Intel doesn't have any more upgrade choices then AMD, they never have.
Please state an example, after the "Pentium Overdrive" processors for 486 boards, where can you upgrade your system to a new CPU core without replacing the motherboard and most likely RAM too. I'd like to know - because there isn't any.
The Athlon64 is a direct upgrade for your 32-bit Athlon. Forget about the x86-64 extensions. It's a faster processor even without them. You wouldn't be spewing the garbage if it didn't have this capability.. so why bitch about something that may help you in the future?
Linux isn't full of holes, it's your head. Now take it our of your ass and see a doctor.
Moron. Linux has flaws from time to time just like all software, and they are fixed quickly by the same people that would be looking over the voting system's code. The very nature and design of Linux is more secure then say, Windows.. but you wouldn't know that, with your holey head up your ass.
But no, you're right, AC. The only reason thousands of developers and billions of dollars are being put into linux is because they want to 'haxor ur boxor.'
If everyone could simply access the voting system's source code, you'd get hundreds of top programmers pouring over the code, fixing it where needed, to ensure their votes are counted properly.
Until the voting system is open source, I won't trust it. How can you? Faith? That's not good enough.
I think you can download Planetside. I've always been a fan of FPS's, and this looks like a pretty neat game if it's done well. From what you're saying, it sounds pretty good (at least no worse then your average server running single-map online games like Quake.)
Last I heard, computing everyone's 'environmentally relevant' data uses a lot more server processing for a game like UT. Some games have tried this (I know of a couple mods for UT that did this) but it ended up being very difficult for them to keep track of where everyone was looking and what they should see. I turned this feature off on my TacOps servers because it used WAY too much CPU cycles. There were a lot of problems with it. A perfect implimentation would work well but boy does it add complexity.
MMORPG's use this type of thing now, however, like EQ. Updates to MOBs are only sent when you're in range. They can do this effectively since they offset the cpu usage with the fact that updates are 1/20th of a game like UT.
Exactly. A 20 person UT match requires a surprising amount of bandwidth alone to make it as "realtime" as it can get, and a lot of CPU usage. If they were to try and accomplish the same thing on a scale of 5,000 players per server cluster at any given time, it would require too much bandwidth and resources to be profitable.
I see this becoming better in the future as CPU power and bandwidth get more and more available, and the prices of these games get higher and higher.
Open Source/GPL/etc is a different paradigm, and many people just can't grasp the concept. They don't seem to realize that Open Souce lets them build upon software to customize it to their needs, instead of reinventing the wheel each time. For every peice of code they release to the public, they get it back a hundred fold.
In the open source world, you don't work to sell the code, you code to sell the work. It's an open and free (as in freedom) system, where you can work together with people outside your organization to get the software to do what you need it to do.
With OSS, the money still exists but it's aquired differently. Gone will be the days where you could write a small utility and make millions. I think this is what hangs a lot of people up.
And let us not forget, proprietaty software can hurt everyone, and does every day. Not only does it become a major issue when the developer simply decides to drop the product you depend on, but also when it has the ability to lock everyone in and everyone's at their mercy. (Microsoft.)
I thought it was pretty good. I would have liked more movement; a lot of the movie took place in one spot (face-off in space) and I usually prefer if they go all over.
None of them were as good as First Contact, though.
I believe Star Trek to be really GOOD scifi. There's been so many really good episodes of TNG, thought provoking scripts and great character development. And with Scifi, they aren't restricted by the limitations of creating a world set in modern times. This is what I like about SciFi.
Sure, it can be hokey at times, and I didn't really like Voyager that much, nor Enterprise. They will never be able to re-create The Next Generation; they should just stick to movies.
Not that you did, but anyone that compares Star Wars with Star Trek is just being stupid because the names both contain the word "star." They are really different premises. Star Trek has depth and complexity, of which Star Wars has almost none of.
The story is simplistic, "evil versus good", the characters are goofy, etc..
They made millions of lunchboxes, action figures, and other toys. Not for kids eh..
I won't say that they were the worst movies ever, they weren't. I'm a scifi fan and it's decent scifi. I won't however pretend they are something that they are not, and they are not fantastic.
In my humble opinion, they should have made the new movies (episode 1, 2) for adults rather then kids like the old ones. The kids that watched the old one and loved them growing up are all grown up now.
With more and more of the operating system depending on Microsoft's internet servers to keep the system running properly, a hack to remove the activation might not be enough to keep your Windows running in the future.
You're looking at this from a home user perspective.
For a business or government organization, you don't need to provide for easy software installation, lots of choices, or easy hardware setups. You have a staff of IT people to take care of that, just like any business, and this is not different then a Windows shop.
You can lock down a Linux desktop box really easily, and still let the user use all the software they need to to get their jobs done.
For development tools, well, that's a lot different then talking about desktop functionality and usability. Plus, I've found that a Linux/Unix enviornment has a much more available and robust development system then the one that comes with windows...
I can see how you could feel that way, but I like having just one task on the taskbar. I don't need the clutter. Photoshop's interface is clean and to the point. If I minimize it, everything goes away.
Not saying that GIMP is bad, and I've used it on occation and it works well. However, I find that Photoshop's interface is cleaner.
I hope GIMP keeps making more improvements in the usability department, this is a good step forward.
Totally. I've been trying to break into a Unix/Linux job for a while now. I have worked with Windows for a long time now, because it's pretty easy to break into. I've been using Linux for years and I've infiltrated it into my employers systems in one way or another, but I always end up with the same type of attitude from bosses..
That attitude is "If it doesn't come from Microsoft or some other software company it's crap." What I mean by that is, if I put together a Linux box to serve out files, web pages, whatever, the way I feel is best, it's no good. If I had to write my own shell scripts and compile the kernel differently then there must be something fundamentally wrong with it right? No, of course not, but this is the common thinking of a microsoft shop.
I believe in "smart admins" where we can design and impliment our own "solutions" and not be a middle man between the users and the software vendors.. It's cheaper in the long run. God, how many times have I seen a company spend yet another 70k on some useless software or server.. if they just used that money to hire another good admin they probably wouldn't need it.
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Intel doesn't have any more upgrade choices then AMD, they never have.
Please state an example, after the "Pentium Overdrive" processors for 486 boards, where can you upgrade your system to a new CPU core without replacing the motherboard and most likely RAM too. I'd like to know - because there isn't any.
The Athlon64 is a direct upgrade for your 32-bit Athlon. Forget about the x86-64 extensions. It's a faster processor even without them. You wouldn't be spewing the garbage if it didn't have this capability.. so why bitch about something that may help you in the future?
Why don't you login, fool?
And start naming the major holes "linux" is full of because I say you're full of shit.
If you're talking about a specific distribution, then get on with it, enlighten us.
Ohh wait. You won't do that. Because you're full of shit.
Linux isn't full of holes, it's your head. Now take it our of your ass and see a doctor.
Moron. Linux has flaws from time to time just like all software, and they are fixed quickly by the same people that would be looking over the voting system's code. The very nature and design of Linux is more secure then say, Windows.. but you wouldn't know that, with your holey head up your ass.
But no, you're right, AC. The only reason thousands of developers and billions of dollars are being put into linux is because they want to 'haxor ur boxor.'
If everyone could simply access the voting system's source code, you'd get hundreds of top programmers pouring over the code, fixing it where needed, to ensure their votes are counted properly.
Until the voting system is open source, I won't trust it. How can you? Faith? That's not good enough.
hah yea I know how it is.
I've played EQ for a long time (until the last few months) and people love to bitch.
Sometimes it's legitimate. Most of the time it's not. And it could always be handled a little better then "you sux i h8 druids!!11"
It's all part of the Internet, unfortunately.
It sounds interesting.
I think you can download Planetside. I've always been a fan of FPS's, and this looks like a pretty neat game if it's done well. From what you're saying, it sounds pretty good (at least no worse then your average server running single-map online games like Quake.)
I was thinking of Planetside, but I know nothing about the game so I couldn't really say anything about it.
Do you play it? Is it good, as far as FPS goes?
Cool, program me one and let's see how it works!
Last I heard, computing everyone's 'environmentally relevant' data uses a lot more server processing for a game like UT. Some games have tried this (I know of a couple mods for UT that did this) but it ended up being very difficult for them to keep track of where everyone was looking and what they should see. I turned this feature off on my TacOps servers because it used WAY too much CPU cycles. There were a lot of problems with it. A perfect implimentation would work well but boy does it add complexity.
MMORPG's use this type of thing now, however, like EQ. Updates to MOBs are only sent when you're in range. They can do this effectively since they offset the cpu usage with the fact that updates are 1/20th of a game like UT.
You assume that the current state of affairs will never change.
Once upon a time, there were NO jobs for developing free software. Now there are some. Few, yes, but more every day.
I say good job to all the OSS developers out there they spend their valuable time to change the world of software development.
Exactly. A 20 person UT match requires a surprising amount of bandwidth alone to make it as "realtime" as it can get, and a lot of CPU usage. If they were to try and accomplish the same thing on a scale of 5,000 players per server cluster at any given time, it would require too much bandwidth and resources to be profitable.
I see this becoming better in the future as CPU power and bandwidth get more and more available, and the prices of these games get higher and higher.
Yay! Nicely said.
Open Source/GPL/etc is a different paradigm, and many people just can't grasp the concept. They don't seem to realize that Open Souce lets them build upon software to customize it to their needs, instead of reinventing the wheel each time. For every peice of code they release to the public, they get it back a hundred fold.
In the open source world, you don't work to sell the code, you code to sell the work. It's an open and free (as in freedom) system, where you can work together with people outside your organization to get the software to do what you need it to do.
With OSS, the money still exists but it's aquired differently. Gone will be the days where you could write a small utility and make millions. I think this is what hangs a lot of people up.
And let us not forget, proprietaty software can hurt everyone, and does every day. Not only does it become a major issue when the developer simply decides to drop the product you depend on, but also when it has the ability to lock everyone in and everyone's at their mercy. (Microsoft.)
I thought it was pretty good. I would have liked more movement; a lot of the movie took place in one spot (face-off in space) and I usually prefer if they go all over.
None of them were as good as First Contact, though.
I believe Star Trek to be really GOOD scifi. There's been so many really good episodes of TNG, thought provoking scripts and great character development. And with Scifi, they aren't restricted by the limitations of creating a world set in modern times. This is what I like about SciFi.
Sure, it can be hokey at times, and I didn't really like Voyager that much, nor Enterprise. They will never be able to re-create The Next Generation; they should just stick to movies.
Not that you did, but anyone that compares Star Wars with Star Trek is just being stupid because the names both contain the word "star." They are really different premises. Star Trek has depth and complexity, of which Star Wars has almost none of.
Yes, the first three WERE written for kids.
The story is simplistic, "evil versus good", the characters are goofy, etc..
They made millions of lunchboxes, action figures, and other toys. Not for kids eh..
I won't say that they were the worst movies ever, they weren't. I'm a scifi fan and it's decent scifi. I won't however pretend they are something that they are not, and they are not fantastic.
In my humble opinion, they should have made the new movies (episode 1, 2) for adults rather then kids like the old ones. The kids that watched the old one and loved them growing up are all grown up now.
Free as in Kazaa? But for how long?
With more and more of the operating system depending on Microsoft's internet servers to keep the system running properly, a hack to remove the activation might not be enough to keep your Windows running in the future.
That's a very bad thing.
You're looking at this from a home user perspective.
For a business or government organization, you don't need to provide for easy software installation, lots of choices, or easy hardware setups. You have a staff of IT people to take care of that, just like any business, and this is not different then a Windows shop.
You can lock down a Linux desktop box really easily, and still let the user use all the software they need to to get their jobs done.
For development tools, well, that's a lot different then talking about desktop functionality and usability. Plus, I've found that a Linux/Unix enviornment has a much more available and robust development system then the one that comes with windows...
No but see, that's the point. It WOULD be easier to switch from Linux to something else, because the software, specifications, and community are open.
The switch to Linux doesn't just unlock you from the grasp of Microsoft, it also unlocks you from the grasp of Linux. If you see what I mean.
You're assuming the folks in Munich are stupid and rushed into this thing without thinking about ANYTHING.
I believe that any business, individual, or government would have researched what people used and planned out a means of attack.
This doesn't mean things will always run smoothly but I wouldn't assume they said "doh! we forgot about all the applicatons!!"
If the DVD Changer had the ability to be controlled by an external source (Serial cable, whatever) then it would be perfect. But it probably doesn't.
These inexpensive disc changers don't have much in the way of disc management. They come with a paper you use to write down what disc is in slot 345.
And how do you suppose that e-mail gets to your pop3 server?
You guessed it. Unencrypted clear text. Woo.
I can see how you could feel that way, but I like having just one task on the taskbar. I don't need the clutter. Photoshop's interface is clean and to the point. If I minimize it, everything goes away.
Not saying that GIMP is bad, and I've used it on occation and it works well. However, I find that Photoshop's interface is cleaner.
I hope GIMP keeps making more improvements in the usability department, this is a good step forward.
Seriously, I don't know why nobody mentioned this until now. It's easily the best and most reliable solution to the problem, and cheaper.
Of course, you'll have to have a paper list of what discs are what, instead of a nice on-screen menu for selection. This could be a major downside..
Totally. I've been trying to break into a Unix/Linux job for a while now. I have worked with Windows for a long time now, because it's pretty easy to break into. I've been using Linux for years and I've infiltrated it into my employers systems in one way or another, but I always end up with the same type of attitude from bosses..
That attitude is "If it doesn't come from Microsoft or some other software company it's crap." What I mean by that is, if I put together a Linux box to serve out files, web pages, whatever, the way I feel is best, it's no good. If I had to write my own shell scripts and compile the kernel differently then there must be something fundamentally wrong with it right? No, of course not, but this is the common thinking of a microsoft shop.
I believe in "smart admins" where we can design and impliment our own "solutions" and not be a middle man between the users and the software vendors.. It's cheaper in the long run. God, how many times have I seen a company spend yet another 70k on some useless software or server.. if they just used that money to hire another good admin they probably wouldn't need it.
Great! Then you owe me $699 for a license* to use Slashdot!
* binary only. no html or javascript. I am sympathetic to the problem you face caused by me.
I'm thinking they need *any* marketing...
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