If he mounts a serious effort to inform consumers that they cannot watch movies at friends houses, that they cannot tape movies off their TVs, the sheep may wake up. And they won't be happy little sheep anymore.
Sure. They'll be awake mad little sheep. But still sheep. And therein lies the problem.
Oh, I wasn't implying that mass-ful SUV's weren't safer overall in the real world -- I just didn't realize the comment about front-impact was in gest/sarcasm.
My point was: in perfect conditions, with a perpendicular head-on into a concrete barrier, I'd rather be in a volvo x40 series. In the real world, I want a Peterbuilt.
The only thing that SUVs are safer at in collisions is against things that have less mass than they do. The safest frontal impacting form of transport ever made (and by that, I mean that put the least least forces on the driver/passengers upon impact)was the Volvo 740/940 series, which was discontinued in 1996. The 760/S90 six cylinder cars were not nearly as good at absorbing impact. From the numbers I remember, you could take one of the last 940 models into a immovable barrier, directly head on, at 65 miles per hour and expect to exit the vehicle without serious injury. Try that in an SUV -- or anything produced today for that matter! Even the S-Mercedes has never come close to the old Volvo numbers.
Incorrect. AMD has *always* stated that their PR rating is a comparison of the Palamino against the older design Tbird, and that no other relationship is intended, or implied.
yea sure, linux installs are getting faster & faster. I think my last more or less minimal + 1 desktop install of mandrake 8.2 took about 20 minutes or less on mediocre hardare (duron 1ghz). WinXP installation on the same hardware takes about 40 minutes for similar functionality.
But Mandrake8.2 after that 20 minute install is *much* slower in everyday use as compared to WinXP (after all the eyecandy silliness is turned off in XP).
In contrast, my GentooLinux install on the same hardware takes about 24 *hours* just for compilation (let alone all the myriad manual steps that must be taken to make it work at all), but then afterwards is completely optimized only for my system (and for what I intend to use it for), and is at least as fast in everyday use (and sometimes twice as fast or more) than WinXP.
Someone further up pointed out that the install doesn't really matter, it what happens after that counts.
*EXACTLY*
Don't all of you running Mandrake or Redhat wish that it ran twice as fast or more than it does now?
Well, you could have that. But you wouldn't have a less than 1 hour install any more, now would you.
Hmmm... you do have a point -- but then so do I... and neither of us is really offering a good workable solution. I guess I'm just gonna have to stick my head back in the sand.
Well then in order to change things you will have to find a way to have Congress pass a law that makes corporations immune to shareholder derivative suits. A derivative suit is an action by the shareholders against a corporation to (among other things) recover a decline in share value due to deliberate steps taken by a corporation for purposes that are ultimately something besides profit. As the law stands now, if (for example) a corporation decided to spend *ALL* of its money, every single cent, to improve the standard of living of all the the people of Nigeria, they would be successfully sued by the shareholders for throwing all the shareholder's money away -- even though it was for a good cause.
Think of how much better everything will be if you get such a law passed.
GM can give away granny's retirement fund to the poor people in the inner cities without fear of suit.
Wal-Mart can give away all of its shareholder's (many (most?) of them employees) savings to save the penguins in Antarctica.
The world will be a wonderful place then.
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So these people get to watch adverts for cars/food/luxuries that they will not be able to purchase.
Exactly. And plenty of folks there are going to want to purchase those things. And they're going to realize that they need to quit hanging out in the monestary so often, or meditating, or whatever other unproductive things they do and GET A JOB.
And in a few years they're gonna be waking up early every morning and going to a job they hate and busting their butt every friggin' day, just like you & me, to get all that stuff.
Excuse me? That was not a troll, that was a statement of fact. I've had it with the mods here. They are truly complete geeks and wouldn't know a good bit of prose if it fell on you.
I am so done with this web site. This is definitely the last time I ever stop by here. I have been wasting my time. I have a real life anyway, unlike most of you.
I have a Maxtor "L" fluid bearing Drive (741x) (7200rpm), and an old model Maxtor (7200rpm) with regular bearings.
Note that the 540x/541x/740x/741x drives are actually manufactured mostly with Quantum tech, the company they bought a few years ago. The Quantum tech Maxtor drives are, in my opinion *MUCH* more reliable than the old Maxtor tech Maxtor drives, probably because they run cooler.
Now here is what is interesting: My old Maxtor tech drive, that does not have the fluid bearings, is totally silent. I can't hear head seeks (acoustic management software is turned on), and I can't hear it spin at all. I have no idea how they did it. However they did it though, I wish they had spent the R&D on reliability instead because I've had the drive replaced under warranty twice already.
The new Quantum tech drive fluid bearing, while it is quiet, is still much noisier. I can hear the spin, I can hear the head seeks.
Absolutely. I switched from MacOS to Win/Linux not because I didn't like being locked into a software regiem, but because I couldn't stand being locked into a HARDWARE regiem. I'll get back into Macs the day I can slap one together with commodity hardware.
There is exactly one example of a lobbying group that is extremely powerful that takes in ZERO contributions from industry (and is entirely dependant upon small contributions from millions of everyday joes), and is wildly successfull to the point of having directly changed the results of hundreds if not thousands of elections, including the presidency. Granted, that power is so awsome because the members of the organization care passionaly so about their issue -- but also because that passion is backed up by $$$ contributions, not to mention folks that try to convince their neighbors, co-workers, and friends on how to vote in every election from the local level on up. Are open source advocates as passionate? The mere mention of "NRA" causes politicions to quake in their boots. How to politicions feel when someone mentions "open source?" Confused?
I agree with you on one point about the bad drivers: under-training. However, IMHO, the root cause of all bad driving is that here, it is extremely difficult to lose one's license permanently.
Contrast the United States with Deutchland, where driver training makes ours look like kindergarten, and where the bonehead moves that each and every one of us here in the U.S. have made at one time or another would have resulted in *all* of us drivers having had our licenses revoked for life.
Yes, many people here, especially the elderly, would complain that the German system was unfair because it would immediately take them off the road, and lots of folks that wouldn't be allowed to drive EVER are going to be allowed to drive from now until they kill someone including themselves, (and probably about 3/4 of our VEHICLES would be taken off the road too for mechanical problems), but in return for that loss of freedom they get to drive
Everyone here keeps saying that WC will do this and that under Ch. 11, get rid of debt, keep only the core good stuff, etc, etc & emerge leaner meaner, etc, etc.
Here's the problem: as most of us know, WC went on a binge for quite a while and bought everything in sight. Yes, their core data services unit still contains lots of bits, but all those employees that didn't get laid off from all those other companies that were absorbed were, over the years, shuffled all over the place, and the original folks that made the smaller units profitable aren't in the original groups they came from. Then, to stay with the company, those employees that remained had to learn and accept and become a part of the dominant corporate culture at WC, or be fired (or go insane).
So here's where the problem lies: the dominant corporate culture at WC is HORRIBLE. Ask anyone who works there, or ask anyone at the other (i.e, customer) end of the company what WC has really turned into. Most of the folks left there are either *ssholes, liars, or just don't give a f*ck anymore (from having to deal with the *ssholes & liars every day) and stay only because their worried they won't be able to get another job.
In other words, the folks runing the company, from the top down, are no longer (if they ever were) qualified to run the company.
Eventually the BR judge, and the creditors are going to figure this out and the judge is going to grant creditors motion to force them into Ch.7 so that at least creditors can get *something* back by selling off the remaining assets.
Good riddence anyway. It's how capitalism works. The sh*t companies go under; the good ones take up the slack -- and after that if there is even more slack to be taken up... well now, that's an opportunity for y'all isn't it?
There's some free DOS clone out there, I can't remember the name, but it works as well as, or better than DOS6.
So the mfr could just put those files need to boot a disk from that DOSclone, as well as the files needed to flash the bios, in a compressed archive. Then all you have to do is uncompress the archive and burn in on a cdr -- and then boot the CD.
-- Posted from Gentoo+KDE3, day1. GENTOO ROCKS!!! You won't understand 'till you try it. Don't be intimidated, it's not hard to install! It's so freaking fast!
I keep trying to take the damn floppy drive out of the various systems I deal with, and I keep having some rediculous reason where I *need* to put the horror back in. It's bizzare. Try it: take a machine that hasn't had a floppy inserted into it in years. Remove the drive. It is a physical LAW that the machine will require the use of a floppy drive within three days.
And my goodness: is there any brand of floppies left that doesn't have at least three dead in a box of 10?
I am a musician too. It costs me tons of money for strings, etc., blah blah blah just like everything you said. But I play because I LOVE TO PLAY, I love to express myself, I love to perform for others and make them happy and watch them dance. I love to create. I love to play alone sometimes -- gently, sweetly & just for myself. People ask me all the time why I don't go pro & make money from the whole thing. Well, that would suck. Then it would be a job. If there's anything I've learned in this life is that when something loved becomes something that *must be done*, a lot of the magic drifts away.
The greatest performers I have ever seen, have been amateurs. Some of the worst performers have been trying to make a living at it.
Look up the history of that word. (hint, it doesn't mean someone who isn't good).
I have a real job. I'm into music for love, not money. When I play, the sentiment in the sound is obvious. Maybe that's the main reason why so much music lately has just sucked? That most of the folks that end up being recorded have lost their PASSION. Or maybe they never had it in the first place but just look good on video?
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If he mounts a serious effort to inform consumers that they cannot watch movies at friends houses, that they cannot tape movies off their TVs, the sheep may wake up. And they won't be happy little sheep anymore.
Sure. They'll be awake mad little sheep. But still sheep. And therein lies the problem.
Just which American companies that sell TVs are you talking about?
(hint: there are no American companies that make TVs anymore)
Oh, I wasn't implying that mass-ful SUV's weren't safer overall in the real world -- I just didn't realize the comment about front-impact was in gest/sarcasm.
My point was: in perfect conditions, with a perpendicular head-on into a concrete barrier, I'd rather be in a volvo x40 series. In the real world, I want a Peterbuilt.
The only thing that SUVs are safer at in collisions is against things that have less mass than they do. The safest frontal impacting form of transport ever made (and by that, I mean that put the least least forces on the driver/passengers upon impact)was the Volvo 740/940 series, which was discontinued in 1996. The 760/S90 six cylinder cars were not nearly as good at absorbing impact. From the numbers I remember, you could take one of the last 940 models into a immovable barrier, directly head on, at 65 miles per hour and expect to exit the vehicle without serious injury. Try that in an SUV -- or anything produced today for that matter! Even the S-Mercedes has never come close to the old Volvo numbers.
Incorrect. AMD has *always* stated that their PR rating is a comparison of the Palamino against the older design Tbird, and that no other relationship is intended, or implied.
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yea sure, linux installs are getting faster & faster. I think my last more or less minimal + 1 desktop install of mandrake 8.2 took about 20 minutes or less on mediocre hardare (duron 1ghz). WinXP installation on the same hardware takes about 40 minutes for similar functionality.
But Mandrake8.2 after that 20 minute install is *much* slower in everyday use as compared to WinXP (after all the eyecandy silliness is turned off in XP).
In contrast, my GentooLinux install on the same hardware takes about 24 *hours* just for compilation (let alone all the myriad manual steps that must be taken to make it work at all), but then afterwards is completely optimized only for my system (and for what I intend to use it for), and is at least as fast in everyday use (and sometimes twice as fast or more) than WinXP.
Someone further up pointed out that the install doesn't really matter, it what happens after that counts.
*EXACTLY*
Don't all of you running Mandrake or Redhat wish that it ran twice as fast or more than it does now?
Well, you could have that. But you wouldn't have a less than 1 hour install any more, now would you.
But ask yourself, which would you rather have?
Actually the problem is our SPELLING SYSTEM, which boggles the mind. We have far too many symbols for a much smaller number of sounds.
i just thought this might interest someone. do you know who the segway inventor's father is?
Their jobs went overseas?
Now what are most airplanes made from...?
Most airplanes are actually made of smoke encased in a thin layer of aluminum... and we all know about how important it is to keep the smoke in!
Hmmm... you do have a point -- but then so do I... and neither of us is really offering a good workable solution. I guess I'm just gonna have to stick my head back in the sand.
Well then in order to change things you will have to find a way to have Congress pass a law that makes corporations immune to shareholder derivative suits. A derivative suit is an action by the shareholders against a corporation to (among other things) recover a decline in share value due to deliberate steps taken by a corporation for purposes that are ultimately something besides profit. As the law stands now, if (for example) a corporation decided to spend *ALL* of its money, every single cent, to improve the standard of living of all the the people of Nigeria, they would be successfully sued by the shareholders for throwing all the shareholder's money away -- even though it was for a good cause.
Think of how much better everything will be if you get such a law passed.
GM can give away granny's retirement fund to the poor people in the inner cities without fear of suit.
Wal-Mart can give away all of its shareholder's (many (most?) of them employees) savings to save the penguins in Antarctica.
The world will be a wonderful place then.
So these people get to watch adverts for cars/food/luxuries that they will not be able to purchase.
Exactly. And plenty of folks there are going to want to purchase those things. And they're going to realize that they need to quit hanging out in the monestary so often, or meditating, or whatever other unproductive things they do and GET A JOB.
And in a few years they're gonna be waking up early every morning and going to a job they hate and busting their butt every friggin' day, just like you & me, to get all that stuff.
Welcome to the west.
Excuse me? That was not a troll, that was a statement of fact. I've had it with the mods here. They are truly complete geeks and wouldn't know a good bit of prose if it fell on you.
I am so done with this web site. This is definitely the last time I ever stop by here. I have been wasting my time. I have a real life anyway, unlike most of you.
I have a Maxtor "L" fluid bearing Drive (741x) (7200rpm), and an old model Maxtor (7200rpm) with regular bearings.
Note that the 540x/541x/740x/741x drives are actually manufactured mostly with Quantum tech, the company they bought a few years ago. The Quantum tech Maxtor drives are, in my opinion *MUCH* more reliable than the old Maxtor tech Maxtor drives, probably because they run cooler.
Now here is what is interesting: My old Maxtor tech drive, that does not have the fluid bearings, is totally silent. I can't hear head seeks (acoustic management software is turned on), and I can't hear it spin at all. I have no idea how they did it. However they did it though, I wish they had spent the R&D on reliability instead because I've had the drive replaced under warranty twice already.
The new Quantum tech drive fluid bearing, while it is quiet, is still much noisier. I can hear the spin, I can hear the head seeks.
Absolutely. I switched from MacOS to Win/Linux not because I didn't like being locked into a software regiem, but because I couldn't stand being locked into a HARDWARE regiem. I'll get back into Macs the day I can slap one together with commodity hardware.
There is exactly one example of a lobbying group that is extremely powerful that takes in ZERO contributions from industry (and is entirely dependant upon small contributions from millions of everyday joes), and is wildly successfull to the point of having directly changed the results of hundreds if not thousands of elections, including the presidency. Granted, that power is so awsome because the members of the organization care passionaly so about their issue -- but also because that passion is backed up by $$$ contributions, not to mention folks that try to convince their neighbors, co-workers, and friends on how to vote in every election from the local level on up. Are open source advocates as passionate? The mere mention of "NRA" causes politicions to quake in their boots. How to politicions feel when someone mentions "open source?" Confused?
I agree with you on one point about the bad drivers: under-training. However, IMHO, the root cause of all bad driving is that here, it is extremely difficult to lose one's license permanently.
Contrast the United States with Deutchland, where driver training makes ours look like kindergarten, and where the bonehead moves that each and every one of us here in the U.S. have made at one time or another would have resulted in *all* of us drivers having had our licenses revoked for life.
Yes, many people here, especially the elderly, would complain that the German system was unfair because it would immediately take them off the road, and lots of folks that wouldn't be allowed to drive EVER are going to be allowed to drive from now until they kill someone including themselves, (and probably about 3/4 of our VEHICLES would be taken off the road too for mechanical problems), but in return for that loss of freedom they get to drive
sorry, my bad.
the correct command is: "emerge --clean worldcom"
Everyone here keeps saying that WC will do this and that under Ch. 11, get rid of debt, keep only the core good stuff, etc, etc & emerge leaner meaner, etc, etc.
Here's the problem: as most of us know, WC went on a binge for quite a while and bought everything in sight. Yes, their core data services unit still contains lots of bits, but all those employees that didn't get laid off from all those other companies that were absorbed were, over the years, shuffled all over the place, and the original folks that made the smaller units profitable aren't in the original groups they came from. Then, to stay with the company, those employees that remained had to learn and accept and become a part of the dominant corporate culture at WC, or be fired (or go insane).
So here's where the problem lies: the dominant corporate culture at WC is HORRIBLE. Ask anyone who works there, or ask anyone at the other (i.e, customer) end of the company what WC has really turned into. Most of the folks left there are either *ssholes, liars, or just don't give a f*ck anymore (from having to deal with the *ssholes & liars every day) and stay only because their worried they won't be able to get another job.
In other words, the folks runing the company, from the top down, are no longer (if they ever were) qualified to run the company.
Eventually the BR judge, and the creditors are going to figure this out and the judge is going to grant creditors motion to force them into Ch.7 so that at least creditors can get *something* back by selling off the remaining assets.
Good riddence anyway. It's how capitalism works. The sh*t companies go under; the good ones take up the slack -- and after that if there is even more slack to be taken up... well now, that's an opportunity for y'all isn't it?
Or maybe try this? "emerge worldcom"
gentoo rocks
It would actually be quite simple for them to do:
There's some free DOS clone out there, I can't remember the name, but it works as well as, or better than DOS6.
So the mfr could just put those files need to boot a disk from that DOSclone, as well as the files needed to flash the bios, in a compressed archive. Then all you have to do is uncompress the archive and burn in on a cdr -- and then boot the CD.
--
Posted from Gentoo+KDE3, day1. GENTOO ROCKS!!! You won't understand 'till you try it. Don't be intimidated, it's not hard to install! It's so freaking fast!
I keep trying to take the damn floppy drive out of the various systems I deal with, and I keep having some rediculous reason where I *need* to put the horror back in. It's bizzare. Try it: take a machine that hasn't had a floppy inserted into it in years. Remove the drive. It is a physical LAW that the machine will require the use of a floppy drive within three days.
And my goodness: is there any brand of floppies left that doesn't have at least three dead in a box of 10?
I am a musician too. It costs me tons of money for strings, etc., blah blah blah just like everything you said. But I play because I LOVE TO PLAY, I love to express myself, I love to perform for others and make them happy and watch them dance. I love to create. I love to play alone sometimes -- gently, sweetly & just for myself. People ask me all the time why I don't go pro & make money from the whole thing. Well, that would suck. Then it would be a job. If there's anything I've learned in this life is that when something loved becomes something that *must be done*, a lot of the magic drifts away.
The greatest performers I have ever seen, have been amateurs. Some of the worst performers have been trying to make a living at it.
Look up the history of that word. (hint, it doesn't mean someone who isn't good).
I have a real job. I'm into music for love, not money. When I play, the sentiment in the sound is obvious. Maybe that's the main reason why so much music lately has just sucked? That most of the folks that end up being recorded have lost their PASSION. Or maybe they never had it in the first place but just look good on video?
In IE6, when I do it, it says, in that oh so familliar font, "Microsoft", exactly above his name. It's really weird.