I never get too many details on just what people think is so great about Windows 9x compared to KDE, maybe you can say?
Yes, I can say. There are things that are apallingly simple in Windows that would take a bit of knowledge to use in Linux.
Example: Installing software. In Windows, you just double-click on the "Setup.exe" icon, and the installer is launched. Just click a few buttons, maybe enter a serial number, and you are ready to go, whereas in Linux, you most likely have to compile a program from source code. All I have to say about that is, it is considerably more difficult than clicking a few buttons.
There is also a very "beta" feeling to the apps that come with a KDE installation, which I don't like at all. But that is my personal opinion.
I don't know about jamie, but I've actually played Soldier of Fortune before, and it is incredibly realistic in regard to the violence. I don't think that Quake III could even come close. With Soldier of Fortune, you can actually aim for specific limbs and shoot them off an enemy. There are also some really realistic looking exit wounds and resulting blood splatters.
Anyway, I don't see what the big deal is with violent games. I mean, all they do is provide a good way of blowing off steam (at least for me). Adolescents who are going to be adversely affected by violent games probably have a lot of other psychological problems that should be obvious anyway.
What ever happened to the idea that maybe children have parents who know what's good for their kids?
C'mon, everyone knows that ZDNET writes some stories for the express purpose of pissing off Slashdotters, so that they visit their site and generate more banner clicks. Why do articles like this get any attention?
According to this article that was featured on Slashdot a few weeks ago, SETI@home is about TWICE as fast as the new IBM "fastest supercomputer in the world" is in terms of teraFLOPS. And I'm SURE that individual researchers or universities would LOVE to shell out more than $10 million for something that can be done almost for free.
Think about the vast amount of information available on the internet! What net access could do to third world countries is much like what the printing press and books did to help the world out of the Dark Ages. Say that you were a poor rural farmer, and you were looking for a better way to grow your crops. You can go online, enter some keywords on Google or another search engine, and you would come up with thousands of pages of information that can help you with almost any aspect of your problem!
Also, there is the same distribution of brilliant minds in the third world as there is in prosperous countries like the US and in Europe. This doesn't mean that there is the same distribution of educated people, but there are people with the potential all the same. One of them could be some poor miner or gaucho in South America. What if some of them became interested in computers as not a means to an end, but as and end in itself? There is much that they could accomplish by sharing their intelligence through free software, using open software like Linux or one of the BSDs, and using free tools like gcc and Perl. All you advocates of Open-Source software should try to volunteer time to make this a reality. Because the Internet is more than the newest medium for pr0n distribution, it is the biggest revolution in knowledge distribution since Gutenberg's printing press.
[sarcasm] Using a firewall to host other applications that are vulnerable to attack from the outside? Wow, what a brilliant idea! What is a firewall supposed to DO, anyway? [/sarcasm]
I wouldn't go too far in promoting them. I have been regretting using Linux Router Project on an old 486 or Pentium ever since I bought my Kingston 7 port switch/router. The problem with the Kingston is that only one computer at a time can use programs like Counter-Strike over the cable modem. The same thing goes for if I want to run a Counter-Strike server. This has become very annoying, and could be solved if I was using the Linux Router Project by simply configuring port fowarding.
It also annoys me to no end that I can't traceroute from my Linux box in my room.
[unrelated] How come all these great "Ask Slashdot" articles never get posted on the main screen?[/unrelated]
I hereby call on Slashdot's paranoid faithful to find a way that is a violation of someone's free speech. C'mon, I dare you! This is YOUR RIGHTS that are at stake here!
I don't know about you guys, but I am scared SHITLESS of a Republican becoming president. Were you outraged by DoubleClick's attempt to sell its consumer information? Well, I think we can safely say that things like that will be quietly swept under the rug in the future. Also, at last count, I believe that there will be 4 Supreme Court seats up for grabs in the next four years. The Supreme Court is the only establishment holding us back from the brink of complete fascism!
That's right! You read the subject! I can see it now... I will get two machines: one running linux, and the other running a pre-release version of windows 2k. Before I begin the test, I will indiscriminately remove some system files from the win2k machine. Naturally, I won't tell anyone I did this. Then, when the windows machine crashes in the test, my headlines will read "Linux performs more than twice as fast as Windows 2000", as in infinitely, because Windows didn't even work!
Then everyone who claims that all the tests that say that Windows 2k outperforms Linux are flawed will have another benchmark to tell them exactly what they want to hear!
The point of my rant is that there is obviously no point in posting these benchmark results on Slashdot other than either starting a flame war or telling all the people who use Linux anyway exactly what they want to hear and believe.
First of all, please take special note that this is NOT an anonymous post. I am willing to take the kind of beating to my karma that I will likely face for posting this. With that said...
SLASHDOT != FREE SPEECH!
Witness the lawsuit against osm, who has gathered quite a reputation as a troll on Slashdot. This comes out of a sometimes misunderstanding of his posts, and the last straw finally came after a story where many chided for forgetting that it was Natalie Portman's 19th birthday. See this for a complete list of the things that Slashdot has done that go against their belief in "free speech".
JonKatz, if you are so ideological about being anti-coporate, why do you work for Slashdot, and indirectly for Andover.net and VA Linux? Oh yeah, that's right, they gave you some nice stock options...
That's not the point, though. Anyone who would buy this would have performance as a secondary thought.
The point is that while the Cyrix can run without a fan, the Celeron is one of the hottest (x86) processors out there, outputting something like 27 watts of energy.
I think it's aimed at the same market that Transmeta is going for right now. Think about it like this: who would put a Crusoe in their desktop machine?
Well, you overlooked one critical fact, which is that liquid nitrogen applied suddenly to something like a motherboard would probably visibly destroy the thing. I mean, jeez, can you imagine the stress of the sudden compression of all the motherboard components? They must have had a very valid reason for spending $1,000 on a coolant (although I could be wrong, seeing as they didn't even research the stuff's freezing temperature.).
I mean, really, liquid cooled systems would seem a lot more obvious if you looked at the evolution of high-performance cars. As their evolution moved along, they all went from air-cooled engines to water-cooled engines, because it is a much more efficient way to disperse excess heat. Even the last remaining holdout (Porsche) is now liquid cooled.
Now, granted, you do have to worry about some liquids that would be placed around electronics, but with non-conducting liquids like mineral oils and fluorinert, you wouldn't have to worry about short circuits, etc.
Actually, with the Celeron's ridiculous energy output of something like 27 watts at the rated clock speed, I'm surprised that Intel doesn't provide some liquid-cooled systems with the stock chips.
Oh God, here comes the avalanche of "Natalie Portman, petrified and naked" posts. How many will involve grits, I ask you? Anyone want to wager a guess?
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Yes, I can say. There are things that are apallingly simple in Windows that would take a bit of knowledge to use in Linux.
Example: Installing software. In Windows, you just double-click on the "Setup.exe" icon, and the installer is launched. Just click a few buttons, maybe enter a serial number, and you are ready to go, whereas in Linux, you most likely have to compile a program from source code. All I have to say about that is, it is considerably more difficult than clicking a few buttons.
There is also a very "beta" feeling to the apps that come with a KDE installation, which I don't like at all. But that is my personal opinion.
I don't know about jamie, but I've actually played Soldier of Fortune before, and it is incredibly realistic in regard to the violence. I don't think that Quake III could even come close. With Soldier of Fortune, you can actually aim for specific limbs and shoot them off an enemy. There are also some really realistic looking exit wounds and resulting blood splatters.
Anyway, I don't see what the big deal is with violent games. I mean, all they do is provide a good way of blowing off steam (at least for me). Adolescents who are going to be adversely affected by violent games probably have a lot of other psychological problems that should be obvious anyway.
What ever happened to the idea that maybe children have parents who know what's good for their kids?
C'mon, everyone knows that ZDNET writes some stories for the express purpose of pissing off Slashdotters, so that they visit their site and generate more banner clicks. Why do articles like this get any attention?
The tecnique is detailed in this article over at Tom's Hardware.
This development will tend to weed out all but the most hardcore overclockers, though, as far as modifying the clock multiplier goes.
According to this article that was featured on Slashdot a few weeks ago, SETI@home is about TWICE as fast as the new IBM "fastest supercomputer in the world" is in terms of teraFLOPS. And I'm SURE that individual researchers or universities would LOVE to shell out more than $10 million for something that can be done almost for free.
Think about the vast amount of information available on the internet! What net access could do to third world countries is much like what the printing press and books did to help the world out of the Dark Ages. Say that you were a poor rural farmer, and you were looking for a better way to grow your crops. You can go online, enter some keywords on Google or another search engine, and you would come up with thousands of pages of information that can help you with almost any aspect of your problem!
Also, there is the same distribution of brilliant minds in the third world as there is in prosperous countries like the US and in Europe. This doesn't mean that there is the same distribution of educated people, but there are people with the potential all the same. One of them could be some poor miner or gaucho in South America. What if some of them became interested in computers as not a means to an end, but as and end in itself? There is much that they could accomplish by sharing their intelligence through free software, using open software like Linux or one of the BSDs, and using free tools like gcc and Perl. All you advocates of Open-Source software should try to volunteer time to make this a reality. Because the Internet is more than the newest medium for pr0n distribution, it is the biggest revolution in knowledge distribution since Gutenberg's printing press.
[sarcasm] Using a firewall to host other applications that are vulnerable to attack from the outside? Wow, what a brilliant idea! What is a firewall supposed to DO, anyway? [/sarcasm]
I wouldn't go too far in promoting them. I have been regretting using Linux Router Project on an old 486 or Pentium ever since I bought my Kingston 7 port switch/router. The problem with the Kingston is that only one computer at a time can use programs like Counter-Strike over the cable modem. The same thing goes for if I want to run a Counter-Strike server. This has become very annoying, and could be solved if I was using the Linux Router Project by simply configuring port fowarding.
It also annoys me to no end that I can't traceroute from my Linux box in my room.
[unrelated] How come all these great "Ask Slashdot" articles never get posted on the main screen?[/unrelated]
I hereby call on Slashdot's paranoid faithful to find a way that is a violation of someone's free speech. C'mon, I dare you! This is YOUR RIGHTS that are at stake here!
I don't know about you guys, but I am scared SHITLESS of a Republican becoming president. Were you outraged by DoubleClick's attempt to sell its consumer information? Well, I think we can safely say that things like that will be quietly swept under the rug in the future. Also, at last count, I believe that there will be 4 Supreme Court seats up for grabs in the next four years. The Supreme Court is the only establishment holding us back from the brink of complete fascism!
Excuse me, I need to change my underwear...
That's right! You read the subject! I can see it now... I will get two machines: one running linux, and the other running a pre-release version of windows 2k. Before I begin the test, I will indiscriminately remove some system files from the win2k machine. Naturally, I won't tell anyone I did this. Then, when the windows machine crashes in the test, my headlines will read "Linux performs more than twice as fast as Windows 2000", as in infinitely, because Windows didn't even work!
Then everyone who claims that all the tests that say that Windows 2k outperforms Linux are flawed will have another benchmark to tell them exactly what they want to hear!
The point of my rant is that there is obviously no point in posting these benchmark results on Slashdot other than either starting a flame war or telling all the people who use Linux anyway exactly what they want to hear and believe.
First of all, please take special note that this is NOT an anonymous post. I am willing to take the kind of beating to my karma that I will likely face for posting this. With that said...
SLASHDOT != FREE SPEECH!
Witness the lawsuit against osm, who has gathered quite a reputation as a troll on Slashdot. This comes out of a sometimes misunderstanding of his posts, and the last straw finally came after a story where many chided for forgetting that it was Natalie Portman's 19th birthday. See this for a complete list of the things that Slashdot has done that go against their belief in "free speech".
JonKatz, if you are so ideological about being anti-coporate, why do you work for Slashdot, and indirectly for Andover.net and VA Linux? Oh yeah, that's right, they gave you some nice stock options...
That's not the point, though. Anyone who would buy this would have performance as a secondary thought.
The point is that while the Cyrix can run without a fan, the Celeron is one of the hottest (x86) processors out there, outputting something like 27 watts of energy.
I think it's aimed at the same market that Transmeta is going for right now. Think about it like this: who would put a Crusoe in their desktop machine?
Well, you overlooked one critical fact, which is that liquid nitrogen applied suddenly to something like a motherboard would probably visibly destroy the thing. I mean, jeez, can you imagine the stress of the sudden compression of all the motherboard components? They must have had a very valid reason for spending $1,000 on a coolant (although I could be wrong, seeing as they didn't even research the stuff's freezing temperature.).
I mean, really, liquid cooled systems would seem a lot more obvious if you looked at the evolution of high-performance cars. As their evolution moved along, they all went from air-cooled engines to water-cooled engines, because it is a much more efficient way to disperse excess heat. Even the last remaining holdout (Porsche) is now liquid cooled.
Now, granted, you do have to worry about some liquids that would be placed around electronics, but with non-conducting liquids like mineral oils and fluorinert, you wouldn't have to worry about short circuits, etc.
Actually, with the Celeron's ridiculous energy output of something like 27 watts at the rated clock speed, I'm surprised that Intel doesn't provide some liquid-cooled systems with the stock chips.
ProcessTree: It's like distributed.net, but you get paid.
How do you bypass the lameness filter??
Did anyone else look at the URL and realize how old the Tom's Hardware article is?
Odd...