A simple survey generally requires a little over 1000 people to get a 95/5 accuracy
What kind of nonsense statistics are those? Random sampling doesn't require anywhere near that sample size to have a five percent margin of error. A sample size of 20 randoms samples yeilds a 5% margin of error in a large population. I recommend you read a book about statistics, because the methods employed are fairly straight forward and can give you good insight on making predictions.
Links between sugar/starch consumption and memory have been demonstrated before in the past, so don't be so hasty to lambast their research. Thier sample size is quite sufficient to show these preliminary results and thier hypotheses seem quite rational to me.
oh yeah, that's real handy for stopping the 10 flash ads on a website so i can read the content without constant distraction. And I thought it was abundantly clear that I am the person who decides how much control of my computer I need, how can that be misunderstood by someone?
If I had even the slightest bit of control of flash I might let it operate on my computer. I find it insufferable because I can't make the goddamned shit hold still. The flexability is ONLY there for the content provider, the viewer is pretty much SOL. If the viewer and the technologies were libre there would be a chance to change them to suit my preferences, but as of now I will just not use it. This has nothing to do with Ludditism, it's just that I like to have some control of my computer, especially the visually distracting parts.
that's only tangenitally related, music is able to be obtained legitimately. Use illicit drugs is only available to those willing to risk persecution. The comparison of value of music to value of drugs would only be relevant if there was a method to obtain the recreational drugs legally.
i really don't see how OS X offers anything useful at all, from my experiences running it. I'm pretty happy with how my linux environment works out, but find the mac UI to be very unusable.
by having the guarantee of never costing money, also, it doesn't need internet access, which also costs money. bnetd is superior to battle.net for all usage, because you don't have to log into some server that's on the other end of the internet.
nah, my job is cool, I was just joking around. being small enough to not have managers makes work enjoyable, but companies that small aren't always stable.
because you paid for it and should be allowed to use it in ways you see fit in accordance with standard personal freedom.
and i really doubt they make money off battlenet, it's a service to the customers, not the revenue stream for the product. warcraft 3 will have single player campaigns...
your analogy is very weak. it's not as if blizzard is alowed to sue their direct competitors out of business. think of it this way: if there's a road between two cities that only allows trucks, and you make a road over your OWN LAND, and let any cars on it, the owner of the main road really shouldn't have legal power over you. especially if your road is better, and not designed just to circumvent the older road.
bnetd is better because you can configure it on local machines and remove the latency of online games, while still having the added flexability of a dedicated server.
I'm distressed and disappointed to see the legal action initialized against the bnetd project. In fact, it has distressed me to the point at which I have decided to try to share what distress I can.
Until this evening I was really looking forward to playing Warcraft III when it was released, in fact, I was expecting it to have a shot at being in the running for the the best game of all time. Alas, it appears that my enthusiasm will be for naught, because I will not purchase another Blizzard product, or any product distributed by Vivendi until a retraction and public apology is made. Your vicious attack on this charity software based on entirely imagined copyright infringements is disgusting enough to me to permanently boycott your company.
It sounds as if they're tracking the same feature set as Linux but trying to roll it all out in a smoother transition. That's one of the strongest features of FreeBSD, I think. There's no unstable periods between libc revisions, problems going from a.out to elf, or the VM getting replaced midway through a stable branch:).
I just wish I could run it on my mac, jkh does work at Apple afterall.
you'd rather him be blinded by faith instead of being reasonable about which browser is best? Being so quick to label him a "Free Software advocate" just because he switched to primarily runs Linux is a large insult to anyone who has put time into making Linux a decent operating system. Some people think Linux is the best operating system even when they aren't blinded by rhetoric like you.
And IE is a good webbrowser; that is fairly clear. Some slashdot people like to use the best, instead of being coerced into this insanity that for some reason is expected of them
Why wouldn't netware support VIA or Transmeta chips, they use the x86 instruction architecture just like intel chips. They work in the exact same motherboards as p3s, so the surrounding system architecture is the same. The power advantage of the C3 is a noticable amount, click here for a chart.
If you're sure you can't use the C3 I think you would be better off purchasing a newer celeron, (celeron 1200 and faster) which is similar to the pre-tualatin P3(1.13GHz and up, iirc), but is cheaper and is on a.13 micron process which dramatically reduces power requirements.
Also on a practical note, if the motherboard supports voltage teaks you can lower the voltage to the pci slots, dimms, and cpu. That will reduce power consumption and heat dissapation, which also reduces the amount of power consuming active cooling is needed. Not having enough power to a component can cause instability but shouldn't cause long term harm. As always, change each setting individually to assure dependability. And be sure to do a big stress test before deployment.
the people of your state don't want to foot the bill for you to get the infrastructure to get high speed internet access. Perhaps you can afford it if you organize enough customers near your house to be able to afford a wireless relay.
Blaming the state for not wanting to plunder its residents to aide you is irrational; there isn't much gain to the majority by making high speed internet more common where most people don't live.
i just wonder which one of those performs faster in most tasks. the duron has prefetching, but the tbird has more cache. more on topic though, the duron consumes less power and outputs much less heat than the 1.2GHz thunderbird, lowering the price of heatsink/fan unit and decreasing the need for high wattage power supply and case cooling.
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i suppose it's still seagate. they're just a little slower, but that's not always a bad thing when it comes to reliability.
What kind of nonsense statistics are those? Random sampling doesn't require anywhere near that sample size to have a five percent margin of error. A sample size of 20 randoms samples yeilds a 5% margin of error in a large population. I recommend you read a book about statistics, because the methods employed are fairly straight forward and can give you good insight on making predictions.
Links between sugar/starch consumption and memory have been demonstrated before in the past, so don't be so hasty to lambast their research. Thier sample size is quite sufficient to show these preliminary results and thier hypotheses seem quite rational to me.
oh yeah, that's real handy for stopping the 10 flash ads on a website so i can read the content without constant distraction. And I thought it was abundantly clear that I am the person who decides how much control of my computer I need, how can that be misunderstood by someone?
If I had even the slightest bit of control of flash I might let it operate on my computer. I find it insufferable because I can't make the goddamned shit hold still. The flexability is ONLY there for the content provider, the viewer is pretty much SOL. If the viewer and the technologies were libre there would be a chance to change them to suit my preferences, but as of now I will just not use it. This has nothing to do with Ludditism, it's just that I like to have some control of my computer, especially the visually distracting parts.
yay, a clueless asshole.
that's an exception, not a method.
that's only tangenitally related, music is able to be obtained legitimately. Use illicit drugs is only available to those willing to risk persecution. The comparison of value of music to value of drugs would only be relevant if there was a method to obtain the recreational drugs legally.
but drugs are way more useful and rewarding than pirating music.
usability and speed, multiple workspaces.
i really don't see how OS X offers anything useful at all, from my experiences running it. I'm pretty happy with how my linux environment works out, but find the mac UI to be very unusable.
oops, yeah, i'm an idiot
by having the guarantee of never costing money, also, it doesn't need internet access, which also costs money. bnetd is superior to battle.net for all usage, because you don't have to log into some server that's on the other end of the internet.
that's the sis745 for the pentium 4, not the sis735 for Athlon/Duron the previous poster was talking about.
nah, my job is cool, I was just joking around. being small enough to not have managers makes work enjoyable, but companies that small aren't always stable.
because you paid for it and should be allowed to use it in ways you see fit in accordance with standard personal freedom.
and i really doubt they make money off battlenet, it's a service to the customers, not the revenue stream for the product. warcraft 3 will have single player campaigns...
your analogy is very weak. it's not as if blizzard is alowed to sue their direct competitors out of business. think of it this way: if there's a road between two cities that only allows trucks, and you make a road over your OWN LAND, and let any cars on it, the owner of the main road really shouldn't have legal power over you. especially if your road is better, and not designed just to circumvent the older road.
bnetd is better because you can configure it on local machines and remove the latency of online games, while still having the added flexability of a dedicated server.
If I told you on slashdot I would probably get fired. ;)
I'm distressed and disappointed to see the legal action initialized against
the bnetd project. In fact, it has distressed me to the point at which I
have decided to try to share what distress I can.
Until this evening I was really looking forward to playing Warcraft III when
it was released, in fact, I was expecting it to have a shot at being in the
running for the the best game of all time. Alas, it appears that my
enthusiasm will be for naught, because I will not purchase another Blizzard
product, or any product distributed by Vivendi until a retraction and public
apology is made. Your vicious attack on this charity software based on
entirely imagined copyright infringements is disgusting enough to me to
permanently boycott your company.
and they don't have the right to do whatever they want with it.
It sounds as if they're tracking the same feature set as Linux but trying to roll it all out in a smoother transition. That's one of the strongest features of FreeBSD, I think. There's no unstable periods between libc revisions, problems going from a.out to elf, or the VM getting replaced midway through a stable branch :).
I just wish I could run it on my mac, jkh does work at Apple afterall.
you'd rather him be blinded by faith instead of being reasonable about which browser is best? Being so quick to label him a "Free Software advocate" just because he switched to primarily runs Linux is a large insult to anyone who has put time into making Linux a decent operating system. Some people think Linux is the best operating system even when they aren't blinded by rhetoric like you.
And IE is a good webbrowser; that is fairly clear. Some slashdot people like to use the best, instead of being coerced into this insanity that for some reason is expected of them
If you're sure you can't use the C3 I think you would be better off purchasing a newer celeron, (celeron 1200 and faster) which is similar to the pre-tualatin P3(1.13GHz and up, iirc), but is cheaper and is on a .13 micron process which dramatically reduces power requirements.
Also on a practical note, if the motherboard supports voltage teaks you can lower the voltage to the pci slots, dimms, and cpu. That will reduce power consumption and heat dissapation, which also reduces the amount of power consuming active cooling is needed. Not having enough power to a component can cause instability but shouldn't cause long term harm. As always, change each setting individually to assure dependability. And be sure to do a big stress test before deployment.
a redhat 6.2 install is plenty secure if you use the right tools. http://victim.cylant.com
yeah, i work there.
the people of your state don't want to foot the bill for you to get the infrastructure to get high speed internet access. Perhaps you can afford it if you organize enough customers near your house to be able to afford a wireless relay.
Blaming the state for not wanting to plunder its residents to aide you is irrational; there isn't much gain to the majority by making high speed internet more common where most people don't live.
i just wonder which one of those performs faster in most tasks. the duron has prefetching, but the tbird has more cache. more on topic though, the duron consumes less power and outputs much less heat than the 1.2GHz thunderbird, lowering the price of heatsink/fan unit and decreasing the need for high wattage power supply and case cooling.
umm, most poeple get computers to run windows on, not linux. windows doesn't run so well on ppc.