A little off topic, but this bugged me so much that I thought it was worth mentioning.
No disrespect to Americans, but this statistic came from the USA.. so whilst I am sure none of you American/. readers are guilty of this, SOMEONE out there is...
You know that recently car manufacturers have been going nuts on making more strongly reinforced roofs, and putting about 8 airbags in every single direction.. the reason for this is, and I kid you not, that market research in the USA has shown that a number of Americans dont like having to use their seatbelts. As a result, the motor industry has been ordered to make it as safe a possible in a car to cater for those who dont use the seatbelt.
Now... excuse me.. but am I the only one who finds that f*cking laughable? Its down to the motor industry to cover for some lazy fool who decides that today he wont bother to use his seatbelt, and will sue because he gets seriously injured in a car accident?
I think one of my very earliest, and it really is only more of a still picture than an entire event, is the pram that my mum used to push me and my sister around in. I am almsot exactly 2 years older than her, and it had some weird seat contraption where should be in the pram, and I sat on this seat that went above it - rather an old fashioned design from what I remeber.
I must have been about 2 or 2 and a 1/2 years, and my sister had just been born.
Hm.. I agree that there are more important things to spend our taxes on (like building another millenium dome, giving our uncorrupt politicians pay rises, or cramming yet more refugees into our country*) - but I don't see why our country is so opposed to Europe.
I recently went to the Netherlands on a short break, and got used to the Euro quite quickly.. I think its time we grow up and adopt that.
(*That was sarcasm, for those who didnt get it!):)
Captain : What happen? Mechanic : Someone set us up the bomb! Operator : We get signal. Captain : What! Operator : Main screen turn on. Captain : Its you!! Cats : How are you gentlemen!! Cats : All your base are belong to us. Cats : You are on the way to destruction. Captain : What you say!! Cats : You have no chance to survive, make your time. Cats : Ha ha ha ha...
Outlook XP is far worse than Outlook 2000.. even on a pure IP based workstation, connecting to an Exchange 2000 server it runs like a complete dog. And its not like I am on a slow network - straight into a wall socket, into a core switch, where said Exchange server is connected with 1000mbit fiber.
Can take up to 30 seconds to perform 'check mail' and such tasks..
But then I have also read this could be the fault of Windows XP....
Why not put phone booths up where the guys who are doing the hacking will go, and kit them out with bizarre headsets (with no apparent function) and laptops that have been doused in spray paint.
I can genuinely think of not one reason why the hell you would do this.
And its even funnier that its 'Ogg Vorbis only' - well thank god, that should keep out the non Linux extremists and purists from evesdropping on inferior MP3 to this highly secretive broadbast;)
..the recent announcement by Sony & Matsushita, and their plans to develop Linux into a more suitable system for the home entertainment market.
Mandrake has (in my opinion at least) always been more comfortable in the home / desktop environment (sorry, but I dont believe in using X windows, and graphical tools to admin a Linux server) - perhaps Sony and Matsushita could look at some kind of buy out for Mandrake, and put their expertise to work for them instead?
Time to lose some Karma here, but bullshit. I love Linux, and I think it is a truely great platform - but the way I see it is that a large majority of Linux applications are clones of Windows applications, and quite frankly they are rarely as fast, functional, or reliable.
Mozilla - very good, feature packed, but no way near as good as IE - it pains me to say it, but everyone harps on about the fact that IE doesnt support all the standards that Mozilla does. But if people dont seem to be coding in those standards, and are using the broken Microsoft ones, then what the hell is the point? IE belts along at a pace I have yet to see Mozilla keep up with, and it renders every website correctly, regardless of whether its using an incorrect standard to do it or what.
Nautilus - pretty but terribly slow - and to be quite honest, frustrating to use. I prefer just regular old GNOME with none of the Nautilus stuff bolted on.
XMMS - better than what? Winamp? I dont think so... XMMS is a superb application, but again is missing so many things that make Winamp truely great.
I wont comment on the rest as I dont use them regularly enough to make informed comments on them.
I had started looking at nVidia cards a few months back.. I couldn't really afford to upgrade to a high end card, so wanted to pick up a cheap GeForce2 or something similar to my current Radeon 7200 VIVO, simply because of the excellent Linux driver support compared to ATI. I ended up getting offered a Ti4400 at a crazy price and bought it.
The nVidia Linux drivers are superb (read they WORK) and I have not had any problems getting them working across a range of distributions.
A class act nVidia - i'll be looking to you for my next video card, whenever that is:)
Hm... I found that if you really fill the disc with a lot of tunes it does take a while to find its feet before it starts playing. But after that its the usual 3 or 4 second gap between tunes.
I have occasionally had the drive panic and not read a CD that I know works great and is spotless.. just remove it and put it back in again and it seems to work.
I also get occasional audio glitches in the music.. this is really ear splitting if you have the music cranked right up and you get a loud glitch.
I burned all my music so far onto Verbatim CDRW's so they are all done at low (4x) speed - they seem to behave pretty well to be honest. Might be worth cutting em at low speed and see how you get on?
One of the biggest problems as I see it is that management dont appreciate how important IT has become in their company. Looking at my company, I think they still relate the IT department to the same IT department of five years ago when to be fair the technology was a little easier to grasp and there were much less computers in offices.
Take networking for example - it used to be in our place BNC and the occasional run of UTP cable - all attached to relatively unintelligent devices. Now its all Cisco switches, fiber and cat5e - and it really is a full time job in itself managing a large network with so many 'intelligent' devices.
Also taking into account the addition of so many more servers (SQL, Mail, Finance stuff, Student Records, DNS, Proxy..) - the list is endless. Again, these systems have really bloomed in the past 4 or so years, at least for where I work.
I guess they dont see how much goes on behind doors when it comes to this business..
I got the Pioneer DEH-P7400MP with the Organic EL display on it.. it cost me around £250 ($400'ish) roughly when I bought it in the summer, but the prices have fallen heavily and I suspect you could pick em up for under $300 easily now in the USA. Assuming you are in the USA;)
What a great technology - totally negated the need for a 10x CD changer in the boot at least!:)
Going OT here, but what deck is it you have? Wouldn't be a Pioneer unit by chance?:)
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Yea... admittedly Exchange is not the most amazing product in the world. It still suffers from the same old Microsoft stigma of when something goes wrong with it (for which there is no easy explanation for) you just give it a reboot:)
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A little off topic, but this bugged me so much that I thought it was worth mentioning.
/. readers are guilty of this, SOMEONE out there is...
No disrespect to Americans, but this statistic came from the USA.. so whilst I am sure none of you American
You know that recently car manufacturers have been going nuts on making more strongly reinforced roofs, and putting about 8 airbags in every single direction.. the reason for this is, and I kid you not, that market research in the USA has shown that a number of Americans dont like having to use their seatbelts. As a result, the motor industry has been ordered to make it as safe a possible in a car to cater for those who dont use the seatbelt.
Now... excuse me.. but am I the only one who finds that f*cking laughable? Its down to the motor industry to cover for some lazy fool who decides that today he wont bother to use his seatbelt, and will sue because he gets seriously injured in a car accident?
Give me strength.
I think one of my very earliest, and it really is only more of a still picture than an entire event, is the pram that my mum used to push me and my sister around in. I am almsot exactly 2 years older than her, and it had some weird seat contraption where should be in the pram, and I sat on this seat that went above it - rather an old fashioned design from what I remeber.
I must have been about 2 or 2 and a 1/2 years, and my sister had just been born.
Hm.. I agree that there are more important things to spend our taxes on (like building another millenium dome, giving our uncorrupt politicians pay rises, or cramming yet more refugees into our country*) - but I don't see why our country is so opposed to Europe.
:)
I recently went to the Netherlands on a short break, and got used to the Euro quite quickly.. I think its time we grow up and adopt that.
(*That was sarcasm, for those who didnt get it!)
Hehe... wonder if Hubert J Farnsworth is a relative of his :)
;)
The article would have been better if they started with 'Good news everyone...'
SGI actually own MIPS... so whilst SGI technically design and produce them, they still use the MIPS name to market them under.
How about the slashdot reader who IS employed, and is reading and moderating on a day off from work?
Way to cover all the bases.
The voices had just the right tone for :
...
:)
Captain : What happen?
Mechanic : Someone set us up the bomb!
Operator : We get signal.
Captain : What!
Operator : Main screen turn on.
Captain : Its you!!
Cats : How are you gentlemen!!
Cats : All your base are belong to us.
Cats : You are on the way to destruction.
Captain : What you say!!
Cats : You have no chance to survive, make your time.
Cats : Ha ha ha ha
Sorry..
I wish Apple would hurry the hell up and read the 'Porting OSX to x86' guide! :)
That would be some serious competition, and I know for one that I would definately go and buy a copy of OSX!
I think OSX is a fantastic systems, but I just cant afford, nor can justify the buying of a mac.
Could end up going like the classic Yul Brynner film, Futureworld, which is what I think that classic Simpsons episode is based on.
Outlook XP is far worse than Outlook 2000.. even on a pure IP based workstation, connecting to an Exchange 2000 server it runs like a complete dog. And its not like I am on a slow network - straight into a wall socket, into a core switch, where said Exchange server is connected with 1000mbit fiber.
Can take up to 30 seconds to perform 'check mail' and such tasks..
But then I have also read this could be the fault of Windows XP....
What... other than cost, stability, performance, and flexability?
Why not put phone booths up where the guys who are doing the hacking will go, and kit them out with bizarre headsets (with no apparent function) and laptops that have been doused in spray paint.
:)
Hack the planet!
And yes, I am kidding
No offence, but I am more than prepared to let an Iraq war never come to pass. Its vaporwar (ho ho) that I am prepared to let go!
Nope... you are absolutely right.
;)
I can genuinely think of not one reason why the hell you would do this.
And its even funnier that its 'Ogg Vorbis only' - well thank god, that should keep out the non Linux extremists and purists from evesdropping on inferior MP3 to this highly secretive broadbast
..the recent announcement by Sony & Matsushita, and their plans to develop Linux into a more suitable system for the home entertainment market.
Mandrake has (in my opinion at least) always been more comfortable in the home / desktop environment (sorry, but I dont believe in using X windows, and graphical tools to admin a Linux server) - perhaps Sony and Matsushita could look at some kind of buy out for Mandrake, and put their expertise to work for them instead?
Hahaha.....
:)
Top notch.. not had many laugh out loud comments for some while
Superior software?
Time to lose some Karma here, but bullshit. I love Linux, and I think it is a truely great platform - but the way I see it is that a large majority of Linux applications are clones of Windows applications, and quite frankly they are rarely as fast, functional, or reliable.
Mozilla - very good, feature packed, but no way near as good as IE - it pains me to say it, but everyone harps on about the fact that IE doesnt support all the standards that Mozilla does. But if people dont seem to be coding in those standards, and are using the broken Microsoft ones, then what the hell is the point? IE belts along at a pace I have yet to see Mozilla keep up with, and it renders every website correctly, regardless of whether its using an incorrect standard to do it or what.
Nautilus - pretty but terribly slow - and to be quite honest, frustrating to use. I prefer just regular old GNOME with none of the Nautilus stuff bolted on.
XMMS - better than what? Winamp? I dont think so... XMMS is a superb application, but again is missing so many things that make Winamp truely great.
I wont comment on the rest as I dont use them regularly enough to make informed comments on them.
Indeed...
:)
I had started looking at nVidia cards a few months back.. I couldn't really afford to upgrade to a high end card, so wanted to pick up a cheap GeForce2 or something similar to my current Radeon 7200 VIVO, simply because of the excellent Linux driver support compared to ATI. I ended up getting offered a Ti4400 at a crazy price and bought it.
The nVidia Linux drivers are superb (read they WORK) and I have not had any problems getting them working across a range of distributions.
A class act nVidia - i'll be looking to you for my next video card, whenever that is
A very interesting read, and a bit of insight into the 'God of Games'.
:)
I thought that as a reader of Slashdot, John Carmack was our resident god of games?
Sheesh.. how broad an assumption is that?
How the hell would you automatically assume that 470 lifesize borg figures were all sold to Open Source 'zealots'?!
They are more likely to be bought by wealthy collectors, or movie memorabilia stores.
Hm... I found that if you really fill the disc with a lot of tunes it does take a while to find its feet before it starts playing. But after that its the usual 3 or 4 second gap between tunes.
I have occasionally had the drive panic and not read a CD that I know works great and is spotless.. just remove it and put it back in again and it seems to work.
I also get occasional audio glitches in the music.. this is really ear splitting if you have the music cranked right up and you get a loud glitch.
I burned all my music so far onto Verbatim CDRW's so they are all done at low (4x) speed - they seem to behave pretty well to be honest. Might be worth cutting em at low speed and see how you get on?
One of the biggest problems as I see it is that management dont appreciate how important IT has become in their company. Looking at my company, I think they still relate the IT department to the same IT department of five years ago when to be fair the technology was a little easier to grasp and there were much less computers in offices.
Take networking for example - it used to be in our place BNC and the occasional run of UTP cable - all attached to relatively unintelligent devices. Now its all Cisco switches, fiber and cat5e - and it really is a full time job in itself managing a large network with so many 'intelligent' devices.
Also taking into account the addition of so many more servers (SQL, Mail, Finance stuff, Student Records, DNS, Proxy..) - the list is endless. Again, these systems have really bloomed in the past 4 or so years, at least for where I work.
I guess they dont see how much goes on behind doors when it comes to this business..
Ah right..
;)
:)
I got the Pioneer DEH-P7400MP with the Organic EL display on it.. it cost me around £250 ($400'ish) roughly when I bought it in the summer, but the prices have fallen heavily and I suspect you could pick em up for under $300 easily now in the USA. Assuming you are in the USA
What a great technology - totally negated the need for a 10x CD changer in the boot at least!
Going OT here, but what deck is it you have? Wouldn't be a Pioneer unit by chance? :)
Yea... admittedly Exchange is not the most amazing product in the world. It still suffers from the same old Microsoft stigma of when something goes wrong with it (for which there is no easy explanation for) you just give it a reboot :)