that the original Pyramid scheme (yes, by our friend, Mister Ponzi) was formed using International Reply Coupons? Yes, how incredibly pathetic, but right before the roaring 20's, they were a commodity.
Open sourcing Windows would cause a degradation of standards. Judging on how many programmers regard Microsoft, the entire Win32 standard would crumble due to 1337 h4x0rs tweaking KERNEL32.DLL and the TCP/IP stack just so they can DDoS servers faster.
Hardware review website Sheiss.de has a section on a liquid-nitrogen block Athlon SMP system. The system achieved 1.41 GHz before boiling the entire liquid nitrogen reservoir and almost obliterating the lab. After the cataclysm, one of the system technicians uttered: "Zehr gut, ja?"
Actually, I never paid for my copy of Windows 2000, but I never pirated it: it is a true, holographic-covered, "Not for Retail or OEM Distribution," copy of Windows 2000. However, I don't believe in Microsoft's doctrine of licensing media. For WMA, the entire file's on there, just use UnF&@K to, well, you know, unf&@k it. As for ASF, ASFRecorder is great. You aren't even detected; it looks just like Media Player to the server.
The all-optical router promises to be another great peripheral; however, I doubt its stability. The signals are routed through mirrors; thousands of them able to fit on a quarter. The mirrors make adjustments within one hundredth/thousandth (I don't remember which) of a degree.
My qualms come from the simple fact that this router will have to be on steady ground. This certainly wouldn't be useful in San Fran, Kobe, or anywhere near a fault line or artificial seismic activity.
Professionally, I'm still reeling from how IBM shafted CompUSA on the POS terminals (Point of Sale or Piece of S@&#, translate it as you will). These things were basically dumbed down Aptivas with a fancy keyboard (K6-2 300, 32 MB of RAM, NT4 SP4, POS terminal programmed in Java and executed through JGui). Boy, those things are laggy as hell. The keyboard has an acceptance rate of the PCJr. keyboard, the barcode scanner won't scan serial numbers, the 2x20 LED display was the only useful output of the computer (the monitor just shows an overview of the receipt and incessant ads), the printer stutters due to the Javalag(TM), the cash drawer has a 2500ms lag, and the check printer sometimes eats checks! Furthermore, the system setup looks as improvised as a Tinkertoy: once NT is booted, an FTP session starts to download the ad JPEGs, then an unknown piece of hardware is detected (every time, and every time I have to close that damned window without a mouse), then the "SurePay" program starts up. I wrote a sternly worded comment to IBM; after which I was almost fired for opposing a contractual partner, therefore jeopardizing the bottom line. The terminals were Y2K compliant, but they certainly aren't Win2K compliant, so what happens if they need to be upgraded? Guess we'll have to contract out to a POS company that doesn't suck as much as IBM.
DISCLAIMERS: Javalag(TM), Java®, and Sun® are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC, Ltd. in trust.
A European with a pretty bad grasp of English grammar, too.
"Second, I represent a very large number of very large corporations in doing their tech-support."
Really? You represent more than three corporations as their tech support liaison from your desk in the GNUCave? Pretty amazing for a mere human.
"Third, the fact that these corporations have hard-earned reputations does not dispute the fact that their low-budget home user systems are exactly that: low-budget home user systems which are too expensive due to a brand name on them."
So what about the Dell Optiplex and PowerEdge? The Micron ClientPro and NetFRAME? Do you still say that they are inferior as well, despite their acceptance by Linux distros and large corporations worldwide? One product line does not a corporation make, young Obi-Wan.
"As for examining my head, been there, done that, didn't help."
Perhaps you should try bludgeoning your head, then. It certainly would make this world a more peaceful place. Mentalities like yours are responsible for starting wars all over the world. Do the world a favor, and have a heart.
The EULA doesn't prohibit you from using the Windows disc as a coaster, does it? No. You can sneeze on it, for all that Microsoft cares. Consider it a bonus; you can always rip the media files from the disc (remember, unf**k.exe for WMA and ASFRecorder for ASF!)
Say you go to contest a speeding ticket in traffic court. Right then and there, every clerk, bailiff, and judge looks at you with disdain. You are a drag on their daily lives, as well as the enemy of the state of the minute, despite your petty violation of the law. That is what I mean when I use the terms "judicial quota system" and "presumed guilty until proven innocent."
"No sense paying for a reputation a company didn't deserve in the first place anyway, now is there?"
So you're saying that Dell and Micron don't deserve their reputations? Despite the fact that Michael Dell has garnered success for at least 13 straight years? Despite Micron's excellent reliability rating and even better SDRAM quality reputation? Despite both companies' support for Linux?
You desperately need to get your head examined. There are reputable computer manufacturers out there; it's just that your fear of Corporate America has chained you to the wall of non-conformity. Take a walk on the civilized side sometime.
Why "consider everything except that"? I'll tell you why: because three people already brought it up. Don't you read the posting guidelines? Here, I'll refresh you:
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
Okay, that's one point; why pay for something that you're just going to throw out. Point taken, but consider everything except that. Make sure this post stays a valid discussion and not another flaming victim.
I mean, as long as you're sure the chipset is fully supported in Linux (i.e.: has no "buggy" driver modules), then just wipe out Windoze with fdisk and start installing Linux. Though, from what I've seen, retail systems just have too much win-hardware to be worthy of running Linux. HP is win, Compaq is win, Dell is good, Micron is good, Gateway is win, and so on, and so on.
I'm wondering about Beon machines; those are pretty chic systems, but do they deserve the derisive term, "Pee-on"? Or are they Linux friendly?
Seriously, all of the major recent Intel chipset problems were with RDRAM. There's the infamous i820E problem with the third RDRAM chip not getting registered (which was after the initial, pre-RDRAM i820 went bust). And now this, when the ICH2 is coupled with the i850 and i860 MTHs, which use... starts with R, you know this...... RDRAM! Right!
I think the time for the NVidia DDR chipset is NOW. Let's stop this half-assed hardware engineering and pre-alpha lithography which the Intel staff is undertaking.
My K dropped from 33 to 15, after the 3 AMD articles, and various other instances where I was outnumbered. Think of this as a form of personal redemption. Personally, I'm willing to moderate, the moderation would moderate my karma and offset gains. I just wish that I could find out how to moderate.
Personally, when I open up my computer CD cabinet, or look into the computer's corner of my room, I don't see complexity, I see order in chaos. I subscribe to the packrat's creed: "A place for everything, and everything in its place: all over the place." My backpack goes to the left of the futon chair; the futon chair itself has the CDs to Elite Force, Half-Life, and Soldier of Fortune; my CD-ROM drive has one of those three in it, while my DVD-ROM has Q3 nestled in; the right portion of the floor below the futon chair has my 3 DVDs: Dune, Tron, The Green Mile; my desk has a spindle of CD-Rs (with a silenced alarm clock and the Daikatana CD halves on it), which flanks the unused table lamp; to the right of that, my printer with stacks of paper piled to the left. My cable array is a total bird's nest (though my cockatiel is afraid of it!). My parents look in and ask me, "Why don't you ever clean that?" I say, "What? It's already organized." If anyone but me moves something in there, I won't be able to find it for at least a few minutes.
So the next time you go past that desk at work that looks like the desk from "Shoe", just leave it. Chances are that that desk jockey has everything straightened out in some kind of system.
Uh, yeah, K's down to 16 now, trying to build it back up the hard way. You lose the bonus when you dip below 25, so that's why (usually I'm too lazy to check the "No Bonus" box).
I was using my bonus as a bully pulpit to let people see my side on the issues. Unfortunately, with the swarm of AMD articles, I fell out of the favorable portion of the Slashdot crowd. That's the price of speaking your mind, but hey, what's right is not always popular, and what's popular is not always right.
I'll probably ditch the bonus when I see that I'm outnumbered. That way, I'll risk losing 2 instead of 3 points. I'll keep the bonus for things which might soar to 5, so I won't be whoring points (as much).
I hope other KWs adopt this as a standard doctrine for posting (yeah, Signal_11, I'm talking to you!).
...and then sue under the DMCA if anyone decrypts the transmissions. Gee, does this sound reminiscent of our least favorite companion to the mouse, the Cue:Cat?
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that the original Pyramid scheme (yes, by our friend, Mister Ponzi) was formed using International Reply Coupons? Yes, how incredibly pathetic, but right before the roaring 20's, they were a commodity.
Open sourcing Windows would cause a degradation of standards. Judging on how many programmers regard Microsoft, the entire Win32 standard would crumble due to 1337 h4x0rs tweaking KERNEL32.DLL and the TCP/IP stack just so they can DDoS servers faster.
Now isn't that a coincidence?
Hardware review website Sheiss.de has a section on a liquid-nitrogen block Athlon SMP system. The system achieved 1.41 GHz before boiling the entire liquid nitrogen reservoir and almost obliterating the lab. After the cataclysm, one of the system technicians uttered: "Zehr gut, ja?"
Actually, I never paid for my copy of Windows 2000, but I never pirated it: it is a true, holographic-covered, "Not for Retail or OEM Distribution," copy of Windows 2000. However, I don't believe in Microsoft's doctrine of licensing media. For WMA, the entire file's on there, just use UnF&@K to, well, you know, unf&@k it. As for ASF, ASFRecorder is great. You aren't even detected; it looks just like Media Player to the server.
My qualms come from the simple fact that this router will have to be on steady ground. This certainly wouldn't be useful in San Fran, Kobe, or anywhere near a fault line or artificial seismic activity.
Professionally, I'm still reeling from how IBM shafted CompUSA on the POS terminals (Point of Sale or Piece of S@&#, translate it as you will). These things were basically dumbed down Aptivas with a fancy keyboard (K6-2 300, 32 MB of RAM, NT4 SP4, POS terminal programmed in Java and executed through JGui). Boy, those things are laggy as hell. The keyboard has an acceptance rate of the PCJr. keyboard, the barcode scanner won't scan serial numbers, the 2x20 LED display was the only useful output of the computer (the monitor just shows an overview of the receipt and incessant ads), the printer stutters due to the Javalag(TM), the cash drawer has a 2500ms lag, and the check printer sometimes eats checks! Furthermore, the system setup looks as improvised as a Tinkertoy: once NT is booted, an FTP session starts to download the ad JPEGs, then an unknown piece of hardware is detected (every time, and every time I have to close that damned window without a mouse), then the "SurePay" program starts up. I wrote a sternly worded comment to IBM; after which I was almost fired for opposing a contractual partner, therefore jeopardizing the bottom line. The terminals were Y2K compliant, but they certainly aren't Win2K compliant, so what happens if they need to be upgraded? Guess we'll have to contract out to a POS company that doesn't suck as much as IBM.
DISCLAIMERS: Javalag(TM), Java®, and Sun® are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC, Ltd. in trust.
(still trying to adjust eyes from reading 12-point Times New Roman for five minutes straight!)
A European with a pretty bad grasp of English grammar, too.
Really? You represent more than three corporations as their tech support liaison from your desk in the GNUCave? Pretty amazing for a mere human.
So what about the Dell Optiplex and PowerEdge? The Micron ClientPro and NetFRAME? Do you still say that they are inferior as well, despite their acceptance by Linux distros and large corporations worldwide? One product line does not a corporation make, young Obi-Wan.
Perhaps you should try bludgeoning your head, then. It certainly would make this world a more peaceful place. Mentalities like yours are responsible for starting wars all over the world. Do the world a favor, and have a heart.
The EULA doesn't prohibit you from using the Windows disc as a coaster, does it? No. You can sneeze on it, for all that Microsoft cares. Consider it a bonus; you can always rip the media files from the disc (remember, unf**k.exe for WMA and ASFRecorder for ASF!)
Say you go to contest a speeding ticket in traffic court. Right then and there, every clerk, bailiff, and judge looks at you with disdain. You are a drag on their daily lives, as well as the enemy of the state of the minute, despite your petty violation of the law. That is what I mean when I use the terms "judicial quota system" and "presumed guilty until proven innocent."
So you're saying that Dell and Micron don't deserve their reputations? Despite the fact that Michael Dell has garnered success for at least 13 straight years? Despite Micron's excellent reliability rating and even better SDRAM quality reputation? Despite both companies' support for Linux?
You desperately need to get your head examined. There are reputable computer manufacturers out there; it's just that your fear of Corporate America has chained you to the wall of non-conformity. Take a walk on the civilized side sometime.
Okay, that's one point; why pay for something that you're just going to throw out. Point taken, but consider everything except that. Make sure this post stays a valid discussion and not another flaming victim.
Oh yeah. Well, he was at the IRC meeting, probably for a last blast from Hemos and Taco, heh.
Use the post-Higgins accent, you know, the one you hear right before, "Come on! Move your bloomin' auss!"
I'm wondering about Beon machines; those are pretty chic systems, but do they deserve the derisive term, "Pee-on"? Or are they Linux friendly?
They rhyme if you use a "My Fair Lady"-ish, proper English accent. Try it. (no, not out loud!)
I think the time for the NVidia DDR chipset is NOW. Let's stop this half-assed hardware engineering and pre-alpha lithography which the Intel staff is undertaking.
Oh where, oh where is the Pentium 4?
Oh where, oh where has it been? This song will turn me to a Karma Whore And AC's will rip out my spleen!My K dropped from 33 to 15, after the 3 AMD articles, and various other instances where I was outnumbered. Think of this as a form of personal redemption. Personally, I'm willing to moderate, the moderation would moderate my karma and offset gains. I just wish that I could find out how to moderate.
So the next time you go past that desk at work that looks like the desk from "Shoe", just leave it. Chances are that that desk jockey has everything straightened out in some kind of system.
I was using my bonus as a bully pulpit to let people see my side on the issues. Unfortunately, with the swarm of AMD articles, I fell out of the favorable portion of the Slashdot crowd. That's the price of speaking your mind, but hey, what's right is not always popular, and what's popular is not always right.
I'll probably ditch the bonus when I see that I'm outnumbered. That way, I'll risk losing 2 instead of 3 points. I'll keep the bonus for things which might soar to 5, so I won't be whoring points (as much).
I hope other KWs adopt this as a standard doctrine for posting (yeah, Signal_11, I'm talking to you!).
...and then sue under the DMCA if anyone decrypts the transmissions. Gee, does this sound reminiscent of our least favorite companion to the mouse, the Cue:Cat?
Their website looks reminiscent of the Digital:Convergence website. Let's hope that their sales practices and engineering skills aren't similar.