The lesson to all of us is to carefully research anything we buy to find out if we will need proprietary cables or if features aren't available 'yet'.
None of us are forced into these purchases, with the exception of gift items. And if you recieved a techie gift, do the research before opening the package-you can stil return it, and I just recently found myself wishing I had when I recieved an mp3 player for christmas.
Guffaws aside, companies should theoretically respect users more when people refuse to buy badly implemented products.
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Even in a fast paced video game, how accurate are you with a mouse? Especially after all the sugar/caffeine? 95% is astounding.
They don't have a problem with large overreaching Japanese companies, that's for sure. But Microsoft comes from America (or Satan-guys, don't post Slashdot after taking cough syrup).
Matsushita, JVC, and Sony are Japanese corporations, which the Japanese government is probably very interested in protecting. The large businesses/corporations of Japan have considerable influence in their government, moving beyond petty lobbying towards very strong and well-set puppet strings. It wouldn't surprise me if the raid was taken on in part to protect the interests of a Japanese firm or two.
That's what it's there for, right? A centralized court? That, to me, is a product of the fact that the only way to stop this is to go beyond the Greek government. They've been trying that for years now and this saga still continues.
I don't live in Europe, so if anybody who does reads this, enlighten me as to how overturning the law could be pursued from that angle.
Except the current version of RealPlayer sucks, and their company policies are horrible. Windows Media Player might not compare to WinAmp very favorably, but compared to RealOne it actually starts to look good.
I don't plan on touching a Windows box without first putting a combo of virus scanner and Spybot on it first. I would expect that MS is targeting all of the idiots who don't have any virus protection (the same idiots who have yet to disable Messenger and enable the XP firewall). The people who have traditionally bought Norton or McAfe in the past will probably continue to do so because they know better.
The thing about Tom's hardware is that opinions vary from author to author-or it seems that way. Yes, they have been Intel-centric in the past, but I think they're as excited about x86-64 as most of us. Very excited. And the on-board memory controller is only present on AMD chips, not the future Intel ones. Hopefully Tom's Hardware will play that up, because it's a significant advantage for AMD.
I suppose it is dangerous to assume that the FSF has the final word on the GPL. But until the dust settles on this, I don't think anyone should link the new Apache code. I'm waiting to see if this turns ugly. I hope it doesn't, because it doesn't need to. The last thing the GPL needs is to have it's primary defender fighting it's most well-known user.
Microsoft hasn't been known to set flags consistently. Windows XP refuses to work properly with SCSI hard drives because Microsoft told manufacturers that they would set flags one way, then set them a different way in XP. Drivers had to be rewritten, and users only get proper performance when they use *special* drivers written for XP.
AMD could use a push right now, since their 64-bit chips are big, their wafers are smaller, and their process is larger. Check it out on Tom's Hardware. I'm not in the market for a new cpu for 2-3 years, and I'm hoping that AMD will have pushed the market to a more competitive scenario by then. Buffer overflow protection released ahead of Intel looks a good move for the processor underdog.
I thought that only *special* customers got access to the English-speaking tech support, and the rest of us (err, the rest of you-I built my own box) have to slug it out with Ashok the incompetent until further notice.
My "well configured Firefox" didn't stop the ads. So I guess you only read 2 paragraphs, huh? Don't feel bad, you still did better than most Slashdot readers do.
Some of my freinds were able to snag some Radeon 9600s for less than $100. Just keep looking for deals. If you have a Fry's near you, read the mailers...
Exactly. They didn't actually teach us how to split files until a year and a half into the program. I had to teach myself during the second semester because my machine was slow (Cyrix P166 w/ 32MB of RAM, when we were already were well beyond the 1GHz barrier).
In data structures, we were actually told to implement linked lists as 3 static arrays with 200 integers each! I used dynamic memory allocation in my lab so it wouldn't hog my resources, and the teacher docked me points.
So maybe the problem lies beyond the students as well.
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The lesson to all of us is to carefully research anything we buy to find out if we will need proprietary cables or if features aren't available 'yet'.
None of us are forced into these purchases, with the exception of gift items. And if you recieved a techie gift, do the research before opening the package-you can stil return it, and I just recently found myself wishing I had when I recieved an mp3 player for christmas.
Guffaws aside, companies should theoretically respect users more when people refuse to buy badly implemented products.
Even in a fast paced video game, how accurate are you with a mouse? Especially after all the sugar/caffeine? 95% is astounding.
You see, some of us actually have subscriptions...
Although the DRM makes me think of Longhorn as Windows 6.66. I mean, come on, they're talking about dongles for the love of God...
They don't have a problem with large overreaching Japanese companies, that's for sure. But Microsoft comes from America (or Satan-guys, don't post Slashdot after taking cough syrup).
Matsushita, JVC, and Sony are Japanese corporations, which the Japanese government is probably very interested in protecting. The large businesses/corporations of Japan have considerable influence in their government, moving beyond petty lobbying towards very strong and well-set puppet strings. It wouldn't surprise me if the raid was taken on in part to protect the interests of a Japanese firm or two.
That's what it's there for, right? A centralized court? That, to me, is a product of the fact that the only way to stop this is to go beyond the Greek government. They've been trying that for years now and this saga still continues.
I don't live in Europe, so if anybody who does reads this, enlighten me as to how overturning the law could be pursued from that angle.
Except the current version of RealPlayer sucks, and their company policies are horrible. Windows Media Player might not compare to WinAmp very favorably, but compared to RealOne it actually starts to look good.
I don't plan on touching a Windows box without first putting a combo of virus scanner and Spybot on it first. I would expect that MS is targeting all of the idiots who don't have any virus protection (the same idiots who have yet to disable Messenger and enable the XP firewall). The people who have traditionally bought Norton or McAfe in the past will probably continue to do so because they know better.
The thing about Tom's hardware is that opinions vary from author to author-or it seems that way. Yes, they have been Intel-centric in the past, but I think they're as excited about x86-64 as most of us. Very excited. And the on-board memory controller is only present on AMD chips, not the future Intel ones. Hopefully Tom's Hardware will play that up, because it's a significant advantage for AMD.
Yeah, but AMD's memory controller can kick Intel northbridge ASS!
You'd be better off recycling aluminum foil.
I suppose it is dangerous to assume that the FSF has the final word on the GPL. But until the dust settles on this, I don't think anyone should link the new Apache code. I'm waiting to see if this turns ugly. I hope it doesn't, because it doesn't need to. The last thing the GPL needs is to have it's primary defender fighting it's most well-known user.
Microsoft hasn't been known to set flags consistently. Windows XP refuses to work properly with SCSI hard drives because Microsoft told manufacturers that they would set flags one way, then set them a different way in XP. Drivers had to be rewritten, and users only get proper performance when they use *special* drivers written for XP.
But why would anyone port windows to another platform?
AMD could use a push right now, since their 64-bit chips are big, their wafers are smaller, and their process is larger. Check it out on Tom's Hardware. I'm not in the market for a new cpu for 2-3 years, and I'm hoping that AMD will have pushed the market to a more competitive scenario by then. Buffer overflow protection released ahead of Intel looks a good move for the processor underdog.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
I would hate to see what your daughter does to other kids on the playground.
I thought that only *special* customers got access to the English-speaking tech support, and the rest of us (err, the rest of you-I built my own box) have to slug it out with Ashok the incompetent until further notice.
My "well configured Firefox" didn't stop the ads. So I guess you only read 2 paragraphs, huh? Don't feel bad, you still did better than most Slashdot readers do.
If you want to restrict to servers and not just pr0n sites that include "parent directory" in their site, try using apache as a search term as well.
If you asked ken, dmr, or bwk, the reply would be:
Darl, Are you on crack?
Hey, that's the cost of a SCO license. Wait, they didn't, did they?
But...
Does it run Linux?
Some of my freinds were able to snag some Radeon 9600s for less than $100. Just keep looking for deals. If you have a Fry's near you, read the mailers...
Exactly. They didn't actually teach us how to split files until a year and a half into the program. I had to teach myself during the second semester because my machine was slow (Cyrix P166 w/ 32MB of RAM, when we were already were well beyond the 1GHz barrier).
In data structures, we were actually told to implement linked lists as 3 static arrays with 200 integers each! I used dynamic memory allocation in my lab so it wouldn't hog my resources, and the teacher docked me points.
So maybe the problem lies beyond the students as well.