That's a lot of money for most people in canada when you consider that's tax free. I also think how much you take home depends on what type of homeless person you are. If you're a scummy annoying person you probably don't make as much as the "seems okay" sort of person. If you play decent music you might make more too. Think the bag pipers outside the Eaton center were making a lot of money. Then again I'm not sure they were even homeless, but they looked sort of "displaced" .
I always leave some American money just to let them know "we're watching" =P
If people don't want Aero, then you should be able to turn it off (which you can). I think Microsoft is losing it. Paying for extra's like an "interface" that has been touted as the REASON MS has been so slow to release vista? And I have to pay for a better version to connect it to an Xbox? I mean I pay for this crap OS, and I pay $400 for their console (and more with games) and I have to pay MORE to connect my OS to their Xbox?
Apparently Balmer has a bigger view of the master plan here, but it would seem to me if MS wants to leverage their OS into the console, then all versions should connect to the Xbox.
Personally I think they should just cut it into standard and server edition. Just dump home. If you're going to have home edition, it should cost $50-60. Standard at $100, and server at $250. At this point I would really have reservations about vendor lockin with MS. I mean first they charge us more for crap stuff like managing file permissions and network connectivity, now they charge us more for wiz-bang interface improvments. Where is this going to end? Am I going to have to pay an extra $30 to defrag my hard drive in 6 years?
Actually I was just thinking along the same lines. Maybe it's BETTER if I get one of these 'early' hd tv's just so that it works with my current setup!
Lets see, take people who aren't computer savvy (or why would they have AOL in the first place), and put those probably never-updated computers on broadband. Think I'd preferr to have them stay on AOL than clog the internet as a virus infested spam hub =/
I work for a small business, and let me tell you - small servers are like the freaking PLAGUE with windows. Every solution vendor wants their OWN server to themselves. I laugh every time I see MS ads talking about consolidation. That's news to me. The most humorous ad I've seen this year was from IBM where this guy is talking about "These generic servers, they keep multiplying... they must have a queen" -- too true.
I've since stopped even trying to fight for "two things on one server". I've just seen them fall over dead too many times because of a crappy application. Simple upgrades become a nightmare when one application needs one thing, and the other wants a different version.
The FreeBSD/Linux boxes on the network do a TON of different things, and only require different boxes if they are in different physical locations, or the application scales past one smaller server. As I've said many times before, MS's biggest friend and worst enemy are all of these crappy software solutions that require Windows.
Had EXACTLY the same problem. This was when I was just starting to get DVD's at all. I eventually found that puchasing DVD's wasn't worth it because I couldn't watch them. Renting DVDs? Pointless as well. The end result is that the only thing I would watch is anime - which for the most part never bothered with macrovision. Except Pioneer, so I stopped getting titles from them.
Now days I just have a RF modulator to convert the signals from digital/rca connectors to coax for my TV (that's the ONLY connector it has). I used to look forward to the days when a nice new HD tv would be nice, but now I wonder if I'll be able to play anything at all.
Well you have to look at the big picture here. What does the average employee at radio shack get paid? A dollar over minimum wage? You're telling me a person who knows about everything from stereos to boards, to resisters, to antennas is going to end up working at radio shack? Not only that, but what are the chances that you could even find enough of these types of people to work there?
I go to radio shack without any expectations of them knowing what the hell I'm talking about. Usually whatever I say might as well be chinese to the guy working there so he leaves me alone - which is fine with me. This is the nature of the great North American consumer world. Can't get replacement parts. Can't find anyone who knows how anything works.
While it wasn't in the part of this review, this power supply does pretty well for itself. It has a very high efficency rating (I've never seen any with a higher one - but not sure if that's bs or the efficency for this is actually that high). I've also done a bit of research on this power supply and I have seen reviews using a load generator. The power "quality" is very good until you get towards the high end and it degrades a bit but well within tolerenaces. They also left it under maximum load for 2 hours by mistake and the power supply was still hanging in there (although hot as hell).
I've had this thing for over 2 years with no complaints. I am however well aware that this thing maxes out at 300 watts so I'm picky about what components I use in my machine, but I seriously do not want to be using more than 300 watts anyway. Athlon 64 3400, Geforce 6800, 2 hard drives, raid card, tv capture card, 2 dvd burners - this seems to handle all of that with no problems. As others have said you can get less expensive PSUs cheaper with a "backup" fan, so I wouldn't recommend this unless you're obsessed with noise... and man I could go on and on about my bizarre adventures in trying to get a quiet PC...
I think that's the nature of a language where general usage has a very limited vocabulary. My wife learned English as her second language and often relates about how difficult it is to learn because it has so many words, but admits that it's nice because you can say EXACTLY what you mean. As our education system declines, people find it harder and harder to express themselves. So they end up using words that are similar, but not necessarily the same. The result is a blurring of meanings, which directly leads to very vague ideas in the language. As people adapt this language it becomes difficult to really say what you mean, so you end up with ridiculous redundant concepts like "one-of-a-kind uniqueness", because people have lost the clarity in using the words correctly in the first place.
Don't worry, I'm sure all of this has a back door. So not only does it lock you out of shit, SOMEONE (big brother) can still unlock all of your stuff in case you're a terrorist tring to hide things.
That's sort of the problem, there isn't much to report =/ I'm not turning on debugging to report bugs, but I have reported a few to the KDE project. Most of my issues are "drag the mouse" and crash sort of things, nothing spectacular or mad kung-fu - just a lot of random problems. I realize this is the first release out of the gate so there's going to be a lot of stuff to iron out so I have faith it will improve a lot.
Actually I haven't used krite in a while and just noticed that gentoo seems to have "lost" it. I can't find it in portage either so I'll have a bit more work before I can get testing I guess =)
Not just girls but everyone who isn't your conventional "gamer" demographic. The PS2 seems to have attained the widest audience just because it managed to be sitting as the fat cat at the top the longest and has the largest library. The Xbox seems to be targeting college age males extensively. Then MS seems to go after the same target audience again with the 360. I doubt Sony really has much of a comprehensive plan on a target market aside from throw out as much hype as possible and try to dazzle everyone you can.
Sony and MS seem to be missing the really big picture here, and that's that there is a HUGE untapped market that's going to be emergeing - everyone ELSE. My wife likes to play various games, but is quite dismayed at the fact that very very little seems to appeal to females at all. When you're talking about kids, family-oriented stuff, WOMEN, and possibly other segmants not considered - that adds up to a huge potential MS has already over-looked, and Sony will probably gloss over as well.
I've been waiting for a Gimp replacement for a LONG time and was very enthusiastic about Krite. Unfortunatly I found it to be a very immature application - with a lot of potential. Krite is TERRIBLY slow , and at least 50% of the time I have an all out crash. I'm not looking for a photoshop replacement, just a paint shop pro (5) replacment. Krite is looking good, but it's got a fair way to go before it can go head to head with gimp on the stability/performance side.
The biggest problem here is that it's a challenge that we haven't actually seen the entire cycle yet. It's hard to say we should jump ship now, when we don't know what the intentions of the company are, nor how things will be handled, nor the final outcome. I think once we see a company actually bought out and their software trashed and how things are picked up, the open source community will have a better benchmark on when they should fork and do it themselves. I'd like to say the OS community is quick and agile, but more often than not too many people end up fence sitters and nothing happens. Just look at how long it took to fork X11 to get things moving again.
I don't think we're going to see that here unfortunatly, because there are other options and way too many players. I think now people need to look at how Oracle is going to attempt to cut off Postgresql, because that's going to be the next logical target over time, unless MySQL manages to pull it together.
It's strange, but the App db always lists pretty much every version of paint shop pro as working, yet I've spent WAAY to many hours trying to get version 4 or 5 to work. I got a bit fustrated with the entire thing and just gave up. Randomly a few days later I loaded a pirated version of photoshop7 with no problems. Sucks that I can't use the software I paid for =/
I discuss this with my wife a lot and I've generally come down to the opinion that it has to start from your general society. The schools can't force it upon kids. And really parents can only encourage kids so far. But the social enviornment can make all the difference. When it's okay to be an idiot, most will take the easy way out and remain stupid. But if you were to say, get socially ridiculed - then kids are going to be FAR more inclined to at least learn and know enough to fit in. I think that's why many of these education programs to improve things will fail. Once they turn on the TV and see how little education is valued (over say, being a sports star), most of the work of any parties involved will be undone.
I'm not sure about Australia, but in the U.S. things are often labeled NOT to make them safer neccesarily, but to protect from lawsuits. In a society which wants to blame everything but themselves, many will file a lawsuit after doing something they obviously shouldn't have and injured themselves. Really the only way to deflect such suits is to post warnings everywhere and place they responsibility soley on the person. When the person absolutely cannot blame anyone else, only THEN are you safe from getting sued.
Actually, you know what would be nicer is if there was a small button on the url bar (like the lock,and rss icons appear in firefox) that is a dropdown list of protocls that the browser supports. by default it has http:/// already there.
This would be especially handy for browsers like konqerer that support tons of stuff from http to sftp and soforth.
I'm not sure about that. It's going to affect Intel in strange ways. One day some guy was asking me about processors (knowning I'm the computer guy and trying to make conversation), and I pointed out that I only buy AMD processors and it's the best processor you can get for the money. I didn't think much of it, nor did I make a big deal about it. Anyway, it's been 2 months later and he's purchased a laptop and a desktop PC with AMD in them. They're name brands but he seems to have gone out of his way to find name brand PCs with AMD in them. I was sort of surprised he could even find them truth be told, but I can tell you the chances of him getting an AMD machine without looking are about 1%. But as the word gets out from people who build their own, I wonder if this might not end up being a more common scenario.
Yeah, I don't see what the news is here. I mean I read that XP would broadcast the SSID at least 2 years ago. Anyone familiar with windows networking knows the network windows defaults to if it cannot obtain a DHCP lease. This vulterability is like an aha moment when someone puts 2 and 2 together. It also requires that the firewall is down and filesharing disabled. Doesn't seem to meantion that if the firewall is down and filesharing is diabled that you can do the same thing OVER THE WIRE if the machine cannot obtain a DHCP lease.
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That's a lot of money for most people in canada when you consider that's tax free. I also think how much you take home depends on what type of homeless person you are. If you're a scummy annoying person you probably don't make as much as the "seems okay" sort of person. If you play decent music you might make more too. Think the bag pipers outside the Eaton center were making a lot of money. Then again I'm not sure they were even homeless, but they looked sort of "displaced" .
I always leave some American money just to let them know "we're watching" =P
If people don't want Aero, then you should be able to turn it off (which you can). I think Microsoft is losing it. Paying for extra's like an "interface" that has been touted as the REASON MS has been so slow to release vista? And I have to pay for a better version to connect it to an Xbox? I mean I pay for this crap OS, and I pay $400 for their console (and more with games) and I have to pay MORE to connect my OS to their Xbox?
Apparently Balmer has a bigger view of the master plan here, but it would seem to me if MS wants to leverage their OS into the console, then all versions should connect to the Xbox.
Personally I think they should just cut it into standard and server edition. Just dump home. If you're going to have home edition, it should cost $50-60. Standard at $100, and server at $250. At this point I would really have reservations about vendor lockin with MS. I mean first they charge us more for crap stuff like managing file permissions and network connectivity, now they charge us more for wiz-bang interface improvments. Where is this going to end? Am I going to have to pay an extra $30 to defrag my hard drive in 6 years?
.Net Fortran eXtreme.
Look for it in Web 2.1 Followed by the rise of the machines and collapse of civilization as we know it.
Actually I was just thinking along the same lines. Maybe it's BETTER if I get one of these 'early' hd tv's just so that it works with my current setup!
Lets see, take people who aren't computer savvy (or why would they have AOL in the first place), and put those probably never-updated computers on broadband. Think I'd preferr to have them stay on AOL than clog the internet as a virus infested spam hub =/
I work for a small business, and let me tell you - small servers are like the freaking PLAGUE with windows. Every solution vendor wants their OWN server to themselves. I laugh every time I see MS ads talking about consolidation. That's news to me. The most humorous ad I've seen this year was from IBM where this guy is talking about "These generic servers, they keep multiplying... they must have a queen" -- too true.
I've since stopped even trying to fight for "two things on one server". I've just seen them fall over dead too many times because of a crappy application. Simple upgrades become a nightmare when one application needs one thing, and the other wants a different version.
The FreeBSD/Linux boxes on the network do a TON of different things, and only require different boxes if they are in different physical locations, or the application scales past one smaller server. As I've said many times before, MS's biggest friend and worst enemy are all of these crappy software solutions that require Windows.
Had EXACTLY the same problem. This was when I was just starting to get DVD's at all. I eventually found that puchasing DVD's wasn't worth it because I couldn't watch them. Renting DVDs? Pointless as well. The end result is that the only thing I would watch is anime - which for the most part never bothered with macrovision. Except Pioneer, so I stopped getting titles from them.
Now days I just have a RF modulator to convert the signals from digital/rca connectors to coax for my TV (that's the ONLY connector it has). I used to look forward to the days when a nice new HD tv would be nice, but now I wonder if I'll be able to play anything at all.
Well you have to look at the big picture here. What does the average employee at radio shack get paid? A dollar over minimum wage? You're telling me a person who knows about everything from stereos to boards, to resisters, to antennas is going to end up working at radio shack? Not only that, but what are the chances that you could even find enough of these types of people to work there?
I go to radio shack without any expectations of them knowing what the hell I'm talking about. Usually whatever I say might as well be chinese to the guy working there so he leaves me alone - which is fine with me. This is the nature of the great North American consumer world. Can't get replacement parts. Can't find anyone who knows how anything works.
While it wasn't in the part of this review, this power supply does pretty well for itself. It has a very high efficency rating (I've never seen any with a higher one - but not sure if that's bs or the efficency for this is actually that high). I've also done a bit of research on this power supply and I have seen reviews using a load generator. The power "quality" is very good until you get towards the high end and it degrades a bit but well within tolerenaces. They also left it under maximum load for 2 hours by mistake and the power supply was still hanging in there (although hot as hell).
... and man I could go on and on about my bizarre adventures in trying to get a quiet PC...
I've had this thing for over 2 years with no complaints. I am however well aware that this thing maxes out at 300 watts so I'm picky about what components I use in my machine, but I seriously do not want to be using more than 300 watts anyway. Athlon 64 3400, Geforce 6800, 2 hard drives, raid card, tv capture card, 2 dvd burners - this seems to handle all of that with no problems. As others have said you can get less expensive PSUs cheaper with a "backup" fan, so I wouldn't recommend this unless you're obsessed with noise
I think that's the nature of a language where general usage has a very limited vocabulary. My wife learned English as her second language and often relates about how difficult it is to learn because it has so many words, but admits that it's nice because you can say EXACTLY what you mean. As our education system declines, people find it harder and harder to express themselves. So they end up using words that are similar, but not necessarily the same. The result is a blurring of meanings, which directly leads to very vague ideas in the language. As people adapt this language it becomes difficult to really say what you mean, so you end up with ridiculous redundant concepts like "one-of-a-kind uniqueness", because people have lost the clarity in using the words correctly in the first place.
Don't worry, I'm sure all of this has a back door. So not only does it lock you out of shit, SOMEONE (big brother) can still unlock all of your stuff in case you're a terrorist tring to hide things.
That's sort of the problem, there isn't much to report =/ I'm not turning on debugging to report bugs, but I have reported a few to the KDE project. Most of my issues are "drag the mouse" and crash sort of things, nothing spectacular or mad kung-fu - just a lot of random problems. I realize this is the first release out of the gate so there's going to be a lot of stuff to iron out so I have faith it will improve a lot.
Actually I haven't used krite in a while and just noticed that gentoo seems to have "lost" it. I can't find it in portage either so I'll have a bit more work before I can get testing I guess =)
Not just girls but everyone who isn't your conventional "gamer" demographic. The PS2 seems to have attained the widest audience just because it managed to be sitting as the fat cat at the top the longest and has the largest library. The Xbox seems to be targeting college age males extensively. Then MS seems to go after the same target audience again with the 360. I doubt Sony really has much of a comprehensive plan on a target market aside from throw out as much hype as possible and try to dazzle everyone you can.
Sony and MS seem to be missing the really big picture here, and that's that there is a HUGE untapped market that's going to be emergeing - everyone ELSE. My wife likes to play various games, but is quite dismayed at the fact that very very little seems to appeal to females at all. When you're talking about kids, family-oriented stuff, WOMEN, and possibly other segmants not considered - that adds up to a huge potential MS has already over-looked, and Sony will probably gloss over as well.
I've been waiting for a Gimp replacement for a LONG time and was very enthusiastic about Krite. Unfortunatly I found it to be a very immature application - with a lot of potential. Krite is TERRIBLY slow , and at least 50% of the time I have an all out crash. I'm not looking for a photoshop replacement, just a paint shop pro (5) replacment. Krite is looking good, but it's got a fair way to go before it can go head to head with gimp on the stability/performance side.
The biggest problem here is that it's a challenge that we haven't actually seen the entire cycle yet. It's hard to say we should jump ship now, when we don't know what the intentions of the company are, nor how things will be handled, nor the final outcome. I think once we see a company actually bought out and their software trashed and how things are picked up, the open source community will have a better benchmark on when they should fork and do it themselves. I'd like to say the OS community is quick and agile, but more often than not too many people end up fence sitters and nothing happens. Just look at how long it took to fork X11 to get things moving again.
I don't think we're going to see that here unfortunatly, because there are other options and way too many players. I think now people need to look at how Oracle is going to attempt to cut off Postgresql, because that's going to be the next logical target over time, unless MySQL manages to pull it together.
Microsoft press release for Exchange 12 release in a few months:
"Oops, we were wrong..."
sounds like a good idea for a reiserfs plugin.
couldn't you just have netcat pipe it to your brainfuck program?
It's strange, but the App db always lists pretty much every version of paint shop pro as working, yet I've spent WAAY to many hours trying to get version 4 or 5 to work. I got a bit fustrated with the entire thing and just gave up. Randomly a few days later I loaded a pirated version of photoshop7 with no problems. Sucks that I can't use the software I paid for =/
I discuss this with my wife a lot and I've generally come down to the opinion that it has to start from your general society. The schools can't force it upon kids. And really parents can only encourage kids so far. But the social enviornment can make all the difference. When it's okay to be an idiot, most will take the easy way out and remain stupid. But if you were to say, get socially ridiculed - then kids are going to be FAR more inclined to at least learn and know enough to fit in. I think that's why many of these education programs to improve things will fail. Once they turn on the TV and see how little education is valued (over say, being a sports star), most of the work of any parties involved will be undone.
About ocupational safety.
I'm not sure about Australia, but in the U.S. things are often labeled NOT to make them safer neccesarily, but to protect from lawsuits. In a society which wants to blame everything but themselves, many will file a lawsuit after doing something they obviously shouldn't have and injured themselves. Really the only way to deflect such suits is to post warnings everywhere and place they responsibility soley on the person. When the person absolutely cannot blame anyone else, only THEN are you safe from getting sued.
Actually, you know what would be nicer is if there was a small button on the url bar (like the lock,and rss icons appear in firefox) that is a dropdown list of protocls that the browser supports. by default it has http:/// already there.
This would be especially handy for browsers like konqerer that support tons of stuff from http to sftp and soforth.
I'm not sure about that. It's going to affect Intel in strange ways. One day some guy was asking me about processors (knowning I'm the computer guy and trying to make conversation), and I pointed out that I only buy AMD processors and it's the best processor you can get for the money. I didn't think much of it, nor did I make a big deal about it. Anyway, it's been 2 months later and he's purchased a laptop and a desktop PC with AMD in them. They're name brands but he seems to have gone out of his way to find name brand PCs with AMD in them. I was sort of surprised he could even find them truth be told, but I can tell you the chances of him getting an AMD machine without looking are about 1%. But as the word gets out from people who build their own, I wonder if this might not end up being a more common scenario.
Yeah, I don't see what the news is here. I mean I read that XP would broadcast the SSID at least 2 years ago. Anyone familiar with windows networking knows the network windows defaults to if it cannot obtain a DHCP lease. This vulterability is like an aha moment when someone puts 2 and 2 together. It also requires that the firewall is down and filesharing disabled. Doesn't seem to meantion that if the firewall is down and filesharing is diabled that you can do the same thing OVER THE WIRE if the machine cannot obtain a DHCP lease.
I'd buy from a company calld Schnitz. Just so I could say 'my servers are the schnitz' if anything else...