Screw this, I'm moving to Mexico, or the moon or something. This is absurd. Nobody seems to care about privacy anymore, and I think these lyrics sum it up best:
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the Fifth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun. Now they've taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.
I have a friend who has this in his signature:
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
Yeah, that's why you fill out all fake information, or don't fill any out at all. I have several of these cards, and never once fill them out truthfully. Also, I try to get a new one every few months just to confuse their data further. Tommy Chong has roughly 30 King Sooper's cards in Denver alone:)
What I think they are doing is better than just allowing the 32 bit code to be compiled on a 64 bit machine. I bet they are tuning it so the 64 bit version can take full advantage of the new hardware. If they weren't doing that, or adding features, there would be no point just like you have stated. Also, think about this for a second - if somebody hadn't already added code to apache so that it would compile on any architecture you try, it wouldn't work. A fine example of this is the linux kernel - I got linux running on my Mac in 1997 for the first time. Ofcourse I couldn't just take the stock linux source code at that time and type "make". Somebody first had to port it, and then that code got added to the linux source tree. So, it's very possible that apache doesn't just "make" on the K8 yet.
I use MBNA, but I hate their 18% interest rates. For an example, check out mbnanetaccess.com. I use it to pay my bill each month with Netscape 4.X and Mozilla 1.1.
I'm running a sendmail server, and I access via webmail accounts, pine, and Mozilla. I would like to add this new type of spam filtering to sendmail directly. Does anyone know if this is something that can be added to sendmail, rather than a specific mail client like Mozilla?
Can you tell my why Cold Fusion is not for deployment? I've been using PHP, Cold Fusion, and ASP for the last 4 years. I have also been using Cluster Cats, all on Red Hat Linux. I helped beta test CF 4.5 and 5.0 for linux, and I've been impressed with their dedication to get the software written for Red Hat Linux. The server is rock solid, I have constant uptimes of months at a time, and writing cold fusion code is a breeze like you said. I guess I don't see the downside....
Maybe somebody can answer this for me, but I see a major problem with current wireless technology. I currently have an 802.11b access point in my home. I love it, and it gets great range - in fact, so great it goes clear over onto my neighbors property. I had my laptop outside (probably looked like a dork walking around running a constant ping on my thinkpad), and I was able to walk clear onto their property and get a great signal. At first I was impressed... then I started to think about my neighbor. Wouldn't this be a problem for them if they wanted their *own* access point for their network?? I would think that my access point also interferes with 2.4ghz phones in the area. As an example, I had to sell mine because they quit working the second I got this thing. So, if you could expand the range of 802.11b to *miles* - isn't that really going to screw over Joe Blow who wants his own wireless network that just happens to be within range of a provider mentioned in the story???
Can someone PLEASE explain what is meant by real-time applications? Am I supposed to assume that the apps I've been using for the last few years are fake-time applictions? If I were to guess what real-time is supposed to mean, I would guess it means 3D rendering apps or something, but since the author didn't explain it, and I don't already know, I hope someone can help me.
Alright, I'm sooo tired of this argument. First of all, just because it is a RISC chip, doesn't mean that a 1.0 GHZ motorola chip in a Mac could even come close to outperforming a 3.06 or even 2.80 GHZ Pentium 4 when combined with a 533 FSB and RDRAM. Apple just recently adopted DDR ram, but get this - the little PPC chip you have isn't even natively able to support it at DDR speed, the current batch of PPC chips can only work on one swing of the computing "cycle", not on the up and down like an Athlon can for example. Meaning, the motorola chips are not double pumped, so Apple is years behind AMD and Intel right now. Your argument doesn't hold water.
I paid for the lifetime membership, and it's the best choice I made in 2002 I think. As long as Tivo doesn't tank as a company, the $250 lifetime membership fee seems well worth it, considering how much we use the thing. I also added a second hard drive to my DirecTv/Tivo box with dual tuners, and it's a sweet set up. Who wants a damn Xbox or PS2 as a DVR when I can have my directv and tivo in one unit that lets me set up "season passes" and record 2 shows at once, or record one while watching another? I think the xbox as a dvr will flop just as it has flopped as a gaming console sales wise.
I don't know what AiW you're talking about, but the one I had came out in '99 and I only had it for about 2 months before I sold the pile of crap on ebay. And don't get me started about the PCI TV Tuner I had of theirs, they never did get a final version of the driver for Win2k when I had it. Just a stupid beta that crashed constantly, and forced a complete reboot of my machine.
You assume too much - you assume that everyone has a computer. You assume that you have cable and not directv - from what I know, you can't connect directly from a directv sattelite into your tv tuner card. You would need a box to get the signal, and output it. Meaning your AIW software wouldn't be worth jack - because it would only be able to record channel 3, or whatever is coming out of the directv tuner box. You also assume that people don't record 2 things at the same time, like tivo can do. I have no idea, but I would assume that the AIW software can't do that. Also, I have owned 2 AIW cards and TV tuner card, all from ATI. All have sucked badly when it came to software. None of them functioned properly on Windows 2000 because ATI can't write stable drivers to save their lives.
I don't think RedHat is anything like Microsoft. How could they be? I have 7.3 installed on 15 computers now, and I paid for one professional copy. They don't care. There's the difference right there. I always hear about people hating RedHat, but show me a single person who has been harassed by them over licensing terms, or forced to use their distro over any other OS on this planet. That's what I thought, they have never done anything like that. They are just popular. Is that so wrong? I personally use RedHat because I'm familar with the OS, and I like the support I can find on their website.
I already pay for cable/directv correct? Think about this for a moment, who is really benefiting from that money? ABC, NBC? Nope. The cable or sattelite company. I say TV stations need to go after them for money. I already pay for the service, and should include content as well. It's like paying for internet service and being bombarded by ads at the same time on every website you visit. It sucks, I say web site owners that get a lot of traffic should be going after ISPs for some revenue, TV should work the same way.
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People don't rip? Myself, and 4 other people I know with mp3 players in our cars or portable mp3 players sure as hell do. Granted, I download some songs here and there, but also rip 10x more than I download from purchased cds. I don't want my cds sitting in the car melting from the heat, or getting scratched because some fool doesn't know how to handle them correctly. I love groups like 311, and have gone to great lengths to even purchase their unreleased stuff off their own website. Don't tell me people don't rip music just because you don't, and as a result end up stealing everything you listen to.
Yeah, you're right - the quad pumped FSB makes a huge difference. However, if you read that article at the inquirer, they point out that AMD is more than likely going with a 333 FSB, which should help out rather nicely. Still, it's no 533 though.
Really? The Pentium 4 2.53 is cheaper? Wow, that shocks me. If that is the case, you're exactly right - this won't be a huge advantage for AMD unless prices get slashed on the Athlons. The one strong postive I do see however, is that the new Athlon is extremely overclockable. This probably means, we can expect Athlons at faster clock speeds now, not to mention the doubled cache they are supposed to get. So, the 2600+ may not be that exciting, but you can bet that the 2700+ and 2800+ will be. In fact, check out these rumors:
Also, if that's true, and if AMD can stay price competitive - my obvious choice for a processor would be the Athlon with the larger cache and increased FSB, but that seems to be all speculation at this point.
I don't think it's racism - I just think we need to reverse the trend of bringing in more and more people to do jobs that aren't there. Nobody is saying that we need to "throw anybody out", just limit the number of visas coming in. Remember when companies like Microsoft were bitching that there weren't enough tech workers in the U.S., so they had the number of visas increased?? Well, we don't need to keep that high number anymore. I didn't take that as a racist post at all.
What the hell are you talking about?? Do you even realize who OWNS WebTV? If you think WebTV is a stand alone business you, you need to do your homework moron.
So you're saying that it's ok for the record industry to sell CDs that freeze up Macs and don't play in computers? That's insane. I guess you're right though - if they want to commit financial suicide by putting out defective crap, nobody will buy it. That's the way the free market should work - yet the free market should also say that if you want to develop a computer program that did let you play it, you should be able to. However, the later is already illegal. So, if somebody can't make a compatible program/hack, then they shouldn't be allowed to sell something defective if we can't fix it on our own. This congressman has my full support, and hopefully a lot of other people's.
The thunderbird core socket A athlons work perfectly in SMP mode on the Tyan boards. Also, the palomino chips also work on the Thunder K7 boards. The later palomino chips simply need a little modifications to some traces on the chips themselves, and they also work in SMP mode and even recognized as MP cpus! That just goes to show AMD uses the same core for both, they just charge a lot more money for the "certified" chips because they want better margains.
If it was my project, and I knew how to code gui interfaces, I would help. Why do I complain so much? I was simply giving my reasons for not adopting this browser as my "main" browser, hoping others could identify with my problems, which should help bring them to the attention of the developers. Thus, making mozilla better and more usuable. Is there something wrong with that?
"Are you sure this isn't the QuickLaunch thingamabob? Mozilla keeps a daemon-like copy of itself running in the background so
it can start up as fast as IE. IE does this too, except the background process is called "Windows" and killing it may reboot your
computer."
Yes, I'm sure it's not quicklaunch, I never install that when I install Mozilla, I hate it.
"Rendering form elements requires the browser to tell the OS (Windows) to draw GUI widgets like checkboxes and buttons;
these are not handled directly by the browser renderer. Windows can probably tell you're using Evil Non-Microsoft Software
and intentionally stalls it every time it requests a GUI widget. Your solution here is to assassinate Bill Gates."
Yeah, except I see similar results on my linux box and mac in this area. It does some very, very weird things when drawing out that form field.
"It sounds to me that your computer is trying to send you subliminal messages in Morse code. I believe either the CIA or FBI
have you under surveillance, and are most likely performing some kind of psychological conditioning upon you. The only way to
defend against this would be to line your apartment in tin foil, and NEVER use your laptop anywhere else. A fresh tin foil hat
wouldn't hurt either."
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Screw this, I'm moving to Mexico, or the moon or something. This is absurd. Nobody seems to care about privacy anymore, and I think these lyrics sum it up best:
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the Fifth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.
I have a friend who has this in his signature:
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
Yeah, that's why you fill out all fake information, or don't fill any out at all. I have several of these cards, and never once fill them out truthfully. Also, I try to get a new one every few months just to confuse their data further. Tommy Chong has roughly 30 King Sooper's cards in Denver alone :)
What I think they are doing is better than just allowing the 32 bit code to be compiled on a 64 bit machine. I bet they are tuning it so the 64 bit version can take full advantage of the new hardware. If they weren't doing that, or adding features, there would be no point just like you have stated. Also, think about this for a second - if somebody hadn't already added code to apache so that it would compile on any architecture you try, it wouldn't work. A fine example of this is the linux kernel - I got linux running on my Mac in 1997 for the first time. Ofcourse I couldn't just take the stock linux source code at that time and type "make". Somebody first had to port it, and then that code got added to the linux source tree. So, it's very possible that apache doesn't just "make" on the K8 yet.
I use MBNA, but I hate their 18% interest rates. For an example, check out mbnanetaccess.com. I use it to pay my bill each month with Netscape 4.X and Mozilla 1.1.
I'm running a sendmail server, and I access via webmail accounts, pine, and Mozilla. I would like to add this new type of spam filtering to sendmail directly. Does anyone know if this is something that can be added to sendmail, rather than a specific mail client like Mozilla?
Can you tell my why Cold Fusion is not for deployment? I've been using PHP, Cold Fusion, and ASP for the last 4 years. I have also been using Cluster Cats, all on Red Hat Linux. I helped beta test CF 4.5 and 5.0 for linux, and I've been impressed with their dedication to get the software written for Red Hat Linux. The server is rock solid, I have constant uptimes of months at a time, and writing cold fusion code is a breeze like you said. I guess I don't see the downside....
Maybe somebody can answer this for me, but I see a major problem with current wireless technology. I currently have an 802.11b access point in my home. I love it, and it gets great range - in fact, so great it goes clear over onto my neighbors property. I had my laptop outside (probably looked like a dork walking around running a constant ping on my thinkpad), and I was able to walk clear onto their property and get a great signal. At first I was impressed... then I started to think about my neighbor. Wouldn't this be a problem for them if they wanted their *own* access point for their network?? I would think that my access point also interferes with 2.4ghz phones in the area. As an example, I had to sell mine because they quit working the second I got this thing. So, if you could expand the range of 802.11b to *miles* - isn't that really going to screw over Joe Blow who wants his own wireless network that just happens to be within range of a provider mentioned in the story???
Can someone PLEASE explain what is meant by real-time applications? Am I supposed to assume that the apps I've been using for the last few years are fake-time applictions? If I were to guess what real-time is supposed to mean, I would guess it means 3D rendering apps or something, but since the author didn't explain it, and I don't already know, I hope someone can help me.
Alright, I'm sooo tired of this argument. First of all, just because it is a RISC chip, doesn't mean that a 1.0 GHZ motorola chip in a Mac could even come close to outperforming a 3.06 or even 2.80 GHZ Pentium 4 when combined with a 533 FSB and RDRAM. Apple just recently adopted DDR ram, but get this - the little PPC chip you have isn't even natively able to support it at DDR speed, the current batch of PPC chips can only work on one swing of the computing "cycle", not on the up and down like an Athlon can for example. Meaning, the motorola chips are not double pumped, so Apple is years behind AMD and Intel right now. Your argument doesn't hold water.
I paid for the lifetime membership, and it's the best choice I made in 2002 I think. As long as Tivo doesn't tank as a company, the $250 lifetime membership fee seems well worth it, considering how much we use the thing. I also added a second hard drive to my DirecTv/Tivo box with dual tuners, and it's a sweet set up. Who wants a damn Xbox or PS2 as a DVR when I can have my directv and tivo in one unit that lets me set up "season passes" and record 2 shows at once, or record one while watching another? I think the xbox as a dvr will flop just as it has flopped as a gaming console sales wise.
I don't know what AiW you're talking about, but the one I had came out in '99 and I only had it for about 2 months before I sold the pile of crap on ebay. And don't get me started about the PCI TV Tuner I had of theirs, they never did get a final version of the driver for Win2k when I had it. Just a stupid beta that crashed constantly, and forced a complete reboot of my machine.
You assume too much - you assume that everyone has a computer. You assume that you have cable and not directv - from what I know, you can't connect directly from a directv sattelite into your tv tuner card. You would need a box to get the signal, and output it. Meaning your AIW software wouldn't be worth jack - because it would only be able to record channel 3, or whatever is coming out of the directv tuner box. You also assume that people don't record 2 things at the same time, like tivo can do. I have no idea, but I would assume that the AIW software can't do that. Also, I have owned 2 AIW cards and TV tuner card, all from ATI. All have sucked badly when it came to software. None of them functioned properly on Windows 2000 because ATI can't write stable drivers to save their lives.
"Current Athlons come with a 200MHz bus and 256KB of secondary cache."
Really? I thought I had an Athlon XP with a 266 MHZ bus.... oh wait, if Cnet says 200, I must be wrong!
I don't think RedHat is anything like Microsoft. How could they be? I have 7.3 installed on 15 computers now, and I paid for one professional copy. They don't care. There's the difference right there. I always hear about people hating RedHat, but show me a single person who has been harassed by them over licensing terms, or forced to use their distro over any other OS on this planet. That's what I thought, they have never done anything like that. They are just popular. Is that so wrong? I personally use RedHat because I'm familar with the OS, and I like the support I can find on their website.
I already pay for cable/directv correct? Think about this for a moment, who is really benefiting from that money? ABC, NBC? Nope. The cable or sattelite company. I say TV stations need to go after them for money. I already pay for the service, and should include content as well. It's like paying for internet service and being bombarded by ads at the same time on every website you visit. It sucks, I say web site owners that get a lot of traffic should be going after ISPs for some revenue, TV should work the same way.
People don't rip? Myself, and 4 other people I know with mp3 players in our cars or portable mp3 players sure as hell do. Granted, I download some songs here and there, but also rip 10x more than I download from purchased cds. I don't want my cds sitting in the car melting from the heat, or getting scratched because some fool doesn't know how to handle them correctly. I love groups like 311, and have gone to great lengths to even purchase their unreleased stuff off their own website. Don't tell me people don't rip music just because you don't, and as a result end up stealing everything you listen to.
Yeah, you're right - the quad pumped FSB makes a huge difference. However, if you read that article at the inquirer, they point out that AMD is more than likely going with a 333 FSB, which should help out rather nicely. Still, it's no 533 though.
Really? The Pentium 4 2.53 is cheaper? Wow, that shocks me. If that is the case, you're exactly right - this won't be a huge advantage for AMD unless prices get slashed on the Athlons. The one strong postive I do see however, is that the new Athlon is extremely overclockable. This probably means, we can expect Athlons at faster clock speeds now, not to mention the doubled cache they are supposed to get. So, the 2600+ may not be that exciting, but you can bet that the 2700+ and 2800+ will be. In fact, check out these rumors:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5053
Also, if that's true, and if AMD can stay price competitive - my obvious choice for a processor would be the Athlon with the larger cache and increased FSB, but that seems to be all speculation at this point.
Change your batteries :)
I don't think it's racism - I just think we need to reverse the trend of bringing in more and more people to do jobs that aren't there. Nobody is saying that we need to "throw anybody out", just limit the number of visas coming in. Remember when companies like Microsoft were bitching that there weren't enough tech workers in the U.S., so they had the number of visas increased?? Well, we don't need to keep that high number anymore. I didn't take that as a racist post at all.
What the hell are you talking about?? Do you even realize who OWNS WebTV? If you think WebTV is a stand alone business you, you need to do your homework moron.
So you're saying that it's ok for the record industry to sell CDs that freeze up Macs and don't play in computers? That's insane. I guess you're right though - if they want to commit financial suicide by putting out defective crap, nobody will buy it. That's the way the free market should work - yet the free market should also say that if you want to develop a computer program that did let you play it, you should be able to. However, the later is already illegal. So, if somebody can't make a compatible program/hack, then they shouldn't be allowed to sell something defective if we can't fix it on our own. This congressman has my full support, and hopefully a lot of other people's.
The thunderbird core socket A athlons work perfectly in SMP mode on the Tyan boards. Also, the palomino chips also work on the Thunder K7 boards. The later palomino chips simply need a little modifications to some traces on the chips themselves, and they also work in SMP mode and even recognized as MP cpus! That just goes to show AMD uses the same core for both, they just charge a lot more money for the "certified" chips because they want better margains.
If it was my project, and I knew how to code gui interfaces, I would help. Why do I complain so much? I was simply giving my reasons for not adopting this browser as my "main" browser, hoping others could identify with my problems, which should help bring them to the attention of the developers. Thus, making mozilla better and more usuable. Is there something wrong with that?
"Are you sure this isn't the QuickLaunch thingamabob? Mozilla keeps a daemon-like copy of itself running in the background so it can start up as fast as IE. IE does this too, except the background process is called "Windows" and killing it may reboot your computer."
;)
Yes, I'm sure it's not quicklaunch, I never install that when I install Mozilla, I hate it.
"Rendering form elements requires the browser to tell the OS (Windows) to draw GUI widgets like checkboxes and buttons; these are not handled directly by the browser renderer. Windows can probably tell you're using Evil Non-Microsoft Software and intentionally stalls it every time it requests a GUI widget. Your solution here is to assassinate Bill Gates."
Yeah, except I see similar results on my linux box and mac in this area. It does some very, very weird things when drawing out that form field.
"It sounds to me that your computer is trying to send you subliminal messages in Morse code. I believe either the CIA or FBI have you under surveillance, and are most likely performing some kind of psychological conditioning upon you. The only way to defend against this would be to line your apartment in tin foil, and NEVER use your laptop anywhere else. A fresh tin foil hat wouldn't hurt either."
He he, I'll be sure to try that