Who cares when 1.4GHz Palominos are like $90, 2100DDR is like $35/256MB, and - if you haven't already gotten an Athlon mobo in last 1.5 years (compatible) - rock-solid DDR mobos are less than $100?
I noticed that it includes JFS, but I also noticed that they discouraged the use of JFS in the last beta b/c the combination wasn't stable yet. Anyone know whether or not JFS is fully stable in 8.1? Anyone know which of the journaling file systems would be fastest for plain desktop work (not a lot of media streaming or anything)?
I generally love my Arcticooler and am surprised how little attention it gets considering how awesome its performance/(noise+size) ratio is.
How do you clean it though? That's my problem with it. I don't want to take it off because it was a bitch to get on my extremely tight motherboard (VA-503+), but I haven't come up with a decent way of getting in between all those fins in the center to get all the dust out. I know that dust has got to be hampering thermal transfer.
The article doesn't have any Quake benchmarking. I understand that Quake3 is designed to make use of smp. Does anyone know how Quake 3 runs on biAthlon MP? I heard it's amazing on the new 800MHz Dual G4s.
Salon is far and away my favorite non-tech site. The quality of writing they've managed to maintain is exceptional. Salon would be a far bigger loss than any other site I can think of.
You could have predicted when 8.1 was to be released based on the periods between betas and the fact that they released Release Candidate 1 on the 19th. They never make more than 3 betas. They didn't even have an RC-1 last time, if I'm not mistaken. The site also explicitly said (in pre-orders section) they were going to release 8.1 by end of september.
Anyone know whether or not it is necessary to get iso for 8.1 if you already have RC-1? Would MandrakeUpdate patch/fix RC-1 into the equivalent of 8.1?
It would be easier if, for example, you could get Windows fonts off of a floppy or the internet.
In fact, there are countless easier ways of installing fonts than having to either edit text files or rely on a button which automagically retrieves them from Windows partition (which you don't want to need to have anyway).
Linux's current font system (or lack thereof) is actually a perfect example of just what's preventing it from being a true desktop alternative.
The biggest advantage will be that you'll be able to listen to stuff other than like, NSYNC, Korn, P Diddy, etc. DJs will actually have a chance to play what they want, rather than what is being pushed by record companies. Less product and more art in music.
The real reason they don't want to sell AMD is that Intel is more expensive. PC companies (Dell being the classic example) have the opportunity to be selling the PC equivalent of Mercedes (pricewise) in Honda numbers. In other words, PC companies are finding that PC customers are stupid enough to buy just as many PCs when they're unnecessarily expensive as they do when PCs are cheaper.
Why? Because people like to identify themselves with status whenever they get the chance. They may not be able to buy a Mercedes, but at least they can swing a PIV. When there are only two CPU companies, and one is much cheaper than the other, then people in a consumeristic society are going to equate the older, more expensive brand with higher status, and the cheaper one with lower status (like Mercedes versus Hyundai or something). These people don't want to hear that there might be something faster than a PIV. As long as they're with the majority/most popular thing, they're satisfied.
Just as people are buying $60,000 SUVs only because other people on the block are buying big stupid SUVs, people are listening to that pot-head Dell ad kid and buying overpriced Intel PCs. For the same reasons that every car company in the world (Ferrari next?) is dying to come out with the latest luxo-SUV (you should see the profit margins), PC companies are dying to get the old cpu monopoly era computer prices back.
Is it really necessary for the people who had once created the most visually appealing GUI I'd ever seen to now be spending their time making a C# compiler? It appears to be the main thing they're working on.
Is there actually something good about C# that I don't know about? Not even all the pathetic MS development instuctors I've been hanging out with think it has a prayer for survival. For what it's worth: Over the entire summer at a major program development teaching company I worked for, not a single request was made for C# instruction, while Java courses were being requested on a daily basis.
Fuck it, we're just going to have to get used to having thousands of innocent Americans dying any time the terrorists feel like attacking us.
If we try to arrest terrorists, then we'll be committing racial profiling, so we can't do that. If we try to respond to them militarily, then we'll obviously do it exactly the same way as the soviets did, which will get several innocent people killed, so we can't do that.
Stand proud and don't let the terrorism bother you, for you are politically correct, which is the most important thing of all.
Will someone explain to me why anyone should be excited about USB 2.0 when we already have Firewire? Look how long it's taken to get decent support for Firewire. Let's get widespread Firewire first for christ's sake.
Re:Hate to say, sounds like a dot-bomb strategy...
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Don't forget that you are learning a new operating system. Of course you are going to have to spend some time in the beginning to learn how to use it. You weren't born knowing how to use Windows either, but that didn't mean you couldn't after a bit of learning.
The best alternative to Windows would not be an operating system which operated in exactly the same way so you wouldn't have to learn anything to use it.
To me, saying that Windows users can't use Linux is like saying that Paint users can't use Photoshop, calculator users can't use scientific calculators, etc.
I like this idea. Not only will a lot more people be interested in killings bugs, but also a lot more people will be trying it out even if they were already satisfied with their previous NS Messenger or other similar.
I'm betting a lot of people will be impressed enough to want to continue to use Evolution when they otherwise wouldn't have conceived of trying a new email/planning/etc. application.
The Dreamcast is basically just as good as the PS2. In some ways it is better. Dreamcast also has ethernet card now, and has always had 56k modem. There are a ton of awesome games still coming out for it even (NFL2k2, NBA2k2, Crazy Taxi2), not to mention that it still has all the best fighting games (Soul Caliber anyone?).
The XBox, of course, will make the Dreamcast look like poop in comparison, but for $80 and with used games available for pocket change...
As long as I can pretend that the XBox doesn't exist, and shield my eyes whenever I come near one, I think the DC's graphics are going to continue to look pretty awesome to me for quite some time.
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This is nothing really, considering that it's a console coming after the PS2.
Talk about anti-competive practices (starting much further ahead of their release than MS'), the lies, deception, bullying of retailers, and shady backroom deals Sony pulled to make sure technical merit and consumer choice would not get in the way of the success of the PS2, pretty much set the precedent.
Lets face it, in order to make a console now, you first have to make zillions of dollars doing something like selling tvs or monopoly software so you can buy out all channels of hype and lose tons of money until you have a monopoly, and also you to be more ruthless and despicable than anyone else in your business practices.
Microsoft is going to have to kick it up about a hundred more notches, which of course they will. Hold on tight. I'm just glad that the Xbox is actually going to be a decent console.
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I would like to get an iBook, but I need to test web sites on Windows. Does anyone know if it there is any way to run/emulate Windows on an iBook?
A pair of Athlon MPs along with a Tyan MP board would be something like $700 - that wouldn't be expensive enough?
Who cares when 1.4GHz Palominos are like $90, 2100DDR is like $35/256MB, and - if you haven't already gotten an Athlon mobo in last 1.5 years (compatible) - rock-solid DDR mobos are less than $100?
There's a rat in separate.
I noticed that it includes JFS, but I also noticed that they discouraged the use of JFS in the last beta b/c the combination wasn't stable yet. Anyone know whether or not JFS is fully stable in 8.1? Anyone know which of the journaling file systems would be fastest for plain desktop work (not a lot of media streaming or anything)?
I generally love my Arcticooler and am surprised how little attention it gets considering how awesome its performance/(noise+size) ratio is.
How do you clean it though? That's my problem with it. I don't want to take it off because it was a bitch to get on my extremely tight motherboard (VA-503+), but I haven't come up with a decent way of getting in between all those fins in the center to get all the dust out. I know that dust has got to be hampering thermal transfer.
The article doesn't have any Quake benchmarking. I understand that Quake3 is designed to make use of smp. Does anyone know how Quake 3 runs on biAthlon MP? I heard it's amazing on the new 800MHz Dual G4s.
What's QA and how do you know they didn't test this?
Salon is far and away my favorite non-tech site. The quality of writing they've managed to maintain is exceptional. Salon would be a far bigger loss than any other site I can think of.
You could have predicted when 8.1 was to be released based on the periods between betas and the fact that they released Release Candidate 1 on the 19th. They never make more than 3 betas. They didn't even have an RC-1 last time, if I'm not mistaken. The site also explicitly said (in pre-orders section) they were going to release 8.1 by end of september.
Anyone know whether or not it is necessary to get iso for 8.1 if you already have RC-1? Would MandrakeUpdate patch/fix RC-1 into the equivalent of 8.1?
In fact, there are countless easier ways of installing fonts than having to either edit text files or rely on a button which automagically retrieves them from Windows partition (which you don't want to need to have anyway).
Linux's current font system (or lack thereof) is actually a perfect example of just what's preventing it from being a true desktop alternative.
The biggest advantage will be that you'll be able to listen to stuff other than like, NSYNC, Korn, P Diddy, etc. DJs will actually have a chance to play what they want, rather than what is being pushed by record companies. Less product and more art in music.
Why? Because people like to identify themselves with status whenever they get the chance. They may not be able to buy a Mercedes, but at least they can swing a PIV. When there are only two CPU companies, and one is much cheaper than the other, then people in a consumeristic society are going to equate the older, more expensive brand with higher status, and the cheaper one with lower status (like Mercedes versus Hyundai or something). These people don't want to hear that there might be something faster than a PIV. As long as they're with the majority/most popular thing, they're satisfied.
Just as people are buying $60,000 SUVs only because other people on the block are buying big stupid SUVs, people are listening to that pot-head Dell ad kid and buying overpriced Intel PCs. For the same reasons that every car company in the world (Ferrari next?) is dying to come out with the latest luxo-SUV (you should see the profit margins), PC companies are dying to get the old cpu monopoly era computer prices back.
Mo Money is the real reason.
Is there actually something good about C# that I don't know about? Not even all the pathetic MS development instuctors I've been hanging out with think it has a prayer for survival. For what it's worth: Over the entire summer at a major program development teaching company I worked for, not a single request was made for C# instruction, while Java courses were being requested on a daily basis.
If we try to arrest terrorists, then we'll be committing racial profiling, so we can't do that. If we try to respond to them militarily, then we'll obviously do it exactly the same way as the soviets did, which will get several innocent people killed, so we can't do that.
Stand proud and don't let the terrorism bother you, for you are politically correct, which is the most important thing of all.
Both MS' gaming software and their hardware divisions are composed of companies they swallowed up.
Do we really need this kind of meaningless numbers shit/hype on Slashdot too?
One of the nicest people I've ever known works for NSA crypto and loves his job. Won't talk about much more than that though.
Will someone explain to me why anyone should be excited about USB 2.0 when we already have Firewire? Look how long it's taken to get decent support for Firewire. Let's get widespread Firewire first for christ's sake.
Alpha's already gone to Intel.
The best alternative to Windows would not be an operating system which operated in exactly the same way so you wouldn't have to learn anything to use it.
To me, saying that Windows users can't use Linux is like saying that Paint users can't use Photoshop, calculator users can't use scientific calculators, etc.
I'm betting a lot of people will be impressed enough to want to continue to use Evolution when they otherwise wouldn't have conceived of trying a new email/planning/etc. application.
The Dreamcast is basically just as good as the PS2. In some ways it is better. Dreamcast also has ethernet card now, and has always had 56k modem. There are a ton of awesome games still coming out for it even (NFL2k2, NBA2k2, Crazy Taxi2), not to mention that it still has all the best fighting games (Soul Caliber anyone?).
The XBox, of course, will make the Dreamcast look like poop in comparison, but for $80 and with used games available for pocket change...
As long as I can pretend that the XBox doesn't exist, and shield my eyes whenever I come near one, I think the DC's graphics are going to continue to look pretty awesome to me for quite some time.
This is nothing really, considering that it's a console coming after the PS2.
Talk about anti-competive practices (starting much further ahead of their release than MS'), the lies, deception, bullying of retailers, and shady backroom deals Sony pulled to make sure technical merit and consumer choice would not get in the way of the success of the PS2, pretty much set the precedent.
Lets face it, in order to make a console now, you first have to make zillions of dollars doing something like selling tvs or monopoly software so you can buy out all channels of hype and lose tons of money until you have a monopoly, and also you to be more ruthless and despicable than anyone else in your business practices.
Microsoft is going to have to kick it up about a hundred more notches, which of course they will. Hold on tight. I'm just glad that the Xbox is actually going to be a decent console.