I'm remnided of that Twilight Zone eipsode "The monsters are due on maple street" where a bizarre power failure drives the residents to kill each other.
SCO today counter counter sued IBM claiming "You're just a bunch a weenies".
IBM responded with yet more pointless stupid eServer commericals. The new initiative has a SCO exec bent over an eServer while an attractive and trendy eServer flack takes him from behind.
So their ability to garner insights dies with them. Extroverts get lots o poontang therefore promoting their generally aggressive extroversion. Introverts have to constantly relearn and reinvent everything.
Beginning and end, end and beginning only mean something if you are inside the event or universe. When viewed from outside those are just singular observed events in a continuing chain of many observations. It may be vital to you when the universe ends but viewed from the outside it's just a data point in a long (and unending) string of data points.
They make last place sound pretty good with a 93. How fucked up is that?
I'm an AT&T customer and if that's a 100 e.g. pretty good then naked snow virgins are gonna feed me grapes in hell.
I have had every extra service turned off because they simply don't work. For example no voicemail. After 3 months of trying to get it to work. I finally just had them shut it off. Messages could never be retrieved w/o operator intervention. Similarly paging, text messaging both never functioned I could neither send nor receive anything. Caller ID does not work and the stored call logs are all blank all of the time. So again, I had them simply shut it off. The minutes counter on the phone and on each call did not work. It always reported zero. Zap. gone.
MS probably sees this a way to bootstrap their way into replacing Notes in a corporate environment. Nobody cares about unregulated content least of all MS. So if they got involved in NNTP the first thing they'd no is dump a huge shitpile of DRM on top of it. No, the real purpose of this is to gargolye together another "Notes Killer" abortion. Except with no security and deadly coupling to Windows branded apolications.
Yes you're certainly right on that score but most people who are interested in sub $250 computers are I think inidifferent as to the OS if it simply does whatever it is they need. Lindows isn't free either ya know. At $50-60 for the OS and another $50-60 for the apps bonus disk including StarOffice. It's getting pretty close to XP as installed on a pure cost basis. Now is one better eg. nonWindows vs. one is worse eg. Windows. Sure. But so?
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Compared to the rock bottom eMachines which includes WinXP home, a hard drive, speakers, keyboard, mouse, 6USB ports, CDRW this iDot doesn't look so good. That is if you want a complete PC. If you're just for an upgrader and you're planning on dumping your HD, CDRW and all your other gorp into this then it's a pretty good deal in so far as it's a complete MoBo, CPU, cabinet and power supply upgrade. But compared to what? It's pretty low powered and doesn't offer more than what you probably already run. Of course I'm a cheap ass so it looks way more powerful than my 8 year old boxes at home. But I think I'm the exception not the rule. I'd still rather go with a preassembled eMachines box since my time is worth more than the 70 bucks or so (actually it's more expensive once you add WinXP yourself) you might save.
I'm getting to the point where I think that low end computers should have a "No customer servicable parts inside" sticker on them. For the coupla hundred bucks they're almost disposable.
One has to consider the total amount of oil fuel burned to generate the electicity for the batteries. If everyone needs a big amp tap in their house for their cars how many coal furnaces would we have to construct?
Gee I feel like it's bad acid time and I'm flashing on 1992. Ever since I was a Gartner subscriber over a decade ago I've had to basically discount anything Gartner has ever said that might make MS look good. In other words Gartner has as far as can tell ever said anything (0.8 probability) that could be construed as being vaguely negative of MS. This appears to be more of the same. One Linux vendor suing another and Gartner tells its subscribes to stay away from all Linux. And this just a few days since MS 'admits' it's #1 threat is Linux.
It's about the skill the job needs and the value that the job provides. Crunch monkeys, uh I mean developers are the assembly line workers of the 21st Century. And those jobs don't vary in quality output by high income/low income variation. If you did something that wasn't as valuable in India or Taiwan as it is here then you would continue to do it here.
Don't cry to me just 'cause you forgot to join the union.
Oh I'm sorry to intrude on the golden light of wisdom that is you. I'm sorry. So what is it I've missed in 14 months with NS. Time travel? Instant configuration? Does it run an order of magnitude faster? Is it fucking magic? Tell me tell me oh Yoda. Or shut the fuck up and take a breath and realize that NS is shit. Yeah it is, get over it.
I just installed NS6.1 and 6.2 on three different old-ish machines and I can't adequately express how underwhelmed and disappointed I am with this clunky bloated slow piece of not much new. They should've thrown in the towel years ago because there is zero new of any consequence. As far as NS is concerned the browser is done. We can all go home now.
Why does my laptop need to throw off so much heat, eg. have such high power consumption to begin with?
All that heat was generated by your battery which of course is ticking down several multiples faster than it should as a result. Cooler laptop = longer battery.
What is it about a personal computer that requires roughly an order of magnitude more power than a supercomputer of 7 years ago that we need to 'save'?
By the way while $1/share dividend is high for a stock trading at $26/share it's not unknown. Even bank stocks typically grind out $0.28/share in the same trading range year after year without sitting on a 46 billion dollar pile of cash.
Go to a retailer like Best Buy. They sell a dozen Desktops from $400 to $1900 and about 3 dozen models of laptop from $1200 to over $3500. And the really don't sell CRTs at all any more. Just when we got happy with $120 17" monitors the stores want to sell us $289 15" flat screens all the way up to $3000 'media' format flatscreens.
It's bullshit. My Lexmark 4039-10 died and I wanted a new low end laser printer because I knew that laser printing is waaaaay cheaper than inkjet. But guess what? There's like 3 laser printers below 300 bucks. A Casio, an Olivetti and an HP. One doesn't have Win95 drivers anymore and two are USB only. Leaving one with what can best be described as drivers that were basically written to be traded for crack.
So it's back to the inkjet route. And while I love my Epson C82 I know each page is costing me a fortune. At least I get toss out two Canon BJC-4200's now (well, one goes to college with Kid) And will soon toss out a Canon BJC-600.
BTW Canon printers are pretty high quality. They all go obsolete and you can't get ink for them way before they break beyond repair, unlike my HP LaserJet5 which suffered a torqued chassis in the paper path and died a horrible 'pick up 10 sheets of a paper at a time' death. And the Lexmark actually died from the combination of a blown clutch and a failed paper sensor in the tray.
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I'm remnided of that Twilight Zone eipsode "The monsters are due on maple street" where a bizarre power failure drives the residents to kill each other.
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What kind of lawsuit would Jesus get from SCO?
Clearly it's the mythical Mediumfoot known to tramp around the forests of Africa
SCO today counter counter sued IBM claiming "You're just a bunch a weenies".
IBM responded with yet more pointless stupid eServer commericals. The new initiative has a SCO exec bent over an eServer while an attractive and trendy eServer flack takes him from behind.
So their ability to garner insights dies with them. Extroverts get lots o poontang therefore promoting their generally aggressive extroversion. Introverts have to constantly relearn and reinvent everything.
Beginning and end, end and beginning only mean something if you are inside the event or universe. When viewed from outside those are just singular observed events in a continuing chain of many observations. It may be vital to you when the universe ends but viewed from the outside it's just a data point in a long (and unending) string of data points.
They make last place sound pretty good with a 93. How fucked up is that?
I'm an AT&T customer and if that's a 100 e.g. pretty good then naked snow virgins are gonna feed me grapes in hell.
I have had every extra service turned off because they simply don't work. For example no voicemail. After 3 months of trying to get it to work. I finally just had them shut it off. Messages could never be retrieved w/o operator intervention. Similarly paging, text messaging both never functioned I could neither send nor receive anything. Caller ID does not work and the stored call logs are all blank all of the time. So again, I had them simply shut it off. The minutes counter on the phone and on each call did not work. It always reported zero. Zap. gone.
Solaris anschluss of Linux. McNealy proclaims "Peace in our time."
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MS probably sees this a way to bootstrap their way into replacing Notes in a corporate environment. Nobody cares about unregulated content least of all MS. So if they got involved in NNTP the first thing they'd no is dump a huge shitpile of DRM on top of it. No, the real purpose of this is to gargolye together another "Notes Killer" abortion. Except with no security and deadly coupling to Windows branded apolications.
Yes you're certainly right on that score but most people who are interested in sub $250 computers are I think inidifferent as to the OS if it simply does whatever it is they need. Lindows isn't free either ya know. At $50-60 for the OS and another $50-60 for the apps bonus disk including StarOffice. It's getting pretty close to XP as installed on a pure cost basis. Now is one better eg. nonWindows vs. one is worse eg. Windows. Sure. But so?
Compared to the rock bottom eMachines which includes WinXP home, a hard drive, speakers, keyboard, mouse, 6USB ports, CDRW this iDot doesn't look so good. That is if you want a complete PC. If you're just for an upgrader and you're planning on dumping your HD, CDRW and all your other gorp into this then it's a pretty good deal in so far as it's a complete MoBo, CPU, cabinet and power supply upgrade. But compared to what? It's pretty low powered and doesn't offer more than what you probably already run. Of course I'm a cheap ass so it looks way more powerful than my 8 year old boxes at home. But I think I'm the exception not the rule. I'd still rather go with a preassembled eMachines box since my time is worth more than the 70 bucks or so (actually it's more expensive once you add WinXP yourself) you might save.
I'm getting to the point where I think that low end computers should have a "No customer servicable parts inside" sticker on them. For the coupla hundred bucks they're almost disposable.
One has to consider the total amount of oil fuel burned to generate the electicity for the batteries. If everyone needs a big amp tap in their house for their cars how many coal furnaces would we have to construct?
Gee I feel like it's bad acid time and I'm flashing on 1992. Ever since I was a Gartner subscriber over a decade ago I've had to basically discount anything Gartner has ever said that might make MS look good. In other words Gartner has as far as can tell ever said anything (0.8 probability) that could be construed as being vaguely negative of MS. This appears to be more of the same. One Linux vendor suing another and Gartner tells its subscribes to stay away from all Linux. And this just a few days since MS 'admits' it's #1 threat is Linux.
My idea of workplace yoga is being fanned by naked Swedish lesbians while they feed me grapes.
It's about the skill the job needs and the value that the job provides. Crunch monkeys, uh I mean developers are the assembly line workers of the 21st Century. And those jobs don't vary in quality output by high income/low income variation. If you did something that wasn't as valuable in India or Taiwan as it is here then you would continue to do it here.
Don't cry to me just 'cause you forgot to join the union.
Kind of wipes out the advantage of not using Solaris, AIX HPUX and the like. You're now paying for Linux just like any other commerical code.
Oh I'm sorry to intrude on the golden light of wisdom that is you. I'm sorry. So what is it I've missed in 14 months with NS. Time travel? Instant configuration? Does it run an order of magnitude faster? Is it fucking magic? Tell me tell me oh Yoda. Or shut the fuck up and take a breath and realize that NS is shit. Yeah it is, get over it.
I just installed NS6.1 and 6.2 on three different old-ish machines and I can't adequately express how underwhelmed and disappointed I am with this clunky bloated slow piece of not much new. They should've thrown in the towel years ago because there is zero new of any consequence. As far as NS is concerned the browser is done. We can all go home now.
First off the Navy is the only AF branch that has capability EVERYWHERE: air, land, sea, special forces and even space.
Next: a Nimitz class full air contingent is larger than nearly every national air force on the planet. And we have 8-12 of them.
Why does my laptop need to throw off so much heat, eg. have such high power consumption to begin with?
All that heat was generated by your battery which of course is ticking down several multiples faster than it should as a result. Cooler laptop = longer battery.
What is it about a personal computer that requires roughly an order of magnitude more power than a supercomputer of 7 years ago that we need to 'save'?
Aren't they? I mean why not?
By the way while $1/share dividend is high for a stock trading at $26/share it's not unknown. Even bank stocks typically grind out $0.28/share in the same trading range year after year without sitting on a 46 billion dollar pile of cash.
Go to a retailer like Best Buy. They sell a dozen Desktops from $400 to $1900 and about 3 dozen models of laptop from $1200 to over $3500. And the really don't sell CRTs at all any more. Just when we got happy with $120 17" monitors the stores want to sell us $289 15" flat screens all the way up to $3000 'media' format flatscreens.
It's bullshit. My Lexmark 4039-10 died and I wanted a new low end laser printer because I knew that laser printing is waaaaay cheaper than inkjet. But guess what? There's like 3 laser printers below 300 bucks. A Casio, an Olivetti and an HP. One doesn't have Win95 drivers anymore and two are USB only. Leaving one with what can best be described as drivers that were basically written to be traded for crack.
So it's back to the inkjet route. And while I love my Epson C82 I know each page is costing me a fortune. At least I get toss out two Canon BJC-4200's now (well, one goes to college with Kid) And will soon toss out a Canon BJC-600.
BTW Canon printers are pretty high quality. They all go obsolete and you can't get ink for them way before they break beyond repair, unlike my HP LaserJet5 which suffered a torqued chassis in the paper path and died a horrible 'pick up 10 sheets of a paper at a time' death. And the Lexmark actually died from the combination of a blown clutch and a failed paper sensor in the tray.