An AMD processor would work much better. You could keep coffee hot (90 degrees C) without even burning up the processor core. See AMD's technical specifications.
I believe the post was written in Shakespearian English, which had no fixed spelling. Often lose and loose were used as a sort of double-meaning. See page xxxv of the introduction to The Everyman Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Do you see how irritating off-topic references are?
According to http://www.chipworks.com/news/11Xbox.htm, it does use an Intel Pentium III. Ignoring certain information returned by a processor can falsely indicate its speed and model. Early releases of Windows 98 said PIIIs were PIIs.
Not to slightly contradict my previous statement about building your own PC for the same price, but I do see one use: a networked audio appliance. The combination of the ethernet and digital sound output would integrate well into a home-theater setup. Good remote control and on-screen displays would round out the setup nicely. It would be much cheaper than Sonic Blue's solution.
Nothing prevents anyone from changing the licencing on future updates and releases. Look how many times Microsoft changes their licencing: every major update. If these people are as lazy as they seem, locking them out of future updates, and hence the future of their rebranded product, shouldn't be hard.
Music City Morpheus is the same thing--ripped of open source. The author of Gnucleus didn't even know his code was ripped of until the "Preview Edition" came out. I don't see people having the same reaction to their modified version.
Novell is a company composed of has-beens. They fail to create products that respond to customer demands for better features and still think they can get away with having only Java support on their servers. All they do is whine about Microsoft blocking their way when they could easily integrate and imporve upon the work of Samba. I can't tell you how much better our network has run since using properly-configured Windows 2000 servers with Active Directory instead of NetWare's pathetic attempt at client integration/control. Even totally non-Microsoft software has issues with NetWare: PageMaker on Windows 2000 won't link objects on NetWare shares. We have a fully Windows client base. If you don't, just run a *BSD server for the compatibility with Apple, Windows, and *NIX systems. Directory services can be implemented many ways, and that's Novell's only advantage over free software. I'm not certified by either company, so I have no incentive do bend the truth.
P.S. Novell saying it's the leader in "Net Business Solutions" is like Compaq saying it's the leader vendor in iPaqs. If you define a category for yourself to the exclusion of all others, you will be the best at it.
Hold down the character 'w' in the address bar until it crosses 1/4 to 1/2 the screen (mine runs at 1600x1200) and type ".com". I can almost guarantee a trip to a porn site and a screen covered with popups (and popunders).
A quotation from the University of South Carolina:
(http://www.chem.sc.edu/faculty/morgan/sigfigs/)
"Tutorial on the Use of Significant Figures
All measurements are approximations--no measuring device can give perfect measurements without experimental uncertainty. By convention, a mass measured to 13.2 g is said to have an absolute uncertainty of 0.1 g and is said to have been measured to the nearest 0.1 g. In other words, we are somewhat uncertain about that last digit--it could be a "2"; then again, it could be a "1" or a "3". A mass of 13.20 g indicates an absolute uncertainty of 0.01 g."
In other words, the last number is somewhat of a guess.
Actually, the last digit of a value in any scientific figure is known to be an estimate. All digits less precise are assumed to be completely accurate. When measuring values in chemistry or physics, the rules of significant figures note that one should always guess and add one more digit. Your suggestion that they say "approx. 10%" would produce an equally misleading result by indicating only one significant figure of precision.
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Any smart Linux user doesn't usually run their computer with root permissions. Until Windows XP, all consumer versions of Windows (9X, Me) ran all users at an eqivalent to root level, enabling viruses to wreak havok at any time. Macs were the same way before OS X, but virus writers still targeted Windows because of the large installed base.
An ideal is different from reality. No country would pour money into a project with no financial or social return. Linux development would be that for China. Linux requires an educated user base with standardized computers, both of which China lacks.
In addition, China, while not capitalist, seeks "profit" for its government in the form of social or economic progress and a balanced budget. There is (almost by definition) no money in open source. When you release the source, nothing's propretary. When something's not propretary, people won't pay to license it unless it's in a particularly convenient form (like a Linux distribution) and people can afford it (like the western world can). The bottom line still returns red (maybe that's why it's communistic).
You concede the lack of return from open source when you state that open source is not compatible with capitalist organizations.
I'm not saying that open source isn't a good movement. It is. I'm just saying it's (usually) not profitable for the people involved and requires a large outlay of time and money that China cannot afford without expecting some type of return.
Why this would suck, won't happen, and why even if it did Microsoft wouldn't be affected:
Assuming that happens, the programs would be in Chinese. That would suck.
China in NO WAY could afford to enter open-source development where there is no income associated with the expense of software development. The western Linux community has disposable income.
China's using Linux in no way dilutes the market in America because there is no market for legitimate close-source software in China today. Microsoft can't lose a market they don't have.
There are only three situations with Windows XP, all of which result in a safe computer:
1) The user is a novice/intermediate and goes on the Internet frequently, where XP will automatically install the update.
2) The user never goes online, so the vunerability is moot.
3) The user is advanced and turns off automatic updating and is thus advanced enough to install the patch on their own.
No official reports of the vunerabiliy being exploited exit.
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An AMD processor would work much better. You could keep coffee hot (90 degrees C) without even burning up the processor core. See AMD's technical specifications.
I believe the post was written in Shakespearian English, which had no fixed spelling. Often lose and loose were used as a sort of double-meaning. See page xxxv of the introduction to The Everyman Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Do you see how irritating off-topic references are?
I believe Celerons produced during the PIII era used a PII core.
How do we know you're not just a Microsoft employee posing as a /. user?
According to http://www.chipworks.com/news/11Xbox.htm, it does use an Intel Pentium III. Ignoring certain information returned by a processor can falsely indicate its speed and model. Early releases of Windows 98 said PIIIs were PIIs.
Not to slightly contradict my previous statement about building your own PC for the same price, but I do see one use: a networked audio appliance. The combination of the ethernet and digital sound output would integrate well into a home-theater setup. Good remote control and on-screen displays would round out the setup nicely. It would be much cheaper than Sonic Blue's solution.
I can spend $200 on a poor-quality, non-upgradable (and non-waranteed) Pentium III instead of building my own for about the same amount.
"Of course it runs NetBSD."
MMC does stand for Microsoft Management Console, the "snap-in" interface for controlling Windows 2000 and later. Run: mmc.exe
Nothing prevents anyone from changing the licencing on future updates and releases. Look how many times Microsoft changes their licencing: every major update. If these people are as lazy as they seem, locking them out of future updates, and hence the future of their rebranded product, shouldn't be hard.
Music City Morpheus is the same thing--ripped of open source. The author of Gnucleus didn't even know his code was ripped of until the "Preview Edition" came out. I don't see people having the same reaction to their modified version.
Novell is a company composed of has-beens. They fail to create products that respond to customer demands for better features and still think they can get away with having only Java support on their servers. All they do is whine about Microsoft blocking their way when they could easily integrate and imporve upon the work of Samba. I can't tell you how much better our network has run since using properly-configured Windows 2000 servers with Active Directory instead of NetWare's pathetic attempt at client integration/control. Even totally non-Microsoft software has issues with NetWare: PageMaker on Windows 2000 won't link objects on NetWare shares. We have a fully Windows client base. If you don't, just run a *BSD server for the compatibility with Apple, Windows, and *NIX systems. Directory services can be implemented many ways, and that's Novell's only advantage over free software. I'm not certified by either company, so I have no incentive do bend the truth. P.S. Novell saying it's the leader in "Net Business Solutions" is like Compaq saying it's the leader vendor in iPaqs. If you define a category for yourself to the exclusion of all others, you will be the best at it.
Hold down the character 'w' in the address bar until it crosses 1/4 to 1/2 the screen (mine runs at 1600x1200) and type ".com". I can almost guarantee a trip to a porn site and a screen covered with popups (and popunders).
A quotation from the University of South Carolina: (http://www.chem.sc.edu/faculty/morgan/sigfigs/) "Tutorial on the Use of Significant Figures All measurements are approximations--no measuring device can give perfect measurements without experimental uncertainty. By convention, a mass measured to 13.2 g is said to have an absolute uncertainty of 0.1 g and is said to have been measured to the nearest 0.1 g. In other words, we are somewhat uncertain about that last digit--it could be a "2"; then again, it could be a "1" or a "3". A mass of 13.20 g indicates an absolute uncertainty of 0.01 g." In other words, the last number is somewhat of a guess.
Actually, the last digit of a value in any scientific figure is known to be an estimate. All digits less precise are assumed to be completely accurate. When measuring values in chemistry or physics, the rules of significant figures note that one should always guess and add one more digit. Your suggestion that they say "approx. 10%" would produce an equally misleading result by indicating only one significant figure of precision.
Any smart Linux user doesn't usually run their computer with root permissions. Until Windows XP, all consumer versions of Windows (9X, Me) ran all users at an eqivalent to root level, enabling viruses to wreak havok at any time. Macs were the same way before OS X, but virus writers still targeted Windows because of the large installed base.
A patch that allows the virus to exploit Windows will be released in Service Pack 1 for Windows XP.
In addition, China, while not capitalist, seeks "profit" for its government in the form of social or economic progress and a balanced budget. There is (almost by definition) no money in open source. When you release the source, nothing's propretary. When something's not propretary, people won't pay to license it unless it's in a particularly convenient form (like a Linux distribution) and people can afford it (like the western world can). The bottom line still returns red (maybe that's why it's communistic).
You concede the lack of return from open source when you state that open source is not compatible with capitalist organizations.
I'm not saying that open source isn't a good movement. It is. I'm just saying it's (usually) not profitable for the people involved and requires a large outlay of time and money that China cannot afford without expecting some type of return.
There are only three situations with Windows XP, all of which result in a safe computer:
1) The user is a novice/intermediate and goes on the Internet frequently, where XP will automatically install the update.
2) The user never goes online, so the vunerability is moot.
3) The user is advanced and turns off automatic updating and is thus advanced enough to install the patch on their own.
No official reports of the vunerabiliy being exploited exit.
Microsoft did open-source Windows CE several months ago. Slashdot users criticized the move.
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