The driver is. These systems are "aides". Yeah, it can park the car "alone", but the sensors are not good enough to see smaller objects. One of those typical traffic cones are run over in no time when put behind the car. (Saw this in a TV show presenting the systems)
The thing is: the driver is still responsible for what his car does. He should look if there are obstacles. He's still in charge: as soon as he hit the brakes the system stops. It's like cruise control... Nobody is going to argue that a driver putting his cruise control at 150mph isn't an idiot. Same thing here....
Why? I think it's funny. Actually, it's the first April Fools that they played so well along. (My memory might be lacking)
The theme needs some tweaking (some headlines disappear, notably in journals), but one could keep it in the section grllz.slashdot.org and post computer/girl related stuff there. You know, like the announcement of a new Tomb Raider, or coverage of Ceren Ercen (I know she is retired by now), stuff like that...
Did it have to do with daylight savings time? I for one am amazed how many people actually didn't know that many devices adapt automatically (newer DVD, VCR and TV). Oh, and if they don't, they often have a switch "DST active" or not. Examples: the PlayStation2 and many cellphones. Heck, my cellphone has a timezone setting and I'm sure only 0.1% of the population has it set correctly.
I didn't keep track... Simply because I never managed to convert anyone. Mostly it was "they are pretty and nice, but they are too expensive" (which you and I know isn't true) After my iBook broke, I went back to PCs. My iBook died shortly after the Intel announcement, so I wasn't willing to invest in dying technology (the Gx series). Oh, and getting my hands on a second hand laptop for 100€ didn't help in that decision.
So, in a sense, I have a -1 convert rate. Oh, guess that by stating this I just admitted keeping track after all, eh?
The last one converted to Gmail 6 months ago, here at the office, when Groupwise got replaced bij Outlook. Everyone uses Gmail.
Unless you mean "uses Gmail for their personal email", I think most people in your company should take a look at the user agreement bound to GMail.
About a year ago, I remember that in the context of some investigation, the police opened up a hotmail account to get hints/tips. When I heard that I on the radio, I tought "Uh-Oh: Somebody at their IT department need to kick up some dust." Apparently, nobody did.
Surprise, surprise, the account was hacked and the police was in a very bad position. Of course, Microsoft just pointed at their user agreement. Totally within their right. GMail is theh same as Hotmail in those regards: they are strictly for personal use.
(The country where it happened is Luxembourg... Tiny country I know, so it's relevant to nobody. Yeah, we do have such stupid police investigators.)
Need RAM? Try Kahlon.com. They virtually have everything you could think of. I don't work there, I just am a very satisfied customer. (They even were very cooperative when I tried to pay them from Europe, which is where I live)
Obviously, few (if any) business users need anything more than a Pentium III running at 500 MHz. That processor is perfectly acceptable for business applications like OpenOffice.
As for this comment: I know everybody is going to say that it isn't true. It is. I am writing this just right now on a P-III 600MHz laptop with 512Meg RAM and OpenOffice works just fine. It takes a bit to load, but once it's running, it runs fine. Of course, I know what runs on my computer and right now only 30 processes run. Far from typical in the Windows world where everyone and his dog run multiple spyware proggies;-)
Uhm, I run XP daily on a P-III 600Mhz and it's just fine... As long as I keep Win2000 mode. I agree that it won't matter much on a 2GHz CPU, but on low end machines, Luna is a hog.
You are calling me dumb because I know which hardware is adequate for a certain task? Hey, I just accused that Windows defaults to the highest possible (but not reasonable) defaults. That's dumb... No matter what. It's better to sacrifice eyecandy for speed. It's that simple.
Windows XP didn't do that and that is wrong.
And a P-III 500MHz was definatly not high-end when XP came out... Everyone was running P-IVs by then.
so yes, I expect Vista to run in classic windows mode on a 1ghz AMD w/ a GForce 5600 graphics card. It won't be blazing fast, but it should run basic apps (office/web browser/email) with out a problem.
Except you seem to forget that a P-III 500MHz with 256Meg RAM and a NVidia TNT2 does this right now just fine on Windows XP. (My mother in law uses such a machine) Not fast, but just fine. Will Vista? After all, you mention a GeForce5600... I Just *upgraded* my *workstation* (which is a Dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+ with 4Gig RAM) to a GeForce FX 5500!!!!
Point is: most Athlon 1GHz didn't come with a GeForce 5600... Keep that in mind. Normal users do not upgrade graphic cards. If you think Athlon 1GHz, think more in the line of GeForce2 MX.
The guy who wrote this should have done some research. You can run Vista without the Aero Glass UI being active, just as Windows XP can be dumbed down to look, feel, act and perform like Windows 2000 (except with much faster booting times).
As someone who runs XP in "2000 mode", I agree.... BUT, we are not the common user. I have yet to see an average user remove the Luna theme. Most just use how it is configured by default. Frankly, if they knew that disabling all this crap would *enhance* their user experience, they would disable it. They don't do it because they don't know. They say: "IIiirks, it looks ugly/old now", immediately revert and don't understand that their (older) machine would run like a champ.
P-III 600MHz/512Meg RAM laptop on WinXP Pro in classic mode here... And it frankly beats many default XP desktops I have seen.... (Spyware at fault of course...)
Because I don't trust microsoft to detect it correctly. They said the same about Windows XP. I remember that "a slower machine would not default to Luna". I installed XP on a P-III 500MHz with 256Meg RAM and it still defaulted to Luna. Can you explain that? I can't because it's just dumb. The machine didn't have the ooompha to run Luna, but yet XP defaulted to it.
I expect Vista to default to "as much eyecandy as possible" on every hardware platform. Aero will run on a P-IV 2GHz/256Meg RAM (those exists, and you know it) with onboard GFX card. It will run bad, but microsoft will want to show off and thus will use Areo....
Sad, but true...
:-) When I was writing my comment I tought someone would bring up embedded devices. Oddly enough, even those are migrating. Look at the soekris you linked to (which I know, I'm an OpenBSD fan... you get the picture) They are going for Pentium compatibility now too (model net4801 and 4826 are AMD Geode CPUs which are Pentium compatible, I think) A lot of embedded stuff is also based ARM, which is a completely different beast.
Well, I wonder... NetBSD and OpenBSD i386 line might just still work on a pure 386 out of the box. I don't know... I know that a few years ago, I salvaged a 486 and it was hell to get anything non-MS to run on it. FreeDOS worked, but apart from that. (Not being able to boot from CD didn't help, so I didn't try out all possibilities)
I don't have kids yet, and right now I don't know if I'll give them a PC when their time comes. Alas, it seems to be pretty much common that kids have their PC in their rooms. It's going to be hard to argue with them if they can say "but all my friends have their PC in their room". I know, I know: "If all of your friends jumped a cliff would you?" is a counterargument, but one I hated myself when my parents used it.
I personally didn't have my own PC until I was 17, and the family PC was always in the living room and had to be shared with my siblings. That was, of course, years before we had the internet but getting pr0n wasn't a problem by sharing with friends either...;-)
Anyway, I think that if I'd give my kids a computer for their room, they will have to ask me to activate the internet. I like the fact that all my machines are networked, and do not want to give up that functionality.
Personally, my plan is just to setup a firewall rule that their PC's won't be able to access the internet. When they ask, I can activate it and spend time with them on the internet.
Actually, I already do that when the 14 year old brother of my wife comes to visit us. He only has access to my wifes PC and after a certain hour, a cronjob desactivates the internet connection. If he complains, I just tell him that I can't do anything for him. Of course, that's a lie, but what do I care?
I know about the existence of the FPU chips, I also know how they were named. The thing is: nobody had them. I just looked on ebay for one. Not much people offering one.
We talk about i386 code all the time.
We do, but we just don't mean 386 as in the chip 386. No modern software is compiled for that chip anymore. Sure, you can run Linux on it, but try finding me a mainstream disto that still does out of the box. Today one compiles for a Pentium, or a Pentium Pro, that is simple a matter of fact. Oh, and the 486 did have a whole new architecture, but from the point of the compiler/programmer not much changed to the 386. There were just a few more instructions if I recall correctly.
today it's still the target for the ultimate in backward compatibility.
I agree with this. If you want to write software today, that runs on anything built the last 15 years, you'd better do that. On the other hand: how much software has that requirement?
We're talking about a 14 year old, here... Not about you. Don't you think a 14 year old has better stuff to do than to spend so much money on a computer? Money that is not his own, by the way. I can assure you that his mommy is going to pony up the dough.
Long answer: Young rich protogeeks that do not want to listen to old farts like me. The little brother of my wife (10 years apart... don't ask...) is one of these. He is essentially a single-kid from divorced parents. You can bet he has more money than me in his age. Three years ago, he got a P-IV 2.6GHz, with an Okay graphics card and DVD-Writer and whatever. Big bucks back then. I gave him an extra 512Meg DDR-400MHz RAM to add to his current 512Meg DDR-400MHz RAM. Sure we are in the +3GHz these days, but in my opinion that system is still an okay system for gaming. Sure the graphic card lacks, but run the games at 800x600 and you're okay.
Well, he doesn't think so. I budgetted some new *components* (not a complete PC) and I already came at over 1400€.... and that was with me being on the lower side of the upper-range. I know what kind of money he has.... I hope that he will back off and keep his system for a while. However, when he found the missing 400€, he'll be knocking on my door again.
So, yes, these n00bs exists that think they need the greatest and most expensive hardware. It takes experience to value what one has *and* use older machines where other people think they need expensive new machines.
Except that it isn't exactly the "base architecture". I don't know for the P-IV, but I do know that both the P-II and P-III were both based on the Pentium Pro, which introduced the concept of a x86 front-end with a RISC backend.
Today, if we talk about x86 compatibility, we rarely talk about 386 compatibility. The *least* would be 486DX, since the 386 didn't have FPU. Personally, I consider the PPro to be the current base architecture. Hey, I had a PPro200 and it served our family well as a desktop until late 2002.
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The thing is: the driver is still responsible for what his car does. He should look if there are obstacles. He's still in charge: as soon as he hit the brakes the system stops. It's like cruise control... Nobody is going to argue that a driver putting his cruise control at 150mph isn't an idiot. Same thing here....
Yeah, and if you didn't partition correctly.... Donwload GParted and be done with it.
I'm going to try it. Thanks :-)
Anything TweakUI does is change some registry settings. Tell me what registry settings I need to change, and I do not need TweakUI....
- Informative = Troll
- Insightful = Flamebait
- Overrated = Underrated
- Interesting = Redundant
- Funny = Offtopic
And of course their respective inverses.Personally, it would be cool if slashcode only allowed "Funny" mods on the first April. Anybody going to make a patch for that?`;-)
The theme needs some tweaking (some headlines disappear, notably in journals), but one could keep it in the section grllz.slashdot.org and post computer/girl related stuff there. You know, like the announcement of a new Tomb Raider, or coverage of Ceren Ercen (I know she is retired by now), stuff like that...
Did it have to do with daylight savings time? I for one am amazed how many people actually didn't know that many devices adapt automatically (newer DVD, VCR and TV). Oh, and if they don't, they often have a switch "DST active" or not. Examples: the PlayStation2 and many cellphones.
Heck, my cellphone has a timezone setting and I'm sure only 0.1% of the population has it set correctly.
So, in a sense, I have a -1 convert rate. Oh, guess that by stating this I just admitted keeping track after all, eh?
Unless you mean "uses Gmail for their personal email", I think most people in your company should take a look at the user agreement bound to GMail.
About a year ago, I remember that in the context of some investigation, the police opened up a hotmail account to get hints/tips. When I heard that I on the radio, I tought "Uh-Oh: Somebody at their IT department need to kick up some dust." Apparently, nobody did.
Surprise, surprise, the account was hacked and the police was in a very bad position. Of course, Microsoft just pointed at their user agreement. Totally within their right. GMail is theh same as Hotmail in those regards: they are strictly for personal use.
(The country where it happened is Luxembourg... Tiny country I know, so it's relevant to nobody. Yeah, we do have such stupid police investigators.)
Who wants to bet that it will ship by default with Vista? Or included into XP with a "critical update"?
spam? Use greylisting... Works like a charm, I get one spam a month and Thunderbird takes care of that one.
Nope. From the OpenOffice.org about page: The source is written in C++
Obviously, few (if any) business users need anything more than a Pentium III running at 500 MHz. That processor is perfectly acceptable for business applications like OpenOffice.
As for this comment: I know everybody is going to say that it isn't true. It is. I am writing this just right now on a P-III 600MHz laptop with 512Meg RAM and OpenOffice works just fine. It takes a bit to load, but once it's running, it runs fine. Of course, I know what runs on my computer and right now only 30 processes run. Far from typical in the Windows world where everyone and his dog run multiple spyware proggies ;-)
Uhm, I run XP daily on a P-III 600Mhz and it's just fine... As long as I keep Win2000 mode. I agree that it won't matter much on a 2GHz CPU, but on low end machines, Luna is a hog.
Windows XP didn't do that and that is wrong.
And a P-III 500MHz was definatly not high-end when XP came out... Everyone was running P-IVs by then.
Except you seem to forget that a P-III 500MHz with 256Meg RAM and a NVidia TNT2 does this right now just fine on Windows XP. (My mother in law uses such a machine) Not fast, but just fine. Will Vista? After all, you mention a GeForce5600... I Just *upgraded* my *workstation* (which is a Dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+ with 4Gig RAM) to a GeForce FX 5500!!!!
Point is: most Athlon 1GHz didn't come with a GeForce 5600... Keep that in mind. Normal users do not upgrade graphic cards. If you think Athlon 1GHz, think more in the line of GeForce2 MX.
As someone who runs XP in "2000 mode", I agree.... BUT, we are not the common user. I have yet to see an average user remove the Luna theme. Most just use how it is configured by default. Frankly, if they knew that disabling all this crap would *enhance* their user experience, they would disable it. They don't do it because they don't know. They say: "IIiirks, it looks ugly/old now", immediately revert and don't understand that their (older) machine would run like a champ.
P-III 600MHz/512Meg RAM laptop on WinXP Pro in classic mode here... And it frankly beats many default XP desktops I have seen.... (Spyware at fault of course...)
I expect Vista to default to "as much eyecandy as possible" on every hardware platform. Aero will run on a P-IV 2GHz/256Meg RAM (those exists, and you know it) with onboard GFX card. It will run bad, but microsoft will want to show off and thus will use Areo....
Sad, but true...
Well, I wonder... NetBSD and OpenBSD i386 line might just still work on a pure 386 out of the box. I don't know... I know that a few years ago, I salvaged a 486 and it was hell to get anything non-MS to run on it. FreeDOS worked, but apart from that. (Not being able to boot from CD didn't help, so I didn't try out all possibilities)
I personally didn't have my own PC until I was 17, and the family PC was always in the living room and had to be shared with my siblings. That was, of course, years before we had the internet but getting pr0n wasn't a problem by sharing with friends either... ;-)
Anyway, I think that if I'd give my kids a computer for their room, they will have to ask me to activate the internet. I like the fact that all my machines are networked, and do not want to give up that functionality.
Personally, my plan is just to setup a firewall rule that their PC's won't be able to access the internet. When they ask, I can activate it and spend time with them on the internet.
Actually, I already do that when the 14 year old brother of my wife comes to visit us. He only has access to my wifes PC and after a certain hour, a cronjob desactivates the internet connection. If he complains, I just tell him that I can't do anything for him. Of course, that's a lie, but what do I care?
We talk about i386 code all the time.
We do, but we just don't mean 386 as in the chip 386. No modern software is compiled for that chip anymore. Sure, you can run Linux on it, but try finding me a mainstream disto that still does out of the box. Today one compiles for a Pentium, or a Pentium Pro, that is simple a matter of fact.
Oh, and the 486 did have a whole new architecture, but from the point of the compiler/programmer not much changed to the 386. There were just a few more instructions if I recall correctly.
today it's still the target for the ultimate in backward compatibility.
I agree with this. If you want to write software today, that runs on anything built the last 15 years, you'd better do that. On the other hand: how much software has that requirement?
We're talking about a 14 year old, here... Not about you.
Don't you think a 14 year old has better stuff to do than to spend so much money on a computer? Money that is not his own, by the way. I can assure you that his mommy is going to pony up the dough.
Long answer: Young rich protogeeks that do not want to listen to old farts like me. The little brother of my wife (10 years apart... don't ask...) is one of these. He is essentially a single-kid from divorced parents. You can bet he has more money than me in his age. Three years ago, he got a P-IV 2.6GHz, with an Okay graphics card and DVD-Writer and whatever. Big bucks back then. I gave him an extra 512Meg DDR-400MHz RAM to add to his current 512Meg DDR-400MHz RAM. Sure we are in the +3GHz these days, but in my opinion that system is still an okay system for gaming. Sure the graphic card lacks, but run the games at 800x600 and you're okay.
Well, he doesn't think so. I budgetted some new *components* (not a complete PC) and I already came at over 1400€.... and that was with me being on the lower side of the upper-range. I know what kind of money he has.... I hope that he will back off and keep his system for a while. However, when he found the missing 400€, he'll be knocking on my door again.
So, yes, these n00bs exists that think they need the greatest and most expensive hardware. It takes experience to value what one has *and* use older machines where other people think they need expensive new machines.
Today, if we talk about x86 compatibility, we rarely talk about 386 compatibility. The *least* would be 486DX, since the 386 didn't have FPU. Personally, I consider the PPro to be the current base architecture. Hey, I had a PPro200 and it served our family well as a desktop until late 2002 .