What I want to know is why do high-end server systems need special 3D-rendering instructions?
I want to know how their special 3D instructions are going to help my shoddy internet connection. If their ads are to be believed, all I need to make the net come alive is a P-III chip. Wow! I guess I can stop coveting a cable modem or ADSL connection, then.
That's the problem with handing out wholesale moderator privileges. You get a bunch of dorks on power trips handing out numbers (both positive and negative) just 'cause they can.
And since we all know who the moderators are, we're all sooooooo impressed and awestruck by their display of moderatory prowess.
Well, I was going to spend my tax return on a 128 MB DIMM and a TNT2 card, but now . . . gosh. I'm just so torn!:P WTF is up with that price, anyway? It's got to be a snafu, yes?
I had a URL included when I submitted this yesterday.:P There's a link to the company at the bottom of the story in CNN's Tech section. Can't remember what it is.
Was there a point to that article, really? Maybe I've just not had enough coffee yet this morning, but it seemed like all he said was, "BlahblahblahLinuxblahblahLinux! Look! I'm writing about Linux! Read me, everyone! Blah blahLinux."
I bought a new SB 16 for my computer at work just a couple of months ago. It was $20 after shipping. And, of course, compatible with everything. Does it blow me away? No. Can I hear noise with it? Yes. =D
I agree with you completely, though. Avoid integrated systems like the plague. A friend of mine has an integrated Acer, and it has kept him from upgrading much of anything (aside from memory and hard drive), because to change one thing he'd have to change the whole damn mess.
>Of course, the '98 versions and '00 versions of >Office will do things in new, incompatible ways >for no apparent benefit....
What! Noooo! The '98 & '00 versions are UPGRADES, based on SPECIFIC INPUTS of USERS. They are all very INNOVATIVE, and designed for enhanced EASE OF USE.
And the USERS WANT them to be embedded in the OS! It's the NEXT LOGICAL STEP.
Warning: Satire saturation reached! Loss of straigt face imminent!
Actually, some Troll on a ZDNet "talkback" section hinted at that. Might have been BS, but it still made me shudder when he/she (who claimed to work at M$) was mentioning plans to make a M$ Linux and a proprietary GUI interface.
You're not a real Mac user, are you? We have a Mac fanatic in our office, and she has to have separate extensions folders, with and without MacOffice. With them, her computer is too sluggish for day to day operation, and it crashes quite regularly.
That is a _really_ cool idea, but it seems like it would set back the laptop's "miniaturization" process quite a bit. I'm not a ME, but I'd still have to think that adding that sort of mechanism --and making it effective-- to a laptop would really bulk it up.
I like the penguin. It was the penguin that convinced me to go ahead and make the switch over from Wind'oh!s. I like being associated with an OS that has a mascot that looks so damn happy. --
#2 is extreme because there are an unfortunately large number of/. readers that are forced to use Wind'oh!s based crap at work.
Or, as someone else mentioned, some people can't get connected to an ISP via Linux.
Currently I fall into the former category, but I'm thinking of switching my desktop machine over some evening "after hours" and seeing how long it takes my bosses to notice. heh heh
Hi! My name is Ben Simmons, and I live in Moultrie, GA.
Sure, you can trace my IP address and at least start to suspect (if, that is, you know where foo.anl.gov is located physically) that I'm full of crap, but how to prove it?
Banning AC's won't stop people from posting anonymously. Or rather, it won't necessarily make them post honestly.
Well, since they differentiate between a "rolling demo" and a "playable demo," I'd guess it's either just that or perhaps a bunch of cut scenes taped together.
It didn't really make it CRASH. It just came up with some _completely_ bogus error message that was more than enough to scare people away from DR DOS.
It had no bearing on the functionality of Windows. It was just FUD
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Actually, I think the Hitler reference was fairly right on. What Hitler did for Germany immediately after WWI was tremendous. He gave Germans a sense of national pride back, and unified them to be the best damn Germans they could be. Hence the "Man of the Year" award.
It's just that somewhere in there what was best for Germany was obviously killing non-aryans and taking over the rest of the world. That is not good, and no one in their right mind would ever argue that it is. That's the aforementioned "point" that he was good up to.
True, you can argue that Hitler himself never was truly "good," and that all his reforms in Germany between WWI and WWII were just to achieve his twisted goals, but regardless of why he did it, he made a lot of good changes in Germany after WWI. Then erased it, of course, by being a raging psychopath...or whatever.
(yeah, that last statement is weak, but I just _can't_ end the argument making it sound like I'm sticking up for Hitler. Gives me the willies.)
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What I want to know is why do high-end server systems need special 3D-rendering instructions?
I want to know how their special 3D instructions are going to help my shoddy internet connection. If their ads are to be believed, all I need to make the net come alive is a P-III chip. Wow! I guess I can stop coveting a cable modem or ADSL connection, then.
Marketing dorks.That's the problem with handing out wholesale moderator privileges. You get a bunch of dorks on power trips handing out numbers (both positive and negative) just 'cause they can.
And since we all know who the moderators are, we're all sooooooo impressed and awestruck by their display of moderatory prowess.
Urk. Too much sarcasm. Must drink more coffee.
Well, I was going to spend my tax return on a 128 MB DIMM and a TNT2 card, but now . . . gosh. I'm just so torn! :P WTF is up with that price, anyway? It's got to be a snafu, yes?
I had a URL included when I submitted this yesterday. :P There's a link to the company at the bottom of the story in CNN's Tech section. Can't remember what it is.
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Slackware?
Was there a point to that article, really? Maybe I've just not had enough coffee yet this morning, but it seemed like all he said was, "BlahblahblahLinuxblahblahLinux! Look! I'm writing about Linux! Read me, everyone! Blah blahLinux."
:P
Yeesh.
I thought, from the scenes in the trailer, that Mickey Rooney was playing Yoda.
Amen to that!!! Well okay, I only have a Riva128. I'm still stuck in Linux Graphics Limbo. Ugh.
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Don't respond to what?
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BWAH-HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!
Ooooh, that was rich. I nearly wept. Well done!
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What are you talking about? Granted, it depends on your definition of "good," but I know for a fact you can get:
Good, cheap quality mobo: ~$70
Good, cheap quality video: not sure
Good, cheap quality sound: $20
I bought a new SB 16 for my computer at work just a couple of months ago. It was $20 after shipping. And, of course, compatible with everything. Does it blow me away? No. Can I hear noise with it? Yes. =D
I agree with you completely, though. Avoid integrated systems like the plague. A friend of mine has an integrated Acer, and it has kept him from upgrading much of anything (aside from memory and hard drive), because to change one thing he'd have to change the whole damn mess.
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It took you that long to get skeptical about ZDNet and Microsoft?
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>Of course, the '98 versions and '00 versions of
>Office will do things in new, incompatible ways
>for no apparent benefit....
What! Noooo! The '98 & '00 versions are UPGRADES, based on SPECIFIC INPUTS of USERS. They are all very INNOVATIVE, and designed for enhanced EASE OF USE.
And the USERS WANT them to be embedded in the OS! It's the NEXT LOGICAL STEP.
Warning: Satire saturation reached! Loss of straigt face imminent!
How can believe the crap they spew forth?
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Actually, some Troll on a ZDNet "talkback" section hinted at that. Might have been BS, but it still made me shudder when he/she (who claimed to work at M$) was mentioning plans to make a M$ Linux and a proprietary GUI interface.
Barf.
You're not a real Mac user, are you? We have a Mac fanatic in our office, and she has to have separate extensions folders, with and without MacOffice. With them, her computer is too sluggish for day to day operation, and it crashes quite regularly.
At home she uses WordPerfect, and swears by it.
That is a _really_ cool idea, but it seems like it would set back the laptop's "miniaturization" process quite a bit. I'm not a ME, but I'd still have to think that adding that sort of mechanism --and making it effective-- to a laptop would really bulk it up.
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There's always Micr$oft. For now, anyway.
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I like the penguin. It was the penguin that convinced me to go ahead and make the switch over from Wind'oh!s. I like being associated with an OS that has a mascot that looks so damn happy. --
#2 is extreme because there are an unfortunately large number of /. readers that are forced to use Wind'oh!s based crap at work.
Or, as someone else mentioned, some people can't get connected to an ISP via Linux.
Currently I fall into the former category, but I'm thinking of switching my desktop machine over some evening "after hours" and seeing how long it takes my bosses to notice. heh heh
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Yeah, that would work.
Hi! My name is Ben Simmons, and I live in Moultrie, GA.
Sure, you can trace my IP address and at least start to suspect (if, that is, you know where foo.anl.gov is located physically) that I'm full of crap, but how to prove it?
Banning AC's won't stop people from posting anonymously. Or rather, it won't necessarily make them post honestly.
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Well, at least it's different.
Well, since they differentiate between a "rolling demo" and a "playable demo," I'd guess it's either just that or perhaps a bunch of cut scenes taped together.
It didn't really make it CRASH. It just came up with some _completely_ bogus error message that was more than enough to scare people away from DR DOS.
It had no bearing on the functionality of Windows. It was just FUD
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Actually, I think the Hitler reference was fairly right on. What Hitler did for Germany immediately after WWI was tremendous. He gave Germans a sense of national pride back, and unified them to be the best damn Germans they could be. Hence the "Man of the Year" award.
It's just that somewhere in there what was best for Germany was obviously killing non-aryans and taking over the rest of the world. That is not good, and no one in their right mind would ever argue that it is. That's the aforementioned "point" that he was good up to.
True, you can argue that Hitler himself never was truly "good," and that all his reforms in Germany between WWI and WWII were just to achieve his twisted goals, but regardless of why he did it, he made a lot of good changes in Germany after WWI. Then erased it, of course, by being a raging psychopath...or whatever.
(yeah, that last statement is weak, but I just _can't_ end the argument making it sound like I'm sticking up for Hitler. Gives me the willies.)
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I think they're running on an NT server . . . .