We've had this conversation before (apparently to no avail). Anthropomorphizing machines, whether you choose to name the new document shredder in the next room or pine over a planetary research vehicle that is taking a licking and yet still kicking, only serves to marginalize the human element that put them where they are.
I'm pretty sure the rovers would disagree with you.
On the other hand, I haven't seen many politicans that I would call conservative. Seems like they love big government programs, spend like mad, wars of aggression, pork everywhere, dictating to their citizens what they can and cannot do, lots of new takes and fees, and stuff like that. They may lean to the right, but I wouldn't call the right conservative by any means.
Out of the box Xorg supports more video cards than Windows does. It also supports the use of generic drivers for standards compliant cards, such as VESA.
The thing is, when your card is not detected in Windows, it's pretty easy to fix. When it isn't detected on Linux, most users are not going to know how to fix it, especially when it involves something like hacking xorg.conf or compiling some beta driver someone wrote and installing it.
Overall though, geez... Quicktime player has been used in Windows since version 3.1, as a de-facto standard for playing multimedia files off CD. It's not exactly something Apple just "slapped together to say they had a Windows version".
Have you ever used Quicktime for Windows, as that's exactly what it looks like. Little to no effort was put into making Quicktime look and behave like a Windows application. Pretty much all of Apple's software for Windows looks and acts like it was just slapped together to get a Windows version out there.
I have an R60 with a DVD burner, and with the recovery disk maker, a DVD was not an option. Ended up burning something like 5 CDs instead. Though if I had to reload it, I would likely just a standard XP OEM CD with the number on the sticker rather than use the recovery disks.
You should have wandered over to where they sold external harddrives and looked to see how much the cheapest firewire capable model was. Not sure about firewire, but quite often you can find a cheap USB accessory like a hub or a card reader that includes a standard USB cable for cheaper than what they sell the USB cables themselves for.
Well, to be fair then, you would have to count Windows 95OSR2 as a release too as all the same arguments apply, making Windows ME the fifth step in the Windows 9x/ME line.
Endor wasn't so much as destroyed as it was turned into an uninhabitable wasteland. Which would probably be the perfect place to stick a bunch of RIAA lawyers now that I think about it.
I do like to be able to press down both buttons at once for some things. At best Macs have a 1.5 button mouse. What's so hard about putting two physical mouse buttons on the laptops? What's with this "click while two fingers are in contact for right-click" stuff? I thought Macs were supposed to be intuitive and easy to use?
Well, not exactly. When you talk to your bank, it's generally between your computer and the bank's server, and only on ports 80 and 443. Bittorrent generally opens up connections to a bunch of computers on a bunch of random ports and starts transferring large amounts of data between them all. It's pretty obvious what's going on without peeking into the packets themselves.
The government could try to do something that would make it a bit easier to raise a family without both parents having to work a job. It may not be the mentality of the parents so much, it's just that we have a generation of kids raised by the TV, daycare centers, and the internet, with parents too busy/too tired/too stressed to anything more.
1. The mileage will also include miles driven in other states, or not on public roads (farm trucks, etc.) 2. Not all states require inspections of vehicles, and some states don't care what mileage is on it, only that it's safe, etc. 3. It's not illegal to screw with your odometer.
GPS tracking of every vehicle is stupid, but those are some arguements you'll hear in favor over it as opposed to simply checking the mileages.
How is this any different from running the media player in an elevated priority class, something Winamp has done for years? I could repeat the same demo on Windows XP with Winamp. Heck, I could repeat the same demo on Windows 98 on 1998 hardware using a 1998 Winamp release if I wanted to.
I've seen them in shops, I just haven't assembled any AMD systems. And the boxes rarely show what the heatsink looks like, usually a huge logo and a transparent window to see the CPU.
That's probably because they like to change the OEM coolers randomly. I remember building some Athlon XP systems with the same processor, but assembled at different times. I bought the retail chip each time, and all three times it came with a different heatsink! None of them were particularly quiet, and one of them was downright loud.
I find they're handy to have around when the aftermarket cooler dies and you want to use your computer. Otherwise, I don't use them unless I'm building something cheap and noise isn't an issue (I don't overclock anymore).
Actually, there wasn't really much of a difference between the K6 and the K6-2. The K6 was meant to compete directly with the Pentium MMX (as in it was a drop in replacement for the Pentium MMX chip). After Intel abandoned the Socket 7 platform for Slot 1 for the P2, AMD (and Cyrix) extended the Socket 7 platform to support faster bus speeds (up to 100MHz, compared to 66MHz for the Pentium MMX/K6). The only real difference is that the K6 could (in theory) be plugged into any board that accepted a Pentium MMX, while the K6-2 needed one of the "Super 7" boards to run.
The K6-3 was a huge change as it had 256K of L2 cache on the die, but otherwise it was basically a K6-2. It was significant as it was AMD's first chip with an on-die L2 cache, which in my mind made it kind of a test run for the later Athlons. The K6-3 was a pretty fast chip, though I always felt the Socket 7/Super 7 platform, which by 1999 was really showing it's age, held the chip back.
Actually, I was just correcting the mis-information you were spreading, but believe whatever you want. And besides, it's not that hard to run OSX on (some) PC hardware - I've done it myself, though I have little interest in doing so beyond the novelty factor.
Pretty much any accident where you hear "driver ejected from car" is a situation where someone was once behind the controls of a car, and now isn't. And screw flying bodies, what about the 2 tons of flying steel, plastic, and glass that now doesn't have a driver? I used to think that the seatbelt laws were stupid too, but I do think it makes sense for the driver to have to wear a seatbelt. Passengers can do whatever they like, doesn't matter to me.
I think you are confused. With Windows, they sell two very different versions of Windows XP. You can buy a "full" version and an "upgrade" version. "Full" versions work on any hard drive (like OS X) and cost a lot more. I know this because I had to buy WinXP for the PC I built. "Upgrade" disks, while indeed having all the info of a full version, only work on machines that have a version of Windows on them already, and they cost less.
Actually, they sell 3 versions that I know of. There is an OEM version too, which is like the full version but is tied to the hardware and can't be moved to another computer once you install it (and also lacks support and such). And no, you can install the upgrade disk on a blank computer, at some point it will ask for you to insert the disk for the previous version of Windows to verify that you qualify for the upgrade, that's the only difference from the full version. It's really no different than the Mac, except that for OSX the fact it's on a Mac is already good enough so you don't have to dig out your old disks. I can see how people can get confused - a lot of recovery disks aren't going to be recoginized by the Windows upgrade disk, and there are a few other gotchas too (you can't upgrade 2000 Pro to XP Home, for example).
With all the different builds, and the transition to Intel macs, I think you have to have some sort of previous version for the latest build. BUT, you can still run at least (to my best recall), OS X.3 from a CD with no previous OS.
I would guess they do that to annoy the people trying to get OSX up on some generic hardware. I see little reason to do it otherwise.
I have done this two or three times already. A hard drive is a piece of hardware, no?. I've purchased hard drives (or swapped hard drives from spare pcs) and installed Mac OS X on them. It is safe to say that Maxtor hard drives and hard drives from my PC didn't have have OS X originally installled on them.
*sigh*. I guess the "and runs it too" was implied. I can't drive anywhere with just a set of tires.
Actually, you're slightly off too. The K6 competed with the Pentium MMX, and the early PII's (and associated Celerons). The K6-2 competed with the PII (and associated Celerons). The short lived K6-3 competed with the early PIII's. The K7 was rather long lived, it started out competing with the PIII with the original Athlon at 600Mhz, then competed against the P4 when that came out, and competed with the P4 until Intel added EMT64 and dual core to the Pentium 4 line as an answer to the K8.
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Wouldn't that be susceptable to someone blocking the WGA servers in their firewall in order to make WGA think their pirated version of Windows legit?
We've had this conversation before (apparently to no avail). Anthropomorphizing machines, whether you choose to name the new document shredder in the next room or pine over a planetary research vehicle that is taking a licking and yet still kicking, only serves to marginalize the human element that put them where they are.
I'm pretty sure the rovers would disagree with you.
On the other hand, I haven't seen many politicans that I would call conservative. Seems like they love big government programs, spend like mad, wars of aggression, pork everywhere, dictating to their citizens what they can and cannot do, lots of new takes and fees, and stuff like that. They may lean to the right, but I wouldn't call the right conservative by any means.
Out of the box Xorg supports more video cards than Windows does. It also supports the use of generic drivers for standards compliant cards, such as VESA.
The thing is, when your card is not detected in Windows, it's pretty easy to fix. When it isn't detected on Linux, most users are not going to know how to fix it, especially when it involves something like hacking xorg.conf or compiling some beta driver someone wrote and installing it.
Overall though, geez... Quicktime player has been used in Windows since version 3.1, as a de-facto standard for playing multimedia files off CD. It's not exactly something Apple just "slapped together to say they had a Windows version".
Have you ever used Quicktime for Windows, as that's exactly what it looks like. Little to no effort was put into making Quicktime look and behave like a Windows application. Pretty much all of Apple's software for Windows looks and acts like it was just slapped together to get a Windows version out there.
I have an R60 with a DVD burner, and with the recovery disk maker, a DVD was not an option. Ended up burning something like 5 CDs instead. Though if I had to reload it, I would likely just a standard XP OEM CD with the number on the sticker rather than use the recovery disks.
You should have wandered over to where they sold external harddrives and looked to see how much the cheapest firewire capable model was. Not sure about firewire, but quite often you can find a cheap USB accessory like a hub or a card reader that includes a standard USB cable for cheaper than what they sell the USB cables themselves for.
Well, to be fair then, you would have to count Windows 95OSR2 as a release too as all the same arguments apply, making Windows ME the fifth step in the Windows 9x/ME line.
Endor wasn't so much as destroyed as it was turned into an uninhabitable wasteland. Which would probably be the perfect place to stick a bunch of RIAA lawyers now that I think about it.
That would be the Pentium / Pentium MMX 166Mhz. Maybe you're thinking of the Pentium Pro?
I do like to be able to press down both buttons at once for some things. At best Macs have a 1.5 button mouse. What's so hard about putting two physical mouse buttons on the laptops? What's with this "click while two fingers are in contact for right-click" stuff? I thought Macs were supposed to be intuitive and easy to use?
Well, not exactly. When you talk to your bank, it's generally between your computer and the bank's server, and only on ports 80 and 443. Bittorrent generally opens up connections to a bunch of computers on a bunch of random ports and starts transferring large amounts of data between them all. It's pretty obvious what's going on without peeking into the packets themselves.
That's funny, because there was no such thing as a 166Mhz Pentium II....
He doesn't stand a chance so long as he has an 'R' after his name.
Are you insane? How much do you think it costs to replace roads and bridges? I assure you that it is well withing our ability.
However, it would seem that the government would rather waste the money on things like Iraq rather than invest on things back home.
The government could try to do something that would make it a bit easier to raise a family without both parents having to work a job. It may not be the mentality of the parents so much, it's just that we have a generation of kids raised by the TV, daycare centers, and the internet, with parents too busy/too tired/too stressed to anything more.
There are a few problems with this:
1. The mileage will also include miles driven in other states, or not on public roads (farm trucks, etc.)
2. Not all states require inspections of vehicles, and some states don't care what mileage is on it, only that it's safe, etc.
3. It's not illegal to screw with your odometer.
GPS tracking of every vehicle is stupid, but those are some arguements you'll hear in favor over it as opposed to simply checking the mileages.
How is this any different from running the media player in an elevated priority class, something Winamp has done for years? I could repeat the same demo on Windows XP with Winamp. Heck, I could repeat the same demo on Windows 98 on 1998 hardware using a 1998 Winamp release if I wanted to.
I've seen them in shops, I just haven't assembled any AMD systems. And the boxes rarely show what the heatsink looks like, usually a huge logo and a transparent window to see the CPU.
That's probably because they like to change the OEM coolers randomly. I remember building some Athlon XP systems with the same processor, but assembled at different times. I bought the retail chip each time, and all three times it came with a different heatsink! None of them were particularly quiet, and one of them was downright loud.
I find they're handy to have around when the aftermarket cooler dies and you want to use your computer. Otherwise, I don't use them unless I'm building something cheap and noise isn't an issue (I don't overclock anymore).
Actually, there wasn't really much of a difference between the K6 and the K6-2. The K6 was meant to compete directly with the Pentium MMX (as in it was a drop in replacement for the Pentium MMX chip). After Intel abandoned the Socket 7 platform for Slot 1 for the P2, AMD (and Cyrix) extended the Socket 7 platform to support faster bus speeds (up to 100MHz, compared to 66MHz for the Pentium MMX/K6). The only real difference is that the K6 could (in theory) be plugged into any board that accepted a Pentium MMX, while the K6-2 needed one of the "Super 7" boards to run.
The K6-3 was a huge change as it had 256K of L2 cache on the die, but otherwise it was basically a K6-2. It was significant as it was AMD's first chip with an on-die L2 cache, which in my mind made it kind of a test run for the later Athlons. The K6-3 was a pretty fast chip, though I always felt the Socket 7/Super 7 platform, which by 1999 was really showing it's age, held the chip back.
Actually, I was just correcting the mis-information you were spreading, but believe whatever you want. And besides, it's not that hard to run OSX on (some) PC hardware - I've done it myself, though I have little interest in doing so beyond the novelty factor.
Pretty much any accident where you hear "driver ejected from car" is a situation where someone was once behind the controls of a car, and now isn't. And screw flying bodies, what about the 2 tons of flying steel, plastic, and glass that now doesn't have a driver? I used to think that the seatbelt laws were stupid too, but I do think it makes sense for the driver to have to wear a seatbelt. Passengers can do whatever they like, doesn't matter to me.
I think you are confused. With Windows, they sell two very different versions of Windows XP. You can buy a "full" version and an "upgrade" version. "Full" versions work on any hard drive (like OS X) and cost a lot more. I know this because I had to buy WinXP for the PC I built. "Upgrade" disks, while indeed having all the info of a full version, only work on machines that have a version of Windows on them already, and they cost less.
Actually, they sell 3 versions that I know of. There is an OEM version too, which is like the full version but is tied to the hardware and can't be moved to another computer once you install it (and also lacks support and such). And no, you can install the upgrade disk on a blank computer, at some point it will ask for you to insert the disk for the previous version of Windows to verify that you qualify for the upgrade, that's the only difference from the full version. It's really no different than the Mac, except that for OSX the fact it's on a Mac is already good enough so you don't have to dig out your old disks. I can see how people can get confused - a lot of recovery disks aren't going to be recoginized by the Windows upgrade disk, and there are a few other gotchas too (you can't upgrade 2000 Pro to XP Home, for example).
With all the different builds, and the transition to Intel macs, I think you have to have some sort of previous version for the latest build. BUT, you can still run at least (to my best recall), OS X.3 from a CD with no previous OS.
I would guess they do that to annoy the people trying to get OSX up on some generic hardware. I see little reason to do it otherwise.
I have done this two or three times already. A hard drive is a piece of hardware, no?. I've purchased hard drives (or swapped hard drives from spare pcs) and installed Mac OS X on them. It is safe to say that Maxtor hard drives and hard drives from my PC didn't have have OS X originally installled on them.
*sigh*. I guess the "and runs it too" was implied. I can't drive anywhere with just a set of tires.
Actually, you're slightly off too. The K6 competed with the Pentium MMX, and the early PII's (and associated Celerons). The K6-2 competed with the PII (and associated Celerons). The short lived K6-3 competed with the early PIII's. The K7 was rather long lived, it started out competing with the PIII with the original Athlon at 600Mhz, then competed against the P4 when that came out, and competed with the P4 until Intel added EMT64 and dual core to the Pentium 4 line as an answer to the K8.