I have a FX4170 and its not the fastest chip in the barn, but its a damn fast lower midrange chip that is plenty quick for everything I do, including current games, what made me go with intel for the next machine (my wifes) was the obscene amount of power these thing suck down compared to the i7
I dont really need faster if its going to jackhammer a 700 watt power supply
otherwise free software isnt free, you have to take perfectly good machine with working software package, take the time to remove all that reinstall free software that may or may not do the job (IE bill makes a presentation on MS office and java office pukes the formatting right in front of the customer), Then who is going to support it when it doesnt work? Are you going to hunt bugs all day, don't you have a job to do? Who is going to retrain everyone, I know OS's are fundamentally similar, but Jesus move an icon and Mary can no longer function?
non software company's don't want to deal with that, they want to go to dell.com, choose a box click the option for MS office and be done with it. Its cheap, it works with everybody else, just about everyone knows how to use it, and it doesnt take months to restructure your entire IT system... for what? A political statement.
well a properly designed mechanical interlock is made out of good metal, a button is plastic with essentially a domed sliver of metal inside just thick enough for it to snap back, if you are lucky... rubber contacts if you are not
yea sounds like free (as in speech) only matters when you can do it for free (as in beer)
cost of freedom, apparently millions of dollars, and he would take what is provided than nothing, aka sounds abit on the wishy washy side for someone who is such an ass about freedom
while we agree that they can make it shitty anyway they want, please indulge me on how keyless ignition works, you just will the car to start and via magic pixies it starts with no buttons or connections?
no matter how abstract you make it, somewhere there is a wire connected to the starter motor and something that controls the state of that wire (whether is a button in your dash or on your keyfob)
software doesnt help with a junky button and bad connections, or crushing parts while putting them in the plastic housing (seen that last one many times with GM)
the person above just wants to make it sound as bad as possible so you will freak out and slather your house in solar panels... made in china... using the most ungreen methods possible
ok if you are going to act like an ass and start off with "tardy governments and IT administrators" and "your mom and dad are yet again safe to use their old Windows XP beige box" whats your selling point other than wake up grandma and shell out monies
I understand XP needs to go, I ditched it years ago, but you have to do better than "cause microsoft said so" or acting like a snotty ass eleitest
counting for inflation to 2007 dollars it took 267.7 million to build, not to mention the safety risk of disassembling an irradiated environment that probably had every square inch covered in asbestos and lead paint, in the day and age where a contractor cant even scrape a window sill without getting it lab tested...
I have no idea what that incoherent blob of text is even attempting to say, maybe people would understand you better if you stuck to one thought per paragraph and not ASSume
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I benchmarked a 2.25 ghz amd barton vs a 2.5ghz i5 and the difference was much more than huge, it almost obliterated the barton off the scale
thats a 2004 cpu vs a 2011 cpu, raw speed is not anywhere close as a performance measurement
CPU Rating:
AMD A-XP 2.25GHZx1 517 (year 2005)
AMD Athlon II 2.5GHZx2 1342 (year 2009)
Intel i5 2.5GHZx2 1752 (year 2011)
using CPU speed to tell you how fast it is, is like using horsepower to tell you how fast a car is
and if you honestly think software is not much more capable than it was 15 years ago then you use nothing that requires a faster CPU
I have a FX4170 and its not the fastest chip in the barn, but its a damn fast lower midrange chip that is plenty quick for everything I do, including current games, what made me go with intel for the next machine (my wifes) was the obscene amount of power these thing suck down compared to the i7
I dont really need faster if its going to jackhammer a 700 watt power supply
and they are typically correct
otherwise free software isnt free, you have to take perfectly good machine with working software package, take the time to remove all that reinstall free software that may or may not do the job (IE bill makes a presentation on MS office and java office pukes the formatting right in front of the customer), Then who is going to support it when it doesnt work? Are you going to hunt bugs all day, don't you have a job to do? Who is going to retrain everyone, I know OS's are fundamentally similar, but Jesus move an icon and Mary can no longer function?
non software company's don't want to deal with that, they want to go to dell.com, choose a box click the option for MS office and be done with it. Its cheap, it works with everybody else, just about everyone knows how to use it, and it doesnt take months to restructure your entire IT system ... for what? A political statement.
well a properly designed mechanical interlock is made out of good metal, a button is plastic with essentially a domed sliver of metal inside just thick enough for it to snap back, if you are lucky... rubber contacts if you are not
yea sounds like free (as in speech) only matters when you can do it for free (as in beer)
cost of freedom, apparently millions of dollars, and he would take what is provided than nothing, aka sounds abit on the wishy washy side for someone who is such an ass about freedom
feature phone, anything that does more than just make calls, and is not a smartphone
real popular in the early to mid 2000's
now get off my lawn
your whining to some unchecked inbox wont do a single bit of good
linux is cute in two places, very serious work, and fucking around with your machine, tween those two extremes is where 99% of the rest of us live
while we agree that they can make it shitty anyway they want, please indulge me on how keyless ignition works, you just will the car to start and via magic pixies it starts with no buttons or connections?
no matter how abstract you make it, somewhere there is a wire connected to the starter motor and something that controls the state of that wire (whether is a button in your dash or on your keyfob)
software doesnt help with a junky button and bad connections, or crushing parts while putting them in the plastic housing (seen that last one many times with GM)
there is, every car I have ever been in can be knocked into neutral and has a ratcheting emergency brake
the person above just wants to make it sound as bad as possible so you will freak out and slather your house in solar panels ... made in china ... using the most ungreen methods possible
half the time on demand wont work, the other half it bitches about the cable box THEY JUST GAVE ME
on demand is so easy its useless
ok if you are going to act like an ass and start off with "tardy governments and IT administrators" and "your mom and dad are yet again safe to use their old Windows XP beige box" whats your selling point other than wake up grandma and shell out monies
I understand XP needs to go, I ditched it years ago, but you have to do better than "cause microsoft said so" or acting like a snotty ass eleitest
Sounds like ST Generations where they shoehorned in a old and fat kirk toasting marshmallows in for no real reason
counting for inflation to 2007 dollars it took 267.7 million to build, not to mention the safety risk of disassembling an irradiated environment that probably had every square inch covered in asbestos and lead paint, in the day and age where a contractor cant even scrape a window sill without getting it lab tested ...
you have no idea what the internet is, do you?
all I have to do is update the dead links with new links that wont go to the dead links I never bothered updating in the first place
it is if you want your company to be more than a 1 time, "that was neat" fad for rich people that need a toy
yea cause all the stupid people will have exploded plastic gun sticking out of their face when they die, we wont need them anymore
says so in the article, but haha who would read that, its slashdot
I have no idea what that incoherent blob of text is even attempting to say, maybe people would understand you better if you stuck to one thought per paragraph and not ASSume
as shitty as open / libre office is you can set the default save to excel 2003
2003 seems about the time open / libre office qurit development, let alone gave a shit about standards
Gimp is fairly decent for a Photosho 6.0 alternative
fixed that for you