Less Might Be More 714
Quantum Skyline writes "Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3. Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough. Why debate this? DevHardware has an opinion piece on 'leaner computing' and the author thinks that less might be more." This reminds me of a modern desktop system I saw sitting in a store, running Windows XP just so that it could connect via a terminal to another server and run the store's application. It would seem that even an old VT100 would have sufficed, but someone was able to sell the store a full blown PC.
What Intel giveth... (Score:5, Funny)
Less is more... (Score:1, Funny)
what? (Score:5, Funny)
Could someone put this in terms of .... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm having hard time understanding this article...
Re:inevitable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For those of you under the age of 30... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It all depends on your needs... (Score:4, Funny)
*the only part I don't have yet
Less Might Be More... (Score:5, Funny)
Now who wants to trade my 486 and PII boxes for P4EE and AthlonFX??
Re:Terminal Emulation (Score:2, Funny)
*cough*
No, really.
less is more (Score:5, Funny)
(yes, I know how to block them)
Its true! less is more! (Score:2, Funny)
$ ll -n $(which less; which more;)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 123204 27 May 16:13
-rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 123204 27 May 16:13
so you see kids, sometimes less(1) is more(1)!
My windows box. (Score:2, Funny)
Smaller OS & apps to go with lower spec compu (Score:3, Funny)
Bloatware -- it's not just for Microsoft anymore. Your typical latest SuSE and RedHats require 64MB of main memory or more, and god forbid you try running OOo on the thing. Still too much!
What to do for your granma's system? You want something with up-to-date kernel, a low-profile windowing system and a nice combination of office apps that don't chew up memory and disk like they were going out of style.
Run Uptodate Linux Everywhere [rule-project.org] is one place to look.
Vector Linux [vectorlinux.com] is another.
Re:Here's a good example of 'lean and mean' (Score:5, Funny)
$ ls -li
[...]
69687 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96720 Dec 6 2003 less
69687 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96720 Dec 6 2003 more
[...]
$ _
Correctamundo!
Re:Incorrect analogy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:um... I'd have a different perspective (Score:3, Funny)
Re:inevitable (Score:2, Funny)
The amazing thing about this computer is, I used to smoke about a pack of cigarettes a night sitting in front of this computer with the case cover off. Plus, I was drinking one night and spilled a large rum-and-crystal-light into it (yes, with the case off). I didn't bother shutting it off, since it still seemed to be acting OK. A little while later, the CD-ROM started spitting in and out on its own. The computer still ran, though.
I guess I have upgraded the hard drives in it too...and the memory...and the abovementioned CD-ROM was an upgrade...so I guess this story is completely irrelevant...but I typed it so dammit, it's getting posted!
Re:inevitable (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why are they buying it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What Intel giveth... (Score:2, Funny)
INTEL EXEC: Hey guys our new processor runs 3x as fast as the old one.
MICROSOFT EXEC: Cool no problem, the bloat in our next OS will eat that for breakfast.
Re:inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:um... I'd have a different perspective (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, er, umm... bad example.
Re:inevitable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The sign of a TRUE geek (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Incorrect analogy (Score:1, Funny)
Settle down you two.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:um... I'd have a different perspective (Score:3, Funny)
Now that you mention it -- yes! Yes, it is.
Sincerely,
Bruce Banner
Re:Rust (Score:4, Funny)
- Signed, Texas!
Re:Tech Headlines of the Living Dead (Score:3, Funny)
sentence
I mean, 'Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough'???????????
Double quotation marks are typically used to quote someone, except when nested parenthesis are required. Also, one question mark is enough. If you'd like to indicate that you are shocked to be asking the question, some people like to double up the exclamation mark and the question mark. Didn't you know that?!
the demonic hardware from a 5th dimention paralell to ours?
dimension parallel
And when did all of us stumble across these great uber-machines?
"All of us" never do anything. "Us" is the third person form of "we". "We" can be the subject of a sentence, "us" cannot be the subject of a sentence. I won't even mention the bastardization of "über", the Deutsch which entered the English language with its current meaning as the result of the Nazi propaganda machine.
Cripes, I know journalism isn't Slashdots forte, but how this one even made frontpage in shambled state is an amazing feat in itself.
Amazing indeed. One need only look to the user comments to find helpful and friendly grammar corrections!
Re:inevitable (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Joe Sixpack is looking for "useful life" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:inevitable (Score:5, Funny)
NYEAH!
Re:inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The sign of a TRUE geek (Score:3, Funny)
Damn straight!
It's all about running out to Fry's every week like a fucking lemming!
Less might be more? Only one way to find out! (Score:5, Funny)
$ diff
Binary files
So the answer is a resounding "no". "less" is definitely *not* "more".
Hope that helps.
Stoopid Moran!!@#! (Score:2, Funny)
By all means, buy the cheap systems for your spare room or whatever, but don't tell people to spend less on computers.
You insensitive clod! (Score:3, Funny)
This is a troll, right?
Re:Here's a good example of 'lean and mean' (Score:3, Funny)
Bah... I don't believe in inodes. Everyone knows that inodes aren't real. I think they are nothing more than an elaborate farce, concocted by Linus Torvalds to sell more Penguins(tm).
The thing I really miss about old computers (Score:3, Funny)
Ever since clock speeds went north of 1Mhz and computers lost their switches and blinking lights, we have been living in a world of abstractions.