Speaking as a budding author, or maybe just a wannabe, I think that it is extremely important to plan your story in detail before you begin writing a novel length work. Research goes into the technology, the time, and pretty much everything else. This is why so many budding authors never make it past their first story. If they do, they are frequently in the same boat as this guy--glaring inconsistencies. For me the biggest challenge is remembering what one has written about certain locales, which in a fantasy setting is devastating. In a real-earth fiction, it shouldn't be as hard--you go and visit the place you are describing.
Have you looked at Tyan's offerings? Seriously, their Tiger series has several boards with 64 bit PCI slots, and so does their Trinity series for P4 boards. The Tiger's are all dual proc mobos, but the Trinity is single proc. If you want AMD, you must get the dual proc board, but if you like intel, then you can get either single or dual proc boards.
I think that there are some other companies that offer the 64 bit PCI, but Tyan is the only one that I know of right off the top of my head, and IMHO they are a good solid company in terms of their products. I haven't heard anyone complain about them yet.
linux CAN be just as good. All it takes is someone being willing to learn. My example is the Ximian Evolution and Star Office progs. XE is excellent because of how it looks. SO is excellent because it installs easily, just like a windows prog. i HATE compiling, using SRPMS and more.
half the time when I try to install, I end up breaking stuff. YEah, i knowt that a little bit of time learning how to use tar, rpm, and similar progs would solve the problem, but what about windows. I double click a single icon (blah.exe) and I'm going to install easily, quickly and generally without too much fuss.
WOuld I get rid of tar, make, etc? NO WAY! But most users don't want to mess with it, and you will never get most ppl to learn tar, make, make install. Better yet, when to use RPM, and which options to pass. from what I have seen, and I am not an experienced linux user, it doesn't seem to follow a strict pattern, more like hit and miss. Oh well
As I read the comments here on slashdot, I am forced to ask a few questions. First off, how many of you claiming that it doesn't run windows apps very well have actually tried to use lindows?
I know a few people that have ponied up the USD99 to be lindows insiders, and while they have had widely varying experiences, it seems to run MS Office 2000 Pro just fine, as well as Lotus notes.
While this may not seem like much, think about it this way--the target user for Lindows is the average non-gamer. This means those people at Walmart that want to be able to run email progs, write a few letters and possibly even do a few simple presentations.
Gamers simply don't go to Walmart most of the time, and therefore will only purchase Lindows once its proven to play Quake 3 (or 4 or 5, whichever version happens to be around when compatibility for games finally takes off), or UT2003.
Myself, if Lindows will run Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks, I will ditch windows like a bad case of the runs.
My Point? If you haven't tried the preview release, don't be quite so quick to say it stinks. I know I'll probably get flamed for this post, but think about what you're saying before you claim it sucks. Do you really have any evidence? If not, then wait until you do before bashing it. You might eat those words later.
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Speaking as a budding author, or maybe just a wannabe, I think that it is extremely important to plan your story in detail before you begin writing a novel length work. Research goes into the technology, the time, and pretty much everything else. This is why so many budding authors never make it past their first story.
If they do, they are frequently in the same boat as this guy--glaring inconsistencies. For me the biggest challenge is remembering what one has written about certain locales, which in a fantasy setting is devastating. In a real-earth fiction, it shouldn't be as hard--you go and visit the place you are describing.
Verbosity is no replacement for compentency.
Have you looked at Tyan's offerings? Seriously, their Tiger series has several boards with 64 bit PCI slots, and so does their Trinity series for P4 boards. The Tiger's are all dual proc mobos, but the Trinity is single proc. If you want AMD, you must get the dual proc board, but if you like intel, then you can get either single or dual proc boards.
I think that there are some other companies that offer the 64 bit PCI, but Tyan is the only one that I know of right off the top of my head, and IMHO they are a good solid company in terms of their products. I haven't heard anyone complain about them yet.
linux CAN be just as good. All it takes is someone being willing to learn. My example is the Ximian Evolution and Star Office progs. XE is excellent because of how it looks. SO is excellent because it installs easily, just like a windows prog. i HATE compiling, using SRPMS and more.
half the time when I try to install, I end up breaking stuff. YEah, i knowt that a little bit of time learning how to use tar, rpm, and similar progs would solve the problem, but what about windows. I double click a single icon (blah.exe) and I'm going to install easily, quickly and generally without too much fuss.
WOuld I get rid of tar, make, etc? NO WAY! But most users don't want to mess with it, and you will never get most ppl to learn tar, make, make install. Better yet, when to use RPM, and which options to pass. from what I have seen, and I am not an experienced linux user, it doesn't seem to follow a strict pattern, more like hit and miss.
Oh well
LOL
That's a great idea until you want to switch cds, use a game controller, etc. Then your in deep doodoo.
Your call.
As I read the comments here on slashdot, I am forced to ask a few questions. First off, how many of you claiming that it doesn't run windows apps very well have actually tried to use lindows? I know a few people that have ponied up the USD99 to be lindows insiders, and while they have had widely varying experiences, it seems to run MS Office 2000 Pro just fine, as well as Lotus notes. While this may not seem like much, think about it this way--the target user for Lindows is the average non-gamer. This means those people at Walmart that want to be able to run email progs, write a few letters and possibly even do a few simple presentations. Gamers simply don't go to Walmart most of the time, and therefore will only purchase Lindows once its proven to play Quake 3 (or 4 or 5, whichever version happens to be around when compatibility for games finally takes off), or UT2003. Myself, if Lindows will run Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks, I will ditch windows like a bad case of the runs. My Point? If you haven't tried the preview release, don't be quite so quick to say it stinks. I know I'll probably get flamed for this post, but think about what you're saying before you claim it sucks. Do you really have any evidence? If not, then wait until you do before bashing it. You might eat those words later.