Meanwhile … Reason Flees in the Face of Greed At AOL Common sense is a concept that has never held a lasting foothold in computing. Whether you jump back to the golden days and revisit Commodore's decision to solder over the unused memory traces in its PET computer, scrutinize the technical faults of the "multimedia" PC, attempt to mine the supposed merits of the sub-$1,000 computer, or just contemplate the realties of Steve Ballmer's call for a $100 PC, the idee fixe of computing appears to be the continual reinvention of the asinine.
Case in point: AOL's latest attempt at enticing new subscribers, the $299.99 Internet computer! Naturally, AOL doesn't build its own PCs. The one in question is sourced through Systemax Inc., a company whose products can often be found for sale on the Home Shopping Network and that has an impressive list of subsidiaries and divisions, including SystemaxPC, TigerDirect, Global Computer Supplies, and Infotel Distributing.
AOL's computer is not so impressive. It's a 2-GHz Celeron system with 256MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive, a Lexmark USB printer, and a 17-inch Philips monitor. Personally, Philips monitors have never impressed me. All ink jet printers are throw-aways. The lone Lexmark printer I've owned got the boot a lot quicker than any of the Epsons or HPs. Although Microsoft says Windows will work in 256MB, I've never met a PC with less than 512MB that Windows felt comfortable in. (Did I forget to mention that the graphics system is integrated? Some of that 256MB will be "borrowed" to power the graphics engine.) You'll be amused by how much capacity remains on your 40GB hard drive once Windows XP Home Edition has settled in. And a 2-GHz Celeron? I can't even go there without my fingers beginning to cramp, despite AOL's claim that, "The spectacular Systemax AOL PC runs on a blazing [sic] fast Intel Celeron 2.0-GHz CPU."
xnews is free, has yenc support. Lets you load as many groups in the background as you have ram and connections to the usenet provider. you can create custom filters for each groupd or for ever each newsgroup provider.
Id like to rid of all of them, ps2 ports as well. The backplane should have 10 usb 2.0 ports stacked two high, and 4 firewire 800 ports. Anything else is for ludites who cant get with the times. Lets ditch the pata ports as well. Give me 8 sata ports and get the manufacturers to move everything to sata. And ditch the damn large molex connectors. Everything should use a common sata power plug. Front audio, usb, and firewire ports should use a standard plug, as should the power button and led arrangment. Its fucking stupid that we can standardize the damn expansion slots but i still have to spend 20 minutes trying to read a shitty manual to plug in a damn led.
Some people still dont like software synths. There are still people that prefer to twidle with actual knobs and sliders. Hell the Roland System 700 which came out in the 80's and cost thousands is still in heavy use by those that know how to use them.
You can't compare http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/sys700.shtml to any software package.
I dont know if you are joking or serious, so I will just say the game was based on the books, and its fucking stupid that so many people assume the books came after the games.
they arent doing this just so you can tinker with drivers. Their main intention is to create a card that can be used on any system with minimal tinkering.
the reason why is the "everything should be free mentality" alot of them seem to have. They bitch about the lack of games for linux, then when a company like loki comes along they pirate the games and then cry about the lack of games again when loki dies. its a stupid cycle and they need to blame themselves not microsoft, not patents, not copyright or anything else. Its their hypocritical attitude that causes it.
Who the fuck are we as the public to decide how the government can take our money from us? Same in the US with that National Endowment for the Arts. Every whackjob who throws dog crap onto a canvas is hailed as a genius and given money. And when the public protests the art liberals accuse them of censorship. If PBS wanted the gay mans buttfucking hour and the public said no it would be accused of gay bashing. The government has deemed us too stupid to decide for ourselves what we can do and decide on. So they tack on extra taxes and fees all the time so they can hire some hippy liberal faggot to tell us how we should live and what we should like and appreciate.
you are so full of shit. If running a computer 24/7 for 2 years would cause it to cease to operate, then millions of servers around the world would die daily.
Not yet. I know plenty of retards who would gladly buy a mp3 player with that stupid yahoo logo plastered on it just becauase Yahoo is the internet to them.
Cisco had already announced a few weeks ago that version 13 of IOS was coming out and in June they were going to dump IOS fully for a totally new os for their routers that was going to be pluggable and more secure
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But how will a company pay the programmers if they give away the software the make for free? No income means no one gets paid.
Then of course there is the 405 Parking lot. Fuck I hate that freeway
Im getting replies from like 20 different articles in this Yellow Dog Linux articles. WTF?
That was from a PC Magazine review on the internet, should have left the source.
Meanwhile … Reason Flees in the Face of Greed At AOL
Common sense is a concept that has never held a lasting foothold in computing. Whether you jump back to the golden days and revisit Commodore's decision to solder over the unused memory traces in its PET computer, scrutinize the technical faults of the "multimedia" PC, attempt to mine the supposed merits of the sub-$1,000 computer, or just contemplate the realties of Steve Ballmer's call for a $100 PC, the idee fixe of computing appears to be the continual reinvention of the asinine.
Case in point: AOL's latest attempt at enticing new subscribers, the $299.99 Internet computer! Naturally, AOL doesn't build its own PCs. The one in question is sourced through Systemax Inc., a company whose products can often be found for sale on the Home Shopping Network and that has an impressive list of subsidiaries and divisions, including SystemaxPC, TigerDirect, Global Computer Supplies, and Infotel Distributing.
AOL's computer is not so impressive. It's a 2-GHz Celeron system with 256MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive, a Lexmark USB printer, and a 17-inch Philips monitor. Personally, Philips monitors have never impressed me. All ink jet printers are throw-aways. The lone Lexmark printer I've owned got the boot a lot quicker than any of the Epsons or HPs. Although Microsoft says Windows will work in 256MB, I've never met a PC with less than 512MB that Windows felt comfortable in. (Did I forget to mention that the graphics system is integrated? Some of that 256MB will be "borrowed" to power the graphics engine.) You'll be amused by how much capacity remains on your 40GB hard drive once Windows XP Home Edition has settled in. And a 2-GHz Celeron? I can't even go there without my fingers beginning to cramp, despite AOL's claim that, "The spectacular Systemax AOL PC runs on a blazing [sic] fast Intel Celeron 2.0-GHz CPU."
uhh right click on the navigation toolbar and choose customise, then select show text.
considering ubuntu is based on debian, yeah. But the newest verisons use anaconda.
they are fixing shit they should have before it was released? Who would think a MMORPG would have to do things such as this after the game launched?
xnews is free, has yenc support. Lets you load as many groups in the background as you have ram and connections to the usenet provider. you can create custom filters for each groupd or for ever each newsgroup provider.
Id like to rid of all of them, ps2 ports as well. The backplane should have 10 usb 2.0 ports stacked two high, and 4 firewire 800 ports. Anything else is for ludites who cant get with the times. Lets ditch the pata ports as well. Give me 8 sata ports and get the manufacturers to move everything to sata. And ditch the damn large molex connectors. Everything should use a common sata power plug. Front audio, usb, and firewire ports should use a standard plug, as should the power button and led arrangment. Its fucking stupid that we can standardize the damn expansion slots but i still have to spend 20 minutes trying to read a shitty manual to plug in a damn led.
you should have know that 2.6.9 was a testing kernel.
Some people still dont like software synths. There are still people that prefer to twidle with actual knobs and sliders. Hell the Roland System 700 which came out in the 80's and cost thousands is still in heavy use by those that know how to use them. You can't compare http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/sys700.shtml to any software package.
I dont know if you are joking or serious, so I will just say the game was based on the books, and its fucking stupid that so many people assume the books came after the games.
no
they arent doing this just so you can tinker with drivers. Their main intention is to create a card that can be used on any system with minimal tinkering.
the reason why is the "everything should be free mentality" alot of them seem to have. They bitch about the lack of games for linux, then when a company like loki comes along they pirate the games and then cry about the lack of games again when loki dies. its a stupid cycle and they need to blame themselves not microsoft, not patents, not copyright or anything else. Its their hypocritical attitude that causes it.
this is free as in fully disclosed workings, not free as in a box of cereal, hardware.
Who the fuck are we as the public to decide how the government can take our money from us? Same in the US with that National Endowment for the Arts. Every whackjob who throws dog crap onto a canvas is hailed as a genius and given money. And when the public protests the art liberals accuse them of censorship. If PBS wanted the gay mans buttfucking hour and the public said no it would be accused of gay bashing. The government has deemed us too stupid to decide for ourselves what we can do and decide on. So they tack on extra taxes and fees all the time so they can hire some hippy liberal faggot to tell us how we should live and what we should like and appreciate.
you are so full of shit. If running a computer 24/7 for 2 years would cause it to cease to operate, then millions of servers around the world would die daily.
Not yet. I know plenty of retards who would gladly buy a mp3 player with that stupid yahoo logo plastered on it just becauase Yahoo is the internet to them.
Cisco had already announced a few weeks ago that version 13 of IOS was coming out and in June they were going to dump IOS fully for a totally new os for their routers that was going to be pluggable and more secure
http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5210745.html
uhh you are really wrong, Amoeba record store sells ALOT in the bay area, anytime you go in, tons of people are buying cd's and yes even records.
This is why I support The Coalition of Independent Music Stores.
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Elected, September, 2000
I guess it would have been too hard for you fucktards to actually go to the site and take a look at it.
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