Yes, this is common amongst hard disk replacements. Our company bought a bunch of 6.4 GB Quantum Fireball SE's and we had to replace ALL of them. Yes, they all died on us! So we RMA'd those and got some 10 and 15 GB 7200 RPM drives back instead.:)
Well, they weren't lying about the clockspeed. Incidentally, I noticed large gains in applications which were dependant on floating point performance while using that processor (as opposed to a friends 486dx4-100) as well as higher floating point in benchmarks. It wasn't as fast as a P90... not quite (there were upgrade chips based on that brand of CPU which claimed to be equivalent to a P75)
I had one for many years. I'd say it would compare favorably to a stock P75.
I haven't really been following this religious debate, but i'm dying to know: is it the KDE/Gnome developers who are competing with one another or the KDE/Gnome users who are creating this illusion of competition by engaging in some stupid holy war over a GUI...
I guess people will fight over anything these days...
Yes, but this was not what I was rebutting. He claimed that native Linux versions of Windows software is not as fast -- which is wrong (all other things being equal, of course)
... which is the core of... an Operating System! Ok, what do you want me to call the rest then? How about I call it "GNU/Linux"? Will that be more technically correct? I have to call the kernel and the rest of what makes up the OS SOMETHING, right? I could call it "Redhat" but then that wouldn't really be correct either, would it?
Kiss my white, hairy, ass. Linux is for geeks, not for gamers. And if you think otherwise, you're probably flaming pissed over all that Enron stock you bought off a 'hot tip'.
Lamer,
Plenty of games run fine under WineX. They may not be as fast, the fonts are the same (clear the bullshit out of your throat) as under Windows, any game with a 4 or higher rating is just as stable. Performance will improve with time... and the price isn't that unreasonable.
Uh, we HAVE been bugging developers to make native versions... newsflash: it isn't working. I think WineX is a good thing(tm.. sorry, had to say it) at first, as it will lure new users if they are able to play their Windows games under Linux. If the userbase increases, it gives developers more of a reason to write native versions of the software.
The entire purpose of Linux is to avoid MS? Oh, that's rich. Maybe you should start bitching at the Samba team and the kernel devs who add in optional support for the Windows file system.
Please... Linux is NOT a religion. It is an Operating System, a means to an end. Nothing less. Nothing more. (and before anyone says it, yes I understand the philosophy of Open Source and even agree with much of it. I just don't believe it is the be-all, end-all of software development)
I'm not into cars and car mechanics, but a friend (who apparently is into this kind of thing) that converting a car with a fuel-injection system to use alcohol is impossible (it was, however, possible with carbourators(sp?))
I do have a problem with this because other brands of video cards can do the same things the Geforce 4 (eg. Radeon 9700 Pro) chipset can do... I like nVidia's products (I refuse to buy anything other than an nVidia card right now) but I do not support them in buying off developers so their products do not work as well with other cards which have the same capabilities.
No, not iFolder. I'm referring to the browser-based "client" (for lack of a better word)... I know it provides file access through a browser-based interface (not just file synchronization, like iFolder) but probably not print services (which would be, obviously, iPrint)
We have about 6 plants in our company and we are rolling it out corporate-wide. I am not under NDA or anything:)
The web-based client is available in Netware 6, isn't it?
a) Learn about Quake. Quake's insane success was mostly because of massive online acceptance which was mostly due to piracy. This increased the value of the game, and sold more copies. id admitted as much. Quake is without a doubt the single *worst* example you could have chosen of a piece of software having incentive to have strong DRM. Almost any other piece of software would be a more valid argument.
I don't think that Quake 3 is a bad example, since it has an online CD-key database that has never been broken (or so they claim) therefore Q3's (not Q1 or Q2 if they had a similar online protection scheme) online success could probably not be attributed to piracy.
I've heard this argument before used by many people regarding software. I'm not entirely sure I agree that piracy == increased sales.
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Yes, this is common amongst hard disk replacements. Our company bought a bunch of 6.4 GB Quantum Fireball SE's and we had to replace ALL of them. Yes, they all died on us! So we RMA'd those and got some 10 and 15 GB 7200 RPM drives back instead. :)
Well, they weren't lying about the clockspeed. Incidentally, I noticed large gains in applications which were dependant on floating point performance while using that processor (as opposed to a friends 486dx4-100) as well as higher floating point in benchmarks. It wasn't as fast as a P90 ... not quite (there were upgrade chips based on that brand of CPU which claimed to be equivalent to a P75)
I had one for many years. I'd say it would compare favorably to a stock P75.
Intel bought DEC? :)
Yeah, we got some great bombing practice out of your Presidents' home about 190 years ago!
The only True Windows Operating Systems are Windows NT, Windows 2000 & Windows XP
Don't forget Windows CE!!!
Hey, I said i'd never run a Microsoft OS again and i'm sticking to it. :)
I haven't really been following this religious debate, but i'm dying to know: is it the KDE/Gnome developers who are competing with one another or the KDE/Gnome users who are creating this illusion of competition by engaging in some stupid holy war over a GUI...
I guess people will fight over anything these days...
There will obviously always be an update you "really need" to some program in the distro - now it's KDE 3.1, then probably XFree 4.3...
There probably will be an update you "really need" if your card isn't supported by the currently supported version of Xfree86 supported in Debian.
Yes, but this was not what I was rebutting. He claimed that native Linux versions of Windows software is not as fast -- which is wrong (all other things being equal, of course)
... which is the core of ... an Operating System! Ok, what do you want me to call the rest then? How about I call it "GNU/Linux"? Will that be more technically correct? I have to call the kernel and the rest of what makes up the OS SOMETHING, right? I could call it "Redhat" but then that wouldn't really be correct either, would it?
Lamer,
Plenty of games run fine under WineX. They may not be as fast, the fonts are the same (clear the bullshit out of your throat) as under Windows, any game with a 4 or higher rating is just as stable. Performance will improve with time... and the price isn't that unreasonable.
Of course! Doom 3 is going to be coded in directX, as a matter of fact! Oh wait, no it's NOT it's being coded in OpenGL! Wow, imagine that.
Uh, right:
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Uh, we HAVE been bugging developers to make native versions... newsflash: it isn't working. I think WineX is a good thing(tm .. sorry, had to say it) at first, as it will lure new users if they are able to play their Windows games under Linux. If the userbase increases, it gives developers more of a reason to write native versions of the software.
The entire purpose of Linux is to avoid MS? Oh, that's rich. Maybe you should start bitching at the Samba team and the kernel devs who add in optional support for the Windows file system.
Please... Linux is NOT a religion. It is an Operating System, a means to an end. Nothing less. Nothing more. (and before anyone says it, yes I understand the philosophy of Open Source and even agree with much of it. I just don't believe it is the be-all, end-all of software development)
Good for Scientific American magazine... however just because they say it doesn't make it true.
... spin it just the right way and you can put forth a convincing argument which could prove ANYTHING.
Economics are just like politics and science
I'm not into cars and car mechanics, but a friend (who apparently is into this kind of thing) that converting a car with a fuel-injection system to use alcohol is impossible (it was, however, possible with carbourators(sp?))
Any truth to this?
I do have a problem with this because other brands of video cards can do the same things the Geforce 4 (eg. Radeon 9700 Pro) chipset can do ... I like nVidia's products (I refuse to buy anything other than an nVidia card right now) but I do not support them in buying off developers so their products do not work as well with other cards which have the same capabilities.
No, your first gen. Radeon has Transforming and Lighting, not Pixel shaders. The ATI cards with Pixel Shaders are the 8500's and upwards.
The only mobile Radeon with pixel shaders is the mobile Radeon 9000.
Yes, but he's referring to the superiority of the console itself, not the games.
I wonder how Windows must look then. Yikes!
No, not iFolder. I'm referring to the browser-based "client" (for lack of a better word) ... I know it provides file access through a browser-based interface (not just file synchronization, like iFolder) but probably not print services (which would be, obviously, iPrint)
We have about 6 plants in our company and we are rolling it out corporate-wide. I am not under NDA or anything :)
The web-based client is available in Netware 6, isn't it?
Oh wait. I'm listed as the contributor! Gosh golly gee, Beav!
I don't think that Quake 3 is a bad example, since it has an online CD-key database that has never been broken (or so they claim) therefore Q3's (not Q1 or Q2 if they had a similar online protection scheme) online success could probably not be attributed to piracy.
I've heard this argument before used by many people regarding software. I'm not entirely sure I agree that piracy == increased sales.