heh that makes me think of how MS have influenced price drops in hardware (at least how i see it) by offering crap, slow OSs that u need a faster cpu, more RAM, etc to make it more usable
All MS users want a faster CPU so they can reboot faster heh
and win2000 is going to do this even moreso what is it... required 300MHz cpu and 64Mb ram?? isnt cpu power meant for the applications and not the OS??
As a self confessed geek, i also probably dont fit the stereotype.
Religiously, i suppose im Christian by family influence (not much of that tho), although my personal beliefs dont quite reflect christianity.
the only reason i am not atheist is for countless unexplained and uncomprehendable questions. such as "when did time begin and when will it end." there has to be an answer but no answer fits sure many say time is a circle but it had to start some time
"how vast is space" cannot be answered very well either, after all what is beyond space? there has to be and end, but at the same time there cannot be an end
things like this make me think there has to be a higher power, another entity(ies) that have this knowledge and this is what i call a god
i went to a catholic school and had christianity forced down my throat daily to my rebel
i quit half way through my final year anyway coz i was far from a geek at school - wagging, taking afternoons off to go down to the pub in town (hehe) etc etc
i love a cold Victorian Bitter and often drink copious amounts of it. btw, all you yanks who enjoy a Fosters, it is considered to be one of the worst in Australia get a real beer up ya
i also love violence and can be jokingly sadistic when hearing of serious accidents, etc with comments of "cool! did any1 die?" to reflect that
some even think im evil, but realistically i am a pretty sane, reasonable person overall
any OS that *needs* (what is it... umm) 300MHz minimum and 64Mb ram?? Vindoz "u VILL uz dis end u vill have expect it suck vith such high demands" 2000 or Vindoz "poorly designed so u need a 300MHz cpu" 2000
puhleez... granted hardware prices are dropping etc etc but this seems a *bit* too much for requirements
i hate how the government *assume* the majority of people *want* censorship this is a major issue that obviously affects every net user at worst, the new law should state for ISPs to *offer* guaranteed censored net access as an *option*
i suppose all irc/icq/any other chat form will be banned also
the net will be so cool then log into a search engine and thats about the limit of where u can go bah
the thing that really shits me is net users arent doing much about it and this helps the government *assume* ppl actually want it
if (once?) it is made law, i bet only then will the uproar will really begin
I find myself talking of 'hacking' (in the destructive sense) to ppl who have no idea the difference between a hacker or cracker as someone said above 'if you cant beat em, join em' the media wont change the meaning of 'hacker' coz it will confuse the public
why not ask the media itself what is a term they would use
You have to expect the media to use the word 'hackers' as it has become a defacto term for describing this activity. Forget about computers for a sec, hacking something sounds like you are wrecking something - destroying it. The point is either word should be able acceptable. Hacking, cracking - both words have both double meanings in my opinion. It just depends on what context it is used. The word 'cracking' describes better some types of activity, and yet 'hacking' sounds better for others. e.g. Hacking into FBI site as to Cracking into FBI site
To me, 'Hacking' sounds better to describe the sentance. We all know what it is meant destructively, so who really cares?
I remember when Amiga were everywhere, Crackers were what we now Hackers, and Hackers were those who 'hacked' to cause data loss, etc.
Both words can be used in either way. Stop being so pedantic:P
PC architecture is and always will be pathetic in comparison to almost any current generation of 16/32/64bit architecture. The OS, was brilliant in its days due to its small overhead. Against same cpu in a mac, Amiga kicked. What OS do u know of that multitasks so sweet in even 256k RAM. If you ever owned an Ami and others saw it running, you will probably remember a number of times people get amazed at its capabilites. Amiga is a nice multimedia machine that admittedly can improve - which is why I am hanging out for their adoption of QNX. Still dissagree? download the single disk qnx demo and see what its like it sure reminds me of using my ami
Mindcraft HAVE to do it to attempt to correct its own credibility. Personally, I think both Mindcraft and Microsoft should be publicly shamed. Microsoft even more so. They should be made to run television commercials of apologies (a months worth?;P) for misleading consumers.
WindowsNT Server 4.0 faster, more scalable than Linux as a file and Web server, tests show WindowsNT Server 4.0 significantly outperforms Linux in enterprise class systems Redmond, WA--After these tests, WindowsNT Server 4.0 is still at the head of the class.
Microsoft SHOULD NOT be able to get away with such a cunning, blatent lie. There should be mass attention brought to this and expose these damn fools.
I want to see front page headlines in say the NY times like "Microsoft are cheats"
It's one thing to defend your OS, but its another to setup a scam like this.
I havent seen too many details on the TNT2 but the Matrox G400 MAX looks like a worthwhile wait. dual VGA ports, hardware bump-mapping, 32bit Z-buff and 32bit rendering, 32Mb RAM, fully OpenGL compatible (finally), and 256bit dual bus - which should mean DAMN fast 2D (what we all mainly use anyway besides textmode) has any1 else done a comparison on this and the TNT2?
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heh
that makes me think of how MS have influenced price drops in hardware (at least how i see it) by offering crap, slow OSs that u need a faster cpu, more RAM, etc to make it more usable
All MS users want a faster CPU so they can reboot faster
heh
and win2000 is going to do this even moreso
what is it... required 300MHz cpu and 64Mb ram??
isnt cpu power meant for the applications and not the OS??
would antimatter provide some kind of scientific relation to another dimension?
just another strange thought...
As a self confessed geek, i also probably dont fit the stereotype.
;P
Religiously, i suppose im Christian by family influence (not much of that tho), although my personal beliefs dont quite reflect christianity.
the only reason i am not atheist is for countless unexplained and uncomprehendable questions. such as "when did time begin and when will it end."
there has to be an answer but no answer fits
sure many say time is a circle but it had to start some time
"how vast is space" cannot be answered very well either, after all what is beyond space? there has to be and end, but at the same time there cannot be an end
things like this make me think there has to be a higher power, another entity(ies) that have this knowledge and this is what i call a god
i went to a catholic school and had christianity forced down my throat daily to my rebel
i quit half way through my final year anyway coz i was far from a geek at school - wagging, taking afternoons off to go down to the pub in town (hehe) etc etc
i love a cold Victorian Bitter and often drink copious amounts of it. btw, all you yanks who enjoy a Fosters, it is considered to be one of the worst in Australia
get a real beer up ya
i also love violence and can be jokingly sadistic when hearing of serious accidents, etc with comments of "cool! did any1 die?" to reflect that
some even think im evil, but realistically i am a pretty sane, reasonable person overall
as the subject says, not all geeks are equal
any OS that *needs* (what is it... umm) 300MHz minimum and 64Mb ram??
Vindoz "u VILL uz dis end u vill have expect it suck vith such high demands" 2000
or
Vindoz "poorly designed so u need a 300MHz cpu" 2000
puhleez...
granted hardware prices are dropping etc etc but this seems a *bit* too much for requirements
i hate how the government *assume* the majority of people *want* censorship
this is a major issue that obviously affects every net user
at worst, the new law should state for ISPs to *offer* guaranteed censored net access as an *option*
i suppose all irc/icq/any other chat form will be banned also
the net will be so cool then
log into a search engine and thats about the limit of where u can go
bah
the thing that really shits me is net users arent doing much about it and this helps the government *assume* ppl actually want it
if (once?) it is made law, i bet only then will the uproar will really begin
I find myself talking of 'hacking' (in the destructive sense) to ppl who have no idea the difference between a hacker or cracker
as someone said above 'if you cant beat em, join em'
the media wont change the meaning of 'hacker' coz it will confuse the public
why not ask the media itself what is a term they would use
You have to expect the media to use the word 'hackers' as it has become a defacto term for describing this activity.
:P
Forget about computers for a sec, hacking something sounds like you are wrecking something - destroying it. The point is either word should be able acceptable. Hacking, cracking - both words have both double meanings in my opinion. It just depends on what context it is used. The word 'cracking' describes better some types of activity, and yet 'hacking' sounds better for others.
e.g.
Hacking into FBI site
as to
Cracking into FBI site
To me, 'Hacking' sounds better to describe the sentance. We all know what it is meant destructively, so who really cares?
I remember when Amiga were everywhere, Crackers were what we now Hackers, and Hackers were those who 'hacked' to cause data loss, etc.
Both words can be used in either way. Stop being so pedantic
PC architecture is and always will be pathetic in comparison to almost any current generation of 16/32/64bit architecture. The OS, was brilliant in its days due to its small overhead. Against same cpu in a mac, Amiga kicked.
What OS do u know of that multitasks so sweet in even 256k RAM. If you ever owned an Ami and others saw it running, you will probably remember a number of times people get amazed at its capabilites.
Amiga is a nice multimedia machine that admittedly can improve - which is why I am hanging out for their adoption of QNX.
Still dissagree? download the single disk qnx demo and see what its like
it sure reminds me of using my ami
Mindcraft HAVE to do it to attempt to correct its own credibility. Personally, I think both Mindcraft and Microsoft should be publicly shamed. Microsoft even more so. They should be made to run television commercials of apologies (a months worth? ;P) for misleading consumers.
WindowsNT Server 4.0 faster, more scalable than Linux as a file and Web server, tests show
WindowsNT Server 4.0 significantly outperforms Linux in enterprise class systems
Redmond, WA--After these tests, WindowsNT Server 4.0 is still at the head of the class.
Microsoft SHOULD NOT be able to get away with such a cunning, blatent lie. There should be mass attention brought to this and expose these damn fools.
I want to see front page headlines in say the NY times like "Microsoft are cheats"
It's one thing to defend your OS, but its another to setup a scam like this.
I havent seen too many details on the TNT2 but the Matrox G400 MAX looks like a worthwhile wait. dual VGA ports, hardware bump-mapping, 32bit Z-buff and 32bit rendering, 32Mb RAM, fully OpenGL compatible (finally), and 256bit dual bus - which should mean DAMN fast 2D (what we all mainly use anyway besides textmode)
has any1 else done a comparison on this and the TNT2?
is there a list of every time this happens? ;)
600k odd pages/day = about 7 per second
im sure linux could handle a lot better than that