You've been tricked. You think that Jackson was biased because he had an opinion of whether or not Microsoft was guilty AFTER THE PROCEEDINGS HAD CONCLUDED. It's the judge's job to have an opinion at the end of the trial. It's amazing how successful M$' lawyers were in fooling people into thinking that the comments were made at a point where they would still have been indicative of bias. IT'S NOT BIAS IF IT'S AFTER THE PROCEEDINGS - he said those things at a stage of the trial where having anything less than a fully developed opinion would have meant that he wasn't doing his job.
VA seems to have thought that the way to be the next Dell was to only sell Intel systems. Too bad the last 1-2 years have been Intel's worst years ever. Who wants way overpriced PIII systems when they can get rippin' Dual AthlonMP systems (Vorticon )from Pogo for less than $2000?
My biggest concern as an audiophile plus raver regards the future of my hearing on account of the countless raves I've attended over the last 7 years. Right now my ears seem to still be reasonably "golden", and I don't feel as though I'm not fully discerning the superiority of my "audiophile" equipment, but how long is this going to last? I understand that hearing loss tends to set in way after the fact (in other words I may not be deaf now, but even if I stopped raving immediately, I'll still be deaf in 20 years). I've been meaning to get a good pair of quality earplugs (the kind sound engineers use) for years, but never did, and now I feel like it's too late. Can anyone tell me whether or not it will still be possible for me to be an audiophile in the future and/or where to use my credit card to order earplugs now and/or whether or not there is any chance my still decently youthful cilia will be able to heal/regenerate if I stop the unprotected raving now?
Does that mean they've given up on the electro-actuated valvetrain for car engines that they'd been working on? I'm pretty sure they still make the Bass-Shaker (or wtvr it's called) car vibrator. Also, they still make excellent car audio drivers, which means they aren't completely out if the linear motor business.
Don't forget that several companies make VGA adapters for the Dreamcast, so you don't have to use a tv. Using VGA improves the graphics of regular old Dreamcast games a lot too. I don't remember the names of the companies, but a couple of the models have switchable inputs so you can have the Dreamcast share the monitor you're viewing right now. Sega makes a VGA adapter itself, but my recollection is that a couple of the competing models had more features for the same money (~$40).
Why? It's a thousand times better than Windows Media which is the only real general-public-sites used alternative besides Quicktime. A couple years ago I hated RealMedia because of its horrible sound quality (poor compression technology), so I used Quicktime when I could and WMA when Quicktime wasn't wanted (when developing sites for general public). However, lately I've noticed that not only does RealMedia make a great player for Linux which is just as easy to use as the Windows version, but also its sound quality has somehow become excellent.
I think it's seriously awesome that I can take my little sister's Windows laptop, throw a Mandrake cd in it, tell her to use KDE, and an hour later hear her listening to stuff off her favorite "radio" site with the same application she learned how to use in Windows.
I understand that ogg is the shit and all, but I have to appreciate what RealMedia is doing for us too. Why do you refuse to use RealPlayer?
Well, even with "experimental 3d support" enabled, it sure isn't working with my XFree86 4.03. Mine is the 4.03 as delivered through Mandrake Update in Mandrake 8.0. I was under the impression that Radeon support was only available through some development branch in CVS (which doesn't count as part of the actual release, of course). I'd love to be wrong though, cuz I feel like keeping my new Mandrake 8 by the book (only update through updater/rpms) for at least a little while. Please tell how you've had Radeon working for months.
The Radeon would be a damn fine card for linux if it wasn't for the fact that it's made by ATI so it will probably never get good drivers. Although Nvidia 2d is crap, the Radeon seems to have achieved (at least very near to) parity with Matrox in 2d. Also, ATI's dual-monitor stuff is supposedly somewhere inbetween Nvidia's and Matrox's in capability. If only ATI would write decent drivers, then linux users would be able to get cards that are good for both gaming and 2d rather than having to pick between the two. Knowing ATI, though, I guess this is just wasteful dreaming.
Do you happen to know anything about the status of any potential replacements? I always hear about how much X sucks. I would think that replacing it would be a big priority if it sucks so much. Are there replacements in the works that are taking a long time, or does nobody want to work on a replacement yet because it wouldn't be worth the effort/investment yet, or what?
"Umm... You must not be aware that" IE started from Mosaic code base (which is really Netscape code base). It even said so while you were installing IE. Besides, my understanding is that although the initial idea was to work from the Netscape code, Mozilla quickly realized that creating all new Gecko engine would be far more beneficial in long run. Who knows when IE will sack up and do the same. Right now their browser is about the same in overall compliance as it was 3 or 4 years ago - it's improved a lot in CSS (though nowhere near as good as Mozilla), yet continues to introduce infuriating, anti-standards, Microsoft-world-only-compliant "features"/obstructions to web applications advancement in every update.
All I want to know is: Can I finally play Tuxracer at more than 0.2 fps with my Radeon? Is the Radeon ever going to be supported by Linux (yeah, yeah, wait for XFree86 X.nevergoingtohappen)? For god's sake, will Linux ever get support for the only modern card which has decent 2D quality which isn't made by Matrox?
I'm using XFree86 4.03 (which is supposed to have ATI acceleration) with experimental 3D or whatver the hell the newest conceivable XFree86 is with every conceivable option to make Tuxracer fast selected, and I'm using kernel 2.4.3 (which is supposed to have ATI acceleration), and yet Tuxracer runs at ~0.2 fps. WTF?
Why do I even bother with this fsckin' os? I should have stayed a mechanical engineer so I wouldn't have to concern myself with the shit vs. shit dilemmma which is what anyone who fscks with computers is faced with once they realize that MS is shit and yet all else is shit. WTF am I trying to do here with this Linux shit if I have to worry about whether or not every little piece of hardware will get any kind of support from it? I bought the video card which was obviously the best for the money (Radeon LE), and yet, I have to use MS shit in order to utilize it. Alright fine, so ATI is probably to blame as much as anyone, but the point is, don't fsck with computers unless you have to because the only thing that has changed about them in the last 20 yrs is that they make you want to commit suicide and/or they waste all your fsckin' time.
Computers are probably the most poorly designed devices that ever existed. Come to think of it, why am I sitting here writing shit on Shitdot when I really should be banging one of those hot ass fsckin' bitches I was just talking with at the rave I was just at? That's what's really FUCKED up. It's official - I've just had an epiphany - no more wasting precious life on Shitdot and/or computer when I could easily either be being productive by being a mechanical engineer or be banging hot raver bitches. Life's too short for Linux and it's way too short for fuckin' around with computers.
The reason jets and helicopters are so loud is cuz they are using fans/blades to beat thousands of horses worth of power into the air. Likewise, albeit without the breaking of speed of sound at blade tips part, the reason why the fan on your overclocked tbird is so loud is cuz of the air turbulence it produces (not because of the electric motor inside. The turbine in this bike, however, would be putting the horses into its rear tire (which basically only makes noise while peeling out). Since the turbine inside the engine is moving at the same speed and direction as the air which is expanding out, and also because flow would be much more controlled than on outside, the combustion turbine shouldn't have the noise-producing, turbulent characteristics of external fan or prop in jet or chopper.
But hell, if you say the M1 (1500hp by the way in case anyone's wondering) is loud, then maybe I'm wrong. I can think of a couple of other factors which could be involved there though, so I think I'm still buying what my old i.c. engines professor (Dr. Mellor, anyone?) told me on the day he talked about experimental turbines for steady state (highway/railway) transportative applications. If I'm not mistaken, the primary noise would be mechanical resonances and/or bearing noise - that kind of thing - much quieter than supersonic shockwave inducing, resonant explosions accompanied by rapid gas compression, expansion, and release phases (as in reciprocating i.c. engines).
Turbines such as those used in helicopters usually produce something more like 3,000 hp. I realize it's using diesel instead of jet fuel, but jet fuel is very similar to diesel (similiarly much harder to ignite than gasoline). Although turbine engines are always sweet for lots of power in tiny space (as long as you can figure out a good transmission/clutching system for them - they're not for operating across wide rpm ranges), this can't really be anything much like a helicopter and/or M1 tank engine. I'm curious what they did about exhaust temperatures. Seeing one of these on the street would be eerie because it must be just about completely silent.
In the 70's (i think it was), turbine powered tractor trailors were experimented with but deemed unsafe on account of a little problem of pedestrians stepping out into streets in front of them because the things were silent.
It supports both SDR and DDR chipsets. For some reason the Compaq laptop which is available right now uses SDR, however that is not because DDR chipsets are not available (Ali makes DDR laptop chipset). DDR should become very popular for portables because it uses a lot less power than SDR.
Athlon 4 actually is the fourth version of the Athlon core (says so in the article). First was.25 micron Alu. Then.18 micron Alu. Then Alu Tbird, and then Cu Tbird although the copper version doesn't really count as separate.
When I started KDE for the first time on my machine with Mandrake 8.0, something weird happened - it made sound. The is the first distro I've tried which actually configured my isapnp soundcard successfully during the install (no creating and editing that weird isapnp.conf file).
Everything you've said here has basically been typical (totally predicatable and transparent excuse making, accompanied by posturing as independent expert non-zealot, for inferior product), except for one thing - the (comparatively creative) claim that the K6-3 (performed mostly like PIII, cost < Celeron, didn't require unique platform/mobo) was a "hardware mistake." I'm curious as to what kind of explanation an Intel zealot such as yourself has for this one.
the problem is that there's still no other browser that is even close to being what we should have had 4 years ago
Exactly.
And whose fault is this? It's not the fault of companies who are financially prohibited (no other source of income) from developing browsers because they don't already have monopolies on the OS and "office" software markets.
How is it not obvious? Microsoft doesn't give a shit about improving browsers because it doesn't need to. All Microsoft has to do is drag its feet with its free browser until other companies run out of money. Henceforth browser development will fall into one category - making it make people want to spend $600 for Office and $200 (or wtvr it is) on Windows as often as possible.
Open source is the only hope, of course. The fact that a volunteer-developed browser which is less than 2 years old has achieved anything even remotely close to parity with M$'s 6 yr-old browser kind of says something doesn't it (even aside form the 6-2=4 part ^_^)?
After five years of beseechment and public outcry from the likes of everyone from the W3C and WaSP (ex: public letter regarding IE5.5 released by WaSP) to C|Net, M$ releases a browser which isn't more divergent from standards than it's predecessor.
Delightful.
Funny how a browser made by a company which (despite inventing the graphical browser, JavaScript, and basically everything that browsers remain to be today) has no income because a monopolistic operating system company has enough money to make browsers free for as long as it takes to kill its competition, is still the most compliant browser available (NS6/Mozilla).
When IE6 comes out in, like a year from now, it will be the browser we should have had four years ago.
In my experience Konquerer's rendering is considerably slower than both Mozilla and Navigator 4.x. I realize that many downplay the value of rendering speed, but I really view it as very important. My impression has been that Mozilla is slow at a some things, like opening new windows, but is faster overall. I also wouldn't say Konqueror is more stable - for me it's the app which always seems to be responsible for crashing my X.
That's not to say that I'm not thoroughly impressed with Konqueror - I use it all the time (though mostly out of laziness since it has a button in the K panel at bottom of screen). However, recently I've been finding Konqueror's various inadequacies annoying enough to make me bother launching Mozilla with an Xterm, so in all likelihood I'll soon be bothering to create a Mozilla button (which would make using Konqueror pointless).
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You've been tricked. You think that Jackson was biased because he had an opinion of whether or not Microsoft was guilty AFTER THE PROCEEDINGS HAD CONCLUDED. It's the judge's job to have an opinion at the end of the trial. It's amazing how successful M$' lawyers were in fooling people into thinking that the comments were made at a point where they would still have been indicative of bias. IT'S NOT BIAS IF IT'S AFTER THE PROCEEDINGS - he said those things at a stage of the trial where having anything less than a fully developed opinion would have meant that he wasn't doing his job.
VA seems to have thought that the way to be the next Dell was to only sell Intel systems. Too bad the last 1-2 years have been Intel's worst years ever. Who wants way overpriced PIII systems when they can get rippin' Dual AthlonMP systems (Vorticon )from Pogo for less than $2000?
What time zone are you in?
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My biggest concern as an audiophile plus raver regards the future of my hearing on account of the countless raves I've attended over the last 7 years. Right now my ears seem to still be reasonably "golden", and I don't feel as though I'm not fully discerning the superiority of my "audiophile" equipment, but how long is this going to last? I understand that hearing loss tends to set in way after the fact (in other words I may not be deaf now, but even if I stopped raving immediately, I'll still be deaf in 20 years). I've been meaning to get a good pair of quality earplugs (the kind sound engineers use) for years, but never did, and now I feel like it's too late. Can anyone tell me whether or not it will still be possible for me to be an audiophile in the future and/or where to use my credit card to order earplugs now and/or whether or not there is any chance my still decently youthful cilia will be able to heal/regenerate if I stop the unprotected raving now?
Does that mean they've given up on the electro-actuated valvetrain for car engines that they'd been working on? I'm pretty sure they still make the Bass-Shaker (or wtvr it's called) car vibrator. Also, they still make excellent car audio drivers, which means they aren't completely out if the linear motor business.
Don't forget that several companies make VGA adapters for the Dreamcast, so you don't have to use a tv. Using VGA improves the graphics of regular old Dreamcast games a lot too. I don't remember the names of the companies, but a couple of the models have switchable inputs so you can have the Dreamcast share the monitor you're viewing right now. Sega makes a VGA adapter itself, but my recollection is that a couple of the competing models had more features for the same money (~$40).
I think it's seriously awesome that I can take my little sister's Windows laptop, throw a Mandrake cd in it, tell her to use KDE, and an hour later hear her listening to stuff off her favorite "radio" site with the same application she learned how to use in Windows.
I understand that ogg is the shit and all, but I have to appreciate what RealMedia is doing for us too. Why do you refuse to use RealPlayer?
Well, even with "experimental 3d support" enabled, it sure isn't working with my XFree86 4.03. Mine is the 4.03 as delivered through Mandrake Update in Mandrake 8.0. I was under the impression that Radeon support was only available through some development branch in CVS (which doesn't count as part of the actual release, of course). I'd love to be wrong though, cuz I feel like keeping my new Mandrake 8 by the book (only update through updater/rpms) for at least a little while. Please tell how you've had Radeon working for months.
Anyone know if Tuxracer will finally play at >0.2fps on my Radeon machine?
The Radeon would be a damn fine card for linux if it wasn't for the fact that it's made by ATI so it will probably never get good drivers. Although Nvidia 2d is crap, the Radeon seems to have achieved (at least very near to) parity with Matrox in 2d. Also, ATI's dual-monitor stuff is supposedly somewhere inbetween Nvidia's and Matrox's in capability. If only ATI would write decent drivers, then linux users would be able to get cards that are good for both gaming and 2d rather than having to pick between the two. Knowing ATI, though, I guess this is just wasteful dreaming.
Do you happen to know anything about the status of any potential replacements? I always hear about how much X sucks. I would think that replacing it would be a big priority if it sucks so much. Are there replacements in the works that are taking a long time, or does nobody want to work on a replacement yet because it wouldn't be worth the effort/investment yet, or what?
"Umm... You must not be aware that" IE started from Mosaic code base (which is really Netscape code base). It even said so while you were installing IE. Besides, my understanding is that although the initial idea was to work from the Netscape code, Mozilla quickly realized that creating all new Gecko engine would be far more beneficial in long run. Who knows when IE will sack up and do the same. Right now their browser is about the same in overall compliance as it was 3 or 4 years ago - it's improved a lot in CSS (though nowhere near as good as Mozilla), yet continues to introduce infuriating, anti-standards, Microsoft-world-only-compliant "features"/obstructions to web applications advancement in every update.
I'm using XFree86 4.03 (which is supposed to have ATI acceleration) with experimental 3D or whatver the hell the newest conceivable XFree86 is with every conceivable option to make Tuxracer fast selected, and I'm using kernel 2.4.3 (which is supposed to have ATI acceleration), and yet Tuxracer runs at ~0.2 fps. WTF?
Why do I even bother with this fsckin' os? I should have stayed a mechanical engineer so I wouldn't have to concern myself with the shit vs. shit dilemmma which is what anyone who fscks with computers is faced with once they realize that MS is shit and yet all else is shit. WTF am I trying to do here with this Linux shit if I have to worry about whether or not every little piece of hardware will get any kind of support from it? I bought the video card which was obviously the best for the money (Radeon LE), and yet, I have to use MS shit in order to utilize it. Alright fine, so ATI is probably to blame as much as anyone, but the point is, don't fsck with computers unless you have to because the only thing that has changed about them in the last 20 yrs is that they make you want to commit suicide and/or they waste all your fsckin' time.
Computers are probably the most poorly designed devices that ever existed. Come to think of it, why am I sitting here writing shit on Shitdot when I really should be banging one of those hot ass fsckin' bitches I was just talking with at the rave I was just at? That's what's really FUCKED up. It's official - I've just had an epiphany - no more wasting precious life on Shitdot and/or computer when I could easily either be being productive by being a mechanical engineer or be banging hot raver bitches. Life's too short for Linux and it's way too short for fuckin' around with computers.
But hell, if you say the M1 (1500hp by the way in case anyone's wondering) is loud, then maybe I'm wrong. I can think of a couple of other factors which could be involved there though, so I think I'm still buying what my old i.c. engines professor (Dr. Mellor, anyone?) told me on the day he talked about experimental turbines for steady state (highway/railway) transportative applications. If I'm not mistaken, the primary noise would be mechanical resonances and/or bearing noise - that kind of thing - much quieter than supersonic shockwave inducing, resonant explosions accompanied by rapid gas compression, expansion, and release phases (as in reciprocating i.c. engines).
In the 70's (i think it was), turbine powered tractor trailors were experimented with but deemed unsafe on account of a little problem of pedestrians stepping out into streets in front of them because the things were silent.
It supports both SDR and DDR chipsets. For some reason the Compaq laptop which is available right now uses SDR, however that is not because DDR chipsets are not available (Ali makes DDR laptop chipset). DDR should become very popular for portables because it uses a lot less power than SDR.
Athlon 4 actually is the fourth version of the Athlon core (says so in the article). First was .25 micron Alu. Then .18 micron Alu. Then Alu Tbird, and then Cu Tbird although the copper version doesn't really count as separate.
Um, or maybe it's not news unless it affects about a million times more servers than any of the other examples you've cited.
When I started KDE for the first time on my machine with Mandrake 8.0, something weird happened - it made sound. The is the first distro I've tried which actually configured my isapnp soundcard successfully during the install (no creating and editing that weird isapnp.conf file).
Everything you've said here has basically been typical (totally predicatable and transparent excuse making, accompanied by posturing as independent expert non-zealot, for inferior product), except for one thing - the (comparatively creative) claim that the K6-3 (performed mostly like PIII, cost < Celeron, didn't require unique platform/mobo) was a "hardware mistake." I'm curious as to what kind of explanation an Intel zealot such as yourself has for this one.
Exactly.
And whose fault is this? It's not the fault of companies who are financially prohibited (no other source of income) from developing browsers because they don't already have monopolies on the OS and "office" software markets.
How is it not obvious? Microsoft doesn't give a shit about improving browsers because it doesn't need to. All Microsoft has to do is drag its feet with its free browser until other companies run out of money. Henceforth browser development will fall into one category - making it make people want to spend $600 for Office and $200 (or wtvr it is) on Windows as often as possible.
Open source is the only hope, of course. The fact that a volunteer-developed browser which is less than 2 years old has achieved anything even remotely close to parity with M$'s 6 yr-old browser kind of says something doesn't it (even aside form the 6-2=4 part ^_^)?
Delightful.
Funny how a browser made by a company which (despite inventing the graphical browser, JavaScript, and basically everything that browsers remain to be today) has no income because a monopolistic operating system company has enough money to make browsers free for as long as it takes to kill its competition, is still the most compliant browser available (NS6/Mozilla).
When IE6 comes out in, like a year from now, it will be the browser we should have had four years ago.
That's not to say that I'm not thoroughly impressed with Konqueror - I use it all the time (though mostly out of laziness since it has a button in the K panel at bottom of screen). However, recently I've been finding Konqueror's various inadequacies annoying enough to make me bother launching Mozilla with an Xterm, so in all likelihood I'll soon be bothering to create a Mozilla button (which would make using Konqueror pointless).