Apple was still optimizing and cutting bloat out of OS-X, which is where they got most of their speed improvements. Waiting seconds for windows to redraw? GMAB!
There are a few delays and annoyances in XP, but it's fairly zippy out of the gate. I've used both it and 2K on several machines, and XP boots up ~30 seconds faster, with maybe an additional 5 seconds of delay on the desktop, so you're still well ahead of 2K in time to use. It shuts down much faster too, and I don't notice any GUI slow downs. If you want to speed things up, turn off all the eye candy.
Even the most hardened Linux heads that I know all have some version of Windows sharing the hard drive. I personally don't know anyone that only boots Linux. The only things I've seen online show a huge tendency towards dual booting - and a quick google search turned up the same sort of info, at least the first 3 that seemed relevant.
Since probably a majority of Linux boxes are dual boot (at least desktop machines), this is significant.
I went back to Mandrake 10.0 - Official this time, and the sound card worked the first time (see previous issues with it). I didn't have the boot issue with RH, fortunately, but it was just less....finished. MDK has tons of pre-built binary RPMs, much more than any other distro that I've ever looked for, and I'm lazy, so that's good for me.:)
I also had some Samba issues, trying to attach my MDK server's share. Works fine in Windows and MDK, and I just couldn't get RH to mount it correctly. Too much hassle, particularly when I can get my Linux fix with something like Mandrake where things tend to work better.
Thus, back to the analogy that the wind or a passing truck can plant patented property on my land against my will. Now, I can be sued for the licensing fees... for mere possession! Why should I have to weed out the tares from the wheat when I did absolutely nothing to bring your patented possession on my land, and moreover, I can't seem to be able to do anything to prevent it, short of retiring my land!
It's not mere posession. It is cultivation and reproduction.
Mr. Schmeiser saved the seed and reused it "for production and advantage," the majority noted. "Whether or not patent protection for the gene and the cell extends to activities involving the plant is not relevant to the patent's validity."
I'm sure you would have some legal recourse if these evil companies came along and intentionally polluted your crop. This case sets no precedent for that, only people who reuse the seeds instead of getting a new crop from the manufacturer. It's clear that the plants themselves (mere posession!) are not the issue.
Monsanto did not claim protection for the genetically modified plant itself, but rather for the genes and the modified cells it is composed of.
They can't plant (hah!) evidence in your house to take ownership of it, only exclude you from using the seeds to plant another crop. I'm not sure how they'd take ownership of your house either, that seems a bit over the top - they were only allowed to force him to destroy the plants derived from the harvested seeds.
His crime was intentionally cultivating the seeds, not being in posession of some of their plants.
You do bring up an interesting point of how someone who may accidentally get some of this stuff in their field. Roundup doesn't kill it - but I'm not sure why you'd want to purchase plant killer from Monsanto if you have a problem with their seeds being there in the first place.
Is there a reasonable way to kill off accidental plantings?
He abandoned his failed attempt to say that they "polluted" his crops without his help, and instead tried to claim they couldn't patent it - like higher life forms.
If I went to a show and it was good, I'd definitely pay $10.00 to download a digital copy of it.
But if you are half drunk and trying to work some kiosk, you'll probably pay $40.00 for a copy of a terrible show, perhaps even accidentally paying for it twice as you fumble around with the keychain while trying not to spill your beer.:)
Sure, and I certainly don't suggest we do that. I'm just pointing out how impractical they are, at least for crowded cities. If there is moderate to sparse pedestrian traffic, it's more feasible.
If they had some sort of anti-gravity device, that might help.;)
Depends on how you generate it - you've merely passed the buck.
I doubt the ban on Segways has anything to do with being Luddites. Those things take up at least 2-3x as much ground space as a person. The sidewalks can often be packed in NYC, and the street is full of cars. There's nowhere for Segways to go when it's busy, other than "on everybody else's feet."
I think when Steve Jobs said that it would change the way we build cities, he was right. We HAVE to change the way we buld cities because it won't fit in any current cities. We'd need extra lanes to handle the traffic.
I appreciate the offers for help - where were you guys during previous installs before my patience was gone?:)
Anyways, no, I have no mic plugged in, the hardware isn't faulty, and it has always dual booted with several different versions of Windows and worked fine there. I tried playing with the mixer/volume controls, and they weren't set at zero.;) It just refused to work most of the time, usually indicating that it was detected and installed during installation. It either just didn't work, or it crashed the media player.
If you guys really want to help, I suggest you get cracking on better sound drivers for Linux, if you can program. It used to work, and occasionally still does.....
I appreciate the offer, but I'll probably just wait for MDK10 full to come out (for us cheapskates that are watching from the sidelines, not ready to jump in and pay for something that never seems to get fixed) and nuke and pave, again. I'll see if that fixes it.
My Sound Blaster Live! worked in Mandrake up until around 2-3 years ago, and hasn't since. I've tried every version of Mandrake for the past 3-4 years, almost all of the Red Hat versions for the same period, and they all fail at installing a Sound Blaster Live (other than Fedora 1.0). I tried "a couple versions of SuSE" too, and I can't name the specific versions, but they failed also.
This was installed in an ASUS Athlon mobo for a few years, and in an Intel P4 mobo lately. Same story with an SBLive at work (Athlon/MSI mobo). Same problem. No crappy hardware, no OEM parts. Always worked in 98, 2K, and XP every time.
Linux usually detects and then ignores it. Or (bonus!) it gives me an irritating high-pitched note at full volume, without anything else working. Sometimes I've been able to figure out the problem, but it's usually so frustrating and with so little utility, I just give up and reboot into XP.
Go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles in an apple.
No, go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles that you want. What if you don't need firewire? Most people don't. What if you don't need wi-fi? What if you do need a serial port? A parallel port? USB adapters don't solve these issues all the time either.
The only time it makes sense to stuff a PC full of all the specific bells and whistles that an Apple comes with is A) for someone who needs the exact feature set of a mac but insists on buying a PC anyways, or B) those silly price comparisons that Mac zealots do.
Yes, things would have been so quiet with the Soviet conventional army. Imagine how wonderful the 50s and 60s would have been without nukes. I mean, the Soviets never invaded *any* countries with their conventional forces that they could get away with, it was all the evil nuclear weapons that caused ill during the Cold War.
I'll spend a little karma to prevent another global conventional war. See "Eastern Europe" for what the rest of the globe would have faced otherwise.
Well, if you listened to the original single version, you'd note that all that P. Diddy did was take a tape recording of "I, Cringely" complaining about MS and say, "uh huh, unh HUNNNHH" over the top of it.
Why would they go out of their way to risk it? Not only that, but trying to detect and then further prove that a particular hardware feature has been infringed upon in someone else's chip?
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Apple was still optimizing and cutting bloat out of OS-X, which is where they got most of their speed improvements. Waiting seconds for windows to redraw? GMAB!
There are a few delays and annoyances in XP, but it's fairly zippy out of the gate. I've used both it and 2K on several machines, and XP boots up ~30 seconds faster, with maybe an additional 5 seconds of delay on the desktop, so you're still well ahead of 2K in time to use. It shuts down much faster too, and I don't notice any GUI slow downs. If you want to speed things up, turn off all the eye candy.
Even the most hardened Linux heads that I know all have some version of Windows sharing the hard drive. I personally don't know anyone that only boots Linux. The only things I've seen online show a huge tendency towards dual booting - and a quick google search turned up the same sort of info, at least the first 3 that seemed relevant.
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Since probably a majority of Linux boxes are dual boot (at least desktop machines), this is significant.
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I went back to Mandrake 10.0 - Official this time, and the sound card worked the first time (see previous issues with it). I didn't have the boot issue with RH, fortunately, but it was just less....finished. MDK has tons of pre-built binary RPMs, much more than any other distro that I've ever looked for, and I'm lazy, so that's good for me.
I also had some Samba issues, trying to attach my MDK server's share. Works fine in Windows and MDK, and I just couldn't get RH to mount it correctly. Too much hassle, particularly when I can get my Linux fix with something like Mandrake where things tend to work better.
Just commit massive credit card fraud! Your cellmate will do the rest. :)
-=D34tH_fruM_4B0v3=- just carved up FRANZ_FERDINAND with his green shaft....
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Thus, back to the analogy that the wind or a passing truck can plant patented property on my land against my will. Now, I can be sued for the licensing fees... for mere possession! Why should I have to weed out the tares from the wheat when I did absolutely nothing to bring your patented possession on my land, and moreover, I can't seem to be able to do anything to prevent it, short of retiring my land!
It's not mere posession. It is cultivation and reproduction.
Mr. Schmeiser saved the seed and reused it "for production and advantage," the majority noted. "Whether or not patent protection for the gene and the cell extends to activities involving the plant is not relevant to the patent's validity."
I'm sure you would have some legal recourse if these evil companies came along and intentionally polluted your crop. This case sets no precedent for that, only people who reuse the seeds instead of getting a new crop from the manufacturer. It's clear that the plants themselves (mere posession!) are not the issue.
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Monsanto did not claim protection for the genetically modified plant itself, but rather for the genes and the modified cells it is composed of.
They can't plant (hah!) evidence in your house to take ownership of it, only exclude you from using the seeds to plant another crop. I'm not sure how they'd take ownership of your house either, that seems a bit over the top - they were only allowed to force him to destroy the plants derived from the harvested seeds.
His crime was intentionally cultivating the seeds, not being in posession of some of their plants.
You do bring up an interesting point of how someone who may accidentally get some of this stuff in their field. Roundup doesn't kill it - but I'm not sure why you'd want to purchase plant killer from Monsanto if you have a problem with their seeds being there in the first place.
Is there a reasonable way to kill off accidental plantings?
He abandoned his failed attempt to say that they "polluted" his crops without his help, and instead tried to claim they couldn't patent it - like higher life forms.
If I went to a show and it was good, I'd definitely pay $10.00 to download a digital copy of it.
:)
But if you are half drunk and trying to work some kiosk, you'll probably pay $40.00 for a copy of a terrible show, perhaps even accidentally paying for it twice as you fumble around with the keychain while trying not to spill your beer.
They screw you over, you say thank you sir, may I have some more, and I'll write the program to do it with?
Er....no thanks. I think the proper way to show gratitude is to buy a Rio Karma or other portable player that includes Linux software.
Sure, and I certainly don't suggest we do that. I'm just pointing out how impractical they are, at least for crowded cities. If there is moderate to sparse pedestrian traffic, it's more feasible.
;)
If they had some sort of anti-gravity device, that might help.
Depends on how you generate it - you've merely passed the buck.
I doubt the ban on Segways has anything to do with being Luddites. Those things take up at least 2-3x as much ground space as a person. The sidewalks can often be packed in NYC, and the street is full of cars. There's nowhere for Segways to go when it's busy, other than "on everybody else's feet."
I think when Steve Jobs said that it would change the way we build cities, he was right. We HAVE to change the way we buld cities because it won't fit in any current cities. We'd need extra lanes to handle the traffic.
So the Linux-supplied DRIVER that never works is just a practical joke or something?
Creative released drivers. Open source drivers. Linux took the ball and dropped it. Thanks for playing, though. Asshat.
I appreciate the offers for help - where were you guys during previous installs before my patience was gone? :)
;) It just refused to work most of the time, usually indicating that it was detected and installed during installation. It either just didn't work, or it crashed the media player.
Anyways, no, I have no mic plugged in, the hardware isn't faulty, and it has always dual booted with several different versions of Windows and worked fine there. I tried playing with the mixer/volume controls, and they weren't set at zero.
If you guys really want to help, I suggest you get cracking on better sound drivers for Linux, if you can program. It used to work, and occasionally still does.....
I appreciate the offer, but I'll probably just wait for MDK10 full to come out (for us cheapskates that are watching from the sidelines, not ready to jump in and pay for something that never seems to get fixed) and nuke and pave, again. I'll see if that fixes it.
My Sound Blaster Live! worked in Mandrake up until around 2-3 years ago, and hasn't since. I've tried every version of Mandrake for the past 3-4 years, almost all of the Red Hat versions for the same period, and they all fail at installing a Sound Blaster Live (other than Fedora 1.0). I tried "a couple versions of SuSE" too, and I can't name the specific versions, but they failed also.
This was installed in an ASUS Athlon mobo for a few years, and in an Intel P4 mobo lately. Same story with an SBLive at work (Athlon/MSI mobo). Same problem. No crappy hardware, no OEM parts. Always worked in 98, 2K, and XP every time.
Linux usually detects and then ignores it. Or (bonus!) it gives me an irritating high-pitched note at full volume, without anything else working. Sometimes I've been able to figure out the problem, but it's usually so frustrating and with so little utility, I just give up and reboot into XP.
Go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles in an apple.
No, go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles that you want. What if you don't need firewire? Most people don't. What if you don't need wi-fi? What if you do need a serial port? A parallel port? USB adapters don't solve these issues all the time either.
The only time it makes sense to stuff a PC full of all the specific bells and whistles that an Apple comes with is A) for someone who needs the exact feature set of a mac but insists on buying a PC anyways, or B) those silly price comparisons that Mac zealots do.
Add to that a faraday cage to prevent cell phones from working.
Yes, things would have been so quiet with the Soviet conventional army. Imagine how wonderful the 50s and 60s would have been without nukes. I mean, the Soviets never invaded *any* countries with their conventional forces that they could get away with, it was all the evil nuclear weapons that caused ill during the Cold War.
I'll spend a little karma to prevent another global conventional war. See "Eastern Europe" for what the rest of the globe would have faced otherwise.
Well, if you listened to the original single version, you'd note that all that P. Diddy did was take a tape recording of "I, Cringely" complaining about MS and say, "uh huh, unh HUNNNHH" over the top of it.
It seems that Rackspace Managed Hosting tracks you by your IP number when you arrive.
:)
I guess I'm safe since I bought that software from the popup ad that keeps my computer from broadcasting an IP.
Why would they go out of their way to risk it? Not only that, but trying to detect and then further prove that a particular hardware feature has been infringed upon in someone else's chip?
Is very unVanuatusian! Or something.
And when it needs repairs? If it falls out of orbit?
Nice concept, but NASA is still effectively responsible for it.
...listened to Jimmy, the "Don't Hold On To A Large Magnet While Someone Else Uses A Fan Nearby" Falcon!
I guess since he retreated to the Island of Misfit Mascots, they haven't been listening as much....