yep yep, the Barracuda IV's and V's are amazingly quiet. You simply do not hear them, under any normal circumstances. to hear the drive, you need an absolutely silent room, and a silent or nearly silent computer, and then if you try hard enough you can hear the seeks going tick tick, but its still faint. if you put your ear on the thing, you'll definitely hear them, but its impressive how quiet it is. but if you have *any* other noise in the room, even just low level background noise, you'll never hear the thing.
it's not the gui, its the applications. X is fine, and for the most part, window managers are fine (i LOVE waimea, i cant imagine using something else), the problem is the applications. i go to a page and download an mp3? oh, i have to set that up in mozilla and tell it to save somewhere, then i go listen to it with mpg321. i go to a page with a mpg in it? oh, i gotta download that, then watch it with mplayer. i get a digital camera, and i have to set that up, and then i have to find some application that works nicely, or just give up and use the command line for whatever i want to do with them.
if i was on MacOS, i would just plug the camera in, iWhatever pops up, i click "make a web page", and i have a little html page with thumbnails and everything. it's this simplicity and usefulness that the applications in X dont provide. integration and simplicity - that's why i need a Mac:)
hey, its slashdot, people can make stuff up. he could be a total fake, he could be totally serious. the one thing that needs to be stressed is that humans don't understand themselves very much. you can't just say "oh, you were less than $n age, so that's impossible". we don't understand ourselves our this world we live in, we can only attempt to, and part of that is keeping an open mind...
i can remember back to age 4 or so, *perhaps* some stuff from 3, the stuff i remember most is the old set of patio chairs we had, and how they were rusting in their old age (we got rid of them later on) - thats about all i remember, up to age 4, where i remember lots of stuff (i was in preschool, and i can even remember a name or two from that). my mom says i was reading basic stuff at 3, and the real interesting thing about my early childhood is that up to age 4 or so, there was something up with me (i'm still not sure), i think i was having seizures, they thought it was epilepsy, anyways they perscribed some medicine to me - now actually, i VIVIDLY remember that medicine, it tasted like bubblegum, and i drank it from a tube thingie. but anyways, i kept having seizures, which i do not remember at all, and finally for whatever reason, my parents had a quibble with the doctor (they didnt agree on something), and they stopped giving me the medicine, and the seizures stopped. i also remember taking an EEG test at age 6 or so....and...now i remember something else which i have always remembered but forgot about in this little post, i remember regularly going to some clinic type place with my dad, i remember the robotic doors (for wheelchairs), i remember sitting in a chair getting a shot, and i remember squeezing my dads arm while getting the shot. now this happened monthly or something like that, because i remember it happening at regular intervals. anyways thats what i remember from my early childhood. the seizures stopped before i ever entered school, and starting from preschool i remember alot. its also interesting that i had all of those strange problems as a young child but i've always scored as someone else said "off the charts" - that is - 99's, on standardized tests, although you could argue that the majority of people are pretty stupid so maybe that doesnt mean much. i've also always been a lazy procrastinating bastard, so all of that intelligence has been wasted a bit, although now that i'm finishing high school (2 years late), i plan on getting my ass to college, and doing something with myself, now that i've found something i'm passionate about (computers!). so there's my life story, in one big long stream of non-paragraph seperating consciousness:)
sorry but you're the one who looks stupid, it was a troll, dont take it so seriously. the whole purpose of thought out trolls is to bait people like you into getting angry - and well, he did;-)
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just two??? where the hell have you been?
typical headline reads:
Noun Verb Noun
aka subject and predicate
i.e.:
IBM announces some spiffy thing
Alan Cox washes his nuts
SO, the whole soviet russia thing, wherever the hell it came from, goes like this. they exchange the first noun with "you", flop the nouns around, and prepend the headline with "in soviet russia".
the problem i see with this line of thinking is that while there are billions, trillions, whatever-illions of connections going on inside your brain at any one time, you still only have one body to act with, one mouth to speak with, etc. the internet is many individual people, each of them complex and intelligent (it could be argued that neurons are complex and intelligent but from what we know, i dont think they are), but the internet does not have one point of actualization. it's just a bumbling mess of interconnected people, most of them just reading their email or chatting or reading yahoo news or *whatever* it is that most people do on the internet.
You can have multiple desktops with a 3rd party app.
Primitive 1½ mouse mouse button support (at least the wheel works now without 3rd party software and some apps use 2 buttons)
Primitive? Perhaps you're just accustomed to other environments where things are done by right clicking. Is there something wrong with most Windows PC's because they don't use 5 buttons for normal usage? Did the mouse god declare that all mice shall operate by the left and right click paradigm? Macs are designed to not need right clicking often. This is your habit, and a problem you are creating.
Single-vendor hardware? (Apple has killed all clones, remember?)
Hard to say what is really the best. Sure, it sucks paying lots of money for a "pretty fast" machine. Then again, the build quality is superb, support, etc is all good, they retain value, yadda yadda. I like things how they are, a decent part of the Mac "experience" is the hardware.
No parts available. (Where can I get a new motherboard or CPU? Shall I buy a whole computer when something breaks?)
Why even say something when you're pulling it out of your ass like that? Slashdot has even carried stories about building your own Macs. Don't spread stupid ignorant FUD.
Sure, MacOSX looks great in a demo and feels great the first 2 hours you use it. But after that time all the nifty animations just get in your way and slow you down. But that of course is just my opinion. Yes I did try Jaguar.
Eh, depends on what you're doing. If you just want a machine to display a billion xterms with vi or emacs, or whatever, then OSX is probably overboard. Then again, if you want great multimedia support, and other more "modern" OS features, plus some Unix power, then OSX is nice.
depends on what your idea of a "reasonable desktop" is. my idea of a reasonable desktop is a ton of workspaces, *maybe* a little root menu, and NOTHING ELSE! get that crap out of my way, my monitor was made for displaying xterms!
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but what about when all of the media we saturate ourselves with is lossy-encoded?
but media (hopefully) will never be even the majority of what we are surrounded by. lets see, you wake up in the morning, take a shower, brush your teeth, take a piss, shave, put on clothes, jump in the car, drive to work, work work work, talk to some people, perhaps be around some computers or machinery, lalalala, drive home, maybe watch some tv, play some quake or whatever, surf the web, email, maybe code some shit, etc etc etcccccccc......
ok, how large of a percentage of the things you hear are compressed audio, or even multimedia content at all? maybe 1-5%? maybe for a sheltered freak, 50% at most? no matter how much you engulf yourself with compressed audio, there are still the day to day sounds of EVERYTHING that will never go away, period. and if they do, we have a hell of a lot more to think about than tinnitis.
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I cant believe the moderation of parent post!
yep yep, the Barracuda IV's and V's are amazingly quiet. You simply do not hear them, under any normal circumstances. to hear the drive, you need an absolutely silent room, and a silent or nearly silent computer, and then if you try hard enough you can hear the seeks going tick tick, but its still faint. if you put your ear on the thing, you'll definitely hear them, but its impressive how quiet it is. but if you have *any* other noise in the room, even just low level background noise, you'll never hear the thing.
My name is mackstann and I'm a Barracuda IV user.
it's not the gui, its the applications. X is fine, and for the most part, window managers are fine (i LOVE waimea, i cant imagine using something else), the problem is the applications. i go to a page and download an mp3? oh, i have to set that up in mozilla and tell it to save somewhere, then i go listen to it with mpg321. i go to a page with a mpg in it? oh, i gotta download that, then watch it with mplayer. i get a digital camera, and i have to set that up, and then i have to find some application that works nicely, or just give up and use the command line for whatever i want to do with them.
:)
if i was on MacOS, i would just plug the camera in, iWhatever pops up, i click "make a web page", and i have a little html page with thumbnails and everything. it's this simplicity and usefulness that the applications in X dont provide. integration and simplicity - that's why i need a Mac
bah, s/our/or/
hey, its slashdot, people can make stuff up. he could be a total fake, he could be totally serious. the one thing that needs to be stressed is that humans don't understand themselves very much. you can't just say "oh, you were less than $n age, so that's impossible". we don't understand ourselves our this world we live in, we can only attempt to, and part of that is keeping an open mind...
i can remember back to age 4 or so, *perhaps* some stuff from 3, the stuff i remember most is the old set of patio chairs we had, and how they were rusting in their old age (we got rid of them later on) - thats about all i remember, up to age 4, where i remember lots of stuff (i was in preschool, and i can even remember a name or two from that). my mom says i was reading basic stuff at 3, and the real interesting thing about my early childhood is that up to age 4 or so, there was something up with me (i'm still not sure), i think i was having seizures, they thought it was epilepsy, anyways they perscribed some medicine to me - now actually, i VIVIDLY remember that medicine, it tasted like bubblegum, and i drank it from a tube thingie. but anyways, i kept having seizures, which i do not remember at all, and finally for whatever reason, my parents had a quibble with the doctor (they didnt agree on something), and they stopped giving me the medicine, and the seizures stopped. i also remember taking an EEG test at age 6 or so....and...now i remember something else which i have always remembered but forgot about in this little post, i remember regularly going to some clinic type place with my dad, i remember the robotic doors (for wheelchairs), i remember sitting in a chair getting a shot, and i remember squeezing my dads arm while getting the shot. now this happened monthly or something like that, because i remember it happening at regular intervals. anyways thats what i remember from my early childhood. the seizures stopped before i ever entered school, and starting from preschool i remember alot. its also interesting that i had all of those strange problems as a young child but i've always scored as someone else said "off the charts" - that is - 99's, on standardized tests, although you could argue that the majority of people are pretty stupid so maybe that doesnt mean much. i've also always been a lazy procrastinating bastard, so all of that intelligence has been wasted a bit, although now that i'm finishing high school (2 years late), i plan on getting my ass to college, and doing something with myself, now that i've found something i'm passionate about (computers!). so there's my life story, in one big long stream of non-paragraph seperating consciousness :)
what a boring comment to be modded up.
he said linux!!! mod him up!!!!!
sorry but you're the one who looks stupid, it was a troll, dont take it so seriously. the whole purpose of thought out trolls is to bait people like you into getting angry - and well, he did ;-)
just two??? where the hell have you been?
typical headline reads:
Noun Verb Noun
aka subject and predicate
i.e.:
IBM announces some spiffy thing
Alan Cox washes his nuts
SO, the whole soviet russia thing, wherever the hell it came from, goes like this. they exchange the first noun with "you", flop the nouns around, and prepend the headline with "in soviet russia".
so, here we go:
SGI launches R16000
- In Soviet Russia, R16000 launches you!!!!
cant believe i wrote this post.
the problem i see with this line of thinking is that while there are billions, trillions, whatever-illions of connections going on inside your brain at any one time, you still only have one body to act with, one mouth to speak with, etc. the internet is many individual people, each of them complex and intelligent (it could be argued that neurons are complex and intelligent but from what we know, i dont think they are), but the internet does not have one point of actualization. it's just a bumbling mess of interconnected people, most of them just reading their email or chatting or reading yahoo news or *whatever* it is that most people do on the internet.
:)
:)
sure sounds neat though
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Have you ever considered NetBSD?
machead? hm, perhaps you assume too much.
A primitive single-desktop environment?
You can have multiple desktops with a 3rd party app.
Primitive 1½ mouse mouse button support (at least the wheel works now without 3rd party software and some apps use 2 buttons)
Primitive? Perhaps you're just accustomed to other environments where things are done by right clicking. Is there something wrong with most Windows PC's because they don't use 5 buttons for normal usage? Did the mouse god declare that all mice shall operate by the left and right click paradigm? Macs are designed to not need right clicking often. This is your habit, and a problem you are creating.
Single-vendor hardware? (Apple has killed all clones, remember?)
Hard to say what is really the best. Sure, it sucks paying lots of money for a "pretty fast" machine. Then again, the build quality is superb, support, etc is all good, they retain value, yadda yadda. I like things how they are, a decent part of the Mac "experience" is the hardware.
No parts available. (Where can I get a new motherboard or CPU? Shall I buy a whole computer when something breaks?)
Why even say something when you're pulling it out of your ass like that? Slashdot has even carried stories about building your own Macs. Don't spread stupid ignorant FUD.
Sure, MacOSX looks great in a demo and feels great the first 2 hours you use it. But after that time all the nifty animations just get in your way and slow you down. But that of course is just my opinion. Yes I did try Jaguar.
Eh, depends on what you're doing. If you just want a machine to display a billion xterms with vi or emacs, or whatever, then OSX is probably overboard. Then again, if you want great multimedia support, and other more "modern" OS features, plus some Unix power, then OSX is nice.
gotta get that "only" in there, to make sure everybody know's you're 3j33t and only have one windows box! linux haCCXXOR!!
depends on what your idea of a "reasonable desktop" is. my idea of a reasonable desktop is a ton of workspaces, *maybe* a little root menu, and NOTHING ELSE! get that crap out of my way, my monitor was made for displaying xterms!
haha you are a fucking genius
haha FUCK i can't believe i fucked up that troll
YOU WIN THIS TIME, SLASHDOT
Perhaps you don't know what your're talking about. sack my cack!
but media (hopefully) will never be even the majority of what we are surrounded by. lets see, you wake up in the morning, take a shower, brush your teeth, take a piss, shave, put on clothes, jump in the car, drive to work, work work work, talk to some people, perhaps be around some computers or machinery, lalalala, drive home, maybe watch some tv, play some quake or whatever, surf the web, email, maybe code some shit, etc etc etcccccccc......
ok, how large of a percentage of the things you hear are compressed audio, or even multimedia content at all? maybe 1-5%? maybe for a sheltered freak, 50% at most? no matter how much you engulf yourself with compressed audio, there are still the day to day sounds of EVERYTHING that will never go away, period. and if they do, we have a hell of a lot more to think about than tinnitis.
(dont take this post seriously)
link? they're both good things, so i guess they are linked, right? er..
oh yeah, puritans, they must be the the the problem the.
what?
you'd think a scientist would do some research before upgrading ;)
hehe..
:)
as it says, "you should have hit the preview button". posts are in stone
as for emailing for responses...check your message preferences.
why is it that everyone still mentions yellow dog for linux on ppc?
suse, mandrake, redhat, debian, gentoo, all run on ppc, and those are what 90% of people run.
i'm sure a good portion of the rest of the less popular distros also run on ppc.
so who cares about yellow dog?
or run netbsd on an x86 for a desktop! h4r h4r!!
:-)
(it actually works quite nicely..)