You sound like the type of person who defends big government spending pork projects because, hey - it gives people jobs! Nevermind the fact that money could be better spent, or given back to the people in the form of lower taxes. All of which would better everyone's lives, instead of bettering a handful that happen to be building a bridge to nowhere.
Besides I would think it would be better if the money was spread out over the year, which would likely be the case if we didn't celebrate Christmas the way we do now. I'm sure part of the reason that sales are so slow for the early part of the year is because people spend so much during the holidays that it takes them months to pay off their credit card bills.
I think the whole idea of Christmas is pretty wasteful. A lot of stuff gets purchased for other people that those people, quite simply, don't want. Just take a look at the returns counter come December 26th if you don't believe me. A lot more stuff ends up stuffed in someone's basement or attic. I know it sounds selfish, but people would be better off just spending the money themselves the way they best see fit. Atleast that way the rent is more likely to get paid. And it wouldn't hurt most people to save a little money too and make some investments for the future, instead of just thinking about today. It would be nice to have an economy that is held up by more than overconsumption and consumer debt.
Seeing that even maxing out my 6 megabit line doesn't get the load on the machine above 0.05, I keep thinking about doing something a bit more demanding with it, but in reality, I'll probably just be lazy and let it sit there. It's nice and quiet, passive heat sinks and everything.
You could always install BOINC on it and let it try to cure cancer, factor prime numbers, or find aliens. I think it would be pretty cool if one of those projects announced a big breakthrough, and when they comb the logs to find out the machine that made the contribution, they find out it's some "obsolete" machine humming away in someone's basement.
About the cheapest way to back up a lot of data is another harddrive. Right now, 250GB is the sweet spot, at about $95-$100 per drive. A USB2.0 or Firewire enclosure runs about $30-$35. 4 of those would back up all your stuff, and would cost about $600 or so. Plus, you can easily move the back up drives offsite, add more backup drives as needed, and having all your stuff on external harddrives makes it a lot easier to "share" your stuff with other people you know.
Check out a PowerMac G5. The big dual processor water cooled beastes have a 1kw (yes, you read that correctly) power supply. All PMG5 supplies are the same size - they occupy the entire bottom 2 inches of the computer, side to side and front to back.
Once again, it appears that Microsoft has blatantly ripped off Apple.
When I write slashdot in my firefox, it already works!!! Actually, I think, firefox try.com,.net and.org if you do not write tld. So all you need to do is to get a.com domain and it works.
Actually, Firefox does a Google search and takes the "I'm Feeling Lucky" link. Most of the time it sends you to the most obvious site if you type something like slashdot, microsoft, or ebay in. But if you want to have some fun try typing in things like "failure".
Book publishers and agents still require you to snail mail your book on floppy. (I'm not talking AW or ORA, I'm talking publishers who do novels, and such.
I'm surprised. I'm sure that most books or novels written in a modern word processor would very quickly exceed the 1.44MB that a floppy disk holds. Or do they make you send the novel as a.txt file too?
This got modded up solely because it says something bad about Windows.
Well, its also true, especially for those people who run the mcuh more common 32bit version of Windows XP.
Don't get me started on trying to install Windows XP on a laptop without a floppy disk where the Windows installer needs those drivers. It took the good part of a night and several coasters before I managed to get a working install disk with the drivers slipstreamed in.
I would agree. Have a look at this page. Scroll down, and notice that there is a group of about 14 AMD processors essentially got the same score. These processors range from a Sempron 2500+ all the way an Athlon 64 3700+. Go up a bit an there is a simular group of about 18 Intel processors that get essentially the same score, where the processors range from the P4 2.4Ghz to a P4 EE 3.4Ghz. What gives?
No, you wouldn't really want a single expensive 1TB drive eggbasket -- what you'd want is a couple smaller drives to RAID together for redundancy plus performance higher than a single, big, slow drive could provide.
Because a single drive would likely be cooler, quieter, and more energy efficient than a bunch of 7200RPM drives in a RAID array. As for backups, I would just buy a second one and a USB/FireWire case and use that.
Your P4 idling at 170W is going to add about $12 plus change to your power bill each month if you leave it on all the time at 10 cents/KWH. While that wouldn't kill me, it's still going to add up to about $150 per year.
I would just keep on building your own. Dell's Intel boxes have always performed worse than a well built Intel whitebox computer, and I would expect that Dell's AMD boxes will be no different.
I've known for months that (1) not all games would work, and (2) that there may be some issues with backward compatability. However, I do not care since (1) I still have my Xbox, and (2) I rarely re-play games I've completed. You're brutally retarded if you're buying a new $300 to $500 system to play the old games.
That's great and all, but some people do care about backward compatibility.
(This is definitely not just an excuse -- if it could be solved, iTunes would have done it, which they haven't)
I'm sure it's a solvable problem, I'm just guessing that the number of foriegn tracks that people would purchase would be so low that Apple/Napster/etc. don't consider it worth the trouble.
I beg to differ. Surround setups are hard to do right, especially in a confined space that may be odd shaped and is also used for other things (I'm describing most people's living/family/bed rooms here). In most cases I have found stereo to sound better than a typical home surround set up. Especially if you are comparing, say, two $250 speakers to five $100 speakers.
Atleast the keypads on newer microwaves are easy to clean and thus are a lot more sanitary. But otherwise, I don't care much for modern microwaves either.
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You sound like the type of person who defends big government spending pork projects because, hey - it gives people jobs! Nevermind the fact that money could be better spent, or given back to the people in the form of lower taxes. All of which would better everyone's lives, instead of bettering a handful that happen to be building a bridge to nowhere.
Besides I would think it would be better if the money was spread out over the year, which would likely be the case if we didn't celebrate Christmas the way we do now. I'm sure part of the reason that sales are so slow for the early part of the year is because people spend so much during the holidays that it takes them months to pay off their credit card bills.
I think the whole idea of Christmas is pretty wasteful. A lot of stuff gets purchased for other people that those people, quite simply, don't want. Just take a look at the returns counter come December 26th if you don't believe me. A lot more stuff ends up stuffed in someone's basement or attic. I know it sounds selfish, but people would be better off just spending the money themselves the way they best see fit. Atleast that way the rent is more likely to get paid. And it wouldn't hurt most people to save a little money too and make some investments for the future, instead of just thinking about today. It would be nice to have an economy that is held up by more than overconsumption and consumer debt.
How can you spot an annual trend after a single year ? He'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
I would guess that it had been going on for a while, it just took until 2005 for someone to notice it and give it a stupid name.
Seeing that even maxing out my 6 megabit line doesn't get the load on the machine above 0.05, I keep thinking about doing something a bit more demanding with it, but in reality, I'll probably just be lazy and let it sit there. It's nice and quiet, passive heat sinks and everything.
You could always install BOINC on it and let it try to cure cancer, factor prime numbers, or find aliens. I think it would be pretty cool if one of those projects announced a big breakthrough, and when they comb the logs to find out the machine that made the contribution, they find out it's some "obsolete" machine humming away in someone's basement.
About the cheapest way to back up a lot of data is another harddrive. Right now, 250GB is the sweet spot, at about $95-$100 per drive. A USB2.0 or Firewire enclosure runs about $30-$35. 4 of those would back up all your stuff, and would cost about $600 or so. Plus, you can easily move the back up drives offsite, add more backup drives as needed, and having all your stuff on external harddrives makes it a lot easier to "share" your stuff with other people you know.
Check out a PowerMac G5. The big dual processor water cooled beastes have a 1kw (yes, you read that correctly) power supply. All PMG5 supplies are the same size - they occupy the entire bottom 2 inches of the computer, side to side and front to back.
Once again, it appears that Microsoft has blatantly ripped off Apple.
When I write slashdot in my firefox, it already works!!! .com, .net and .org if you do not write tld. So all you need to do is to get a .com domain and it works.
Actually, I think, firefox try
Actually, Firefox does a Google search and takes the "I'm Feeling Lucky" link. Most of the time it sends you to the most obvious site if you type something like slashdot, microsoft, or ebay in. But if you want to have some fun try typing in things like "failure".
I will feel sorry for the idiot that buys 'localhost'
No kidding. He'll probably get sued out of existance by people claiming that he copied their entire site.
Do you really want to haul around a USB mouse to plug into your Powerbook for everytime that you boot out of OSX?
So hook it up to a monitor. There's a hack you can download (Google for it) that'll let you use both displays at once, too.
Having to haul around a second monitor kind of defeats the purpose of getting the notebook computer in the first place, doesn't it?
Besides, without using the hack, I'm pretty sure you would be limited to 1024x768 resolution on the second monitor anyway.
The only problem with that is that it will be damn near impossible to use Windows with one mouse button. Might as well just get a ThinkPad.
The Goatse man ever cracked the glass of a photocopier.
No, but the copier killed itself anyway.
his chart even does not cover all AMD and Intel CPUs. For example, processors like the AMD 29K, Intel i860, i960 and the Intel Itanium are missing.
You missed a big one: The Celeron. How come not one single processor from Intel's budget line was tested?
Book publishers and agents still require you to snail mail your book on floppy. (I'm not talking AW or ORA, I'm talking publishers who do novels, and such.
.txt file too?
I'm surprised. I'm sure that most books or novels written in a modern word processor would very quickly exceed the 1.44MB that a floppy disk holds. Or do they make you send the novel as a
This got modded up solely because it says something bad about Windows.
Well, its also true, especially for those people who run the mcuh more common 32bit version of Windows XP.
Don't get me started on trying to install Windows XP on a laptop without a floppy disk where the Windows installer needs those drivers. It took the good part of a night and several coasters before I managed to get a working install disk with the drivers slipstreamed in.
I would agree. Have a look at this page. Scroll down, and notice that there is a group of about 14 AMD processors essentially got the same score. These processors range from a Sempron 2500+ all the way an Athlon 64 3700+. Go up a bit an there is a simular group of about 18 Intel processors that get essentially the same score, where the processors range from the P4 2.4Ghz to a P4 EE 3.4Ghz. What gives?
No, you wouldn't really want a single expensive 1TB drive eggbasket -- what you'd want is a couple smaller drives to RAID together for redundancy plus performance higher than a single, big, slow drive could provide.
Because a single drive would likely be cooler, quieter, and more energy efficient than a bunch of 7200RPM drives in a RAID array. As for backups, I would just buy a second one and a USB/FireWire case and use that.
Your P4 idling at 170W is going to add about $12 plus change to your power bill each month if you leave it on all the time at 10 cents/KWH. While that wouldn't kill me, it's still going to add up to about $150 per year.
I would just keep on building your own. Dell's Intel boxes have always performed worse than a well built Intel whitebox computer, and I would expect that Dell's AMD boxes will be no different.
I've known for months that (1) not all games would work, and (2) that there may be some issues with backward compatability. However, I do not care since (1) I still have my Xbox, and (2) I rarely re-play games I've completed. You're brutally retarded if you're buying a new $300 to $500 system to play the old games.
That's great and all, but some people do care about backward compatibility.
It would make very little sense for Sprint to create its own incompatible DRM format.
Yeah, but remember you're also talking about cell phone companies here.
Would we be able to moderate the profiles +1 Interesting or +1 Funny? If so, I could get behind this.
(This is definitely not just an excuse -- if it could be solved, iTunes would have done it, which they haven't)
I'm sure it's a solvable problem, I'm just guessing that the number of foriegn tracks that people would purchase would be so low that Apple/Napster/etc. don't consider it worth the trouble.
I beg to differ. Surround setups are hard to do right, especially in a confined space that may be odd shaped and is also used for other things (I'm describing most people's living/family/bed rooms here). In most cases I have found stereo to sound better than a typical home surround set up. Especially if you are comparing, say, two $250 speakers to five $100 speakers.
Hah, Man.. I can remember that about windows.. now half the crap in windows thats running won't let you exit it by clicking close.
Yet another example of how Microsoft is copying features from the Mac.
*ducks*
Atleast the keypads on newer microwaves are easy to clean and thus are a lot more sanitary. But otherwise, I don't care much for modern microwaves either.