I would have to agree that there is definitely no good reason to move to Dallas itself, however the DF/W metroplex is pretty cool. Yeah, no beach, no snow skiing, pretty flat, but right now we have the best team in both the NBA and more importantly in the NHL.
Basketball sucks, but the Mavs are blowing away everyone who gets on the court with them.
Hockey rules, and the Stars are kicking some but all over the NHL right now too. When you take a look at the Stars record at home, along with the Mavs, I think it safe to say that nobody wants to come play in Dallas right now.
Haven't you ever put a bottle of Vodka in the freezer before?!?!? I honestly don't know how the freezing point of alcohol compares to that of Petrol, but I know that it is a lot colder than 0 Celcius.
Please name for me one movie in which a two or more on one exists that you do not see another opponent waiting to attack so the hero CAN defend himself.
I don't have high-vertical-res TV nor do I have Dolby Surround system. Unless you have a $7000 home theater setup you may as well buy widescreen VHS and good VHS player. Seriously if you did a Turing-test of VHS vs. DVD on a sub-$1000 home theater system I doubt anyone would notice the difference in playback quality.
WRONG!!! I do not have surround sound, but god I want it, and I only have a 27" Sony that cost me about $800 a couple of years ago, and I definitely noticed the quality difference between my "high quality" VHS player, and my new DVD player. The playback quality is indeed phenomenally better on DVD, and no degradation. This doesn't even begin to bring to the table the issue of searching and added features/footage.
You want to see a GREAT example of the quality difference? Take a look at the original Highlander, and the DVD version of Highlander. When one of the immortals die, and all the lightning effects are going on, on VHS these lightning strokes are fuzzy and distorted. The same lightning effect are sharp and clear on the DVD version. This was one of the first things I noticed when I got my DVD player, since of course Highlander was one of the first movies I bought, along with The Matrix.
I had made the painful decision to buycot the VHS release of TPM. I loved the movie, Jar-Jar and all, but I was not going to pay for this AWESOME movie on crappy VHS. Looks like I may end up being one of the lucky few to not get hosed with buying both the VHS and DVD versions.
On a side note... All of the SW movies have had annoying, to you and me, characters. Many found C3-PO very annoying, and what about those furry little Ewoks... Jar-Jar is just continueing that SW tradition. If not for Jar-Jar, my wife would have COMPLETELY hated the movie.
I am pretty sure that I am being baited into this, but here goes anyway.
This post is way out there. First of all, I can attest to the fact that a heck of a lot more than just "a few Linux fanatics" are unhappy with Microsoft products. I work in an environment that uses both Unix and Windows, and I get repeated complaints regarding how Windows is inferior to Unix in general. The big one here is that the organization has recently converted mail to Exchange, and the complaints are loud and constant. Exchange is just one shining example of inferior MS products. Face it, NT is a joke compared to Unix, although, admittedly I am somewhat impressed with Win 2000.
As to fair competition... I don't care who you are, but what MS has done to Netscape is a load of garbage. Microsoft leveraged it's Windows monopoly by forcing vendors to install ONLY IE at the cost of a higher price tag on Windows. This is simply not fair, and a blatant abuse of the monopoly power that MS holds. Now, I admit that IE is at least as good as Netscape, but MS crammed IE down the throats of thousands of users with no obvious choice. This is what MS is in trouble for.
The government needs to reign in MS to allow the market to give a better alternative, be it Linux, BeOS, whatever, a chance in the first place. I think at this point, the only thing protecting Linux is the GPL and Linus, something that Bill has not yet figured out how to break or buy.
I am honestly not sure if breaking up MS is the right thing to do. I once thought that this would be the most desirable solution, but a breakup didn't really help with Standard Oil, and it didn't help much with Ma' Bell. I was suprised to see what MS offered in the settlement, but I am sure that their lawyer had some many loopholes that it would have been effectively meaningless. Whatever the government does, I hope it is appropriate and forward thinking.
Get a freakin' clue. Think about what you are saying here. Currently the way to put vehicles into space is with rocket technology. These rockets, like the Space Shuttles, do not even use petroleum based propelants. These type of rocket engines are Hydrogen/Oxygen engines. The buring of this type of fuel only creates water, and does not deplete any natural resources.
I think that this is a great idea. The only way to really push space travel and exploration is to make it profitable. This means involve the commercial sector. This type of commercial endeavor can only serve to help accelerate the development of technologies which will allow space travel to become common place.
Please get off your environmental soapbox and figure out what you are talking about. If you want to make waves for something talk to your local city council about mass transit, or be an activist and by a ZEV. The space program is not going to dry up the earths natural resources, so get real.
The basic framework of the plot was pretty much the same, but get real the story was completely different. The only real plot similarity was the fact that they blew up a really big ship to save the planet. This is very different than the story surrounding the plot in Jedi. I have to agree though, that some of the dialog is very cheesey. I did find much of the dialog rather amusing though, and somewhat clever in a simple way. Honestly however, the dialog was definitely the movies biggest weakness, but overall I loved it. I saw TPM 4 times, and plan on seeing it a couple more before it is completely out of the theaters.
I don't think it really would matter much anyway. The Athlon is probably different enough with the EV6 system bus that it would require a non-compatible BIOS and chipset anyway, requiring a different board, That, or a BIOS and chipset manufacturer would have to sink a bunch of R & D into designing a chipset and BIOS that would support both, which I am sure would be expensive.
I for one, am just happy with the thought of low cost Athlon chips next year. The thing that would upset me, is if AMD pulled an Intel and disabled the multiprocessor capabilities on these cheaper processors. This is what I would be more worried about than having to spring the $90 - $120 for a new motherboard.
You can bet your but it will be with MS extensions. I have never heard of MS taking a cool standard and not trying to f*ck it up with there own proprietary crap. This way MS can say, "Yeah, we support the XML open standard!" The part they won't be saying is, "You just can't use any XML documents with anything other than our programs." This would be par for the course for MS.
My wife worked for Mega Life and Health for a couple years. This is an organization which provides health insurance for the self-employed. I can tell you that from what she knows the benefits really suck, and the rates are simply ridiculous. I would never take a job where I could not get benefits, unless my wife's job was able to provide good quality benefits. I would say check out a part time job or something, because you don't want insurance for self-employed people.
I only wish they would have included RHCEs in on the IPO. I am one, so that obviously explains why I feel this way, but I think it would have been fair. I went after an RHCE pretty much as soon as I found out the Cert was available. I did this out of support for Linux, and my strong belief in it. I don't think we should be allowed as much as the actual developers, but throw us a bone.
Oh well. Nothing lost I suppose, other than a few thousand dollars.:)
Now here is a brilliant argument for choosing Windows over Linux. "The desktop fonts look yucky.", said in a 3rd grader tone.
Stability, cost effectiveness, performance. These should not be reasons for selecting an OS. We have to base the decisions on what's important, a non-"yucky" looking desktop.
This is the most interesting spin on this article I have seen yet. The idea of Linux being a unifying force in the Unix world. This could be the thing which really brings Unix to be THE dominant OS for business.
Imagine if Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, etc. were all to be replaced with Linux. A single Unix which has the developement efforts of not only the Linux community, but all the major computer companies. I think this is something which could actually make M$ sweat.
Unfortunately, I do not see this as being a trend. IBM, HP, SUN all have way too much invested in there commercial Unix variants to drop them. As several others have pointed out, this is simply the end of Irix on Intel, not on MIPS. This is still a wonderful thing for the Linux community, and will undoubtedly lead to significant improvements to the Linux kernel, and hopefully the XFree project also.
Good for SGI. Good for Linux. Hopefully, bad for M$.
I find this comment extremely interesting. I personally have never heard of an NT Server staying up for 6 months continuously, not to mention while running exchange. Did I read this right, that you have had an NT Server running for 6 months with no reboot? Beyond that, not that I am an Exchange admin or anything, I have heard that Exchange does need regular reboots or it's performance tanks. You have not had these probemsn either?
On your other question regarding the additional features of Exchange such as scheduling, I am very interested in any Unix products available with this functionality also. I work for a consulting firm, Sprint Paranet, and this is something which I know could allow us to get more Linux projects if we could find a Server/Client pair which offers this type of functionality. Is there a development project for something like this?
What is everyone complaining about? I think this simply has to do with the fact that the 2.2 series added a whole slew of stuff that was in the dev series. This means that now all of the sudden a bunch more people are using all of this previously devel code, and most likely finding bugs and other issues. I would much rather have 10 kernel updates come out in 3 1/2 months, then say three come out in 10 months. If you don't need the new stuff or don't like screwing around with rebuilding your kernel, then don't worry about the new release unless you know you need it. Enough said.
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Look at the test environment, and it is obvious to me at least why NT wins. It has nothing to do with MicroSloth paying off ZD in any way more than how the test was setup.
The test is conducted on strictly an Intel platform. The impact on the test is let's ham-string Solaris. The test is conducted on a quad CPU box, which other than single CPU is probably the most common configuration around for NT, and everyone knows that this is still a weakness for Linux.
The only thing I wish they would have done different from a Linux perspective would have been to also do a single processor test in the same article. Enough of the quad Pentium NT vs everything else already.
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I would have to agree that there is definitely no good reason to move to Dallas itself, however the DF/W metroplex is pretty cool. Yeah, no beach, no snow skiing, pretty flat, but right now we have the best team in both the NBA and more importantly in the NHL.
Basketball sucks, but the Mavs are blowing away everyone who gets on the court with them.
Hockey rules, and the Stars are kicking some but all over the NHL right now too. When you take a look at the Stars record at home, along with the Mavs, I think it safe to say that nobody wants to come play in Dallas right now.
Haven't you ever put a bottle of Vodka in the freezer before?!?!? I honestly don't know how the freezing point of alcohol compares to that of Petrol, but I know that it is a lot colder than 0 Celcius.
Please name for me one movie in which a two or more on one exists that you do not see another opponent waiting to attack so the hero CAN defend himself.
Are you saying Billy Gates is a visionary?
He said "All visionaries are vilified", not "All vilified are visionaries".
I don't have high-vertical-res TV nor do I have Dolby Surround system. Unless you have a $7000
home theater setup you may as well buy widescreen VHS and good VHS player. Seriously if you did a
Turing-test of VHS vs. DVD on a sub-$1000 home theater system I doubt anyone would notice the
difference in playback quality.
WRONG!!!
I do not have surround sound, but god I want it, and I only have a 27" Sony that cost me about $800 a couple of years ago, and I definitely noticed the quality difference between my "high quality" VHS player, and my new DVD player.
The playback quality is indeed phenomenally better on DVD, and no degradation. This doesn't even begin to bring to the table the issue of searching and added features/footage.
You want to see a GREAT example of the quality difference? Take a look at the original Highlander, and the DVD version of Highlander. When one of the immortals die, and all the lightning effects are going on, on VHS these lightning strokes are fuzzy and distorted. The same lightning effect are sharp and clear on the DVD version. This was one of the first things I noticed when I got my DVD player, since of course Highlander was one of the first movies I bought, along with The Matrix.
I had made the painful decision to buycot the VHS release of TPM. I loved the movie, Jar-Jar and all, but I was not going to pay for this AWESOME movie on crappy VHS. Looks like I may end up being one of the lucky few to not get hosed with buying both the VHS and DVD versions.
On a side note... All of the SW movies have had annoying, to you and me, characters. Many found C3-PO very annoying, and what about those furry little Ewoks... Jar-Jar is just continueing that SW tradition. If not for Jar-Jar, my wife would have COMPLETELY hated the movie.
I am pretty sure that I am being baited into this, but here goes anyway.
This post is way out there. First of all, I can attest to the fact that a heck of a lot more than just "a few Linux fanatics" are unhappy with Microsoft products. I work in an environment that uses both Unix and Windows, and I get repeated complaints regarding how Windows is inferior to Unix in general. The big one here is that the organization has recently converted mail to Exchange, and the complaints are loud and constant. Exchange is just one shining example of inferior MS products. Face it, NT is a joke compared to Unix, although, admittedly I am somewhat impressed with Win 2000.
As to fair competition... I don't care who you are, but what MS has done to Netscape is a load of garbage. Microsoft leveraged it's Windows monopoly by forcing vendors to install ONLY IE at the cost of a higher price tag on Windows. This is simply not fair, and a blatant abuse of the monopoly power that MS holds. Now, I admit that IE is at least as good as Netscape, but MS crammed IE down the throats of thousands of users with no obvious choice. This is what MS is in trouble for.
The government needs to reign in MS to allow the market to give a better alternative, be it Linux, BeOS, whatever, a chance in the first place. I think at this point, the only thing protecting Linux is the GPL and Linus, something that Bill has not yet figured out how to break or buy.
I am honestly not sure if breaking up MS is the right thing to do. I once thought that this would be the most desirable solution, but a breakup didn't really help with Standard Oil, and it didn't help much with Ma' Bell. I was suprised to see what MS offered in the settlement, but I am sure that their lawyer had some many loopholes that it would have been effectively meaningless. Whatever the government does, I hope it is appropriate and forward thinking.
Get a freakin' clue. Think about what you are saying here. Currently the way to put vehicles into space is with rocket technology. These rockets, like the Space Shuttles, do not even use petroleum based propelants. These type of rocket engines are Hydrogen/Oxygen engines. The buring of this type of fuel only creates water, and does not deplete any natural resources.
I think that this is a great idea. The only way to really push space travel and exploration is to make it profitable. This means involve the commercial sector. This type of commercial endeavor can only serve to help accelerate the development of technologies which will allow space travel to become common place.
Please get off your environmental soapbox and figure out what you are talking about. If you want to make waves for something talk to your local city council about mass transit, or be an activist and by a ZEV. The space program is not going to dry up the earths natural resources, so get real.
The basic framework of the plot was pretty much the same, but get real the story was completely different. The only real plot similarity was the fact that they blew up a really big ship to save the planet. This is very different than the story surrounding the plot in Jedi.
I have to agree though, that some of the dialog is very cheesey. I did find much of the dialog rather amusing though, and somewhat clever in a simple way. Honestly however, the dialog was definitely the movies biggest weakness, but overall I loved it. I saw TPM 4 times, and plan on seeing it a couple more before it is completely out of the theaters.
I don't think it really would matter much anyway. The Athlon is probably different enough with the EV6 system bus that it would require a non-compatible BIOS and chipset anyway, requiring a different board, That, or a BIOS and chipset manufacturer would have to sink a bunch of R & D into designing a chipset and BIOS that would support both, which I am sure would be expensive.
I for one, am just happy with the thought of low cost Athlon chips next year. The thing that would upset me, is if AMD pulled an Intel and disabled the multiprocessor capabilities on these cheaper processors. This is what I would be more worried about than having to spring the $90 - $120 for a new motherboard.
You can bet your but it will be with MS extensions. I have never heard of MS taking a cool standard and not trying to f*ck it up with there own proprietary crap. This way MS can say, "Yeah, we support the XML open standard!" The part they won't be saying is, "You just can't use any XML documents with anything other than our programs." This would be par for the course for MS.
My wife worked for Mega Life and Health for a couple years. This is an organization which provides health insurance for the self-employed. I can tell you that from what she knows the benefits really suck, and the rates are simply ridiculous.
I would never take a job where I could not get benefits, unless my wife's job was able to provide good quality benefits. I would say check out a part time job or something, because you don't want insurance for self-employed people.
I only wish they would have included RHCEs in on the IPO. I am one, so that obviously explains why I feel this way, but I think it would have been fair. I went after an RHCE pretty much as soon as I found out the Cert was available. I did this out of support for Linux, and my strong belief in it. I don't think we should be allowed as much as the actual developers, but throw us a bone.
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Oh well. Nothing lost I suppose, other than a few thousand dollars.
Now here is a brilliant argument for choosing Windows over Linux. "The desktop fonts look yucky.", said in a 3rd grader tone.
Stability, cost effectiveness, performance. These should not be reasons for selecting an OS. We have to base the decisions on what's important, a non-"yucky" looking desktop.
This is the most interesting spin on this article I have seen yet. The idea of Linux being a unifying force in the Unix world. This could be the thing which really brings Unix to be THE dominant OS for business.
Imagine if Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, etc. were all to be replaced with Linux. A single Unix which has the developement efforts of not only the Linux community, but all the major computer companies. I think this is something which could actually make M$ sweat.
Unfortunately, I do not see this as being a trend. IBM, HP, SUN all have way too much invested in there commercial Unix variants to drop them. As several others have pointed out, this is simply the end of Irix on Intel, not on MIPS. This is still a wonderful thing for the Linux community, and will undoubtedly lead to significant improvements to the Linux kernel, and hopefully the XFree project also.
Good for SGI. Good for Linux. Hopefully, bad for M$.
I find this comment extremely interesting. I personally have never heard of an NT Server staying up for 6 months continuously, not to mention while running exchange. Did I read this right, that you have had an NT Server running for 6 months with no reboot? Beyond that, not that I am an Exchange admin or anything, I have heard that Exchange does need regular reboots or it's performance tanks. You have not had these probemsn either?
On your other question regarding the additional features of Exchange such as scheduling, I am very interested in any Unix products available with this functionality also. I work for a consulting firm, Sprint Paranet, and this is something which I know could allow us to get more Linux projects if we could find a Server/Client pair which offers this type of functionality. Is there a development project for something like this?
What is everyone complaining about? I think this simply has to do with the fact that the 2.2 series added a whole slew of stuff that was in the dev series. This means that now all of the sudden a bunch more people are using all of this previously devel code, and most likely finding bugs and other issues.
I would much rather have 10 kernel updates come out in 3 1/2 months, then say three come out in 10 months. If you don't need the new stuff or don't like screwing around with rebuilding your kernel, then don't worry about the new release unless you know you need it. Enough said.
Look at the test environment, and it is obvious to me at least why NT wins. It has nothing to do with MicroSloth paying off ZD in any way more than how the test was setup.
The test is conducted on strictly an Intel platform. The impact on the test is let's ham-string Solaris. The test is conducted on a quad CPU box, which other than single CPU is probably the most common configuration around for NT, and everyone knows that this is still a weakness for Linux.
The only thing I wish they would have done different from a Linux perspective would have been to also do a single processor test in the same article. Enough of the quad Pentium NT vs everything else already.