special (tv programs have their special episodes, cheezy artists have some half-assed christmas episode, special holiday releases of candy, cereal, etc...)
And like you said...everyone with their "ME FIRST" attitude.
All I want is my sisters to make it home and for it to snow (though this year, I'll settle for temps below 60)
In my experience, best buy can't stock items strategically...unless the stragety is to never have anything in stock. I don't know how many times i've gone in there to get something advertised in a flyer or not. They have the floor model and a spot on the shelf for where the item should be.
And to add on, even if they did have it, there'd be a mail in rebate.
I have a $100 gift card from best buy, had it since last xmas. I really can't get myself to go in there to try and spend it. Either what I want costs much more, it isn't in stock, or it seems a waste of money.
I want to install some package - say Samba. I go into dselect and tell it to install Samba. It pops up that it'll also install samba-common, libcups, etc...
Who gives a fuck? Just do as I asked - select Samba for installation and let me move on, not confirm that I understand that installing Samba installs something else as well....for every damn package I select. If it must show me dependencies, show them at the very end as a general overview of "other packages that will be installed to meet dependencies".
But thanks for the info about the complete code rewite. Didn't notice that.
About the only thing it appears to do different is hardware detection. I guess that's a good thing as it seems every hardware type has 50 subvarieties - gee...is it a 3c509 or a 3c905 that's in this machine? Usually gets me once in a while.
And it automates the network settings by assuming you want DHCP.
Then, what is probably one of the more complex things for people who would whine about the installer, disk partitioning, is left to the same crappy program. Same with partition mounting and filesystem selection.
Why on earth if you are assuming the person must just want DHCP would you require them to manually partition and set mountpoints, end even more so, why would you offer them a choice of filesystems? If you think they can't setup networking on their own, just give them ext3 and be done.
And after you reboot, you still have tasksel and dselect as ways of installing packages. These SUCK. If you're gonna try to cater to people who think Debian sucks cause the installer, perhaps you should work on the way that an average joe would select packages. A simple curses front end to apt-cache search and apt-get would take care of this. Don't do like dselect does and as soon as they say they want package X, tell them package Y,Z, and Q are required....just let them select it, perhaps as part of the description have the depedencies listed.
It used to be that sites you'd find about something were maintained by a fan/amateur/etc...
Now everything is a corporate site. True...if you dig, you may be able to find a fan site about x, or a end-user site about some company product.
But it seems everyone wants to litigate to make sure the only info out there is what they want.
How many DMCA or other things do we see to shut down a site because perhaps someone said product y was a little better?
Or how many times do you hear about getting notified because your fan site uses a copyrighted image...such as a simpson's character on a simpsons fan site?
It's like the RIAA - lets shoot our customers over trying to be good loyal customers.
Or as others have said, the search engines are geared towards showing the commercial sites. It used to be you could search and find some info about a product. Now if you type it in, all you find is 500 sites that want to see you the product...the same 500 sites that will sell you the "xyzzy" product as well.
Actually, we already saw the last Doctor (evil bastard) in Trial of a Timelord.
Of course, one fully expects Gallifrey to give the Doctor a complete new set of regenerations for his service, blah blah blah if it ever comes to that.
Personally I like the Curse of the Fatal Death where he goes through about 5 regenerations in a minute or two.
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My first AMD was a K6-233 on a Shuttle board (603? they couldn't list it on their web site because Intel threatened to cut them off if they did, since it used the AMD (640?) chipset)
:)
While it worked fine, I had nothing but trouble when I got an ATI all-in-wonder. The card would work until you tried to capture video - then it would lock up. At the time there was something about this and non-intel chipsets. While I'm more than willing to believe it was crappy drivers on ATI's part - wouldn't be the first or last time - it has stuck in my mind that buying non-intel opens you up to potential future compatablity problems. Sure...it was probably a freak thing, but it left quite the impression on me.
When I do get a new machine, it'll probably be a dual AMD - though I am still nervous about it all. As you said - bang-for-buck, you get more. And while mine was not a CPU issue, it was still a side-effect of not getting Intel. But Athlon does sound neater than Pentium.
Of course, by the time I get the money together, AMD and Intel ma both be out of business
This guy is on the good crack.
Copyright is a way of encouraging people to create works, by saying that as long as Disney owns senators, you can have the rights to your work and decide what can be done with the work.
In other words, you can sell you work without fear of someone else copying the work and selling it as their own or otherwise distributing it, thus depriving you of money to compensate you for the time you spent creating it.
In the case of the GPL, the creators of these works have decided to say they are not greedy and don't care about anything other than making sure that anyone using their work does in a way that fits the GPL - ie, steal it and use it if you want, just if you do, you must make the work you used my work in avail under the same conditions. I'm sure an author could also dictate that "if you want to publish my work, you must do so with a red cover on the book".
It is still copyright, you just get to dictate the terms people can use the work under.
SCO is made because they can't take a work they see in the public domain and do as they wish with it. Either that, or my guess is the relevation the other day that SCO contributed code to some open source projects, and now they are pissed about it and this is how they are attacking that - that they should be able to charge for code they gave away...kinda like doing charity work and then deciding later you would have rather gotten paid for that.
I'll give it a chance...I wasted more time in the early 80's watching that terrible show where they actually did make it to earth.
Only thing that kept me watching it was hope they'd play the Starbuck episode again.
I don't watch Sci-Fi that much - find their stuff damn annoying, but I've been seeing ads for it on quite a few other cable channels, along with lots of ads all over the web (oh crap...I just admitted ads work on the web :)
All I remember is my 7th grade history teacher looking at them with all the zippers and saying "I hope you don't have to go to the restroom in a hurry and can't find the right zipper."
[ ] Click here if you do not want to see results of people trying to sell you something.
[ ] Click here if you do not want to see results of people reviewing something.
That way I could search for something like "Plasma TV" or other things I can't think of without seeing tons of store fronts. It's better than it used to be, but it would be a nice option.
Last I checked, the MPAA was a voluntary organization. Don't like it's rules, go elsewhere.
If I don't like the way my astronomy club is run, I don't have to stay in it, and I certainly wouldn't sue because I wasn't elected treasurer or my logo was voted down.
Suehappy.
Well...when I'm at the store and the ATM is there, but the internet connection is at home...it is the prefered way.
Or can get the cel out and call the 1-800 number.
After seeing The Two Towers, I think I have that feeling of unknowing as well.
But as you said, the cinematics is the reason to see it in this format. Then again, I like the animated ones as well, so I'm an oddball. With the Matrix I think they tried too much on the cinematics and forgot a story was needed.
I thought it had to do with how much air it moved. I think 76 is a bit warm. (though impressive for that number of machines).
I call bullshit.
It sounds like a bunch of made up situations. Either that or the person has the worst luck in finding the dumbest of the dumb - not knowing what a bill is?
As for the easter thing, as my brother-in-law told my wife when he was about 6...good friday is the day Jesus died. Easter is the day the easter bunny came along and dug him up.
This really gives me confidence for the upcoming elections.
Possible Winners:
1) RPC DCOM
2) General Protection
3) MafiaBoy
I'm not disagreeing, but...
The latest round of Bank of America ATM's actually have video playing while it is verifying the transaction. It can remember user preferences (such as do you want a receipt - not that you need windows to do that).
I guess they are trying to make it look so modern and sophisticated instead of a early 80's green mono monitor.
And with all the commercials playing, I still need to have a receipt printed to get my balance...go figure.
Went to get some items at the store today and by miracle remembered this was coming out so I bought the first paper I've bought in about 8 years.
A little pricy for one comic, but I liked it!
As people are fond of saying - it is not the work they are destroying (stealing/copying) but just a copy of it.
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson dealt with this too...dust everywhere from nanobots.
For these, I'd be worried some mosquito would try to mate with it.
I didn't do anything other than click on the link. But under the section on Local News there was a picture of Jupiter.
That's one hell of a local market.
Schools are built to house a certain number of students based on current and small estimations in population growth.
I don't know about elsewhere, but we have had quite a few schools that are brand new and already have trailers on their opening day.
I love Christmas.
I just hate what it has become. It used to be a special time of the year. Everyone was nice.
Now it starts before Halloween, EVERYTHING has a "christmas" special (tv programs have their special episodes, cheezy artists have some half-assed christmas episode, special holiday releases of candy, cereal, etc...)
And like you said...everyone with their "ME FIRST" attitude.
All I want is my sisters to make it home and for it to snow (though this year, I'll settle for temps below 60)
In my experience, best buy can't stock items strategically...unless the stragety is to never have anything in stock. I don't know how many times i've gone in there to get something advertised in a flyer or not. They have the floor model and a spot on the shelf for where the item should be.
And to add on, even if they did have it, there'd be a mail in rebate.
I have a $100 gift card from best buy, had it since last xmas. I really can't get myself to go in there to try and spend it. Either what I want costs much more, it isn't in stock, or it seems a waste of money.
I want to install some package - say Samba. I go into dselect and tell it to install Samba. It pops up that it'll also install samba-common, libcups, etc...
Who gives a fuck? Just do as I asked - select Samba for installation and let me move on, not confirm that I understand that installing Samba installs something else as well....for every damn package I select. If it must show me dependencies, show them at the very end as a general overview of "other packages that will be installed to meet dependencies".
But thanks for the info about the complete code rewite. Didn't notice that.
Never used it...I don't whine about the installer...I do a bare minimal install and apt-get as needed :)
Still looks a little overwhelming for newbies...though given the number of packages avail...only so much simplicity can be designed.
Looks pretty pointless.
About the only thing it appears to do different is hardware detection. I guess that's a good thing as it seems every hardware type has 50 subvarieties - gee...is it a 3c509 or a 3c905 that's in this machine? Usually gets me once in a while.
And it automates the network settings by assuming you want DHCP.
Then, what is probably one of the more complex things for people who would whine about the installer, disk partitioning, is left to the same crappy program. Same with partition mounting and filesystem selection.
Why on earth if you are assuming the person must just want DHCP would you require them to manually partition and set mountpoints, end even more so, why would you offer them a choice of filesystems? If you think they can't setup networking on their own, just give them ext3 and be done.
And after you reboot, you still have tasksel and dselect as ways of installing packages. These SUCK. If you're gonna try to cater to people who think Debian sucks cause the installer, perhaps you should work on the way that an average joe would select packages. A simple curses front end to apt-cache search and apt-get would take care of this. Don't do like dselect does and as soon as they say they want package X, tell them package Y,Z, and Q are required....just let them select it, perhaps as part of the description have the depedencies listed.
It used to be that sites you'd find about something were maintained by a fan/amateur/etc...
Now everything is a corporate site. True...if you dig, you may be able to find a fan site about x, or a end-user site about some company product.
But it seems everyone wants to litigate to make sure the only info out there is what they want.
How many DMCA or other things do we see to shut down a site because perhaps someone said product y was a little better?
Or how many times do you hear about getting notified because your fan site uses a copyrighted image...such as a simpson's character on a simpsons fan site?
It's like the RIAA - lets shoot our customers over trying to be good loyal customers.
Or as others have said, the search engines are geared towards showing the commercial sites. It used to be you could search and find some info about a product. Now if you type it in, all you find is 500 sites that want to see you the product...the same 500 sites that will sell you the "xyzzy" product as well.
Actually, we already saw the last Doctor (evil bastard) in Trial of a Timelord.
Of course, one fully expects Gallifrey to give the Doctor a complete new set of regenerations for his service, blah blah blah if it ever comes to that.
Personally I like the Curse of the Fatal Death where he goes through about 5 regenerations in a minute or two.