facts are, linux/intel outperforms mips/sgi in the real world by over 2000%. cpus are faster and more scalable, linux scalability and reliability put irix to shame, and all for 1/200th the cost.
Excuse me, BeigeBoxBoy? You are off by several orders of magnitude. Read about ccNUMA. We all like linux, but try not to get carried away.
On the translucent plastic topic does anyone have an idea when the iDust came out? Namely, the horribly disgusting design Dixons uses for their vacuum cleaners: translucent plastic, aqua or tangerine. Sucks great. Literally of course.
That vacuum cleaner that looks like an iMac definitely came out before the iMac. I distinctly remember the week Apple unveiled the iMac, I saw a comment on some forum pointing out the similarity between the iMac and the already existant iSuck.
Anyone know how Beige (of all colors) got decided on?
Sometime in the middle part of this century there was a big trend towards "efficiency" in office environments. Studies found that being surrounded by beige makes you a more efficient and productive worker drone. When PCs made their way into the world, they were made to fit in with the other office equipment.
Maybe they should let someone else decide whether it "rocks". I'm not at all convinced that this project "rocks". The fact that they have to assure us right up front that it "rocks" makes me suspect that it doesn't "rock" in the slightest.
He's a clueless hack. I thought filtering out his articles in my Slashdot preferences would ensure I'd never hear about him again. But no, no, it's great that he's found an outlet for his work where journalistic standards are low enough that proper spelling and college-freshman-level compositions gain him such wide-eyed adoration. Anyway, Jon, with the movie maybe you'll be able to quit the day job... for a while.
Ah yes, the fine line between "unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos, affording Man a greater understanding of the origins of life... itself!" and "incompetent bastards who repeatedly slam your tax dollars into distant planets"...
I based that statement on my experiences with a couple Optiplexes we had. I acknowledge that the Dimensions are a different story, I like those just fine.
The problem I had with the Optiplex came when I wanted to add a simple ISA 2-extra-serial-ports card. In order to get that thing to acknowledge the devices, I had to boot with a special BIOS utility disk and endure some silly process to tell it I had put a card in. This seemed like gratuitous non-standardness to me. This is the kind of thing that can turn into a half-day problem when the PC is two years old and the manual is misplaced. (Who needs the manual to put a card in?) Anyway, there's a happy ending - I'm safely out of desktop support now, and nobody can make me go back.
Funny, I didn't notice any of thst sort of problem while maintaining 75 Gateway systems over the past 3 years. Unlike Dell or Compaq, Gateways use very standard components and form factors. By the way, the only quality probs I ever encountered among those 75 GP and E series workstations were a few bad monitors and one hard disk failure. It doesn't get much better than that for commodity PCs, folks.
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It's just like Windows. My Computer. My Documents. Mine, mine mine.
Not to mention that the forthcoming Windows Millenium Edition (it's win9x, not nt/win2000) is called Windows ME!
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Everyone.
Excuse me, BeigeBoxBoy? You are off by several orders of magnitude. Read about ccNUMA. We all like linux, but try not to get carried away.
That vacuum cleaner that looks like an iMac definitely came out before the iMac. I distinctly remember the week Apple unveiled the iMac, I saw a comment on some forum pointing out the similarity between the iMac and the already existant iSuck.
Sometime in the middle part of this century there was a big trend towards "efficiency" in office environments. Studies found that being surrounded by beige makes you a more efficient and productive worker drone. When PCs made their way into the world, they were made to fit in with the other office equipment.
Maybe they should let someone else decide whether it "rocks". I'm not at all convinced that this project "rocks". The fact that they have to assure us right up front that it "rocks" makes me suspect that it doesn't "rock" in the slightest.
Just Java 2 by Peter van der Linden, Sun Microsystems Press is a great book. I learned java with it.
Because we let him.
He's a clueless hack. I thought filtering out his articles in my Slashdot preferences would ensure I'd never hear about him again. But no, no, it's great that he's found an outlet for his work where journalistic standards are low enough that proper spelling and college-freshman-level compositions gain him such wide-eyed adoration. Anyway, Jon, with the movie maybe you'll be able to quit the day job... for a while.
Ah yes, the fine line between "unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos, affording Man a greater understanding of the origins of life... itself!" and "incompetent bastards who repeatedly slam your tax dollars into distant planets"...
I based that statement on my experiences with a couple Optiplexes we had. I acknowledge that the Dimensions are a different story, I like those just fine.
The problem I had with the Optiplex came when I wanted to add a simple ISA 2-extra-serial-ports card. In order to get that thing to acknowledge the devices, I had to boot with a special BIOS utility disk and endure some silly process to tell it I had put a card in. This seemed like gratuitous non-standardness to me. This is the kind of thing that can turn into a half-day problem when the PC is two years old and the manual is misplaced. (Who needs the manual to put a card in?) Anyway, there's a happy ending - I'm safely out of desktop support now, and nobody can make me go back.
Funny, I didn't notice any of thst sort of problem while maintaining 75 Gateway systems over the past 3 years. Unlike Dell or Compaq, Gateways use very standard components and form factors. By the way, the only quality probs I ever encountered among those 75 GP and E series workstations were a few bad monitors and one hard disk failure. It doesn't get much better than that for commodity PCs, folks.
I'm pretty sure that Live Streaming Network Television has been commonplace for about 60 years.
This was very interesting, but it is not clear to me how alien skulls would be used for a Beowulf cluster.
berkowitz
bundy
manson
dahmer
or skin conditions:
psoriasis
eczema
hives
melanoma
"The Shining".
Neverthless, it's been 17 years and they still haven't made a film half as k-rad as that one. Let's review, shall we?
I have coughed up scarier things than that movie.