Ive had nothing but praises for their laptops. As far has the home machines go, i wouldnt have one since i think thier quality is lacking, but i would love to get my hands on a cluster of HP9000 with a Rs/6000 chips.
Imatation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what i think Lucas is trying to do here is prevent new and un-imatated works being distributed in the form of new characters and new stories and sub plots that infringe on his franchise. I personally think that SW has been given a life of its own, and Lucas is killing it off very quickly.
He should leave it alone for other writers to expand and make the story grow the way Star Trek has gone. Unfortunatly the side affects (as seen in the ST series) is that inconsistancy can creep in and make stories incoherent and unbelieavable.
With a HPT370 driver, he is probably running a via mobo of soem type. From this little fact id bet the farm that its his via chipset and creative that doesent get along,like the spoiled brats they are, they never play together nicely:) I had weeks of trouble getting my Soundblaster Live! stable on my VP6. I would try and install the via 4in1 drivers and change pci slots. Hint, use PCI slots 2(IRQ only shared with slot 1) or 6(which has an IRQ to itself). That alone will probably get rid of most of his stability problems.
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I support over 5000 dialup users on a dual mp system, this guy has either a very large budget, smoking crack, or neds to spend the rest of alloted budget quicly before the new fiscal year.
Why dont they take the 50+ million and hire a few more people to squash some bugs. I know that I wouldnt have any problems with my salery being augmented, plus mabey they can get some real programmers in there and start writing some good code (E.G. non-bloated, fast, clean code)
There is a LOT of money in law enforcement, what do you think happens to all the siezed goods and cash, 9 out of 10 times it goes back to the law enforcement agency that siezed it.
This is basicly what i sent in. Id love to buy a mac, but the cost involved it too high. For someone who has a lot of money invested in x86 software, buying all my apps over again is going to be a lot of money, add to that the fact that you have to pay 2 to 3 times the amount for comperable hardware and you have a small fortune that could have been spent elsewhere (like a GL1 for instance). Apple, lower your prices on the hardware to a decent level and well talk, otherwise, you wont have my buisness anytime soon.
Get a DELL, they have nvida chipsets, the UXGA screens can do 1600x1200 (ON THE LCD SCREEN) and they make great gaming machines. Too bad they are expensive.
How about one of the soldam pandora+ cases and mount a LCD on a swivle bar ala the new imacs. Then you could say "Oh yeah well look at this sweet beauty" to a mac fanatic.
Have you ever tried downloading 149 rar files, or mp3's from an fserve that only allows 2 simultanious downloads. Point and click is easier, better yet, lets go back to open ftp servers.
Hard numbers are, and this is for personal mass produced CD's in a small run, not the millions that the record companys make (which makes it cheeper) about a buck per CD. Look for any small run CD manufactures and you find with a 4 color insert, a jewel case and a stamped cd (in lots of 1000 or more of coarse) runs anywhere between 0.90 and 1.25 or more. Throw in a box (for software manuf) and it goes to between 3.50 to 7.00.
<OT> I agree, Dvorak has been a rambling nut for a couple of years now, and Computer Shopper is going the way of the dodo. I remember when it was a inch and a half thick, and now its probably 150 pages or so. Even still i subscribe to read Hard Edge. </OT>
Anyhow back to the topic at hand, I dont think he sounds like a nut, he made some pretty strong poits, would you pay just as much for an OS as for the hardware itself? I didnt think so. M$ knows this and is desperately trying to change their buisness model to cope with the times. Kudos to them, either move with the times or die a stagnant horrible death, but i think its all for not. Too little to late and millions have allready caught on and refuse to buy into the "Software as a service" motto.
Not neccesarily, look at the first generation DVD players before they had CDR/RW and DVD-R/RW capability. There were people makeing quite a nice chunk of change unsoldering surface mounted eeproms, reprogramming them and soldering them back on. You can get these chips even to this day, but there a lot cheeper now, like the $20 chip you can pop into a APEX to get rid of macrovision.
If 8.4% of the us bandwidth is movies, then i wonder what is the total share is for "underground" material. If you cound all the warez, mp3's and whatever else, that can easily be 1/3rd of the whole US bandwidth. Thats some serious numbers when you figure out that its about 666.66...(The numbers come out wierd i know.) Terabits per day.
I didnt say PowerPC i said Power arch.. as in Power Generation 5 and Power Generation 6 CPU's used by IBM on their OS/390's. Thay are basicly 8 CPU's in one CPU. 2 cpu's per pack 4 pack's per die.
Reminds me of IBM's Power arch for their z/series mainframes. 1 Cpu is actually 8 CPU's. Is it any faster?? IMHO not any faster then if you had 8 actual CPU's in there. Its really more of a space/cost/development cutting move then a performance move. Intel just wants to spin it that way (As they allways do EG. MHZ inflation 2 GHz P4 !> 1..6GHz P3)
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my bad PA-RISC, not enough caffine yet :)
Ive had nothing but praises for their laptops. As far has the home machines go, i wouldnt have one since i think thier quality is lacking, but i would love to get my hands on a cluster of HP9000 with a Rs/6000 chips.
Imatation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what i think Lucas is trying to do here is prevent new and un-imatated works being distributed in the form of new characters and new stories and sub plots that infringe on his franchise. I personally think that SW has been given a life of its own, and Lucas is killing it off very quickly.
He should leave it alone for other writers to expand and make the story grow the way Star Trek has gone. Unfortunatly the side affects (as seen in the ST series) is that inconsistancy can creep in and make stories incoherent and unbelieavable.
Ill do it !! Ill do it !! :)
Simple, just tunnel it through ssh, as long as you can figure out what TCP ports your using, it shouldnt be a big deal at all.
With a HPT370 driver, he is probably running a via mobo of soem type. From this little fact id bet the farm that its his via chipset and creative that doesent get along,like the spoiled brats they are, they never play together nicely :) I had weeks of trouble getting my Soundblaster Live! stable on my VP6. I would try and install the via 4in1 drivers and change pci slots. Hint, use PCI slots 2(IRQ only shared with slot 1) or 6(which has an IRQ to itself). That alone will probably get rid of most of his stability problems.
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I support over 5000 dialup users on a dual mp system, this guy has either a very large budget, smoking crack, or neds to spend the rest of alloted budget quicly before the new fiscal year.
Why dont they take the 50+ million and hire a few more people to squash some bugs. I know that I wouldnt have any problems with my salery being augmented, plus mabey they can get some real programmers in there and start writing some good code (E.G. non-bloated, fast, clean code)
There is a LOT of money in law enforcement, what do you think happens to all the siezed goods and cash, 9 out of 10 times it goes back to the law enforcement agency that siezed it.
This is basicly what i sent in. Id love to buy a mac, but the cost involved it too high. For someone who has a lot of money invested in x86 software, buying all my apps over again is going to be a lot of money, add to that the fact that you have to pay 2 to 3 times the amount for comperable hardware and you have a small fortune that could have been spent elsewhere (like a GL1 for instance). Apple, lower your prices on the hardware to a decent level and well talk, otherwise, you wont have my buisness anytime soon.
At least then they would be on FreeBSD :)
Get a DELL, they have nvida chipsets, the UXGA screens can do 1600x1200 (ON THE LCD SCREEN) and they make great gaming machines. Too bad they are expensive.
How about one of the soldam pandora+ cases and mount a LCD on a swivle bar ala the new imacs. Then you could say "Oh yeah well look at this sweet beauty" to a mac fanatic.
Have you ever tried downloading 149 rar files, or mp3's from an fserve that only allows 2 simultanious downloads. Point and click is easier, better yet, lets go back to open ftp servers.
I thought they only pay the tax if the disc's are labeled "For Audio" only. Didnt think they payed for regular data cd's. Realy its just a loophole.
Hard numbers are, and this is for personal mass produced CD's in a small run, not the millions that the record companys make (which makes it cheeper) about a buck per CD. Look for any small run CD manufactures and you find with a 4 color insert, a jewel case and a stamped cd (in lots of 1000 or more of coarse) runs anywhere between 0.90 and 1.25 or more. Throw in a box (for software manuf) and it goes to between 3.50 to 7.00.
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I agree, Dvorak has been a rambling nut for a couple of years now, and Computer Shopper is going the way of the dodo. I remember when it was a inch and a half thick, and now its probably 150 pages or so. Even still i subscribe to read Hard Edge.
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Anyhow back to the topic at hand, I dont think he sounds like a nut, he made some pretty strong poits, would you pay just as much for an OS as for the hardware itself? I didnt think so. M$ knows this and is desperately trying to change their buisness model to cope with the times. Kudos to them, either move with the times or die a stagnant horrible death, but i think its all for not. Too little to late and millions have allready caught on and refuse to buy into the "Software as a service" motto.
Not neccesarily, look at the first generation DVD players before they had CDR/RW and DVD-R/RW capability. There were people makeing quite a nice chunk of change unsoldering surface mounted eeproms, reprogramming them and soldering them back on. You can get these chips even to this day, but there a lot cheeper now, like the $20 chip you can pop into a APEX to get rid of macrovision.
And DeCSS not DMCA
If 8.4% of the us bandwidth is movies, then i wonder what is the total share is for "underground" material. If you cound all the warez, mp3's and whatever else, that can easily be 1/3rd of the whole US bandwidth. Thats some serious numbers when you figure out that its about 666.66...(The numbers come out wierd i know.) Terabits per day.
No kidding, even before DeCSS, didnt a programmer hook the device driver and just write the data to disk. If it can be read it can be copied.
I didnt say PowerPC i said Power arch.. as in Power Generation 5 and Power Generation 6 CPU's used by IBM on their OS/390's. Thay are basicly 8 CPU's in one CPU. 2 cpu's per pack 4 pack's per die.
Reminds me of IBM's Power arch for their z/series mainframes. 1 Cpu is actually 8 CPU's. Is it any faster?? IMHO not any faster then if you had 8 actual CPU's in there. Its really more of a space/cost/development cutting move then a performance move. Intel just wants to spin it that way (As they allways do EG. MHZ inflation 2 GHz P4 !> 1..6GHz P3)
OK that definition raises another question. How can a phrase be in the dictionary??