Whole new chain letters will come into existence...
"Here is a list of credit card numbers. Add yours and send this mail to everyone you know. Don't break the chain!" Except you have already added your CC number and mailed it to everyone you know, thanks to Passport and a virus.
The stereo component type box is important. I don't want a mini-tower in my living room, and I have ethernet running down my hall. Maybe if it comes with some sort of cozy - a flowery cloth cover to hide the mini-tower?
In addition to mp3 jukebox and DVD my living room PC acts like a TiVo (thanks to ATI's All-In-Wonder) and an arcade game machine (thanks to MAME). Of course it still looks like a PC and I don't like having to control it with a wireless keyboard, but it definitely is more functional than any dedicated device.
What I really need is a slick black case, a programmable remote and a TV with VGA input.
They finally found the remains of some poor hunter at the center of the explosion along with thousands of empty cans of beans. He must have been eating those beans for months, and then one day he let one rip a little too close to the campfire...
Where do you get your hard drive noise info? I have had several IBM hard drives and they have all been extremely quiet. In fact my impression is that they have a good reputation for being quiet.
I have heard that aluminum cases dissipate heat better than steel ones, but I agree that the extra cost is not worth the minimal improvement in cooling.
Many of the components are the most expensive choices, but there is nothing really wrong with that. What gets me is the choice to buy the 1.2Ghz Athlon instead of the 1.4 to save money. It was OK to spend an extra $150 on a neato case and an extra $100 on a quiet, overpowered PS (and $30 on rounded cables!) but money couldn't be found to buy the best available processor?
You must not have very much experience with the Athlon. Most heatsink/fans that are powerful enough to cool the Athlon are loud enough to raise the dead.
URL rewriting only works for one session. Each time someone revisits a site they must reidentify themselves to get their session information. So I would have to logon to Slashdot every time I visited this site to identify myself.
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I wouldn't exactly call the inclusion of RealPlayer an advantage. I used to support them as an alternative to MS Media Player, but each new version of their client software becomes more like a virus.
Seems like someone has to bring up base3 computing every once in a while, just like asynchronous circuit design. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why they are technically superior. But it has taken us 50+ years to get to this point with synchronous circuit design and binary logic. It would take many years to get to this point using totally new technology, and in the meantime the current computer industry would continue to grow exponentially. I'll believe in these technologies when I see a useful example of them.
This strategy is made easier by the fact that there are many choices of most types of sites. I worry that the number of folks not using IE isn't enough to put a serious dent in hit counts, which is sometimes the only way to convince webmaster to keep their sites compatible with many browsers.
What are you talking about? We all know that file sharing services are used to illegally distribute copyrighted material. But the reason many oppose efforts to control this piracy is because most of the control mechanisms infringe on our current rights.
What we need are examples of this infringement. If people saw what the IP hegemony could do to you if we gave them carte blanche to protect their "rights" then they might stop feeling guilty for "condoning piracy" and start feeling proud about supporting individual rights.
I agree, and the reason is because Windows practically defines the desktop computer paradigm. Another OS may eventually grab the lead in desktop share from Microsoft, but it will only happen when the desktop paradigm is no longer so dominant.
However I think it is very likely that the desktop paradigm will soon be replaced by a multitude of embedded platforms with simpler task-specific user interfaces. Now that serious computing power is cheap enough to put into cars, MP3 players, palmtops and phones embedded systems will become more and more important.
And Linux has a real chance in that environment. Embedded systems must be flexible, reliable and cheap and Linux fits the bill.
Right, after 400 days which wasn't soon enough to save one presidency but did promote another. And then Reagan turned around and sold arms to those same Iranians.
I don't trust the government to operate outside the legal system. Usually they end up selling weapons to dictators or selling drugs to fund terrorists. If we condone that kind of behavior pretty soon we will have terrorists striking back at us...
Exactly, and how can the US compete with banana republics without a secret court? That will lead to the single essential ingredient of every police state... the secret police. There isn't repressive regime out there that doesn't have an secret organization dedicated to ferreting out anti-government conspirators and other radicals.
Really? A few years ago it seemed like you could watch "Star Trek - TNG" 24/7. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that >50% of the total TV-watching US population is familiar with the show.
Right now it requires years of experience to be able to create software rather than just use it. Business reporting is an excellent example of something that requires some ability to program, but not enough to make it particularly interesting to geeks.
What if your user could use the aforementioned pipe metaphor to build a report? I for one would be happy to ditch shell scripting for a GUI interface and fuzzy file definitions that just did the right thing without me having to specify everthing.
For that matter the WIMP is a logical progression from text based interfaces that use a cursor as the point of focus. I think that pretty much any interface that contains more information than you are currently using will require some way to focus on a dataset.
Another benefit of Nvidia drivers is that each release can be used on just about every product they make. Finding the right drivers for your card is trivial, and you don't have to worry about whether your individual card maker is flaky because Nvidia will always be there with reference drivers that work.
I don't remember seeing too many articles on ZDNet that shed Microsoft in a negative light. In fact ZDNet has always seemed more like an appendage of the Wintel PC industry than a journalistic publication. This is why I don't read their news.
Microsoft isn't rich because they have been holding up gas stations; they have convinced a lot of people to spend real money on their software. If a pro-PC, pro-spend-lots-of-money-on-software rag like ZDNet is dissing Microsoft on this exploit then MS has finally gone too far.
Looks like a beautiful woman with a skintight outfit is now an integral part of the DNA of the evolving Star Trek meme. Does anyone else get the idea that the original Star Trek series keeps getting remade in order to somehow develop the perfect hour-long TV show?
I said the same thing when in-dash CD players came out. So I tried using the portable in the car and I found out a few things:
1. Some portables don't turn off when you turn off the car, and don't save your place. It is a hassle to have to deal with your tunes every time you stop and start your car.
2. Where do you put the damn thing? The most convenient place is the passenger seat, except when you have a passenger.
3. The sound of those tape things that plug into your cassette deck isn't great.
4. The power supply unplugs/falls out of the player, which is incredibly frustrating.
I guess if you only have the cash for this solution then you have to justify it somehow, but I am no longer a fan of plugging portable units into car stereos.
I ripped all of my existing, legitimate CDs into MP3s just for the convenience. It is really handy to be able to look up an album or a song on my computer rather than having to search my house for the CD. Nothing the RIAA does will prevent me from listening to my MP3s, and I rather doubt that they will be able to seriously curtail their use for pirated music as well.
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Whole new chain letters will come into existence...
"Here is a list of credit card numbers. Add yours and send this mail to everyone you know. Don't break the chain!" Except you have already added your CC number and mailed it to everyone you know, thanks to Passport and a virus.
The stereo component type box is important. I don't want a mini-tower in my living room, and I have ethernet running down my hall. Maybe if it comes with some sort of cozy - a flowery cloth cover to hide the mini-tower?
In addition to mp3 jukebox and DVD my living room PC acts like a TiVo (thanks to ATI's All-In-Wonder) and an arcade game machine (thanks to MAME). Of course it still looks like a PC and I don't like having to control it with a wireless keyboard, but it definitely is more functional than any dedicated device.
What I really need is a slick black case, a programmable remote and a TV with VGA input.
They finally found the remains of some poor hunter at the center of the explosion along with thousands of empty cans of beans. He must have been eating those beans for months, and then one day he let one rip a little too close to the campfire...
Where do you get your hard drive noise info? I have had several IBM hard drives and they have all been extremely quiet. In fact my impression is that they have a good reputation for being quiet.
I have heard that aluminum cases dissipate heat better than steel ones, but I agree that the extra cost is not worth the minimal improvement in cooling.
Many of the components are the most expensive choices, but there is nothing really wrong with that. What gets me is the choice to buy the 1.2Ghz Athlon instead of the 1.4 to save money. It was OK to spend an extra $150 on a neato case and an extra $100 on a quiet, overpowered PS (and $30 on rounded cables!) but money couldn't be found to buy the best available processor?
You must not have very much experience with the Athlon. Most heatsink/fans that are powerful enough to cool the Athlon are loud enough to raise the dead.
URL rewriting only works for one session. Each time someone revisits a site they must reidentify themselves to get their session information. So I would have to logon to Slashdot every time I visited this site to identify myself.
I wouldn't exactly call the inclusion of RealPlayer an advantage. I used to support them as an alternative to MS Media Player, but each new version of their client software becomes more like a virus.
Seems like someone has to bring up base3 computing every once in a while, just like asynchronous circuit design. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why they are technically superior. But it has taken us 50+ years to get to this point with synchronous circuit design and binary logic. It would take many years to get to this point using totally new technology, and in the meantime the current computer industry would continue to grow exponentially. I'll believe in these technologies when I see a useful example of them.
This strategy is made easier by the fact that there are many choices of most types of sites. I worry that the number of folks not using IE isn't enough to put a serious dent in hit counts, which is sometimes the only way to convince webmaster to keep their sites compatible with many browsers.
Netscape 4.7x takes days to render that page, maybe they wanted people to have this problem to encourage them to switch to IE.
What are you talking about? We all know that file sharing services are used to illegally distribute copyrighted material. But the reason many oppose efforts to control this piracy is because most of the control mechanisms infringe on our current rights.
What we need are examples of this infringement. If people saw what the IP hegemony could do to you if we gave them carte blanche to protect their "rights" then they might stop feeling guilty for "condoning piracy" and start feeling proud about supporting individual rights.
I agree, and the reason is because Windows practically defines the desktop computer paradigm. Another OS may eventually grab the lead in desktop share from Microsoft, but it will only happen when the desktop paradigm is no longer so dominant.
However I think it is very likely that the desktop paradigm will soon be replaced by a multitude of embedded platforms with simpler task-specific user interfaces. Now that serious computing power is cheap enough to put into cars, MP3 players, palmtops and phones embedded systems will become more and more important.
And Linux has a real chance in that environment. Embedded systems must be flexible, reliable and cheap and Linux fits the bill.
Right, after 400 days which wasn't soon enough to save one presidency but did promote another. And then Reagan turned around and sold arms to those same Iranians.
I don't trust the government to operate outside the legal system. Usually they end up selling weapons to dictators or selling drugs to fund terrorists. If we condone that kind of behavior pretty soon we will have terrorists striking back at us...
Exactly, and how can the US compete with banana republics without a secret court? That will lead to the single essential ingredient of every police state... the secret police. There isn't repressive regime out there that doesn't have an secret organization dedicated to ferreting out anti-government conspirators and other radicals.
Really? A few years ago it seemed like you could watch "Star Trek - TNG" 24/7. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that >50% of the total TV-watching US population is familiar with the show.
Right now it requires years of experience to be able to create software rather than just use it. Business reporting is an excellent example of something that requires some ability to program, but not enough to make it particularly interesting to geeks.
What if your user could use the aforementioned pipe metaphor to build a report? I for one would be happy to ditch shell scripting for a GUI interface and fuzzy file definitions that just did the right thing without me having to specify everthing.
For that matter the WIMP is a logical progression from text based interfaces that use a cursor as the point of focus. I think that pretty much any interface that contains more information than you are currently using will require some way to focus on a dataset.
Another benefit of Nvidia drivers is that each release can be used on just about every product they make. Finding the right drivers for your card is trivial, and you don't have to worry about whether your individual card maker is flaky because Nvidia will always be there with reference drivers that work.
I don't remember seeing too many articles on ZDNet that shed Microsoft in a negative light. In fact ZDNet has always seemed more like an appendage of the Wintel PC industry than a journalistic publication. This is why I don't read their news.
Microsoft isn't rich because they have been holding up gas stations; they have convinced a lot of people to spend real money on their software. If a pro-PC, pro-spend-lots-of-money-on-software rag like ZDNet is dissing Microsoft on this exploit then MS has finally gone too far.
Looks like a beautiful woman with a skintight outfit is now an integral part of the DNA of the evolving Star Trek meme. Does anyone else get the idea that the original Star Trek series keeps getting remade in order to somehow develop the perfect hour-long TV show?
I said the same thing when in-dash CD players came out. So I tried using the portable in the car and I found out a few things:
1. Some portables don't turn off when you turn off the car, and don't save your place. It is a hassle to have to deal with your tunes every time you stop and start your car.
2. Where do you put the damn thing? The most convenient place is the passenger seat, except when you have a passenger.
3. The sound of those tape things that plug into your cassette deck isn't great.
4. The power supply unplugs/falls out of the player, which is incredibly frustrating.
I guess if you only have the cash for this solution then you have to justify it somehow, but I am no longer a fan of plugging portable units into car stereos.
I ripped all of my existing, legitimate CDs into MP3s just for the convenience. It is really handy to be able to look up an album or a song on my computer rather than having to search my house for the CD. Nothing the RIAA does will prevent me from listening to my MP3s, and I rather doubt that they will be able to seriously curtail their use for pirated music as well.