How are we to be sure this isn't some old report from like a year ago that/. decided to post again and is no longer rellevent? hmmmm?
Just a joke. But it's too bad because competition would drive board prices across the...'board' down. Good for all of us. In this case, however, nothing will be different and I will still be using my TNT for quite a while.
hehe..I went to the same high school as the writer of U571, and I know I had some of the same teachers, and I assure you there is no way in hell u751 was factual. you could say our history teachers weren't as good as you would hope for..
did that make sense?....damnit. I wanted to make a joke, but it didn't work...
You know, this is a lot like a lease. You pay for so much, then you have to give it back and you can buy the new version for cheap. A lot of people do it. In a way, they MS is doing a service to all those people that love to upgrade once it's available.
I sure as hell would never do it. Who really needs a cooler paper clip that uses 2x the RAM?
Then again...I wouldn't pay for it in the first place, so maybe it's just me.
The fact that microwaves operate at 2.45 Ghz is, I believe, the reason that the 2.4 Ghz ISM band exists in the first place. The band that is now used for a lot of htings, including wireless LAN stuff.
Ah! look out! yer gonna walk into the wicrowave LAN!
Quite frankly, with a processor like these, there are much better ways to use those cycles that would be more indicative of their power.
now matter how correct you are, the only reason people really need the speed is for gaming, and since a lot of smart computer people use AMD, i find it hard to believe games are gonna be designed specifically to work with p4. Therefore, I think in a way this is a very usefull benchmark tool...
I just like the fact that an AMD beat a p4 on a MMX test.
This is all fine and good, but the real question is, how did the rebels get the planet-moon of endor into one of these?
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I would like, however, to see you find me making this double standard. Yesterday I d/led mozilla and oracle to see how they were. I was pleasently surprised to find oracle outperform IE in terms of raw speed. Mozilla, however felt slow, and that was just in terms of the interface, not the surfing. anyway, the double standard you point out in terms of mozilla is not realy a double standard. The reason scour was bad is cause it crashed rediculously. I am not making this up. My roomates comp was BSOD every time I looked over and he refused to stop using scour. Mozilla may be in beta, but I feel people like it not because it out performs ie or whatever. Its because its open source, and some people just havethose kinda priorities.
Point is don't be too quick to judge. All I know is that, whichever one came first, napster somehow managed to be more stable. End of story.
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well..if scour did come out before napster, why was scour in beta? Napster was stable, thats all I can say.
I don't know about you, but if a program causes BSOds every other minute, I wouldn't use it. (I am not exagerating (sp?)) Seems to me it dropped cause it just sucked. Sure, the universities didn't block it so it was convenient, but the fact of the matter is that it was in beta and it sucked. Yeh, I like the fact that you could grab things other than mp3, but lets face it, anything other than jpgs grabbed from scour wasn't complete in most cases, so it was only usefull for mp3s anyway.
Oh yeh, and it didn't help that scour was a complete rip-off of Napster.
I guess that sums it up; it was really buggy and a rip-off of something that was working in most cases anyway.
I have issues. How about the fact that people (even on/.!) use 'the web' and 'the internet' as equal terms. I could be way off, but it seems to me 'hte web' refers (most basically) to only http and https. The internet is far broader and I would expect any/. reader to know that. Point? Well..it applies here. I didn't read the article, but if this means they will track mp3s on the web, ok. Who uses the web to get commercial mp3s? If it means they will try to track mp3s on the net. LOL, good luck.
I haven't taken part in this MS stuff, but I did learn how to program c++ in MCVS6. Note, I said I learned how to program C++, not Windows. I learned computer science by way of programming.
MSVS6 made things pretty damned easy in opinion:
*easy to compile a program
*absurdly easy to debug a program
*programming in the windows environment is actually better: turns out windows is a lot more particular about algorithm errors then *nix
As a start-off point, MSVS is a very friendly tool. Now that I am in college, I have started working at a lab porting a unix app to pc, and I can tell you having an entire IDE is a whole lot better than cross-referencing in emacs. My boss was impressed with the simplicity of MSVS, and this is a guy who knows how to program in Unix.
There are some problems with learning to program in MSVS:
*it's so simple, I don't even know how to make a Makefile, which makes moving to Unix harder
*you take debug for granted in MSVS
Whats the point? Well, for getting kids into programming, there is no question in my mind that MSVS is a great tool. It's on a Win pc, which means they will know how to get around, and the amount to which it aids in compiling a program is great. The downfall is being stuck on the simplicity and not being able to expand to a different programming environment. To this I say that any one that will every be truly good at programming, those who have the potential, will be able to make the shift when needed. But I tell ya, when ever I want to get a simple app going, I for one will always jump to a simple win32 command line app or program it on my TI-86 before I even think about creating folders and.c files and Makefiles.
Bottom line? MSVS is not evil, and it is a great tool for getting one's feet wet.
Writing in from Brown to say that my school, all though it has not been asked by King to close down napster, closed it down last year. BUT, it was not because of legal issues; it weas taking up more than half our bandwidth! As of eariler this week, however, napster is back up. The head of computing stated that if we had the bandwidth, it never would have gone down in the first place. I am glad to report that it seems Brown is another great school that will most likely stand with its peers and laugh at the RIAA and all its minions.
The only thing for which Slashdot should be held resposible is that they get to decide who's server gets/.'d next. (Example: I am having issues loading voodooextreme right now)
But I find it rather interesting that you consider webing (ie, linking to other sites) something immoral to do on the web. Last time I checked, thats why we have this thing called the world wide web, as opposed to the world wide set of non-interlinked sites. Linking is the reason we have a web.
More over, I find it bothersome that you consider it a bad thing that/. sends customers to other people's pages. Sure, it would make sense if they were sending us to a frame that contains only the story, but they aren't; the link sends us to a voodooextreme page. A full page. If voodooextreme only bothers to put banners on their front page, it's their fault. More likely they have banners on every page. Also, just the fact that we are now on voodooextreme's page, it would seem to me that a good number of people would actually look around other, non-related pages on voodooextreme just cause we are in the neighborhood. I know I do that all the time. Therefore,/. is supplying voodooextreme with customers, yet again.
In all, I find this stance rediculous, if only for the fact that if/. never linked to a page, we wouldn't be part of the "web." And if they only linked to the front page, I sure as hell know I would never follow a link from/. again.(Though I am sure a lot of sys admins would be damned happy about not having to face being/.'d.)
Just a little logic in the hands of an illogical computer user.
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You think that includes the expected (and apparently required) reposting of this post?
Men, Women, and children will be staring at him for hours on end and we will turn the population into a giant mass out to kill Lucas.
I, for one, just can't wait!
oh...calander program....one that makes a calander that just has Paid Vacation written in every cell.
Just a joke. But it's too bad because competition would drive board prices across the...'board' down. Good for all of us. In this case, however, nothing will be different and I will still be using my TNT for quite a while.
Someone gonna explain the title, cause all I seeid color in these pics...?
Actually, if you wanna harm sony, buy the psx2. After all, they lose money on the hardware, not make money.
did that make sense?....damnit. I wanted to make a joke, but it didn't work...
I sure as hell would never do it. Who really needs a cooler paper clip that uses 2x the RAM?
Then again...I wouldn't pay for it in the first place, so maybe it's just me.
Ah! look out! yer gonna walk into the wicrowave LAN!
now matter how correct you are, the only reason people really need the speed is for gaming, and since a lot of smart computer people use AMD, i find it hard to believe games are gonna be designed specifically to work with p4. Therefore, I think in a way this is a very usefull benchmark tool...
I just like the fact that an AMD beat a p4 on a MMX test.
(And I was getting worried...)
This is all fine and good, but the real question is, how did the rebels get the planet-moon of endor into one of these?
I would like, however, to see you find me making this double standard. Yesterday I d/led mozilla and oracle to see how they were. I was pleasently surprised to find oracle outperform IE in terms of raw speed. Mozilla, however felt slow, and that was just in terms of the interface, not the surfing. anyway, the double standard you point out in terms of mozilla is not realy a double standard. The reason scour was bad is cause it crashed rediculously. I am not making this up. My roomates comp was BSOD every time I looked over and he refused to stop using scour. Mozilla may be in beta, but I feel people like it not because it out performs ie or whatever. Its because its open source, and some people just havethose kinda priorities.
Point is don't be too quick to judge. All I know is that, whichever one came first, napster somehow managed to be more stable. End of story.
well..if scour did come out before napster, why was scour in beta? Napster was stable, thats all I can say.
Oh yeh, and it didn't help that scour was a complete rip-off of Napster.
I guess that sums it up; it was really buggy and a rip-off of something that was working in most cases anyway.
Not only is this completely useless, but the goddamned Adult section is not even active.
bah
Just my thoughts.
MSVS6 made things pretty damned easy in opinion:
*easy to compile a program
*absurdly easy to debug a program
*programming in the windows environment is actually better: turns out windows is a lot more particular about algorithm errors then *nix
As a start-off point, MSVS is a very friendly tool. Now that I am in college, I have started working at a lab porting a unix app to pc, and I can tell you having an entire IDE is a whole lot better than cross-referencing in emacs. My boss was impressed with the simplicity of MSVS, and this is a guy who knows how to program in Unix.
There are some problems with learning to program in MSVS:
*it's so simple, I don't even know how to make a Makefile, which makes moving to Unix harder
*you take debug for granted in MSVS
Whats the point? Well, for getting kids into programming, there is no question in my mind that MSVS is a great tool. It's on a Win pc, which means they will know how to get around, and the amount to which it aids in compiling a program is great. The downfall is being stuck on the simplicity and not being able to expand to a different programming environment. To this I say that any one that will every be truly good at programming, those who have the potential, will be able to make the shift when needed. But I tell ya, when ever I want to get a simple app going, I for one will always jump to a simple win32 command line app or program it on my TI-86 before I even think about creating folders and .c files and Makefiles.
Bottom line? MSVS is not evil, and it is a great tool for getting one's feet wet.
The difference is that while on Napster yer trading copyrighted materials for free, over eBay you make a profit off it ;-)
Then again, maybe people would start to get suspicious when only one webpage ever comes up in the kid's history.
Yet again, blocking an anonymous web page would be completely and unarguably inconceivable! Well, it would be just plain wrong.
And what about internet proxy? I am thinking this is just too easy to get around undetectably.
Now if they could only solve the slashdot effect...
Salshdot's been slashdot'd
Writing in from Brown to say that my school, all though it has not been asked by King to close down napster, closed it down last year. BUT, it was not because of legal issues; it weas taking up more than half our bandwidth! As of eariler this week, however, napster is back up. The head of computing stated that if we had the bandwidth, it never would have gone down in the first place. I am glad to report that it seems Brown is another great school that will most likely stand with its peers and laugh at the RIAA and all its minions.
But I find it rather interesting that you consider webing (ie, linking to other sites) something immoral to do on the web. Last time I checked, thats why we have this thing called the world wide web, as opposed to the world wide set of non-interlinked sites. Linking is the reason we have a web.
More over, I find it bothersome that you consider it a bad thing that /. sends customers to other people's pages. Sure, it would make sense if they were sending us to a frame that contains only the story, but they aren't; the link sends us to a voodooextreme page. A full page. If voodooextreme only bothers to put banners on their front page, it's their fault. More likely they have banners on every page. Also, just the fact that we are now on voodooextreme's page, it would seem to me that a good number of people would actually look around other, non-related pages on voodooextreme just cause we are in the neighborhood. I know I do that all the time. Therefore, /. is supplying voodooextreme with customers, yet again.
In all, I find this stance rediculous, if only for the fact that if /. never linked to a page, we wouldn't be part of the "web." And if they only linked to the front page, I sure as hell know I would never follow a link from /. again.(Though I am sure a lot of sys admins would be damned happy about not having to face being /.'d.)
Just a little logic in the hands of an illogical computer user.
I wonder what would happen to the system when I mitakenly spill my coffee into the case...hmm...ultra fast comp and ice cream maker in one!