right now all of my hardware works properly under Mandrake 8.2 . My Geforce4 works fine with the Nvidia drivers, and I have installed KDE 3 and Gnome 2 independantly. Maybe if make another system I'll put on 9.0, but right now I'm trying to thin-down the bloatedness, not increase it. Great job Mandrake, I like your distro, I just need a faster system. Keep up the good work!
Ok, maybe traffic lights will be controlled from the internet... maybe.
But PACEMAKERS?
what advantage could a pacemaker possibly gain from being online? I can see it now, Windows PM has a fatal security flaw allowing scriptkiddies to send any geriatric into atrial frib.
In all seriousness, I think its a great idea to be able to control you heartbeat remotly, from a thousand miles away!;-)
The article states that personal questions or such sent in emails to many people may be ignored, but that is entirely different from spam. Spam is like a tv commercial, targeted to a mass audience, whom they think they can get to buy their product. The philosophy of "someone else will help them" doesn't work with spam, due to the fact that the viewer realizes it is an advertisement as well.
When you weight the cost of email lists, and possibly a server to any other form of advertising, it is one of the most effective. Maybe you don't rely to those Penis spams, but some people do, 'cause those people are getting rich!
I can't possible imagine what they could use it for! Obviously people point out: pr0n, warez, blah, blah, blah. They forget to account for the server that they download from.
How many people with broadband are still limited to 6k/s for any given song on kazaa? Most people on p2p don't have broadband. Even if you are connected to a massive corporate server, do you realistically think that you will get 100mB/s? maybe 1mB, 2mB max!
How many student computers do you think can handle 100mB/s downloads from their smb server? Even with resnet sharing, it should make little difference!
One notable exception: around 10:00pm or so, EVERYONE is online, which will lower bandwidth to 50-100k. Maybe this one situation would be fixed.
"Marge, they have the internet on computers now!"- Homer
article. It specifically states that the water-cooling is not better at diccipating heat, but rather much quieter. Its juast a trade-off for the user, weight vs noise.
And for those of you that think water-cooling is a fancy new techno-toy, you've obviously never seen the spray of water pumping out the back of jetskis or boats.
Perhaps people aren't keeping this in perspective. Yes, it is a lot of space, but...
If you get two large HDs per ide chain, you could fit a good 300+ gig per chain. Thats 600+ gig that you could fit on even the wekest motherboard. If you add in an additional ide controller, you can get.9 or even 1.2 terabytes. Granted, this system would be nothing but HDs, which is why the holo-drive is so cool. It lets you have a lot (not an obsene amount) of space while not needing wa whole other computer.
-"homer, that's not G-d, its just a pancake that got stuck to the ceiling!" homer: "hmmm, sacrilitious"
If someone wanted the normal version w/o extra scenes, they could have had it months ago. Multiple versions, some stolen from the studio were floating around my school's resnet, as I'm sure they were at others
What I'D LOVE would be Nvidia whipping together a GPU that knocks the Palladium/CPU concept out of the water. The less intel on the mobo, the more power the graphics companies have to redefine OpenGL, or reinvent it entirely. There's no way Intel can compete w/ Nvidia's 6/month production schedule. They're big enough that they can redefine their own standard (like they did originally) and simultaniously drop Opengl and give Intel a hit.
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Could someone politely mod this flamebait? thanks in advance
right now all of my hardware works properly under Mandrake 8.2 . My Geforce4 works fine with the Nvidia drivers, and I have installed KDE 3 and Gnome 2 independantly. Maybe if make another system I'll put on 9.0, but right now I'm trying to thin-down the bloatedness, not increase it. Great job Mandrake, I like your distro, I just need a faster system. Keep up the good work!
But PACEMAKERS?
what advantage could a pacemaker possibly gain from being online? I can see it now, Windows PM has a fatal security flaw allowing scriptkiddies to send any geriatric into atrial frib.
In all seriousness, I think its a great idea to be able to control you heartbeat remotly, from a thousand miles away! ;-)
Marge, they have the internet on computers now
If Alice speaks roughly like Dr. Wallace does, why don't we just ask it instead? :=)
The article states that personal questions or such sent in emails to many people may be ignored, but that is entirely different from spam. Spam is like a tv commercial, targeted to a mass audience, whom they think they can get to buy their product. The philosophy of "someone else will help them" doesn't work with spam, due to the fact that the viewer realizes it is an advertisement as well.
When you weight the cost of email lists, and possibly a server to any other form of advertising, it is one of the most effective. Maybe you don't rely to those Penis spams, but some people do, 'cause those people are getting rich!
How many people with broadband are still limited to 6k/s for any given song on kazaa? Most people on p2p don't have broadband. Even if you are connected to a massive corporate server, do you realistically think that you will get 100mB/s? maybe 1mB, 2mB max!
How many student computers do you think can handle 100mB/s downloads from their smb server? Even with resnet sharing, it should make little difference!
One notable exception: around 10:00pm or so, EVERYONE is online, which will lower bandwidth to 50-100k. Maybe this one situation would be fixed.
"Marge, they have the internet on computers now!"- Homer
mod this up! the man is asking for kittens!
mod this up, finally an original joke!
And for those of you that think water-cooling is a fancy new techno-toy, you've obviously never seen the spray of water pumping out the back of jetskis or boats.
Perhaps people aren't keeping this in perspective. Yes, it is a lot of space, but... If you get two large HDs per ide chain, you could fit a good 300+ gig per chain. Thats 600+ gig that you could fit on even the wekest motherboard. If you add in an additional ide controller, you can get .9 or even 1.2 terabytes. Granted, this system would be nothing but HDs, which is why the holo-drive is so cool. It lets you have a lot (not an obsene amount) of space while not needing wa whole other computer.
-"homer, that's not G-d, its just a pancake that got stuck to the ceiling!" homer: "hmmm, sacrilitious"
If someone wanted the normal version w/o extra scenes, they could have had it months ago. Multiple versions, some stolen from the studio were floating around my school's resnet, as I'm sure they were at others
What I'D LOVE would be Nvidia whipping together a GPU that knocks the Palladium/CPU concept out of the water. The less intel on the mobo, the more power the graphics companies have to redefine OpenGL, or reinvent it entirely. There's no way Intel can compete w/ Nvidia's 6/month production schedule. They're big enough that they can redefine their own standard (like they did originally) and simultaniously drop Opengl and give Intel a hit.