I was going to write a long reply but then I figured why bother. Anyone eager to drag Al Gore's name through the mud to try to blame him for corporations wanting to take of the net isn't worth arguing with.
There will be no major growth due to x86. The prices will only be slightly cheaper if at all and 90%+ of mac users will continue to use their computers blissfully unaware of what cpu is actually powering it.
People use Macs because they "just work" in their opinion. They don't buy them because of the IBM cpu inside. They certainly won't start buying them en mass simply because they suddently become "x86 inside".
Make OSX X86 available for $149 for anyone to buy and install on their generic intel box and THEN you'll see some real growth. Of course if hackers can produce the same result for free when OSX X86 goes gold, so be it.
McCain is a power hungry coward. He gave up on his ideals years ago and is now nothing more than a puppet for the administration. I too used to be a fan of his but no longer.
I know this has a lot to do with game devs but for years it seemed like every single game that came out didn't work properly on ATI cards in some way or another and needed a patch. There was always some graphics bug preventing the game from working properly. That of course still happens today with all video cards including Nvidia ones. But for sure ATI cards owners have endured a lot of pain over the years due to buggy drivers. I can't believe in almost 2006 and that still can be an issue no matter what card you have. Sigh.
They're endangered because everyone in China is using their tusks as boner medicine? That brings up the question. Is there any animal the Chinese aren't busy grinding up into boner medicine?
"The cold cathode is incased in a plastic case to protect it and defuse the light. We will need to remove the casing very carefully. Most cold cathode tubes have mercury vapor in them this is very dangerous if it was broken. Avoided damaging the bulb at all costs as mercury vapor has been linked to brain damage and cancer."
Sounds like fun! I also heard the best way to tell if a wire is live is to lick your finger and touch it. Don't forget to stand on one leg while you do it though! Otherwise you might get hurt.
How about since the cost of distribution is nil, songs cost.25 max and crappy music costs.10?. That seems fair and logical to me. Especially since they are insuring that I can't resell my music once it's in digital form.
See you get all of these people supporting the idea of tiered pricing and now we'll see every song on the next Green Day album going for 2.00. Meanwhile the "cheap" price will now be.99.
I honestly like tooling around the Itunes store and listening to samples. But.99 let alone 2.00 for a less than CD quality file than has DRM to boot isn't my idea of bargin. But what do I know?
I hope with Vista that there is no Corporate version and that all businesses and consumer had to pay full price and activate immediately upon install. Make Windows and Office impossible to pirate and watch OSS use sky rocket.
"The big lie that the LIBERAL media and TRIAL attorneys..." I'm a
Rebates are the tool of the devil. The put them out full well knowing that something like only 40% of rebates are returned. If they actully gave a shit about their customers they would give the break at the register and not put us through this dance.
Oh and interesting how one of the two times I've done rebates in that past Bestbuy screwed me saying I hadn't included something. I can't tell you how many times I've heard of people having the same thing happen to them. I avoid them at all costs.
IMHO they should be 100% illegal. Give us the price at the register or don't advertise it. Or how about this? Say its $100 with a $50 rebate. I'll pay $25 and promise to send you that extra $25 within 4 to 8 weeks.
Never thought of that. And it.s simple too boot. Renaming an.exe to.exx or whatever does not work for many people. Most XP users can't even see file extensions by default.
Should they have to pay for it? I think the only fair way to do this make it free for users. There is something very wrong about paying MS "protection" fees monthly or whatever to keep your OS "safe".
Microsoft may claim that the reason they need to charge for it is that if they bundled it they would run into anti-trust issues. But when has that ever stopped them before? Make is free, integrate it into the OS, and take some responsibility for your poorly thought out security framework.
Sounds like you have no need to even use linux. If windows does everything you need well then why are you trying to move off it? Political reasons?
There are a certain class of users who find linux to be a perfect fit. At this point that is maybe 2-3% of desktop users. Don't feel bad if your not part of that very small group of users.
"Hemos' post was just a reminder that/. is just a blog that got popular."
Uh, not its not. This isn't 1998 anymore. It's a business which earns money and has employees. They have meetings, go over earning reports, and have retirement packages. Does that sound like "just a blog" by some dude?
I'm the last person who should ever poor grammer or mis-spellings but man was that "review" was bad.
I love the jackoffs who came/come here whining "Can we please not do the whole typical slashdot MS is evil so let's bash them no matter what they do. Can't they for once just possibly be doing the right thing?".
Here's a clue to you Microsoft fanboys who somehow continue not to get it. No, MS cannot possible act in any other way beyond being an unethical ill behaving monopolist. We will contine not to trust them and we will continue to call them out for what they are. They play extremely dirty lie, cheat, and steal at every turn and are not interested in working for the common good on any level. Take your BS "well its slashdot so we bash MS no matter what" quip and shove it where the sun don't shine.
When I loaded up IE to test it, AVG detects the virus in IE's temp files. Then IE hangs a while and then finally calc loads. But if you kill IE while your waiting it doesn't get a chance to execute. Not a solution but at least it buys you some time to possibily stop it.
Either way MS needs to get off their ass and fix the problem. Oh and as if everyone didn't already know, you should be using anything but IE for web surfing.
Yes but 2000 -> 2003 and 2003 -> 2000 will work almost 100% of the time. Your way overstating any incompatibilities between recent versions of Office. OO.org on the other hand doesn't work 100% the vast majority of the time. Anything more than basic text documents simply doesn't translate well. You'll get the full text alright, just not spaced and formatted correctly. If you don't mind things like docs constantly changing from 2 to 3 pages then fine use OO.org to work with Word docs. Otherwise it should be avoided.
I'm like a broken record saying this but if you need to constantly open, and then work on, and then resend word docs then you don't want OO.org. Its a fine office suite on its own but not if you have to always deal with word docs. Organizations that don't have to deal with word docs constantly should take advantage of OO.org though. They are lucky to have such a nice free alternative to MS Office available.
"If I'm more productive in linux, isn't that the bottom line?"
No that isn't the bottom line. The bottom line is what the company can support with its IT department. It's also what the company and not you thinks works. If they standardize on XP and Office then so be it. You can feel free to point out why X product allows you to do your job better, but your not free to just use whatever you want.
Just one single example among many of why what you want to do doesn't work. Your in charge of X project. You used Gentoo and blackbox to do all your work. Oh and you boot into init 3 because that's the way you like it. Your hit by a car and never come to work again. Now how the heck is the company supposed to figure out your computer and replace you with someone else to pick up where you left off?
In general I find that/. appears to be mostly posting adverts masquerading as stories these days. There is still some decent content but really the ads and press releases that slip through are tiring. Also by the time it gets to/. I've usually read the story elsewhere. Without the comment section of/. there might be zero reason to come here ever again.
I actually still do like reading comments on/. . This is one area where/. has digg beat cold. Since digg has become widely known the comment section has become overrun by 12yr olds. And yes I know that sounds awfully close to the standard, "Since everyone found out about it, it's no longer cool" comment. But in digg's case it's 100% accurate.
Anyway imho they don't really compete and I'll still continue to visit both.
While I was slightly hesitant to open that link (any link by a uid above 900000 gives me pause) the page loads quickly and you can actually see closeups of the inside of the Xbox 360.
Unlike the Anand article there isn't really much useful writeup information but its still interesting.
Misinformed? How? Funny how review after review and post after post I've seen says OS X only started feeling responsive once the G5 came out.
For $100 class hardware OS X and XP are horrible choices for obvious reasons. I can't belive your even disputing that and possibly implying that somehow for $100 you could afford to build a computer that runs OS X well. It's not even in the ballpark.
A pure OSS solution in which you can customize everything is the only logical choice.
"I plan to notify Nintendo's piracy center because it ticks me off that someone is making money by ripping Nintendo off."
Oh please. How about actually doing something useful for society instead? Give blood, write your congressman about how unfair DRM is, adopt a highway, volunteer to help the less fortunate this Thanksgiving, etc.
Writing letters to rat on some retailer who actually provides jobs for people in your area so some multi-billion dollar company can collect a few bucks and also enforce the idea that IP lasts forever is about the last thing you should be doing. If your so insistant on doing something for nintendo how about you look up actual coders and people who made the artwork for those old games and send them a few bucks. At least then your heart would be in the right place.
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I was going to write a long reply but then I figured why bother. Anyone eager to drag Al Gore's name through the mud to try to blame him for corporations wanting to take of the net isn't worth arguing with.
There will be no major growth due to x86. The prices will only be slightly cheaper if at all and 90%+ of mac users will continue to use their computers blissfully unaware of what cpu is actually powering it.
People use Macs because they "just work" in their opinion. They don't buy them because of the IBM cpu inside. They certainly won't start buying them en mass simply because they suddently become "x86 inside".
Make OSX X86 available for $149 for anyone to buy and install on their generic intel box and THEN you'll see some real growth. Of course if hackers can produce the same result for free when OSX X86 goes gold, so be it.
McCain is a power hungry coward. He gave up on his ideals years ago and is now nothing more than a puppet for the administration. I too used to be a fan of his but no longer.
I know this has a lot to do with game devs but for years it seemed like every single game that came out didn't work properly on ATI cards in some way or another and needed a patch. There was always some graphics bug preventing the game from working properly. That of course still happens today with all video cards including Nvidia ones. But for sure ATI cards owners have endured a lot of pain over the years due to buggy drivers. I can't believe in almost 2006 and that still can be an issue no matter what card you have. Sigh.
As in "sense of humor". You should look into getting one.
They're endangered because everyone in China is using their tusks as boner medicine? That brings up the question. Is there any animal the Chinese aren't busy grinding up into boner medicine?
Get him!
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I gotta say I don't see the big deal. Now he's left his job and is probably being hounded by the nerds who spend their life on Wikipedia.
Talk about a non-story. Chicken cross road...film at 11.
"The cold cathode is incased in a plastic case to protect it and defuse the light. We will need to remove the casing very carefully. Most cold cathode tubes have mercury vapor in them this is very dangerous if it was broken. Avoided damaging the bulb at all costs as mercury vapor has been linked to brain damage and cancer."
Sounds like fun! I also heard the best way to tell if a wire is live is to lick your finger and touch it. Don't forget to stand on one leg while you do it though! Otherwise you might get hurt.
How about since the cost of distribution is nil, songs cost .25 max and crappy music costs .10?. That seems fair and logical to me. Especially since they are insuring that I can't resell my music once it's in digital form.
.99.
.99 let alone 2.00 for a less than CD quality file than has DRM to boot isn't my idea of bargin. But what do I know?
See you get all of these people supporting the idea of tiered pricing and now we'll see every song on the next Green Day album going for 2.00. Meanwhile the "cheap" price will now be
I honestly like tooling around the Itunes store and listening to samples. But
The other best thing is software DRM/activation.
I hope with Vista that there is no Corporate version and that all businesses and consumer had to pay full price and activate immediately upon install. Make Windows and Office impossible to pirate and watch OSS use sky rocket.
"The big lie that the media and attorneys"
You just know he wanted to say
"The big lie that the LIBERAL media and TRIAL attorneys..." I'm a
Rebates are the tool of the devil. The put them out full well knowing that something like only 40% of rebates are returned. If they actully gave a shit about their customers they would give the break at the register and not put us through this dance.
Oh and interesting how one of the two times I've done rebates in that past Bestbuy screwed me saying I hadn't included something. I can't tell you how many times I've heard of people having the same thing happen to them. I avoid them at all costs.
IMHO they should be 100% illegal. Give us the price at the register or don't advertise it. Or how about this? Say its $100 with a $50 rebate. I'll pay $25 and promise to send you that extra $25 within 4 to 8 weeks.
Never thought of that. And it.s simple too boot. Renaming an .exe to .exx or whatever does not work for many people. Most XP users can't even see file extensions by default.
Your giving them complete rights to your data. Who the fuck would use a service like that? That shouldn't even be legal.
Should they have to pay for it? I think the only fair way to do this make it free for users. There is something very wrong about paying MS "protection" fees monthly or whatever to keep your OS "safe".
Microsoft may claim that the reason they need to charge for it is that if they bundled it they would run into anti-trust issues. But when has that ever stopped them before? Make is free, integrate it into the OS, and take some responsibility for your poorly thought out security framework.
Sounds like you have no need to even use linux. If windows does everything you need well then why are you trying to move off it? Political reasons?
There are a certain class of users who find linux to be a perfect fit. At this point that is maybe 2-3% of desktop users. Don't feel bad if your not part of that very small group of users.
"Hemos' post was just a reminder that /. is just a blog that got popular."
Uh, not its not. This isn't 1998 anymore. It's a business which earns money and has employees. They have meetings, go over earning reports, and have retirement packages. Does that sound like "just a blog" by some dude?
I'm the last person who should ever poor grammer or mis-spellings but man was that "review" was bad.
I love the jackoffs who came/come here whining "Can we please not do the whole typical slashdot MS is evil so let's bash them no matter what they do. Can't they for once just possibly be doing the right thing?".
Here's a clue to you Microsoft fanboys who somehow continue not to get it. No, MS cannot possible act in any other way beyond being an unethical ill behaving monopolist. We will contine not to trust them and we will continue to call them out for what they are. They play extremely dirty lie, cheat, and steal at every turn and are not interested in working for the common good on any level. Take your BS "well its slashdot so we bash MS no matter what" quip and shove it where the sun don't shine.
When I loaded up IE to test it, AVG detects the virus in IE's temp files. Then IE hangs a while and then finally calc loads. But if you kill IE while your waiting it doesn't get a chance to execute. Not a solution but at least it buys you some time to possibily stop it.
Either way MS needs to get off their ass and fix the problem. Oh and as if everyone didn't already know, you should be using anything but IE for web surfing.
Yes but 2000 -> 2003 and 2003 -> 2000 will work almost 100% of the time. Your way overstating any incompatibilities between recent versions of Office. OO.org on the other hand doesn't work 100% the vast majority of the time. Anything more than basic text documents simply doesn't translate well. You'll get the full text alright, just not spaced and formatted correctly. If you don't mind things like docs constantly changing from 2 to 3 pages then fine use OO.org to work with Word docs. Otherwise it should be avoided.
I'm like a broken record saying this but if you need to constantly open, and then work on, and then resend word docs then you don't want OO.org. Its a fine office suite on its own but not if you have to always deal with word docs. Organizations that don't have to deal with word docs constantly should take advantage of OO.org though. They are lucky to have such a nice free alternative to MS Office available.
"If I'm more productive in linux, isn't that the bottom line?"
No that isn't the bottom line. The bottom line is what the company can support with its IT department. It's also what the company and not you thinks works. If they standardize on XP and Office then so be it. You can feel free to point out why X product allows you to do your job better, but your not free to just use whatever you want.
Just one single example among many of why what you want to do doesn't work. Your in charge of X project. You used Gentoo and blackbox to do all your work. Oh and you boot into init 3 because that's the way you like it. Your hit by a car and never come to work again. Now how the heck is the company supposed to figure out your computer and replace you with someone else to pick up where you left off?
In general I find that /. appears to be mostly posting adverts masquerading as stories these days. There is still some decent content but really the ads and press releases that slip through are tiring. Also by the time it gets to /. I've usually read the story elsewhere. Without the comment section of /. there might be zero reason to come here ever again.
/. . This is one area where /. has digg beat cold. Since digg has become widely known the comment section has become overrun by 12yr olds. And yes I know that sounds awfully close to the standard, "Since everyone found out about it, it's no longer cool" comment. But in digg's case it's 100% accurate.
I actually still do like reading comments on
Anyway imho they don't really compete and I'll still continue to visit both.
While I was slightly hesitant to open that link (any link by a uid above 900000 gives me pause) the page loads quickly and you can actually see closeups of the inside of the Xbox 360.
Unlike the Anand article there isn't really much useful writeup information but its still interesting.
Now. When does Xbox 1 drop to $99?
Misinformed? How? Funny how review after review and post after post I've seen says OS X only started feeling responsive once the G5 came out.
For $100 class hardware OS X and XP are horrible choices for obvious reasons. I can't belive your even disputing that and possibly implying that somehow for $100 you could afford to build a computer that runs OS X well. It's not even in the ballpark.
A pure OSS solution in which you can customize everything is the only logical choice.
"I plan to notify Nintendo's piracy center because it ticks me off that someone is making money by ripping Nintendo off."
Oh please. How about actually doing something useful for society instead? Give blood, write your congressman about how unfair DRM is, adopt a highway, volunteer to help the less fortunate this Thanksgiving, etc.
Writing letters to rat on some retailer who actually provides jobs for people in your area so some multi-billion dollar company can collect a few bucks and also enforce the idea that IP lasts forever is about the last thing you should be doing. If your so insistant on doing something for nintendo how about you look up actual coders and people who made the artwork for those old games and send them a few bucks. At least then your heart would be in the right place.
IP will be the downfall of society as we know it.