I don't bother with CD-RW, I just use CDR. I only buy them when they're "free after rebate," which between OfficeMax, Staples, BestBuy, and Compusa, is about every other week.
Switzerland $43,479.93
Japan $42,736.09
Denmark $36,656.21
Norway $36,206.64
Singapore $31,600.89
Germany $30,493.78
Austria $29,485.56
United States $29,142.63
Granted, it's 5 years old. I wonder if Japan has slipped.
Granted, nobody will no for sure until these things start failing. But since most of us reading this have already had CDR-drives for more than the 1-2 years you estimate, we know you're wrong.
Ah yes, just what people said 2 1/2 years ago when I overclocked my Celeron 566 to 850 (assuming the heating issues of passive cooling are similar to those of overclocking).
The cpu is still running fine, and a search of competed ebay auctions shows the value of the CPU is down to $15-$25.
In other words, if the life has been shortened, who cares?
Along, those lines, the linuxwatch review deserves some credit for this statement:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is a good choice for technical users and/or those who
have plenty of Linux experience. Those who have a lot of spare time and patience
might also take a shot at "Woody". We wouldn't recommend those who
use dial-up for Internet access use Debian due to it's high use of the 'net
during installation. We would not recommend Debian to a new user, instead we
would point them more in the direction of Red Hat or Lycoris. We would recommend
Debian for either experienced users workstations or in a server environment.
This is all true. However, the rest of the review talked about things I don't care about, and frankly failed to criticize debian's drawbacks that I DO find bothersome:
1) Scarcity of.deb's. On one hand, it's amazing how many packages are available, considering the debian project has to make them all. And having them centralized is largely good because they're more likely to work together. But on the other hand, you're somewhat out of luck if nobody wants to maintain a.deb for the software you want. Alien sometimes works, but more often the binary will be compiled for the wrong libc, or have lots of dependencies that also aren't in Debian.
2) Out of date packages. Again, the issue is that Debian is the source of.deb's, whereas most developers will release rpm's on their own. This means lag time.
3) Broken packages. This doesn't apply to debian stable. Debian stable is great for servers, but lags too far behind for a desktop. And Debian testing or unstable are actually fairly stable, but do live up to their names more than I'd like.
Can't think of much else. I really like debian, and it amazes me that they do it all for free. It's a great distro, and I realize this evaluation is one-sided because I haven't mentioned all the great things about Debian that keep me away from Slackware, RedHat, and even Gentoo. (Actually I do use RedHat at work because they standardized on it, but after Debian anything not network-based feels prehistoric).
But a child with two geeky parents is not just the recipient of geeky genes - s/he is also a child of two parents who are likely to find more satisfaction sitting alone at the office hacking code than at home playing patti-cake with the new arrival.
No, what's hard to read is the book or article your library doesn't own, which is the usual case unless you have access to the Library of Congress.
In fact, with citeseer.org really taking off, it seems I suddenly have far better access than through any library I've tried, and all from the comfort and convenience of (wherever I happen to be).
My experience with Linux has been different. Until recently I was running a 486 100 laptop on 48 megs of ram (quite a bit for such an old laptop). I found that newer Linux kernels (2.4 series) actually ran BETTER than the old ones; seemed more responsive. I couldn't use XFree86 4; for some reason it wouldn't work. But 3.x worked fine. And of course fvwm2 is fast on anything. Applications? I mostly used it as a remote desktop (using 802.11b) and in this capacity it could host Mozilla etc. just fine. Ocassionally I needed to go mobile and found that emacs, octave, scheme, etc. etc. worked fine.
Windows 2000 on a 64 meg 233 mhz laptop, on the other hand, is agony. The hard drive just spins and spins. The top memory hog is explorer.exe, even when I'm not running the web browser. I can't figure it out; Windows NT didn't hog RAM like that.
Anyways, I'm not saying OSS is inherintly more memory-efficient, just that it's much more modular; you can choose to run a GUI, or not. You can choose Mozilla, or opera or lynx (whereas, as I said, Windows 2000 seems to integrate some part of the browser with the shell (?). If I'm wrong, please tell me how I can make Windows 2000 run better on my 64 meg laptop!)
Secondly, Go WILL, beyond any shadow of a doubt, be brute-forced, barring the complete meltdown of technological society as a whole. Technology as a whole is growing at a roughly exponential rate, and eventually we'll catch up to the complexity of Go. Not anytime soon, but eventually. It's ugly, it's inefficient, but it's going to be possible (and inevitable) eventually.
Extrapolating from the explosive growth in aerospace from the 40s to the 60s, we should all be driving to work in hover cars at twice the speed of light by now.
Today at work I got a phonecall. The admins portscanned the network, found out I was running OpenSSH, and made me remove it and install a precompiled F-Secure SSH. This bugs me because who knows what they might have implemented my new precompiled ssh?
Anyways, I think they scanned for OpenSSH because of the recent problems. It seems they release a new version every couple of weeks. There are bound to be bugs. Now, I tend to think that closed-source software probably has more latent bugs and there's just no way to know, but the perception is that constant change means instability and insecurity.
As with BeOS, the M$ monopoly strikes again!!!
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Assumably the punishment will be base on the value of the "thing" stolen. How is that caclulated? Or will the guy go up on a more generic charge like breech of contract?
while the third world poor breed out of control, thanks to the Pope.
I'm not Catholic, but this is a dumb statement. People make their decisions. Which sometimes including being Catholic or having lots of kids. The Pope is influential only because people listen to him. So if you want to be critical, please accuse the third world poor of being ignorant and shortsighted (which they are, due to circumstances) and of paying too much heed to the Pope. Thank you.
The camcorder-jamming project comes as directors, including "Star Wars" legend George Lucas, are creating movies designed for digital projection that aim to provide sharper and more astounding visual effects than traditional film. But the technology has raised concerns that audience members might eventually create high-quality copies of movies using handheld video cameras smuggled into theaters.
The fact that the camcorder and the projector are both digial is irrelevant. It is not a digital copy because movie screens reflect photons, not bits. The projecter is a D/A converter and the camcorder is a A/D converter.
I'm not being pedantic. The reason this matters is because camcorder copies are crap and not worth watching. And this company is claiming that stopping camcorder bootlegs would bring the industry an extra $1.5e9 per year, yeah right.
They should worry about the REAL digital copies, leaked by insiders and mass-produced in the far east. (Well, they ARE worried about those, but this camcorder stuff is a joke).
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The real reason it's annoying is because you only hear half the conversation.
I don't bother with CD-RW, I just use CDR. I only buy them when they're "free after rebate," which between OfficeMax, Staples, BestBuy, and Compusa, is about every other week.
I have to agree with you on the pen, though.
But even if inflation stays low at 3%, that $543 will only be worth $298.
Now add in all the govt. benefits you WON'T receive because you have money in the bank to drive that number down even more.
Here's a fact check on that statement:
1997 GDP per Capita
Switzerland $43,479.93
Japan $42,736.09
Denmark $36,656.21
Norway $36,206.64
Singapore $31,600.89
Germany $30,493.78
Austria $29,485.56
United States $29,142.63
Granted, it's 5 years old. I wonder if Japan has slipped.
And why is he buying all that Kansas real-estate?
???? Research would be grand if you only had to pay when it worked out, wouldn't it?
Granted, nobody will no for sure until these things start failing. But since most of us reading this have already had CDR-drives for more than the 1-2 years you estimate, we know you're wrong.
Distilled water?
The cpu is still running fine, and a search of competed ebay auctions shows the value of the CPU is down to $15-$25.
In other words, if the life has been shortened, who cares?
I already addressed Alien in my previous message.
1) Scarcity of .deb's. On one hand, it's amazing how many packages are available, considering the debian project has to make them all. And having them centralized is largely good because they're more likely to work together. But on the other hand, you're somewhat out of luck if nobody wants to maintain a .deb for the software you want. Alien sometimes works, but more often the binary will be compiled for the wrong libc, or have lots of dependencies that also aren't in Debian.
2) Out of date packages. Again, the issue is that Debian is the source of .deb's, whereas most developers will release rpm's on their own. This means lag time.
3) Broken packages. This doesn't apply to debian stable. Debian stable is great for servers, but lags too far behind for a desktop. And Debian testing or unstable are actually fairly stable, but do live up to their names more than I'd like.
Can't think of much else. I really like debian, and it amazes me that they do it all for free. It's a great distro, and I realize this evaluation is one-sided because I haven't mentioned all the great things about Debian that keep me away from Slackware, RedHat, and even Gentoo. (Actually I do use RedHat at work because they standardized on it, but after Debian anything not network-based feels prehistoric).
But a child with two geeky parents is not just the recipient of geeky genes - s/he is also a child of two parents who are likely to find more satisfaction sitting alone at the office hacking code than at home playing patti-cake with the new arrival.
In fact, with citeseer.org really taking off, it seems I suddenly have far better access than through any library I've tried, and all from the comfort and convenience of (wherever I happen to be).
Windows 2000 on a 64 meg 233 mhz laptop, on the other hand, is agony. The hard drive just spins and spins. The top memory hog is explorer.exe, even when I'm not running the web browser. I can't figure it out; Windows NT didn't hog RAM like that.
Anyways, I'm not saying OSS is inherintly more memory-efficient, just that it's much more modular; you can choose to run a GUI, or not. You can choose Mozilla, or opera or lynx (whereas, as I said, Windows 2000 seems to integrate some part of the browser with the shell (?). If I'm wrong, please tell me how I can make Windows 2000 run better on my 64 meg laptop!)
Anyways, I think they scanned for OpenSSH because of the recent problems. It seems they release a new version every couple of weeks. There are bound to be bugs. Now, I tend to think that closed-source software probably has more latent bugs and there's just no way to know, but the perception is that constant change means instability and insecurity.
Not really :)
There is no "issue," it's just an interesting story related to Star Wars.
Assumably the punishment will be base on the value of the "thing" stolen. How is that caclulated? Or will the guy go up on a more generic charge like breech of contract?
I'm not being pedantic. The reason this matters is because camcorder copies are crap and not worth watching. And this company is claiming that stopping camcorder bootlegs would bring the industry an extra $1.5e9 per year, yeah right.
They should worry about the REAL digital copies, leaked by insiders and mass-produced in the far east. (Well, they ARE worried about those, but this camcorder stuff is a joke).
An abnormally bad flu season probably costs Intel this much.