They have voice dialing for that now. I just don't like the little phones because don't care to talk into thin air, although it works just fine and it's infinitely better than wearing a headset. The day I "Borg" myself is the same day I go "Batman" and clip a cell phone, a pager, and a PDA onto my belt.
Performance comparisons are dead. The difference between 1.0 and 1.4 GHz Athlons is only ~$75, and lesser speeds aren't much cheaper. With so little price difference between the high end and low end, it's hard to pass on (arguably) the fastest PC processor in the world just to save seventy five bucks. I sure has hell wouldn't.
I'm all for a mission to Mars in 20 years, but I hope it doesn't take much longer to find a good reason to do it.
While it is generally agreed that Columbus was not the first European to discover America, he was the first to generate any kind of commercial interest to be there. Just 100 years after that, serious settlement began. The same thing could happen on Mars, perhaps within a similar timeframe. You might think that's an outrageous, not to mention expensive proposition, but I'm sure that Europe had the same sentiment just 500 years ago.
I'm not sure if I'm being trolled or if two of the last 10 Windows users with Netscape just happened to find my comment.
In the stats I've collected on sites that I have linked to from/. and nowhere else, the breakdown is like this:
Netscape: 36%, MSIE: 63%
Unix 16%, Windows 72%
Note the close correlation between Windows and IE. Also note that almost everyone who visits the site reads Slashdot, and I'm inclined to think that even the stupidest of crapflooders have some kind of clue how to install another browser.
One more thing to add to my list of complaints about Netscape -- when it gets updated, you have to download the entire thing all over again. A patch here and a patch there with IE takes a few hundred K, not 15 megs every time.
What are you talking about? Netscape 4 was garbage. Not only was it unstable (not that either 4.0 was), its rendering was inconsistent and generally not very good. Meanwhile, IE was not only rendering valid HTML well, it gracefully handled amateur things like closing TABLE tags at the end of documents.
Usability wise, Netscape also lacked any kind of autocomplete. You couldn't arrange the toolbars. Can you write context menu extensions for Netscape yet? I was able to do things like zoom in and out on images, or searching the Web or highlight based on the selected text, and it's worth noting that Netscape didn't/doesn't let you select a paragraph by triple clicking. Exactly what was Netscape 4.0x doing that was so wonderful?
IE's success has little to do with the bundling. It's just that it had parity with Netscape at the 3.0 version, and 4.0 (three years ago) completely blew Netscape out of the water. The same will be applicable for all of these other programs.
The people at Real should look at their own product before they go claiming that Windows Media Player is "not the best product". WMP7 is starting to cross the line, but it's still far far removed from the crapware that is RealPlayer or QuickTime. I'd use Winamp, but it doesn't play videos.
I don't care much for MSN Messenger, but it has been my IM for a while, so I may as well use that.
I'm not going to use the Windows DVD player -- I went through all of that before. A regular player that I can run on my larger TV with a remote control is much nicer.
As far as firewalls go... well, it's a security product written by Microsoft. It might be good for warding off tigers and polar bears.
Both water and Peltier coolers have some issues with hardware destruction. The water lines sometimes DO leak. Peltiers (these days referred to as thermoelectric coolers, or TEC's) may leave condensation. The net results are mold and/or corrosion.
These days overclocking doesn't seem as worthwhile, though. You save money and get better performance just by buying the faster rated processor. Nobody wants the GHz Athlon anymore because the 1.33 is only a few bucks more, and the price difference between the two is significantly smaller than the cost of midrange/high end cooling kit.
OK, I'll be the idiot who asks what's wrong with a dual boot. I used to switch from my NES to my SNES all the time. I got one of the first SNESes off the line -- a Windows license is much cheaper.
I can't blame Linux users alone, because I see the same thing in Windows 2000 forums. "Why doesn't *foo* work with Windows 2000?". Quit whining -- dual boot and get it over with.
If you need to run some Win32 productivity app in Linux alongside your other work, that's fine. If you're playing a game, I don't think you're multitasking. It's not a big loss, and the reboot is nothing compared to the amount of time you'll spend playing the game.
RMS also uses the recorder, but to play notes -- notes and incantations to soothe the GNU kernel when it panics, while magical butterflies and fairies work hard on hacking Emacs version 87.32.46.123-pre12.
Before the trial began, those of us staying abreast of this case were so confident that RAMBUST had no leg to stand on. As the "facts" came out, however, it quickly became apparent that the real situation was clear as mud.
What it seemed like to me was that there was *some* wrongdoing on the part of both parties, and what it really boiled down to were the motives of RAMBU$ -- why didn't they point out their patents so long ago when open standards were being created, and why did they wait so long to enforce them after they allowed it to happen?
Of course, this case very well could be crystal clear, and the RAM_US legal team just happens to have their own Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field®.
Why should you need to? Well, it's clearly necessary.
Sometimes, you're stuck without a choice. Perhaps you're writing a client/server database application that needs to be cheap -- you use Access, and leave date stamps in the hands of clients. I suspect that the biggest problems in the article's example come from the people who manage to get a shopping cart script or two running on their shared server. If the cart is database agnostic, it needs to know what the price is *somehow*, right?
If you have a dedicated server and a database that generates those prices in the catalog, you're just plain lazy. The programmer ought to be shot.
Because I'm not going to pay the local record shop $20-$35 for an import single/LP just for one or two extra songs that the artist/label felt the U.S. market wasn't entitled to hear.
Because I have no problem stealing music from Kiss the Stone and other bootleggers (see $35 import albums).
Because I have partial lyrics to Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing stuck in my head, and I want to hear it RIGHT NOW so I can get it out of my head.
Because some people refuse to pay for anything unless they get hard copy.
I've been to CDNOW and other sites, and I know they are trying to sell digital music, but for $1-$1.49/track, it's far too much to pay for a song that I can't even put in my CD player. The worst part is that the $1 price is probably just barely covering the cost of the transaction.
It is obvious from the trailers of this movie that the people behind it were Linux and/or Mac zealots. The lack of BeOS zealots (which would also make for a more neutral anti-MS OS) is due to the fact that they don't have to be jealous of ANYONE ELSE's operating system.
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Yes, it's called the Microsoft HomeStation. /. linked to this over a month ago.
Click this to see results 1-10 of ~128 results for a search on "elmegil".
It's not difficult to target ads towards brokerages, etc. in sites web site areas with finance info, but what do you do for current events or weather?
They have voice dialing for that now. I just don't like the little phones because don't care to talk into thin air, although it works just fine and it's infinitely better than wearing a headset. The day I "Borg" myself is the same day I go "Batman" and clip a cell phone, a pager, and a PDA onto my belt.
Performance comparisons are dead. The difference between 1.0 and 1.4 GHz Athlons is only ~$75, and lesser speeds aren't much cheaper. With so little price difference between the high end and low end, it's hard to pass on (arguably) the fastest PC processor in the world just to save seventy five bucks. I sure has hell wouldn't.
I wonder where they will hide "The word MINI" -- it can't be hidden in the floorboards or in the grass if it's going to be worn by a person.
I'm all for a mission to Mars in 20 years, but I hope it doesn't take much longer to find a good reason to do it.
While it is generally agreed that Columbus was not the first European to discover America, he was the first to generate any kind of commercial interest to be there. Just 100 years after that, serious settlement began. The same thing could happen on Mars, perhaps within a similar timeframe. You might think that's an outrageous, not to mention expensive proposition, but I'm sure that Europe had the same sentiment just 500 years ago.
I'm not sure if I'm being trolled or if two of the last 10 Windows users with Netscape just happened to find my comment.
/. and nowhere else, the breakdown is like this:
In the stats I've collected on sites that I have linked to from
Netscape: 36%, MSIE: 63%
Unix 16%, Windows 72%
Note the close correlation between Windows and IE. Also note that almost everyone who visits the site reads Slashdot, and I'm inclined to think that even the stupidest of crapflooders have some kind of clue how to install another browser.
One more thing to add to my list of complaints about Netscape -- when it gets updated, you have to download the entire thing all over again. A patch here and a patch there with IE takes a few hundred K, not 15 megs every time.
What are you talking about? Netscape 4 was garbage. Not only was it unstable (not that either 4.0 was), its rendering was inconsistent and generally not very good. Meanwhile, IE was not only rendering valid HTML well, it gracefully handled amateur things like closing TABLE tags at the end of documents.
Usability wise, Netscape also lacked any kind of autocomplete. You couldn't arrange the toolbars. Can you write context menu extensions for Netscape yet? I was able to do things like zoom in and out on images, or searching the Web or highlight based on the selected text, and it's worth noting that Netscape didn't/doesn't let you select a paragraph by triple clicking. Exactly what was Netscape 4.0x doing that was so wonderful?
IE's success has little to do with the bundling. It's just that it had parity with Netscape at the 3.0 version, and 4.0 (three years ago) completely blew Netscape out of the water. The same will be applicable for all of these other programs.
The people at Real should look at their own product before they go claiming that Windows Media Player is "not the best product". WMP7 is starting to cross the line, but it's still far far removed from the crapware that is RealPlayer or QuickTime. I'd use Winamp, but it doesn't play videos.
I don't care much for MSN Messenger, but it has been my IM for a while, so I may as well use that.
I'm not going to use the Windows DVD player -- I went through all of that before. A regular player that I can run on my larger TV with a remote control is much nicer.
As far as firewalls go... well, it's a security product written by Microsoft. It might be good for warding off tigers and polar bears.
Both water and Peltier coolers have some issues with hardware destruction. The water lines sometimes DO leak. Peltiers (these days referred to as thermoelectric coolers, or TEC's) may leave condensation. The net results are mold and/or corrosion.
These days overclocking doesn't seem as worthwhile, though. You save money and get better performance just by buying the faster rated processor. Nobody wants the GHz Athlon anymore because the 1.33 is only a few bucks more, and the price difference between the two is significantly smaller than the cost of midrange/high end cooling kit.
At the moment, the links I see for both GPL and BSD point to the /. front page. It sure seems like these Perl hackers have a hard time with HTML...
OK, I'll be the idiot who asks what's wrong with a dual boot. I used to switch from my NES to my SNES all the time. I got one of the first SNESes off the line -- a Windows license is much cheaper.
I can't blame Linux users alone, because I see the same thing in Windows 2000 forums. "Why doesn't *foo* work with Windows 2000?". Quit whining -- dual boot and get it over with.
If you need to run some Win32 productivity app in Linux alongside your other work, that's fine. If you're playing a game, I don't think you're multitasking. It's not a big loss, and the reboot is nothing compared to the amount of time you'll spend playing the game.
RMS also uses the recorder, but to play notes -- notes and incantations to soothe the GNU kernel when it panics, while magical butterflies and fairies work hard on hacking Emacs version 87.32.46.123-pre12.
What it seemed like to me was that there was *some* wrongdoing on the part of both parties, and what it really boiled down to were the motives of RAMBU$ -- why didn't they point out their patents so long ago when open standards were being created, and why did they wait so long to enforce them after they allowed it to happen?
Of course, this case very well could be crystal clear, and the RAM_US legal team just happens to have their own Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field®.
Is it just me, or does everyone have a little side of them rooting for the record industry this time?
I doubt that this will spread to the U.S., even if it stands. Is one end of the keiretsu going to go after the other?
Yeah, cry "karma whore" all you fucking want to...
I live in Minnesota now. We just don't have 'em like they did out East...
The smoothness of antialiasing certainly LOOKS better, but is it just me that thinks antialiasing causes *LESS* eyestrain than jaggies?
Actually, I thought the names sounded the same when read as they do coming up... Buuuuuuuusschhhhhhh!!! Paaaaaaaabbbst! Blaaaaaaaaaaatz!
Then, of course, there's Schlitz (no comment)...
Beer is a WASTE product? Well, I suppose if it tastes like the stuff that comes out of St. Louis or Milwaukee (various)...
Why should you need to? Well, it's clearly necessary.
Sometimes, you're stuck without a choice. Perhaps you're writing a client/server database application that needs to be cheap -- you use Access, and leave date stamps in the hands of clients. I suspect that the biggest problems in the article's example come from the people who manage to get a shopping cart script or two running on their shared server. If the cart is database agnostic, it needs to know what the price is *somehow*, right?
If you have a dedicated server and a database that generates those prices in the catalog, you're just plain lazy. The programmer ought to be shot.
Because I'm not going to pay the local record shop $20-$35 for an import single/LP just for one or two extra songs that the artist/label felt the U.S. market wasn't entitled to hear.
Because I have no problem stealing music from Kiss the Stone and other bootleggers (see $35 import albums).
Because I have partial lyrics to Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing stuck in my head, and I want to hear it RIGHT NOW so I can get it out of my head.
Because some people refuse to pay for anything unless they get hard copy.
I've been to CDNOW and other sites, and I know they are trying to sell digital music, but for $1-$1.49/track, it's far too much to pay for a song that I can't even put in my CD player. The worst part is that the $1 price is probably just barely covering the cost of the transaction.
Personally, I favor ROT-13 hashes, preferably two passes of it, for maximum security.
The good guys use KDE, the bad guys use GNOME.
It is obvious from the trailers of this movie that the people behind it were Linux and/or Mac zealots. The lack of BeOS zealots (which would also make for a more neutral anti-MS OS) is due to the fact that they don't have to be jealous of ANYONE ELSE's operating system.
;-)