The point of all this is for corporations to generate revenue over and over from the same customer. This is what happens when a market becomes saturated - business looks at how to squeeze more money out of our pockets. Welcome to capitalism.
Have you actually tried to go through the hundreds of RH packages, click stuff off, not knowing for sure what some of that crudge is, then having to resolve all of the dependencies? No thanks! I take FreeBSD, do a base install, add XFree86 4.x and WindowMaker, and then add the stuff I want/need. Personally I truly despise the bloatware that RH, Mandrake and SuSE have become.
> Cable and Satellite have demonstrated that people want more channels
Bull wank!!! I want more content, not the spooj currently being tossed out on cable. Reruns of the Flying Nun, the Waltons and other old drek is not what I want. Damn marketing droids once again spun things to what they wanted, not what we wanted.
Beg to differ. Personally I can't stand the [bleep]'in touchpads. Can't control the mouse worth a [bleep] and always get false hits, [bleep]'in things up all the time. I much prefer the eraser-head technology. However, I always end up plugging in a mouse simply to reduce the frustration factor.
I wouldn't use either one if I could avoid it. With IBill I had an issue where I entered in my CC info and got back an error that the transaction was declined. Guess what? IBill got the money from my CC! Took about three weeks of back and forth to get me my money back. First, they couldn't find any record of the transaction in their systems at all and I ended up faxing over to their financial department my CC statement to prove that they indeed did take money from me. With CCbill, none of my cards would go through - ended up calling the vendor on their 1-800 number and placed the order the olde fashioned way.
Lesson learned was that online shopping is still in the dark ages and sometimes ends up with far more hassle than it is worth.
I used to have a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Worked Ok for awhile. Then it froze. So I replaced the batteries just to be safe. It kept on freezing randomly to the point that I tossed the in' hardware out the window and hooked up a nice and reliable wired mouse and keyboard. Never looked back - too bad I wasted the $$ on the wireless fad junk.
Pfft! I've had 512MB of RAM in my SMP system for about two years now. Upgraded to 2GB when Fry's started selling 1GB DIMM sticks for just over $100. And 155MHz 256MB DIMM sticks for $16 a piece - bugger me.
Still doesn't stop bad code from buffer overflow and the like. In fact, the more features and protocols that you do add, the more likely something will have a security hole in it...:)
This is what I tried to enlighten upon the dot-com generation kids when Java began its fad-dom. Didn't get anywhere. They wanted to rewrite all of the world in Java. Now time and experience has, once again, proved me right.
> Unfortunately, not that many applications take full advantage of multi-processor boxes (or require their use).
Not true. I've been running a dual processor PIII box for over two years now (ASUS P2B-DS based). You would find that even simple day-to-day stuff such as browsing, e-mail, document writing and so on feel far smoother on a dual-processor system simply because the underlying OS takes advantage of the extra processor.
I always have to laugh when voice recognition is babbled about. Imagine a modern open concept Dilbert office with ~150 staff, all talking at their computers. Yeah, right, will never happen.
Run through the office, yelling "FORMAT C:", "Yes!". - me
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Especially when it is the VP of sales and friend of the CEO...
Not yet anyway. If you get successful, you will grow, as will politics and all that goes along with it.
And how are you going to prevent others from pissing away your disk space and/or CPU cycles?
The issue is, how do you prevent some dumb ignorant chair warmer from publishing a confidential company document to the whole world. Eh?
The point of all this is for corporations to generate revenue over and over from the same customer. This is what happens when a market becomes saturated - business looks at how to squeeze more money out of our pockets. Welcome to capitalism.
As long as no real blood is spilt, nor no real pain is felt, then people will continue to want this sort of rot. It's part of the biological make up.
Have you actually tried to go through the hundreds of RH packages, click stuff off, not knowing for sure what some of that crudge is, then having to resolve all of the dependencies? No thanks! I take FreeBSD, do a base install, add XFree86 4.x and WindowMaker, and then add the stuff I want/need. Personally I truly despise the bloatware that RH, Mandrake and SuSE have become.
Bull wank!!! I want more content, not the spooj currently being tossed out on cable. Reruns of the Flying Nun, the Waltons and other old drek is not what I want. Damn marketing droids once again spun things to what they wanted, not what we wanted.
Beg to differ. Personally I can't stand the [bleep]'in touchpads. Can't control the mouse worth a [bleep] and always get false hits, [bleep]'in things up all the time. I much prefer the eraser-head technology. However, I always end up plugging in a mouse simply to reduce the frustration factor.
Some of us don't want expensive throw away computers - especially niche products from Apple.
Hey! Stop sounding like a Linux zealot. You'll give FreeBSD a bad name. ;)
Anybody else thoroughly, completely and totally sick and tired of this 'k*' krap naming convention from KDE? Give me a break!
Flying Nun?
Except they are not a bank, nor FDIC insured. PayPal is walkng a fine line and one day the gubiment will wack them real hard.
I wouldn't use either one if I could avoid it. With IBill I had an issue where I entered in my CC info and got back an error that the transaction was declined. Guess what? IBill got the money from my CC! Took about three weeks of back and forth to get me my money back. First, they couldn't find any record of the transaction in their systems at all and I ended up faxing over to their financial department my CC statement to prove that they indeed did take money from me. With CCbill, none of my cards would go through - ended up calling the vendor on their 1-800 number and placed the order the olde fashioned way.
Lesson learned was that online shopping is still in the dark ages and sometimes ends up with far more hassle than it is worth.
I used to have a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Worked Ok for awhile. Then it froze. So I replaced the batteries just to be safe. It kept on freezing randomly to the point that I tossed the in' hardware out the window and hooked up a nice and reliable wired mouse and keyboard. Never looked back - too bad I wasted the $$ on the wireless fad junk.
Of course, if your application doesn't grok a particular XML DTD thrown at it, then you're still screwed as far as data exchange goes...
Try writing a real application in PHP, Java or Perl. As in word processor, spreadsheet, photo editing, video editing, etc.
Pfft! I've had 512MB of RAM in my SMP system for about two years now. Upgraded to 2GB when Fry's started selling 1GB DIMM sticks for just over $100. And 155MHz 256MB DIMM sticks for $16 a piece - bugger me.
Still doesn't stop bad code from buffer overflow and the like. In fact, the more features and protocols that you do add, the more likely something will have a security hole in it... :)
This is what I tried to enlighten upon the dot-com generation kids when Java began its fad-dom. Didn't get anywhere. They wanted to rewrite all of the world in Java. Now time and experience has, once again, proved me right.
- Java needs to die - me.
CYMK is not something that you can retrofit. CYMK needs to be written in from day one. Think 'rewrite from scratch'.
Not true. I've been running a dual processor PIII box for over two years now (ASUS P2B-DS based). You would find that even simple day-to-day stuff such as browsing, e-mail, document writing and so on feel far smoother on a dual-processor system simply because the underlying OS takes advantage of the extra processor.
Run through the office, yelling "FORMAT C:", "Yes!". - me
So, the question is, when, how, and how badly, will the current American empire last and collapse.