I have two of the Microtel desktops from Walmart ($199/ea). They are buzzing along perfect with Mandrake on them. They are nothing more then what you find in a typical white box maker, standard parts like an MSI MB with a lot built onboard, WD HD, mid level memory, LG CDR etc..
What I find odd is Microtel is also selling 1 and 2U rack mount servers at Walmart.com also. I would love to see an article and some photos of those things running in an IT or business monthly rag.
and they invest millions to make inexpensive music downloads available (at almost no profit) Apples hardware profits have nothing to do with the 99 cent download costs. There are MANY companies that offer music for 99 cents or less and quite a few around loooong before Apple had the iPod and iTMS. In fact, Apple is the only one I know of that REQUIRES their hardare and software exclusively to actually utilize the downloads. Apple is not the reason for 99 cent downloads exist. You honestly think solely because of Apples efforts, you can download music online? It is one thing to be an apologist but another to be blind and ignorant.
I would not be so quick to give specific credit to Vonage for your lack of junk calls. I have had my same number for my home POTS line almost 6 years and I receive at most, 1 or 2 unsolicited calls a month and they are truely random as not a single one of them addresses me by name. My number has been unlisted and unpublished since day 1. That is the key to cutting back on junk calls. Of course Verizon bends you over backwards and charges $2/month for this "lack of service" but it is worth it to me. I have not signed up for the federal or state do not call lists and will not unless I start actually getting junk calls.
Who's point, the author of the parent I replied to or other messages in this thread? The parent of my reply mentioned NOTHING about any checksums what-so-ever. It was a generic statement implying that because something came from a P2P app, there was no way to verify that it was real and not tampered with. That is pure FUD. If that authors point was about the lack of an official MD5 sum, that should have been mentioned.
Perhaps someone can alleviate the apprehension -- what are the odds that some jerkweed is going to attach backdoor warez to that download?
I and others mentioned that it is possible to verify that something on a P2P network was not tampered with. Exactly what the person asked for. Somehow you turned this into question that the author did not even remotely ask.
And how is this any different from downloading your newest Linux distro ISO? I would not call your concern insightful, I'd call it pure FUD. As with any download, compare and verify the hash before you use it, if a known good hash is not available, take your chances.
Some MD5 verification apps for W32. Here Here Here. There are others.
I've had happen but with a twist in my slot loading car stereo. When I ejected the disc, only the top one came out. I looked at the disc, got confused and stuck a different disc in. It too played the same thing. I was thinking that everyone of my discs somehow got morphed into what I had known as Mix disc #4. It took a while but eventually the other disc came out. My Xbox has also done the same but it actually damaged the disc that was hidden in there. Note to self, don't place the Xbox on its side with a disc in it, not even when unplugged and transporting.
That is a pretty strong statement to make and not include any facts or figures. You got any real numbers for this or did you pull this out of the air?
You seem to be making your opinion based on the evening news. They cover every person that gets shot in a drive by or performs an armed robbery in the city. They do not have a cover story on every person that defends himself by pulling out a gun, every person at the gun club that is shooting at the range, the skeet shooters, every person going hunting and I'm sure there are far more examples that do not involve a crime.
These numbers might be a little off but it is a start. The state of PA issued 158,817 muzzle loader hunting licenses in the 2002-2003 hunting season, that number only includes one style of gun hunting that includes using a muzzle loaded gun. They also issued 750,000 adult hunting licenses. There were actually more licenses then that total but I'm not going to waste my time doing the math. There is NO WAY in hell there were 950,000 crimes commited in PA that involved a gun, using your figure of vast majority of guns are used for crimes would put the number of gun related crimes at what 10-15 million in PA alone? Add in the non hunting use of guns and your number would have to be much higher.
I am not some gun freak zealot trying to prove a point, in fact the only gun I have shoots BB's.
I was not around in the late 60's but I wish I was. I'd be all for a society change that brought back another free love and plenty of cheap drugs era (minus the STD's). We've already got the start of what might turn into a very unpopular and potentially unwinable "war" to start the whole thing going.
I can not comment on the "college experience" but the US Navy Nuclear power program has a fast paced pipeline.
They squeeze math, physics, metalurgy, heat transfer and fluid flow, nuclear theory, integrated power plant operation, and reactor principles and one of either electronics, mechanical, or electrical training (depending on your specific job) into about a 6 month course. The class hours were from 7:30am until 4:00pm but for most people, it ended up being a 7am to about 11pm day of class, study, and "homework" and about 10-20 hours each weekend for the entire six months. No materials at all could not leave the building either. About 35% of the people that start do not make it to the end. My specific class started with 26 and ended with 13.
You will not make it through unless you are truely dedicated to the program as you are not left with much free time, hell, you are not left with any time really.
First of all, "slashdot" is not some third party person that has one idea. Slashdot is made up from a collection of people and unless you are here from a different dimension, you are a part of it.
Your attempted comparision of copying code and copying an idea or an implementation is not apples to apples, in fact it is nothing more then your own convienent grouping to try to prove a point but it is much deeper and more involved subject then what you tried to sum up into a sentence or two. There is a big difference between dealing with an idea, a method of implementing an idea, and a physical final product. You can not glob them all together and claim it is the same and then assume all ~700K active slashdot users all feel the same about the subject.
most of the blame should still goe to the jackass who wrote it
I strongly disagree. If all Ford door locks could be defeated with a paperclip in 2 seconds, it is a FORD problem, not the 18 year old who figured it out and wrote about it. The lock design was obviously not designed very well if can be defeated so easily.
Isnt this like the whole "Frosted Mini-Wheats" VS. "Frosted Mini-Spooners" (Brand X) debate
I eat a lot of cold cereal. There is a difference in quality and consistancy between the name and off brands. It almost seems to be that way on purpose. It should not be that hard to mimic the real Kellogs Frosted Flakes but it seems every off brand is slighly thicker, not quite as crunchy, and the frosting does not cover 100% of the flakes. Would it really be that hard for the off brand company to make them a little thinner and cover the whole flake which would make them taste much closer to the real thing? They probably have some back room agreement with Kelloggs to make them that way on purpose.
Same with the HP laserjet line. Both of those companies went from innovation and solid performing products to bascially commodity junk. That increases profits for the short term but basically wipes out any long term stability. A good example is Dell entering the laser market. Ten years ago they would not have stood a chance against HP.
Montgomery Wards would match price based on "features" and not specifically an exact model number. Of course that business method must not have worked very well as they went out of business;)
The biggest offenders of this price matching prevention scheme that I have noticed is with matresses. You will rarely if ever, find the same model at a different store.
If the drive lasts for 3 years, it will almost always last for 5
I've experienced something different. At work we have about 300 20GB drives in desktops. They pretty much failed at consistant rate up until our 3 year lease expired. Of course a large percentage of the failures were a certain model Fujitsu which has a class action going on it right now. So far I've recieved about 25 seperate copies of settlement paperwork claiming my company can get up to ~$40 for each one we've had to replace. Combine that with the 32MB USB flash drive HP/Compaq is giving out for every laptop we identify to have defective memory and the IT department slush fund can be spent on a beer bash and porn file swapout at a medium sized hotel. I don't see that happening anytime soon though so the paperwork for everything is still in my inbox.
The reason no one has ever responded to your packets is due to the fact that you miscalculated light speed by a huge factor. It only takes 1.2 seconds for electromagnetic radiation to get from the moon to earth. I would guess you are probably getting actually connecting to an AP about 136 miles to the east of Toronto;)
Since the only division of Apple making any serious money is iPod/iTunes
To keep with/. tradition..
1. Sell services at a loss to stimulate hardware sales. 2. ??? 3. Profit
Possible ???: So what is going to happen when the iPod hardware reachs saturation?
a. Apple keeps making slightly different models to keep the lemmings buying new hardware. Questionable but might add a few years. b. They close down iTMS because they have no money left c. They raise the price of the music or value add something to iTMS to maintain it running.
They HAVE to change SOMETHING to sustain this venture. None of which is going to be good for the iTMS/iPod current or potential userbase. Basically, it can only get worse/more expensive. WAKE UP!!
Commercials are so irritating and so redundant (and such depressing unrealistic commentaries on wanton consumerism) that it is exhausting to try and listen to the radio or watch television
According to this article, Clear Channel is trying to cut back on the amount of radio commercials and encouraging others to do the same. They make no claims about the content of the actual commercials though;)
That is no more technology based then me attaching a 12v power supply across a pencil sharpened at both ends and watching the wood burn and the lead glow orange until it gets brittle and breaks. Do it with the iPod battery as the supply and suddenly it is news.. "iPod can be used after a terrorist strike as an emergency heat and light source when coupled with a pencil and some wire"
A story about a text file stored in a notepad style application is pretty lame IMHO.
Just call and ask. I'm sure they will tell you: "It is not currently in your area but they are [upgrading/finishing/finalizing/testing] the service now, it should be available within the next [soon/week/month] so please keep checking back. Can I interest you in our [dialup/DSL/long distance/wireless] service?"
I heard that same thing from Verizon and Comcast in my area for almost 24 straight months of my checking on DSL and CM access. I've stopped calling since Comcast finally moved in but Verizon DSL is STILL not in my area even after 2 more years and I still get the junk mail asking me to sign up.
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Dude, you posted this same thing four different times in a one hour period. Every one of them using your +1 bonus...
The parent of this post, here,here, and here.
I have two of the Microtel desktops from Walmart ($199/ea). They are buzzing along perfect with Mandrake on them. They are nothing more then what you find in a typical white box maker, standard parts like an MSI MB with a lot built onboard, WD HD, mid level memory, LG CDR etc..
What I find odd is Microtel is also selling 1 and 2U rack mount servers at Walmart.com also. I would love to see an article and some photos of those things running in an IT or business monthly rag.
and they invest millions to make inexpensive music downloads available (at almost no profit)
Apples hardware profits have nothing to do with the 99 cent download costs. There are MANY companies that offer music for 99 cents or less and quite a few around loooong before Apple had the iPod and iTMS. In fact, Apple is the only one I know of that REQUIRES their hardare and software exclusively to actually utilize the downloads.
Apple is not the reason for 99 cent downloads exist.
You honestly think solely because of Apples efforts, you can download music online?
It is one thing to be an apologist but another to be blind and ignorant.
I would not be so quick to give specific credit to Vonage for your lack of junk calls. I have had my same number for my home POTS line almost 6 years and I receive at most, 1 or 2 unsolicited calls a month and they are truely random as not a single one of them addresses me by name. My number has been unlisted and unpublished since day 1. That is the key to cutting back on junk calls. Of course Verizon bends you over backwards and charges $2/month for this "lack of service" but it is worth it to me. I have not signed up for the federal or state do not call lists and will not unless I start actually getting junk calls.
As did XP before SP2..
Who's point, the author of the parent I replied to or other messages in this thread? The parent of my reply mentioned NOTHING about any checksums what-so-ever. It was a generic statement implying that because something came from a P2P app, there was no way to verify that it was real and not tampered with. That is pure FUD. If that authors point was about the lack of an official MD5 sum, that should have been mentioned.
Perhaps someone can alleviate the apprehension -- what are the odds that some jerkweed is going to attach backdoor warez to that download?
I and others mentioned that it is possible to verify that something on a P2P network was not tampered with. Exactly what the person asked for. Somehow you turned this into question that the author did not even remotely ask.
And how is this any different from downloading your newest Linux distro ISO? I would not call your concern insightful, I'd call it pure FUD. As with any download, compare and verify the hash before you use it, if a known good hash is not available, take your chances.
Some MD5 verification apps for W32.
Here
Here
Here.
There are others.
proof that editors don't even read the links, much less read the mails sent to them to the 'future' before post goes live?
Who realy cares. If it does not work or a link is dead move along. Same with dupes, yes it happens but does it really matter?
I've had happen but with a twist in my slot loading car stereo. When I ejected the disc, only the top one came out. I looked at the disc, got confused and stuck a different disc in. It too played the same thing. I was thinking that everyone of my discs somehow got morphed into what I had known as Mix disc #4. It took a while but eventually the other disc came out. My Xbox has also done the same but it actually damaged the disc that was hidden in there. Note to self, don't place the Xbox on its side with a disc in it, not even when unplugged and transporting.
That is a pretty strong statement to make and not include any facts or figures.
You got any real numbers for this or did you pull this out of the air?
You seem to be making your opinion based on the evening news. They cover every person that gets shot in a drive by or performs an armed robbery in the city. They do not have a cover story on every person that defends himself by pulling out a gun, every person at the gun club that is shooting at the range, the skeet shooters, every person going hunting and I'm sure there are far more examples that do not involve a crime.
These numbers might be a little off but it is a start.
The state of PA issued 158,817 muzzle loader hunting licenses in the 2002-2003 hunting season, that number only includes one style of gun hunting that includes using a muzzle loaded gun. They also issued 750,000 adult hunting licenses. There were actually more licenses then that total but I'm not going to waste my time doing the math. There is NO WAY in hell there were 950,000 crimes commited in PA that involved a gun, using your figure of vast majority of guns are used for crimes would put the number of gun related crimes at what 10-15 million in PA alone? Add in the non hunting use of guns and your number would have to be much higher.
I am not some gun freak zealot trying to prove a point, in fact the only gun I have shoots BB's.
I was not around in the late 60's but I wish I was. I'd be all for a society change that brought back another free love and plenty of cheap drugs era (minus the STD's). We've already got the start of what might turn into a very unpopular and potentially unwinable "war" to start the whole thing going.
I can not comment on the "college experience" but the US Navy Nuclear power program has a fast paced pipeline.
They squeeze math, physics, metalurgy, heat transfer and fluid flow, nuclear theory, integrated power plant operation, and reactor principles and one of either electronics, mechanical, or electrical training (depending on your specific job) into about a 6 month course. The class hours were from 7:30am until 4:00pm but for most people, it ended up being a 7am to about 11pm day of class, study, and "homework" and about 10-20 hours each weekend for the entire six months. No materials at all could not leave the building either. About 35% of the people that start do not make it to the end. My specific class started with 26 and ended with 13.
You will not make it through unless you are truely dedicated to the program as you are not left with much free time, hell, you are not left with any time really.
First of all, "slashdot" is not some third party person that has one idea. Slashdot is made up from a collection of people and unless you are here from a different dimension, you are a part of it.
Your attempted comparision of copying code and copying an idea or an implementation is not apples to apples, in fact it is nothing more then your own convienent grouping to try to prove a point but it is much deeper and more involved subject then what you tried to sum up into a sentence or two. There is a big difference between dealing with an idea, a method of implementing an idea, and a physical final product. You can not glob them all together and claim it is the same and then assume all ~700K active slashdot users all feel the same about the subject.
most of the blame should still goe to the jackass who wrote it
I strongly disagree. If all Ford door locks could be defeated with a paperclip in 2 seconds, it is a FORD problem, not the 18 year old who figured it out and wrote about it. The lock design was obviously not designed very well if can be defeated so easily.
Check out this site, they sell Athalons. ;)
Maybe they get special processors direct from AMD
Isnt this like the whole "Frosted Mini-Wheats" VS. "Frosted Mini-Spooners" (Brand X) debate
I eat a lot of cold cereal. There is a difference in quality and consistancy between the name and off brands. It almost seems to be that way on purpose. It should not be that hard to mimic the real Kellogs Frosted Flakes but it seems every off brand is slighly thicker, not quite as crunchy, and the frosting does not cover 100% of the flakes. Would it really be that hard for the off brand company to make them a little thinner and cover the whole flake which would make them taste much closer to the real thing? They probably have some back room agreement with Kelloggs to make them that way on purpose.
Same with the HP laserjet line. Both of those companies went from innovation and solid performing products to bascially commodity junk. That increases profits for the short term but basically wipes out any long term stability. A good example is Dell entering the laser market. Ten years ago they would not have stood a chance against HP.
Montgomery Wards would match price based on "features" and not specifically an exact model number. Of course that business method must not have worked very well as they went out of business ;)
The biggest offenders of this price matching prevention scheme that I have noticed is with matresses. You will rarely if ever, find the same model at a different store.
If the drive lasts for 3 years, it will almost always last for 5
I've experienced something different. At work we have about 300 20GB drives in desktops. They pretty much failed at consistant rate up until our 3 year lease expired. Of course a large percentage of the failures were a certain model Fujitsu which has a class action going on it right now. So far I've recieved about 25 seperate copies of settlement paperwork claiming my company can get up to ~$40 for each one we've had to replace. Combine that with the 32MB USB flash drive HP/Compaq is giving out for every laptop we identify to have defective memory and the IT department slush fund can be spent on a beer bash and porn file swapout at a medium sized hotel. I don't see that happening anytime soon though so the paperwork for everything is still in my inbox.
The reason no one has ever responded to your packets is due to the fact that you miscalculated light speed by a huge factor. It only takes 1.2 seconds for electromagnetic radiation to get from the moon to earth. I would guess you are probably getting actually connecting to an AP about 136 miles to the east of Toronto ;)
Sorry but I think Sammy Hagar sucks...
Luckily my box seats were free and I had my Blackberry with me.
Since the only division of Apple making any serious money is iPod/iTunes
/. tradition..
To keep with
1. Sell services at a loss to stimulate hardware sales.
2. ???
3. Profit
Possible ???:
So what is going to happen when the iPod hardware reachs saturation?
a. Apple keeps making slightly different models to keep the lemmings buying new hardware. Questionable but might add a few years.
b. They close down iTMS because they have no money left
c. They raise the price of the music or value add something to iTMS to maintain it running.
They HAVE to change SOMETHING to sustain this venture. None of which is going to be good for the iTMS/iPod current or potential userbase. Basically, it can only get worse/more expensive. WAKE UP!!
Commercials are so irritating and so redundant (and such depressing unrealistic commentaries on wanton consumerism) that it is exhausting to try and listen to the radio or watch television
;)
According to this article, Clear Channel is trying to cut back on the amount of radio commercials and encouraging others to do the same. They make no claims about the content of the actual commercials though
That is no more technology based then me attaching a 12v power supply across a pencil sharpened at both ends and watching the wood burn and the lead glow orange until it gets brittle and breaks. Do it with the iPod battery as the supply and suddenly it is news.. "iPod can be used after a terrorist strike as an emergency heat and light source when coupled with a pencil and some wire"
A story about a text file stored in a notepad style application is pretty lame IMHO.
will I ever see it here in Niagara Falls, NY?
Just call and ask. I'm sure they will tell you:
"It is not currently in your area but they are [upgrading/finishing/finalizing/testing] the service now, it should be available within the next [soon/week/month] so please keep checking back. Can I interest you in our [dialup/DSL/long distance/wireless] service?"
I heard that same thing from Verizon and Comcast in my area for almost 24 straight months of my checking on DSL and CM access. I've stopped calling since Comcast finally moved in but Verizon DSL is STILL not in my area even after 2 more years and I still get the junk mail asking me to sign up.