Posted 11/26/2008 at 06:29:28am

I'm an AMD nut, but it takes more than clocks to make a good processor, and after reading MPC's article on the Intel i7, it's going to take a LOT more. I'm skeptical, but still hopeful!

Posted 11/26/2008 at 06:04:34am

The problem with open source software is that it's OPEN; these companies don't have to pay a large developer workforce because their workforce is significantly volunteer.

 Yes the industry is heading towards "free" and yes, that's a bad thing. And you can't tell me that people will buy a commercial program if it's better than its free counterpart - how many of us have bought Photoshop, even though it's leaps and bounds better than The Gimp or any other free option? And even if there's a price barrier that could be broken, where prices are low enough that we would buy the commercial option, I doubt that Adobe could continue existing if it sold Photoshop for $20. The road to profit in software is definitely leading towards service options, and it's going to be a very bumpy road for a lot of commercial software companies.

And ghot: Linux is nothing more than an elitist toy for nerd snobs. Even the distros that are almost as user friendly as Windows are just as bloated (or more so) as Windows, and you still can't run any of your favorite (even open source) software on it. And since 2003 it hasn't even been useful for servers.

Posted 08/07/2007 at 06:29:02am

Manufacturer's GB are based on base 10 math - 1000 mb per gb. So when I pop this drive into my computer on base 8 math (1024 mb per gb) I could lose ~80gb of space. Has Hitachi corrected this discrepancy or are we still paying for space we don't get?