I think the point was, that with a generic box running Linux you can just replace an affected component when something craps out instead of the whole computer. It's a lot cheaper that way.
What's all this talk of laws about? MMORPGs are run by private entities, mostly businesses - and they can allow or disallow whoever as they please. Overall, it seems kids seem to cause a lot of problems, and I imagine that in some cases allowing kids in will drive away more customers than they'll gain by letting in the kids. And yes, if a 30 year old is being an ass, they could find themselves banned from the MMORPG too.
Though really, it's not hard for a credit card number and start playing the game anyway. If the kid is smart about it, there would be no way for anyone to know that they are just a kid either, and if they act mature enough most of the other players wouldn't care anyway.
4. Apple is just another soulless corporation, and knew damn well how their iPods were being made, and decided that the benefits of using cheap labor to pad their profit margins outweighed any bad press they might recieve from associated with sweatshops.
True... on the other hand, Apple's service packs tend to be more tested, include functionality that upgrades the system, and are more like OS upgrades than Service Packs.
Keep in mind that could pretty well describe XPSP2, though the "more tested" point could be debated a little.
Okay, this is really offtopic;) - but in order to do it I did nothing special in particular in terms of hooking up the LCD screen to a computer. I just used the laptop that was originally attached to the display to drive it. Hence, I didn't need any special hookups or adaptors, just the original connectors from the laptop. For some reason, the ribbon cable inside the laptop that ran from the display to the laptop's main board was extra long, which made things considerably easier for me.
As to hooking up a laptop screen to any old computer, my understanding is that the display interfaces in laptops are not that well understood by hackers, and people have not had much luck doing this. I have never gotten it to work myself, though I haven't tried very hard. You might be best off getting a working laptop with a dead screen off of ebay, trying to repair the laptop you got, or simply starting over with LCD monitor (perhaps a cheap one with a backlight that's out).
Other's have only been able to install Vista by wiping out the EFI boot partition. Here's a way to concurrently run Vista. It shows it can be done without reformating the disk.
Not news. People have been using virtual machines for reasons exactly like those for years.
t shows that Contrary to rumors, Vista is not crippled against running on macs or under virtual systems.
Not news. How would Vista know or even care that it's running on a virtual machine?
it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista, so one need not hesitate about buying a mac now if one was worried about running vista.
Quote TFA: "One note of warning. Expect your Mac to drop to its knees and beg for mercy once you start running Vista. If you thought XP was slow under Virtual PC, you're in for new vistas of slowness."
Not news here either. Sure it runs, I would expect it to given a powerful enough virtual machine. Sure it's slow as hell under emulation on PPC, as I would expect. I wouldn't get a G5 Mac to run Vista for anything serious, in the same way I wouldn't get a Dell to run OSX for anything serious either.
it means you can do comparisons of Vista and mac osx.
Not news. As people have already been doing for ages.
So what? Use a known set of peripherals with known power load and a known PSU, then measure power usage at the wall. Simple.
It's not as simple as you might think. How do you know how much power your "known" set of peripherals use? I'm sure that there are power specs for just about anything, but I'm sure they just like the specs we see for CPUs at the moment - close but still an approximation. Trying to get an exact measurement of power used for something like a graphics card or a motherboard is going to have the same problem of measuring CPU power usage, mainly it's going to depend on what tasks you have that component do. Assembling the computer sans CPU and trying to measure the current draw that way probably won't work, as many of the components won't work the same if there is no CPU present (and this assumes you can even get it to power up in the first place).
Of course, you're method work work very well for comparing differences between CPUs - it would be pretty easy to tell if CPU A used 15W less power than CPU B by simply swapping them out and measuring from the wall. You just can't accurately tell the total power draw of either CPU A or CPU B.
And this continues on with the AMD64 chips, that have been using Socket 754... Oops I mean Socket 939 - wait it was Socket 940...or was it Socket AM2 for all this time?
Of course, you do have a point with Socket A, which started out with the Duron back in the 600Mhz days, and ended with the Athlon XP 3200. But I seem to remember that Slot A only lasted a short time.
You probably could of gotten away with a $20 USB PCI card if you had a free slot in your old computer. Sure, Windows 95 wouldn't have a clue with what to do with it, but I'm sure Linux would have been able to talk to the iPod just fine.
What if that box had been controlling some critical military system? People could have been killed just for the sake of Microsoft's totalitarian anti-copyright-infringment system!
The optimist in me would like to think that if Windows manages to disable some critical military system, it would end up saving a lot of lives.
If people want to have a powerful computer and a portable one; get two seperate computers - a desktop and a 12" laptop. If you want to connect them then use a cross over cable.
You mean a powerful computer OR a portable one. If you want to have both (a powerful computer that is also portable), you pretty much have to by one of those behemoth laptops and lug it around.
Not to mention that the 486DX4 managed to out perform the first Pentium chips, ran much cooler, and weren't affected by the whole FDIV fiasco - and they were often cheaper. Same thing again with the 386DX-40 versus the early 486 chips.
If pentium 4 was better than pentium III why are they going back?
The point here is that it's easier to market a Pentium 4 as better than a Pentium III, not so much about which one is actually the technically superior processor.
I can't be sure, as I have found there are plenty of people who will argue with decades of climate data (as well as plenty of other, easily verifiable facts).
Well, maybe you don't need a 64bit CPU right now, but it would be nice in a couple of years if you do need a 64bit CPU to not have to buy a whole new laptop. Kind of like how Windows 3.1 didn't need a 32bit CPU, but if you had one you were able to later install Windows 95 without buying a whole new computer.
With that said, since the original poster was contemplating replacing a 1.67Ghz G4 (a fairly recent model) with a brand new MacBook Pro, it seems he doesn't have a problem with shelling out for a new laptop either.
He still makes a valid point - I would take any Intel supplied benchmarks of their own chips with a grain of salt. The benchmarks to pay attention to will be the ones performed by third parties.
I am canceling my digital and premium cable services, reverting back to basic. When a commercial comes on, I already turn down the volume and go to the can.
Yeah, that'll show them. Why not join the group of us that fork over $0 for TV every month?
I do not accept the extremist, global warming theories that Al Gore and the majority of Slashdotters take as gospel.
Global warming is not an extremist theory, it is a fact, unless you want to argue with decades of climate data. While it is still hotly debated whether this is because of CO2 emissions, natural cycles, volcanoes, sunspots, or whatever - it doesn't change the fact that the Earth's climate is changing.
if anything, music video and MTV are a *scourge* on popular music in as much as both have allowed talentless artistes to churn out souless, plasticised music and have it sell in its millions purely because of a video that is deemed as controversial - in that case, a music video serves no other purpose than to advertise the music product.
If that was true, music would of gotten a lot better in the past few years, as channels like MTV and VH1 have basically stopped playing music videos entirely, and a good portion of their content has nothing to do with music/music videos/concerts at all.
I don't even know why many artists even bother with music videos anymore, as they will never been shown on the "music video" channels, and will only be seen by those that seek them out on the internet.
It's because that copyright was originally a deal between the public and producers of content, where the producer would get a temporary monopoly over their content in order for them to profit and to encourage them to make more content. However, organizations like the RIAA, as well as corporations like Disney seem to think that they have the right to profit off their creations indefinently, which is against the original spirit behind creating copyright in the first place. Since these organizations seem to feel that they don't have to hold up their end of the copyright deal (by letting works fall into the public domain eventually), many people here feel like they don't have to hold up their end of the deal either by respecting the copyrights that these organizations hold.
The GPL is a bit of a different beast. True, what does give the GPL its teeth is the existing copyright laws, but the GPL allows you to do whatever you want with the GPL'd code, and basically only asks that you distribute the source code to any changes that you distribute. Most people here consider that a fair deal, and I would also guess that most people here would not have a problem with GPL'd code falling into the public domain after 28 years either (as opposed to the 95 years or whatever it is now).
Also, don't paint all slashdot posters with the same brush. We hate that:)
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I think the point was, that with a generic box running Linux you can just replace an affected component when something craps out instead of the whole computer. It's a lot cheaper that way.
Alternatively, you could just use the power switch on the back of the PS2 and save yourself a whole lot of trouble.
For example, who in the hell wants to hear about a vaginal herpes medication (Valtrex) or urinary medications (Avodart) DURING DINNER?!?!
If the ads are so annoying, then why do you still watch TV during dinner?
What's all this talk of laws about? MMORPGs are run by private entities, mostly businesses - and they can allow or disallow whoever as they please. Overall, it seems kids seem to cause a lot of problems, and I imagine that in some cases allowing kids in will drive away more customers than they'll gain by letting in the kids. And yes, if a 30 year old is being an ass, they could find themselves banned from the MMORPG too.
Though really, it's not hard for a credit card number and start playing the game anyway. If the kid is smart about it, there would be no way for anyone to know that they are just a kid either, and if they act mature enough most of the other players wouldn't care anyway.
How about this possibility:
4. Apple is just another soulless corporation, and knew damn well how their iPods were being made, and decided that the benefits of using cheap labor to pad their profit margins outweighed any bad press they might recieve from associated with sweatshops.
True ... on the other hand, Apple's service packs tend to be more tested, include functionality that upgrades the system, and are more like OS upgrades than Service Packs.
Keep in mind that could pretty well describe XPSP2, though the "more tested" point could be debated a little.
Okay, this is really offtopic ;) - but in order to do it I did nothing special in particular in terms of hooking up the LCD screen to a computer. I just used the laptop that was originally attached to the display to drive it. Hence, I didn't need any special hookups or adaptors, just the original connectors from the laptop. For some reason, the ribbon cable inside the laptop that ran from the display to the laptop's main board was extra long, which made things considerably easier for me.
As to hooking up a laptop screen to any old computer, my understanding is that the display interfaces in laptops are not that well understood by hackers, and people have not had much luck doing this. I have never gotten it to work myself, though I haven't tried very hard. You might be best off getting a working laptop with a dead screen off of ebay, trying to repair the laptop you got, or simply starting over with LCD monitor (perhaps a cheap one with a backlight that's out).
Anyhow, good luck.
Other's have only been able to install Vista by wiping out the EFI boot partition. Here's a way to concurrently run Vista. It shows it can be done without reformating the disk.
Not news. People have been using virtual machines for reasons exactly like those for years.
t shows that Contrary to rumors, Vista is not crippled against running on macs or under virtual systems.
Not news. How would Vista know or even care that it's running on a virtual machine?
it shows macs meet the minumum specs for Vista, so one need not hesitate about buying a mac now if one was worried about running vista.
Quote TFA: "One note of warning. Expect your Mac to drop to its knees and beg for mercy once you start running Vista. If you thought XP was slow under Virtual PC, you're in for new vistas of slowness."
Not news here either. Sure it runs, I would expect it to given a powerful enough virtual machine. Sure it's slow as hell under emulation on PPC, as I would expect. I wouldn't get a G5 Mac to run Vista for anything serious, in the same way I wouldn't get a Dell to run OSX for anything serious either.
it means you can do comparisons of Vista and mac osx.
Not news. As people have already been doing for ages.
Great point, NOT. The difference is that the there's pretty much only one use for "weapons grade" urainium.
Would that one use be creating weapons, or generating electricity?
So what? Use a known set of peripherals with known power load and a known PSU, then measure power usage at the wall. Simple.
It's not as simple as you might think. How do you know how much power your "known" set of peripherals use? I'm sure that there are power specs for just about anything, but I'm sure they just like the specs we see for CPUs at the moment - close but still an approximation. Trying to get an exact measurement of power used for something like a graphics card or a motherboard is going to have the same problem of measuring CPU power usage, mainly it's going to depend on what tasks you have that component do. Assembling the computer sans CPU and trying to measure the current draw that way probably won't work, as many of the components won't work the same if there is no CPU present (and this assumes you can even get it to power up in the first place).
Of course, you're method work work very well for comparing differences between CPUs - it would be pretty easy to tell if CPU A used 15W less power than CPU B by simply swapping them out and measuring from the wall. You just can't accurately tell the total power draw of either CPU A or CPU B.
Don't forget that a lot of Mac users are also Windows users too, especially thanks to Boot Camp.
And this continues on with the AMD64 chips, that have been using Socket 754... Oops I mean Socket 939 - wait it was Socket 940...or was it Socket AM2 for all this time?
Of course, you do have a point with Socket A, which started out with the Duron back in the 600Mhz days, and ended with the Athlon XP 3200. But I seem to remember that Slot A only lasted a short time.
You probably could of gotten away with a $20 USB PCI card if you had a free slot in your old computer. Sure, Windows 95 wouldn't have a clue with what to do with it, but I'm sure Linux would have been able to talk to the iPod just fine.
What if that box had been controlling some critical military system? People could have been killed just for the sake of Microsoft's totalitarian anti-copyright-infringment system!
The optimist in me would like to think that if Windows manages to disable some critical military system, it would end up saving a lot of lives.
Go Microsoft!
If people want to have a powerful computer and a portable one; get two seperate computers - a desktop and a 12" laptop. If you want to connect them then use a cross over cable.
You mean a powerful computer OR a portable one. If you want to have both (a powerful computer that is also portable), you pretty much have to by one of those behemoth laptops and lug it around.
Not to mention that the 486DX4 managed to out perform the first Pentium chips, ran much cooler, and weren't affected by the whole FDIV fiasco - and they were often cheaper. Same thing again with the 386DX-40 versus the early 486 chips.
If pentium 4 was better than pentium III why are they going back?
The point here is that it's easier to market a Pentium 4 as better than a Pentium III, not so much about which one is actually the technically superior processor.
I can't be sure, as I have found there are plenty of people who will argue with decades of climate data (as well as plenty of other, easily verifiable facts).
On the other hand, a product that enables Macs to boot Windows XP comes in at number 10.
Well, maybe you don't need a 64bit CPU right now, but it would be nice in a couple of years if you do need a 64bit CPU to not have to buy a whole new laptop. Kind of like how Windows 3.1 didn't need a 32bit CPU, but if you had one you were able to later install Windows 95 without buying a whole new computer.
With that said, since the original poster was contemplating replacing a 1.67Ghz G4 (a fairly recent model) with a brand new MacBook Pro, it seems he doesn't have a problem with shelling out for a new laptop either.
He still makes a valid point - I would take any Intel supplied benchmarks of their own chips with a grain of salt. The benchmarks to pay attention to will be the ones performed by third parties.
I am canceling my digital and premium cable services, reverting back to basic. When a commercial comes on, I already turn down the volume and go to the can.
Yeah, that'll show them. Why not join the group of us that fork over $0 for TV every month?
I do not accept the extremist, global warming theories that Al Gore and the majority of Slashdotters take as gospel.
Global warming is not an extremist theory, it is a fact, unless you want to argue with decades of climate data. While it is still hotly debated whether this is because of CO2 emissions, natural cycles, volcanoes, sunspots, or whatever - it doesn't change the fact that the Earth's climate is changing.
if anything, music video and MTV are a *scourge* on popular music in as much as both have allowed talentless artistes to churn out souless, plasticised music and have it sell in its millions purely because of a video that is deemed as controversial - in that case, a music video serves no other purpose than to advertise the music product.
If that was true, music would of gotten a lot better in the past few years, as channels like MTV and VH1 have basically stopped playing music videos entirely, and a good portion of their content has nothing to do with music/music videos/concerts at all.
I don't even know why many artists even bother with music videos anymore, as they will never been shown on the "music video" channels, and will only be seen by those that seek them out on the internet.
It's because that copyright was originally a deal between the public and producers of content, where the producer would get a temporary monopoly over their content in order for them to profit and to encourage them to make more content. However, organizations like the RIAA, as well as corporations like Disney seem to think that they have the right to profit off their creations indefinently, which is against the original spirit behind creating copyright in the first place. Since these organizations seem to feel that they don't have to hold up their end of the copyright deal (by letting works fall into the public domain eventually), many people here feel like they don't have to hold up their end of the deal either by respecting the copyrights that these organizations hold.
:)
The GPL is a bit of a different beast. True, what does give the GPL its teeth is the existing copyright laws, but the GPL allows you to do whatever you want with the GPL'd code, and basically only asks that you distribute the source code to any changes that you distribute. Most people here consider that a fair deal, and I would also guess that most people here would not have a problem with GPL'd code falling into the public domain after 28 years either (as opposed to the 95 years or whatever it is now).
Also, don't paint all slashdot posters with the same brush. We hate that