its true i DO need a more stable os... right now im on a duel boot of mandrake 8.2 and win2k and i really think win2k leaves much to be desired... and i DO have to reformat it eery so ofter... its the only way to keep it running smoothly... and as for broadband i cant get it so thats that... i am on 56k and its hard enough as it is to download 3 iso's of mandrake 8.0/8.1/8.2 you get the idea... so when i finally get the iso's burned i want to have every package that i could need right here in front of me... so soon im moving into broadband range but i dont know if ill get it... i mean its gunna cost me for a modem and $40 a month or so for service (damn you qwest and your damn monopoly)... but im not sure ill do that... thats a lot of money that could go to buying a spindle of cdrs($20 or so) or i could buy another hard drive... i would rather not spend my money on bandwidth when its basically a resource that is gone as soon as you use it... how oftern you do use a file you downloaded 3 years ago???
well the article said that it can "store 5 hours of cd quality music" WTF WTF WTF I WANNA SCREAM uhm anyway... wtf r they talking about... 500 megabytes for 5 hours of cd quality music... BS im soryr but this pisses me off... it a direct lie... if they are talking about mp3 then they are wrong... dead wrong... DEAD PRODUCT wrong... mp3!=cd quality... i cant stand to listen to low bitrate mp3... the only time i can stand is when its over 256k bitrate... i like my music... dont butcher the beatles with artifacts and a digitized sound... this really mkaes me very mad... as it is now i have a cd player that can play mp3 (& wma but who cares) off of a cd... its very cheap and i get 700 megs of mp3 or i can mix in some wavs too... why would anyone want this when they can burn 700 megs of their own stuff.... man sometimes i just wanna scream
well this is not entirely true... although it is true that a cdrom needs time to position the laser lens over a sector that is not very much of the time... your thinking too much like hard drives... in a hard drive you get fragmentation which means the head must spin all over the place gathering all the data into one file... there is no fragmentation of cdroms as they are used more and more... so a hard drive uses a combination of sequentail AND random IO's where as a cdrom uses mostly seqential IO... and manufacturer's usually measure their cdrom by the spinm spead which is not a true test of speed... a cd can spin real fast but it wont read that fast sometimes and in fact the only thing that helps is positioning the lens... so what you really need is a high quality drive... dont skimp on the drive... get a name brand drive... it really does help... personally i like tishiba cause they make a fairly good cd-rw/dvd drive that is cheap but when looking around try to find out some REAL info about the cdrom not just some post X speed...
offtopic??? wtf... ok i used an example to prove my point... i know that konqueror is not technically related to microsoft... we were on the topic of microsoft and their monopoly and how it affects the worldwwide market... i simply used an example to prove my point that monopoly does not have to always be bad
well personally i use my cdrom for installing software quite often... i use it to load packages for mandrake... i often use it to install 30+ apps after i reformat my windows partition... i really do apreciate a good cdrom drive... i have a overclocked cdrom... well its a really cheap cdrom tha goes faster than it should... it is rated to 50x but sometimes i can hear it 'take off' and then suddenly make a grinding sound as the whole drive shakes and then the drive stops... i also have a nice toshiba drive that works fine at 32x...
well i recently saw the movie that we all have heard so much about called "Revolution OS"... in this movie they do indeed say that bill gates is himself a revolutionary... they say that in the beginning everything was open source and he was a true revolutionary in that he was the one to really bring closed source 'in to the open'... he was really a pioneer is closing source and stripping rights throught the EULA so dont say he isnt revolutuionary because you dont agree it was good...
this is true... his bill would do nothing other than put intop concrete a systrem in which opt-out is the requirment... dont be so foolish slashdot... this is EXACTLY why we dont like this guy... you already have to opt in for personal info... please think hard about everything touted to "improve privacy"
i agree with yu totally... first off i use konqueror... i kow ill get flamed for this cause you will say "but its slow" or whatever... but i dont care... im quite happy.... a monopoly is not really a bad thing... if somehow magically whenever there was a monopoly they made a good product nobody would complain... but alas a monopoly wont do that... so for all of you dont just say monopoly=bad all of a sudden... it COULD work but it doesn't... so if it DOES whats the biug deal... as soon a konqueror stosp being any good then fine... DROP IT and we will if that happens... so they DONT have a monopoly
imagine a boewulf cluster of al the cheap durons that nobody will want soon ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^
sorry... my bad i could not resist
its actually called 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and doesn't really have any 'street name' other than 'toad' or whatever because it comes from the bufo alverius toad... this toad uses it to posoin other animals... it is indeed VERY powerful and should not be played with... it is fairly easy to use it the wrong way so it is not a good idea... like you said it is a naturally occuring alkaloid that breaks down at high temputure so dont lick it cause the it will basically be a poison... dont smoke it either cause you prob wont do it right and will poison yourself... the only time you could do it safely would be if you have years of experiance with such powerful chemicals... but then again if you have that much experiance maybe doing it wrong wont mess you up cause you cant go down much further:(
you guys (me too so i should shut up) have/.ed the site and transgaming have been complaining that they dont have enough money... they say if they do get enough money they will give all the binaries away
And natural drugs (pot, mushrooms, smoked opium/heroin) seem most certainly safer in general (not a 100% rule) than synthetics
not true... those are just some of the popular home grown ones... many synthetics are really just that... synthetic copies of natural trugs... plus there are all sorts of things such as 5 MEO-DMT that are 100% natural and are also a neuro toxin... and any neuro toxin will damage you more than any dissociative any day... so though i dont disagree i jsut dont want some kid going "i heard it on slashdot so it must be true... pass the toad... i wanna lick it again"... P.S. DONT lick the toad... or smoke it but DONT lick it
not true... in the eyes of the law dns and tld's dont simply "float away"... the us gets to use.com.gov and whatnot becuase the internet was created in the US... the us does not use.us and international entities that use.com or whatever should know that when they sign up they are putting their proporty under US control... do i like it... not really... is it true... yes
personally i really like having a huge collection of books... i like having multiple book shelves lined with paper books... i love to browse through and feel them... I am a very spacially oriented person and i love the physical book... that said i also hate losing things... i hate it when a book deteriorates or is lost... i think that the best possible thing to do would be to include the ebooks with the REAL books... that way i can archive my books and have the benefit of being able to carry 1000 books with me at all times but i could also have the REAL THING... this might be expensive becuase smart cards or some other type of technology would add some cost to the book so here is my idea... a publisher could print the ebook format on the inside of the cover or (because covers break off) on one of the pages... maybe using some type of cd style grooves or credit card style magnetic tape the entire contents could be printed on a small erea of one page... it would be fairly easy to create a reader for this type of book and would notbe very expensive becuase there would only be a few megs at most of data... and if you get into picture books then maybe jpeg2000 will help:)... if a cd of an ebook were included it would defeat the perpose, as in my system the ebook would always be included... anyway just a thought... anybody know af any possible technology to make this work? any problems with this idea... please reply... thanks
i agree with you but you forgot to mention *sigh* macs... im not a mac zealot by any means (or even a user) but macs DO offer competition to MS... although those of use with technical knowledge know that macs are more than just an OS microsoft may be able to get off as far as punishment if they can argue that macs are thriving and other versions of *nix such as linux really arent competition at all... i just hope they dont use macs as a tool to fight linux... that would just be a sad day for all...
hoe often is data written to the hd? not as often as you would think... your computer does NOT stream right to the hardrive... most of the time your transfers are done using ram which is up to 5x times the speed of your network depending on your ram...
wronge... microsoft used their already existing user base as a launching platform for a web browser @ $0.00... and its not they gave it away... you need to buy windows so you WERE spending money... THAT is what the suit is about
tell me... how often do deaf/blind people use the internet?... im serious here no troll or flame... and im not being a jerk either... im sure they would have someone with them helping them along so i think that is something you dont hafta worry about
Wish to inform you that our client Bill Gates is sueing you for $1.432^54. We also regret to inform you that your trial has already been finished and this is your first last and only notification of this. We wish to cite the... umm whats it... umm its the HSCYNE or the MQXUYVE or some other acronym... anyway the point is that our new law... ahem i mean the US's new law makes it so that we auto-win just like our new OS auto-owns you....
how often do you use your corvette anyway??? how many roads near you have a 140mph speed limit??? my point is that you dont very often need SCSI... as for programming it is VERY cheap to cimply get a bunch of ram and create a ramdisk... do you use more than 2 gigs at once programming... not really... is it cheap for 2 gigs of ram... yes... so if you use scsi fine... but what if you dont want to clutter up your computer with all those cables... maybe your into pc mods... maybe you want EVERYTHING onboard... this mobo is for you... i know i chose the K7S5A cause it has enough onboard that i dont need extra cables... makes it real easy to install some fans and overclock my cpu... also notice how far the agp is away from the pci cards... this will make it so you could put a freakin cpu fan on your videocard if you wanted... this thing looks to physically be an overclocking beast
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its true i DO need a more stable os... right now im on a duel boot of mandrake 8.2 and win2k and i really think win2k leaves much to be desired... and i DO have to reformat it eery so ofter... its the only way to keep it running smoothly... and as for broadband i cant get it so thats that... i am on 56k and its hard enough as it is to download 3 iso's of mandrake 8.0/8.1/8.2 you get the idea... so when i finally get the iso's burned i want to have every package that i could need right here in front of me... so soon im moving into broadband range but i dont know if ill get it... i mean its gunna cost me for a modem and $40 a month or so for service (damn you qwest and your damn monopoly)... but im not sure ill do that... thats a lot of money that could go to buying a spindle of cdrs($20 or so) or i could buy another hard drive... i would rather not spend my money on bandwidth when its basically a resource that is gone as soon as you use it... how oftern you do use a file you downloaded 3 years ago???
hahaha omg funny stuff... ok i admit you got me there... i concede my opinion... haha j/k but funny jsu the same
well the article said that it can "store 5 hours of cd quality music" WTF WTF WTF I WANNA SCREAM uhm anyway... wtf r they talking about... 500 megabytes for 5 hours of cd quality music... BS im soryr but this pisses me off... it a direct lie... if they are talking about mp3 then they are wrong... dead wrong... DEAD PRODUCT wrong... mp3!=cd quality... i cant stand to listen to low bitrate mp3... the only time i can stand is when its over 256k bitrate... i like my music... dont butcher the beatles with artifacts and a digitized sound... this really mkaes me very mad... as it is now i have a cd player that can play mp3 (& wma but who cares) off of a cd... its very cheap and i get 700 megs of mp3 or i can mix in some wavs too... why would anyone want this when they can burn 700 megs of their own stuff.... man sometimes i just wanna scream
well this is not entirely true... although it is true that a cdrom needs time to position the laser lens over a sector that is not very much of the time... your thinking too much like hard drives... in a hard drive you get fragmentation which means the head must spin all over the place gathering all the data into one file... there is no fragmentation of cdroms as they are used more and more... so a hard drive uses a combination of sequentail AND random IO's where as a cdrom uses mostly seqential IO... and manufacturer's usually measure their cdrom by the spinm spead which is not a true test of speed... a cd can spin real fast but it wont read that fast sometimes and in fact the only thing that helps is positioning the lens... so what you really need is a high quality drive... dont skimp on the drive... get a name brand drive... it really does help... personally i like tishiba cause they make a fairly good cd-rw/dvd drive that is cheap but when looking around try to find out some REAL info about the cdrom not just some post X speed...
offtopic??? wtf... ok i used an example to prove my point... i know that konqueror is not technically related to microsoft... we were on the topic of microsoft and their monopoly and how it affects the worldwwide market... i simply used an example to prove my point that monopoly does not have to always be bad
well personally i use my cdrom for installing software quite often... i use it to load packages for mandrake... i often use it to install 30+ apps after i reformat my windows partition... i really do apreciate a good cdrom drive... i have a overclocked cdrom... well its a really cheap cdrom tha goes faster than it should... it is rated to 50x but sometimes i can hear it 'take off' and then suddenly make a grinding sound as the whole drive shakes and then the drive stops... i also have a nice toshiba drive that works fine at 32x...
well i recently saw the movie that we all have heard so much about called "Revolution OS"... in this movie they do indeed say that bill gates is himself a revolutionary... they say that in the beginning everything was open source and he was a true revolutionary in that he was the one to really bring closed source 'in to the open'... he was really a pioneer is closing source and stripping rights throught the EULA so dont say he isnt revolutuionary because you dont agree it was good...
this is true... his bill would do nothing other than put intop concrete a systrem in which opt-out is the requirment... dont be so foolish slashdot... this is EXACTLY why we dont like this guy... you already have to opt in for personal info... please think hard about everything touted to "improve privacy"
i agree with yu totally... first off i use konqueror... i kow ill get flamed for this cause you will say "but its slow" or whatever... but i dont care... im quite happy.... a monopoly is not really a bad thing... if somehow magically whenever there was a monopoly they made a good product nobody would complain... but alas a monopoly wont do that... so for all of you dont just say monopoly=bad all of a sudden... it COULD work but it doesn't... so if it DOES whats the biug deal... as soon a konqueror stosp being any good then fine... DROP IT and we will if that happens... so they DONT have a monopoly
imagine a boewulf cluster of al the cheap durons that nobody will want soon ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^
sorry... my bad i could not resist
its actually called 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and doesn't really have any 'street name' other than 'toad' or whatever because it comes from the bufo alverius toad... this toad uses it to posoin other animals... it is indeed VERY powerful and should not be played with... it is fairly easy to use it the wrong way so it is not a good idea... like you said it is a naturally occuring alkaloid that breaks down at high temputure so dont lick it cause the it will basically be a poison... dont smoke it either cause you prob wont do it right and will poison yourself... the only time you could do it safely would be if you have years of experiance with such powerful chemicals... but then again if you have that much experiance maybe doing it wrong wont mess you up cause you cant go down much further :(
you guys (me too so i should shut up) have /.ed the site and transgaming have been complaining that they dont have enough money... they say if they do get enough money they will give all the binaries away
And natural drugs (pot, mushrooms, smoked opium/heroin) seem most certainly safer in general (not a 100% rule) than synthetics
not true... those are just some of the popular home grown ones... many synthetics are really just that... synthetic copies of natural trugs... plus there are all sorts of things such as 5 MEO-DMT that are 100% natural and are also a neuro toxin... and any neuro toxin will damage you more than any dissociative any day... so though i dont disagree i jsut dont want some kid going "i heard it on slashdot so it must be true... pass the toad... i wanna lick it again"...
P.S. DONT lick the toad... or smoke it but DONT lick it
parent did not mean ACTUALLY testing it... parent said (for a couple years) becuase it was implied that he wantedd to keep it...
uhm silly you... ac dont have a post history :)
not true... in the eyes of the law dns and tld's dont simply "float away"... the us gets to use .com .gov and whatnot becuase the internet was created in the US... the us does not use .us and international entities that use .com or whatever should know that when they sign up they are putting their proporty under US control... do i like it... not really... is it true... yes
personally i really like having a huge collection of books... i like having multiple book shelves lined with paper books... i love to browse through and feel them... I am a very spacially oriented person and i love the physical book... that said i also hate losing things... i hate it when a book deteriorates or is lost... i think that the best possible thing to do would be to include the ebooks with the REAL books... that way i can archive my books and have the benefit of being able to carry 1000 books with me at all times but i could also have the REAL THING... this might be expensive becuase smart cards or some other type of technology would add some cost to the book so here is my idea... a publisher could print the ebook format on the inside of the cover or (because covers break off) on one of the pages... maybe using some type of cd style grooves or credit card style magnetic tape the entire contents could be printed on a small erea of one page... it would be fairly easy to create a reader for this type of book and would notbe very expensive becuase there would only be a few megs at most of data... and if you get into picture books then maybe jpeg2000 will help :)... if a cd of an ebook were included it would defeat the perpose, as in my system the ebook would always be included... anyway just a thought...
anybody know af any possible technology to make this work? any problems with this idea... please reply...
thanks
i agree with you but you forgot to mention *sigh* macs... im not a mac zealot by any means (or even a user) but macs DO offer competition to MS... although those of use with technical knowledge know that macs are more than just an OS microsoft may be able to get off as far as punishment if they can argue that macs are thriving and other versions of *nix such as linux really arent competition at all... i just hope they dont use macs as a tool to fight linux... that would just be a sad day for all...
hoe often is data written to the hd? not as often as you would think... your computer does NOT stream right to the hardrive... most of the time your transfers are done using ram which is up to 5x times the speed of your network depending on your ram...
dont forget taco's favorite heroinware... and all the horrible things it does
wronge... microsoft used their already existing user base as a launching platform for a web browser @ $0.00... and its not they gave it away... you need to buy windows so you WERE spending money... THAT is what the suit is about
tell me... how often do deaf/blind people use the internet?... im serious here no troll or flame... and im not being a jerk either... im sure they would have someone with them helping them along so i think that is something you dont hafta worry about
well since you know that it IS indeed down i assume that you went to the link...
Wish to inform you that our client Bill Gates is sueing you for $1.432^54. We also regret to inform you that your trial has already been finished and this is your first last and only notification of this. We wish to cite the... umm whats it... umm its the HSCYNE or the MQXUYVE or some other acronym... anyway the point is that our new law... ahem i mean the US's new law makes it so that we auto-win just like our new OS auto-owns you....
how often do you use your corvette anyway??? how many roads near you have a 140mph speed limit??? my point is that you dont very often need SCSI... as for programming it is VERY cheap to cimply get a bunch of ram and create a ramdisk... do you use more than 2 gigs at once programming... not really... is it cheap for 2 gigs of ram... yes... so if you use scsi fine... but what if you dont want to clutter up your computer with all those cables... maybe your into pc mods... maybe you want EVERYTHING onboard... this mobo is for you... i know i chose the K7S5A cause it has enough onboard that i dont need extra cables... makes it real easy to install some fans and overclock my cpu... also notice how far the agp is away from the pci cards... this will make it so you could put a freakin cpu fan on your videocard if you wanted... this thing looks to physically be an overclocking beast