Right now, the _average_ home user is probably going to go for wireless over speed. They want to share their broadband connection with the kids, and maybe share a printer. There isn't a killer home network app that requires gigabit yet.
Yes, that's true that it could include instructions on how to install the virus on linux, however, that requires that the victem can follow instructions. That wipes out the lower end of users who would have just clicked on it in windows. Plus, by making people pay more attention to what they're doing, there's a better chance that they'll think "hmm, this is fishy".
Where you'll get into trouble, is you'll have assholes who write popular programs that require you to run as root, so every dumbass will be root. And users won't care at all. One example of software for windows like this is the sims -- it requires you run it as administrator. The sims is at the same time the most popular and most crappily written games of all time. That is scary.
They're going backwards. I got in on dsl in my town early and we got a cisco dsl router/modem for free for signing a one year contract. A year or so later they started giving out a crappy brand that wouldn't work with a freinds online games. Now, I don't think they even give users a router at all, just a modem, and expect them to use a software firewall. Yeah, like that's a good idea for people that can barely install the latest sims game, can't figure out how not to install gator every other week when browsing the web, and send every "funny" pic they find to everyone in their address book.
"P4 Willamette and Northwood have a 20 stage pipeline when seen from the trace cache. However, including the decode path which stores its results in the trace cache, the pipeline is 28 stages."
Going from 20 to 30 stages sounded extreme. Maybe it's simply an addition of 2 stages -- going from 28 to 30. This wouldn't hurt performance much at all on stalls.
"Linux software contains significant Unix software code..." This has not been proven afaik. It should read "I believe that Linux software..."
"Why would someone license UNIX...?" its called competition. Linux costs something -- generally time. For example, I may have more time than budget at work. That makes Linux a considerably better value than some proprietary solutions that might run out of the box. If I didn't have the knowledge or the time, it might be a better deal to buy a package from someone else. If SCO cant offer some form of value over Linux, then "Why would someone license UNIX" becomes a very good question, but for SCO's stockholders, not congress.
"The threat to the US IT industry..." This reminds me of whip makers crying about cars coming on the market. Personally, I believe that OSS is a success because it's the only thing that can compete with certain monopolies.
Jobs moving over seas due to OSS -- this seems more like cashing in on other fears. Entire papers/articles would have to be written on this one.
"Threat to National Security" How hard could it be to get a copy of Unix in North Korea? That seems like banning drugs. It might make it more difficult, but not a lot. Hey, drugs come in, why wouldn't software and hardware go out?
This all comes down to whether there is UNIX code in Linux that should not be there, and if so, what should be done about it? The first part of that has not even been proven. By trying to cover all the bases to such an extreme, SCO makes themselves and their claims look even worse imo.
It seems to me that the very people who are anti-choice are also the same people who want lower taxes and lower funding for aid for lower income families. If people want to control each other's lives so much, they should be willing to foot the bills for them.
If people want to stop abortions then they need stop protesting in front of abortion clinics and offer to sponsor the potential parent and offer them emotional and financial support.
The ratings have been mostly accurate when comparing AMD cpus, and they're useful when talking to non-computer people rather than explaining things like cache size, locality, etc. With the Athlon64, it should be even more accurate since they now control the memory controller. If the performance rating can make it easier for the average person to compare systems accurately and pick the better value for them, then I'd say it's a good thing.
Also, normal users don't care about 10% performance differences. I've found a good way to relate to this is to think about old computers. Do you really think of the difference between a P133 and a P166? No, they're both from the p5 generation, with a L2 caching up to 64MB or 128MB depending on chipset and the cpu performance is basically equal (slow). If a p166 will do the job you need nowdays, a p133 probably will too, and it's doubtful that you'll notice much difference.
"Why doesn't Lego sell individual pieces in bulk. If you can go into a grocery store and by gummi bears by the pound, why not legos?"
Supposedly, walmart demands a lower price from manufacturer every year. So, in order for the manufacturer to stay afloat, they have to keep coming out with new products every year, since they will make less money on the old ones.
At first they could make them in china or somewhere, but eventually, they have to make their profits off of new products which could have a higher profit margin.
GWB is expanding the search for oil to the moon. When asked where oil comes from, he responded "the ground. And since there's a lot of ground on the moon...".
Yep. MS created Linux. Or more accurately, they created the environment for it to succeed.
First, Win31x and Dos were heavily pirated. AKA Free as far as the consumer goes. Bill himself realized that marketshare > profit margin, and even tried to tell apple that back when they made $$$ selling excel for mac. This was back in the days when mags compaired win pcs $2000 to $6000 macs. The same PC was even cheaper for hobbyists, who could get a free copy (pirated) of windows, dos and doom and maybe still use their last computer's case, floppy drive, etc. Sound familiar? MS was built on free software. Alot of why MS succeeded 20 yrs ago is also why linux is succeeding now. It's cheap. It allows hobbyists to do something. MS has lost all of those advantages.
Second, MS killed their competition. They were either better or cheaper. If that didn't work they bought the company (or just broke the competition's software in windows). They can't undercut Linux. They can't buy linux. They can't break linux. That leaves them to only be better, which is only one way to fight.
Competition & monopolies is a lot like germs -- if you kill off the weak, eventually what you face will be immune to the techniques that you killed everything else off with. Pay software couldn't compete -- MS would undercut them. Regular companies couldn't compete -- MS would buy them. The traditional software model didn't work against MS, so something evolved that could. This competitor is been specifically crafted/evolved to resist many of the attacks MS has used in the past.
I'd prefer a smaller disk size, like 8cm (~3"). Blu-ray holds 27GB, so moving to 8cm would still hold 12 GB or so. Using MPEG4 or something similiar, I'd imagine that you'd still be able to get 1080p, pan & scan coordinates (so you don't have 2 version to make/buy) and still have room for special features (which could be lower resolution). Combine that with a protective cartridge, and you'd have something I would buy.
I doubt I'd buy a new format just for higher resolution alone, but I might if they combine several improvements -- better quality (higher resolution), better reliability (protective cartridge), and more convienient (smaller size & widescreen+panscan on one disk).
If spamming is an illegal way to make money, then wouldn't he be subject to forfeiture laws, like drug dealers are? Although the forfeiture laws are messed up, it would seem that they would apply here. If they wouldn't apply when it's a state law being broken, what will be the case when the federal law is in force?
I've got a 9800pro aiw, and I'm pretty happy. I also have a 8500 aiw and a rage 128 aiw. The biggest deal with AIW cards is that if you have digital cable, you mainly use it as a video in card (atleast we do, the extra HBOs, HistInt, IFC etc are digital here). Older versions of the MFC software were pretty screwy, but the latest versions (since summer/fall 03 or so) have been pretty good.
I haven't done much research into using AIW cards on linux boxes, but will be trying soon once we build a linux server from my wife's old computer parts and my old computer parts. Is there a way to use an AIW tuner card to capture mpeg2 vids under linux CLI? Eventually, I'd like to control it via a web interface from any comp in the house. Or is there a good tv tuner card that works well with linux and is controllable via cli?
But in order to be legal parody, the mock version has to be significantly different enough so that an average person would know that it was a parody and not confuse it with the original.
Based on a recent report about fox viewers, it might confuse 80% of them.
I use mozilla because it's better. You've seen the other posts stating why, so I wont go into the reasons. This weekend I reinstalled windows due to a registry error (no recent erd, uninstalled a driver on win2k, rebooted, hosed registry)... then, mozilla wouldn't start. I deleted everything relating to mozilla that I could find. It was downright tramatic. I was FORCED to use IE for a whole day. Eventually I found the problem: delete the mozilla directory in "\program files\common files\".
Oh, and btw, Dear MS, I hate the registry. It reminds me of disk compression under windows 95. Luckilly, a few of the programs that I use don't use the registry -- they use config files -- and I won't have to reinstall them (hint hint hint).
Yeah, it's a rant post. But so many parts of MS software seem to be designed by someone living in a make believe world full of fairies and magical mushrooms where nothing goes wrong.
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You can say that the problem is greed, which is true. However, greed's been the major problem/evil throughout history, whether it be for power or money. In some places and times, people become evil leaders (like Hitler or Stalin). In the US, they become CEOs of companies like Enron or (duck) SCO.
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Right now, the _average_ home user is probably going to go for wireless over speed. They want to share their broadband connection with the kids, and maybe share a printer. There isn't a killer home network app that requires gigabit yet.
Yes, that's true that it could include instructions on how to install the virus on linux, however, that requires that the victem can follow instructions. That wipes out the lower end of users who would have just clicked on it in windows. Plus, by making people pay more attention to what they're doing, there's a better chance that they'll think "hmm, this is fishy".
Where you'll get into trouble, is you'll have assholes who write popular programs that require you to run as root, so every dumbass will be root. And users won't care at all. One example of software for windows like this is the sims -- it requires you run it as administrator. The sims is at the same time the most popular and most crappily written games of all time. That is scary.
They're going backwards. I got in on dsl in my town early and we got a cisco dsl router/modem for free for signing a one year contract. A year or so later they started giving out a crappy brand that wouldn't work with a freinds online games. Now, I don't think they even give users a router at all, just a modem, and expect them to use a software firewall. Yeah, like that's a good idea for people that can barely install the latest sims game, can't figure out how not to install gator every other week when browsing the web, and send every "funny" pic they find to everyone in their address book.
I do not think that mere survival is dependant on mathematics.
Unless you count warfare, which is a significant driving force behind many forms of science and technology (which requires the fundemental sciences).
So now MS is promoting a return to command line interfaces?
They're suggesting using a windows port of lynx.
You think congress would make a law that benifited voters as opposed to donors? Remember, we're consumers, not constituents. bah.
"the K6/3 has only 24 bit FPU"
The only thing I can imagine is that you, or someone else has confused 24 vs 32 bit color graphics with the FPU. If so, they're not related.
"P4 Willamette and Northwood have a 20 stage pipeline when seen from the trace cache. However, including the decode path which stores its results in the trace cache, the pipeline is 28 stages."
Going from 20 to 30 stages sounded extreme. Maybe it's simply an addition of 2 stages -- going from 28 to 30. This wouldn't hurt performance much at all on stalls.
"Linux software contains significant Unix software code..." This has not been proven afaik. It should read "I believe that Linux software..."
"Why would someone license UNIX...?" its called competition. Linux costs something -- generally time. For example, I may have more time than budget at work. That makes Linux a considerably better value than some proprietary solutions that might run out of the box. If I didn't have the knowledge or the time, it might be a better deal to buy a package from someone else. If SCO cant offer some form of value over Linux, then "Why would someone license UNIX" becomes a very good question, but for SCO's stockholders, not congress.
"The threat to the US IT industry..."
This reminds me of whip makers crying about cars coming on the market. Personally, I believe that OSS is a success because it's the only thing that can compete with certain monopolies.
Jobs moving over seas due to OSS -- this seems more like cashing in on other fears. Entire papers/articles would have to be written on this one.
"Threat to National Security"
How hard could it be to get a copy of Unix in North Korea? That seems like banning drugs. It might make it more difficult, but not a lot. Hey, drugs come in, why wouldn't software and hardware go out?
This all comes down to whether there is UNIX code in Linux that should not be there, and if so, what should be done about it? The first part of that has not even been proven. By trying to cover all the bases to such an extreme, SCO makes themselves and their claims look even worse imo.
It seems to me that the very people who are anti-choice are also the same people who want lower taxes and lower funding for aid for lower income families. If people want to control each other's lives so much, they should be willing to foot the bills for them.
If people want to stop abortions then they need stop protesting in front of abortion clinics and offer to sponsor the potential parent and offer them emotional and financial support.
Digital cameras will kill the cheap film cameras. The middle and higher end ones will still be there.
The ratings have been mostly accurate when comparing AMD cpus, and they're useful when talking to non-computer people rather than explaining things like cache size, locality, etc. With the Athlon64, it should be even more accurate since they now control the memory controller. If the performance rating can make it easier for the average person to compare systems accurately and pick the better value for them, then I'd say it's a good thing.
Also, normal users don't care about 10% performance differences. I've found a good way to relate to this is to think about old computers. Do you really think of the difference between a P133 and a P166? No, they're both from the p5 generation, with a L2 caching up to 64MB or 128MB depending on chipset and the cpu performance is basically equal (slow). If a p166 will do the job you need nowdays, a p133 probably will too, and it's doubtful that you'll notice much difference.
"Why doesn't Lego sell individual pieces in bulk. If you can go into a grocery store and by gummi bears by the pound, why not legos?"
Supposedly, walmart demands a lower price from manufacturer every year. So, in order for the manufacturer to stay afloat, they have to keep coming out with new products every year, since they will make less money on the old ones.
At first they could make them in china or somewhere, but eventually, they have to make their profits off of new products which could have a higher profit margin.
GWB is expanding the search for oil to the moon. When asked where oil comes from, he responded "the ground. And since there's a lot of ground on the moon...".
anorexia helps people lose weight too. Just because something helps you lose weight doesn't mean it's good for you.
Yep. MS created Linux. Or more accurately, they created the environment for it to succeed.
First, Win31x and Dos were heavily pirated. AKA Free as far as the consumer goes. Bill himself realized that marketshare > profit margin, and even tried to tell apple that back when they made $$$ selling excel for mac. This was back in the days when mags compaired win pcs $2000 to $6000 macs. The same PC was even cheaper for hobbyists, who could get a free copy (pirated) of windows, dos and doom and maybe still use their last computer's case, floppy drive, etc. Sound familiar? MS was built on free software. Alot of why MS succeeded 20 yrs ago is also why linux is succeeding now. It's cheap. It allows hobbyists to do something. MS has lost all of those advantages.
Second, MS killed their competition. They were either better or cheaper. If that didn't work they bought the company (or just broke the competition's software in windows). They can't undercut Linux. They can't buy linux. They can't break linux. That leaves them to only be better, which is only one way to fight.
Competition & monopolies is a lot like germs -- if you kill off the weak, eventually what you face will be immune to the techniques that you killed everything else off with. Pay software couldn't compete -- MS would undercut them. Regular companies couldn't compete -- MS would buy them. The traditional software model didn't work against MS, so something evolved that could. This competitor is been specifically crafted/evolved to resist many of the attacks MS has used in the past.
It's just natural selection at work...
I'd prefer a smaller disk size, like 8cm (~3"). Blu-ray holds 27GB, so moving to 8cm would still hold 12 GB or so. Using MPEG4 or something similiar, I'd imagine that you'd still be able to get 1080p, pan & scan coordinates (so you don't have 2 version to make/buy) and still have room for special features (which could be lower resolution). Combine that with a protective cartridge, and you'd have something I would buy.
I doubt I'd buy a new format just for higher resolution alone, but I might if they combine several improvements -- better quality (higher resolution), better reliability (protective cartridge), and more convienient (smaller size & widescreen+panscan on one disk).
If spamming is an illegal way to make money, then wouldn't he be subject to forfeiture laws, like drug dealers are? Although the forfeiture laws are messed up, it would seem that they would apply here. If they wouldn't apply when it's a state law being broken, what will be the case when the federal law is in force?
Microsoft's response, of course, is that consumers should steer clear.
I generally wait until SP1 is out to try a new MS OS.
I've got a 9800pro aiw, and I'm pretty happy. I also have a 8500 aiw and a rage 128 aiw. The biggest deal with AIW cards is that if you have digital cable, you mainly use it as a video in card (atleast we do, the extra HBOs, HistInt, IFC etc are digital here). Older versions of the MFC software were pretty screwy, but the latest versions (since summer/fall 03 or so) have been pretty good.
I haven't done much research into using AIW cards on linux boxes, but will be trying soon once we build a linux server from my wife's old computer parts and my old computer parts. Is there a way to use an AIW tuner card to capture mpeg2 vids under linux CLI? Eventually, I'd like to control it via a web interface from any comp in the house. Or is there a good tv tuner card that works well with linux and is controllable via cli?
But in order to be legal parody, the mock version has to be significantly different enough so that an average person would know that it was a parody and not confuse it with the original.
Based on a recent report about fox viewers, it might confuse 80% of them.
I use mozilla because it's better. You've seen the other posts stating why, so I wont go into the reasons. This weekend I reinstalled windows due to a registry error (no recent erd, uninstalled a driver on win2k, rebooted, hosed registry)... then, mozilla wouldn't start. I deleted everything relating to mozilla that I could find. It was downright tramatic. I was FORCED to use IE for a whole day. Eventually I found the problem: delete the mozilla directory in "\program files\common files\".
Oh, and btw, Dear MS, I hate the registry. It reminds me of disk compression under windows 95. Luckilly, a few of the programs that I use don't use the registry -- they use config files -- and I won't have to reinstall them (hint hint hint).
Yeah, it's a rant post. But so many parts of MS software seem to be designed by someone living in a make believe world full of fairies and magical mushrooms where nothing goes wrong.
Brought to you by the local microbrew on a sunday night.
You can say that the problem is greed, which is true. However, greed's been the major problem/evil throughout history, whether it be for power or money. In some places and times, people become evil leaders (like Hitler or Stalin). In the US, they become CEOs of companies like Enron or (duck) SCO.
# tempdig=`dig +short wheretobuygooddrugs.com`; dig +short -x $tempdig
sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.
# tempdig=`dig +short howtofindcheapwhores.com`; dig +short -x $tempdig
sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.