I already quit upgrading. I don't remember what my machines are, but none of them even come close to a 1Ghz Pentium. W2K on any generic Pentium 2 class box is it for me, until some app comes out that I need. But, I haven't bought a computer in about 3 years, and I probably won't for at least another 3 years.
Maybe Mom & Pop don't need to upgrade, but they also don't use the computer for the tool it was designed to be.
Meaning, what, that computers were designed to be game machines? Somehow I doubt that, looking at the Intel architecture...
Technically, computers (PC's) were designed to do computations, and be basic word processors. Even an original Pentium will do both of those just fine. PS2's, Gamecubes, etc. were *designed* to be game machines. Playing heavy graphics games on PC's is like trying to pound a nail with a screwdriver. It can work, but only if you spend a lot of time and money getting them to work.
Just a default install. Put the CD in, installed, and started both KDE and gnome. Basic P 350 (I'm pretty sure), 128 MB RAM. Of course, the generic sound & network cards weren't detected (big surprise). It was slow as a dog. I don't even boot into 'em any more because I was worried about my hard drives dying due to the constant swap.
Hahaha... That's pretty funny. Especially considering W2K runs great on my old P 350, but Redhat makes the hard drive spin ad infinitum and opening a window in KDE or Gnome is a major undertaking. I actually can't run a Linux with a GUI on any of my machines. It's too damn slow. But, I can run W2K on any of 'em. Funny, huh?
If the majority disagrees with the law, then surely the law is wrong, not the people.
In most cases, I'm glad as hell that "the people" don't directly make laws. The US would be a mess. Now in some cases, such as drug laws, it's a combination of the people demanding to be heard *and* there not being a good reason to have drug laws at all. With creative media, at least lawmakers realize that without copyright, there's no incentive to create any more. People have bills to pay, and if you can't pay your bills by writing, performing, etc., then most people just aren't gonna do it. Most people are incredibly stupid. They think in the short term, not the long (hence massive credit woes in the US, at least).
PArt of the reason that you may be queued is that your participation rate is low. Try the new Kazaalite 2.0 if you haven't yet. In my opinion, it's a huge step forward in P2P.
You obviously haven't tried XP or any recent Windows. As has been the case from the first Windows, you can change color and size of anything to be anything you'd like. With the more recent versions of Windows, you can also choose from several different GUI styles. XP can do XP and "classic" which are very different.
Yes, but not every movie is nearly as successful. I'm sure that there are many movies made now, with the knowledge that they'll *eventually* make money, if help long enough. If copyright were shortened, to say 5 years, anything that couldn't make a sizeable amount of money very quickly wouldn't be written/made. Thus, you'd get a lot of crap cranked out very quickly to make a quick buck. Companies wouldn't care about the fact that they could *eventually* make money from any particular project.
I find it really, really pathetic that people are obsessing about a person in a commercial. JEsus, fetishizing commercials? For a group of people that are anti-big company, anti-commercial softweare, it's pretty damn hypocritical that a person who shows up in a fucking corporate commercial is being obsessed over. It's a commercial. Ignore it. Get on with your lives. Jesus, talk about commercialism gone rampant. Geeks hate commercialsm from big company X, but eat it up if it's from big company Y. That's like saying "I hate those nasty, big, soul-killing companies like Wal-Mart. But have you seent hat new K-Mart ad? It's so cool!"
I use The Brain. It's the only way I've ever found of organizing all of my thoughts, emails, bookmarks, files, pictures, programs, etc. into a cohesive, useable unit. In my opinion, it's really how personal computers were meant to be used. I recommend everybody with a ton of bookmarks, sticky notes all over the place, and a ton of flagged emails to take a look at it and play with it for at least 10 minutes. What it does is really amazing.
Just because most Net advertisers haven't grasped the fact that branding also applies to Net advertising. Most still want to pay per click. I agree, that branding also works on line, but most advertisers still don't pay for it.
If they're getting paid per click, then generally advertisers don't pay for forced clicks, ie: I'm clicking this because I have to, not because I'm genuinely interested in their product. At least in the adult industry, this is a *big* no-no unless you accept a *much* smaller pay rate (generally called 'blind' clicks). I don't know how it'll fly with their advertisers.
From what it sounds like, this is simply old fashioned, very illegal price fixing. It won't hold up in court. Hopefully the fed will take them down for this.
Until I have reasonable "fair use" of media that I buy, and until this price fixing is stopped, I'm just gonna have to leave KazaaLite running.
I've never worked in Wal-Mart, but I've read a bit about a decent book about a woman who *did* work there... here's an article about her experience. From everything I've read (and I wish I had time to read more), Wal-Mart pays less than is a livign wage in most places, but because they kill all surrounding retail businesses, employees have no choice but to work there.
And, as your friend more about his job at MS. Generally "contracting" means working as a traditional W-2 employee through a head shop that does pay 1/2 taxes, just like a normal job. Only difference is that you're technically working for that head shop instead of the big company (like MS). I did that for 6 years and make a really nice chunk of change. Much more than the poor slobs who worked "permanent" jobs. And, like I said, life was much better for me... I left at 5:00PM on the dot, or I got paid more. I usually got to skip beauracratic meetings... those were left for the "permanent" people. And, I could switch jobs as often as I'd like because it was expecetd. If I were still in IT, I definitely wouldn't mind working for MS. The few jobs that I spoke to them about (as a contractor) paid quite well.
Well, my point was that you can do "more" (in terms of serving) with the same hardware with Linux if you're willing to invest a good bit of time (money). Or, you can just buy exactly what you want and have it work out of the box without any further investment. Pay a smidge for extra RAM, a bit for the license, and be done with it. In many companies that pay real wages, that's a hell of a lot more cheaper in the long run then paying an expert to tweak, tweak, and tweak.
From what I understood, I thought that most MS "employees" were actually contractors. Contractors generally get paid a hell of a lot more than "regular" employees, even when taking into account that they buy their own health insurance. On top of that, they get paid for every hour they work, the can sometimes avoid the beauracratic bullshit, they don't get penalized for "job hopping". From the few jobs I've interviewed for with them, and the people I've talked to, they pay their contractors very well. A hell of a lot better than most of the poor minimum wage slobs that Wal-Mart "employs".
I've never tried it on a PP 200, but I'd guess that I'd be a tad slow. Every time I've tried XP, it's been a decent bit slower than W2K, but that makes sense with all of the pretty widgets. But, I'm not surprised that PP is faster than a P2. The PP was a *sweet* chip. Something about the IO or the cache that made it much better than comprable non-Pro chips. I remember that back in the day, I had a few quad PP servers that I got to use as workstations (running NT 4). Very, very nice.
While you wouldn't want to run KDE on that system, you CAN run Linux, which is the point. The FACTS remain that you can do more with less hardware with a linux based system than you can with a Windows based system. Period.
For the same price? No way. Remove XWindows and you gotta spend thousands and thousands training each poor soul that sits down in front of a CMI. You can also make a Civic outrun a Ferrari, I'm sure, but to spend the money and time doing it would be ridiculous.
Oh yeah. Wow. Geez, you really should have told the Indian government. You and your incredible brainpower blows away the leaders of one of the largest country in the world. They really should have consulted you for your deep, deep insight.
Shit, don't you think they know that? Indians are not stupid people. Hell, in case you've forgotten, they're the ones that took the US IT job market. Of course they know they'll pay eventually. They still think that MS is cheaper in the long run, because they don't have the resources to train thousands and thousands of kernel hackers.
MS isn't predatory. MS buys companies and people. They pay very well. They employ lots of well-paid people. Wal-Mart kills business and does nothing but create thousands of minimum wage, degrading, eat-your-own shit jobs.
Let's see Windows XP run on a 386 with 8M ram. Nice FUD Bill.
I've never seen a copy of Redhat run faster than a copy of W2K. Ever. On any PC. I've tried it several times. W2K installs and runs fine. It's zippy on a Pentium 750. Redhat: Click... wait. Click...wait. Doing nothing? The hard drive is gonna spin constantly anyway.
I don't know what you've done, but every time I do a dual boot, W2K is MUCH faster in basic desktop usage than Redhat.
Well, not buying a product, and suggesting to others not to buy a product, or even organizing a boycott is *the* most effective way to make your voice heard within a company. Period. Companies exist to make profits, so if they make less profit, they're gonna listen (or they're gonna die, which happens under bad management). I see not buying a product (and organizing and/or educating others) as the worst thing you can do to a company. If you're just mildly annoyed, then continue to use the product, and tell the company that unless they change, you're not gonna buy any more. But keep in mind that they know that you're a consumer who's not upset enough to stop using the product, so they take suggestions from current consumers with a grain of salt. "Well, he says he's pissed, but he keeps buying, so how pissed can he really be? It's cheaper to not do anything, and they'll keep buying anyway, so let's not change." So, here's my suggestions:
mildly annoyed: Ask the company to change.
pretty damn annoyed: Ask the company to change or they'll lose your business.
pissed off at them or their product: Don't buy it.
Think their product is pure evil: Don't buy, and tell others not to buy.
I've seen a lot of/.ers already talking about not buying the game, not playing the game, etc. The problem I have with this philosophy is that it's like wrapping your face in a towel, figuring that if the problem sees that you can't see it, it won't be able to see you, and will therefore go away. THIS DOESN'T WORK
Well, what does work, Mr. Wizard?
Call me nuts, but I'd think that a company seeing a significant drop in sales would take a step back and ask themselves, "Dear sweet christ on a pony!! Why has revenue dropped through the floor? We're all gonna get fired and live on the streets and forced to kill and eat each other! aaahh!". Well, maybe it wouldn't go quite like that, but what effects a company more than profits? Since companies exist to make profits, what could be more effective? Don't like it, don't buy it. If you want to go a step further and tell them why, even better.
The POS systems aren't a pain to use at all. In fact they're easy, bug free, and I've had 100% uptime. Compiling kernels and apps, configuring XWindows, now *THAT* would be a pain in the ass.
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I already quit upgrading. I don't remember what my machines are, but none of them even come close to a 1Ghz Pentium. W2K on any generic Pentium 2 class box is it for me, until some app comes out that I need. But, I haven't bought a computer in about 3 years, and I probably won't for at least another 3 years.
Maybe Mom & Pop don't need to upgrade, but they also don't use the computer for the tool it was designed to be.
Meaning, what, that computers were designed to be game machines? Somehow I doubt that, looking at the Intel architecture...
Technically, computers (PC's) were designed to do computations, and be basic word processors. Even an original Pentium will do both of those just fine. PS2's, Gamecubes, etc. were *designed* to be game machines. Playing heavy graphics games on PC's is like trying to pound a nail with a screwdriver. It can work, but only if you spend a lot of time and money getting them to work.
Just a default install. Put the CD in, installed, and started both KDE and gnome. Basic P 350 (I'm pretty sure), 128 MB RAM. Of course, the generic sound & network cards weren't detected (big surprise). It was slow as a dog. I don't even boot into 'em any more because I was worried about my hard drives dying due to the constant swap.
Hahaha... That's pretty funny. Especially considering W2K runs great on my old P 350, but Redhat makes the hard drive spin ad infinitum and opening a window in KDE or Gnome is a major undertaking. I actually can't run a Linux with a GUI on any of my machines. It's too damn slow. But, I can run W2K on any of 'em. Funny, huh?
If the majority disagrees with the law, then surely the law is wrong, not the people.
In most cases, I'm glad as hell that "the people" don't directly make laws. The US would be a mess. Now in some cases, such as drug laws, it's a combination of the people demanding to be heard *and* there not being a good reason to have drug laws at all. With creative media, at least lawmakers realize that without copyright, there's no incentive to create any more. People have bills to pay, and if you can't pay your bills by writing, performing, etc., then most people just aren't gonna do it. Most people are incredibly stupid. They think in the short term, not the long (hence massive credit woes in the US, at least).
PArt of the reason that you may be queued is that your participation rate is low. Try the new Kazaalite 2.0 if you haven't yet. In my opinion, it's a huge step forward in P2P.
the more I see XP (in its blue and green theme)
You obviously haven't tried XP or any recent Windows. As has been the case from the first Windows, you can change color and size of anything to be anything you'd like. With the more recent versions of Windows, you can also choose from several different GUI styles. XP can do XP and "classic" which are very different.
Yes, but not every movie is nearly as successful. I'm sure that there are many movies made now, with the knowledge that they'll *eventually* make money, if help long enough. If copyright were shortened, to say 5 years, anything that couldn't make a sizeable amount of money very quickly wouldn't be written/made. Thus, you'd get a lot of crap cranked out very quickly to make a quick buck. Companies wouldn't care about the fact that they could *eventually* make money from any particular project.
I find it really, really pathetic that people are obsessing about a person in a commercial. JEsus, fetishizing commercials? For a group of people that are anti-big company, anti-commercial softweare, it's pretty damn hypocritical that a person who shows up in a fucking corporate commercial is being obsessed over. It's a commercial. Ignore it. Get on with your lives. Jesus, talk about commercialism gone rampant. Geeks hate commercialsm from big company X, but eat it up if it's from big company Y. That's like saying "I hate those nasty, big, soul-killing companies like Wal-Mart. But have you seent hat new K-Mart ad? It's so cool!"
I use The Brain. It's the only way I've ever found of organizing all of my thoughts, emails, bookmarks, files, pictures, programs, etc. into a cohesive, useable unit. In my opinion, it's really how personal computers were meant to be used. I recommend everybody with a ton of bookmarks, sticky notes all over the place, and a ton of flagged emails to take a look at it and play with it for at least 10 minutes. What it does is really amazing.
Just because most Net advertisers haven't grasped the fact that branding also applies to Net advertising. Most still want to pay per click. I agree, that branding also works on line, but most advertisers still don't pay for it.
If they're getting paid per click, then generally advertisers don't pay for forced clicks, ie: I'm clicking this because I have to, not because I'm genuinely interested in their product. At least in the adult industry, this is a *big* no-no unless you accept a *much* smaller pay rate (generally called 'blind' clicks). I don't know how it'll fly with their advertisers.
From what it sounds like, this is simply old fashioned, very illegal price fixing. It won't hold up in court. Hopefully the fed will take them down for this.
Until I have reasonable "fair use" of media that I buy, and until this price fixing is stopped, I'm just gonna have to leave KazaaLite running.
I've never worked in Wal-Mart, but I've read a bit about a decent book about a woman who *did* work there... here's an article about her experience. From everything I've read (and I wish I had time to read more), Wal-Mart pays less than is a livign wage in most places, but because they kill all surrounding retail businesses, employees have no choice but to work there.
And, as your friend more about his job at MS. Generally "contracting" means working as a traditional W-2 employee through a head shop that does pay 1/2 taxes, just like a normal job. Only difference is that you're technically working for that head shop instead of the big company (like MS). I did that for 6 years and make a really nice chunk of change. Much more than the poor slobs who worked "permanent" jobs. And, like I said, life was much better for me... I left at 5:00PM on the dot, or I got paid more. I usually got to skip beauracratic meetings... those were left for the "permanent" people. And, I could switch jobs as often as I'd like because it was expecetd. If I were still in IT, I definitely wouldn't mind working for MS. The few jobs that I spoke to them about (as a contractor) paid quite well.
Well, my point was that you can do "more" (in terms of serving) with the same hardware with Linux if you're willing to invest a good bit of time (money). Or, you can just buy exactly what you want and have it work out of the box without any further investment. Pay a smidge for extra RAM, a bit for the license, and be done with it. In many companies that pay real wages, that's a hell of a lot more cheaper in the long run then paying an expert to tweak, tweak, and tweak.
From what I understood, I thought that most MS "employees" were actually contractors. Contractors generally get paid a hell of a lot more than "regular" employees, even when taking into account that they buy their own health insurance. On top of that, they get paid for every hour they work, the can sometimes avoid the beauracratic bullshit, they don't get penalized for "job hopping". From the few jobs I've interviewed for with them, and the people I've talked to, they pay their contractors very well. A hell of a lot better than most of the poor minimum wage slobs that Wal-Mart "employs".
I've never tried it on a PP 200, but I'd guess that I'd be a tad slow. Every time I've tried XP, it's been a decent bit slower than W2K, but that makes sense with all of the pretty widgets. But, I'm not surprised that PP is faster than a P2. The PP was a *sweet* chip. Something about the IO or the cache that made it much better than comprable non-Pro chips. I remember that back in the day, I had a few quad PP servers that I got to use as workstations (running NT 4). Very, very nice.
While you wouldn't want to run KDE on that system, you CAN run Linux, which is the point. The FACTS remain that you can do more with less hardware with a linux based system than you can with a Windows based system. Period.
For the same price? No way. Remove XWindows and you gotta spend thousands and thousands training each poor soul that sits down in front of a CMI. You can also make a Civic outrun a Ferrari, I'm sure, but to spend the money and time doing it would be ridiculous.
Oh yeah. Wow. Geez, you really should have told the Indian government. You and your incredible brainpower blows away the leaders of one of the largest country in the world. They really should have consulted you for your deep, deep insight.
Shit, don't you think they know that? Indians are not stupid people. Hell, in case you've forgotten, they're the ones that took the US IT job market. Of course they know they'll pay eventually. They still think that MS is cheaper in the long run, because they don't have the resources to train thousands and thousands of kernel hackers.
MS isn't predatory. MS buys companies and people. They pay very well. They employ lots of well-paid people. Wal-Mart kills business and does nothing but create thousands of minimum wage, degrading, eat-your-own shit jobs.
Let's see Windows XP run on a 386 with 8M ram. Nice FUD Bill.
I've never seen a copy of Redhat run faster than a copy of W2K. Ever. On any PC. I've tried it several times. W2K installs and runs fine. It's zippy on a Pentium 750. Redhat: Click... wait. Click...wait. Doing nothing? The hard drive is gonna spin constantly anyway.
I don't know what you've done, but every time I do a dual boot, W2K is MUCH faster in basic desktop usage than Redhat.
Well, not buying a product, and suggesting to others not to buy a product, or even organizing a boycott is *the* most effective way to make your voice heard within a company. Period. Companies exist to make profits, so if they make less profit, they're gonna listen (or they're gonna die, which happens under bad management). I see not buying a product (and organizing and/or educating others) as the worst thing you can do to a company. If you're just mildly annoyed, then continue to use the product, and tell the company that unless they change, you're not gonna buy any more. But keep in mind that they know that you're a consumer who's not upset enough to stop using the product, so they take suggestions from current consumers with a grain of salt. "Well, he says he's pissed, but he keeps buying, so how pissed can he really be? It's cheaper to not do anything, and they'll keep buying anyway, so let's not change." So, here's my suggestions:
mildly annoyed: Ask the company to change.
pretty damn annoyed: Ask the company to change or they'll lose your business.
pissed off at them or their product: Don't buy it.
Think their product is pure evil: Don't buy, and tell others not to buy.
I've seen a lot of /.ers already talking about not buying the game, not playing the game, etc. The problem I have with this philosophy is that it's like wrapping your face in a towel, figuring that if the problem sees that you can't see it, it won't be able to see you, and will therefore go away. THIS DOESN'T WORK
Well, what does work, Mr. Wizard?
Call me nuts, but I'd think that a company seeing a significant drop in sales would take a step back and ask themselves, "Dear sweet christ on a pony!! Why has revenue dropped through the floor? We're all gonna get fired and live on the streets and forced to kill and eat each other! aaahh!". Well, maybe it wouldn't go quite like that, but what effects a company more than profits? Since companies exist to make profits, what could be more effective? Don't like it, don't buy it. If you want to go a step further and tell them why, even better.
Well, how exactly is "the community" going to pay for a booth? Who puts together the promotional material?
That's the problem with OSS. No marketing. No central organization.
The POS systems aren't a pain to use at all. In fact they're easy, bug free, and I've had 100% uptime. Compiling kernels and apps, configuring XWindows, now *THAT* would be a pain in the ass.