I couldn't find a lot of reviews on the 18.1" category of monitors that didn't seem super critical. Many were whinig about 'lag' while playin FPS like Unreal 2003 or Battlefield earth. I played around in various stores looking at them and never saw them.
The 1860 got a decent response time (25ns) so I said what the heck and bought it via the web without seeing it.
If there is ghosting, my ATI9700 and I don't see it. UT2003 at 1280x1024 is great, and so is everything else I play.
nice monitor. It was like $682 at CompUSA.com. Though I don't recommend ordering from them, their web prescense leads much to be desired.
What kind of video card do you have? Just curious as to why it took so much power to do that. Not like QT is that much of a processor hog from what I've seen. I sold my Powerbook 550Mhz or I'd try it on that.
I've used a Pronto as my main remote since about 1999 when I got the first model (TSU-1000).
I've used it to control my blinds, my TV, my Pre-Amp, my CD PLayers, and my TiVos.
My TSU-1000 bit the big one in the form of a cracked screen late last year when we were moving things around.
Yes, it can be a pain to program. But, there are many sites like http://www.remotecentral.com that people 'open source' their configurations so to speak. So you can cut/paste everything that they've done into yours and have your pronto up and running in a short period of time if you wish.
I think it'd be interesting to see the number of times Ellison has come up and claimed 'this or that will kill Microsoft' over the last few years.
I seem to remember something about network computers. As far as I can tell that was the biggest bit of vapor hardware ever. I've never seen anything like that in the enterprise.
Were there any others?
But not to say that I don't think that LInux has a chance. From where I sit I see lots of 4 Way Xeon MP servers coming along that are being at least tested against a Sun box. I've seen them save some companies over $2.0M a year in just hardware maintenance costs alone. So it can be done. However, they're moving Sun out of the datacenter with these, not Microsoft. Mainly because Microsoft was never in that space (yet).
This coming from someone with over 700 CDs and 600 DVDs.
If it won't play in my Powerbook, or damages my Powerbook, I will find a way to make them buy me a new one. Best Buy or whomever I get my CDs from will be getting them returned to.
They better have a BIG sticker on them saying 'THIS WILL TOAST YOUR COMPUTER' and such.
Pink's the only one on that list I can think of that I'd actually want the next CD of though.
I'd be willing to bet there are a few less-than-scrupulous companies that sell white box systems with overclocked, cheap processors. When they break, they say call the manuf. The manuf being Intel.
I've seen it done before. Maybe Intel has gotten tired of the phone calls. Who knows.
I think light gun games are fading is because of the Columbine backlash. Too many groups were looking at light guns as the cause of all evil. I remember when I got my Dreamcast I wanted a light gun something awful for Silent Scope (never got it) but because of the recent isolated tragedies in Columbine no one wanted a kid playing with a gun for a while.
Which is unfortunate, because at least at most of the Dave & Busters I've been to recently most people play with the light gun type games the most. Mainly while waiting for the 8-way linked NASCAR games, but still, they're playin the light gun ones.
A huge problem with this, at least here in the United States, is that you start to infringe on the little thing called the first ammendment.
everything you've listed, spam, telemarketing, stopping by the front door, etc equate to someone wanting to say something. It may be something as stupid as 'make money now' or 'enlarge your penis' but it's still protected speech just as much as those guys in white hats that run around in the south.
So they'd challenge it under the first ammendment law.
Now, I'm all for shutting them up. But if you let someone shut them up, our wonderful legal system has a way of taking that shut up as a way to shut other things up, and before you know it, we can't post comments on slashdot.
Well, to each his own I guess. My experience with MacOS X hasn't been that good.
What was your experience? What were your issues? I'm curious. I guess I must be loosing my edge because 10.2.x on my Powerbook G4 550Mhz gives me acceptable response times for web browsing, email, document imaging, MP3 playing, etc.
However, IANASD. I don't code, I don't do anything real exciting on that (other than the occasional real boring/simple java applet when I took a Java class).
I have X11 Beta installed, but haven't used it. I play around at the cmd line level and don't find myself going 'doh' trying to run a command that I do on my linux servers vs. in Mac OS X Terminal.
Just interested in knowing what's 'missing' that Linux has. I used Linux as a desktop OS from December of '01 to August of '02 when I got my Powerbook off of eBay as an 'experiment' to see how I'd work with Mac OS X vs. Linux. I get a lot more out of Mac OS X than I do Linux as a desktop operating system.
Having a hard time finding how to do that. Would be interested in trying side by side install on my Powerbook G4 to see what it is like. Do you have a link?
...So, My hard earned money that gets sucked away to taxes is being spent on access to corporately owned satellites that are in a bidding war for either A) Keeping our troops safe or B) Letting Geraldo Rivera run around in the desert and state idiotic comments and a bunch of talking heads bouncing signals saying the same stupid things over and over.
Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
Sure I can see running this on an old PowerMac that Mac OS X doesn't support. But wasting your time/effort to wipe out a prefectly good *nix based system that you can actually buy software off a shelf in a store for (besides the 50 distros)
Just seems like a waste of time.
Now, the little BriQ device they have, sure, YDL would be cool on them. But to wipe out a new system with Mac OS X 10.2.x on it seems wrong.
Any show that would make my non-sci-fi loving wife watch it over ER should have stayed on the air for a long time in my book.
I'm saddened to see it go. Here's hoping that a paperback book series or something more will start up to expand the universe a la Star Wars and Star Trek. There've been three so far that I've found & read, and they were true to the heart of the Farscape story.
Intuit knew that hundreds of people would buy their software, then turn around and give it to tons of their friends to do their taxes with it.
They insert an activation key that tries to limit the number of returns the software does, and the number of machines it's installed on. They then botch the installation of said tools and make it very hard to remove/use until they release patch after patch.
Yet, somehow, in these great United States, they now are getting sued for trying to protect the licensing agreement that no one reads and every just clicks 'agree' onto.
Let's approach a computer like say, oh, 80% of the world of computer users do.
They want it to work. They want to turn it on, they want to do stuff, and they want to turn it off. They want their kids to 'learn' on it and they want to do their checkbook on it. Maybe a bit more.
They also want it to be inexpensive.
They don't want 'choices' like this little penguin is painted red and this little penguin is painted blue. They don't want to know that this, they don't care and think that makes computers too complicated.
See, I've polled my neighbors. Because when they come over, they see a 'a whole lot of computers' and are just shocked that I have that many. When they see my wife's iMac and are shocked that she has her own computer.
Talking to them, a low end iMac would be perfect. It's easy to use, you just plug in your keyboard and go, and it'd manage photographs, video cameras, and everything. If they want to get that cable modem and plug it in, that'd work too.
That $299 Lindows PC won't do that. Not that easily. It also won't come with any form of support that they could call that would help them out for the first fiew months of owning their new computer.
Plus, it doesn't look as cool. That's the honest truth, asthetics matter. not the neon lighting clear side case kinda of asthetics, but the cool factor of a floating LCD on a base.
Expandability? Who needs it. That machine will probably last them longer than their next car in some instances (3-5 years). Who cares if they don't have the next best feature, the latest version of whatsit, or anything else.
That is what I think most linux advocates don't understand. They need it to just work, and just work well. The only people that need upgradability are the extreme gamers, the geeks, and the wannabes
Company says, we can't make money doing what we're doing, so give us more money so we might break even and stay around, if not, you're out the money you gave us.
Did I get that right?
I think K-Mart should have used that marketing methodology.
What free software you have that does what VMWare does? Especially on the ESX server side? Just curious.
Seems rather cynical to claim you won't help a commercial company who has a selling point of helping getting Linux - an open source software - into an all microsoft account.
...I believe that you can out drive an exploding volcano, stop a lava flow with a few k-rails & some water, blow up an asteroid with a space shuttle and a nuclear engine, find a girl on accident one afternoon, run to her wedding and have her drop her fiancee that she's invested time & money into on a 'feeling', and that when someone gets murdered the police sirens come on within seconds of it happening.
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Am I the only one who's attic is about 110 deg F or higher in the summer?
Can't see something with no fans surviving long in the attic. Now in the winter, heck yeah, but in the summer?
I couldn't find a lot of reviews on the 18.1" category of monitors that didn't seem super critical. Many were whinig about 'lag' while playin FPS like Unreal 2003 or Battlefield earth. I played around in various stores looking at them and never saw them.
The 1860 got a decent response time (25ns) so I said what the heck and bought it via the web without seeing it.
If there is ghosting, my ATI9700 and I don't see it. UT2003 at 1280x1024 is great, and so is everything else I play.
nice monitor. It was like $682 at CompUSA.com. Though I don't recommend ordering from them, their web prescense leads much to be desired.
My Powerbook 867MHz handled it just fine :)
What kind of video card do you have? Just curious as to why it took so much power to do that. Not like QT is that much of a processor hog from what I've seen. I sold my Powerbook 550Mhz or I'd try it on that.
I've used a Pronto as my main remote since about 1999 when I got the first model (TSU-1000).
I've used it to control my blinds, my TV, my Pre-Amp, my CD PLayers, and my TiVos.
My TSU-1000 bit the big one in the form of a cracked screen late last year when we were moving things around.
Yes, it can be a pain to program. But, there are many sites like http://www.remotecentral.com that people 'open source' their configurations so to speak. So you can cut/paste everything that they've done into yours and have your pronto up and running in a short period of time if you wish.
..the fact that IBM's eServer xSeries 440 is a NUMA-Q box that can scale to 16 Processors now? It is a NUMA-Q box...
I think it'd be interesting to see the number of times Ellison has come up and claimed 'this or that will kill Microsoft' over the last few years.
I seem to remember something about network computers. As far as I can tell that was the biggest bit of vapor hardware ever. I've never seen anything like that in the enterprise.
Were there any others?
But not to say that I don't think that LInux has a chance. From where I sit I see lots of 4 Way Xeon MP servers coming along that are being at least tested against a Sun box. I've seen them save some companies over $2.0M a year in just hardware maintenance costs alone. So it can be done. However, they're moving Sun out of the datacenter with these, not Microsoft. Mainly because Microsoft was never in that space (yet).
DRM = NO SALE.
This coming from someone with over 700 CDs and 600 DVDs.
If it won't play in my Powerbook, or damages my Powerbook, I will find a way to make them buy me a new one. Best Buy or whomever I get my CDs from will be getting them returned to.
They better have a BIG sticker on them saying 'THIS WILL TOAST YOUR COMPUTER' and such.
Pink's the only one on that list I can think of that I'd actually want the next CD of though.
I'd be willing to bet there are a few less-than-scrupulous companies that sell white box systems with overclocked, cheap processors. When they break, they say call the manuf. The manuf being Intel.
I've seen it done before. Maybe Intel has gotten tired of the phone calls. Who knows.
...insert obligatory 'bag over the head' joke here
I think light gun games are fading is because of the Columbine backlash. Too many groups were looking at light guns as the cause of all evil. I remember when I got my Dreamcast I wanted a light gun something awful for Silent Scope (never got it) but because of the recent isolated tragedies in Columbine no one wanted a kid playing with a gun for a while.
Which is unfortunate, because at least at most of the Dave & Busters I've been to recently most people play with the light gun type games the most. Mainly while waiting for the 8-way linked NASCAR games, but still, they're playin the light gun ones.
Even a firefighter type game.
Please.
:)
Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows ME
They each cost a lot to upgrade from one to the other.
Ok, so maybe Windows 98 to Windows XP would be like comparing OS 9 to OS X. But Windows 95 to Windows 98 would be OS X 10.1 to 10.2
Here's to hoping 10.3 Windows ME
Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete cuz Any idiot can hack windows.
A huge problem with this, at least here in the United States, is that you start to infringe on the little thing called the first ammendment.
everything you've listed, spam, telemarketing, stopping by the front door, etc equate to someone wanting to say something. It may be something as stupid as 'make money now' or 'enlarge your penis' but it's still protected speech just as much as those guys in white hats that run around in the south.
So they'd challenge it under the first ammendment law.
Now, I'm all for shutting them up. But if you let someone shut them up, our wonderful legal system has a way of taking that shut up as a way to shut other things up, and before you know it, we can't post comments on slashdot.
What was your experience? What were your issues? I'm curious. I guess I must be loosing my edge because 10.2.x on my Powerbook G4 550Mhz gives me acceptable response times for web browsing, email, document imaging, MP3 playing, etc.
However, IANASD. I don't code, I don't do anything real exciting on that (other than the occasional real boring/simple java applet when I took a Java class).
I have X11 Beta installed, but haven't used it. I play around at the cmd line level and don't find myself going 'doh' trying to run a command that I do on my linux servers vs. in Mac OS X Terminal.
Just interested in knowing what's 'missing' that Linux has. I used Linux as a desktop OS from December of '01 to August of '02 when I got my Powerbook off of eBay as an 'experiment' to see how I'd work with Mac OS X vs. Linux. I get a lot more out of Mac OS X than I do Linux as a desktop operating system.
Having a hard time finding how to do that. Would be interested in trying side by side install on my Powerbook G4 to see what it is like. Do you have a link?
Thanks
...So, My hard earned money that gets sucked away to taxes is being spent on access to corporately owned satellites that are in a bidding war for either A) Keeping our troops safe or B) Letting Geraldo Rivera run around in the desert and state idiotic comments and a bunch of talking heads bouncing signals saying the same stupid things over and over.
Great.
Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
Sure I can see running this on an old PowerMac that Mac OS X doesn't support. But wasting your time/effort to wipe out a prefectly good *nix based system that you can actually buy software off a shelf in a store for (besides the 50 distros)
Just seems like a waste of time.
Now, the little BriQ device they have, sure, YDL would be cool on them. But to wipe out a new system with Mac OS X 10.2.x on it seems wrong.
Any show that would make my non-sci-fi loving wife watch it over ER should have stayed on the air for a long time in my book.
I'm saddened to see it go. Here's hoping that a paperback book series or something more will start up to expand the universe a la Star Wars and Star Trek. There've been three so far that I've found & read, and they were true to the heart of the Farscape story.
Intuit knew that hundreds of people would buy their software, then turn around and give it to tons of their friends to do their taxes with it.
They insert an activation key that tries to limit the number of returns the software does, and the number of machines it's installed on. They then botch the installation of said tools and make it very hard to remove/use until they release patch after patch.
Yet, somehow, in these great United States, they now are getting sued for trying to protect the licensing agreement that no one reads and every just clicks 'agree' onto.
What a great country we live in eh?
Let's approach a computer like say, oh, 80% of the world of computer users do.
They want it to work. They want to turn it on, they want to do stuff, and they want to turn it off. They want their kids to 'learn' on it and they want to do their checkbook on it. Maybe a bit more.
They also want it to be inexpensive.
They don't want 'choices' like this little penguin is painted red and this little penguin is painted blue. They don't want to know that this, they don't care and think that makes computers too complicated.
See, I've polled my neighbors. Because when they come over, they see a 'a whole lot of computers' and are just shocked that I have that many. When they see my wife's iMac and are shocked that she has her own computer.
Talking to them, a low end iMac would be perfect. It's easy to use, you just plug in your keyboard and go, and it'd manage photographs, video cameras, and everything. If they want to get that cable modem and plug it in, that'd work too.
That $299 Lindows PC won't do that. Not that easily. It also won't come with any form of support that they could call that would help them out for the first fiew months of owning their new computer.
Plus, it doesn't look as cool. That's the honest truth, asthetics matter. not the neon lighting clear side case kinda of asthetics, but the cool factor of a floating LCD on a base.
Expandability? Who needs it. That machine will probably last them longer than their next car in some instances (3-5 years). Who cares if they don't have the next best feature, the latest version of whatsit, or anything else.
That is what I think most linux advocates don't understand. They need it to just work, and just work well. The only people that need upgradability are the extreme gamers, the geeks, and the wannabes
Company says, we can't make money doing what we're doing, so give us more money so we might break even and stay around, if not, you're out the money you gave us.
Did I get that right?
I think K-Mart should have used that marketing methodology.
Yeah, broadband that has more than 128k up, and doesn't cost a fortune.
What free software you have that does what VMWare does? Especially on the ESX server side? Just curious.
Seems rather cynical to claim you won't help a commercial company who has a selling point of helping getting Linux - an open source software - into an all microsoft account.
Least that's what I've seen it do.
VMWare couldn't ever become another netscape.
They sell their software, and people actually buy it.
...I believe that you can out drive an exploding volcano, stop a lava flow with a few k-rails & some water, blow up an asteroid with a space shuttle and a nuclear engine, find a girl on accident one afternoon, run to her wedding and have her drop her fiancee that she's invested time & money into on a 'feeling', and that when someone gets murdered the police sirens come on within seconds of it happening.