"It's ironic," says Stallman mournfully. "Picking up that sword is exactly what Linus refuses to do. He gets everybody focusing on him as the symbol of the movement, and then he won't fight. What good is it?"
It's plenty good. You don't win by having a big fight and getting in people's faces, all that does is make you look like a dick and alienate the people you're trying to convert. Believe me, I've tried it with christians, the motherfuckers just don't want to know.
Not me. Am I the only one who hates the idea of working at Google? The primary colours, the shapes, the cushions, the free food, the nerd-funk graduates. Ugh. I'd go insane. Or do I just sound bitter? I have no reason to be, it just makes me gag.
Besides, the only thing they'll be doing in the Australian office is marketing and advertising. Always the way.
Heat is a huge consideration to many people, often the deciding factor.
Assuming that the machine has been engineered sufficiently well to prevent the processor from melting down
It doesn't matter how well the machine is engineered. If you have hot componentry you'll have a hard time getting rid of the heat without making a lot of noise, especially under load.
But I never even considered not buying one because of the heat
What choice did you have? With laptops (especially Apple) you basically take what you can get. There's very little mention of heat or cooling considerations at all.
And no consideration at all to desktop buyers
I bought an Athlon X2 solely because it runs much cooler than the P4.
and in server rooms where it is a consideration... they'll have an A/C system anyway The consideration is power consumption. More heat means more power draw means more expensive.
I doubt Intel is going to lose any customers because their chip gets too hot.
They lost me in the last round. Thankfully they're finally about to put the P4 to rest and we can get back to the good old P3. I mean, P-M. I mean, 'Core'. Whatever.
You can click that popup about the virus software and then click 'change the way Windows alerts me about this shite' (or similar wording) and disable the alert for not having av software installed. Ditto automatic updates and firewall. Or just stick with Windows 2000 as I do and avoid all the fluff.
You have invested so much time and effort into making excuses for your own obesity that you are now able to name body parts like the amygdala in defence of your fatness. That's the difference.
What's "fucking stupid" is your recommendation of FLAC when Monkey's Audio offers better lossless compression.
Monkey's Audio is junk. I used it for a while but Matt was always introducing new bugs and people were always having problems with it. I had a few verify/reliability issues myself. FLAC is much more solid and is a 'proper' unix app (it appears you are a Windows user so don't worry about that - but last time I checked there was a half-arsed Linux version of MAC which didn't inspire confidence).
What's also fucking stupid is your assumption that everyone wants to eat up gigabytes of disc space to store lossless copies of CDs that they already own.
What's more fucking stupid is continually re-ripping said CDs everytime you find out about some new encoder version and everybody's latest listening tests. Lossless copies of CDs are ideal, and disk space is getting cheaper.
I am the moderator for the Exact Audio Copy forum on Yahoogroups and know more about this subject than you ever will, so go away little boy.
Haha. I suppose you've been putting up with that buggy piece of shit for years, convincing yourself that it's doing some funky mojo that makes it so much better than cdparanoia. Sure mate, you know more than we'll ever know, we believe you.
Let users report what torrents succed and what not.
Unfortunately this tends to end up with floods of posts like "I downloaded this iso now what do I do with it? How do I install this f--kin' game" or "I'm only getting like 1-2kbps, wtf is wrong with bittorrent" etc. Generally, the less interaction with people on tracker sites the better.
I must say that Opera is damn good. I'd never really used it much before today. They provide.deb's for Debian testing (etch) too! It's very fast handling many tabs, and renders pages really nicely (sort of IE-like, if that means anything).
I recently switched away from Firefox (slow, ugly non-standard user interface, unstable) over to Konqueror (much faster, no crashes whatsoever, fits my desktop) but Opera looks like it might just replace Konqueror.
Of course, when KDE 3.5 comes out Konqi will get adblock-style filtering and other enhancements, but Opera's user interface is much more polished. I love how a little toolbar pops up under the location box when you open a new tab, letting you quickly do a search, point through your bookmarks, go to your homepage etc. Great stuff!
Well done Opera. And, more importantly for me, goodbye to the very poor quality Mozilla products. Sorry, but being open source and being popular was not enough to save you, Firefox.
I'm another who has been getting the occasional freeze with recent 2.6 kernels. My hardware is not very new but has been very stable in the past. I've been through all the usual checks; temperature, memtest86 for days, hdd cables etc. but with no improvement. Right now I'm back to using 2.6.8 which seems to work ok (been up for more than 3 days with no lockup).
When I get time I'm going to give FreeBSD another try. I tried it out some time ago but couldn't get my head completely out of Debian Land and ended up putting it in the too-hard basket. Everything I hear and see about FreeBSD is that it generally develops more slowly, conservatively and predictably than Linux does thesedays. I'm hoping I might be able to put more confidence in it than Linux 2.6. It's a real shame because I'm so happy with Debian otherwise.
The worst part is that I just can't get myself to pretend that newer kernels don't exist. I keep wanting to upgrade, even though 2.6.8 appears to work ok. I guess it's because I feel that I should be able to upgrade without having these problems. It shouldn't be like it is.
Maybe even a proper aRts driver, so you can listen to music and get the Q3 sound effects (don't talk to me about artsdsp; hearing the sound 2 seconds late is worse than nothing).
If you can afford it, get yourself a SB Live or similar so you can have hardware mixing and forget about conflicts accessing/dev/dsp, and forget about those awful software mixers.
I have several VIA boards that work perfectly, including a dual P3 with our good friend Mr. Sound Blaster Live. No problems.
But, I know what you're going through, it's the IBF (Intel Brand Fetish) right? I used to suffer from it. I couldn't even think of using a VIA or NVIDIA chipset. In fact I still suffer from it in the form of not touching SiS based boards. But don't worry too much. I'm sure the IBF will subside and you'll be open to VIA sometime soon. Good luck.
we just leaped into the 64 bit era as well. Developers should be taking advantage of that!
You're complaining about dual-core hype but it seems like you've fallen for the 64 bit hype. There's nothing much to take advantage of. The "64 bit era" is double width registers, 8 more of them, and a larger address space. Having extra registers is nice but not a huge difference. And the 64 bit addressing thing is almost completely irrelevant.
On the other hand have you actually used a dual CPU machine before? It doesn't sound like you have experienced how smooth it is. If you're just typing in Word you'll not feel any difference, but its been that way for years now already. If you're doing anything demanding at all, you will be impressed once you get a dual (or quad) core processor, no doubt about it. In a lot of ways you can't quantify it with benchmarks, but you will know what I mean when you try it.
I think there will be just enough good things about Longhorn to make it worth hanging on to once you get it. In XP I found the faster boot times, Explorer thumbnail view and slightly better behaviour with some games (things like alt-tabbing back to the desktop) was enough to keep me from going back to Windows 2000. I think Longhorn will be much the same. I'll still want to go to 2000, a few things will keep me from doing it, and I'll resent it but won't be able to do anything about it.
a G5. I love it; it's fast, efficient, and does everything without a hitch.
So what's the problem? Why do people think their hardware or software is junk as soon as something else comes along? Your G5 will be as fast and efficient in 5 years as it is now!
Now, I'm supposed to sit back, and listen to Apple say, "Looks like what we were 'committed' to was a facade, expect the lifespan of your computer last only until we decide, and there's nothing you can do about it." Where does this put me?
That's exactly the risk you run when you buy something like Apple. If you don't want that sort of cloud over your purchase, get an A64 box and run a free operating system.
In three years, after their transition is over and Apple drops their support for the G5, then what am I supposed to do with this worthless, unupgradable hunk of metal at my feet?
Use it as a reminder (in case you aren't getting enough already - seems like Apple users have to keep forking out for OS X updates if they want to run newer apps and get secure). By the way you won't have any trouble upgrading the RAM on your G5, that's just standard DDR.
First I hear some generic intro music and a woman with a sickly voice-over sort of accent say something.
Then I hear a guy with a droning voice and some noise in the background talk a bit. He seems to be fiddling with his microphone or something.
Then finally I hear two other people come on, one of whom has a connection that seems to be dropping out, so I can't pick up some of the words he says.
The most common phrase I heard during this time was "ummm, so yeah".
I cancelled the download and deleted the partial mp3. Maybe I should've kept listening but the first impression sucked!
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one short step?
He said 'one step short', i.e. the camera offers a few JPEG quality settings, and then RAW.
"It's ironic," says Stallman mournfully. "Picking up that sword is exactly what Linus refuses to do. He gets everybody focusing on him as the symbol of the movement, and then he won't fight. What good is it?"
It's plenty good. You don't win by having a big fight and getting in people's faces, all that does is make you look like a dick and alienate the people you're trying to convert. Believe me, I've tried it with christians, the motherfuckers just don't want to know.
Not me. Am I the only one who hates the idea of working at Google? The primary colours, the shapes, the cushions, the free food, the nerd-funk graduates. Ugh. I'd go insane. Or do I just sound bitter? I have no reason to be, it just makes me gag.
Besides, the only thing they'll be doing in the Australian office is marketing and advertising. Always the way.
The majority of applications, especially integer, do not benefit from bigger registers and wider ALUs
The point isn't that the registers are bigger, it's that there's twice as many of them
How important is heat, really?
Heat is a huge consideration to many people, often the deciding factor.
Assuming that the machine has been engineered sufficiently well to prevent the processor from melting down
It doesn't matter how well the machine is engineered. If you have hot componentry you'll have a hard time getting rid of the heat without making a lot of noise, especially under load.
But I never even considered not buying one because of the heat
What choice did you have? With laptops (especially Apple) you basically take what you can get. There's very little mention of heat or cooling considerations at all.
And no consideration at all to desktop buyers
I bought an Athlon X2 solely because it runs much cooler than the P4.
and in server rooms where it is a consideration... they'll have an A/C system anyway
The consideration is power consumption. More heat means more power draw means more expensive.
I doubt Intel is going to lose any customers because their chip gets too hot.
They lost me in the last round. Thankfully they're finally about to put the P4 to rest and we can get back to the good old P3. I mean, P-M. I mean, 'Core'. Whatever.
By the way, once you start caring about heat (and you will!) go here for starters: http://www.silentpcreview.com/
I am not fat. I go caving on weekends, do muay thai during the week, and walk, run, do other martial arts or play rugby in any other spare time I get.
Ok, settle down. I play rugby too.
I can name parts of the brain because I have been working on a PhD in AI, and considering moving into cognitive science.
Well that wasn't quite the point I was making, but ok.
You can click that popup about the virus software and then click 'change the way Windows alerts me about this shite' (or similar wording) and disable the alert for not having av software installed. Ditto automatic updates and firewall. Or just stick with Windows 2000 as I do and avoid all the fluff.
You have invested so much time and effort into making excuses for your own obesity that you are now able to name body parts like the amygdala in defence of your fatness. That's the difference.
What's "fucking stupid" is your recommendation of FLAC when Monkey's Audio offers better lossless compression.
Monkey's Audio is junk. I used it for a while but Matt was always introducing new bugs and people were always having problems with it. I had a few verify/reliability issues myself. FLAC is much more solid and is a 'proper' unix app (it appears you are a Windows user so don't worry about that - but last time I checked there was a half-arsed Linux version of MAC which didn't inspire confidence).
What's also fucking stupid is your assumption that everyone wants to eat up gigabytes of disc space to store lossless copies of CDs that they already own.
What's more fucking stupid is continually re-ripping said CDs everytime you find out about some new encoder version and everybody's latest listening tests. Lossless copies of CDs are ideal, and disk space is getting cheaper.
I am the moderator for the Exact Audio Copy forum on Yahoogroups and know more about this subject than you ever will, so go away little boy.
Haha. I suppose you've been putting up with that buggy piece of shit for years, convincing yourself that it's doing some funky mojo that makes it so much better than cdparanoia. Sure mate, you know more than we'll ever know, we believe you.
Let users report what torrents succed and what not.
Unfortunately this tends to end up with floods of posts like "I downloaded this iso now what do I do with it? How do I install this f--kin' game" or "I'm only getting like 1-2kbps, wtf is wrong with bittorrent" etc. Generally, the less interaction with people on tracker sites the better.
I must say that Opera is damn good. I'd never really used it much before today. They provide .deb's for Debian testing (etch) too! It's very fast handling many tabs, and renders pages really nicely (sort of IE-like, if that means anything).
I recently switched away from Firefox (slow, ugly non-standard user interface, unstable) over to Konqueror (much faster, no crashes whatsoever, fits my desktop) but Opera looks like it might just replace Konqueror.
Of course, when KDE 3.5 comes out Konqi will get adblock-style filtering and other enhancements, but Opera's user interface is much more polished. I love how a little toolbar pops up under the location box when you open a new tab, letting you quickly do a search, point through your bookmarks, go to your homepage etc. Great stuff!
Well done Opera. And, more importantly for me, goodbye to the very poor quality Mozilla products. Sorry, but being open source and being popular was not enough to save you, Firefox.
I *don't know*. The system freezes.
I'm another who has been getting the occasional freeze with recent 2.6 kernels. My hardware is not very new but has been very stable in the past. I've been through all the usual checks; temperature, memtest86 for days, hdd cables etc. but with no improvement. Right now I'm back to using 2.6.8 which seems to work ok (been up for more than 3 days with no lockup).
When I get time I'm going to give FreeBSD another try. I tried it out some time ago but couldn't get my head completely out of Debian Land and ended up putting it in the too-hard basket. Everything I hear and see about FreeBSD is that it generally develops more slowly, conservatively and predictably than Linux does thesedays. I'm hoping I might be able to put more confidence in it than Linux 2.6. It's a real shame because I'm so happy with Debian otherwise.
The worst part is that I just can't get myself to pretend that newer kernels don't exist. I keep wanting to upgrade, even though 2.6.8 appears to work ok. I guess it's because I feel that I should be able to upgrade without having these problems. It shouldn't be like it is.
You can be a nice guy, even if you have millions of dollars.
Or maybe: you can be a nice guy, when you have millions of dollars (and you've gotten over the Ferrari thing).
Maybe even a proper aRts driver, so you can listen to music and get the Q3 sound effects (don't talk to me about artsdsp; hearing the sound 2 seconds late is worse than nothing).
/dev/dsp, and forget about those awful software mixers.
If you can afford it, get yourself a SB Live or similar so you can have hardware mixing and forget about conflicts accessing
I have several VIA boards that work perfectly, including a dual P3 with our good friend Mr. Sound Blaster Live. No problems.
But, I know what you're going through, it's the IBF (Intel Brand Fetish) right? I used to suffer from it. I couldn't even think of using a VIA or NVIDIA chipset. In fact I still suffer from it in the form of not touching SiS based boards. But don't worry too much. I'm sure the IBF will subside and you'll be open to VIA sometime soon. Good luck.
Multiple processors are nice, but are not nearly as good as a single faster core.
Please explain. And don't talk about games.
we just leaped into the 64 bit era as well. Developers should be taking advantage of that!
You're complaining about dual-core hype but it seems like you've fallen for the 64 bit hype. There's nothing much to take advantage of. The "64 bit era" is double width registers, 8 more of them, and a larger address space. Having extra registers is nice but not a huge difference. And the 64 bit addressing thing is almost completely irrelevant.
On the other hand have you actually used a dual CPU machine before? It doesn't sound like you have experienced how smooth it is. If you're just typing in Word you'll not feel any difference, but its been that way for years now already. If you're doing anything demanding at all, you will be impressed once you get a dual (or quad) core processor, no doubt about it. In a lot of ways you can't quantify it with benchmarks, but you will know what I mean when you try it.
I think there will be just enough good things about Longhorn to make it worth hanging on to once you get it. In XP I found the faster boot times, Explorer thumbnail view and slightly better behaviour with some games (things like alt-tabbing back to the desktop) was enough to keep me from going back to Windows 2000. I think Longhorn will be much the same. I'll still want to go to 2000, a few things will keep me from doing it, and I'll resent it but won't be able to do anything about it.
Giving people an alternative to Linux isn't a threat - it's a choice.
And if people make the choice to move away from Linux and to the Mac, then what?
Oh look! Linux is threatened.
a G5. I love it; it's fast, efficient, and does everything without a hitch.
So what's the problem? Why do people think their hardware or software is junk as soon as something else comes along? Your G5 will be as fast and efficient in 5 years as it is now!
Now, I'm supposed to sit back, and listen to Apple say, "Looks like what we were 'committed' to was a facade, expect the lifespan of your computer last only until we decide, and there's nothing you can do about it." Where does this put me?
That's exactly the risk you run when you buy something like Apple. If you don't want that sort of cloud over your purchase, get an A64 box and run a free operating system.
In three years, after their transition is over and Apple drops their support for the G5, then what am I supposed to do with this worthless, unupgradable hunk of metal at my feet?
Use it as a reminder (in case you aren't getting enough already - seems like Apple users have to keep forking out for OS X updates if they want to run newer apps and get secure). By the way you won't have any trouble upgrading the RAM on your G5, that's just standard DDR.
It would be very nice to be able to be compiling updates in the background while I wh00p some ass in UT2K4!!!
Yeah, you'll be able to waste your time twice as efficiently as before.
Remember those class projects you did where 50% of the team did nothing? That's why. Just wait until you graduate, you'll see.
That's a really depressing thing to read. Still, I can't wait to graduate.
You want to improve the world?
No, they don't. They just want to overclock. What a rant!
I downloaded a bit of the mp3.
First I hear some generic intro music and a woman with a sickly voice-over sort of accent say something.
Then I hear a guy with a droning voice and some noise in the background talk a bit. He seems to be fiddling with his microphone or something.
Then finally I hear two other people come on, one of whom has a connection that seems to be dropping out, so I can't pick up some of the words he says.
The most common phrase I heard during this time was "ummm, so yeah".
I cancelled the download and deleted the partial mp3. Maybe I should've kept listening but the first impression sucked!