Maybe this will get rid of licensing models that are 'per cpu'. I've never understood the logic in charging per CPU, anyone care to explain? One computer, one license. Or even better, no licenses.
I've been typing dvorak for about 3 years now, and I *can* mentally switch between QWERTY and dvorak. Intuitivly I type dvorak on unix systems, and qwerty and Windows ones (work uses Windows + qwerty). But. If i think about it for a second I can mentally change what keymap I'm typing.
For a good, clean Windows install it takes 2 hours including drivers, and updates. And that's when a backup is not necessary. No, not all of this time is actively spent at the machine, but when you're doing 10 of them a day it takes up bench space that could be used to fix other problems.
Most people only come in for a format once. The ones that actually listen to my recommendations don't have a need to come back again.
The benefit of a private, all access health care system is not cost, it is making sure that EVERYONE has equal access to health care. In a private system where the government does not pay for health care middle and upper class people have better access to health care, and the lower class are shit out of luck.
I worked for a small OEM and we charged $130 CAD for Home and $150 CAD for Pro. I believe Media Center was a bit more than that. Obviously the big OEMs will get volume discounts though.
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So anytime anydoes something to impact your property value you're going to tell them to stop it? That's fucking stupid. It is THEIR property, unless they are doing something negative directly to yours, you have no grounds whatsoever to sue them.
I have a friend who lives in a very high class neighborhood, inherited the house. She has a tough time paying the bills because property taxes are so high. I think she should sue all the neighbors for keeping their houses and property in such great condition -- it's causing a negative impact on her pocket book.
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I'm actually surprised somebody is doing this, but I am so glad. I am sick of phones with all this crap on them.
The point is it will get a lot of people to at least try it out. Opera is convinced they have a superior product, by pulling a stunt like this many people will download it to support him swimming across the ocean, and in all likelyhood they will try it out.
It's exposure. Maybe he'll even get on mainstream news.
Linus has stated that a centralized system would not work -- which is why subversion is a bad choice. He *needs* something distributed. Apparantly monotone was a possible choice, but in the end he decided to write his own system.
I don't really think this is an issue right now, but if it does become one, why not have two different kernel trees? One for desktop usage, and one for server usage. I don't see that this would really cause any problems -- 2.4 and 2.6 are still maintained. I think even 2.2 is maintained.
I think there will always be a big demand for faster processors, but I don't think there is a need for them. I also don't think that the main focus should be on how to make faster things fit in smaller spaces. They seriously need to do something about this heat problem. 70C for a 775 Prescott chip is an O.K. temperature. That's a bad thing. Let's put some money into fixing the problems with the technology.
To me, making things faster without improving any other aspect of them is like making a car that goes 300km/h but has no additional safety features.
I thought tax evasion was a crime. I guess that only applies to certain methods of it though. We wouldn't want the high income earners to actually help the rest of society, now would we?
See, the problem with that is you don't always get the laptop you want.
Personally, the only laptop I will buy is a Thinkpad. They are very high quality machines. I don't see any Thinkpads, let alone the specific one I want on that site.
I really didn't know it was still legal to pull this kind of shit. It makes me espcially sad that IBM refuses to sell me a lappy without Windows. So I'll have to get my refund afterwards.
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
So, I simply have to phone them up and quote the EULA, and wait for the cheque. Failing that, I go to small claims court.
A very specific location is given for the American, a city is given for the Britist dude, and then we are told that the Canadian guy lives in Canada. It's the second biggest country on the fucking planet! He could be in 4 different timezones. Seriously people, learn some fucking geography.
I see many people talking about writing XUL plugins for other browsers, so people may start using that.
Shame on you! First of all, XUL is *SLOW*. I really think it was a bad idea. Firefox has some major bottlenecks in UI responsiveness because of it. That's not really the big issue for me though. Quite simply, websites should not be applications. Period. I really don't believe in the idea, it annoys me. Let's keep the web simple, it's going to come to the point soon where you need a 1GHz CPU just to browse the web with any speed,::sigh::.
Totally not unusual. We get bad batches of various computers parts every week. Often, it is generic ram. Lately, LG has switched manufacturers, and their DVD burners have gone to shit. When we get a bad batch, 90% of it gets RMA'ed. I'm just glad that most of it is used inhouse instead of customers getting it and returning it.
A lot of the early ASUS Socket 478 boards supported SD and DDR ram (and without having to move 40 or so jumpers). P4S8X series, P4S series (I believe). Most manufacturers had boards that supported both.
Elitegroup boards are the devil. I work with them everyday. They are horribly designed, horribly unstable, and horribly undocumented. They were notorious for the CPU clips breaking on Socket 478. I work as a service tech and about 25% of the ECS boards I get in are dead or dying.
Now I may not like the providers very much, but they are definently up front about the costs. I used to download ringtones occasionally and was always told very explicitly something along the lines of 'This ringtone will cost you x dollars to download, press here to proceed'. I think the real problem here is idiot kids that can't restrain themselves.
'OMG! Christina Augilera is the new Britney Spears, i *so* need her ringtones'.
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Maybe this will get rid of licensing models that are 'per cpu'. I've never understood the logic in charging per CPU, anyone care to explain? One computer, one license. Or even better, no licenses.
I've been typing dvorak for about 3 years now, and I *can* mentally switch between QWERTY and dvorak. Intuitivly I type dvorak on unix systems, and qwerty and Windows ones (work uses Windows + qwerty). But. If i think about it for a second I can mentally change what keymap I'm typing.
For a good, clean Windows install it takes 2 hours including drivers, and updates. And that's when a backup is not necessary. No, not all of this time is actively spent at the machine, but when you're doing 10 of them a day it takes up bench space that could be used to fix other problems.
Most people only come in for a format once. The ones that actually listen to my recommendations don't have a need to come back again.
The benefit of a private, all access health care system is not cost, it is making sure that EVERYONE has equal access to health care. In a private system where the government does not pay for health care middle and upper class people have better access to health care, and the lower class are shit out of luck.
I worked for a small OEM and we charged $130 CAD for Home and $150 CAD for Pro. I believe Media Center was a bit more than that. Obviously the big OEMs will get volume discounts though.
So anytime anydoes something to impact your property value you're going to tell them to stop it? That's fucking stupid. It is THEIR property, unless they are doing something negative directly to yours, you have no grounds whatsoever to sue them.
I have a friend who lives in a very high class neighborhood, inherited the house. She has a tough time paying the bills because property taxes are so high. I think she should sue all the neighbors for keeping their houses and property in such great condition -- it's causing a negative impact on her pocket book.
I'm actually surprised somebody is doing this, but I am so glad. I am sick of phones with all this crap on them.
Now, just need an iDen version.
The point is it will get a lot of people to at least try it out. Opera is convinced they have a superior product, by pulling a stunt like this many people will download it to support him swimming across the ocean, and in all likelyhood they will try it out.
It's exposure. Maybe he'll even get on mainstream news.
Uhm. Nope.
Linus has stated that a centralized system would not work -- which is why subversion is a bad choice. He *needs* something distributed. Apparantly monotone was a possible choice, but in the end he decided to write his own system.
Google stories everyday on slashdot, gmail RSS'ing those stories onto google...I bet google news has them too!
It's the end of independant technology news as we know it.
I don't really think this is an issue right now, but if it does become one, why not have two different kernel trees? One for desktop usage, and one for server usage. I don't see that this would really cause any problems -- 2.4 and 2.6 are still maintained. I think even 2.2 is maintained.
I think there will always be a big demand for faster processors, but I don't think there is a need for them. I also don't think that the main focus should be on how to make faster things fit in smaller spaces. They seriously need to do something about this heat problem. 70C for a 775 Prescott chip is an O.K. temperature. That's a bad thing. Let's put some money into fixing the problems with the technology.
To me, making things faster without improving any other aspect of them is like making a car that goes 300km/h but has no additional safety features.
I thought tax evasion was a crime. I guess that only applies to certain methods of it though. We wouldn't want the high income earners to actually help the rest of society, now would we?
See, the problem with that is you don't always get the laptop you want.
Personally, the only laptop I will buy is a Thinkpad. They are very high quality machines. I don't see any Thinkpads, let alone the specific one I want on that site.
I really didn't know it was still legal to pull this kind of shit. It makes me espcially sad that IBM refuses to sell me a lappy without Windows. So I'll have to get my refund afterwards.
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING, COPYING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PRODUCT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT; YOU MAY RETURN IT TO YOUR PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
So, I simply have to phone them up and quote the EULA, and wait for the cheque. Failing that, I go to small claims court.
Hey now...I was being serious. It really does piss me off. Bad day + stupid people == accidental troll I guess.
A very specific location is given for the American, a city is given for the Britist dude, and then we are told that the Canadian guy lives in Canada. It's the second biggest country on the fucking planet! He could be in 4 different timezones. Seriously people, learn some fucking geography.
Confirmed. Does not work on IE6 in XP Pro.
I see many people talking about writing XUL plugins for other browsers, so people may start using that.
::sigh::.
Shame on you! First of all, XUL is *SLOW*. I really think it was a bad idea. Firefox has some major bottlenecks in UI responsiveness because of it. That's not really the big issue for me though. Quite simply, websites should not be applications. Period. I really don't believe in the idea, it annoys me. Let's keep the web simple, it's going to come to the point soon where you need a 1GHz CPU just to browse the web with any speed,
I'm not talking about bad flashes. I'm talking about drives that just burn coasters no matter what.
Totally not unusual. We get bad batches of various computers parts every week. Often, it is generic ram. Lately, LG has switched manufacturers, and their DVD burners have gone to shit. When we get a bad batch, 90% of it gets RMA'ed. I'm just glad that most of it is used inhouse instead of customers getting it and returning it.
A lot of the early ASUS Socket 478 boards supported SD and DDR ram (and without having to move 40 or so jumpers). P4S8X series, P4S series (I believe). Most manufacturers had boards that supported both.
Elitegroup boards are the devil. I work with them everyday. They are horribly designed, horribly unstable, and horribly undocumented. They were notorious for the CPU clips breaking on Socket 478. I work as a service tech and about 25% of the ECS boards I get in are dead or dying.
Worst. Motherboards. Ever.
Get a fucking computer.
You need to learn dvorak. The underscore is in a wonderful place in it :). Unfortunately, the square are curly brackets are not.
'Blindsided'?
Now I may not like the providers very much, but they are definently up front about the costs. I used to download ringtones occasionally and was always told very explicitly something along the lines of 'This ringtone will cost you x dollars to download, press here to proceed'. I think the real problem here is idiot kids that can't restrain themselves.
'OMG! Christina Augilera is the new Britney Spears, i *so* need her ringtones'.