It's a problem primarily with the Capitalist economy. In a system as Capilatist as the United States only large corperations can survive, and while monopolies are frowned upon there is nothing to stop the big companies from agreeing to set their prices at the same levels.
I have two choices for internet service, the phone company, or the TV company, both offer similar services for similar prices, I thought that $30 CAD was expensive, but apperntly not.
I've been wondering about the new McDonnalds comercial here thats says "Nothing is better then a McDonnalds' burger." Really, everything is better then a McDonnalds burger, well, except egg nog.
Well, I think the WTO is often wrong, at least here they are (somewhat) right. The US government shouldnt take these rights away. However, the problem here is, I think, that the WTO is not focusing on the importent things. Yes, gambling online is something a person should be allowed to do, if they wish, however I think the US should face trade sanctions unless it removes some of the stupid trade sanctions they have put into place (not allowing certian countries to sell thins to the US) as well as removeing the various sanctions placed upon the citizens of the country (not being allowed to go to cuba, for example.) Alowing abortions and online gambling are things for which there is no question, allow it, people have the right to choose what they want to do, and since these things affect no one but the people chosing to gamble, or get an abortion, (maybe their famlies in the case of gambling,) who really cares?
One of the main reasons upgrading MS products is so difficult is cost. Updating to Office 2003 costs over $300 USD for example. I still use Office 2000 because :
1) I use OpenOffice more; I don't use any of the MS Office products enough to warrent updating
2) I don't need this "added functionality" of office XP and 2003
3) I don't feel like paying several hundered dollars for a software suite that is bound to a single platform
4) I don't want to bother because I'll have to upgrade agian soon anyway.
I really don't even see the point. People have already paid hundreds or thousands for Word, Excel, Access, etc. None of which come preinstalled on Windows. These programs are very nessasary for most people, even if they don't use them often. Then, to upgrade and get the "new and impoved" version they have to pay agian. People have asked me how to veiw a.doc fle, some don't know what it is, others just don't want to pay, I either give them my Office 2000 CD or direct them to OpenOffice.org. It seems that Microsoft is all to happy to give people the privalige of getting a licensed copy of their (Microsoft's) software for a great deal of money, money that most people cannot afford, and then they give them a very restrictive EULA...
Listen. Only Americans drop the us from words like armour, colour, honour. Why? Because the want to seperate themselves from the rest of the world. Don't complain if someone spells somthing differntly then you do. All it will gain you is a flame war, which annoys those of use who are here to learn and enrich our minds.
or are prototype names getting stupider? Really Hyper-X? Sounds like the name for a fighter in a cheap sci-fi. Even Star Trek uses a letter(s) followed by numbers.
Maybe since Sci-fi authors started using the normal system NASA felt they needed to distence themselves from the logical way of doing things so as to gain/keep credibility?
Heres why
They treat Open Source as a bad thing. Saying that the fact that no one is paid to work on OO.o all the time is bad makes no sense. Anyone can contribute to the project, therefore the resources of OpenOffice (or any Open Source project) ar larger, and probably better.
No e-mail client is included in OpenOffice: Use Thunderbird , Mozilla mail, Netscape mail, Outlook even. I neither knew nor cared that MS Office had email, and I certianly won't start using it. (I use webmail anyway).
PIM... Well, as far as I know there are plenty of these avilible.
Integration. I suppose that MS Office does have better integration, espesilly when you consider that more software is bundled with it. But really, integrated software suites (I think that would make an interesting acronym - ISS) are not nearly as importent as some people seem to think. anyway, integrating a few other programs would probably require a little python, perl, or C programing, nothing that a competrent sysadmin can't handle if needed.
I think Microsoft is scared. They speak of TCO agian, which dosent make much sense to me. Retraining people to use OpenOffice? Write them a few tutorials. Installing it? try VNC or SSH. And the benifits of the multi-platform nature of the project...
Much more of Microsoft bragging about the benefits of their software and I am going to start think they have finally realised that they cannot compete with Open Source. Though I suppose they will stay ahead in the PC OS market, since most Open Source projects can't afford the Ad campagians that this multi-billion dollar corperation can.
I really don't think that would be useful. Not only will you be dead in 100 years, but the company issueing these names may not be. But, I guess its up to you, at least you wouldnt have to worry about someone trying to steal it.
Not only that, but Intel has confessed that 64-bit extensions now lie dormant in Prescott, ready to be turned on in future versions of the Pentium. This fall, Microsoft will deliver a 64-bit version of Windows, and both AMD and Intel processors will run it.
Why are the 64-bit extensions disabled? Linux comes in 64-bit now, which clearly means I'll be buying a Athlon 64 over an Intel. Then agian, maybe I'll just go with a four or eight processor Opteron based system. I here the 8088s are good this year too... If any still exist. Of course, I suppose the review caters to gamers who are stuck with Windows (or WineX, which would probably run pretty quick on a Athlon 64-FX).
Still, I think AMD is in the lead right now, they got the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64-FX out a few months ago and Intel still dosent have one, or... Well they do, but the disabled the 64-bit extensions. Can't forget that they have to use the AMD64 extensions as well.
One, stuff is smaller. I prefer large cases with a lot of space for drives and cooling (my current project has twelve case fans).
Two, they are droping PS/2 ports, which I can't live without, since I perfer to leave the USB ports free (even though I rarely use them).
Three, everything is on the wrong side of the case, which means I'll not only have to get a new case to build one of these, but I'll have to get used of flipping it onto the wrong side to pop her open (Actully, the only way the left side opening is cool or good is one the Macs, where the side folds down to mount the mobo).
Four, What is this PCI Express?
Why not just expand the existing ATX standerd to include some new tech, wouldn't that be cheaper? Since the only set mounting location on the ATX standered seems to be the PCI and AGP slots and the nearly-universal dumb 12v connecter placement?
Meh, I'll still use ATX, Even if AGP video-cards are no longer supported (I do have a perfectly good command line, who needs fancy widgets and fonts?)
You said it right there... 6MB of RAM per CPU... Five hundred computers... Thats a mighty big number. Since its a cluster each node has to render only a small part of the image and can render to disk.
Several free Anti-Virus programs exist. Personally though, I like to use Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus 2004 (Professional). Well worth the $45.00 (CDN, After Rebate) I paid. I hear McAffe is good too.
The problem with virii is that they are written by fools with nothing better to do. I'm glad seasoned hackers (black hats anyway) don't write viruses, or most Anti-Virus programs would probably be defeated, and Linux would probably be attacked to, and three quarters the internet would probably be defeated by a single worm making it's rounds of the servers.
The one thing mozilla ismissing now is the old splash screen (the fire-breathing lizard). I liked the old icon too. I wish they would bring back that splash screen (or a version of it), the new yellow one is just ugly.
I just code sites in plain W3C-Complient HTML. No stylesheets, no javascript, a few small images maybe. Decreases bandwidth usage, dosent annoy people using Lynx. And dosent rely on pictures, animations and fancy crap... All of witch are used too much on the internet. If I do use these I don't care if IE users can see them, since a browser that dosent support the standerds shouldnt be used, or even legal. Of course, people seem to like designing sites for a particular browser, which is pretty stupid, and I'm sure everyone here agrees with me.
A Megabyte (MB) is now set at 1000 Kilobytes (KB) which is, in turn 1000 bytes. However, most of use still use MB = 1024 KB = 1024 bytes, which is now (officialy?) a Mibibyte (MiB), and Kibibyte (KiB). Confuses me too.
Mozilla does have a smaller market share (actully no marketshare). So does Linux, so does OS/2 (I think people still use it), so does My Aunt's homemade soup, hell, so do trucks (at least here). That dosent mean the alternitive is better.
I've been using Mozilla since 0.4 or 0.5, can't quite remember which. It's always been the best, and keeps getting better (tabs anyone?). Every release gets faster, and most get smaller, though not all.
Useless site. Only works for IE, therefore over half of the worlds traffic will not be counted. Lynx, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari... And what about people too smart to have any spyware on their computer. I think they should try packet sniffers in routers, just check the headers and count each from IP only once in an hour or so. But then the pr0n sites would be the entire top 500... Except maybe google.
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It's a problem primarily with the Capitalist economy. In a system as Capilatist as the United States only large corperations can survive, and while monopolies are frowned upon there is nothing to stop the big companies from agreeing to set their prices at the same levels.
I have two choices for internet service, the phone company, or the TV company, both offer similar services for similar prices, I thought that $30 CAD was expensive, but apperntly not.
We need options. Let's all move to France.
Big Mac is third, so thats not that wrong.
I've been wondering about the new McDonnalds comercial here thats says "Nothing is better then a McDonnalds' burger." Really, everything is better then a McDonnalds burger, well, except egg nog.
Well, I think the WTO is often wrong, at least here they are (somewhat) right. The US government shouldnt take these rights away. However, the problem here is, I think, that the WTO is not focusing on the importent things. Yes, gambling online is something a person should be allowed to do, if they wish, however I think the US should face trade sanctions unless it removes some of the stupid trade sanctions they have put into place (not allowing certian countries to sell thins to the US) as well as removeing the various sanctions placed upon the citizens of the country (not being allowed to go to cuba, for example.) Alowing abortions and online gambling are things for which there is no question, allow it, people have the right to choose what they want to do, and since these things affect no one but the people chosing to gamble, or get an abortion, (maybe their famlies in the case of gambling,) who really cares?
1) I use OpenOffice more; I don't use any of the MS Office products enough to warrent updating
2) I don't need this "added functionality" of office XP and 2003
3) I don't feel like paying several hundered dollars for a software suite that is bound to a single platform
4) I don't want to bother because I'll have to upgrade agian soon anyway.
I really don't even see the point. People have already paid hundreds or thousands for Word, Excel, Access, etc. None of which come preinstalled on Windows. These programs are very nessasary for most people, even if they don't use them often. Then, to upgrade and get the "new and impoved" version they have to pay agian. People have asked me how to veiw a .doc fle, some don't know what it is, others just don't want to pay, I either give them my Office 2000 CD or direct them to OpenOffice.org. It seems that Microsoft is all to happy to give people the privalige of getting a licensed copy of their (Microsoft's) software for a great deal of money, money that most people cannot afford, and then they give them a very restrictive EULA...
Listen. Only Americans drop the us from words like armour, colour, honour. Why? Because the want to seperate themselves from the rest of the world. Don't complain if someone spells somthing differntly then you do. All it will gain you is a flame war, which annoys those of use who are here to learn and enrich our minds.
Maybe since Sci-fi authors started using the normal system NASA felt they needed to distence themselves from the logical way of doing things so as to gain/keep credibility?
66.35.250.150
No e-mail client is included in OpenOffice: Use Thunderbird , Mozilla mail, Netscape mail, Outlook even. I neither knew nor cared that MS Office had email, and I certianly won't start using it. (I use webmail anyway).
PIM... Well, as far as I know there are plenty of these avilible.
Integration. I suppose that MS Office does have better integration, espesilly when you consider that more software is bundled with it. But really, integrated software suites (I think that would make an interesting acronym - ISS) are not nearly as importent as some people seem to think. anyway, integrating a few other programs would probably require a little python, perl, or C programing, nothing that a competrent sysadmin can't handle if needed.
I think Microsoft is scared. They speak of TCO agian, which dosent make much sense to me. Retraining people to use OpenOffice? Write them a few tutorials. Installing it? try VNC or SSH. And the benifits of the multi-platform nature of the project...
Much more of Microsoft bragging about the benefits of their software and I am going to start think they have finally realised that they cannot compete with Open Source. Though I suppose they will stay ahead in the PC OS market, since most Open Source projects can't afford the Ad campagians that this multi-billion dollar corperation can.
Didn't Read Hat already do this with bluecurve?
I really don't think that would be useful. Not only will you be dead in 100 years, but the company issueing these names may not be. But, I guess its up to you, at least you wouldnt have to worry about someone trying to steal it.
Why are the 64-bit extensions disabled? Linux comes in 64-bit now, which clearly means I'll be buying a Athlon 64 over an Intel. Then agian, maybe I'll just go with a four or eight processor Opteron based system. I here the 8088s are good this year too... If any still exist. Of course, I suppose the review caters to gamers who are stuck with Windows (or WineX, which would probably run pretty quick on a Athlon 64-FX).
Still, I think AMD is in the lead right now, they got the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64-FX out a few months ago and Intel still dosent have one, or... Well they do, but the disabled the 64-bit extensions. Can't forget that they have to use the AMD64 extensions as well.Yes, I know. I try not to use CSS simply because I'm not very good with them and I have found a few browsers that don't consistently work with them.
One, stuff is smaller. I prefer large cases with a lot of space for drives and cooling (my current project has twelve case fans).
Two, they are droping PS/2 ports, which I can't live without, since I perfer to leave the USB ports free (even though I rarely use them).
Three, everything is on the wrong side of the case, which means I'll not only have to get a new case to build one of these, but I'll have to get used of flipping it onto the wrong side to pop her open (Actully, the only way the left side opening is cool or good is one the Macs, where the side folds down to mount the mobo).
Four, What is this PCI Express?
Why not just expand the existing ATX standerd to include some new tech, wouldn't that be cheaper? Since the only set mounting location on the ATX standered seems to be the PCI and AGP slots and the nearly-universal dumb 12v connecter placement?
Meh, I'll still use ATX, Even if AGP video-cards are no longer supported (I do have a perfectly good command line, who needs fancy widgets and fonts?)
You said it right there... 6MB of RAM per CPU... Five hundred computers... Thats a mighty big number. Since its a cluster each node has to render only a small part of the image and can render to disk.
Buy a good 1U rack. Sit it on your desk. Instant "Pizzabox" desktop.
probably a simple recompiling. Alter a few lines of code and it could be done (I think).
The problem with virii is that they are written by fools with nothing better to do. I'm glad seasoned hackers (black hats anyway) don't write viruses, or most Anti-Virus programs would probably be defeated, and Linux would probably be attacked to, and three quarters the internet would probably be defeated by a single worm making it's rounds of the servers.
The one thing mozilla ismissing now is the old splash screen (the fire-breathing lizard). I liked the old icon too. I wish they would bring back that splash screen (or a version of it), the new yellow one is just ugly.
I just code sites in plain W3C-Complient HTML. No stylesheets, no javascript, a few small images maybe. Decreases bandwidth usage, dosent annoy people using Lynx. And dosent rely on pictures, animations and fancy crap... All of witch are used too much on the internet. If I do use these I don't care if IE users can see them, since a browser that dosent support the standerds shouldnt be used, or even legal. Of course, people seem to like designing sites for a particular browser, which is pretty stupid, and I'm sure everyone here agrees with me.
A Megabyte (MB) is now set at 1000 Kilobytes (KB) which is, in turn 1000 bytes. However, most of use still use MB = 1024 KB = 1024 bytes, which is now (officialy?) a Mibibyte (MiB), and Kibibyte (KiB). Confuses me too.
Mozilla does have a smaller market share (actully no marketshare). So does Linux, so does OS/2 (I think people still use it), so does My Aunt's homemade soup, hell, so do trucks (at least here). That dosent mean the alternitive is better.
I've been using Mozilla since 0.4 or 0.5, can't quite remember which. It's always been the best, and keeps getting better (tabs anyone?). Every release gets faster, and most get smaller, though not all.
Useless site. Only works for IE, therefore over half of the worlds traffic will not be counted. Lynx, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari... And what about people too smart to have any spyware on their computer. I think they should try packet sniffers in routers, just check the headers and count each from IP only once in an hour or so. But then the pr0n sites would be the entire top 500... Except maybe google.
What about the one the killed the Dinosaurs?