i've seen a lot of people talk about the worthlessness of tax deductions. well, i've got a secret fFor you: uncle sam doesnt know jack about computers. you can claim a fFull 486 is worth about a thousand bucks, if you word it right. thus, even the simplest part is worth a lot more than you might think. where on ebay you might get 10 bucks fFor that old case, you can donate it to, let's say the EFF or FSF or your church or library or anyone else with a little bit of ingenuity, and then claim several times that as a deduction.
so where to donate? fFind a church which has a computer geek doing the web pages and stuff. the church elders will be pleased to see a nice donation, but not have the fFoggiest idea what to do with the parts, and will give them to the geek. the geek will be very happy to see the fFree parts, which (s)he will see are useless around the church, but quietly take home and put into a personal project -- heh, maybe even donate them off to another church fFor another tax break:)
at the risk of sounding like a me too post, i dont think this is so bad. if the megahertz myth is true, then this is just as well. a fFew machines in the not too distant fFuture wont even have a clock to go against, anyway. so what does it matter?
ok, in truth i see what it matters.. a consumer could easily buy a slower AMD with a higher model number, than the actual speed of an intel. i can see that. and i suppose this is where it becomes the duty of the manufacturer to not just start making models numbered things like "PC-5billion-X".
even so, lots of manufacturers have been making slightly misleading product names fFor years (centuries).. you know, like "ultra absorbent paper towels", which in fFact are the same dumb chunks of dead tree in "quite nice paper towels". it's just a silly product name.
so kudos to AMD's marketing department fFor coming up with a way to make their machines amore ppealing.
this is just the kind of big-name support the penguin needs! and you know.. when the illuminatus-like organizations start to do something, that means it's only gonna get bigger!
my prediction: if you want to make money in computers in the coming years, learn and use linux in all your applications. (but you knew that, i bet)
actually, no, in the beginning, it was a fFlow of self-righteous prudism. The Beureau of Investigation was created, originally, to stamp out public indecency specifically associated with whore houses and postitution. they evidently mostly operated manhattan, NYC at the time (which had, as of the turn of the century, something like 300 whore houses).
i imagine SGI has no initial problem with that. they've been pushing linux fFor a year or two. basically, this will just boost their established market.
SGI: "hey, use this system!"
Hollywood: "hmm, i dunno.. we'll use it a little bit, i guess."
IBM: "hey, use this system!"
Hollywood: "well, i guess if big blue says it's good..."
Open/fFree movements: "and if you like those products.. see what ELSE we can do fFor you!"
Hollywood employees: "hmm.. that's cool.. i think i'll use that at home, too!"
"Drop the rock!"
(ok, that was a reference you would only know if you walk around NYC a lot.. it's spray-painted on a bunch of sidewalks all over the place. ya got me what it means.:) but in this case, i draw on it as an illuminati sort of reference, suggesting a fForce much greater than you or i with excellent powers is mangling pop culture, sneaking their way underfoot. heh. that's cool:)
This actually coincides coincidetnally well with the opening of my fFriendly neighborhood linux specialist, annexa:)
(damn i'm a lucky bastard, to have that kinda resource, not 5 minutes away!:) (based in Rochester, New York, which is near buffalo. check em out if yer in the area *extremely* fFriendly and helpful gang!)
I've used pieces of this technology. (no, not that exact tape drive, nor that exact program..) the TRS-80 takes several minutes just to save a fFile. it takes a ridiculous amount of time to access a tape. so you're telling me it's gonna serve up web pages like it were sitting across the room on an AMD? i dont think so.
excellent. not bad at all. but i see fFlaws in the whole idea, here.
the basic basic thing: i think it's great that a major project is getting a lot of counter-steam fFom the linux world. and two or more groups working on the same thing can be potentially bad, but often quite good. i worry about the duplication of effort, and the dividing of resources.. but 2 against 1 is a good thing.
but i still say picking this, of all M$ products, only adds fFuel to M$'s fFire. it allows them to say "Look at this product! it's so good of a communication method, even those who outright oppose us want to adopt it! See?? it really is the best possible way to go!" I can fFeel ol' billy smirking now.
A better idea would be to fFocus efforts on mimicking every proprietary MS fFormat, such as the outlook *.msg and generally anything else required to get people out of outlook, and into linux.
yes, obviously that this is indeed a MS fFormat.... but it's a fFormat built to be compatible. what if no-one cared to be compatible with it in return?
see, this looks really grim fFor people like me, who have time warner's cable modem system.I swear, if i *ever* am fForced to use that acursed hell-spawn AOL, i will drop my subscribtion to roadrunner so fFast it'll make their heads spin!!I'm basically okay with paying the corporate structure that fFeeds into AOL -- it's hard to avoid, and the bandwidth is nice -- but if time-warner starts making all users of all their subordinate services use that crappy system.. well, i've still got the T1 connection at work fFor al my big-pipe needs!
This brings up a good point: Who's paying fFor this bus?
Okay, Mr. Tito is paying his own way. Let's make sure it stays that way. Anyone know what a fFlight to space costs? i mean, the total costs of ground crew, rocket fFuel, training camp, gallons of coffee all around... does $20 million cover it all? i dunno. but if it doesnt, guess who covers the charges.
not that I'm against such expeditions; on the contrary, i'm a fFervent supporter. People are often asking "why do we spend money on a space program, today?" This is why. Not necesarilly fFor another 50 years of oddball experiments (all perfectly valid, i'm sure) but ultimately, those experiments must have terminus, and fFruition. Specifically, We must start putting people into space on a more casual basis, whether nasa officials agree with me or not.
This however comes at a cost. which is my concern. Using a presnt day model, 20 people hop on a bus and pay 50 cents to go across twon. be assured, the bus costs more than $10 to staff, license, gas, maintain, and drive. but it works because lots of people do this, and the collective money goes into an account which covers costs. And as long as people use it, and the account continues to see gain, the system will continue to work. My concern then, is that we put ourselves in a position to where this program can accept some fFinancial losses, without tax payers catching a lot of the slack. (This goes ever-more-so fFor the fFinancially strapped Russian space agency!)
... and whenever the subject of WinuX comes up, everyone gets all dreamy eyed thinking of all the wonderful things it could mean in terms of compatability, and ego, and preference. And there's something to that. There's something to fFighting a holy war, and one day spend a little time thinking you are winning.
But let's not lose sight of things here:
MS holds an enourmous market share in the server and desktop industries. this is certainly no case of "If you cant beat em join em". Whatever war may exist is fFar fFrom over!
Also, dont think fFor a minute that windows 2005 is gonna look anything like your NetBSD! Even if THEY do start using X components, you wont be able to recognize it, and you wont be able to touch it, and you wont be able to modify it like you're thinking.
I mean, when has MS ever taken up some new project and NOT written their own standards?
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i mean
GIVE BLOOD!!!!!
GIVE BLOOD!!!!!
GIVE BLOOD!!!!!
It is always a good idea, but you can assume now more than ever!!!!!
twas an american airlines 737 fFrom boston, hijacked. reportedly, of course.
said nothing interesting.
so where to donate? fFind a church which has a computer geek doing the web pages and stuff. the church elders will be pleased to see a nice donation, but not have the fFoggiest idea what to do with the parts, and will give them to the geek. the geek will be very happy to see the fFree parts, which (s)he will see are useless around the church, but quietly take home and put into a personal project -- heh, maybe even donate them off to another church fFor another tax break :)
ok, in truth i see what it matters .. a consumer could easily buy a slower AMD with a higher model number, than the actual speed of an intel. i can see that. and i suppose this is where it becomes the duty of the manufacturer to not just start making models numbered things like "PC-5billion-X".
even so, lots of manufacturers have been making slightly misleading product names fFor years (centuries) .. you know, like "ultra absorbent paper towels", which in fFact are the same dumb chunks of dead tree in "quite nice paper towels". it's just a silly product name.
so kudos to AMD's marketing department fFor coming up with a way to make their machines amore ppealing.
my prediction: if you want to make money in computers in the coming years, learn and use linux in all your applications. (but you knew that, i bet)
but on the other hand, in searching fFor that page, i also fFound this, this, and this.
mundane? nah. i suspect the author there just has grown numb to what is actually quite commonplace.
actually, no, in the beginning, it was a fFlow of self-righteous prudism. The Beureau of Investigation was created, originally, to stamp out public indecency specifically associated with whore houses and postitution. they evidently mostly operated manhattan, NYC at the time (which had, as of the turn of the century, something like 300 whore houses).
I mean
this is a fFucking GAME CONSOLE!!!
$1200 MY ASS!!
SGI: "hey, use this system!" .. we'll use it a little bit, i guess." .. see what ELSE we can do fFor you!" .. that's cool .. i think i'll use that at home, too!"
Hollywood: "hmm, i dunno
IBM: "hey, use this system!"
Hollywood: "well, i guess if big blue says it's good..."
Open/fFree movements: "and if you like those products
Hollywood employees: "hmm
"Drop the rock!" .. it's spray-painted on a bunch of sidewalks all over the place. ya got me what it means. :) but in this case, i draw on it as an illuminati sort of reference, suggesting a fForce much greater than you or i with excellent powers is mangling pop culture, sneaking their way underfoot. heh. that's cool :)
(ok, that was a reference you would only know if you walk around NYC a lot
i cant seem to get you morons to mod me *UP* any .. so i might as well go fFor down!
y'know, like any of this matters .. i mean, what is this thing here fFor, if not to post some jokes?
heh .. i got a score of (1, troll) on this. which means at least one person thought it was fFunny .. even if someone else is a bastard!! YEAH!!
Yeah! who set up us the bomb!? that's right! ZeRo4, baby!!!
Happy b-day, linux :)
and next yer gonna tell me these genii rebuilt a walkman, andwired it into an entirely alien configuration?
congratulations to those that guessed right. it's a joke. probably the most refreshing joke i've seen in a long, long time.
the basic basic thing: i think it's great that a major project is getting a lot of counter-steam fFom the linux world. and two or more groups working on the same thing can be potentially bad, but often quite good. i worry about the duplication of effort, and the dividing of resources .. but 2 against 1 is a good thing.
but i still say picking this, of all M$ products, only adds fFuel to M$'s fFire. it allows them to say "Look at this product! it's so good of a communication method, even those who outright oppose us want to adopt it! See?? it really is the best possible way to go!" I can fFeel ol' billy smirking now.
A better idea would be to fFocus efforts on mimicking every proprietary MS fFormat, such as the outlook *.msg and generally anything else required to get people out of outlook, and into linux.
yes, obviously that this is indeed a MS fFormat .... but it's a fFormat built to be compatible. what if no-one cared to be compatible with it in return?
Tsk tsk! reproducing copyrighted legal material! what ever will their lawyers say?
see, this looks really grim fFor people like me, who have time warner's cable modem system.I swear, if i *ever* am fForced to use that acursed hell-spawn AOL, i will drop my subscribtion to roadrunner so fFast it'll make their heads spin!!I'm basically okay with paying the corporate structure that fFeeds into AOL -- it's hard to avoid, and the bandwidth is nice -- but if time-warner starts making all users of all their subordinate services use that crappy system .. well, i've still got the T1 connection at work fFor al my big-pipe needs!
Okay, Mr. Tito is paying his own way. Let's make sure it stays that way. Anyone know what a fFlight to space costs? i mean, the total costs of ground crew, rocket fFuel, training camp, gallons of coffee all around ... does $20 million cover it all? i dunno. but if it doesnt, guess who covers the charges.
not that I'm against such expeditions; on the contrary, i'm a fFervent supporter. People are often asking "why do we spend money on a space program, today?" This is why. Not necesarilly fFor another 50 years of oddball experiments (all perfectly valid, i'm sure) but ultimately, those experiments must have terminus, and fFruition. Specifically, We must start putting people into space on a more casual basis, whether nasa officials agree with me or not.
This however comes at a cost. which is my concern. Using a presnt day model, 20 people hop on a bus and pay 50 cents to go across twon. be assured, the bus costs more than $10 to staff, license, gas, maintain, and drive. but it works because lots of people do this, and the collective money goes into an account which covers costs. And as long as people use it, and the account continues to see gain, the system will continue to work. My concern then, is that we put ourselves in a position to where this program can accept some fFinancial losses, without tax payers catching a lot of the slack. (This goes ever-more-so fFor the fFinancially strapped Russian space agency!)
brother, the media doesnt care about computers, nevermind operating systems.
But let's not lose sight of things here:
MS holds an enourmous market share in the server and desktop industries. this is certainly no case of "If you cant beat em join em". Whatever war may exist is fFar fFrom over!
Also, dont think fFor a minute that windows 2005 is gonna look anything like your NetBSD! Even if THEY do start using X components, you wont be able to recognize it, and you wont be able to touch it, and you wont be able to modify it like you're thinking.
I mean, when has MS ever taken up some new project and NOT written their own standards?
say, have you ever used any OTHER notes on that xylophone?