Yeah, hes right, besides, this card will be about $80-$90, and it's performance is very mediocore. You can get a Radeon 8500 on pricewatch for like $83, and it'll easily outperform this xabre junk, and they have ATI drivers (closed source), and DRI open source drivers, because ATI releases specs to some people.
No, actually they aren't just on the brink... Right now they are almost cought up, but there hasn't been a major card released in a while, the latest being radeon 9700 a few months ago. And, they really should have tested systems more on par with cost. You could easily get a desktop with a radeon 9700, or at least a Geforce Ti 4600! for the cost of a insperion 8200. I agree with the obvious you state here, they do keep writing the same articles, but then the following distance does go up and down. It doesn't really come up more than it goes down though. Back in the 486 days, you could get a laptop that really was like a desktop, but it would cost you like $4000.
No, man there would be quite a few user-root exploits. I.E. if someone had shell access, they could get full access. That's a HUGE difference. They don't need your password to get in with the IE hack.
Go ahead and do it if this "daily-word-of-the-bible" mailinglist is really unsolicited, but if they aren't unsolicited you'll compromise the whole spamlist and make it harder for the people running it. They don't want a bad name for blacklisting stuff that's perfectly legit.
Maybe they SHOULD rename their service to satillite tv. Ever seen the HUGE dishes at the COX offices? Cable providers took over the satillite TV market way back by paying off congressmen, and basically killed regular satillite so only people with cable could get good service. Just like telephones, just because there's no dish at your house, you'd still use a satillite if you called outer mongolia.
Still, they aren't tresspassing until you tell them to leave, and like I said, who's to say you really did? There was a article here on slashdot a few months ago about the whole pre-order geforce 4 from bestbuy thing... BestBuy told the police that he was told to leave several times, he said he wasn't in a big write-up. Really the police acted out of their authority, but I don't know if they usually get away with this, or if it's uncommon.
Well son, you see... The engineers have to work for hours and hours and it costs a lot, and they launch up a sattilite with a big rocket. The satillite is how you get to see spiderman on TV.
Sure, right now they aren't, but how do you think MS Word got such a lift over Wordperfect? They had the influence because it was "Microsoft" and Microsoft was had control of Dos, it had nothing to do with Word or Wordperfect being better. After Linux gets about 50% of the market, Linux apps like OpenOffice (Which really is a excellent product) will start to take over in the same way that Word took over back in the dos days.
When Linux starts taking the lead, it wont be alone either, with OSX base being very similar, and All the big Unix companies (SUN, IBM, SGI, HP?) moving in the same direction, Linux will be similar enough to everything BUT windows to be standard.
Sure you can, but it would be stupid. And there's no provision for you getting the people to leave. They can just sit there, and you really don't have much you can do about it. Sure you can call the police, but they wont get in any trouble, because it's just your word against theirs that you told them to leave. And if you go in a store and document a ton of prices, then get asked to leave, go ahead and leave with the prices, there's nothing they can do about it.
Yeah, but when we were growing up, schools used macs, when people in the real world were using windows. Now people in the real world (well, everything but servers, high end graphics, video editing, computer animation, web site design, programming) heh, that's a lot that's done on Linux. And Linux usage isn't going to get smaller, by the time these kids are in a good job Linux will be standard. Of course by that time they will have forgot it all anyway, so what's the fuss?:-)
Shopping carts are just too expencive, your average shopping cart now costs about $100. Granted they're tough, but if they get a proprietary company to do this it will cost at least $400 total per cart, and people do steal these.
No, but there's tuns of banner servers out there, doubleclick.net has about 20 subdomains, and it would get frustrating for me to "block from this server" every time I see an ad, and still get tuns.
THIS IS NOT RED CHINA! This is the Republic Of China -- ROC. The republic of china was formed right after the chinese empire fell, but they were defeted by the red communists later, and driven out... into Tiawan which is why the TITLE says tiawan. SO, no this isn't about anti-democracy, because Taiwan is very pro-democracy.
Banner-filter by phroggy proggy.org will block banners very well, but it only works inside a proxy now. Mozilla had a chance to implement a banner filtering system, but they opted out. Pretty sad actually
He can sense fire, scare intruders, run about 15m per SECOND, he's still working on the real time video... Really, this is a cool gadget, but who needs it?
I don't really get your point though...
There are dozens of linux distributions, at least, and Microsoft can't keep up with that kind of development. The point is, in the mean time, Linux developers will be able to finish a good distribution, and market it, all before the next windows server comes out. With no new microsoft choice, more admins will be switching over, even if that number is small. And really, people don't use Microsoft products because they are good, they use them because they are "standard", or they feel they can't use anything else.
The longer Microsoft has between releases, the longer Linux has to come up with great releases. Just think how many security patches there will be between 2000 and blackcomb... that's not fun and sysadmins know it.
What kind of price limits are they put to? Same price as in a package of channels? Obviously, if they aren't held to any firm price limits, they'll just charge $20/channel, and nobody will buy it.
I do think this is a good law though, How many people on slashdot would want to get cable just for TechTV?
Well, you're totally off-base to say $1k to match a tivo. Any cheap athlon will do for the processing power, get a what, 40gb hd, and a cheap radeon, and you've got a box for ~$300, and you dont have to pay monthly fees. Sure, it will take a lot of work to get everything working smoothly, but $12/month will cost you over $600 in 5 years.
Some cases?? WHAT!?!? The top end x86 systems run so much faster than top end Apple. A dual Athon MP will totally outdo a Xserve, and cost about 1/3 less. And it really doesn't matter performance/mhz, when Apple costs so much.
That's not what sells TiVos man, TiVos sell because you can skip commercials, and record stuff when you're gone. I dont watch TV, so no point in making a TiVo here, but Russel Pavileck has, he wrote an article for infoworld a while back.
Yeah, TiVo really found themselves in a very narrow market. Without appealing to the general public, TiVo just grabs techies who are too lazy to put together their own box, which is fairly simple. Plus monthly rates are too high.
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Yeah, hes right, besides, this card will be about $80-$90, and it's performance is very mediocore. You can get a Radeon 8500 on pricewatch for like $83, and it'll easily outperform this xabre junk, and they have ATI drivers (closed source), and DRI open source drivers, because ATI releases specs to some people.
Nuff said. If they're on the market now, they beat nVidia.
No, actually they aren't just on the brink... Right now they are almost cought up, but there hasn't been a major card released in a while, the latest being radeon 9700 a few months ago. And, they really should have tested systems more on par with cost. You could easily get a desktop with a radeon 9700, or at least a Geforce Ti 4600! for the cost of a insperion 8200. I agree with the obvious you state here, they do keep writing the same articles, but then the following distance does go up and down. It doesn't really come up more than it goes down though. Back in the 486 days, you could get a laptop that really was like a desktop, but it would cost you like $4000.
No, man there would be quite a few user-root exploits. I.E. if someone had shell access, they could get full access. That's a HUGE difference. They don't need your password to get in with the IE hack.
Go ahead and do it if this "daily-word-of-the-bible" mailinglist is really unsolicited, but if they aren't unsolicited you'll compromise the whole spamlist and make it harder for the people running it. They don't want a bad name for blacklisting stuff that's perfectly legit.
Spammers are generally just stupid enough to click send. They won't likely find this site, and it's not worth their time to mess it up either.
Maybe they SHOULD rename their service to satillite tv. Ever seen the HUGE dishes at the COX offices? Cable providers took over the satillite TV market way back by paying off congressmen, and basically killed regular satillite so only people with cable could get good service. Just like telephones, just because there's no dish at your house, you'd still use a satillite if you called outer mongolia.
Still, they aren't tresspassing until you tell them to leave, and like I said, who's to say you really did? There was a article here on slashdot a few months ago about the whole pre-order geforce 4 from bestbuy thing... BestBuy told the police that he was told to leave several times, he said he wasn't in a big write-up. Really the police acted out of their authority, but I don't know if they usually get away with this, or if it's uncommon.
Well son, you see... The engineers have to work for hours and hours and it costs a lot, and they launch up a sattilite with a big rocket. The satillite is how you get to see spiderman on TV.
Sure, right now they aren't, but how do you think MS Word got such a lift over Wordperfect? They had the influence because it was "Microsoft" and Microsoft was had control of Dos, it had nothing to do with Word or Wordperfect being better. After Linux gets about 50% of the market, Linux apps like OpenOffice (Which really is a excellent product) will start to take over in the same way that Word took over back in the dos days.
When Linux starts taking the lead, it wont be alone either, with OSX base being very similar, and All the big Unix companies (SUN, IBM, SGI, HP?) moving in the same direction, Linux will be similar enough to everything BUT windows to be standard.
Sure you can, but it would be stupid. And there's no provision for you getting the people to leave. They can just sit there, and you really don't have much you can do about it. Sure you can call the police, but they wont get in any trouble, because it's just your word against theirs that you told them to leave. And if you go in a store and document a ton of prices, then get asked to leave, go ahead and leave with the prices, there's nothing they can do about it.
Yeah, but when we were growing up, schools used macs, when people in the real world were using windows. Now people in the real world (well, everything but servers, high end graphics, video editing, computer animation, web site design, programming) heh, that's a lot that's done on Linux. And Linux usage isn't going to get smaller, by the time these kids are in a good job Linux will be standard. Of course by that time they will have forgot it all anyway, so what's the fuss? :-)
Shopping carts are just too expencive, your average shopping cart now costs about $100. Granted they're tough, but if they get a proprietary company to do this it will cost at least $400 total per cart, and people do steal these.
No, but there's tuns of banner servers out there, doubleclick.net has about 20 subdomains, and it would get frustrating for me to "block from this server" every time I see an ad, and still get tuns.
THIS IS NOT RED CHINA! This is the Republic Of China -- ROC. The republic of china was formed right after the chinese empire fell, but they were defeted by the red communists later, and driven out... into Tiawan which is why the TITLE says tiawan. SO, no this isn't about anti-democracy, because Taiwan is very pro-democracy.
Banner-filter by phroggy proggy.org will block banners very well, but it only works inside a proxy now. Mozilla had a chance to implement a banner filtering system, but they opted out. Pretty sad actually
He can sense fire, scare intruders, run about 15m per SECOND, he's still working on the real time video... Really, this is a cool gadget, but who needs it?
I don't really get your point though... There are dozens of linux distributions, at least, and Microsoft can't keep up with that kind of development. The point is, in the mean time, Linux developers will be able to finish a good distribution, and market it, all before the next windows server comes out. With no new microsoft choice, more admins will be switching over, even if that number is small. And really, people don't use Microsoft products because they are good, they use them because they are "standard", or they feel they can't use anything else.
The longer Microsoft has between releases, the longer Linux has to come up with great releases. Just think how many security patches there will be between 2000 and blackcomb... that's not fun and sysadmins know it.
What kind of price limits are they put to? Same price as in a package of channels? Obviously, if they aren't held to any firm price limits, they'll just charge $20/channel, and nobody will buy it.
I do think this is a good law though, How many people on slashdot would want to get cable just for TechTV?
Yeah, unless you were actually good enough to get $100/hour :-)
Well, you're totally off-base to say $1k to match a tivo. Any cheap athlon will do for the processing power, get a what, 40gb hd, and a cheap radeon, and you've got a box for ~$300, and you dont have to pay monthly fees. Sure, it will take a lot of work to get everything working smoothly, but $12/month will cost you over $600 in 5 years.
Some cases?? WHAT!?!? The top end x86 systems run so much faster than top end Apple. A dual Athon MP will totally outdo a Xserve, and cost about 1/3 less. And it really doesn't matter performance/mhz, when Apple costs so much.
That's not what sells TiVos man, TiVos sell because you can skip commercials, and record stuff when you're gone. I dont watch TV, so no point in making a TiVo here, but Russel Pavileck has, he wrote an article for infoworld a while back.
Yeah, TiVo really found themselves in a very narrow market. Without appealing to the general public, TiVo just grabs techies who are too lazy to put together their own box, which is fairly simple. Plus monthly rates are too high.