I hated having to refresh pages for every email, and webmail just always seemed so slow. GMail is better than the rest, and I really like the tagging features, and built-in chat. I use Outlook at work, because Outlook+Exchange really is nifty, I hate to say it. I own my own domain and have a few web servers, so I could easily do my own mail service, but I just forward those all to GMail. While a traditional Thunderbird/Outlook type client might be a tad faster, I really love some of GMail's features. If they could increase the speed just a little more so it was closer to a traditional client, and add some drag/drop support, I'd be extremely happy.
Intel's crime is demanding that retailers not carry AMD, or they will hold off on shipping product that you've paid for. If that isn't the most obvious form of anti-trust, I don't know what is. I can't seriously believe anyone with half a brain on/. would attempt to defend this unless they were trying to troll.
The site you linked me to did get the e4300 up to 3.5 ghz, but only after replacing the cooling system. On air, they only got it to 325 mhz on the FSB, which is 2.925 ghz. Oh, and the processor you are referring to costs TWICE what I paid.
So if I had paid twice what I had, I could have got a processor that almost overclocks as well as mine. And I would still be supporting an evil company guilty to antitrust. Oh, and NewEgg.com appears to be out of the 3500, but the 3600 is down to $55, even cheaper than what I paid for my 3500.
I thought that AMD had fallen behind as well. However, my $59 processor has been known to overclock to 3.0 ghz on air alone. Intel doesn't even offer a Core series dual-core processor any where near $59. And thanks to the price drop, I think you can even get a dual-core for $35 now.
Oh, and AMD isn't currently up on antitrust charges right now.
I generally only run 75-80 hz and I have a 2 ms response time. My eyes can't really distinguish anything beyond that. I went from a 19 CRT to a 19 widescreen LCD, and not only is the screen bigger, and I have more desk space, but the picture is just so much nicer.
As a gamer, I enjoy being able to properly appreciate the eye-candy the game provides.
When I worked for HP, we bought Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and WD drives. However, easily 90% of our HDD failures were due to Maxtor drives. Of all the hardware we had from all the vendors, the Maxtor HDDs were the items we replaced the most in warranty. I'd never touch them with a ten-foot pole. I wouldn't use one if it were free. I hate losing data to HDD crashes.
Did you know you can fry your entire motherboard by plugging in a PS/2 connection while your computer is powered on? As a long-time IT professional, sadly I've seen it all too often. With USB connectors, you don't have that problem.
And the back of computer is often crowded with all kinds of connectors. I'm happy to be rid of the PS/2 connectors because they were taking up unnecessary space.
Bush has been criticized for his hard stance on calling out other nations on poor human rights networks. He has also been attacked for focusing too much on the war on drugs, since some feel that shouldn't constitute as a real crime. And I'm pretty sure every US President since Nixson has been coddling China and refusing to really take them to task. With Nixon, I really believed he wanted to, but didn't have the backing of the American people.
I appreciate the info you sent me, and I will check it out tonight. However, I'm pretty sure the CIA has pretty much always been evil, and my contention is not that one party is better than the other. It is exactly the opposite of that. People in power tend to be corrupt across both party lines. I recall before the last election, Bush was pushing for a bill to lower the cost of prescriptions for senior citizens, and it was getting stonewalled by Democrats until Ted Kennedy of all people stood up to defend it. He said his party was only fighting it because they didn't want to allow those Republican bastards to have a "victory" that might make them look good in the eyes of voters, and in doing so, they had no interest in considering what legislation was actually best for the American people. Kennedy called for both parties to lay down their weapons, and for one day just pass a bill that was a win-win for the people.
Sadly those stories are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Funny, if you take something that doesn't belong to you, that is stealing. So how isn't stealing to take something that doesn't belong to you. You attempt to dress it up in semantics and obfuscate the real issue.
As far as our natural resource, in case you missed it, Congress won't let us tap into many of the oil reserves the country has. Timber and farm-land is plentiful and cheaper elsewhere, and in other countries they have laxer laws in regards to deforestation, strip-mining, etc.
And our labor costs too much. That's why people out-source. Furthermore, the rest of the world seems to be making a huge push towards building universities and educating their work force while the US is falling behind.
The Geneva convention also states that prisoners of war must be given phone calls home, but I don't believe that has ever happened once. In that regard, there are many portions of the Geneva convention that no one ever intends to honor.
Putting drug dealers back on the street is pretty serious business. A President compromising human rights to line his pocket with illegal contributions from China sickens me. And as a former Marine, when they discovered that a Chinese businessman was quietly buried into Arlington National Cemetary (which was supposedly tied into some of those illegal contributions) I was pretty upset.
Habeus Corpus is a huge issue. However, I think the torture issue has been pretty perverted by the spin machine. I'd like to see some actual facts on the issue.
If initial reports were to be believed, much of the "torture" was merely humiliation and psychological techniques to break down a person's will and get them to talk. Interrogating Muslim men nude in front of white women, etc. If someone killed your family member, and you needed to find them, let me ask you, where would you draw the line on how much stress you could put the person under while questioning them?
Actual physical abuse should always be off limits. However, we never saw pictures of people getting maimed or attacked. The worst I saw was pictures of dogs barking at people. That isn't torture. I believe you'll find similar if not worse tactics used by most every police force in the world when interrogating prisoners and suspects.
We also have to realize that we had very few facts in these torture accusations as well. One person reported with no attempt at verification that one means of psychological tactics involved putting a Quran on a toilet to disrespect it. The moment that news broke, it caused riots which killed 8 people. Two days later the reporter who broke the story apologized and said it may never have happened, but he heard someone suggest it happened so he ran the story without checking it. No one seems to remember the retraction, but I've talked to plenty of people who are convinced it is factual that it did in fact happen.
If the greatest proof we have of torture are the pictures that leaked, I'm not sure those constitute torture.
Most of the companies that made my favorite video games all folded, and many cited piracy as the main reason the PC gaming industry died. In said industry, it was fairly standard for people to work 60-80 hour weeks of unpaid overtime to crank out content so people like you could steal it, and then claim you didn't take anything from them.
In the world market, America's greatest asset is intellectual property, sadly. You don't see Germans and Japanese beating down our doors to buy Ford trucks. We are a nation of consumers, and we don't particularly make good products. But our books, music, movies, and software seem to be pretty popular around the world. Protecting the integrity of IP is pretty important.
Stealing IP is against the law, and the law is very clear on the matter. When I was younger, I pirated games and music all the time, but as I've gotten older, I really can't justify it simply by stating I don't have the money to legally purchase it. With that defense, do I have the right to go steal a car?
You argue that creating a copy means nothing was actually taken, but both in stealing a movie, and stealing a car involve the producer of said product to lose money. So they are similar. And when you copy a movie, or a song, or software, you enable that to be copied and distributed by even more people. You have repeat the crime. In a P2P network, everyone is doing their part to help the others copy and distribute the illegal goods.
From a legal standpoint, simply stealing is one thing, but distributing is yet another.
If that is what you opt to do, then so be it. Most everyone on the planet breaks laws. We speed, or jay-walk, or litter, or whatever. Piracy seems to be fairly common as well.
But don't try to pretend that there isn't anything wrong with it.
Look, I'm all liberal in my personal politics (socialism should temper capitalism, civil rights, etc), but I've been just as disappointed by Democrats as Republicans, if not more so. And as the adage goes, if you're not a Democrat when you're younger, you don't have a heart, and if you're not a Republican when you're older, you don't have a brain. I don't find it unrealistic that I might gravitate more to Republicans over the years.
In truth, really I hate partisan politics on the whole. But for Clinton being the Good Guy, and Democrats being Good Guys, we seem to gloss over accusations that Clinton took illegal money from China, that he refused to take China to task over how they pirates billions in American IP, or their human rights record, but instead renewed their status as favored trading partner.
What about all the mafia members and drug lords he pardoned on his way out of office?
Let's not even touch the lengthy Kenneth Star report, which claimed to have truck-loads of evidence linking Clinton personally to untold levels of corruption. Right now people in this country are seriously considering putting that family back in the White House to run the country, conveniently forgetting this is the same couple that never really did find those real estate records the courts ordered them to produce.
This looks suspect, as it has been noted before. And it may very well be FUD. However, given that the instructions appear to be laid out, why doesn't someone see if they can replicate this to verify or debunk this with some authority?
He doesn't hurt my profits, and I get what he is saying. However he does seem against companies making a profit in general, which is pretty unrealistic. Comments like his turn away large companies from taking open-source seriously. I constantly champion from within working in IT to get large corporations to take OSS seriously, and these are the things they opt to focus on.
I use your software every day, and I am really am grateful for your varied contributions. But can you go home now, and keep to yourself, please? All that crazy is just hurting our cause.
Luckily Lost still wins its time slot, even if the media keeps ripping it and claiming there is a ratings decrease. There has been a ratings decrease ever since they started legally selling the show as a download on iTunes, and allowing you to watch it for free on ABC.com
However, I also read that between DVD sales, iTunes purchases, and viewers on ABC.com it has more viewers than CSI, the number 1 show on television. Unless they fuck up hard core this year, it won't get canceled.
Starting next year I believe they are running them straight through. There will only be 18 episodes per season, because they are basically stretching three seasons into 2 for more money. It also means basically a 9 month wait between seasons as well, but I actually prefer that over breaks between episodes.
That's why the producers sat down with the studios and got in writing exactly how they plan to end it, and how many more episodes they are doing. The concern was always if the show was making money, ABC might force them to continue a story they didn't want to tell. They joked about how Season 8 would be the zombie season when they ran out of ideas. But we're only getting 48 more episodes and it is done. If you see the Season 3 finale, you'll know the show is rapidly moving towards a conclusion now. The finale was one of the boldest moves I've ever seen. It really did completely change the entire show in a way no one thought they would do.
I was spoiled (I wish I wasn't) and it was still really good. I won't dare spoil it for anyone else, but I'm betting money that years later people will still talk about that moment as one of the best in history.
Star Trek: TNG had some pretty soft first few seasons, and it only really cemented its status as a truly great show with the third season finale if anyone recalls, when Picard gets assimilated by the Borg. That finale pales in comparison to what Lost did.
The biggest problem with Lost is waiting for new episodes. It seems like it is moving slow because the show takes so many lengthy breaks. If you ask fans who simply watch the DVDs, they get a very different take on the show because they don't have those breaks. Given that there are only going to be 48 more episodes, I might just recommend that to people. Hold off, and buy the DVDs. Hell, the show is broadcast in high-def, but the DVDs are only 480p. I'm waiting for some BluRay discs myself.
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I hated having to refresh pages for every email, and webmail just always seemed so slow. GMail is better than the rest, and I really like the tagging features, and built-in chat. I use Outlook at work, because Outlook+Exchange really is nifty, I hate to say it. I own my own domain and have a few web servers, so I could easily do my own mail service, but I just forward those all to GMail. While a traditional Thunderbird/Outlook type client might be a tad faster, I really love some of GMail's features. If they could increase the speed just a little more so it was closer to a traditional client, and add some drag/drop support, I'd be extremely happy.
AMD's crime is selling cheap?
/. would attempt to defend this unless they were trying to troll.
Intel's crime is demanding that retailers not carry AMD, or they will hold off on shipping product that you've paid for. If that isn't the most obvious form of anti-trust, I don't know what is. I can't seriously believe anyone with half a brain on
I said the AMD got to 3 gigahertz on air.
The site you linked me to did get the e4300 up to 3.5 ghz, but only after replacing the cooling system. On air, they only got it to 325 mhz on the FSB, which is 2.925 ghz. Oh, and the processor you are referring to costs TWICE what I paid.
So if I had paid twice what I had, I could have got a processor that almost overclocks as well as mine. And I would still be supporting an evil company guilty to antitrust. Oh, and NewEgg.com appears to be out of the 3500, but the 3600 is down to $55, even cheaper than what I paid for my 3500.
Nice try.
Video card issues? Poor drivers? Bad monitor? I'm not sure.
I thought that AMD had fallen behind as well. However, my $59 processor has been known to overclock to 3.0 ghz on air alone. Intel doesn't even offer a Core series dual-core processor any where near $59. And thanks to the price drop, I think you can even get a dual-core for $35 now.
Oh, and AMD isn't currently up on antitrust charges right now.
I generally only run 75-80 hz and I have a 2 ms response time. My eyes can't really distinguish anything beyond that. I went from a 19 CRT to a 19 widescreen LCD, and not only is the screen bigger, and I have more desk space, but the picture is just so much nicer.
As a gamer, I enjoy being able to properly appreciate the eye-candy the game provides.
When I worked for HP, we bought Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and WD drives. However, easily 90% of our HDD failures were due to Maxtor drives. Of all the hardware we had from all the vendors, the Maxtor HDDs were the items we replaced the most in warranty. I'd never touch them with a ten-foot pole. I wouldn't use one if it were free. I hate losing data to HDD crashes.
I generally only buy Seagate or WD.
Did you know you can fry your entire motherboard by plugging in a PS/2 connection while your computer is powered on? As a long-time IT professional, sadly I've seen it all too often. With USB connectors, you don't have that problem.
And the back of computer is often crowded with all kinds of connectors. I'm happy to be rid of the PS/2 connectors because they were taking up unnecessary space.
"Try Ubuntu on a Core 2 Duo. You will like it."
I'd rather disembowel myself with a corkscrew than run Gnome or buy an Intel processor, thank you.
However, I'm very happy running KDE on my AMD X2 3500. It overclocks like a dream, and only cost me $59.
Should Fallout 3 count towards the 360 when it is launching on the PS3, PC and 360 on the same day?
Bush has been criticized for his hard stance on calling out other nations on poor human rights networks. He has also been attacked for focusing too much on the war on drugs, since some feel that shouldn't constitute as a real crime. And I'm pretty sure every US President since Nixson has been coddling China and refusing to really take them to task. With Nixon, I really believed he wanted to, but didn't have the backing of the American people.
I appreciate the info you sent me, and I will check it out tonight. However, I'm pretty sure the CIA has pretty much always been evil, and my contention is not that one party is better than the other. It is exactly the opposite of that. People in power tend to be corrupt across both party lines. I recall before the last election, Bush was pushing for a bill to lower the cost of prescriptions for senior citizens, and it was getting stonewalled by Democrats until Ted Kennedy of all people stood up to defend it. He said his party was only fighting it because they didn't want to allow those Republican bastards to have a "victory" that might make them look good in the eyes of voters, and in doing so, they had no interest in considering what legislation was actually best for the American people. Kennedy called for both parties to lay down their weapons, and for one day just pass a bill that was a win-win for the people.
Sadly those stories are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Funny, if you take something that doesn't belong to you, that is stealing. So how isn't stealing to take something that doesn't belong to you. You attempt to dress it up in semantics and obfuscate the real issue.
As far as our natural resource, in case you missed it, Congress won't let us tap into many of the oil reserves the country has. Timber and farm-land is plentiful and cheaper elsewhere, and in other countries they have laxer laws in regards to deforestation, strip-mining, etc.
And our labor costs too much. That's why people out-source. Furthermore, the rest of the world seems to be making a huge push towards building universities and educating their work force while the US is falling behind.
49% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
You can't argue with science.
The Geneva convention also states that prisoners of war must be given phone calls home, but I don't believe that has ever happened once. In that regard, there are many portions of the Geneva convention that no one ever intends to honor.
Putting drug dealers back on the street is pretty serious business. A President compromising human rights to line his pocket with illegal contributions from China sickens me. And as a former Marine, when they discovered that a Chinese businessman was quietly buried into Arlington National Cemetary (which was supposedly tied into some of those illegal contributions) I was pretty upset.
Habeus Corpus is a huge issue. However, I think the torture issue has been pretty perverted by the spin machine. I'd like to see some actual facts on the issue.
If initial reports were to be believed, much of the "torture" was merely humiliation and psychological techniques to break down a person's will and get them to talk. Interrogating Muslim men nude in front of white women, etc. If someone killed your family member, and you needed to find them, let me ask you, where would you draw the line on how much stress you could put the person under while questioning them?
Actual physical abuse should always be off limits. However, we never saw pictures of people getting maimed or attacked. The worst I saw was pictures of dogs barking at people. That isn't torture. I believe you'll find similar if not worse tactics used by most every police force in the world when interrogating prisoners and suspects.
We also have to realize that we had very few facts in these torture accusations as well. One person reported with no attempt at verification that one means of psychological tactics involved putting a Quran on a toilet to disrespect it. The moment that news broke, it caused riots which killed 8 people. Two days later the reporter who broke the story apologized and said it may never have happened, but he heard someone suggest it happened so he ran the story without checking it. No one seems to remember the retraction, but I've talked to plenty of people who are convinced it is factual that it did in fact happen.
If the greatest proof we have of torture are the pictures that leaked, I'm not sure those constitute torture.
That is what happened to the bulk of the PC gaming market. And I'd rather not lose the theater experience. Someone please mod parent up.
Most of the companies that made my favorite video games all folded, and many cited piracy as the main reason the PC gaming industry died. In said industry, it was fairly standard for people to work 60-80 hour weeks of unpaid overtime to crank out content so people like you could steal it, and then claim you didn't take anything from them.
Thanks. I really appreciate that.
In the world market, America's greatest asset is intellectual property, sadly. You don't see Germans and Japanese beating down our doors to buy Ford trucks. We are a nation of consumers, and we don't particularly make good products. But our books, music, movies, and software seem to be pretty popular around the world. Protecting the integrity of IP is pretty important.
Stealing IP is against the law, and the law is very clear on the matter. When I was younger, I pirated games and music all the time, but as I've gotten older, I really can't justify it simply by stating I don't have the money to legally purchase it. With that defense, do I have the right to go steal a car?
You argue that creating a copy means nothing was actually taken, but both in stealing a movie, and stealing a car involve the producer of said product to lose money. So they are similar. And when you copy a movie, or a song, or software, you enable that to be copied and distributed by even more people. You have repeat the crime. In a P2P network, everyone is doing their part to help the others copy and distribute the illegal goods.
From a legal standpoint, simply stealing is one thing, but distributing is yet another.
If that is what you opt to do, then so be it. Most everyone on the planet breaks laws. We speed, or jay-walk, or litter, or whatever. Piracy seems to be fairly common as well.
But don't try to pretend that there isn't anything wrong with it.
What about the entirety of the Clinton tenure?
Look, I'm all liberal in my personal politics (socialism should temper capitalism, civil rights, etc), but I've been just as disappointed by Democrats as Republicans, if not more so. And as the adage goes, if you're not a Democrat when you're younger, you don't have a heart, and if you're not a Republican when you're older, you don't have a brain. I don't find it unrealistic that I might gravitate more to Republicans over the years.
In truth, really I hate partisan politics on the whole. But for Clinton being the Good Guy, and Democrats being Good Guys, we seem to gloss over accusations that Clinton took illegal money from China, that he refused to take China to task over how they pirates billions in American IP, or their human rights record, but instead renewed their status as favored trading partner.
What about all the mafia members and drug lords he pardoned on his way out of office?
Let's not even touch the lengthy Kenneth Star report, which claimed to have truck-loads of evidence linking Clinton personally to untold levels of corruption. Right now people in this country are seriously considering putting that family back in the White House to run the country, conveniently forgetting this is the same couple that never really did find those real estate records the courts ordered them to produce.
This looks suspect, as it has been noted before. And it may very well be FUD. However, given that the instructions appear to be laid out, why doesn't someone see if they can replicate this to verify or debunk this with some authority?
I'd do it myself, but I don't have Vista.
He doesn't hurt my profits, and I get what he is saying. However he does seem against companies making a profit in general, which is pretty unrealistic. Comments like his turn away large companies from taking open-source seriously. I constantly champion from within working in IT to get large corporations to take OSS seriously, and these are the things they opt to focus on.
I use your software every day, and I am really am grateful for your varied contributions. But can you go home now, and keep to yourself, please? All that crazy is just hurting our cause.
Luckily Lost still wins its time slot, even if the media keeps ripping it and claiming there is a ratings decrease. There has been a ratings decrease ever since they started legally selling the show as a download on iTunes, and allowing you to watch it for free on ABC.com
However, I also read that between DVD sales, iTunes purchases, and viewers on ABC.com it has more viewers than CSI, the number 1 show on television. Unless they fuck up hard core this year, it won't get canceled.
Starting next year I believe they are running them straight through. There will only be 18 episodes per season, because they are basically stretching three seasons into 2 for more money. It also means basically a 9 month wait between seasons as well, but I actually prefer that over breaks between episodes.
That's why the producers sat down with the studios and got in writing exactly how they plan to end it, and how many more episodes they are doing. The concern was always if the show was making money, ABC might force them to continue a story they didn't want to tell. They joked about how Season 8 would be the zombie season when they ran out of ideas. But we're only getting 48 more episodes and it is done. If you see the Season 3 finale, you'll know the show is rapidly moving towards a conclusion now. The finale was one of the boldest moves I've ever seen. It really did completely change the entire show in a way no one thought they would do.
I was spoiled (I wish I wasn't) and it was still really good. I won't dare spoil it for anyone else, but I'm betting money that years later people will still talk about that moment as one of the best in history.
Star Trek: TNG had some pretty soft first few seasons, and it only really cemented its status as a truly great show with the third season finale if anyone recalls, when Picard gets assimilated by the Borg. That finale pales in comparison to what Lost did.
The biggest problem with Lost is waiting for new episodes. It seems like it is moving slow because the show takes so many lengthy breaks. If you ask fans who simply watch the DVDs, they get a very different take on the show because they don't have those breaks. Given that there are only going to be 48 more episodes, I might just recommend that to people. Hold off, and buy the DVDs. Hell, the show is broadcast in high-def, but the DVDs are only 480p. I'm waiting for some BluRay discs myself.