You don't have to do anything by hand. There are these things called automated tasks. you may have heard of them. For instance, my windows automatically updeates. And so does my virus scanner. And doing that stuff isn't a thousand things. And I don't have to lift a finger.
Yes a Mac,so I can have my OS and hardware so tied together that I can't customize anything.
Here is my argument, your leaving Microsoft, but why? I know there are these argument about them being a big evil corporation trying to stop free programming.
but are they?
if they are, why not make it so, quick time doesn't run in windows, or why not try and sue open office for it's similarities, it seems to me they really aren't attacking the linux, or GNU community at all.
If 20 well skilled programmers sat down there could be a linux virus, so why hasn't evil M$ sat down and had this done and released from somewhere else. Linux users are making said viruses against M$.
I am going to get flamed for that, but I think we can assume that viruses recently that were launched, that don't affect the computers that there on, but simply attack Microsofts website, are probably not launched by people who like M$, so if they hate M$, there probably *nix or Mac users. I could be wrong, but that's how it feels.
I think the hate, is all from the open GNU side towards, M$, personally I think M$ is glad *nix is around, so that they don't get sued over anti trust every damn year.
So I am not saying linux is bad, linux is ok, but I think M$ as you guys call it, gets a bad rap. Post me links as to court cases M$ has lost where they were accused and found guilty of crushing a smaller software company, or stealing it's software, or illegally pushing people out of an industry.
Links from viable websites please. I will read them, I swear, and with an open mind. But I think that mass beliefs in popular myths are dangerous, even if it's attacking a big corporation
also please consider, M$ is in our country, helps our GDP, and employs thousands of highly paid programmers as well as donates millions to college IS departments that need the money.
See here is my point, you just made your windows opinion based on NT 4.0 SP6. SO I should make all my opinions on Linux based on their OSs 4 years ago?
My network card drivers were source only, my drivers I recieved for my sound card were source I had to compile and then it didn't support digital audio, Ummm...actually only a few things didn't come as source.
And if you haven't run windows in 5 years, you really wouldn't miss it, because you can't even comprehend how far its come.
That's like saying, I had a 386PC it wasn't very fast so I am sticking to my Dual Processor G5, it's much faster. Your comparing oranges, to old apples, you bought 4 years ago. Maybe you should try a nice K7 Athlon system running XP, even from 2000 to XP, the OS came a long way.
Ummm...you forget, maybe one team made it across the line, but if your looking for inovation, that doesn't always come from the winner. Sure the one team who had a qualifying vehicle, also had millions spent on the vehicle, where as, another team may have lots of good ideas on their vehicle and may have simply lacked the funds to develop. But having the idea is the hard part, paying a hundred engineers to design and perfect it, that's the easy part, and DARPA is the perfect candidate for such a thing.
And if you let the teams compete, they'll come back and try harder next year, Marines let in guys that can only do 3 pull ups, but when they leave boot camp it's an average of 15. Letting in slow starters isn't always bad, because with the right motivation they can put forward a lot of effort.
also consider this, your trying to get funding to build one of these bots, and your school give you hardly enough to get materials, where as another school gets millions of dollars. But by DARPA letting these guys in, it might help them get more funding the following year and make a stronger showing.
Actually, if you read my further post, I can hardly remember what my boot time is because I haven't rebooted in months, but I decided to test this k7 Athlon 2500 for boot time. It is running a 120 GB Western Digital, XP service pack 1, on an Asus NForce 2 motherboard. I timed it to the login prompt, and then I timed after the login prompt.
To the login prompt is 42 seconds. After the login prompt is about one minute 12 seconds, but not really windows fault, it has to update my files with server using active directory remote profiles, load up a real time virus scanner, load all of my network drives, load my calendar, and acrotray which is for the full version of adobe acrobat 6. I also offer that this build is only 2 months old, because I recently got this computer as an upgrade to a Pentium 3 1133. I built it myself, and could give you an exact part listing, but as for the OS install, I didn't do anything special, formatted the whole drive as one partition, ran through the install, ran all the updates, and added the system to the domain. ??? Works fantastic. and I have all XP machines here and ussually if we have a problem it when XP has to deal with running a program designed for like windows 95. and still uses hard coded LPTs for printing purposes. But other than that, I run a clean network, I do spam and virus detection at the email server, preventing worms from getting opened in email. And all in all, few problems.
This isn't a troll, I am just seriously tired of this constant anti windows shit, I think it's mostly based on the older OSs NT, and 98, but since 2000 I feel they have been doing a superb job, and when I bought XP pro moving from 2000 I really liked the upgrade.
I used to use a SGI for autocad, but then we moved to dual Proc Dells, and I really liked it. I do still use Linux, for my e-mail, and web server at home, but only because I didn't want to buy 2000 server, and I thought Linux works well as a server. Personally I used it as a desktop for years, but constant kernel updates, and having to compile every damn thing before I could use it, turned me off. THe linux community should learn to offer binary executables and source because I simply just don't like the hassle of the extra step.
Here comes the mod down. and there is nothing I can do about it. People hate me for my opinion, but I can't be like most of the people here, claim to hate windows and promote linux, but secretly use XP all the time.
MicroSoft makes an OS to make money, Linux is designed to be an effective OS
Close. Microsoft makes something which runs like and O/S, but includes massive amounts of code for things you may never use, but fill up the disk and memory anyway. It's like the joke that inside every fat person is a skinny person trying to get out, but with Windows there's a bloated pile of software smothering an operating system.
"Destroy him, my robots!"
That was rated +4 informative????
How informative it was, it did not provide us with links, nor sources, it simply mocked a product using a popular misconception, and then used what the slashdotter thought was a funny analogy. But I know slashdot moderators.
Duh, Microsoft is bad, they try and make money, their evil, and have a bad product, they only made money, because their evil, and people are dumb.
ugh what a bunch of shit, you Linux zealots are just like guys that lose then complain that the refs were unfair, or that the other team cheated. Quit your bitching. Microsoft is a profitable company because it is ran by an intelligent man that understands the market, and understands the needs of the majority of the market he sells in.
Also you are a moderator for slashdot, talk about hypocritical, why do I have banners at the top of my page. SO YOU CAN MAKE MONEY
More than likely you have a worm. My computer is an AMD machine running XP, and I haven't turned it off for 7 months, and it runs fabulously.
Also if you expect us to believe that after 4 months the machine can't run IE and this is a windows problem, ummm...your on crack, none of us would put up with windows if it completely failed after just a few months. Some of these office machines here at work, are used every day, and are 2 years old, running XP, with end users, lol, and they really are still doing just fine.
Of course I regularly run updates, and my virus scanner updates hourly and runs nightly, but you should do that with any PC.
My problem is encoding at 500KB or 1000KB, that makes for a large as movie. I encode a quality based Xvid and that usually comes out pretty well, what codecs really need to master is the art of using high KB when it's needed and low KB when it's not, also, would you people stop encoding the damn black lines into the movie. lol. just use apropriate ratio and my player takes care of the lines, that way I don't have 300 MB of encoded black.
OH yes, I forgot Linux programmers are a bunch of people just trying to make the world better with their superior OS, or, they are trying to get Linux market share, so that their talents are needed on the service side. Everyone wants to make money.
I find it funny you weren't modded troll? Anyhow, not liking ACs makes me a tool. I guess those laws against yelling fire in a theater are toolish too, and lord knows the wonderful things that come from anonymous email.
I hate to do this, but I can't let you get away with this, you just said 1 cubic meter, where as I said, 1.5 cubic meters, meaning 6 bathtubs, as I calculated. Also I made it so complicated so people could more easily follow the process in terms they can easily calculate. Stop referring to that other "Ton" because the article specifically said 1500 KG but I know you didn't read the article just as you want to believe you were right even though you were off by more than 200% error, last time I checked, my lab professors won't even let me turn in a project with 200% error. Also a bathtub is not 7.4 feet by 7.4 feet. Apparently you didn't read, that we were talking about bathtubs. A bathtub is 6 feet, by roughly 1.5 feet, based on the link in my parent post. 6 time 1.5 is 9 square feet. You said building code is 40 pounds per square feet. which alots for 360 pounds in that amount of area, so based on your initial estimate that this bloody bathtub would hold 2204.6 pounds of water, then that means you would most definitely finish your bath in the basement directly below wherever you started your bath.
I was very clear in 1500Kg, so your example of 1 cubic meter, to prove me wrong, is irrelevant, you would have needed to use data for 1.5 cubic meters to prove me wrong.
Yes, and if I called a jaccuzi a bathtub then I could say a bathtub jeld half a metric ton of water. Also if you decided to show us a link of a Japanes wading pool and call it a bathtub I guess you would almost be right with your first estimate, or you could admit to being wrong.
Well I suppose if you built it, it would be "hacked-together", but some of us have the ability to use reviews and other user data, to define which parts play well together. And from that will build a very stable system, the key is, not buying anything till it's been out for at least one revision.
I just checked my system time 5040 hrs. 37 mins. 22 seconds.
And I do everything on this system, run TMPEG to convert from divx to Mpeg2, rip DVD to Divx, play Battlefield 1942, run photoshop, virtualdub, vfapi converter, of course rip MP3s, burn DVDs, and several other tasks that require quite a few processing cycles, The biggest load on my system is when I am running 3D Studios Max, and rendering out a fly through. That takes forever, but it would on a dual G5 as well, I garantee. The cluster is getting built right now, I just built two XP2600 boxes, in Antec cases for 500$ a piece, with a gig of DDR 333 in each. Should be a quick cluster when I am done and greatly help those render times.
I'd love to read some of your other responses to. Oh, but I can't, your an anonymous coward. Named that way on purpose, not as a joke, but as an insult.
Sorry this is a repost, but there were two people saying this lunacy that 1500 Kg of water is only about a bath tub full. Trust me your house wouldn't support that bath tub very long if it had 1.5 tons of water in it. actually heavier when the person is in it, because even though we have the same density as water, there is still another 20% of us above the water in the tub that would add to that weight, read on I correct your sad error. I think the problem is that you had no concept of how big a bathtub is, and/or how big 1.5 cubic meters is.
Actually water is only 3.7854118 Kg. per gallon or 1Kg per liter.
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
Why did you post this anonymously. Actually, if you look through my history, I never use your, corectly, niether do I use you're correctly, I go out of my way to invert them, because I know it will draw out the trolls. Ironically enough I can't mark you trolls negative 5 so that I don't have to read your posts, because you always, post as Anonymous Cowards. I have talked about this before, that if you don't have a response to the core of my statement, than you will look for some kind of grammatical error. I understand that grammar is important, but I didn't fail to get my idea across, and that was the point of typing it up. Not to pass a critique on grammar.
Oh well, you anonymous cowards will never learn, because you obviously weren't intelligent enough to handle the simple task of creating a user name and then signing in.
Ummm...My XP box runs great, cost 980$ for me to build and would compete with your dual G5. How much does a Dual G5 system run these days.
$2,999.00
check it at apple.com and for that price tag you get 512 MB of DDR 400, and a ATI Radeon 9600. Hmmm...for that cost, I'll just build 3 AMD XP2600 cluster.
Ummm...this really wouldn't fit into a first strike theory. Seeing as how, it would be a counter offensive.
Your from Canada aren't you, Your email is hosted by a canadian company and it looks like a work account. Anyhow, lets talk about Canda, whose troops were right with the U.S. troops in Iraq, also your country was the first to go along with U.S. foriegn policy in the U.N.
Also, not like your country doesn't believe in first strikes, don't you live in that insane country with a $.25 tax on CD-Rs because they "could" be used for music piracy?
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Yes a Mac,so I can have my OS and hardware so tied together that I can't customize anything.
but are they?
if they are, why not make it so, quick time doesn't run in windows, or why not try and sue open office for it's similarities, it seems to me they really aren't attacking the linux, or GNU community at all.
If 20 well skilled programmers sat down there could be a linux virus, so why hasn't evil M$ sat down and had this done and released from somewhere else. Linux users are making said viruses against M$.
I am going to get flamed for that, but I think we can assume that viruses recently that were launched, that don't affect the computers that there on, but simply attack Microsofts website, are probably not launched by people who like M$, so if they hate M$, there probably *nix or Mac users. I could be wrong, but that's how it feels.
I think the hate, is all from the open GNU side towards, M$, personally I think M$ is glad *nix is around, so that they don't get sued over anti trust every damn year.
So I am not saying linux is bad, linux is ok, but I think M$ as you guys call it, gets a bad rap. Post me links as to court cases M$ has lost where they were accused and found guilty of crushing a smaller software company, or stealing it's software, or illegally pushing people out of an industry.
Links from viable websites please. I will read them, I swear, and with an open mind. But I think that mass beliefs in popular myths are dangerous, even if it's attacking a big corporation
also please consider, M$ is in our country, helps our GDP, and employs thousands of highly paid programmers as well as donates millions to college IS departments that need the money.
My network card drivers were source only, my drivers I recieved for my sound card were source I had to compile and then it didn't support digital audio, Ummm...actually only a few things didn't come as source.
And if you haven't run windows in 5 years, you really wouldn't miss it, because you can't even comprehend how far its come.
That's like saying, I had a 386PC it wasn't very fast so I am sticking to my Dual Processor G5, it's much faster. Your comparing oranges, to old apples, you bought 4 years ago. Maybe you should try a nice K7 Athlon system running XP, even from 2000 to XP, the OS came a long way.
And if you let the teams compete, they'll come back and try harder next year, Marines let in guys that can only do 3 pull ups, but when they leave boot camp it's an average of 15. Letting in slow starters isn't always bad, because with the right motivation they can put forward a lot of effort.
also consider this, your trying to get funding to build one of these bots, and your school give you hardly enough to get materials, where as another school gets millions of dollars. But by DARPA letting these guys in, it might help them get more funding the following year and make a stronger showing.
To the login prompt is 42 seconds. After the login prompt is about one minute 12 seconds, but not really windows fault, it has to update my files with server using active directory remote profiles, load up a real time virus scanner, load all of my network drives, load my calendar, and acrotray which is for the full version of adobe acrobat 6. I also offer that this build is only 2 months old, because I recently got this computer as an upgrade to a Pentium 3 1133. I built it myself, and could give you an exact part listing, but as for the OS install, I didn't do anything special, formatted the whole drive as one partition, ran through the install, ran all the updates, and added the system to the domain. ??? Works fantastic. and I have all XP machines here and ussually if we have a problem it when XP has to deal with running a program designed for like windows 95. and still uses hard coded LPTs for printing purposes. But other than that, I run a clean network, I do spam and virus detection at the email server, preventing worms from getting opened in email. And all in all, few problems.
This isn't a troll, I am just seriously tired of this constant anti windows shit, I think it's mostly based on the older OSs NT, and 98, but since 2000 I feel they have been doing a superb job, and when I bought XP pro moving from 2000 I really liked the upgrade.
I used to use a SGI for autocad, but then we moved to dual Proc Dells, and I really liked it. I do still use Linux, for my e-mail, and web server at home, but only because I didn't want to buy 2000 server, and I thought Linux works well as a server. Personally I used it as a desktop for years, but constant kernel updates, and having to compile every damn thing before I could use it, turned me off. THe linux community should learn to offer binary executables and source because I simply just don't like the hassle of the extra step.
Here comes the mod down. and there is nothing I can do about it. People hate me for my opinion, but I can't be like most of the people here, claim to hate windows and promote linux, but secretly use XP all the time.
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That was rated +4 informative????How informative it was, it did not provide us with links, nor sources, it simply mocked a product using a popular misconception, and then used what the slashdotter thought was a funny analogy. But I know slashdot moderators.
Duh, Microsoft is bad, they try and make money, their evil, and have a bad product, they only made money, because their evil, and people are dumb.
ugh what a bunch of shit, you Linux zealots are just like guys that lose then complain that the refs were unfair, or that the other team cheated. Quit your bitching. Microsoft is a profitable company because it is ran by an intelligent man that understands the market, and understands the needs of the majority of the market he sells in.
Also you are a moderator for slashdot, talk about hypocritical, why do I have banners at the top of my page. SO YOU CAN MAKE MONEY
Also if you expect us to believe that after 4 months the machine can't run IE and this is a windows problem, ummm...your on crack, none of us would put up with windows if it completely failed after just a few months. Some of these office machines here at work, are used every day, and are 2 years old, running XP, with end users, lol, and they really are still doing just fine.
Of course I regularly run updates, and my virus scanner updates hourly and runs nightly, but you should do that with any PC.
My problem is encoding at 500KB or 1000KB, that makes for a large as movie. I encode a quality based Xvid and that usually comes out pretty well, what codecs really need to master is the art of using high KB when it's needed and low KB when it's not, also, would you people stop encoding the damn black lines into the movie. lol. just use apropriate ratio and my player takes care of the lines, that way I don't have 300 MB of encoded black.
OH yes, I forgot Linux programmers are a bunch of people just trying to make the world better with their superior OS, or, they are trying to get Linux market share, so that their talents are needed on the service side. Everyone wants to make money.
I use a XP machine every day, and I think your full of crap, explain to us, what frustrated you to the point that you couldn't use it.
here are my uses. 3d Studios max, photoshop, virtualdub, TMPEG, then standard office stuff, excell,access, email, and website management.
I find it funny you weren't modded troll? Anyhow, not liking ACs makes me a tool. I guess those laws against yelling fire in a theater are toolish too, and lord knows the wonderful things that come from anonymous email.
Redhat IPO, Mandrake IPO. Ummm...Linux is about making money too. Service contracts.
I was very clear in 1500Kg, so your example of 1 cubic meter, to prove me wrong, is irrelevant, you would have needed to use data for 1.5 cubic meters to prove me wrong.
Yes, and if I called a jaccuzi a bathtub then I could say a bathtub jeld half a metric ton of water. Also if you decided to show us a link of a Japanes wading pool and call it a bathtub I guess you would almost be right with your first estimate, or you could admit to being wrong.
I just checked my system time 5040 hrs. 37 mins. 22 seconds.
And I do everything on this system, run TMPEG to convert from divx to Mpeg2, rip DVD to Divx, play Battlefield 1942, run photoshop, virtualdub, vfapi converter, of course rip MP3s, burn DVDs, and several other tasks that require quite a few processing cycles, The biggest load on my system is when I am running 3D Studios Max, and rendering out a fly through. That takes forever, but it would on a dual G5 as well, I garantee. The cluster is getting built right now, I just built two XP2600 boxes, in Antec cases for 500$ a piece, with a gig of DDR 333 in each. Should be a quick cluster when I am done and greatly help those render times.
I'd love to read some of your other responses to. Oh, but I can't, your an anonymous coward. Named that way on purpose, not as a joke, but as an insult.
but what can I expect?
Actually water is only 3.7854118 Kg. per gallon or 1Kg per liter.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsection1_4 _2_0_7.html
So that means in 1500Kg of water, you have 1500 Liters or 396 gallons of water.
http://www.homeclick.com/showpage.asp?itemid=11607 9
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
Sorry buddy, please fix your math in the future.
Actually water is only 3.7854118 Kg. per gallon or 1Kg per liter.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsection1_4 _2_0_7.html
So that means in 1500Kg of water, you have 1500 Liters or 396 gallons of water.
http://www.homeclick.com/showpage.asp?itemid=11607 9
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
Sorry buddy, please fix your math in the future.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsection1_4 _2_0_7.html
So that means in 1500Kg of water, you have 1500 Liters or 396 gallons of water.
http://www.homeclick.com/showpage.asp?itemid=11607 9
that site shows you a rather large bath tub, It's max fill 65 gallons, by my math, that puts you at six bath tubs filled right to the top.So basically a water basin that is 35.7 inches/2.8 feet deep a foot and a half wide and 36 feet long. Sounds like a lot of damn water to me.
Sorry buddy, please fix your math in the future.
Just because our armies didn't arive till 1944 didn't mean we weren't a crucial part of the war.
I am prepared to be modded down, but what can I do, these idiots can say anything because they post their trolling crap as anonymous cowards.
Oh well, you anonymous cowards will never learn, because you obviously weren't intelligent enough to handle the simple task of creating a user name and then signing in.
$2,999.00
check it at apple.com and for that price tag you get 512 MB of DDR 400, and a ATI Radeon 9600. Hmmm...for that cost, I'll just build 3 AMD XP2600 cluster.
Your from Canada aren't you, Your email is hosted by a canadian company and it looks like a work account. Anyhow, lets talk about Canda, whose troops were right with the U.S. troops in Iraq, also your country was the first to go along with U.S. foriegn policy in the U.N.
Also, not like your country doesn't believe in first strikes, don't you live in that insane country with a $.25 tax on CD-Rs because they "could" be used for music piracy?