Re:Just tried to swap the ram and cpu in my nt box
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Your point is certainly well made. I guess I probably am just conditioned to not try this type of stuff. Nor will I at any point in the near future. I'll believe it works when I see a few people besides myself actually do this without severely f'ing something up.
I can't be sure where you are driving, but everytime I have ever had to stop for an accident, it was caused by some lame driver who didn't bother looking both ways, or some other detrimental case of stupidity. And what always makes matters worse is when the other concerned fools on the road STOP to see if they can figure out what is going on, instead of driving past and going on about their business. Please leave the speeders alone. They aren't hurting anyone, so long as they maintain a safe posture while doing so (IE not riding someone's bumper, weaving violently in and out of cars, etc...)
Sure, and as soon as you have a clone, it becomes mandatory that a chip be implanted in your hand so that you can be positively identified. You can't win this one. The entire modern legal system relies on the ability to positively be identified. No silly clone is gonna stop the man.
Re:Makes you kind of sick in your stomach...
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Guilty until proven innocent is the first mark of totalitarianism. That is what our society is really going to. Just ask anyone who has ever served in the military if they are innocent until proven guilty. Yeah true, they would still be American citizens, but with a distinct lack of certain rights that all citizens are guaranteed. The difference between today's Democratic USA and totalitarianism is really is just a matter of degree. We are well on our way down that track now. And it seems to me that people will continue to gladly give these rights away in the name of "protecting the children". I am beginning to feel nauseas.
How effective is this system against someone walking into the sports event with their face done up like a player from their favorite team? Once again, as is usually the case with Big Brother type schemes, this won't affect anyone who really wants to commit a crime, especially now that the cat is out of the bag. No, at this point, it will only serve the same purpose as every other invasion of privacy that has been set in place to protect us from ourselves. And the end result is always a loss of rights for the individual. And more power to the Men in Black. People will never learn. Not until they have taken all of our rights away. As someone else already said, the death of a thousand slices.
Either this guy is a complete fool, or he was entirely misunderstood. An OS doesn't get in the way of the applications, it facilitates them. It makes it so the application doesn't need to know how to draw every single pixel on the screen to accomplish its task. And really, the last thing I need is more keys on my keyboard. Single click access is certainly not a revolutionary concept. Taking away what people know and giving them an entirely new way of doing things is a flawed idea in itself, getting in the way of progress in precisely the manner which the gentleman seems to think is such a bad idea.
Sounds to me like you really just aren't reading what the folks here on Slashdot are telling you. So what if Windows is in your mind, the better OS of the day. The point is that Linux can only get better. And it simply cannot be competed out of existence for lack of market share. It will get better. There is no denying this. Sure, it isn't friendly enough for my mother to use it all by herself today, but it is just fine for my wife because today she has someone who knows how to help her when there is a problem. If you truly believe that Linux is doomed when Whistler comes out, then you really aren't walking around with both eyes open. Noone said it would happen over night. Noone said it would be easy. But it just might happen at night. And it will happen some day. Regular people want it without even being told that they are supposed to want it. That speaks volumes all by itself. If you want an example of what MS is capable of defeating, take a look towards BeOS. MS may win the battle, but forget about Linux losing the war.
Re:Just tried to swap the ram and cpu in my nt box
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Yeah, that was my biggest question with the whole article. Seriously, Microsoft's solution to instability is "Throw more hardware at it." By doing this, we end up with machines with dedicated purposes and clusters of servers performing one task. They don't plan for "hot swapping" anything. Furthermore, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an admin who gives a shit about their job saying "Nah, we don't need to shut the power down on this $400,000 server to change that bank of RAM, let's just pull that bugger out of there." Yeah, right. And if the hard drive goes bad in your RAID five array, just pull the old drive out and put the new one in! Maybe it's just me, but I sure don't have the guts to try it. I think I can manage a couple of minutes of down time...
Actually, it is possible to run the Intel SpeedStep processor at full clock speed while on battery power. It just eats the battery up faster. You can accomplish this through the java based application in my system tray or by the bios, in which you can disable speedstep entirely.
Re:Fluffy article - memory management?
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Glad I'm not the only one who thought that article was a waste of the lumens required to read it.
Re:stupid reviewer, learn to speel!
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Seriously, that is one of the least informative articles I have ever read from a link on slashdot. The benchmarks were by far the least informative piece of the entire article.
Where is your data to back this claim up? If you ask me, I would suspect it would become more dangerous as the private industry tries to cut more corners.
"Apple, of course, was desperate. In 1996, its own operating system strategy was in chaos after the failure of Copland. Apple needed a true multi-tasking, multi-threaded OS to replace MacOS. The company couldn't reach an agreement with Be Inc over its BeOS system, so bought NeXT instead."
Look where all of this got BeOS... Instead of making a deal with Apple, they went out of the OS business entirely and into the only market left they hoped to find viability, internet appliances. I can't think of a more lame ending to such a sad story as BeOS. "The OS that dares to be." Right...
You know, it is getting on my last nerve the whole situation with NVidia's drivers. If you are going to provide support for something, don't do it half-assed! If you are not going to support something, say you aren't going to support something, and let someone else do the job by providing proper documentation! As much as I like their cards, I am really starting to dislike this company.
I think the whole question is good discussion, but its basis in logic is just silly. If someone actually cares deeply enough to ask such a question, they really ought to be thinking about what they can do - IE, their part, to make things more pleasant to what they consider "utopia". If you feel something is wrong with how the system works, then join an organization who feels the same way you do. Talk to your own network of friends and help them to "understand" the problem as you perceive it. Being proactive in your community and your government is the sign of a true patriot(or a true manipulator, but we'll focus on the aforementioned). Instead of always complaining about how bad things are getting, instead try to focus on how good things can be with some work. Freedom is never free. No matter how you define freedom, it is never free. Never forget that. And if you live in a country where being proactive is "frowned upon", then perhaps this itself is something to focus on. Or if you simply "don't have enough time to do anything about it..." then stop complaining. You don't really care enough anyhow. It really is all in your perspective. And that really is how I see it.
I would recommend a DC to DC converter. Perhaps a simple resistive voltage shunt? You should be able to find the plugs you'll need at Radio Shack. You could also probably build a simple circuit to interface your controls to the serial port. All depends on how much you want to spend on this little project. (time and money)
Suppose your creations were made vectorally, as is done in Adobe Illustrator, or other products. They could simply shrink what they are looking at to the size of their liking, with no loss of quality. Of course, vector graphics are not a one size fits all solution, such is the reason for products like photoshop... But they do go a long way towards satisfying your argument of size concerns.
Main problem I have found with the binary only drivers for geforce 2 is that I can only get it to work with a 2.2.16 kernel. If I try ANYTHING else, I have problems... So far, toying with a 2.4 kernel with the binary drivers isn't even an option for me. This is the biggest problem I can think of. If Nvidia only wants to release binary drivers, then they need to get with the freakin' program! I am hoping that they are just waiting for a stable 2.4 release kernel before recompiling a new binary, but I suspect that isn't the case.
From what I gathered of the other article (New Science or something like that?), the reason the satellites are still operational had nothing to do with Motorola being good fellas for the scientists' $72 million, but rather the fact they had a contractual obligation to fulfill with the DOD. Motorola certainly does not wish to upset one of their largest customers. When that contract is over, if there isn't someone else to pick up the ball, they probably will drop the satellites into the ocean.
I find it very interesting how seriously Dell appears to be taking the Linux crowd as of late. I think that slower sales are part of the motivation, but also the thought of having to deal with the likes of IBM taking away some of their market share is also a concern. At any rate, whether it is purely by choice or by shove, I am glad to see a good hardware vendor move on over to help out the Linux community.
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Your point is certainly well made. I guess I probably am just conditioned to not try this type of stuff. Nor will I at any point in the near future. I'll believe it works when I see a few people besides myself actually do this without severely f'ing something up.
the article states there is a choice between k6-II 500 and pentium 500.
I can't be sure where you are driving, but everytime I have ever had to stop for an accident, it was caused by some lame driver who didn't bother looking both ways, or some other detrimental case of stupidity. And what always makes matters worse is when the other concerned fools on the road STOP to see if they can figure out what is going on, instead of driving past and going on about their business. Please leave the speeders alone. They aren't hurting anyone, so long as they maintain a safe posture while doing so (IE not riding someone's bumper, weaving violently in and out of cars, etc...)
Sure, and as soon as you have a clone, it becomes mandatory that a chip be implanted in your hand so that you can be positively identified. You can't win this one. The entire modern legal system relies on the ability to positively be identified. No silly clone is gonna stop the man.
Guilty until proven innocent is the first mark of totalitarianism. That is what our society is really going to. Just ask anyone who has ever served in the military if they are innocent until proven guilty. Yeah true, they would still be American citizens, but with a distinct lack of certain rights that all citizens are guaranteed. The difference between today's Democratic USA and totalitarianism is really is just a matter of degree. We are well on our way down that track now. And it seems to me that people will continue to gladly give these rights away in the name of "protecting the children". I am beginning to feel nauseas.
How effective is this system against someone walking into the sports event with their face done up like a player from their favorite team? Once again, as is usually the case with Big Brother type schemes, this won't affect anyone who really wants to commit a crime, especially now that the cat is out of the bag. No, at this point, it will only serve the same purpose as every other invasion of privacy that has been set in place to protect us from ourselves. And the end result is always a loss of rights for the individual. And more power to the Men in Black. People will never learn. Not until they have taken all of our rights away. As someone else already said, the death of a thousand slices.
Either this guy is a complete fool, or he was entirely misunderstood. An OS doesn't get in the way of the applications, it facilitates them. It makes it so the application doesn't need to know how to draw every single pixel on the screen to accomplish its task. And really, the last thing I need is more keys on my keyboard. Single click access is certainly not a revolutionary concept. Taking away what people know and giving them an entirely new way of doing things is a flawed idea in itself, getting in the way of progress in precisely the manner which the gentleman seems to think is such a bad idea.
Sounds to me like you really just aren't reading what the folks here on Slashdot are telling you. So what if Windows is in your mind, the better OS of the day. The point is that Linux can only get better. And it simply cannot be competed out of existence for lack of market share. It will get better. There is no denying this. Sure, it isn't friendly enough for my mother to use it all by herself today, but it is just fine for my wife because today she has someone who knows how to help her when there is a problem. If you truly believe that Linux is doomed when Whistler comes out, then you really aren't walking around with both eyes open. Noone said it would happen over night. Noone said it would be easy. But it just might happen at night. And it will happen some day. Regular people want it without even being told that they are supposed to want it. That speaks volumes all by itself. If you want an example of what MS is capable of defeating, take a look towards BeOS. MS may win the battle, but forget about Linux losing the war.
Yeah, that was my biggest question with the whole article. Seriously, Microsoft's solution to instability is "Throw more hardware at it." By doing this, we end up with machines with dedicated purposes and clusters of servers performing one task. They don't plan for "hot swapping" anything. Furthermore, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an admin who gives a shit about their job saying "Nah, we don't need to shut the power down on this $400,000 server to change that bank of RAM, let's just pull that bugger out of there." Yeah, right. And if the hard drive goes bad in your RAID five array, just pull the old drive out and put the new one in! Maybe it's just me, but I sure don't have the guts to try it. I think I can manage a couple of minutes of down time...
Actually, it is possible to run the Intel SpeedStep processor at full clock speed while on battery power. It just eats the battery up faster. You can accomplish this through the java based application in my system tray or by the bios, in which you can disable speedstep entirely.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that article was a waste of the lumens required to read it.
Seriously, that is one of the least informative articles I have ever read from a link on slashdot. The benchmarks were by far the least informative piece of the entire article.
Where is your data to back this claim up? If you ask me, I would suspect it would become more dangerous as the private industry tries to cut more corners.
"Apple, of course, was desperate. In 1996, its own operating system strategy was in chaos after the failure of Copland. Apple needed a true multi-tasking, multi-threaded OS to replace MacOS. The company couldn't reach an agreement with Be Inc over its BeOS system, so bought NeXT instead."
Look where all of this got BeOS... Instead of making a deal with Apple, they went out of the OS business entirely and into the only market left they hoped to find viability, internet appliances. I can't think of a more lame ending to such a sad story as BeOS. "The OS that dares to be." Right...
Don't ya wish you could convince people to unplug for a while?
I have seen figures as high as 99% for Windows piracy in all Asian countries.
Yeah, the FAQ mentions this, but you'd be hard pressed to get it to work with 2.3 on up. They just don't give a shit.
You know, it is getting on my last nerve the whole situation with NVidia's drivers. If you are going to provide support for something, don't do it half-assed! If you are not going to support something, say you aren't going to support something, and let someone else do the job by providing proper documentation! As much as I like their cards, I am really starting to dislike this company.
Couldn't agree more.
I think the whole question is good discussion, but its basis in logic is just silly. If someone actually cares deeply enough to ask such a question, they really ought to be thinking about what they can do - IE, their part, to make things more pleasant to what they consider "utopia". If you feel something is wrong with how the system works, then join an organization who feels the same way you do. Talk to your own network of friends and help them to "understand" the problem as you perceive it. Being proactive in your community and your government is the sign of a true patriot(or a true manipulator, but we'll focus on the aforementioned). Instead of always complaining about how bad things are getting, instead try to focus on how good things can be with some work. Freedom is never free. No matter how you define freedom, it is never free. Never forget that. And if you live in a country where being proactive is "frowned upon", then perhaps this itself is something to focus on. Or if you simply "don't have enough time to do anything about it..." then stop complaining. You don't really care enough anyhow. It really is all in your perspective. And that really is how I see it.
I would recommend a DC to DC converter. Perhaps a simple resistive voltage shunt? You should be able to find the plugs you'll need at Radio Shack. You could also probably build a simple circuit to interface your controls to the serial port. All depends on how much you want to spend on this little project. (time and money)
Suppose your creations were made vectorally, as is done in Adobe Illustrator, or other products. They could simply shrink what they are looking at to the size of their liking, with no loss of quality. Of course, vector graphics are not a one size fits all solution, such is the reason for products like photoshop... But they do go a long way towards satisfying your argument of size concerns.
Main problem I have found with the binary only drivers for geforce 2 is that I can only get it to work with a 2.2.16 kernel. If I try ANYTHING else, I have problems... So far, toying with a 2.4 kernel with the binary drivers isn't even an option for me. This is the biggest problem I can think of. If Nvidia only wants to release binary drivers, then they need to get with the freakin' program! I am hoping that they are just waiting for a stable 2.4 release kernel before recompiling a new binary, but I suspect that isn't the case.
From what I gathered of the other article (New Science or something like that?), the reason the satellites are still operational had nothing to do with Motorola being good fellas for the scientists' $72 million, but rather the fact they had a contractual obligation to fulfill with the DOD. Motorola certainly does not wish to upset one of their largest customers. When that contract is over, if there isn't someone else to pick up the ball, they probably will drop the satellites into the ocean.
I find it very interesting how seriously Dell appears to be taking the Linux crowd as of late. I think that slower sales are part of the motivation, but also the thought of having to deal with the likes of IBM taking away some of their market share is also a concern. At any rate, whether it is purely by choice or by shove, I am glad to see a good hardware vendor move on over to help out the Linux community.