No kidding. This looks like a wireless storage device to me, nothing more. I don't see how it can even be compared to PDAs and laptops. How are people supposed to get any work / gaming done without I/O? I can see how it could be used effectively with a laptop / PDA as a fileserver, but that's about it.
The least Intel could've done is add a headphone jack and make it an MP3/Ogg player to boot.
You're absolutely right. Even some of the most powerful heatsinks on the market have trouble cooling Athlons without heat transfer compound. If AMD expects us not to use good thermal grease like Arctic Silver, they'd better back up their with one hell of a cooler to make up for it.
They'd better rethink their policy on heatsinks/fans that come in their retail boxes, then. Last I checked, AMD was shipping nothing but shiny paperweights for their heatsinks. They were low-power, low-noise solutions that were targeted soley for people who would buy a fast CPU for web surfing and word processing and not use their CPU to the fullest.
Without exception, all gamers I knew of who used stock heatsinks eventually broke down and bought aftermarket cooling solutions since they were sick of their CPUs overheating and crashing in the middle of a fight in Quake 3. I'm talking about systems that weren't even overclocked and cases with powerful intake and exhaust fans.
AMD heatsink/fans are worthless for anyone who expects to use their processor at its fullest potential.
I won't deny that rm disasters occur, but let's not make the cure worse than the disease. I remember on my old Mandrake distro, I don't know if they still do this, but typing "rm" without -f would bring up a prompt. And without -r, rm will not delete a directory recursively. I think that's enough of a safeguard, as any more than that is simply annoying. Users, if uncomfortable with the GUI, can most likely use a desktop manager for X such as KDE which has a trash can to temporarily store files slated for deletion.
I hate to sound like an elitist, but the CLI isn't for everyone. You can do pretty much anything in Unix using multiple methods, but there comes a point where people choosing a certain method should just know what they're doing. Sure, rm disasters will occur. That's what back-ups are for.
The article is too generalized. ISP speed and reliability are very much dependend on where you want to order service. I'd advise checking out a site such as Broadband Reports to find the best ISP in any area.
Check page 18 for Linux memory benchmarks using Stream. Unfortunately, memory performance still sucked. Arguably, this is made up for in FPU and MySQL performance. Depends what your purposes are, I guess.
Ah, yes. I used to be an AOL user myself eight or nine years ago. Then I switched to a "normal" ISP and gained the typical elitist asshole attitude toward AOL users. Then I realized that AOL really isn't so bad considering how they fund some of my favorite programs and basically let the developers continue their work with little or no influence. Now they're actually trying to eliminate spam at its roots*, not just pile on more filters. This is something all spam-hating internet users should be greatful for.
You're absolutely right about Winamp, Mozilla, and AIM, and anyone out there using any of those products (There are millions, you know who you are) who zealously criticizes AOL is just a hypocrite. It's even worse than Windows users insulting Microsoft because there are lots of widely-available and easy to use alternatives to AOL services.
*I sympathize for those who had their own mailing systems on their home connections blocked.
Besides, do you REALLY want to lock new users out? We were all new users once, why is there so much anger against the newbies?
Damn right. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of skilled IT workers owe their jobs to these people ("Noobs," "n00bz," or "nubs" for you elitist fuckwits out there).
Indeed. Even if MS demanded only a console release with no PC version, id's already successful enough to turn down MS and do what's right rather than what's most profitable.
Thank you for those tips! I have an old laptop that runs in 800x600 and with a few tweaks, particularly zooming on the toolbar, I now have a display that's almost as useful as my desktop running 1280x1024. Now if only I wasn't so lazy, I could curtail the names of all my bookmarks and make my hotlist look real neat:)
Version 6.12 is available here. Sorry version 7 has not made it to FreeBSD yet. Keep in mind that the Linux users had to wait a couple months after the Windows version was released, and we're still only in beta. Hopefully a FreeBSD port will be cake for them now that the Linux port is out.
It seems that other applications have soured your view of adware. Opera's banner ad is just that, a banner ad. No tracking of viewing habits, no pop-ups, just a banner ad like what you might see on any webpage you surf, including Slashdot. I don't think they even allow flashing ads that distract from a web-viewing experience, either.
Let's not forget that ads help fund the internet and not all are inherently evil. It's like Butt-Head once said to Beavis: "You see it's like, you need stuff that sucks to have stuff that's cool."
>> Great question! A related one is: Jane takes a DNA test that shows she is 10% likely to get breast cancer if she doesn't smoke and 90% likely if she does. Jane chooses to smoke nevertheless. To what degree is society ethically obligated to help pay for her treatment when she knew the risks she was taking?
Ten percent of what society would pay for a woman who was told would have a less than one percent chance of getting cancer.
>> To what extent should DNA information and lifestyle choices [. ..] interact to influence insurance rates?
DNA information should not affect insurance rates but lifestyle choices should. Insurance companies should not have the right to raise rates or reject coverage of people with genetic weaknesses. I believe it's unfair to expect someone who is born with some deficiency not to need a little extra help.
Your example of Jane (the smoker) is a perfect example of people who should not be shown much sympathy when things go wrong. Same goes for operating a vehicle without proper safety precautions (Seatbelts for cars, helmets and durable clothing for motorcycles).
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No kidding. This looks like a wireless storage device to me, nothing more. I don't see how it can even be compared to PDAs and laptops. How are people supposed to get any work / gaming done without I/O? I can see how it could be used effectively with a laptop / PDA as a fileserver, but that's about it.
The least Intel could've done is add a headphone jack and make it an MP3/Ogg player to boot.
It didn't bring down Opera 7.11TP5 for Linux :)
You're absolutely right. Even some of the most powerful heatsinks on the market have trouble cooling Athlons without heat transfer compound. If AMD expects us not to use good thermal grease like Arctic Silver, they'd better back up their with one hell of a cooler to make up for it.
They'd better rethink their policy on heatsinks/fans that come in their retail boxes, then. Last I checked, AMD was shipping nothing but shiny paperweights for their heatsinks. They were low-power, low-noise solutions that were targeted soley for people who would buy a fast CPU for web surfing and word processing and not use their CPU to the fullest.
Without exception, all gamers I knew of who used stock heatsinks eventually broke down and bought aftermarket cooling solutions since they were sick of their CPUs overheating and crashing in the middle of a fight in Quake 3. I'm talking about systems that weren't even overclocked and cases with powerful intake and exhaust fans.
AMD heatsink/fans are worthless for anyone who expects to use their processor at its fullest potential.
Sad, but true.
Small correction for that last message. I meant to say that if user are uncomfortable with the CLI, they can most likely use a GUI like KDE.
I won't deny that rm disasters occur, but let's not make the cure worse than the disease. I remember on my old Mandrake distro, I don't know if they still do this, but typing "rm" without -f would bring up a prompt. And without -r, rm will not delete a directory recursively. I think that's enough of a safeguard, as any more than that is simply annoying. Users, if uncomfortable with the GUI, can most likely use a desktop manager for X such as KDE which has a trash can to temporarily store files slated for deletion.
I hate to sound like an elitist, but the CLI isn't for everyone. You can do pretty much anything in Unix using multiple methods, but there comes a point where people choosing a certain method should just know what they're doing. Sure, rm disasters will occur. That's what back-ups are for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this book originally published long before Mac OS9?
I'm pretty sure Raven is developing Quake 4, not id / Carmack.
The article is too generalized. ISP speed and reliability are very much dependend on where you want to order service. I'd advise checking out a site such as Broadband Reports to find the best ISP in any area.
Check page 18 for Linux memory benchmarks using Stream. Unfortunately, memory performance still sucked. Arguably, this is made up for in FPU and MySQL performance. Depends what your purposes are, I guess.
I'm guessing most intelligent sysadmins would rather spend their money to buy a better connection than a lawyer. Just a hunch.
Now you're just asking for a flame war.
Version 7.1.0 Beta 1 is a bit sluggish, as are all Opera betas I've tried in the past. If you're picky about speed, stick with 6 for a while.
Ah, yes. I used to be an AOL user myself eight or nine years ago. Then I switched to a "normal" ISP and gained the typical elitist asshole attitude toward AOL users. Then I realized that AOL really isn't so bad considering how they fund some of my favorite programs and basically let the developers continue their work with little or no influence. Now they're actually trying to eliminate spam at its roots*, not just pile on more filters. This is something all spam-hating internet users should be greatful for.
You're absolutely right about Winamp, Mozilla, and AIM, and anyone out there using any of those products (There are millions, you know who you are) who zealously criticizes AOL is just a hypocrite. It's even worse than Windows users insulting Microsoft because there are lots of widely-available and easy to use alternatives to AOL services.
*I sympathize for those who had their own mailing systems on their home connections blocked.
Besides, do you REALLY want to lock new users out? We were all new users once, why is there so much anger against the newbies?
Damn right. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of skilled IT workers owe their jobs to these people ("Noobs," "n00bz," or "nubs" for you elitist fuckwits out there).
Hmm, I don't remember hearing of any AOL-related fatalities recently. Care to cite an example?
Indeed. Even if MS demanded only a console release with no PC version, id's already successful enough to turn down MS and do what's right rather than what's most profitable.
Thank you for those tips! I have an old laptop that runs in 800x600 and with a few tweaks, particularly zooming on the toolbar, I now have a display that's almost as useful as my desktop running 1280x1024. Now if only I wasn't so lazy, I could curtail the names of all my bookmarks and make my hotlist look real neat :)
Version 6.12 is available here. Sorry version 7 has not made it to FreeBSD yet. Keep in mind that the Linux users had to wait a couple months after the Windows version was released, and we're still only in beta. Hopefully a FreeBSD port will be cake for them now that the Linux port is out.
It seems that other applications have soured your view of adware. Opera's banner ad is just that, a banner ad. No tracking of viewing habits, no pop-ups, just a banner ad like what you might see on any webpage you surf, including Slashdot. I don't think they even allow flashing ads that distract from a web-viewing experience, either.
Let's not forget that ads help fund the internet and not all are inherently evil. It's like Butt-Head once said to Beavis: "You see it's like, you need stuff that sucks to have stuff that's cool."
For now, at least. Let's never forget the dark ages when many seemed to think a megabyte would never be seen put to use.
>> Great question! A related one is: Jane takes a DNA test that shows she is 10% likely to get breast cancer if she doesn't smoke and 90% likely if she does. Jane chooses to smoke nevertheless. To what degree is society ethically obligated to help pay for her treatment when she knew the risks she was taking?
.] interact to influence insurance rates?
Ten percent of what society would pay for a woman who was told would have a less than one percent chance of getting cancer.
>> To what extent should DNA information and lifestyle choices [. .
DNA information should not affect insurance rates but lifestyle choices should. Insurance companies should not have the right to raise rates or reject coverage of people with genetic weaknesses. I believe it's unfair to expect someone who is born with some deficiency not to need a little extra help.
Your example of Jane (the smoker) is a perfect example of people who should not be shown much sympathy when things go wrong. Same goes for operating a vehicle without proper safety precautions (Seatbelts for cars, helmets and durable clothing for motorcycles).
Any opportunity is a good opportunity to pimp Linux gaming.
Spread FUD because of the installer? Did you actually read the article? Barr used Ravage's installer, not Bioware's method.