the current price on:
AMD Athlon 1GHz 3DNow @ $415
AMD Thunderbird 1.1GHz @ $645
AMD Thunderbird 1GHz @ $406
This compares with Intel's:
Pentium III 1GHz @ $699
If the prices drop any lower, I definatly know which processor company I'll be using next. I just hope that we'll see Dual-Processor configurations soon.
I don't know.. i think this is an interesting product.
Let's say I was a musician, who owned a laptop, and I liked to develop music on the road. I could bring the laptop back to the stuido and dump all of the huge music files back to the PC.
Let's say I was a graphic designer, and I needed a CDRW, a Zip Disk, and a lot of hard drive space. This would be great.
Let's say I was cool liek Jeffk and I carried my laptop around, plugged it into other people's phone lines and stole important information. Well I wouldn't want to keep that data unencrypted on my laptop. I could keep that thing hidden somewhere and all the data encrypted on it.
Why don't you just get a VisorPhone, sure you'll have to wait for a little while, until it is released. On the plus side, you can use it as a Phone, Pager and PDA.
I used to carry a Palm V and Nokia Phone. I got rid of the Palm V, because I was paying more attention to it, than to the world around me.
Though the features of the VisorPhone are really cool:
address book
speed dial
dial pad
call history
3-way calling
call waiting
text messages via SMS
free headset
i think when i get a new phone, i'll definatly have to consider this one.
I started with Cyrix, on MY first PC. It was a 386SuX 16MhZ.
Since then, I have been using AMD, Cyrix, and Intel processors. Lately, I have two Intel boxes, mainly because I found Dual CPU boards for fairly low prices.
Now checking out prices, I think my next purchase will definiatly have to be AMD. I just checked the pricewatch.com site:
Maybe if this gets read by people at the company I work for, I'll get fired. Though I am not sure I really care.
I am leaving the company name out, if you know phiber optic carriers, you'll know who I'm talking about.
I am only including real first names of some of my (x)co-workers.
(if you guys are reading this, sorry if you didn't want me to use real names)
_BEGIN RANT_
I work for a large phiber optic carrier in Northern Virginia.
I was originally hired by the company as a Perl Programmer / Web Developer, under the title of Engineer II.
*Everything was going well, until*
A few weeks pass, my then, current, awesome manager, Nicole, quit, due to some management changes. A few weeks after that a DBA in my department quit. A few weeks after that, the SysAdmin, Nate, (who's claim to fame is not knowing Windows) quit.
At this point I was introduced to my new manager, a highlevel project manager, who worked in the Ohio and Texas offices. I had a short meeting with him, where he asked me if I'd move to Ohio or Texas. I bluntly said, "NO", then I said, "No, wait, I'll move to Ohio for $500/yr an Texas for $250/year. You see, I have no friends nor family there, so you'd be paying me to stare at the walls in my house for long periods of time." (no offence to anyone that lives in these states, they're just not right for me).
Anyway, he said that that probably could not be done. A week after that, my other SysAdmin went back to school. Well, that was my entire department.
I waited around a bit, then was notified that the project is turning into HTML/ASP. Well I'm not really into learning ASP, but I told the manager that, "I would be happy to take some ASP/SQL/IIS classes."
I didn't hear back from him for about a week, mind you that during this time, I didn't hear from anyone. At this point, I am wondering if I still had a job, or they were pulling an Office Space move. I continued receiving my paycheck, so I guess I was still employed.
When I did hear back, the message I received was:
So, do you want to move to Ohio or Texas?
I replied that I was still not interested, when can I get that training. A while passes, and I receive an e-mail, on a Tuesday, the message was dated Monday 12-noon. Unfortunatly, I was sick on Monday. The message announced a meeting at 5pm.
Who the hell schedules a meeting at 5pm, and sends out announcements at noon?
Well that's the last I heard of this manager for a few more weeks. Then he e-mails me again stating:
You can get training if you move to Ohio or Texas.
What the fuck is that?
I don't e-mail back, I post my resume on Monster and Dice, again.
Shortly there after, there was a promotion of one of the people in the building, to Director (Chris, you rock). He asked me if I'd be interested in working for him. I said that I don't know how I feel about the company at this point, so I'll consider his offer.
Recently, I start getting harassing e-mails stating that I am on the "Hot List" for people not doing ABT time sheets. I had actually asked for support doing the time sheets, to no avail.
The next e-mail I get is:
Where are your ABT time sheets?
I need to make arangements for you to move to Austin, please e-mail me.
At this point, I have come to the concusion that this guy is the biggest asshole I've ever met.
I e-mail back:
I am not interested in moving to Ohio or Texas, unless you have accepted the salary terms which we discussed. I feel quite abused by your constance insistance of me moving to Ohio or Texas, I have never been treated so unprofessionally, in my life.
That was today.
I'll go in late tomorrow, and see if I'm fired.
If I am, I'll go talk to my lawyer.
So I hung out there for 2 months, with nothing to do, I have been talking to several recruiters and doing some interviewing. I am very picky as to where I work, so I have not found something yet.
Maybe I'll work for the other manager, maybe not.
_END RANT_
If you, my manager are reading this...
I hope this isn't entirly too unprofessional, but "FUCK YOU!!"
Wow, that's about as annoying as the:
Today's Features...at Netscape.com
I am required to download, when I open Netscape messenger.
Every once in awhile, I think to myself.. why don't I switch to Outlook. Strangly enough everytime I start to think that, I come over to SlashDot in time to read about another Crappy feature or Macro Virus.
Exerpt:
IN TWO SURPRISING RECENT CASES, A LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR AND A CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SEEK TO REVOKE THE CHARTERS OF CORPORATE LAWBREAKERS.
We know what the death penalty for individuals means: Commit an egregious crime, die at the hands of the state. What does it mean to talk about the "death penalty" for corporations? Simply this: Commit an egregious wrong and have your charter revoked. In other words, lose the state's permission to exist. It's an intriguing concept, because most of us never think about corporations needing anyone's permission to exist. But they do.
I am not amazed to see the government funnelling funds directly to companies.
Isn't the United States run by company pay-offs from CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Apple, Nike, Christler, Warner Brothers, GE, MTV, MacDonalds, IBM, Bell, Compaq, United Airlines, NBC, etc, etc, etc!?!
These companies are probably tired of paying off the US, they want some cash back.
Shit, I gotta go, I hear some hired goons knocking on my door.
Oh yes, you are right, i must have eaten that pound of LSD before driving that day. The car actually can reach a top speed of 3 mph, unless you h4kz0r the.. uh.. yeah..
I have driven a wide range of cars 3 cylinders to 8 cylinders, this car does have great pick-up.
I guess compared to a porsche or other small genitalla car, it sucks, but what can we do?
I'm an Insight owner, in Northern Virginia. I purchased the car in April.
It is the best car I have ever owned, out of 5 cars total.
My current miles per gallon is 50, I drive primarly in Surburbia, with a little on the highway, and even less in D.C. The car has a 10.8 gallon tank, so I fill-up about every 2 weeks. Other owners have gotten over 72 MPG, depending on traffic, driving conditions, speed, etc.
The car has great pickup, I can peel-out with no problem. I can even get it to peel-out in second sometimes. My max speed is about 95, though others report the car's max speed is 133.
I am about 6 feet tall, the car is comfortable, I think it would be comfortable for taller people also.
I paid about $23k for mine, 9.5% interest financed through the dealer (I will be changing to a credit union soon).
My Insight is #453, I'm hoping to sell it as a collectable in 5 years, after my warrenty is up:)
I recently purchased a Honda Insight, from Fairfax Honda, Fairfax, Virginia. Don't buy anything from them.
The Insight is the first Hybrid vehicle released in the U.S.
The car has a 3-cylindar VTEC engine, with motor assist, for accelerating. It has regenerative braking, to charge the battery.
I never need to plug it in, and I fill the gas tank every 2 weeks. Milage listed by Honda is 61 City 72 Highway! I get about 50, but other owners have gotten up to 80.
I would find a device that jams police RADAR much more effective, though having a microwave dish attached to the front or top of my car would make me an obvious target.
..No officer, I was trying to download my e-mail...
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per PriceWatch.com
the current price on:
AMD Athlon 1GHz 3DNow @ $415
AMD Thunderbird 1.1GHz @ $645
AMD Thunderbird 1GHz @ $406
This compares with Intel's:
Pentium III 1GHz @ $699
If the prices drop any lower, I definatly know which processor company I'll be using next. I just hope that we'll see Dual-Processor configurations soon.
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you are not what you own
I don't know .. i think this is an interesting product.
Let's say I was a musician, who owned a laptop, and I liked to develop music on the road. I could bring the laptop back to the stuido and dump all of the huge music files back to the PC.
Let's say I was a graphic designer, and I needed a CDRW, a Zip Disk, and a lot of hard drive space. This would be great.
Let's say I was cool liek Jeffk and I carried my laptop around, plugged it into other people's phone lines and stole important information. Well I wouldn't want to keep that data unencrypted on my laptop. I could keep that thing hidden somewhere and all the data encrypted on it.
Just a thought
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you are not what you own
I'll pay $1000 for Windows...
.. my karma .. falling .. falling .. must click .. Post Anonymously .. oops..
If Bill Gates will give me a rimjob.
I see
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you are not what you own
I used to carry a Palm V and Nokia Phone. I got rid of the Palm V, because I was paying more attention to it, than to the world around me.
Though the features of the VisorPhone are really cool:
i think when i get a new phone, i'll definatly have to consider this one.
http://www.handspring.com/products/visorphone/ind
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you are not what you own
I started with Cyrix, on MY first PC. It was a 386SuX 16MhZ.
Since then, I have been using AMD, Cyrix, and Intel processors. Lately, I have two Intel boxes, mainly because I found Dual CPU boards for fairly low prices.
Now checking out prices, I think my next purchase will definiatly have to be AMD. I just checked the pricewatch.com site:
AMD - ATHLON - 1GhZ - $444
AMD - THUNDERBIRD - 1GhZ - $442
INTEL - Pentium III - 1GhZ - $719
This seems a bit odd to me, why would I want to pay a tariff of about 61% on a chip that has been rated poorly by many reviewers?
My other option, if I am going to buy at the Top-of-the-Line, is to buy an AMD 1.1 GhZ for about $60 less than Intel's 1GhZ processor.
The only advantage to buying Intel is Dual-CPU support. Though if I am not running a server, there's not much point in that.
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you are not what you own
Maybe if this gets read by people at the company I work for, I'll get fired. Though I am not sure I really care.
I am leaving the company name out, if you know phiber optic carriers, you'll know who I'm talking about.
I am only including real first names of some of my (x)co-workers.
(if you guys are reading this, sorry if you didn't want me to use real names)
_BEGIN RANT_
I work for a large phiber optic carrier in Northern Virginia.
I was originally hired by the company as a Perl Programmer / Web Developer, under the title of Engineer II.
*Everything was going well, until*
A few weeks pass, my then, current, awesome manager, Nicole, quit, due to some management changes. A few weeks after that a DBA in my department quit. A few weeks after that, the SysAdmin, Nate, (who's claim to fame is not knowing Windows) quit.
At this point I was introduced to my new manager, a highlevel project manager, who worked in the Ohio and Texas offices. I had a short meeting with him, where he asked me if I'd move to Ohio or Texas. I bluntly said, "NO", then I said, "No, wait, I'll move to Ohio for $500/yr an Texas for $250/year. You see, I have no friends nor family there, so you'd be paying me to stare at the walls in my house for long periods of time." (no offence to anyone that lives in these states, they're just not right for me).
Anyway, he said that that probably could not be done. A week after that, my other SysAdmin went back to school. Well, that was my entire department.
I waited around a bit, then was notified that the project is turning into HTML/ASP. Well I'm not really into learning ASP, but I told the manager that, "I would be happy to take some ASP/SQL/IIS classes."
I didn't hear back from him for about a week, mind you that during this time, I didn't hear from anyone. At this point, I am wondering if I still had a job, or they were pulling an Office Space move. I continued receiving my paycheck, so I guess I was still employed.
When I did hear back, the message I received was:
So, do you want to move to Ohio or Texas?
I replied that I was still not interested, when can I get that training. A while passes, and I receive an e-mail, on a Tuesday, the message was dated Monday 12-noon. Unfortunatly, I was sick on Monday. The message announced a meeting at 5pm.
Who the hell schedules a meeting at 5pm, and sends out announcements at noon?
Well that's the last I heard of this manager for a few more weeks. Then he e-mails me again stating:
You can get training if you move to Ohio or Texas.
What the fuck is that?
I don't e-mail back, I post my resume on Monster and Dice, again.
Shortly there after, there was a promotion of one of the people in the building, to Director (Chris, you rock). He asked me if I'd be interested in working for him. I said that I don't know how I feel about the company at this point, so I'll consider his offer.
Recently, I start getting harassing e-mails stating that I am on the "Hot List" for people not doing ABT time sheets. I had actually asked for support doing the time sheets, to no avail.
The next e-mail I get is:
Where are your ABT time sheets?
I need to make arangements for you to move to Austin, please e-mail me.
At this point, I have come to the concusion that this guy is the biggest asshole I've ever met.
I e-mail back:
I am not interested in moving to Ohio or Texas, unless you have accepted the salary terms which we discussed. I feel quite abused by your constance insistance of me moving to Ohio or Texas, I have never been treated so unprofessionally, in my life.
That was today.
I'll go in late tomorrow, and see if I'm fired.
If I am, I'll go talk to my lawyer.
So I hung out there for 2 months, with nothing to do, I have been talking to several recruiters and doing some interviewing. I am very picky as to where I work, so I have not found something yet.
Maybe I'll work for the other manager, maybe not.
_END RANT_
If you, my manager are reading this...
I hope this isn't entirly too unprofessional, but "FUCK YOU!!"
--
you are not what you own
Wow, that's about as annoying as the:
.. why don't I switch to Outlook. Strangly enough everytime I start to think that, I come over to SlashDot in time to read about another Crappy feature or Macro Virus.
Today's Features...at Netscape.com
I am required to download, when I open Netscape messenger.
Every once in awhile, I think to myself
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you are not what you own
I remember reading awhile ago that NASA paid $600 for a toilet seat. According to several sites, one can get a normal toilet seat for $10.
:)
That's a 60:1 ratio.
I think the average laptop cost is $2500, using the same ratio, NASA would be paying $150,000 for each of these laptops.
Though they probably paid more
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you are not what you own
I wanted to refer you all to a very moving article posted on Adbusters , about Death Penalties for Corporations.
DEATH PENALTY FOR CORPORATIONS COME OF AGE,
by Russell Mokhiber
Exerpt:
IN TWO SURPRISING RECENT CASES, A LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR AND A CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SEEK TO REVOKE THE CHARTERS OF CORPORATE LAWBREAKERS.
We know what the death penalty for individuals means: Commit an egregious crime, die at the hands of the state. What does it mean to talk about the "death penalty" for corporations? Simply this: Commit an egregious wrong and have your charter revoked. In other words, lose the state's permission to exist. It's an intriguing concept, because most of us never think about corporations needing anyone's permission to exist. But they do.
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you are not what you own
I wonder where I can get my hands on the drugs that they feed the people at NASA...
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you are not what you own
This is just silly, isn't there enough of a problem with people driving with their cellphones?
Yes, officer, I was driving down the road, and this guy just rode his bike out infront of me. I think he was playing minesweeper or solitare.
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you are not what you own
I find that the number of IT Professionals is inversly proportional to my current pay rate.
Just a thought.
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you are not what you own
What's a "stop option"?
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you are not what you own
I noticed this quote on the bottom of SlashDot tonight. I didn't notice it before, though I wonder if it is about Katz.
He is considered a most graceful speaker who can say nothing in the most words.
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you are not what you own
I am not amazed to see the government funnelling funds directly to companies.
Isn't the United States run by company pay-offs from CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Apple, Nike, Christler, Warner Brothers, GE, MTV, MacDonalds, IBM, Bell, Compaq, United Airlines, NBC, etc, etc, etc!?!
These companies are probably tired of paying off the US, they want some cash back.
Shit, I gotta go, I hear some hired goons knocking on my door.
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you are not what you own
Microsoft has 666 applications right?
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you are not what you own
The Times was probably paid-off by DVD, or owned by the same company that owns the patent on DVD.
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I wonder if they are going to do this for Adult Oriented Groups.
They could have a link to a page with a little picture of a strap-on, whith some customer reviews!
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Oh yes, you are right, i must have eaten that pound of LSD before driving that day. The car actually can reach a top speed of 3 mph, unless you h4kz0r the .. uh .. yeah ..
I have driven a wide range of cars 3 cylinders to 8 cylinders, this car does have great pick-up.
I guess compared to a porsche or other small genitalla car, it sucks, but what can we do?
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I'm an Insight owner, in Northern Virginia. I purchased the car in April.
:)
It is the best car I have ever owned, out of 5 cars total.
My current miles per gallon is 50, I drive primarly in Surburbia, with a little on the highway, and even less in D.C. The car has a 10.8 gallon tank, so I fill-up about every 2 weeks. Other owners have gotten over 72 MPG, depending on traffic, driving conditions, speed, etc.
The car has great pickup, I can peel-out with no problem. I can even get it to peel-out in second sometimes. My max speed is about 95, though others report the car's max speed is 133.
I am about 6 feet tall, the car is comfortable, I think it would be comfortable for taller people also.
I paid about $23k for mine, 9.5% interest financed through the dealer (I will be changing to a credit union soon).
My Insight is #453, I'm hoping to sell it as a collectable in 5 years, after my warrenty is up
More info:
Honda Insight eGroups
insightman
Insight Central
Honda
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I agree with your comments!
My mommy says she drives this big truck, and gets 5 mpg, so the planet will be totally wrecked by the time i'm 21. Now i know she really loves me.
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I recently purchased a Honda Insight, from Fairfax Honda, Fairfax, Virginia. Don't buy anything from them.
The Insight is the first Hybrid vehicle released in the U.S.
The car has a 3-cylindar VTEC engine, with motor assist, for accelerating. It has regenerative braking, to charge the battery.
I never need to plug it in, and I fill the gas tank every 2 weeks. Milage listed by Honda is 61 City 72 Highway! I get about 50, but other owners have gotten up to 80.
More info:
http://www.honda2000.com/insight
http://www.insightman.com
http://www.insightcentral.com/
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I was disapointed, I couldn't find any screen shots of the Blue Screen of Death.
I also like the Pocket PC Features, where when you click on one of the Features, you get to a blank page.
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I would find a device that jams police RADAR much more effective, though having a microwave dish attached to the front or top of my car would make me an obvious target.
..No officer, I was trying to download my e-mail...
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A PC Card Slot would be convenient, wouldn't take up too much room, and you could have that Ethernet or well .. whatever you want :)
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