Explain me what is so cool about Google Earth. Yeah, it's fun to play around with, but frankly I have yet to find a use for it. For wasting time and looking at pretty pics it's okay, but for the rest?
Look at it as an "iPhoto for Windows". That's about it. Personally, I didn't want it but when my wife wanted to organize photos and she isn't really into folders and hierarchical structures, it was the best tool for the job.
Doesn't the Bugatti have a single engine? Later in the article they say that they merged two V engines into a W configuration. It's still one single engine block.
As for two engines: it is equally useless with RWD.... All cars with two engines that I know of are AWD, which is quite logical:
Probably enterprise version versus home version: the home version is a piece of crap.. The enterprise version was kinda lean last time I had an encounter with it. It's still no exuse.
I have to admit that it is one thing that I didn't understand that they changed in Windows XP. In both Windows NT4 and Windows 2000, you just pressed "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" and the "Change Password" button was right there. I have yet to find the easy way in Windows XP.
But then, I don't understand a great many things that they changed XP. For example the control panel... It was perfect in W2k... Why those insanely stupid categories. No wonder I run XP with the W2k interface;-)
I agree with all your point though. I prefer mx OpenBSD server over my XP desktop anyday;-)
The Sims 2 doesn't require Admin access. Well, yes, it did in the initial release and it says so on the box. However, you can just download the latest patch and it will fix exactly that problem.
I know, I have an avid Sims 2 player in my family and that family member is in no way going to get Admin access.
My primary laptop is a P-III 600MHz (mobile version) with 512Meg RAM. I do all you describe, and add in there iTunes, Java with Eclipse, and The GIMP (all running at the same time) and I have absolutely no problem. Sure startup times are quite high (a couple of seconds), but I just leave the progs running and then startup times become a non-issue.
You might want to upgrade your RAM: I've seen 2.4GHz machines crawl even with 512Meg RAM because they ran about every program known to man in background.
My guess is that something is really wrong with a 1GHz/1GB RAM machine that can't handle OpenOffice.org + Seamonkey.
Not really. Piracy is based on estimates of "lost sales". For example, now they estimate that Pop-Star-Du-Jour would sell 1M albums and only 500K albums are sold. For them this means that 500K songs have been pirated. How many times it has been really pirated is impossible to say. It might be 2M times or even 0 times.
Now in the Utopian World you describe, the Pop-Star-Du-Jour would sell 0 albums. Nobody would pirate and hence the real piracy rate is 0. However their estimate of pirated albums will still be $ESTIMATED_SALES - $SOLD_ALBUMS, and in my example that would be 1M pirated albums. In their vision, piracy has raised 100%! Regardless of the fact that nobody really pirated anything.
As a defence of DRM, that would be fine... if the content cartels hadn't managed to get a law passed that makes the exercise of fair use not only difficult, but illegal.
I'm aware of that, but that's a US problem for now. The UK and the rest of the EU doesn't have this problem yet. (Wait till the EUCD comes out *sigh*) The situtation for Audio CD's is especially bad: I haven't seen red-book Audio CD's for ages at this side of the big pond.
They are right, but nowhere copyright says that using the material under "Fair use" should be easy. I dislike DRM as the next slashdotter, but the only way not to support DRM is to vote with your money: don't buy the stuff. Of course that is going to be hard, after all we all love our Playstation games, our LoTR DVD's and our (now always crippled) music CDs. Not to mention we all love iTunes because of the convenience.
On top of that, non-slashdotters don't know and even care less than we.
Finally: even if everybody would boycott DRM enabled media, the distributors will blame piracy. It's a lose-lose situation in all cases.
That was exactly what I was saying two years ago... There are some compromises I made. One was that I didn't exactly look at, well, that thing many chicks have complexes about. If I recall correctly it's called "weight".
So, yes, my wife was a bit chubby (but pretty, nonetheless), but as soon as she found someone who genuinely cared and didn't care about this "handicap", she started to lose weight. She just needed someone on whom she could count. That was me, and now "chubby" would be an insult for her.
That, however is my story. For you it might turn out differently, but I can only say one thing: sex with a chubby girl is exactly the same as with a skinny girl. I know, I've had both...
Skype's legal headquarters are (were, pre-Ebay?) based in Luxembourg for tax reasons, but just about nothing else is as far as I understood it.
Exactly. That's the only reason they are here (I live in Luxembourg). Many other tech companies have their "HQ" in Luxembourg. Essentially it's only a PO Box, or a small office with one employee.
Amazon is "Luxembourg" based, but you cannot buy electronics from them to be shipped into Luxembourg. Apple is also "Luxembourg" based, but they don't even have an apple store (They seem to have one for businesses, but definately not for the end-user). There are many many more examples, but it's not as if I can get a tech-job with them.
Luxembourg is pretty much a technology wasteland. The only IT jobs one can get here is in banking. Also Opensource usage is very low here: the mentality of "one has to pay to get something" is very high here. Absurd but true. (Netcraft used(?) to have per country stats and 50% was MS IIS for Luxembourg!!!) The whole education sector has been sold to Microsoft a few years ago and there is pretty much nothing one can do about it.
Well, sure. I'm pretty much convinced one can "have it all". The odds, however, are extremely small. The probability of finding a mate that is beautiful, athletic, smart and on top of that would be interested in *you* are so small that winning the lottery three times in a row starts to look like having good odds.
Settling with a subset of "perfect" is going to be much easier.:-D
find yourself an artsy chick to get down with; one who's pretty smart and asthetically pleasing.
Exactly what I did. We're complement each other perfectly.;-) Sometimes it's a bit hard when she needs to do some math because she totally sucks at it. Explaining it doesn't help much because she seems to block on it. Hey, but she's good in the sack and I think she's pretty.
Yes. Smarts are not a good trait at all. It usually implies that one puts energy in thinking and less in keeping a healthy body. For having good offspring one needs to be fit and show it to the females. Hence, smarts is bad. It's better to be athletic. Chances that you reproduce are greater.
While our civilisation builds upon what smart people have come up with, the survival of the species when civilisation collapses will depend on the non-smart but physically able people. Don't kid yourself: civilisation will eventually collapse. The state we are currently in is more an accident of nature. It will eventually settle back to normality where intelligence is a drawback.
Yes, I'd like to know too. I only know of one way:
sysctl -w hw.setperf=somenumber
This is only supported by very few CPU's and the ones I own don't seem to support it (a P-III 800MHz and a AMD64). Cool 'n Quiet doesn't seem to be supported at all. I'm not complaining, the OpenBSD team probably has other priorities, and perhaps they don't have access to the Cool 'n Quiet specs or so.
I hope for support in one of the following releases.
Well, I didn't think my comment was offtopic or trollish... It was supposed to be funny, making fun of the slashdot slogan. Oh, well.... Complaining won't get me anywhere.
One man's (+5, Funny) is another man's (-1, Troll)
So true... I have seen this indeed in a sig a long time ago. Dunno if the guy is still around. Well, at least you won't take it personal now, and you know that I hold accountants in high esteem.
Slashdot Mirror
Explain me what is so cool about Google Earth. Yeah, it's fun to play around with, but frankly I have yet to find a use for it. For wasting time and looking at pretty pics it's okay, but for the rest?
Personally, I just organize my pics in folders.
As for two engines: it is equally useless with RWD.... All cars with two engines that I know of are AWD, which is quite logical:
Probably enterprise version versus home version: the home version is a piece of crap.. The enterprise version was kinda lean last time I had an encounter with it.
It's still no exuse.
Well, about the only reason I found to use WinXP is the fast user switching and you lose that when disabling the welcome screen.
But then, I don't understand a great many things that they changed XP. For example the control panel... It was perfect in W2k... Why those insanely stupid categories. No wonder I run XP with the W2k interface
I agree with all your point though. I prefer mx OpenBSD server over my XP desktop anyday ;-)
I know, I have an avid Sims 2 player in my family and that family member is in no way going to get Admin access.
You might want to upgrade your RAM: I've seen 2.4GHz machines crawl even with 512Meg RAM because they ran about every program known to man in background.
My guess is that something is really wrong with a 1GHz/1GB RAM machine that can't handle OpenOffice.org + Seamonkey.
You mean like this?
As if I didn't know: see my own comment that I made about 3 hours before you. See that "lose-lose" part? It summarizes it...
Well, I didn't want to say it so explicitly, but that was indeed the gist of my post. DRM is here to stay, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Quite a bummer with your nickname, eh? ;-)
Now in the Utopian World you describe, the Pop-Star-Du-Jour would sell 0 albums. Nobody would pirate and hence the real piracy rate is 0. However their estimate of pirated albums will still be $ESTIMATED_SALES - $SOLD_ALBUMS, and in my example that would be 1M pirated albums. In their vision, piracy has raised 100%! Regardless of the fact that nobody really pirated anything.
I'm aware of that, but that's a US problem for now. The UK and the rest of the EU doesn't have this problem yet. (Wait till the EUCD comes out *sigh*) The situtation for Audio CD's is especially bad: I haven't seen red-book Audio CD's for ages at this side of the big pond.
On top of that, non-slashdotters don't know and even care less than we.
Finally: even if everybody would boycott DRM enabled media, the distributors will blame piracy. It's a lose-lose situation in all cases.
We wouldn't like Norton to go broke, would we? ;-)
It at least looks like competition.
So, yes, my wife was a bit chubby (but pretty, nonetheless), but as soon as she found someone who genuinely cared and didn't care about this "handicap", she started to lose weight. She just needed someone on whom she could count. That was me, and now "chubby" would be an insult for her.
That, however is my story. For you it might turn out differently, but I can only say one thing: sex with a chubby girl is exactly the same as with a skinny girl. I know, I've had both...
Only got married last summer. No kids on the way yet. Not even on the current roadmap. First we'll try to have a good house or something like that.
Exactly. That's the only reason they are here (I live in Luxembourg). Many other tech companies have their "HQ" in Luxembourg. Essentially it's only a PO Box, or a small office with one employee.
Amazon is "Luxembourg" based, but you cannot buy electronics from them to be shipped into Luxembourg. Apple is also "Luxembourg" based, but they don't even have an apple store (They seem to have one for businesses, but definately not for the end-user). There are many many more examples, but it's not as if I can get a tech-job with them.
Luxembourg is pretty much a technology wasteland. The only IT jobs one can get here is in banking. Also Opensource usage is very low here: the mentality of "one has to pay to get something" is very high here. Absurd but true. (Netcraft used(?) to have per country stats and 50% was MS IIS for Luxembourg!!!) The whole education sector has been sold to Microsoft a few years ago and there is pretty much nothing one can do about it.
Settling with a subset of "perfect" is going to be much easier. :-D
Exactly what I did. We're complement each other perfectly. ;-) Sometimes it's a bit hard when she needs to do some math because she totally sucks at it. Explaining it doesn't help much because she seems to block on it. Hey, but she's good in the sack and I think she's pretty.
While our civilisation builds upon what smart people have come up with, the survival of the species when civilisation collapses will depend on the non-smart but physically able people. Don't kid yourself: civilisation will eventually collapse. The state we are currently in is more an accident of nature. It will eventually settle back to normality where intelligence is a drawback.
sysctl -w hw.setperf=somenumber
This is only supported by very few CPU's and the ones I own don't seem to support it (a P-III 800MHz and a AMD64). Cool 'n Quiet doesn't seem to be supported at all. I'm not complaining, the OpenBSD team probably has other priorities, and perhaps they don't have access to the Cool 'n Quiet specs or so.
I hope for support in one of the following releases.
So, you claim that I'm an American?
Good: time to tell my goverment to remove all those taxes from on gas and get myself a SUV. (Apart from the fact that I really dislike SUVs...)
*sigh* I'm an American. Who would have known?
One man's (+5, Funny) is another man's (-1, Troll)
So true... I have seen this indeed in a sig a long time ago. Dunno if the guy is still around. Well, at least you won't take it personal now, and you know that I hold accountants in high esteem.