I Second that. The majority of windows users don't even know there's an alternitive. I use Firefox, and I'm givin Flock a try. They are both amazing. The only problem is getting it out there and still keeping it free.
Hmm well.. most of the general public lacks common sense these days. The brain just isn't a useful tool theese days. Why use it when alomost everything is being made "stupid proof"
I agree. I play Starcraft and love it but the 1998 isometric style at 640x480 isn't cutting it for me. I'd be happy just for them to re-release the game with a major graphics update. I think if the made an actual sequel it would be nice too. They would make a garunteed profit on either.
Hey what's with all the ATI hatin? Right now there not the best but who cares? I still like them. They procide good preformance at a resonable price. I had an intel 256MB generic graphics card in my PC that was terrible. It has worse preformance then the ATI radeon 7000 I upgraded to. I now have a Radeon 9600 Pro I've overclocked that sucker and I can run most everything on highest or high settings. (I also have 2GB of Ram and a 3.1ghz proccessor) I think if AMD and ATI merge witch seems unlikely beacuse of AMD releationship with Nvidia, It will provide AMD with more firepower against Intel. Who's to say if Nvidia graphics cards will not work with the hypothectical new AMD/ATI boards? That would be an incredably stupid move for AMD. If you ask me this whole thing sounds really streched and smells like bullsh*t.
Okay. If you were sneaking out of the house. And your parents could tell where your cellphone is. Then leave it where it should be! Next to your bed! I'm sorry this is really stupid and full of holes and security issues! What if my phone "dies" and I "lose" the simcard temporarily? I dissapear! And what is with all theese kids with cellphones! Who is calling them that is sooo important. If your at home use the house phone! I tired of theese little 11 year old kids with cellphones! You only need a cellphone when your 16 and driving. If you really want to know where your kid is then buy a cheap gps set and tag the kid. It'll save you money in overages and downloads. Or better yet! Just put a chip in the kids neck!
I agree as well! The rating does nothing. I mean nothing. Unless the parents look at it make a decision. They can pass all the laws they want. PC freeware outnumber console by atleast 100 to 1 There's no ratings for that. If the kids can't buy thier voilence then the'll simply just download it. Beacuse the parents don't know or don't care what's going on.
He seems to avoid even touching the admin account. Most single user XP pcs have the only user as an administrator. I Have both XP PRO SP2 installed and also Debain. I can safely say that being at a native person windows is eaiser for me. But I like Debain much better. The only reason I don't use it full time is because Im a gamer. There is on way to run DirectX apps and even OpenGL using Wine is half-assed. There is however a distro Called Lindows/Linspire. It's not true linux (Not trying to start a flame war) but it makes it very easy for Windows people to switch.
I do agree that slashdot did a great job comparing theese cards. They are derfenitnly better than the integrated solutions. However, I feel that theese cards are Perfect for photo editing and very light gaming. But unless you want to run qauke 4 at 800 x 600 on the lowest settings for ever then you gonna have to buy a car that will cost you at least $150. I have a ATI 9600 PRO* that's been overclocked. It does a great job. I can run Counter Strike: Source At the very highest settings just fine. This card only cost me about $175 at the time.
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*note if your wondering what the rest of my setup is: 2GB of RAM, 3.1GHZ proccessor with 1600Mhz of FSB.
Ok so if you have Word 2007: Would you like to create a new blog using MSN? Would you like to view your blog using Internet Explorer? Would you like us to plublish your blog, Fuck up the HTML and then skew your angle by replacing a few political hot buttons?
This picticular problem might have something to do with other factors. It might even be totally unrealted with cellphones. It might even prove that slashdot needs to find something to post other a load of BS for publicity. At any rate I didn't want to copy and paste a serveral pages of info so I posted a few links on RF control and SAR mesurement. This is all FDA and FCC stuff. Cellphones do techniclly ability to cause cancer but put out MUCH less RF than say your pc monitor that your glued to. Its soo small in fact I can't in remeber the RF emmited per KG.
whomever leaked the page to AomethingAwful broke the law.
SomethingAwful broke the law by posting it.
Apple doesn't care about the post, there just worried about the fact that the manufacturing SUCKS.
I dectect Sbatoge! If were the only country whom relies heavily on satelites then They might use our gaint laser of death against us!
Im sorry but this seems like someone has watched Real geinus, Star wars, Star trek, and then put it all together to form; the MEGA DEATH SPINNING MIRROR SNIPER LASER STAR OF DOOM.
(but we intend to use it peacefully)
it's a napster online radio lets freak out everyone! if you can't download and can only listen to it 5 times why is this so great? Download wimap and listin to shoutcast 200+ channels unlimited free music. etc. etc. etc. it's just another internet radio service. a shity one at that.
1.You could launder money like hell through this.
2.I have multiple friends addicted to online rpgs. They would empty their wallets in kess than a second into this thing creating a new type of addiction. Connecting this to real world money is BAD IDEA. Games are in essence just games. Life is life. People whom get into this may be worse than crack addicts.
3.who the hell is going to pay real money for an intangeble item. Most of theese things are less than 1KB of data!
4.More jobs from your home would create a much more obeese america. By 2010 the projected rate of obesity in america is 2 out of 3
Note: I am a pc gamer i don't even own a console. I am writing this from the angle of your average person. I do understand that people will pay for this shit. don't yell at me for ingnorance
Lets forget that this is a university for a second. This is a LAN. A LOCAL AREA NETWORK. I know, I know there might be illgal sharing at a university. But if we let the RIAA have it's way then what's next? Manadatory filters on home PCs and LANs? I don't like the idea of my PC being controlled by someone else. I might be a control freak, I disable windows services, I unistall stuff I don't want, I edit my registry, I built my PC. I control every aspect of my computer and I hope to never see the day when I don't know who does. This may be slightly off topic. But the problem with the RIAA is that they only understand piracy. They don't understand computers, or the spirt of the internet. When US goverment agencies start trying to control the internet you know what hapens? More offshroe servers, more outsourcing, less jobs in america because of offshroe servers and outsourcing. You see, the more laws that get apporved that behinder productivity or the freedoms of the geeks, nerds, and hackers, the more we are screwing ourselves over. Unfourtunaly we the people no longer have the power to say no. The system is to complex and shadey to be at the right place and time to vote against the right bill or law in order to preserve what you belive. Say for instance New York puts put laws against LAN sharing, well if you live in Georgia you can't fly up to New York to say no. Well then Virgina does it because NY did. Then it gets to Georgia. BY popular Vote on some BS board it gets apporved because you and only 5 other people were there to say no. A university might be goverment funded but at its roots it's a private school, a place of Work, a companay. A bisinuss such might have a LAN. Joe in graphics needs the video on how to use photoshop. You have it so you send it to Joe. WHOOPS. You can only get this video by paying for photoshop. You are now a horrible person as far as the RIAA is concerned. Insted you say nope, can't do it Joe. So joe hunts arround for his photoshop serial key so he can match it up with the correct video. 3 hours later Joe still can't find it. He gets fired for it. Now that is what I call extreemly counter-productive.
Now Time for some reality. The above is what will happen if we let the RIAA countine to do this stuff. What is happening is that there are alot of files being sent around by students. I actully doubt that even 10%of thoose files is music. I think that is would be better to burn a CD. It is probolly the videos of whom got punked at parties, the tests answers, homework info, pictures, etc. etc. And if the RIAA is looking for this stuff without asking permision then they themselves are even worse than the people that they are fighting.
Your tax money at work! Sientists can make water go uphill! With this new technology they will do absoultly nothing. But somehow some profit comes out of nowhere. Probolly preformaning street tricks.
I too can make water go uphill.
1.Fill a bucket full of water
2.place it at the base of a hill
3.kick the bucket
I think this is a somewhat vague post to begin with. What exactly are they calling a national ID card? In a sense our country already has one, it's called a social security number. And by having a national ID card what do they mean? Is this a mandatory card? If it's manadatory then no, I think it's a bad idea. If it's optional and makes life easier then I think the majority of the population will get one. I think we also need to think about the national buget before we start making new laws and issusing 300 Million plastic cards. Bush recently raised the nation debt maxumum from $5,000,000,000,000 to $9,000,000,000,000 that means we are going to be spending alot more money on the newly dubed "Long War" This new card would also make life harder for people whom (qoute from bush) "illegaly cross the border and break the law" Those people are really just coming here for a better life they arn't bad, or vile. They just don't understand how the system works. And no one is making an effort to make the system easier for them. Actully there have been rougly about 23 new national laws in the past 6 years making life harder for illegals. The other issue at hand is having "big brother" look up on you. It brings personal insucurity to be watched all the time.
My personal opionon is No. It's a bad idea. I also think this post was a form of a publicity stunt.
FYI FOR SLASHDOT: THIS WAS ON THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART IN MAY OF 2005
Slashdot Mirror
It might of been a poorly staged attack or a good prank? It could have been a floppy - bomb.
I Second that. The majority of windows users don't even know there's an alternitive. I use Firefox, and I'm givin Flock a try. They are both amazing. The only problem is getting it out there and still keeping it free.
Hmm well.. most of the general public lacks common sense these days. The brain just isn't a useful tool theese days. Why use it when alomost everything is being made "stupid proof"
I agree. I play Starcraft and love it but the 1998 isometric style at 640x480 isn't cutting it for me. I'd be happy just for them to re-release the game with a major graphics update. I think if the made an actual sequel it would be nice too. They would make a garunteed profit on either.
You've made file sharing flat! Don't forget to tell the file sharers.
Hey what's with all the ATI hatin? Right now there not the best but who cares? I still like them. They procide good preformance at a resonable price. I had an intel 256MB generic graphics card in my PC that was terrible. It has worse preformance then the ATI radeon 7000 I upgraded to. I now have a Radeon 9600 Pro I've overclocked that sucker and I can run most everything on highest or high settings. (I also have 2GB of Ram and a 3.1ghz proccessor) I think if AMD and ATI merge witch seems unlikely beacuse of AMD releationship with Nvidia, It will provide AMD with more firepower against Intel. Who's to say if Nvidia graphics cards will not work with the hypothectical new AMD/ATI boards? That would be an incredably stupid move for AMD. If you ask me this whole thing sounds really streched and smells like bullsh*t.
Okay. If you were sneaking out of the house. And your parents could tell where your cellphone is. Then leave it where it should be! Next to your bed! I'm sorry this is really stupid and full of holes and security issues! What if my phone "dies" and I "lose" the simcard temporarily? I dissapear! And what is with all theese kids with cellphones! Who is calling them that is sooo important. If your at home use the house phone! I tired of theese little 11 year old kids with cellphones! You only need a cellphone when your 16 and driving. If you really want to know where your kid is then buy a cheap gps set and tag the kid. It'll save you money in overages and downloads. Or better yet! Just put a chip in the kids neck!
I agree as well! The rating does nothing. I mean nothing. Unless the parents look at it make a decision. They can pass all the laws they want. PC freeware outnumber console by atleast 100 to 1 There's no ratings for that. If the kids can't buy thier voilence then the'll simply just download it. Beacuse the parents don't know or don't care what's going on.
mabye the people are going away beacuse there not the most reliable people eh? Woops we "accidently" "forgot" to turn the oxygen supply on.
This is bullshit. Brainwashing kids i nthe 3rd grade and tageting the music downloaders? This is another cheap shot.
He seems to avoid even touching the admin account. Most single user XP pcs have the only user as an administrator. I Have both XP PRO SP2 installed and also Debain. I can safely say that being at a native person windows is eaiser for me. But I like Debain much better. The only reason I don't use it full time is because Im a gamer. There is on way to run DirectX apps and even OpenGL using Wine is half-assed. There is however a distro Called Lindows/Linspire. It's not true linux (Not trying to start a flame war) but it makes it very easy for Windows people to switch.
I do agree that slashdot did a great job comparing theese cards. They are derfenitnly better than the integrated solutions. However, I feel that theese cards are Perfect for photo editing and very light gaming. But unless you want to run qauke 4 at 800 x 600 on the lowest settings for ever then you gonna have to buy a car that will cost you at least $150. I have a ATI 9600 PRO* that's been overclocked. It does a great job. I can run Counter Strike: Source At the very highest settings just fine. This card only cost me about $175 at the time.
> *note if your wondering what the rest of my setup is: 2GB of RAM, 3.1GHZ proccessor with 1600Mhz of FSB.
Ok so if you have Word 2007: Would you like to create a new blog using MSN? Would you like to view your blog using Internet Explorer? Would you like us to plublish your blog, Fuck up the HTML and then skew your angle by replacing a few political hot buttons?
This picticular problem might have something to do with other factors. It might even be totally unrealted with cellphones. It might even prove that slashdot needs to find something to post other a load of BS for publicity. At any rate I didn't want to copy and paste a serveral pages of info so I posted a few links on RF control and SAR mesurement. This is all FDA and FCC stuff. Cellphones do techniclly ability to cause cancer but put out MUCH less RF than say your pc monitor that your glued to. Its soo small in fact I can't in remeber the RF emmited per KG.
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RF Safe limits and effects: http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/qa.html#3/
FDC Cnotrol act on devices: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fdcact/fdcact5c.ht
Intel Thrice core 3
Sitting on the couch drinking gives you muscels! WOPPEEE! no exercise for me!
whomever leaked the page to AomethingAwful broke the law. SomethingAwful broke the law by posting it. Apple doesn't care about the post, there just worried about the fact that the manufacturing SUCKS.
I dectect Sbatoge! If were the only country whom relies heavily on satelites then They might use our gaint laser of death against us! Im sorry but this seems like someone has watched Real geinus, Star wars, Star trek, and then put it all together to form; the MEGA DEATH SPINNING MIRROR SNIPER LASER STAR OF DOOM. (but we intend to use it peacefully)
it's a napster online radio lets freak out everyone! if you can't download and can only listen to it 5 times why is this so great? Download wimap and listin to shoutcast 200+ channels unlimited free music. etc. etc. etc. it's just another internet radio service. a shity one at that.
1.You could launder money like hell through this. 2.I have multiple friends addicted to online rpgs. They would empty their wallets in kess than a second into this thing creating a new type of addiction. Connecting this to real world money is BAD IDEA. Games are in essence just games. Life is life. People whom get into this may be worse than crack addicts. 3.who the hell is going to pay real money for an intangeble item. Most of theese things are less than 1KB of data! 4.More jobs from your home would create a much more obeese america. By 2010 the projected rate of obesity in america is 2 out of 3 Note: I am a pc gamer i don't even own a console. I am writing this from the angle of your average person. I do understand that people will pay for this shit. don't yell at me for ingnorance
The main adavantage that macs have over most pcs is that they don't have windows installed. :)
Lets forget that this is a university for a second. This is a LAN. A LOCAL AREA NETWORK. I know, I know there might be illgal sharing at a university. But if we let the RIAA have it's way then what's next? Manadatory filters on home PCs and LANs? I don't like the idea of my PC being controlled by someone else. I might be a control freak, I disable windows services, I unistall stuff I don't want, I edit my registry, I built my PC. I control every aspect of my computer and I hope to never see the day when I don't know who does. This may be slightly off topic. But the problem with the RIAA is that they only understand piracy. They don't understand computers, or the spirt of the internet. When US goverment agencies start trying to control the internet you know what hapens? More offshroe servers, more outsourcing, less jobs in america because of offshroe servers and outsourcing. You see, the more laws that get apporved that behinder productivity or the freedoms of the geeks, nerds, and hackers, the more we are screwing ourselves over. Unfourtunaly we the people no longer have the power to say no. The system is to complex and shadey to be at the right place and time to vote against the right bill or law in order to preserve what you belive. Say for instance New York puts put laws against LAN sharing, well if you live in Georgia you can't fly up to New York to say no. Well then Virgina does it because NY did. Then it gets to Georgia. BY popular Vote on some BS board it gets apporved because you and only 5 other people were there to say no. A university might be goverment funded but at its roots it's a private school, a place of Work, a companay. A bisinuss such might have a LAN. Joe in graphics needs the video on how to use photoshop. You have it so you send it to Joe. WHOOPS. You can only get this video by paying for photoshop. You are now a horrible person as far as the RIAA is concerned. Insted you say nope, can't do it Joe. So joe hunts arround for his photoshop serial key so he can match it up with the correct video. 3 hours later Joe still can't find it. He gets fired for it. Now that is what I call extreemly counter-productive. Now Time for some reality. The above is what will happen if we let the RIAA countine to do this stuff. What is happening is that there are alot of files being sent around by students. I actully doubt that even 10%of thoose files is music. I think that is would be better to burn a CD. It is probolly the videos of whom got punked at parties, the tests answers, homework info, pictures, etc. etc. And if the RIAA is looking for this stuff without asking permision then they themselves are even worse than the people that they are fighting.
with all the outsourcing there will be no IT jobs left to get certified for
Your tax money at work! Sientists can make water go uphill! With this new technology they will do absoultly nothing. But somehow some profit comes out of nowhere. Probolly preformaning street tricks. I too can make water go uphill. 1.Fill a bucket full of water 2.place it at the base of a hill 3.kick the bucket
I think this is a somewhat vague post to begin with. What exactly are they calling a national ID card? In a sense our country already has one, it's called a social security number. And by having a national ID card what do they mean? Is this a mandatory card? If it's manadatory then no, I think it's a bad idea. If it's optional and makes life easier then I think the majority of the population will get one. I think we also need to think about the national buget before we start making new laws and issusing 300 Million plastic cards. Bush recently raised the nation debt maxumum from $5,000,000,000,000 to $9,000,000,000,000 that means we are going to be spending alot more money on the newly dubed "Long War" This new card would also make life harder for people whom (qoute from bush) "illegaly cross the border and break the law" Those people are really just coming here for a better life they arn't bad, or vile. They just don't understand how the system works. And no one is making an effort to make the system easier for them. Actully there have been rougly about 23 new national laws in the past 6 years making life harder for illegals. The other issue at hand is having "big brother" look up on you. It brings personal insucurity to be watched all the time. My personal opionon is No. It's a bad idea. I also think this post was a form of a publicity stunt. FYI FOR SLASHDOT: THIS WAS ON THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART IN MAY OF 2005