A lot of average users aren't dumb, and they know what to expect. I know of many Windows users that are interested in this Linux thing that they keep hearing about, but they haven't had the ability to check it out. The average user doesn't try to install Windows software on a Mac, or vice-versa. You would assume that they would get the concept with this too.
As long as they know that it is going to be somewhat different and will take some time to learn and adapt to, I think that they will realise that the costs outweigh the benefits of having MS Software on it at all. This is a beneficial tool for people that can't afford a more expensive PC. This gives them Internet capabilities and word processing for $300. This will run AOL, and play MP3s. All of these things are easy to do on a Lindows machine. What more do they need? Heck... For $300, I wouldn't personally be too heartbroken about trying something new. If it doesn't work, then they can always put Windows on it later. But at the worst case, a select few will probably immediately like Linux. A guy I work with was wowed by the Suse demo disk that I popped into a machine at work. He *liked* the fact that it was a bit different.
I am really sad that people think that Linux is an alternative that they should be intimidated by, because a lot of people like many the folks on Slashdot keep pretending that the rest of the world is too dumb to use it. They'll never pick it up as long as we have these myths.
Actually, I am proud that the company is the first large retail chain to have the balls to sell such a product. Nobody else would stand in MS's way in such a situation. Who knows how successful these things will be, but at least they are taking a chance.
And regardless of weather or not Wal-Mart caters primarily to the Apalachian crowd, Linux can be a good alternative for everybody in the right situation. That is how it was intended to be... Free, and available to everyone. As a matter of fact, it looks like Lindows is shipping on these PCs at no extra cost. Last time I checked, the minimum was still at the $400 price tag.
I can pull around 90MB/s off of my dual 7200 RPM drive RAID array. I could imagine that 4 striped standard ATA drives could do well over 130-150 MB/s making full use of gigabit ethernet on a fast bust and fast ethernet card.
Most of this bi-directional network was installed to make use of digital cable. The cable companies can make excuses all that they wish. They had a system that hadn't seen an upgrade for more than 30 years. Upgrading it is just a cost that they had to choke up over time. It will eventually pay for itself. The fact is, that they always planned to implement this pricing scheme after they had enough customers. I hope that that everyone cancels their services if they do this, quite frankly. They are making money regardless of what you may think. They just aren't making enough money... And they never will have enough money. Go ahead cable company. Change your pricing plan. I'll just switch back to dial-up. What in the hell did they expect? People would use broadband for email? They blatantly advertise how fast you can download MP3s and video in their promotion. They are just blowing smoke up everyone's asses.
I don't think that it is much of an issue. Judging by the AMD roadmap for 2002 http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q2/020610/thorou ghbred-06.html , it looks like an temporary product until the Barton core arrives. Barton will recieve more transistors and have more potential. Perhaps it will even be the first AMD CPU to exceed 2 GHz. It doesn't look like the t-bred core is going to be capable of much. Even Barton will be just a temporary means of holding off Intel until we see Clawhammer. It is now just a matter of getting the products out the door whitout delays. But judging by this core, I think that Barton will be the first CPU to hit the 2600+ XP rating. The next T-bred will probably be a 2400+ XP at best. These older cores are just starting to show age (not that they are slow by any means though. I still get 100 FPS average in games on an Athlon 1400 T-Bird).
You are also getting the same framerate on an 800 MHz clawhammer compared to a 1600 MHz P4. Maybe that says something?
The chip also is designed for desktop machines too. It is just the start of new 64 bit architecture for the desktop. The will most likely make a server oriented multi-processor model of the Clawhammer, like they did with the XP to MP CPUs.
My 60GXPs are faster than my buddy's Maxtor ATA133 drives.
I love them, but it is just a matter of preference. So yes, I would take the 60 GXP drives. The benchmarks give me the performance in the areas that I want them. And for everday use, they have been very reliable.
If people go through 3 or 4 drives, then they are probably damaging them in some way. IBM has tools to check the drives properly. If you screw up your data, they can be unrecoverable to an OS like Windows (any drive can have this problem). I foobared my drives by trying to push my machine too hard. The data got corrupted and made my RAID array puke. The IBM tool fixed the problem.
I am willing to bet that 90% of these problems are related to operator issues, especially since a lot of the overclockers were buying IBM for a while, and this is where the news of the problems began to surface.
They make great drives, and I will kepp buying them until the end.
I have 3 40GB 60GXP drives. They have been running very nicely for nearly a year now. No problems here. I actually plan to buy a 4th drive too.
It seems that most of the problems were with the 75GXP drives, and even then, the problems were overinflated by Internet rumors. Things just die over time. Especially mechanical devices.
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I have 3 excellent 40GB 60GXP drives, and plan to buy a 4th.
Perhaps you were just unlucky. Then again, mechanical devices do wear out over time.
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The 60GXP and 120GXP drives are excellent. Most of the problems that people had were from the 75GXP (older than the 60GXP) drives. Even then, the rumors of problems with 75GXPs were a little over-inflated. I don't believe that there were any problems that were more significant than anyone elses. In my opinion, there were just too many l337 h4X0r5 that were accidently killing their drives and bitching about factory defects.
There are so many discrepancies in the cable systems that I seriously doubt that there is any way to tell- at least not reliably. The best that they can probably do is have some monkey snoop around in the boxes for problems.
Opera seems fine on all of the tests, except for Complex Spiral. But it does do a better job than IE 5 for Win. Opera seems to handle the transparencies just fine, until you scroll down the page. IE just makes the whole image move. There is no transparency.
As most people use software that adheres to specific IE compatibility, which relies on closed protocols and standards, then yes you can write this one off on Microsoft leveraging their position.
A lot of web designers just don't care to write HTML code that works with all browsers. They just want it to work with IE. Use Frontpage or another popular program, and you will find that they are only IE compatible for certain specific things.
So how about charging for service, instead of software that was written by volunteers. This is software that was intended to be free.
What is happening here is that UL is taking something that doesn't belong to them, and are making up their own rules to slide around GPL restrictions (Suse *cough cough*).
Then again, most software companies have forgotten what offering service was about. You certainly won't get it with MS, despite the false sense of security that one may have by going with their products.
We aren't asking for everything to be free. We just don't want new restrictions to be imposed on the work that UL didn't create to begin with.
The whole Slim Shady/Eminem/Marshal Mathers thing is just a poke at multiple personality disorders. Those in themselves are not very funny, but the acting and jokes are played off very well, which in effect makes the whole thing halarious.
The guy is a great actor, and a great freestylist. His humor can be dry and rude, but that is what makes it so fun to listen to.
Exactly. Anyone who can't see this would obviously believe anything that they are told. Heck- many of the people here that claim that they hate Eminem also state that they have never heard any of his music. I am not saying that they need to like the stuff, but rather should not mistake it for something that it is not.
Eminem has taken material that people consider to be too shocking and politically incorrect and turned it into his tunes. Add that to stupid, but well versed rhymes and you have something different than anyone else is willing to try. And people don't take everything in lige so god damned seriously, then perhaps they can enjoy and maybe think that it is funny.
The man can freestyle better than almost anyone else in rap music today. It doesn't hurt that he tries to make people laugh, and he does it in such a way that gets everyone's attention.
Shrooms and Vicodin? Murder? Suicide? Homosexuality? Shitt y pop stars?
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A lot of average users aren't dumb, and they know what to expect. I know of many Windows users that are interested in this Linux thing that they keep hearing about, but they haven't had the ability to check it out. The average user doesn't try to install Windows software on a Mac, or vice-versa. You would assume that they would get the concept with this too.
As long as they know that it is going to be somewhat different and will take some time to learn and adapt to, I think that they will realise that the costs outweigh the benefits of having MS Software on it at all. This is a beneficial tool for people that can't afford a more expensive PC. This gives them Internet capabilities and word processing for $300. This will run AOL, and play MP3s. All of these things are easy to do on a Lindows machine. What more do they need? Heck... For $300, I wouldn't personally be too heartbroken about trying something new. If it doesn't work, then they can always put Windows on it later. But at the worst case, a select few will probably immediately like Linux. A guy I work with was wowed by the Suse demo disk that I popped into a machine at work. He *liked* the fact that it was a bit different.
I am really sad that people think that Linux is an alternative that they should be intimidated by, because a lot of people like many the folks on Slashdot keep pretending that the rest of the world is too dumb to use it. They'll never pick it up as long as we have these myths.
Oh wait. Looks like they now have a nice little Duron 800 for $299. How can you beat that, with or without an OS?
Actually, I am proud that the company is the first large retail chain to have the balls to sell such a product. Nobody else would stand in MS's way in such a situation. Who knows how successful these things will be, but at least they are taking a chance.
And regardless of weather or not Wal-Mart caters primarily to the Apalachian crowd, Linux can be a good alternative for everybody in the right situation. That is how it was intended to be... Free, and available to everyone. As a matter of fact, it looks like Lindows is shipping on these PCs at no extra cost. Last time I checked, the minimum was still at the $400 price tag.
I can pull around 90MB/s off of my dual 7200 RPM drive RAID array. I could imagine that 4 striped standard ATA drives could do well over 130-150 MB/s making full use of gigabit ethernet on a fast bust and fast ethernet card.
Most of this bi-directional network was installed to make use of digital cable. The cable companies can make excuses all that they wish. They had a system that hadn't seen an upgrade for more than 30 years. Upgrading it is just a cost that they had to choke up over time. It will eventually pay for itself. The fact is, that they always planned to implement this pricing scheme after they had enough customers. I hope that that everyone cancels their services if they do this, quite frankly. They are making money regardless of what you may think. They just aren't making enough money... And they never will have enough money. Go ahead cable company. Change your pricing plan. I'll just switch back to dial-up. What in the hell did they expect? People would use broadband for email? They blatantly advertise how fast you can download MP3s and video in their promotion. They are just blowing smoke up everyone's asses.
I don't think that it is much of an issue. Judging by the AMD roadmap for 2002 http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q2/020610/thorou ghbred-06.html , it looks like an temporary product until the Barton core arrives. Barton will recieve more transistors and have more potential. Perhaps it will even be the first AMD CPU to exceed 2 GHz. It doesn't look like the t-bred core is going to be capable of much. Even Barton will be just a temporary means of holding off Intel until we see Clawhammer. It is now just a matter of getting the products out the door whitout delays. But judging by this core, I think that Barton will be the first CPU to hit the 2600+ XP rating. The next T-bred will probably be a 2400+ XP at best. These older cores are just starting to show age (not that they are slow by any means though. I still get 100 FPS average in games on an Athlon 1400 T-Bird).
AMD (1969) was founded only a year after Intel (1968). They both have been around the block a few times.
You are also getting the same framerate on an 800 MHz clawhammer compared to a 1600 MHz P4. Maybe that says something?
The chip also is designed for desktop machines too. It is just the start of new 64 bit architecture for the desktop. The will most likely make a server oriented multi-processor model of the Clawhammer, like they did with the XP to MP CPUs.
Sorry about your luck, but that has to be the funniest thing that I have read all day. :)
You mean MPEG-1 Layer 3?
For that reason, there is not MPEG-3, and we jumped directly to MPEG-4.
My 60GXPs are faster than my buddy's Maxtor ATA133 drives.
I love them, but it is just a matter of preference. So yes, I would take the 60 GXP drives. The benchmarks give me the performance in the areas that I want them. And for everday use, they have been very reliable.
If people go through 3 or 4 drives, then they are probably damaging them in some way. IBM has tools to check the drives properly. If you screw up your data, they can be unrecoverable to an OS like Windows (any drive can have this problem). I foobared my drives by trying to push my machine too hard. The data got corrupted and made my RAID array puke. The IBM tool fixed the problem.
I am willing to bet that 90% of these problems are related to operator issues, especially since a lot of the overclockers were buying IBM for a while, and this is where the news of the problems began to surface.
They make great drives, and I will kepp buying them until the end.
I have 3 40GB 60GXP drives. They have been running very nicely for nearly a year now. No problems here. I actually plan to buy a 4th drive too.
It seems that most of the problems were with the 75GXP drives, and even then, the problems were overinflated by Internet rumors. Things just die over time. Especially mechanical devices.
I have 3 excellent 40GB 60GXP drives, and plan to buy a 4th.
Perhaps you were just unlucky. Then again, mechanical devices do wear out over time.
The 60GXP and 120GXP drives are excellent. Most of the problems that people had were from the 75GXP (older than the 60GXP) drives. Even then, the rumors of problems with 75GXPs were a little over-inflated. I don't believe that there were any problems that were more significant than anyone elses. In my opinion, there were just too many l337 h4X0r5 that were accidently killing their drives and bitching about factory defects.
There are so many discrepancies in the cable systems that I seriously doubt that there is any way to tell- at least not reliably. The best that they can probably do is have some monkey snoop around in the boxes for problems.
Just how advanced can crimping tools be? With the crappy coax and F connectors that the cables services use, I doubt that it matters much anyway.
Cable modems run on high frequency analog. It is a modem, like any other. It is just a faster modem.
Water cooling a vacuum tube would actually probably cause it to explode.
Opera seems fine on all of the tests, except for Complex Spiral. But it does do a better job than IE 5 for Win. Opera seems to handle the transparencies just fine, until you scroll down the page. IE just makes the whole image move. There is no transparency.
As most people use software that adheres to specific IE compatibility, which relies on closed protocols and standards, then yes you can write this one off on Microsoft leveraging their position.
A lot of web designers just don't care to write HTML code that works with all browsers. They just want it to work with IE. Use Frontpage or another popular program, and you will find that they are only IE compatible for certain specific things.
"...more holes than a Peter North fan club."
:)
Oh god, how I will remember that quote.
At least jack-off code monkeys from community colleges can spell the plural form of monkey.
So how about charging for service, instead of software that was written by volunteers. This is software that was intended to be free.
What is happening here is that UL is taking something that doesn't belong to them, and are making up their own rules to slide around GPL restrictions (Suse *cough cough*).
Then again, most software companies have forgotten what offering service was about. You certainly won't get it with MS, despite the false sense of security that one may have by going with their products.
We aren't asking for everything to be free. We just don't want new restrictions to be imposed on the work that UL didn't create to begin with.
The whole Slim Shady/Eminem/Marshal Mathers thing is just a poke at multiple personality disorders. Those in themselves are not very funny, but the acting and jokes are played off very well, which in effect makes the whole thing halarious.
The guy is a great actor, and a great freestylist. His humor can be dry and rude, but that is what makes it so fun to listen to.
Exactly. Anyone who can't see this would obviously believe anything that they are told. Heck- many of the people here that claim that they hate Eminem also state that they have never heard any of his music. I am not saying that they need to like the stuff, but rather should not mistake it for something that it is not.
t y pop stars?
Eminem has taken material that people consider to be too shocking and politically incorrect and turned it into his tunes. Add that to stupid, but well versed rhymes and you have something different than anyone else is willing to try. And people don't take everything in lige so god damned seriously, then perhaps they can enjoy and maybe think that it is funny.
The man can freestyle better than almost anyone else in rap music today. It doesn't hurt that he tries to make people laugh, and he does it in such a way that gets everyone's attention.
Shrooms and Vicodin?
Murder?
Suicide?
Homosexuality?
Shit
That takes balls.