I've owned three Ultra DDL cards before to power my various high-resolution monitors. The major problem here is heat dissipation. Even with three industrial-grade heat sinks on the card, it still produces an additional 10 degrees Celsius of heat on top of the already-hot temperatures emitted by my Duron @2.3 GHz.
Furthermore, although Nvidia has previously made drivers available for Linux, their exclusivity agreement with Apple prevents them from releasing Linux for the Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card.
As a result, I will boycott this card and the Apple that sponsors it.
I don't think you realize how long Microsoft has been around. See, I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *80s*) and I am completely self-taught.
Once upon a time, IBM thought they could charge people $800 per seat for so-called "mainframe applications licenses" or MALs. This would enable you to sit at a dumb terminal, without so much as a copy of Firefox, to download poor-quality graphics all day long. Then, in 1980, Microsoft introduced their popular MS-DOS system, based on technology they licensed for a pittance. For only about $100 per seat, you could run rich multimedia applications (limited by the XT at first, but quickly unlimited) and eventually tap into the graphical interfaces afforded to users of Microsoft Windows.
Of course, Apple came along in 1984. They charged obscene prices -- anywhere from $4,000 to $12,000 -- for a computer that did essentially the same things that Microsoft could do with Windows. It is only through Microsoft's generosity that personal computing truly became affordable.
Now, of course, Microsoft has been rendered obsolete by Linux. Just because they're meaningless now, doesn't mean that Microsoft has never been influential in reducing the price of computing.
Corporations do nothing but violate our rights. That's also why noted asshat Michael Sims put the controversial story "Google Announces Nasdaq (sic) Float" in the Your Rights Online section.
In other news, Slashdot editors are a bunch of idealistic pseudo-socialist morons who think they're part of the New World Order because they vote Libertarian and read Heinlein.
You should get your news from Michael Moore, not "News"week.
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They Might Be Giants also sell 256 kbps LAME MP3 versions of their songs. I sent a letter ot them stating:
Dear so-called "musicians":
Thank you for your decision to go with a closed-source, proprietary, obscure "codec" for your music. If you cared about your "fans," you would have chosen Ogg Vorbis. Ogg Vorbis is a superior-quality, free as in speech codec that works out of the box on all free as in speech operating systems.
In conclusion, I'm afraid that while your efforts are admirable, they will be futile unless you embrace the true "community" of Open Source.
I routinely monitor my subjects' "Instant messaging" conversations. For example, a boss will routinely request copies of his subordinates' IM logs. I'm more than happy to fulfill this request, provided that it is made via IM (so his superiors can request it).
There was one gentleman who spent his entire day talking about how much his boss "sucked" and how he thought he was living in a "police state." Let's just say that this man is now living in a "welfare state" instead.
I rule my entire office, and all the text that passes through it. I like to think I make the world a more secure place.
At my last job, the PHBs wanted access to their so-called "Instant Messaging" services. After hearing their piddling protestations, I set up a Jabber server. By funneling all their logins through one convenient server, I can provide connectivity as well as security to our stockholders. I hold in my hand a spindle of CD-Rs containing every AIM, ICQ, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, Powwow, Yahoo! Messenger, and IRC conversation that our executives have conversed over the last two years.
Total cost: Zero dollars. Knowing I'm better than all these so-called "enterprise" software developers: Priceless.
Frankly, I've never felt compelled to follow your so-called "laws." When Michael Sims took away my web site, he broke the law. I tried to call the cops, but they just laughed at me and refused to help. Cops, like jocks, are inherently prejudiced against their computer-literate superiors.
After Michael Sims wronged me, I made it up by wronging his car with a coathanger and a can of tuna. Was it legal? Hell, no. Was it justified? Yes.
You must have been ignorant, then. Eric is a very well-mannered, highly intelligent man who cannot be arsed to explain every nuance of knowledge to those who lack Clue.
I have worked with Dr. Corley on numerous, numerous occasions. Never once have I doubted the strength of his mind as the most flexorous muscle in his entire body.
Perhaps you should learn from people with whom you disagree, rather than bashing them from afar.
That doesn't work. It will either block certain work-related sites, or allow certain play-related sites to be accessed. Probably the former. Or do you do everybody's work and know for each of the many billions of pages out there if it's work related?
When a luser goes to a web page that's not in my comprehensive whitelist, he sees a small feedback form. If he can provide a valid, business-related reason for viewing that web page, I'll grant access to it.
My award-winning words deserve to be quoted. Please don't trivialise my points by saying things like "RE: Printers."
Who said they had to be shared printers? Plenty of people probably have a printer in their cube, or even a printer shared between just a few people.
You let people bring their own printers to work? Wow. That's horribly insecure. Nobody deserves their own printer, except perhaps for a sysadmin.
For that matter, what does privacy have to do with stealing company secrets? All it takes is some good planning/timing and it's done.
I keep a close, close watch on my subjects. If one of them may be doing anything harmful to the company, they are immediately terminated.
Who mentioned anything about a password? How about credit card numbers? Contact lists? Sure, you're not going to write down source code.
Wow, publically-available information. I suppose you never give your credit card to a waitress, either.
Pen and paper represent no threat to a properly-secured enterprise. I'm sorry if your business relies on information so small as to be copied using a pen and paper.
This whole thing is just like the RIAA piracy rant and CD copy protection. You can't plug the analog hole. All you end up doing is pissing of your employees.
No, it's not. I have the right to download as many copies of RIAA-approved "music" as I want, because I disapprove of the RIAA's denial of revenues to hard-working musicians. My subjects, meanwhile, do not have the right to download any company data onto their computermachines. I control the network. I control the holes. There is no circumventing me, Chris!
Free tip, Chris. Don't expect privacy when you print to your employer's shared printers. I know about all those 600-page documents you spool in the middle of the day.
Oh yeah, pens and paper?
Now you're just making me laugh. What are you going to do -- write your password down and stick it under your keyboard like all my lusers do?
Do corporations outlaw email because someone could smuggle an important corporate document through a simple email attachment?
No, they filter it. I can read all my lusers' e-mails and hold them against their senders.
You can put a heck of a lot of info on a single freemail attachment in a text file, and / or use a corporate POP3 mailserver too.
And I can watch your every move, documenting your actions for the lawsuit we file against ex-employees who think they can do this.
Do corporations also outlaw CD-Rs because they could be used to copy important data?
Yes. Our lusers have a file server; I won't have them copying customer data onto a CD-R.
Do corporations outlaw floppy discs?
Yes. See above.
And, above all, do corporations give their employees a darned internet connection to begin with?
Yes, but I lock it down with filters. No webmail. No recreational web sites. If I think it's useful, it goes on the whitelist. Sorry, guys. Play at home. Work at work.
My lusers don't have access to gmail as long as I'm in charge. All webmail services are banned.
If you're going to push 1 GB of private data across a web connection, I'm going to find you, terminate your network access, and see to it that you're fired.
Sincerely, Bert Stanwick Systems Administrator From Hell
I work for a movie theater. I busted four guys for using camcorders last month. Yesterday I got a check for $2,000. Doesn't look like they're "reneging" on me.
By the way, you don't have to press the Enter key after every period or comma.
Frankly, I vomit at the notion that those alleged "displays" are real. Have you ever seen someone who owned one? I know I haven't, and I know a lot of people.
My mother sends thousands of e-mails on behalf of her charitable organization, the Foundation Against MS. (And no, "MS" doesn't stand for Microsoft. It stands for Michael Sims.)
I set her up with one of my old boxen, a Pentium 166 running Gentoo. Are you saying that just because her box can't crunch SETI work units, she can't help to stop MS?
Sincerely, Seth Finklestein President and Chief Officer Foundation Against MS
I migrated a large office to Mac OS X last month. Unfortunately, the stupid cluebies peppered me with questions like "HOW I USE MY OUTLOOK NOW????" and "i cant see my explorer were did u put it."
We had to spend nine days training these clueless morons about how to use Mac OS X, despite the fact that Mac OS X is substantially easier to use than Windows.
I still laugh every time I get a message saying "MY FREND SENT ME A GAME BUT I CLICED IT AND IT DIDNT WORK CAN U HELP ME" from some retard in finance.
FUD. Mel C's album only cost 200,000 to produce. At 10 quid per disc, it took only 20,000 copies to break even. Assuming that the BRIAA takes 9 quid per disc sold, and -L- 1 goes to Ms. C., only 200,000 copies would cause the record to break even.
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Ironical, isn't it? The only way to get a more free X distribution is to pay Apple $139 next year.
I've owned three Ultra DDL cards before to power my various high-resolution monitors. The major problem here is heat dissipation. Even with three industrial-grade heat sinks on the card, it still produces an additional 10 degrees Celsius of heat on top of the already-hot temperatures emitted by my Duron @2.3 GHz.
Furthermore, although Nvidia has previously made drivers available for Linux, their exclusivity agreement with Apple prevents them from releasing Linux for the Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card.
As a result, I will boycott this card and the Apple that sponsors it.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Expert
I wrote the popular Flashblock plugin for Mozilla Firefox. Every web page that you open prompts you whether you want to play the Flash movies therein.
For more information, send $39.95 to the address shown.
I don't think you realize how long Microsoft has been around. See, I've been using computers since the 1980s (that's right, I said *80s*) and I am completely self-taught.
Once upon a time, IBM thought they could charge people $800 per seat for so-called "mainframe applications licenses" or MALs. This would enable you to sit at a dumb terminal, without so much as a copy of Firefox, to download poor-quality graphics all day long. Then, in 1980, Microsoft introduced their popular MS-DOS system, based on technology they licensed for a pittance. For only about $100 per seat, you could run rich multimedia applications (limited by the XT at first, but quickly unlimited) and eventually tap into the graphical interfaces afforded to users of Microsoft Windows.
Of course, Apple came along in 1984. They charged obscene prices -- anywhere from $4,000 to $12,000 -- for a computer that did essentially the same things that Microsoft could do with Windows. It is only through Microsoft's generosity that personal computing truly became affordable.
Now, of course, Microsoft has been rendered obsolete by Linux. Just because they're meaningless now, doesn't mean that Microsoft has never been influential in reducing the price of computing.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Computer Historian
Corporations do nothing but violate our rights. That's also why noted asshat Michael Sims put the controversial story "Google Announces Nasdaq (sic) Float" in the Your Rights Online section.
In other news, Slashdot editors are a bunch of idealistic pseudo-socialist morons who think they're part of the New World Order because they vote Libertarian and read Heinlein.
You should get your news from Michael Moore, not "News"week.
They Might Be Giants also sell 256 kbps LAME MP3 versions of their songs. I sent a letter ot them stating:
Dear so-called "musicians":
Thank you for your decision to go with a closed-source, proprietary, obscure "codec" for your music. If you cared about your "fans," you would have chosen Ogg Vorbis. Ogg Vorbis is a superior-quality, free as in speech codec that works out of the box on all free as in speech operating systems.
In conclusion, I'm afraid that while your efforts are admirable, they will be futile unless you embrace the true "community" of Open Source.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Music Expert
I routinely monitor my subjects' "Instant messaging" conversations. For example, a boss will routinely request copies of his subordinates' IM logs. I'm more than happy to fulfill this request, provided that it is made via IM (so his superiors can request it).
There was one gentleman who spent his entire day talking about how much his boss "sucked" and how he thought he was living in a "police state." Let's just say that this man is now living in a "welfare state" instead.
I rule my entire office, and all the text that passes through it. I like to think I make the world a more secure place.
At my last job, the PHBs wanted access to their so-called "Instant Messaging" services. After hearing their piddling protestations, I set up a Jabber server. By funneling all their logins through one convenient server, I can provide connectivity as well as security to our stockholders. I hold in my hand a spindle of CD-Rs containing every AIM, ICQ, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, Powwow, Yahoo! Messenger, and IRC conversation that our executives have conversed over the last two years.
Total cost: Zero dollars.
Knowing I'm better than all these so-called "enterprise" software developers: Priceless.
Seth, you're a legend. Thank you for standing up to our fascist oppressors like Michael Sims.
Frankly, I've never felt compelled to follow your so-called "laws." When Michael Sims took away my web site, he broke the law. I tried to call the cops, but they just laughed at me and refused to help. Cops, like jocks, are inherently prejudiced against their computer-literate superiors.
After Michael Sims wronged me, I made it up by wronging his car with a coathanger and a can of tuna. Was it legal? Hell, no. Was it justified? Yes.
You must have been ignorant, then. Eric is a very well-mannered, highly intelligent man who cannot be arsed to explain every nuance of knowledge to those who lack Clue.
I have worked with Dr. Corley on numerous, numerous occasions. Never once have I doubted the strength of his mind as the most flexorous muscle in his entire body.
Perhaps you should learn from people with whom you disagree, rather than bashing them from afar.
That doesn't work. It will either block certain work-related sites, or allow certain play-related sites to be accessed. Probably the former. Or do you do everybody's work and know for each of the many billions of pages out there if it's work related?
When a luser goes to a web page that's not in my comprehensive whitelist, he sees a small feedback form. If he can provide a valid, business-related reason for viewing that web page, I'll grant access to it.
I haven't heard any complaints about the system.
I'm not Seth. This is a pseudonym. I'm also capable enough to do two things.
My award-winning words deserve to be quoted. Please don't trivialise my points by saying things like "RE: Printers."
Who said they had to be shared printers? Plenty of people probably have a printer in their cube, or even a printer shared between just a few people.
You let people bring their own printers to work? Wow. That's horribly insecure. Nobody deserves their own printer, except perhaps for a sysadmin.
For that matter, what does privacy have to do with stealing company secrets? All it takes is some good planning/timing and it's done.
I keep a close, close watch on my subjects. If one of them may be doing anything harmful to the company, they are immediately terminated.
Who mentioned anything about a password? How about credit card numbers? Contact lists? Sure, you're not going to write down source code.
Wow, publically-available information. I suppose you never give your credit card to a waitress, either.
Pen and paper represent no threat to a properly-secured enterprise. I'm sorry if your business relies on information so small as to be copied using a pen and paper.
This whole thing is just like the RIAA piracy rant and CD copy protection. You can't plug the analog hole. All you end up doing is pissing of your employees.
No, it's not. I have the right to download as many copies of RIAA-approved "music" as I want, because I disapprove of the RIAA's denial of revenues to hard-working musicians. My subjects, meanwhile, do not have the right to download any company data onto their computermachines. I control the network. I control the holes. There is no circumventing me, Chris!
Just one more.
Yet you wrote two.
What about printers?
Free tip, Chris. Don't expect privacy when you print to your employer's shared printers. I know about all those 600-page documents you spool in the middle of the day.
Oh yeah, pens and paper?
Now you're just making me laugh. What are you going to do -- write your password down and stick it under your keyboard like all my lusers do?
Do corporations outlaw email because someone could smuggle an important corporate document through a simple email attachment?
No, they filter it. I can read all my lusers' e-mails and hold them against their senders.
You can put a heck of a lot of info on a single freemail attachment in a text file, and / or use a corporate POP3 mailserver too.
And I can watch your every move, documenting your actions for the lawsuit we file against ex-employees who think they can do this.
Do corporations also outlaw CD-Rs because they could be used to copy important data?
Yes. Our lusers have a file server; I won't have them copying customer data onto a CD-R.
Do corporations outlaw floppy discs?
Yes. See above.
And, above all, do corporations give their employees a darned internet connection to begin with?
Yes, but I lock it down with filters. No webmail. No recreational web sites. If I think it's useful, it goes on the whitelist. Sorry, guys. Play at home. Work at work.
Sincerely,
John Steigerwald
Systems Administrator
My lusers don't have access to gmail as long as I'm in charge. All webmail services are banned.
If you're going to push 1 GB of private data across a web connection, I'm going to find you, terminate your network access, and see to it that you're fired.
Sincerely,
Bert Stanwick
Systems Administrator From Hell
What about webmail.
Banned.
What about IM.
Banned.
Any other questions?
Guns don't kill people. iPods kill people.
Sincerely,
Tom Ridge
Homeland Security Chief and Microsoft beneficiary
I work for a movie theater. I busted four guys for using camcorders last month. Yesterday I got a check for $2,000. Doesn't look like they're "reneging" on me.
By the way, you don't have to press the Enter key after every period or comma.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Cinematographic Experience Consultant
Don't believe that FUD. A bunch of Mac enthusiasts have debunked the notion that this so-called "go-l" actually exists.
Frankly, I vomit at the notion that those alleged "displays" are real. Have you ever seen someone who owned one? I know I haven't, and I know a lot of people.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Technology Advocate
My mother sends thousands of e-mails on behalf of her charitable organization, the Foundation Against MS. (And no, "MS" doesn't stand for Microsoft. It stands for Michael Sims.)
I set her up with one of my old boxen, a Pentium 166 running Gentoo. Are you saying that just because her box can't crunch SETI work units, she can't help to stop MS?
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
President and Chief Officer
Foundation Against MS
I migrated a large office to Mac OS X last month. Unfortunately, the stupid cluebies peppered me with questions like "HOW I USE MY OUTLOOK NOW????" and "i cant see my explorer were did u put it."
We had to spend nine days training these clueless morons about how to use Mac OS X, despite the fact that Mac OS X is substantially easier to use than Windows.
I still laugh every time I get a message saying "MY FREND SENT ME A GAME BUT I CLICED IT AND IT DIDNT WORK CAN U HELP ME" from some retard in finance.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
IT Support Specialist
FUD. Mel C's album only cost 200,000 to produce. At 10 quid per disc, it took only 20,000 copies to break even. Assuming that the BRIAA takes 9 quid per disc sold, and -L- 1 goes to Ms. C., only 200,000 copies would cause the record to break even.
FUD, FUD, and more FUD. I'm boycotting.