Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'
You mean everyone has been heading for the less expensive, better performing AMD chips, from which you are now copying instruction sets.
You don't want free trade with us. We suck. We make horrible trilogies like Star Wars 1, 2 & 3. In constrast, you make great trilogies like LOTR 1, 2 & 3.
This tactic reminds me of a local election a few years back. The incumbent sent some people around with signs and stickers for the opponent, generally trying to be rude and force the materials on them. The local news even ran a couple of stories about how the contender was trying to force people to put campaign signs in stores, front lawns, etc. The incumbent was doing really well because of this false-negative publicity for his contender. Then a couple of days before the election someone finally figured out what was really going on. The contender one in a land slide victory on the public backlash.
Bravo for your insight and honesty. I write this comment from my office Win2k machine, but at home I have recently become a Linux (Gentoo - no I am not a 14 year old ricer "Gentoo rox" guy). I enjoy Linux because I come from a windows world and as a software developer I enjoy learning something new. I also understand that Gentoo is not a fill blown distro. However, I tried out Fedora and Mandrake as well. Let me make a few points:
1) None of the distros detected and installed my Sound Blaster card correctly. I finally had to recompile the kernel to get it to work.
2) I had to hunt down some custom mouse software to get my MS Explorer Mouse to work right.
3) I spent about 3 hours the other night trying to get my VPN to work. Still not there. Damn PPTP.
4) It took me a good 2 hours to get my IP printer to work.
5) Some of the screen savers that came with X CRASH my system. I mean complete_fukin_reboot.
Still, I now have my Linux system up and running pretty well. I am using Firefox with a lot more joy than I ever got out of IE. I am also liking Evolution, and GAIM kicks the crap out of the real thing. Open Office converted everything I have needed fine. I can watch my pr0n on MPlayer and listen to my music as well because of free, open source apps. And I don't care what you say, my Gentoo Linux box (and I think any other good distro would) is running faster than Win2k did, with the exception of Open Office which takes longer to launch but then runs fine.
A lot of the work I went through on my Gentoo system is already taken care of in many of the distros. Some of it is not.
I am enjoying running Linux. However, I am a technical guy.
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If we send all the lawyers into space they will just get sucked into the sun, and eventually they will end up created some super villian ala Superman IV.
He means that the ISP would take one of their public IP addresses and redirect all traffic on a port to his private ip on a port. You can do this in IPFW, IPCHAINS and on my D-LINK router. Haven't used IP Tables yet...
I REALLY doubt that the ISP will do this.
As far as applications and security, I would take a serious look at going with Win2k3. It doesn't "turn on" all kinds of services by default like IIS. So after install, you don't have to hunt down as much stuff to turn off (or forget to hunt something down). Also, IIS on Win2k3 lives in something like a sandbox, preventing some of the buffer overflow attacks that have been so common on Windows machines.
Win2k3t will run you.NET based apps a little better as.NET runtime binding is built into the way applications are executed on Win2k3 and WinXP.
I only used the betas and release candidates, but they were all very stable and we actually had fewer problems with the than our Win2k machines.
I am a C#/Windows programmer in my current job, but have taken up Linux as a serious hobby on the side. I would recommend doing something similar. Start programming your side projects in a different language or environment. If you are like me, you enjoy learning new things and this change of pace might just be the ticket.
At the top of the list: Apple. At the bottom: Sony
I looked at the survey, and where Sony was listed they were not at the bottom. Maybe I missed something, but on both Desktop and Notebook Gateway was below them (saprise, saprise). Also, HP/Compaq was at the bottom of the Notebooks and IBM was at the bottom of the Desktops. Sony was not in the "server" survey cat that I could see. So, how was Sony at the bottom? They more near the middle. Still, I won't go near Sony or Gateway after some of the horror stories I have experienced and/or heard.
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Even if we do run into a situation where the network is faster than the server I think we will then see the true power of P2P, distributed computing, server farms and the like.
Imagine a corporate environment where every machine is the file server, storing some pieces to the puzzle? We don't have to rely on backups as often since data is redundantly stored all over the network. Huge servers (big proc, big disk, big ram) may not be needed as much since the big pipe and a lot of small workstation servers are taking the load. I mean really, most users do not use the power of the new desktops coming out.
Even processing tasks can be distributed out to other machines once the network is fast enough. Just in my own group our project takes a minute or so to compile clean. I imagine being able to spread that task across the desktops of the other 5 developers? Or across the desktops of the other 500 employees of the company?
If are law makers don't fark things up, this "future" thing people talk about could be really cool!
Its sux, I might find myself in a similar situation. However, SMTP servers were not meant to be on dynamic IP addresses. My "dynamic" IP hasn't changed for months and months, so I will probably just have to add the SPF stuff to my DNS record (when I finally get my home SMTP server set back up after my move a year ago - damn I am lazy).
I am willing to put in a little extra work on my end if it makes it more difficult to spam.
That is actually opposite the national average. I had a link (its borked) pointing out that PCs now make up something like 70% of K-12 school computers. Dell is the #1 seller to schools now, and it seemed like another PC maker was #2 and Mac was maybe #3 or #4. I saw these numbers like a year ago, but I just saw an article the other day showing that Dell had increased its school shipments ~36%, while everyone else was down.
This is not a commentary on Macs or PCs on my part. I wish I had the links to back this up but I am sure if you Google for it with the right search terms you will uncover similar numbers.
As far as anecdotal evidence, the public school district that my mother teaches in has been slowly making the switch from Mac to PC for some years now. I know the majority of their computers are now Windows PCs. She has been grabbing old Macs for the art department (she is an art teacher) because they run a couple of applications she really likes.
Wasn't making a judgement, that is just how it is.
I personally am now running a Linux machine as my home desktop (see the Slashdot story I posted) and think that Linux is a better science and engineering platform. I haven't used a Mac for a while; I just cannot afford them:-(
It only explains the lack of Macs if you went to a very, very bad science and engineering school
Uh, do you even know what you are talking about? Every year that I attended my small little college was actually ranked as one of the top 10 technical schools in the nation.
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I have seen the ads on since the season premiere of SG-1, which was a month ago. This story is seriously dated.
You mean everyone has been heading for the less expensive, better performing AMD chips, from which you are now copying instruction sets.
You don't want free trade with us. We suck. We make horrible trilogies like Star Wars 1, 2 & 3. In constrast, you make great trilogies like LOTR 1, 2 & 3.
This tactic reminds me of a local election a few years back. The incumbent sent some people around with signs and stickers for the opponent, generally trying to be rude and force the materials on them. The local news even ran a couple of stories about how the contender was trying to force people to put campaign signs in stores, front lawns, etc. The incumbent was doing really well because of this false-negative publicity for his contender. Then a couple of days before the election someone finally figured out what was really going on. The contender one in a land slide victory on the public backlash.
Bravo for your insight and honesty. I write this comment from my office Win2k machine, but at home I have recently become a Linux (Gentoo - no I am not a 14 year old ricer "Gentoo rox" guy). I enjoy Linux because I come from a windows world and as a software developer I enjoy learning something new. I also understand that Gentoo is not a fill blown distro. However, I tried out Fedora and Mandrake as well. Let me make a few points: 1) None of the distros detected and installed my Sound Blaster card correctly. I finally had to recompile the kernel to get it to work. 2) I had to hunt down some custom mouse software to get my MS Explorer Mouse to work right. 3) I spent about 3 hours the other night trying to get my VPN to work. Still not there. Damn PPTP. 4) It took me a good 2 hours to get my IP printer to work. 5) Some of the screen savers that came with X CRASH my system. I mean complete_fukin_reboot. Still, I now have my Linux system up and running pretty well. I am using Firefox with a lot more joy than I ever got out of IE. I am also liking Evolution, and GAIM kicks the crap out of the real thing. Open Office converted everything I have needed fine. I can watch my pr0n on MPlayer and listen to my music as well because of free, open source apps. And I don't care what you say, my Gentoo Linux box (and I think any other good distro would) is running faster than Win2k did, with the exception of Open Office which takes longer to launch but then runs fine. A lot of the work I went through on my Gentoo system is already taken care of in many of the distros. Some of it is not. I am enjoying running Linux. However, I am a technical guy.
If we send all the lawyers into space they will just get sucked into the sun, and eventually they will end up created some super villian ala Superman IV.
Have you tried putting the WAP in the attic? Perhaps there isn't metal in the ceilings?
He means that the ISP would take one of their public IP addresses and redirect all traffic on a port to his private ip on a port. You can do this in IPFW, IPCHAINS and on my D-LINK router. Haven't used IP Tables yet... I REALLY doubt that the ISP will do this.
Win2k3t will run you .NET based apps a little better as .NET runtime binding is built into the way applications are executed on Win2k3 and WinXP.
I only used the betas and release candidates, but they were all very stable and we actually had fewer problems with the than our Win2k machines.
Just my 2 cents...
Me thinks we have a spy, fellow Slashdotters! This person (parent comment author) sounds more like a drama student than a programmer!
I am a C#/Windows programmer in my current job, but have taken up Linux as a serious hobby on the side. I would recommend doing something similar. Start programming your side projects in a different language or environment. If you are like me, you enjoy learning new things and this change of pace might just be the ticket.
Might be wrong, but those all look like Mac and Windows Codecs.
Nope. Doesn't play.
sweet. Doing an emerge on mplayer now, will get these next.
I noticed this is mov. What do you recommend to view mov (or other Quicktime) on Linux?
I looked at the survey, and where Sony was listed they were not at the bottom. Maybe I missed something, but on both Desktop and Notebook Gateway was below them (saprise, saprise). Also, HP/Compaq was at the bottom of the Notebooks and IBM was at the bottom of the Desktops. Sony was not in the "server" survey cat that I could see. So, how was Sony at the bottom? They more near the middle. Still, I won't go near Sony or Gateway after some of the horror stories I have experienced and/or heard.
I know the trolls are going to point out the wrong "are" instead of "our". That will teach me to hit the "Submit" instead of preview on a Saturday night when I have had a few beers....
Even if we do run into a situation where the network is faster than the server I think we will then see the true power of P2P, distributed computing, server farms and the like.
Imagine a corporate environment where every machine is the file server, storing some pieces to the puzzle? We don't have to rely on backups as often since data is redundantly stored all over the network. Huge servers (big proc, big disk, big ram) may not be needed as much since the big pipe and a lot of small workstation servers are taking the load. I mean really, most users do not use the power of the new desktops coming out.
Even processing tasks can be distributed out to other machines once the network is fast enough. Just in my own group our project takes a minute or so to compile clean. I imagine being able to spread that task across the desktops of the other 5 developers? Or across the desktops of the other 500 employees of the company?
If are law makers don't fark things up, this "future" thing people talk about could be really cool!
They have. I would invite you to go to the SPF site and read a little on the additions to SPF from MS.
I am as suspicious of MS as the next guy, but I think this was done on the up and up.
Its sux, I might find myself in a similar situation. However, SMTP servers were not meant to be on dynamic IP addresses. My "dynamic" IP hasn't changed for months and months, so I will probably just have to add the SPF stuff to my DNS record (when I finally get my home SMTP server set back up after my move a year ago - damn I am lazy).
I am willing to put in a little extra work on my end if it makes it more difficult to spam.
Thinks of what will happen when our belief systems are overturned by the fact that another intelligence exists in the universe.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
That is actually opposite the national average. I had a link (its borked) pointing out that PCs now make up something like 70% of K-12 school computers. Dell is the #1 seller to schools now, and it seemed like another PC maker was #2 and Mac was maybe #3 or #4. I saw these numbers like a year ago, but I just saw an article the other day showing that Dell had increased its school shipments ~36%, while everyone else was down.
This is not a commentary on Macs or PCs on my part. I wish I had the links to back this up but I am sure if you Google for it with the right search terms you will uncover similar numbers.
As far as anecdotal evidence, the public school district that my mother teaches in has been slowly making the switch from Mac to PC for some years now. I know the majority of their computers are now Windows PCs. She has been grabbing old Macs for the art department (she is an art teacher) because they run a couple of applications she really likes.
Whenever I feel old I will refer myself to this post :-)
I personally am now running a Linux machine as my home desktop (see the Slashdot story I posted) and think that Linux is a better science and engineering platform. I haven't used a Mac for a while; I just cannot afford them :-(
It only explains the lack of Macs if you went to a very, very bad science and engineering school
Uh, do you even know what you are talking about? Every year that I attended my small little college was actually ranked as one of the top 10 technical schools in the nation.