one less thing i need to install when i reinstall Windows whatever their new version of windows is:) - as well as one more thing that works really well, that M$ can make NOT work really well - thanks to redmond engineering:)
I just got my SL-5500 - now they come out with this...hmmm it's so tempting, but I don't see a price tag - by my guess it's probably $499-$599 range since my zaurus was $399 now (499 when it came out last year) as cool as the new one looks i'm still really happy with the slide out keyboard, but i bet my zelda rom would play a lot easiers on that system with the screen turned sideways:)
lol - it's nice to see all the mac users trying to sport linux - POSERS!
Real Mac users miss OS 9.2.1, it's only the people with Mac's GUI envy that have migrated to OS-X or Mac people who refuse to use Windows (can't blame them). There are very few Mac users who really understand and appreciate the value of Linux or building your own machine.
No true Mac user would ever say "I'll build an Intel box"
if Red Hat bought Mandrake - the merger of those 2 Linux companies would be dope - at least for us beginner users:) IMHO since I really feel torn between the 2. Theirs features like "Harddrake" that I really like on Mandrake - but Red Hat recognizes/includes more device/sound drivers without the hassle of looking up the drivers on the net and figuring out how to compile, modprobe, install, where they go etc...
Thats hella funny considering that it's barely close to a SCSI cheetah drive....
oh "they" will probably want facts for that statement - ok
That Western Digital is 120gigs, 7,200 RPM, 8meg cache, and 8.9ms seek time - The Cheetah drives from Seagate jump from 73gigs to 147gigs but are 10,000 RPM, 4.7ms seek time, (not sure on the cache size)
of course SCSI is still way more expensive than IDE/ATA 100 so for the average person (like myself) we'll stick with that, but I hate it when people start saying IDE is faster or just as fast as SCSI drives - because unless your comparing New IDE/ATA drives to OLD SCSI drives it ain't happening.
I know a lot of MAC enthusiasts here will start commenting that "See you can build a mac just like you can a pc!" and I myself don't wish to start a flame war here but Building a MAC is no where near the ease of building a PC.
For a PC you need 2 main things the parts and 1 Screwdriver.
Building a MAC on the otherhand requires the parts, a Screwdriver, a Wire cutter, Dremel and cutting discs, 4" nylon wire ties, Electrical tape, Die, tap, and drill - (see the macoptz link on the article if you don't believe me)
The reason for this is because Apple - although they sell parts separately DOES NOT SELL THE MAC CASES BY THEMSELVES - so in order to make your powersuply and mac board work with a pc case requires all the time and effort of making a custom mod of your pc box. IMHO a very time consuming process unless you do that sort of thing on a regular basis and have all your stuff readily at hand.
I'm totally in favor of people trying this - just be forwarned that this is not a simple buy the parts slap the pieces together turn it on project - it's time consuming and requires a lot more tools and skill than needed for pc building.
out of the guy is what it sounds like according to the article
"This suit against Lopez helps show the company vigorously tries to protect its secrets, Mireles said. In addition, such suits could serve to deter other potential leakers, he said"
Apple has taken legal action against coworkers that leaked info in the past (also mentioned in the article) but I think the real reason why they got upset is
"Steve uses Macworld and other appearances more effectively than any other (technology) leader," Bajarin said. "In that context they want to have that surprise element," because posting those secrets early dilutes the impact, Bajarin said."
of course the lawyers will argue:
"Innovation is in Apple's DNA, so the protection of trade secrets is crucial to our success. Our policy is to take legal actions where necessary to preserve the confidentiality of our intellectual property," Apple said in a prepared statement.
Just because Apple made a great new OS - doesn't mean they're avid sourceforge users:)
if theres treasure to be found i'm all for spending a week scuba diving in the river hauling shit up - besides maybe there could even be some type of historic piece I could donate to a museum - after I sell all the good shizat.
I wonder how long before it comes back as a giant ship with a female robot on board that keeps wanting to talk to it's creator?
the choices are interesting....
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I thought it was interesting that of the choices of search engines you choose
"FAST, Google, Inktomi, or Teoma" - only one of these sites offers free submissions of web sites. (as in you can submit your site to the search engine without having to pay them)
The plus side to this is that "ideally" if I am looking for a commercial site I have a pretty good chance of not finding any geocities (etc...) type sites in my search if I use Teoma's or Inktomi's search - but then if it's that final fantasy webring I wanted to join the submision free sites like google work best.... of course since the spammer site dont mind paying everyone to list there sites i get a lot of "MAKE MONEY FROM HOME $2GAZILLION DOLLARS" type sites in my results.
not to be a buggaboo or anything - but when will a really good RPG or Action adventure come to Linux (and don't tell me Nethack or Wyvern) - granted Neverwinter Nights is going to come out for linux and that's great - but I want to see a (IMHO) FUN RPG (like FF, DW, Septerra core, Chrono Cross, Skys of Arcadia) come out or be ported to Linux - i'd even be willing to helpout with a project like that....
but of course I guess most nix people really like TBS and FPS types....since thats most of the game's i've seen for it...
I predict that from 2003 to 2012 computers will become faster and more powerful than our current ones....power consumption will be lowered....more people will be using pda's....
(0.8 Probability - based on 100% variable theories)
Did you try Arcanum? - (some of the troikagames - formerly fallout 1 people)
I think its one downfall was its graphics were more fallout (3d sprites on a 2d map) looking where everyone was wanting neverwinter nights 3d (3d sprites and world revolving camera etc...)
BUT the game was definately one of my top 3 favorite games:
first place: Fallout second place: Fallot 2 third place: Arcanum
This is probably a borderline flaimbait remark but - In short - I've never supported BSD or OS/2
I'm all for OS's that continue to utilize or try to utilize the latest and most common hardware. Linux/Unix, WIndows, and Mac OS have done a great job - every time there is a new version I know that the next video card I get or the next "insert hardware device here" will work with that OS
BSD and OS/2 - although somewhat useful never made enough progress in either the server market or the Joe-User market to gain any respect from me.
I've personally never really used OS/2 warp, but I think back when I was in highschool there was a kid whose dad worked at IBM and had it on his computer - either way most people I know used some flavor of DOS and then Windows or migrated to Mac....
Anyway my 2.5cents is that OS/2 (for better or worse) is an older OS (which is fine for ATM's...etc...) but with it gone - maybe IBM can focus more on there Linux support - hell maybe even they'll make there own distro (Big Blue Linux anyone?)
Either way I'm all for getting rid of legacy software - one step at a time. I know most won't agree with me on this and I also know that it wouldn't be the best thing from a financial point of view either, but I would rather strip all the support for things like serial ports, parrell ports, ps/2 ports, etc... no longer include them on the new hardware and no longer include any type of built in drivers/api's...etc... for any type of legacy item (that goes for floppy drives too) in the OS - which would probably allow for a much faster OS with a smaller install size - IMO
First the argument of Mac Vs. PC seems to base itself around Windows Vs. Mac OS-9/X and not really PC vs. Mac. but rather than choose sides (since I use both all day long) I'll leave everyone with a quote by a good friend of mine:
"Arguing about whether windows is better than OS-X is like running in the Special Olympics - Whether you win or lose YOUR STILL RETARDED!"
The question is not asking if Yahoo hosting for $19.99 is better than Globalhosting's $24.99 deal, where you are paying someone to allow you to use THIER computer on THIER network according to THIER rules.
The person is asking where HE/SHE can put HIS/HER machine in front of a T-1 for a small fee. in short they are looking for "Colocation"
"Colocation is a cost effective hosting solution for companies that own their own hardware and wish to house their server in one of our secure, state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers and manage their own Web site applications."
Cancer Research - if you install the google bar you will be helping the google team with the folding@home project for simulating the folding of proteins.
- some how this is supposed to help with cancer but I am no doctor and have no idea what folding protein means - i just draw pretty pictures all day, but this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside after passing by the bums on the street.
"Question is: if the APG has only the file names from KaZaA or eDonkey - how can it make sure that they really are illegal files and not only "similar named files" or hoax files? Can APG prove that is the work of a certain user in a household - or will it go for the entire family? "
Not to mention what if you own the cd and just wanted the mp3's?
This article seems brief and probably BS, but if it is true they shouldn't have posted such a short blurb. The article doesn't tell me much. - aslo how did they get screenshots of the users downloading the files unless the users submitted there screen shots - which would be fucking dumb on there part?
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one less thing i need to install when i reinstall Windows whatever their new version of windows is :) - as well as one more thing that works really well, that M$ can make NOT work really well - thanks to redmond engineering :)
I just got my SL-5500 - now they come out with this...hmmm it's so tempting, but I don't see a price tag - by my guess it's probably $499-$599 range since my zaurus was $399 now (499 when it came out last year) as cool as the new one looks i'm still really happy with the slide out keyboard, but i bet my zelda rom would play a lot easiers on that system with the screen turned sideways :)
lol - it's nice to see all the mac users trying to sport linux - POSERS!
Real Mac users miss OS 9.2.1, it's only the people with Mac's GUI envy that have migrated to OS-X or Mac people who refuse to use Windows (can't blame them). There are very few Mac users who really understand and appreciate the value of Linux or building your own machine.
No true Mac user would ever say "I'll build an Intel box"
if Red Hat bought Mandrake - the merger of those 2 Linux companies would be dope - at least for us beginner users :) IMHO since I really feel torn between the 2. Theirs features like "Harddrake" that I really like on Mandrake - but Red Hat recognizes/includes more device/sound drivers without the hassle of looking up the drivers on the net and figuring out how to compile, modprobe, install, where they go etc...
Thats hella funny considering that it's barely close to a SCSI cheetah drive....
oh "they" will probably want facts for that statement - ok
That Western Digital is 120gigs, 7,200 RPM, 8meg cache, and 8.9ms seek time - The Cheetah drives from Seagate jump from 73gigs to 147gigs but are 10,000 RPM, 4.7ms seek time, (not sure on the cache size)
of course SCSI is still way more expensive than IDE/ATA 100 so for the average person (like myself) we'll stick with that, but I hate it when people start saying IDE is faster or just as fast as SCSI drives - because unless your comparing New IDE/ATA drives to OLD SCSI drives it ain't happening.
I know a lot of MAC enthusiasts here will start commenting that "See you can build a mac just like you can a pc!" and I myself don't wish to start a flame war here but Building a MAC is no where near the ease of building a PC.
For a PC you need 2 main things the parts and 1 Screwdriver.
Building a MAC on the otherhand requires the parts, a Screwdriver, a Wire cutter, Dremel and cutting discs, 4" nylon wire ties, Electrical tape, Die, tap, and drill - (see the macoptz link on the article if you don't believe me)
The reason for this is because Apple - although they sell parts separately DOES NOT SELL THE MAC CASES BY THEMSELVES - so in order to make your powersuply and mac board work with a pc case requires all the time and effort of making a custom mod of your pc box. IMHO a very time consuming process unless you do that sort of thing on a regular basis and have all your stuff readily at hand.
I'm totally in favor of people trying this - just be forwarned that this is not a simple buy the parts slap the pieces together turn it on project - it's time consuming and requires a lot more tools and skill than needed for pc building.
out of the guy is what it sounds like according to the article
:)
"This suit against Lopez helps show the company vigorously tries to protect its secrets, Mireles said. In addition, such suits could serve to deter other potential leakers, he said"
Apple has taken legal action against coworkers that leaked info in the past (also mentioned in the article) but I think the real reason why they got upset is
"Steve uses Macworld and other appearances more effectively than any other (technology) leader," Bajarin said. "In that context they want to have that surprise element," because posting those secrets early dilutes the impact, Bajarin said."
of course the lawyers will argue:
"Innovation is in Apple's DNA, so the protection of trade secrets is crucial to our success. Our policy is to take legal actions where necessary to preserve the confidentiality of our intellectual property," Apple said in a prepared statement.
Just because Apple made a great new OS - doesn't mean they're avid sourceforge users
from the sound of the article tho - IMHO - this is a step in the right direction. Legit companies won't lose business, I won't lose sleep.
If a company has a product worth selling/marketing word of mouth will ALWAYS work best, as well as having booths at trade shows.
And as for credit card companies - irrisponsible people shouldn;t use any more credit advances or increases.
if theres treasure to be found i'm all for spending a week scuba diving in the river hauling shit up - besides maybe there could even be some type of historic piece I could donate to a museum - after I sell all the good shizat.
I wonder how long before it comes back as a giant ship with a female robot on board that keeps wanting to talk to it's creator?
I thought it was interesting that of the choices of search engines you choose
"FAST, Google, Inktomi, or Teoma" - only one of these sites offers free submissions of web sites. (as in you can submit your site to the search engine without having to pay them)
The plus side to this is that "ideally" if I am looking for a commercial site I have a pretty good chance of not finding any geocities (etc...) type sites in my search if I use Teoma's or Inktomi's search - but then if it's that final fantasy webring I wanted to join the submision free sites like google work best.... of course since the spammer site dont mind paying everyone to list there sites i get a lot of "MAKE MONEY FROM HOME $2GAZILLION DOLLARS" type sites in my results.
IMHO google still works best - at least for me.
not to be a buggaboo or anything - but when will a really good RPG or Action adventure come to Linux (and don't tell me Nethack or Wyvern) - granted Neverwinter Nights is going to come out for linux and that's great - but I want to see a (IMHO) FUN RPG (like FF, DW, Septerra core, Chrono Cross, Skys of Arcadia) come out or be ported to Linux - i'd even be willing to helpout with a project like that....
but of course I guess most nix people really like TBS and FPS types....since thats most of the game's i've seen for it...
I predict that from 2003 to 2012 computers will become faster and more powerful than our current ones....power consumption will be lowered....more people will be using pda's....
(0.8 Probability - based on 100% variable theories)
If a review starts off like this:
"Some Book, by Joe Somebody is a tail of adventure and intrigue set in 18th century London....."
- It's not a real reviewer but a marketing person for either the publisher or the author or amazon IMO and I don't trust it
BUT If a review is more like:
"This book kicked ass! The story was about a killer in the 18th century that ate people too!"
- then I am more inclined to beleive that opinion.
I don't want to get flaimed for this - but honestly - this idea of of a Pop-Star, Skater guy, Loner, and Indy group signing an Ipod baffles me.
I'm all for people who want to get an Ipod - i'm sure it's a cool toy - as well as i'm sure it like all other toys has its +'s and -'s
But WHY? would you be more incligned to buy a Palm Pilot or a Zaurus if it had any of these signatures on it?
Did you try Arcanum? - (some of the troikagames - formerly fallout 1 people)
I think its one downfall was its graphics were more fallout (3d sprites on a 2d map) looking where everyone was wanting neverwinter nights 3d (3d sprites and world revolving camera etc...)
BUT the game was definately one of my top 3 favorite games:
first place: Fallout
second place: Fallot 2
third place: Arcanum
This is probably a borderline flaimbait remark but - In short - I've never supported BSD or OS/2
I'm all for OS's that continue to utilize or try to utilize the latest and most common hardware. Linux/Unix, WIndows, and Mac OS have done a great job - every time there is a new version I know that the next video card I get or the next "insert hardware device here" will work with that OS
BSD and OS/2 - although somewhat useful never made enough progress in either the server market or the Joe-User market to gain any respect from me.
Actually I should rephrase that -
I'm all for getting rid of Legacy software/hardware that is no longer supported by up-to-date features
ie: windows 95 - 98 - 2000 - XP (they gain more abilities and features - good and bad - as they progress) - same as any Linux Distro
But OS2/warp 4 - even tho there are SOME updates that fix this or that or add this and that - it wasn;t something that you can consider MODERN
where-as Linux/Unix continues to be developed and grow and have more and more features and hardware supported - OS2 didn't do this.
maybe.
I've personally never really used OS/2 warp, but I think back when I was in highschool there was a kid whose dad worked at IBM and had it on his computer - either way most people I know used some flavor of DOS and then Windows or migrated to Mac....
Anyway my 2.5cents is that OS/2 (for better or worse) is an older OS (which is fine for ATM's...etc...) but with it gone - maybe IBM can focus more on there Linux support - hell maybe even they'll make there own distro (Big Blue Linux anyone?)
Either way I'm all for getting rid of legacy software - one step at a time. I know most won't agree with me on this and I also know that it wouldn't be the best thing from a financial point of view either, but I would rather strip all the support for things like serial ports, parrell ports, ps/2 ports, etc... no longer include them on the new hardware and no longer include any type of built in drivers/api's...etc... for any type of legacy item (that goes for floppy drives too) in the OS - which would probably allow for a much faster OS with a smaller install size - IMO
First the argument of Mac Vs. PC seems to base itself around Windows Vs. Mac OS-9/X and not really PC vs. Mac. but rather than choose sides (since I use both all day long) I'll leave everyone with a quote by a good friend of mine:
"Arguing about whether windows is better than OS-X is like running in the Special Olympics - Whether you win or lose YOUR STILL RETARDED!"
The question is not asking if Yahoo hosting for $19.99 is better than Globalhosting's $24.99 deal, where you are paying someone to allow you to use THIER computer on THIER network according to THIER rules.
The person is asking where HE/SHE can put HIS/HER machine in front of a T-1 for a small fee. in short they are looking for "Colocation"
"Colocation is a cost effective hosting solution for companies that own their own hardware and wish to house their server in one of our secure, state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers and manage their own Web site applications."
for that I would go with clearblue.com
actually it ASKS you if you want to help but defaults to off
you can turn it on by clicking the DNA icon on the bar
Cancer Research - if you install the google bar you will be helping the google team with the folding@home project for simulating the folding of proteins.
- some how this is supposed to help with cancer but I am no doctor and have no idea what folding protein means - i just draw pretty pictures all day, but this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside after passing by the bums on the street.
Business 1 spends $100 this year and makes back $25 - thats only 25%
Business 2 spends $1,000 this year and makes back $500 - thats only 50%.
Which company really lost more tho?
"Question is: if the APG has only the file names from KaZaA or eDonkey - how can it make sure that they really are illegal files and not only "similar named files" or hoax files? Can APG prove that is the work of a certain user in a household - or will it go for the entire family? "
Not to mention what if you own the cd and just wanted the mp3's?
This article seems brief and probably BS, but if it is true they shouldn't have posted such a short blurb. The article doesn't tell me much. - aslo how did they get screenshots of the users downloading the files unless the users submitted there screen shots - which would be fucking dumb on there part?