My study has concluded that Macs are billions of times more expensive. I took a Windows 2k box and a PowerMac G4 for testing. The Windows box I put on a desk, and I put the Mac box in a car compressor (ala junkyard style). As soon as a box failed, I replaced it.
Yeah, well my Debian box has 2 million years of uptime! And my WondersXP box has 2 BILLION years of uptime! And my BSD box has quintiple-quadrillions-SCINTILLIONS years of uptimes!!!!! You are just a Mac fanatic that ingests Job's RDF (Reality Distortion Field) like a nice garden salad!
Sorry, had to do that. I'm with you, I've had about 8 years experience on Win and Mac, and some casual (note: not hardcore) use on Linux. You can stick me in the common Windows sucks group, 'cause I'm still getting whacked through Win2k. XP may be different (I doubt it, but I never make a decision until I try it). I'm fairly comp savvy, yet Linux still stalls me fairly often. Call me lame and a loser if you wish, but if I can't easily get it working, there is ZERO chance of (whatever) going mainstream.
I can see my dad and sister clustering Macs. [I can see my mom asking what is clustering:) ] My dad, a PhD in physics, can't really get around in Linux, and he's tried- hitting websites, FAQs, newsgroups, etc.
I did point out in a response that I missed that point.
I also pointed out that drugs are still illegal. I don't see how people abusing a social system because they are addicted to an illegal drug makes me liable to pay for their problem.
the drug dealers who kill people" - these are all caused by it being illegal, i wouldnt expect you to understand that though since you are a moron.
I never knew that it was illegal to kill people ONLY because some drugs were illegal. Grow up, AC, and actually read all my posts and responses. Maybe even grow a backbone and not go AC?
Sorry, I used the term "reverse racism" because it is generally meant to be racism against caucasian folks, whereas plain "racism" is against non-caucasian folks. Stupid, I know, but I (dumbly, I admit) got used to those terms by hearing them enough.
Hell, as long as even 1% is trying to make it better, I'll be optomistic (sp?).
Thanks, you just made my morning! I just made up a couple of commercials in my head I could make for $9; totally made me smile in the many ways I could flaunt my (very limited) creative skills on a cheap budget! Made me think of some commercial where a big time client sees a major new ad that was made for $9 rather than $9Mil due to the same kinda of error- client expecting all kinds of FX, sound, transitions, and instead gets a homeless bum mumbling about aliens liking the product.
Well then, kudos to the BBC! Great stuff, even if the Dino special wasn't totally correct. I caught the gist of the storytelling theme as opposed to a text book "this is this, that is that", ie. no fun show.
Really, if you want to slag the BBC, just consider this- would you rather people think of dinos as portrayed in "Walking with Dinos" or as in Jurassic Park 1-3? (Yes, the real truth would be best, but try and be realistic about the viewing audience; it's amazing so many people watched Walking with Dinos in the first place).
Definently, my parents have digital cable, so they get the 300+ channel package, which includes Disc. Sci., Disc. Wings, etc, etc. Great stuff. Unfortunately, I don't:(
And did you think connections 2 was as good as the first? I thought it lacked the spark of the first one.
Good point on that being due to them being illegal. Missed that one. D'oh. But I still have to stick with the fact that it is currently illegal, though I do agree that they should be made legal.
As for the coke charge, he never said he did it, and as far as I know he was never charged with it. As for the truth of it, hell I don't know anymore- truth on a political level is a concept that I just don't understand anymore. It went nuts somewhere between "I'm not a crook" and "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is".
Of course everyone hates the US. Everyone hated the British Empire, everyone hated the Roman empire.
As for the uneducated, we still need people to pump gas and flip burgers, so oh well.
A lot of people outside of the US also have misconceptions about the people in the US. The majority of Ameicans (well, at least the ones that complete college) don't like our media or our government very much, either. And the military is just the tool of the current government, so it is basically neutral. The military in the US can't say "No". The generals can resign, but that's about it. Yes, the US has done, is still doing, and most likely will do stupid stuff abroad.
But for the somewhat educated who actually pay attention to what the government is doing rather than relying on TV sound bites, we don't like a lot of what is going on in general. There is a growing number of conservatives that are trying to roll back what the gov can do. We're trying to reverse the past 30-some years of leftist/socialist (probably means something else in your country, but here it basically means more/bigger government, more government control in your everyday life) policies so that the "if it feels good, do it" and "it's not my fault, I have a bruised pysche because I squirrel bit me once" attitudes get reversed to ideas of self-responsibility, self-support, and really trying to get along (rather than Al Sharpton's reverse racism talk).
As I said above, the military is just a tool of the gov. The people I work with are good people who want to serve the country and do good things.
Whew! Hope I clarified a bit in how a somewhat average American views eveything. Maybe you won't hate us as much, or be able to split your view between citizens and the gov.
I haven't watched a sitcom in years. I watch some scifi and drama shows, but mostly as background with other tasks (like surfing/., he!)
A lot of my TV watching revolves around Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, and SciFi channel. Not so much for their series, but rather the specials like Walking with Dinos, Blue Planet, the occasional SciFi miniseries.
I actually read about the various pop media stuff off my portal page, which I've set up with a variety of news sources. I included media stuff so I can at least be conversant with co-workers and such. The best part is I can read an article in 30 seconds and be conversant with them after they watched the hour episode! They don't even know I've never watched some of these shows!
As for news, forget it. I occasionally watch FoxNews for O'Reilly and Hannity and Colmes, but that's it. I gave up on TV and newspaper news almost 10 years ago.
I'm with you, make them legal. As I posted above, it has many benefits:
Ensured qualtity=safer drugs for users
Tax 'em like cigarettes. More state revenue.
Put in place laws like DUI so abusers are punished.
Extra money to treatment for abusers.
The war on drugs is a feel-good kind of goal. We need to stop the desire on the user-end, not the supply end.
Yeah, the drug users on welfare, crack whores on welfare with kids on WIC and food stamps, the drug dealers who kill people, the deaths caused by people who do drugs and drive, the drug users who have the government pay for their rehap, the money to keep drug users in jail for BREAKING THE LAW (oh, you forgot about that point, didn't you? "But I don't hurt anyone!" you whine. Fine, once you get the law changed, go do your drugs, but until it's changed it's still the law.)
I'm not saying you do any of the above, or ever will (besides the breaking the law part), but there are many who do, and it hurts the rest of us. Personally, I say make all drugs legal and tax the hell out of them, like cigarettes. You get your drugs at a known quality standard, no illegal drug pushers, tax money for the state.
I'd love it if they made pot legal again. I don't think you are a terrorist, but the terrorist guys over in Afghan made most of their money by growing opium. Lots of terroist type action in Columbia where a lot of coke is made. The connection is there.
Also, I like how you are pissed that you will be paying some money to fight the terrorists, and you want to assasinate a fairly decent guy over it. Perhaps you may want to contemplate on the rationality of your response? Say someone keys my car, I know who it is but can't prove it- he cost me money, should I now go assasinate him?
Also, Bush only pointed out countries that have known records of terrorist actions. No mention of actually acting them (yes, I watched his speech). Most likely he threw that out to scare them so they don't try and pull another 9/11. These countries don't have good track records of being peacefull and such.
It is a lot easier to be funny, thoughtful, or odd for 30 seconds than for 22 minutes. Considering that companies spends almost as much on these 30 second adds as a regular 22 minute sitcom, you tend to get a better, quick product. If "Friends" spent $2.5 million per 30 seconds for 22 minutes, ie., $110 million per episode, you would end up with a new MacBeth every week; or a new "Waterworld"- shit, just blew a whole in my own argument.
Very little tax money, really. That's why they have all those moneyraisers.
As for the smart chips, do you really think that the content producers will ever let that go through? I don't. Especially since that commercials are required to NOT be louder than regular programming (maybe not all, maybe just broadcast?), but still are on almost every channel- my SciFi channel being particularly bad at this.
This has to be the first war were our news media gets their news from the enemies, and then reports it as fact.
And also, the American hating NY Times is spewing hatred by blasting the military with bullshit claims, which is pretty consistent since the leftists hate the military.
I read the story, but don't believe a word of it, mainly becuase I know the military, and they just don't do this kinda thing.
You are the dumbest fucking retard in the world. "My cyberspace cash equals 1=1 real cash! I grow worms, and my value is great! But I'm bogus because I don't adhere to some obscure formula that is compiled by some obscure asshole!"
No, wait, my 'asshole' friend just told me that I can sell my house for 10:1! Yeah, boy!
I bow my head in shame! So much work, to be obsoleted by some sister-humper who came up with an equally valid scheme based on the number of times he had incest sex.
Actually, I think the QT server software is open sourced, though I forget under which license. I'm pretty sure that it was mentioned in a previous QT article, but the work day is ending so I'm going home rather than search for it.
I know this still leaves the QT player and various codecs as proprietary, but wouldn't a developer be more interested in the server side?
Yes, that is Howie Long, an ex-football player who played defensive end for the Raiders. No, he doesn't play the Tick. That is played by Robert Walburn(?), otherwise known as Puddy(?) from Seinfeld. Howie also was in the forgetable films _Broken Arrow_ and _Firestorm_.
"involve the shady financing of businesses like VA Linux, which, if you're like me, you have your retirement savings invested in."
Yes children, this proves lawyers are the dumbest of the lot. Repeat: Diversification. This guy is too dumb and funny for me to post as an AC. Goodbye karma!
I don't think pure silicon superconducts at all since it is a natural insulator, meaning no electron flow. There are just no spare electrons to push around. However, doped silicon (hey, man, pass it around! sorry, bad joke) could become a superconducter.
As for speed, the absolute speed limit is the speed of light, but electrons are inhibited by their mass. There is an equation for this, but I forget it right now.
Also, at these crazy speeds, you now have to take into account the switching speeds of the transistors in the chips. They are fast, but they are limited, no matter how cold they are.
Another side effect that most people have missed is that if you cool this chips and boards to extremely cold temps, they become very, very brittle. I'm not sure how brittle, but how funky would it be to sneeze and watch your mobo shatter?!
Metals also conduct (resonate? not sure of the correct term) microwaves so by subjecting a chip to microwaves you induce some serious voltages- to the point of sparking (where the voltage differentials are enough to ionize the air and create an electron flow- a mini lightning bolt). Since chips run at 3.3 volts, you can imagine what a kilo-volt would do to the circuitry.
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My study has concluded that Macs are billions of times more expensive. I took a Windows 2k box and a PowerMac G4 for testing. The Windows box I put on a desk, and I put the Mac box in a car compressor (ala junkyard style). As soon as a box failed, I replaced it.
So far:
Windows- 1 box
Macs- 12,462 boxes
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wait, 12,463
Yeah, well my Debian box has 2 million years of uptime! And my WondersXP box has 2 BILLION years of uptime! And my BSD box has quintiple-quadrillions-SCINTILLIONS years of uptimes!!!!! You are just a Mac fanatic that ingests Job's RDF (Reality Distortion Field) like a nice garden salad!
:) ] My dad, a PhD in physics, can't really get around in Linux, and he's tried- hitting websites, FAQs, newsgroups, etc.
Sorry, had to do that. I'm with you, I've had about 8 years experience on Win and Mac, and some casual (note: not hardcore) use on Linux. You can stick me in the common Windows sucks group, 'cause I'm still getting whacked through Win2k. XP may be different (I doubt it, but I never make a decision until I try it). I'm fairly comp savvy, yet Linux still stalls me fairly often. Call me lame and a loser if you wish, but if I can't easily get it working, there is ZERO chance of (whatever) going mainstream.
I can see my dad and sister clustering Macs. [I can see my mom asking what is clustering
Linux just needs more work, that's all.
I did point out in a response that I missed that point.
I also pointed out that drugs are still illegal. I don't see how people abusing a social system because they are addicted to an illegal drug makes me liable to pay for their problem.
the drug dealers who kill people" - these are all caused by it being illegal, i wouldnt expect you to understand that though since you are a moron.
I never knew that it was illegal to kill people ONLY because some drugs were illegal. Grow up, AC, and actually read all my posts and responses. Maybe even grow a backbone and not go AC?
Sorry, I used the term "reverse racism" because it is generally meant to be racism against caucasian folks, whereas plain "racism" is against non-caucasian folks. Stupid, I know, but I (dumbly, I admit) got used to those terms by hearing them enough.
Hell, as long as even 1% is trying to make it better, I'll be optomistic (sp?).
Oh, bugger!
(insert much profanity here)
Thanks, you just made my morning! I just made up a couple of commercials in my head I could make for $9; totally made me smile in the many ways I could flaunt my (very limited) creative skills on a cheap budget! Made me think of some commercial where a big time client sees a major new ad that was made for $9 rather than $9Mil due to the same kinda of error- client expecting all kinds of FX, sound, transitions, and instead gets a homeless bum mumbling about aliens liking the product.
Well then, kudos to the BBC! Great stuff, even if the Dino special wasn't totally correct. I caught the gist of the storytelling theme as opposed to a text book "this is this, that is that", ie. no fun show.
Really, if you want to slag the BBC, just consider this- would you rather people think of dinos as portrayed in "Walking with Dinos" or as in Jurassic Park 1-3? (Yes, the real truth would be best, but try and be realistic about the viewing audience; it's amazing so many people watched Walking with Dinos in the first place).
My insidiousness(way bad sp) is all encompassing and undefined. I zig when I should zag.
If you can't cope, too bad.
Definently, my parents have digital cable, so they get the 300+ channel package, which includes Disc. Sci., Disc. Wings, etc, etc. Great stuff. Unfortunately, I don't :(
And did you think connections 2 was as good as the first? I thought it lacked the spark of the first one.
Good point on that being due to them being illegal. Missed that one. D'oh. But I still have to stick with the fact that it is currently illegal, though I do agree that they should be made legal.
As for the coke charge, he never said he did it, and as far as I know he was never charged with it. As for the truth of it, hell I don't know anymore- truth on a political level is a concept that I just don't understand anymore. It went nuts somewhere between "I'm not a crook" and "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is".
Of course everyone hates the US. Everyone hated the British Empire, everyone hated the Roman empire.
As for the uneducated, we still need people to pump gas and flip burgers, so oh well.
A lot of people outside of the US also have misconceptions about the people in the US. The majority of Ameicans (well, at least the ones that complete college) don't like our media or our government very much, either. And the military is just the tool of the current government, so it is basically neutral. The military in the US can't say "No". The generals can resign, but that's about it. Yes, the US has done, is still doing, and most likely will do stupid stuff abroad.
But for the somewhat educated who actually pay attention to what the government is doing rather than relying on TV sound bites, we don't like a lot of what is going on in general. There is a growing number of conservatives that are trying to roll back what the gov can do. We're trying to reverse the past 30-some years of leftist/socialist (probably means something else in your country, but here it basically means more/bigger government, more government control in your everyday life) policies so that the "if it feels good, do it" and "it's not my fault, I have a bruised pysche because I squirrel bit me once" attitudes get reversed to ideas of self-responsibility, self-support, and really trying to get along (rather than Al Sharpton's reverse racism talk).
As I said above, the military is just a tool of the gov. The people I work with are good people who want to serve the country and do good things.
Whew! Hope I clarified a bit in how a somewhat average American views eveything. Maybe you won't hate us as much, or be able to split your view between citizens and the gov.
Good points.
/., he!)
I haven't watched a sitcom in years. I watch some scifi and drama shows, but mostly as background with other tasks (like surfing
A lot of my TV watching revolves around Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, and SciFi channel. Not so much for their series, but rather the specials like Walking with Dinos, Blue Planet, the occasional SciFi miniseries.
I actually read about the various pop media stuff off my portal page, which I've set up with a variety of news sources. I included media stuff so I can at least be conversant with co-workers and such. The best part is I can read an article in 30 seconds and be conversant with them after they watched the hour episode! They don't even know I've never watched some of these shows!
As for news, forget it. I occasionally watch FoxNews for O'Reilly and Hannity and Colmes, but that's it. I gave up on TV and newspaper news almost 10 years ago.
I'm with you, make them legal. As I posted above, it has many benefits:
Ensured qualtity=safer drugs for users
Tax 'em like cigarettes. More state revenue.
Put in place laws like DUI so abusers are punished.
Extra money to treatment for abusers.
The war on drugs is a feel-good kind of goal. We need to stop the desire on the user-end, not the supply end.
Yeah, the drug users on welfare, crack whores on welfare with kids on WIC and food stamps, the drug dealers who kill people, the deaths caused by people who do drugs and drive, the drug users who have the government pay for their rehap, the money to keep drug users in jail for BREAKING THE LAW (oh, you forgot about that point, didn't you? "But I don't hurt anyone!" you whine. Fine, once you get the law changed, go do your drugs, but until it's changed it's still the law.)
I'm not saying you do any of the above, or ever will (besides the breaking the law part), but there are many who do, and it hurts the rest of us. Personally, I say make all drugs legal and tax the hell out of them, like cigarettes. You get your drugs at a known quality standard, no illegal drug pushers, tax money for the state.
I'd love it if they made pot legal again. I don't think you are a terrorist, but the terrorist guys over in Afghan made most of their money by growing opium. Lots of terroist type action in Columbia where a lot of coke is made. The connection is there.
Also, I like how you are pissed that you will be paying some money to fight the terrorists, and you want to assasinate a fairly decent guy over it. Perhaps you may want to contemplate on the rationality of your response? Say someone keys my car, I know who it is but can't prove it- he cost me money, should I now go assasinate him?
Also, Bush only pointed out countries that have known records of terrorist actions. No mention of actually acting them (yes, I watched his speech). Most likely he threw that out to scare them so they don't try and pull another 9/11. These countries don't have good track records of being peacefull and such.
Just my thoughts and opinions.
It is a lot easier to be funny, thoughtful, or odd for 30 seconds than for 22 minutes. Considering that companies spends almost as much on these 30 second adds as a regular 22 minute sitcom, you tend to get a better, quick product. If "Friends" spent $2.5 million per 30 seconds for 22 minutes, ie., $110 million per episode, you would end up with a new MacBeth every week; or a new "Waterworld"- shit, just blew a whole in my own argument.
Well, I hope that made some sense!
Actually, this year's winner is the Britney Spears/Pepsi add, which is running at (a record) $9 for 90 seconds, or a good 500K more per 30 seconds.
Wait, $100,000 per second!! There is something just so inherently wrong with that...
Very little tax money, really. That's why they have all those moneyraisers.
As for the smart chips, do you really think that the content producers will ever let that go through? I don't. Especially since that commercials are required to NOT be louder than regular programming (maybe not all, maybe just broadcast?), but still are on almost every channel- my SciFi channel being particularly bad at this.
Yeah, I'm sure that they were unarmed and allies.
Right.
This has to be the first war were our news media gets their news from the enemies, and then reports it as fact.
And also, the American hating NY Times is spewing hatred by blasting the military with bullshit claims, which is pretty consistent since the leftists hate the military.
I read the story, but don't believe a word of it, mainly becuase I know the military, and they just don't do this kinda thing.
You are the dumbest fucking retard in the world. "My cyberspace cash equals 1=1 real cash! I grow worms, and my value is great! But I'm bogus because I don't adhere to some obscure formula that is compiled by some obscure asshole!"
No, wait, my 'asshole' friend just told me that I can sell my house for 10:1! Yeah, boy!
I bow my head in shame! So much work, to be obsoleted by some sister-humper who came up with an equally valid scheme based on the number of times he had incest sex.
Actually, I think the QT server software is open sourced, though I forget under which license. I'm pretty sure that it was mentioned in a previous QT article, but the work day is ending so I'm going home rather than search for it.
I know this still leaves the QT player and various codecs as proprietary, but wouldn't a developer be more interested in the server side?
Shouldn't be too hard to buy a refurbished iMac for $600 or less somewhere.
Of course, it would be a custom Apple board (which you probably don't want), but you do get the G3 chip.
I wonder how much hacking you could do to an iMac mobo?
Yes, that is Howie Long, an ex-football player who played defensive end for the Raiders. No, he doesn't play the Tick. That is played by Robert Walburn(?), otherwise known as Puddy(?) from Seinfeld. Howie also was in the forgetable films _Broken Arrow_ and _Firestorm_.
Sucker- definition: see twit
Twit- definition: see moron
Moron- definition: see assmonkey
Assmonkey- definition see below:
"involve the shady financing of businesses like VA Linux, which, if you're like me, you have your retirement savings invested in."
Yes children, this proves lawyers are the dumbest of the lot. Repeat: Diversification. This guy is too dumb and funny for me to post as an AC. Goodbye karma!
I don't think pure silicon superconducts at all since it is a natural insulator, meaning no electron flow. There are just no spare electrons to push around. However, doped silicon (hey, man, pass it around! sorry, bad joke) could become a superconducter.
As for speed, the absolute speed limit is the speed of light, but electrons are inhibited by their mass. There is an equation for this, but I forget it right now.
Also, at these crazy speeds, you now have to take into account the switching speeds of the transistors in the chips. They are fast, but they are limited, no matter how cold they are.
Another side effect that most people have missed is that if you cool this chips and boards to extremely cold temps, they become very, very brittle. I'm not sure how brittle, but how funky would it be to sneeze and watch your mobo shatter?!
Metals also conduct (resonate? not sure of the correct term) microwaves so by subjecting a chip to microwaves you induce some serious voltages- to the point of sparking (where the voltage differentials are enough to ionize the air and create an electron flow- a mini lightning bolt). Since chips run at 3.3 volts, you can imagine what a kilo-volt would do to the circuitry.
Sorry about that, I know I missed a bunch, I was just rattling some off.
But that cat herding commercial was great! My wife has no idea what you do, but she likes your company!