Wow! I had the exact same box, for my first (real) computer.
I can't say that I've had too much trouble with it... it worked fine with Windows 3.11, which was what I used at the time. Never had any real problems, except for the time when a surge fried my modem. I called the tech support, and even though the warranty has run out, they sent me a new modem, and then got a tech guy to come in and replace it. For free.
Sure, the box wasn't that great... in fact, it was a piece of shit... but for what I did at the moment (the usual newbie's stuff - AOL, MS Works, Win 3.11), it was satisfactory. And the price was pretty good as well, I got it for $1200, which was a damn good price for a 486 DX2 when a DX4 was the fastest machine.
to mark off your list. Otherwise, my browser (Opera) doesn't recognize the list's starting and ending points, and will mark everything below it as part of the list (indented and everything).
To prevent a totally off-topic post, I actually own two Packard Bells, a 486 DX2, and a PII 233. I can't say that they're entirely un-upgradable, and I've actually done pretty well with both. I bought the first one before I became even remotely close to being computer-literate, and I bought the second before I knew exactly what kind of videocard I wanted, after some clever sales person (in another store) told me that NEC and PB merged, and the PB quality has gone up. At least I made sure that the video card wasn't on-board...
Are you implying that we are still in a race? I, for one, always like to think of the Cold War as being over. And I really don't remember Russia complaining about anything (yet) or planning to attack us.
The development of any equipment that has something to do with nuclear warfare, including a defense system is a Bad Thing. Remember, the idea of the treaty was that if a good defense was developed, work on a better offense would begin, and so on...
I think that the government is attempting to use the Y2K FUD (isn't that the excuse they used in this case?) as an excuse to spend more tax dollars on the military. Yes, the military is a necessary evil, but this does not justify breaking treaties with large countries.
At one time, the United Sates was the only nuclear power in the world.
I don't believe this is true, though I have no URLs to back it up.
This power put us in a unique position to dictate a new world order. We chose not to.
And we shouldn't have chosen to either. The United States has no right to govern the world, no matter how right (it thinks) it is.
Technically, there was no 'fall' of the USSR. They simplly modified their form of government.
That, and broke up into a large number of different countries, with different governments.
I, also, tried a similar test. 256x256, black to white diagonal gradient, in Photoshop. The GIF was 35kB, but considerably lower quality, the PNG was 44kB. The indexed PNG was also 35kB.
I then looked at the images with IE, Netscape, Opera, and ACDSee (my default image viewer), and Netscape produced a _considerably_ lighter result. I didn't have to look closely or put the images side by side to notice it.
To be fair, I am using Netscape 4.08, because I haven't found a standalone browser later than that. But how many (non-techie) people do you know that are always hunting for the latest browser version? What about slightly older versions, like Netscape/IE 3.0? IE 4.0?
Right away, this little experiment tells me that we aren't yet ready to switch to PNG.
I, too, have thought about this. I have also thought about adding "Stupid" to the list. However, this one will spawn innumerable abuses. The current choices were designed to discourage opinion-based moderation.
Here's an example: A Linux user reads a Microsoft user's post. The Microsoft user is advocating the use of NT instead of Linux, providing some valid points. However, the Linux user is either blind to these, or considers them unimportant in the big picture, and moderates the post as "Stupid".
I don't understand the meaning of Complimentary in this case.
Is URL positive or negative? Is it to be used when a person provides an incomplete URL (I don't think this is sufficient reason to moderate someone down) or when he provides an informative or interesting URL (already covered by appropriate flags)?
P.S. Very interesting, I got some errors when I tried to post this message - my browser refused to talk to www.slashdot.org (tried all 3 IPs). THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE ME!
Maybe it was your purchase that made the difference. If Creative had 100% of the market share, there would be no reason for them to release Linux drivers, especially open-source ones. So, maybe you, and many others, helped influence this decision.:)
The above may seem like flamebait, but before you consider it so, please remember that Creative is a corporation. Their top priority is making money.
Some sites will require you to go to a web page, click on banners, and find some word on the page to which the banner leads. It is roughly like this:
To get into my site, use the Username "w4r3z". To get the password, go to http://blah.blah/blah and click on the banners. The password is the third word on the first banner page plus the fifth word on the second banner page. Naturally, 90% of the banners are porn banners...
I think that Rob should add a whole new moderation comment, "First Post". Has anyone else noticed this whole new breed of first posts? The one where a kiddie makes a one-sentence, or even word, post, saying something like "Go Intel!" or "Linux rules, Microsoft sucks!".
While it usually agrees with the opinions of the majority of Slashdot readers, it's just another "first post d00d!", adding nothing to the discussion. Perhaps it could be marked as "Redundant"?
Without Linux being open-source, we wouldn't even know about its existence, if it existed at all. Linus himself, on his own, could not have made it the OS that it is today. How would all the coders that hacked the Linux code hack it without Linux being open?
Besides running on Linux, and being a very fast and friendly (without large ads all over the place) search engine, it also has a very good approach to sorting results by quality.
Quote: PageRank capitalizes on the uniquely democratic characteristic of the web by using its vast link structure as an organizational tool. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google assesses a page's importance by the votes it receives. But Google looks at more than sheer volume of votes, or links; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Solution: HotBot. Sure, it's a link farm, but if you look carefully, you'll find a link to the text-only page (http://www.hotbot.com/text/). Save the file to your hard drive, change a few things, add a button on your Personal Toolbar (if you're using Netscape or IE) and... voila, very fast searching.
Yes, HotBot is running on NT, blah blah blah... but it is the best search engine I have ever seen. Click on the Advanced button ("More Search Options"), and you're presented with a lot of different options, like searching for a file with a certain date, in a certain language, and even by domain. The engine supports just about every piece of syntax you can think of.
Even the link farm isn't too bad. They seem to have some kind of agreement with the Open Directory, as that is where the directory links come from.
Of course, they still use redirection links when you click on the search results...
A pentium 700mhz likely runs significantly hotter and sucks down more enegry than a G4. While G4s consume a bit too much more at this point to be great for laptops, there's much better chance at them going mobile that the high-end pentiums anytime soon.
The Slashdot summary said:
The new chip will, not only be available for desktop machines, but notebooks as[ ]well; thanks to a new design which makes them cooler.
Any questions?:)
However... can you imagine how much the P-700s will cost?!
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Obviously, if they had reasonable names, they would be called Losemodems...
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I can't say that I've had too much trouble with it... it worked fine with Windows 3.11, which was what I used at the time. Never had any real problems, except for the time when a surge fried my modem. I called the tech support, and even though the warranty has run out, they sent me a new modem, and then got a tech guy to come in and replace it. For free.
Sure, the box wasn't that great... in fact, it was a piece of shit... but for what I did at the moment (the usual newbie's stuff - AOL, MS Works, Win 3.11), it was satisfactory. And the price was pretty good as well, I got it for $1200, which was a damn good price for a 486 DX2 when a DX4 was the fastest machine.
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to mark off your list. Otherwise, my browser (Opera) doesn't recognize the list's starting and ending points, and will mark everything below it as part of the list (indented and everything).To prevent a totally off-topic post, I actually own two Packard Bells, a 486 DX2, and a PII 233. I can't say that they're entirely un-upgradable, and I've actually done pretty well with both. I bought the first one before I became even remotely close to being computer-literate, and I bought the second before I knew exactly what kind of videocard I wanted, after some clever sales person (in another store) told me that NEC and PB merged, and the PB quality has gone up. At least I made sure that the video card wasn't on-board...
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Are you implying that we are still in a race? I, for one, always like to think of the Cold War as being over. And I really don't remember Russia complaining about anything (yet) or planning to attack us.
The development of any equipment that has something to do with nuclear warfare, including a defense system is a Bad Thing. Remember, the idea of the treaty was that if a good defense was developed, work on a better offense would begin, and so on...
I think that the government is attempting to use the Y2K FUD (isn't that the excuse they used in this case?) as an excuse to spend more tax dollars on the military. Yes, the military is a necessary evil, but this does not justify breaking treaties with large countries.
At one time, the United Sates was the only nuclear power in the world.
I don't believe this is true, though I have no URLs to back it up.
This power put us in a unique position to dictate a new world order. We chose not to.
And we shouldn't have chosen to either. The United States has no right to govern the world, no matter how right (it thinks) it is.
Technically, there was no 'fall' of the USSR. They simplly modified their form of government.
That, and broke up into a large number of different countries, with different governments.
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I then looked at the images with IE, Netscape, Opera, and ACDSee (my default image viewer), and Netscape produced a _considerably_ lighter result. I didn't have to look closely or put the images side by side to notice it.
To be fair, I am using Netscape 4.08, because I haven't found a standalone browser later than that. But how many (non-techie) people do you know that are always hunting for the latest browser version? What about slightly older versions, like Netscape/IE 3.0? IE 4.0?
Right away, this little experiment tells me that we aren't yet ready to switch to PNG.
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Here's an example: A Linux user reads a Microsoft user's post. The Microsoft user is advocating the use of NT instead of Linux, providing some valid points. However, the Linux user is either blind to these, or considers them unimportant in the big picture, and moderates the post as "Stupid".
I don't understand the meaning of Complimentary in this case.
Is URL positive or negative? Is it to be used when a person provides an incomplete URL (I don't think this is sufficient reason to moderate someone down) or when he provides an informative or interesting URL (already covered by appropriate flags)?
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P.S. Very interesting, I got some errors when I tried to post this message - my browser refused to talk to www.slashdot.org (tried all 3 IPs). THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE ME!
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The above may seem like flamebait, but before you consider it so, please remember that Creative is a corporation. Their top priority is making money.
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To get into my site, use the Username "w4r3z". To get the password, go to http://blah.blah/blah and click on the banners. The password is the third word on the first banner page plus the fifth word on the second banner page. Naturally, 90% of the banners are porn banners...
Is this what they really meant?
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While it usually agrees with the opinions of the majority of Slashdot readers, it's just another "first post d00d!", adding nothing to the discussion. Perhaps it could be marked as "Redundant"?
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[...]if you look carefully, you'll find a link to the text-only page (http://www.hotbot.com/text/).
Try searching from there.
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You can read more about it here.
Quote: PageRank capitalizes on the uniquely democratic characteristic of the web by using its vast link structure as an organizational tool. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google assesses a page's importance by the votes it receives. But Google looks at more than sheer volume of votes, or links; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
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Yes, HotBot is running on NT, blah blah blah... but it is the best search engine I have ever seen. Click on the Advanced button ("More Search Options"), and you're presented with a lot of different options, like searching for a file with a certain date, in a certain language, and even by domain. The engine supports just about every piece of syntax you can think of.
Even the link farm isn't too bad. They seem to have some kind of agreement with the Open Directory, as that is where the directory links come from.
Of course, they still use redirection links when you click on the search results...
No, I don't work for them. :)
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I guess I'm still a bit optimistic, even when it comes to Intel.
Oh well... either way, my next box will be powered by an AMD chip. I don't need this built-in ID crap. Oh no! I won't be able to use WebOutfitter!
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A pentium 700mhz likely runs significantly hotter and sucks down more enegry than a G4. While G4s consume a bit too much more at this point to be great for laptops, there's much better chance at them going mobile that the high-end pentiums anytime soon.
The Slashdot summary said:
The new chip will, not only be available for desktop machines, but notebooks as[ ]well; thanks to a new design which makes them cooler.
Any questions?
However... can you imagine how much the P-700s will cost?!
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