well, macs are pretty slow now compared to PC's, I mean alot of people who have them only have 500-700mhz processors and ati rage or geforce2 mx cards.. Honestly most macs just aren't FAST enough to run games.
I don't understand the mentality of alot of people in regards to digital copyright. Personally, I see it as if you don't like digital copyright, don't buy products that use it. The people who make movies and such have the right to sell the product in any way they please, yet people for some reason feel they are 'entitled' to use it any way they want. I see it as if you don't like the copyright scheme's they use, don't buy the product. Obviously most people don't care about the copyright protection as there has been no decline in the purchase of movies, even though they are released on the DVD format which has alot of protection. If people continue to buy movies that use copyright protection scheme's then the companies will continue to use the scheme's.
As long as you can handle selecting what packages you want, and install a module for your network card (and if you can't do this, why are you running linux?)
And people wounder why linux is not catching on quickly on the desktop...
Would you return your pda because it only displays 58000 colours instead of 65000? I mean, unless you are doing photo editing on it, it doesn't really matter. Besides, not having to display the extra 7000 colours saves energy.
Maybe they mean distracted, I doubt that cell phones literally lower your IQ when you use them. Besides, I know alot of intelligent people who use cell phones, and it hasn't seemed to affect their overall intelligence.
Fan sites are just what baseball needs, as it's popularity has been seriously declining over years, being sidelined by more trendy sports such as basketball (which in itself is a joke, as it's 8 foot tall black guys throwing a ball into a hoop a foot above them). The article mentioned that they had advertising on their sites (and thus could in theory make money, which the teams wouldn't want) but most sites these days need advertising just to cover bandwidth costs. It's baseball digging it's own grave.
But then again, who here really cares about sports anyway?
why has the parent been modded as troll? It's all true, my school uses MAC OS and webstar servers and it's never been hacked (there are 10,000 people who go there as well as a large computer science department)
schools have computers, at least mine does. On them the program installed is word.
I have had tests before where I had to write an essay in the alloted time in the computer lab, and if you don't know how to use word then you are screwed.
Word is the standard for word processing on windows. If HP doesn't ship it people will be forced to buy it. Wordperfect hasn't had widespread use since 1995, and I doubt people would want to switch back from the MS word standard. Buying a HP box would now be a bad choice for a student, as most schools including mine use word exclusively and students are expected to know how to use it. Bad move HP!
Well in this case the comparison is between two x86 cpu's, the athlon and the pentium4. Both would support standard x86 instructions. If you want to measure how fast the cpu is you would want the program to be unoptimized. Perhaps SSE would be fine since both cpu's support it.
Using optimizations wouldn't be fair unless you had a good idea of the percentage of programs that ARE optimized for one or both cpu's. Many new programs are optimized for both cpu's, such as Cubase SX, a software studio program. I suppose you could use one of those programs as a benchmark in addition to the raw unoptimized open-source one so you can get an idea of how well the cpu performs with or without it's appropriate optimizations. Also, it makes a difference wether there is a free version of the optimized compiler, because if there isn't, there is a higher chance that programs made by individuals at home (who can't afford a 500$ compiler) would not be optimized.
Obviously, the best bet for cpu benchmarks would be an open-source one compiled using a standard compiler. This is a case where open-source really shines.
Compare and contrast to systems in Florida and Germany
Germany = state of the art open source based system
Florida = unauditable mystery box system
No surprises here, I would expect such systems in America's 'joke' puppet government owned by corporations verse Europe's 'real' and refined governments.
Does slashdot have some sort of deal with the new york times? You continue to post links that require 'registering'. Yesturday however it was stated slashdot would not link to the washington post because they began to require registering.
Also, I have seen ads on slashdot for Simone, the new movie about a computer generated movie star. I though slashdot was against the mpaa? I have since added slashdot's ad servers to my hostfile so I am not subjected to mpaa propaghada.
I don't know if you noticed, but America was bought out by big corporations recently. There is no more 'right to backup'.
The CEO's of those companies are, right now, heating their collective asses by a fancy fireplace which is feuled by the tattered remains of the Constitution.
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(sarcasm) YES! This is great news!
Thanks to this new technology, the price of CD's should plummet, as it will be impossible to rip them!
Finally, they have solved the problem of piracy and can now lower the price of CD's since they will not be 'losing money' anymore (a slow economy doesn't count) (/sarcasm) Yeah, right. I bet those greedy pigs will raise the price of cd's even more citing the need to produce 'anti-theft technology'
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well, macs are pretty slow now compared to PC's, I mean alot of people who have them only have 500-700mhz processors and ati rage or geforce2 mx cards.. Honestly most macs just aren't FAST enough to run games.
I don't understand the mentality of alot of people in regards to digital copyright. Personally, I see it as if you don't like digital copyright, don't buy products that use it. The people who make movies and such have the right to sell the product in any way they please, yet people for some reason feel they are 'entitled' to use it any way they want. I see it as if you don't like the copyright scheme's they use, don't buy the product. Obviously most people don't care about the copyright protection as there has been no decline in the purchase of movies, even though they are released on the DVD format which has alot of protection. If people continue to buy movies that use copyright protection scheme's then the companies will continue to use the scheme's.
As long as you can handle selecting what packages you want, and install a module for your network card (and if you can't do this, why are you running linux?)
And people wounder why linux is not catching on quickly on the desktop...
My athlon xp 1800 system boots winXP in 25 seconds and I have several user accounts.
My friend's top of the line g4 system with 384mb ram takes about 2 or 3 minutes to boot OS X, so you are obviously lying.
Would you return your pda because it only displays 58000 colours instead of 65000? I mean, unless you are doing photo editing on it, it doesn't really matter. Besides, not having to display the extra 7000 colours saves energy.
it doesn't, but it protects me, a copyright holder.
Maybe they mean distracted, I doubt that cell phones literally lower your IQ when you use them. Besides, I know alot of intelligent people who use cell phones, and it hasn't seemed to affect their overall intelligence.
Fan sites are just what baseball needs, as it's popularity has been seriously declining over years, being sidelined by more trendy sports such as basketball (which in itself is a joke, as it's 8 foot tall black guys throwing a ball into a hoop a foot above them). The article mentioned that they had advertising on their sites (and thus could in theory make money, which the teams wouldn't want) but most sites these days need advertising just to cover bandwidth costs. It's baseball digging it's own grave.
But then again, who here really cares about sports anyway?
Google's cached page feature could give anyone in china the ability to see any censored sites (or at least older copies).
yes, apache rocks. I run it on my win2k server and it is stable as a rock, go apache!
why has the parent been modded as troll? It's all true, my school uses MAC OS and webstar servers and it's never been hacked (there are 10,000 people who go there as well as a large computer science department)
teachers have jobs, students just bum around at home and have lots of time to play on the internet.
Canadian police agent: Sir, I found something very disturbing in this person's web history!
Canadian detective: Alright let me see it...
Canadian police agent: One second, here it is...
Canadian detective: My god what is that! is that man tearing open his own a.....
Canadian police agent: he followed this link from a site known as Slashdot.org sir!
schools have computers, at least mine does. On them the program installed is word.
I have had tests before where I had to write an essay in the alloted time in the computer lab, and if you don't know how to use word then you are screwed.
Word is the standard for word processing on windows. If HP doesn't ship it people will be forced to buy it. Wordperfect hasn't had widespread use since 1995, and I doubt people would want to switch back from the MS word standard. Buying a HP box would now be a bad choice for a student, as most schools including mine use word exclusively and students are expected to know how to use it. Bad move HP!
now linux won't support mp3, a standard, but I'm sure windows will.
I don't think alot of people are going to switch to linux now if it doesn't play a standard format.
I'm sure the new york times makes a healthy profit selling people's information that they collect from mandatory registration to advertising firms.
Well in this case the comparison is between two x86 cpu's, the athlon and the pentium4. Both would support standard x86 instructions. If you want to measure how fast the cpu is you would want the program to be unoptimized. Perhaps SSE would be fine since both cpu's support it.
Using optimizations wouldn't be fair unless you had a good idea of the percentage of programs that ARE optimized for one or both cpu's. Many new programs are optimized for both cpu's, such as Cubase SX, a software studio program. I suppose you could use one of those programs as a benchmark in addition to the raw unoptimized open-source one so you can get an idea of how well the cpu performs with or without it's appropriate optimizations. Also, it makes a difference wether there is a free version of the optimized compiler, because if there isn't, there is a higher chance that programs made by individuals at home (who can't afford a 500$ compiler) would not be optimized.
if you are measuring raw performance of the cpu, then you would want the program to not be optimized for any cpu.
Obviously, the best bet for cpu benchmarks would be an open-source one compiled using a standard compiler. This is a case where open-source really shines.
Compare and contrast to systems in Florida and Germany
Germany = state of the art open source based system
Florida = unauditable mystery box system
No surprises here, I would expect such systems in America's 'joke' puppet government owned by corporations verse Europe's 'real' and refined governments.
Does slashdot have some sort of deal with the new york times? You continue to post links that require 'registering'. Yesturday however it was stated slashdot would not link to the washington post because they began to require registering.
Also, I have seen ads on slashdot for Simone, the new movie about a computer generated movie star. I though slashdot was against the mpaa? I have since added slashdot's ad servers to my hostfile so I am not subjected to mpaa propaghada.
I was not aware they were offering ipod software for windows now. This is obviously a new development.
Claiming my post is a troll though is pretty pathetic, the other points I mentioned still stand.
I don't know if you noticed, but America was bought out by big corporations recently. There is no more 'right to backup'.
The CEO's of those companies are, right now, heating their collective asses by a fancy fireplace which is feuled by the tattered remains of the Constitution.
(sarcasm)
YES! This is great news!
Thanks to this new technology, the price of CD's should plummet, as it will be impossible to rip them!
Finally, they have solved the problem of piracy and can now lower the price of CD's since they will not be 'losing money' anymore (a slow economy doesn't count)
(/sarcasm)
Yeah, right. I bet those greedy pigs will raise the price of cd's even more citing the need to produce 'anti-theft technology'