I currently work for a webhosting company in which we have about 2/3 of our servers running windows 2000, with the other 1/3 on Linux. In our office it's about 40% with 2000, 50% with XP, and 10% on Linux. I guess it all comes down to the fact that 2000 just works, so we didn't see all that much need to upgrade. A month ago we setup our first 2003 server in the office, to say the least, the tech department (including myself) are the only ones who appreciated the effects of the upgrade. Other users could care less.
Personally, I do like the improvements made both in XP and 2003. But in our case, it would be very difficult trying to explain to our clients why the server will be down if we decide to upgrade all of them, which I guess is something that will need to happen soon anyway.
We would all much rather see improvements made to the 2000 platform, such as storing the IIS metabase in XML format as is being done in 2003, then having to upgrade the whole OS. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be an option.
Sweet... everyone should drop out NOW! That way, out of everyone who dropped out, there will be one Steve Jobs, one Bill Gates, and the rest are unemployed. Whereas for me, I'll be one of very few people to graduate, get a degree and actually not count on luck to go through life. Way to go Steve... Way to go!
Most 'hard-core' windows users/advocates seem to see viruses, worms and the like as an unavoidable part of computing. Maybe if MS would clean up its act, computers would be as easy to use as cell phones.
So basically you're saying that Microsoft should start putting in anti-virus software into their OS, which in turn would cause people like to say that they are anti-competitive and want to run a monopoly. Is that about right?
Just curios here, what do you think would happen if you ask your roommate to install... oh I don't know... say Firefox on that debian machine. That would be fun to watch, wouldn't it now? Are we forgetting that software needs to be installed on a computer before we can use it? Oh I think we are...
Here's a better test - open up xcalc and put a monkey in front of the computer. Turns out linux is the greatest thing in the world - even monkeys can use it, look!
Let me tell you exactly what is wrong with linux - it treats the user as a computer, not a human being. To be a software developer (not a hacker mind you), you have to understand human psychology. Something that I have yet to see out of the linux community. Writing thousands of man pages is great, but any time a hardcore linux advocate tells me that all the info I need is in man pages I always think of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - the plans were always there, so the legal portion is done, and it's all we care about. As far as making it EASY for a HUMAN to use (and use does involve installation, configuration, and maintenance - all things that your experiment seems to lack), it's the linux community that needs to clean up its act. MS is at least trying to move in the right direction. Computers aren't only for hackers these days, it's time to realize this and move on.
... scientists also say that the Earth is actually round, and not flat, as was believed for many many years.
Wtf? It took them this long to realize that? Hey here's another one for you - boring and useless classes, unqualified teachers (especially for computer science in high school), and testing that makes no sense and doesn't actually test anything ALSO can be counterproductive. Oh man, say it isn't so!
If 60% of people believed life exists on other planets, Bush wouldn't be president right now. This smells like a sad attempt by SETI to prove that they have a useful purpose - most of the people believe life exists on other planets, so we're working on finding that life. I'm all for their research, and I'm also in that "60%" I suppose, but it would've been a lot nicer if they didn't play the politics and just stuck to doing good science.
And don't talk to me about democrat and republican "no difference" crap. First count up the numbers between those who go to church every Sunday and those who don't, and then figure out how many of those so called "democrats" have never voted for a democratic candidate. I rest my case.
Went though with this using my Leadtek 6800 and it worked beautifully. Fired up X-Plane and don't see any artifacts at all.
Don't have 3DMark installed right now, so can't comment on the actual performance boost, but X-Plane did seem a little smoother to me (though that may be some physiological effects due to wishful thinking):)
While I did enjoy about 20 different versions of what the comic book guy says, I'd like to point out that if we understand how human brain interprets the meaning could have some significant impacts on the way humans communicate with computers.
It seems to me that today's computer is no different then someone who isn't able to understand the hidden meaning, but takes everything literally. If be learn of how exactly the human brain takes in the information and goes that extra step to figure out what was meant as opposed to what was said, it will go a long way towards completely transforming how humans interact with computers. You look at all the Star Trek series and you don't see people telling the computer how to do something, you see people telling the computer what to do. Something that we so far haven't achieved (to that scale at the very least), but it may be worth striving for.
This is an easy one... You just take some moon dust into your hand and start squeezing. O2 will begin rising from the top, and H2O (this is an added bonus) will be dripping from the bottom. If it doesn't work, you're not squeezing hard enough!
I would like to point out that it is rather difficult (if not impossible) to get even a remotely accurate idea of how much is lost due to piracy. You have to consider it on an individual level - what would happen if piracy did not exist?
We take a person who pirated say Adobe Photoshop to use to design art for his personal website. That's considered a loss for the Adobe. But the question is, if this person was not able to find a single illegal copy of Photoshop to download, is there a possibility of purchasing the software legally? From here there are two points - either yes, in which case we conclude that piracy cancelled out the possibility of obtaining the product legally causing the company to lose money. Or, if the answer is no, then the company lost absolutely nothing. If the possibility of purchasing a product does not exist, with or without piracy, then it is impossible to conclude that piracy is responsible for lost income. In this situation, the company looses nothing, but the individual gains a benefit he would not have had without piracy.
I am by no means trying to justify what is going on, but all I'm saying is that it's not so simple to say that when someone downloads software worth a few thousand dollars, that the company making that software lost a lot of money. Far more complicated than that.
Likewise these same weapons can be jammed easily by any country posessing satellite communications technology so when you need it they can just jam it.
Can't we just pull some CAT5 up there? I never did like the whole "wireless" thing... Better yet, make it CAT6 and run the thing on gigabit. Hm... I wonder if the distance limitation will be a factor. Only one way to find out!
Now every prisoner will have a much faster way of using the gas station - just in case they are trying to make a run for it. Don't you just hate using cash to pay for gas when the police are on your tail? Sweet...
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Not back to the moon... to the moon... not back. Cause to go back, you had to go there once before.
I currently work for a webhosting company in which we have about 2/3 of our servers running windows 2000, with the other 1/3 on Linux. In our office it's about 40% with 2000, 50% with XP, and 10% on Linux. I guess it all comes down to the fact that 2000 just works, so we didn't see all that much need to upgrade. A month ago we setup our first 2003 server in the office, to say the least, the tech department (including myself) are the only ones who appreciated the effects of the upgrade. Other users could care less.
Personally, I do like the improvements made both in XP and 2003. But in our case, it would be very difficult trying to explain to our clients why the server will be down if we decide to upgrade all of them, which I guess is something that will need to happen soon anyway.
We would all much rather see improvements made to the 2000 platform, such as storing the IIS metabase in XML format as is being done in 2003, then having to upgrade the whole OS. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be an option.
Sweet... everyone should drop out NOW! That way, out of everyone who dropped out, there will be one Steve Jobs, one Bill Gates, and the rest are unemployed. Whereas for me, I'll be one of very few people to graduate, get a degree and actually not count on luck to go through life. Way to go Steve... Way to go!
Most 'hard-core' windows users/advocates seem to see viruses, worms and the like as an unavoidable part of computing. Maybe if MS would clean up its act, computers would be as easy to use as cell phones.
So basically you're saying that Microsoft should start putting in anti-virus software into their OS, which in turn would cause people like to say that they are anti-competitive and want to run a monopoly. Is that about right?
Just curios here, what do you think would happen if you ask your roommate to install... oh I don't know... say Firefox on that debian machine. That would be fun to watch, wouldn't it now? Are we forgetting that software needs to be installed on a computer before we can use it? Oh I think we are...
Here's a better test - open up xcalc and put a monkey in front of the computer. Turns out linux is the greatest thing in the world - even monkeys can use it, look!
Let me tell you exactly what is wrong with linux - it treats the user as a computer, not a human being. To be a software developer (not a hacker mind you), you have to understand human psychology. Something that I have yet to see out of the linux community. Writing thousands of man pages is great, but any time a hardcore linux advocate tells me that all the info I need is in man pages I always think of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - the plans were always there, so the legal portion is done, and it's all we care about. As far as making it EASY for a HUMAN to use (and use does involve installation, configuration, and maintenance - all things that your experiment seems to lack), it's the linux community that needs to clean up its act. MS is at least trying to move in the right direction. Computers aren't only for hackers these days, it's time to realize this and move on.
But you get your choice of topping.
... scientists also say that the Earth is actually round, and not flat, as was believed for many many years.
Wtf? It took them this long to realize that? Hey here's another one for you - boring and useless classes, unqualified teachers (especially for computer science in high school), and testing that makes no sense and doesn't actually test anything ALSO can be counterproductive. Oh man, say it isn't so!
If 60% of people believed life exists on other planets, Bush wouldn't be president right now. This smells like a sad attempt by SETI to prove that they have a useful purpose - most of the people believe life exists on other planets, so we're working on finding that life. I'm all for their research, and I'm also in that "60%" I suppose, but it would've been a lot nicer if they didn't play the politics and just stuck to doing good science.
And don't talk to me about democrat and republican "no difference" crap. First count up the numbers between those who go to church every Sunday and those who don't, and then figure out how many of those so called "democrats" have never voted for a democratic candidate. I rest my case.
Can't - the higher models have 256MB of RAM :P
Went though with this using my Leadtek 6800 and it worked beautifully. Fired up X-Plane and don't see any artifacts at all.
:)
Don't have 3DMark installed right now, so can't comment on the actual performance boost, but X-Plane did seem a little smoother to me (though that may be some physiological effects due to wishful thinking)
I'm sorry if I didn't understand what you were trying to say, but I think what you meant to write is "I am brain damaged!", not "I am dain bramaged!"
:)
No worries though, just use the Preview button the next time, ok?
While I did enjoy about 20 different versions of what the comic book guy says, I'd like to point out that if we understand how human brain interprets the meaning could have some significant impacts on the way humans communicate with computers.
It seems to me that today's computer is no different then someone who isn't able to understand the hidden meaning, but takes everything literally. If be learn of how exactly the human brain takes in the information and goes that extra step to figure out what was meant as opposed to what was said, it will go a long way towards completely transforming how humans interact with computers. You look at all the Star Trek series and you don't see people telling the computer how to do something, you see people telling the computer what to do. Something that we so far haven't achieved (to that scale at the very least), but it may be worth striving for.
Just my two cents...
Define "you"...
I got it from Usenet, you insensitive clods!
This is an easy one... You just take some moon dust into your hand and start squeezing. O2 will begin rising from the top, and H2O (this is an added bonus) will be dripping from the bottom. If it doesn't work, you're not squeezing hard enough!
Now what's this I hear about some reward?
I would like to point out that it is rather difficult (if not impossible) to get even a remotely accurate idea of how much is lost due to piracy. You have to consider it on an individual level - what would happen if piracy did not exist?
We take a person who pirated say Adobe Photoshop to use to design art for his personal website. That's considered a loss for the Adobe. But the question is, if this person was not able to find a single illegal copy of Photoshop to download, is there a possibility of purchasing the software legally? From here there are two points - either yes, in which case we conclude that piracy cancelled out the possibility of obtaining the product legally causing the company to lose money. Or, if the answer is no, then the company lost absolutely nothing. If the possibility of purchasing a product does not exist, with or without piracy, then it is impossible to conclude that piracy is responsible for lost income. In this situation, the company looses nothing, but the individual gains a benefit he would not have had without piracy.
I am by no means trying to justify what is going on, but all I'm saying is that it's not so simple to say that when someone downloads software worth a few thousand dollars, that the company making that software lost a lot of money. Far more complicated than that.
Likewise these same weapons can be jammed easily by any country posessing satellite communications technology so when you need it they can just jam it. Can't we just pull some CAT5 up there? I never did like the whole "wireless" thing... Better yet, make it CAT6 and run the thing on gigabit. Hm... I wonder if the distance limitation will be a factor. Only one way to find out!
Now every prisoner will have a much faster way of using the gas station - just in case they are trying to make a run for it. Don't you just hate using cash to pay for gas when the police are on your tail? Sweet...
Who said we're using linux? :-P