What an obnoxious headline. Either go with the numeric representation of the number (500,000) or spell it out properly (five hundred thousand). Didn't your English teacher tell you not to mix and match?
Many of the laptops this post is talking about (Asus EeePC, and the entry level HP 2133) have solid state drives. No worries there.
Most modern laptop hard drives are rated to withstand specific g-forces. if you are experiencing failure and you think its vibration related (somewhat unlikely if its a recent drive/laptop) then seek a drive with a higher g-force tolerance, or replace it with an SSD.
This analogy doesn't hold much water. For a more accurate comparison said neighbor would need to park their unlocked car in your kitchen. If that is the case, then yes I believe they are inviting me to use said car. If they don't want me to use it they shouldn't park it in my kitchen with the door unlocked and keys in the ignition.
The point is that the wireless broadcast of your neighbors is entering your home, unencrypted. Thats a fairly friendly invite to use if you ask me. Simply turn on encryption and the invite is gone.
Springfield is a LOT less than 500,000... the population is just over 150k, and I don't see the "metro area" (if you can call it that) being more than 225k max. But, this just further prooves your point about there being a good level of linux support, even in a not-so-populated place
Winmodems are faily well supported in linux...
And so is integrated hardware and all the other cheap crap they use in the cheapest of cheap dell boxen.
Maybe the linux boxes did have better hardware... but it definitely wasn't because they had to.
I think maybe you mean "Wife Swap"? I think thats the name of the show... anyways, I caught it for the first time just the other day and they swapped an Atheist wife with a preacher's wife... The religious family came out looking pretty uneducated and boring, and the the atheists came out looking like overly eccentric cry babies. Neither are reality, but it was entertaining.
pfff... notepad's fairly proprietary. It only understands the MS-DOS new line, which is two characters (carriage return + new line)... so opening unix style text files results in everything being truncated into a single line. This means that I find myself unable to use notepad sometimes for even the most simple editing of remote files on a *nix server.
AMD's turion chip is quite competetive against the Pentium-M... even after Dell's steep discounts. Its not quite as low power, but its much more powerful and is the ONLY low-power 64bit x86 chip on the market. Period. If Dell is looking to incorporate AMD on all system types, I'm sure they will find a healthy market for Turion notebooks... they sure beat the hell out of P4 notebooks.
On the desktop side, the Sempron still just crushes the Celeron and is cheaper. Factor in Dell's discounts and they probably cost about the same, but there is still a performance advantage to the Sempron. On the low end, AMD still makes more sense.
Gaming desktops... well, that should be a no brainer why AMD makes sense there. Pricing issues aside, they are the fastest gaming chips around. If Dell wants a gaming rig performance crown, they'll use AMD.
And as you mentioned, AMD has much more compelling server chips. Intel recently launched their dual core Xeons, but since they are based on the horrible dual core P4's, they can't touch the opteron... clock for clock, dollar for dollar, or however you want to compare it... The Xeon is overpriced flaming (as in really freakin hot) peice of crap... at least when compared to the competition.
Even if AMD didn't have a performance advantage on servers, the power savings and reduced heat alone are enough to make them attractive in many data centers. Add to that the fact that they do have a MAJOR performance advantage... its just a no brainer and makes Dell look pretty silly for waiting this long... if this all isn't just another hoax. Either way, I have little respect for Dell.
Actually, if you had read the interview, there is compelling evidence that this is already happening. Debian is already incorporating a lot of the advances from Ubuntu.
I agree that an unified menu bar is confusing and not any more efficient. This, comming from a long time mac user. It makes more sense to have the menu attached to the window... then if you have two or more tiled windows on your screen, or have an applications open that has no windows opened, you don't have to try fiddle around trying to figure out how to access the appropriate menu for the appropriate window. It seems to me this is more logical and easier to figure out, even if it does take a little more screen space.
They already have gotten some ISPs to sign. If you read the article, french ministers are already on board and french ISPs are rolling over and following the draft.
Its really sad, but there is a chance they might not need to go through the courts on this one. They have enough money in enough governments that they might force this through on their own.
Sega has been making great NCAA football games for the past few years... in addition to their great NFL games and college basketball and NBA games.
This year they'll be lucky if they are allowed to make any sports games whatsoever.
Plus, there are other studios like 989 and Midway that have a history of sports games that might no longer continue.
Sega's sports games have been much better than EA's for a while now, and it will be unfortunate to see them go. This is extremely anticompetative and I don't understand how they can get away with it without other game makers or the Department of Justice dragging them to court.
guess you couldn't be bothered to even read a whole paragraph. Look closely as the poster clearly indicates he wants to find sites that infect systems with Spyware and see how Firefox and Mozilla respond to the same sites, to see if they are as impervious as many claim. Also, at the beginning of the paragraph he says that he is doing this to find better ways to prevent and contain the problems with spyware/adware/malware, not to bash IE.
Personally, I've already come across some Firefox/Mozilla SPECIFIC spyware/trojans using Firefox/Mozilla's automatic XPI extension installation. If I were an average joe user, these could very well dupe me into clicking through and ruining the privacy, security, and integrity of my system... assuming I could even still use the system afterwards. I look forward to the findings of this poster, and the findings of similar articles. Security through obscurity is comming to an end for Firefox and Mozilla, so these are important issues.
yeah, that would cause me to abadon my plan too. Luckily my domain is under the radar at the moment, so this isn't an issue. If this happened I guess I'd have to start bouncing undeliverable mail instead of forwarding it to my inbox, and just manually set up a new mailbox or alias every time I need another throw away address.
I don't get too much spoofed headers in my spam, and I just kinda hope that I don't start getting more, because tracking that down could be a real problem. If it becomes a problem then I would probably start setting up real mailboxes for the throw-away email accounts, and set up those mailboxes to forward to me, so that I still get the mail, but I can see which box it arrived in. Plus, there is always client side spam filtering (Thunderbird is what i've been using).
bandwidth that would have been wasted anyways if I had just used one address. And, since I route the spam-laden addresses straight to the trash I'm saving my ISP server space and client bandwidth (since I'm not downloading the email).
This is how I keep spam from ruining my email while also catching spammers in the act:
I have a domain (examancer.com) and a cheap hosting company that allows unlimited email accounts. Every time I give out an email address I make up one that will remind me why I gave it out (like slashdot@examancer.com, nytimes@examancer.com, someotherservice@examancer.com, etc...). I don't actually have to set up each account because I have all undeliverable mail sent right to my main account. If I start receiving spam, I just look at which address its sent to and I know right away which company sold my address or which online forum my email was harvested from. If the spam gets too bad, I actually go and create a real mailbox for that address and route it to a black hole... viola, no more spam.
If anyone likes IE better than firefox, then it wasn't installed right with a minimum of the adblock and tabbed browsing preferences extensions. Add in the UA selector and view in IE and you are set.
wow, thats a hellavua generalization. Some people like one browser over another simply because they like the logo better, or because it was the browser they used first. In the case of my sister she was just used to IE, and never even tried out firefox. She was upset that I changed something she was used to... it had nothing to do with her experience with firefox because she never even gave it a chance.
Its not that hard to set up your own comparison. System configurations of reviewers will differ from yours so a direct comparison may not be possible. Just load a few benchmarking utils (3DMark, Quake3 timedemo, FPS counter+game of choice) load the catalyst drivers, not the scores, load the cracked drivers, and see if your scores go up. Not that complicated.
hey! D-Link doesn't suck! They are far from flawless, but their NICs and some of their broadband routers ain't half bad.
And you forgot to mention situations where you build someone a new PC at their request, get everything installed and loaded, and because the start menu looks a little bit different they flip out and demand that you put Win98 back on their machine, despite the fact that half the hardware isn't supported by Win98 because they wanted the latest and greatest.
Or the times when someone sees an awesome computer game at a friends and wants to upgrade or build a new computer so they can play the same games, and wants the fastest processor available but refuses to spend more than $50 on a video card because they don't believe that its really important because Dell doesn't advertise them.
Or those times when your sister actually screams at your for installing Firefox and making it the default because she likes IE, and then comes back a week later and blames your installation of firefox for all the spyware she got since she want back to IE.
If your drive is DOA (Dead on Arrival), then you don't have to pay microsoft to repair it OR get a new one, because its still under the WARRANTY, so the repairs would be free. However, if your drive dies after 90 days (maybe you were thinking MIA, missing in action?), then yes, those are the two options unfortunately.
Unfortunately a products success does not rest solely on the products ability to perform, especially in the IT industry. Windows and IE are not the most used because they are better than the competition. The sucess of webmail services from Yahoo and Microsoft have historically been from their placement in a larger portal system that has nearly endless features and content to attract users. Google does not (yet?) offer instant messaging, gaming, sydicated content (Google News generates no revenue and is aggregation not syndication), career tools, finance tools, caladers, or any of the other thousands of little features Yahoo and MSN offer under a single brand. I believe that they are fighting for different users. Very few Yahoo and Hotmail users will switch over to Gmail, especially since they both have SOME spam blocking and lots more space than before. For most users, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail will continue to be enough for existing users of MSN and Yahoo portals. For those who are in the future attracted to the MSN or Yahoo services, they will continue to sign up for Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts. But, that doesn't mean Gmail won't take off... it just won't take off by taking mass numbers of users away from Yahoo and MSN.
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What an obnoxious headline. Either go with the numeric representation of the number (500,000) or spell it out properly (five hundred thousand). Didn't your English teacher tell you not to mix and match?
Many of the laptops this post is talking about (Asus EeePC, and the entry level HP 2133) have solid state drives. No worries there.
Most modern laptop hard drives are rated to withstand specific g-forces. if you are experiencing failure and you think its vibration related (somewhat unlikely if its a recent drive/laptop) then seek a drive with a higher g-force tolerance, or replace it with an SSD.
This analogy doesn't hold much water. For a more accurate comparison said neighbor would need to park their unlocked car in your kitchen. If that is the case, then yes I believe they are inviting me to use said car. If they don't want me to use it they shouldn't park it in my kitchen with the door unlocked and keys in the ignition.
The point is that the wireless broadcast of your neighbors is entering your home, unencrypted. Thats a fairly friendly invite to use if you ask me. Simply turn on encryption and the invite is gone.
Springfield is a LOT less than 500,000... the population is just over 150k, and I don't see the "metro area" (if you can call it that) being more than 225k max. But, this just further prooves your point about there being a good level of linux support, even in a not-so-populated place
Winmodems are faily well supported in linux... And so is integrated hardware and all the other cheap crap they use in the cheapest of cheap dell boxen. Maybe the linux boxes did have better hardware... but it definitely wasn't because they had to.
I think maybe you mean "Wife Swap"? I think thats the name of the show... anyways, I caught it for the first time just the other day and they swapped an Atheist wife with a preacher's wife... The religious family came out looking pretty uneducated and boring, and the the atheists came out looking like overly eccentric cry babies. Neither are reality, but it was entertaining.
pfff... notepad's fairly proprietary. It only understands the MS-DOS new line, which is two characters (carriage return + new line)... so opening unix style text files results in everything being truncated into a single line. This means that I find myself unable to use notepad sometimes for even the most simple editing of remote files on a *nix server.
AMD's turion chip is quite competetive against the Pentium-M... even after Dell's steep discounts. Its not quite as low power, but its much more powerful and is the ONLY low-power 64bit x86 chip on the market. Period. If Dell is looking to incorporate AMD on all system types, I'm sure they will find a healthy market for Turion notebooks... they sure beat the hell out of P4 notebooks. On the desktop side, the Sempron still just crushes the Celeron and is cheaper. Factor in Dell's discounts and they probably cost about the same, but there is still a performance advantage to the Sempron. On the low end, AMD still makes more sense. Gaming desktops... well, that should be a no brainer why AMD makes sense there. Pricing issues aside, they are the fastest gaming chips around. If Dell wants a gaming rig performance crown, they'll use AMD. And as you mentioned, AMD has much more compelling server chips. Intel recently launched their dual core Xeons, but since they are based on the horrible dual core P4's, they can't touch the opteron... clock for clock, dollar for dollar, or however you want to compare it... The Xeon is overpriced flaming (as in really freakin hot) peice of crap... at least when compared to the competition. Even if AMD didn't have a performance advantage on servers, the power savings and reduced heat alone are enough to make them attractive in many data centers. Add to that the fact that they do have a MAJOR performance advantage... its just a no brainer and makes Dell look pretty silly for waiting this long... if this all isn't just another hoax. Either way, I have little respect for Dell.
Actually, if you had read the interview, there is compelling evidence that this is already happening. Debian is already incorporating a lot of the advances from Ubuntu.
I agree that an unified menu bar is confusing and not any more efficient. This, comming from a long time mac user. It makes more sense to have the menu attached to the window... then if you have two or more tiled windows on your screen, or have an applications open that has no windows opened, you don't have to try fiddle around trying to figure out how to access the appropriate menu for the appropriate window. It seems to me this is more logical and easier to figure out, even if it does take a little more screen space.
Its really sad, but there is a chance they might not need to go through the courts on this one. They have enough money in enough governments that they might force this through on their own.
Sega has been making great NCAA football games for the past few years... in addition to their great NFL games and college basketball and NBA games. This year they'll be lucky if they are allowed to make any sports games whatsoever. Plus, there are other studios like 989 and Midway that have a history of sports games that might no longer continue. Sega's sports games have been much better than EA's for a while now, and it will be unfortunate to see them go. This is extremely anticompetative and I don't understand how they can get away with it without other game makers or the Department of Justice dragging them to court.
guess you couldn't be bothered to even read a whole paragraph. Look closely as the poster clearly indicates he wants to find sites that infect systems with Spyware and see how Firefox and Mozilla respond to the same sites, to see if they are as impervious as many claim. Also, at the beginning of the paragraph he says that he is doing this to find better ways to prevent and contain the problems with spyware/adware/malware, not to bash IE. Personally, I've already come across some Firefox/Mozilla SPECIFIC spyware/trojans using Firefox/Mozilla's automatic XPI extension installation. If I were an average joe user, these could very well dupe me into clicking through and ruining the privacy, security, and integrity of my system... assuming I could even still use the system afterwards. I look forward to the findings of this poster, and the findings of similar articles. Security through obscurity is comming to an end for Firefox and Mozilla, so these are important issues.
yeah, that would cause me to abadon my plan too. Luckily my domain is under the radar at the moment, so this isn't an issue. If this happened I guess I'd have to start bouncing undeliverable mail instead of forwarding it to my inbox, and just manually set up a new mailbox or alias every time I need another throw away address.
I don't get too much spoofed headers in my spam, and I just kinda hope that I don't start getting more, because tracking that down could be a real problem. If it becomes a problem then I would probably start setting up real mailboxes for the throw-away email accounts, and set up those mailboxes to forward to me, so that I still get the mail, but I can see which box it arrived in. Plus, there is always client side spam filtering (Thunderbird is what i've been using).
bandwidth that would have been wasted anyways if I had just used one address. And, since I route the spam-laden addresses straight to the trash I'm saving my ISP server space and client bandwidth (since I'm not downloading the email).
This is how I keep spam from ruining my email while also catching spammers in the act:
I have a domain (examancer.com) and a cheap hosting company that allows unlimited email accounts. Every time I give out an email address I make up one that will remind me why I gave it out (like slashdot@examancer.com, nytimes@examancer.com, someotherservice@examancer.com, etc...). I don't actually have to set up each account because I have all undeliverable mail sent right to my main account. If I start receiving spam, I just look at which address its sent to and I know right away which company sold my address or which online forum my email was harvested from. If the spam gets too bad, I actually go and create a real mailbox for that address and route it to a black hole... viola, no more spam.
If anyone likes IE better than firefox, then it wasn't installed right with a minimum of the adblock and tabbed browsing preferences extensions. Add in the UA selector and view in IE and you are set. wow, thats a hellavua generalization. Some people like one browser over another simply because they like the logo better, or because it was the browser they used first. In the case of my sister she was just used to IE, and never even tried out firefox. She was upset that I changed something she was used to... it had nothing to do with her experience with firefox because she never even gave it a chance.
Its not that hard to set up your own comparison. System configurations of reviewers will differ from yours so a direct comparison may not be possible. Just load a few benchmarking utils (3DMark, Quake3 timedemo, FPS counter+game of choice) load the catalyst drivers, not the scores, load the cracked drivers, and see if your scores go up. Not that complicated.
hey! D-Link doesn't suck! They are far from flawless, but their NICs and some of their broadband routers ain't half bad.
And you forgot to mention situations where you build someone a new PC at their request, get everything installed and loaded, and because the start menu looks a little bit different they flip out and demand that you put Win98 back on their machine, despite the fact that half the hardware isn't supported by Win98 because they wanted the latest and greatest. Or the times when someone sees an awesome computer game at a friends and wants to upgrade or build a new computer so they can play the same games, and wants the fastest processor available but refuses to spend more than $50 on a video card because they don't believe that its really important because Dell doesn't advertise them.
Or those times when your sister actually screams at your for installing Firefox and making it the default because she likes IE, and then comes back a week later and blames your installation of firefox for all the spyware she got since she want back to IE.
.... just to name a few more.
If your drive is DOA (Dead on Arrival), then you don't have to pay microsoft to repair it OR get a new one, because its still under the WARRANTY, so the repairs would be free. However, if your drive dies after 90 days (maybe you were thinking MIA, missing in action?), then yes, those are the two options unfortunately.
Unfortunately a products success does not rest solely on the products ability to perform, especially in the IT industry. Windows and IE are not the most used because they are better than the competition. The sucess of webmail services from Yahoo and Microsoft have historically been from their placement in a larger portal system that has nearly endless features and content to attract users. Google does not (yet?) offer instant messaging, gaming, sydicated content (Google News generates no revenue and is aggregation not syndication), career tools, finance tools, caladers, or any of the other thousands of little features Yahoo and MSN offer under a single brand. I believe that they are fighting for different users. Very few Yahoo and Hotmail users will switch over to Gmail, especially since they both have SOME spam blocking and lots more space than before. For most users, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail will continue to be enough for existing users of MSN and Yahoo portals. For those who are in the future attracted to the MSN or Yahoo services, they will continue to sign up for Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts. But, that doesn't mean Gmail won't take off... it just won't take off by taking mass numbers of users away from Yahoo and MSN.
no, ireland is an idenpendant republic. Southern Ireland is a description.
yes, i know this... just pointing out that if it is changed it will probably be because he gave someone the idea.
That idiot you speak of would probably not have thought of changing the password had you not given him the idea. Good job.