Everyone is saying how labor is outsourced and all that is left are stupid managers who keep their salaries. Well maybe that's where our country is headed. One day we'll all just go to college to become managers. The people who do the coding, manufacturing, and "other work" will be in other countries. Instead of all the managers being down the hallway, we'll just be across the ocean. We'll be an entire country of heartless Bill Lumbergs (office space). I wouldn't mind that job. I wouldn't mind at all.
This is an anti-microsoft/pro-opensource/mozilla comment on slashdot, they need not have evidence to makes those claims. In 10 minutes they'll be modded to "+6 Really Really Insightful."
And before I'm modded down as a troll, I'm using mozilla at this very moment because I feel it's more secure. But I base that not on evidence, but on my own feelings, which need no justification.
I'm a sophomore computer engineering major and I just started my spring semester with shelling out hundreds on books. I didn't buy any from my school's bookstore because I don't want to give them the money. I instead bought them used off the internet. I didn't save that much money, but I did it just to make a point to not give the store money. The amount they gouge students when they buy them and the little amount they offer for buybacks is downright insulting. Their niggardly attitude forces me to find my books elsewhere, and so I do.
So they're just going to rush it to market. Alright, it's not the same as their software exactly, in this case it's hardware, but their same philosophy nonetheless. Probably what'll happen is their system will have a lot of bugs and the game developers will have the job of work arounds for their games. Since for a year microsoft could have playstation 3 beat until it comes out, they could just say to the game developers to deal with it if they want to sell their games on XBox. I mean last I checked, the xbox wasn't set up to automatically check for updates on xboxupdates.microsoft.com
I've only used Knoppix when I was waiting for a replacement hard drive but definatly was not fast. It's purpose in my mind is to be used when your regular operating system is either trashed, or in my case, not accessable. In no way should this setup be recommended for people to use linux fulltime. It's good for troubleshooting, other than that, install the operating system to the computer and hope the user doesn't fuck it up too quickly
Crap it up with windows programs? Then why are all these open source versions just clones of windows software? Open office, the gimp, kb3, and countless others are just trying to copy them. The actualy software for windows is pretty damn good I think. The only thing really wrong with windows is it's inability to protect itself from malware. And I hope that's not the crappy windows programs you were referring to.
Then 94% of the people here would said they had yet to download one. The remaining 6% would have made some natale portman references and then gotten into an argument over flac and the ipod.
But back to mp3s, mine was probably a metallica song I downloaded in 96 off a web server when you had to work to find mp3s. Back then, even napster was years away.
How many secretaries do you know that can or even would write a script to sort the email? This is why people buy expensive software to do that stuff for them.
Trusted computing will fix this when longhorn debuts in 200X. People will buy it thinking their computer is safe and they won't be in the position they are now to fuck their computer up with the click of the mouse.
I just spent hours running ad-aware and pc-cillin on my roomates computer to remove dozens of spyware programs. I have no idea how they got on there and it would do me no good to ask him. Face it, not everyone cares enough to learn how to protect their computer from this shit. They won't care and we should just accept it instead of trying to force good habits on them. Think of all those old english ladies that just gave up years ago to make the rest of us sensable human beings.
This is in no disrespect to you, but who in their right mind would run KDE on a mac? I mean it comes with os X for god sakes!! It's like buying windows server 2003 to run a virtual pc of windows 3.1.
KDE may have come a long way from the crap it was a few years ago, but it's still so far from being a...eh it doesn't matter at this point. I'm sure 100 other people in this forum have better reasons for my argument than I'll have tonight
...or whatever the hell it's called now. I'll end up patching it in my dreams. Imagine, my perfect dream is about to come true and just before it does, "windows update is ready to install..." Then again, if it were run by linux, I'd get an error message of "this dreams requires the package lib.so.4.508 to continue." Either way, this ain't going to work the way it's advertised.
On a serious note, google up lucid dreaming and read about it. It actually works. Years ago I tried to make one of these things by having a bunch of LED's blink rapidly. It didn't work, but it was a neat form of meditation. But seriously, there's nothing like a lucid dream.
Microsoft said they were about choice! Now the linux zealots can all flame them on slashdot and go to sleep happy. The apple users can chime in their love for ipods and itunes. The windows fanboys can chime in how wma is surperior and that it will take over and crush apple and linux. Once the rubble has settled the 1862 ogg users can tout a new media format world order and reign for the next 1000 years. Good times a commin'!
If microsoft did this once a month, IT productivity would go up 10%.
First of all, I read the box and I have common sense. In computer engineering when you deal with the terms kilo, mega, and giga, you're dealing with numbers in of a power of 2. 2^10, 2^20, 2^30. So my point is everywhere the term giga means 2^30, but when it comes to advertising or making the box, giga suddenly means billion bytes. Therefore it can be misleading because the average joe sixpack is going to format it and it'll come up a few gigs short, because in the operating system it will go back to the 2^30 and not billion bytes.
Companies were calling USB 1.1 USB 2. Their justification was that well USB 1.0 was the first, so 1.1 must be the second. The problem was they did this when the real USB 2 was comming out.
Face it, computer companies have doing this for a while. Cyrix did and AMD does with the performance rating. You can argue that the Athlon 2400+ is as fast as a 2.4 ghz P4, but it's still misleading.
CD-Rom drives did this with their fast speeds that were only obtainable a fraction of the time. 56k? Try 40k when I was using dialup. 200 gb hard drive where suddenly giga means billion bytes and not 2^30. Firewire and USB transfer speeds are almost never reached.
Every other state can move on with technology to make the process easier and faster, but for Florida, for the next few years we should do it this way:
In each booth there is a life size cardboard cuttout of each canidate with a mechanical arm that waves and a speakers that tells the voter their name and lots of flashing lights to get their attention. The voter is given a tail. The voter then walkes over and pins the tail on the canidate they want to vote for. Now since every child can play this game (pin the tail on the donkey for you non-yanks) I think the people of florida should have no problem.
Oh wait a minute, how many of these people will leave the booth saying the pinnned the tail on the democrat and they're ready to vote for their canidate of choice?
Actually I believe the press did a hand count and they concluded that Bush really one. So I guess even though Gore one the "paaaaahhhhpular vote," he didn't win the one that really matters.
And the electoral vote does matter to equally represent people otherwise canidates would only campaign in large cities and those bumpkins in the midwest and the south would never been considered or cared about.
I never said it was good. I stick to windows no doubt. But I keep reading about all these people or corporations or governments switching over and I see that increasing. I'm sorry to sound like a left wing linux fanboy, I didn't mean to come off like that.
Actually, I use windows xp. I don't really care for linux. I wasn't sure if you were trying to argue with me or just wanted to make a point, but I agree with you nonetheless.
Windows xp is incredibly stable in my opinion, more so than mandrake and suse I've found. The security depends on having a firewall and regular patching, something which I have no problem with. I think a big reason so many people have problems with windows is that most of the clueless computer users use it and they don't understand how or why to secure the machine.
I'm not a linux zealot nor a microsoft fanboy. I just use my computer for business and pleasure like most people. I don't really care about the operating system as much as the programs I actually use to get shit done.
Nothing forces a company like microsoft to improve their products than a little competition. I like how they focused on security this time. If linux for desktops wasn't gaining market share as fast as it is now, I doubt we would have seen this service pack this soon and this full of security updates. Microsoft isn't stupid, they understand why a lot of people switch to linux. They give up that "secure feeling" of windows for actual security. I don't know if this will bring back converts, but I think it will slow down the acceleration of linux adoption for those "regular folks".
I remember when they first came out with their crusoe chips they were marketting them as viable alternatives to pentiums and k6's (or a k6 variant). The problem was that their performance loss couldn't justify the battery life increase and so few manufacturers took the risk to built laptops with them or market them as heavily as their pentium laptops.
I'm surprised transmeta lasted this long and so I guess that's an indicator that they weren't dot com vaporware. However, I hope to see this time they try to market them not as laptop replacements but just really fast chips for embeded applications or portable devices. Battery life is a very big consideration in designing mp3 players, cell phones, cameras, etc. What this may bring soon is smaller devices that rely on less chips since they can take advantage of transmetas more powerful chip than what it's replacing. If not, it could simply allow more features in handhelds that already exist instead of trying to invent new markets (tablet's to some extent).
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Everyone is saying how labor is outsourced and all that is left are stupid managers who keep their salaries. Well maybe that's where our country is headed. One day we'll all just go to college to become managers. The people who do the coding, manufacturing, and "other work" will be in other countries. Instead of all the managers being down the hallway, we'll just be across the ocean. We'll be an entire country of heartless Bill Lumbergs (office space). I wouldn't mind that job. I wouldn't mind at all.
This is an anti-microsoft/pro-opensource/mozilla comment on slashdot, they need not have evidence to makes those claims. In 10 minutes they'll be modded to "+6 Really Really Insightful."
And before I'm modded down as a troll, I'm using mozilla at this very moment because I feel it's more secure. But I base that not on evidence, but on my own feelings, which need no justification.
I'm a sophomore computer engineering major and I just started my spring semester with shelling out hundreds on books. I didn't buy any from my school's bookstore because I don't want to give them the money. I instead bought them used off the internet. I didn't save that much money, but I did it just to make a point to not give the store money. The amount they gouge students when they buy them and the little amount they offer for buybacks is downright insulting. Their niggardly attitude forces me to find my books elsewhere, and so I do.
So they're just going to rush it to market. Alright, it's not the same as their software exactly, in this case it's hardware, but their same philosophy nonetheless. Probably what'll happen is their system will have a lot of bugs and the game developers will have the job of work arounds for their games. Since for a year microsoft could have playstation 3 beat until it comes out, they could just say to the game developers to deal with it if they want to sell their games on XBox. I mean last I checked, the xbox wasn't set up to automatically check for updates on xboxupdates.microsoft.com
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Um, I drive a toyota. I live in america and it's available to me.
blisteringly fast?
I've only used Knoppix when I was waiting for a replacement hard drive but definatly was not fast. It's purpose in my mind is to be used when your regular operating system is either trashed, or in my case, not accessable. In no way should this setup be recommended for people to use linux fulltime. It's good for troubleshooting, other than that, install the operating system to the computer and hope the user doesn't fuck it up too quickly
Crap it up with windows programs? Then why are all these open source versions just clones of windows software? Open office, the gimp, kb3, and countless others are just trying to copy them. The actualy software for windows is pretty damn good I think. The only thing really wrong with windows is it's inability to protect itself from malware. And I hope that's not the crappy windows programs you were referring to.
Then 94% of the people here would said they had yet to download one. The remaining 6% would have made some natale portman references and then gotten into an argument over flac and the ipod.
But back to mp3s, mine was probably a metallica song I downloaded in 96 off a web server when you had to work to find mp3s. Back then, even napster was years away.
How many secretaries do you know that can or even would write a script to sort the email? This is why people buy expensive software to do that stuff for them.
Trusted computing will fix this when longhorn debuts in 200X. People will buy it thinking their computer is safe and they won't be in the position they are now to fuck their computer up with the click of the mouse.
I just spent hours running ad-aware and pc-cillin on my roomates computer to remove dozens of spyware programs. I have no idea how they got on there and it would do me no good to ask him. Face it, not everyone cares enough to learn how to protect their computer from this shit. They won't care and we should just accept it instead of trying to force good habits on them. Think of all those old english ladies that just gave up years ago to make the rest of us sensable human beings.
Trend's pc-cillin displayed a popup of this several hours ago. This is why I use pc-cillin, windows needs a condom.
This is in no disrespect to you, but who in their right mind would run KDE on a mac? I mean it comes with os X for god sakes!! It's like buying windows server 2003 to run a virtual pc of windows 3.1.
KDE may have come a long way from the crap it was a few years ago, but it's still so far from being a...eh it doesn't matter at this point. I'm sure 100 other people in this forum have better reasons for my argument than I'll have tonight
...or whatever the hell it's called now. I'll end up patching it in my dreams. Imagine, my perfect dream is about to come true and just before it does, "windows update is ready to install..." Then again, if it were run by linux, I'd get an error message of "this dreams requires the package lib.so.4.508 to continue." Either way, this ain't going to work the way it's advertised.
On a serious note, google up lucid dreaming and read about it. It actually works. Years ago I tried to make one of these things by having a bunch of LED's blink rapidly. It didn't work, but it was a neat form of meditation. But seriously, there's nothing like a lucid dream.
Isn't this what agent smith did in Matrix Reloaded?
It's only illegal if you don't have the real game...or so I'm told
It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it!
And by that, I mean what operating system you have it displaying.
Microsoft said they were about choice! Now the linux zealots can all flame them on slashdot and go to sleep happy. The apple users can chime in their love for ipods and itunes. The windows fanboys can chime in how wma is surperior and that it will take over and crush apple and linux. Once the rubble has settled the 1862 ogg users can tout a new media format world order and reign for the next 1000 years. Good times a commin'!
If microsoft did this once a month, IT productivity would go up 10%.
First of all, I read the box and I have common sense. In computer engineering when you deal with the terms kilo, mega, and giga, you're dealing with numbers in of a power of 2. 2^10, 2^20, 2^30. So my point is everywhere the term giga means 2^30, but when it comes to advertising or making the box, giga suddenly means billion bytes. Therefore it can be misleading because the average joe sixpack is going to format it and it'll come up a few gigs short, because in the operating system it will go back to the 2^30 and not billion bytes.
Companies were calling USB 1.1 USB 2. Their justification was that well USB 1.0 was the first, so 1.1 must be the second. The problem was they did this when the real USB 2 was comming out.
Face it, computer companies have doing this for a while. Cyrix did and AMD does with the performance rating. You can argue that the Athlon 2400+ is as fast as a 2.4 ghz P4, but it's still misleading.
CD-Rom drives did this with their fast speeds that were only obtainable a fraction of the time. 56k? Try 40k when I was using dialup. 200 gb hard drive where suddenly giga means billion bytes and not 2^30. Firewire and USB transfer speeds are almost never reached.
Every other state can move on with technology to make the process easier and faster, but for Florida, for the next few years we should do it this way:
In each booth there is a life size cardboard cuttout of each canidate with a mechanical arm that waves and a speakers that tells the voter their name and lots of flashing lights to get their attention. The voter is given a tail. The voter then walkes over and pins the tail on the canidate they want to vote for. Now since every child can play this game (pin the tail on the donkey for you non-yanks) I think the people of florida should have no problem.
Oh wait a minute, how many of these people will leave the booth saying the pinnned the tail on the democrat and they're ready to vote for their canidate of choice?
Actually I believe the press did a hand count and they concluded that Bush really one. So I guess even though Gore one the "paaaaahhhhpular vote," he didn't win the one that really matters.
And the electoral vote does matter to equally represent people otherwise canidates would only campaign in large cities and those bumpkins in the midwest and the south would never been considered or cared about.
I never said it was good. I stick to windows no doubt. But I keep reading about all these people or corporations or governments switching over and I see that increasing. I'm sorry to sound like a left wing linux fanboy, I didn't mean to come off like that.
Actually, I use windows xp. I don't really care for linux. I wasn't sure if you were trying to argue with me or just wanted to make a point, but I agree with you nonetheless.
Windows xp is incredibly stable in my opinion, more so than mandrake and suse I've found. The security depends on having a firewall and regular patching, something which I have no problem with. I think a big reason so many people have problems with windows is that most of the clueless computer users use it and they don't understand how or why to secure the machine.
I'm not a linux zealot nor a microsoft fanboy. I just use my computer for business and pleasure like most people. I don't really care about the operating system as much as the programs I actually use to get shit done.
Nothing forces a company like microsoft to improve their products than a little competition. I like how they focused on security this time. If linux for desktops wasn't gaining market share as fast as it is now, I doubt we would have seen this service pack this soon and this full of security updates. Microsoft isn't stupid, they understand why a lot of people switch to linux. They give up that "secure feeling" of windows for actual security. I don't know if this will bring back converts, but I think it will slow down the acceleration of linux adoption for those "regular folks".
I remember when they first came out with their crusoe chips they were marketting them as viable alternatives to pentiums and k6's (or a k6 variant). The problem was that their performance loss couldn't justify the battery life increase and so few manufacturers took the risk to built laptops with them or market them as heavily as their pentium laptops.
I'm surprised transmeta lasted this long and so I guess that's an indicator that they weren't dot com vaporware. However, I hope to see this time they try to market them not as laptop replacements but just really fast chips for embeded applications or portable devices. Battery life is a very big consideration in designing mp3 players, cell phones, cameras, etc. What this may bring soon is smaller devices that rely on less chips since they can take advantage of transmetas more powerful chip than what it's replacing. If not, it could simply allow more features in handhelds that already exist instead of trying to invent new markets (tablet's to some extent).