they DO make cars that don't comply to standard roads. all the roads in the US are too straight and boring, and encourage that go fast in a straight line crap, whereas european cars go fast both in a straight line, but even more so in curves:) plus I don't think that SUV's comply to standards for roads, nor do they comply to any other standards other than overweightness, gas guzzling, and oversize =P sure, I'm an avid vw owner, but hey... =D
dude, get on IRC, and get interested in some conversations, you'll start typing faster out of necessity:) that's how I learned to touch type, all those years ago...(ok, so it was like, yahoo chat, but irc is cooler, gimme a break =D, irc does the same thing anyway)
yes, most management is really that stupid and shortsighted... I work for people that think Garnter knows what they're talking about...and doesn't think that they are paid off by whomever they've said are the best this week. though, they are pretty consistent, but still...they will say anything you pay them to say, and these are the people that managers think know things. forget your own IT staff who KNOWS what you need, and how to get it, no, trust some report about something that almost kinda relates in a sorta, kinda way... then again, I also work for state government, so maybe my views are a little skewed =D I think we could solve a lot of our problems by either moving to linux on the desktop, or hell, stick with windows, and put linux or novell on the backend. we have novell, but they want to move to 2000/AD...yeah...enough ranting:)
wooo comparable...right. a "64bit" processor with a 32 bit glued on to it, yeah that's comparable to a system that just runs the 32 bit stuff at native or faster speed on the "64bit" hardware. comparable..sure, yeah.... =D
I make the "64bit" disclaimer, as it seems all of these upcoming processors are not "true" 64 bit processors, but hey, IBM/Apple seems to have a much more elegant solution than gluing it on, or copying PA-RISC =D
without the musical accompaniment, as the monorail salesman had, I just couldn't buy any system from them...:)
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you crack monkey. there IS NO DUAL Pentium 4 system, anywhere. dual 3.2Ghz Xeons, yes, but Pentium 4's no! tell us about a plausible lie, please, not a complete fabrication!!!! have a nice day:)
well heck, anything is more entertaining than watching a bunch of guys stand around in overly tight pants, trying to hit balls, talking about balls and all the other stuff... and the butt slapping, really not my thing either...
wow, you mean I can get an utterly crippled version of a bloated product (win XP Home - I say crippled, because it will take the first network settings it ever picks up for whatever connections you have as canon, and never change from those. sucktastic. =D ) for only about a hundred smackers?! SWEEET!!!! or I can use my broadband (because I *have* to be that way) to download something for free? which inherently has cost, but still the $40/month still makes most linux distros cheaper, unless it takes me multiple months, at full utilization of my 2+mbit pipe....and frankly, if it takes that long, at that rate, I'm gonna stop, and find me a less bloated/microsoftesque distro:)
--my server runs slackware...but my laptop runs windows:( at least it's 2K:)
---ever stop to think, and then forget to start again?
is about 5 months old and counting. I had a few problems where it locked early on, but it's been running like a clock for a few months now, barring power outages, which have been happening disturbingly often...
build my own renderfarm!!!!! then I could lease it to crappy studios to make crappier movies, and feel horrible, but make tons of money. =D or perhaps they would render photorealistic games in real time =D
THERE ARE NO DUAL P4's!!!!! there *are* however dual xeons, that are based on the current P4 architecture, but still, NO DUAL P4's!!! if they existed, I'd have one instead of the single 2.26 that I have....although, now I want the dual G5 system...we'll see where they are in a few months.... =D
the scottish have been "injecting" sheep with their genetic material for ages, sadly to no avail. some day though, the noble scots will have their sheepwomen!!!!!!!!! =D
I agree, the difference between a democrat and republican these days is becoming a blurry line at best. I do disagree that there is not coverage of wider issues in the media. it is true however that there is not mainstream coverage, and not enough people listen to NPR. not that NPR is the answer to everything, but hey, it's better than CNN, USA Today, or any other "clear" channel =D I would also think that we are not on an uncontrollable descent toward a police state, but we are rolling that way too fast, and too out of control...
say a car were being benchmarked. I know, it's a strange way to say it, but hey, if you were a car maker and you "optimized" the testing area for your car on the 0-60mph test, say by sloping it down 20-30 degrees, or in a 60-0 brake test, sloping up (or perhaps even adding a brick wall =D) the track, they would definetly be accused of/crucified aboout/hung out to dry over their cheating. but hey, in computer hardware, it's just a driver optimization...
set phasers to stun? forget x ray glasses, how about IR/Millimeter wave radar (or better) and other funky stuff. all you'd see with x rays are bones. what you see with millimeter wave might get you....er...nevermind. =D on with the science!
it's obvious isn't it? if the hardware is better, it MUST be the software! =D seriously though, it's crappy drivers and incompletely tested/badly written code. given that I manage/aid in managing 100+ 2000/NT servers, and half (if that many) netware servers (which work better), not to mention the toying I do with linux and *BSD's in my free time, I'd have to say that lazy programming is the reason that most problems occur. sure, a meteorite fragging your hard disk, or using it as bullet resistant armoring will cause errors, but not as often as bad code will. that was the whole reasoning behind OpenBSD, to ironically, shut that puppy up tight. by correcting bad programming they have built a very secure OS. maybe there's something for microsoft to learn here. perhaps instead of adding crap on top of crap, they could audit their code instead of letting 5kr1p7 k1dd3z do it for them...but I'm just one raving lunatic that will likely never progress past windows 2000 on the MS frontier. slackware for me!!!! =D
any time you don't edit the code yourself, extraneous code is added. it may be less so in dreamweaver, than in frontpage, in fact I don't doubt that it would be less. I was mostly getting at the fact that there are WYSIWYG people, and emacs/vi/notepad/metapad people. this division has existed since WYSIWYG was invented, and shall from now on. personally I like to hand code, but I think that it's just a preference. neither is inherently better or worse.
I would hope that it would go in the direction of Neal Stephenson's concept of the "Metaverse" from his book Snow Crash. I would not be suprised to see something like that (immersive, with the capability to be as realistic as the coder makes it) and would not be suprised in the least to find the same divisions that spring up today in online "content"...some people are content with the front page, dreamweaver, and WYSIWYG edited pages, that have 50Bn extra lines of code, and there are hackers, who would have simple, elegant avatars, and probably also garish ones to show off to one aother with. sure it would be the same old technocracy, but hey, it would be photorealistic, and probably over fiber. sounds fun to me! =D
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a diesel 18 wheeler is probably a *LOT* more efficient than an 18 wheeler that runs on gas-o-line... =D
they DO make cars that don't comply to standard roads. all the roads in the US are too straight and boring, and encourage that go fast in a straight line crap, whereas european cars go fast both in a straight line, but even more so in curves :) plus I don't think that SUV's comply to standards for roads, nor do they comply to any other standards other than overweightness, gas guzzling, and oversize =P sure, I'm an avid vw owner, but hey... =D
I used it three whole times when I typed IRC...or rather, once and held it for three keystrokes... =D
dude, get on IRC, and get interested in some conversations, you'll start typing faster out of necessity :) that's how I learned to touch type, all those years ago...(ok, so it was like, yahoo chat, but irc is cooler, gimme a break =D, irc does the same thing anyway)
yes, most management is really that stupid and shortsighted... I work for people that think Garnter knows what they're talking about...and doesn't think that they are paid off by whomever they've said are the best this week. though, they are pretty consistent, but still...they will say anything you pay them to say, and these are the people that managers think know things. forget your own IT staff who KNOWS what you need, and how to get it, no, trust some report about something that almost kinda relates in a sorta, kinda way... then again, I also work for state government, so maybe my views are a little skewed =D I think we could solve a lot of our problems by either moving to linux on the desktop, or hell, stick with windows, and put linux or novell on the backend. we have novell, but they want to move to 2000/AD...yeah...enough ranting :)
wooo comparable...right. a "64bit" processor with a 32 bit glued on to it, yeah that's comparable to a system that just runs the 32 bit stuff at native or faster speed on the "64bit" hardware. comparable..sure, yeah.... =D I make the "64bit" disclaimer, as it seems all of these upcoming processors are not "true" 64 bit processors, but hey, IBM/Apple seems to have a much more elegant solution than gluing it on, or copying PA-RISC =D
without the musical accompaniment, as the monorail salesman had, I just couldn't buy any system from them... :)
you crack monkey. there IS NO DUAL Pentium 4 system, anywhere. dual 3.2Ghz Xeons, yes, but Pentium 4's no! tell us about a plausible lie, please, not a complete fabrication!!!! have a nice day :)
well yeah, they're really useful. :) unless I have over 185Mb of stuff :)
well heck, anything is more entertaining than watching a bunch of guys stand around in overly tight pants, trying to hit balls, talking about balls and all the other stuff... and the butt slapping, really not my thing either...
wow, you mean I can get an utterly crippled version of a bloated product (win XP Home - I say crippled, because it will take the first network settings it ever picks up for whatever connections you have as canon, and never change from those. sucktastic. =D ) for only about a hundred smackers?! SWEEET!!!! or I can use my broadband (because I *have* to be that way) to download something for free? which inherently has cost, but still the $40/month still makes most linux distros cheaper, unless it takes me multiple months, at full utilization of my 2+mbit pipe....and frankly, if it takes that long, at that rate, I'm gonna stop, and find me a less bloated/microsoftesque distro :)
--my server runs slackware...but my laptop runs windows :( at least it's 2K :)
---ever stop to think, and then forget to start again?
is about 5 months old and counting. I had a few problems where it locked early on, but it's been running like a clock for a few months now, barring power outages, which have been happening disturbingly often...
build my own renderfarm!!!!! then I could lease it to crappy studios to make crappier movies, and feel horrible, but make tons of money. =D or perhaps they would render photorealistic games in real time =D
THERE ARE NO DUAL P4's!!!!! there *are* however dual xeons, that are based on the current P4 architecture, but still, NO DUAL P4's!!! if they existed, I'd have one instead of the single 2.26 that I have....although, now I want the dual G5 system...we'll see where they are in a few months.... =D
I just get all the same kind of socks. takes out that pesky having to "match" them thing. they all look the same, so they ALL match!!! =D
the scottish have been "injecting" sheep with their genetic material for ages, sadly to no avail. some day though, the noble scots will have their sheepwomen!!!!!!!!! =D
I agree, the difference between a democrat and republican these days is becoming a blurry line at best. I do disagree that there is not coverage of wider issues in the media. it is true however that there is not mainstream coverage, and not enough people listen to NPR. not that NPR is the answer to everything, but hey, it's better than CNN, USA Today, or any other "clear" channel =D I would also think that we are not on an uncontrollable descent toward a police state, but we are rolling that way too fast, and too out of control...
I think that MIT might have been making a distro at one time, though I only visited for a week, so I'm not sure. =D
why oh why are such idiots elected to office? apathy. get out, vote (insert non-retarded party here) and get these morons out of office!!!
shave the whales! =D
say a car were being benchmarked. I know, it's a strange way to say it, but hey, if you were a car maker and you "optimized" the testing area for your car on the 0-60mph test, say by sloping it down 20-30 degrees, or in a 60-0 brake test, sloping up (or perhaps even adding a brick wall =D) the track, they would definetly be accused of/crucified aboout/hung out to dry over their cheating. but hey, in computer hardware, it's just a driver optimization...
set phasers to stun? forget x ray glasses, how about IR/Millimeter wave radar (or better) and other funky stuff. all you'd see with x rays are bones. what you see with millimeter wave might get you....er...nevermind. =D on with the science!
it's obvious isn't it? if the hardware is better, it MUST be the software! =D seriously though, it's crappy drivers and incompletely tested/badly written code. given that I manage/aid in managing 100+ 2000/NT servers, and half (if that many) netware servers (which work better), not to mention the toying I do with linux and *BSD's in my free time, I'd have to say that lazy programming is the reason that most problems occur. sure, a meteorite fragging your hard disk, or using it as bullet resistant armoring will cause errors, but not as often as bad code will. that was the whole reasoning behind OpenBSD, to ironically, shut that puppy up tight. by correcting bad programming they have built a very secure OS. maybe there's something for microsoft to learn here. perhaps instead of adding crap on top of crap, they could audit their code instead of letting 5kr1p7 k1dd3z do it for them...but I'm just one raving lunatic that will likely never progress past windows 2000 on the MS frontier. slackware for me!!!! =D
any time you don't edit the code yourself, extraneous code is added. it may be less so in dreamweaver, than in frontpage, in fact I don't doubt that it would be less. I was mostly getting at the fact that there are WYSIWYG people, and emacs/vi/notepad/metapad people. this division has existed since WYSIWYG was invented, and shall from now on. personally I like to hand code, but I think that it's just a preference. neither is inherently better or worse.
I would hope that it would go in the direction of Neal Stephenson's concept of the "Metaverse" from his book Snow Crash. I would not be suprised to see something like that (immersive, with the capability to be as realistic as the coder makes it) and would not be suprised in the least to find the same divisions that spring up today in online "content"...some people are content with the front page, dreamweaver, and WYSIWYG edited pages, that have 50Bn extra lines of code, and there are hackers, who would have simple, elegant avatars, and probably also garish ones to show off to one aother with. sure it would be the same old technocracy, but hey, it would be photorealistic, and probably over fiber. sounds fun to me! =D