If I use any Linux or BSD I get continued security updates for free.
If I did use Red Hat I could still patch the system with security updates myself. With Windows I can't do that.
How was my original post flamebait? The patches COULD be made for Windows 2000 since it is almost exactly the same codebase but instead they use it as leverage.
Try not only looking at the current trend of crotch rockets. Look at a cruiser.
The Honda Rebel is a 250cc ($3000 US new) slightly small bike that is fine for even short highway use. It will be much more stable and comfortable than a moped.
The Honda VLX models are up to $5500 and are 600cc. Still a little small for long highway trips, but even more comfortable.
The Honda Shadow Spirit 750 (the model I own) is about $6000. There is also a Spirit Aero that is similar, but built for even more comfort on long trips. I've taken several 600 mile trips on mine and ride it to work every day. Another factor to keep in mind is that buying a bike this size or larger is a decent investment. They don't depreciate like cars. A bike that is a few years old and well kept still sells for close to the cost of a new one. Smaller bikes drop to around $2000 and stay there permanently.
These are really nice looking bikes. Even before I customized it heavily I was constantly telling people that no, it wasn't a Harley.
My bike has a 3.6 gallon tank including the 1.3 gallon reserve. I routinely rode 120 miles in city before I had to switch to the reserve. I wanted the RPMs a little lower on the highway, so I changed the rear sprocket. Now I get 170 miles before I switch.
Do the math and that is 52 mpg and 73mpg on a vehicle you can be seen on in public. In fact, women tend to walk up and tell me how pretty it is.
That doesn't happen on a moped and if it did, you couldn't give them a ride.
Seriously, it goes both ways. Being blocked for NOT using IE hasn't been an uncommon problem and IE users may start to see the other side of it more often.
It's a public service for people who don't know that using that non-compliant security hole posing as a web browser impacts us all in pages that don't display properly, spam and viruses.
What you are talking about is rape. Not "normal" legal pornography. Rape videos are just as illegal as kiddie porn.
As for people who take the money, turn a trick on tape and then get emotionally scarred, too bad. When faced with a decision you have to weigh the consequences with the rewards. That's life. How is this different than someone who decides to have unprotected sex and gets an untreatable STD? A bad choice was made and now you have to live with it.
There are adults who like to have sex publicly who will not be harmed by willfully being in a porn. Those people deserve the right to do so and other adults deserve the right to watch.
I personally won't answer some of your questions (and attachments aren't allowed...) but there is nothing wrong with answering them publicly. In fact, it shows a great deal of self confidence. Other than that, you are going back to sex with minors and rape again. That horse is dead, give it a rest. The world knows rape and underage sex is very bad.
The sooner anti-porn people get the message that legal porn itself doesn't hurt otherwise sane adults, the better.
Sony hasn't had a good format launch, um, ever? Betamax, Mini Disc, etc, they always screw it up even when it is a good format.
Sony has a great selection of movies and a great game console, but the price of the console is way too high for quick adoption. I doubt it impacts the format war.
HD-DVD has the name. What consumer will understand Blu-Ray? What's that, a porno? Geeks can't name products, hince Blu-Ray and Gimp.
I don't want Microsoft to have a foothold on the livingroom, but HD-DVD sounds like the winning (if not the best) format to me.
Honestly, I still doubt that HD takes off within ten years, if ever. As it stands the companies are still convincing us that we need it instead of filling a consumer demand. Meanwhile cable companies are becomming much more aggressive with everything in communications. IPTV is appealing to consumers need for on-demand programming and is getting better all the time. Buy a movie ala iTunes and burn to your own disk of choice or rent a timed movie with no return and no late fee. When you can target human laziness, lack of patience and freedom of choice, it's tough to lose.
Back to the topic, nobody can sell an add-on storage device for a console. It's the kiss of death. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft remember the last 20 years in the console industry?
Linux is an OS. It can give access to hardware, memory, etc. and run applications. It can't draw, but it can show text. Think of DOS on steroids.
X is really just a big application that can draw on video cards that it knows about and use pointing devices such as mice, but X knows squat about windowing. If you run an app on X without a window manager, it just sticks in the upper left corner of the screen and has no title bar, close button, can't be resized, etc. It's just up there.
DirectFB is one semi-popular alternative to X, XDirectFB is X on DirrectFB so that there are actually apps available. There are others, but X has all the apps due to popularity and completeness.
The window manager (twm, metacity, kwin, kahaki, etc) keeps the apps separate and allows you to place them. Beyond that, its just more features.
A widget toolkit knows how to draw widgets for buttons, window borders, sliders, etc. Those are like GTK, QT, wxWindows or motif.
A Desktop is just a bundle of related apps that someone picked or wrote specificly to work well together, the toolkit they are written with and usually, but not always, a window manager. You can use other window managers with an integrated desktop, but normally people use the default one (metacity for Gnome, kwin for KDE). XFCE is another really good desktop based on GTK.
If you pick a window manager, toolkit and filemanager that you like, you have made your own desktop. It may not be a very well integrated one, but by definition, it is.
On Mac and Windows, there aren't really any choices, but these parts are there under the hood. They don't really make a distinction in names because these aren't usually something that sells an OS to the masses. It's a geek detail for low-level programmers and you don't get to choose a replacement. Well, you CAN use wxWindows, GTK and QT on other OS's in apps you write, but by default every application uses the default widgets.
On Mac, Aqua is a well known word and roughly equates to a desktop and X. Remember hearing that OSX is based on BSD? It is running a Mach kernel (similar to the Linux kernel) and FreeBSD spinoff (but similar to Gnu) utilities. They call this Darwin and is equivalent to what we know as Linux or Gnu/Linux. Aqua gets loaded in on top of all that to make a GUI like X and a desktop.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Quartz is similar to the Cairo drawing library. It makes for easy programming of drawing operations and speeds up the process of actually drawing anything to the screen.
On Windows I've heard that GDI is similar to a Window manager and also a brain dead Cairo or Quartz. Remember that as far back as Windows ME, Windows sat on top of DOS just like X and a desktop are on Linux. On windows 3.1 this was very clear as you bought them separately. Windows was like X and a desktop, nothing more. Even now on 2000 and XP, if you boot into a recovery mode you can run NT without the Windows GUI. They just don't give you the option so easily anymore.
I hope this helps and that I'm not too far off in my analogies.
And just HOW do the stations know we listen? They don't.
Have you tried requesting a song in the last 10 years? They don't play it.
People have largely given up on radio and use CD's, MP3's and satelite radio. Have the radio stations changed? Not a bit.
This generation of listeners have grown up with bad music. They don't know what it's like not to hear the same, lame songs once or twice an hour.
There is only supposed to be x amount of paid content per hour on the "public" airwaves. Payola is a way to make better money between advertisements than during advertisements. Buisnesses have no morals so they gladly take it.
As long as stations and DJ's are paid more than advertising rate to play bad music that labels know listeners won't request, stations won't bother to find out what people want to hear.
I'm glad to see a company being fined. I just wish that the DJ and station had to pay an equal fine.
If you're going through a 32bit PCI bus, you're stuck with a bottleneck right there. 133MBps MAX (not that any motherboard can hit 133MBps in the real world) shared between everything on the bus. Those Raptors can saturate the bus with only two drives if you have a decent controller and might even be faster without the overhead of those two other drives.
Try a real slot like PCI-X or PCI-E. Anything over 100MBps on 32bit PCI (while actually doing any work) is amazing, but 200+ isn't that hard to get on a better bus.
Not so much because of the CPU, but because I like the OS. I have been planning this for some time now.
I'm tired of playing "Pimp My OS" with Linux and I hate working with Windows.
The CPU switch does make me more comfortable with the future of the system though. PPC is like Matrox video cards, every few years they release a new version that is the best thing on the planet, then two months later it's slow compared to everything else.
This last generation of PPC didn't seem to live up to expectations very well, but with x86 the CPU is no longer a problem.
I may simply buy a cheap used G5 once the Intel hype kicks in. Apple seems like it has a future for the first time in many years.
I know I'd pay $1.99 an episode to avoid crappy SD digital cable compression. SciFi and USA don't have HD versions on Time Warner cable. My P2P versions ALWAYS look better than the original broadcast. I think they are compressed less than what cable uses.
So yeah, I'd pay per show, per week for around 6 shows. Much cheaper than cable and probably better quality.
Thanks, I didn't realize Carnivale was Moore's work.
I hated to see that show go off the air, but it does save me money. I don't need HBO anymore.
I have to say that Moore has my respect at this point. Three series he's had major influence are some of my all-time favorites: BSG, DS9 and Carnivale.
I agree with most of your comments, but I have to admit (as another rabid fan who owns and knows every eppisode) that parts of season 7 and most of 8 got a little more off track with each try. The end of season 8 was a train-wreck. It was corny and should have been done as a one-parter goof eppisode.
Possibly this was due to RDAs being pregressively MIA and seeming onset of alzheimer? Tealcs(sp?) jive turkey hair and sudden personality change?
The earlier seasons were far smarter. I never put my finger on the OCafication, but you make good points.
Maybe with a renewed lead (IMHO, a worthy replacement) season 9 will not disappoint.
When I heard about Atlantis, I didn't understand how they could spin off so late in the game. Now it looks like an attempt to build a safety net for the franchise knowing that RDA was leaving the show.
Finding a replacement for RDA had to be the worst job ever. He was the face and personality of the show. Bringing in Ben Browder seems like a good decision based on his acting personality. His cocky, slightly confused John Chriton character always reminded me of a younger, more tormented version of Jack from SG-1. Not having the rest of the cast immediately want to follow him was perfect. He will have to prove himself worthy of trust and friendship. As long as he is given a chance to grow his character on SG-1 like he did on Farscape and the SG-1 and Farscape fans can keep the shows separate I think it could work.
Bringing in Claudia Black might break the mix. Her character is vastly different than her Farscape character (other than the leather, not that I'm complaining). She's more like a smarter version of the Chianna(sp?) character, without the ticks. She's a loner who will do anything (legal or not, uses her sex appeal) to get what she wants or needs as opposed to a outwardly stern, inwardly insecure moral soldier. It's hard to pass up excellent acting tallent when it comes along, especially for a scifi show. Making her a supporting character was a good idea. Possibly after Browder is accepted she could join the main cast to ween in the Farscape actors a little at a time. There are plenty of good actors left from Farscape so I wouldn't be suprised to see more of them pop up on Atlantis or SG-1 in the future just as they have borrowed actors from Star Trek from time to time.
I have to say that the spin off idaea worked very well. Atlantis turned out different enough to allow unique story lines while still keeping the Stargate feel. The choice of actors was done well too. All of the primary cast are convincing, interesting and work well together. The male lead in Atlantis (sorry, don't know his name) could have been a viable replacement for RDA instead of Browder.
Overall, I think that both strategies will be successful. Not an easy thing to pull off.
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That is two boards (mother and daughter) with two powersupplies too.
You still won't need this monster.
http://www.last.fm/help/player/
Interestingly, it has an OSX, Linux static binary, FreeBSD and FreeBSD AMD64 version and QT4 BSD licensed source.
So is this just late 90's radio? That's what it looks like.
You are right, just like the others I don't use.
If I use any Linux or BSD I get continued security updates for free.
If I did use Red Hat I could still patch the system with security updates myself. With Windows I can't do that.
How was my original post flamebait? The patches COULD be made for Windows 2000 since it is almost exactly the same codebase but instead they use it as leverage.
Just one more reason to use OSS.
Keep in mind that Microsoft leverages security patches to force upgrades.
XP and 2003 are just 2000 with paid patches.
Try not only looking at the current trend of crotch rockets. Look at a cruiser.
The Honda Rebel is a 250cc ($3000 US new) slightly small bike that is fine for even short highway use. It will be much more stable and comfortable than a moped.
The Honda VLX models are up to $5500 and are 600cc. Still a little small for long highway trips, but even more comfortable.
The Honda Shadow Spirit 750 (the model I own) is about $6000. There is also a Spirit Aero that is similar, but built for even more comfort on long trips. I've taken several 600 mile trips on mine and ride it to work every day. Another factor to keep in mind is that buying a bike this size or larger is a decent investment. They don't depreciate like cars. A bike that is a few years old and well kept still sells for close to the cost of a new one. Smaller bikes drop to around $2000 and stay there permanently.
These are really nice looking bikes. Even before I customized it heavily I was constantly telling people that no, it wasn't a Harley.
My bike has a 3.6 gallon tank including the 1.3 gallon reserve. I routinely rode 120 miles in city before I had to switch to the reserve. I wanted the RPMs a little lower on the highway, so I changed the rear sprocket. Now I get 170 miles before I switch.
Do the math and that is 52 mpg and 73mpg on a vehicle you can be seen on in public. In fact, women tend to walk up and tell me how pretty it is.
That doesn't happen on a moped and if it did, you couldn't give them a ride.
I'm an American and I always have a manual trans.
I don't agree with the control layout you suggest though. I prefer to shift with my left foot while keeping both hands firmly on the handlebars.
Oh, you were talking about cars... Yuck.
Look, I'm a Southern white boy and even I understand this. Stories like this one are FUD and more propaganda for the current regime.
They have spooked us into giving up freedom after freedom and are constantly trying to turn us against one another.
Honestly, I don't see what the journalists get out of it. Wouldn't standing up for the citizens gain more attention than falling into the party line?
Friends don't let friends drive junk.
Lay off, isn't he punished enough?
Seriously, it goes both ways. Being blocked for NOT using IE hasn't been an uncommon problem and IE users may start to see the other side of it more often.
It's a public service for people who don't know that using that non-compliant security hole posing as a web browser impacts us all in pages that don't display properly, spam and viruses.
What you are talking about is rape. Not "normal" legal pornography. Rape videos are just as illegal as kiddie porn.
As for people who take the money, turn a trick on tape and then get emotionally scarred, too bad. When faced with a decision you have to weigh the consequences with the rewards. That's life. How is this different than someone who decides to have unprotected sex and gets an untreatable STD? A bad choice was made and now you have to live with it.
There are adults who like to have sex publicly who will not be harmed by willfully being in a porn. Those people deserve the right to do so and other adults deserve the right to watch.
I personally won't answer some of your questions (and attachments aren't allowed...) but there is nothing wrong with answering them publicly. In fact, it shows a great deal of self confidence. Other than that, you are going back to sex with minors and rape again. That horse is dead, give it a rest. The world knows rape and underage sex is very bad.
The sooner anti-porn people get the message that legal porn itself doesn't hurt otherwise sane adults, the better.
It's just you.
Have you looked at the things that go on in the US?
We don't get worked up about anything except "reality" TV, bare breasts or sports.
If any nation was ever ready to be dictated, this bunch of lambs is it.
Sony hasn't had a good format launch, um, ever? Betamax, Mini Disc, etc, they always screw it up even when it is a good format.
Sony has a great selection of movies and a great game console, but the price of the console is way too high for quick adoption. I doubt it impacts the format war.
HD-DVD has the name. What consumer will understand Blu-Ray? What's that, a porno? Geeks can't name products, hince Blu-Ray and Gimp.
I don't want Microsoft to have a foothold on the livingroom, but HD-DVD sounds like the winning (if not the best) format to me.
Honestly, I still doubt that HD takes off within ten years, if ever. As it stands the companies are still convincing us that we need it instead of filling a consumer demand. Meanwhile cable companies are becomming much more aggressive with everything in communications. IPTV is appealing to consumers need for on-demand programming and is getting better all the time. Buy a movie ala iTunes and burn to your own disk of choice or rent a timed movie with no return and no late fee. When you can target human laziness, lack of patience and freedom of choice, it's tough to lose.
Back to the topic, nobody can sell an add-on storage device for a console. It's the kiss of death. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft remember the last 20 years in the console industry?
I'll get as close as I know how...
Linux is an OS. It can give access to hardware, memory, etc. and run applications. It can't draw, but it can show text. Think of DOS on steroids.
X is really just a big application that can draw on video cards that it knows about and use pointing devices such as mice, but X knows squat about windowing. If you run an app on X without a window manager, it just sticks in the upper left corner of the screen and has no title bar, close button, can't be resized, etc. It's just up there.
DirectFB is one semi-popular alternative to X, XDirectFB is X on DirrectFB so that there are actually apps available. There are others, but X has all the apps due to popularity and completeness.
The window manager (twm, metacity, kwin, kahaki, etc) keeps the apps separate and allows you to place them. Beyond that, its just more features.
A widget toolkit knows how to draw widgets for buttons, window borders, sliders, etc. Those are like GTK, QT, wxWindows or motif.
A Desktop is just a bundle of related apps that someone picked or wrote specificly to work well together, the toolkit they are written with and usually, but not always, a window manager. You can use other window managers with an integrated desktop, but normally people use the default one (metacity for Gnome, kwin for KDE). XFCE is another really good desktop based on GTK.
If you pick a window manager, toolkit and filemanager that you like, you have made your own desktop. It may not be a very well integrated one, but by definition, it is.
On Mac and Windows, there aren't really any choices, but these parts are there under the hood. They don't really make a distinction in names because these aren't usually something that sells an OS to the masses. It's a geek detail for low-level programmers and you don't get to choose a replacement. Well, you CAN use wxWindows, GTK and QT on other OS's in apps you write, but by default every application uses the default widgets.
On Mac, Aqua is a well known word and roughly equates to a desktop and X. Remember hearing that OSX is based on BSD? It is running a Mach kernel (similar to the Linux kernel) and FreeBSD spinoff (but similar to Gnu) utilities. They call this Darwin and is equivalent to what we know as Linux or Gnu/Linux. Aqua gets loaded in on top of all that to make a GUI like X and a desktop.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Quartz is similar to the Cairo drawing library. It makes for easy programming of drawing operations and speeds up the process of actually drawing anything to the screen.
On Windows I've heard that GDI is similar to a Window manager and also a brain dead Cairo or Quartz. Remember that as far back as Windows ME, Windows sat on top of DOS just like X and a desktop are on Linux. On windows 3.1 this was very clear as you bought them separately. Windows was like X and a desktop, nothing more. Even now on 2000 and XP, if you boot into a recovery mode you can run NT without the Windows GUI. They just don't give you the option so easily anymore.
I hope this helps and that I'm not too far off in my analogies.
Combining geek and gearhead humor aint easy folks.
Look at the power consumption numbers again and it looks more like Intel is a zippy Fiat that sucks fuel like a Mack truck.
It's not the 90's anymore.
The mod is less explicit than some TV commercials!
Anyone playing this game is killing in the most hard-core sense of the word, selling drugs, beating up whores, yada, yada, yada....
Man these people need to get a grip.
And just HOW do the stations know we listen? They don't.
Have you tried requesting a song in the last 10 years? They don't play it.
People have largely given up on radio and use CD's, MP3's and satelite radio. Have the radio stations changed? Not a bit.
This generation of listeners have grown up with bad music. They don't know what it's like not to hear the same, lame songs once or twice an hour.
There is only supposed to be x amount of paid content per hour on the "public" airwaves. Payola is a way to make better money between advertisements than during advertisements. Buisnesses have no morals so they gladly take it.
As long as stations and DJ's are paid more than advertising rate to play bad music that labels know listeners won't request, stations won't bother to find out what people want to hear.
I'm glad to see a company being fined. I just wish that the DJ and station had to pay an equal fine.
If you're going through a 32bit PCI bus, you're stuck with a bottleneck right there. 133MBps MAX (not that any motherboard can hit 133MBps in the real world) shared between everything on the bus. Those Raptors can saturate the bus with only two drives if you have a decent controller and might even be faster without the overhead of those two other drives.
Try a real slot like PCI-X or PCI-E. Anything over 100MBps on 32bit PCI (while actually doing any work) is amazing, but 200+ isn't that hard to get on a better bus.
I understand the TV part...
Not so much because of the CPU, but because I like the OS. I have been planning this for some time now.
I'm tired of playing "Pimp My OS" with Linux and I hate working with Windows.
The CPU switch does make me more comfortable with the future of the system though. PPC is like Matrox video cards, every few years they release a new version that is the best thing on the planet, then two months later it's slow compared to everything else.
This last generation of PPC didn't seem to live up to expectations very well, but with x86 the CPU is no longer a problem.
I may simply buy a cheap used G5 once the Intel hype kicks in. Apple seems like it has a future for the first time in many years.
I wish I had mod points...
I know I'd pay $1.99 an episode to avoid crappy SD digital cable compression. SciFi and USA don't have HD versions on Time Warner cable. My P2P versions ALWAYS look better than the original broadcast. I think they are compressed less than what cable uses.
So yeah, I'd pay per show, per week for around 6 shows. Much cheaper than cable and probably better quality.
Thanks, I didn't realize Carnivale was Moore's work.
I hated to see that show go off the air, but it does save me money. I don't need HBO anymore.
I have to say that Moore has my respect at this point. Three series he's had major influence are some of my all-time favorites: BSG, DS9 and Carnivale.
I agree with most of your comments, but I have to admit (as another rabid fan who owns and knows every eppisode) that parts of season 7 and most of 8 got a little more off track with each try. The end of season 8 was a train-wreck. It was corny and should have been done as a one-parter goof eppisode.
Possibly this was due to RDAs being pregressively MIA and seeming onset of alzheimer? Tealcs(sp?) jive turkey hair and sudden personality change?
The earlier seasons were far smarter. I never put my finger on the OCafication, but you make good points.
Maybe with a renewed lead (IMHO, a worthy replacement) season 9 will not disappoint.
When I heard about Atlantis, I didn't understand how they could spin off so late in the game. Now it looks like an attempt to build a safety net for the franchise knowing that RDA was leaving the show.
Finding a replacement for RDA had to be the worst job ever. He was the face and personality of the show. Bringing in Ben Browder seems like a good decision based on his acting personality. His cocky, slightly confused John Chriton character always reminded me of a younger, more tormented version of Jack from SG-1. Not having the rest of the cast immediately want to follow him was perfect. He will have to prove himself worthy of trust and friendship. As long as he is given a chance to grow his character on SG-1 like he did on Farscape and the SG-1 and Farscape fans can keep the shows separate I think it could work.
Bringing in Claudia Black might break the mix. Her character is vastly different than her Farscape character (other than the leather, not that I'm complaining). She's more like a smarter version of the Chianna(sp?) character, without the ticks. She's a loner who will do anything (legal or not, uses her sex appeal) to get what she wants or needs as opposed to a outwardly stern, inwardly insecure moral soldier. It's hard to pass up excellent acting tallent when it comes along, especially for a scifi show. Making her a supporting character was a good idea. Possibly after Browder is accepted she could join the main cast to ween in the Farscape actors a little at a time. There are plenty of good actors left from Farscape so I wouldn't be suprised to see more of them pop up on Atlantis or SG-1 in the future just as they have borrowed actors from Star Trek from time to time.
I have to say that the spin off idaea worked very well. Atlantis turned out different enough to allow unique story lines while still keeping the Stargate feel. The choice of actors was done well too. All of the primary cast are convincing, interesting and work well together. The male lead in Atlantis (sorry, don't know his name) could have been a viable replacement for RDA instead of Browder.
Overall, I think that both strategies will be successful. Not an easy thing to pull off.
For those too lazy to click the link:
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Refurbished DTV converter: $162.95
Original list price: $399.95
Gee, maybe the gubment plans to subsidise $349.95 of the cost to offer them at $50.
I knew the people in charge weren't stupid enough to think $50 converters were available.
I'd wager that $430 24" TV was a monitor with no DTV tuner.
When you add another $200 for a tuner the TV is still getting close to the $800 figure stated above.