How many goddamned times do people on SlashDot need to point out the difference between "lose" and "loose", or the difference between
They don't need to point anything out, and neither do you, fuck off. People like you try my patience a lot more than people who type a simple spelling mistake. Some people don't have the time to check every bit of spelling or grammar, they aren't writing for distinction. I wonder if things like that actually keep you awake at night as you lie in a fit of rage because someone somewhere at any given moment is writing a. Sentence fragment.
You mean I can save money on my electricty bill AND my hardware bill by just buying an incredibly out dated machine???
Do you cook your food on an open fire in your garden by any chance?
If you think "it must take a lot of power to be good and that's all there is about that" you're sadly mistaken.
Further look at things like the PS2. It doesn't even have a graphics processor like a typical PC. It's just a cell processor design. The entire kit runs off 70W of power. You can't even run a P4 processor on 70W!!!
Welcome to 2005, PS2 graphics arnt really cutting edge anymore, infact they never were. It also doesnt have any moving parts other than a small fan, whereas PC's generally have 3+ (Hell, mines got 6) and a couple of harddrives. I'm sure the next generation of consoles will take up a fair amount of juice.
I'm sorry if i'm being an asshole and missing the point, but if you want to save even more electricity, get a SNES.
Venturing further off-topic, I once had a dream where I was being chased by the Predator. I decided to barracade myself in a room by piling shit infront of the door. To my horror the door opened in a Star Trek style and swooshed up into the door frame.
I can't think of a legitimate way to consistently download 30GB a month, unless you're downloading Linux ISOs every day - and even those are probably on the ISPs "free" mirrors.
I'm a happy user of Firefox and have been for some time. I remember downloading a version of Opera a few years ago maybe 2000 and I wasnt impressed, I ended up cracking it and using it for a couple of weeks till I got tired of it's poor rendering and left it for dead. Well now here we are in 2005 and the promise of a free reg code has got me to download it once again and give it a try.... who knows maybe i'll switch away from Firefox.
Oh wait, the download link is down, maybe i'll try again in 2010, or then again maybe not.
Note to Opera staff, if you can't keep your own website up properly, i'm not going to trust your browser to show the other 9billion.
Ok, so IE isn't so insecure if you don't click the wrong links, but wouldn't you rather have a better browser? Do you use IE because you do a lot of web design work or have you never seen the need to switch? Sure IE7 has tabbed browsing but I found it to be unstable, un-customisable and not very intuitive (Maybe this will change when it's released but somehow I doubt it.).
Firefox and Opera are both along way from perfect but IE7 isn't far from unusable.
I dont care about individual data, its the analysis of all data that lets them crush goverments and become the ONE evil overlord. (and no I dont welcome them)
How exactly?
1. Collect Data
2. Use data to provide services people actually want
Mod me troll if you like but I'm sick of people going on and on about Google's privacy policies, every single Google topic will have hundreds of posts from people who are worried about what Google will do with their email, search queries, IM conversations, IP's etc. Yes they are collecting data and so much data I really don't care what they have about me, I'm hidden in obscurity by millions of other users and, more importantly Google don't care about my personnel credentials, they care about how many hundreds of thousands of people click their ads and why. Please stop bitching about it, they collect data, they like data, nobody is so big and important that they give a damn what your address is or that your wife emails you about the nooner you had last week at work.
Well, mod me down for this if you like, but why on earth do we need more Instant Messaging programs? I mean there's already ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, MSN, AIM, and probably a shedload of others.
How about listing a few web based email providers before Google released Gmail? I'm sure there were hundreds maybe thousands and many were hugely established. Sure, Gmail supplied much more storage space, but Google Talk will have a few bells and whistles of its own and it (probably) wont come with as much (annoying) advertising as MSN Messenger, for me that alone is a reason to switch.
I'll be happy to use it if it can connect to at least some of the established networks (e.g. MSN messenger).
I doubt many of my friends would go through the hassle of switching even if Google Talk turns out to be far superior; an IM program is little use without people to talk to.
Googles success has came from innovation, simply copying everything Google does from revamping their search to be exactly the same to this doesnt have the same impact.
"Sometimes I have a "Password Day" where I change every password I own on the same day, just in case someone might happen to have one of my passwords."
This guy needs to step away from the computer, give it a rest you psycho. Surely with all these security precautions he hasn't got time to do anything productive. The best idea for this guy would be to put all his equipment in the shed with a couple of pounds of C4 and get the kids a goddamn Xbox.
I for one think this is a very useful product.
A) Buy and install XP Starter Edition.
B) Download required fully functional OS using Bit Torrent.
C) Burn to CD, format and install.
Slashdot Mirror
They don't need to point anything out, and neither do you, fuck off. People like you try my patience a lot more than people who type a simple spelling mistake. Some people don't have the time to check every bit of spelling or grammar, they aren't writing for distinction. I wonder if things like that actually keep you awake at night as you lie in a fit of rage because someone somewhere at any given moment is writing a. Sentence fragment.
Do you cook your food on an open fire in your garden by any chance?
If you think "it must take a lot of power to be good and that's all there is about that" you're sadly mistaken. Further look at things like the PS2. It doesn't even have a graphics processor like a typical PC. It's just a cell processor design. The entire kit runs off 70W of power. You can't even run a P4 processor on 70W!!!
Welcome to 2005, PS2 graphics arnt really cutting edge anymore, infact they never were. It also doesnt have any moving parts other than a small fan, whereas PC's generally have 3+ (Hell, mines got 6) and a couple of harddrives. I'm sure the next generation of consoles will take up a fair amount of juice.
I'm sorry if i'm being an asshole and missing the point, but if you want to save even more electricity, get a SNES.
Douglas Quaid knows that only a wet towel will stop them. This is what you get for doubting Quaid!
Or is the resolution/refresh rate too poor?
No, the lesson was to check that the door you are piling shit up against is of the standard hinged variety.
I guess I learned far more lessons from my adventure than I first thought.
I dont know, how many hits does it take to slashdot a server?
And now errrr... http://slashdot.org/
The predator killed my sorry ass.
A lesson was learned.
http://static.thepiratebay.org/downloadtorrent/339 4594.torrent/Windows.Vista.Builld.5231-PROPER.3394 594.TPB.torrent
love and kisses,
William Gates.
Screw legitimate.
I think it has got worse, 1.5 Beta 1 is now at this very moment using 66 meg of memory, and this is the only tab I have open.
Oh wait, the download link is down, maybe i'll try again in 2010, or then again maybe not.
Note to Opera staff, if you can't keep your own website up properly, i'm not going to trust your browser to show the other 9billion.
Firefox and Opera are both along way from perfect but IE7 isn't far from unusable.
How reliable are these results?
1. Collect Data
2. Use data to provide services people actually want
3. Become the ONE evil overlord
4. ???
5. Profit!
*Hint* They dont need steps 3 and 4.
Mod me troll if you like but I'm sick of people going on and on about Google's privacy policies, every single Google topic will have hundreds of posts from people who are worried about what Google will do with their email, search queries, IM conversations, IP's etc. Yes they are collecting data and so much data I really don't care what they have about me, I'm hidden in obscurity by millions of other users and, more importantly Google don't care about my personnel credentials, they care about how many hundreds of thousands of people click their ads and why. Please stop bitching about it, they collect data, they like data, nobody is so big and important that they give a damn what your address is or that your wife emails you about the nooner you had last week at work.
That in very good news.
Unfortunatley all our base are belong to Google.com.
How about listing a few web based email providers before Google released Gmail? I'm sure there were hundreds maybe thousands and many were hugely established. Sure, Gmail supplied much more storage space, but Google Talk will have a few bells and whistles of its own and it (probably) wont come with as much (annoying) advertising as MSN Messenger, for me that alone is a reason to switch.
I doubt many of my friends would go through the hassle of switching even if Google Talk turns out to be far superior; an IM program is little use without people to talk to.
Googles success has came from innovation, simply copying everything Google does from revamping their search to be exactly the same to this doesnt have the same impact.
This guy needs to step away from the computer, give it a rest you psycho. Surely with all these security precautions he hasn't got time to do anything productive. The best idea for this guy would be to put all his equipment in the shed with a couple of pounds of C4 and get the kids a goddamn Xbox.
I for one think this is a very useful product. A) Buy and install XP Starter Edition. B) Download required fully functional OS using Bit Torrent. C) Burn to CD, format and install.