Use it for playing Quake faster. Use it for rendering faster. Use it for ripping and encoding bootlegged DVDs faster. But to buy a $950 CPU simply to *crack RC5 keys* faster is the height of retardedness, IMO.
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their are generally buttons on screen for every concievable operation, rather than just displaying what most people will actually use and allowing people that need the extra features the ability to use keyboard shortcuts...
Actually, "their" aren't extra buttons on my Linux desktop. I've got one button to close a window, which is a big "X", and one to minimize a window.
You want one button to select something, a separte button to open something. Why not add another one that closes something, and another that deletes something, and another to move things and another to copy things... why not just have two keyboards, while we're at it?
Because that would be, to use the vernacular, fucking retarded.
On the other hand, since using the mouse *at all* is inconvenient (taking your hands off the home row, moving one at least a foot or two to the mouse, moving it, then repositioning), you might as well be able to do quite a bit with it to maximize the utility of the damned thing, since you lose so much efficiency just getting to it.
What's wrong with a button for copy and a button for paste? Sure beats the piss out of one button for copy, then move the mouse, then *KEY IN* ctrl-v or open-apple-v.
It's all about efficiency.
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My Microsoft mouse -- not that I ever sing the praises of Microsoft, I still hate them -- is the best god damned mouse I've ever owned. Smooth as silk, even in X.
Please take some time to investigate the product(s) before you spew BS. (That'd take all the fun out of/. though. Ignorance is fun!)
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Casual Internet users don't care how fast their connection is, as long as they can check their stock quotes once a day and get their email.
Heavy Internet users have or will (by any means necessary) be getting cable modems or DSL lines.
What use is there for modems? I pity the lowly modem user in this day and age. I live pretty much in the middle of nowhere and I've got both DSL *and* cable modem access, and most of the people I know have access to one or the other as well.
Supporting the latest analog technology nowadays is like supporting the latest steam engine technology when railroads were switching to deisel and electric locomotives.
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If Apple can sue others for making gaudy, ugly translucent cases, why can't Cobalt sue Apple for making a cube-shaped case? It seems only fair, with "trade dress" apparently being something you can sue over these days.
Please don't use the word "innovation" in your replies.
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Why is there a FreeBSD 3.4, 3.5, 4.x, *and* 5.x *all* being worked on?
Don't get me wrong: I like FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD at work and at home. I just want to know what the point is of all the different versions being worked on at once? It's getting downright confusing.
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This camera would be great for people who sell stuff on eBay, where you really don't need a *great* picture to sell an item, but *any* sort of picture helps.
As for it replacing my 35mm, no way. At least with photos, you can scan them at whatever resolution you want; you're not limited as much, unless you have a cheap-ass scanner (remember those handheld things?). Blowing up a 640x480 jpeg would look really, really bad.
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People getting Cease and Desist letters?
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The article mentions people getting C&D letters from napster for creating napster-compatible software for Linux and other operating systems. I must be one of the lucky ones, then, because my shit software for searching napster servers from the command line hasn't been targeted yet.
Personally, if napster can dish it out but not take it, they deserve to be sued into oblivion.
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Ever since NSFnet was shut down years ago there have been several corporate-owned "backbones". AOL has one, BBN/Alternet/MCI/whoever else they bought this week has one, etc. This Canadian backbone is faster than which of these? (And, is it still faster when you start talking aggregate bandwidth of all of the myriad US backbones?)
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I don't remember seeing this the first time around:
small update: some updates about the bad io results of linux will follow after more tests with different ide drivers (which might be the reason for the extreme difference)
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Not that I'm just saying that in some "rabid linux zealot" fashion which is pretty typical of these kind of damning "benchmarks", but it looks like they forgot to turn DMA on under Linux.
This would kill performance in nearly every test.
The hard disk appears to max out at around 9MB/second in BSD but only around 4 in Linux, which is odd because it's been proven in other places that EXT2fs is at least a little bit faster than the BSD filesystem (even with async turned on).
Maybe they should redo these tests?
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The numbers Linux puts forth are absolutely anemic and, considering EXT2FS has been proven in other tests to be slightly faster than UFS/FFS, it's obvious that DMA wasn't turned on for these tests.
I imagine, with DMA turned on (as it is by default, of course, with FreeBSD), Linux would've looked much better in these tests (and probably most of the others too since they all involve disk transfers to some degree.)
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If you get fired for having a few MP3 files, chances are that company isn't the kind of fascist regime you'd want to work for anyway. You should thank them. Right before turning them in to the SPA for all the pirated software they probably have on their network. (40% of all companies do!)
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"The Duron may be the best price/performance solution for version 3.0."
Ahem.
Who would buy a CPU *solely* for SETI performance?! Maybe my priorities are bass-ackwards, but I really would love to meet the person who spends hundreds of dollars *solely* to process little chunks of data that have about a one in infinity chance of containing evidence of intelligent life from another planet.
Is it just me, or is that line really sad?
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Slashdot Mirror
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If you go with IDE (and software RAID) you've got cheap and fast down.
SCSI RAID would, of course, be "fast" and "good".
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Use it for playing Quake faster. Use it for rendering faster. Use it for ripping and encoding bootlegged DVDs faster. But to buy a $950 CPU simply to *crack RC5 keys* faster is the height of retardedness, IMO.
- A.P.
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It's all about marketing.
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Actually, "their" aren't extra buttons on my Linux desktop. I've got one button to close a window, which is a big "X", and one to minimize a window.
You want one button to select something, a separte button to open something. Why not add another one that closes something, and another that deletes something, and another to move things and another to copy things... why not just have two keyboards, while we're at it?
Because that would be, to use the vernacular, fucking retarded.
On the other hand, since using the mouse *at all* is inconvenient (taking your hands off the home row, moving one at least a foot or two to the mouse, moving it, then repositioning), you might as well be able to do quite a bit with it to maximize the utility of the damned thing, since you lose so much efficiency just getting to it.
What's wrong with a button for copy and a button for paste? Sure beats the piss out of one button for copy, then move the mouse, then *KEY IN* ctrl-v or open-apple-v.
It's all about efficiency.
- A.P.
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Sure, you can live without them, but would you want to?
Hitler only had one nad. That might've been what made him mad.
Apologies to the females here, for whom the above analogy certainly does not apply, unless they use buttonless mice.
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Please take some time to investigate the product(s) before you spew BS. (That'd take all the fun out of
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Heavy Internet users have or will (by any means necessary) be getting cable modems or DSL lines.
What use is there for modems? I pity the lowly modem user in this day and age. I live pretty much in the middle of nowhere and I've got both DSL *and* cable modem access, and most of the people I know have access to one or the other as well.
Supporting the latest analog technology nowadays is like supporting the latest steam engine technology when railroads were switching to deisel and electric locomotives.
- A.P.
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The Qube and the Mac Cube, however, are both being sold. So the possibility exists that customers would confuse the two.
Nobody in their right mind would confuse either with a NeXT cube, except to get karma points on slashdot.
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Please don't use the word "innovation" in your replies.
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Come on. Mae-West was down for an entire day last week; nobody noticed. The Internet will be fine, even if we blow up a few peering points.
This is almost as stupid as those "The Internet Will Crmble Under Its Own Bandwidth Demands" articles people seem to write about once a year.
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Don't get me wrong: I like FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD at work and at home. I just want to know what the point is of all the different versions being worked on at once? It's getting downright confusing.
- A.P.
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As for it replacing my 35mm, no way. At least with photos, you can scan them at whatever resolution you want; you're not limited as much, unless you have a cheap-ass scanner (remember those handheld things?). Blowing up a 640x480 jpeg would look really, really bad.
- A.P.
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Personally, if napster can dish it out but not take it, they deserve to be sued into oblivion.
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That would be because Telstra doesn't know their arsehole from their earhole, or so I hear (and have experienced when in AU).
Though the offerings aren't much better in the States (and, thankfully, the telecom industry's opening up in AU now.)
- A.P.
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small update: some updates about the bad io results of linux will follow after more tests with different ide drivers (which
might be the reason for the extreme difference)
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This would kill performance in nearly every test.
The hard disk appears to max out at around 9MB/second in BSD but only around 4 in Linux, which is odd because it's been proven in other places that EXT2fs is at least a little bit faster than the BSD filesystem (even with async turned on).
Maybe they should redo these tests?
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This obviously would've affected Linux's showing in nearly every test.
Maybe they should re-do this thing. And get rid of the horrid jpeg slides.
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I imagine, with DMA turned on (as it is by default, of course, with FreeBSD), Linux would've looked much better in these tests (and probably most of the others too since they all involve disk transfers to some degree.)
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Ahem.
Who would buy a CPU *solely* for SETI performance?! Maybe my priorities are bass-ackwards, but I really would love to meet the person who spends hundreds of dollars *solely* to process little chunks of data that have about a one in infinity chance of containing evidence of intelligent life from another planet.
Is it just me, or is that line really sad?
- A.P.
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