About using laptop's harddrives in normal PC's unless size is the reason they are not really an option. They are slower, and less reliable with a far higher price. If you don't mind the slowness just use a low rpm regular disk. It will be silent as well but perform a lot better and cost less.
How do I know? I salvaged the new HD from my old laptop when it gave up the ghost,(note to self do not keep laptop running 24/7 in a closed desk). While the 20gig was nothing to be sneezed at it was dreadfully slow. On a laptop you accept this. On a desktop. No way. I now use it to transport my music between machines.
As for using powerpc, most people who have a file server or something like that use their old machines for home setups. So until iMac's start showing up on the rubbish heap I don't think we will see them being used as the router for the average home user geek. of course if like you you already use them for the main machine it is the logical solution.
It appears that I made the mistake of thinking that MX cards are based on the same chipset as their non-mx name suggests (like 386DX-SX). If those two are the same then the argument that these cards would be adequate for a gamer is moot indeed as they simply will not run some of the latest games. And certainly not the games coming out with in the life time of a new system.
Thank you, and the other poster who replied as well, for pointing out my mistake.
So basically what you suggest is needed to create a more standarized way of error/debug reporting and for the main distro's to by default compile with debug enabled.
Makes sense to me. Most processors are powerfull enough anyway and where it is needed it is unlikely people do use the standard packages anyway so they can just compile theirs without debug. Then all that is needed is a sort of standard daemon like proces that catches unexpected errors and sends them to the appopriate place.
Creating a standard way to do this so that all bug reports look the same and can be easily automated would be good job for a standards body.
If you haven't already post it to them.
The source bit is already there. If you buy the distro you get the source cd's with them and they are also available for seperate download. (1.2 gigs extra download is something a lot of people can't afford).
Most of the comments seem to be along the line of "Who the hell do they think they are". These comments are crap as the posters obviously have not read the post. They do not claim nor have ever claimed to own a particulair piece of software. They are just intrested in creating some sort of standard. If you like youre linux to not conform to that standard then that is just fine. Just as ANSI is not a law neither is neither is the LSB. For the rest of us it makes it easier to exchange between the different flavors of linux if all the files are in roughly the same place.
Others seem to want to turn linux into windows. If only (mime support/windows like shell/c:\Program Files like dir structure) was finally included I would start using it. Yeah right like anyone cares. I think that with the burst of the internet bubble the idea that linux should go to the masses has been left behind. If you saw the interview with Linus himself on the BBC you will have heard that he does noet even wish to compete with windows. MS has its market and linux has its own. That is real freedom of choice people. Those people that want linux to become like windows just want a gratis (not free) version of windows.
The FSG is a standards group, I presume therefore that their question is on what if anything needs standarization next. Standarization is not the enemy of freedom when standarizing on it does not put a brake on innovation. A standard desktop for instance would limit innovation and therefore choice. A standard directory layout does not unless I missed some special signifigance in keeping youre logs in/.[sic]
So what needs standarizing next? I have no idea. Software creators now are reasonably sure where to install the bits of their software and how they can achieve multi language support. Printing is also ridicously easy (could be because I only have access to HP printers). Is anything more needed, almost certainly, let the creators figure this out and not disturb them with a dozen wish lists by windows users who will never switch over because it will always be hard to switch to something wich is different. If it wasn't different then what would be the point of switching at all.
Use linux not because someone tells you to. Use linux not because you want to stick it to Gates. Use linux not because you want to be l33t.
Use linux because you like it strenghts and can forgive its weaknesses.
but that is not what the post says. It says the in the past integrated video cards where never good enough for HARDCORE games. Not average games, not joe public who wants to play a game every now and then, HARDCORE gamers.
The only way HARDCORE gamers would buy this if they where on a limited budget. When I was still on a limited budget like that 4 color display was posh so I can't really tell if this is a better deal or not. (I give away my old hardware maybe a kid could ask older relatives for their old card?)
The fault is not yours, and I presume not the fault of the article (it is down) but rather the usual poor posting on slashdot.
Uhh, how is having a intergrated GeForce2 mx like having a Geforce 4 mx? Either you made a typo unlikely since you make no others or you are a bit confused or of course the MX series sucks as much as I feared and there really is no difference between them.
Everything else I btw I agree with. Different people different needs. If you want internal good luck, just don't whine to me when mafia runs at 2 frames per sec.
ehm, well at least you are honest. If only the selling part was legal then me burning a copy of a cd for a friend who of course I do not charge would be legal. It isn't. You are not allowed to make copies of cd's. It is written on most of them. Only in some countries are you allowed to make backup's for strict personal use only, and even that is combatted left and right. (ever tried copying some games for backup?) I don't think that knocking of 10.000 copies could be considered for personal use even by the most rabid/.er
Well the legal status is probably similar to the radio stations that used to broadcast from offshore to holland. I don't know if this happenend anywhere else but the the netherlands is a small country with the heavy population centers near the coast. So a ship in international waters could reach a sizeable part of the population. This was done to avoid the laws on radio regulation and to avoid having their equipment seized constantly. The police could only interfere when a storm would knock the vessel into national waters.
The same probably applies here. The pressed CD's don't suddenly become legal but the police won't be able to seize the equipment involved as long as it stays out at sea. Of course the old radio pirates went on to become legal radio/tv stations when it was shown that a large portion of the citizens supported them. I doubt the same will occur with cd-pirates.
Yes you did, you see the punchline is that this super deluxe encryption is totally useless. It is not so much a stunning new technologie as the application of some good old common sense. Why bother hacking an encrypted file if just by running it you can get the content as well?
You say it youreselve. The slides can almost certainly be read in a 100 years, the cd-r maybe not. In fact if you ever had to work with data from old formats you would know that computer readers age incredibly fast. Hell in a 100 years it is unlikely that computers still work the same way.
So for a little extra cost you got a medium that is far more proven and works with always available tech.
Does the word choice mean anything to you? After all if women put on a bikini a lot more is shown but it is the womans choice to show it. If she wears a skirt and walks across a hot air vent then she can't sue for invasion of privacy since it was her choice to flash as it were. Same with a glass floor. Plus I have yet to see a glass floor that is doesn't completly distort the image.
But these women did not choose, well unless you are of the kind who believes that women wearing skirts are just asking for it. Say that someone put up a camara above the johns and displayed it outside so all the girls can giggle. They couldn't associate youre willy with youre face since it wouldn't be shown but it would still be a clear violation of youre privacy. Same goes for up-skirt cams.
Invasion of privacy is the fact that information about youreselve wich you could reasonably expect to remain secret may not be taken from you by devious means. If nature decided to suddenly with a gust of wind blow up a women's skirt and some guy takes a photograph of it then that is okay, he didn't use any devious methods. A hidden camera is.
Can something be done about this. Well in japan there seems to be a real fascination with this kind of thing. There is a lot of stuff about the rights of both parties.
If you disagree then you must be one of the few slashdotters who doesn't mind filling in all those online registration forms. After all they have no way of knowing who you really are so you can give them a meaningless details like youre income everytime.
You an excellent point with the bag. You don't just pay for the price of the material that goes in. Sure it may be hard to understand why people spend more money then is stricly neccesary but that is they way of the world. A plastic bag from the supermarket performs the same function as that gucci back you mentioned. The same goes for pc's, a no-brand performs can do the same as a dell for less and a dell can be made to do the same as this system for less. Then again I think dells are overpriced. You certainly are not trying to convince me that dell has got the wrong business plan?
I myself would not by such a machine then again I the only completed computer I ever bought was a C64. The reason I disagree with you is because of an argument I had with someone over water cooling. I had spend money on buying parts from klaxx and he was oh but you could have gotten a radiator free from the local junkyard. Like you, he seemed unwilling to simply accept that I was willing to trade extra money for convinience. Getting a machine tuned with watercooling may be worth it to some. Just like getting a tuned machine from alienware may be worth it for some.
You can quote people who don't see it but the simple fact is that history has shown that people are willing to pay more for something even when they can it cheaper. Just ask alienware if they are still in bussiness. They are? Then they must have people willing to pay more for parts they could more cheaply buy elsewhere. Same reason IBM still sells servers at prices way above the sum of their parts.
At end you quote someone who says it all. Most people will not buy such a machine. Some will. If the second group is big enough, they will profit if not, they will not. Lets see in a year if they still offer this line.
ehm, how exactly does it make you drive more like to fail?
Raid 0 is striping. Wich means it spreads the data over the disks. This makes for faster writing and reading. Granted if one of the disks fail then you have lost all the data. Because now two disks contain all of youre data the risk of loosing youre data increases. Not the risk of the drive itself failing.
So the point is extra speed, handy for games, at a slightly increased risk of losing data, not a big deal for games.
It is called a trade off. You might not like the trade others do. vi VS emacs wars are pointless.
Read the article, that is why they have water cooling. The major problem with most of their competition is that you are 100% right. Sure you may have a gazillion frames to make the farm mission in Mafia really smooth but where is that damn 747 taking off? Can't help but feel it spoils that 30's atmosphere.
As for gaming being dead to you, I am sure the hardware manufacturers give a damn. Gaming is not yet seen as their major customer. Despite the fact that only games require the latest and fastest in hardware.
Call me anal but wouldn't you need a chess set as well? Unless you are of course really good and can play in youre head in wich case you can scratch the candle.
One is that gaming is moving towards the console. If that was true then the x-box being the closest to a pc would have selled like hot-cakes. It didn't.
Two is that $XXXX is to much, it all depends on what youre income is.
Three is that you presume pc games are mostly played by kids when in fact the average age hovers around 30 and many older people are starting to pick up games as well.
Four is that everyone is willing to spend the time building their own system. For some people the extra cost is easily offset by the ease of getting it out of the box.
Youre response sound a bit like you are jealous of people that would have the kind of money to buy this. Get over it. And if you can build the same system for less, well then open youre own bussiness and compete with them.
mmm, with both quake III engine and the new unreal engine working on linux it would certainly be nice if companies that licensed those engines would include linux support as well. After all the really difficult stuff has already been done, and project like mplayer show that you can use windows code on linux boxes.
Deus Ex 2 on the penquin. I may never have to use XP again.
Read the post above yours. They had opengl because they wanted to support the mac. Linux capability is a by product of that. So unless the man himself don't know what he is talking about a mac version is higly likely.
1: Hardware. As Mac users never tire of telling their cpu's are designed totally different from x86 chips. Lets not forget that a game really needs to get the last from the cpu. Code optimized to use instruction set X will obviously need a lot of translation to work on processror Y. They already have to do this with AMD and INTEL but at least their processors are designed along the same philosphy. Risc processors are a different beast altogether.
2: Users. Mac users are not seen as typical gamers. There may be a tiny percentage of hardcode gamers that own a mac for their great hardware but they will have long ago resigned themselves to the fact that they must use intel/ms for their gaming needs. Just like most linux users who game have an XP as their most powerfull machines for games.
Aren't linux gamers then a tiny group as well compared to windows users? No, if you ever played an online game you will notice that as soon as a linux server becomes available for a windows games allmost all the fast servers become linux ones.
I think you will find that for now the only games that make it on to the mac are those that are less reliant on an cpu instruction set and can therefore more readily be ported.
read the quote: "mechanical television" I can't remember ever having owned an tv that was not all electronic.
The trick is that several different people where working on getting pictures through the air. Baird had one that never worked out. Sorta like the wright brothers didn't have the first aircraft, just the first proved to be start of usefull flight.
I was thinking of how putting it in the cargo or taking it in the cabin would affect the safety of the plane. Things being stolen or broken is of less concern to me as someone who lives beneath an approach route then aircraft landing navigation being thrown off.
BTW to indicate that this is not pure paranoia, at the other side of the runway a plane with engine trouble crashed into an apartment block killing. See "Amsterdam bijlmer el al disaster"
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How do I know? I salvaged the new HD from my old laptop when it gave up the ghost,(note to self do not keep laptop running 24/7 in a closed desk). While the 20gig was nothing to be sneezed at it was dreadfully slow. On a laptop you accept this. On a desktop. No way. I now use it to transport my music between machines.
As for using powerpc, most people who have a file server or something like that use their old machines for home setups. So until iMac's start showing up on the rubbish heap I don't think we will see them being used as the router for the average home user geek. of course if like you you already use them for the main machine it is the logical solution.
Thank you, and the other poster who replied as well, for pointing out my mistake.
Makes sense to me. Most processors are powerfull enough anyway and where it is needed it is unlikely people do use the standard packages anyway so they can just compile theirs without debug. Then all that is needed is a sort of standard daemon like proces that catches unexpected errors and sends them to the appopriate place.
Creating a standard way to do this so that all bug reports look the same and can be easily automated would be good job for a standards body.
If you haven't already post it to them.
The source bit is already there. If you buy the distro you get the source cd's with them and they are also available for seperate download. (1.2 gigs extra download is something a lot of people can't afford).
Others seem to want to turn linux into windows. If only (mime support/windows like shell/c:\Program Files like dir structure) was finally included I would start using it. Yeah right like anyone cares. I think that with the burst of the internet bubble the idea that linux should go to the masses has been left behind. If you saw the interview with Linus himself on the BBC you will have heard that he does noet even wish to compete with windows. MS has its market and linux has its own. That is real freedom of choice people. Those people that want linux to become like windows just want a gratis (not free) version of windows.
The FSG is a standards group, I presume therefore that their question is on what if anything needs standarization next. Standarization is not the enemy of freedom when standarizing on it does not put a brake on innovation. A standard desktop for instance would limit innovation and therefore choice. A standard directory layout does not unless I missed some special signifigance in keeping youre logs in /.[sic]
So what needs standarizing next? I have no idea. Software creators now are reasonably sure where to install the bits of their software and how they can achieve multi language support. Printing is also ridicously easy (could be because I only have access to HP printers). Is anything more needed, almost certainly, let the creators figure this out and not disturb them with a dozen wish lists by windows users who will never switch over because it will always be hard to switch to something wich is different. If it wasn't different then what would be the point of switching at all.
Use linux not because someone tells you to. Use linux not because you want to stick it to Gates. Use linux not because you want to be l33t.
Use linux because you like it strenghts and can forgive its weaknesses.
The only way HARDCORE gamers would buy this if they where on a limited budget. When I was still on a limited budget like that 4 color display was posh so I can't really tell if this is a better deal or not. (I give away my old hardware maybe a kid could ask older relatives for their old card?)
The fault is not yours, and I presume not the fault of the article (it is down) but rather the usual poor posting on slashdot.
Everything else I btw I agree with. Different people different needs. If you want internal good luck, just don't whine to me when mafia runs at 2 frames per sec.
ehm, well at least you are honest. If only the selling part was legal then me burning a copy of a cd for a friend who of course I do not charge would be legal. It isn't. You are not allowed to make copies of cd's. It is written on most of them. Only in some countries are you allowed to make backup's for strict personal use only, and even that is combatted left and right. (ever tried copying some games for backup?) I don't think that knocking of 10.000 copies could be considered for personal use even by the most rabid /.er
The same probably applies here. The pressed CD's don't suddenly become legal but the police won't be able to seize the equipment involved as long as it stays out at sea. Of course the old radio pirates went on to become legal radio/tv stations when it was shown that a large portion of the citizens supported them. I doubt the same will occur with cd-pirates.
So for a little extra cost you got a medium that is far more proven and works with always available tech.
To me family snaps are worth the extra cost.
But these women did not choose, well unless you are of the kind who believes that women wearing skirts are just asking for it. Say that someone put up a camara above the johns and displayed it outside so all the girls can giggle. They couldn't associate youre willy with youre face since it wouldn't be shown but it would still be a clear violation of youre privacy. Same goes for up-skirt cams.
Invasion of privacy is the fact that information about youreselve wich you could reasonably expect to remain secret may not be taken from you by devious means. If nature decided to suddenly with a gust of wind blow up a women's skirt and some guy takes a photograph of it then that is okay, he didn't use any devious methods. A hidden camera is.
Can something be done about this. Well in japan there seems to be a real fascination with this kind of thing. There is a lot of stuff about the rights of both parties.
If you disagree then you must be one of the few slashdotters who doesn't mind filling in all those online registration forms. After all they have no way of knowing who you really are so you can give them a meaningless details like youre income everytime.
I myself would not by such a machine then again I the only completed computer I ever bought was a C64. The reason I disagree with you is because of an argument I had with someone over water cooling. I had spend money on buying parts from klaxx and he was oh but you could have gotten a radiator free from the local junkyard. Like you, he seemed unwilling to simply accept that I was willing to trade extra money for convinience. Getting a machine tuned with watercooling may be worth it to some. Just like getting a tuned machine from alienware may be worth it for some.
You can quote people who don't see it but the simple fact is that history has shown that people are willing to pay more for something even when they can it cheaper. Just ask alienware if they are still in bussiness. They are? Then they must have people willing to pay more for parts they could more cheaply buy elsewhere. Same reason IBM still sells servers at prices way above the sum of their parts.
At end you quote someone who says it all. Most people will not buy such a machine. Some will. If the second group is big enough, they will profit if not, they will not. Lets see in a year if they still offer this line.
Raid 0 is striping. Wich means it spreads the data over the disks. This makes for faster writing and reading. Granted if one of the disks fail then you have lost all the data. Because now two disks contain all of youre data the risk of loosing youre data increases. Not the risk of the drive itself failing.
So the point is extra speed, handy for games, at a slightly increased risk of losing data, not a big deal for games.
It is called a trade off. You might not like the trade others do. vi VS emacs wars are pointless.
As for gaming being dead to you, I am sure the hardware manufacturers give a damn. Gaming is not yet seen as their major customer. Despite the fact that only games require the latest and fastest in hardware.
Call me anal but wouldn't you need a chess set as well? Unless you are of course really good and can play in youre head in wich case you can scratch the candle.
One is that gaming is moving towards the console. If that was true then the x-box being the closest to a pc would have selled like hot-cakes. It didn't.
Two is that $XXXX is to much, it all depends on what youre income is.
Three is that you presume pc games are mostly played by kids when in fact the average age hovers around 30 and many older people are starting to pick up games as well.
Four is that everyone is willing to spend the time building their own system. For some people the extra cost is easily offset by the ease of getting it out of the box.
Youre response sound a bit like you are jealous of people that would have the kind of money to buy this. Get over it. And if you can build the same system for less, well then open youre own bussiness and compete with them.
Deus Ex 2 on the penquin. I may never have to use XP again.
Read the post above yours. They had opengl because they wanted to support the mac. Linux capability is a by product of that. So unless the man himself don't know what he is talking about a mac version is higly likely.
Mandrake does. I would say what it said if I had read it. I didn't.
Read the first few pages of most books you buy. Not all of them but most got somekind of license in it telling you not to do certain stuff.
As an example a Terry Pratchet novel I was reading forbids me from reselling the book in anything else then its original form.
Oh and if you never read it that don't matter shit. Ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law.
1: Hardware. As Mac users never tire of telling their cpu's are designed totally different from x86 chips. Lets not forget that a game really needs to get the last from the cpu. Code optimized to use instruction set X will obviously need a lot of translation to work on processror Y. They already have to do this with AMD and INTEL but at least their processors are designed along the same philosphy. Risc processors are a different beast altogether.
2: Users. Mac users are not seen as typical gamers. There may be a tiny percentage of hardcode gamers that own a mac for their great hardware but they will have long ago resigned themselves to the fact that they must use intel/ms for their gaming needs. Just like most linux users who game have an XP as their most powerfull machines for games.
Aren't linux gamers then a tiny group as well compared to windows users? No, if you ever played an online game you will notice that as soon as a linux server becomes available for a windows games allmost all the fast servers become linux ones.
I think you will find that for now the only games that make it on to the mac are those that are less reliant on an cpu instruction set and can therefore more readily be ported.
I think all the people at MS Quality Assurance department already thought of this before you did.
If you want to be liked, try not to sign laws threatning nations wich you have been friends with for the last 100 years or so.
The trick is that several different people where working on getting pictures through the air. Baird had one that never worked out. Sorta like the wright brothers didn't have the first aircraft, just the first proved to be start of usefull flight.
BTW to indicate that this is not pure paranoia, at the other side of the runway a plane with engine trouble crashed into an apartment block killing. See "Amsterdam bijlmer el al disaster"