I'm curious if you could post some links for a few of these items. I'm looking at fry's now, and I don't see the good deals that you're getting. I'm interested right now in setting up my own mythtv box.
"You're still more likely to die in car ride to the airport or train station"
Is that right? That statistic never sounded right to me. I wonder how they came up with it. If it's simply "more people die in cars than in planes" it's not really correct. It doesn't take into account any type of frequency.
I, for instance, drive my car at least twice a day, every day. Yet, I've only flown a dozen times or so. I think you would need to account for the ratio of # of times driving and number of deaths and compare that to something similar on the flight side.
Now, ofcourse everything I said doesn't take into account the distance traveled. Flying across country is probably safer (I would think) than driving across country. But to say that I'm safer flying than driving to the airport may or may not be true.
Hell, my cell phone has more memory the hard drive on my first computer. The first hard drives were around 5 MB. And I remember thinking at the time "When the hell am I going to need that much memory?"
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"How many new Firefox users is this really going to contribute to the global pool, in the long run?"
It's not meant to bring SkyOS users to firefox, it's meant to bring firefox users to SkyOS. They were in desperate need of a good browser / mail combo. Now they have it.
I still won't use SkyOS, but best of luck to them and those that do.
I can't get to the spreadfirefox.com site (damn/.) but from the summary, it sounds like the ad went out today. I thought we (donaters) were supposed to get a little pre-warning before it went out so we could actually head out and buy the paper.
Because Linux users comprise less than 2% of the overall desktop market.
I hear this argument over and over. I don't think it is entirely correct though. Atleast not concerning games.
My mom doesn't play half-life 2. Nor does she run linux. Yet, she falls into the 98% of windows users that you are talking about.
What I want to know, is of the percentage of half-life 2 players, what percentage also run linux as a 2nd OS.
Also, it is important to know the percentage of linux users that are also avid gamers - thus indicating how many of the 2% market share would actually buy half-life 2 if it came out on linux.
Hmm.. I'm suprised you didn't argue "Last time I checked, a car didn't go up and down". There are obvious differences between a car and an elevator. Doesn't change the fact that in an elevator, the computer is in control (not you) as would be the case with the car.
There's a lot of truth to that. I've been saying for the past 4 years that I'm going to upgrade my 1.2ghz tower. But when it comes down to it, it's definitely quick enough for what I need it for, so why upgrade?
So I go through this every year, and every year, I decide to put off the upgrading for another year.
How would mailing lists be affected by all of this? I would think this would put a major strain on the server that distributes to the individual addresses.
I can just see it now.. It's their evil-twin browser...
Firecrotch!
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"I guess that depends on whether you consider having someone who installs software on your machine and replaces your defaults without your knowledge a good thing. I sure don't."
Sounds pretty trollish, but I'll bite.
Say you see a little baby hitting him/herself in the head with a wooden bat and you just happen to have a nice soft rubber bat, what do you do? Duh, you swap bats. The baby won't notice, and less concussions will ensue. (Granted, if you see babies hitting themselves in the head with a wooden bat, you have bigger problems on your hands.)
Believe it or not, the average person doesn't give a flying fsck what browser is installed on their computer as long as it works. Are they motivated enough to replace their defaults or do they even know how to? No.
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I'm curious if you could post some links for a few of these items. I'm looking at fry's now, and I don't see the good deals that you're getting. I'm interested right now in setting up my own mythtv box.
Thanks..
What a maroon.
;)
I was thinking magenta, but whatever.
Yes. And how many times have you flown since 9/11? How many times have you driven somewhere?
Now, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that I have yet to see a compelling statistic.
"You're still more likely to die in car ride to the airport or train station"
Is that right? That statistic never sounded right to me. I wonder how they came up with it. If it's simply "more people die in cars than in planes" it's not really correct. It doesn't take into account any type of frequency.
I, for instance, drive my car at least twice a day, every day. Yet, I've only flown a dozen times or so. I think you would need to account for the ratio of # of times driving and number of deaths and compare that to something similar on the flight side.
Now, ofcourse everything I said doesn't take into account the distance traveled. Flying across country is probably safer (I would think) than driving across country. But to say that I'm safer flying than driving to the airport may or may not be true.
rumours that Mac is going to start using Intel based CPUs in place of PowerPC CPUs in their systems?
Stop the rumors and repeat after me: Mac is not going to use Intel-based CPUs over the current PowerPC!
Hell, my cell phone has more memory the hard drive on my first computer. The first hard drives were around 5 MB. And I remember thinking at the time "When the hell am I going to need that much memory?"
Enter... Porn.
All I can say is that for a grand, this card better blow me and make me toast in the morning.
Easy.
Spend $1000 on a video card? That blows...
Tell your wife/girlfriend? You're toast...
Your sense of humor is impecible. :)
Third Parties Already Taking Advantage of Tiger
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I don't even have to RTFS(ummary) to figure out this is a dupe!
to tiger direct today to pick up a copy.
:)
Wtf? Where do these slashdotters come up with these things? TIGER DIRECT is an online seller of computer hardware!!
To get tiger, you have to go to the zoo!
Hahaha.. That's so funny.
Fag
Wait.. I'm confused.
Is that a prediction for the pinto or longhorn?
One is a 1992 article about how they calculated pi to over two billion decimal places
;)
Hrmm.. They should've just rounded down?
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"How many new Firefox users is this really going to contribute to the global pool, in the long run?"
It's not meant to bring SkyOS users to firefox, it's meant to bring firefox users to SkyOS. They were in desperate need of a good browser / mail combo. Now they have it.
I still won't use SkyOS, but best of luck to them and those that do.
I can't get to the spreadfirefox.com site (damn /.) but from the summary, it sounds like the ad went out today. I thought we (donaters) were supposed to get a little pre-warning before it went out so we could actually head out and buy the paper.
Argh.
They ran this same story on OS News.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8945 [OSNews.com]
Because Linux users comprise less than 2% of the overall desktop market.
I hear this argument over and over. I don't think it is entirely correct though. Atleast not concerning games.
My mom doesn't play half-life 2. Nor does she run linux. Yet, she falls into the 98% of windows users that you are talking about.
What I want to know, is of the percentage of half-life 2 players, what percentage also run linux as a 2nd OS.
Also, it is important to know the percentage of linux users that are also avid gamers - thus indicating how many of the 2% market share would actually buy half-life 2 if it came out on linux.
Hmm.. I'm suprised you didn't argue "Last time I checked, a car didn't go up and down". There are obvious differences between a car and an elevator.
Doesn't change the fact that in an elevator, the computer is in control (not you) as would be the case with the car.
Umm..
You trust a computer to take you from the ground level to the 200th floor without dropping you.
This seems to be a natural progression to me.
There's a lot of truth to that. I've been saying for the past 4 years that I'm going to upgrade my 1.2ghz tower. But when it comes down to it, it's definitely quick enough for what I need it for, so why upgrade?
So I go through this every year, and every year, I decide to put off the upgrading for another year.
That's exactly what I do. I run the ccxstream server from my linux box for content on demand.
It's wonderful.
How would mailing lists be affected by all of this?
I would think this would put a major strain on the server that distributes to the individual addresses.
I can just see it now.. It's their evil-twin browser...
Firecrotch!
"I guess that depends on whether you consider having someone who installs software on your machine and replaces your defaults without your knowledge a good thing. I sure don't."
Sounds pretty trollish, but I'll bite.
Say you see a little baby hitting him/herself in the head with a wooden bat and you just happen to have a nice soft rubber bat, what do you do? Duh, you swap bats. The baby won't notice, and less concussions will ensue. (Granted, if you see babies hitting themselves in the head with a wooden bat, you have bigger problems on your hands.)
Believe it or not, the average person doesn't give a flying fsck what browser is installed on their computer as long as it works. Are they motivated enough to replace their defaults or do they even know how to? No.
Do the right thing and give them a rubber bat!