The only way abit would have been able to implement that would have been to attach a dongle to the mb that you would attach to your athalon cpu after cracking the case open.
With the slot technology there is no way to change the multiplier or voltage settings on the cpu from the contacts that are inserted into the mb proper. Only the addition of a tweaker board on the goldfingers, that (IMHO) were so gallantly designed and made available, are you able to overclock a slot athalon.
It seems they've changed the story with the socket athalons and this is now possible to do from the bios. Besides... do YOU see anywhere on those socket athalon cpus that you can attack a goldfinger card?? I know I missed it if it's there...
The rough basics of the idea is that they (being Intel corp.) locked the multiplier on-chip. There's not been a way to change that from the mb if the feature is not present on the chip. This leaves bumping up the FSB as the only way to o/c your cpu.
Amd has (for as long as I've followed the company) not locked the multiplier on their chips. In fact... they manufactured their slot-type chips with gold-fingers (contacts) that allow you to use an aftermarket or homemade device to change the voltage/multiplier on-chip.. without having to manipulate the fsb.. (fsb changes usually lead to instalbility)
I'm speaking out of my nethers when I say that it's my belief that when they changed to the socket cpu design they introduced the abiltiy to control this from the mb and bios... no gold fingers.. just extra pins that do the same functions. This is just the first mb that has taken advantage of those options.
I love AMD... I've used them since their K-6 series first came out and have used them ever since. My athalon 500 runs peachy at 750mhz with no fsb changes and I couldn't be happier.
Let's give another cheer to Amd for making this new motherboard possible.
So... tell me truthfully... ARE there REALLY any chipset combinations for mtoherboards that really ARE stable at fsb speeds higher than say... 115mhz?????
Yeah.. 180+mhz fsb would be nice.. but is there really any hardware that can take it? *sigh* Tired of the hype... *shrug*
to even consider reading a post written entirely in dork-text? I don't consider it 3L33T... I just find it annoying... Just as annoying as having a post labeled Offtopic instead of funny... *shrug*
Some people have no sense of humor.
No.. I won't acknowledge the time it took this person to write the previous post out. I can read the junk almost as fast as regular text. I just refuse to...
(Shouldn't have hit return that first time.. *sheesh*) (Rant%) IF you buy a computer that uses a recovery cd.. I have one piece of advice... make ABSOLUTELY sure that it has everything in it that could ever possibly want. Installing aftermarket stuff ijust asking for trouble. I'm not saying it's impossible... heck, it will even work pretty good for one added component... but not usually not 2 or more... and sometimes even that first one doesn't wanna work right.
So... they're gonna change the cd's.. eh? Meaning that if I buy a computer that has a lot of stuff in it, cheap cruddy hardware.. but a lot of it... and go to swap out their castrated m/b with a good one and a real cpu... I won't be able to use their cd?
Fine... Just one more reason for me to build my own like I've been doing for the last 6 years anyway.
I work on computers for a living and I can't stand walking into someone's house and seeing a damn Compaq presario or a friggin Dell in there... haven't seen to many Gateway's lately.. but if their bioses are as castrated as dell or compaq.. I don't want anything to do with them......
You want a good computer? I mean.. a really good stable computer? You have 2 options.
1) Build it yourself. 2) Have someone build it for you.
Oh yeah... one more thing... DON'T USE CHEAP PARTS!!! *shrug*
People who know me call me instead of their faceless corporation, even when their "Insert name-brand computer here" is still under warranty... They know I can fix it in less than half an hour instead of calling up their "faceless corporation technical support" who will only tell them to Use their recovery cd (thereby wiping out every single modification since they started using their computer the day they purchased it) formatting and re-installing.
May a pox be on them if they ever have any hardware failures... It can take 3 weeks of formats and re-installs before tech support will "Allow" them to turn in the computer for actual servicing.. (/Rant)
Ok... ok... enough ranting... but seriously... these big corporations are really churning out some disgusting computers these days... Almost makes me physically ill when I come across a newbie computer user that got hosed buying a "trusted" name... *shrug*
Backing up all your "Important" files and scripts and doing a complete re-install in 20 minutes and adding an hour to put everything back the way it was?
Or.. backing up all your files, doing an hour install and spending 2-6 hours re-installing all the crap that you've accumulated for Windoze?
Considering I still hose my system from time to time "learning" about things I'm unfamiliar.. *shrug* I still prefer Linux for ease of use.
Still something weird about a system that "more often than not" won't do a perfect install with anything more than a videocard in it.
story and submit it to a sci-fi publication... That's really cute. Excellent imagination... flows well... re-write it a bit (I'm sure you know what I mean) and it's a killer short story..:) Thanx...
Had an idea on the lines of this about 6 years ago
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Basically I wanted to construct a dual drive... A hd that had approx the same size ram cache in the same box. On boot.. the os loaded on the harddrive would load itself into ram and would run from there... meanwhile backing itself up to the hd as files were changed etc.
Unfortunately I had neither the time, money, nor experience and knowledge to build a microboard that would handle those transactions and report to the MB as a standard hd.. *sigh*
The things we come up with that are implausible to one's current abiltities/situation... *shrug*
Anyone need an intelligent, intuitive, dreamer for their R&D dept? I work like a bastard, am fantastic for company morale and have some of the best ideas on a constant basis... (Sucks waking up at 2am with a fantastic idea and having no one intelligent around who can follow you past the first 10 words out of your mouth. *sigh*)
Am I out of the loop or something? Never had a single problem with all the athalons I've built so far... standard generic ram to boot. Never the same manufacturer twice either...
Thing I did with MY Athalon was get rid of that cruddy heatsink plate altogether...
Much MUCH more efficient to mount the heatsink directly to the face of the chip... the CHIP is FLAT;) hehehe..... Miniscule amount of heat transfer paste... rock solid stability...
I know I love MY Athalon:) can't wait for the Durons too;). Now if only the manufacturers would get off their butts and finalize a chipset and m/b layout for dual/+ Athalons:) I'll be in heaven.
(Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people appear intelligent until they speak.)
Formally copyrighted before anyone can call foul on it's being violated? Has anyone actually checked to see if there is, in fact, an actual copyright on this?
Now, I'm sure Microshaft is quite on the up and up with it's legal department... but it would be interesting to find out that they have been lax on these "on-line" EULA's, no?:-P
Could someone (with obviously more time than myself) check into this and submit the results to/. for us?
We ARE Arrogant... What's the big deal? Yes.. "normal" folks are nice people... I like to be around them as well... but damn if it doesn't get annoying being around people with the IQ of yogurt for too long. *sigh*
I have NEVER in my entire life, claimed that I am NOT arrogoant. *shrug*
I have to hand it to the kid for expressing what I've dealt with all my life. Now, granted, I took a different route and spent 15 years attempting to burn out my IQ with drugs. It didn't work as well as I guess I had hoped and I'm now back in school.
The point though, is that there's nothing wrong with arrogance. Don't confuse arrogance with being an asshole. They are not the same. I am very sure of myself. *shrug* I have earned it. Therefore, I am arrogant.
I'd also like to point out that it's not really the IQ factor that is so annoying about the majority of the population, it's their total lack of interest. Let's just say that when I find myself spending time watching TV... I know that something is wrong.
I wasted 15 years doing drugs... I don't have any extra time to waste on SHEEPLE!
Electronic musicians don't tour? What about Orbital? What about Crystal Method?? What about... Jeeze, a whole crapload of "electronic" musicians that tour?
That's not the point though... the point is that the industry as it stands now is an inefficient dinosaur that prevents the really good musicians from making the money they deserve for their talents.
An increasing number of people DON'T listen to the radio anymore, they listen to their own cd's that they've purchased. The ability to take the tracks from freinds as mp3's and burn them to cd's to make their own custom audio is increasingly making the radio even more obsolete. The radio is the pander baby to the recording industry and the media. *shrug*
when the industry changes to where the money is made in selling single tracks to be burned onto one cd... Then you'll see the majority of bands either changing their tunes.. or going out of the business.
The only way for them to make serious money would be for them to create an entire album of GOOD music... If their music is sold by tracks... what's the incentive for them to make a cd with only one hit selling song on it? I'm not gonna buy the whole album.. that's just dumb.
Once again... Number of CD's I've purchased in the last 5 years from hearing ILLEGAL Mp3's of them. 28... Soon to be 35 (Income tax return check). Number of CD's I've purchased in the last 10 years because I've heard the band on the radio?? NONE!
I may be the exception to the rule right now.. but it's changing in my direction more every day.
I can't wait to hand over to my little sister
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What if they don't want to tour ? Shouldn't they be payed(sp) whether they tour or not ?
I'm a great blacksmith.. but all my jobs are out of town. Shouldn't I still be paid if I just sit at home?
What I'd like to see are artists who distribute their mp3s without getting involved with the major record companies.
Personally... I've not bought a cd that was produced by any old, well known, bloated record companies in the last 10 years. If you look... all the good music being put on cd these days are all small record label companies. The mainstream stuff is just trash.
I've heard better music coming from my air-conditioner and computer than some of these 'so-called' bands that get promoted these days. *Sheesh* Makes me sick sometimes.
And yes... I too have bought 28 cd's in the past 5 years that I never would have if I hadn't heard the illegal MP3's that I'd downloaded from friends.
Number of CD's I've bought from hearing songs on the radio in the last 10 years?
None!
I want to buy cd's by the track... not the complete album. Don't make me buy an entire album of music to get one track that I like. Real Artists produce music because they have to for their own self satisfaction... NOT for the money.
Kinda sucks being a CS student at Unlv... *sigh* Ok.. so it's better than nothing... but then again.. Unlv isn't know for it's stellar CS program, eh? I don't live on campus... I commute... There are a few folks that go there that also belong to the local lvlug.... The rest of the campus seems dead as far as Linux is concerned. The guys in the Unix labs don't even have a clue about Linux... at least not the ones I spoke with on occasion. I've been using it for 6 years now... I love it... I recommend it when I feel it's appropriate.... I would like to be able to use it on campus computers. I'd like to run into at least ONE other person a week that runs Linux. The campus is dead. (all above statements have a modifier applied. I ama a cave dwelling computer/internet junkie. 3/4ths' of my time is spent on the internet or dinking with hardware I have on hand.)
Not 500$ total for a 700mhz... and for the most part.... most of the 500's you get these days are just 700's underclocked... it's the SAME chip.
Personally I'm ordering a 500. I will be quite happy with a 500. If I get more than 500mhz with a 65$ overclocking card I'll be ecstatic. If I get 800mhz... I'll have saved myself approx 500$.
I can type, talk, read and plan my evening all at the same time. (and I know others that can do all that and more. Faster too) That's not counting breathing, etc. etc. etc...
I would think that it would be like any other task that you do normally that would require training to become second nature. I've run equipment that was overwhelmingly complex the first time I was introduced to it. In one month I was running it in my sleep. *shrug* Make it a little less invasive and I'll be first in line.
Hell I'd still do it now if they needed test subjects. *shrug* I'd help out for that cause.
As far as I'm concerned.... the reason there's so much hate and misery among the geeks is that we have to live in a society of morons that come up with this crap.
Is it just me... or has the IQ per capita gone down drastically in the last 20 years?
Try growing up in the school system of rural PA with an exceptional IQ. Yes... I played with explosives, owned guns and basically fit the profile at age 13. The only reason I never killed anyone is because I knew that was something that was way out of line. Just not something you do. Kinda glad I was raised that way, aren't you?
Get the morons outta the fast lane... they're clogging traffic. *sigh*
Computer Mags will go the way of the dinosaur. *sigh*
I too used to anxiously await the new months issue of several computer magazines. These days I'm just dissappointed in the content. *shrug*
The main turn off for me is that over 90% of them are geared towards people who don't know jack about computers.
Computer magazines have been the same for years and years and years and years. Someone needs to come up with an entirely new format. What this would be I have no idea... *shrug* but as things stand now, I don't see a whole lot of them being in business in the next 10 years. (hell, even 5 years)
What I WOULD like to see are E-print E-Zines. Someone mentioned that it's kinda hard to drag the laptop or desktop into the bathroom... I understand how they feel. AND... Given an E-Print reader, one could download the magazine (from a secure site for a fee??) and have it easily transportable. That would actually be nice.
This method would also allow them to make updated news available constantly. Now if you can just figure out a wireless update method... (neat) you could have updated news all the time. (leave some way to seperate the news you haven't read from the updated, eh?)
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The only way abit would have been able to
implement that would have been to attach a dongle
to the mb that you would attach to your
athalon cpu after cracking the case open.
With the slot technology there is no way to
change the multiplier or voltage settings on the
cpu from the contacts that are inserted into the
mb proper. Only the addition of a tweaker board
on the goldfingers, that (IMHO) were so gallantly
designed and made available, are you able to overclock a slot athalon.
It seems they've changed the story with the socket
athalons and this is now possible to do from the bios.
Besides... do YOU see anywhere on those socket
athalon cpus that you can attack a goldfinger card??
I know I missed it if it's there...
The rough basics of the idea is that they (being Intel corp.)
locked the multiplier on-chip.
There's not been a way to change that from the mb
if the feature is not present on the chip. This leaves bumping up the FSB as the only way to
o/c your cpu.
Amd has (for as long as I've followed the company)
not locked the multiplier on their chips.
In fact... they manufactured their slot-type chips
with gold-fingers (contacts) that allow you to
use an aftermarket or homemade device to change
the voltage/multiplier on-chip.. without having
to manipulate the fsb.. (fsb changes usually lead
to instalbility)
I'm speaking out of my nethers when I say that
it's my belief that when they changed to the socket
cpu design they introduced the abiltiy to control
this from the mb and bios... no gold fingers..
just extra pins that do the same functions.
This is just the first mb that has taken advantage
of those options.
I love AMD... I've used them since their K-6 series
first came out and have used them ever since.
My athalon 500 runs peachy at 750mhz with no
fsb changes and I couldn't be happier.
Let's give another cheer to Amd for making this
new motherboard possible.
So... tell me truthfully... ARE there REALLY any
chipset combinations for mtoherboards that really
ARE stable at fsb speeds higher than say...
115mhz?????
Yeah.. 180+mhz fsb would be nice.. but is there
really any hardware that can take it?
*sigh* Tired of the hype... *shrug*
Wish I'd thoughta that myself...
to even consider reading a post written entirely
in dork-text?
I don't consider it 3L33T... I just find it
annoying...
Just as annoying as having a post labeled
Offtopic instead of funny... *shrug*
Some people have no sense of humor.
No.. I won't acknowledge the time it took this
person to write the previous post out.
I can read the junk almost as fast as regular text.
I just refuse to...
(Shouldn't have hit return that first time.. *sheesh*)
(Rant%)
IF you buy a computer that uses a recovery cd.. I have one piece
of advice... make ABSOLUTELY sure that it has everything
in it that could ever possibly want.
Installing aftermarket stuff ijust asking for trouble.
I'm not saying it's impossible... heck, it will even work
pretty good for one added component... but not usually
not 2 or more... and sometimes even that first one
doesn't wanna work right.
So... they're gonna change the cd's.. eh? Meaning that
if I buy a computer that has a lot of stuff in it,
cheap cruddy hardware.. but a lot of it...
and go to swap out their castrated m/b with a good one
and a real cpu... I won't be able to use their cd?
Fine... Just one more reason for me to build my own like I've been doing
for the last 6 years anyway.
I work on computers for a living and I can't stand
walking into someone's house and seeing a damn Compaq presario
or a friggin Dell in there... haven't seen to many
Gateway's lately.. but if their bioses are
as castrated as dell or compaq.. I don't want
anything to do with them......
You want a good computer? I mean.. a really good
stable computer? You have 2 options.
1) Build it yourself.
2) Have someone build it for you.
Oh yeah... one more thing... DON'T USE CHEAP PARTS!!! *shrug*
People who know me call me instead of their faceless corporation,
even when their "Insert name-brand computer here" is
still under warranty...
They know I can fix it in less than half an hour
instead of calling up their "faceless corporation
technical support" who will only tell them to
Use their recovery cd (thereby wiping out every
single modification since they started using their
computer the day they purchased it) formatting and
re-installing.
May a pox be on them if they ever have any hardware
failures... It can take 3 weeks of formats and
re-installs before tech support will "Allow" them
to turn in the computer for actual servicing..
(/Rant)
Ok... ok... enough ranting... but seriously...
these big corporations are really churning out
some disgusting computers these days...
Almost makes me physically ill when I come
across a newbie computer user that got hosed
buying a "trusted" name... *shrug*
Backing up all your "Important" files and scripts
and doing a complete re-install in 20 minutes and adding an hour to put everything back the way it was?
Or.. backing up all your files, doing an hour install and spending 2-6 hours re-installing all the crap that you've accumulated for Windoze?
Considering I still hose my system from time to time
"learning" about things I'm unfamiliar.. *shrug*
I still prefer Linux for ease of use.
Still something weird about a system that "more often
than not" won't do a perfect install with anything
more than a videocard in it.
Yeah.. thought I heard that right.. just wasn't sure.
story and submit it to a sci-fi publication... :)
That's really cute.
Excellent imagination... flows well... re-write it
a bit (I'm sure you know what I mean) and it's
a killer short story..
Thanx...
Basically I wanted to construct a dual drive...
A hd that had approx the same size ram cache in
the same box.
On boot.. the os loaded on the harddrive would load
itself into ram and would run from there... meanwhile
backing itself up to the hd as files were changed etc.
Unfortunately I had neither the time, money, nor experience
and knowledge to build a microboard that would handle
those transactions and report to the MB as a standard hd.. *sigh*
The things we come up with that are implausible to
one's current abiltities/situation... *shrug*
Anyone need an intelligent, intuitive, dreamer
for their R&D dept? I work like a bastard, am
fantastic for company morale and have some of the
best ideas on a constant basis...
(Sucks waking up at 2am with a fantastic idea and
having no one intelligent around who can follow you
past the first 10 words out of your mouth. *sigh*)
Anyway.. Party on!
But my mind is already clogged with plenty of
other useless skills..... *shrug*
Until then.. it's just pops and buzzez...
(static in my ear) *shrug*
Am I out of the loop or something?
Never had a single problem with all the athalons
I've built so far... standard generic ram to boot.
Never the same manufacturer twice either...
What's the deal?
Thing I did with MY Athalon was get rid of that
;) hehehe.....
:) can't wait for the ;). :) I'll be in heaven.
cruddy heatsink plate altogether...
Much MUCH more efficient to mount the heatsink
directly to the face of the chip...
the CHIP is FLAT
Miniscule amount of heat transfer paste...
rock solid stability...
I know I love MY Athalon
Durons too
Now if only the manufacturers would get off their
butts and finalize a chipset and m/b layout for
dual/+ Athalons
(Light travels faster than sound. That's
why most people appear intelligent until they
speak.)
Formally copyrighted before anyone can call
:-P
/. for us?
foul on it's being violated?
Has anyone actually checked to see if there is,
in fact, an actual copyright on this?
Now, I'm sure Microshaft is quite on the up and up
with it's legal department... but it would be interesting
to find out that they have been lax on these "on-line"
EULA's, no?
Could someone (with obviously more time than myself)
check into this and submit the results to
My curiosity is piqued
We ARE Arrogant... What's the big deal?
Yes.. "normal" folks are nice people... I like to
be around them as well... but damn if it doesn't get
annoying being around people with the IQ of yogurt for
too long. *sigh*
I have NEVER in my entire life, claimed that I am NOT arrogoant. *shrug*
I have to hand it to the kid for expressing what I've dealt with
all my life.
Now, granted, I took a different route and spent 15 years
attempting to burn out my IQ with drugs. It didn't work
as well as I guess I had hoped and I'm now back in
school.
The point though, is that there's nothing wrong with arrogance.
Don't confuse arrogance with being an asshole. They are
not the same. I am very sure of myself. *shrug*
I have earned it. Therefore, I am arrogant.
I'd also like to point out that it's not really the
IQ factor that is so annoying about the majority of
the population, it's their total lack of interest.
Let's just say that when I find myself spending time
watching TV... I know that something is wrong.
I wasted 15 years doing drugs... I don't have any
extra time to waste on SHEEPLE!
Electronic musicians don't tour?
What about Orbital? What about Crystal Method??
What about... Jeeze, a whole crapload of "electronic"
musicians that tour?
That's not the point though... the point is that
the industry as it stands now is an inefficient
dinosaur that prevents the really good musicians
from making the money they deserve for their
talents.
An increasing number of people DON'T listen to the
radio anymore, they listen to their own cd's that
they've purchased. The ability to take the tracks
from freinds as mp3's and burn them to cd's to make
their own custom audio is increasingly making the radio
even more obsolete. The radio is the pander baby
to the recording industry and the media. *shrug*
when the industry changes to where the money is made
in selling single tracks to be burned onto one cd...
Then you'll see the majority of bands either changing
their tunes.. or going out of the business.
The only way for them to make serious money would be for
them to create an entire album of GOOD music...
If their music is sold by tracks... what's the incentive
for them to make a cd with only one hit selling song on it?
I'm not gonna buy the whole album.. that's just dumb.
Once again... Number of CD's I've purchased in the
last 5 years from hearing ILLEGAL Mp3's of them.
28... Soon to be 35 (Income tax return check).
Number of CD's I've purchased in the last 10 years
because I've heard the band on the radio?? NONE!
I may be the exception to the rule right now.. but
it's changing in my direction more every day.
Two rolls of tape for her to use to hang up
decorations for her senior prom.....
AOL 6.0
and
Microshaft Windows 2010.
What if they don't want to tour ? Shouldn't they be payed(sp) whether they tour or not ?
I'm a great blacksmith.. but all my jobs are out
of town. Shouldn't I still be paid if I just sit at home?
What I'd like to see are artists who distribute
their mp3s without getting involved
with the major record companies.
Personally... I've not bought a cd that was produced
by any old, well known, bloated record companies
in the last 10 years.
If you look... all the good music being put on cd these days are all small
record label companies.
The mainstream stuff is just trash.
I've heard better music coming from my air-conditioner
and computer than some of these 'so-called'
bands that get promoted these days. *Sheesh*
Makes me sick sometimes.
And yes... I too have bought 28 cd's in the past 5 years
that I never would have if I hadn't heard the
illegal MP3's that I'd downloaded from friends.
Number of CD's I've bought
from hearing songs on the radio in the last 10 years?
None!
I want to buy cd's by the track...
not the complete album.
Don't make me buy an entire album of music to get one
track that I like.
Real Artists produce music because they have to for
their own self satisfaction...
NOT for the money.
Kinda sucks being a CS student at Unlv... *sigh* Ok.. so it's better than nothing... but then again.. Unlv isn't know for it's stellar CS program, eh? I don't live on campus... I commute... There are a few folks that go there that also belong to the local lvlug.... The rest of the campus seems dead as far as Linux is concerned. The guys in the Unix labs don't even have a clue about Linux... at least not the ones I spoke with on occasion. I've been using it for 6 years now... I love it... I recommend it when I feel it's appropriate.... I would like to be able to use it on campus computers. I'd like to run into at least ONE other person a week that runs Linux. The campus is dead. (all above statements have a modifier applied. I ama a cave dwelling computer/internet junkie. 3/4ths' of my time is spent on the internet or dinking with hardware I have on hand.)
Your math sucks...
That's 200$ TOTAL...
Not 500$ total for a 700mhz...
and for the most part.... most of the 500's you
get these days are just 700's underclocked...
it's the SAME chip.
Personally I'm ordering a 500.
I will be quite happy with a 500.
If I get more than 500mhz with a 65$
overclocking card I'll be ecstatic.
If I get 800mhz... I'll have saved myself approx
500$.
We'll see, eh?
Yes.. it has dipswitches.. but c'mon.. who
here is afraid of dip switches?
It's also 60$ and not 100+
www.ninjamicro.com
They really need to work on it's integration with
linux... *shrug*
Unless you're using a card that it's been tweaked for
(and not just a card that's 'supported')
It can be a real pain in the ass.
Can we say endless problems?
Anyone else have it take down their X setup?
Anyone ever 'successfully' remove it from their
system with no ill effects?
If they figure it out... I'll buy it.. but until then
I'll take the extra 10 minutes to tweak my Xfree config file.
Works freakin great... waaay better than Microsuck ever thought of.
I can type, talk, read and plan my evening all at the same time.
(and I know others that can do all that and more. Faster too)
That's not counting breathing, etc. etc. etc...
I would think that it would be like any other task
that you do normally that would require training
to become second nature.
I've run equipment that was overwhelmingly complex the first
time I was introduced to it.
In one month I was running it in my sleep. *shrug*
Make it a little less invasive and I'll be first in line.
Hell I'd still do it now if they needed test subjects. *shrug* I'd help out for that cause.
As far as I'm concerned.... the reason there's so much
hate and misery among the geeks is that we have to live
in a society of morons that come up with this crap.
Is it just me... or has the IQ per capita gone down drastically
in the last 20 years?
Try growing up in the school system of rural PA with an exceptional
IQ.
Yes... I played with explosives, owned guns and basically fit the profile at age 13. The only reason
I never killed anyone is because I knew that was something
that was way out of line. Just not something you do.
Kinda glad I was raised that way, aren't you?
Get the morons outta the fast lane... they're clogging traffic. *sigh*
Computer Mags will go the way of the dinosaur. *sigh*
I too used to anxiously await the new months issue of several
computer magazines. These days I'm just dissappointed in the content. *shrug*
The main turn off for me is that over 90% of them are geared
towards people who don't know jack about computers.
Computer magazines have been the same for years and years
and years and years. Someone needs to come up with an
entirely new format. What this would be I have no idea... *shrug*
but as things stand now, I don't see a whole lot of them being in business in the next 10 years.
(hell, even 5 years)
What I WOULD like to see are E-print E-Zines. Someone
mentioned that it's kinda hard to drag the laptop or desktop
into the bathroom... I understand how they feel.
AND... Given an E-Print reader, one could download the magazine (from a secure site for a fee??) and
have it easily transportable. That would actually be nice.
This method would also allow them to make updated
news available constantly. Now if you can just figure
out a wireless update method... (neat) you could have
updated news all the time. (leave some way to seperate
the news you haven't read from the updated, eh?)
Just my take