I can't couldn't care less if this period (.) contained 80 pixels instead of 4 on my 1600x1200 trinitron.
4 pixels eh? What size screen would that be? My Trinitron (17" Nokia) is only running at 1152x864, and it looks like your period (.) is only taking 1 pixel.
And yes, I DID look through a magnifying glass. =)
I don't think anyone is suggesting Tyan in general is drasticly overpriced, rather than this new Dual AMD board seems expensive to those familiar with the inexpensive PIII boards out there.
You seem to forget one thing... namely, that the "inexpensive PIII boards" have been around for some time, and the Dual AMD boards are just now starting to hit the market. New products are always more expensive. Just look how much prices on DDR Ram have dropped in the last 2 months... I think we'll see about the same thing happening with the dual AMD boards once they've become prominent throughout the market.
if you already have enough money to spend to buy P4's rather than AMDs for that slight gain in performance
You mean for that slight gain in brand-name recognition? From everything I've read, heard, and seen, the fastest Athlon system on the market still equals or beats the fastest P4 system on the market in just about everything (leaving SMP machines out of the comparison, obviously). All Intel really has to offer over AMD now is the name, and even that is becoming fairly tarnished with all the recalls and such in the past few years.
I can't believe I'm responding to an A/C, but here goes...
Oh man... you really should just keep using your win98
Excuse me... I haven't used win98 by choice for at least a year. I use Linux quite regularly, and have set up more than one server with it for various reasons. The Linux way of doing partitions makes perfect sense... you creat a partition, your format the partition, and you tell Linux what to use that partition as (/,/var,/tmp, whatever). Even if a person couldn't figure it out intuitively, they could read the information on the screen or go read a howto or something, and figure it out quite easily. I have read through the disklabel documentation several times, and it still does not make logical sense. Perhaps I am missing something, but it should not be that difficult to set up partitions for a stinking OS. People say Linux has a long ways to go, but BSD from what I've seen has WAY farthur to go before the masses even begin to look at it as a Windows alternative for most tasks.
For me it was getting my head around the disk partitioning and that silly 'c' slice/partition. ('c' partion is supposed to be the entire disk.)
Yeah, what exactly is up with that crazy way of doing the partitions? I've tried the install a few times now (OBSD 2.8), and can never get past that part successfully. Even when I tell it to use defaults, I can't get past there. I've done plenty with normal partitions, but all the disklabel and strangish partition letters and such bugger me no end. When I've seen OBSD running on other's machines though, it seems quite nice.
Just for the record, his name is Chris Pirillo, not Chris Prillo. Not to be anal or anything. I knew he'd written a book, but didn't feel like looking up the title.
Text-based adds definately do work, and work quite well at that. The email newsletter Lockergnome is supported by mostly text-based adds (and a few banners now and then). Even in this tech downturn or economic slump or whatever you wanna call it, Lockergnome is growing rapidly. To see how Lockergnome's advertising works, look at their advertising page. There are some interesting comments about web-based advertising, and how Lockergnome makes it work.
Hmm... here I think you are wrong. As you mentioned, people like to "point fingers at other than where the real blame lies." As everyone knows, Canada really IS the problem, so they will be the last to be publicly blamed.
...the P4 puts out about 25% less heat than Athlon.
And my 386 puts out even less heat than your P4. And my C64 puts out less heat yet. Your point? I'd rather have a little extra heat and a lot more processing power, thank you very much.
And most importantly: QBasic and QuickBasic are the development environments of choice for anyone who is hardware hacking bits out of the parallel port.
You're right, QBasic/QuickBasic are great for this, but Pascal is probably about as easy, and overall is a kinda nice language for such little projects. I'm not sure about Basic, but Pascal can still access the parallel port from win9x too, which is a good thing. I haven't tried running my parallel port stuff under win2k, so I couldn't tell you about that. My guess is it probably wouldn't work.
Actually, it wasn't something with my GIMP / X combo, it was the GIMP on windows. I think I only tried it with win98, but I may have tried win2k also. I don't remember, it was a while ago.
I thought the same thing. I wish I knew how it works, but I know it does. One of the first things I tried was to screenshot it with the GIMP, and all I got was that tiled crap. I know it requires a plug-in, but I don't know what that plugin does.
Just imagine, they would actually give tax cuts... instead of asking to increase taxes!
You mean like the current president is already trying to do? I agree... the US Gov. should go to open stuff... though I don't know if a law demanding open source is the right way to go about it. There are still some applications where the current closed souce products are much better than the open ones (take video products as an example).
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Oh yah... a lot safer in underground or in an ocean.... Let's see... We have an underground building this size, and then have an earthquake. The whole building collapses inward from the shifting rock/soil, killing everyone. It's so deep it'd take months to dig to the bottom, so they just stick a tombstone on top of where the building used to be and call it a day. sounds safe to me... And if it was in an ocean... Let's see.... just how thick of walls would you need for that? Imagine the mess you'd have if you got a leak. right... not the kind of places I wanna live.
Let's see you spend $200 on your 3 year old low-end wintel box and run WinXP.
No problem... buy a SS7 Mobo, an AMD K6-2 550, and 256MB of ram, and it should run fine. It might be a little doggish at times, but so will your i-mac.
Sorry, let me correct my numbers... The X-15's fastest flight was Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph), not Mach 6.2 as I said in my earlier post. It reached a maximum altitude of 354,200 feet. There were 3 X-15s made, and of those, 2 are in museums. The other crashed, and parts of it are in 2 separate museums.
Sorry, not just under mach 6, it was actually more like mach 6.2 on some of its faster flights. It is also one of two winged vehicles which has been flown in space. Eight pilots of the X-15 managed to get their astronauts wings in it, including Joe Engle, prodigy child of Chuck Yeager. Engle took the X-15 to mach 5.71 (3,886mph). I have never heard of any such heat damage, and I know the X-15 was flown many times. The shuttle has flown Mach 25 in the atmosphere, also by Engle. He manually flew the entire re-entry, performing 29 flight test maneuvers.
Hockey is free to listen too, listen to it instead.
Or, if you really MUST have your baseball games, go buy a $10 AM radio. In all honesty, they usually sound better than Real broadcasts anyways. And just think, either way it's $10, but with the radio, you can go wherever you want, and it'll last you several years instead of one season. If you happen to be too far away, look at the paper the next day. If you don't subscribe to the paper, look at the paper in the rack. If it's not on the front page, chances are it wasn't worth reading about anyway. Then you've saved yourself a bunch of time, and the $0.50 or $0.75 to buy a paper. Go buy yourself a can of pop or something.
The RIAA isn't "VERY GREEDY" they're just trying to take care of their intrests.
This is a bunch of BS. What they're trying to do is pad their wallets.
$13 for a cd isn't that bad.
How can you say this? You must be joking. CD-Rs can be had for less than 50 cents each. I've gotten them as low as 10 cents. It's even cheaper to press them, which is what CD-houses do. (This is why AOL is able to send out millions (billions or trillions?) of them every year. If I guestimated high and said it cost 50 cents to produce a CD (with all the packaging, labelling shipping, etc.) then $13 would be a markup of 25x. Personally, I would consider that a rip-off.
People pay $50 for a video game, $20 for a DVD, $8 to go to a movie.
Well, I must say, those people have way more money than I do. I don't even remember the last time I went to a thater. I think it was when Austin Powers 2 came out, and that was during the day when it was cheaper. Actually, I went to Galxy Quest also (also during the cheap time). The only theater people I know ever go to is the dollar theater in town. Just because some people will pay a lot for something doesn't mean the people selling it for that price aren't greedy.
I don't think $11-15 for a cd that you can listen to forever is "GREEDY!"
See my above comments. Also, where do you buy your music? Many of the CDs that are truly good are $15-$20, sometimes more. The most popular CDs which sound like crap are generally the only ones you find at the cheap places like walmart.
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I can't couldn't care less if this period (.) contained 80 pixels instead of 4 on my 1600x1200 trinitron.
4 pixels eh? What size screen would that be? My Trinitron (17" Nokia) is only running at 1152x864, and it looks like your period (.) is only taking 1 pixel.
And yes, I DID look through a magnifying glass. =)
Y'know, that was in really bad taste. But funny nonetheless. =).
I don't think anyone is suggesting Tyan in general is drasticly overpriced, rather than this new Dual AMD board seems expensive to those familiar with the inexpensive PIII boards out there.
You seem to forget one thing... namely, that the "inexpensive PIII boards" have been around for some time, and the Dual AMD boards are just now starting to hit the market. New products are always more expensive. Just look how much prices on DDR Ram have dropped in the last 2 months... I think we'll see about the same thing happening with the dual AMD boards once they've become prominent throughout the market.
if you already have enough money to spend to buy P4's rather than AMDs for that slight gain in performance
You mean for that slight gain in brand-name recognition? From everything I've read, heard, and seen, the fastest Athlon system on the market still equals or beats the fastest P4 system on the market in just about everything (leaving SMP machines out of the comparison, obviously). All Intel really has to offer over AMD now is the name, and even that is becoming fairly tarnished with all the recalls and such in the past few years.
I can't believe I'm responding to an A/C, but here goes... Oh man... you really should just keep using your win98 Excuse me... I haven't used win98 by choice for at least a year. I use Linux quite regularly, and have set up more than one server with it for various reasons. The Linux way of doing partitions makes perfect sense... you creat a partition, your format the partition, and you tell Linux what to use that partition as (/, /var, /tmp, whatever). Even if a person couldn't figure it out intuitively, they could read the information on the screen or go read a howto or something, and figure it out quite easily. I have read through the disklabel documentation several times, and it still does not make logical sense. Perhaps I am missing something, but it should not be that difficult to set up partitions for a stinking OS. People say Linux has a long ways to go, but BSD from what I've seen has WAY farthur to go before the masses even begin to look at it as a Windows alternative for most tasks.
For me it was getting my head around the disk partitioning and that silly 'c' slice/partition. ('c' partion is supposed to be the entire disk.)
Yeah, what exactly is up with that crazy way of doing the partitions? I've tried the install a few times now (OBSD 2.8), and can never get past that part successfully. Even when I tell it to use defaults, I can't get past there. I've done plenty with normal partitions, but all the disklabel and strangish partition letters and such bugger me no end. When I've seen OBSD running on other's machines though, it seems quite nice.
Just for the record, his name is Chris Pirillo, not Chris Prillo. Not to be anal or anything. I knew he'd written a book, but didn't feel like looking up the title.
Text-based adds definately do work, and work quite well at that. The email newsletter Lockergnome is supported by mostly text-based adds (and a few banners now and then). Even in this tech downturn or economic slump or whatever you wanna call it, Lockergnome is growing rapidly. To see how Lockergnome's advertising works, look at their advertising page. There are some interesting comments about web-based advertising, and how Lockergnome makes it work.
I expect that blaming Canada would be next...
Hmm... here I think you are wrong. As you mentioned, people like to "point fingers at other than where the real blame lies." As everyone knows, Canada really IS the problem, so they will be the last to be publicly blamed.
...the P4 puts out about 25% less heat than Athlon.
And my 386 puts out even less heat than your P4. And my C64 puts out less heat yet. Your point? I'd rather have a little extra heat and a lot more processing power, thank you very much.
And most importantly: QBasic and QuickBasic are the development environments of choice for anyone who is hardware hacking bits out of the parallel port.
You're right, QBasic/QuickBasic are great for this, but Pascal is probably about as easy, and overall is a kinda nice language for such little projects. I'm not sure about Basic, but Pascal can still access the parallel port from win9x too, which is a good thing. I haven't tried running my parallel port stuff under win2k, so I couldn't tell you about that. My guess is it probably wouldn't work.
Actually, it wasn't something with my GIMP / X combo, it was the GIMP on windows. I think I only tried it with win98, but I may have tried win2k also. I don't remember, it was a while ago.
what's wrong with using my cd-rom drive as a cup holder? it fits those big taco bell cups just great.
20K a year? Whoa, I wrote a 20k AI program
It sounds like you mean your AI program was 20kbytes... the author of the parent post meant 20,000 lines of code/yr, not 20kbytes of code.
I thought the same thing. I wish I knew how it works, but I know it does. One of the first things I tried was to screenshot it with the GIMP, and all I got was that tiled crap. I know it requires a plug-in, but I don't know what that plugin does.
Just imagine, they would actually give tax cuts ... instead of asking to increase taxes!
You mean like the current president is already trying to do? I agree... the US Gov. should go to open stuff... though I don't know if a law demanding open source is the right way to go about it. There are still some applications where the current closed souce products are much better than the open ones (take video products as an example).
Oh yah... a lot safer in underground or in an ocean.... Let's see... We have an underground building this size, and then have an earthquake. The whole building collapses inward from the shifting rock/soil, killing everyone. It's so deep it'd take months to dig to the bottom, so they just stick a tombstone on top of where the building used to be and call it a day. sounds safe to me... And if it was in an ocean... Let's see.... just how thick of walls would you need for that? Imagine the mess you'd have if you got a leak. right... not the kind of places I wanna live.
never knew that. Do you know of anyway to switch that register off if you have software that switches it on?
Dang, that crap sucks. If anyone figures out how to disable it in ANY player, esp. a Linux player, post below, eh?
Heh... you must not be a college student.
Let's see you spend $200 on your 3 year old low-end wintel box and run WinXP.
No problem... buy a SS7 Mobo, an AMD K6-2 550, and 256MB of ram, and it should run fine. It might be a little doggish at times, but so will your i-mac.
Sorry, let me correct my numbers... The X-15's fastest flight was Mach 6.7 (4,520 mph), not Mach 6.2 as I said in my earlier post. It reached a maximum altitude of 354,200 feet. There were 3 X-15s made, and of those, 2 are in museums. The other crashed, and parts of it are in 2 separate museums.
Sorry, not just under mach 6, it was actually more like mach 6.2 on some of its faster flights. It is also one of two winged vehicles which has been flown in space. Eight pilots of the X-15 managed to get their astronauts wings in it, including Joe Engle, prodigy child of Chuck Yeager. Engle took the X-15 to mach 5.71 (3,886mph). I have never heard of any such heat damage, and I know the X-15 was flown many times. The shuttle has flown Mach 25 in the atmosphere, also by Engle. He manually flew the entire re-entry, performing 29 flight test maneuvers.
Hockey is free to listen too, listen to it instead.
Or, if you really MUST have your baseball games, go buy a $10 AM radio. In all honesty, they usually sound better than Real broadcasts anyways. And just think, either way it's $10, but with the radio, you can go wherever you want, and it'll last you several years instead of one season. If you happen to be too far away, look at the paper the next day. If you don't subscribe to the paper, look at the paper in the rack. If it's not on the front page, chances are it wasn't worth reading about anyway. Then you've saved yourself a bunch of time, and the $0.50 or $0.75 to buy a paper. Go buy yourself a can of pop or something.
If you own it, fine! If you don't, it's theft.
This is true
The RIAA isn't "VERY GREEDY" they're just trying to take care of their intrests.
This is a bunch of BS. What they're trying to do is pad their wallets.
$13 for a cd isn't that bad.
How can you say this? You must be joking. CD-Rs can be had for less than 50 cents each. I've gotten them as low as 10 cents. It's even cheaper to press them, which is what CD-houses do. (This is why AOL is able to send out millions (billions or trillions?) of them every year. If I guestimated high and said it cost 50 cents to produce a CD (with all the packaging, labelling shipping, etc.) then $13 would be a markup of 25x. Personally, I would consider that a rip-off.
People pay $50 for a video game, $20 for a DVD, $8 to go to a movie.
Well, I must say, those people have way more money than I do. I don't even remember the last time I went to a thater. I think it was when Austin Powers 2 came out, and that was during the day when it was cheaper. Actually, I went to Galxy Quest also (also during the cheap time). The only theater people I know ever go to is the dollar theater in town. Just because some people will pay a lot for something doesn't mean the people selling it for that price aren't greedy.
I don't think $11-15 for a cd that you can listen to forever is "GREEDY!"
See my above comments. Also, where do you buy your music? Many of the CDs that are truly good are $15-$20, sometimes more. The most popular CDs which sound like crap are generally the only ones you find at the cheap places like walmart.