After a brief press conference today, president George W. Bush was seriously mauled, when he declared war on The Rock, actor/wrestler Dwayne Johnson, which resulted in a surprise drop kick attack followed by a head butt and a pile driver by the professional wrestler, before White House Spokesperson Ari Fleisher managed to stop laughing out loud and informing the press and Dwayne Johnson that the President meant "a rock" and not ""The Rock". President Bush was rushed to the local hospital where doctors feared severe brain damage, but concluded that "there was nothing there to begin with, so it couldn't be hurt anyhow".
The President later appologised for his mistake blaming it on terrorists who had sabotaged his statement.
I've never really understood the sentiment of RTFM. I mean "Read The Fucking Manual"? I have read the Kama Sutra, and I fail to see its relevance in computing.
While it's fine for a power user to install on their home computer, it really isn't appropriate for mom and pop. For that matter, neither is Windows.
I would beg to differ... hehe
I gave my parents their current computer back in '98; it's been running the same applications since then. They haven't installed anything on it themselvs, they don't want to and they don't need to. The only stuff that's been installed since then is an onslaught of security updates and the like, and I did that for them.
Right now I'm trying out Mandrake Linux... my first "Desktop Linux" install ever. My 3rd unix install (the other two were FreeBSD), and the first one I've done by myself. Right now it almost fulfills all my needs:
* Office program (OpenOffice.org) * E-mail (Evolution - kickass) * Calendar (Evolution - kickass) * Contacts (Evolution - kickass) * Browser (Opera) * ICQ (Okay, flakey I think; I miss Miranda ICQ) * Java (Installed Suns SDK almost without a hitch) * Java IDE (Haven't found NetBeans.org's java-download. I know it's there somewhere, but I can't find it... ARGH!!!) * TV-Card - just works, which is more than I can say for the Windows support
I'm still trying to figure out how to prevent Xine from dying when I try to play a dvd, and I haven't had the guts to install nVidias driver, so I can get my TV-out to work.
Would I have a problem installing this on my parents computer? Apart from hardware-constraints, no - I'd love to install this on their computer, as they've had more vira than I'd like to remember...
I think Linux is ready for the desktop, because the only things I need are games, but I hardly ever play any games, so that's not a big deal. All people need is a preinstalled OS - and hey - that's what Walmart is starting to do.
But - should we aim to put Linux on the desktop? In my oppinion, no. Aim to get something like OpenBeOS on the desktop. It doesn't have the "server vs desktop" problem, that "plagues" linux; it's aimed squarely at the desktop (though I'd love to use it as a file-server due to its cool filesystem), and the only "problem" I can see in that is multi-user support. Oh - and applications... but that's always a problem.
"I'm a person who will go out of his way to keep his windows open over turning on A/C."
Same here, but I don't have AC:-/
Also, with the amount of paper in our office, and the hurricane level winds, that usually arise when opening the windows at the office, I doubt I could settle for "a few paperweights";-)
I just thought of something; maybe your definition of 27C is different than mine... sounds weird, I know, but here's the catch.
The way "we" (that is the firm I work for) measure temperatures is using a so called "english box" (at least in Danish), which is defined something like this:
1) The box must be white. 2) The box must be placed at least two meters from buildings. 3) The box must not be placed in shade.
The thermometer is placed in the center of the english box, and the temperature reported (ie 27 C) is the average temperature inside the box over 24 hours.
Usually when I talk to people, they will say stuff like "it was 35 C today", but that's just the peak temperature. If the 35 C was measured inside that english box, I would personally melt!
Denmark, and it's not so much the temperature, that's a killer, it's that everybody starts perspiring, inceasing the humidity making it rather unbearable, when you're used to temperatures in the mid to low tens.
"Maybe your abyssmal condition is because you don't open the windows and get fresh air flow."
I must say that I'm very impressed with your reading and deductive skills, as I wrote this in my post:
"I guess it's because we don't have movement of air inside, as opening windows usually results in too powerfull drafts throwing papers all over the office and leaving me to find them and sort them out again - yes, I'm speaking from experience:-("
Well, I'm no engineer, but I work with some, who specialice in, of all things, air conditioning, and one of the things I've learned is:
1) The "perfect" temperature to aim for is 17 C, as both humans and electrical equipment will heat up the air to up around 20 C.
2) If your building is affected by solar heating, you cannot simply use passive cooling/convection to cool it down, and the temperature will rise quite quickly to intolerable levels (more than 25 C)
3) If it's sunny and 25 C outside, and your building is slightly succeptible to solar heating, it will rather quickly become REALLY hot inside if you don't use airconditioning. I know this myself, as we DON'T have any kind of AC in our building (even though that's what we do for a living), and if it's 20 C+ outside and sunny, it will rise to an abyssmal 5 C hotter than that inside; I guess it's because we don't have movement of air inside, as opening windows usually results in too powerfull drafts throwing papers all over the office and leaving me to find them and sort them out again - yes, I'm speaking from experience:-(
Anyway, modern air conditioning can recycle up to 95% of the heat you suck out of a building, so in the winter time hardly any heat is wasted, but in the summertime there's really no need to recycle it.
Can you prove, that by riding your bike or even walking across state lines, that you are not in some way involved in interstate commerce?
Didn't think so. Please have your ID ready to show at any and all times. Thank you; have a nice an safe day, and don't do anything suspicious, because we WILL be watching you and will lock you up and throw away the cell if you complain.
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Well - yeah... but why would you object to it? When you think about it, what are you going to use the TV-Out for:
1) Watch DVDs on your TV.
- do you want to record your DVDs onto VHS? 2) Watch DivX on your TV.
- do you want to record that onto VHS?
I'm no fan of Macrovision, but I can't for the life of me think of one good reason why I would object to it on my TV-Out device.
Maybe you can enlighten me?
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t seems nvidia is going the same road as intel and sis with their cheap video-on-board motherboard. All of them sucked! Good luck!
Except that their on-board video doesn't suck; granted, a GF4MX420 is not the top of the line, but would you really want a motherboard that costs an extra 400$, that is going to be wasted in 6 months? Didn't think so.
Compare the onboard video with any other on the market, and you will notice, it does anything BUT suck - it wipes the floor with them, and it can probably do the same with quite a lot of budget cards out there as well. Notice the "budget" in that sentence before you fly off your bat.
Not to mention, that you have the option of having dual vga/dvi output PLUS tv-out. I don't know about you, but compared to the "external" gfx-card I have now, that's a lot better! Not to mention that it's also a lot faster than my current GF2 MX400. No - I don't need to play Doom ]I[, and if I did, I wouldn't buy an mb with integrated graphics, and frankly - your idea that anyone would is an insult to their intelligence, no matter how appropriate such observations might be.
I think you need to hear three little words, that no one have told you in a long time:
Well, I don't know who Loyd Blakenship or Jon Johansen (I haven't checked those links yet), but I wouldn't put Kevin Mitnick in the same category as the two other people.
What Mr. Mitnick did was unquestionably wrong (ethically and morally)- wether or not it was against the law doesn't matter in that comparison - what he did was wrong; the other two on the other hand did nothing wrong.
Using a(licensed) firearm to shoot someone in the face == crime If the person in question has invaded your home and you are in reasonable fear for your life then it's self defense.
But - if a DEA SWAT team comes exploding through my door, carrying weapons and not wearing anything to indicate, that they're the law, shooting them in self defence (if, say, they got the wrong address) because you thought they were mobsters or something, that will not get you off.
But hey - they NEVER blow up the doors of the wrong people, and they've never shot innocent people at all. Nope... no sire... not here... never.
Yes, this is a VERY flamable post - I'm sick and tired of the level of stupidity flaunted in these forums. If you don't like it, you can kiss my hairy and probably not to well wiped ass!
I'm a fairly fast reader, and I've only just read the article, and still there are a LOT of nay-sayers who think (repeat think) they are spewing forth words of wisdom.
"But what does it look like? I don't want to buy it unless it looks like a car!"
So don't buy it. Oh and by the way - it will look like what ever you want, as the AUTOnomy is ONLY the chassis; it's not the body. They even mention switching from a tractor to a car in the same sentence - does that indicate that the BODY is the same? Nope - didn't think so. READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE YOU NITWIT!
"Imagine the terrorists delight at a city bus carrying a huge bottle of the stuff." I take it you even flunked idiocy at stupid school. Water has hydrogen, but that's not really flamable. Fuel cells don't, can't and won't explode, unless you use something like dynamite; it mixes hydrogen with other chemicals, bonding it in other ways, because if you didn't, the hydrogen would leak - hydrogen is the smallest element, and is all but impossible to store in gaserous form in a closed container.
"Repairs Anyone?" Read the fucking article you moron! Or is that too dificult for you? They explicitly state, that they aim to build a chaciss that will last for 20 years, and since it won't have moving parts (except for the suspension and pivoting parts of the wheels) that is quite an obtainable goal; I have a computer running next to me that is from 1981 - if they could make that kind of quality hardware then, they sure as hell can now as well.
"GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment"
Well - duh! Who in their right capitalist mind would throw out 1 billion dollars for the sake of the environment? Noone! It's done for money purposes, but the side effect is that it will be good for the environment. Oh - I forgot that if the good things aren't the reason, and only a huge side effect, we should just scrap ideas altogether. Get a life.
"until they make one w/ some serious power, 4wd and some serious ground clearance. I'm sticking w/ what I have"
Here's a fun sentence for you, since you couldn't be bothered to READ the article: "The AUTOnomy will accelerate like an F-111 because its electric motors will deliver instant torque to the wheels." True - that is their goal, but why shouldn't that be possible? 2 years ago, it was impossible to get standard PCs to run faster than 2 GHz in the forseable future... it's called "having visions and goals" - something you obviously dropped since flunking kindergarten.
And all the rest of you sikofant trolls who can't even be bothered to read an article before proclaiming your raving lunacy that is only rivaled by your idiocy to the world: Please drop dead now - it would mean a great deal to the rest of the worlds population, if the average IQ would be raised by some 40 points.
Uhm, we're in the 21st century, and our "computers" are STILL huge metal boxes. Everything in the computerindustry shrinks, but aparently the case is the exception to prove the rule, as they keep making bigger and bigger cases.
Place the latest and greatest Full-Tower-Ultra-Plus-Mega-Giga-ATX case next to say, a Flex-ATX or Micro-ATX case, like the one Tom's Hardware has their hands on here, and tell me which one embodies progress.
Not to mention how nice it would be not to have to lug around a 30+ pound case (not to mention the heavy-ass 21" trinitron monitor) just to go to a LAN party.
*sigh* Big Iron isn't a description of mainframes - it's a description of the standard cases you and I use and the cause of our hernia.
No, we don't. Only water damage possible is: 1) Extreme flood 2) Intentional spraying of water on server using buckets and stuff like that 3) Fire department hosing down our building
I am already starting to see comments in this thread like "feature X is just a ripp-off of product Y", who decided to put in feature Z, I hate it", etc.
It gets worse. They clearly ripped off the idea of displaying characters on screen from Xerox! Remove it - now!
The following additional situations make me think offsite, up-to-date backups are still a VERY good thing:
Let me have a go at that.
- Lightning strike or massive power surge Could certainly happen.
- Water damage (pipe breaking?) If we had water damage on our server, I think we'd be more worried about the water being 5 meters (15') above street levels.
- Drop-damage (well, actually it's the sudden stop) Well, the house would have to collaps, and that would probably wreck everything.
- Fire (I'm sure SOME companies have a Milton working for them) Who me? I never play with fire at the work place.
- Earthquake In Denmark? We get them all the time. The last one meassured a violent 2.5 on the richter scale.
- Tornado Yeah - right:-) That happens about as often as the RIAA, MPAA and BSA comes up with something that acutally benifits the consumer.
- Hurricane Well, we're probably more likely to be hit by a tornado.
- People unexpectedly parking their vehicles in your building, violently. Again, this office being on the second floor, that'd be a sight for sore eyes:-)
- Pissed off employees with physical or electronic access to the data Only if they fire me...
- Theft/burglary Could happen.
"Oops, I didn't mean to delete that..." I have never done that. Nope. Not me. Never.
I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of the dark ages was ignorance, Witness George W. Bush, the Senate, the House and 50% of the US population.
suppression, Witness DMCA, PATRIOT, RIAA etc.
warfare, Witness the War on Drugs, War against Terrorism, War against Poverty not to mention all the real wars and civil uprisings around the world.
famine, Witness Africa.
strife Witness MS vs GPL, RIAA and MPAA vs Consumers etc
you know, BAD STUFF Witnes Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti. Now - picture them in an XXX-rated movie.
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After a brief press conference today, president George W. Bush was seriously mauled, when he declared war on The Rock, actor/wrestler Dwayne Johnson, which resulted in a surprise drop kick attack followed by a head butt and a pile driver by the professional wrestler, before White House Spokesperson Ari Fleisher managed to stop laughing out loud and informing the press and Dwayne Johnson that the President meant " a rock" and not "" The Rock". President Bush was rushed to the local hospital where doctors feared severe brain damage, but concluded that "there was nothing there to begin with, so it couldn't be hurt anyhow".
The President later appologised for his mistake blaming it on terrorists who had sabotaged his statement.
I've never really understood the sentiment of RTFM. I mean "Read The Fucking Manual"? I have read the Kama Sutra, and I fail to see its relevance in computing.
I gave my parents their current computer back in '98; it's been running the same applications since then. They haven't installed anything on it themselvs, they don't want to and they don't need to. The only stuff that's been installed since then is an onslaught of security updates and the like, and I did that for them.
Right now I'm trying out Mandrake Linux
* Office program (OpenOffice.org)
* E-mail (Evolution - kickass)
* Calendar (Evolution - kickass)
* Contacts (Evolution - kickass)
* Browser (Opera)
* ICQ (Okay, flakey I think; I miss Miranda ICQ)
* Java (Installed Suns SDK almost without a hitch)
* Java IDE (Haven't found NetBeans.org's java-download. I know it's there somewhere, but I can't find it
* TV-Card - just works, which is more than I can say for the Windows support
I'm still trying to figure out how to prevent Xine from dying when I try to play a dvd, and I haven't had the guts to install nVidias driver, so I can get my TV-out to work.
Would I have a problem installing this on my parents computer? Apart from hardware-constraints, no - I'd love to install this on their computer, as they've had more vira than I'd like to remember
I think Linux is ready for the desktop, because the only things I need are games, but I hardly ever play any games, so that's not a big deal. All people need is a preinstalled OS - and hey - that's what Walmart is starting to do.
But - should we aim to put Linux on the desktop? In my oppinion, no. Aim to get something like OpenBeOS on the desktop. It doesn't have the "server vs desktop" problem, that "plagues" linux; it's aimed squarely at the desktop (though I'd love to use it as a file-server due to its cool filesystem), and the only "problem" I can see in that is multi-user support. Oh - and applications
Not to mention our 600 meter waves at the coast line, 15 kilometer mountains and our women who measure 200-2-200 ...
I just thought of something; maybe your definition of 27C is different than mine ... sounds weird, I know, but here's the catch.
The way "we" (that is the firm I work for) measure temperatures is using a so called "english box" (at least in Danish), which is defined something like this:
1) The box must be white.
2) The box must be placed at least two meters from buildings.
3) The box must not be placed in shade.
The thermometer is placed in the center of the english box, and the temperature reported (ie 27 C) is the average temperature inside the box over 24 hours.
Usually when I talk to people, they will say stuff like "it was 35 C today", but that's just the peak temperature. If the 35 C was measured inside that english box, I would personally melt!
Well, I'm no engineer, but I work with some, who specialice in, of all things, air conditioning, and one of the things I've learned is:
:-(
1) The "perfect" temperature to aim for is 17 C, as both humans and electrical equipment will heat up the air to up around 20 C.
2) If your building is affected by solar heating, you cannot simply use passive cooling/convection to cool it down, and the temperature will rise quite quickly to intolerable levels (more than 25 C)
3) If it's sunny and 25 C outside, and your building is slightly succeptible to solar heating, it will rather quickly become REALLY hot inside if you don't use airconditioning. I know this myself, as we DON'T have any kind of AC in our building (even though that's what we do for a living), and if it's 20 C+ outside and sunny, it will rise to an abyssmal 5 C hotter than that inside; I guess it's because we don't have movement of air inside, as opening windows usually results in too powerfull drafts throwing papers all over the office and leaving me to find them and sort them out again - yes, I'm speaking from experience
Anyway, modern air conditioning can recycle up to 95% of the heat you suck out of a building, so in the winter time hardly any heat is wasted, but in the summertime there's really no need to recycle it.
Can you prove, that by riding your bike or even walking across state lines, that you are not in some way involved in interstate commerce?
Didn't think so. Please have your ID ready to show at any and all times. Thank you; have a nice an safe day, and don't do anything suspicious, because we WILL be watching you and will lock you up and throw away the cell if you complain.
Well - yeah ... but why would you object to it? When you think about it, what are you going to use the TV-Out for:
1) Watch DVDs on your TV.
- do you want to record your DVDs onto VHS?
2) Watch DivX on your TV.
- do you want to record that onto VHS?
I'm no fan of Macrovision, but I can't for the life of me think of one good reason why I would object to it on my TV-Out device.
Maybe you can enlighten me?
Compare the onboard video with any other on the market, and you will notice, it does anything BUT suck - it wipes the floor with them, and it can probably do the same with quite a lot of budget cards out there as well. Notice the "budget" in that sentence before you fly off your bat.
Not to mention, that you have the option of having dual vga/dvi output PLUS tv-out. I don't know about you, but compared to the "external" gfx-card I have now, that's a lot better! Not to mention that it's also a lot faster than my current GF2 MX400. No - I don't need to play Doom ]I[, and if I did, I wouldn't buy an mb with integrated graphics, and frankly - your idea that anyone would is an insult to their intelligence, no matter how appropriate such observations might be.
I think you need to hear three little words, that no one have told you in a long time:
GET A LIFE!
You first state, that the US should have these laws, because using computers is different.
But the you say, that by using a computer as a weapon, you should be treated like you committed the crime with a weapon.
So, why does the US need those laws again?
Well, I don't know who Loyd Blakenship or Jon Johansen (I haven't checked those links yet), but I wouldn't put Kevin Mitnick in the same category as the two other people.
What Mr. Mitnick did was unquestionably wrong (ethically and morally)- wether or not it was against the law doesn't matter in that comparison - what he did was wrong; the other two on the other hand did nothing wrong.
It is becomming more and more correct every day, and it's scary as hell!
Because the government said so. Now shut up, and be a good little suppressed citizen, or we'll lock you up for being a potential terrorist.
But hey - they NEVER blow up the doors of the wrong people, and they've never shot innocent people at all. Nope
But that's an entirely different discussion.
Yes, this is a VERY flamable post - I'm sick and tired of the level of stupidity flaunted in these forums. If you don't like it, you can kiss my hairy and probably not to well wiped ass!
... it's called "having visions and goals" - something you obviously dropped since flunking kindergarten.
I'm a fairly fast reader, and I've only just read the article, and still there are a LOT of nay-sayers who think (repeat think) they are spewing forth words of wisdom.
"But what does it look like? I don't want to buy it unless it looks like a car!"
So don't buy it. Oh and by the way - it will look like what ever you want, as the AUTOnomy is ONLY the chassis; it's not the body. They even mention switching from a tractor to a car in the same sentence - does that indicate that the BODY is the same? Nope - didn't think so. READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE YOU NITWIT!
"Imagine the terrorists delight at a city bus carrying a huge bottle of the stuff."
I take it you even flunked idiocy at stupid school. Water has hydrogen, but that's not really flamable. Fuel cells don't, can't and won't explode, unless you use something like dynamite; it mixes hydrogen with other chemicals, bonding it in other ways, because if you didn't, the hydrogen would leak - hydrogen is the smallest element, and is all but impossible to store in gaserous form in a closed container.
"Repairs Anyone?"
Read the fucking article you moron! Or is that too dificult for you? They explicitly state, that they aim to build a chaciss that will last for 20 years, and since it won't have moving parts (except for the suspension and pivoting parts of the wheels) that is quite an obtainable goal; I have a computer running next to me that is from 1981 - if they could make that kind of quality hardware then, they sure as hell can now as well.
"GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment"
Well - duh! Who in their right capitalist mind would throw out 1 billion dollars for the sake of the environment? Noone! It's done for money purposes, but the side effect is that it will be good for the environment. Oh - I forgot that if the good things aren't the reason, and only a huge side effect, we should just scrap ideas altogether. Get a life.
"until they make one w/ some serious power, 4wd and some serious ground clearance. I'm sticking w/ what I have"
Here's a fun sentence for you, since you couldn't be bothered to READ the article:
"The AUTOnomy will accelerate like an F-111 because its electric motors will deliver instant torque to the wheels."
True - that is their goal, but why shouldn't that be possible? 2 years ago, it was impossible to get standard PCs to run faster than 2 GHz in the forseable future
And all the rest of you sikofant trolls who can't even be bothered to read an article before proclaiming your raving lunacy that is only rivaled by your idiocy to the world: Please drop dead now - it would mean a great deal to the rest of the worlds population, if the average IQ would be raised by some 40 points.
Well, there wasn't supposed to be any text, but then I forgot about the lameness filter ...
Uhm, we're in the 21st century, and our "computers" are STILL huge metal boxes. Everything in the computerindustry shrinks, but aparently the case is the exception to prove the rule, as they keep making bigger and bigger cases.
Place the latest and greatest Full-Tower-Ultra-Plus-Mega-Giga-ATX case next to say, a Flex-ATX or Micro-ATX case, like the one Tom's Hardware has their hands on here, and tell me which one embodies progress.
Not to mention how nice it would be not to have to lug around a 30+ pound case (not to mention the heavy-ass 21" trinitron monitor) just to go to a LAN party.
*sigh* Big Iron isn't a description of mainframes - it's a description of the standard cases you and I use and the cause of our hernia.
No, we don't. Only water damage possible is:
1) Extreme flood
2) Intentional spraying of water on server using buckets and stuff like that
3) Fire department hosing down our building
I am already starting to see comments in this thread like "feature X is just a ripp-off of product Y", who decided to put in feature Z, I hate it", etc.
It gets worse. They clearly ripped off the idea of displaying characters on screen from Xerox! Remove it - now!
Hard to say. I was aiming for intersting/insightful with a bit of funny on top.
The following additional situations make me think offsite, up-to-date backups are still a VERY good thing:
:-) That happens about as often as the RIAA, MPAA and BSA comes up with something that acutally benifits the consumer.
:-)
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Let me have a go at that.
- Lightning strike or massive power surge
Could certainly happen.
- Water damage (pipe breaking?)
If we had water damage on our server, I think we'd be more worried about the water being 5 meters (15') above street levels.
- Drop-damage (well, actually it's the sudden stop)
Well, the house would have to collaps, and that would probably wreck everything.
- Fire (I'm sure SOME companies have a Milton working for them)
Who me? I never play with fire at the work place.
- Earthquake
In Denmark? We get them all the time. The last one meassured a violent 2.5 on the richter scale.
- Tornado
Yeah - right
- Hurricane
Well, we're probably more likely to be hit by a tornado.
- People unexpectedly parking their vehicles in your building, violently.
Again, this office being on the second floor, that'd be a sight for sore eyes
- Pissed off employees with physical or electronic access to the data
Only if they fire me
- Theft/burglary
Could happen.
"Oops, I didn't mean to delete that..."
I have never done that. Nope. Not me. Never.
Compared to me, democrats are right wing fanatics.
I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of the dark ages was ignorance,
Witness George W. Bush, the Senate, the House and 50% of the US population.
suppression,
Witness DMCA, PATRIOT, RIAA etc.
warfare,
Witness the War on Drugs, War against Terrorism, War against Poverty not to mention all the real wars and civil uprisings around the world.
famine,
Witness Africa.
strife
Witness MS vs GPL, RIAA and MPAA vs Consumers etc
you know, BAD STUFF
Witnes Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti. Now - picture them in an XXX-rated movie.