And it works out of the box without any muss or fuss and is a LOT faster than writing DVDs. That's if you simply want to copy data from point A to point B.
For my Windows XP laptop, I actually use Ghost. If I need to, I can boot off the Ghost CD and restore my laptop from the last recovery point which is automatically done every morning to a USB 80gig hard disk. That 80gig disk is actually the old hard drive from the laptop. I'd replaced it with a 7200rpm drive to improve speed a bit and got an external enclosure for the old drive for about US$20.
You could do the same on a Linux box with a simple script and a rescue CD.
Some jackass kept stealing my tuna sandwich...I mean once in a while would still be annoying, but EVERY damn time was just an open declaration of war. So I made a big fat tuna sandwich with a healthy amount of "FancyFeast". I used chicken and liver flavor to make sure the point got across. So in the fridge it goes and I came back an hour or two later and it was gone. The next morning, I found an anonymous post-it note on the door of the fridge asking people to please discard "old and potentially rancid" food from the refigerator since it was a "health hazard."
Since then, my sandwich has been safe. Nobody ever owned up to the thefts or the note.:)
Iran flares off several times more natural gas each day than it needs to meet its entire energy needs. There is no other explanation for their nuclear ambitions other than bomb production.
I think they're just goading the Israelis to take out the facility, gain more support in the Arab world, and rid themselves of the problem while they secretly create a more clandestine program.
A Chinese mathematician with a history of "borrowing" or "aggregating" other people's research is trying to take credit for something a Russian mathematician has done. When the Poincare chip is produced, they'll mask over P for Perelman and insert a Y for Yau...until enough people scream....and then the Chinese government will indignantly run Yau out of town...
I just searched for "core 2 compatible" boards on newegg and got 5 results ranging in price from $50.99-$119.99. So the motherboard premium that's being bandied about seems to be largely nonexistent. Also, an E6600 is likely faster than an X2 4800 for most (all?) tasks. In order to step up to similar performance you need the X2 5000 or one of the faster AMD FX processors.
If I was buying a system today, I'd probably lean towards the Core 2 Duo. A few weeks ago, I'd probably have gone with an Athlon64 X2. I'd have to agree with the OP and say that the competition has been great for the buyer.
The Core2 E6600 seems to be a nice bang for the money as it is right around the middle of the currently available speed grades and is the cheapest iteration with 4MB of L2 cache. It also seems to be competitive with dual core AMD products (my usual choice) that are substantially more expensive. It's definitely a buyer's market these days...let the price war begin!:)
I wonder how much of that electricity is simply wasted on old and inefficient equipment. Government agencies really don't have much incentive to conserve electricity since they know their "bill" will always be paid, regardless of how large it gets....time to upgrade to blades of Turion X2 and/or Core2Duo servers for all that immoral surveillance....
While I certainly wish Mozilla the best of luck in ramping up the distribution of their products, I wish they'd picked a better net citizen to accomplish that goal.
Of course nobody buys Rambus memory anymore. However, they were successful in extorting licensing fees from a number of other memory manufacturers for "infringing on their IP". So you're indirectly paying Rambus through higher prices for memory. Hopefully, this means the extortion will stop. Rambus can then go back to attempting to sue their potential clients (a la SCO) in order to scam additional licensing revenue. Stick a fork in Rambus if this ruling holds up.
I was one of those disaffected desktop users, but I still use RHEL (er...actually CentOS) for server machines that do real work. If you don't need bleeding edge desktop gadgets, it's still OK for desktop use as well. Ragging on RedHat because they had the temerity to focus on the part of their business that generated profit for them seems a bit harsh. There's plenty of other distros to choose from, including Ubuntu, if you want to live in the fast lane.
If you're going to dump the stuff, why not just dump it into one of the readily available (and very deep) trenches that feed various tectonic subduction zones? The earth literally will swallow it up in a short (in geological terms) period of time. That seems a bit safer than blasting it off into space or trying to make it orders of magnitude more radioactive in the short run to "bleed the nasties out."
I've used AOL for about 30 minutes over the last 10 or so years. I recently watched as an older relative used it and couldn't get over how many times they had to click "no thanks" to various pop ups and ads just to do basic email and web chores. AOL needs to die. Perhaps they'll linger on by just selling people the ability to forward their old aol mail address to their new provider....
The standard battery for the Asus is a 71WH unit and it is lighter (2.2kg) than the Macbook Pro even then. With the lighter 4-cell 36WH battery, it only weighs 2kg, even lighter. The Macbook Pro only has a 60WH battery. So I seem to be incorrect on the total volume (but they are within 11% of eachother). The Asus, even with a larger battery with more power is still lighter, more fully configured and substantially cheaper.
And I suppose you failed in reading comprehension. I specifically said Macbook PRO. I wouldn't own the regular Macbook because of the lower-end Intel embedded Intel graphics adapter.
I have a Compaq laptop that I bought online from HP's e-commerce site. So I assume they're using "genuine" WindowsXP. Recently, I began to get a little popup from my task bar suggesting that I might have a non-genuine version of Windows and to "click here to find out how you can fix this" or somesuch. I just chuckle and close it, but I suppose I should figure out what is really happening at some point. Fortunately, it's my old laptop that is used infrequently (but has up to date patches).
The Asus W3J offers everything you get in a mid-range Macbook Pro, is smaller, lighter, comes with larger hard disk, more memory, and more video memory for about $500 less. I like the look of the Macbook Pro, but you're still paying a rather fat premium for the Apple coolness factor.
There's still a bit of a price problem with Macs, but they're a LOT more price competitive now. I was going to get a Macbook Pro, but opted for the Asus W3J which offered a slightly beefier configuration (more RAM, more video RAM, larger hard disk, slightly smaller size, and lower weight) for about US$500 less. I run CentOS on it and when I want to play a game or two or I need a M$-specific application, I just boot it up into Windows XP.
I don't understand why they don't just offer a tier of service for those that want NO adverts whatsoever. I'm sure most of us would be happy to pay more for such a service. That way, the advertisers only reach people who WANT to be reached and the broadcaster/service provider recoups income lost from those "get lost" subscribers in the form of higher fees. That might even get me to watch "regular TV shows" again. At this juncture, TV is so pollluted with adverts that I really only get cable so I have access to a broadband internet connection and cheap phone service.
I suspect that we're only going to see some serious efforts to fix/curb this problem once the banks become 100% liable for monetary losses due to fraud. For the moment, their attempts to "fix" things are more of a PR exercise (for consumer's benefit and regulator's benefit) than an actual solution to the problem.
At some point, the naughty people have to pick up the money. There needs to be more international coordination for prevention of bank fraud so that these criminals can't hang out in countries with corrupt banking/regulatory/political systems and siphon accounts of citizens from around the world.
I agree with this sentiiment. No "encyclopedia" is going to be infallible. They are all subject to the bias of the person(s) writing the articles. The beauty of wikipedia is that as that number of authors grows, gross bias is less likely to survive review. So it may be subject to short-term pendulum swings in terms of inaccuracy, but I find that to be preferable to a room full of "editors" deciding what is the truth. Perhaps they can find some way of calculating the "newness" of information bits to help users judge which topics are "too hot" to be adequately reviewed and therefore considered "true" yet.
That would be the new and improved venture capital weenies who are throwing money around again like crackheads. I guess they didn't learn their lesson last time around.
For the extra $300, I'd much rather have a functional video card and the superdrive. I think most college kids would be disappointed the minute they tried to play any game and had the machine slow to a crawl or simply be unable to play the game at all.
If Yahoo China can supress results based on edicts from the "mean old Chinese government," perhaps the music industry is going to say "Well now, you clealy CAN filter the results if you want to or are forced to. We want you to filter out links to illgotten content that we own. If you don't, you're contributing to the problem and have some liability."
That's the flip side of caving in to search engine filtering. The slope is quite slippery....
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And it works out of the box without any muss or fuss and is a LOT faster than writing DVDs. That's if you simply want to copy data from point A to point B.
For my Windows XP laptop, I actually use Ghost. If I need to, I can boot off the Ghost CD and restore my laptop from the last recovery point which is automatically done every morning to a USB 80gig hard disk. That 80gig disk is actually the old hard drive from the laptop. I'd replaced it with a 7200rpm drive to improve speed a bit and got an external enclosure for the old drive for about US$20.
You could do the same on a Linux box with a simple script and a rescue CD.
Cheers,
Some jackass kept stealing my tuna sandwich...I mean once in a while would still be annoying, but EVERY damn time was just an open declaration of war. So I made a big fat tuna sandwich with a healthy amount of "FancyFeast". I used chicken and liver flavor to make sure the point got across. So in the fridge it goes and I came back an hour or two later and it was gone. The next morning, I found an anonymous post-it note on the door of the fridge asking people to please discard "old and potentially rancid" food from the refigerator since it was a "health hazard."
:)
Since then, my sandwich has been safe. Nobody ever owned up to the thefts or the note.
Iran flares off several times more natural gas each day than it needs to meet its entire energy needs. There is no other explanation for their nuclear ambitions other than bomb production.
I think they're just goading the Israelis to take out the facility, gain more support in the Arab world, and rid themselves of the problem while they secretly create a more clandestine program.
A Chinese mathematician with a history of "borrowing" or "aggregating" other people's research is trying to take credit for something a Russian mathematician has done. When the Poincare chip is produced, they'll mask over P for Perelman and insert a Y for Yau...until enough people scream....and then the Chinese government will indignantly run Yau out of town...
The more things change....
I just searched for "core 2 compatible" boards on newegg and got 5 results ranging in price from $50.99-$119.99. So the motherboard premium that's being bandied about seems to be largely nonexistent. Also, an E6600 is likely faster than an X2 4800 for most (all?) tasks. In order to step up to similar performance you need the X2 5000 or one of the faster AMD FX processors.
If I was buying a system today, I'd probably lean towards the Core 2 Duo. A few weeks ago, I'd probably have gone with an Athlon64 X2. I'd have to agree with the OP and say that the competition has been great for the buyer.
The Core2 E6600 seems to be a nice bang for the money as it is right around the middle of the currently available speed grades and is the cheapest iteration with 4MB of L2 cache. It also seems to be competitive with dual core AMD products (my usual choice) that are substantially more expensive. It's definitely a buyer's market these days...let the price war begin! :)
I wonder how much of that electricity is simply wasted on old and inefficient equipment. Government agencies really don't have much incentive to conserve electricity since they know their "bill" will always be paid, regardless of how large it gets....time to upgrade to blades of Turion X2 and/or Core2Duo servers for all that immoral surveillance....
Then the user could snort coke off the disc after clicking "no thanks" 50 times in order to install Mozilla. :)
While I certainly wish Mozilla the best of luck in ramping up the distribution of their products, I wish they'd picked a better net citizen to accomplish that goal.
Of course nobody buys Rambus memory anymore. However, they were successful in extorting licensing fees from a number of other memory manufacturers for "infringing on their IP". So you're indirectly paying Rambus through higher prices for memory. Hopefully, this means the extortion will stop. Rambus can then go back to attempting to sue their potential clients (a la SCO) in order to scam additional licensing revenue. Stick a fork in Rambus if this ruling holds up.
Stop the presses! :)
I was one of those disaffected desktop users, but I still use RHEL (er...actually CentOS) for server machines that do real work. If you don't need bleeding edge desktop gadgets, it's still OK for desktop use as well. Ragging on RedHat because they had the temerity to focus on the part of their business that generated profit for them seems a bit harsh. There's plenty of other distros to choose from, including Ubuntu, if you want to live in the fast lane.
Cheers,
If you're going to dump the stuff, why not just dump it into one of the readily available (and very deep) trenches that feed various tectonic subduction zones? The earth literally will swallow it up in a short (in geological terms) period of time. That seems a bit safer than blasting it off into space or trying to make it orders of magnitude more radioactive in the short run to "bleed the nasties out."
I've used AOL for about 30 minutes over the last 10 or so years. I recently watched as an older relative used it and couldn't get over how many times they had to click "no thanks" to various pop ups and ads just to do basic email and web chores. AOL needs to die. Perhaps they'll linger on by just selling people the ability to forward their old aol mail address to their new provider....
The standard battery for the Asus is a 71WH unit and it is lighter (2.2kg) than the Macbook Pro even then. With the lighter 4-cell 36WH battery, it only weighs 2kg, even lighter. The Macbook Pro only has a 60WH battery. So I seem to be incorrect on the total volume (but they are within 11% of eachother). The Asus, even with a larger battery with more power is still lighter, more fully configured and substantially cheaper.
Cheers,
And I suppose you failed in reading comprehension. I specifically said Macbook PRO. I wouldn't own the regular Macbook because of the lower-end Intel embedded Intel graphics adapter.
Regards,
I have a Compaq laptop that I bought online from HP's e-commerce site. So I assume they're using "genuine" WindowsXP. Recently, I began to get a little popup from my task bar suggesting that I might have a non-genuine version of Windows and to "click here to find out how you can fix this" or somesuch. I just chuckle and close it, but I suppose I should figure out what is really happening at some point. Fortunately, it's my old laptop that is used infrequently (but has up to date patches).
The Asus W3J offers everything you get in a mid-range Macbook Pro, is smaller, lighter, comes with larger hard disk, more memory, and more video memory for about $500 less. I like the look of the Macbook Pro, but you're still paying a rather fat premium for the Apple coolness factor.
Cheers,
There's still a bit of a price problem with Macs, but they're a LOT more price competitive now. I was going to get a Macbook Pro, but opted for the Asus W3J which offered a slightly beefier configuration (more RAM, more video RAM, larger hard disk, slightly smaller size, and lower weight) for about US$500 less. I run CentOS on it and when I want to play a game or two or I need a M$-specific application, I just boot it up into Windows XP.
I don't understand why they don't just offer a tier of service for those that want NO adverts whatsoever. I'm sure most of us would be happy to pay more for such a service. That way, the advertisers only reach people who WANT to be reached and the broadcaster/service provider recoups income lost from those "get lost" subscribers in the form of higher fees. That might even get me to watch "regular TV shows" again. At this juncture, TV is so pollluted with adverts that I really only get cable so I have access to a broadband internet connection and cheap phone service.
Cheers,
I suspect that we're only going to see some serious efforts to fix/curb this problem once the banks become 100% liable for monetary losses due to fraud. For the moment, their attempts to "fix" things are more of a PR exercise (for consumer's benefit and regulator's benefit) than an actual solution to the problem.
At some point, the naughty people have to pick up the money. There needs to be more international coordination for prevention of bank fraud so that these criminals can't hang out in countries with corrupt banking/regulatory/political systems and siphon accounts of citizens from around the world.
I agree with this sentiiment. No "encyclopedia" is going to be infallible. They are all subject to the bias of the person(s) writing the articles. The beauty of wikipedia is that as that number of authors grows, gross bias is less likely to survive review. So it may be subject to short-term pendulum swings in terms of inaccuracy, but I find that to be preferable to a room full of "editors" deciding what is the truth. Perhaps they can find some way of calculating the "newness" of information bits to help users judge which topics are "too hot" to be adequately reviewed and therefore considered "true" yet.
That would be the new and improved venture capital weenies who are throwing money around again like crackheads. I guess they didn't learn their lesson last time around.
For the extra $300, I'd much rather have a functional video card and the superdrive. I think most college kids would be disappointed the minute they tried to play any game and had the machine slow to a crawl or simply be unable to play the game at all.
Just to play devil's advocate...
If Yahoo China can supress results based on edicts from the "mean old Chinese government," perhaps the music industry is going to say "Well now, you clealy CAN filter the results if you want to or are forced to. We want you to filter out links to illgotten content that we own. If you don't, you're contributing to the problem and have some liability."
That's the flip side of caving in to search engine filtering. The slope is quite slippery....