A (really good) friend of mine is an avid gamer. He reads a monthly gamer magazine and rents pc games from the local video rental. He usually buys cards at 100 or 150. Since he is also a professional musician I introduced him to quiet computing. I got him a decent power supply and a good cpu fan. So then he had to deal with his gaming vs. a quiet graphics card and gaming partly lost out, since he got a rather slow card in order for not to have a fan.
Now he is looking into buying the "SAPPHIRE Radeon HD3870 Ultimate" which is a passiv card. I don't really know how it is supposed to do so while drawing 106 watts of power, but they are selling.
Now with that he would have a rig that is probabely less noisy than an XBOX 360. Care to check for a performance comparison? I wouldn't need to. That card is top notch. And the price for that is about 170 over here. He needs the pc anyways (who doesn't nowdays). You only need to look at the price for the graphics card vs. the price for the XBOX/PS3.
Very strange story indeed, but not the first I've heard concerning Apple. I personally know two Apple fanboys. They didn't hit me yet when I made a joke about Apple, but their "Apple is always best" attitude often shines through and sometimes is even a little unsettleing.
Democracy is just a set of checks and balances to prevent that. We wouldn't need to elect leaders and stuff if it wouldn't be for that. We actually don't need so many new laws in our day-to-day lives. All we would need is a good lawbook to start from and police to enforce it. But since power will always be abused we need that complicated thing called democracy to be able to get rid of people that abuse too much.
By removing checks and balances (which is currently done in almost all democracies all over the world for no reason) we see an upsurge of abuse.
They seem resistant to innovation. BMG even bought Napster. But they didn't make a business model out of it. Even by not charging money it would have been a great advertising tool. They could see what the people liked. Maybe restrict free sharing to a certain bitrate. Like radio. With Napster at least they had a centralized system and had it all under control. That the answer to the shutdown of Napster would be decentralized systems was obvious. But maybe not to boneheads.
But we can all agree that shutting down Napster was probabely the one thing that led to the downfall of the music industry in the 21st century.
So we have to develope new ways to get same out of our waste water before we release it into the open.
We (as in worldwide) need to take a new hard look at waste water treatment. There are also many new cleaners and other substances that go down the drain. Maybe we should make it into law that if you want to sell something in large quantities that goes down the drain that you also have to supply the water treatment facilities with a way to break that down. In the EU we already have laws that regulate that electronis producers have to take measures to take back the electronics they sold in order to properly recycle it and or take care of it otherwise.
In reality things are complicated. And what humans do is not always good. There is no black and white. No good and evil. Just shades of grey. At each step you have to choose what to do. And some of those decisions might not be the "right" ones. Whatever right might be.
The series is doing nothing more than exploring what humans would do in extreme circumstances. And I don't even think BSG is doing a very good job. After all it is entertainment (and it should be).
This is Slashdot. You get modded up for mocking Microsoft and BSD and modded down for mocking Linux.
You will get flamed AND modded into oblivion if you as much as critisize Apple. And I really don't want to find out what would happen to you if would start mocking Apple. I never EVER heard from those guys again.
Maybe is smarter than you and you can't admit to it.;-) Actually I have witnessed very smart people getting frustrated. Sometimes it is hard to see if they are just smarter than you and have thought of everything and know better or if they have thought of everything and it would be better to do it a different way but even though they see that they still want to have it their way. Just because you know what is best doesn't mean that you do that or that you recomment the best course of action to other people.
So it could even be that ReiserFS is a better VFS layer. But how would we know? The person that might know the answer (Reiser) is too much involved so I wouldn't trust his judgment.
Laptop: Refurbished Thinkpad T40/T41/T42/T43 (still IBM made, good price, light, workable) dont want to spend too much money, cause all the gear can be stolen
Camera: Canon Powershot A540, A530, A560, A570 If you can't get new ones anymore get a used one. 6 MPixels are more than you will ever need, above the picture actually gets worse, Canon Powershots are the best. Better to get the A540 than the A560. Those work with standard AA batteries. So you can get cheap rechargables that last long and can replace them anywhere with normal batteries.
Mobile Phone: GSM works most in most places around the world. Best models for you: Nokia 5140i or 5500 (5140i is either cheaper or used, because it is older).
MP3-Player: IRiver T60. Standard battery, sturdy, supports MP3 and OGG, simply a good player.
GPS: For navigation you didn't write if you need maps. You should either buy an expensive one from Garmin that has maps everywhere. If you buy a smartphone look for a GPS mouse and map software.
Smartphone: If you don't want the laptop and mobile phone, but instead a smartphone (or all three) I recommend a model from HTC. The HTC TyTN and the TyTN II have keyboard that slide in and out below the phone. The HTC S620 is a blackberry-type device. Depending on what you prefer you either get the slide out or the blackberry type. Also if you have a smartphone and regular access (every night) to power recharge you can also dump the extra MP3-Player, because you can just use the phone. You can install navigation software on either one of those and attach a GPS mouse via bluetooth.
There you go, now go shopping and don't buy any products that I didn't recommend!
With access to the machine one could disable said capacitor and then power down the machine. But, I aknowledge that this would provide an additional barrier.
I don't do that much with pictures, but I recently made the switch to KDE from IceWM and used to use Gimp with the couple pictures I work with sometimes. I now did a couple things with Krita (wanting to try everything KDE has to offer) and I am amazed how well it works.
Since you seem to do a lot more with pictures, have you tried Krita yet?
You need at least one hour to install Windows. But Windows doesn't come with apps. So how many hours does it actually take you to install a whole operating environment in Windows? Depending on how many programs you need I would guess anything starting at 3 to 5 hours going up to 10 when you start running into problems, because vendor supplied drivers start attacking each other. With XP that time has been coming down, but with Vista I suppose you could double that depending on the hardware you use. Not to mention that for a lot of hardware drivers for Vista don't even exist yet.
Not knowing exactly how to set up networking with XP machines (which isn't always staightforward), because I hadn't done so in a long time I remeber once spending 2 hours before I got it working.
Actually I would argue that the "just works" now applies to a much larger share of Linux cases than of Windows cases. Especially when you have to install from scratch.
Your arguments are good, but not worth +5 Informative.
I have seen so many things right now, that are competely unnecessary and would need many new hires to use properly that they will only be "abused" instead of used, that even if you roll some of them back it would still be so many measures, laws and power without checks and balances (which will be abused, because that is how human nature works) that you should get used to it.
People in Soviet Russia also lived "normal" lives. They were used to it: Don't trust police, watch what you are saying, keep walking when you see police abusing their power etc. Instead of a stupid "Don't tase me bro." Just keep your mouth shut from the beginning when the apparatschik ist talking and don't forget to clap at the end.
For some reason VLC didn't work with the BBC English learning page for my girlfriends Windows XP laptop. I tried to make it work, but to no avail. She uses Firefox for accessing that page. The only way to make it work was to copy the URL of the audio and paste it into VLC.
Installing Realplayer and turning off the autostart options proved to be the easy solution. Also Realplayer always works now with streams. No VLC hassle anymore.
They would have to check the code. Maybe the responsible developers have left the company, or maybe they are on an active project. It would take time to assemble the original team (or what is left of it) and ask them: Do we have the exclusive rights to this code? And if they were unsure they would loose even more time trying to find out. Time is money. If those people get decent wages it could be a lot of money. If they were working on important projects IBM was to earn a lot of money for they would loose that too. If it would be free for them to release code I suppose a lot of companies would do that. Simply because they don't use it anymore.
And because so many terrorists use Islam as an excuse there must be something fishy. Yaddayaddayadda.
The Una bomber used the American constitution as an excuse. Is the American constitution fishy? I am christian. Let me tell you, the bibel has been used as an excuse for so much bad stuff, we can really stand up to you guys in that respect!
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A (really good) friend of mine is an avid gamer. He reads a monthly gamer magazine and rents pc games from the local video rental. He usually buys cards at 100 or 150. Since he is also a professional musician I introduced him to quiet computing. I got him a decent power supply and a good cpu fan. So then he had to deal with his gaming vs. a quiet graphics card and gaming partly lost out, since he got a rather slow card in order for not to have a fan.
Now he is looking into buying the "SAPPHIRE Radeon HD3870 Ultimate" which is a passiv card. I don't really know how it is supposed to do so while drawing 106 watts of power, but they are selling.
Now with that he would have a rig that is probabely less noisy than an XBOX 360. Care to check for a performance comparison? I wouldn't need to. That card is top notch. And the price for that is about 170 over here. He needs the pc anyways (who doesn't nowdays). You only need to look at the price for the graphics card vs. the price for the XBOX/PS3.
Much more bang for the buck IMHO.
The Depublicans or the Remocrats? Btw. W received more votes in 2004 than in 2000.
Very strange story indeed, but not the first I've heard concerning Apple. I personally know two Apple fanboys. They didn't hit me yet when I made a joke about Apple, but their "Apple is always best" attitude often shines through and sometimes is even a little unsettleing.
And I wasn't sure if I deserved a +5 funny for this one. I though I would get more Insightful mods:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=472396&cid=22610060
And that is what won't happen. The music WILL be drm'd. If Apple goes bankrupt you still have the files, but can't play them anymore.
I want SP3 for Win XP
Democracy is just a set of checks and balances to prevent that. We wouldn't need to elect leaders and stuff if it wouldn't be for that. We actually don't need so many new laws in our day-to-day lives. All we would need is a good lawbook to start from and police to enforce it. But since power will always be abused we need that complicated thing called democracy to be able to get rid of people that abuse too much.
By removing checks and balances (which is currently done in almost all democracies all over the world for no reason) we see an upsurge of abuse.
So nothing to see here, please move along.
They seem resistant to innovation. BMG even bought Napster. But they didn't make a business model out of it. Even by not charging money it would have been a great advertising tool. They could see what the people liked. Maybe restrict free sharing to a certain bitrate. Like radio. With Napster at least they had a centralized system and had it all under control. That the answer to the shutdown of Napster would be decentralized systems was obvious. But maybe not to boneheads.
But we can all agree that shutting down Napster was probabely the one thing that led to the downfall of the music industry in the 21st century.
what else is new?
FYI, I am a little biased, but Debian is the distro that constantly gives me the least trouble.
but it used to be that they implemented the stuff in their own browser: Amaya
So we have to develope new ways to get same out of our waste water before we release it into the open.
We (as in worldwide) need to take a new hard look at waste water treatment. There are also many new cleaners and other substances that go down the drain. Maybe we should make it into law that if you want to sell something in large quantities that goes down the drain that you also have to supply the water treatment facilities with a way to break that down. In the EU we already have laws that regulate that electronis producers have to take measures to take back the electronics they sold in order to properly recycle it and or take care of it otherwise.
For all the porn.
The dollar is taking a dive, because you spend so much money on Iraq. Over 1000 Billion now by some accounts.
In reality things are complicated. And what humans do is not always good. There is no black and white. No good and evil. Just shades of grey. At each step you have to choose what to do. And some of those decisions might not be the "right" ones. Whatever right might be.
The series is doing nothing more than exploring what humans would do in extreme circumstances. And I don't even think BSG is doing a very good job. After all it is entertainment (and it should be).
This is Slashdot. You get modded up for mocking Microsoft and BSD and modded down for mocking Linux.
You will get flamed AND modded into oblivion if you as much as critisize Apple. And I really don't want to find out what would happen to you if would start mocking Apple. I never EVER heard from those guys again.
My neighbour didn't get her baby boy the usual shots. I told her she should do it, but she didn't "trust" it.
Maybe is smarter than you and you can't admit to it. ;-)
Actually I have witnessed very smart people getting frustrated. Sometimes it is hard to see if they are just smarter than you and have thought of everything and know better or if they have thought of everything and it would be better to do it a different way but even though they see that they still want to have it their way. Just because you know what is best doesn't mean that you do that or that you recomment the best course of action to other people.
So it could even be that ReiserFS is a better VFS layer. But how would we know? The person that might know the answer (Reiser) is too much involved so I wouldn't trust his judgment.
Laptop:
Refurbished Thinkpad T40/T41/T42/T43 (still IBM made, good price, light, workable)
dont want to spend too much money, cause all the gear can be stolen
Camera:
Canon Powershot A540, A530, A560, A570
If you can't get new ones anymore get a used one.
6 MPixels are more than you will ever need, above the picture actually gets worse,
Canon Powershots are the best. Better to get the A540 than the A560.
Those work with standard AA batteries. So you can get cheap rechargables that last long and can replace them anywhere with normal batteries.
Mobile Phone:
GSM works most in most places around the world.
Best models for you: Nokia 5140i or 5500 (5140i is either cheaper or used, because it is older).
MP3-Player:
IRiver T60. Standard battery, sturdy, supports MP3 and OGG, simply a good player.
GPS:
For navigation you didn't write if you need maps. You should either buy an expensive one from Garmin that has maps everywhere. If you buy a smartphone look for a GPS mouse and map software.
Smartphone:
If you don't want the laptop and mobile phone, but instead a smartphone (or all three) I recommend a model from HTC.
The HTC TyTN and the TyTN II have keyboard that slide in and out below the phone.
The HTC S620 is a blackberry-type device. Depending on what you prefer you either get the slide out or the blackberry type.
Also if you have a smartphone and regular access (every night) to power recharge you can also dump the extra MP3-Player, because you can just use the phone.
You can install navigation software on either one of those and attach a GPS mouse via bluetooth.
There you go, now go shopping and don't buy any products that I didn't recommend!
With access to the machine one could disable said capacitor and then power down the machine. But, I aknowledge that this would provide an additional barrier.
I don't do that much with pictures, but I recently made the switch to KDE from IceWM and used to use Gimp with the couple pictures I work with sometimes. I now did a couple things with Krita (wanting to try everything KDE has to offer) and I am amazed how well it works.
Since you seem to do a lot more with pictures, have you tried Krita yet?
*cough* mulberry *cough*
http://www.mulberrymail.com/
You need at least one hour to install Windows. But Windows doesn't come with apps. So how many hours does it actually take you to install a whole operating environment in Windows? Depending on how many programs you need I would guess anything starting at 3 to 5 hours going up to 10 when you start running into problems, because vendor supplied drivers start attacking each other. With XP that time has been coming down, but with Vista I suppose you could double that depending on the hardware you use. Not to mention that for a lot of hardware drivers for Vista don't even exist yet.
Not knowing exactly how to set up networking with XP machines (which isn't always staightforward), because I hadn't done so in a long time I remeber once spending 2 hours before I got it working.
Actually I would argue that the "just works" now applies to a much larger share of Linux cases than of Windows cases. Especially when you have to install from scratch.
Your arguments are good, but not worth +5 Informative.
I have seen so many things right now, that are competely unnecessary and would need many new hires to use properly that they will only be "abused" instead of used, that even if you roll some of them back it would still be so many measures, laws and power without checks and balances (which will be abused, because that is how human nature works) that you should get used to it.
People in Soviet Russia also lived "normal" lives. They were used to it:
Don't trust police, watch what you are saying, keep walking when you see police abusing their power etc.
Instead of a stupid "Don't tase me bro." Just keep your mouth shut from the beginning when the apparatschik ist talking and don't forget to clap at the end.
For some reason VLC didn't work with the BBC English learning page for my girlfriends Windows XP laptop. I tried to make it work, but to no avail. She uses Firefox for accessing that page. The only way to make it work was to copy the URL of the audio and paste it into VLC.
Installing Realplayer and turning off the autostart options proved to be the easy solution. Also Realplayer always works now with streams. No VLC hassle anymore.
They would have to check the code. Maybe the responsible developers have left the company, or maybe they are on an active project. It would take time to assemble the original team (or what is left of it) and ask them: Do we have the exclusive rights to this code? And if they were unsure they would loose even more time trying to find out. Time is money. If those people get decent wages it could be a lot of money. If they were working on important projects IBM was to earn a lot of money for they would loose that too. If it would be free for them to release code I suppose a lot of companies would do that. Simply because they don't use it anymore.
And because so many terrorists use Islam as an excuse there must be something fishy. Yaddayaddayadda.
The Una bomber used the American constitution as an excuse. Is the American constitution fishy?
I am christian. Let me tell you, the bibel has been used as an excuse for so much bad stuff, we can really stand up to you guys in that respect!