the thing i wonder about is whether MS will ever settle down and become reasonable. what will happen?
will they continue to be the absolute lunatics they are right now and just get either 1. shut down or 2. go out of business out of lack of popularity?
or perhaps will they continue to be absolute lunatics and end up doing what we all have nightmares about (ok i do;)) - enslave the masses to a closed, restricting, invasive computing environment, and possibly shut out the rest of us and force the entire internet to either go MS or get shut out?
but that seems extremely doubtful....too many goverments and companies are going OSS and OSS just seems to be making advances. so will we end up striking a balance some day? or will OSS take over the world and become the new goliath?
darwin's pretty touch and go on x86, but nonetheless, he shoulda tried it out : )
i'm surprised a guy working on the TechTV show "the screensavers" could even get past the openbsd installer. i used to watch that show back in the day, but man, watching it now is like watching video professor
that game had me pretty caught up for a couple weeks, although i quit playing due to my p233/integrated video not being very nice with it. i cant wait to play it again on my new machine...........BZFLAG!
not that i'm saying i completely disagree with you, but you cant just make assumptions and declare them correct, and then suggest that a company as large as apple would do good to follow your suggestions.
I damn well wish there was an open format that was widely accepted, but there isn't.
Rich Text Format (RTF) is open and can be read/written by MS Word, MS Wordpad, and almost any other word processor.
If widely used, it would also put an end to workplace email attachment virus epidemics, among other things that the lovely.doc is capable of (like keeping deleted info around in the file so that people might read things you dont want them to read....)
If FreeBSD can't run Linux binaries faster than UML then something is very wrong. However, it would be interesting to see if FreeBSD's API redirector could run UML and see if UML runs faster on top of FreeBSD or on top of Linux.
RUNNING A DREAMCAST EMULATOR THAT RUNS LINUX AND RUNNING A GBA EMULATOR INSIDE OF THAT!!!!
there's certain things that you just can't learn with a manual, like the chapter on OOP, or the chapter on security, etc etc. then again if you already know these things....
hey i posted this right after the story was posted. i took a brief look at it, and had doubts, then after reading some more comments and thinking about it more, i realized it was obviously fake. so sue me.
yep i feel your pain, i'm probably worse off than you, i dont have any education or formal experience, and i pale in comparison to the real world experience of many here, but compared to pretty much any person in the local computer shops, i am a genius(which is sad, i'm not that much into hardware really), yet i cant even get a job at one of those.
for the record, i'm the biggest computer geek i know (in real life), and i make 6 dollars an hour flipping burgers. what a life.
I think the current western trend to work hard, always biting into your free time, is the wrong way to live.
me too, even though i live in the US. the workaholic lifestyle is (IMO) way too commonplace and is not very fulfilling. why not work *less* hours, make a little *less* money, and go out and enjoy life while youre still alive? there's books to be read, people to be met, and things to experience.
then again this is all a bit of idealistic thinking for me, i've yet to enter college, much yet the "real" workforce, hopefully i will get to follow my own advice in the years to come, at the very least, i am following it right now...
isnt this WAY overboard? first off, the bottleneck in overclocking is not power, but cooling. second, he doesnt even say what clock speed the thing is running at. third, to say that other people should do this to crunch seti WU's is idiotic because you can buy a barebones WU-crunching athlon machine for a few hundred bucks.
sorry, wrong press release. the 1 year warranty tidbit came with the 80GB platter story. these new 240GB and 320GB drives are part of a new line of drives which carries a 3 year warranty.
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Many studies say that modern day UI must "look like a Microsoft product". Sorry to break it to you, Sun et al., but this simply isn't true.
If only UI developers would take that to heart....I look at Gnome, I see a windows knock-off. I look at KDE, I see a pretty windows knock-off, with OSX knock-off bitmaps.
Why can't the open source desktop people come up with something innovative and useful instead of trying to build a cradle for all of the MS converts?
seriously though, i dont think the idea is to fully dedicate a mac to being a server, i think the idea is to turn your desktop mac into a desktop mac AND a personal mail/web/etc server, just to make things convenient for yourself. anyone who goes and buys a $1500-3000+ mac just to install apache and sendmail and put on their dsl connection is an idiot.
also keep in mind that jaguar *does run* on some not-so top of the line macs, which would cost fairly little (or nothing, if they're laying around).
How about serial ATA? Hot pluggable, raidable, currently at 150MBps and will scale to 600 and likely higher. Not that transfer rates really matter though, when the drives transfer at 40-50MBps at best.
Do you really think greed is so much more nature than nurture?
interesting question. perhaps the answer is that nurture has no choice but to follow nature. evolution makes it pretty much obvious that long ago, living things had to develop a mindset (ok amoeba dont have a mindset but nevermind that) of pure greed. humans still have this. EVERYthing you do, by your own choice, is powered by greed. that's not saying it's a bad thing, greed is not necessarily evil, as long as it is not out of control. perhaps the only exception to this is instinctual behavior.
Don't forget that even though people always say "the USSR proves socialism doesn't work", it's not true. The USSR was #2 to the US while it was around, and the #1 (US) was trying to kick them in the eye the whole time. Hardly ideal circumstances to establish a utopia.
well its never surprising to see how ignorant or nationalistic people are, especially americans. the fact is, there will never be a perfect system. humans are diverse, unpredictable, and greedy. nothing can contain us, perhaps except for ourselves, and that is unintentional. how much longer will we be able to abuse this planet before there is nothing left to abuse? then what? move to mars?
Okay let me be the 1000th person to screem BULLSHIT. First off a fucking meteor would be a tad hot to the touch
why do you say that? you think charcoal-like rock the size of, say, a marble, would hold its heat very well after falling through several miles of 50-80 degree F air? the thing will come into the atmosphere at perhaps thousands of miles per hour, hit the atmosphere, heat up, slow down, reach terminal velocity and then begin to cool down and keep on truckin along till it hits earth (or a girls foot)
and second off she would have heard it like an incoming bomb
its all about their aura of super user friendliness.
you buy a superdrive, you get free iDVD to burn things with. you buy the combo together, and it's guaranteed to work. if you have problems getting your (insert brand) burner to work with iDVD, then its your fault because you're not supposed to be doing that.
the apple philosophy is to buy everything apple. dont run linux on your mac, dont use your apple display on your pc, dont use non-apple burners with apple software.
not that it doesnt kinda suck, but hey, when you buy an apple, you should have some idea of the type of situation you are getting into.
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the thing i wonder about is whether MS will ever settle down and become reasonable. what will happen?
;)) - enslave the masses to a closed, restricting, invasive computing environment, and possibly shut out the rest of us and force the entire internet to either go MS or get shut out?
will they continue to be the absolute lunatics they are right now and just get either 1. shut down or 2. go out of business out of lack of popularity?
or perhaps will they continue to be absolute lunatics and end up doing what we all have nightmares about (ok i do
but that seems extremely doubtful....too many goverments and companies are going OSS and OSS just seems to be making advances. so will we end up striking a balance some day? or will OSS take over the world and become the new goliath?
i wonder.....
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turn up your brightness perhaps? its an old computer monitor....playing the matrix.
heh, no joke
they use the same kernel.
darwin's pretty touch and go on x86, but nonetheless, he shoulda tried it out : )
i'm surprised a guy working on the TechTV show "the screensavers" could even get past the openbsd installer. i used to watch that show back in the day, but man, watching it now is like watching video professor
"try my product"..
BZFLAG!!!! ! !!
..........BZFLAG!
that game had me pretty caught up for a couple weeks, although i quit playing due to my p233/integrated video not being very nice with it. i cant wait to play it again on my new machine.
wishful thinking isnt it?
not that i'm saying i completely disagree with you, but you cant just make assumptions and declare them correct, and then suggest that a company as large as apple would do good to follow your suggestions.
I damn well wish there was an open format that was widely accepted, but there isn't.
.doc is capable of (like keeping deleted info around in the file so that people might read things you dont want them to read....)
Rich Text Format (RTF) is open and can be read/written by MS Word, MS Wordpad, and almost any other word processor.
If widely used, it would also put an end to workplace email attachment virus epidemics, among other things that the lovely
If FreeBSD can't run Linux binaries faster than UML then something is very wrong. However, it would be interesting to see if FreeBSD's API redirector could run UML and see if UML runs faster on top of FreeBSD or on top of Linux.
RUNNING A DREAMCAST EMULATOR THAT RUNS LINUX AND RUNNING A GBA EMULATOR INSIDE OF THAT!!!!
there's certain things that you just can't learn with a manual, like the chapter on OOP, or the chapter on security, etc etc. then again if you already know these things....
hey i posted this right after the story was posted. i took a brief look at it, and had doubts, then after reading some more comments and thinking about it more, i realized it was obviously fake. so sue me.
yep i feel your pain, i'm probably worse off than you, i dont have any education or formal experience, and i pale in comparison to the real world experience of many here, but compared to pretty much any person in the local computer shops, i am a genius(which is sad, i'm not that much into hardware really), yet i cant even get a job at one of those.
for the record, i'm the biggest computer geek i know (in real life), and i make 6 dollars an hour flipping burgers. what a life.
I think the current western trend to work hard, always biting into your free time, is the wrong way to live.
me too, even though i live in the US. the workaholic lifestyle is (IMO) way too commonplace and is not very fulfilling. why not work *less* hours, make a little *less* money, and go out and enjoy life while youre still alive? there's books to be read, people to be met, and things to experience.
then again this is all a bit of idealistic thinking for me, i've yet to enter college, much yet the "real" workforce, hopefully i will get to follow my own advice in the years to come, at the very least, i am following it right now...
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isnt this WAY overboard? first off, the bottleneck in overclocking is not power, but cooling. second, he doesnt even say what clock speed the thing is running at. third, to say that other people should do this to crunch seti WU's is idiotic because you can buy a barebones WU-crunching athlon machine for a few hundred bucks.
but is it cool? hell yeah its cool.
sorry, wrong press release. the 1 year warranty tidbit came with the 80GB platter story. these new 240GB and 320GB drives are part of a new line of drives which carries a 3 year warranty.
Many studies say that modern day UI must "look like a Microsoft product". Sorry to break it to you, Sun et al., but this simply isn't true.
If only UI developers would take that to heart....I look at Gnome, I see a windows knock-off. I look at KDE, I see a pretty windows knock-off, with OSX knock-off bitmaps.
Why can't the open source desktop people come up with something innovative and useful instead of trying to build a cradle for all of the MS converts?
hmm, admin'ing or troubleshooting computers in a classroom or business in a third world country is "sweatshop conditions"? amazing!
you learn something every day.
no no you have it all wrong, its BUELLER!
seriously though, i dont think the idea is to fully dedicate a mac to being a server, i think the idea is to turn your desktop mac into a desktop mac AND a personal mail/web/etc server, just to make things convenient for yourself. anyone who goes and buys a $1500-3000+ mac just to install apache and sendmail and put on their dsl connection is an idiot.
also keep in mind that jaguar *does run* on some not-so top of the line macs, which would cost fairly little (or nothing, if they're laying around).
heh, thats pretty funny. i know liquidpc, and unless he is hiding something (ok hiding alot), then he is not the guy that wrote the article.
Napster! Great idea! Hey wait...
How about serial ATA? Hot pluggable, raidable, currently at 150MBps and will scale to 600 and likely higher. Not that transfer rates really matter though, when the drives transfer at 40-50MBps at best.
yes darwin has an x86 port but it is very rough. either way, darwin != osx, i think we all know that.
Do you really think greed is so much more nature than nurture?
interesting question. perhaps the answer is that nurture has no choice but to follow nature. evolution makes it pretty much obvious that long ago, living things had to develop a mindset (ok amoeba dont have a mindset but nevermind that) of pure greed. humans still have this. EVERYthing you do, by your own choice, is powered by greed. that's not saying it's a bad thing, greed is not necessarily evil, as long as it is not out of control. perhaps the only exception to this is instinctual behavior.
Don't forget that even though people always say "the USSR proves socialism doesn't work", it's not true. The USSR was #2 to the US while it was around, and the #1 (US) was trying to kick them in the eye the whole time. Hardly ideal circumstances to establish a utopia.
well its never surprising to see how ignorant or nationalistic people are, especially americans. the fact is, there will never be a perfect system. humans are diverse, unpredictable, and greedy. nothing can contain us, perhaps except for ourselves, and that is unintentional. how much longer will we be able to abuse this planet before there is nothing left to abuse? then what? move to mars?
i'm rambling again...
Okay let me be the 1000th person to screem BULLSHIT. First off a fucking meteor would be a tad hot to the touch
why do you say that? you think charcoal-like rock the size of, say, a marble, would hold its heat very well after falling through several miles of 50-80 degree F air? the thing will come into the atmosphere at perhaps thousands of miles per hour, hit the atmosphere, heat up, slow down, reach terminal velocity and then begin to cool down and keep on truckin along till it hits earth (or a girls foot)
and second off she would have heard it like an incoming bomb
since when are all meteorites the size of a car?
its all about their aura of super user friendliness.
you buy a superdrive, you get free iDVD to burn things with. you buy the combo together, and it's guaranteed to work. if you have problems getting your (insert brand) burner to work with iDVD, then its your fault because you're not supposed to be doing that.
the apple philosophy is to buy everything apple. dont run linux on your mac, dont use your apple display on your pc, dont use non-apple burners with apple software.
not that it doesnt kinda suck, but hey, when you buy an apple, you should have some idea of the type of situation you are getting into.