I've never had a problem with anything but sound and wireless with linux. I always build my own computers though, but I just grab whatever the most popular bleeding edge stuff is at the time.
My sound issues were all resolved with the latest version of ubuntu. Wireless is still spotty, but I only use it so I dont waste my bandwith on long downloads.
I install apps on windows XP all the time. I am not an admin. Its really simple c:\documents and settings\user\apps is a great place to point my install too.
Now if the installer wants to update something in c:\windows or a driver, then no, I can't install it.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty.
Where is your proof? Maybe the test has a error margin of 15% is that acceptable to you that he is driving drunk? Not for me. I think this case is justified. I think the company that makes these tests has burden of proof. Should they supply the source code? I dont think there is a reason too. Perhaps demonstrate a test or two in court with blood tests to prove accuracy, or submit some independent reviews of their products. But they should have to PROVE their test works.
How do you know the tests we have generally accepted having changed over the years and are no longer accurate?
Kotor and Jade Empire are 2 of my most favorite RPG's. It seems that most of the ps2 rpg's are more of the sit here and watch this movie FFX kind of game, or the lets play little girl dress up FFX2 kind of play. Sure, there were a few good ones, but nothing like nes, snes, and ps1.
Wow, now thats addiction. I'll do like I always do, I'll wait for them to come down. I got my xbox for 149. I got my gamecube for 99. And I got my ps2 used for under 90.
I buy all my games at the price point of 19.99 or lower as well. Until they go down I can always rent them or barrow them from a friend.
If I was going to spend 1000.00. I'd build another computer. At least with that I can do more then watch dvd's and play games.
Here at Southwestern Michigan College we have a lan party group. We tipically hold lan partys once each grading period. Send me an email at fictionpimp at swmichlanparty.com if you have any issues you can't seem to get past, we've had quite a few hurdles in setting up and running our lan parties (it sounds like you have everything well in hand though). They are still growing (our last party had about 30 people show up), but we should be having one in august.
I'll have to keep my eye on that, I might convince the guys for a small road trip up to Grand Rapids.
Screw that, 9.99 or even 19.99 might be feasable. But for 49.99 I could get a lot of things. And current news via the ineternet isn't that hard to find without the NYT.
so what happens when your mac breaks after a year and you didn't buy a Waranty? You eat the cost? How much is a mac motherboard or a powerpc processor?
My processor has a 3 year waranty, my video card has a life time waranty, etc. If my hardware fails due to enviorment, or a bad fan that causes overheating, I'm safe. If I buy a 1000.00 mac and it breaks in 100 days, it looks to me like i'm screwed and will have to pay someone to fix it or buy repair parts if I dont get a waranty
I guess I should of said low end for a serious computer user. From what I've hard the mac mini isn't really all that usable.
Intersting you point that out though. How much slower is a 799 emac vs a 1200 imac? Although I wouldn't ever concider one for purcahse. You would need to buy an extended waranty because when that monitor goes for any reason, your out the whole 800-1200. If my monitor goes now, i'm out 349 but my computer will keep working. So a quick work on the shopping cart shows almost 1000.00 for the cheapest Emac you can buy (which is not really a computer but an appliance). So for 400.00 more you can get a real low end computer.
But then, if you think about it. You can't just fix your mac a piece at a time if it fails right? So you need that protection plan for powermacs. So thats another 249.00
Thats a far cry from my custom build where everything has a 1-5 year replacement plan.
Again, I dont know how that 1.8ghz powermac performs. I've never owned one. But for me to put out 1748.00, it better be faster then my AMD64 4000+. The OS needs to be snappier, games need to run at 1600x1200 faster on my 2001fp and it better not get slow when I have a ton of apps open for whatever reason.
So rather, you want to be overcharged with less ram?
1499 is a lot for a "low end" computer in my mind. Hell my currenly computer is about as big as you build them and it only cost me 1700.
amd64 4000 1 gig ram 300 gig hd nvidia 6800 gt.
I've never owned a mac, so I can't say if a 1.8ghz PPC is comparable to a amd 4000 in peformance, but I know that ati 9600 doesn't hold anything to a 6800 ultra.
I actually just went back to windows with my new machine and i'm loving it. I like how simple it is. On semi new hardware linux is a pain and requires too much time screwing with the OS to actually use the OS. Now on my p3 machine linux is better than sliced bread. I install it and its done, a few apt-get's and I've got 3d support for my video card and i'm ready to go. But on my p4 or my amd64 i'll stick with windows for a few more years. I'm sick of screwing with config files and fussing with wrappers and weird hacks to get my hardware to work.
This is what I do. I build a new bleeding edge pc and every other year I sell it to my friends for cost in new parts - 150.00. This usually gets me enough cash to build a new bleeding edge pc for 300-450.00.
I feel that 450.00 to play the newest games and do all my job functions as well as all the other things I do with my pc (game mods, internet browsing, programming, etc) is well worth it compared to the 200.00 I spent on my xbox.
That said, as keyboards and mice become more common for consoles, and as I get older and find myself playing less and less games, it makes sense to keep a older computer and just update the consoles. I find myself buying less and less games each year and renting more games.
So time will tell, but I suspect I'll soon be a slave to Microsoft in a different manner than a OS (Unless I'll be using GNU/Box sometime soon to play console games, but I dont see open source hardware taking off anytime soon).
I wonder if they fixed the issues I was having with the preview release. (I can't check because the web page is down)
Anyone know if DMA is turned on by defualt now? On the preview release dma was off on my dvd burner and I had to add piix and ide-core to my modules list, and for some reason, doing this would prevent the nvidia driver from working forcing me to use nv. Its the reason why I'm still using debian even though I really like the direction Ubuntu is taking (more current releases and xorg)
I own a news site, and I buy a story from the AFP I'm not allowed to be on google news. But I want to be on google news because it brings traffic to my website.
Maybe the AFP should tell the people who buy its storys not to put them out on a public internet. Sure google shows an image and a blurb of text, but to read the whole story you still have to go to the website that actually published it.
If this is true, then the failing is in the aFP's buisness model and not google news, google is just providing an index of news sites based on my keyword search.
Slashdot Mirror
I've never had a problem with anything but sound and wireless with linux. I always build my own computers though, but I just grab whatever the most popular bleeding edge stuff is at the time.
My sound issues were all resolved with the latest version of ubuntu. Wireless is still spotty, but I only use it so I dont waste my bandwith on long downloads.
I install apps on windows XP all the time. I am not an admin. Its really simple c:\documents and settings\user\apps is a great place to point my install too.
Now if the installer wants to update something in c:\windows or a driver, then no, I can't install it.
And that fact is why a global economy will never work, because nobody wants it. Fair trade is only fair when your the one on top.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty. Where is your proof? Maybe the test has a error margin of 15% is that acceptable to you that he is driving drunk? Not for me. I think this case is justified. I think the company that makes these tests has burden of proof. Should they supply the source code? I dont think there is a reason too. Perhaps demonstrate a test or two in court with blood tests to prove accuracy, or submit some independent reviews of their products. But they should have to PROVE their test works. How do you know the tests we have generally accepted having changed over the years and are no longer accurate?
Kotor and Jade Empire are 2 of my most favorite RPG's. It seems that most of the ps2 rpg's are more of the sit here and watch this movie FFX kind of game, or the lets play little girl dress up FFX2 kind of play. Sure, there were a few good ones, but nothing like nes, snes, and ps1.
Wow, now thats addiction. I'll do like I always do, I'll wait for them to come down. I got my xbox for 149. I got my gamecube for 99. And I got my ps2 used for under 90.
I buy all my games at the price point of 19.99 or lower as well. Until they go down I can always rent them or barrow them from a friend.
If I was going to spend 1000.00. I'd build another computer. At least with that I can do more then watch dvd's and play games.
Why not, in Indiana we now have to show ID to buy cold meds. Because we might make meth out of them!
Here at Southwestern Michigan College we have a lan party group. We tipically hold lan partys once each grading period. Send me an email at fictionpimp at swmichlanparty.com if you have any issues you can't seem to get past, we've had quite a few hurdles in setting up and running our lan parties (it sounds like you have everything well in hand though). They are still growing (our last party had about 30 people show up), but we should be having one in august.
I'll have to keep my eye on that, I might convince the guys for a small road trip up to Grand Rapids.
*loads map*
woooo shiney....
*blam*
Damn it!
Screw that, 9.99 or even 19.99 might be feasable. But for 49.99 I could get a lot of things. And current news via the ineternet isn't that hard to find without the NYT.
When I was 16, I would of killed to have my face all over school saying I just scored. Unless the chick was ugly.
So that's why this is in the works.
http://jesus.evilx.com/
Its a shame it never actually got made.
Don't say renders properly. Say renders them in the way the crappy web designer intended.
In red faction you could throw gernades via the G key without switching guns.
so what happens when your mac breaks after a year and you didn't buy a Waranty? You eat the cost? How much is a mac motherboard or a powerpc processor?
My processor has a 3 year waranty, my video card has a life time waranty, etc. If my hardware fails due to enviorment, or a bad fan that causes overheating, I'm safe. If I buy a 1000.00 mac and it breaks in 100 days, it looks to me like i'm screwed and will have to pay someone to fix it or buy repair parts if I dont get a waranty
I guess I should of said low end for a serious computer user. From what I've hard the mac mini isn't really all that usable.
Intersting you point that out though. How much slower is a 799 emac vs a 1200 imac? Although I wouldn't ever concider one for purcahse. You would need to buy an extended waranty because when that monitor goes for any reason, your out the whole 800-1200. If my monitor goes now, i'm out 349 but my computer will keep working. So a quick work on the shopping cart shows almost 1000.00 for the cheapest Emac you can buy (which is not really a computer but an appliance). So for 400.00 more you can get a real low end computer.
But then, if you think about it. You can't just fix your mac a piece at a time if it fails right? So you need that protection plan for powermacs. So thats another 249.00
Thats a far cry from my custom build where everything has a 1-5 year replacement plan.
Again, I dont know how that 1.8ghz powermac performs. I've never owned one. But for me to put out 1748.00, it better be faster then my AMD64 4000+. The OS needs to be snappier, games need to run at 1600x1200 faster on my 2001fp and it better not get slow when I have a ton of apps open for whatever reason.
So rather, you want to be overcharged with less ram? 1499 is a lot for a "low end" computer in my mind. Hell my currenly computer is about as big as you build them and it only cost me 1700. amd64 4000 1 gig ram 300 gig hd nvidia 6800 gt. I've never owned a mac, so I can't say if a 1.8ghz PPC is comparable to a amd 4000 in peformance, but I know that ati 9600 doesn't hold anything to a 6800 ultra.
Dont forget people running servers. Counterstrike doesn't take much for a good server.
GPL software is copywrited. If you dont agree to the license you are breaking the author's copywrite.
I actually just went back to windows with my new machine and i'm loving it. I like how simple it is. On semi new hardware linux is a pain and requires too much time screwing with the OS to actually use the OS. Now on my p3 machine linux is better than sliced bread. I install it and its done, a few apt-get's and I've got 3d support for my video card and i'm ready to go. But on my p4 or my amd64 i'll stick with windows for a few more years. I'm sick of screwing with config files and fussing with wrappers and weird hacks to get my hardware to work.
This is what I do. I build a new bleeding edge pc and every other year I sell it to my friends for cost in new parts - 150.00. This usually gets me enough cash to build a new bleeding edge pc for 300-450.00.
I feel that 450.00 to play the newest games and do all my job functions as well as all the other things I do with my pc (game mods, internet browsing, programming, etc) is well worth it compared to the 200.00 I spent on my xbox.
That said, as keyboards and mice become more common for consoles, and as I get older and find myself playing less and less games, it makes sense to keep a older computer and just update the consoles. I find myself buying less and less games each year and renting more games.
So time will tell, but I suspect I'll soon be a slave to Microsoft in a different manner than a OS (Unless I'll be using GNU/Box sometime soon to play console games, but I dont see open source hardware taking off anytime soon).
I should say that I use SATA hard drives and my motherboard is a intel i875perl.
I wonder if they fixed the issues I was having with the preview release. (I can't check because the web page is down) Anyone know if DMA is turned on by defualt now? On the preview release dma was off on my dvd burner and I had to add piix and ide-core to my modules list, and for some reason, doing this would prevent the nvidia driver from working forcing me to use nv. Its the reason why I'm still using debian even though I really like the direction Ubuntu is taking (more current releases and xorg)
Ok, this makes no sense.
I own a news site, and I buy a story from the AFP I'm not allowed to be on google news. But I want to be on google news because it brings traffic to my website.
Maybe the AFP should tell the people who buy its storys not to put them out on a public internet. Sure google shows an image and a blurb of text, but to read the whole story you still have to go to the website that actually published it.
If this is true, then the failing is in the aFP's buisness model and not google news, google is just providing an index of news sites based on my keyword search.
Its common MMORPG slang too, I would be hardpressed to find an EQ fan boy who doesn't use the word uber to describe everything.