I'm not sure I understand the enthusiasm here. Linux running M$ apps, why? With all of the complaining about M$ that occurs here, why do so many people see this as a great thing? Isn't the whole point to keep Linux separate from anything M$? I'll admit I use M$ products because I really don't have much of a choice, it's what I know and have used since DOS 5.0 and I don't have the cash to build a Linux only machine, but this seems so *against* everything that open-source stands for. Can someone clarify?
Your whole argument seems to stem from the concept of bloatware (to most people here, M$ software). I agree with you to an extent-we seem to be becoming less efficient with what we have. Every new Window$ version requires double the RAM, etc. But someone pointed out, the more computer users want, the more system resources they're going to need. Whether it be harddrive space or RAM or processing power, no one is working toward a more efficient system. I may be wrong about Linux, or what Linux is supposed to become (because I am not that familiar with the goals of Linux), but I don't foresee even Linux advocates saying, "We have to make sure this will run on a floppy disk booted 286 w/4MB of RAM, so it will be pointless to run it on those 1GB Mghtz powerhouses."
So what I guess I'm saying is, the hardware is there, no one sees the need to make the software any more efficient in it's use of that hardware, because there will be something better/faster a month down the road.
I for one am not sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for Gateway to come out with an AMD based system. Everyone I know who has owned a Gateway has had multiple problems with them. I'd build my own system long before picking up one of those cow/dalmation piles of %^$#.
As for AMD getting out their 800 (and soon, 850) Athlon, sweet! That just means I can afford an AMD 500 Athlon (which I'll overclock to 800+) sooner!
Good luck trying to get your rebate back in the mail. It's been two years since I sent a rebate form in for some memory I purchased, and over a year for a video card I purchased. I would definitely hit OfficeCrap and get the instant rebate at the checkout!!!
I was born and lived in WI until I went to college. During that entire period, "Radio Shack" was considered high tech. I went to Mpls for college and loved it. Now I'm in Milwaukee, WI because this is my first computer related job, and it required that I move here. Stay out of WI if you can, you will be under-paid and under-appreciated. I would go back to Mpls in a heartbeat.
I still have two people who have not gotten back to me about their systems, and this is the last day I'll be doing any work (Unreal Tournament doesn't count =]). Oh well, I guess they don't want to work after Dec 31st. =P
Until the Electoral college bullshit is removed and my vote counts directly towards the total for the President, I have no reason to get my ass out of my chair and vote. Voting someone in, so they can vote for me, is stupid.
As much as I understand wanting to push a processor to it's limits, let's think about this from Intel's point of view. They *KNOW* someone's going to overclock it. With this new XXXE chipset, just like the first Celerons, they knew they could give these chips to the public at whatever speed they desired. If these were coming out in 6 months, do you think these same chips would be running at 500 or 550? No way, Intel would be forced to sell them at near the peak of the their performance-from what I've seen, almost 800mghtz. If you're going to buy one of these, wait for a month or two, the price will be significantly lower and you'll still be able to overclock the piss out of it. If you want something to overclock now, go to Pricewatch and buy a 300-400 Mghtz Celeron for well under $100. I have yet to find a game that won't run just fine on my 400 Mghtz non-overclocked Celeron system.
I bet there's a ton of these "sets" being returned as I write this. From what I've read here in/. alone, it doesn't sound like anyone under 12 could begin to use them, but you'd never know that from the commercials. What's the suggested age range on them?
Cripes, where are all of the Slashdot scientists to give us some lay-men (sp?) explanation? I didn't stay awake long enough in chemistry (can't remember much physics either) to even begin to understand the website.
I guess I want something I can use as a file server (my two current machines run Win 98 SE), and I want to be able to play with Linux. Become more familiar with it. I'd like to be able to use it for connecting to the Internet, maybe try out Star Office. Who knows, I'm new to this... =]
I've been wanting to ask this for awhile, and I guess this is my best chance. I want to learn more about Linux, but I'm not sure what I need hardware-wise. What would be adequate for a Linux machine (CPU, RAM, video card)? I'm not asking, "what is the minimum requirements I need," where I would get answers like, "Linux will run on a 386 w/4MB of RAM!" I don't care about that. I want something usable, preferably for a server at home.
Use your happy little plastic Web-box to find out where the other people are who have Internet access (probably via one of the other Web-boxes). Send them a msg explaining that you can better survive if you work together, so you propose a spot to meet. Once you are together, kill the weakest of them with your Web-box and feed your daughter. I don't recall the essay "rules" saying anything about cultural taboos. =]
I'm sure to take a lot of slack for this, but I haven't had time to set-up a machine with Linux yet. From what I have heard though, it is a very efficient OS. As for Window$, it seems like every time there is a new "OS" created, my machine needs a friggen upgrade. The first game I bought that had minimum requirements for both Win 95 and Win 98 (Mech Commander, I believe), had 32MB RAM for Win 95, 64MB RAm for Win 98. What the hell? Since when does innovation=inefficiency?
Again I apologize for being stuck in the Micro$soft rut. Someday I'll get out of it. (Does it help that games are basically my only use for that %^$#? =)
What is the point of this? 80 hours of music? 10 hours of battery life? So you're looking at roughly 144 hrs needed to hear all of this music, figuring 8 hrs of recharge time on that battery. =]
I just don't get this at all. I've already ordered a Nomad that will hold an hour of music and has a FM receiver in it. No delicate harddrives, just some flash memory. I'm sure it will last longer than my old Sony CD Player has after being dropped a couple of times on tight corners! And I also have no reason to carry every song I've ever liked around with me. Who has the time to even set that up?!?! I'll stick to spending my time playing Homeworld or 1/2 Life.
According to the article, their concerned that businesses will do such things as "end warranties" through e-mail I guess. Then, according to others, that isn't allowed. If that's the case, why not pass the legislation?
What I really don't get is how do you return something using this "system"? If everything is electronically generated, will we need to send an electronic receipt back before the return would be allowed. What will happen to paper receipts? Won't electronic receipts be fairly easy to doctor up?
My first computer, a PB Legend 486/66 DX2 (bought literally one week before Intel dropped the Pentium's on us, yay me). I must have reloaded Win 95 on there about 50 times because the system would go to hell about once a week. I kept getting COM address conflicts for no reason (oh look mommy, my modem no longer works...). I upgraded the 4MB of onboard RAM (yay) to 20 MB and the problems stopped. Too damned bad I bought those SIMMS at the peak of memory prices at the time. And then what did I do? I off course bought the Intel 83 Mghtz Overdrive processor for some ungodly price. Oh, what was that, you need a "Packard Bell Interposer" between the chip and the board for it to work! NO!!! Four weeks later, I finally get the part and the machine running. Now, six years later, the machine is sitting, dead. I've scavenged the piece of crap because I couldn't even try to use one of those PCI processor solutions (no PCI slot, only three ISA slots) to upgrade it.
I own a motherboard from PC CHips, and I wouldn't get too excited. I have only had it a couple of months and it has been replaced once already (IDE 0 fried for no reason). I have also never seen any of these motherboards (Alton) reviewed on a website (Sharky Extreme, or some other equivalent). This is just another way for PC Chips to get rid of the motherboards they make.
"Am I the only one using a Celeron and not overclocking it???"-Me
I've seen all of these posts that say they would use genetic engineering to remove any "disease" from their unborn children, but no one has considered what this is going to do the POPULATION PROBLEM. If we wipe out all forms of disease, including those incurred at birth or before birth, we're going to create a society that is going to run into multiple problems, including worldwide resource depletion beyond recovery and probably worldwide war. Disease, defects, etc are natural; part of the greater scheme of the chaos of the universe. We're just screwing ourselves by forcing order into that chaos.
I know what you're saying. I just built a computer at home, bought a 128MB PC100 chip last week (for a hundred dollars less than ZDNet reported them being by the way), and now the start producing them again?!?! The same thing happened when I bought 32MB of RAM for my 486/66 half a decade ago. Makes me want to cry. -------------------------------------------------- "I like stories."-Homer Simpson
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I'm not sure I understand the enthusiasm here. Linux running M$ apps, why? With all of the complaining about M$ that occurs here, why do so many people see this as a great thing? Isn't the whole point to keep Linux separate from anything M$? I'll admit I use M$ products because I really don't have much of a choice, it's what I know and have used since DOS 5.0 and I don't have the cash to build a Linux only machine, but this seems so *against* everything that open-source stands for. Can someone clarify?
So what I guess I'm saying is, the hardware is there, no one sees the need to make the software any more efficient in it's use of that hardware, because there will be something better/faster a month down the road.
As for AMD getting out their 800 (and soon, 850) Athlon, sweet! That just means I can afford an AMD 500 Athlon (which I'll overclock to 800+) sooner!
Too bad I live in WI...
I was born and lived in WI until I went to college. During that entire period, "Radio Shack" was considered high tech. I went to Mpls for college and loved it. Now I'm in Milwaukee, WI because this is my first computer related job, and it required that I move here. Stay out of WI if you can, you will be under-paid and under-appreciated. I would go back to Mpls in a heartbeat.
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Now if he only bothered to spend some time modifying that "hockey puck" Apple calls a mouse, he would have it made!
Use your happy little plastic Web-box to find out where the other people are who have Internet access (probably via one of the other Web-boxes). Send them a msg explaining that you can better survive if you work together, so you propose a spot to meet. Once you are together, kill the weakest of them with your Web-box and feed your daughter. I don't recall the essay "rules" saying anything about cultural taboos. =]
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Again I apologize for being stuck in the Micro$soft rut. Someday I'll get out of it. (Does it help that games are basically my only use for that %^$#? =)
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I just don't get this at all. I've already ordered a Nomad that will hold an hour of music and has a FM receiver in it. No delicate harddrives, just some flash memory. I'm sure it will last longer than my old Sony CD Player has after being dropped a couple of times on tight corners! And I also have no reason to carry every song I've ever liked around with me. Who has the time to even set that up?!?! I'll stick to spending my time playing Homeworld or 1/2 Life.
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What I really don't get is how do you return something using this "system"? If everything is electronically generated, will we need to send an electronic receipt back before the return would be allowed. What will happen to paper receipts? Won't electronic receipts be fairly easy to doctor up?
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I *HATE* PB.
Die fsckers Die.
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"Am I the only one using a Celeron and not overclocking it???"-Me
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I know what you're saying. I just built a computer at home, bought a 128MB PC100 chip last week (for a hundred dollars less than ZDNet reported them being by the way), and now the start producing them again?!?! The same thing happened when I bought 32MB of RAM for my 486/66 half a decade ago. Makes me want to cry. -------------------------------------------------- "I like stories."-Homer Simpson