I understand Diebold not been able to give all the information for the Windows system they use and the State government must also understand that, what they should really ask for is the code for there voting system software and the developers who created it. This all or nothing law seems a bit strange because if there is a problem with the Windows system they are using as much as I hate saying it, it is not Diebolds fault. It would only be there fault if there was a patch from Ms that could fix the problem and they did not apply it to there voting and there ATM systems.
I am not a fan of Diebold because they donate funds to the Republican party and I see this as a conflict onfinterest, any company that writes these voting system should be completely open to the public and should not be allowed to have anything to do with political parties and that also includes members of these companies doing private donations
It gives a good handle on the AMD chips for laptops. All in all it holds it own with the Pentium M, where the Pentium M has a good lead is in power saving.
Also the AMD flagship laptop chip is 64bit so you would see a big jump in performace if you were to run a 64bit OS/Apps as you would except.
I like the look of the AMD chips over all and feel that Intel has drop the ball on the x86 market and put the eggs in the Intamin basket. And that ship is going down faster than Kate Mose can do a line:P
I did not think that Open Office was that big compared to a full install of MS Office, I am glad to see that Google has taken a interest in OO and trying to make it a richer Office Suite.
Steve keeping it real! Dropping out is for WINNERS!!! Go Steve:P
Fuck I dropped out and now I am sitting on my ass at a dead end job posting on slashdot. THE DREAM HAS BECOME REAL!
I will be switching when the G5 power book comes out and I am hoping that will be the same time that Tiger is due.
Getting a Mini-Mac would be cool but not until they come with a G5 chip.
Sick of using Windows all the time, I have to use it at work do not really want to deal with it at home. At the mo I am running XP but I have replaced the shell with BlackBox.
Cause Apple is better than MS. NAHNAHNAH My dad is bigger than yours. That is right I have brough this down to the School yard level.
ALL HAIL APPLE AND AAC!! For they shall set us all free!!!!!
I would also like to point out that if most of the people who work as MS use iPods over WMA based players then there must be something to say about how good AAC is over there own format. Grant I would say most of them would have MP3!!!!!
LONG LIVE THE MP3
"BING BING BING" And once again WMA hits the mat without even getting a punch in, MP3 wins by clear KO!!!!
There is the cost factor but I myself would look at the format as well and for the most part AAC is the far better format. Hold on did I say for the most part, silly me it should be stated that it is the better format:)
"BING BING BING" And the WINNER is AAC by clear KO!!!
As we all know the RIAA is a lumbering dinosaur that uses a business model that has not been updated since back in the 80s. After having a read it seems to me that the labels are just been fucking greedy. All the stuff they have said about losing money to downloading has been shot down time after time. The only way I can see this changing is by us the buyers to start demanding things change by boycotting the labels and by the artists sign to indie labels were in the long run they will get a better deal, greater control of there music or by going direct to guys like Apple to produce and sell there music on the itunes store. Fuck all the other for the most part they use WMA and that is an ass audio format
We are a captive market to these wankers and they will keep pushing us around until we flip them the bird and tell them to fuck off.
How many home computer that you know come with Linux installed? And the better question is do you think that the standard everyday home user is going to buy a machine with Linux installed? I would say not and the reason they are not becasue they have no idea what is it or what the difference is between that and Windows. And that was more the point I am getting at. Most people in the world today do not use Linux and that is just how it is.
I guess this really comes back to the fact that I do not see Linux on the desktop been a big hit anytime soon. If anything I would get a users to buy a Mac over getting a Linux desktop machine.
No I do not see anything for Linux or Apple but you are looking at this from a different point of view than most. I think that at some point you will see some of this on Linux but most of the world still uses Windows. So they have to offer there services to the most used platform on the desktop that is used in homes today - Windows.
The problem with Linux is that you still do not have an easy way to install apps for everyday users, I can not see them having a clue about building from source and if you said rpm or deb they would think you are talking about cars etc.
So if you look at it from that point of view then you must be able to understand why google have done what they have done. To tell the truth I would sooner see them build for OSX first before Linux and the reason I say that is there are open source program now for Linux that can do the same thing as the google apps.
I read awhile ago that Sun and Apple were talking about this and it was pretty clear Apple was not fused about getting OO working %100 in OSX. And now with there own one coming out I can see why.
I went though the same thing as this guy did then one day I said "FUCK IT" and I have gone done the AAC path. Used MP3, OGG, FLAC and there has always been some reason I have had to change. The main reason I went with AAC(MP4) is becasue I got an iPod, MP4 is on par with OGG(give or take) and it works in Winamp. I will never use WMA and for the poor people out there that uses this format I feel sorry for you:)
Trying to keep everyone happy is a waste of time and effort if they want my music then I am more than happy to hook them up but they will just have to deal with the fact that I use AAC(MP4). If they only use Media player then they are shit out of the luck and will have to install iTunes or Winamp(Would more push Winamp, I only use iTunes to rip and upload to my iPod).
That might be true in the short term and I really can't see it been a big problem with MS pushing Dell to head down the AMD path and most developers I know use Windows APIs or.Net, Java, the CPU differences will be pretty minuet. I have only every heard of a hand full of apps that had problems running on AMD systems so I really can see there been a big problem.
I do not think it is AMD that needs to sort the shit it is Intel. They have dropped the ball in a big way and I can see there market share getting smaller as time goes on. And as for HyperThreading it will soon be dead with the dual-core CPUS(AMD been the first for the X86 platform).
They want people to stop downloading THEN MAKE IT CHEAPER TO GO TO THE MOVIES!!!! and Release the movie across the world at the same time. How hard cuold it be and after reading the fucking large profit they made last year(best on record) I really think the are crying over nothing.
The things that gets me is why have they not look at the gaming industry for ideas on how to deal with this problem. For as long as I can recall there have always been people ripping off games yet it still makes Billions of dollars. You do not see them fucking having a cry about P2P.
Fuck the MPPA and the RIAA they have no right what so ever to know what the fuck I have on MY computer. And the same goes with the wankers a EA and Activision who also seem to think they have a right to tell me what I can have install on my PC
If you want features for Firefox go there. The point of Firefox is to be a small broswer that is not loaded up with features. I have used Opera and I have to say that I find most of the features pointless, they might be novel at the time but like all things that are novel you soon get sick of it and never use it again. Firefox is a great bare bones broswer and by far the best of breed in my books. I found Opera really clunky to use and it took to long to go though all the setting to get it how I like it. With Firefox I get that when I install it.
From my point of view Opera will go by the way of the Dinosaur.
I have to say I am shocked! Its not like they ripped DOS off someone else, oh what they did and I am pretty sure NTFS was all there own. Oh hold on there a mo can we say HPFS kids:) And then there is.Net that is all MS, look sorry guys I am also wrong about that. They hired the guy from Borland who made Delphi. Silly me
But on the filp side of that coin is if it make there shit better then and as long as they are not breaking the law I have no realy problem with it. I will never use MSN but if by ripping off Google they supply a good product to the people that use the MSN search, Props
That they did and it was a DOG of a system to work with. A company I was working with at the time look at doing some work in it but it was very hard to do alot with. The same went for OpenTV.
I think it was a bit ahead of its time another great.Com idea but we all know how.Com turned out in the end
But on I will be fucked if I would use anything like that that had MS attached to it. I do not like there DRM I do not like it Sam I am.
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I am not a fan of Diebold because they donate funds to the Republican party and I see this as a conflict onfinterest, any company that writes these voting system should be completely open to the public and should not be allowed to have anything to do with political parties and that also includes members of these companies doing private donations
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/08/30/the_turion
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/09/06/the_turion
It gives a good handle on the AMD chips for laptops. All in all it holds it own with the Pentium M, where the Pentium M has a good lead is in power saving.
Also the AMD flagship laptop chip is 64bit so you would see a big jump in performace if you were to run a 64bit OS/Apps as you would except.
I like the look of the AMD chips over all and feel that Intel has drop the ball on the x86 market and put the eggs in the Intamin basket. And that ship is going down faster than Kate Mose can do a line :P
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The alternate scenario I would like to pose to you is what if you were comparing Windows Server to OSX Server.
Regards
I did not think that Open Office was that big compared to a full install of MS Office, I am glad to see that Google has taken a interest in OO and trying to make it a richer Office Suite.
I am sure if anyone has a problem with getting the show though BT they can always use the mule :P
GO THE MULE!
Logicdisorder BITCH!
You gutless fuck! If you are going to call someone a fucktard have the balls to put you name by it!
I am sure our man DVD Jon will be on the case dealing with this DRM madness.
:P
Next thing you know Apple will be putting IE back into OSX!
Word to your mutha
Steve keeping it real! Dropping out is for WINNERS!!! Go Steve :P
Fuck I dropped out and now I am sitting on my ass at a dead end job posting on slashdot. THE DREAM HAS BECOME REAL!
I have to say is one of the quickest hacks for a software update I have seen in some time.
:)
Props Jon you never know you might get an job offer from Steve himself
I will be switching when the G5 power book comes out and I am hoping that will be the same time that Tiger is due. Getting a Mini-Mac would be cool but not until they come with a G5 chip. Sick of using Windows all the time, I have to use it at work do not really want to deal with it at home. At the mo I am running XP but I have replaced the shell with BlackBox.
I am 104 and rocking hard!!!!
Cause Apple is better than MS. NAHNAHNAH My dad is bigger than yours. That is right I have brough this down to the School yard level.
:P
ALL HAIL APPLE AND AAC!! For they shall set us all free!!!!!
I would also like to point out that if most of the people who work as MS use iPods over WMA based players then there must be something to say about how good AAC is over there own format. Grant I would say most of them would have MP3!!!!!
LONG LIVE THE MP3
"BING BING BING" And once again WMA hits the mat without even getting a punch in, MP3 wins by clear KO!!!!
My cats called Zero and he KICKS ASS
There is the cost factor but I myself would look at the format as well and for the most part AAC is the far better format. Hold on did I say for the most part, silly me it should be stated that it is the better format :)
:P
"BING BING BING" And the WINNER is AAC by clear KO!!!
Give my best to the wife and kids
As we all know the RIAA is a lumbering dinosaur that uses a business model that has not been updated since back in the 80s. After having a read it seems to me that the labels are just been fucking greedy. All the stuff they have said about losing money to downloading has been shot down time after time. The only way I can see this changing is by us the buyers to start demanding things change by boycotting the labels and by the artists sign to indie labels were in the long run they will get a better deal, greater control of there music or by going direct to guys like Apple to produce and sell there music on the itunes store. Fuck all the other for the most part they use WMA and that is an ass audio format
We are a captive market to these wankers and they will keep pushing us around until we flip them the bird and tell them to fuck off.
Down with the RIAA and all is stands for.
Have a Linux box setup in the states and SSH from China to it. I am sure they have not stopped SSH though there firewall.
This is not that L33t really I am just a sad old man!
WORD OUT!
How many home computer that you know come with Linux installed? And the better question is do you think that the standard everyday home user is going to buy a machine with Linux installed? I would say not and the reason they are not becasue they have no idea what is it or what the difference is between that and Windows. And that was more the point I am getting at. Most people in the world today do not use Linux and that is just how it is.
I guess this really comes back to the fact that I do not see Linux on the desktop been a big hit anytime soon. If anything I would get a users to buy a Mac over getting a Linux desktop machine.
No I do not see anything for Linux or Apple but you are looking at this from a different point of view than most. I think that at some point you will see some of this on Linux but most of the world still uses Windows. So they have to offer there services to the most used platform on the desktop that is used in homes today - Windows.
The problem with Linux is that you still do not have an easy way to install apps for everyday users, I can not see them having a clue about building from source and if you said rpm or deb they would think you are talking about cars etc.
So if you look at it from that point of view then you must be able to understand why google have done what they have done. To tell the truth I would sooner see them build for OSX first before Linux and the reason I say that is there are open source program now for Linux that can do the same thing as the google apps.
I read awhile ago that Sun and Apple were talking about this and it was pretty clear Apple was not fused about getting OO working %100 in OSX. And now with there own one coming out I can see why.
I went though the same thing as this guy did then one day I said "FUCK IT" and I have gone done the AAC path. Used MP3, OGG, FLAC and there has always been some reason I have had to change. The main reason I went with AAC(MP4) is becasue I got an iPod, MP4 is on par with OGG(give or take) and it works in Winamp. I will never use WMA and for the poor people out there that uses this format I feel sorry for you :)
Trying to keep everyone happy is a waste of time and effort if they want my music then I am more than happy to hook them up but they will just have to deal with the fact that I use AAC(MP4). If they only use Media player then they are shit out of the luck and will have to install iTunes or Winamp(Would more push Winamp, I only use iTunes to rip and upload to my iPod).
Merry Xmas!!!
That might be true in the short term and I really can't see it been a big problem with MS pushing Dell to head down the AMD path and most developers I know use Windows APIs or .Net, Java, the CPU differences will be pretty minuet. I have only every heard of a hand full of apps that had problems running on AMD systems so I really can see there been a big problem.
I do not think it is AMD that needs to sort the shit it is Intel. They have dropped the ball in a big way and I can see there market share getting smaller as time goes on. And as for HyperThreading it will soon be dead with the dual-core CPUS(AMD been the first for the X86 platform).
They want people to stop downloading THEN MAKE IT CHEAPER TO GO TO THE MOVIES!!!! and Release the movie across the world at the same time. How hard cuold it be and after reading the fucking large profit they made last year(best on record) I really think the are crying over nothing. The things that gets me is why have they not look at the gaming industry for ideas on how to deal with this problem. For as long as I can recall there have always been people ripping off games yet it still makes Billions of dollars. You do not see them fucking having a cry about P2P. Fuck the MPPA and the RIAA they have no right what so ever to know what the fuck I have on MY computer. And the same goes with the wankers a EA and Activision who also seem to think they have a right to tell me what I can have install on my PC
mozdev.org
If you want features for Firefox go there. The point of Firefox is to be a small broswer that is not loaded up with features. I have used Opera and I have to say that I find most of the features pointless, they might be novel at the time but like all things that are novel you soon get sick of it and never use it again. Firefox is a great bare bones broswer and by far the best of breed in my books. I found Opera really clunky to use and it took to long to go though all the setting to get it how I like it. With Firefox I get that when I install it.
From my point of view Opera will go by the way of the Dinosaur.
I have to say I am shocked! Its not like they ripped DOS off someone else, oh what they did and I am pretty sure NTFS was all there own. Oh hold on there a mo can we say HPFS kids :) And then there is .Net that is all MS, look sorry guys I am also wrong about that. They hired the guy from Borland who made Delphi. Silly me
But on the filp side of that coin is if it make there shit better then and as long as they are not breaking the law I have no realy problem with it. I will never use MSN but if by ripping off Google they supply a good product to the people that use the MSN search, Props
That they did and it was a DOG of a system to work with. A company I was working with at the time look at doing some work in it but it was very hard to do alot with. The same went for OpenTV.
.Com idea but we all know how .Com turned out in the end
I think it was a bit ahead of its time another great
But on I will be fucked if I would use anything like that that had MS attached to it. I do not like there DRM I do not like it Sam I am.