Look, if a person is using 2 monitors, has several external disks, and doesnt have the need for portability, they may as well get a desktop was my point. I'm an extreme example, sure, but desktops are cheaper for $$/performance, and the added space they take up is irrelevant if you already have a pile of disks and another monitor...
I'm sure a large amount of the older crowd (and a fair chunk of the younger one) got into tech, or gained tech experience working for the military. My father, who's probably poking around this thread somewhere, for instance was in the military and did a great deal of tech work for them as a civilian later... The military employs a lot of tech people, and it trains a lot, combine that with history geeks who know a lot about weapons and of course there'll be lots of military-knowledgeable people here
multi-monitors *can* mean more than 2 you realize. My current tower has 2 19inch samsungs, I'll be adding a 24inch dell very soon. 3 monitors (19,24,19 set-up) is something my macbook pro certainly can't do, and I've yet to see a laptop that can...
As for external drives, not many laptops have esata, or even firewire 800, so if you need performance on the discs (10k rpm really do need a sata or fw800 connection).
Now, I have a tower and a laptop. The tower is at my desk, my laptop comes with me. I could I s'pose put a laptop (though no 3 monitors then) on my desk too, but it costs more for less power than a tower and if I'm littering my desk with monitors and disks anyway, why not have the bloody tower anyway, at least I can stick *it* under my desk...
Sounds wierd, but how about a server on wheels for the imaging? roll it into the lab you're imaging and hook it up to the local switch in the room, no tie up on building network resources for other purposes either. It may sound like a better idea now since I havent slept in a while though:-P
It's the same reason as seatbelt laws: it's not taking yourself out of the gene pool that's the problem, it's you taking someone else out *with* you. Sealtbelt laws arent there as a "nanny-state" precaution as so many of our laws are, they're to stop you from flying through your widshield and causing more damage to everybody else! Remember, driving on public roads is *not* a gaurantted right, you need a license to operate your several ton motorized weapon on public roads. If some idiot wants to ride their motorcycle barefoot on their own property, I don't care. They do that on the same highway I'm driving at and I do.
If you wanted to have a car, you probably couldn't print that out at home, you'd have to go to the 3D Kinkos. Imagine if you could just download a car off the internet, customize it for yourself (with ample help from enthusiasts, like Linux today), and print it out. I'm imagining what my 15 y/o sister would create and drive, it's terrifying!
The two arent nearly even in the same camp. Male circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation are not the same (It's the functional equivlent btw of cutting off the shaft of the penis). Male circumcision is a historical hold over as a way of reducing infection. There's also various debatable data about the shape being more pleasing to women (and no, I don't mean to look at...). It does have some significant measureable benefits, and it does very little harm (somewhere between removing your tonsils and your appendix in long term harm...:-p). FGM on the other hand is a cultural mutilation, often done without medicine, doctors, or anestesia, that is aimed at attempting to reduce female promiscuity in male dominated societies. It has *no* medical advantages, significant medical problems and creates a significant social power gap, and there is absolutely *no reason* to have it performed.
Make it one we had as an April fools joke *last* year, then ppl will cry "dupe" too. It's actually really funny if you think about it: the only real story thatll prolly get posted today, it's an (almost) unbelieveable breakthrough that's been made fun of on this day in the past, and everyone will gloss over it as an april fools gag...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that there were a lot less people and a lot less population *density* in your county than nyc. Wait, you mean*number* of murders goes up with number of people? You don't say...
Now how about some stats there are 6.6 murder/100,000ppl in a city of 8mil with a metro area of 22mil, do you really think that's a large number? I'm betting that it's less per capita than th one murder in your county
You just don't get it, one of the levels would *be* the line. You kill eachother to get to the front, then you slaughter the bastards that made you wait to begin with... (hey, it'd be just like the flood levels in halo 1...)
You can still buy them. A good thing too, my next main tower will be a mac most likely, and while I have tons of model Ms around, I have none with a "super" key to use in place of the apple (command) key. I fully expect, considering my current KBs are 20years old and still work flawlessly, that a new one will last me a *very* long time, damn things are indestructible:-D.
Wouldn't that be good for MS? I seem to remember that MS sells the consoles at a loss and makes their profit on game licenses. In that case, people buying the 360 just to mod it *cost* MS money....
FTFA:
We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," he [Mr. Rodman] said. "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else. At my college, last generation the ps2 and xbox were pretty much in a dead heat for the top spot. Now though, the Wii is clearly winning over the ps3 and 360. The will may not be, by and large, the system you play by yourself, but it's the best system if you have people over. Also, the retro gaming is a huge hit here (may have something to do with it being an engineering and science school, maybe).
That said, you haven't lived till you've played a real NES on 62" screen tv or a >100" projected screen:-D
OK, I'll bite. We have a lot of comps in my house. Most of them are towers, and they are wired. However, we also have several laptops. When I, or my parents, or my sister are at our desks, wires are fine. When we're sitting in the living room, kitchen, terrace, etc. they're not. Running 1 wire to living room... maybe, if it's needed. Running 4 or 5? Ugly, a pain, and n ot necessary since it can be taken care of with wireless. Sure I could drape the living room in wires, but why bother? If I needs high speed data xfer to my other comps, I plug in to the gigbit wire. Otherwise, 11g is just fine for web (hell, it's overkill), and the convinience is great.
To be honest the first thing I do on *any* prebuilt machine (and my friends often ask me to do it on theirs) is re-install the OS. I even do it on Apples, but on Dells it's almost imperative, so I can get rid of all the crap they ship it with. With Dell, I usually grab the vanilla drivers from their site, instead of the all-in-one driver pack with dells update utilities and such. So, the time factor there certainly doesnt effect me, or, I suspect, most/.ers. And as I said, I do it on my friend's/family's/g/f's family's machines too more often than not.
"In Soviet Russia, *you* fall over"
In Soviet Russia, *you* are the domino, and you pushed over by the state in giant cold war social computer! Domino, the new Cog:-P
But I *already have* an xbox for gaming, I didnt buy it to use as a media center, it just happens to useable as one too. It's (reasonably) quiet, already hooked up to my TV and network, and I'd have it there anyway - so why put *another* box next to my tv when the one that's already there can do both jobs well? I suspect that's the reason a lot of people do it.
Oh, and 'cause I can:-D (and if you don't get that reason, pack up and leave/. now:-p)
Taking you at your word for a sec, if you support that many machines you're prolly using a standardized set of components (or a commercial machine, prolly a business class machine which means if nothing else - better driver support) that you *know* works fully and you're using a pushed image of windows to keep them running (either that or you're a)incompetent or b)running a support nightmare, in which case you have my sympathy). Thing is, on that scale, standardized, it's easy to keep things stable. However, the average user has driver issues all the time with windows. While nearly everything is supported on windows more or less, stability is another story (even on commercial consumer boxes - the original wireless driver that shipped with my girlfriends dell laptop was massively unstable when using wpa encryption for example). On the other hand, as long as you stick with Apple hardware, in the apple ecosystem you are fully supported running osx, hence easier stability but less options.
As for why Apple revoked their licensing for their OS, it was a combination of them really being a hardware company (they were losing money) and the dilution of stability (I remember running some of those clones, some were perfect, some were *massively* unstable - kinda like windows machines:-P). Now, I use windows all the time (including on my macbook pro for some development and gaming), and on *any* of my generic PC desktops, be they Lin or Win, I've always been very careful about what hardware I buy. I haven't had a really unstable windows machine personally in quite a while (XP and 2k, with good drivers, are excellent, stable OSs, much as I prefer debian and osx), but I've seen a lot of 'em, and a fair chunk were driver issues...
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There are lots of excellent choices out there. I'm not sure why you'd choose HP.
Very good linux drivers?
Look, if a person is using 2 monitors, has several external disks, and doesnt have the need for portability, they may as well get a desktop was my point. I'm an extreme example, sure, but desktops are cheaper for $$/performance, and the added space they take up is irrelevant if you already have a pile of disks and another monitor...
I'm sure a large amount of the older crowd (and a fair chunk of the younger one) got into tech, or gained tech experience working for the military. My father, who's probably poking around this thread somewhere, for instance was in the military and did a great deal of tech work for them as a civilian later... The military employs a lot of tech people, and it trains a lot, combine that with history geeks who know a lot about weapons and of course there'll be lots of military-knowledgeable people here
multi-monitors *can* mean more than 2 you realize. My current tower has 2 19inch samsungs, I'll be adding a 24inch dell very soon. 3 monitors (19,24,19 set-up) is something my macbook pro certainly can't do, and I've yet to see a laptop that can...
As for external drives, not many laptops have esata, or even firewire 800, so if you need performance on the discs (10k rpm really do need a sata or fw800 connection).
Now, I have a tower and a laptop. The tower is at my desk, my laptop comes with me. I could I s'pose put a laptop (though no 3 monitors then) on my desk too, but it costs more for less power than a tower and if I'm littering my desk with monitors and disks anyway, why not have the bloody tower anyway, at least I can stick *it* under my desk...
Sounds wierd, but how about a server on wheels for the imaging? roll it into the lab you're imaging and hook it up to the local switch in the room, no tie up on building network resources for other purposes either. It may sound like a better idea now since I havent slept in a while though :-P
It's the same reason as seatbelt laws: it's not taking yourself out of the gene pool that's the problem, it's you taking someone else out *with* you. Sealtbelt laws arent there as a "nanny-state" precaution as so many of our laws are, they're to stop you from flying through your widshield and causing more damage to everybody else! Remember, driving on public roads is *not* a gaurantted right, you need a license to operate your several ton motorized weapon on public roads. If some idiot wants to ride their motorcycle barefoot on their own property, I don't care. They do that on the same highway I'm driving at and I do.
The two arent nearly even in the same camp. Male circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation are not the same (It's the functional equivlent btw of cutting off the shaft of the penis). Male circumcision is a historical hold over as a way of reducing infection. There's also various debatable data about the shape being more pleasing to women (and no, I don't mean to look at...). It does have some significant measureable benefits, and it does very little harm (somewhere between removing your tonsils and your appendix in long term harm... :-p). FGM on the other hand is a cultural mutilation, often done without medicine, doctors, or anestesia, that is aimed at attempting to reduce female promiscuity in male dominated societies. It has *no* medical advantages, significant medical problems and creates a significant social power gap, and there is absolutely *no reason* to have it performed.
I'm typing on a 1984 IBM M-Series right now, I like OmniKeys, but seriously, why not the Model M?
Make it one we had as an April fools joke *last* year, then ppl will cry "dupe" too. It's actually really funny if you think about it: the only real story thatll prolly get posted today, it's an (almost) unbelieveable breakthrough that's been made fun of on this day in the past, and everyone will gloss over it as an april fools gag...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that there were a lot less people and a lot less population *density* in your county than nyc. Wait, you mean*number* of murders goes up with number of people? You don't say... Now how about some stats there are 6.6 murder/100,000ppl in a city of 8mil with a metro area of 22mil, do you really think that's a large number? I'm betting that it's less per capita than th one murder in your county
You just don't get it, one of the levels would *be* the line. You kill eachother to get to the front, then you slaughter the bastards that made you wait to begin with... (hey, it'd be just like the flood levels in halo 1...)
Wouldn't that be good for MS? I seem to remember that MS sells the consoles at a loss and makes their profit on game licenses. In that case, people buying the 360 just to mod it *cost* MS money....
good god I need coffee, *wii*, not *will*
That said, you haven't lived till you've played a real NES on 62" screen tv or a >100" projected screen
OK, I'll bite. We have a lot of comps in my house. Most of them are towers, and they are wired. However, we also have several laptops. When I, or my parents, or my sister are at our desks, wires are fine. When we're sitting in the living room, kitchen, terrace, etc. they're not. Running 1 wire to living room... maybe, if it's needed. Running 4 or 5? Ugly, a pain, and n ot necessary since it can be taken care of with wireless. Sure I could drape the living room in wires, but why bother? If I needs high speed data xfer to my other comps, I plug in to the gigbit wire. Otherwise, 11g is just fine for web (hell, it's overkill), and the convinience is great.
How could something so successful suck?
:-P)
Two words for you: Britney Spears (Paris Hilton was an acceptable answer too
To be honest the first thing I do on *any* prebuilt machine (and my friends often ask me to do it on theirs) is re-install the OS. I even do it on Apples, but on Dells it's almost imperative, so I can get rid of all the crap they ship it with. With Dell, I usually grab the vanilla drivers from their site, instead of the all-in-one driver pack with dells update utilities and such. So, the time factor there certainly doesnt effect me, or, I suspect, most /.ers. And as I said, I do it on my friend's/family's/g/f's family's machines too more often than not.
"In Soviet Russia, *you* fall over" In Soviet Russia, *you* are the domino, and you pushed over by the state in giant cold war social computer! Domino, the new Cog :-P
No matter how fast he could ever make, rebooting is gonna be one PITA!
But I *already have* an xbox for gaming, I didnt buy it to use as a media center, it just happens to useable as one too. It's (reasonably) quiet, already hooked up to my TV and network, and I'd have it there anyway - so why put *another* box next to my tv when the one that's already there can do both jobs well? I suspect that's the reason a lot of people do it.
:-D (and if you don't get that reason, pack up and leave /. now :-p)
Oh, and 'cause I can
...do you even try and edit anymore? I know, I know, I've been on /. a while, don't gripe about the editing, it won't change anyway, but gah...
NASA have written new software?
Oh, and to be pedantic, you don't need a comma in the last sentence either!
$ whatis woman
woman: nothing appropriate
Taking you at your word for a sec, if you support that many machines you're prolly using a standardized set of components (or a commercial machine, prolly a business class machine which means if nothing else - better driver support) that you *know* works fully and you're using a pushed image of windows to keep them running (either that or you're a)incompetent or b)running a support nightmare, in which case you have my sympathy). Thing is, on that scale, standardized, it's easy to keep things stable. However, the average user has driver issues all the time with windows. While nearly everything is supported on windows more or less, stability is another story (even on commercial consumer boxes - the original wireless driver that shipped with my girlfriends dell laptop was massively unstable when using wpa encryption for example). On the other hand, as long as you stick with Apple hardware, in the apple ecosystem you are fully supported running osx, hence easier stability but less options.
:-P). Now, I use windows all the time (including on my macbook pro for some development and gaming), and on *any* of my generic PC desktops, be they Lin or Win, I've always been very careful about what hardware I buy. I haven't had a really unstable windows machine personally in quite a while (XP and 2k, with good drivers, are excellent, stable OSs, much as I prefer debian and osx), but I've seen a lot of 'em, and a fair chunk were driver issues...
As for why Apple revoked their licensing for their OS, it was a combination of them really being a hardware company (they were losing money) and the dilution of stability (I remember running some of those clones, some were perfect, some were *massively* unstable - kinda like windows machines