a) Most movie critics are more like art cruitics or book critics and care more about 'art' then what I think of as good plot, acting, and effects... Hence why I refuse to read art, book, and movie reviews... Or heck any reviews as we all know music reviews are just as crap as movie ones...
b) Consumer reports is crap I constantly complain to people that they are crap. I'd love to be able to tell them directly their mag is crap... They hardly look at a product if your lucky and at worst constantly complain about lack of 'features' in items that weren't meant to have 'features'. I have worked in consumer elcetronics and feedback over 3 years from my customers told me what brands and products are good, which is often the opposite of what consumer reports says is good. I quit consumer electronics about the time I couldn't take compteing with people brainwashed into believing consumer reports could do no wrong and wouldn't listen to what I told them because of that...
I think there is a very simple reason for the dual belief in the use of copyright...
The GPL basically effects bussinesses and companies (you know those people that are supposed to be directly subject to copyright restrictions)...
Music on the other hand directly effects people (those not normally bound to copyright restrictions)...
So I don't think it's so hard for us to think of copyright as evil when it hurts people directly, and good when it takes place between companies/bussinesses...
Well if you live in the US there is one other option (figuring your willing to pay for it). XM radio (and possibly Syrus, but I can't be sure as I don't have Syrus)plays alot of stuff you haven't heard before as well as playing the stuff to keep the mainstream happy...
XM offers a channel solely to undiscovered artists. Also the offer several channels to often overlooked genres like Dance music, techno, indie, accustic rock, and alternative rock. Heck if your into it they even offer a channel devoted to Opera and the have 4 or 5 'world music' channels devoted to things like african music.
You also get to see the artists name and the title of each song, which makes it alot easier to track an artist down...
& yes I know I sound liek an XM fanboy, but I love finding new music and they are the best way I've discovered yet to do that...
Err I've seen a 13" portable LCD that is rated as doing 1080i widescreen display... I've never seen it display a HD picture, but it claims to do what you say would be "too hard to make and not worth the effort"... Guess someone decided you were wrong huh?
As a person capable of playing music myself (though since I don't actively sell my services at playing music so I don't call myself a muscian), I have to disagree with some of what you are saying...
First you state that you favor copy-protection (bad move unless your owned by the RIAA already as most likely you'd make more money allowing people to share and experience your music than not) and that you favor total control as you claim is defined by copyright... And while you are right to some degree pricing is not guarenteed in copyright (aka you can't just say you have to pay X amount and expect it to sell at said price, as that is affected by the market). Music as a whole isn't copyrighted which would give them the right to set pricing as they please across the board... Instead they have been convicted of price fixing among themselves because they couldn't control price via copyright and instead resorted to forming a cartel and abusing their place in the market...
Then you claim the labels are tryign to offer alternatives... Alternatives that are frankly laughable from a tech standpoint... Like files you pay for that can't then be moved from a single PC or stored elsewhere without having to repurchase. Or at least that was their first plan... The followups haven't been offered by the industry, they've been offered by outsiders like Apple and MS...
You also claim they didn't try to get their puppets to pass laws allowign them rights over your PC... To which I can only say "Wake Up!!", since you can't seriously believe that... I don't care who you know, but they would love such powers... Heck they've tried for ages to gather support to tighten their grip on how we use music... Not to mention who can create and distribute popular music... I'm starting to think you are some gullible fool that is truly snookered by the big labels to believe their filth...
Someone who can't pay would simply be sold into eternal debt instead... Like if they decided to sue me... I could never hope to pay them off and I cna't afford that many lawyers... I would be forced to go to court laywerless and figuring I couldn't adiquately defend myself against hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lawyers I could be forced by a jugde to sell all my possessions to pay them what I could and then pay from anything I'd be able to make the rest of my life to pay them off... People should not be forced to do that... Especially since copyright law was not meant to make individuals obey copyright (the idea is that no one else can profit off of the work of others, not to criple the average person), it was meant to attack rival bussinesses and keep them from infringing on the rights to make a living off of somethign that can be copyrighted...
I may not support piracy, but I don't reallys believe it's piracy... I know anything I download (or have downloaded), is done either to find works I can't buy (I don't have the resources to visit each DJ and record their performances with permission and finding their CD's can be nigh impossible locally or online) or because they let me download them so I can try out their music! This worked well in the old days of MP3.com before the record labels bought them, I own lots of D.A.M. CD's because I enjoyed the songs I could hear and wanted a more perminent copy. I also don't go aroudn selling any songs in my possession or playing them (via some osrt of audio system) to peopel who pay for the experience of hearing them... Let me make that clear: I don't make money off of the music in my possession! Pirates (the software type) acquire music, movies, software, etc for the explicit purpose of redistributing it and making a profit... That's not what I do or I figure most other P2P people do...
And frankly to hell with you and the RIAA if you can't understand that...
Not to mention that most fools sign contracts that cover 5 disks before ending and have no way out even if these sorts of things kill their career for technical reasons...
Wouldn't it suck as a muscian to not be able to create (or perform) songs for the rest of your life, because you sold your soul to the Big record labels and they sold your career to test a new 'Disk Security Concept'? This guy should be hiring a lawyer ASAP...
Just admit it: You got Owned by the Intel FUD team...
I won't believe Intel offering a 64-bit desktop solution til the actually do offer one... I also don't beleive a bit of extra silicon that isn't completely fuctional is a good indicator to '64-bitness'. I simply don't believe the hype (at least not from anyone close to Intel).
I mean if you really know now that it has 64-bit support then tell us oh knowledgable one, what 64-bit ISA does it use? I know it can't be EPIC as that doesn't look anything like x86 at the silicon level. I also know Intel would rather shoot itself than use x86-64 (or as AMD renamed it recently AMD64) even though they have access to it. So what marvelous new ISA does it use?
huh you know I've looked at a good bit of 'youth culture' during the 50's and their was alot of violent crime just as their is today... Only they tended to have less access to guns, so it was mostly fists and knives... The reason they tend to have more access to such things is due to the lack of parenting... Which provides access to more 'destructive' (for this type of thing) weapons and a lack of parental interest in the activities of the child providing plenty of time to commit such actions...
I think we constantly fool ourselves into believing things were 'different then', but they really weren't all that different...
Unfortunately your views are heavily urban biased...
Let me provide a slight education on more rural areas fo the US (which makes up the vast majority of the livable area in the US)...
Means of local transportation: Walking- Good for short distances but the doctor visit is out since he lives in the city some 20 miles away... that's one long walk... oh and forget emergencies where 911 isn't available) Manpowered Cycles- Bicycles and other wheeled vehicles powered by a human being. Makes that 20 mile trip above easier and faster, but most roads aren't built with such transportation in mind. Also theft becomes more of an issue... Lastly keep in mind the limited storage ability... Horse driven locomotion- Either simply riding on a horse or using a buggy with a horse(s). Since I live in Omish country this is a somewhat common sight even today. But you then incrue cost of feeding and maintaining an animal as well as equipment and life expectancy is short for a workign animal. Does improve the disadvantages above though... Mass Transit- This doens't really exist in most rural settings... The best in my area is a single bus that comes through monday to friday at 6am and back through at 6pm, to bad if your job doesn't allow you those work hours or you dont' live on it's direct route. And it only travels 20 miles between the largest city in this region and the 3 towns til it hits the edge of it's trip with one stop in each of the cities mentioned.
Why do I feel the need to provide this (above) education to you? Because your limited self centered world view would kill off rural transportation dooming us to truly become those hill-billies you think we all are, since no good means of travel exists besides the car in thsi situation...
Oh and just in case you decide to get uppity about why I don't live in the city... Well I left the rural life and went to college for CIS... Well when I graduated the '.net' revolution had disintegrated a few months back and I found most of my skills weren't in as high a demand anymore... So instead I moved back hoem and went back to college to make myself (hopefully) more employable by switching fields (and delaying repayment on those loans). Now I'm done with my second round of colelge and tech jobs are nearly none-existant locally and things like relocation expenses aren't being paid by most companies for my skillsets... Either of them... So here I stay. So no we aren't all hill-billies or degenerates that can't 'hack-it' in the city...
While I don't own a Jetta I'll chime in with the fact that my Chrysler LHS has pretty much all those features as well... I think most cars that come only in a 'fully stocked so no options' setup are like that... Or at least so it seems to me. My display though is mounted with the sun roof controls (and I have infinity branded speakers rather than monsoon). Oh and I also have stock 17" tires with an option to use 16" ones if so desired... Otherwise that list seems pretty much identical between both vehicles...
I do however get slightly worse gas mileage than you at 25 city and 35 highway... Averaging out to 30 MPG for my daily commute (city and highway driving), but the my car is larger than a Jetta I would assume somehwat worse gas mieage...
Oh and while were already sorta off-topic my parents have pretty much those same options as well (including real-time MPG gauges) on their Oldsmobile Bravada (an SUV in case you don't know). But using their realtime MPG gauge is depressing, even with my most conservitive driving I rarely see it get above 15 MPG... But then I expect an SUV to have sucky gas mileage, and actually so do they... They insisted on something with 4-wheel or all-wheel drive though due to local winters where they live and that vehicle has that...
Errr... You had to remember IP adresses to connect to PC's (server & Client) and printers...? Not to be rude, but what sort of crap network was your company running...? I don't ever remember a time with windows that I needed to remember IP numbers to conenct to another machine... I've been doing networking with PC's since '95 and before that I did Appletalk/Mac 'networking' which I always foudn dissapointing since we had machines that would refuse to find each other over Appletalk for reasons we could never work out (physical connectiosn were fine it was something in the settings or software that refused to work). Moving to PC hardware for networking for us was much simpler since they all saw each other without issues and could have somethign set to only use a certain printer/scanner/whatever rather than lettign them choose (do you know how many people made dumb choices when trying to print during our Mac networking days? It was silly...)
I see one big problem with such a virus using that method of distribution wouldn't last long since the infected would soon no longer have the virus. This makes for very few places to pick up such files and therefore making them less likely to be used...
Um while I agree with your statemnts (for the most part) I must point out that mp3.com is now owned by a record label and not the independant music site of it's hayday...
Actually that is only the case when using software sound support (what commonly is refered to simply as AC 97 sound support when looking at PC specs). Onboard hardware sound chips are getting more common and don't have such issues. Cmedia seemed to be the first, but it's now been eclipsed by the Nforce 1 & 2 onboard hardware sound chips...
Those hardware solutions offer comparable performance to most internal soundcards...
The one problem I have with these benches & the one problem I had with apples benchmarks is that everyone is ignoring AMD's Opteron even though it is at least as capable as the G5 & AMD holds a larger percentage fo the market than apple does... So where are the tests of G5, Xeon, & Opteron systems against each other?
All of them are in the same class (workstation/low end server), but AMD is getting the shaft in all these "tests" by being absent. The funny thing is of course that Opteron has been available (even on the grey market these days) for months now & the G5 has yet to hit the market, yet all these "tests" exist for G5 and ignore Opteron...
Maybe that was the case at one point in time, but uh I used to go to a DeVry location (there is like a dozen of them aroudn the US). It was nromally a problem of the students wanting to get a degree to 'make it big without working' in the tech field back in the day. It doesn't quite work that way anymore & things have toughened back up... Well at least here on the east coast. Of course bakc when I started my location still taught RPG, COBOL, CICS, Systems Anlysis, Assembly, & near the end C/C++. By the time I was about to leave there (since I'd decided I wasn't a good programmer & had noticed I liked Networking), they had just started the wave of dot com workers who wanted to show enough skill to get some half assed job making huge money and the school complied with their wishes by teaching them VB, Java, HTML (went from a brief 2 day lecture to a full semester class go figure), C, C++, Visual C, OOP... No substance really just fluff... But I can't blame them that's what most of those students wanted... Of course I wonder how many of thsoe students now live in alleys & eat out of dumpsters...
BTW my SO has a degree in BIS (Bussiness Information Systems) and is quite competent with all types of technology. Came as quite a schok after most of the BIS types I knew right before leaving there (my second college didn't offer BIS)...
Well as far as the "letting us junior admins do all the grunt work." thing goes, I think all schools pretty much do this... I know mine did, though we weren't called 'junior admins'... I guess officially we were just the 'computer club' once the computer programming teacher (taught Basic... or was supposed to) decided we need official 'recognition'. But if a computer stopped working it was our task to fix it, heck if the server went down (my last year we had 'new' hardware which included a PowerMac 'Server'). Grades were stored on the server, but no one thought it was odd that we should have access to it... If I'd wanted to I could have changed all sorts of confidential info, but I never did.
Well I guess that means I must prepare more funding for my man made island nation in the atlantic ocean... Want to help me finance my operation? Or if you have technical knoledge of engineering you can help contribute in that way... All those contributing to the cause get preferentual treatment by the new government once established & easier entry into the country...
Note: While this is meant to be funny, the concept does have a certain appeal...
Well If I had kids I wouldn't really worry about what they were looking at online, regardless if I was watching them like a hawk or not. Of course I'd also try to have a open relationship with my kids & teach them some moral values with some common sense mixed in. So I shouldn't have to worry about what they access online.
I fell far safer giving them free reign on what they do online than what they do our in the 'Real World'. Even so you cannot protect them from life and you cannot shelter them from the bad in the world... Doing so just deludes them into believing those things don't exist... I'm more for preparing my offspring for gettign by in the real world than setting them up to fail...
Nice thought ("Stick to college radio") for those with that option. No local college in my area (and their are over 6 local colleges), owns a radio station these days. Heck the last attempt at that sort of thing locally was when one college bought a FOX affiliate license about 15 years ago, 10 years ago they sold their license due to the cost of running the station. Now their is nothing but a singel radio group that owns all 8 radio stations lcoally (4 of 8 are oldies rock, 1 'modern' top 20's station, 2 country statiosn, & 1 christian station).
Also their are no local indie record stores... Or I'd own more music. We have a Mediaplay (Sam Goody et all), a few mall based shops (I don't remember their flashy names after seeing $20 CD's I leave), a BestBuy, a Circuit City, Kmart, Target, Walmart... That's it... Even the used CD stores went out of bussiness in the last coupel years, so there is no competition locally.
I'd buy from the net, but I have to hear the music before I'll think of buying it. So far I've switched to XM Radio to avoid local radio & hear new bands I otherwise wouldn't, but besides the net It's almost impossibel to find the music of some artists I hear (even online it can be hard).
I was just pointing out they owe a large portion of their platform to AMD, while they ignore AMD in any way when they compare their platform to others. Which is odd seeing as how the 1XX (single cpu systems) series Opteron's due out any time now & the 2XX series Opterons which are already out are the most direct competitor to the PPC 970 & it's platform. Both are 64-bit ALU designs with very similiar platform features... Yet they aren't mentioned at all... I just find it more ironic that large protions of the platform where made by AMD, yet when it comes time to compare Apple would rather face Intel than AMD...
Also Sony doens't release "Firewire" products, they release I-link products... & Dell releases "IEE 1394" products... In that case Apple doesn't get mentioned because they aren't using the Apple name... In the case of Hypertransport since it's a 'selling point' of the system, they could at least bother to tell it like it is... Since they seem to imply it's 'their' tech when it's part of the Hypertransport consortiums tech, to me it seems dishonest to imply it's theirs when they can't really claim that...
You do realize that's exactly why people may be interested in Athlon 64 which launches at almost exactly the same time as the G5's do. Though The Athlon 64 could be considered a more tested product since it's just a varient of the Opteron which you can already buy (though sicne it's meant as a server cpu currently it's not on the DIY market).
Though "64-bit Personal Computer" is also soemthign of a misnomer since the G5's are very much 'workstations' more than Personal Computers (since PC implies a different use).
It may also be nice to know that Apple used several AMD technologies without ever once mentioning AMD in their market speil yesterday. The '1 Ghz' bus is a hypertransport link just like the Opteron uses & the technology was originally developed by AMD. Not to mention the best thing I found which is that the '133MHz PCI-X' controller on the Apple baords is in fact the same AMD made chip as all the current Opteron boards use... Nice to know Apple owes alot of their platform to another company while not even giving them credit for it...
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Two comments on that...
a) Most movie critics are more like art cruitics or book critics and care more about 'art' then what I think of as good plot, acting, and effects... Hence why I refuse to read art, book, and movie reviews... Or heck any reviews as we all know music reviews are just as crap as movie ones...
b) Consumer reports is crap I constantly complain to people that they are crap. I'd love to be able to tell them directly their mag is crap... They hardly look at a product if your lucky and at worst constantly complain about lack of 'features' in items that weren't meant to have 'features'. I have worked in consumer elcetronics and feedback over 3 years from my customers told me what brands and products are good, which is often the opposite of what consumer reports says is good. I quit consumer electronics about the time I couldn't take compteing with people brainwashed into believing consumer reports could do no wrong and wouldn't listen to what I told them because of that...
I think there is a very simple reason for the dual belief in the use of copyright...
The GPL basically effects bussinesses and companies (you know those people that are supposed to be directly subject to copyright restrictions)...
Music on the other hand directly effects people (those not normally bound to copyright restrictions)...
So I don't think it's so hard for us to think of copyright as evil when it hurts people directly, and good when it takes place between companies/bussinesses...
Well if you live in the US there is one other option (figuring your willing to pay for it). XM radio (and possibly Syrus, but I can't be sure as I don't have Syrus)plays alot of stuff you haven't heard before as well as playing the stuff to keep the mainstream happy...
XM offers a channel solely to undiscovered artists. Also the offer several channels to often overlooked genres like Dance music, techno, indie, accustic rock, and alternative rock. Heck if your into it they even offer a channel devoted to Opera and the have 4 or 5 'world music' channels devoted to things like african music.
You also get to see the artists name and the title of each song, which makes it alot easier to track an artist down...
& yes I know I sound liek an XM fanboy, but I love finding new music and they are the best way I've discovered yet to do that...
Err I've seen a 13" portable LCD that is rated as doing 1080i widescreen display... I've never seen it display a HD picture, but it claims to do what you say would be "too hard to make and not worth the effort"... Guess someone decided you were wrong huh?
As a person capable of playing music myself (though since I don't actively sell my services at playing music so I don't call myself a muscian), I have to disagree with some of what you are saying...
First you state that you favor copy-protection (bad move unless your owned by the RIAA already as most likely you'd make more money allowing people to share and experience your music than not) and that you favor total control as you claim is defined by copyright... And while you are right to some degree pricing is not guarenteed in copyright (aka you can't just say you have to pay X amount and expect it to sell at said price, as that is affected by the market). Music as a whole isn't copyrighted which would give them the right to set pricing as they please across the board... Instead they have been convicted of price fixing among themselves because they couldn't control price via copyright and instead resorted to forming a cartel and abusing their place in the market...
Then you claim the labels are tryign to offer alternatives... Alternatives that are frankly laughable from a tech standpoint... Like files you pay for that can't then be moved from a single PC or stored elsewhere without having to repurchase. Or at least that was their first plan... The followups haven't been offered by the industry, they've been offered by outsiders like Apple and MS...
You also claim they didn't try to get their puppets to pass laws allowign them rights over your PC... To which I can only say "Wake Up!!", since you can't seriously believe that... I don't care who you know, but they would love such powers... Heck they've tried for ages to gather support to tighten their grip on how we use music... Not to mention who can create and distribute popular music... I'm starting to think you are some gullible fool that is truly snookered by the big labels to believe their filth...
Someone who can't pay would simply be sold into eternal debt instead... Like if they decided to sue me... I could never hope to pay them off and I cna't afford that many lawyers... I would be forced to go to court laywerless and figuring I couldn't adiquately defend myself against hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lawyers I could be forced by a jugde to sell all my possessions to pay them what I could and then pay from anything I'd be able to make the rest of my life to pay them off... People should not be forced to do that... Especially since copyright law was not meant to make individuals obey copyright (the idea is that no one else can profit off of the work of others, not to criple the average person), it was meant to attack rival bussinesses and keep them from infringing on the rights to make a living off of somethign that can be copyrighted...
I may not support piracy, but I don't reallys believe it's piracy... I know anything I download (or have downloaded), is done either to find works I can't buy (I don't have the resources to visit each DJ and record their performances with permission and finding their CD's can be nigh impossible locally or online) or because they let me download them so I can try out their music! This worked well in the old days of MP3.com before the record labels bought them, I own lots of D.A.M. CD's because I enjoyed the songs I could hear and wanted a more perminent copy. I also don't go aroudn selling any songs in my possession or playing them (via some osrt of audio system) to peopel who pay for the experience of hearing them... Let me make that clear: I don't make money off of the music in my possession! Pirates (the software type) acquire music, movies, software, etc for the explicit purpose of redistributing it and making a profit... That's not what I do or I figure most other P2P people do...
And frankly to hell with you and the RIAA if you can't understand that...
Not to mention that most fools sign contracts that cover 5 disks before ending and have no way out even if these sorts of things kill their career for technical reasons...
Wouldn't it suck as a muscian to not be able to create (or perform) songs for the rest of your life, because you sold your soul to the Big record labels and they sold your career to test a new 'Disk Security Concept'? This guy should be hiring a lawyer ASAP...
Just admit it: You got Owned by the Intel FUD team...
I won't believe Intel offering a 64-bit desktop solution til the actually do offer one... I also don't beleive a bit of extra silicon that isn't completely fuctional is a good indicator to '64-bitness'. I simply don't believe the hype (at least not from anyone close to Intel).
I mean if you really know now that it has 64-bit support then tell us oh knowledgable one, what 64-bit ISA does it use? I know it can't be EPIC as that doesn't look anything like x86 at the silicon level. I also know Intel would rather shoot itself than use x86-64 (or as AMD renamed it recently AMD64) even though they have access to it. So what marvelous new ISA does it use?
huh you know I've looked at a good bit of 'youth culture' during the 50's and their was alot of violent crime just as their is today... Only they tended to have less access to guns, so it was mostly fists and knives... The reason they tend to have more access to such things is due to the lack of parenting... Which provides access to more 'destructive' (for this type of thing) weapons and a lack of parental interest in the activities of the child providing plenty of time to commit such actions...
I think we constantly fool ourselves into believing things were 'different then', but they really weren't all that different...
Unfortunately your views are heavily urban biased...
Let me provide a slight education on more rural areas fo the US (which makes up the vast majority of the livable area in the US)...
Means of local transportation:
Walking-
Good for short distances but the doctor visit is out since he lives in the city some 20 miles away... that's one long walk... oh and forget emergencies where 911 isn't available)
Manpowered Cycles-
Bicycles and other wheeled vehicles powered by a human being. Makes that 20 mile trip above easier and faster, but most roads aren't built with such transportation in mind. Also theft becomes more of an issue... Lastly keep in mind the limited storage ability...
Horse driven locomotion-
Either simply riding on a horse or using a buggy with a horse(s). Since I live in Omish country this is a somewhat common sight even today. But you then incrue cost of feeding and maintaining an animal as well as equipment and life expectancy is short for a workign animal. Does improve the disadvantages above though...
Mass Transit-
This doens't really exist in most rural settings... The best in my area is a single bus that comes through monday to friday at 6am and back through at 6pm, to bad if your job doesn't allow you those work hours or you dont' live on it's direct route. And it only travels 20 miles between the largest city in this region and the 3 towns til it hits the edge of it's trip with one stop in each of the cities mentioned.
Why do I feel the need to provide this (above) education to you? Because your limited self centered world view would kill off rural transportation dooming us to truly become those hill-billies you think we all are, since no good means of travel exists besides the car in thsi situation...
Oh and just in case you decide to get uppity about why I don't live in the city... Well I left the rural life and went to college for CIS... Well when I graduated the '.net' revolution had disintegrated a few months back and I found most of my skills weren't in as high a demand anymore... So instead I moved back hoem and went back to college to make myself (hopefully) more employable by switching fields (and delaying repayment on those loans). Now I'm done with my second round of colelge and tech jobs are nearly none-existant locally and things like relocation expenses aren't being paid by most companies for my skillsets... Either of them... So here I stay. So no we aren't all hill-billies or degenerates that can't 'hack-it' in the city...
While I don't own a Jetta I'll chime in with the fact that my Chrysler LHS has pretty much all those features as well... I think most cars that come only in a 'fully stocked so no options' setup are like that... Or at least so it seems to me. My display though is mounted with the sun roof controls (and I have infinity branded speakers rather than monsoon). Oh and I also have stock 17" tires with an option to use 16" ones if so desired... Otherwise that list seems pretty much identical between both vehicles...
I do however get slightly worse gas mileage than you at 25 city and 35 highway... Averaging out to 30 MPG for my daily commute (city and highway driving), but the my car is larger than a Jetta I would assume somehwat worse gas mieage...
Oh and while were already sorta off-topic my parents have pretty much those same options as well (including real-time MPG gauges) on their Oldsmobile Bravada (an SUV in case you don't know). But using their realtime MPG gauge is depressing, even with my most conservitive driving I rarely see it get above 15 MPG... But then I expect an SUV to have sucky gas mileage, and actually so do they... They insisted on something with 4-wheel or all-wheel drive though due to local winters where they live and that vehicle has that...
"If A, B and C are "tidy up and label the patch panel"-style tasks, and D is "Fix the file server 50 people use", you know what to do."
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Tidy up and label the patch panel right?
Errr... You had to remember IP adresses to connect to PC's (server & Client) and printers...? Not to be rude, but what sort of crap network was your company running...? I don't ever remember a time with windows that I needed to remember IP numbers to conenct to another machine... I've been doing networking with PC's since '95 and before that I did Appletalk/Mac 'networking' which I always foudn dissapointing since we had machines that would refuse to find each other over Appletalk for reasons we could never work out (physical connectiosn were fine it was something in the settings or software that refused to work). Moving to PC hardware for networking for us was much simpler since they all saw each other without issues and could have somethign set to only use a certain printer/scanner/whatever rather than lettign them choose (do you know how many people made dumb choices when trying to print during our Mac networking days? It was silly...)
"Go to your nearest Apple store."
Gee that would be much more convenient if Apple bothered to put a Apple store closer than 120 miles away from me...
PS: Yes that was my attempt at humor, though it is true...
I see one big problem with such a virus using that method of distribution wouldn't last long since the infected would soon no longer have the virus. This makes for very few places to pick up such files and therefore making them less likely to be used...
Um while I agree with your statemnts (for the most part) I must point out that mp3.com is now owned by a record label and not the independant music site of it's hayday...
Actually that is only the case when using software sound support (what commonly is refered to simply as AC 97 sound support when looking at PC specs). Onboard hardware sound chips are getting more common and don't have such issues. Cmedia seemed to be the first, but it's now been eclipsed by the Nforce 1 & 2 onboard hardware sound chips...
Those hardware solutions offer comparable performance to most internal soundcards...
The one problem I have with these benches & the one problem I had with apples benchmarks is that everyone is ignoring AMD's Opteron even though it is at least as capable as the G5 & AMD holds a larger percentage fo the market than apple does... So where are the tests of G5, Xeon, & Opteron systems against each other?
All of them are in the same class (workstation/low end server), but AMD is getting the shaft in all these "tests" by being absent. The funny thing is of course that Opteron has been available (even on the grey market these days) for months now & the G5 has yet to hit the market, yet all these "tests" exist for G5 and ignore Opteron...
That is my only complaint...
"I'm quite sure it's not a bug - it's a Microsoft feature."
Are you sure there is a difference?
Maybe that was the case at one point in time, but uh I used to go to a DeVry location (there is like a dozen of them aroudn the US). It was nromally a problem of the students wanting to get a degree to 'make it big without working' in the tech field back in the day. It doesn't quite work that way anymore & things have toughened back up... Well at least here on the east coast. Of course bakc when I started my location still taught RPG, COBOL, CICS, Systems Anlysis, Assembly, & near the end C/C++. By the time I was about to leave there (since I'd decided I wasn't a good programmer & had noticed I liked Networking), they had just started the wave of dot com workers who wanted to show enough skill to get some half assed job making huge money and the school complied with their wishes by teaching them VB, Java, HTML (went from a brief 2 day lecture to a full semester class go figure), C, C++, Visual C, OOP... No substance really just fluff... But I can't blame them that's what most of those students wanted... Of course I wonder how many of thsoe students now live in alleys & eat out of dumpsters...
BTW my SO has a degree in BIS (Bussiness Information Systems) and is quite competent with all types of technology. Came as quite a schok after most of the BIS types I knew right before leaving there (my second college didn't offer BIS)...
Well as far as the "letting us junior admins do all the grunt work." thing goes, I think all schools pretty much do this... I know mine did, though we weren't called 'junior admins'... I guess officially we were just the 'computer club' once the computer programming teacher (taught Basic... or was supposed to) decided we need official 'recognition'. But if a computer stopped working it was our task to fix it, heck if the server went down (my last year we had 'new' hardware which included a PowerMac 'Server'). Grades were stored on the server, but no one thought it was odd that we should have access to it... If I'd wanted to I could have changed all sorts of confidential info, but I never did.
Well I guess that means I must prepare more funding for my man made island nation in the atlantic ocean... Want to help me finance my operation? Or if you have technical knoledge of engineering you can help contribute in that way... All those contributing to the cause get preferentual treatment by the new government once established & easier entry into the country...
Note: While this is meant to be funny, the concept does have a certain appeal...
Well If I had kids I wouldn't really worry about what they were looking at online, regardless if I was watching them like a hawk or not. Of course I'd also try to have a open relationship with my kids & teach them some moral values with some common sense mixed in. So I shouldn't have to worry about what they access online.
I fell far safer giving them free reign on what they do online than what they do our in the 'Real World'. Even so you cannot protect them from life and you cannot shelter them from the bad in the world... Doing so just deludes them into believing those things don't exist... I'm more for preparing my offspring for gettign by in the real world than setting them up to fail...
Nice thought ("Stick to college radio") for those with that option. No local college in my area (and their are over 6 local colleges), owns a radio station these days. Heck the last attempt at that sort of thing locally was when one college bought a FOX affiliate license about 15 years ago, 10 years ago they sold their license due to the cost of running the station. Now their is nothing but a singel radio group that owns all 8 radio stations lcoally (4 of 8 are oldies rock, 1 'modern' top 20's station, 2 country statiosn, & 1 christian station).
Also their are no local indie record stores... Or I'd own more music. We have a Mediaplay (Sam Goody et all), a few mall based shops (I don't remember their flashy names after seeing $20 CD's I leave), a BestBuy, a Circuit City, Kmart, Target, Walmart... That's it... Even the used CD stores went out of bussiness in the last coupel years, so there is no competition locally.
I'd buy from the net, but I have to hear the music before I'll think of buying it. So far I've switched to XM Radio to avoid local radio & hear new bands I otherwise wouldn't, but besides the net It's almost impossibel to find the music of some artists I hear (even online it can be hard).
Want to suggest any other ideas...?
I was just pointing out they owe a large portion of their platform to AMD, while they ignore AMD in any way when they compare their platform to others. Which is odd seeing as how the 1XX (single cpu systems) series Opteron's due out any time now & the 2XX series Opterons which are already out are the most direct competitor to the PPC 970 & it's platform. Both are 64-bit ALU designs with very similiar platform features... Yet they aren't mentioned at all... I just find it more ironic that large protions of the platform where made by AMD, yet when it comes time to compare Apple would rather face Intel than AMD...
Also Sony doens't release "Firewire" products, they release I-link products... & Dell releases "IEE 1394" products... In that case Apple doesn't get mentioned because they aren't using the Apple name... In the case of Hypertransport since it's a 'selling point' of the system, they could at least bother to tell it like it is... Since they seem to imply it's 'their' tech when it's part of the Hypertransport consortiums tech, to me it seems dishonest to imply it's theirs when they can't really claim that...
You do realize that's exactly why people may be interested in Athlon 64 which launches at almost exactly the same time as the G5's do. Though The Athlon 64 could be considered a more tested product since it's just a varient of the Opteron which you can already buy (though sicne it's meant as a server cpu currently it's not on the DIY market).
Though "64-bit Personal Computer" is also soemthign of a misnomer since the G5's are very much 'workstations' more than Personal Computers (since PC implies a different use).
It may also be nice to know that Apple used several AMD technologies without ever once mentioning AMD in their market speil yesterday. The '1 Ghz' bus is a hypertransport link just like the Opteron uses & the technology was originally developed by AMD. Not to mention the best thing I found which is that the '133MHz PCI-X' controller on the Apple baords is in fact the same AMD made chip as all the current Opteron boards use... Nice to know Apple owes alot of their platform to another company while not even giving them credit for it...