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My monitor at work hasn't moved in 2 years.
If I spent 750$ for a display that was only 20" and had a resolution of 1600x1200 I would go insane. Plus I am one of those people who likes his refresh rate set up to 85hz otherwise I get a headache. So why should I shell out the money for the LCD what are the real advantages?
I actually want an answer here, don't just say, better eye sight blah blah blah. Show me a sight that is run by a company that knows optometry and have them tell me that it's better on my eyes. A good flat screen trinitron CRT is just as bright as a LCD.
How do you bill someone, how legal is it, if I send an email to an ex-girlfriend asking for my ring back and she took me off her white list do I suddenly have to pay 10$ for that email I sent. And what about people who spam from an accidental open relay, small company B accidentally sends up their mail server wrong, and they suddenly get billed a million dollars.
And if it doesn't bill you on the first message, only on the second sent from the same address couldn't they just do what they do now, and send every email from a different address. This is a dumb idea, if people just stopped buying from spam, it wouldn't exist, but people do, so companies spam.
Companies do patent printing processes for printing specific kinds of graphics. The point is that they developed a method of getting specific banners to specific users. As apposed to showing me tampon banners and a women penis enlargement banners.
This would also affect all those convenient emails that come to us from different companies though, like the daily dilbert, that I love, the emails that tell me I was outbid, the emails that tell me when my suit will be shipped out. I don't like this idea, not one bit. Who would get the money? Why should they get the money, my email server recieved the email and the other guys email server sent it out. two equal parts of work were done. who gets money, in this system, there are lots of issues I don't want to see arise, plus I fear privacy problems arising.
But you kind of are being dumb. Cell phones have specific prefixes. These are simply not allowed to be called by telemarketers. It's an existing legislation because cell phone users pay for incoming calls.
So even if telemarketers, had your name and that phone number, it's illegal for them to call it.
Please get off this topic. Your all sounding dumb.
So when the revolution comes, do I have to wear stupid shoulder pads and roller blade eveywhere?
Hackers GUI. Did anyone notice that in Hackers they would be using a MAC one minute and then it would suddenly kick into a C prompt. lol. Also, where can I get a kick ass, fully 3d GUI.
Another question, I use a modem at home, can I navigate a fully 3 dimensional remote OS over my whopping 6KBPS?
Questions about the future, help me out, ye olde Slashdotters
It isn't just a patent on banner adds. It's a patent on banner adds that are displayed through a certain process. Please read the article before posting.
Slashdot has greatly declined, there is no doubt about that. They throw up hasty articles. That don't really matter, and word them in a way that will scare or disturb slash dotters. I think Slashdot should team up with Fox News, They seem to have a lot in common.
Mod me down, see if I care.
But I think you misread the patent greatly. And seem to have said something very silly. The patent had multiple details stating why a person answering a phone would not be covered by this.
Please re read the patent, his slam was accurate.
You misquoted me. I said that my windows box had been up for more than half a year and my linux box is the one that only made it 3 months. And my XP box runs a crap load of apps, while my linux box runs pearl and appache. Linux is not magic and I still haven't seen any proof that it runs better than XP. People make claims with words like, Windows is overly robust and becomes less stable as it gets older. Are you saying this because as you install more and more crap shareware on it it becomes slower? Maybe it's your apps. I am currently sitting on my work machine which is a Windows 2000 box, I have 32 apps on it and it runs perfectly and has for a year and a half.
Most windows problems are caused by the distributors or the users. A good user that does a fresh build in the appropriate manner will have an excellent experience with Windows XP
Mod me down, this is a pro Microsoft statement.
Yes I am saying your an idiot if you bought an HP computer with a preloaded OS and expected it to operate on the same level as boxes you set up to be servers.
I thought this was common knowledge that the prebuilds are shit that add loads of crap that run in your task bar, and clutter your programs list. But even this isn't the problem, it's ussually their proprietary drivers, for their proprietary built in hardware.
And I think your an idiot for buying an E-machine, because, I garantee that for what you spend on a new E-machine I can build a machine twice as good. So your dumb for paying money for a piece of crap, even if it was a really cheap piece of crap.
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Not to flaim you but you apparently didn't read his post.
>You can't argue that someone who uses Linux or >UNIX doesn't know anything about computers. But >you CAN argue that when talking about Windows >users.
He specifically said you can't "argue" that a linux user doesn't know anything, but you can argu that a windows user doesn't know anything.
>How many Windows "power users" do you know that >can fix a Linux box that has a problem? Not too >many, I'd bet. I still have yet to meet a >Linux/UNIX user that CAN'T fix a Windows box >though. They might gripe about it the whole way >and talk about how backwards the system is (I'm >not that bad, I save my bile for Slashdot >weenies) but they are 100% guaranteed to fix it.
And here he argues that not many windows power users can fix a linux, but he has never met a linux user that wasn't 100% garanteed to fix a windows box.
So are we pointing out that Windows is so easy to administer and fix, when compared to linux, that power users from both groups can definitely fix a windows problem, but that linux is so poorly designed that only some power users from both groups can fix a linux problem.
And tell me something else, why don't linux drivers come precompiled with the option to also download source, when I am setting up a box I don't want to dick around with chmod -x blah blah blah... I want to double click the driver package and have it install.
I tried running games like Hitman 2 and Battlefield 1942 on Linux with Wine and they ran significantly choppier than the smoothness I was used to on XP. It actually pissed me off, and I decided no more of that. I really enjoy gaming, and if I am playing a game and a bit of lag causes me to shoot someone in the shoulder as apposed to right between the eyes, I get very pissed off.
Ummm....your comparing a machine that you hand loaded an OS onto, to a machine that you bought from HP, with a preinstalled OS. Duh...Is this complicated to understand, Dell and HP don't know what their doing, and how huch crap have you loaded onto your wifes Desktop compared to what your running on your linux boxes.
The fact that you even run an Emachine goes to show that your idea of quality is highly skewed.
In my post I said, properly configured OS, with properly configured hardware. HP, Dell,... These companies build computers as cheap as they can with as much proprietary on board, bull shit hardware as possible. So of course it was going to be buggy. especially since you were too ignorant to put a fresh build of XP on it when you got the box.
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Your making arrogant, and ignorant comments. You forget the CAD users that use linux boxes at work, but didn't build them, and lots of other people that use unix boxes that didn't build them, they have no knowledge of their systems, only knowledge of how to use AutoCad. And other programs. And they have windows boxes at home and are often asking me rediculously simple questions, like how to add another user to XP, or how to set up their printer to print labels. And they would have no idea how to fix their system if they had a problem. While, me, a Windows user, can easilly fix Linux boxes, here at work, we run proprietary unix for a our cad guys. I realise Unix is not linux, but I could easily fix a unix box as well, and I often do, my home webserver is Linux, running appache.
Don't say all Linux users are Gurus and that most of windows users are idiots. It makes you sound like an elitist. Ummm...I own my own company, and yes I am a suit, but I was an engineer first. I pay myself 180K a year salary, and most of my consultants around 70K. We are after all, a consulting company.
I garantee you didn't have.75 terabytes, 6 years ago, when the first 1 GB IDE hard drives were coming out, and then the 1.6 GB hard drives. Don't be stupid, and lol, you only have.75 Terabytes.:) I have my home file server loaded with 6 180GB IDE drives. I pushed.75 a long time ago. Ummm... Your forgetting latency. Try streaming an actual DVD quality movie, which is about 900 KBps over your wireless. Goodluck.
And I am hoping that quality gets higher and doesn't just stay the same, enough is never enough.
Actually Linux administrators are paid more, because there aren't very many with a minimu of 5 years experience in the work world and that's what my company requires, so we over pay linux geeks for some reason. The guy came in the first day wearing Sandles and a T-Shirt, I sent him home to find proper shoes, a dress shirt and a tie.
Only Once, and it was while running "The Playa" I now just use Media Player 9 for everything, looks great and never crashes, there is something wrong with "The Playa".
how about high quality streaming videos to your home instead of renting movies, I'd like bandwidth for that. Or maybe making VPN more viable for companies.
You sound like those people that told me a 1 GB hard drive was more space than I was EVER going to need, when I bought my IBM 6 years ago.
My XP box, is sitting at my house right now, happily encoding a divx movie for me, it has been on for 198 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes. I come home, play games like battlefield 1942 on it, run all my office software to prepare my presentations for work the next day, update my web server with it, write a little java, play divx movies to my big screen tv and I do all of this almost every single day, and haven't had a single crash yet. This is because I installed the OS properly, onto a stable hardware configuration and then went out and downloaded the apropriate patches, my web server is a linux box running apache, it has been up for 92 days, it goes down about every 3 months. It is running Redhat 7.3, so my problem is that my XP box, seems to be extremely stable, and I never have any problems. I would love to see some good runtime tests done for stability in Linux and XP, set up both boxes using gurus from microsoft and linux, and then run identical programs, whatever is the industry standard in a few fields, and see which one locks up first.
It will never be faster though. Don't you see that. even 802.11a in turbo mode, which claims 72mbps can only pull it off if your within like 10 feet of the access point. The fact is, that wires are already laid to our house, so why would I want something wireless that will cut out when theres a heavy storm or if my tree in my front yard is in full bloom and cutiing line of site?
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Want to compare yearly salaries, And are you sure you want to make fun of people who play computer games. Computer Gaming is a 5.5 Billion dollar industry, I think I'll be happy to take a piece of that pie with my consulting company. A lot of the companies we do work for are developers for video games, like EA and Idios.
And yes I consider the ability to render out a video game important if your trying to argu Linux as a desktop, why are you running perl scripts on your desktop computer, I personaly can afford a server to do that.
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My monitor at work hasn't moved in 2 years. If I spent 750$ for a display that was only 20" and had a resolution of 1600x1200 I would go insane. Plus I am one of those people who likes his refresh rate set up to 85hz otherwise I get a headache. So why should I shell out the money for the LCD what are the real advantages? I actually want an answer here, don't just say, better eye sight blah blah blah. Show me a sight that is run by a company that knows optometry and have them tell me that it's better on my eyes. A good flat screen trinitron CRT is just as bright as a LCD.
How do you bill someone, how legal is it, if I send an email to an ex-girlfriend asking for my ring back and she took me off her white list do I suddenly have to pay 10$ for that email I sent. And what about people who spam from an accidental open relay, small company B accidentally sends up their mail server wrong, and they suddenly get billed a million dollars. And if it doesn't bill you on the first message, only on the second sent from the same address couldn't they just do what they do now, and send every email from a different address. This is a dumb idea, if people just stopped buying from spam, it wouldn't exist, but people do, so companies spam.
Companies do patent printing processes for printing specific kinds of graphics. The point is that they developed a method of getting specific banners to specific users. As apposed to showing me tampon banners and a women penis enlargement banners.
This would also affect all those convenient emails that come to us from different companies though, like the daily dilbert, that I love, the emails that tell me I was outbid, the emails that tell me when my suit will be shipped out. I don't like this idea, not one bit. Who would get the money? Why should they get the money, my email server recieved the email and the other guys email server sent it out. two equal parts of work were done. who gets money, in this system, there are lots of issues I don't want to see arise, plus I fear privacy problems arising.
But you kind of are being dumb. Cell phones have specific prefixes. These are simply not allowed to be called by telemarketers. It's an existing legislation because cell phone users pay for incoming calls. So even if telemarketers, had your name and that phone number, it's illegal for them to call it. Please get off this topic. Your all sounding dumb.
So when the revolution comes, do I have to wear stupid shoulder pads and roller blade eveywhere? Hackers GUI. Did anyone notice that in Hackers they would be using a MAC one minute and then it would suddenly kick into a C prompt. lol. Also, where can I get a kick ass, fully 3d GUI. Another question, I use a modem at home, can I navigate a fully 3 dimensional remote OS over my whopping 6KBPS? Questions about the future, help me out, ye olde Slashdotters
It isn't just a patent on banner adds. It's a patent on banner adds that are displayed through a certain process. Please read the article before posting.
Slashdot has greatly declined, there is no doubt about that. They throw up hasty articles. That don't really matter, and word them in a way that will scare or disturb slash dotters. I think Slashdot should team up with Fox News, They seem to have a lot in common. Mod me down, see if I care.
But I think you misread the patent greatly. And seem to have said something very silly. The patent had multiple details stating why a person answering a phone would not be covered by this. Please re read the patent, his slam was accurate.
i have one word for you. "Inventory". Your going to get another Linksys, I garantee.
You misquoted me. I said that my windows box had been up for more than half a year and my linux box is the one that only made it 3 months. And my XP box runs a crap load of apps, while my linux box runs pearl and appache. Linux is not magic and I still haven't seen any proof that it runs better than XP. People make claims with words like, Windows is overly robust and becomes less stable as it gets older. Are you saying this because as you install more and more crap shareware on it it becomes slower? Maybe it's your apps. I am currently sitting on my work machine which is a Windows 2000 box, I have 32 apps on it and it runs perfectly and has for a year and a half. Most windows problems are caused by the distributors or the users. A good user that does a fresh build in the appropriate manner will have an excellent experience with Windows XP Mod me down, this is a pro Microsoft statement.
Yes I am saying your an idiot if you bought an HP computer with a preloaded OS and expected it to operate on the same level as boxes you set up to be servers. I thought this was common knowledge that the prebuilds are shit that add loads of crap that run in your task bar, and clutter your programs list. But even this isn't the problem, it's ussually their proprietary drivers, for their proprietary built in hardware. And I think your an idiot for buying an E-machine, because, I garantee that for what you spend on a new E-machine I can build a machine twice as good. So your dumb for paying money for a piece of crap, even if it was a really cheap piece of crap.
Not to flaim you but you apparently didn't read his post. >You can't argue that someone who uses Linux or >UNIX doesn't know anything about computers. But >you CAN argue that when talking about Windows >users. He specifically said you can't "argue" that a linux user doesn't know anything, but you can argu that a windows user doesn't know anything. >How many Windows "power users" do you know that >can fix a Linux box that has a problem? Not too >many, I'd bet. I still have yet to meet a >Linux/UNIX user that CAN'T fix a Windows box >though. They might gripe about it the whole way >and talk about how backwards the system is (I'm >not that bad, I save my bile for Slashdot >weenies) but they are 100% guaranteed to fix it. And here he argues that not many windows power users can fix a linux, but he has never met a linux user that wasn't 100% garanteed to fix a windows box. So are we pointing out that Windows is so easy to administer and fix, when compared to linux, that power users from both groups can definitely fix a windows problem, but that linux is so poorly designed that only some power users from both groups can fix a linux problem. And tell me something else, why don't linux drivers come precompiled with the option to also download source, when I am setting up a box I don't want to dick around with chmod -x blah blah blah... I want to double click the driver package and have it install.
I tried running games like Hitman 2 and Battlefield 1942 on Linux with Wine and they ran significantly choppier than the smoothness I was used to on XP. It actually pissed me off, and I decided no more of that. I really enjoy gaming, and if I am playing a game and a bit of lag causes me to shoot someone in the shoulder as apposed to right between the eyes, I get very pissed off.
Well we've entered a new realm of rediculous posting, it was probably either this or an article that was pro-Microsoft and they had to post something.
Ummm....your comparing a machine that you hand loaded an OS onto, to a machine that you bought from HP, with a preinstalled OS. Duh...Is this complicated to understand, Dell and HP don't know what their doing, and how huch crap have you loaded onto your wifes Desktop compared to what your running on your linux boxes. The fact that you even run an Emachine goes to show that your idea of quality is highly skewed. In my post I said, properly configured OS, with properly configured hardware. HP, Dell,... These companies build computers as cheap as they can with as much proprietary on board, bull shit hardware as possible. So of course it was going to be buggy. especially since you were too ignorant to put a fresh build of XP on it when you got the box.
Your making arrogant, and ignorant comments. You forget the CAD users that use linux boxes at work, but didn't build them, and lots of other people that use unix boxes that didn't build them, they have no knowledge of their systems, only knowledge of how to use AutoCad. And other programs. And they have windows boxes at home and are often asking me rediculously simple questions, like how to add another user to XP, or how to set up their printer to print labels. And they would have no idea how to fix their system if they had a problem. While, me, a Windows user, can easilly fix Linux boxes, here at work, we run proprietary unix for a our cad guys. I realise Unix is not linux, but I could easily fix a unix box as well, and I often do, my home webserver is Linux, running appache. Don't say all Linux users are Gurus and that most of windows users are idiots. It makes you sound like an elitist. Ummm...I own my own company, and yes I am a suit, but I was an engineer first. I pay myself 180K a year salary, and most of my consultants around 70K. We are after all, a consulting company.
I garantee you didn't have .75 terabytes, 6 years ago, when the first 1 GB IDE hard drives were coming out, and then the 1.6 GB hard drives. Don't be stupid, and lol, you only have .75 Terabytes. :) I have my home file server loaded with 6 180GB IDE drives. I pushed .75 a long time ago. Ummm... Your forgetting latency. Try streaming an actual DVD quality movie, which is about 900 KBps over your wireless. Goodluck.
And I am hoping that quality gets higher and doesn't just stay the same, enough is never enough.
Actually Linux administrators are paid more, because there aren't very many with a minimu of 5 years experience in the work world and that's what my company requires, so we over pay linux geeks for some reason. The guy came in the first day wearing Sandles and a T-Shirt, I sent him home to find proper shoes, a dress shirt and a tie.
Only Once, and it was while running "The Playa" I now just use Media Player 9 for everything, looks great and never crashes, there is something wrong with "The Playa".
how about high quality streaming videos to your home instead of renting movies, I'd like bandwidth for that. Or maybe making VPN more viable for companies. You sound like those people that told me a 1 GB hard drive was more space than I was EVER going to need, when I bought my IBM 6 years ago.
My XP box, is sitting at my house right now, happily encoding a divx movie for me, it has been on for 198 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes. I come home, play games like battlefield 1942 on it, run all my office software to prepare my presentations for work the next day, update my web server with it, write a little java, play divx movies to my big screen tv and I do all of this almost every single day, and haven't had a single crash yet. This is because I installed the OS properly, onto a stable hardware configuration and then went out and downloaded the apropriate patches, my web server is a linux box running apache, it has been up for 92 days, it goes down about every 3 months. It is running Redhat 7.3, so my problem is that my XP box, seems to be extremely stable, and I never have any problems. I would love to see some good runtime tests done for stability in Linux and XP, set up both boxes using gurus from microsoft and linux, and then run identical programs, whatever is the industry standard in a few fields, and see which one locks up first.
It will never be faster though. Don't you see that. even 802.11a in turbo mode, which claims 72mbps can only pull it off if your within like 10 feet of the access point. The fact is, that wires are already laid to our house, so why would I want something wireless that will cut out when theres a heavy storm or if my tree in my front yard is in full bloom and cutiing line of site?
Want to compare yearly salaries, And are you sure you want to make fun of people who play computer games. Computer Gaming is a 5.5 Billion dollar industry, I think I'll be happy to take a piece of that pie with my consulting company. A lot of the companies we do work for are developers for video games, like EA and Idios. And yes I consider the ability to render out a video game important if your trying to argu Linux as a desktop, why are you running perl scripts on your desktop computer, I personaly can afford a server to do that. http://www.gignews.com/2002andbeyond.htm
fade into the background? I think not, when there is still a significant difference between a wired and a non wired network.