If this hit my campus, I would've become incensed. Not only is the college's contracted ISP short-changing us students on bandwidth, but our Social Security number acts as our Student ID number! Giving this to ZapMe! would've resulted in some inevitable Social Security fraud.
Fortunately, not even Channel One casts its demonic tendrils on my college. I'm safe... for now.
I have a P3 500 running Windows 2000 with 320 megs of RAM, and I have no lagging problems at all. Furthermore, the Athlon requires an entire driver set just because you're running an AMD. Windows wasn't made for AMD, and AMD sure wasn't intended to run bug-free.
In short, ditch the imposter CPU and get 100% i686.
They talk about how it differs from the traditional MacOS AND how it differs from BSD.
Well, we can all be sure of one thing; OS X will have a much better memory management structure than OS9, but it'll crash a whole lot more than BSD. Which, in the end, will mean diddly-squat when it comes to actually running programs.
Remember, this is about the workstation version of OS X, not the server version. Therefore, the focus is to be on overall stability and performance in foreground applications, not background processes (ftpd and the like). Bottom line: if OS X crashes while running Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, it will be a laughable failure for Apple and their workstation OS.
Seriously, at least Bill Gates doesn't want to make oodles of money off of millions of teenyboppers going to movies and concerts, as well as Rambus charging royalties for every memory piece manufactured.
In my opinion, Bill Gates is the best of the worst of the computer world. Sure, he's conquered the consumer/workstation market with Windows, but at least he doesn't intentionally degrade technology while pretending that it makes an improvement (like Sony's PlayStation 2 and its 4 megabytes of VRAM, and the latency and outrageous cost of Rambus which overshadows its high clock speed).
Ugh. Stop gloating over this story! The more you gloat over it, the more true the faux-Bill Gates memo becomes!
"Since nothing ever really gets accomplished in the Linux market, the poor zealots need to celebrate every small victory. This is a community of self- proclaimed "hackers" that are still celebrating the successful reverse engineering of those silly CueCat scanners. Therefore, as soon as a company mentions Linux in a positive way, regardless of how insignificant, the slashdot.org crowd throws a virtual equivalent of Mardi Gras. More GNOME examples here: the creation of HelixCode, a company that has an income of zero dollars, and the official announcement of GNOME support by Sun Microsystems. In the former case, everyone will gasp when HelixCode goes away (after all, didn't Mr. Raymond say that Open Source could be profitable?), and in the later, everyone forgets immediately how they felt about Sun's handling of Java last year. Despite this, Mardi Gras rages on."
...and where in my original post did you find a reference to bigotry? Not the "eee-bay-emm-sha!" part; that was from an old IBM commercial in the 90s, back when they started the blue letterbox ads.
As far as IBM is concerned, the only loyal customers they have remaining are the gullible corporations and foreign buyers who just don't know any better. They don't see IBM's hypocrisy (making CPU designs for Apple even though they started the PC standard way back in 1981, pushing free Linux even though they're still pimping their "worth its weight in gold" AIX, et cetera). I won't be surprised to see IBM die a quiet death of obsolescence; the only thing holding IBM away from the flames is their server design, and even that's being outshined by other companies.
Admit it, JonKatz basically invented the modern Slashdot trolling technique (or at least the competent technique). His one-sidedness has spawned a horde of morons who flame his stories; only the controversial stories about Microsoft, Cue:Cat, and the political interview series rival JonKatz's rantings as far as the number of posted comments goes. Personally, if Slashdot had a JonKatz filter, I would definitely use it.
I remember seeing an 3Com EISA NIC; weird stuff. Trouble is, they're all worthless. Not to worry; obsolete PCBs make great clocks. Personally, I'm thinking of turning my burned-out 440BX board into a mortarboard for when I graduate. When I receive my diploma, I'll put in a video card, CPU, and some RAM. THEN I'll shift my tassel to the left.
However, "International" doesn't mean that you abandon your home country to make incredible profits around the world while scaling back the support team to a few hundred members. Ever tried getting an IBM product fixed? It's not easy. They assume that you know bugger naught about computers and that you're an outright liar. Case in point, their "SurePay" POS system (Point of Sale, Piece of S#!&, take your pick). The terminals are basically Aptiva machines (K6-2 300, 32MB RAM, NT4SP4) running a POS program written entirely in Java. The keyboard has an acceptance rate similar to the PCJr, and credit cards sometimes get rejected without the possibility of entering in an approval code (doesn't this violate some consumer safety regulation?).
If I were to choose between IBM and another company for anything, I wouldn't choose IBM. Not even their StinkPads meet my needs.
Rambus currently has a stake in PlayStation 2; the system RAM. Therefore, not only is Rambus sucking the blood out of legitimate RAM manufacturers through royalties, they're also being kept alive by the largest media juggernaut in the world, Sony.
Therefore, if you truly oppose Rambus, don't buy a PlayStation 2. That also holds true if you oppose SDMI, the DMCA, and the MPAA. The PlayStation 2 is the epitome of media corruption, and the corruption of the world by the media companies. By watching the facial expressions of people playing the PS2 demo unit, I learned the true meaning of "the idiot box".
In short, oppose Sony's monopolistic dreams: buy a Dreamcast.
...especially if you want to convey security. Do you remember your late 18th century European history? Right. The Bastille in France was invaded and destroyed, prisoners were liberated, and the monarchy was overthrown by that terrible harbinger of death, La Guillotine.
I'd hate to see any Bastille Linux-oriented viruses or trojans. Maybe there will be one which triggers on July 14th of every year and echoes on the screen: "Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!"
Just use the Marine Corps procedure for when you're a prisoner of war/hostage: Only give them your name, rank, and serial number. The piggies don't deserve any more.
Also, I'd recommend having a good hiding place for your hard drives. Coppers love collecting storage media as evidence. When they find that computer sans boot device, you're almost scot free.
Now even more businessmen can stuff this one in their portfolio and naïvely proclaim that they invest in Linux. And the whole time they'll be using nothing but Windoze. Anyone else see the problem here? I do: you have to believe in your investment. You can't just buy 200 shares of TurboLinux and hope for the best.
(side note for Hemos and CmdrTaco: "So if stock stories never make it to Slashdot, then what the hell is this one doing here?")
Seriously, don't use Java to code unless you're not worried about efficiency; Java lags like hell, even when fully compiled into classes.
Also, consider one thing: the only scripting language that ASP didn't beat out was PHP. So before you go assuming that all of Microsoft is evil, think about the things that they did right: ASP's performance, as shown in this article; DirectSound and DirectDraw, which still beat the pants off of OSS and svgalib; and Win2000 Professional, proof that an NT workstation can be as versatile as 98 and still be ultra-stable.
...preferably from the DeCSS core. You see, the biggest revenue boost from the DVD world comes in the sale of players and player software. If someone makes a player for free, then that aspect of the DVD scheme is undermined.
In short, let's do to the MPAA what Napster did to the RIAA!
...just think of what would be different. Apple got its start when Steve & Stephen started making "blue boxes" for messing with Bell's telephone service to lower bills. Bill Gates stole many pieces of software from different companies (DOS, Windows, IE, Microsoft VM, et cetera). AMD messed around with the i386 and i686 platforms to build the K6, K6-2 and Athlon processor lines.
If a law similar to the DMCA was passed 30 years ago, none of these companies would even be in existence.
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Fortunately, not even Channel One casts its demonic tendrils on my college. I'm safe... for now.
In short, ditch the imposter CPU and get 100% i686.
If you need it in more places than that, then go here.
Well, we can all be sure of one thing; OS X will have a much better memory management structure than OS9, but it'll crash a whole lot more than BSD. Which, in the end, will mean diddly-squat when it comes to actually running programs.
Remember, this is about the workstation version of OS X, not the server version. Therefore, the focus is to be on overall stability and performance in foreground applications, not background processes (ftpd and the like). Bottom line: if OS X crashes while running Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, it will be a laughable failure for Apple and their workstation OS.
well, maybe not quite. We're not into cybernetics yet, but once we do get into it, we'll become like the Borg.
In my opinion, Bill Gates is the best of the worst of the computer world. Sure, he's conquered the consumer/workstation market with Windows, but at least he doesn't intentionally degrade technology while pretending that it makes an improvement (like Sony's PlayStation 2 and its 4 megabytes of VRAM, and the latency and outrageous cost of Rambus which overshadows its high clock speed).
As far as IBM is concerned, the only loyal customers they have remaining are the gullible corporations and foreign buyers who just don't know any better. They don't see IBM's hypocrisy (making CPU designs for Apple even though they started the PC standard way back in 1981, pushing free Linux even though they're still pimping their "worth its weight in gold" AIX, et cetera). I won't be surprised to see IBM die a quiet death of obsolescence; the only thing holding IBM away from the flames is their server design, and even that's being outshined by other companies.
eye-bee-emm. Can you say "IBM"? Good, I knew that you could.
Admit it, JonKatz basically invented the modern Slashdot trolling technique (or at least the competent technique). His one-sidedness has spawned a horde of morons who flame his stories; only the controversial stories about Microsoft, Cue:Cat, and the political interview series rival JonKatz's rantings as far as the number of posted comments goes. Personally, if Slashdot had a JonKatz filter, I would definitely use it.
I remember seeing an 3Com EISA NIC; weird stuff. Trouble is, they're all worthless. Not to worry; obsolete PCBs make great clocks. Personally, I'm thinking of turning my burned-out 440BX board into a mortarboard for when I graduate. When I receive my diploma, I'll put in a video card, CPU, and some RAM. THEN I'll shift my tassel to the left.
If I were to choose between IBM and another company for anything, I wouldn't choose IBM. Not even their StinkPads meet my needs.
Therefore, if you truly oppose Rambus, don't buy a PlayStation 2. That also holds true if you oppose SDMI, the DMCA, and the MPAA. The PlayStation 2 is the epitome of media corruption, and the corruption of the world by the media companies. By watching the facial expressions of people playing the PS2 demo unit, I learned the true meaning of "the idiot box".
In short, oppose Sony's monopolistic dreams: buy a Dreamcast.
...and how long will it take for you to learn that?
Penis Bird Guy. Definetly. He always had something coherent to say, instead of just spouting out incoherent nonsense, like Bob Abooey and the others.
I'd hate to see any Bastille Linux-oriented viruses or trojans. Maybe there will be one which triggers on July 14th of every year and echoes on the screen: "Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!"
For more historical stuff on Bastille Day, check out this link to the French Embassy.
Also, I'd recommend having a good hiding place for your hard drives. Coppers love collecting storage media as evidence. When they find that computer sans boot device, you're almost scot free.
(side note for Hemos and CmdrTaco: "So if stock stories never make it to Slashdot, then what the hell is this one doing here?")
Also, consider one thing: the only scripting language that ASP didn't beat out was PHP. So before you go assuming that all of Microsoft is evil, think about the things that they did right: ASP's performance, as shown in this article; DirectSound and DirectDraw, which still beat the pants off of OSS and svgalib; and Win2000 Professional, proof that an NT workstation can be as versatile as 98 and still be ultra-stable.
Isn't that the case for almost every Linux distro/version? Hell, isn't that the motto for all Linux programs/drivers/utilities?
Ugh. Is that asking for a flaming or what?
Here's the article from The Register on how Sony's Nagasaki plant switched to .18 micron and essentially fudged up the release schedule.
In short, let's do to the MPAA what Napster did to the RIAA!
...boycotts don't work anymore. See my response to someone else with the same point as you.
If a law similar to the DMCA was passed 30 years ago, none of these companies would even be in existence.