If you're a Debian user then you'll know just how superior it is to Redhat - whose recent releases have been IMHO pretty bloody disgraceful!
The obvious question then is why the hell are you waving Redhat's flag??? They are trying to become the next M$, on the coat-tails of Linus and the rest of the genuine Linux community.
This should make you more upset than Mandrake pulling a bit of a "Redhat" trick on Redhat, eh?
Great, another Socket/Slot configuration to give users the shits! One of the strengths of the old Socket 7 setup was it's great flexibility - you had a handful of choices of CPU which could be applied to virtually any S7 Board - then along comes Intel with Slot 1 - effectively locking the consumer into it's product once you had the S1 board.
Now AMD has waded into the same waters and come up with this new Slot A - which looks identical, and is physically compatible with Intel's Slot 1, yet not electrically compatible! But the same problem exists - limited choice for users, not to mention confusion - not all of us are so technically up to date so as to know that these two very similar looking components are totally incompatible - believe me, I see these users every day, they aren't total idiots, but they aren't Nerds, and they just aren't prepared to accept the fact that despite the reality that Slot A will plug into the Slot 1 socket, the components won't work - period!
And before anyone starts up with the "New and Better Technology" cry - ask yourselves what the big advantage was with Slot 1, and why when it was fiscally expedient for Intel they forgot all about it for the Celeron Series and went for Socket 370? Just because they flip the CPU on it's side and mount it on a PCB with a couple of Cache RAM chips (maybe!) doesn't alter the internal architecture, which is really the bread and butter of the Processor, and in great part, the system. They proved that themselves with the performance of the Socket 370 systems, not to mention the ready availability of those SlotKet Converters - if the Slot 1 form factor was so advanced, they surely should not have been so easy to create, or implement, or been so successful.
Bottom line, it's all about getting back to Proprietary Hardware for the sake of greed, don't let them fool you, it logically can't be about anything else, can it?
Take it easy dude, I don't think anyone was trying to step on your dainty little toes, or warp your "fragile little mind" - and we get the point that you know how to type the phrase "You are wrong"! So who gives a stuff if the original poster was not as informed as you, he or she got the point across that they were trying to - that is the name and existence of ComputerBank, and it's relevance to the story.
If you really represent the organisation in question then good on you - but why post as an AC, you don't get too much credibility that way, and it really sounds as if that is what you need.
Do you like to have other people doing your thinking for you, telling you what is right or wrong, what you should or shouldn't think or believe, what is good for you and what is not? I didn't think so, and that is what steps like this, however preliminary, are tantamount to!
If you don't believe me, just check out the new Australian LEGISLATION (yeah that's right, it's LAW now) if you want any reason why butthead politicians should stick to matters closer to their limited experience - that should be all you need!!!
It looks like the shoe is on the other foot now guys, the thought police are turning their attention to the US, they've already legislated against freedom of thought and speech in Australia!!!
There's something wrong when a sleazy prick like Clinton can come up with crap like this, and what amazes me is that there's no shortage of self-righteous people to jump on the bandwagon - how quickly they forget eh?
Did anyone else notice that the sizes quoted are Gigabits, not GigaBytes - simple arithmetic will give you the real figure...Don't get me wrong, I don't wish to belittle the great work these guys are doing, just put it in perspective.
Precisely Bruce, hardware vendors that don't divulge the source to device drivers these days are really only shooting themselves in the foot! An awful lot of my friends and acquaintances now list Linux compatibility as not just a contributing factor, but as a deciding one in all of their hardware purchases. This big change, only in recent years, affirms to me your comment that we are indeed a market force now, a fast growing force, and one to be reckoned with.
If Hitler had won WWII this post would be relevant, but since this is not the case, and since the most widely used language in the world is definitely *NOT* German, I think we could in the interests of common sense cut/. a little slack, eh?
You really want that prizemoney, don't you!!!
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Dude, you should use your power (processing power, that is) for good instead of evil...seti@home!
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Yep, you're right, VIA really screwed up it's implementation of the AGP bus in it's MVP3 chipsets, just ask anyone who has one, it's a fucking abortion.
In a free market economy, the laws of supply and demand dictate who survives and who doesn't. It's up the the individual companies to produce something people want, and will therefore buy. These are not charities dude, they are corporations, remember that - I sure do when I am shelling out *my* hard earned $$$ for *their* product.
If that's your theory, why don't you buy Cyrix - they need all the help they can get???
Seriously though, if your system is so "mission critical" that any of these problems are an issue, you really shouldn't have the seti@home client running on it in the first place...
It must be incredibly difficult to build such a large franchise from a single (albeit good!) movie (StarWars). To expect utter continuity in a storyline which, despite Lucas' protestations to the contrary, is largely being written on the fly, is a bit optimistic I feel.
The fact that he has done such an admirable job to date is a testament to the guy's sheer ability - who really cares if he messes up on a few minor details, he tells a good old fashioned "yarn". Great escapism that takes us away from the sometimes awful reality of the world we live in.
Often in a good story it is not what is said, but what is left unsaid, that makes the story most plausible - and the fact that so much debate has been able to be raised over so many of these unspoken aspects speaks volumes about Lucas' talent as a storyteller.
I've often wondered about Chicken Park - I'd seen it clucking about on the shelves at my local video stores, but never been game enough to get it - Is it "so bad it's good" kinda schlock type bad, or just plain old "so bad it's unbearable" kinda bad???
Especially if it's a fairly harmless one. I like the SETI project and am using the client software, and definitely would not like to see it fail. That said, at least these guys had the decency to back up the page and not screw the site up too badly, and who knows, they may have done SETI a favour and illustrated the security breach before someone less benign got to it!
Thanks to the folks who posted mirrors for those of us who could not get there fast enough to see it.
You're not listening, we tried all of the tactics you say, short of the armed rebellion, the media would have made us look like terrorists, they do the bidding of the arseholes who enacted the bill in the first place. Basically we are fucked! The government pander to the minority who want us disarmed in the first place.
Have you ever seen the movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington, with James Stewart"? Normal people face that sort of political and media machine should they be "stupid" enough to stand up for their rights...
Pentium III 450 $529 AMD K7 (Not Available yet) ????
As you can see, AMD is still a little cheaper for now, but believe me, that margin is ever decreasing...
As I said before, I am a happy AMD user, but I will buy whatever chip offers the best value for money, there's nothing wrong with Intel stuff, it would be foolish to be so dogmatic as to buy only "Brand X" simply to spite "Brand Y", without any financial or performance benefit gain.
If you did you would understand the futility in any kind of attempt to protect your rights here. An independent Politician named Pauline Hanson tried it and the media went to work on her at the behest of the "Old Boys Club" and twisted every little thing she said to make her look like the most bigoted person this side of the KKK. All she did was try to get the same rights for all Aussies, and those loud voices on the gravy train with something to lose just whispered in the ear of the politically correct power brokers and she was f@#$ed.
In this country if you stage a peaceful protest, it falls on deaf ears, just look at the gun control issue, the government was presented with overwhelming outcry contrary to the legislation, yet they introduced it anyway. Why, because the government knew that in our two party preferential political system they would most likely be returned as the only political option people had was in such disarray they had no hope! It sucks, we should adopt a "first past the post" system of voting like the US, but we never will for the very reason I just described.
Australia is becoming a "Police State", freedom of thought is slowly being weeded out, pretty fucking sad, when you consider average people can't be heard over the PC Gay and Arsehole minority, just coz they do the loudest whinging. What scares me the most is that people are being coerced into thinking that they are wrong if they have a different opinion to these poofter bastards, it's brainwashing, very subtle, but brainwashing nonetheless!
She was belittled and shouted down by the same vocal minorities, politically correct bastards and politicians who continue to perpetrate this kind of legislation on us.
In Oz, if you don't say what these arseholes want you to, you are branded either a racist or a fool! And the media will gladly supply the rope...
Yep, but the difference is that the idiots who thought this little beauty up designed it as a broad based consumption tax, applied on ALL items, now it has been bastardised and excludes "fresh food" or the government's idea thereof.
As I'm sure you can imagine, this is a substantial amount of revenue to be made up - most likely through minimizing the promised income tax cuts touted to offset the 10% GST.
We're back to square one I reckon. Although the Prime Minister has gotten the 15 minutes of fame he wanted so badly by being the arsehole who did it...
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If you're a Debian user then you'll know just how superior it is to Redhat - whose recent releases have been IMHO pretty bloody disgraceful!
The obvious question then is why the hell are you waving Redhat's flag??? They are trying to become the next M$, on the coat-tails of Linus and the rest of the genuine Linux community.
This should make you more upset than Mandrake pulling a bit of a "Redhat" trick on Redhat, eh?
Great, another Socket/Slot configuration to give users the shits! One of the strengths of the old Socket 7 setup was it's great flexibility - you had a handful of choices of CPU which could be applied to virtually any S7 Board - then along comes Intel with Slot 1 - effectively locking the consumer into it's product once you had the S1 board.
Now AMD has waded into the same waters and come up with this new Slot A - which looks identical, and is physically compatible with Intel's Slot 1, yet not electrically compatible! But the same problem exists - limited choice for users, not to mention confusion - not all of us are so technically up to date so as to know that these two very similar looking components are totally incompatible - believe me, I see these users every day, they aren't total idiots, but they aren't Nerds, and they just aren't prepared to accept the fact that despite the reality that Slot A will plug into the Slot 1 socket, the components won't work - period!
And before anyone starts up with the "New and Better Technology" cry - ask yourselves what the big advantage was with Slot 1, and why when it was fiscally expedient for Intel they forgot all about it for the Celeron Series and went for Socket 370? Just because they flip the CPU on it's side and mount it on a PCB with a couple of Cache RAM chips (maybe!) doesn't alter the internal architecture, which is really the bread and butter of the Processor, and in great part, the system. They proved that themselves with the performance of the Socket 370 systems, not to mention the ready availability of those SlotKet Converters - if the Slot 1 form factor was so advanced, they surely should not have been so easy to create, or implement, or been so successful.
Bottom line, it's all about getting back to Proprietary Hardware for the sake of greed, don't let them fool you, it logically can't be about anything else, can it?
Take this crap to a thread that gives a shit what you think dimwit!
If you can't keep that post on topic, then don't post!
Take it easy dude, I don't think anyone was trying to step on your dainty little toes, or warp your "fragile little mind" - and we get the point that you know how to type the phrase "You are wrong"! So who gives a stuff if the original poster was not as informed as you, he or she got the point across that they were trying to - that is the name and existence of ComputerBank, and it's relevance to the story.
If you really represent the organisation in question then good on you - but why post as an AC, you don't get too much credibility that way, and it really sounds as if that is what you need.
Do you like to have other people doing your thinking for you, telling you what is right or wrong, what you should or shouldn't think or believe, what is good for you and what is not? I didn't think so, and that is what steps like this, however preliminary, are tantamount to!
If you don't believe me, just check out the new Australian LEGISLATION (yeah that's right, it's LAW now) if you want any reason why butthead politicians should stick to matters closer to their limited experience - that should be all you need!!!
It looks like the shoe is on the other foot now guys, the thought police are turning their attention to the US, they've already legislated against freedom of thought and speech in Australia!!!
There's something wrong when a sleazy prick like Clinton can come up with crap like this, and what amazes me is that there's no shortage of self-righteous people to jump on the bandwagon - how quickly they forget eh?
Did anyone else notice that the sizes quoted are Gigabits, not GigaBytes - simple arithmetic will give you the real figure...Don't get me wrong, I don't wish to belittle the great work these guys are doing, just put it in perspective.
Precisely Bruce, hardware vendors that don't divulge the source to device drivers these days are really only shooting themselves in the foot!
An awful lot of my friends and acquaintances now list Linux compatibility as not just a contributing factor, but as a deciding one in all of their hardware purchases. This big change, only in recent years, affirms to me your comment that we are indeed a market force now, a fast growing force, and one to be reckoned with.
If Hitler had won WWII this post would be relevant, but since this is not the case, and since the most widely used language in the world is definitely *NOT* German, I think we could in the interests of common sense cut /. a little slack, eh?
Dude, you should use your power (processing power, that is) for good instead of evil...seti@home!
Yep, you're right, VIA really screwed up it's implementation of the AGP bus in it's MVP3 chipsets, just ask anyone who has one, it's a fucking abortion.
Spot on dude! AMD has always been a fantastic example of great plans let down by poor execution.
If it were Intel or M$ executing this poorly - we would not be so forgiving! I even suspect the K7 would be tagged as - dare I say it - "VaporWare"!
Kewl, sounds great to me.
I don't see a down side, I could watch recorded Buffy, whilst recording more Buffy - life just gets better and better...
It's a pity we have to wait for things to be fire-saled before they get competitive though, eh?
That's Intel and AMD's problem, not mine...
In a free market economy, the laws of supply and demand dictate who survives and who doesn't. It's up the the individual companies to produce something people want, and will therefore buy. These are not charities dude, they are corporations, remember that - I sure do when I am shelling out *my* hard earned $$$ for *their* product.
If that's your theory, why don't you buy Cyrix - they need all the help they can get???
Seriously though, if your system is so "mission critical" that any of these problems are an issue, you really shouldn't have the seti@home client running on it in the first place...
It must be incredibly difficult to build such a large franchise from a single (albeit good!) movie (StarWars). To expect utter continuity in a storyline which, despite Lucas' protestations to the contrary, is largely being written on the fly, is a bit optimistic I feel.
The fact that he has done such an admirable job to date is a testament to the guy's sheer ability - who really cares if he messes up on a few minor details, he tells a good old fashioned "yarn". Great escapism that takes us away from the sometimes awful reality of the world we live in.
Often in a good story it is not what is said, but what is left unsaid, that makes the story most plausible - and the fact that so much debate has been able to be raised over so many of these unspoken aspects speaks volumes about Lucas' talent as a storyteller.
I've often wondered about Chicken Park - I'd seen it clucking about on the shelves at my local video stores, but never been game enough to get it - Is it "so bad it's good" kinda schlock type bad, or just plain old "so bad it's unbearable" kinda bad???
Especially if it's a fairly harmless one. I like the SETI project and am using the client software, and definitely would not like to see it fail. That said, at least these guys had the decency to back up the page and not screw the site up too badly, and who knows, they may have done SETI a favour and illustrated the security breach before someone less benign got to it!
Thanks to the folks who posted mirrors for those of us who could not get there fast enough to see it.
You're not listening, we tried all of the tactics you say, short of the armed rebellion, the media would have made us look like terrorists, they do the bidding of the arseholes who enacted the bill in the first place. Basically we are fucked! The government pander to the minority who want us disarmed in the first place.
Have you ever seen the movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington, with James Stewart"? Normal people face that sort of political and media machine should they be "stupid" enough to stand up for their rights...
This is what I mean, these prices are in AUD$$$ from one local online dealer:
Celeron 400P Cache Socket 370 $193
AMD K6-2-400-3D $169
Pentium II 400 $362
AMD K6-3-400-3D $330
Pentium III 450 $529
AMD K7 (Not Available yet) ????
As you can see, AMD is still a little cheaper for now, but believe me, that margin is ever decreasing...
As I said before, I am a happy AMD user, but I will buy whatever chip offers the best value for money, there's nothing wrong with Intel stuff, it would be foolish to be so dogmatic as to buy only "Brand X" simply to spite "Brand Y", without any financial or performance benefit gain.
You aint just whistling Dixie my friend...
Dude, you don't live in Oz do you???
If you did you would understand the futility in any kind of attempt to protect your rights here. An independent Politician named Pauline Hanson tried it and the media went to work on her at the behest of the "Old Boys Club" and twisted every little thing she said to make her look like the most bigoted person this side of the KKK. All she did was try to get the same rights for all Aussies, and those loud voices on the gravy train with something to lose just whispered in the ear of the politically correct power brokers and she was f@#$ed.
In this country if you stage a peaceful protest, it falls on deaf ears, just look at the gun control issue, the government was presented with overwhelming outcry contrary to the legislation, yet they introduced it anyway. Why, because the government knew that in our two party preferential political system they would most likely be returned as the only political option people had was in such disarray they had no hope! It sucks, we should adopt a "first past the post" system of voting like the US, but we never will for the very reason I just described.
Australia is becoming a "Police State", freedom of thought is slowly being weeded out, pretty fucking sad, when you consider average people can't be heard over the PC Gay and Arsehole minority, just coz they do the loudest whinging. What scares me the most is that people are being coerced into thinking that they are wrong if they have a different opinion to these poofter bastards, it's brainwashing, very subtle, but brainwashing nonetheless!
She was belittled and shouted down by the same vocal minorities, politically correct bastards and politicians who continue to perpetrate this kind of legislation on us.
In Oz, if you don't say what these arseholes want you to, you are branded either a racist or a fool!
And the media will gladly supply the rope...
Yep, but the difference is that the idiots who thought this little beauty up designed it as a broad based consumption tax, applied on ALL items, now it has been bastardised and excludes "fresh food" or the government's idea thereof.
As I'm sure you can imagine, this is a substantial amount of revenue to be made up - most likely through minimizing the promised income tax cuts touted to offset the 10% GST.
We're back to square one I reckon. Although the Prime Minister has gotten the 15 minutes of fame he wanted so badly by being the arsehole who did it...