This demands on the motherboard. My Core 2 duo motherboard has support for 4 PATA plus SATA. I have 2 PATA optical drives, 1 PATA HD and 2 SATA HDs in the case. I can also opt to boot off of any device irregardless of which bus it's located on or it's master/slave setting.
You're right that Core 2 doesn't really mean a lot in the server space. Opteron has the better memory configuration and this is likely to show up once dual cpu quad and eight core servers come out for the new Xeon series. Where Core 2 makes a difference is for the gamer who wants a fast machine at a good price. You can get a Core 2 that is comparable to an Athlon FX something like $400 cheaper. You can save even more if you are overclocking. Consider that a 1GHz overclock on low end Core 2s is commonly stable on stock cooling. Most of the sites linked by Slashdot are "enthusiast" sites and the benchmarking is oriented towards gaming or common tasks such as video encoding, compression/decompression and some artificial benchmarks. All running on Windows of course. I can't even find any good reviews comparing the Xeon 5100s versus Opteron in real world server tasks. There are plenty of workstation reviews but that still isn't relevant.
"it probably has something to do with an elitist attitude."
Uh maybe now but not when it started. Before CDRs and affordable disk pressings, vinyl singles (the 7" EP size was common) were the cheapest way for punk bands to put out music. They could be done cheaply in small runs unlike CDs at the time (early '80s). Plus most punks in 1980 probably didn't have a CD player or walkman. The small punk label culture grew out of that. Most of the local punk releases I see now are on CD - I guess for those still doing vinyl it's a holdover fetish from the days when it made sense.
Split the company? Fair enough but I still feel basic security components such as a firewall should not be subject to anti-trust claims. Somethings are just parts of an operating system that SHOULD be there.
They do with security center. All security center is is a little control panel that checks to see if you have a firewall installed, updated anti-virus and that you have automated updates for security patches setup. If something is amiss it notifies you (i.e. firewall disabled, AV out of date). So I have ZoneAlarm and Symantec corporate AV installed which show up fine in security center. And also both of them showup in the taskbar with their respective icons just as they used to before service pack 2 came out. Also for OEMs, they often install an AV or firewall suite as a default (typically a 90 day trial) which showup in the security center just the same. And of course when the trial is up they will bitch at you to pay - it won't say "You don't need to pay, just use the Windows Firewall." I really think that what the security vendors are against is that people will see they have Windows Firewall and not think they need to purchase additional software. Which to be frank might be the case (although Windows Firewall is pretty lame).
You do know you can turn off all the extra eye candy right? If you're still on 95, I would assume it's because you are comfortable with it or have applications you need to run that don't work properly in later versions of Windows. I've used every version of Windows since 3 and I have to say that 95 is the most unstable with the exception of Windows ME. For older computers with at least 256MB of RAM I would recommend Windows 2000. The stability is much better than 95,98 or ME.
Yeah they do. I look like the hip young guy but I don't use Macs. People keep coming up to me and saying "Hey aren't you the Mac guy?" Then when I say "No, I use UNIX" they say "You're a eunuch?" Irritating.
"The basic problem you have is that Apple doesn't have any product targetted at the market you're talking about, the headless desktop."
I sure wish they would. I really don't like having all in one units. I want some expandability. Most notably I'd like to be able to upgrade my video card and put another internal drive or two. If I had an iMac I'd have to have a large stack of external drives next to it. I prefer having a standalone monitor as it's more flexible. If the monitor breaks, I can hook up a spare and not have to send my computer in.
Yeah I know you are joking but we've had two DOA Powerbooks at the office in the last 6 months versus never having a DOA Dell PC. And we have 4 times as many PCs as Macs.
"Au contraire. Have you ever unboxed a new Mac? Have you ever really spent time with a Mac? While the OS is most of the experience, it goes beyond the OS."
Oh yes, oh yes I have. That new Mac smell, each little piece ready for the unwrapping, the soft white curves, the feel of plastic on my naked......um nevermind.
Microsoft should not add security services to it's operating system because this is anti-trust against companies that make their livings selling security software for the inherently insecure Windows OS. Yet, Microsoft gets blamed for having an insecure OS. The fact that the OS is insecure causes problems for non-Windows users through the wonders of such things as botnets. No one can force a user to purchase and install 3rd party software to secure Windows. Most Windows users don't understand that they need it or understand what it does.
How do they secure the OS without infringing on businesses who solely exist to secure Windows?
Is something like a bundled firewall the same as a media player? Does security = functionality and as such MS should not be allowed to add it do to their monopoly? Where do you draw the line?
"And they're bundling security products with their OS. They're not providing a secure OS. There's a major difference between the two. The first is illegal when you're a defacto monopoly. The second would be welcomed by everyone."
So bundling a firewall (which I might add pretty much every other OS does) falls into which category? It's a bundled application, but it helps make the OS more secure. I for one would prefer that Windows at least have basic firewall functionality built in for users that don't understand what that is.
So they have an OS which frequently has security problems. They get a lot of flak for this. Then they attempt to mediate it by adding in security services. Then they get slammed for unfairly competing with Windows security software vendors. You can't have it both ways. If Microsoft makes their OS secure and bundles anti-virus/anti-spyware you may put companies that make their livings off of Windows insecure nature. Wheee.
Every C64 emulator I've ever used supports the built in BASIC. Considering that MANY C64 programs used BASIC in there boot loaders and many even within the program itself, BASIC is a requirement for real emulation of a Commodore 64. It's not like on an Apple where you had to load BASIC off disk. You turn it on and there it is. The disk commands just to load a program were part of the BASIC.
Personally I think a limited edition Ween turd colored zune would be the perfect player to enjoy the brown sound on. They could bundle the album Pod as a poke at Apple.
That's not the only color it's available but personally I applaud MS for releasing turd brown as an option. Now if they do a special "Ween Edition" turd brown - it'll be the perfect player to enjoy the brown sound on, especially if it has "Poop Ship Destroyer" engraved on it.
"I also remember a 9-book series that came out in the late 70s / early 80s. It was all nine Star Wars stories. And Im pretty sure it was before ESB came out."
I've seen this argument come out multiple times yet no one ever has any evidence of these books. Honestly would Lucas have released the stories for the other movies before they came out? If that were really the case wouldn't we already have known the plots to episode 1-3 before they were released? Wouldn't these books have become coveted collectors items? Wouldn't Star Wars uber nerds debate the differences between the books and the movies that were released? There were some (non-canon) published materials relating to Star Wars in the 80s other than just novelizations or movie story books but none that I ever read had any resemblence to the later episodes. I can recall A Splinter of the Mind's Eye which was set between New Hope and Empire. Written by Alan Dean Foster who also did the novelization of Star Wars. Interestingly Wikipedia notes:
At the time it was written, the familial relationship between Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader -- that Luke and Leia were siblings, and Vader their father -- had yet to be revealed. Therefore, some inconsistencies are evident and unavoidable, most noticeably the sexual tension depicted between Luke and Leia in this book which in retrospect would be considered inappropriate. Although Lucas claimed to have had the Star Wars saga mapped out even at this early stage, the fact he allowed this plot element to remain in Foster's novel has been cited as evidence that he hadn't yet decided upon the family aspect at this point. However, Lucas has stated before, that this tension was purposely there, to show that the two had feelings for one another, but didn't know exactly what type of feelings.
There were also the Star Wars comic books and I had a kid's book featuring Chewbaca's family from the 1978 TV special. Nothing else that I'm aware of in the 80s. Timothy Zahn didn't start his books until 1992.
I really don't think Lucas had it all mapped out. I don't think the stories were written ahead of time. I think he had general ideas (half of which are obviously inspired by the old Lensman books) and built the stories out over time. As for what he says in interviews, I think he exagerates so he can come off as this master planner of his great artistic vision.
Cities were unwittingly used as laboratories to test aerosolization and dispersal methods; Aspergillus fumigatus, B. subtilis var. globigii, and Serratia marcescens were used as simulants and released during experiments in New York City, San Francisco, and other sites. Concerns regarding potential public health hazards of simulant studies were raised after an outbreak of nosocomial S. marcescens (formerly Chromobacterium prodigiosum) urinary tract infections at Stanford University Hospital between September 1950 and February 1951, following covert experiments using S. marcescens as a simulant in San Francisco. A report from the Centers for Disease Control completed in 1977 found no association between reported morbidity and mortality from pneumonia and influenza and local simulant experiments.
Xfire is an IM client that has some gaming specific features. It is more useful for things like online RTS and FPS. For example you can see that your friend is currently playing Battlefield 2. You can then launch the game from Xfire and connect to the server he is playing on rather than manually find it. Xfire IMs can also be viewed and responded to from within a game rather than needing to alt-tab out to the desktop. SO if it's time for that WoW raid and healer #3 is busy messing around in BF2 you can send him a message to log over to WoW because the raid is starting.
I thought I was but actually tried CoD 2 and enjoyed myself quite a lot. Probably the best approximation of the old WW2 action movie ever done in gaming. A bit goofy at times and very linear but also a lot of fun.
Except Intel's open source drivers for its video chips are available today and any speculation as to what will happen on the open source front with AMD + ATI is pure speculation?
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This demands on the motherboard. My Core 2 duo motherboard has support for 4 PATA plus SATA. I have 2 PATA optical drives, 1 PATA HD and 2 SATA HDs in the case. I can also opt to boot off of any device irregardless of which bus it's located on or it's master/slave setting.
"Or you can realize that identifying yourself as a citizen of your country is a cultural habit, not a necessity"
Unfortunately claiming to be a "citizen of the world" doesn't seem to help when trying not to pay taxes.
You're right that Core 2 doesn't really mean a lot in the server space. Opteron has the better memory configuration and this is likely to show up once dual cpu quad and eight core servers come out for the new Xeon series.
Where Core 2 makes a difference is for the gamer who wants a fast machine at a good price. You can get a Core 2 that is comparable to an Athlon FX something like $400 cheaper. You can save even more if you are overclocking. Consider that a 1GHz overclock on low end Core 2s is commonly stable on stock cooling.
Most of the sites linked by Slashdot are "enthusiast" sites and the benchmarking is oriented towards gaming or common tasks such as video encoding, compression/decompression and some artificial benchmarks. All running on Windows of course.
I can't even find any good reviews comparing the Xeon 5100s versus Opteron in real world server tasks. There are plenty of workstation reviews but that still isn't relevant.
"it probably has something to do with an elitist attitude."
Uh maybe now but not when it started. Before CDRs and affordable disk pressings, vinyl singles (the 7" EP size was common) were the cheapest way for punk bands to put out music. They could be done cheaply in small runs unlike CDs at the time (early '80s). Plus most punks in 1980 probably didn't have a CD player or walkman.
The small punk label culture grew out of that. Most of the local punk releases I see now are on CD - I guess for those still doing vinyl it's a holdover fetish from the days when it made sense.
Split the company? Fair enough but I still feel basic security components such as a firewall should not be subject to anti-trust claims. Somethings are just parts of an operating system that SHOULD be there.
They do with security center. All security center is is a little control panel that checks to see if you have a firewall installed, updated anti-virus and that you have automated updates for security patches setup. If something is amiss it notifies you (i.e. firewall disabled, AV out of date).
So I have ZoneAlarm and Symantec corporate AV installed which show up fine in security center. And also both of them showup in the taskbar with their respective icons just as they used to before service pack 2 came out.
Also for OEMs, they often install an AV or firewall suite as a default (typically a 90 day trial) which showup in the security center just the same. And of course when the trial is up they will bitch at you to pay - it won't say "You don't need to pay, just use the Windows Firewall."
I really think that what the security vendors are against is that people will see they have Windows Firewall and not think they need to purchase additional software. Which to be frank might be the case (although Windows Firewall is pretty lame).
It's listed as $17.50USD - how did you get it for $10?
You do know you can turn off all the extra eye candy right?
If you're still on 95, I would assume it's because you are comfortable with it or have applications you need to run that don't work properly in later versions of Windows.
I've used every version of Windows since 3 and I have to say that 95 is the most unstable with the exception of Windows ME. For older computers with at least 256MB of RAM I would recommend Windows 2000. The stability is much better than 95,98 or ME.
Yeah they do. I look like the hip young guy but I don't use Macs. People keep coming up to me and saying "Hey aren't you the Mac guy?"
Then when I say "No, I use UNIX" they say "You're a eunuch?"
Irritating.
"The basic problem you have is that Apple doesn't have any product targetted at the market you're talking about, the headless desktop."
I sure wish they would. I really don't like having all in one units. I want some expandability. Most notably I'd like to be able to upgrade my video card and put another internal drive or two. If I had an iMac I'd have to have a large stack of external drives next to it.
I prefer having a standalone monitor as it's more flexible. If the monitor breaks, I can hook up a spare and not have to send my computer in.
Yeah I know you are joking but we've had two DOA Powerbooks at the office in the last 6 months versus never having a DOA Dell PC. And we have 4 times as many PCs as Macs.
"Au contraire. Have you ever unboxed a new Mac? Have you ever really spent time with a Mac? While the OS is most of the experience, it goes beyond the OS."
...um nevermind.
Oh yes, oh yes I have. That new Mac smell, each little piece ready for the unwrapping, the soft white curves, the feel of plastic on my naked...
Or a food group!
So then...
Microsoft should not add security services to it's operating system because this is anti-trust against companies that make their livings selling security software for the inherently insecure Windows OS.
Yet, Microsoft gets blamed for having an insecure OS. The fact that the OS is insecure causes problems for non-Windows users through the wonders of such things as botnets.
No one can force a user to purchase and install 3rd party software to secure Windows. Most Windows users don't understand that they need it or understand what it does.
How do they secure the OS without infringing on businesses who solely exist to secure Windows?
Is something like a bundled firewall the same as a media player? Does security = functionality and as such MS should not be allowed to add it do to their monopoly? Where do you draw the line?
I'd like to see your solution to this problem.
"And they're bundling security products with their OS. They're not providing a secure OS. There's a major difference between the two. The first is illegal when you're a defacto monopoly. The second would be welcomed by everyone."
So bundling a firewall (which I might add pretty much every other OS does) falls into which category? It's a bundled application, but it helps make the OS more secure.
I for one would prefer that Windows at least have basic firewall functionality built in for users that don't understand what that is.
So they have an OS which frequently has security problems. They get a lot of flak for this. Then they attempt to mediate it by adding in security services. Then they get slammed for unfairly competing with Windows security software vendors.
You can't have it both ways. If Microsoft makes their OS secure and bundles anti-virus/anti-spyware you may put companies that make their livings off of Windows insecure nature.
Wheee.
Every C64 emulator I've ever used supports the built in BASIC. Considering that MANY C64 programs used BASIC in there boot loaders and many even within the program itself, BASIC is a requirement for real emulation of a Commodore 64.
It's not like on an Apple where you had to load BASIC off disk. You turn it on and there it is. The disk commands just to load a program were part of the BASIC.
Personally I think a limited edition Ween turd colored zune would be the perfect player to enjoy the brown sound on. They could bundle the album Pod as a poke at Apple.
That's not the only color it's available but personally I applaud MS for releasing turd brown as an option. Now if they do a special "Ween Edition" turd brown - it'll be the perfect player to enjoy the brown sound on, especially if it has "Poop Ship Destroyer" engraved on it.
"I also remember a 9-book series that came out in the late 70s / early 80s. It was all nine Star Wars stories. And Im pretty sure it was before ESB came out."
I've seen this argument come out multiple times yet no one ever has any evidence of these books. Honestly would Lucas have released the stories for the other movies before they came out? If that were really the case wouldn't we already have known the plots to episode 1-3 before they were released? Wouldn't these books have become coveted collectors items? Wouldn't Star Wars uber nerds debate the differences between the books and the movies that were released?
There were some (non-canon) published materials relating to Star Wars in the 80s other than just novelizations or movie story books but none that I ever read had any resemblence to the later episodes. I can recall A Splinter of the Mind's Eye which was set between New Hope and Empire. Written by Alan Dean Foster who also did the novelization of Star Wars.
Interestingly Wikipedia notes:
At the time it was written, the familial relationship between Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader -- that Luke and Leia were siblings, and Vader their father -- had yet to be revealed. Therefore, some inconsistencies are evident and unavoidable, most noticeably the sexual tension depicted between Luke and Leia in this book which in retrospect would be considered inappropriate. Although Lucas claimed to have had the Star Wars saga mapped out even at this early stage, the fact he allowed this plot element to remain in Foster's novel has been cited as evidence that he hadn't yet decided upon the family aspect at this point. However, Lucas has stated before, that this tension was purposely there, to show that the two had feelings for one another, but didn't know exactly what type of feelings.
There were also the Star Wars comic books and I had a kid's book featuring Chewbaca's family from the 1978 TV special. Nothing else that I'm aware of in the 80s. Timothy Zahn didn't start his books until 1992.
I really don't think Lucas had it all mapped out. I don't think the stories were written ahead of time. I think he had general ideas (half of which are obviously inspired by the old Lensman books) and built the stories out over time. As for what he says in interviews, I think he exagerates so he can come off as this master planner of his great artistic vision.
It's not like they haven't tested things on US citizens before. For example simulated biological weapon dispersion on US cities:
Cities were unwittingly used as laboratories to test aerosolization and dispersal methods; Aspergillus fumigatus, B. subtilis var. globigii, and Serratia marcescens were used as simulants and released during experiments in New York City, San Francisco, and other sites. Concerns regarding potential public health hazards of simulant studies were raised after an outbreak of nosocomial S. marcescens (formerly Chromobacterium prodigiosum) urinary tract infections at Stanford University Hospital between September 1950 and February 1951, following covert experiments using S. marcescens as a simulant in San Francisco. A report from the Centers for Disease Control completed in 1977 found no association between reported morbidity and mortality from pneumonia and influenza and local simulant experiments.
Xfire is an IM client that has some gaming specific features. It is more useful for things like online RTS and FPS. For example you can see that your friend is currently playing Battlefield 2. You can then launch the game from Xfire and connect to the server he is playing on rather than manually find it.
Xfire IMs can also be viewed and responded to from within a game rather than needing to alt-tab out to the desktop. SO if it's time for that WoW raid and healer #3 is busy messing around in BF2 you can send him a message to log over to WoW because the raid is starting.
I thought I was but actually tried CoD 2 and enjoyed myself quite a lot. Probably the best approximation of the old WW2 action movie ever done in gaming. A bit goofy at times and very linear but also a lot of fun.
Except Intel's open source drivers for its video chips are available today and any speculation as to what will happen on the open source front with AMD + ATI is pure speculation?
No, no I'm white so therefore my weiner is 5.5-6.5 inches according to my racial stereotype.