Have you even tried to figure out the actual cost of electricity to power your computer? It's not nearly as high as you think, which is why everyone ignores it. For a rough calculation, assume 100W for your Athlon64 computer, assume it's on 365*24hrs per year, assume you're paying 10 cents per kilowatt hour (roughly national average), and what does that come out to? 876kWhrs, or $87 per year. That's not much compared to maybe the $1000 you pay for the computer.
A number of economists agree that the simple tactic (from your intro microeconomics class) of imposing a tax on the consumption of gasoline will do a lot more social good than harm. You can read more about it at the excellent blog http://www.env-econ.net/
Of course, no one wants to pay even more for gasoline! Many Americans don't realize that they already pay much less than people in other parts of the world.
I thought that's what Canonical's Bazaar was all about? Mark Shuttleworth wants a bug-tracking system that will allow people to propagate a bug from the Ubuntu package to the Debian package to the upstream mainainers, all with minimal hassle and a central interface.
I view it as an excellent starting place to get some information. If I have a basic question, it'll probably be answered by the Wikipedia article. If it's a more advanced question, the article should point me to more in-depth references.
So remember, if you're adding information, try to cite a source!
If you got your kid a Mini-ITX machine based on the C3 chip, the kids at school would call him lame and beat him up! The parent is not suggesting that the Mac Mini replaces a gaming rig, he is suggesting that the Mac Mini replaces a Mini-ITX setup very well. Obviously, neither is a system that plays the latest 3D games well (although the Mac Mini is much more capable than the C3-based machine).
There are things on "Dark Side of the Moon" LP (analog recording!) which I cannot even hear on my CD copy... The only thing CDs do better is reproducing silence (a bunch of zeros is not that hard to do), but when it comes to producing sound analog is still the best. Don't mistake abscence of crackles for great sound...
If you hadn't posted this as AC, we could at least discuss the facts reasonably. As it is, you're just trolling.
Also, that Hi-Fi Choice magazine is a load of crap.
Why not just get 2 or 4 GB of RAM (or even more) in your system? That way, anything you ever get from disk will just stay in RAM, so you only have to worry about the latency once.
University of Rochester had (2004-2005) a pilot program where Napster services were provided free to the students. We're not sure where the funding for it came from, but it wasn't from tuition. We had several administration-student talks and the general consensus was that it would be very unfair to include that as part of our bill (particularly since Napster is Windows-only).
Newegg is all you need. I've quit shopping around, I go straight to Newegg. You know they'll have what you want within a few dollars of the lowest price around. Together with their fast shipping and great customer service, they can't be beat.
Who knows what their deal with ChiefValue is? I hear it's the same warehouses.
I have never had a single problem with any ECS motherboard. I think they're awesome for the price.
I had a problem with the one Asus board I owned. It just quit working one day and I had to RMA it. With the ECS boards being half the price, I'd choose them anyday.
Good idea. Guess what the Ubuntu guys are doing?:)
They cut down the number of packages to less than a 1000 and call that Ubuntu. All the other packages are still available, but not guaranteed to be up to date.
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There's techdirt.com and there's technocrat.net. Those are pretty close, but much lower volume. lxer.com is linux news only, somewhat useful.
The question you pose has been brought up many times before. There are many good answers, and this is really a place that Linux shines. The people who know most of the answers are the people on the mailing lists. You will really be able to find some kindred souls there.
Everyone's always saying how Linux will take over the desktop soon. Well, we're almost there. I've been following Ubuntu closely since recently. I think it really has a chance to provide a real, workable, usable alternative to OS X and WinXP. Even the Warty release is very impressive, and Hoary promises to be amazing!
What makes me think so? Remember that guy that has so much money that he paid the Russians to take him to space? Well, he's decided he wants to make a good Linux distro. He started Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu.
Here's a very interesting radio interview with the man himself, Mark Shuttleworth, where he talks about the need for a "technically superior" distribution. http://www.lugradio.org/guide.php#e pisode19
It's also funny when he mentions that he's "disgustingly rich".
A similar feature that I find more useful is typing "dict 'word'" in the Firefox address bar. It takes you to the dictionary.com page for the word you entered. There is a big difference, however, dictionary.com gives you the official definition while "define:'word'" at Google gives you all the colloquial usage on the web, which is sometimes more useful.
Prison has some advantages over everyday life. Who are some of the only people in the USA to be guaranteed health care? That's right, prisoners. Veterans, too.
Would you want your tax money spent on baby-sitting this guy for the rest of his life? I agree, don't put him in jail. Give him an apartment in South Central or something.
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That said, for high-power applications, you should avoid the latest Pentium 4/D/Xeon chips in favor of the latest Athlon64/Opterons, but it's still only a few percent of the TCO.
A number of economists agree that the simple tactic (from your intro microeconomics class) of imposing a tax on the consumption of gasoline will do a lot more social good than harm. You can read more about it at the excellent blog http://www.env-econ.net/
Of course, no one wants to pay even more for gasoline! Many Americans don't realize that they already pay much less than people in other parts of the world.
Is that like Extreme Ironing?
The neat thing about this is their content delivery method. It's a Java app.
It worked perfectly on my WindowsXP machine AND my friend's OS X machine. How about Linux? Has anyone tried running it on their Java-enabled phone?
I thought that's what Canonical's Bazaar was all about? Mark Shuttleworth wants a bug-tracking system that will allow people to propagate a bug from the Ubuntu package to the Debian package to the upstream mainainers, all with minimal hassle and a central interface.
http://bazaar.canonical.com/
I view it as an excellent starting place to get some information. If I have a basic question, it'll probably be answered by the Wikipedia article. If it's a more advanced question, the article should point me to more in-depth references.
So remember, if you're adding information, try to cite a source!
If you got your kid a Mini-ITX machine based on the C3 chip, the kids at school would call him lame and beat him up! The parent is not suggesting that the Mac Mini replaces a gaming rig, he is suggesting that the Mac Mini replaces a Mini-ITX setup very well. Obviously, neither is a system that plays the latest 3D games well (although the Mac Mini is much more capable than the C3-based machine).
You are exactly correct. The slashdot editors have confused HomePlug and BPL.
Why not just get 2 or 4 GB of RAM (or even more) in your system? That way, anything you ever get from disk will just stay in RAM, so you only have to worry about the latency once.
Our school uses WebRFM as basically a web-based file management client. It's ugly, but it works. http://mail.rochester.edu/
The HORDE Gollem is a promising project also. http://www.horde.org/gollem/
University of Rochester had (2004-2005) a pilot program where Napster services were provided free to the students. We're not sure where the funding for it came from, but it wasn't from tuition. We had several administration-student talks and the general consensus was that it would be very unfair to include that as part of our bill (particularly since Napster is Windows-only).
Newegg is all you need. I've quit shopping around, I go straight to Newegg. You know they'll have what you want within a few dollars of the lowest price around. Together with their fast shipping and great customer service, they can't be beat.
Who knows what their deal with ChiefValue is? I hear it's the same warehouses.
Actually, MSN Search gives you the same first result.
o +is+the+account+manager+for+the+Commonwealth+Bank+ of+Australia&FORM=QBHP
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=microsoft+wh
I love Google Search, but you need competition to keep them honest.
I have never had a single problem with any ECS motherboard. I think they're awesome for the price.
I had a problem with the one Asus board I owned. It just quit working one day and I had to RMA it. With the ECS boards being half the price, I'd choose them anyday.
One anecdotal story does not data make.
According to some guy on the internet, this story is old. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/36819/index.h tml
Good idea. Guess what the Ubuntu guys are doing? :)
They cut down the number of packages to less than a 1000 and call that Ubuntu. All the other packages are still available, but not guaranteed to be up to date.
There's techdirt.com and there's technocrat.net. Those are pretty close, but much lower volume. lxer.com is linux news only, somewhat useful.
The question you pose has been brought up many times before. There are many good answers, and this is really a place that Linux shines. The people who know most of the answers are the people on the mailing lists. You will really be able to find some kindred souls there.
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Everyone's always saying how Linux will take over the desktop soon. Well, we're almost there. I've been following Ubuntu closely since recently. I think it really has a chance to provide a real, workable, usable alternative to OS X and WinXP. Even the Warty release is very impressive, and Hoary promises to be amazing!
e pisode19
What makes me think so? Remember that guy that has so much money that he paid the Russians to take him to space? Well, he's decided he wants to make a good Linux distro. He started Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu.
Here's a very interesting radio interview with the man himself, Mark Shuttleworth, where he talks about the need for a "technically superior" distribution.
http://www.lugradio.org/guide.php#
It's also funny when he mentions that he's "disgustingly rich".
But when the spammer sends you an e-mail and their return e-mail isn't on any of your friends' LOAFs, you can mark their e-mail down as "spam".
A similar feature that I find more useful is typing "dict 'word'" in the Firefox address bar. It takes you to the dictionary.com page for the word you entered. There is a big difference, however, dictionary.com gives you the official definition while "define:'word'" at Google gives you all the colloquial usage on the web, which is sometimes more useful.
The foobar2000 mp3 player has normalization (it's called "ReplayGain"). I'm sure many other software products do too...
Prison has some advantages over everyday life. Who are some of the only people in the USA to be guaranteed health care? That's right, prisoners. Veterans, too.
Would you want your tax money spent on baby-sitting this guy for the rest of his life? I agree, don't put him in jail. Give him an apartment in South Central or something.