The current setup for this machine is an AMD 4850e w/4gig of DDR2 800 running 64bit OpenSuSE 11.1. The motherboard in use is a hand me down from my desktop and doesn't have onboard graphics, this doesn't help with the power as I ended up putting in an old ATI X1600Pro. I plan to replace the motherboard or maybe the graphics card and add a UPS to the office when money becomes available.
I also have 1x1TB, 2x500GB, and 1x300GB hard drives in there. So at 113W under full load I'm happy.
Right now I only have 1 UPS in the house to handle the router, voip adapter, and telephone in case of power failure, but thankfully we haven't had a single outage in the two years since we bought the house.
I also run FAH on my desktop using the GPU client on a HD3870, and I have it here at the office on three machines, two of which have to stay on 24/7 anyways.
One of the things I did to resolve this at my home was to build a reasonably powerful 100W server. I use this machine to serve video to my PS3, as a Samba file server, and a few other things, but since I already wanted it on 24/7 I also run the smp package for folding at home on it. Total power used is 118W per the killowatt.
I found that I use OpenSuSE on my office pc, netbook, and desktop for everything except gaming. I reboot into XP when I feel like playing a game. Same deal with my Mac. I reboot to get into XP when I want to play something. Otherwise I just use the primary OS.
Actually, a lot of us are. I use the hardware and software I want.
I have XP on my quadcore desktop, OpenSuSE on my home server, and I use a MacBook Pro for everything else.
Outside of the and my previous comment, I don't go around preaching it. I've talked more about the MSI wind I've been using.
Also, I have a free copy of Vista Business. I got it through the Power Together promo. And I don't use it.
Actually, no, when I shopped it, the MacBook Pro was cheaper then a comperable Dell with the same or as to close to the same hardware that Apple offered.
OSX was a bonus.
I'm not sure if your argument fully stands up. My understanding from the few classes I took a year or three back really left me with a different view.
Firstly, at the time this amendment was written the world was very different and the need for a well regulated militia was very real.
State and local militias ended up being the first line of defense for their communities as the Army would take a week or so to show up.
Second, firearms where a daily necessity for individuals who needed them to put food on the table. Harris Teeter, Safeway, Wegmans, and Whole foods didn't exist yet.
Lastly we also should look at the technology involved. A firearm of that time could be fired 2 or 3 times in one minute by a trained professional. When I carried an M249 back in my infantry days that I was good and could actually fire only a single round at a time. I however much preferred to lay down 5 to 7 round bursts.
All that aside, I have no problem with gun/firearm ownership, but your average redneck doesn't need an SKS or a 50 cal to bring down some dear.
This is an interesting problem, but does anyone have the actual statistics.
Most of the older people I know, and those who need them have them already.
Those that don't have them don't need them. I even signed my brother up for them, and believe me, he needs the coupon.
What I don't understand is that the 1996 2 door Toyota Tercel that I traded in back in 98 or 99 got 35mpg in the city and my newish Toyota Yaris that is not much larger, and certainly weaker on the acceleration, only gets 30-32. Less rush hour and slightly shorter commute these days as well.
Then again, my Tercel didn't fry any electronics with a Toyota Goon standing over me telling me they needed $100 to tell me if it was even under warrenty, oh, and if you want an air filter, you pay for it. We don't put those in cars.
I don't know, I run an Athlon X2 6000+ w/3870 and have no stuttering, no issues in any games I play. I even get to enjoy Forged Alliances at high settings with almost 0 slowdowns while streaming di.fm through VLC in the background.
Asus might not have a completely reliable RMA process, but how often does it have to be used?
They have one of the lowest failure rates in the industry. I have used them almost exclusively on every build, with one exception being an Abit, and while it is completely subjective, still have customers out there with '01 machines still humming along.
Obviously you haven't turned on MTV recently. Now it is little blond sluts complaining about their last trip to Paris.
I've not seen a single video played on MTV in years.
Odd.
I currently run a small shop, and we have pretty much the run of the place and complete freedom so long as the work gets done and we aren't browsing porn on the company internet (webfilters are the only check they have on us).
When I took over I didn't change anything that had been in place, and one of the oddities was that games and movies are allowed. So it isn't uncommon to find movies being watched late in the week, and the occasional multi-player match of Supreme Commander or the like. We've even had someone bringing in a PS3 or Xbox 360 on Friday.
But Monday - Wed when the work needs to be done, you won't see any of that. Also if a request comes down the pipe on the down days everything else gets dropped. We also don't provide the consoles.
More then anything else, I think the downtime, and the fact that the guys know this is a privilege that can vanish, is in and of itself the motivator. Not the games or the chance to sit in an office being payed to watch DVR'ed shows. As long as productivity and quality stay high I won't change a thing. (I do enforce one rule, keep it clean and keep it legal. No NC17 or pirated material in the office, period) and this isn't my first gig, just the most relaxed.
We also have almost 0 employee turnover, do you know how that looks at the end of the year?
Do bear in mind that you are talking about Windows ME. An operating system that Microsoft told me would allow me to connect and share my media in new and better ways. It then proceeded to BSOD on first boot.
I don't think that really covers it. What we have here is one game. Sort of the Coke or Pepsi thing. If enough people just don't buy Spore but keep buying games in general, then someone will get the idea.
To further refine it, if consumers keep buying non-DRM'ed games (Sins of a Solar Empire) then EA will definitely get the clue.
Spore is just one game among many, and it has DRM. So do Mass Effect, the upcomming Command and Conquer, and I don't know the status of Bioshock anymore. One key item though is to not buy it regardless of platform. It doesn't do any good to buy the PS3 version and ignore the PC, that just leads the execs to think PC gaming is dead and thus stop developing for one platform and save the subsequent development costs.
I don't know. There is enough noise about the DRM, so in this case Will Wright may be the one standing in some execs office screaming.
Something else interesting is that if you read Forbes, the level of piracy can be fairly well modeled. They know to a degree how many and how quickly the copies will be downloaded. Spore didn't follow those models at all. So, the companies that monitor that knew right away that something was off. At the end of week one, Spore had already exceeded a full month of downloads for similar large launch games.
The local community college I went to for a few classes actually had my IT class sit down on the last day and test about 200 old P4 1.4-1.7Ghz machines. Any faulty ones where recycled. The good ones got a clean XP ghost and sent to Africa.
Sure, one or two may have made it through, but every effort was made to make sure they where clean and working.
Is a dog with a much longer lifespan.
I really don't like to think that my little dog will only live 13 to 17 years, but a friend of mines bird will probably out live all of us 30 somethings.
The bashing of the French was something that always really surprised me. Having taken American History and served in the military I just don't see it. If we look at what they did to protect Paris in WWI, and before that where does this Surrender business come from. Additionally one of the iconic symbols of America was a gift from them.
Now, not to argue too much. The key differences between my XP desktop vs. my SuSE 10.3, kubuntu, and EEEXubuntu machines is that XP needs to be updated about 2 or 3 times a month and rebooted about once week if I leave it on 24/7.
SuSE and the 'buntu family receive updates on a daily or every other day basis. However my uptimes is roughly 72 days for SuSE and 8 days for Kubuntu. EEEXubuntu is shut down three or four times a day as unlike my MacBook Pro and very much like my old dell laptop suspend and sleep don't seem to work.
In conclusion both systems have their annoyances. I've yet to encounter a major issue related to dependencies which either Yast or apt-get hasn't sorted out for me, and neither has destroyed my systems. On the other Hand a well set up XP desktop, which does take three times as long to get running, is stable, and if properly secured doesn't get hammered with spyware or virii. System maintenance can also be scheduled for 3am, when even I'm alseep most of the time, or 2pm when I'm at work.
I've had my EeePC for several months now and I took it as my exclusive machine on a recent out of state trip and it worked out very well. I run EeeXubuntu on it, and I have run Kubuntu on it with no trouble. The screen size is not as major an issue really as the right hand shift key. I use multiple desktops to help alleviate the crowding, but for the most part the 800x480 resolution works out ok.
It surfs the web with Firefox 3 (Beta) and opera rather nicely. F11 to go full screen, Amarok plays all my music, and VLC handles just about any video that I can throw at it. I'm considering how to install SuSE 10.3 on it, as that is my preferred distro right now.
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No one said it was per car.
The current setup for this machine is an AMD 4850e w/4gig of DDR2 800 running 64bit OpenSuSE 11.1. The motherboard in use is a hand me down from my desktop and doesn't have onboard graphics, this doesn't help with the power as I ended up putting in an old ATI X1600Pro. I plan to replace the motherboard or maybe the graphics card and add a UPS to the office when money becomes available. I also have 1x1TB, 2x500GB, and 1x300GB hard drives in there. So at 113W under full load I'm happy. Right now I only have 1 UPS in the house to handle the router, voip adapter, and telephone in case of power failure, but thankfully we haven't had a single outage in the two years since we bought the house. I also run FAH on my desktop using the GPU client on a HD3870, and I have it here at the office on three machines, two of which have to stay on 24/7 anyways.
One of the things I did to resolve this at my home was to build a reasonably powerful 100W server. I use this machine to serve video to my PS3, as a Samba file server, and a few other things, but since I already wanted it on 24/7 I also run the smp package for folding at home on it. Total power used is 118W per the killowatt.
I found that I use OpenSuSE on my office pc, netbook, and desktop for everything except gaming. I reboot into XP when I feel like playing a game. Same deal with my Mac. I reboot to get into XP when I want to play something. Otherwise I just use the primary OS.
Actually, a lot of us are. I use the hardware and software I want. I have XP on my quadcore desktop, OpenSuSE on my home server, and I use a MacBook Pro for everything else. Outside of the and my previous comment, I don't go around preaching it. I've talked more about the MSI wind I've been using. Also, I have a free copy of Vista Business. I got it through the Power Together promo. And I don't use it.
Actually, no, when I shopped it, the MacBook Pro was cheaper then a comperable Dell with the same or as to close to the same hardware that Apple offered. OSX was a bonus.
I'm not sure if your argument fully stands up. My understanding from the few classes I took a year or three back really left me with a different view. Firstly, at the time this amendment was written the world was very different and the need for a well regulated militia was very real. State and local militias ended up being the first line of defense for their communities as the Army would take a week or so to show up. Second, firearms where a daily necessity for individuals who needed them to put food on the table. Harris Teeter, Safeway, Wegmans, and Whole foods didn't exist yet. Lastly we also should look at the technology involved. A firearm of that time could be fired 2 or 3 times in one minute by a trained professional. When I carried an M249 back in my infantry days that I was good and could actually fire only a single round at a time. I however much preferred to lay down 5 to 7 round bursts. All that aside, I have no problem with gun/firearm ownership, but your average redneck doesn't need an SKS or a 50 cal to bring down some dear.
This is an interesting problem, but does anyone have the actual statistics. Most of the older people I know, and those who need them have them already. Those that don't have them don't need them. I even signed my brother up for them, and believe me, he needs the coupon.
What I don't understand is that the 1996 2 door Toyota Tercel that I traded in back in 98 or 99 got 35mpg in the city and my newish Toyota Yaris that is not much larger, and certainly weaker on the acceleration, only gets 30-32. Less rush hour and slightly shorter commute these days as well. Then again, my Tercel didn't fry any electronics with a Toyota Goon standing over me telling me they needed $100 to tell me if it was even under warrenty, oh, and if you want an air filter, you pay for it. We don't put those in cars.
I don't know, I run an Athlon X2 6000+ w/3870 and have no stuttering, no issues in any games I play. I even get to enjoy Forged Alliances at high settings with almost 0 slowdowns while streaming di.fm through VLC in the background.
Asus might not have a completely reliable RMA process, but how often does it have to be used? They have one of the lowest failure rates in the industry. I have used them almost exclusively on every build, with one exception being an Abit, and while it is completely subjective, still have customers out there with '01 machines still humming along.
Obviously you haven't turned on MTV recently. Now it is little blond sluts complaining about their last trip to Paris. I've not seen a single video played on MTV in years.
Odd. I currently run a small shop, and we have pretty much the run of the place and complete freedom so long as the work gets done and we aren't browsing porn on the company internet (webfilters are the only check they have on us). When I took over I didn't change anything that had been in place, and one of the oddities was that games and movies are allowed. So it isn't uncommon to find movies being watched late in the week, and the occasional multi-player match of Supreme Commander or the like. We've even had someone bringing in a PS3 or Xbox 360 on Friday. But Monday - Wed when the work needs to be done, you won't see any of that. Also if a request comes down the pipe on the down days everything else gets dropped. We also don't provide the consoles. More then anything else, I think the downtime, and the fact that the guys know this is a privilege that can vanish, is in and of itself the motivator. Not the games or the chance to sit in an office being payed to watch DVR'ed shows. As long as productivity and quality stay high I won't change a thing. (I do enforce one rule, keep it clean and keep it legal. No NC17 or pirated material in the office, period) and this isn't my first gig, just the most relaxed. We also have almost 0 employee turnover, do you know how that looks at the end of the year?
Do bear in mind that you are talking about Windows ME. An operating system that Microsoft told me would allow me to connect and share my media in new and better ways. It then proceeded to BSOD on first boot.
I don't think that really covers it. What we have here is one game. Sort of the Coke or Pepsi thing. If enough people just don't buy Spore but keep buying games in general, then someone will get the idea. To further refine it, if consumers keep buying non-DRM'ed games (Sins of a Solar Empire) then EA will definitely get the clue. Spore is just one game among many, and it has DRM. So do Mass Effect, the upcomming Command and Conquer, and I don't know the status of Bioshock anymore. One key item though is to not buy it regardless of platform. It doesn't do any good to buy the PS3 version and ignore the PC, that just leads the execs to think PC gaming is dead and thus stop developing for one platform and save the subsequent development costs.
You mean, there are other places then my basement? I don't go to those places anymore.
It was in the Washington Post and Forbes.
I don't know. There is enough noise about the DRM, so in this case Will Wright may be the one standing in some execs office screaming. Something else interesting is that if you read Forbes, the level of piracy can be fairly well modeled. They know to a degree how many and how quickly the copies will be downloaded. Spore didn't follow those models at all. So, the companies that monitor that knew right away that something was off. At the end of week one, Spore had already exceeded a full month of downloads for similar large launch games.
You mean like one sold by EA on games?
I've had the best luck with ZipZoomFly and Amazon. I buy the bulk of everything I use from New Egg though.
The local community college I went to for a few classes actually had my IT class sit down on the last day and test about 200 old P4 1.4-1.7Ghz machines. Any faulty ones where recycled. The good ones got a clean XP ghost and sent to Africa. Sure, one or two may have made it through, but every effort was made to make sure they where clean and working.
Is a dog with a much longer lifespan. I really don't like to think that my little dog will only live 13 to 17 years, but a friend of mines bird will probably out live all of us 30 somethings.
The bashing of the French was something that always really surprised me. Having taken American History and served in the military I just don't see it. If we look at what they did to protect Paris in WWI, and before that where does this Surrender business come from. Additionally one of the iconic symbols of America was a gift from them.
Now, not to argue too much. The key differences between my XP desktop vs. my SuSE 10.3, kubuntu, and EEEXubuntu machines is that XP needs to be updated about 2 or 3 times a month and rebooted about once week if I leave it on 24/7. SuSE and the 'buntu family receive updates on a daily or every other day basis. However my uptimes is roughly 72 days for SuSE and 8 days for Kubuntu. EEEXubuntu is shut down three or four times a day as unlike my MacBook Pro and very much like my old dell laptop suspend and sleep don't seem to work. In conclusion both systems have their annoyances. I've yet to encounter a major issue related to dependencies which either Yast or apt-get hasn't sorted out for me, and neither has destroyed my systems. On the other Hand a well set up XP desktop, which does take three times as long to get running, is stable, and if properly secured doesn't get hammered with spyware or virii. System maintenance can also be scheduled for 3am, when even I'm alseep most of the time, or 2pm when I'm at work.
I've had my EeePC for several months now and I took it as my exclusive machine on a recent out of state trip and it worked out very well. I run EeeXubuntu on it, and I have run Kubuntu on it with no trouble. The screen size is not as major an issue really as the right hand shift key. I use multiple desktops to help alleviate the crowding, but for the most part the 800x480 resolution works out ok. It surfs the web with Firefox 3 (Beta) and opera rather nicely. F11 to go full screen, Amarok plays all my music, and VLC handles just about any video that I can throw at it. I'm considering how to install SuSE 10.3 on it, as that is my preferred distro right now.