Re:We definately need some education reform
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Is it possible that the school board did the right thing??
The school board was wrong, and so was the kid. Instead of acting like he had a gun and making threats (dumb when surrounded by panicky public school robots), he should have tried to get the bully expelled for mentioning guns. Don't go running tho the principal or anything like that, just say in a loud voice "If YOU brought YOUR gun to school, YOU'D probably shoot me first!" After all, the bully mentioned the gun first. The same reaction would follow, only the bully would be on the business end of it. --
Sharing movies is completely different from sharing MP3s. A movie costs a couple of orders of magnitude more to produce than an album, yet most DVDs sell for only 2x the price of a CD. Buying CDs is a complete ripoff compared to buying DVDs. If MP3 trading really ramps up, then a couple of record company executives have to buy one less Ferarri that year. If DivX trading puts a dent in movie ticket and video sales then it could force smaller studios out of business. The MPAA definitely has a point here, although I don't know if attacking ISPs is the way to go. --
Hell, my 9th grade science teacher thought that exothermic meant cold and endothermic meant hot. According to her, this was because an exothermic reaction had already given off all its heat, leaving only cold (or some such bullshit). We were eventually tested over this, and the grades were absolutely horrible because of it. When people said she was wrong and referred her to the book, they got sent to the office for being offensive to her and subsequently got suspended. That's what you get when you hire people with degrees in teaching rather than degrees in _what_ they're teaching. --
Rig it up to the answering machine somehow. At the beep, press a code and then the temperature you want to set the thermostat too. That way there's no messing with IP addresses or massive amounts of research into embedded chips. I'm sure somebody has thought of this... --
When was the last time you said "I sure am glad that 2d system requirements and 3d system requirements both become obsolete at the same time"?
My 8MB all-n-wonder works great for 2d stuff (except for the TV in win2k), but sucks for games. The addition of a PCI voodoo2 worked for awhile, but is becoming slow and soon will have me replacing the 3d, 2d, and TV parts of my system.
The ideal system would have 2 AGP slots, but that's not going to happen soon. A PCI 2d card with a TV tuner would be adequate for years at a time, while a separate AGP card could do 3d (with a passthrough and without GUI acceleration, like the voodoo2). When the 3d card becomes obsolete, you don't have to replace the TV tuner and 2d chip. --
Yeah, those hands are going to going to be really useful against the business end of my gun/knife/bat/car/gang/bomb/alligator or whatever other weapon I can think of. Years of martial arts training vs a few days' salary spent at Earl's Gun Show. --
Holy shit that would be cool! I once made a Descent 1 level that looked like a large part of my high school, and I really wish I could find it now that I just got a P166 laptop. --
The RIAA is quickly becoming anticompetitive and monopolistic, and the current ways of combating them (nothing) have failed. Therefore I propose a more forceful, straightforward approach that everyone can take part in:
1. Keep trading MP3s. Try to fool the napster servers or use FTP like many people do. Gnutella and the like will eventually come but until then make sure that people don't forget that they can get music for free, they just might have to look around a little for it.
2. Don't buy CDs. Borrow them and burn them, bootleg concerts, just don't give any more money to the record companies. As a last resort, peel the security sticker off of CDs and shoplift them. If you want to give a donation to the band, mail them a check instead of buying their CD.
3. Declare war on the recording industry. DDoS their websites, break into their bank accounts, have some guy "accidentally" send a backhoe through their utility lines. Your life isn't easy, their lives shouldn't be either.
4. Lawsuits. If your garage band wants to share on Napster but RIAA won't let them, then RIAA is messing with your right to free speech and Napster's right to enable trading of free music. Send lawyers after them and make them feel what it's like to be on the business end of a lawsuit for a change.
That's enough malice for today, kids. Before you get started on your Tyler Durden-style homework assignment, remember to share the knowledge of MP3s with other people. A surprising amount of the population doesn't even know what they are. I taught my dad about them 6 months ago, and he hasn't been off his 56K since. Now go spread some havoc, and remember not to hold your molotov cocktail too long after you light it! --
These new CDs can't be played in a CD-ROM, but CD-Rs can. Just reach into the closet and pull out that boombox that you haven't used since the dawn of MP3s. Plug it into the audio in jack on the sound card, and use your favorite audio recording program to make MP3s out of the CD. Then you can burn the MP3s onto a CD-R that will play in anything if you want to listen while driving or just want to piss off The Man. I wonder if the RIAA has even pulled their heads out of their wallets long enough to think of this. --
If it makes my television viewing better, then I'm all for *anonymous* tracking.
Lovely. Anonymous tracking says that 80% of all people watching TV love NBC sitcoms and the Backstreet Boys, and wish they could get a cell phone to match the interior decor of their SUV. That's going to make for some good programming.
Using such methods would cause a great increase in revenues for TiVo and add to an already enormous culture that allows entities such as AOL/TimeWarner to prosper. I wonder how long it is until AOL or M$ makes a discounted TV that can't be turned off... --
You ever used VCR? They're great! For the a-freakin-mazing price of $80 you can go to your nearest Kroger (near the frozen foods) and get a HiFi VCR that does everything the TiVo can except play and record at the same time. Plus there's no monthly charge and no dealing with the AOL/Time Warner goons that make M$ look about as threatening as daytime PBS. They also last forever and can fix themselves! My 12-year-old Quasar was dropped from over 5 feet onto concrete, died, and then came back to life a week later. It didn't even blink at subsequent falls. Every VCR problem I've ever seen can be fixed with a head cleaner (a.k.a. the vacuum cleaner with the "crevice tool" attachment) or a sharp blow in just the right place. Let's see one of those fancy TiVo's take a 32-oz Quiktrip soft drink and be just fine after an hour or two under the hairdryer! Those hard drives run hot, so I'm sure they wouldn't like being the sole structural support for a 26-inch TV for three years. Also, VHS is as old as god, so it's never going to die. Try to take a TiVo movie to a friend's house or record something on a DVD and you're in for a helluva time. The first SLP tapes I ever made on my old Quasar are still just fine, grainy as the day they were recorded. When I need dust and lint (and everyone does from time to time), there is no higher quality source than those tapes! The LED on the remote died during the Great Fall of '94, and now a Radio Shack Giant LED is superglued in its place so I can program VCRs in any room in the house and drive goldfish mad with the push of a button. For the $400 price of a TiVo you could get 4 or 5 VCRs that could be used for disciplining your pets, warming your children, and of course playing those mysteriously unlabled VHS tapes that collect everywhere. You cannot deny the heritage of the VCR, and it will outlive and mock all who challenge it! I feed people like you to my Quasar for breakfast, and it thanks me with smoother starts and better handling! You'll never take me alive! AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ahh, good rant. I think I hear the boys from the asylum coming already... --
Um, you just said that a Netscape doesn't suck. Either you have been on the web for less than 2 hours in your entire life (netscape's mean time before failure), or you forgot your <sarcasm> tags. The "incredible piece of software engineering" part makes me want to believe the latter. How can you say a browser doesn't suck if it reloads the page every time you resize its window? If this doesn't fit your definition of "suck," then try resizing it when you're dicking around with frames. --
is a troll someone who is against the grain of the regular sheep?
As long as the sheep are desciples of the Great Open Source Movement. Welcome to Slashdot, leader of the "Closed Minds for Open Source" coalition. Andover.net ownz j00! --
Either that or he doesn't want to run Linux. Perhaps he wants to play Half-Life or just watch a DVD. Maybe he wants applications that are written by people whose job security depends on the quality of their work, not script kiddies trying to be more 1337 than the 15-year-old down the street. Or maybe he has a $10 Yamaha sound card like me and wants to hear more than the chirping noise that it makes when linux crashes. --
They probably didn't waste much money at all on the x86 decoder, hence it's suckiness. If they had put more time into it, it would have been faster but they were probably busy working on the hideous compiler technology that this thing requires. A software x86 emulator will undoubtedly be faster, but this decoder will keep the Itanium from croaking if it sees the occasional x86 program. Newer revisions, while having improvements like copper interconnects, probably won't have a better decoder because it's not meant to run fast, it's just meant to run. --
I think it's a bad move not because they lose something, but because they're forcing people to move to linux for a free OS. I use Win2000 because I could get it for free and it is so well supported. It detected all of my hardware and installed the drivers without me having to touch anything, while the Mandrake install I tried last year on the same machine catapulted me into hardware hell. This is only one of the reasons why I think windows is better, but no piece of software is worth $200, especially from a company that has so much money that they have to research ways to get rid of it faster in order to avoid taxes. I'm sure that they would rather have me use a free copy of win2000 rather than switch to linux and join their opposition. Now that they've pulled their head out of their ass when it comes to NT, i guess they think that they're place in the software market is secure no matter what. --
Apparently there were more people "in on this" (pun intended) than just Linus. I've always said that if you can't keep it in your pants then at least keep it in the family, but I didn't mean the whole family. Now we know what the Torvalds do when they aren't coding. --
That's not how to burn karma. Here's how to burn karma.
Slashdot sucks, you closed minded linux zealots. Your OS does too. That's right, I said it: WINDOWS IS BETTER THAN LINUX!!! One more time, just for fun: WINDOWS IS BETTER THAN LINUX!!! Damn that's fun. If you think that Windows is so crappy, then why don't you do something about it? That's right, you have created a virtually useless "OS" that averages two lines of code per developer ("developer" == 1337 5kr1p7 K1dd13), explained on jumbled buletin boards written by people who don't know the difference between "then" and "than". You tried to make Netscape better, and I haven't seen so many bugs since Mandrake 7! Do something fun with your free time rather than rewriting software so you don't have to pay for it. Get a life!
...and if that doesn't work, you can always insult the British. Happy anti-whoring! --
British English has moved with the times, whereas American English is lagging in the past
What the bloody fuck are your talking about? I'd rather sound like a redneck or valley girl than a snooty, inbred, ignorant, conceited, good-for-nothing english fuck. How does adding the letter u to commonly used words count as "moving with the times." If you want to add letters that don't have any real purpose, go talk to the french, phouckheaedde. --
I see exactly where you're coming from. That's/. for you. Post a meaningful and informative anecdote that is on topic and provides a good example of a buggy product, and get nailed because that product happens to be linux.
Hey moderators, here's some flamebait for you:
I tried recently Mandrake 7 and found out that it chugs the proverbial cock when it comes to reliability, usability, and speed. I finally got it to install on an 8 GB partition, and it ran at about 1/5 the speed of win98 (no sound, no modem). From this standpoint, I have to say that windows is a superior OS when it comes to anything but running a server. The problems with my sound card were a mystery, but the modem is a winmodem which I would never give up for a new OS. These so-often-insulted modems achieve up/down speeds and pings that blow other modems out of the water. $15 gets you a modem that downloads compressed files at 8 KB/s and has a ping of 95ms (to get the ping time, I telneted into a unix box and pinged myself, so don't blame the dos ping command). You people sicken and frighten me with your self righteousness because you embody everything that is wrong with the software industry and society in general.
Ahh, I needed that. I'd keep ranting, but your mothers are particularly horny tonight and they're getting impatient. Bye-eee!
Did you actually say that a Microsoft product is somehow better than an Open Source product? on Slashdot? Are you crazy?
M$ isn't necessarily better, it's just everything AOL gets its hands on (including Netscape) begins to suck. Examples:
Winamp: Used to use 6 MB of memory, now uses 11. No changes whatsoever, except that the randomizer now sucks.
ICQ: Later versions caused several people I know to have to reinstall windows. Version 98a was simple, small, and stable.
Netscape: Versions 3.x and 4.0x ran faster than hell and never crashed. Version 4.75 has been turned into a e-marketing nightmare and crashes randomly, requiring a reboot to clear the invalid page fault message. Also eats 22 MB of memory.
AOL software itself: destroys all other dialup settings as it takes over your system.
M$ should thank AOL every day for allowing them to win the browser war and giving them a good start in the instant-messenger war. Too bad mozilla can't get organized enough to return browsers to the speed and stability that they once had. If Netscape 4.0 had the encryption and plugin support that 4.7x has, I'd be running it right now. --
It also says that DDR RAM will be used in the new Hitachi model. That should help a lot because the translation/caching along with normal load/store instructions has to give the memory bandwidth a helluva workout. --
This guy wants an image better than most CRTs, not worse. The TV-out on my All-N-Wonder Pro is great for piping movies over to the TV, but the resolution is limited to a hair above 800x600. The unshielded VHS cable also causes loss in color and contrast and makes things look trippy whenever anything rated over a couple of amps is turned on in the room. An SVHS connector (Also on the All-N-Wonder) might be usable for a good picture at low resolutions. --
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Is it possible that the school board did the right thing??
The school board was wrong, and so was the kid. Instead of acting like he had a gun and making threats (dumb when surrounded by panicky public school robots), he should have tried to get the bully expelled for mentioning guns. Don't go running tho the principal or anything like that, just say in a loud voice "If YOU brought YOUR gun to school, YOU'D probably shoot me first!" After all, the bully mentioned the gun first. The same reaction would follow, only the bully would be on the business end of it.
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Sharing movies is completely different from sharing MP3s. A movie costs a couple of orders of magnitude more to produce than an album, yet most DVDs sell for only 2x the price of a CD. Buying CDs is a complete ripoff compared to buying DVDs. If MP3 trading really ramps up, then a couple of record company executives have to buy one less Ferarri that year. If DivX trading puts a dent in movie ticket and video sales then it could force smaller studios out of business. The MPAA definitely has a point here, although I don't know if attacking ISPs is the way to go.
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Hell, my 9th grade science teacher thought that exothermic meant cold and endothermic meant hot. According to her, this was because an exothermic reaction had already given off all its heat, leaving only cold (or some such bullshit). We were eventually tested over this, and the grades were absolutely horrible because of it. When people said she was wrong and referred her to the book, they got sent to the office for being offensive to her and subsequently got suspended. That's what you get when you hire people with degrees in teaching rather than degrees in _what_ they're teaching.
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Rig it up to the answering machine somehow. At the beep, press a code and then the temperature you want to set the thermostat too. That way there's no messing with IP addresses or massive amounts of research into embedded chips. I'm sure somebody has thought of this...
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When was the last time you said "I sure am glad that 2d system requirements and 3d system requirements both become obsolete at the same time"?
My 8MB all-n-wonder works great for 2d stuff (except for the TV in win2k), but sucks for games. The addition of a PCI voodoo2 worked for awhile, but is becoming slow and soon will have me replacing the 3d, 2d, and TV parts of my system.
The ideal system would have 2 AGP slots, but that's not going to happen soon. A PCI 2d card with a TV tuner would be adequate for years at a time, while a separate AGP card could do 3d (with a passthrough and without GUI acceleration, like the voodoo2). When the 3d card becomes obsolete, you don't have to replace the TV tuner and 2d chip.
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Yeah, those hands are going to going to be really useful against the business end of my gun/knife/bat/car/gang/bomb/alligator or whatever other weapon I can think of. Years of martial arts training vs a few days' salary spent at Earl's Gun Show.
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Holy shit that would be cool! I once made a Descent 1 level that looked like a large part of my high school, and I really wish I could find it now that I just got a P166 laptop.
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The RIAA is quickly becoming anticompetitive and monopolistic, and the current ways of combating them (nothing) have failed. Therefore I propose a more forceful, straightforward approach that everyone can take part in:
1. Keep trading MP3s. Try to fool the napster servers or use FTP like many people do. Gnutella and the like will eventually come but until then make sure that people don't forget that they can get music for free, they just might have to look around a little for it.
2. Don't buy CDs. Borrow them and burn them, bootleg concerts, just don't give any more money to the record companies. As a last resort, peel the security sticker off of CDs and shoplift them. If you want to give a donation to the band, mail them a check instead of buying their CD.
3. Declare war on the recording industry. DDoS their websites, break into their bank accounts, have some guy "accidentally" send a backhoe through their utility lines. Your life isn't easy, their lives shouldn't be either.
4. Lawsuits. If your garage band wants to share on Napster but RIAA won't let them, then RIAA is messing with your right to free speech and Napster's right to enable trading of free music. Send lawyers after them and make them feel what it's like to be on the business end of a lawsuit for a change.
That's enough malice for today, kids. Before you get started on your Tyler Durden-style homework assignment, remember to share the knowledge of MP3s with other people. A surprising amount of the population doesn't even know what they are. I taught my dad about them 6 months ago, and he hasn't been off his 56K since. Now go spread some havoc, and remember not to hold your molotov cocktail too long after you light it!
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These new CDs can't be played in a CD-ROM, but CD-Rs can. Just reach into the closet and pull out that boombox that you haven't used since the dawn of MP3s. Plug it into the audio in jack on the sound card, and use your favorite audio recording program to make MP3s out of the CD. Then you can burn the MP3s onto a CD-R that will play in anything if you want to listen while driving or just want to piss off The Man. I wonder if the RIAA has even pulled their heads out of their wallets long enough to think of this.
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If it makes my television viewing better, then I'm all for *anonymous* tracking.
Lovely. Anonymous tracking says that 80% of all people watching TV love NBC sitcoms and the Backstreet Boys, and wish they could get a cell phone to match the interior decor of their SUV. That's going to make for some good programming.
Using such methods would cause a great increase in revenues for TiVo and add to an already enormous culture that allows entities such as AOL/TimeWarner to prosper. I wonder how long it is until AOL or M$ makes a discounted TV that can't be turned off...
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I'm sorry, but this calls for a rant!
You ever used VCR? They're great! For the a-freakin-mazing price of $80 you can go to your nearest Kroger (near the frozen foods) and get a HiFi VCR that does everything the TiVo can except play and record at the same time. Plus there's no monthly charge and no dealing with the AOL/Time Warner goons that make M$ look about as threatening as daytime PBS. They also last forever and can fix themselves! My 12-year-old Quasar was dropped from over 5 feet onto concrete, died, and then came back to life a week later. It didn't even blink at subsequent falls. Every VCR problem I've ever seen can be fixed with a head cleaner (a.k.a. the vacuum cleaner with the "crevice tool" attachment) or a sharp blow in just the right place. Let's see one of those fancy TiVo's take a 32-oz Quiktrip soft drink and be just fine after an hour or two under the hairdryer! Those hard drives run hot, so I'm sure they wouldn't like being the sole structural support for a 26-inch TV for three years. Also, VHS is as old as god, so it's never going to die. Try to take a TiVo movie to a friend's house or record something on a DVD and you're in for a helluva time. The first SLP tapes I ever made on my old Quasar are still just fine, grainy as the day they were recorded. When I need dust and lint (and everyone does from time to time), there is no higher quality source than those tapes! The LED on the remote died during the Great Fall of '94, and now a Radio Shack Giant LED is superglued in its place so I can program VCRs in any room in the house and drive goldfish mad with the push of a button. For the $400 price of a TiVo you could get 4 or 5 VCRs that could be used for disciplining your pets, warming your children, and of course playing those mysteriously unlabled VHS tapes that collect everywhere. You cannot deny the heritage of the VCR, and it will outlive and mock all who challenge it! I feed people like you to my Quasar for breakfast, and it thanks me with smoother starts and better handling! You'll never take me alive! AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ahh, good rant. I think I hear the boys from the asylum coming already...
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Um, you just said that a Netscape doesn't suck. Either you have been on the web for less than 2 hours in your entire life (netscape's mean time before failure), or you forgot your <sarcasm> tags. The "incredible piece of software engineering" part makes me want to believe the latter. How can you say a browser doesn't suck if it reloads the page every time you resize its window? If this doesn't fit your definition of "suck," then try resizing it when you're dicking around with frames.
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is a troll someone who is against the grain of the regular sheep?
As long as the sheep are desciples of the Great Open Source Movement. Welcome to Slashdot, leader of the "Closed Minds for Open Source" coalition. Andover.net ownz j00!
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Either that or he doesn't want to run Linux. Perhaps he wants to play Half-Life or just watch a DVD. Maybe he wants applications that are written by people whose job security depends on the quality of their work, not script kiddies trying to be more 1337 than the 15-year-old down the street. Or maybe he has a $10 Yamaha sound card like me and wants to hear more than the chirping noise that it makes when linux crashes.
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They probably didn't waste much money at all on the x86 decoder, hence it's suckiness. If they had put more time into it, it would have been faster but they were probably busy working on the hideous compiler technology that this thing requires. A software x86 emulator will undoubtedly be faster, but this decoder will keep the Itanium from croaking if it sees the occasional x86 program. Newer revisions, while having improvements like copper interconnects, probably won't have a better decoder because it's not meant to run fast, it's just meant to run.
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Anything the gets more Airbuses out of the air is good.
Gravity seems to be doing a good job all by itself. Maybe things are heavier over there or something.
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I think it's a bad move not because they lose something, but because they're forcing people to move to linux for a free OS. I use Win2000 because I could get it for free and it is so well supported. It detected all of my hardware and installed the drivers without me having to touch anything, while the Mandrake install I tried last year on the same machine catapulted me into hardware hell. This is only one of the reasons why I think windows is better, but no piece of software is worth $200, especially from a company that has so much money that they have to research ways to get rid of it faster in order to avoid taxes. I'm sure that they would rather have me use a free copy of win2000 rather than switch to linux and join their opposition. Now that they've pulled their head out of their ass when it comes to NT, i guess they think that they're place in the software market is secure no matter what.
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Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam.
Apparently there were more people "in on this" (pun intended) than just Linus. I've always said that if you can't keep it in your pants then at least keep it in the family, but I didn't mean the whole family. Now we know what the Torvalds do when they aren't coding.
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The author deserves it, and the irony is irresistable!
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That's not how to burn karma. Here's how to burn karma.
Slashdot sucks, you closed minded linux zealots. Your OS does too. That's right, I said it: WINDOWS IS BETTER THAN LINUX!!! One more time, just for fun: WINDOWS IS BETTER THAN LINUX!!! Damn that's fun. If you think that Windows is so crappy, then why don't you do something about it? That's right, you have created a virtually useless "OS" that averages two lines of code per developer ("developer" == 1337 5kr1p7 K1dd13), explained on jumbled buletin boards written by people who don't know the difference between "then" and "than". You tried to make Netscape better, and I haven't seen so many bugs since Mandrake 7! Do something fun with your free time rather than rewriting software so you don't have to pay for it. Get a life!
...and if that doesn't work, you can always insult the British. Happy anti-whoring!
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British English has moved with the times, whereas American English is lagging in the past
What the bloody fuck are your talking about? I'd rather sound like a redneck or valley girl than a snooty, inbred, ignorant, conceited, good-for-nothing english fuck. How does adding the letter u to commonly used words count as "moving with the times." If you want to add letters that don't have any real purpose, go talk to the french, phouckheaedde.
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I see exactly where you're coming from. That's /. for you. Post a meaningful and informative anecdote that is on topic and provides a good example of a buggy product, and get nailed because that product happens to be linux.
Hey moderators, here's some flamebait for you:
I tried recently Mandrake 7 and found out that it chugs the proverbial cock when it comes to reliability, usability, and speed. I finally got it to install on an 8 GB partition, and it ran at about 1/5 the speed of win98 (no sound, no modem). From this standpoint, I have to say that windows is a superior OS when it comes to anything but running a server. The problems with my sound card were a mystery, but the modem is a winmodem which I would never give up for a new OS. These so-often-insulted modems achieve up/down speeds and pings that blow other modems out of the water. $15 gets you a modem that downloads compressed files at 8 KB/s and has a ping of 95ms (to get the ping time, I telneted into a unix box and pinged myself, so don't blame the dos ping command). You people sicken and frighten me with your self righteousness because you embody everything that is wrong with the software industry and society in general.
Ahh, I needed that. I'd keep ranting, but your mothers are particularly horny tonight and they're getting impatient. Bye-eee!
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Did you actually say that a Microsoft product is somehow better than an Open Source product? on Slashdot? Are you crazy?
M$ isn't necessarily better, it's just everything AOL gets its hands on (including Netscape) begins to suck. Examples:
Winamp: Used to use 6 MB of memory, now uses 11. No changes whatsoever, except that the randomizer now sucks.
ICQ: Later versions caused several people I know to have to reinstall windows. Version 98a was simple, small, and stable.
Netscape: Versions 3.x and 4.0x ran faster than hell and never crashed. Version 4.75 has been turned into a e-marketing nightmare and crashes randomly, requiring a reboot to clear the invalid page fault message. Also eats 22 MB of memory.
AOL software itself: destroys all other dialup settings as it takes over your system.
M$ should thank AOL every day for allowing them to win the browser war and giving them a good start in the instant-messenger war. Too bad mozilla can't get organized enough to return browsers to the speed and stability that they once had. If Netscape 4.0 had the encryption and plugin support that 4.7x has, I'd be running it right now.
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It also says that DDR RAM will be used in the new Hitachi model. That should help a lot because the translation/caching along with normal load/store instructions has to give the memory bandwidth a helluva workout.
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This guy wants an image better than most CRTs, not worse. The TV-out on my All-N-Wonder Pro is great for piping movies over to the TV, but the resolution is limited to a hair above 800x600. The unshielded VHS cable also causes loss in color and contrast and makes things look trippy whenever anything rated over a couple of amps is turned on in the room. An SVHS connector (Also on the All-N-Wonder) might be usable for a good picture at low resolutions.
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