Thats the biggest problem people dont realize, you buy a PC from Dell, Gateway, etc, the OS that came with the machine is only for that machine. You cant ever legally transfer that OS to a new naked PC. Microsoft is correct about that.
Now, If some states should pass some regulations that forbid tieing a commerical OS to a OEM PC's. That will do an end-run around the MS Monopoly.
Software EULA's are almost criminal, the whole copyright laws are written to exclude the consumer's from doing normal actitivies.
I really wish the US had some political parties that could bribe, er use PAC money to change the laws to what the citizens wants/need not corporations demand.
Finder vs Explorer, both are not the best solutions out there. Better file browsers with better history and file management show the dumb down method is pretty weak.
And ya, I hate the ntfs write issues. I reformated my usb drives to fat32, just so my mac and linux laptop could read/write to it.
But all in all, ATI x1600 drivers means you can now play windows games under windows. Thats itself is a BIG win for apple.
Until try hypervisor virtualization is out, and you can run both windows and osx at the same time. That will be very very interesting.
Is tivo really the first to let you watch a recorded show while taping another? I know dual deck VCR's where out, and before that most people had 2 VCR's for that exact reason.
Anyone who says the ports never breaks isnt a true freebsd user.
Almost every distro of *nix that has needs other packages will break sometimes, thats the biggest fault of opensource software, almost everything has dependices.
I havent seen DLL hell in years, but I've had KDE/Gnome hell on every upgrade.
Enterprise Novell support contracts. While Ubuntu is a great desktop OS, its a community project, which means community support and 3rd party support companies. Novell support is internal. Big difference.
But support is only 1 issue in migration, you need to make sure all applications port over. Openoffice isnt even close to use for legal applications and formats, doesnt support most 3rd party VB scripts or macros. But if you are not locked in to any legacy applications or documents it might just be more cost effective to switch.
"Switch to Linux because its free!" isn't the best solution in every case.
I personally think Openoffice needs more work, its far from stable and compatible with MS Office documents. That being said, thats my work environment which is heavy MS Office oriented...
XP Home comes free, XP Pro is still a 129 something upgrade on those cheap dells.
So, for bang for the buck, linux distros offer the benefits of XP Pro, remote desktop, easy account managment, file shares, etc. Gnome and KDE still have bugs and do crash, XP is more stable but doesnt come with explorer process seperation by default (simple reg edit fixes that).
Linux has 2 weak spots, driver support and applications. Both are better today, but still not even close to perfect compared to XP. Linux should boot to a default VESA or VGA mode just like XP if it doesnt detect the hardware correctly. Grandma doesnt need to edit xorg.conf files by hand...
But Novell is right, SuSE is a great linux distro and would make a great OS replacement for the average desktop in a business environment. This is going to be an interesting fight between RedHat and Novell, cant wait to see what sets them apart. (Other than Novell Linux Client in SuSE.)
As for spanking in the desktop, the ATI 9700 pro was the comeback for ATI, I bought one and used it in everything, even my AMD64 3200 to this day (AGP). What made me pick up an Nvidia card was the 7800 GT, a cheap yet yet high end card.
Nvidia just released the 7 series on AGP Due to ATI owning the AGP crowd. So no, theres no spanking going on.
The biggest problem with craigslist, they dont allow extended searchs for more than 1 area. While they have always bitched about global searchs would run the "small town" feeling, its global NOW.. Jobs in point, would be nice if you could search nation wide, people move for work now, get with the times.
While making some people pay will get rid of multiple posts, thats annoying on high traffic sites.
I just wish craigslist would actually ask what people want, without the freaking attitude...
Jumping from 16 to 48 pixel pipelines, (1800 to 1900), one would expect much better frame rate. But the nice thing, this puts ATI back up to the Nvidia GTX series.
Late comment, but many people use voice chat like teamspeak and they tend to be in groups. Couples, Wife+Husbands, Work Friends, Kids, School mates, etc.
Ive been on a few guilds where we had to kick kids for rude remarks, so I'm sure that there are many non-gay friendly guilds..
Its more than a game, people actually group together from many different MMO's, have been online friends for 2-3+ online games.
The Turion 64 ML-40 is 1/2 the price of the Pentium 780, around 350-400 dollars more (via froogle and pricewatch) The core-due also has 2 megs cache per core of cache.
Also where is benchmarks and battery life when each cpu is clocked at its lowest power saving? If you are going to do a benchmark for batterylife, how about actually doing the most important tests..
And, AMD laptops are opendesign to OEM vendors, so they can use any hardware and save money. Intel wants to control this to more of a degree for the centrino name, thus higher costs.
Now, I'm not bashing Intel, I cant wait for the 900 chips with dual core and virtualization. But that article could use some more info and less "Intels new chip is awesome compared to Old hardware on different platforms, blah chipset etc.."
Well, to be fair, at the time Intel was pushing the heat pump P4 against the PPC. Now intel dropped back to the P3, modified it, called it the pentium-m, now the duo-core. They had to do a 180 and rethink their roadmap.
I think the greatest thing will be virtualized intel cpu's running multiple copies of OSX for servers. Or even Windows and OSX. Apple xserves will look very attractive now when can do anything, have apple quality hardware, and have true migration to any OS or software that you need. Brilliant move.
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Thats the biggest problem people dont realize, you buy a PC from Dell, Gateway, etc, the OS that came with the machine is only for that machine. You cant ever legally transfer that OS to a new naked PC. Microsoft is correct about that.
Now, If some states should pass some regulations that forbid tieing a commerical OS to a OEM PC's. That will do an end-run around the MS Monopoly.
Software EULA's are almost criminal, the whole copyright laws are written to exclude the consumer's from doing normal actitivies.
I really wish the US had some political parties that could bribe, er use PAC money to change the laws to what the citizens wants/need not corporations demand.
Vmware will run virtual pc disk images.
Finder vs Explorer, both are not the best solutions out there. Better file browsers with better history and file management show the dumb down method is pretty weak.
And ya, I hate the ntfs write issues. I reformated my usb drives to fat32, just so my mac and linux laptop could read/write to it.
But all in all, ATI x1600 drivers means you can now play windows games under windows. Thats itself is a BIG win for apple.
Until try hypervisor virtualization is out, and you can run both windows and osx at the same time. That will be very very interesting.
Is tivo really the first to let you watch a recorded show while taping another? I know dual deck VCR's where out, and before that most people had 2 VCR's for that exact reason.
Anyone who says the ports never breaks isnt a true freebsd user.
Almost every distro of *nix that has needs other packages will break sometimes, thats the biggest fault of opensource software, almost everything has dependices.
I havent seen DLL hell in years, but I've had KDE/Gnome hell on every upgrade.
Yup, normal people can't buy their rights anymore.
Its the corporations or religous groups that pay to have them removed.
Did you bribe your congresscritter today?
Most places I seen the xbox 360 on sale has 3-4 games on display. And the 399 unit lacks options, so the 499 option looks more complete.
I think I'll stick with the PS2 with fun cheap games I can pick up for 10 bux at gamestop.
Enterprise Novell support contracts. While Ubuntu is a great desktop OS, its a community project, which means community support and 3rd party support companies. Novell support is internal. Big difference.
But support is only 1 issue in migration, you need to make sure all applications port over. Openoffice isnt even close to use for legal applications and formats, doesnt support most 3rd party VB scripts or macros. But if you are not locked in to any legacy applications or documents it might just be more cost effective to switch.
"Switch to Linux because its free!" isn't the best solution in every case.
I personally think Openoffice needs more work, its far from stable and compatible with MS Office documents. That being said, thats my work environment which is heavy MS Office oriented...
XP Home comes free, XP Pro is still a 129 something upgrade on those cheap dells.
So, for bang for the buck, linux distros offer the benefits of XP Pro, remote desktop, easy account managment, file shares, etc. Gnome and KDE still have bugs and do crash, XP is more stable but doesnt come with explorer process seperation by default (simple reg edit fixes that).
Linux has 2 weak spots, driver support and applications. Both are better today, but still not even close to perfect compared to XP. Linux should boot to a default VESA or VGA mode just like XP if it doesnt detect the hardware correctly. Grandma doesnt need to edit xorg.conf files by hand...
But Novell is right, SuSE is a great linux distro and would make a great OS replacement for the average desktop in a business environment. This is going to be an interesting fight between RedHat and Novell, cant wait to see what sets them apart. (Other than Novell Linux Client in SuSE.)
Come on, IBM and Microsoft must have already patented that, they already are up to Borg technology and Transporters.
And if he replaced you that quick, he didnt think much of you at all. Doesnt sound like it was that great of a job to start off with.
As for spanking in the desktop, the ATI 9700 pro was the comeback for ATI, I bought one and used it in everything, even my AMD64 3200 to this day (AGP). What made me pick up an Nvidia card was the 7800 GT, a cheap yet yet high end card.
Nvidia just released the 7 series on AGP Due to ATI owning the AGP crowd. So no, theres no spanking going on.
That old, it should be a "usage tax" instead. Well, new roads should be, but local roads are used to bring in food to your grocery store.
;) They also provide more taxes later, to help with cost of living....
And those schools teach the doctors and lawyers you use.
Haha, ops, it was Apple.
Forgot something, didnt Intel just start sueing everyone for not paying for H.264 licenseing? Humm, seems they had this planned from the get go.
If nobody can use it, then using blue-ray without it will be the standard.
I dont see everyone going out and buying all new systems for this artifical mandatory key authorization crap.
What isnt clear, so hardware H.264 wont support DRM'ed media either? Huh?! I thought that was just mpeg4 standards.
If he was playing on a break or on his lunch time, i dont see an issue. If his job wasnt getting done fire him..
That was a scumbag move of the mayor, firing him without even talking to him.
Then the graph is off in the article.
All-In-Wonder Comparison
X1900 X1800 XL 2006 X800 XL X800 XTPCI Express
Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Core Clock
500 500 450 400 500
Memory Clock
480 500 400 490 500
Vertex Pipelines
8 8 2 6 6
Pixel Pipelines
48 16 4 16 16
Microtune Tuner
IC 2121 IC 2121 IC 2121 IC 2121 MT2050
Shader Model 3.0
Yes Yes Yes No No
Avivo, H.264 Acceleration
Yes Yes No No No
The biggest problem with craigslist, they dont allow extended searchs for more than 1 area. While they have always bitched about global searchs would run the "small town" feeling, its global NOW.. Jobs in point, would be nice if you could search nation wide, people move for work now, get with the times.
While making some people pay will get rid of multiple posts, thats annoying on high traffic sites.
I just wish craigslist would actually ask what people want, without the freaking attitude...
Jumping from 16 to 48 pixel pipelines, (1800 to 1900), one would expect much better frame rate. But the nice thing, this puts ATI back up to the Nvidia GTX series.
Very nice card, price is expensive, but nice.
Late comment, but many people use voice chat like teamspeak and they tend to be in groups. Couples, Wife+Husbands, Work Friends, Kids, School mates, etc.
Ive been on a few guilds where we had to kick kids for rude remarks, so I'm sure that there are many non-gay friendly guilds..
Its more than a game, people actually group together from many different MMO's, have been online friends for 2-3+ online games.
I noticed the card is a lower version of the GT, so is AGP bandwidth maxed on this card?
I'd like to know if they are justified in upgrading to PCI-E or waiting.
"The Constitution does not guarantee the right to travel by any particular form of transportation."
Time to get out the horse and buggy, with that federal logic...
The Turion 64 ML-40 is 1/2 the price of the Pentium 780, around 350-400 dollars more (via froogle and pricewatch) The core-due also has 2 megs cache per core of cache.
Also where is benchmarks and battery life when each cpu is clocked at its lowest power saving? If you are going to do a benchmark for batterylife, how about actually doing the most important tests..
And, AMD laptops are opendesign to OEM vendors, so they can use any hardware and save money. Intel wants to control this to more of a degree for the centrino name, thus higher costs.
Now, I'm not bashing Intel, I cant wait for the 900 chips with dual core and virtualization. But that article could use some more info and less "Intels new chip is awesome compared to Old hardware on different platforms, blah chipset etc.."
Well, to be fair, at the time Intel was pushing the heat pump P4 against the PPC. Now intel dropped back to the P3, modified it, called it the pentium-m, now the duo-core. They had to do a 180 and rethink their roadmap.
I think the greatest thing will be virtualized intel cpu's running multiple copies of OSX for servers. Or even Windows and OSX. Apple xserves will look very attractive now when can do anything, have apple quality hardware, and have true migration to any OS or software that you need. Brilliant move.