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The ones spouting that myth were Apple themselves. arstechnica.com explains it best:
"Apple also made it a point to reiterate their old bit about how, under certain circumstances with certain applications that certain Apple users often use, the G4 can sometimes be twice as fast as a PIII at the same MHz rating.
Give it up Apple, because not only are such statements both a) purposefully misleading and b) so vague as to not really mean much of anything, and not even the die-hards are buying it anymore.
Yeah, the MHz rating isn't all that matters, but it does really matter. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you a Mac."
Don't often get it but the Public Service in Canada has a standard.5 hours for every 4 hours on call status. If you get a call to come in you can claim another 2 hours.
This is to the best of my memory.
Everything has a cost. Just remember while they are trying to cheat you out of a few hundred bucks, they are probably flying to Spain first class to a conference. No one looks out for their best interests but themselves.
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As an owner of a red Mustang (98 GT) I resent that.
Now, if you meant the jerk in the red Cobra I'd
have to agree;-)
But it's going to be rock-solid when it comes out...
Linus said a similar thing just before he put the paper bag over his head. Seriously, no software is going to be released rock-solid. Linux is getting very complicated.
The only thing you can hope for is all the major show-stopping stuff cleaned. The little bugs found later can and will be patched as required.
Yes, the story is about Sega being a bully. Fine, maybe they are but they are trying to protect their rights from pretty obvious piracy - whether ISONews is the one to attack I don't care. We don't need Taco's idiotic comments pasted on pushing his agenda.
Something better" did come out - look for something called MP3 when you get your head back out...
Where do you get.mp3s from genius? Apart from their lousy fidelity, not too many people own mp3 home or car players. I rip my mp3 songs from MY CDs. Owning CD's is still a far better distribution methods then packing them into mp3 files and copying them to CDs.
And my point was it was 1997 and he STILL didn't have a CD Player. 10 years went by (He was 35 at the time).
CmdrTaco you are quickly become very annoying. Have you even USED a Dreamcast? People like to play good games and the Dreamcast has been dishing them out for a long time and at a good price.
When you tack your lame comments on stories you show yourself to be a very petty person.
Why wait 18 months to get bascially the same thing - and pay more for it.
This reminds me of my former roommate that didn't want to buy a CD player because "something better was coming". This was in 1997.
The light coming from the Sun is made up of many colors, each of which has a different wavelength. The atmosphere affects how each color of light passes through, as the light waves encounter molecules, small water droplets and bits of dust.
Blue light has a short wavelength, and the particles in the air scatter it around, making the sky appear blue. Red light has a longer wavelength, which acts more strongly and is not scattered as much.
Sunsets are red because in the evening, the light has more atmosphere to pass through to get to your eye, and only the strong red light can make it through.
How could you be bought out unless you wanted to sell? Nullsoft was just a couple of guys writing an mp3 player. AOL gave them millions of dollars (my understanding) for it. Personally, I don't see why he just doesn't walk away. Does AOL own Nullsoft/Winamp or do they own Frankel?
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That's the most foolish thing I've ever heard. You ever drink coffee at work?
I bought a new home in June which I'll move into in a couple months. It comes with an product called IBM Home Director (model 2000 I think). It uses CAT5 cabling for voice/data jacks and can amplify a DBS signal.
I got 2 voice/data jacks and 1 coax in every room plus a few more here and there.
Yes there are. Every year a new crop of eligle consumers appears. There might of been an artificially high initial influx of sales to fill demand but there should be steady sales with the proper marketing.
IMHO if you are expecting record sales after this happens, you need a reality check.
Same reason people with VMS or COBOL make good money. Legacy support is sometimes cheaper than rewriting (probably most of the time).
Just because some summer student wrote a smalltalk app which now has to be supported by contractors doesn't mean anything. There are Clipper programs doing the same tasks.
I took 3 years of smalltalk in school and while I'll agree it was a cool concept for its time, it didn't teach people OO concepts any better than the alternatives.
I can understand why. I was in Carleton the first year they started teaching SmallTalk instead of Pascal. It was a really neat language but just not practical. Having had several years of programming experince before I started and seeing the newbies in class as well beginning their first programs they could of used any language.
I think they picked it because of the graphical interpreter. Remeber this was 1987/88 and except for LOGO there weren't too many languages that let you make pretty pictures easily. I really wished they taught basic C in first year and moved up from there.
Graduating with SmallTalk experience certainly isn't what an employer was looking for when I graduated in 1992 and never changed since.
Of course you can still use a boot disk. ME is just stopping people from being able to use autoexec.bat/config.sys during startup.
Stop worring, 90% of the info being posted here is FUD.
I've used the beta. It's basically Windows 98 3rd edition. With the hack out there to uninstall media player 7 and replace it with 6.4, I might actually use it.
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The ones spouting that myth were Apple themselves.
arstechnica.com explains it best:
"Apple also made it a point to reiterate their old bit about how, under certain circumstances with certain applications that certain Apple users often use, the G4 can sometimes be twice as fast as a PIII at the same MHz rating.
Give it up Apple, because not only are such statements both
a) purposefully misleading and
b) so vague as to not really mean much of anything, and not even the die-hards are buying it anymore.
Yeah, the MHz rating isn't all that matters, but it does really matter. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you a Mac."
My Dell Inspiron 3800 runs close to 4 hours on a charge and that's with the drive running a fair bit.
Don't often get it but the Public Service in Canada has a standard .5 hours for every 4 hours on call status. If you get a call to come in you can claim another 2 hours.
This is to the best of my memory.
Everything has a cost. Just remember while they are trying to cheat you out of a few hundred bucks, they are probably flying to Spain first class to a conference. No one looks out for their best interests but themselves.
As an owner of a red Mustang (98 GT) I resent that.
;-)
Now, if you meant the jerk in the red Cobra I'd have to agree
Someone got +5 for reposting the FAQ in the Mojo Nation story. Guess he was giving it his best shot.
But it's going to be rock-solid when it comes out...
Linus said a similar thing just before he put the paper bag over his head. Seriously, no software is going to be released rock-solid. Linux is getting very complicated.
The only thing you can hope for is all the major show-stopping stuff cleaned. The little bugs found later can and will be patched as required.
Buffets are very expensive to run. You have to have all your food types prepared hoping someone will come and eat it all. There is a lot of waste too.
If its a good buffet it will do well, if it stinks it will go out of business. Same with an ISP.
You ever played Force Commander? (not sure if the author was joking or not)
Very specious argument you have there.
10 years went by since 1997 and I missed 7 of them! What happened?
Not clear enough? Let me dumb it down.
In 1997 he still had not bought a CD player because "something better will come out."
He had been waiting 10 years at that point in time.
Yes, the story is about Sega being a bully. Fine, maybe they are but they are trying to protect their rights from pretty obvious piracy - whether ISONews is the one to attack I don't care. We don't need Taco's idiotic comments pasted on pushing his agenda.
.mp3s from genius? Apart from their lousy fidelity, not too many people own mp3 home or car players. I rip my mp3 songs from MY CDs. Owning CD's is still a far better distribution methods then packing them into mp3 files and copying them to CDs.
Something better" did come out - look for something called MP3 when you get your head back out...
Where do you get
And my point was it was 1997 and he STILL didn't have a CD Player. 10 years went by (He was 35 at the time).
You think the earth is flat too?
Please go to a science section in a book store and educate yourself.
CmdrTaco you are quickly become very annoying. Have you even USED a Dreamcast? People like to play good games and the Dreamcast has been dishing them out for a long time and at a good price.
When you tack your lame comments on stories you show yourself to be a very petty person.
Why wait 18 months to get bascially the same thing - and pay more for it.
This reminds me of my former roommate that didn't want to buy a CD player because "something better was coming". This was in 1997.
>why is the sky blue?
The light coming from the Sun is made up of many colors, each of which has a different wavelength. The atmosphere affects how each color of light passes through, as the light waves encounter molecules, small water droplets and bits of dust.
Blue light has a short wavelength, and the particles in the air scatter it around, making the sky appear blue. Red light has a longer wavelength, which acts more strongly and is not scattered as much.
Sunsets are red because in the evening, the light has more atmosphere to pass through to get to your eye, and only the strong red light can make it through.
They aren't fake. A little cheesy maybe but not fake. The Whistler beta is all over the 'net.
How could you be bought out unless you wanted to sell? Nullsoft was just a couple of guys writing an mp3 player. AOL gave them millions of dollars (my understanding) for it. Personally, I don't see why he just doesn't walk away. Does AOL own Nullsoft/Winamp or do they own Frankel?
That's the most foolish thing I've ever heard. You ever drink coffee at work?
I bought a new home in June which I'll move into in a couple months. It comes with an product called IBM Home Director (model 2000 I think). It uses CAT5 cabling for voice/data jacks and can amplify a DBS signal.
I got 2 voice/data jacks and 1 coax in every room plus a few more here and there.
Finally be able to setup my dream network...
Yes there are. Every year a new crop of eligle consumers appears. There might of been an artificially high initial influx of sales to fill demand but there should be steady sales with the proper marketing.
IMHO if you are expecting record sales after this happens, you need a reality check.
I like "We're de dot in .de"
Same reason people with VMS or COBOL make good money. Legacy support is sometimes cheaper than rewriting (probably most of the time). Just because some summer student wrote a smalltalk app which now has to be supported by contractors doesn't mean anything. There are Clipper programs doing the same tasks.
I took 3 years of smalltalk in school and while I'll agree it was a cool concept for its time, it didn't teach people OO concepts any better than the alternatives.
How much of this is attributed to improved Java implemenations vs faster CPU.
In other words, has it really improved _that_ much or is it hiding behind quick cycles.
I can understand why. I was in Carleton the first year they started teaching SmallTalk instead of Pascal. It was a really neat language but just not practical. Having had several years of programming experince before I started and seeing the newbies in class as well beginning their first programs they could of used any language.
I think they picked it because of the graphical interpreter. Remeber this was 1987/88 and except for LOGO there weren't too many languages that let you make pretty pictures easily. I really wished they taught basic C in first year and moved up from there.
Graduating with SmallTalk experience certainly isn't what an employer was looking for when I graduated in 1992 and never changed since.
Well, I meant that if you had a boot disk it would work; I see your point about MAKING a boot disk via ME. Haven't actually tried that myself.
Dell for example, makes their BIOS boot disks bootable. Guess others will have to start too.
And anyway 'Newbie' and 'BIOS flashing' probably should be used in the same sentence.
Of course you can still use a boot disk. ME is just stopping people from being able to use autoexec.bat/config.sys during startup.
Stop worring, 90% of the info being posted here is FUD. I've used the beta. It's basically Windows 98 3rd edition. With the hack out there to uninstall media player 7 and replace it with 6.4, I might actually use it.