Is there some way I can filter out news about Finland's music industry? Before it too gets front page news, I would like to preemtively filter out all news of the music industry in Bolivia, Greenland, the Ukraine, and Poland. Thank you.
I have no idea what you just said. Can you rephrase that with smaller words and less run-on sentences? I think you just said, "Hey, this is cool" using 250 words, but I'm not sure.
The schools don't want it. They buy Dell/IBM/Compaq PCs and have support contracts with those manufacturers. They also would also need to buy a license for Windows XP. Your license is non-transferable. What do they do when your PC's memory goes faulty? Who do they contact for a replacement? The fly-by-night Pricewatch vendor you bought it from? What are they going to use your Pentium 133 for, anyways? They're not going to be doing any physics simulations on it. You want to explain to them why they should make this the lone Linux PC in their entire computer lab? Especially after they see how horribly slow KDE runs with 32MB RAM and a 2MB video card that doesn't have XF86 4.x drivers...
Wow, you've got an 820 board? I thought I was the only one still using them. I bought an Asus P3C-D a couple months ago, bought 256MB RDRAM, and moved my 450 MHz Pentium IIIs over to that (from a i440BX Asus P2B-D). Then, after I broke up with my last girlfriend, I bought my third non-Intel system (Commodore 64, Duron 800, and now this Tyan dual Athlon MPX board).
Anyways, the only reason I even bother upgrading any more is because it's fun. There's no real other reason. I get a thrill out of blowing money on computer parts.
I used to get all excited by the thought of a Compaq ProLiant, DEC Alpha, or Sun SPARC. Well, now that I've saved all three of them from corporate offices or ebay auctions, I think there's nothing left for me to get excited over. And now that the industry is being reduced to just a handful of players (R.I.P. DEC, Quantum, Commodore, Apple -- oops, they're not dead... yet), it's only a matter of time before we're left with just Intel, IBM, and HPQ. Blah. That will be the death of the hobbyist as we know it. The only thing left to drool over will be Windows.NET Server running on Itanium. And I could do without that fantasy.
Very insightful. It took me longer to realize the same thing (early 90s was the first time I remember thinking, "Nobody needs a new PC or software after this point...").
Most people would be happy with a crippled eMachines similar to what my grandma used. It was something like 300 MHz (maybe 400 MHz), 128MB RAM, tiny speakers, and Windows ME. It worked fine for everything she did, though the choice of operating system might have been a little icky. I was grandma's tech support, and she almost never had any problems.
I have upgrade fever, but my main system is only 800 MHz. I haven't upgraded anything in over six months. I'm so proud of myself. I'll admit, I am thinking of upgrading the video card and processor. For the first time since 1990 or so, my dad's computer is faster than mine. Ever since I had the ability to make my own money, my computer has typically been the fastest of anyone I know. I don't need it to be that fast, but it helps a lot when I play with graphics manipulation, high end games, compiling, and other CPU intensive stuff. I could get by on a 450 MHz Pentium II, but it wouldn't be as much fun.
My other computer is a dual Athlon MP 1.2 GHz with a second generation Cheetah 15k RPM Ultra 320 SCSI drive, and Matrox G400 (can't afford a Parhelia yet). It's also got lots of cool stuff hanging off it, like a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, external SCSI CD-RW, internal and external SCSI MO drives, 120MB floppy drive, several more LVD SCSI drives, and a few SCSI cards. This is the system I sink most of my money into. Whenever I feel depressed or break up with a girlfriend, I spend a grand or two on upgrading it.
No cheating? Are you crazy? Every single online game has buttloads of cheaters. Not even Blizzard can get rid of the cheaters. The fuckers seem to have given up on Diablo 2. The 1.10 patch is months late and the game is going to hell in a hoardric cube. Har har.
Be nice and don't moderate me down. I didn't use my +1 posting bonus.
If i've spent £1000+ on a uberPC with everything, I dont want to have to switch hardware to run MacOS. Apple will never seduce Windows users while their investment in hardware cannot be transported over.
Well, the PowerMacs are the same thing as any other PC, except the firmware and processor. If you look at a PowerMac motherboard, you'll see a bunch of chips by National Semiconducters, Opti (RIP), C&T (RIP?), Winbond, etc. My 450 MHz Blue & White PowerMac has a 64 bit PCI bus, with three PCI slots. There's also a 66 MHz PCI slot, but that's just a cheap attempt to get around the lack of an AGP slot. Of course, newer PowerMacs do have AGP slots. The firmware is kind of cool to play around with, because it's the same thing (OpenFirmware) that Sun uses in their Sparcs. It's based around Forth, a design choice I'm not sure I agree with...
The problem here is that OpenFirmware needs to know how to initialize your PCI card. If it can do that, there's a slight chance you'll be able to use it with your PowerMac. The next problem you will face is getting a driver. A lot of Mac hardware out there still doesn't even support Mac OS X. The chances of you being able to locate a driver for some generic piece of hardware is pretty slim.
You can basically forget about stuff like your Soundblaster Audigy Platinum, which cost $200. Also, forget about your Matrox Parhelia, which is $300. LSI Logic doesn't support the Mac, either. That means you need to buy an overpriced Adaptec SCSI card (or a Qlogic card, if you can find one in the U.S.). Bleh. Nvidia video cards will probably work fine, though. You'll need to flash the video card's firmware with the Mac version, though. You can do this from any PC running Windows. Good luck trying to find a PowerMac that doesn't come with generic off-the-shelf hardware marked up 200% by Apple, though. Have you ever seen how much they charge for a generic stick of RAM or a low-end hard drive? It's sickening. I could buy a SCSI hard drive for the prices Apple wants for their IDE drives.
Trying to put anything new in a PowerMac is always a gamble, at best. The best thing to do is stick with the original hardware that was installed by Apple. Upgrading or modifying a PowerMac is not for the easily frustrated. There are entire websites out there dedicated to rating hardware for Mac compatibility. The fact that you can't use a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM in a Mac blows my mind. WTF? Oh well. Nobody ever said Macs were the best choice for power users.
I'd definitely recommend staying with x86 if you are a power user. Leave the Mac for the artists and people who are confused by a mouse with two buttons.
Well I find this very hard to believe, we're not on the brink of war with countries that hold long range chemical and nuclear weapons.
You mean China? I didn't know we were on the virge of war with China. Ohhh, you mean Iraq. The very same country that took a week to devastate in Desert Storm?
We didn't within the last year and a half suffer the greatest loss on american soil ever.
You mean the Civil War was last year?
The economy isn't in a downward spiral.
Mmmm. That's why everyone on Slashdot is buying Pentium IV 3GHz PCs, SUVs, and 50" digital televisions.
American aren't losing jobs at an enormously large rate.
Right, that's why the dockworkers in California have guaranteed job security lined up. Not to mention all those people recruiters in California who are desperately trying to find (here's the big one, folks) QUALIFIED tech workers. Sorry, if you were part of the dot-com boom, your services are no longer required. Unfortunately, that does, in a round-about way, mean I lost my job, too. But I can get a new one easily enough... I'm just choosy.
American education and social aid programs and grants aren't being cut because the money just isn't there anymore.
Same thing as any other year. More money to build the war machine, less money for science and education.
If these things were happening I'd think there would at least be an excuse for politicans to not care about technology.
I would take it a step further. Why are they doing wrong? If one party agrees to the terms of the second party, then where's all the wrongdoing? If I tell you that I'm going to strip your wife naked and hump her, but you cover your ears and yell, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!", where is the great wrongdoing? What do you want these software companies to do? Have each word creep along the screen?
Welcome (pause) to (pause) the (pause) EULA (pause) for (pause) Windows. (pause) Estimated (pause) time (pause) remaining (pause) for (pause) the (pause) display (pause) of (pause) the (pause) EULA: (pause) three (pause) hours. (pause)
Maybe that would make these ignorant lusers happy.
And, yes, I do read the EULA of every program that I install on my PC. You know how much effort it takes? Almost none. I even click on "disagree" sometimes, because I find the EULA unacceptable.
And what's with the https link? Is this a new feature for the paranoid YRO slashbots?
Blah, blah, blah. Now I wait to submit my comment, because Slashdot has some inane time limitations on posting. Is it time to submit yet? I don't think so. I type too fast. Some day I will learn to type slowly. Did I ever tell you about my ex-girlfriend? I never got any sex from her. One year we were together, and I probably got some a dozen times. Oh, I am a pathetic man. Okay, that's probably enough.
Because that's more specialized and not as mass produced, it's going to end up costing a bit more. I, personally, have never played with cPCI, and I've played with some esoteric, technical stuff. I'm not sure that they'd have the experience necessary with that. They might need to hire someone or train someone. Once you start getting into the embedded world, you need need training than the average guy on Slashdot has.
cPCI with PowerPC processors would be just too damn cool. I've looked at them at Motorola's web site. I just wish I could find an application for them!
Nobody knows what a Shoggoth or Mi-Go is, but everyone knows who Cthulhu is. Sometimes you have to take liberties with the Mythos. "At the Mountains of Madness" was a great novella, though.
Yeah, just wait until we wake up one of the Elder Gods imprisoned in a block of ice on Pluto. I bet those stupid scientists won't be so happy to find life on Pluto when they're being eaten alive by Cthulhu.
By complaining, you just encourage them to do this sort of thing more often in the future. The slasdot editors are merely trolls now. When was the last time you saw a story that was truly insightful or interesting? Sure, they still slip in occasionally, but just about everything posted on the main page is flamebait. Think about it. Which of the following front page headlines would you expect to see on Slashdot today:
New Study Says P2P Networks Encourage Drug Use In Teens Intel, Microsoft, and MPAA Try To Squash Our Rights Again RMS Announces Linus Torvalds' Name Is Now GNU/Linus GNU/Torvalds I Constantly Reboot Into Windows XP, Watch MPAA Movies At The Cinema, And Donate To Senator Hollingworth's Re-Election Campaign, Yet I Am A Slashdot Editor Scientist Claims To Have Invented FTL Engine. Space Colonization Now Possible? Microsoft Has New Virus HAHAHAHA New Pre-Patch Of The Beta Kernel Available Google Patents Web Searching!!!! LNUX Stock At New Low; Threatened To Be De-Listed FreeBSD 5.0 Released New UltraSPARC V information released
If you said all of 'em, then you're wrong! Slashdot would never comment on LNUX's stock tanking so badly. And the release of FreeBSD 5.0 would never get mentioned on the main page. And if you think Slashdot would actually mention technical, like the UltraSPARC architecture, you're fucking crazy.
Why do you think they have so many spelling, grammar, and factual errors in every story? It's because they know that you'll take the bait. How else are they going to prove to their advertisers that thousands of people are seeing their ads?
Let me tell you a story. One day, I was listening to a satellite radio station (broadcast in several states, including TX and NY). One of the New York callers happened to insult Texas, igniting a big call-in flamewar. The DJ almost creamed his pants he was so excited. Do you know why? Because every time they got a caller, that was another person they could list as a mindless zombie for the advertisers to indoctrinate. I turned off the radio in disgust, and I haven't turned it back on in almost ten years.
Stand up and tell the slashdot editors that you're not just another demographic! Participate in the next Great Slashdot Blackout! Moderate everything as "overrated"! Post goatse.cx links!
Or you could just waste all your karma trolling, like me.
p.s. Almost forgot the "I know I'll get modded down for this" disclaimer.
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Is there some way I can filter out news about Finland's music industry? Before it too gets front page news, I would like to preemtively filter out all news of the music industry in Bolivia, Greenland, the Ukraine, and Poland. Thank you.
I have no idea what you just said. Can you rephrase that with smaller words and less run-on sentences? I think you just said, "Hey, this is cool" using 250 words, but I'm not sure.
The schools don't want it. They buy Dell/IBM/Compaq PCs and have support contracts with those manufacturers. They also would also need to buy a license for Windows XP. Your license is non-transferable. What do they do when your PC's memory goes faulty? Who do they contact for a replacement? The fly-by-night Pricewatch vendor you bought it from? What are they going to use your Pentium 133 for, anyways? They're not going to be doing any physics simulations on it. You want to explain to them why they should make this the lone Linux PC in their entire computer lab? Especially after they see how horribly slow KDE runs with 32MB RAM and a 2MB video card that doesn't have XF86 4.x drivers...
Wow, you've got an 820 board? I thought I was the only one still using them. I bought an Asus P3C-D a couple months ago, bought 256MB RDRAM, and moved my 450 MHz Pentium IIIs over to that (from a i440BX Asus P2B-D). Then, after I broke up with my last girlfriend, I bought my third non-Intel system (Commodore 64, Duron 800, and now this Tyan dual Athlon MPX board).
.NET Server running on Itanium. And I could do without that fantasy.
Anyways, the only reason I even bother upgrading any more is because it's fun. There's no real other reason. I get a thrill out of blowing money on computer parts.
I used to get all excited by the thought of a Compaq ProLiant, DEC Alpha, or Sun SPARC. Well, now that I've saved all three of them from corporate offices or ebay auctions, I think there's nothing left for me to get excited over. And now that the industry is being reduced to just a handful of players (R.I.P. DEC, Quantum, Commodore, Apple -- oops, they're not dead... yet), it's only a matter of time before we're left with just Intel, IBM, and HPQ. Blah. That will be the death of the hobbyist as we know it. The only thing left to drool over will be Windows
Very insightful. It took me longer to realize the same thing (early 90s was the first time I remember thinking, "Nobody needs a new PC or software after this point...").
Most people would be happy with a crippled eMachines similar to what my grandma used. It was something like 300 MHz (maybe 400 MHz), 128MB RAM, tiny speakers, and Windows ME. It worked fine for everything she did, though the choice of operating system might have been a little icky. I was grandma's tech support, and she almost never had any problems.
I have upgrade fever, but my main system is only 800 MHz. I haven't upgraded anything in over six months. I'm so proud of myself. I'll admit, I am thinking of upgrading the video card and processor. For the first time since 1990 or so, my dad's computer is faster than mine. Ever since I had the ability to make my own money, my computer has typically been the fastest of anyone I know. I don't need it to be that fast, but it helps a lot when I play with graphics manipulation, high end games, compiling, and other CPU intensive stuff. I could get by on a 450 MHz Pentium II, but it wouldn't be as much fun.
My other computer is a dual Athlon MP 1.2 GHz with a second generation Cheetah 15k RPM Ultra 320 SCSI drive, and Matrox G400 (can't afford a Parhelia yet). It's also got lots of cool stuff hanging off it, like a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, external SCSI CD-RW, internal and external SCSI MO drives, 120MB floppy drive, several more LVD SCSI drives, and a few SCSI cards. This is the system I sink most of my money into. Whenever I feel depressed or break up with a girlfriend, I spend a grand or two on upgrading it.
No comments on how bad my love life must be.
No cheating? Are you crazy? Every single online game has buttloads of cheaters. Not even Blizzard can get rid of the cheaters. The fuckers seem to have given up on Diablo 2. The 1.10 patch is months late and the game is going to hell in a hoardric cube. Har har.
Be nice and don't moderate me down. I didn't use my +1 posting bonus.
Haha. She listens to Tori Amos 24/7 and overidentifies with every song. Last I heard, she has about as much of a life as me -- ie, none.
I think you pressed submit a little early.
Well, the PowerMacs are the same thing as any other PC, except the firmware and processor. If you look at a PowerMac motherboard, you'll see a bunch of chips by National Semiconducters, Opti (RIP), C&T (RIP?), Winbond, etc. My 450 MHz Blue & White PowerMac has a 64 bit PCI bus, with three PCI slots. There's also a 66 MHz PCI slot, but that's just a cheap attempt to get around the lack of an AGP slot. Of course, newer PowerMacs do have AGP slots. The firmware is kind of cool to play around with, because it's the same thing (OpenFirmware) that Sun uses in their Sparcs. It's based around Forth, a design choice I'm not sure I agree with...
The problem here is that OpenFirmware needs to know how to initialize your PCI card. If it can do that, there's a slight chance you'll be able to use it with your PowerMac. The next problem you will face is getting a driver. A lot of Mac hardware out there still doesn't even support Mac OS X. The chances of you being able to locate a driver for some generic piece of hardware is pretty slim.
You can basically forget about stuff like your Soundblaster Audigy Platinum, which cost $200. Also, forget about your Matrox Parhelia, which is $300. LSI Logic doesn't support the Mac, either. That means you need to buy an overpriced Adaptec SCSI card (or a Qlogic card, if you can find one in the U.S.). Bleh. Nvidia video cards will probably work fine, though. You'll need to flash the video card's firmware with the Mac version, though. You can do this from any PC running Windows. Good luck trying to find a PowerMac that doesn't come with generic off-the-shelf hardware marked up 200% by Apple, though. Have you ever seen how much they charge for a generic stick of RAM or a low-end hard drive? It's sickening. I could buy a SCSI hard drive for the prices Apple wants for their IDE drives.
Trying to put anything new in a PowerMac is always a gamble, at best. The best thing to do is stick with the original hardware that was installed by Apple. Upgrading or modifying a PowerMac is not for the easily frustrated. There are entire websites out there dedicated to rating hardware for Mac compatibility. The fact that you can't use a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM in a Mac blows my mind. WTF? Oh well. Nobody ever said Macs were the best choice for power users.
I'd definitely recommend staying with x86 if you are a power user. Leave the Mac for the artists and people who are confused by a mouse with two buttons.
You mean China? I didn't know we were on the virge of war with China. Ohhh, you mean Iraq. The very same country that took a week to devastate in Desert Storm?
You mean the Civil War was last year?
Mmmm. That's why everyone on Slashdot is buying Pentium IV 3GHz PCs, SUVs, and 50" digital televisions.
Right, that's why the dockworkers in California have guaranteed job security lined up. Not to mention all those people recruiters in California who are desperately trying to find (here's the big one, folks) QUALIFIED tech workers. Sorry, if you were part of the dot-com boom, your services are no longer required. Unfortunately, that does, in a round-about way, mean I lost my job, too. But I can get a new one easily enough... I'm just choosy.
Same thing as any other year. More money to build the war machine, less money for science and education.
Good troll.
No, it's "free" as in "free".
I would take it a step further. Why are they doing wrong? If one party agrees to the terms of the second party, then where's all the wrongdoing? If I tell you that I'm going to strip your wife naked and hump her, but you cover your ears and yell, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!", where is the great wrongdoing? What do you want these software companies to do? Have each word creep along the screen?
Welcome (pause) to (pause) the (pause) EULA (pause) for (pause) Windows. (pause) Estimated (pause) time (pause) remaining (pause) for (pause) the (pause) display (pause) of (pause) the (pause) EULA: (pause) three (pause) hours. (pause)
Maybe that would make these ignorant lusers happy.
And, yes, I do read the EULA of every program that I install on my PC. You know how much effort it takes? Almost none. I even click on "disagree" sometimes, because I find the EULA unacceptable.
We'll just send them right back to you.
New York's weirdo quota has already been filled, thank you.
Actually, most people would say "programmable logic controller's".
You're not suffiently cynical yet.
Bite your tongue! Those who would trade a little freedom for a program that works deserve neither freedom nor a program that works.
And what's with the https link? Is this a new feature for the paranoid YRO slashbots?
Blah, blah, blah. Now I wait to submit my comment, because Slashdot has some inane time limitations on posting. Is it time to submit yet? I don't think so. I type too fast. Some day I will learn to type slowly. Did I ever tell you about my ex-girlfriend? I never got any sex from her. One year we were together, and I probably got some a dozen times. Oh, I am a pathetic man. Okay, that's probably enough.
This comment should be moderated up to six and put in the Slashdot HALL OF FAME.
And you can put to use that business degree your parents made you get!
Because that's more specialized and not as mass produced, it's going to end up costing a bit more. I, personally, have never played with cPCI, and I've played with some esoteric, technical stuff. I'm not sure that they'd have the experience necessary with that. They might need to hire someone or train someone. Once you start getting into the embedded world, you need need training than the average guy on Slashdot has.
cPCI with PowerPC processors would be just too damn cool. I've looked at them at Motorola's web site. I just wish I could find an application for them!
Imagine a Mosix cluster of them!
There should have been a spoiler warning before this comment!
Dad? You're drunk! Go home!
Nobody knows what a Shoggoth or Mi-Go is, but everyone knows who Cthulhu is. Sometimes you have to take liberties with the Mythos. "At the Mountains of Madness" was a great novella, though.
Yeah, just wait until we wake up one of the Elder Gods imprisoned in a block of ice on Pluto. I bet those stupid scientists won't be so happy to find life on Pluto when they're being eaten alive by Cthulhu.
By complaining, you just encourage them to do this sort of thing more often in the future. The slasdot editors are merely trolls now. When was the last time you saw a story that was truly insightful or interesting? Sure, they still slip in occasionally, but just about everything posted on the main page is flamebait. Think about it. Which of the following front page headlines would you expect to see on Slashdot today:
New Study Says P2P Networks Encourage Drug Use In Teens
Intel, Microsoft, and MPAA Try To Squash Our Rights Again
RMS Announces Linus Torvalds' Name Is Now GNU/Linus GNU/Torvalds
I Constantly Reboot Into Windows XP, Watch MPAA Movies At The Cinema, And Donate To Senator Hollingworth's Re-Election Campaign, Yet I Am A Slashdot Editor
Scientist Claims To Have Invented FTL Engine. Space Colonization Now Possible?
Microsoft Has New Virus HAHAHAHA
New Pre-Patch Of The Beta Kernel Available
Google Patents Web Searching!!!!
LNUX Stock At New Low; Threatened To Be De-Listed
FreeBSD 5.0 Released
New UltraSPARC V information released
If you said all of 'em, then you're wrong! Slashdot would never comment on LNUX's stock tanking so badly. And the release of FreeBSD 5.0 would never get mentioned on the main page. And if you think Slashdot would actually mention technical, like the UltraSPARC architecture, you're fucking crazy.
Why do you think they have so many spelling, grammar, and factual errors in every story? It's because they know that you'll take the bait. How else are they going to prove to their advertisers that thousands of people are seeing their ads?
Let me tell you a story. One day, I was listening to a satellite radio station (broadcast in several states, including TX and NY). One of the New York callers happened to insult Texas, igniting a big call-in flamewar. The DJ almost creamed his pants he was so excited. Do you know why? Because every time they got a caller, that was another person they could list as a mindless zombie for the advertisers to indoctrinate. I turned off the radio in disgust, and I haven't turned it back on in almost ten years.
Stand up and tell the slashdot editors that you're not just another demographic! Participate in the next Great Slashdot Blackout! Moderate everything as "overrated"! Post goatse.cx links!
Or you could just waste all your karma trolling, like me.
p.s. Almost forgot the "I know I'll get modded down for this" disclaimer.