Back when Opera was the only other alternative browser other than Nutscrape and since it actually supported tabbed browsing, I attempted to use it many times. Most of the web sites I went to were rendered properly under Opera, but there were a significant number that just wouldn't render properly at all. I shied away from Firebird/Firefox for the longest time until I started using my new Gmail account. Since Opera wouldn't log into Gmail at all, I dropped that bloated piece of shit faster than a hot potato. Firefox was at some 0.9.x version at that point, and I fell in love with it. I was unsatisfied though until 1.0 Final came out where they added 2 very much needed features. (Basically, Firefox needed to force both web sites and outside applications to open new web pages into new tabs instead of new windows. Why bother using a tabbed browser if it won't enforce the use of tabs?)
Now when you take into consideration that Firefox is free and absolutely better in both quality and quantity of features without being forced to use a big bloated app just as a browser replacement, it makes no sense to even use Opera for free let alone pay for the damn piece of shit Swedish web browser.
Leave it to the arrogance of Eurowank secular humanistic socialists to consider their leftist selves to be "moderate" or "centrist" on the political spectrum. Sorry, but the world of politics doesn't revolve around you nor are you "enlightened" by your "progressivism". It's people like you that would like to make everything relative so that definitions have no meaning and can be simply changed on a whim. I know how much you love Bubba Clinton (maybe even want him to be UN Secretary General), but when in a court of law he questions what the word "is" means, then you have issues.
Judging from your sig, I can tell that you're a member of the faux "intellectual elite" (i.e., a racist, bigotous, arrogant, moronic ignoramus of the left).
"The Nation" is nothing but a far-leftwing rag. Those asstriches Katrina vanden Heuvel and David Korn both need to get their own heads out of their own asses. There's nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
FOUR MORE YEARS, BITCHES!!! The kool-aid drinking sheeple/lemmings of the left have FAILED to have the undead, pets, felons, and dumbass youth in this nation do a major turnout in this election. The American people have given the biggest middle finger to the rest of the world that blatantly or secretly wished that Bush would have lost this election.
32bit vs 64bit registers: Old news, we went to these with the original Pentium. Basically the same argument as for 64bit data bus.
Nope, sorry, but that's incorrect. What determines whether or not a CPU is considered a 64-bit CPU is solely by the size of the integer registers in the CPU. This is what gives it the ability to do 64-bit memory addressing, along with keeping higher precision of very large integers. Yes, the original Pentium has had a 64-bit data path, but that did NOT make it a 64-bit CPU.
Hey, dickcheese! It's Inexpensive, not Independent, you completely moronic ignoramus.
"For all you Quiz Bowl participants, let's get the fun acronymical knowledge out on the table first: RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
'Seriously. No, wait, I'm not joking. That's really what it means. (You wouldn't believe how many people e-mail in saying that it's some combination of random, really, real-time, redundant, array, assembly, interconnected, independent, inter-relation, devices, etc).'
Despite what Techweb and other sites say, the original name as proposed by the original researchers is just that (just consult Patterson, Gibson, and Katz). There's a darn good explanation for the name, and for the genesis of RAID per se. Since the inception of the hard drive, disk I/O performance has been a persistent performance bottleneck. Here's the abstract from the above mentioned source (Patterson, et al):
'Increasing performance of CPUs and memories will be squandered if not matched by a similar performance increase in I/O. While the capacity of Single Large Expensive Disks (SLED) has grown rapidly, the performance improvement of SLED has been modest. Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), based on the magnetic disk technology developed for personal computers, offers an attractive alternative to SLED, promising improvements of an order of magnitude in performance, reliability, power consumption, and scalability. This paper introduces five levels of RAIDs, giving their relative cost/performance, and compares RAID to an IBM 3380 and a Fujitsu Super Eagle.'"
First, you must decide which RAID level meets your needs/wants. To do this, you must educate yourself on the various RAID levels and the pros and cons associated with each so you can make an informed decision. I recommend reading "The Skinny on RAID" if you want to learn the various RAID levels available.
After reading that article, you should learn about hot spares and what they can and cannot do for you. A recent article has been written about setting realistic expectations on what hot spares can do for you. "The Mythical Hot-Spare - Tape/Disk/Optical Storage" will be informative on this subject matter.
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...oh wait, that's nothing new on/.
You people keep trying to think that this OQO device is marketed as a oversided PDA with a keyboard. You people seem to think it's too big to fit into pockets. You couldn't be further from the truth on both counts. Why don't you try to see this device in action before passing such ignorant judgment on it?
http://news.com.com/1606-2-5222650.html
This is supposed to be a single ultraportable solution that's supposed to replace a business-oriented desktop, laptop, and PDA. It had a docking station that allows it to hook up a full-sized keyboard, montior, and mouse so you can use it more comfortably and efficiently as a desk environment. It's supposed to replace a laptop because it's ultraportable yet still runs the same WinXP apps that a business person might need (full versions of M$ Office, Visio, etc....not just some watered down PocketPC incarnations of any program). It's supposed to replace the PDA because there is absolutely NO need to sync between a PDA and a laptop/desktop since it will replace all 3 devices.
Granted, this comes with a slow-ass Trasmeta proc, and the movie URL that I showed above, the guy admits it only gets about 3 to 4 hours of battery life even with the Transmeta proc not consuming so much power but with its power-hungry WiFi hardware. You're probably not going to bother to edit audio on this device since it doesn't have any optical drives built-in for you to rip and encode music off CD Audio. Since it's using a Transmeta proc, you can be damned sure you're not going to be doing any video editing with this. You won't be playing EverQuest either, so forget it. This is NOT what the device was marketed for. Keep in mind that this device doesn't even support wired Ethernet on the base device but only through it's docking cable.
For the business executive on the go, this makes the perfect all-in-one solution. Set up a docking station at home and at the office so you can use the device with comfort and efficiency at the places where you get the majority of your work done, and then use the device detached from its docking cable when you're on the move. You will always have your data with you without having to sync your data between PDA and laptop/desktop.
Get it? Probably not, but I've done my part in attempting to educate the ignorant masses.
No more spoking the opiate pipe for you! Cutting down on the drugs will enhance your ability to have facts and logic actually permeate through your thick ignorant skull. Then again, there's the challenge of having you process said facts and logic properly, which is most obviously beyond your capabilities. The only thing you got piped into your brain is the liberal/leftist bullshit propaganda who have a stake in only reporting the bad things that are happening in Iraq because apparently malicious sensationalism is what sells to the dumbass liberal sheeple of the US. Congratulations! You're an ignorant idiotic kool-aid drinker! Reverand Jim Jones is waiting for you at the bottom of that cup of kool-aid you're about to imbibe.
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Of course, anything said by an anonymous coward should be taken as absolute truth. Of course, we also can always take things out of context to distort any intellectually honest comparison of security between OSes.
If you want to turn your notes into an electronic format, then you WILL need to use a computing device. SURPRISE!!! You're just being lazy if you don't translate what you've written down on paper to a word processing program on a computer to store and potentially print out later.
It just appears to me that you're being a whiny little bitch for 2 reasons: 1) if you use paper, then you're bitching about how you need to spend extra time on transferring it to a computer 2) if you use a laptop or PDA, then you're bitching that it's "too expensive"
I think you need to be realistic in your expectations and then just make up your fucking mind in light of those realistic expectations.
I'm agnostic btw, but I figured I should pipe in (whether you like it or not) about how wrong it is to think that the Christian God would not reveal evidence of His existence to men.
"18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." -- Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)
Let me give you the correct definition of "faith" since you lack the knowledge of the English language to know any better:
definition 2b(1) "firm belief in something for which there is no proof" http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary? book=Dic tionary&va=faith
What is proof? Allow me to give you the definition.
definition 1a: "the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact" http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?b ook=Dic tionary&va=proof
Not all evidence = proof. Faith is not based on lack of evidence but lack of proof. You can take your bigotry elsewhere, ignoramus.
The Shia of southern Iraq already tried to revolt...and failed miserably at the cost of tens of thousands of their own lives. They were SLAUGHTERED, dipshit. Yeah, they OBVIOUSLY could handle an insurrection themselves against a ruthless and uncompromising dictator! People like you are a cancer to human society and need to be removed before you kill the whole body off by spreading your disease everywhere. I recommend the "radiation treatment" to remove you from society...i.e., shoving a nuke up your lame ass.
...but that IS the point.
When you've reached a point in market dominance that you make it not worth people's time to code for open standards but instead your own proprietary standards, then you are a monopoly and have more responsibilities to customers under the law. When you've got such a stranglehold on the market that you have no one else willing to develop for technically superior products because your mediocre product has 90+% market dominance, then you prevent innovation from small businesses from happening. These are why the anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws are in the books...to prevent abuse upon customers and competitors.
I would like to add something to what I just said. Don't let the door kick you on the way out! We don't need dipshits like you in charge of any organization!
People like the former president of the LA LUG are severely naive, ignorant, and downright moronic in their use of logic. All these qualities are that of a child's mind. Yet these people consider themselves the "intellectually elite"? Oh bitch PLEASE! I have 4 words of rebuke for you completely moronic ignoramuses on the left: GROW THE FUCK UP!
I don't know what crack you're on, but I've never had a problem with playing 2 sounds at once from different apps on Win9x nor Win2K. For instance, I had Winamp play my mp3 while I got.wav alerts from my IRC client along with.wav alerts from AIM. You must have had a POS sound card and/or poor sound drivers. Anyway, my SB Live! Value has worked like a champ for years now.
Yeah, I used to work for MindSpring too back in the day when we actually had a decent number of techs that knew how to fix the customers' actual problems. I was one of those techs who knew what the hell was going on, and thus I got to train newbie techs after they were done with their official "newbie training".
Since the Eartlink "merger" (aka hostile takeover), corporate policy when down the shitter and slamming phone calls became the highest priority so that we could handle the incoming call volume. What they fail to realize is that slamming calls doesn't fix the phone queue since customers will call back in trying to get their problem fixed since the previous tech just gave them some bullshit troubleshooting steps and let them go to try it on their own. You see, if you actually fix the customer's problem, then they don't call back until they get a new problem (which usually isn't that often at all).
"Just remember to kick phone butt every chance you get!" - Kwito
Alas, most of the call centers between both MSPG and ELNK have been closed down because the phone calls are being outsourced to India, the Phillipines, and Jamaica. I just hope that ELNK customers realize what shitty service they have and dump their POS ISP.
I've had a lot of good times with 2 of my ex-gf's on EverQuest. I'm fortunate enough that my current girlfriend already knew EQ before we ever met. YMMV.
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Back when Opera was the only other alternative browser other than Nutscrape and since it actually supported tabbed browsing, I attempted to use it many times. Most of the web sites I went to were rendered properly under Opera, but there were a significant number that just wouldn't render properly at all. I shied away from Firebird/Firefox for the longest time until I started using my new Gmail account. Since Opera wouldn't log into Gmail at all, I dropped that bloated piece of shit faster than a hot potato. Firefox was at some 0.9.x version at that point, and I fell in love with it. I was unsatisfied though until 1.0 Final came out where they added 2 very much needed features. (Basically, Firefox needed to force both web sites and outside applications to open new web pages into new tabs instead of new windows. Why bother using a tabbed browser if it won't enforce the use of tabs?)
Now when you take into consideration that Firefox is free and absolutely better in both quality and quantity of features without being forced to use a big bloated app just as a browser replacement, it makes no sense to even use Opera for free let alone pay for the damn piece of shit Swedish web browser.
ROFLMAO
Leave it to the arrogance of Eurowank secular humanistic socialists to consider their leftist selves to be "moderate" or "centrist" on the political spectrum. Sorry, but the world of politics doesn't revolve around you nor are you "enlightened" by your "progressivism". It's people like you that would like to make everything relative so that definitions have no meaning and can be simply changed on a whim. I know how much you love Bubba Clinton (maybe even want him to be UN Secretary General), but when in a court of law he questions what the word "is" means, then you have issues.
Judging from your sig, I can tell that you're a member of the faux "intellectual elite" (i.e., a racist, bigotous, arrogant, moronic ignoramus of the left).
"The Nation" is nothing but a far-leftwing rag. Those asstriches Katrina vanden Heuvel and David Korn both need to get their own heads out of their own asses. There's nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
FOUR MORE YEARS, BITCHES!!! The kool-aid drinking sheeple/lemmings of the left have FAILED to have the undead, pets, felons, and dumbass youth in this nation do a major turnout in this election. The American people have given the biggest middle finger to the rest of the world that blatantly or secretly wished that Bush would have lost this election.
Bush > * > Kerry
Well, Tiger won't be released until March 31, 2005 (so says Amazon's shipping date on pre-orders for Tiger). :)
Nope, sorry, but that's incorrect. What determines whether or not a CPU is considered a 64-bit CPU is solely by the size of the integer registers in the CPU. This is what gives it the ability to do 64-bit memory addressing, along with keeping higher precision of very large integers. Yes, the original Pentium has had a 64-bit data path, but that did NOT make it a 64-bit CPU.
I certainly won't be voting for that untrustworthy candidate Kerry. :P
Hey, dickcheese! It's Inexpensive, not Independent, you completely moronic ignoramus.
"For all you Quiz Bowl participants, let's get the fun acronymical knowledge out on the table first: RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
'Seriously. No, wait, I'm not joking. That's really what it means. (You wouldn't believe how many people e-mail in saying that it's some combination of random, really, real-time, redundant, array, assembly, interconnected, independent, inter-relation, devices, etc).'
Despite what Techweb and other sites say, the original name as proposed by the original researchers is just that (just consult Patterson, Gibson, and Katz). There's a darn good explanation for the name, and for the genesis of RAID per se. Since the inception of the hard drive, disk I/O performance has been a persistent performance bottleneck. Here's the abstract from the above mentioned source (Patterson, et al):
'Increasing performance of CPUs and memories will be squandered if not matched by a similar performance increase in I/O. While the capacity of Single Large Expensive Disks (SLED) has grown rapidly, the performance improvement of SLED has been modest. Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), based on the magnetic disk technology developed for personal computers, offers an attractive alternative to SLED, promising improvements of an order of magnitude in performance, reliability, power consumption, and scalability. This paper introduces five levels of RAIDs, giving their relative cost/performance, and compares RAID to an IBM 3380 and a Fujitsu Super Eagle.'"
- http://arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html -
Read it and weep, bitch!
First, you must decide which RAID level meets your needs/wants. To do this, you must educate yourself on the various RAID levels and the pros and cons associated with each so you can make an informed decision. I recommend reading "The Skinny on RAID" if you want to learn the various RAID levels available.
After reading that article, you should learn about hot spares and what they can and cannot do for you. A recent article has been written about setting realistic expectations on what hot spares can do for you. "The Mythical Hot-Spare - Tape/Disk/Optical Storage" will be informative on this subject matter.
Lastly, you should read "Kill SCSI II: NetCell's RAID 0 Performance + RAID 5 Security Equals SyncRAID" to look into a innovative IDE RAID card that can give you kick ass performance and reliability. Be sure to read the benchmarks on the review so you can make an informed decision.
...oh wait, that's nothing new on /.
You people keep trying to think that this OQO device is marketed as a oversided PDA with a keyboard. You people seem to think it's too big to fit into pockets. You couldn't be further from the truth on both counts. Why don't you try to see this device in action before passing such ignorant judgment on it?
http://news.com.com/1606-2-5222650.html
This is supposed to be a single ultraportable solution that's supposed to replace a business-oriented desktop, laptop, and PDA. It had a docking station that allows it to hook up a full-sized keyboard, montior, and mouse so you can use it more comfortably and efficiently as a desk environment. It's supposed to replace a laptop because it's ultraportable yet still runs the same WinXP apps that a business person might need (full versions of M$ Office, Visio, etc....not just some watered down PocketPC incarnations of any program). It's supposed to replace the PDA because there is absolutely NO need to sync between a PDA and a laptop/desktop since it will replace all 3 devices.
Granted, this comes with a slow-ass Trasmeta proc, and the movie URL that I showed above, the guy admits it only gets about 3 to 4 hours of battery life even with the Transmeta proc not consuming so much power but with its power-hungry WiFi hardware. You're probably not going to bother to edit audio on this device since it doesn't have any optical drives built-in for you to rip and encode music off CD Audio. Since it's using a Transmeta proc, you can be damned sure you're not going to be doing any video editing with this. You won't be playing EverQuest either, so forget it. This is NOT what the device was marketed for. Keep in mind that this device doesn't even support wired Ethernet on the base device but only through it's docking cable.
For the business executive on the go, this makes the perfect all-in-one solution. Set up a docking station at home and at the office so you can use the device with comfort and efficiency at the places where you get the majority of your work done, and then use the device detached from its docking cable when you're on the move. You will always have your data with you without having to sync your data between PDA and laptop/desktop.
Get it? Probably not, but I've done my part in attempting to educate the ignorant masses.
Get their significant others addicted to the games too. Then everyone will be happy. :-P
No more spoking the opiate pipe for you! Cutting down on the drugs will enhance your ability to have facts and logic actually permeate through your thick ignorant skull. Then again, there's the challenge of having you process said facts and logic properly, which is most obviously beyond your capabilities. The only thing you got piped into your brain is the liberal/leftist bullshit propaganda who have a stake in only reporting the bad things that are happening in Iraq because apparently malicious sensationalism is what sells to the dumbass liberal sheeple of the US. Congratulations! You're an ignorant idiotic kool-aid drinker! Reverand Jim Jones is waiting for you at the bottom of that cup of kool-aid you're about to imbibe.
http://fixa.troubledmac.com/
Of course, anything said by an anonymous coward should be taken as absolute truth. Of course, we also can always take things out of context to distort any intellectually honest comparison of security between OSes.
If you want to turn your notes into an electronic format, then you WILL need to use a computing device. SURPRISE!!! You're just being lazy if you don't translate what you've written down on paper to a word processing program on a computer to store and potentially print out later.
It just appears to me that you're being a whiny little bitch for 2 reasons:
1) if you use paper, then you're bitching about how you need to spend extra time on transferring it to a computer
2) if you use a laptop or PDA, then you're bitching that it's "too expensive"
I think you need to be realistic in your expectations and then just make up your fucking mind in light of those realistic expectations.
I'm agnostic btw, but I figured I should pipe in (whether you like it or not) about how wrong it is to think that the Christian God would not reveal evidence of His existence to men.
"18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." -- Romans 1:18-20 (NIV)
Let me give you the correct definition of "faith" since you lack the knowledge of the English language to know any better:
? book=Dic tionary&va=faith
b ook=Dic tionary&va=proof
definition 2b(1) "firm belief in something for which there is no proof"
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
What is proof? Allow me to give you the definition.
definition 1a: "the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact"
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?
Not all evidence = proof. Faith is not based on lack of evidence but lack of proof. You can take your bigotry elsewhere, ignoramus.
The Shia of southern Iraq already tried to revolt...and failed miserably at the cost of tens of thousands of their own lives. They were SLAUGHTERED, dipshit. Yeah, they OBVIOUSLY could handle an insurrection themselves against a ruthless and uncompromising dictator! People like you are a cancer to human society and need to be removed before you kill the whole body off by spreading your disease everywhere. I recommend the "radiation treatment" to remove you from society...i.e., shoving a nuke up your lame ass.
...but that IS the point. When you've reached a point in market dominance that you make it not worth people's time to code for open standards but instead your own proprietary standards, then you are a monopoly and have more responsibilities to customers under the law. When you've got such a stranglehold on the market that you have no one else willing to develop for technically superior products because your mediocre product has 90+% market dominance, then you prevent innovation from small businesses from happening. These are why the anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws are in the books...to prevent abuse upon customers and competitors.
I would like to add something to what I just said. Don't let the door kick you on the way out! We don't need dipshits like you in charge of any organization!
People like the former president of the LA LUG are severely naive, ignorant, and downright moronic in their use of logic. All these qualities are that of a child's mind. Yet these people consider themselves the "intellectually elite"? Oh bitch PLEASE! I have 4 words of rebuke for you completely moronic ignoramuses on the left: GROW THE FUCK UP!
So how do you play Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares on Win2K/XP since it will crash upon opening on either OS?
I don't know what crack you're on, but I've never had a problem with playing 2 sounds at once from different apps on Win9x nor Win2K. For instance, I had Winamp play my mp3 while I got .wav alerts from my IRC client along with .wav alerts from AIM. You must have had a POS sound card and/or poor sound drivers. Anyway, my SB Live! Value has worked like a champ for years now.
Yeah, I used to work for MindSpring too back in the day when we actually had a decent number of techs that knew how to fix the customers' actual problems. I was one of those techs who knew what the hell was going on, and thus I got to train newbie techs after they were done with their official "newbie training". Since the Eartlink "merger" (aka hostile takeover), corporate policy when down the shitter and slamming phone calls became the highest priority so that we could handle the incoming call volume. What they fail to realize is that slamming calls doesn't fix the phone queue since customers will call back in trying to get their problem fixed since the previous tech just gave them some bullshit troubleshooting steps and let them go to try it on their own. You see, if you actually fix the customer's problem, then they don't call back until they get a new problem (which usually isn't that often at all). "Just remember to kick phone butt every chance you get!" - Kwito Alas, most of the call centers between both MSPG and ELNK have been closed down because the phone calls are being outsourced to India, the Phillipines, and Jamaica. I just hope that ELNK customers realize what shitty service they have and dump their POS ISP.
I've had a lot of good times with 2 of my ex-gf's on EverQuest. I'm fortunate enough that my current girlfriend already knew EQ before we ever met. YMMV.