I can't say i agree with your verdict. A gaming box is not the same as a desktop, and laptops will never be on a par with top of the line desktops since whenever it catches up they come out with newer desktops. Laptops aren't ever likely to be price-competitive in the top of the line range, and will always lack some nice features like SMP and the ability to have a billion drives in there at once. But I'm still sticking with the fact that the majority of users out there (non-geeks) don't need a very burly box at all.
all i'm saying is that Intel hasn't shown a recent history of engineering exellence. they've made a few advances, but nothing strikingly wonderful for the average user. They've consistently over the years shown more of an interest in high-end stuff that doesn't benefit average user. Itanium series, for example, is not something I expect to ever become a desktop processor, while I could see Opterons potentially making their way onto some desktops. Especially if *nixes become a more popular way to go, Intel is going to need a burly consumer chip to remain competitive.
it's all semantics. Most people use a desktop to surf the internet and write school papers. A gaming box or a development workstation are other subjects. for mom and pop's computer that runs "the internet" and quicken, any laptop will do. you're talking specialized boxes that us geeks take for granted.
Hate to tell them this, but even my Pentium II 433 laptop is plenty powerful to replace a desktop. The only difference between any laptop and any normal desktop is form factor.
of course it will. Intel still seems to think that consumers care about new 32-bit chips or x86 architectures. If I were in charge of the same teams who created Itanium and Itanium II, I'd be afraid of making an attempt to be better than PowerPC too. It's stuff like this that make it even more obvious why VIA doesn't care that they can only make C3s pin-compatible with Intel chips for another 3 years. 3 years from now, intel's sockets will be irrelevant unless Intel stops sucking at introducing new features that users give a shit about.
those are social reasons. The employment reasons, resourcre reasons, political reasons etc. are based primarily on replacing foreign software providers with local support and software firms, to keep Brazilian money in Brazil. Piping their funds to Cupertino does not put money back into the Brazilian economy.
Thinkpads have been the best-looking laptops for years, and they've actually had some pretty snazzy looking servers. Surely they can translate this into some form of desktop or tower.
most of my first computers were Wang. my dad worked for them and when people would upgrade sometimes we were lucky enough to get the scraps. we had a dozen Wang 386 boxes in the garage at one point. I could kick myself for not cannibalizing them before he junked them.
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gentoo hasn't been around that long, but no matter what version of Gentoo you're running, two commands will do all you have just asked.
but then they might have to *gasp* teach the kids to use a computer!
but seriously, what distro are they going to put on it if they go linux? Red Hat, most likely. I think Debian would be a great choice (no, i'm not a debian user, I personally like Gentoo. But I can imagine what it'd be like if every kid in the school decides to emerge -u world at the same time...ugh.) but without a support plan, you know how big spenders are.
while I'm not a general fan of censorship, I don't see this as censorship. This was simply sitefinder's overlords abusing their position. Freedom of speech does not mean that you're free to make everyone listen. Same goes for network traffic. This is no different from me adding doubleclick.net in my/etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1 in that I don't want to hear what they have to say, same goes for sitefinder.
I seem to recall this being a Congress issu, not the responsibility of the Executive Branch. Due to the ferver of nationalism that swept much of the nation (especially lawmakers), the bill passed with a huge margin. It's not the president's responsibility to be a dictator. If it were, we wouldn't need a congress anyhow. Stop blaming what other branches of the government do on the president. *smacks parent poster around with an 8th grade history book*
preach on, brother. i'm sick of people ignoring the most logical things just because it might be construed as racist. I don't think that I as a christian with a good italian name should be searched to even things out when the primary terrorists against the US at home and abroad have been Muslim extremists, or that a Jew named Goldberg or a Shintoist named Komatsu deserves to be treated to "equal" harassment at a security checkpoint as a muslim named Mohammed for baseless equality concerns. that's just ignorant and resource-wasting. You don't make us secure that way, you just piss us off. Plus I think it violates our constitutional rights, whether the courts believe that or not.
he's referring to vendor lock-in, which in turn leads to screwed up policies like Licensing 6.0, which provide a meager product for outrageous prices, and saying that this new Sun strategy is quite dissimilar. I'm sure there are dozens of people on slashdot who would be glad to rattle off the reason s they despise Licensing 6.0, but I'm not one of them since I don't use Windows and as such I don't really care. Notice that this Sun plan gives a lot all together,
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I've been calling them pimp and bitch for years, you copyright-infringer!
I can't say i agree with your verdict. A gaming box is not the same as a desktop, and laptops will never be on a par with top of the line desktops since whenever it catches up they come out with newer desktops. Laptops aren't ever likely to be price-competitive in the top of the line range, and will always lack some nice features like SMP and the ability to have a billion drives in there at once. But I'm still sticking with the fact that the majority of users out there (non-geeks) don't need a very burly box at all.
all i'm saying is that Intel hasn't shown a recent history of engineering exellence. they've made a few advances, but nothing strikingly wonderful for the average user. They've consistently over the years shown more of an interest in high-end stuff that doesn't benefit average user. Itanium series, for example, is not something I expect to ever become a desktop processor, while I could see Opterons potentially making their way onto some desktops. Especially if *nixes become a more popular way to go, Intel is going to need a burly consumer chip to remain competitive.
it's all semantics. Most people use a desktop to surf the internet and write school papers. A gaming box or a development workstation are other subjects. for mom and pop's computer that runs "the internet" and quicken, any laptop will do. you're talking specialized boxes that us geeks take for granted.
Hate to tell them this, but even my Pentium II 433 laptop is plenty powerful to replace a desktop. The only difference between any laptop and any normal desktop is form factor.
of course it will. Intel still seems to think that consumers care about new 32-bit chips or x86 architectures. If I were in charge of the same teams who created Itanium and Itanium II, I'd be afraid of making an attempt to be better than PowerPC too. It's stuff like this that make it even more obvious why VIA doesn't care that they can only make C3s pin-compatible with Intel chips for another 3 years. 3 years from now, intel's sockets will be irrelevant unless Intel stops sucking at introducing new features that users give a shit about.
those are social reasons. The employment reasons, resourcre reasons, political reasons etc. are based primarily on replacing foreign software providers with local support and software firms, to keep Brazilian money in Brazil. Piping their funds to Cupertino does not put money back into the Brazilian economy.
Thinkpads have been the best-looking laptops for years, and they've actually had some pretty snazzy looking servers. Surely they can translate this into some form of desktop or tower.
it's about fucking time nations took some initiative towards being more self-reliant.
you speak as if the WTO matters. They don't...a governing body is only as powerful as its enforcers
advertising? will the program still run once I add their domain to my /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.0.0.1?
most of my first computers were Wang. my dad worked for them and when people would upgrade sometimes we were lucky enough to get the scraps. we had a dozen Wang 386 boxes in the garage at one point. I could kick myself for not cannibalizing them before he junked them.
gentoo hasn't been around that long, but no matter what version of Gentoo you're running, two commands will do all you have just asked.
# emerge sync
# emerge -u world
you mean there's still popups? i had forgotten they even existed. *Galeon user since 2001*
but then they might have to *gasp* teach the kids to use a computer!
but seriously, what distro are they going to put on it if they go linux? Red Hat, most likely. I think Debian would be a great choice (no, i'm not a debian user, I personally like Gentoo. But I can imagine what it'd be like if every kid in the school decides to emerge -u world at the same time...ugh.) but without a support plan, you know how big spenders are.
nah, he was just in jail for a bit for drugs.
while I'm not a general fan of censorship, I don't see this as censorship. This was simply sitefinder's overlords abusing their position. Freedom of speech does not mean that you're free to make everyone listen. Same goes for network traffic. This is no different from me adding doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1 in that I don't want to hear what they have to say, same goes for sitefinder.
you forgot the "dude, you're gettin' a Dell" guy. but he's in prison...I don't think he counts anymore.
clearly Darl McBride's hidden agenda is too well hidden for those guys to put him on their list...
but why isn't darl mcbride even on the list? he has the power to make the front page of slashdot flush with SCO stories with the dumbest of remarks...
I seem to recall this being a Congress issu, not the responsibility of the Executive Branch. Due to the ferver of nationalism that swept much of the nation (especially lawmakers), the bill passed with a huge margin. It's not the president's responsibility to be a dictator. If it were, we wouldn't need a congress anyhow. Stop blaming what other branches of the government do on the president. *smacks parent poster around with an 8th grade history book*
he did it AC, so I'm pretty sure he was poking fun at those people before they made an ass of themselves by doing it with their name.
preach on, brother. i'm sick of people ignoring the most logical things just because it might be construed as racist. I don't think that I as a christian with a good italian name should be searched to even things out when the primary terrorists against the US at home and abroad have been Muslim extremists, or that a Jew named Goldberg or a Shintoist named Komatsu deserves to be treated to "equal" harassment at a security checkpoint as a muslim named Mohammed for baseless equality concerns. that's just ignorant and resource-wasting. You don't make us secure that way, you just piss us off. Plus I think it violates our constitutional rights, whether the courts believe that or not.
he's referring to vendor lock-in, which in turn leads to screwed up policies like Licensing 6.0, which provide a meager product for outrageous prices, and saying that this new Sun strategy is quite dissimilar. I'm sure there are dozens of people on slashdot who would be glad to rattle off the reason s they despise Licensing 6.0, but I'm not one of them since I don't use Windows and as such I don't really care. Notice that this Sun plan gives a lot all together,
it's nice and cheap to get an ex-police one, too. I should know, I drive one.