Is anyone still buying Nvidia cards any more these days (other than the blindly trusting fanboys, that is)?
I am and I will for some time to come. I don't even CONSIDER ati cards as a possibility due to driver issues in the past. Have you ever worked with drivers for some obscure onboard ati? All the driver problems I've had with ati cards STILL reflect on me today. (more then 4 years after I last touched an ati card at home...) I voted with my wallet in favour of nvidia. *pats his purdy Asus GF4 Ti 4400*
An article about supercomputers right after an article about software bloat... Is this a premonition of what we need in 2 years to run Windows Arcadia Pro along with Internet Explorer 7, Office Arcadia Pro and Windows Media Player 11?
I'd rather have a jamming device to stop stupid people from running around my house and "camping" behind my garage. Also, hearing some 14 year old yell out "OMFG YUO AWN* FAGGOT!!!" in my backyard at 07:00 is probably NOT the best way to get my day started.
* = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.
That will get you trouble with the dutch division of Apple. Wether deliberate or not, you just managed to do a nice and flawless translation of Apple products from their english names to their dutch equivalents.:P
Well, guess who isn't going to buy that USB memory stick after all! Guess I'll be using floppies for a while longer then, at least they don't try to rip me off claiming a 5,25" is a "Full Speed" floppy while 3,5" are considered to be "Hi-speed". Ah well, thank god we still got PS/2 and the trusty serial and parallel ports. They suck, but at least we won't get ripped of with them. Who said legacy connections are dying?
They think something about an object, great for them. What's next? Uproar in the slashdot community because Steve Jobs farted? This is supposed to be a new site (or at least that's what I keep telling myself), not some sort of weird online tabloid for the geek culture.
The other 90% was the hard part, typically requiring running some coke, poking at the data, and running the code again to see what changed. "Maze wall moved here, then things crashed when I tried to walk through it."
Just like women, 90% of the places I poke at cause me to crash face first into the ground. Amazing!
The front door on this house has no keyhole. Which is not to say it's vulnerable. Security couldn't be more important at 16100 NE 159th Avenue. There's the future to protect.
Instead of traditional locks, there's an electronic kiosk with a touchscreen, a biometric scanner, and a smartcard reader. Go ahead and make eye contact; if you're a match, you'll pass through into your future home - a time and place a half-dozen years from now when your living quarters will recognize you, communicate with you, and anticipate your every need.
Very nice and all, but (I'll skip the obligatory MS security jokes and leave those for those who care.) what about getting OUT in a hurry? Or getting in in a hurry? I'm not talking about thieves here, but firemen and other emergency services. Suppose your house is on fire and your central authentication server power down, blew up, suffered a heart attack, whatever. How are you going to get out of your house then? How are the paramedics going to get in if you had a heart attack or a seizure or something else with incapicitates you?
Very true, so many 802.x standards lately. It's hard for anyone to get a brief summary on all of those standards compared together. Does anyone know of a site where they are all compared, along with possible uses, frequency ranges, power ratings, trivial names, etcetera? It would be a nice and handy reference for both the uninitiated (like yours truly) and a spiffy cheat sheet for those who are already knowledgable about all this.
Spam viagra to people? Expect a B52 carpet bombing your estate into something which resembles the lunar surface. Selling CDs with email adresses? Say hello to your new friend, Mr Daisy Cutter. Running spam servers or operating an ISP which turns a blind eye toward spammers? Duck and cover! Don't forget the iodine!
Allot more fun is to be had with one empty 700mb file (or hacked file so it looks 700mb) and a whole bunch of symlinks toward it. Not only more efficient, but also more attractive to the (RI|MP)AA if it appears you're hosting all major record label songs and big holywood movies since 1970. Cram it onto an FTP server, make anonymous access possible and wait for them to fall for the trap. If you're going to submit to a search engine though, you better be prepared for some massive traffic and/or bandwidth bills...
I'd do so but those two organisations aren't much of a concern to me (yet), considering I'm not from the US.
US forces are starting to look like Imperial Storm Troopers? Well, they already aim pretty lousy... That was a start, this is just the finishing touch I guess.
Now things are starting to look allot more interesting... Just need to figure out how to get a TG subscription, preferably without using a CC (those things are rare and expensive around here, no cheapo options available; maybe they accept something like paypal?) and I need to fork over some money for a soundcard now. But all that definitely sounds worth it so far! Thanks!:o)
Games. (Does GTA3* run on an alternative OS? How about Battlefield 1942* or Baldur's Gate*? And no, emulation is NOT an option)
College requirements. (College Intranet fails to work with non-IE browsers, they claim it's me. Otherwise I use Mozilla.)
Hardware support. (Linux appears to hate my onboard soundcard with a passion. Also, I don't have a clue how to make my digital camera work under Linux or wether or not it even CAN work (Kodak DX3500))
Architecture bound. (afaik, Mac OS X doesn't work on x86. And even if it did, issue 1 still remains.)
That's why. And sure, I'm a thief. Then again, it's just Microsoft.
* = Yes, I legally own those games, as in going to the store and forking over 49,95 Euros.
So let me get this straight. You'll pay if the software is stable, secure, fast, bloat-free, and has licensing you like. You admit Windows XP is stable, secure, and fast (even though you later go on to contradict yourself and say that it will slow down your computer). If it is stable, secure and fast (as you admit it is), bloat just means it has extra features you don't use, which don't affect any of the previous 3 apparently. So because you don't like the licensing terms (but apparently approve of the rest of the product) you will pirate the software. This seems like the whiniest protest I've ever heard. The software is great, but until they change their licensing and price (which I can afford, since I can afford a computer) I'm going to steal their software. Jesus, and people wonder why non-geeks think/, and other geek sites make all geeks look like a bunch of whiney little children who are just looking for everything for free...
Did you hear that wooshing sound in the distance? That's the point of my post going WAAAAY over your head. Anyways, let me explain myself a bit more. Yes, I'll pay for decent software and Windows XP Pro can be fairly fast to boot, secure and stable. The main point is fairly, which means that even though those features are now decent (especially compared with, say, Win98/95) I still find them lacking compared to what's possible compared to other OSes. The very existance of superior products by companies with a far smaller budget or made by groups of people with NO budget (OSS) proves to me that Microsoft's software is still not worth the ridiculous price they're asking for it. Take Macs for example; they are more expensive then normal x86 PCs yet they are still being sold quite nicely. Why? Because the price/performance ratio is better. (That, and Mac people can get quite fanatical...) Also remember that Mac OS X is sold with FAR superior performance at two thirds the dough required for Windows XP Pro, which compared to Mac OS X is mediocre at best.
That said, I noticed there is some confusion with the last paragraph I wrote. I said that XP Pro only boots faster then Windows 2000 Pro. The bloats only kicks in after boot, making XP crawl along and thus reducing my Celeron 300 to a black box barely being able to run XP Pro. I can forget about playing games on it for sure with XP Pro loaded, though it manages to pull along nicely with Win98.
Oh, I'll hapiily pay!... For quality software against a reasonable price, that is. Now if Windows XP didn't cost me a kidney but 50 euros or something OR MS would drastically improve/cough up some versions of their OS worth the money, (stable*, secure*, fast*, bloat-free, no evil licensing schemes/integrated crap) then I'd happily pay! Unfortunately, right now, I'm not going to fork over 300 euros for Win XP Pro only so I can have one huge piece of bloat slow down my computer while MS monkeys/lawyers are constantly trying to think up the holy grail of licenses which in legal terms state that MS will own my house, car, wife, first born and have the right to sell my soul to Satan for favours.
* = Surprisingly, they already managed this. A windows machine CAN be made fairly stable if properly taken care of, same with security. And XP Pro boots pretty fast on my Celeron 300, faster then 2k on an AMD XP 1900:\ Remember kids, while MS is still evil, most faults can be attributed to human error/incompetence still!
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I am and I will for some time to come. I don't even CONSIDER ati cards as a possibility due to driver issues in the past. Have you ever worked with drivers for some obscure onboard ati? All the driver problems I've had with ati cards STILL reflect on me today. (more then 4 years after I last touched an ati card at home...) I voted with my wallet in favour of nvidia. *pats his purdy Asus GF4 Ti 4400*
Did anyone else think of that subject as the title of a new Harry Potter book instead?
An article about supercomputers right after an article about software bloat... Is this a premonition of what we need in 2 years to run Windows Arcadia Pro along with Internet Explorer 7, Office Arcadia Pro and Windows Media Player 11?
Is this a trick question?
I'd rather have a jamming device to stop stupid people from running around my house and "camping" behind my garage. Also, hearing some 14 year old yell out "OMFG YUO AWN* FAGGOT!!!" in my backyard at 07:00 is probably NOT the best way to get my day started.
* = Arctic Warfare Nokia. Just a regular Nokia with snow camouflage colours.
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Tada!
Good to know they think of others as nothing but consumers and taxpayers. Imagine actually thinking of someone else as a PERSON... THE HORROR!
Please feel free to comment on my english after you manage to cough up some perfect dutch, both in spelling and in grammar. Good luck!
There already is. You don't use IRC allot do you?
That will get you trouble with the dutch division of Apple. Wether deliberate or not, you just managed to do a nice and flawless translation of Apple products from their english names to their dutch equivalents. :P
Well, guess who isn't going to buy that USB memory stick after all! Guess I'll be using floppies for a while longer then, at least they don't try to rip me off claiming a 5,25" is a "Full Speed" floppy while 3,5" are considered to be "Hi-speed". Ah well, thank god we still got PS/2 and the trusty serial and parallel ports. They suck, but at least we won't get ripped of with them. Who said legacy connections are dying?
They think something about an object, great for them. What's next? Uproar in the slashdot community because Steve Jobs farted? This is supposed to be a new site (or at least that's what I keep telling myself), not some sort of weird online tabloid for the geek culture.
Just like women, 90% of the places I poke at cause me to crash face first into the ground. Amazing!
Very nice and all, but (I'll skip the obligatory MS security jokes and leave those for those who care.) what about getting OUT in a hurry? Or getting in in a hurry? I'm not talking about thieves here, but firemen and other emergency services. Suppose your house is on fire and your central authentication server power down, blew up, suffered a heart attack, whatever. How are you going to get out of your house then? How are the paramedics going to get in if you had a heart attack or a seizure or something else with incapicitates you?
Very true, so many 802.x standards lately. It's hard for anyone to get a brief summary on all of those standards compared together. Does anyone know of a site where they are all compared, along with possible uses, frequency ranges, power ratings, trivial names, etcetera? It would be a nice and handy reference for both the uninitiated (like yours truly) and a spiffy cheat sheet for those who are already knowledgable about all this.
I remember the good old days where we would just shrug it off and call it a bad storyline...
Anyone else here horribly disappointent by Matrix: Reloaded?
The US military!
Spam viagra to people? Expect a B52 carpet bombing your estate into something which resembles the lunar surface. Selling CDs with email adresses? Say hello to your new friend, Mr Daisy Cutter. Running spam servers or operating an ISP which turns a blind eye toward spammers? Duck and cover! Don't forget the iodine!
Great, can't even pic my nose anymore if things were up to you! Savage!
Women? What women?
Allot more fun is to be had with one empty 700mb file (or hacked file so it looks 700mb) and a whole bunch of symlinks toward it. Not only more efficient, but also more attractive to the (RI|MP)AA if it appears you're hosting all major record label songs and big holywood movies since 1970. Cram it onto an FTP server, make anonymous access possible and wait for them to fall for the trap. If you're going to submit to a search engine though, you better be prepared for some massive traffic and/or bandwidth bills...
I'd do so but those two organisations aren't much of a concern to me (yet), considering I'm not from the US.
US forces are starting to look like Imperial Storm Troopers? Well, they already aim pretty lousy... That was a start, this is just the finishing touch I guess.
Now things are starting to look allot more interesting... Just need to figure out how to get a TG subscription, preferably without using a CC (those things are rare and expensive around here, no cheapo options available; maybe they accept something like paypal?) and I need to fork over some money for a soundcard now. But all that definitely sounds worth it so far! Thanks! :o)
That's why. And sure, I'm a thief. Then again, it's just Microsoft.
* = Yes, I legally own those games, as in going to the store and forking over 49,95 Euros.
Did you hear that wooshing sound in the distance? That's the point of my post going WAAAAY over your head. Anyways, let me explain myself a bit more. Yes, I'll pay for decent software and Windows XP Pro can be fairly fast to boot, secure and stable. The main point is fairly, which means that even though those features are now decent (especially compared with, say, Win98/95) I still find them lacking compared to what's possible compared to other OSes. The very existance of superior products by companies with a far smaller budget or made by groups of people with NO budget (OSS) proves to me that Microsoft's software is still not worth the ridiculous price they're asking for it. Take Macs for example; they are more expensive then normal x86 PCs yet they are still being sold quite nicely. Why? Because the price/performance ratio is better. (That, and Mac people can get quite fanatical...) Also remember that Mac OS X is sold with FAR superior performance at two thirds the dough required for Windows XP Pro, which compared to Mac OS X is mediocre at best.
That said, I noticed there is some confusion with the last paragraph I wrote. I said that XP Pro only boots faster then Windows 2000 Pro. The bloats only kicks in after boot, making XP crawl along and thus reducing my Celeron 300 to a black box barely being able to run XP Pro. I can forget about playing games on it for sure with XP Pro loaded, though it manages to pull along nicely with Win98.
Oh, I'll hapiily pay! ... For quality software against a reasonable price, that is. Now if Windows XP didn't cost me a kidney but 50 euros or something OR MS would drastically improve/cough up some versions of their OS worth the money, (stable*, secure*, fast*, bloat-free, no evil licensing schemes/integrated crap) then I'd happily pay! Unfortunately, right now, I'm not going to fork over 300 euros for Win XP Pro only so I can have one huge piece of bloat slow down my computer while MS monkeys/lawyers are constantly trying to think up the holy grail of licenses which in legal terms state that MS will own my house, car, wife, first born and have the right to sell my soul to Satan for favours.
* = Surprisingly, they already managed this. A windows machine CAN be made fairly stable if properly taken care of, same with security. And XP Pro boots pretty fast on my Celeron 300, faster then 2k on an AMD XP 1900 :\ Remember kids, while MS is still evil, most faults can be attributed to human error/incompetence still!