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how about people, like myself, that have hardware that will NOT run anything after Win98? I have a p133 laptop that I use for web, email, etc, that cannot run Win2k
How about it? You're running a 5-year-old operating system on 8-year-old hardware. What do you expect? The pace of software and hardware evolution will not slow down just for you. Sooner or later, you will have to upgrade.
Looks like MS is forcing me to upgrade my hardware too? Not cool.
Not cool? Neither is complaining about lack of support for something produced last century. Suck it up and buy something that'll run a newer operating system. Used laptops are cheap.
Why not compare more relevant things? Okay, you say, let's do some applications tests. Okay, photoshop filters. A couple rendering jobs. Yawn. Who the hell does this on their machines all the time? Okay, now the five of you, leave the room.
Why not give me some more information about the guts of the machine, like how fast memory access is or how each bus design handles contention issues, explain why they're relevant in various facets of operating system or application execution, and provide some anecdotal evidence by way of application benchmarks. Hell, run them in a debugger so we can see if our assumptions about system behavior are correct in real-world situations.
These people get a dual G5 and a dual Opteron and all they do is run Photoshop and Quake 3 on it and call it a night. What the hell? Where's the investigation, the effort? How much more boring could that article have been? (Okay, maybe they could've lost the graphs and numbers and just told us, "Trust us, this one's faster", but that would've seemed like they were phoning it in.)
Seriously... if you're in any major metro area, chances are you're within a few hundred feet of half a dozen open APs. What's the point of paying $10 an hour for something that's free?
We got the same runaround and bullshit from our EMC people when we were unfortunately forced to use one. (Our preferred vendor is HDS, but the client bought and forced us to use the EMC POS.)
Whatever happened to the concept of a free market economy? Shouldn't people be able to purchase this film, and tell others where to do the same, without fear of being sued for it? What law(s) would this even violate?
Want to NOT deal with corporate slime like DirecTV who sue people for buying smart cards even when they had no intention of using them for stealing DirecTV signals?
This is totally beside the point and has nothing to do with the PVR discussion. What legitimate use does a hacked smart card have on the DirecTV network? Why shouldn't a company sue or press charges against a user who is not only violating their terms of service, but also depriving them of revenue by using such a device?
For real. He's probably a college student, like I was a few years ago. Despite smoking pot, drinking, skipping class, and cramming for tests, eventually you find that there's still plenty of time left in the day to download shit. So that's what you do with the rest of your time. (Hell, it's not like you've got a job up there and can pay for things all the time.) You think 500GB RAID arrays grow on trees? This guy just cashed in his empties and is looking for an affordable way to keep his.RARs of Leisure Suit Larry and his Return of the King screener online.
Does it really matter how many people are involved if the end result, and thus the entire political process, is called into question?
Voting isn't something that should be treated so cheaply. What other real way do we have to affect large-scale change in this country? What would we do if it were taken away from us?
Yeah, but Bob's now the pacesetter for Internet-Is-Dying predictions. He's the go-to guy for any journalist looking for a juicy story about its imminent demise (at least when he isn't writing about it himself in his InfoWorld editorials), and he's been saying the same thing since 1995. At least he was true to his word; when his prediction of a 1996 "catastrophic collapse" proved untrue, he literally ate his own words at the WWW6 conference.
The truth of the matter is that Al Gore, while he was a member of Congress, did indeed sponsor several initiatives which lead to the popularization and commercialization of the Internet. Did it exist before he showed up? Sure, as an underutilized academic research network. Would most of the planet know about it today without his help? Doubtful.
Personally, while I may dislike the man, I'm tired of hearing the same tired, stupid jokes repeated over and over again.
That idiot Bob Metcalfe loves trotting this one out every few years:
THE INTERNET IS GROWING TOO FAST, AND WILL COLLAPSE UPON ITSELF PRESENTLY.
I think he just wants everyone to know that he invented Ethernet, and needs to throw this story out there every couple years so people don't forget he actually did accomplish something at some point in time. Like 20 years ago.
...and seized power through the Supreme Court, and is beginning to institute martial law, and is using the country's military to invade and topple smaller governments...
The point is, somebody asked, why not use a $37 camera? I responded, if I wanted to do the Matrix effect, using the Dakota will cost me $1,300 less for 50 cameras.
Why on earth would anyone want to use such a cliched effect anyway? And why would they spend several thousand dollars to do so?
They've never, as far as I am aware, said "WMDs have been found!" If you have a link you can provide to a Fox News story that shows differentaly, please provide.
You can't honestly tell me, with a straight face, that a story like this isn't at least slightly sensationalistic. Or this one. Or this one. Generally, it is advisable to wait until there are facts to report before writing a story -- FNC seems to have abandoned that notion when it comes to Iraq's phantom WMD.
Also, keep in mind that the articles on the FNC website are more toned-down than the on-air reports, and much more toned-down than the FNC crawl, which, as The Simpsons pointed out so derisively, is so full of misinformation it's funny.
I searched for retractions on FNC's site, and couldn't find a single one. To my knowledge, they never ran a retraction on-air, either. The only CYA they bothered to do was to -- like you said -- assure their gullible viewers that, while we're not certain this is where Iraq was making its deadly chemicals, it sure looks promising.
the right-wing crowd are always complaining at how leftist the media is.
Jon Stewart -- who surely must get painted as a hard-left commie by the far-right -- once made the observation in an interview that anyone who attempts to tell both sides of the story is being tarred as a liberal journalist by Fox and their ilk.
It's a truly disturbing trend when balanced reporting takes a back seat to sensationalist, one-sided propaganda that FNC and the like have thrust upon the American public. What's even more disturbing is how seemingly limitless their appetite for such mind-numbing drivel appears to be.
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how about people, like myself, that have hardware that will NOT run anything after Win98? I have a p133 laptop that I use for web, email, etc, that cannot run Win2k
How about it? You're running a 5-year-old operating system on 8-year-old hardware. What do you expect? The pace of software and hardware evolution will not slow down just for you. Sooner or later, you will have to upgrade.
Looks like MS is forcing me to upgrade my hardware too? Not cool.
Not cool? Neither is complaining about lack of support for something produced last century. Suck it up and buy something that'll run a newer operating system. Used laptops are cheap.
People on slashdot whine way too much.
- A.P.
Huh?
For the 3 games you can play on a G5?
Why not compare more relevant things? Okay, you say, let's do some applications tests. Okay, photoshop filters. A couple rendering jobs. Yawn. Who the hell does this on their machines all the time? Okay, now the five of you, leave the room.
Why not give me some more information about the guts of the machine, like how fast memory access is or how each bus design handles contention issues, explain why they're relevant in various facets of operating system or application execution, and provide some anecdotal evidence by way of application benchmarks. Hell, run them in a debugger so we can see if our assumptions about system behavior are correct in real-world situations.
These people get a dual G5 and a dual Opteron and all they do is run Photoshop and Quake 3 on it and call it a night. What the hell? Where's the investigation, the effort? How much more boring could that article have been? (Okay, maybe they could've lost the graphs and numbers and just told us, "Trust us, this one's faster", but that would've seemed like they were phoning it in.)
In summary, I was a little disappointed.
- A.P.
Seriously... if you're in any major metro area, chances are you're within a few hundred feet of half a dozen open APs. What's the point of paying $10 an hour for something that's free?
- A.P.
"Treason", by Ann Coulter. That guy has issues. And breasts.
- A.P.
Roads will always be a scam for free money to the priviledged few.
So will military contracts. Let's do away with that little burden too.
- A.P.
Cool. You must've bought a Clariion.
We got the same runaround and bullshit from our EMC people when we were unfortunately forced to use one. (Our preferred vendor is HDS, but the client bought and forced us to use the EMC POS.)
- A.P.
Hey, am I breaking the law by linking to places where you can buy this DVD??
Please C&D this post.
- A.P.
Whatever happened to the concept of a free market economy? Shouldn't people be able to purchase this film, and tell others where to do the same, without fear of being sued for it? What law(s) would this even violate?
You're only allowed to post that once in a lifetime.
Want to skip commercials?
You can't do this with a DirecTivo? Since when?
Want to NOT deal with corporate slime like DirecTV who sue people for buying smart cards even when they had no intention of using them for stealing DirecTV signals?
This is totally beside the point and has nothing to do with the PVR discussion. What legitimate use does a hacked smart card have on the DirecTV network? Why shouldn't a company sue or press charges against a user who is not only violating their terms of service, but also depriving them of revenue by using such a device?
- A.P.
Well, shadow passwords are all well and good, until you run NIS.
Most big places do, unfortunately.
- A.P.
For real. He's probably a college student, like I was a few years ago. Despite smoking pot, drinking, skipping class, and cramming for tests, eventually you find that there's still plenty of time left in the day to download shit. So that's what you do with the rest of your time. (Hell, it's not like you've got a job up there and can pay for things all the time.) You think 500GB RAID arrays grow on trees? This guy just cashed in his empties and is looking for an affordable way to keep his .RARs of Leisure Suit Larry and his Return of the King screener online.
And what's wrong with that?
- A.P.
... called a hard drive. Cutting-edge stuff, so you may be spending a little more than $400. Well worth it and slightly faster than CDs.
Does it really matter how many people are involved if the end result, and thus the entire political process, is called into question?
Voting isn't something that should be treated so cheaply. What other real way do we have to affect large-scale change in this country? What would we do if it were taken away from us?
- A.P.
I bought this account on eBay last week.
Yeah, but Bob's now the pacesetter for Internet-Is-Dying predictions. He's the go-to guy for any journalist looking for a juicy story about its imminent demise (at least when he isn't writing about it himself in his InfoWorld editorials), and he's been saying the same thing since 1995. At least he was true to his word; when his prediction of a 1996 "catastrophic collapse" proved untrue, he literally ate his own words at the WWW6 conference.
But then he predicted it again in 2000.
- A.P.
You're welcome. I figured some fucking retard would bite at that one.
- A.P.
The truth of the matter is that Al Gore, while he was a member of Congress, did indeed sponsor several initiatives which lead to the popularization and commercialization of the Internet. Did it exist before he showed up? Sure, as an underutilized academic research network. Would most of the planet know about it today without his help? Doubtful.
Personally, while I may dislike the man, I'm tired of hearing the same tired, stupid jokes repeated over and over again.
- A.P.
That idiot Bob Metcalfe loves trotting this one out every few years:
THE INTERNET IS GROWING TOO FAST, AND WILL COLLAPSE UPON ITSELF PRESENTLY.
I think he just wants everyone to know that he invented Ethernet, and needs to throw this story out there every couple years so people don't forget he actually did accomplish something at some point in time. Like 20 years ago.
- A.P.
...and seized power through the Supreme Court, and is beginning to institute martial law, and is using the country's military to invade and topple smaller governments...
Well, we're not too far off the mark, are we?
The point is, somebody asked, why not use a $37 camera? I responded, if I wanted to do the Matrix effect, using the Dakota will cost me $1,300 less for 50 cameras.
Why on earth would anyone want to use such a cliched effect anyway? And why would they spend several thousand dollars to do so?
- A.P.
They pretty much all come with sunroofs, unless you get the convertible.
- A.P.
Oh, right. It was the lying about the blowjob. So many innocent lives were lost because of Clinton's transgressions. Truly a shame.
- A.P.
They've never, as far as I am aware, said "WMDs have been found!" If you have a link you can provide to a Fox News story that shows differentaly, please provide.
You can't honestly tell me, with a straight face, that a story like this isn't at least slightly sensationalistic. Or this one. Or this one. Generally, it is advisable to wait until there are facts to report before writing a story -- FNC seems to have abandoned that notion when it comes to Iraq's phantom WMD.
Also, keep in mind that the articles on the FNC website are more toned-down than the on-air reports, and much more toned-down than the FNC crawl, which, as The Simpsons pointed out so derisively, is so full of misinformation it's funny.
I searched for retractions on FNC's site, and couldn't find a single one. To my knowledge, they never ran a retraction on-air, either. The only CYA they bothered to do was to -- like you said -- assure their gullible viewers that, while we're not certain this is where Iraq was making its deadly chemicals, it sure looks promising.
- A.P.
the right-wing crowd are always complaining at how leftist the media is.
Jon Stewart -- who surely must get painted as a hard-left commie by the far-right -- once made the observation in an interview that anyone who attempts to tell both sides of the story is being tarred as a liberal journalist by Fox and their ilk.
It's a truly disturbing trend when balanced reporting takes a back seat to sensationalist, one-sided propaganda that FNC and the like have thrust upon the American public. What's even more disturbing is how seemingly limitless their appetite for such mind-numbing drivel appears to be.
- A.P.