Seeing that this computer is extremely more powerful than the first computers I ever used, and most of us for that matter. I don't see why this is useless at all. You have to start learning about computers somewhere, why not on a cheap easily accessible computer that doesn't require electricity!
I think Bill Gates fears one thing, more open source programmers! This project is bound to make quite a few of those:).
This kind of response not surprising at all. The problem is there are many windows admins out there who *FEAR* linux. They don't understand computers at all. But they do know how to sell windows and how to reinstall it. Change the platform and they have no job.
I have seen it time and time again.
They will not accept that linux is easy cheap and extremely powerful only because it is a threat to them.
Using FREE software allows a company to hire programmers to modify that source code to better fit their business needs.
The OS etc of a system should be free, having programs custom tailored to your business model should not.
It's not that the OS and user environment aren't valued, it's that for the most part everyone needs the same thing, so why should everyone have to pay through the nose for it? And why should you not be able to modify it and use it the way you see fit?
And beyond that, why should you have to re-create everything from the ground up each time you want to add something to an existing application?
Share and Enjoy!
The Texas Duck Hunt
A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence.
As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing.
The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it."
The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming over here."
The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the United States and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own.
The old farmer smiled and said," Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes in Texas. We settle small disagreements like this with the "Three Kick Rule."
The lawyer asked, "What is the Three Kick Rule?"
The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so on back and forth until someone gives up."
The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.
The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick to the midriff then made the lawyer loose his early morning breakfast. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie.
The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, Now it's my turn."
The old farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck."
You are absolutely right. Why do our political leaders bow down to corporate might every time?
I am trying to understand why our politions always end up working for the corporations instead of the people they are supposed to serve.
Just when you think there might be hope for mankind you realize, our fate is up to politions.
I think all we need now is a scale in front of the copiers with a sign attached: If you weigh more than 135lbs please do not sit on the copier. This way we won't be breaking the photocopiers and two, anything body part that is photopied is likely to be a welcome image for us to view!
First off, if these machines are breaking within the first few minutes/hours doesn't this tell you that the Quality Checking that MS is doing is rather substandard?
Second, how many of these XBOX 360's have gone straight to a closet and won't be opened until Christmas Day? I'll expect a lot more news about this come christmas!
And third. If this is the usual/expected kind of problems from this kind of technology then MS would have been prepared to fix these problems, right?
Call 1-800-4my-xbox and see how long you have to wait on the phone! If these where expected problems wouldn't they be answering the phone a lot quicker? (My wait time was over 1/2 hour at 8am pst, i don't have an xbox, i was just curious).
Either way, i'm not surprised if MS is shipping garbage, this is how they usually work.
Maybe it should all be moved to somewhere like Taiwan so we can take advantage of the cheap labour and have even cheaper domain name registrations!
$1 for 50 domains. Think how great that would be!
Using metal pliars..
While the computer was on.
Actually, no permament damage was done, it just scared the heck outa me. The workstation powered down immediately and would not power on for a few minutes. I assume something over heated and saved the day.
Next time i'll cut them one wire at a time:)
Gee, That heat has to go somewhere! It seems rather absurd to me that someone would *WANT* to keep the heat inside their computer.
maybe if it was a stand with an extra fan and vents on it so that the heat would be shot out the side or something. But insulating your computer seems like a really bad idea!
Why not just plug up all the fan holes in your PC to stop the noise?
Multiple standards keeps competition alive and kicking and gives us options.
Options are good unless you're a consumer who doesn't want to make educated decisions.
Well. I do not like the idea of rebooting etc. at all. Also the "auto-detecting" of hardware would be less than great. Having a game fit on a single CD/DVD wouldn't be the best either and there would be speed issues.
However, maybe there is a hybrid choice. You'd still need to reboot and it would auto-detect your hardware in the sense that, it looks up your existing configuration and uses that as it's starting point. Using this method you could utilize all of the computers resources towards the game and nothing but, squeezing that much power out of the system.....
Although, the gains would be minimal. Be neat to see a prototype though to actually measure what the gains could/would be.
Well, physical media (in my eyes) has some very significant advantages.
#1, You can rent them. (Technically you can rent from online to with all that fancy encryption stuff etc etc etc but I gotta figure a download of a game would take a few hours).
#2, You can take the game to your friends house.
#3, you don't have to be concerned about a hd failure or other problems (as mentioned above. what if you bought a game 5 years ago and the company that provides it went out of business? Not that gaming companies ever go under...)
I agree. This should start a trend of more people developing for Linux/Unix First and then converting it to Windows later using MS's handy dandy tools.
What a spectacular idea!
Just FYI.
Netware's file system does have a trashcan built in and will keep the files that you've deleted. Even multiple versions of them until ther is no room on the storage device, then it will start to actually delete the oldest deleted files at that point. It's quite useful!
you can disable the function globally or just on a directory/tree also.
It has been doing this since version 2 for sure. Possible even before that.
This is probably bit off topic.
however.
the drink dispeser was not at the Restaurant At The end of the Universe. It was in the middle of space while being attacks by Vogans. And it was arthur dent he had asked the question "Why do I Like Tea?"
Well, the question is. Does it start Spying when it is not pirated? How does it determine it is pirated? And does it warn the user that it is pirated?
I think it would be fair if on startup it says something like "This program does not appear to be licensed. If you continue It will contact vendor XYZ so you can arrange payment, or resolve the problem if this message is in error". (Or something like that). If it just doesn't in behind without saying a thing then it could be spying when the software is legally purchased. This would pose a huge problem!
YOu know. Partition Manager coulda fixed that in a matter of minutes. It's a far easier solution and pretty cheap to! ($40 from Paragron software).
Vendors shouldn't do it. But eh. Vendors shouldn't do a lot of things.
Yes, lots of games are just the same shoot 'em up over and over again.
But the game cube has a plethora of original and fun games! Just to name a few, PikMin, Luigi's Mansion and Mario Sunshine. Hrmm, metroid prime isn't all original, but it's really good...
I hear this a lot.
The simplest solution really seems to be just get really long (15 meters) kvm (plus audio!) cables and move all your computers to another room (like the furnace room). Where the heat and noise do not bother you. As long as you get high quality cables you don't get much signal degridation and your screen still looks great.
The only pain is when you want to get to the computer or change a cd rom drive. But this is well worth it for quiet and no extra heat!
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Seeing that this computer is extremely more powerful than the first computers I ever used, and most of us for that matter. I don't see why this is useless at all. You have to start learning about computers somewhere, why not on a cheap easily accessible computer that doesn't require electricity! I think Bill Gates fears one thing, more open source programmers! This project is bound to make quite a few of those :).
This kind of response not surprising at all. The problem is there are many windows admins out there who *FEAR* linux. They don't understand computers at all. But they do know how to sell windows and how to reinstall it. Change the platform and they have no job. I have seen it time and time again. They will not accept that linux is easy cheap and extremely powerful only because it is a threat to them.
a much better topic would have been RMS or Linus
Using FREE software allows a company to hire programmers to modify that source code to better fit their business needs. The OS etc of a system should be free, having programs custom tailored to your business model should not. It's not that the OS and user environment aren't valued, it's that for the most part everyone needs the same thing, so why should everyone have to pay through the nose for it? And why should you not be able to modify it and use it the way you see fit? And beyond that, why should you have to re-create everything from the ground up each time you want to add something to an existing application? Share and Enjoy!
The Texas Duck Hunt A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing. The litigator responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I'm going to retrieve it." The old farmer replied, "This is my property, and you are not coming over here." The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the United States and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything you own. The old farmer smiled and said," Apparently, you don't know how we settle disputes in Texas. We settle small disagreements like this with the "Three Kick Rule." The lawyer asked, "What is the Three Kick Rule?" The Farmer replied, "Well, because the dispute occurs on my land, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times and so on back and forth until someone gives up." The attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom. The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed work boot into the lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick to the midriff then made the lawyer loose his early morning breakfast. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer's third kick to his rear end sent him face-first into a fresh cow pie. The lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, "Okay, Now it's my turn." The old farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck."
You are quit correct. MS is far better at playing dirty than any of us will ever be.
You are absolutely right. Why do our political leaders bow down to corporate might every time? I am trying to understand why our politions always end up working for the corporations instead of the people they are supposed to serve. Just when you think there might be hope for mankind you realize, our fate is up to politions.
I think all we need now is a scale in front of the copiers with a sign attached: If you weigh more than 135lbs please do not sit on the copier. This way we won't be breaking the photocopiers and two, anything body part that is photopied is likely to be a welcome image for us to view!
First off, if these machines are breaking within the first few minutes/hours doesn't this tell you that the Quality Checking that MS is doing is rather substandard? Second, how many of these XBOX 360's have gone straight to a closet and won't be opened until Christmas Day? I'll expect a lot more news about this come christmas! And third. If this is the usual/expected kind of problems from this kind of technology then MS would have been prepared to fix these problems, right? Call 1-800-4my-xbox and see how long you have to wait on the phone! If these where expected problems wouldn't they be answering the phone a lot quicker? (My wait time was over 1/2 hour at 8am pst, i don't have an xbox, i was just curious). Either way, i'm not surprised if MS is shipping garbage, this is how they usually work.
Maybe it should all be moved to somewhere like Taiwan so we can take advantage of the cheap labour and have even cheaper domain name registrations! $1 for 50 domains. Think how great that would be!
Using metal pliars.. While the computer was on. Actually, no permament damage was done, it just scared the heck outa me. The workstation powered down immediately and would not power on for a few minutes. I assume something over heated and saved the day. Next time i'll cut them one wire at a time :)
Gee, That heat has to go somewhere! It seems rather absurd to me that someone would *WANT* to keep the heat inside their computer. maybe if it was a stand with an extra fan and vents on it so that the heat would be shot out the side or something. But insulating your computer seems like a really bad idea! Why not just plug up all the fan holes in your PC to stop the noise?
Multiple standards keeps competition alive and kicking and gives us options. Options are good unless you're a consumer who doesn't want to make educated decisions.
Well. I do not like the idea of rebooting etc. at all. Also the "auto-detecting" of hardware would be less than great. Having a game fit on a single CD/DVD wouldn't be the best either and there would be speed issues. However, maybe there is a hybrid choice. You'd still need to reboot and it would auto-detect your hardware in the sense that, it looks up your existing configuration and uses that as it's starting point. Using this method you could utilize all of the computers resources towards the game and nothing but, squeezing that much power out of the system..... Although, the gains would be minimal. Be neat to see a prototype though to actually measure what the gains could/would be.
Ok man. I agree netware is great. But seriously. No edittors geared towards DOS/Windows Users? pico, nano, joe, jed.... to name a few.
Well, physical media (in my eyes) has some very significant advantages. #1, You can rent them. (Technically you can rent from online to with all that fancy encryption stuff etc etc etc but I gotta figure a download of a game would take a few hours). #2, You can take the game to your friends house. #3, you don't have to be concerned about a hd failure or other problems (as mentioned above. what if you bought a game 5 years ago and the company that provides it went out of business? Not that gaming companies ever go under...)
I agree. This should start a trend of more people developing for Linux/Unix First and then converting it to Windows later using MS's handy dandy tools. What a spectacular idea!
So, I think you're trying to say Windows 98 is dead?
Just FYI. Netware's file system does have a trashcan built in and will keep the files that you've deleted. Even multiple versions of them until ther is no room on the storage device, then it will start to actually delete the oldest deleted files at that point. It's quite useful! you can disable the function globally or just on a directory/tree also. It has been doing this since version 2 for sure. Possible even before that.
This is probably bit off topic. however. the drink dispeser was not at the Restaurant At The end of the Universe. It was in the middle of space while being attacks by Vogans. And it was arthur dent he had asked the question "Why do I Like Tea?"
Well, the question is. Does it start Spying when it is not pirated? How does it determine it is pirated? And does it warn the user that it is pirated? I think it would be fair if on startup it says something like "This program does not appear to be licensed. If you continue It will contact vendor XYZ so you can arrange payment, or resolve the problem if this message is in error". (Or something like that). If it just doesn't in behind without saying a thing then it could be spying when the software is legally purchased. This would pose a huge problem!
YOu know. Partition Manager coulda fixed that in a matter of minutes. It's a far easier solution and pretty cheap to! ($40 from Paragron software). Vendors shouldn't do it. But eh. Vendors shouldn't do a lot of things.
Yes, lots of games are just the same shoot 'em up over and over again. But the game cube has a plethora of original and fun games! Just to name a few, PikMin, Luigi's Mansion and Mario Sunshine. Hrmm, metroid prime isn't all original, but it's really good...
No cartoons? They killed The Lexx. but cartoons still have some value!
I hear this a lot. The simplest solution really seems to be just get really long (15 meters) kvm (plus audio!) cables and move all your computers to another room (like the furnace room). Where the heat and noise do not bother you. As long as you get high quality cables you don't get much signal degridation and your screen still looks great. The only pain is when you want to get to the computer or change a cd rom drive. But this is well worth it for quiet and no extra heat!