I think, but am not sure, that Audio CD-Rs are designed so that they'll work on any CD player, not just ones specifically tuned to play CD-Rs.
Personally, I use cdrecord and have a relatively new (1 year old) LG burner that I use all the time and I haven't had a single problem with ANY cd player playing my cd-r's. So who knows?
Star Trek was originally supposed to be a show about a bunch of rabbis in a synagogue. He said to the producers, 'instead of a synagogue, how about if the show is in outer space?' They said, 'okay.' And that's pretty much how it happened.
Interesting, especially considering he wasn't involved in the show until after the pilot.
The question isn't warranties, the question is how long will the hardware last after the warranty expires. Because during the warranty, great, wonderful, fantastic.... anything wrong with it get it replaced.
After the warranty you're fucked. I personally like to have long life out of my computer hardware... I'm still using an old Pentium 90 MHz compaq system.
I've dealt with refurbs in the past and just had problems with them. Furthermore, my concern isn't price. The original poster's concern was price. I was pointing out that Opterons can still be built a hell of a lot cheaper than you can buy a Mac anywhere.
That's interesting, considering I looked for a decient midgrade comp using an Opteron by flipping through components on pricewatch.com, and it came to about $1200 including the monitor.
If I can save $1200 for a similarly performing mac, I'll be happy to buy one of their machines.
As it sits though, I can't seem to find Anything that Apple sells in the G5 line that costs anything remotely close to $1200.
Great. They brought millions of AOL users to the internet. People who'd sooner make up their own fucked up words because their vocabulary doesn't extend to stuff like "acceptance".
Actually, Paul Martin WAS elected. In the exact same way Jean Chretien was elected.
Would Canadians please realize that you're not voting for a Prime Minister, you're voting for a representative to Parliament, and that person in turn has a vote for the Prime Minister.
If you have a problem with this, maybe you'd think twice before you vote for a party.
This is the problem too many people voting for the party, not enough people voting for the person. I happily voted in the Burnaby Mountain riding for Svend Robinson because he was the person in my riding who best represented my political opinions and had the best track record amongst the candidates. And to think the Canadian Alliance representative almost beat him out. Does anybody even actually go to the debates anymore? The two people who clearly understood what they were talking about were the Conservative candidate and Svend. The Canadian Alliance guy consistently showed that all he was was someone reading off a piece of paper that Stockwell Day handed to him and really didn't understand a thing of politics. If I wanted someone like that in Parliament, I would have voted for the Rhinoceros party.
Fact of the matter is the Conservative candidate was a clear concise talker who understood the issues and showed himself to be a good representer of his constituents in parliament. But alas he got the least votes. Why? Because nobody likes Joe Clark! And it doesn't matter anyway anymore because now the Tories and the Alliance are looking to join up. So everybody that voted for a party leader basically threw their vote away.
Canadian system works, but only if people stop voting for the party and start voting for the representative.
Paul Martin was elected in the same respect that Chretien was elected: In his own riding. In no official terms did anybody outside of his riding put an X on "Jean Chretien, Liberal". So if you cast your vote for the Alliance or the Liberals based on the leader, then maybe you should go understand your voting system before you cast your next vote.
I figure a good high-grade Athlon64 system sans vid card (I already have a decent one) and a decent monitor for under $1100 US. Probably get much better hardware than what E-Machines is offering. Not to mention if you want a real 64-bit operating system, go grab gentoo or Mandrake's 64-bit Linux and don't worry about paying the Microsoft-tax. Not to mention if you are an avid linux user you can specifically pick out your hardware to make sure that it's all supported.
I've always been a fan of building your own system simply on the fact that it means you don't need any credit to actually pay for it over a substantial period of time... Just buy the hardware bit-by-bit.
Still pissed off at prebuilt machines with their shoddily done assembly line cheapo hardware? Build your own. Christ, from the specs they're talking here, I went to Pricewatch.com about a month ago and figured that a fully loaded Athlon64 machine would cost about $200 less than what E-Machines is talking, and that's with a monitor and everything. If you don't know how to build a computer, go to your local LUG or university campus or something, make a couple friends, then give one $40 to throw everything together. It's about two steps up from lego these days anyways and all you really need to worry about is grounding yourself, which isn't too hard (plug in power supply, switch to the "1", touch power supply case, switch back to "0" and don't rub any socks on carpets anytime soon.)
You learn to drive a tank and tell me that it's as easy as a car.
I think he's still pretty dead on.
Credentials mean squat. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I'm not going to call it an elephant just because it was seen in the Serenghetti.
... or mitigated their losses in the first place and pointed to the code in the GPL that's already out there and as such being propogated at no control of any kind out in the open because nobody has given anybody any reason that it shouldn't be redistributed....... or not committed extortion by making press releases practically ordering any company using linux to give them money so that they can continue to use code that the company hass made no effort to prove is theirs....... Or done anything at all to suggest that this whole fiasco is anything other than a failed tactical move to get someone to buy out their company, as the entire tech community who is informed about this whole lawsuit now looks upon SCO as a sinking ship, including one of its founders.
Never forget the Neil Stephenson essay, "In the beginning was the command line"...
Here's a little exerp:
Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.
The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.
Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships.
Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits.
The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it's a fringe player.
The group giving away the free tanks onl
They've been doing this since the 80's.
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1) apt-rpm is a rather valuable tool. I'm pretty sure that's what he's talking about there. It's much more efficient at updating packages than RHN ever was, as this doesn't require any logging in or any hoops to jump through... just a commandline command and voila! Updated system.
2) Just because debian stable is thoroughly dated for desktop-like apps, doesn't mean that All debian package systems are that bad. Just re-point your apt repository to unstable (sid) and apt-get update&&apt-get dist-upgrade and huzzah! Modern operating system!
Stable is moreso designed for servers and the like, and not for the desktop. Unstable is more for home use.
Interesting thing to note is unstable's stability versus Windows.... =)
And OpenBSD has had support from a government or two because of its security, hasn't it?
BSD is far from dead. The only reason everybody thinks it's dead is because its hardware support isn't as expansive as, say linux. Well, so be it, it's not designed to run on anything, it's designed to run well.
Except they mentioned Pippin's looking into the Palantir in the little "Making of" vignette in TTT's 2-disc DVD set.
(If you're not already sure of it, Spoilers)
Saruman has two parts to play in ROTK, and IMO they are very important: Breaking of the staff which gets Aragorn the Palantir so that he can show the true strength of men to Sauron (Kind of important, as otherwise all men fall to the evil of Sauron and there is no hope whatsoever), and the Scouring of the shire, which is when we get to finally see Frodo act like a hero after his blunder at Mount Doom. In fact, the Scouring is kinda necessary in order for Frodo to actually be a hero...
Anyways. I'm looking forward to ROTK, but if they cut out Christopher Lee entirely, then I'm afraid it's only getting one theatre viewing out of me. (unlike the other two which got many...)
Well, okay, what about Ender's Game in which we're led to believe the buggers to be a vile alien which is bent out on destroying the human race and then in the end we find out that they're just trying to communicate and didn't understand that humans weren't part of a hive mind and in fact each human being was an individual "aiua" in and of itself?
The point is that writers can take you in whatever direction they want. There's PLENTY to suggest that Neo is a religious character, in fact they make countless references to Morpheous' beliefs as those of a religious matter. I don't see anywhere in the movies where they didn't make bare bones the fact that this is a Messiah story. In case you missed the death-resurrection bit in the first one, the countless "Jesus Christ" references, the use of Taoist and Bhuddist philosophies that explain Neo's powers, the prophecies, the billions of people who "believe in" Neo.....
Seriously, how does this Movie NOT purvey the image that it's about a religious figurehead?
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I think, but am not sure, that Audio CD-Rs are designed so that they'll work on any CD player, not just ones specifically tuned to play CD-Rs.
Personally, I use cdrecord and have a relatively new (1 year old) LG burner that I use all the time and I haven't had a single problem with ANY cd player playing my cd-r's. So who knows?
Star Trek was originally supposed to be a show about a bunch of rabbis in a synagogue. He said to the producers, 'instead of a synagogue, how about if the show is in outer space?' They said, 'okay.' And that's pretty much how it happened.
Interesting, especially considering he wasn't involved in the show until after the pilot.
The question isn't warranties, the question is how long will the hardware last after the warranty expires. Because during the warranty, great, wonderful, fantastic.... anything wrong with it get it replaced.
After the warranty you're fucked. I personally like to have long life out of my computer hardware... I'm still using an old Pentium 90 MHz compaq system.
I've dealt with refurbs in the past and just had problems with them. Furthermore, my concern isn't price. The original poster's concern was price. I was pointing out that Opterons can still be built a hell of a lot cheaper than you can buy a Mac anywhere.
You and your reason are interfering with my fun! OUT YE DEMONS! OUT!
Silliness,
Dave "Let's not take what some jerkoff says on the internet too seriously kids, mkay?" Leckie
That's interesting, considering I looked for a decient midgrade comp using an Opteron by flipping through components on pricewatch.com, and it came to about $1200 including the monitor.
If I can save $1200 for a similarly performing mac, I'll be happy to buy one of their machines.
As it sits though, I can't seem to find Anything that Apple sells in the G5 line that costs anything remotely close to $1200.
How about massive acceptation?
Great. They brought millions of AOL users to the internet. People who'd sooner make up their own fucked up words because their vocabulary doesn't extend to stuff like "acceptance".
What a fantastic movie that would make...
"And then the elves went to war... again.... and they lost.... again...."
Actually, Paul Martin WAS elected. In the exact same way Jean Chretien was elected.
Would Canadians please realize that you're not voting for a Prime Minister, you're voting for a representative to Parliament, and that person in turn has a vote for the Prime Minister.
If you have a problem with this, maybe you'd think twice before you vote for a party.
This is the problem too many people voting for the party, not enough people voting for the person. I happily voted in the Burnaby Mountain riding for Svend Robinson because he was the person in my riding who best represented my political opinions and had the best track record amongst the candidates. And to think the Canadian Alliance representative almost beat him out. Does anybody even actually go to the debates anymore? The two people who clearly understood what they were talking about were the Conservative candidate and Svend. The Canadian Alliance guy consistently showed that all he was was someone reading off a piece of paper that Stockwell Day handed to him and really didn't understand a thing of politics. If I wanted someone like that in Parliament, I would have voted for the Rhinoceros party.
Fact of the matter is the Conservative candidate was a clear concise talker who understood the issues and showed himself to be a good representer of his constituents in parliament. But alas he got the least votes. Why? Because nobody likes Joe Clark! And it doesn't matter anyway anymore because now the Tories and the Alliance are looking to join up. So everybody that voted for a party leader basically threw their vote away.
Canadian system works, but only if people stop voting for the party and start voting for the representative.
Paul Martin was elected in the same respect that Chretien was elected: In his own riding. In no official terms did anybody outside of his riding put an X on "Jean Chretien, Liberal". So if you cast your vote for the Alliance or the Liberals based on the leader, then maybe you should go understand your voting system before you cast your next vote.
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I figure a good high-grade Athlon64 system sans vid card (I already have a decent one) and a decent monitor for under $1100 US. Probably get much better hardware than what E-Machines is offering. Not to mention if you want a real 64-bit operating system, go grab gentoo or Mandrake's 64-bit Linux and don't worry about paying the Microsoft-tax. Not to mention if you are an avid linux user you can specifically pick out your hardware to make sure that it's all supported.
I've always been a fan of building your own system simply on the fact that it means you don't need any credit to actually pay for it over a substantial period of time... Just buy the hardware bit-by-bit.
Still pissed off at prebuilt machines with their shoddily done assembly line cheapo hardware? Build your own. Christ, from the specs they're talking here, I went to Pricewatch.com about a month ago and figured that a fully loaded Athlon64 machine would cost about $200 less than what E-Machines is talking, and that's with a monitor and everything. If you don't know how to build a computer, go to your local LUG or university campus or something, make a couple friends, then give one $40 to throw everything together. It's about two steps up from lego these days anyways and all you really need to worry about is grounding yourself, which isn't too hard (plug in power supply, switch to the "1", touch power supply case, switch back to "0" and don't rub any socks on carpets anytime soon.)
What the hell is a 35mm Digital Camera? Last I checked 35mm was the size of the film and has dick all to do with digital cameras.
Course, what do I know. I just sell these things.
You learn to drive a tank and tell me that it's as easy as a car.
I think he's still pretty dead on.
Credentials mean squat. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I'm not going to call it an elephant just because it was seen in the Serenghetti.
... or mitigated their losses in the first place and pointed to the code in the GPL that's already out there and as such being propogated at no control of any kind out in the open because nobody has given anybody any reason that it shouldn't be redistributed.... ... or not committed extortion by making press releases practically ordering any company using linux to give them money so that they can continue to use code that the company hass made no effort to prove is theirs.... ... Or done anything at all to suggest that this whole fiasco is anything other than a failed tactical move to get someone to buy out their company, as the entire tech community who is informed about this whole lawsuit now looks upon SCO as a sinking ship, including one of its founders.
Never forget the Neil Stephenson essay, "In the beginning was the command line"...
Here's a little exerp:
Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.
The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.
Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships.
Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits.
The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it's a fringe player.
The group giving away the free tanks onl
They're called "Raves".
Yes, but they can look at the gateway. Why wouldn't google use Linux there as well as the farm?
1) apt-rpm is a rather valuable tool. I'm pretty sure that's what he's talking about there. It's much more efficient at updating packages than RHN ever was, as this doesn't require any logging in or any hoops to jump through... just a commandline command and voila! Updated system.
2) Just because debian stable is thoroughly dated for desktop-like apps, doesn't mean that All debian package systems are that bad. Just re-point your apt repository to unstable (sid) and apt-get update&&apt-get dist-upgrade and huzzah! Modern operating system!
Stable is moreso designed for servers and the like, and not for the desktop. Unstable is more for home use.
Interesting thing to note is unstable's stability versus Windows.... =)
Maybe if you renamed it to "Rindows"...
Isn't Darwin BSD-compliant?
And OpenBSD has had support from a government or two because of its security, hasn't it?
BSD is far from dead. The only reason everybody thinks it's dead is because its hardware support isn't as expansive as, say linux. Well, so be it, it's not designed to run on anything, it's designed to run well.
Jokes tend to cease to be funny when the person telling it has to explain it.
Stayed away from the 2nd SE
Wow. That's some restraint. What with it not being out until next Tuesday and everything....
Except they mentioned Pippin's looking into the Palantir in the little "Making of" vignette in TTT's 2-disc DVD set.
(If you're not already sure of it, Spoilers)
Saruman has two parts to play in ROTK, and IMO they are very important: Breaking of the staff which gets Aragorn the Palantir so that he can show the true strength of men to Sauron (Kind of important, as otherwise all men fall to the evil of Sauron and there is no hope whatsoever), and the Scouring of the shire, which is when we get to finally see Frodo act like a hero after his blunder at Mount Doom. In fact, the Scouring is kinda necessary in order for Frodo to actually be a hero...
Anyways. I'm looking forward to ROTK, but if they cut out Christopher Lee entirely, then I'm afraid it's only getting one theatre viewing out of me. (unlike the other two which got many...)
It's like goldy or silvery but made of iron.....
Well, okay, what about Ender's Game in which we're led to believe the buggers to be a vile alien which is bent out on destroying the human race and then in the end we find out that they're just trying to communicate and didn't understand that humans weren't part of a hive mind and in fact each human being was an individual "aiua" in and of itself?
The point is that writers can take you in whatever direction they want. There's PLENTY to suggest that Neo is a religious character, in fact they make countless references to Morpheous' beliefs as those of a religious matter. I don't see anywhere in the movies where they didn't make bare bones the fact that this is a Messiah story. In case you missed the death-resurrection bit in the first one, the countless "Jesus Christ" references, the use of Taoist and Bhuddist philosophies that explain Neo's powers, the prophecies, the billions of people who "believe in" Neo.....
Seriously, how does this Movie NOT purvey the image that it's about a religious figurehead?