What really sucks about this is the people that bitch about "not having their Internet" are the ones potentially causing the problem with unprotected computers. We know nothing this massive could be caused without some kind of trojan`ed DDoS network, and the way those get propogated is through ignorant users.
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*THINK*, then post. Did you notice the "HD" in the model name? It stands for "High Definition" - this display has a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. Perhaps that might be the reason for the pricetag? Did you know that a comparable Sun 24" LCD (365-1414) costs $4,500?
Yeah, and you know what?
IT WASN'T REVIEWED EITHER!!!
Thank you for your thoughtless post... maybe you should try that whole "thinking" bit before you post.
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Yeah, but is all that really worth the $1,000? I'm not arguing that the HD Display isn't cool as hell, but it's so damn expensive. And compared to the 22", surely it's not worth the extra cash. The 22" should be more than ample, and the extra $1,000 could go into the computer.
When I bought my 19" flat Trinitron CRT I had the option of going to a 21" for $400, and at $200 an inch it just wasn't worth it. Instead, I bought two 19" CRTs and a Matrox G450. I get higher resolution out of one of my monitors with a better image than any LCD I've ever seen. And then with two of them (for a fraction of the cost of a high quality LCD) I have more digital desktop space than just about anyone I know ( 3200 x 1200 ) with a higher refresh rate, higher color, and sharper image.
Gaming is a little different with a Matrox card... but I don't game much anymore anyway (:
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Oh, I thoughth the 15" had been dropped from the line-up. I didn't see on their site.
Who in the hell is going to pay $3,500 for 23" when they can get 22" for $1,000 less? That's $1,000 an INCH! Nothing else in the world costs that much money.
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If you look a the ones they're comparing, they are all 15" and 17" displays. Apple has one 17".
They are comparing these displays for the "PC" market - in order to use an Apple display on a non-Apple computer you have to get an expensive adaptor in addition to the already over-priced display. The ones reviewed are relatively inexpensive displays.
Cut them some slack, journalists have the right to review whatever the hell they damn well please - if you want a review comparing the Apple displays to other people's displays, do it yourself.
So basically you want the option to "auto-tile" windows in such a way that Windows has via the right-click taskbar menu? Oh even better example, the auto-tile in mIRC? That is actually a really nice feature...
My problem with that, though, would be minimizing windows constantly inorder to have the windows I want to look at be large enough to see the contents. This is why I like to have windows overlapping. I can just click on any part of them to bring them to the top, and do nothing to send them out of the way.
But I understand where you're coming from - it's just a very small group of people that would want to use an environment that way.
I guess I don't really understand that then. What is "functional bloat"? Being able to do things that aren't necassary?
Well if it's not taking up resources or getting visually in your way, what difference does it make? Things that I concider bloat are dumb ass skins like Trillian uses - why doesn't it have an option to use Window's windows? Or OS X's visual bloat - who needs that damn genie effect? Animation in my window manager? No thanks.
Well, since you'll be able to take your pr0n-link anywhere, I imagine you'll be surfing that much more, and draining the battery to a greater extent. It's not so much the antenna, but the availability of the connection.
Well, don't go basing your auto-purchases on the stereo equipment, though I do think the Accord is one of the best cars around. I bought my `93 used and have had it for nearly four years. It's been a really enjoyable car.
So you write code and store mp3s? Try doing something that is actually disk intensive... like Photoshop. What you're doing pales in comparison to image work - though you do have the ability to test the operating system more precisely, but Photoshop is designed to work, not to 'see what the OS can handle'.
So you have five people using HFS(+) doing software developement - I have twenty people using apps that nearly peg out the FS for hours at a time. Their mileage WILL vary.
Wow dude, that kicks ass! The worst I've seen is the error where the file size is being reported incorrectly. A file showed up as some 37TB or something. Of course the OS had no idea what to do with the file, and the only way to get rid of it is to format/reinstall.
One of the nice things about Macs (old school at least) is that I could just boot from a CD and copy everything on the HDD (minus the bad file) to the server, format the drive, and copy it all back. Good as new... errr... old.
HFS and HFS+ have serious file corruption issues that most people don't ever see because they don't use their computer for more than web serfing and email. When you get into a business environment and really go at it full speed, the file system chokes. It's slow, resource heavy, and prone to file damage. It's a regular occurance on my 20+ PowerMacs to have to boot from a Norton CD and "Disk Doctor" the file system just to get them to boot from their hard drive.
Honestly, this sounds strange, but AOL needs to simplify things. They are known as "The ISP for your grandmother" but I even get confused by their bastard interface.
And why exactly do they need two instant message protocals? Let one go (ICQ!!) to the OSS community.
And it would be REALLY nice if they had a "thin client" (might actually exist and I'm not aware) that allows customers to use their pipe without installing all their bloated software. I mean, they are the broadest reaching ISP on the planet.
Anything they can put on an optical disk and sell in a store, we can copy and put on network hard drives. Mp3 stereo units are creaping into existance, and network players are going strong (My AudioTron rocks). I don't really see people buying new stereo units that play more optical media.
These new formats aren't going to be good for portable use, or for people who don't own high end audio/video receivers and hundreds of dollars worth of speakers. They will be good for nice media rooms, or people with high end car audio. But these people, I'm sure, would rather buy hard drive solutions and store all their music on them. No one likes to load/unload disks - heck, that's why we have 100+ disk changers.
Honda has even included an Mp3 player in the dash of the new Accord. It only plays mp3 cds though - no hard drive.
[sarcasm] You don't have 5.1 in your car? What are you driving? A Pinto? [/sarcasm]
I totally agree with the upgradablity being a major selling point. Some consumers have already ditched three formats (LP, 8-Track, Cassette) to get where we are today. The old hardware is starting to pile up in everyone's garage - we don't need to be doing that again so soon.
Can't the same thing be done with a "Fullscreen" IE window? I'm talking about the F11 option that makes everything go away and the browser window fills the screen. Then just smack a couple plugins in there for a remote control and you're golden.
Please don't give MS more money for something you can do in an afternoon.
The mail client was pretty awesome, but I'm sure you can get more at BeBits as well. And I have to agree with someone eles post - if gaming is a priority for you, you're not allowed to be picky about your OS. Get a console system.
Oh, and there is a Photoshop for Solaris. I'm sure with a little work someone could get it to run in BeOS. But there are plenty of other editors our there. You could run GiMP for BeOS.
Once again, the OS never really reached maturity. If it had, more people would have been writing software for it. When they chose not to work on a G3/G4 version, they lost the Mac crowd, and that was their biggest market. Adobe would surely not pick them up after that.
I think the biggest plus is that you can have one hella fast machine on your network running distcc that basically does all your compiling for all your other machines. I can see this being a big bonus for server farms like rackspace.com. The customers would be getting compile speeds from a big ass server, rather than just their little dinky Duron.
How about we all focus our attention to something worth while now? Seti is cool, but we don't have any direct and imediate gains for finding alien life a billion light years away. The information we'd be communicating would be... a billion years old.
How about Cancer research? It's already been proven beneficial.
http://members.ud.com/about/getting_started/
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What really sucks about this is the people that bitch about "not having their Internet" are the ones potentially causing the problem with unprotected computers. We know nothing this massive could be caused without some kind of trojan`ed DDoS network, and the way those get propogated is through ignorant users.
*THINK*, then post. Did you notice the "HD" in the model name? It stands for "High Definition" - this display has a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. Perhaps that might be the reason for the pricetag? Did you know that a comparable Sun 24" LCD (365-1414) costs $4,500?
... maybe you should try that whole "thinking" bit before you post.
Yeah, and you know what?
IT WASN'T REVIEWED EITHER!!!
Thank you for your thoughtless post
Yeah, but is all that really worth the $1,000? I'm not arguing that the HD Display isn't cool as hell, but it's so damn expensive. And compared to the 22", surely it's not worth the extra cash. The 22" should be more than ample, and the extra $1,000 could go into the computer.
... but I don't game much anymore anyway (:
When I bought my 19" flat Trinitron CRT I had the option of going to a 21" for $400, and at $200 an inch it just wasn't worth it. Instead, I bought two 19" CRTs and a Matrox G450. I get higher resolution out of one of my monitors with a better image than any LCD I've ever seen. And then with two of them (for a fraction of the cost of a high quality LCD) I have more digital desktop space than just about anyone I know ( 3200 x 1200 ) with a higher refresh rate, higher color, and sharper image.
Gaming is a little different with a Matrox card
Oh, I thoughth the 15" had been dropped from the line-up. I didn't see on their site.
Who in the hell is going to pay $3,500 for 23" when they can get 22" for $1,000 less? That's $1,000 an INCH! Nothing else in the world costs that much money.
If you look a the ones they're comparing, they are all 15" and 17" displays. Apple has one 17".
They are comparing these displays for the "PC" market - in order to use an Apple display on a non-Apple computer you have to get an expensive adaptor in addition to the already over-priced display. The ones reviewed are relatively inexpensive displays.
Cut them some slack, journalists have the right to review whatever the hell they damn well please - if you want a review comparing the Apple displays to other people's displays, do it yourself.
So basically you want the option to "auto-tile" windows in such a way that Windows has via the right-click taskbar menu? Oh even better example, the auto-tile in mIRC? That is actually a really nice feature ...
My problem with that, though, would be minimizing windows constantly inorder to have the windows I want to look at be large enough to see the contents. This is why I like to have windows overlapping. I can just click on any part of them to bring them to the top, and do nothing to send them out of the way.
But I understand where you're coming from - it's just a very small group of people that would want to use an environment that way.
I guess I don't really understand that then. What is "functional bloat"? Being able to do things that aren't necassary?
Well if it's not taking up resources or getting visually in your way, what difference does it make? Things that I concider bloat are dumb ass skins like Trillian uses - why doesn't it have an option to use Window's windows? Or OS X's visual bloat - who needs that damn genie effect? Animation in my window manager? No thanks.
Well, since you'll be able to take your pr0n-link anywhere, I imagine you'll be surfing that much more, and draining the battery to a greater extent. It's not so much the antenna, but the availability of the connection.
There are plenty of window managers that aren't bloatware. BlackBox is one of my favorites.
Keep your console sessions in a different tty - or even open one full screen and throw it on a different desktop.
This guy is nuts.
We don't install the Norton software, just run it from the CD. I agree that it causes more problems than it solves when it's installed and running.
I've tried TechTools - it finds different problems. I suppose they're best used in conjunction with eachother.
Well, don't go basing your auto-purchases on the stereo equipment, though I do think the Accord is one of the best cars around. I bought my `93 used and have had it for nearly four years. It's been a really enjoyable car.
~LoudMusic
That's a good point.
... that means they're doing something ... InTeLlIgEnT ??
No wait
There's the SHOCKER! (:
~LoudMusic
So you write code and store mp3s? Try doing something that is actually disk intensive ... like Photoshop. What you're doing pales in comparison to image work - though you do have the ability to test the operating system more precisely, but Photoshop is designed to work, not to 'see what the OS can handle'.
So you have five people using HFS(+) doing software developement - I have twenty people using apps that nearly peg out the FS for hours at a time. Their mileage WILL vary.
~LoudMusic
Actually I think that works about right. They are saying that ET hasn't visited us yet, but we're willing to look for him.
~LoudMusic
Maybe they should start looking for RICH aliens?
~LoudMusic
Wow dude, that kicks ass! The worst I've seen is the error where the file size is being reported incorrectly. A file showed up as some 37TB or something. Of course the OS had no idea what to do with the file, and the only way to get rid of it is to format/reinstall.
... errr ... old.
One of the nice things about Macs (old school at least) is that I could just boot from a CD and copy everything on the HDD (minus the bad file) to the server, format the drive, and copy it all back. Good as new
HFS and HFS+ have serious file corruption issues that most people don't ever see because they don't use their computer for more than web serfing and email. When you get into a business environment and really go at it full speed, the file system chokes. It's slow, resource heavy, and prone to file damage. It's a regular occurance on my 20+ PowerMacs to have to boot from a Norton CD and "Disk Doctor" the file system just to get them to boot from their hard drive.
~LoudMusic
Honestly, this sounds strange, but AOL needs to simplify things. They are known as "The ISP for your grandmother" but I even get confused by their bastard interface.
And why exactly do they need two instant message protocals? Let one go (ICQ!!) to the OSS community.
And it would be REALLY nice if they had a "thin client" (might actually exist and I'm not aware) that allows customers to use their pipe without installing all their bloated software. I mean, they are the broadest reaching ISP on the planet.
~LoudMusic
Anyway, what I was going to say ...
Anything they can put on an optical disk and sell in a store, we can copy and put on network hard drives. Mp3 stereo units are creaping into existance, and network players are going strong (My AudioTron rocks). I don't really see people buying new stereo units that play more optical media.
These new formats aren't going to be good for portable use, or for people who don't own high end audio/video receivers and hundreds of dollars worth of speakers. They will be good for nice media rooms, or people with high end car audio. But these people, I'm sure, would rather buy hard drive solutions and store all their music on them. No one likes to load/unload disks - heck, that's why we have 100+ disk changers.
Honda has even included an Mp3 player in the dash of the new Accord. It only plays mp3 cds though - no hard drive.
~LoudMusic
[sarcasm] You don't have 5.1 in your car? What are you driving? A Pinto? [/sarcasm]
I totally agree with the upgradablity being a major selling point. Some consumers have already ditched three formats (LP, 8-Track, Cassette) to get where we are today. The old hardware is starting to pile up in everyone's garage - we don't need to be doing that again so soon.
~LoudMusic
Can't the same thing be done with a "Fullscreen" IE window? I'm talking about the F11 option that makes everything go away and the browser window fills the screen. Then just smack a couple plugins in there for a remote control and you're golden.
Please don't give MS more money for something you can do in an afternoon.
~LoudMusic
I was using CLAamp (and still do when I run BeOS). It's just like Winamp.
And there are clients for all the major IM protocals.
BeBits
The mail client was pretty awesome, but I'm sure you can get more at BeBits as well. And I have to agree with someone eles post - if gaming is a priority for you, you're not allowed to be picky about your OS. Get a console system.
Oh, and there is a Photoshop for Solaris. I'm sure with a little work someone could get it to run in BeOS. But there are plenty of other editors our there. You could run GiMP for BeOS.
Once again, the OS never really reached maturity. If it had, more people would have been writing software for it. When they chose not to work on a G3/G4 version, they lost the Mac crowd, and that was their biggest market. Adobe would surely not pick them up after that.
~LoudMusic
I think the biggest plus is that you can have one hella fast machine on your network running distcc that basically does all your compiling for all your other machines. I can see this being a big bonus for server farms like rackspace.com. The customers would be getting compile speeds from a big ass server, rather than just their little dinky Duron.
~LoudMusic
The only thing that won't kill you if you do it for 86 hours straight is LIVING.
~LoudMusic
Ok, now I'm really confused. AOL ... Linux ... Walmart ... Microsoft ... who are the good guys? Who do we hate? The lines are becoming fuzzy.
~LoudMusic
How about we all focus our attention to something worth while now? Seti is cool, but we don't have any direct and imediate gains for finding alien life a billion light years away. The information we'd be communicating would be ... a billion years old.
How about Cancer research? It's already been proven beneficial.
http://members.ud.com/about/getting_started/
UD!! Sign up today and get cracking!
(unfortunately they only have win32/intel clients, doh!)
~LoudMusic