That the Pentium-M isn't optimised at all for what they were benchmarking (apart from some stuff compiled with a non-commercial intel C compiler).
Because God knows that all the software in the world is compiled with a highly optimized commercial Intel C compiler right? Come on guys, why do you expect them to use some crazy expensive compiler when 99% of the software on the shelf will never use it? It's just a marketing gimmick to boost their performance. If nobody uses it then it might as well not exist.
God.... kill me now. The last thing I want to hear is some kid talking about how they don't make games like Halo anymore. I would probably put an axe through his head.
They don't make games like Colecovision "Tennis" anymore. My sister and I used to spend hours playing that game. Hit the white dot back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. It was the best!!! Damn kids and their $500 3D video cards and Doom 3.
In all honesty - how many people take 80 GB of pictures on a vacation?...lets talk the average user - not some/.'er who is going to give us some outrageous number that is most likely a lie anyhow to help prove a point.
Our new 6 MP digital camera says it can hold 667 pictures on the 1GB flash card I bought for it so I think I'm set for awhile. Plus compactflash is so common these days you can just drop into a local electronics store and pick up extras if you run out.. assuming you're not on a hiking trip or something. Besides, if I was seriously thinking I'd fill up a 1GB flash card I'd probably be bringing my laptop along so I could save them on the hard drive and catalog them in my downtime in iPhoto.
I beg your pardon... the last I checked these devices were sold for $50 apiece, if not more.
Check again. You can pick up a USB 2.0 to 2.5" laptop drive enclosure for under $15 these days. Maybe not in a retail store, but certainly online at MWave.com or Newegg.com for example. I just looked and Mwave has an enclosure for $11.90... that's certainly within my piggy bank account range if I broke it open to impulse-buy a toy without having any regrets about wasting money.
Macs today don't seem to be very good for gaming. I was thinking of getting rid of my desktop Windows box and replacing it with a Mac, but then I remembered I do like to play Desert Combat once in awhile. My G3 iBook is pitifully underpowered for 95% of the games out there these days (even Civ III is dog slow on it), and after examining the recommended stats on the game boxes I came to realize that 90% of the new Macs out there are insufficient to even play these games! iMacs are out of the question due to the anemic graphics cards, and laptop CPUs are far too slow with only a paltry 1.5GHz G4 as the top end of the spectrum. Basically if you want to play even the most basic FPS games on a Mac it seems you need a $2000-$3000 dual processor G5 desktop with the very expensive Nvidia 6800 graphics card in it. The 5200 in the base models is too slow!
But for those that do, what are you going to do to guarantee them that one of your neighbours isn't going to hog all of the bandwidth?
Go over their house and ask them nicely to stop downloading all that porn during the day. Sheesh, don't you people ever friggin talk to your neighbors? This is great for communities of people that talk and hang out, not for those only interested in exploiting their neighbors as a customer base. It's basically a way to share an expensive ADSL or T1 line and have everyone chip in a bit to make it cheaper.
as another poster said, is it really worth the trouble when it comes to billing?
Speakeasy handles the billing and credits your account, you just provide the wireless setup. People need to read about Speakeasy's WiFi Netshare Program before assuming stuff.
It is sad that 99% of the users reading this just assume they'd be violating their ISP's AUP. I've been with Speakeasy so long I forgot that there are lame ISPs out there that do things like block ports and restrict sharing your connection. Sheesh. Speakeasy is by far the best ISP I've ever dealt with. Worth every penny.
The Comair system runs on Linux using an IBM DB2 backend. No wonder it crashed. Linux isn't built to handle that kind of load. The Windows 2000 Server system they were previously running with MS-SQL handled last year's Christmas rush with no problems.
/pulled that out of my ass, Merry Post-XMAS day!:-)
"Every kid should have one for Christmas morning."
Nah, give me an Xbox.
No kidding. If I woke up and found a friggin Knoppix Games CD under the tree I'd burn the house down. Either give them an Xbox or PS2 or some Windows games like Half-Life 2 or don't even bother. Woo, I can play Tuxracer or Solitaire on my free Open source Linux boot disc!!! Thanks Dad you cheap motherfucker.
And what's the point? He spent 4 years building that and I can spend an hour building something for $3000 that will be a million times more powerful AND let me play Half-Life 2. Pffft.
Once a user is using AOL's mail package then AOL can put whatever it wants on their mail webpage much like MS does with Hotmail.
Last time I checked I still had a free Netscape.com e-mail address... which is owned by AOL. So technically I have free webmail from AOL through Netscape already. Not that I ever used it, but I have a 250 meg quota there. Why in the hell would I want something@aol.com as my e-mail address? AOL is for losers.
So why is this front page news? is this just a slow news day or something? Just wondering....
Because ASUS paid OSDN to Slashvertise it's newest little gadget? Most of these little reviews are paid advertisements. Otherwise this would have been relegated to Tom's Hardware or some other hardware review site rather than Slashdot. Somebody got paid, article gets listed on the front page. No big deal. They gotta pay their bills somehow and it sure isn't through banner ads anymore.
Wait a minute, you're getting advertisements for Rolex Premium Replica Watches too? I thought I was just special.:-( Next thing you're going to tell me is that you get spam for Cialis too. I'm not exactly sure what Cialis is, but they sure want to sell it to me.
Why hack something that is for the common good, such as public, non-polluting transportation?
Because the members of the Chaos Computer Club are a bunch of hackers? They couldn't care less about the common good, they're just interested in exploiting whatever they can for their own self-interest. Read "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" or "The Cuckoo's Egg" to get an example of these wonderful CCC heroes in reality. They are thieves.
The problem with IE has always been ActiveX. It's insecure by design and has far more privileges than it should allowing those little browser helper objects (AKA Spyware) to install themselves with or without your permission.
At work I've made it a point to NEVER put my work address down for anything. I just treat it like it doesn't exist, so I get very very little spam. The spam I get is mostly viruses through mailing lists and aliases. At home however I have used the same address since 1996 and I'm not about to change it now so I just rely on spamassassin to filter my mail. It catches about 99% of it. It's amazing how fast it comes in.
Configure your client properly and you won't have that problem. Once I configured Azureus to only allow 10kb/s upload speeds, I never saw the problem you describe again.
My client doesn't have that option. It's the official BitTorrent client. I'm wary of using other clients due to spyware issues.
It may just be me who can't spot it in the list, but where is using BitTorrent to distribute the latest ISO images for Linux installs? Not to mention all the patches etc...
No thanks, I'll take a nice mirror site over a slow BitTorrent download any day. I regularly get 600KB/sec over my ADSL line from most Linux mirror sites. The most I ever seem to get out of BitTorrent is 10KB-50KB/sec. After that my uplink is so clogged with leechers that it affects my entire DSL line performance. Latency shoots through the roof and my downloads are choked off. I'll take FTP or HTTP transfers anyday over that.
"Real" Americans are those that were born here or lived most of their life here. H1B Visa workers are carpet-baggers who came here because the prospects of employment in their own country was so shitty that they'd have to be a taxi driver or thug to pay the bills. If they want to become American citizens, FINE, I welcome you with open arms. If you want to just work here then go back to your own country after reaping the benefits of my great nation then fuck off.
Saddam Hussein's government didn't let schools and hospitals fall apart. The schools were running fine, albeit under Ba'ath rulership, and the hospitals crumbled under UN and US sanctions, regardless of what the Iraqi government tried to do.
So, in essence, Saddam was a pretty nice guy... riiiight. Before you go blaming The US for the situation, why don't you put the blame where it really belongs, the fucking insurgents setting off bombs every day while we're trying to help these people? It's rather difficult to restore order when you have a group of dissidents set on causing chaos to make the US look bad.
See? I knew somebody would bitch at me for something. Chill out. It's a Slashdot comment forum.. it's not like asking a stupid question uses up the last of the bits left in the world that could've went to something else like a new Linux kernel release. Sheesh. People practically jizz over iPods and what I really want to know is *why*. They are nifty gadgets, but there are dozens of similar products out there that are just as good, if not better. Quit buying shit because it's chic.
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Microsoft's single sign-on is. Amazon isn't going anywhere, they're the best online shopping site period.
Because God knows that all the software in the world is compiled with a highly optimized commercial Intel C compiler right? Come on guys, why do you expect them to use some crazy expensive compiler when 99% of the software on the shelf will never use it? It's just a marketing gimmick to boost their performance. If nobody uses it then it might as well not exist.
They don't make games like Colecovision "Tennis" anymore. My sister and I used to spend hours playing that game. Hit the white dot back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. It was the best!!! Damn kids and their $500 3D video cards and Doom 3.
Our new 6 MP digital camera says it can hold 667 pictures on the 1GB flash card I bought for it so I think I'm set for awhile. Plus compactflash is so common these days you can just drop into a local electronics store and pick up extras if you run out.. assuming you're not on a hiking trip or something. Besides, if I was seriously thinking I'd fill up a 1GB flash card I'd probably be bringing my laptop along so I could save them on the hard drive and catalog them in my downtime in iPhoto.
Check again. You can pick up a USB 2.0 to 2.5" laptop drive enclosure for under $15 these days. Maybe not in a retail store, but certainly online at MWave.com or Newegg.com for example. I just looked and Mwave has an enclosure for $11.90... that's certainly within my piggy bank account range if I broke it open to impulse-buy a toy without having any regrets about wasting money.
Macs today don't seem to be very good for gaming. I was thinking of getting rid of my desktop Windows box and replacing it with a Mac, but then I remembered I do like to play Desert Combat once in awhile. My G3 iBook is pitifully underpowered for 95% of the games out there these days (even Civ III is dog slow on it), and after examining the recommended stats on the game boxes I came to realize that 90% of the new Macs out there are insufficient to even play these games! iMacs are out of the question due to the anemic graphics cards, and laptop CPUs are far too slow with only a paltry 1.5GHz G4 as the top end of the spectrum. Basically if you want to play even the most basic FPS games on a Mac it seems you need a $2000-$3000 dual processor G5 desktop with the very expensive Nvidia 6800 graphics card in it. The 5200 in the base models is too slow!
So disconnect them if they're consistently a problem. What's the big deal? Just use WPA with RADIUS and shut off their account.
Go over their house and ask them nicely to stop downloading all that porn during the day. Sheesh, don't you people ever friggin talk to your neighbors? This is great for communities of people that talk and hang out, not for those only interested in exploiting their neighbors as a customer base. It's basically a way to share an expensive ADSL or T1 line and have everyone chip in a bit to make it cheaper.
Speakeasy handles the billing and credits your account, you just provide the wireless setup. People need to read about Speakeasy's WiFi Netshare Program before assuming stuff.
It is sad that 99% of the users reading this just assume they'd be violating their ISP's AUP. I've been with Speakeasy so long I forgot that there are lame ISPs out there that do things like block ports and restrict sharing your connection. Sheesh. Speakeasy is by far the best ISP I've ever dealt with. Worth every penny.
No kidding. If I woke up and found a friggin Knoppix Games CD under the tree I'd burn the house down. Either give them an Xbox or PS2 or some Windows games like Half-Life 2 or don't even bother. Woo, I can play Tuxracer or Solitaire on my free Open source Linux boot disc!!! Thanks Dad you cheap motherfucker.
And what's the point? He spent 4 years building that and I can spend an hour building something for $3000 that will be a million times more powerful AND let me play Half-Life 2. Pffft.
Last time I checked I still had a free Netscape.com e-mail address... which is owned by AOL. So technically I have free webmail from AOL through Netscape already. Not that I ever used it, but I have a 250 meg quota there. Why in the hell would I want something@aol.com as my e-mail address? AOL is for losers.
Because ASUS paid OSDN to Slashvertise it's newest little gadget? Most of these little reviews are paid advertisements. Otherwise this would have been relegated to Tom's Hardware or some other hardware review site rather than Slashdot. Somebody got paid, article gets listed on the front page. No big deal. They gotta pay their bills somehow and it sure isn't through banner ads anymore.
Wait a minute, you're getting advertisements for Rolex Premium Replica Watches too? I thought I was just special. :-( Next thing you're going to tell me is that you get spam for Cialis too. I'm not exactly sure what Cialis is, but they sure want to sell it to me.
Because the members of the Chaos Computer Club are a bunch of hackers? They couldn't care less about the common good, they're just interested in exploiting whatever they can for their own self-interest. Read "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" or "The Cuckoo's Egg" to get an example of these wonderful CCC heroes in reality. They are thieves.
The problem with IE has always been ActiveX. It's insecure by design and has far more privileges than it should allowing those little browser helper objects (AKA Spyware) to install themselves with or without your permission.
Screw Linux, does it run MacOS X? No? I'll take an iBook over this piece of junk any day.
At work I've made it a point to NEVER put my work address down for anything. I just treat it like it doesn't exist, so I get very very little spam. The spam I get is mostly viruses through mailing lists and aliases. At home however I have used the same address since 1996 and I'm not about to change it now so I just rely on spamassassin to filter my mail. It catches about 99% of it. It's amazing how fast it comes in.
My client doesn't have that option. It's the official BitTorrent client. I'm wary of using other clients due to spyware issues.
No thanks, I'll take a nice mirror site over a slow BitTorrent download any day. I regularly get 600KB/sec over my ADSL line from most Linux mirror sites. The most I ever seem to get out of BitTorrent is 10KB-50KB/sec. After that my uplink is so clogged with leechers that it affects my entire DSL line performance. Latency shoots through the roof and my downloads are choked off. I'll take FTP or HTTP transfers anyday over that.
"Real" Americans are those that were born here or lived most of their life here. H1B Visa workers are carpet-baggers who came here because the prospects of employment in their own country was so shitty that they'd have to be a taxi driver or thug to pay the bills. If they want to become American citizens, FINE, I welcome you with open arms. If you want to just work here then go back to your own country after reaping the benefits of my great nation then fuck off.
So, in essence, Saddam was a pretty nice guy... riiiight. Before you go blaming The US for the situation, why don't you put the blame where it really belongs, the fucking insurgents setting off bombs every day while we're trying to help these people? It's rather difficult to restore order when you have a group of dissidents set on causing chaos to make the US look bad.
See? I knew somebody would bitch at me for something. Chill out. It's a Slashdot comment forum.. it's not like asking a stupid question uses up the last of the bits left in the world that could've went to something else like a new Linux kernel release. Sheesh. People practically jizz over iPods and what I really want to know is *why*. They are nifty gadgets, but there are dozens of similar products out there that are just as good, if not better. Quit buying shit because it's chic.