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No More Rebooting?
blankmange writes: "This headline caught my eye: 'The End of Computer Rebooting.' Seems that there has been some new developments in memory technology: The new thin-film technology that could give rebooting the boot is based on resistor logic rather than the traditional transistor logic used in most PCs and other memory-enabled devices. It also is considerably faster than current memory systems and holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files. This is great news, but what am I going to do with the extra hour or so a day?"
9:12AM up 13 days, 17:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.64, 0.54, 0.42
The last time I rebooted was because I thought it had died. Turns out the battery drained when I left it on overnight plugged into a deactivated outlet.
And by the way, I run buggy Microsoft programs, betas, shareware, DivXes--so it's not like I'm not using it. What's the point of speedy boot times when I'm not rebooting? Viva la OS X!
well, the parent said this:
I have to back that up. Granted, I've had problems with it on Win2k, nowadays it works like a charm (very mysterious since I've only installed new games and silly stuff like ADSL).
Linux is way, way behind Win2K and WinXP. Too bad some people's egoes are too stuck up where the sun don't shine to admit it. I have much more respect for people who run Linux because it's Free Software (as in GPL/open source). Generally, Linux is playing catch-up when it could have been superior. It's just a matter of standardizing the platform (APIs, toolkits, wheels) a bit more. But how do you do that when everybody is working on their own thing? I think Linux is great when you want to learn CS, but it's not for the common man yet.
It's a bit unfair to bash "linux" though. "Linux" is doing okay, it's a very nice performing kernel.