I'm curious...What benchmarks are you talking about exactly? And I do mean, exactly. From what I know, the overhead is not an issue at all. It sounds like you have a software or hardware problem unrelated to the actual machine itself. I am also a mathematician, and sigh, it is strange that Mathematica is not dual processor aware that I know of (Windows 2000 version at least). It would help a lot to do simulations on non-serialized/simultaneous systems of equations in Mathematica if it could divy the computations among the CPU's. There are SMP aware modules that you can use with Mathematica and the Mathematica kernel. I just sent Wolfram Research an email as I was typing this response about SMP awareness in Mathematica. I am switching to Macintosh OSX as soon as this fall comes around (I am hoping at least) or next spring for sure. And I have used Mathematica on Linux and I like it in that environment (much better than Windows 2000), so I am looking forward to it on Mac OSX. You can Mathematica in a parallel computing environment such as Mosix and others, so I don't see why Wolfram can't make Mathematica SMP aware. I am going to wait for their response. But, SMP on Mac OSX is not a problem.
It's just a cool phrase. My boss at work uses it all of the time. Whenever I jazz something up because it is going outside of our production to someone else who has to look at it, and he likes it, he will say "Man, now that is sexy. " Or when I am spending too much time formatting when I should be just digging it getting the problems solved, he will say "Hey, there's no need to make it all sexy, just get the problem solved and then worry about all of that other crap later." So, it's just a cool phrase, and I think the maintainer is a pretty cool guy too."
Servers, as you unfortunately think, are not just designed for one thing in particular. Some are FILE servers, some are APPLICATION servers, some are RENDERING servers, some are PRINT servers, some are WEB SERVERS, some are ATM, some are MAINFRAME, some are...Kid, get a clue. The job one server does at serving files with massive I/O both internally and externally, is NOT the same as some server being used at a backend rendering machine (which isn't used as much as Slashdot people pretend that they are...in the real world that is).
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Look, Gerv...Open your eyes to reality. Religion is a crutch for the weak mind, a mind that is selfish and self centered. This is especially true of Christianity (which happens to not be the oldest nor the most popular religion in the world). Just because we as a species have traveled in space doesn't make the ancient belief that gods traveled in chariets pulling the sun behind a team of horses any less true that your belief that a human being came back from his supposed death. I wrote a paper once for an independent study in college about the different versions of the Christian bible. Whatever version you have was written specifically to control, twist, and implant a moral and ethical character in the society in which it was practiced. If you ever learn to read Latin (which I spent 4 years doing), then maybe you should start reading, if you can find them, some of the original Latin scrolls. No translations by dark-age kings. You will open you eyes to the tragedy that was the Hebrews. A worthless group of murders who came down from the areas around Mount Zion and basically killed everyone who didn't believe in their God. Where did the two versions of creation come from? It was the long, enduring battle to kill off the belief in a female god, which was the prominent religion of the time. The snake (serpeant) and the horned bull? The two female symbols of power. What did the Hebrews/Jews/Christians do to those symbols? When did the female go from being the mother of all life, to a companion to the new creation Adam from the new Hebrew/Zionist god Yehwah (Jehovah...God), to being the downfall of mankind out of Eden? How did every culture which was not Hebrew, then Jewish, and then Christian become? Did they suddenly all perish because they did not believe in this new monotheistic God? Did you not study the massive killings and genocides by the Hebrews? The victors are always "righteous" and "holy" in their quests. They just used their new God as an excuse to kill. Christianity is simply an offshoot of that, and isn't that what is still happening today? Unbeknownest to the creators of the constitution, the United States has been declared a Christian nation (thanks to Senator McCarthy in ~1945 when the Communist were the devil and much more...and now President Bush), not a nation of free religions and free thinking? Don't you understand how and why Israel was created? Have you ever heard of the Zionist movement? Don't you see the true face of religion? Open your eyes man. Study the world of the real. Educate yourself in many religions. Believe all of them. Believe none of them. Look into the sky and into the mirror and never stop asking. When you can answer all of the mysteries of the universe in one word...Then you have lost.
Yes, yes, there is absolutely something wrong with that. Normal and correct is not always the same as politically correct. Not everything is right, natural, or normal just because it is different.
Yes, I would fly in a plane designed by someone who was never a pilot. Thousands of people do every single day. Do you think all of the thousands of physicists and engineers who designed the space shuttle were astronauts? No. Just because you are talented in aerospace engineering does not mean you have to be an astronaut to sucessful build a space shuttle. As far as an airplane and pilots...You are a total moron. A major airplane takes thousands and thousands of engineers (of many fields), physicists, designers, etc. and each one is specialized in his/her field. One team designs and builds the jet engines, one team designs the wings, one team does all of the plane's control wiring, one team etc. etc. and they all come together under one roof to create a single designed airplane. Does it have to be designed by a pilot. No. As a matter of fact, the plane was designed by a team of very talented engineers and tested in a wind tunnel, not a group of pilots.
There is something amazingly and glaringly obvious about your post that is in the hearts of a lot of Americans that makes me sad and makes me sick. That there is some kind of crooked conspiracy here and that you have to tell everybody everything you do in order to be deemed a "good person". You have to ask the right people the right questions and you have to bend over and kiss the right ass in order to have any support. Ronald Reagan was a hero. You may or may not have supported him or all of his ideas and actions, but this one thing will forever go down in history as a man who fought for his countryman against all odds. Those were American POW's in Iran. There was no apparent way of getting them back alive. Reagan begged Congress to help. The answer "No". Reagan begged other countries to help. The answer "No". He couldn't get support from Congress, from the Senate, from foreign leaders, so he did what 99.9999% of Americans would never do today...He became a true leader, a true man, he grew a spine, and he did what needed to be done to bring our boys home...fuck Congress, fuck the rules, fuck foreign leaders, fuck everyone and everything. The POW's needed our help and Reagan brought them home. So, to get that done he had to sell black market arms to the Contra's in Iran. Big fucking deal. What they should have done was given the man a medal and called him a true American. But, instead, all of the whiny, spineless fucks in the US tried to bring charges down upon him and the administration for doing what a leader is born to do. To lead and to do what is right, even if everybody else tells you that you are wrong.
Actually, it did just come out of thin air. It is exactly what another poster said in a previous post. To quote " I think religion is probably just a perplexing psychological manifestation with roots in humans' primordial fear of the unknown and the unbearable knowledge of certain death." And at many times throughout history, people thought the sun was raised into the sky by chariots chasing away the moon, and the world's current religion(s) are just as unscientific as they were 20,000 years ago. Your "religious experience" has NOTHING to do with some invisible whatever floating around you or somewhere mysterious somewhere else in the universe doing unseen mysterious things to you or for you. Why don't you do some serious research on the bodies ability to heal and control itself. And I don't mean cancer or any of that hokus-pokus crap. I am talking about fear, depression, stress, etc. It's like when you are completely stressed out, depressed, you are having serious life/relationship/employment troubles and it seems like the world is spinning out of control...you go home and see you Mom and suddenly everything is perfectly better (for most of us, sorry for those with bad mothers or broken families). Did everything actually get better? No, of course not. It was that your brain told your body that things were okay, and so your body healed itself. You were more confident, you remembered how to smile, you felt more invincible because you know there is someone who will never leave your side no matter how bad things get, and things will be peaceful again just like whenever your Mom holds you in her arms, you know she loves you. This goes for a person's wife, girlfriend, finance too. So, what healed you was the belief that you were okay. Nothing more. Since this is all in the mind, which is normal and super healthy, it is simple to see people simply being told by someone that they are okay (priest in a church) and having the same reaction in thrie health and body. Of course, shear ignorance causes them to believe it was some invisible being in outspace or whatever causing it to happen, instead of the truth. It was just you all along.
If the computers all come with Winmodems, and the Winmodems can be made to work with a recompiled kernel, and if RedHat wanted to get Linux on all of those "OS-less" machines, why don't they just build a special version of RedHat with that modem driver inside the kernel specifically for WalMart computers? Then there would be no problem at all for new Linux users.
What the world is horribly short on are people who follow their dreams. Yes, it is completely reasonable to follow you dreams for the rest of your entire life. That was the point of my previous post. If everyone followed their dream for the rest of their lives, this world would be such a better place.
What in the hell is with the quote You will be dead within a year. at the bottom of this page? That is a horrible and demented thing to say on a website in which I view as a place free of wierd, psychotic shit. I'm seriously offended by that.
Okay, whoever modded you up to +3 doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Apple makes a BSD based distribution called "Darwin" and it IScompletelyFREE. Porting this OS would make a helluva lot more sense than porting NetBSD to this platform. The only reason to do it with NetBSD would be to waste redundant effort making NetBSD work on yet another platform instead of taking excellent, existing technology and making that work instead. But, then I guess there is Linux, QNX, Windows, Solaris, etc. for Intel, so whatever, right?
PostgresSQL? Right. Then reality hits you and the Open Source movement in the head with a sledgehammer. Oracle scales, performs, and is infinitely more robust and powerful than ANYTHING close to it for Linux. This is not software that someone uses to catalog their little MP3 collection. Open source terabyte relation databases? Hello?
I will still assume the same about your level of Mathematics, because I can tell you have only ever reached a certain level of understanding about both Mathematics and the world. Comparing the understanding of cricket or money to Mathematics was neither cute nor intelligent, since they have nothing to do with your understanding of Mathematics. If you wish to start an intelligent thought, try figuring out how adding a circle together with a triangle could get you a square. That is the same as adding 1 and 2 and getting 3. You are using numbers to replace the shapes, but the Mathematics is still the same. But, that doesn't make any sense to you, does it? None of it is made up. You don't understand Mathematics, so why are you arguing with me about it? First of all, you can prove something beyond all doubt, that is what is meant by a "truth". I am speaking of the basis of all Mathematics, which is what all of Physics and all other sciences are creations of. Mathematics was not a framework created to describe anything. Mathematics creates its own framework by its own "truths" and these thruths and frameworks are what describe the universe for us. Mathematics started out with a few "thruths", things which are simple, yet are the basis for everything. Mathematics would be the same as the principle behind DNA. DNA in its basic form is very simple. But, from a few simple strands of DNA all of life can be derived. That is the exact same as Mathematics. We did not create all of Mathematics at once, like you are believing. Mathematics is based on a couple of basic "truths" and from those, Mathematics creates itself. There will never be an end to Mathematics nor to its discoveries. Everything in Mathematics is a description of something in the Universe. That is the beauty and the mystery behind Mathematics. All of the universes answers are there, whether you can understand that or not. It is not a superimposed framework, only confined to boundaries that have all been set. When you start out with 1 truth, you can derive another truth based on that original truth. Continue this process indefinitely, without ever breaking any of the truths previously set forth and you "create" Mathematics. The mystery of Mathematics is that it *perfectly* describes the universe. It is a framework that has created itself and will continually to create itself indefinitely. You do not even use numbers when you reach any college Math course above about ~400 (given wherever Abstract Algebra falls for you). The ideas presented at that level and above show you where Math comes from, what some of those "truths" are, and why a "proof" is exactly that, a proof. If you don't understand that, then go and learn something. Now, there is another interesting problem with your thinking. Since nothing for you is an absolute truth, and you are not a Mathematician, then I implore you to answer me these questions...Are you alive? Do you think? Is what you believe to be reality actually exist? Can you prove that somewhere, someone else in another universe somewhere isn't just dreaming all of this and one day he will wake up and it will all be over? What exactly is real? Now, on to intelligent conversation. What is a "truth" to you? You being alive is a truth? Somewhere in the universe, there is 1 absolute truth. And from that, another truth was born. And from that truth another was born. Repeat. The universe is set on a discrete group of rules. Rules which Mathematics give you. Oh, and just to let you know, without Mathematics, physical sciences would not and could never exist. Physical science is Mathematics in action. Mathematics is the basis of all science. And no, I do not have my foot in my mouth. I do know your level of Mathematics. It is obvious and blatant by your arguments. I just argue with you because it makes me very sad to see someone so completely wrong about something, who is so completely convinced he is right. I wish you could argue with me and know what you are speaking about, because even knowing someone is as ignorant about something as important as Mathematics makes me sad. Einstein was wrong then too, eh? Did he ever travel at the speed of light? If Mathematics was just something made up, that doesn't have anything to do with the world, then how could Mathematics predict the future with exact accuracy? And how could Mathematics tell me something that neither I nor anyone ever alive have never experienced before, such as gravity bending light...Although that is exactly what Mathematics did and now we all know it to be true. Is it possible to know everything absolutely? No, of course not. But, does Mathematics? Yes, it does. It is just the mystery of finding it that keeps us going. I can describe you perfectly with this quote by Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
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Standing at a computer in a Math department posting to Slashdot or sitting in your living room after having passed remedial Algebra in college does not mean you are a Mathematician nor does it mean you are a Math professor. In Science and Mathematics, there is no concept of "God". Christianity and Mathematics/Science are mutually exclusive. I am a studying Hindu (love that religion) and a practicing Buddhist (his teachings and philosophy). Does this change the Math behind anything? NO. Referring to c as a "God Unit" and saying that "we" (as if your are a Mathemician) don't look at numbers when "we" do our work is total and utter bullshit.Mathematics and Physics are *not* mutually exclusive, they are one and the same. Fiddling with numbers? Maths department? Why am I replying to a HS student? A Physicist and a Mathematician will generally assume a value to be something, let's say 1, because it has no bearing on the actual outcome of the problem. If it will always drop out of an equation, they why give it value? Have you ever taken a course in Applied Numerical Analysis? Of course you haven't, or you wouldn't be posting what you did. It's all about making your equations exact to certain decimal places. It's a 400 level college course. Try it sometime. Have you ever figured out how to solve an integral without integrating a function? Have you ever made sure you could make an answer accurate to the 20th or 30th significant digit because calculators cannot be accurate to that precision due to round off errors and other such limitations? Of course you haven't, or you would understand that you are using c to represent something. In the case you are using it, it could technically be any letter, because you are not using it numerically. You have the two completely confused in your head. c does represent something, and at one time a Mathematician/Physicist figured it out numerically.
Actually, NO, you are completely wrong. I am a Mathematician working on his MS in Theoretical Mathematics (with a large amount of applied). Mathematics is *not* completely made up. To the aspiring Mathematician in a previous post, I applaud you for seeking the truth which lies in Mathematics. Now, on to the idiot I am replying to, Mathematics are based on a very small number of "truths" that cannot be disproved. The concept of the empty set, the invention of the zero element in a set, etc. From these absolute truths, all of Mathematics can be derived. You are *not* a Mathematician, so do *not* fill this forum with your ignorant bullshit. Mathematics is the language of the universe, Physics is simply the construction and application of Mathematics. They are *not* mutually exclusive to each other. Without Mathematics, there would be no Physics, without Physics there would be no computer, no Engineering, and you would not be driving home from work in your car, sitting down on your computer in a room filled with artificial light, and posting the shit you just did on the Internet. Mathematics are *not* made up. A few simple rules that cannot be broken nor disproved, that can, when used correctly, tell you everything about the universe and some day will. Have you ever heard of simple counting or geometry? Seeing as how you have never reached a Mathematics education beyond *possibly* 1st year Pre-Calculus, I would advise you to take a college course in Advanced Calculus and Contemporary Abstract Algebra (or an equivalent course in group and ring theory). Not understanding something does not give you the right to speak about it with self-given authority. Mathematics *can* prove absolutely. It is a person's ability to interpret the results correctly that is the problem at times. Einstein did *not* disprove Newton. If you had an Physics background along with an Mathematics background, you would know that Relativity Theory is an *extention* of Newtonian Physics, *not* a replacement or proof against it. If you run Einsteinian Physics at sub-light speeds you will eventually end up with Newtonian Physics. Same equations as Newton. Scary to learn something new, isn't it? Mathematics is *never* wrong. Only the uneducated and the ignorant speak against it, because when you know nothing about a topic, there is no limit to what you can believe and speak about it. And what HS student modded the comment I am replying to up to a +5??? The education system makes me just shake my head in depression and get sick to my stomach for the upcoming generation. A world filled with Tech School graduates and the rest of the people too dumb to understand an Math beyond balancing their checkbooks (which they use a calculator for). Oh, and I am sure Pi is simply made up too:-) Of course, with your knowledge of Mathematics, why not just make it equal to 3. They did it in South Carolina I believe. You would fit in with those people.
Actually, you havent' been paying attention at all. A PhD makes you an expert in a particular subject. They are not given away for free (I am not talking about Liberal Arts PhD's...I am pursuing my MS in Theoretical Mathematics and no one on Slashdot even has the slighest idea...). In *my* experience, the people with their GED, and/or the 2 year Tech. School graduates working in Tech. Support believe they know everything about everything. Why would a man/woman with a PhD in Physics give a shit about his laptop? He/she is concerned with matters of a completely different and much higher magnitude than "...they can't even get the mouse to work right because they dropped it on the floor..." Sorry Tech Support people, that is *your* job. You don't have a PhD in Computer Science and both you and I know you could never get one, so why be bitter about it. Your self-proclaimed speciality may be in playing with Linux or random bits of hardware, but these PhD people, myself included, either have no care in the world how their computers work because they are there to get something done and not play with their computers and become experts on them, or they *are* experts on their computers, but don't have time to fuck around with them because they have many other *much* more important things to do. Granted, I think it is funny sometimes myself when I see a Doctor in AstroPhysics become annoyed with his computer, but then I also understand that he/she can tell me about how and where to discover alien planets orbiting alien suns and give me the Mathematics/Physics to back it up...and all I can do is smile and help him/her out with their computers. I don't always enjoy Slashdot...A PhD *is* a big deal. You don't have one. Don't pretend you do or that you could get one. Believing you are smart does *not* give you one either. Flipping hamburgers or working as Tech Support at some no name company while you play with Linux or computers claiming to know everything about the world without have a shit of a clue does get you one either...Rather, it makes *you* the ignorant one with the ego problem. Some people care about things %1000 other than Linux or computers. If they don't have a PhD in CS, they why should they?
Okay, right. Who the fuck moderated this piece of shit parent post at a +3? A gun and a bullet? If Slashdot is going to be run by moderators who are nothing except female hating assholes, ignorant asshole high school kids, or just plain idiots, then fuck this place. I am sorry if you feel that sharing responsibility and everything else in a relationship is a problem for you. Welcome to joining the ranks of the "divorced statistic". Maybe you should be shot in the head with a bullet for being a pig headed piece of shit. You are also the exact type to have illegitimate kids with some whores or have some kids with a female and then destroy your life, her life, and your children's lives...simply because you are an ignorant, pig headed, chauvinist piece of shit. Fuck you.
Actually, you are part right and part wrong. Microsoft *did* make Windows a viable gaming platform by providing all of the tools needed for a programmer to access everything from joysticks to sound to direct hardware access for video. And they did it all in one place...DirectX. Now, Linux could easily be used for graphics...OpenGL, but there is not just one single environment that is common to *all* Linux fragments that a company can program too that is as simple and singular as DirectX. Now, on to your other comment, I was a long time OS/2 user. Your argument of using WineX for gaming is along the same lines as using Windows software in OS/2. "You can run your Windows software in OS/2 faster and safer, since OS/2 won't allow Windows to crash the system." This of course led to OS/2 demise. Why write software for OS/2 when you can write software for Windows *only* and have it run on both? Having Windows emulation work in OS/2 and having it work *better* than in native Windows *killed* OS/2. Plain and simple. Projects exactly like WineX will kill Linux gaming *exactly* the same. History has already shown this to be true and the logic behind both is the same. As for your third argument, Linux is not that rock solid OS you and other keep saying. By avoiding the truth does not change it. I have been running Linux on my various computers since 1994. Many games, *especially* OpenGL games and programs *still* lock up my machine and many other people's machines. They will lock up and lock up hard. No ALT-F(insert number here) or ALT-SysReq anything will help you. Unless you have your computer on a network, have your IP address memorized (and this is hard since most networks are DHCP and unless you expected your computer to lock up, you don't write down your IP everytime you turn your computer on its address gets renewed), and have Telnet or SSH or whatever turned on to login and kill the process you are SOL. Period. Hard reboot time. Everytime. Linux gaming. Windows gaming. Same hardware/software lockup problems. Period. You can solve this by running WineX and killing WineX if you have problems...But, that brings me back to my original argument and truth about what happened to OS/2. So, what is the solution? Don't bring Linux into the sort of certain death seen by OS/2 with its emulation of Windows and believing that people will run OS/2, just like Linux, because it is a better OS to run another OS's software on. People won't do that, people will just run Windows to run Windows software and games. Much simpler. Linux needs to standardize on *one* gaming API and accompanying libraries and software, stick to it *exactly* and make it so that companies can write for it exactly like they feel comfortable writing for DirectX. Also make it work across *all* Linux fragments. Noone cares about RedHat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Ultra Penguin, Polished Linux, Turbo Linux, blah, blah, blah. I want to play the hottest, newest game on the market, period. And gaming companies don't care either. DirectX works the same on Windows 98 as it does on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Period. No fscking around with it. And hardware in Linux? That should be as easy to work with as any card that supports OpenGL, ALSA, or whatever. Let OpenGl or ALSA or whatever worry about it. Game programmers shouldn't. I know, it is not that easy, but with DirectX and Windows, it is *almost* that easy. Unless you want something very, very specific from your graphics hardware, you can write a game to use just DirectX and have it work with all games DirectX supports. I wish Linux gaming the best of luck. Only one thing, Linux gamers and users...Remember OS/2 when using and arguing about WineX and others.
Going the furthest by making the least effort is never, ever true. Making the least or no effort makes you go nowhere. What is true and what you, I am sure what you meant to say since I have the feeling you have a brain, is that %100-%150 effort is always a good thing and never, ever a bad thing. Just that instead of spending %90 of their/the effort on releasing 100 times a year, they should instead be spending %90 of their/the effort on planning, forward thinking, implementation, and exacting code, with %10 of their efforts directed towards schedules or 'public image'. A public image that avoids creating an image of not doing any work by releasing stable, yet far between/apart releases. Actually, there needs to be medium struck between the two ideologies...I mean, look at FreeBSD for example. It appears that nothing ever happens that is exciting or interesting with that camp. But, that is only because they seem to release major upgrades about once a year. This is also why BSD is so incredibly stable. In actuality, BSD is very exciting all around. But, it's appearance in the public image is terrible because it appears to be basically dead in the water, due to long release cycles. Linux takes the exact other approach...and well, 2.4.15 is the result. Never, ever, ever give less effort than you possibly can to anything in your life. Or your life will just be a waste. But, without wisely finding a middle ground -or- better approach to this software problem it may be hard to not either fall out of the public image of being a leader or fall into the public image of never being stable/bug-free and not worth the risk of trying.
If you have a.sig that basically says to let people be free of technology, then why are you using a computer, why are you posting on Slashdot, and why are you even bothering to care about technology at all? The tone of your.sig implies directly that you believe technology to be a bad thing, when the truth is is that technology, as long as it enhances life, is always a good thing. ie. Pace Makers, GPS, CAT Scans, etc. etc. I do not wish to be free of technology, and I do not agree with the implied intent of your.sig file. Please explain.
Actually, Windows *can* do everything X can do. At my company, I am the Network Administrator. We recently built a very nice rack mounted server for our entire organization. On this server we have installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server Terminal Server. WTS can do *everything* X can do, plus some very nice things X *cannot* do, such as multiple terminal cut and paste, the ability to run everything from our Interbase DB for our data entry to AutoCad for our engineers. Plus, it is *entirely* GUI. Not one single command line anywhere. And the hardware requirements for the clients doesn't have to be anything more than a simple 386 (although all of our are Celeron's) because *all* of the processing is done on our servers. Plus, WTS is an ultra-thin client. The network 'chatter' is very, very minimal. There are clients available for everything hardware platform out there (Windows 2000 comes with a built in license, all other versions of Windows needs a license, and Unix/Mac/Linux/etc. need an OEM client and license). Plus, unlike many X applications, all Windows programs can be run in WTS without a single rewrite/recode or any special "hacks" (although AutoCAD was a tad bit of a trick at first...for you AutoCAD fans:-). Plus, you can run WTS on multiple open terminal windows if you prefer to not run each session FullScreen. As a matter of fact, most of work is done this way. You can login as yourself in an unlimited number of terminals. Want to sort a DB? Open a remote window, login, start the job. You can then close this session completely, leaving your job running and return to that session at a later time from anywhere on the network. While it is running, you can log into another terminal, again as yourself, and do something else. This also completely discredits another previous post about not being able to have a GUI that is hardware accelerated with a remote terminal type connection available. That is completely incorrect. You can run local programs with hardware acceleration on WTS and still have ~80 clients connected at all times. So, you can have both. Instead of pounding your chests and praising X, you should look at what the competition is doing and see that they are actually do it *better* than you. Plus, Remote Administration? WTS is *awesome* with remote administration. Security? Not a problem at all. Try 128-bit secure login. Plus, We firewalled the entire system before it even gets to our servers, then subnetted the entire organization with no way in our out for the clients to the outside. The only port open to the world? The WTS Remote Admin Port. That port is heavily monitored and only specific IP's can address/access it. Email viruses/worms? Nope, we have our mail servers at AT&T. They scan them before we receive them, then we scan them after we receive them, then we disabled all Java/JavaScript/Macros on the client Terminals. Simple. Effective. Efficient. Honestly, if these people can give Linux a GUI straight from Kernel load, plus somehow allow an ultra-thin client/server version of X on top of that, then this world would be a better place. A BeOS with a Remote Display Extension/Protocol. That would be perfect. PS-This is not your dorm room PPS-Why are we switching our servers to Linux in the possibly forseeable/late future? Microsoft Licensing.
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I'm curious...What benchmarks are you talking about exactly? And I do mean, exactly. From what I know, the overhead is not an issue at all. It sounds like you have a software or hardware problem unrelated to the actual machine itself. I am also a mathematician, and sigh, it is strange that Mathematica is not dual processor aware that I know of (Windows 2000 version at least). It would help a lot to do simulations on non-serialized/simultaneous systems of equations in Mathematica if it could divy the computations among the CPU's. There are SMP aware modules that you can use with Mathematica and the Mathematica kernel. I just sent Wolfram Research an email as I was typing this response about SMP awareness in Mathematica. I am switching to Macintosh OSX as soon as this fall comes around (I am hoping at least) or next spring for sure. And I have used Mathematica on Linux and I like it in that environment (much better than Windows 2000), so I am looking forward to it on Mac OSX. You can Mathematica in a parallel computing environment such as Mosix and others, so I don't see why Wolfram can't make Mathematica SMP aware. I am going to wait for their response. But, SMP on Mac OSX is not a problem.
It's just a cool phrase. My boss at work uses it all of the time. Whenever I jazz something up because it is going outside of our production to someone else who has to look at it, and he likes it, he will say "Man, now that is sexy. " Or when I am spending too much time formatting when I should be just digging it getting the problems solved, he will say "Hey, there's no need to make it all sexy, just get the problem solved and then worry about all of that other crap later." So, it's just a cool phrase, and I think the maintainer is a pretty cool guy too."
Servers, as you unfortunately think, are not just designed for one thing in particular. Some are FILE servers, some are APPLICATION servers, some are RENDERING servers, some are PRINT servers, some are WEB SERVERS, some are ATM, some are MAINFRAME, some are...Kid, get a clue. The job one server does at serving files with massive I/O both internally and externally, is NOT the same as some server being used at a backend rendering machine (which isn't used as much as Slashdot people pretend that they are...in the real world that is).
Look, Gerv...Open your eyes to reality. Religion is a crutch for the weak mind, a mind that is selfish and self centered. This is especially true of Christianity (which happens to not be the oldest nor the most popular religion in the world). Just because we as a species have traveled in space doesn't make the ancient belief that gods traveled in chariets pulling the sun behind a team of horses any less true that your belief that a human being came back from his supposed death. I wrote a paper once for an independent study in college about the different versions of the Christian bible. Whatever version you have was written specifically to control, twist, and implant a moral and ethical character in the society in which it was practiced. If you ever learn to read Latin (which I spent 4 years doing), then maybe you should start reading, if you can find them, some of the original Latin scrolls. No translations by dark-age kings. You will open you eyes to the tragedy that was the Hebrews. A worthless group of murders who came down from the areas around Mount Zion and basically killed everyone who didn't believe in their God. Where did the two versions of creation come from? It was the long, enduring battle to kill off the belief in a female god, which was the prominent religion of the time. The snake (serpeant) and the horned bull? The two female symbols of power. What did the Hebrews/Jews/Christians do to those symbols? When did the female go from being the mother of all life, to a companion to the new creation Adam from the new Hebrew/Zionist god Yehwah (Jehovah...God), to being the downfall of mankind out of Eden? How did every culture which was not Hebrew, then Jewish, and then Christian become? Did they suddenly all perish because they did not believe in this new monotheistic God? Did you not study the massive killings and genocides by the Hebrews? The victors are always "righteous" and "holy" in their quests. They just used their new God as an excuse to kill. Christianity is simply an offshoot of that, and isn't that what is still happening today? Unbeknownest to the creators of the constitution, the United States has been declared a Christian nation (thanks to Senator McCarthy in ~1945 when the Communist were the devil and much more...and now President Bush), not a nation of free religions and free thinking? Don't you understand how and why Israel was created? Have you ever heard of the Zionist movement? Don't you see the true face of religion? Open your eyes man. Study the world of the real. Educate yourself in many religions. Believe all of them. Believe none of them. Look into the sky and into the mirror and never stop asking. When you can answer all of the mysteries of the universe in one word...Then you have lost.
Yes, yes, there is absolutely something wrong with that. Normal and correct is not always the same as politically correct. Not everything is right, natural, or normal just because it is different.
What in the fuck was that website you posted?
That was some seriously fucked up shit.
Yes, I would fly in a plane designed by someone who was never a pilot. Thousands of people do every single day. Do you think all of the thousands of physicists and engineers who designed the space shuttle were astronauts? No. Just because you are talented in aerospace engineering does not mean you have to be an astronaut to sucessful build a space shuttle. As far as an airplane and pilots...You are a total moron. A major airplane takes thousands and thousands of engineers (of many fields), physicists, designers, etc. and each one is specialized in his/her field. One team designs and builds the jet engines, one team designs the wings, one team does all of the plane's control wiring, one team etc. etc. and they all come together under one roof to create a single designed airplane. Does it have to be designed by a pilot. No. As a matter of fact, the plane was designed by a team of very talented engineers and tested in a wind tunnel, not a group of pilots.
There is something amazingly and glaringly obvious about your post that is in the hearts of a lot of Americans that makes me sad and makes me sick. That there is some kind of crooked conspiracy here and that you have to tell everybody everything you do in order to be deemed a "good person". You have to ask the right people the right questions and you have to bend over and kiss the right ass in order to have any support.
Ronald Reagan was a hero. You may or may not have supported him or all of his ideas and actions, but this one thing will forever go down in history as a man who fought for his countryman against all odds. Those were American POW's in Iran. There was no apparent way of getting them back alive. Reagan begged Congress to help. The answer "No". Reagan begged other countries to help. The answer "No". He couldn't get support from Congress, from the Senate, from foreign leaders, so he did what 99.9999% of Americans would never do today...He became a true leader, a true man, he grew a spine, and he did what needed to be done to bring our boys home...fuck Congress, fuck the rules, fuck foreign leaders, fuck everyone and everything. The POW's needed our help and Reagan brought them home. So, to get that done he had to sell black market arms to the Contra's in Iran. Big fucking deal.
What they should have done was given the man a medal and called him a true American. But, instead, all of the whiny, spineless fucks in the US tried to bring charges down upon him and the administration for doing what a leader is born to do. To lead and to do what is right, even if everybody else tells you that you are wrong.
Actually, it did just come out of thin air. It is exactly what another poster said in a previous post. To quote " I think religion is probably just a perplexing psychological manifestation with roots in humans' primordial fear of the unknown and the unbearable knowledge of certain death." And at many times throughout history, people thought the sun was raised into the sky by chariots chasing away the moon, and the world's current religion(s) are just as unscientific as they were 20,000 years ago.
Your "religious experience" has NOTHING to do with some invisible whatever floating around you or somewhere mysterious somewhere else in the universe doing unseen mysterious things to you or for you. Why don't you do some serious research on the bodies ability to heal and control itself. And I don't mean cancer or any of that hokus-pokus crap. I am talking about fear, depression, stress, etc. It's like when you are completely stressed out, depressed, you are having serious life/relationship/employment troubles and it seems like the world is spinning out of control...you go home and see you Mom and suddenly everything is perfectly better (for most of us, sorry for those with bad mothers or broken families). Did everything actually get better? No, of course not. It was that your brain told your body that things were okay, and so your body healed itself. You were more confident, you remembered how to smile, you felt more invincible because you know there is someone who will never leave your side no matter how bad things get, and things will be peaceful again just like whenever your Mom holds you in her arms, you know she loves you. This goes for a person's wife, girlfriend, finance too. So, what healed you was the belief that you were okay. Nothing more. Since this is all in the mind, which is normal and super healthy, it is simple to see people simply being told by someone that they are okay (priest in a church) and having the same reaction in thrie health and body. Of course, shear ignorance causes them to believe it was some invisible being in outspace or whatever causing it to happen, instead of the truth. It was just you all along.
If the computers all come with Winmodems, and the Winmodems can be made to work with a recompiled kernel, and if RedHat wanted to get Linux on all of those "OS-less" machines, why don't they just build a special version of RedHat with that modem driver inside the kernel specifically for WalMart computers? Then there would be no problem at all for new Linux users.
What the world is horribly short on are people who follow their dreams. Yes, it is completely reasonable to follow you dreams for the rest of your entire life. That was the point of my previous post. If everyone followed their dream for the rest of their lives, this world would be such a better place.
Oh Yeah, you idiotic asshole, what about Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Bill Gates...What the fuck asshole?
What in the hell is with the quote
You will be dead within a year.
at the bottom of this page? That is a horrible and demented thing to say on a website in which I view as a place free of wierd, psychotic shit. I'm seriously offended by that.
Yeah, brother, to that.
Okay, whoever modded you up to +3 doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Apple makes a BSD based distribution called "Darwin" and it IS completely FREE. Porting this OS would make a helluva lot more sense than porting NetBSD to this platform. The only reason to do it with NetBSD would be to waste redundant effort making NetBSD work on yet another platform instead of taking excellent, existing technology and making that work instead.
But, then I guess there is Linux, QNX, Windows, Solaris, etc. for Intel, so whatever, right?
PostgresSQL? Right. Then reality hits you and the Open Source movement in the head with a sledgehammer. Oracle scales, performs, and is infinitely more robust and powerful than ANYTHING close to it for Linux. This is not software that someone uses to catalog their little MP3 collection. Open source terabyte relation databases? Hello?
I will still assume the same about your level of Mathematics, because I can tell you have only ever reached a certain level of understanding about both Mathematics and the world. Comparing the understanding of cricket or money to Mathematics was neither cute nor intelligent, since they have nothing to do with your understanding of Mathematics. If you wish to start an intelligent thought, try figuring out how adding a circle together with a triangle could get you a square. That is the same as adding 1 and 2 and getting 3. You are using numbers to replace the shapes, but the Mathematics is still the same. But, that doesn't make any sense to you, does it? None of it is made up. You don't understand Mathematics, so why are you arguing with me about it?
First of all, you can prove something beyond all doubt, that is what is meant by a "truth". I am speaking of the basis of all Mathematics, which is what all of Physics and all other sciences are creations of. Mathematics was not a framework created to describe anything. Mathematics creates its own framework by its own "truths" and these thruths and frameworks are what describe the universe for us. Mathematics started out with a few "thruths", things which are simple, yet are the basis for everything. Mathematics would be the same as the principle behind DNA. DNA in its basic form is very simple. But, from a few simple strands of DNA all of life can be derived. That is the exact same as Mathematics. We did not create all of Mathematics at once, like you are believing. Mathematics is based on a couple of basic "truths" and from those, Mathematics creates itself. There will never be an end to Mathematics nor to its discoveries. Everything in Mathematics is a description of something in the Universe. That is the beauty and the mystery behind Mathematics. All of the universes answers are there, whether you can understand that or not. It is not a superimposed framework, only confined to boundaries that have all been set. When you start out with 1 truth, you can derive another truth based on that original truth. Continue this process indefinitely, without ever breaking any of the truths previously set forth and you "create" Mathematics. The mystery of Mathematics is that it *perfectly* describes the universe. It is a framework that has created itself and will continually to create itself indefinitely.
You do not even use numbers when you reach any college Math course above about ~400 (given wherever Abstract Algebra falls for you). The ideas presented at that level and above show you where Math comes from, what some of those "truths" are, and why a "proof" is exactly that, a proof. If you don't understand that, then go and learn something.
Now, there is another interesting problem with your thinking. Since nothing for you is an absolute truth, and you are not a Mathematician, then I implore you to answer me these questions...Are you alive? Do you think? Is what you believe to be reality actually exist? Can you prove that somewhere, someone else in another universe somewhere isn't just dreaming all of this and one day he will wake up and it will all be over? What exactly is real? Now, on to intelligent conversation. What is a "truth" to you? You being alive is a truth? Somewhere in the universe, there is 1 absolute truth. And from that, another truth was born. And from that truth another was born. Repeat. The universe is set on a discrete group of rules. Rules which Mathematics give you.
Oh, and just to let you know, without Mathematics, physical sciences would not and could never exist. Physical science is Mathematics in action. Mathematics is the basis of all science. And no, I do not have my foot in my mouth. I do know your level of Mathematics. It is obvious and blatant by your arguments. I just argue with you because it makes me very sad to see someone so completely wrong about something, who is so completely convinced he is right. I wish you could argue with me and know what you are speaking about, because even knowing someone is as ignorant about something as important as Mathematics makes me sad. Einstein was wrong then too, eh? Did he ever travel at the speed of light?
If Mathematics was just something made up, that doesn't have anything to do with the world, then how could Mathematics predict the future with exact accuracy? And how could Mathematics tell me something that neither I nor anyone ever alive have never experienced before, such as gravity bending light...Although that is exactly what Mathematics did and now we all know it to be true. Is it possible to know everything absolutely? No, of course not. But, does Mathematics? Yes, it does. It is just the mystery of finding it that keeps us going.
I can describe you perfectly with this quote by Einstein:
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Standing at a computer in a Math department posting to Slashdot or sitting in your living room after having passed remedial Algebra in college does not mean you are a Mathematician nor does it mean you are a Math professor.
In Science and Mathematics, there is no concept of "God". Christianity and Mathematics/Science are mutually exclusive. I am a studying Hindu (love that religion) and a practicing Buddhist (his teachings and philosophy). Does this change the Math behind anything? NO. Referring to c as a "God Unit" and saying that "we" (as if your are a Mathemician) don't look at numbers when "we" do our work is total and utter bullshit.Mathematics and Physics are *not* mutually exclusive, they are one and the same. Fiddling with numbers? Maths department? Why am I replying to a HS student?
A Physicist and a Mathematician will generally assume a value to be something, let's say 1, because it has no bearing on the actual outcome of the problem. If it will always drop out of an equation, they why give it value?
Have you ever taken a course in Applied Numerical Analysis? Of course you haven't, or you wouldn't be posting what you did. It's all about making your equations exact to certain decimal places. It's a 400 level college course. Try it sometime. Have you ever figured out how to solve an integral without integrating a function? Have you ever made sure you could make an answer accurate to the 20th or 30th significant digit because calculators cannot be accurate to that precision due to round off errors and other such limitations? Of course you haven't, or you would understand that you are using c to represent something. In the case you are using it, it could technically be any letter, because you are not using it numerically. You have the two completely confused in your head. c does represent something, and at one time a Mathematician/Physicist figured it out numerically.
Actually, NO, you are completely wrong. I am a Mathematician working on his MS in Theoretical Mathematics (with a large amount of applied). Mathematics is *not* completely made up. To the aspiring Mathematician in a previous post, I applaud you for seeking the truth which lies in Mathematics. Now, on to the idiot I am replying to, Mathematics are based on a very small number of "truths" that cannot be disproved. The concept of the empty set, the invention of the zero element in a set, etc. From these absolute truths, all of Mathematics can be derived. You are *not* a Mathematician, so do *not* fill this forum with your ignorant bullshit. Mathematics is the language of the universe, Physics is simply the construction and application of Mathematics. They are *not* mutually exclusive to each other. Without Mathematics, there would be no Physics, without Physics there would be no computer, no Engineering, and you would not be driving home from work in your car, sitting down on your computer in a room filled with artificial light, and posting the shit you just did on the Internet.
Mathematics are *not* made up. A few simple rules that cannot be broken nor disproved, that can, when used correctly, tell you everything about the universe and some day will. Have you ever heard of simple counting or geometry? Seeing as how you have never reached a Mathematics education beyond *possibly* 1st year Pre-Calculus, I would advise you to take a college course in Advanced Calculus and Contemporary Abstract Algebra (or an equivalent course in group and ring theory). Not understanding something does not give you the right to speak about it with self-given authority.
Mathematics *can* prove absolutely. It is a person's ability to interpret the results correctly that is the problem at times. Einstein did *not* disprove Newton. If you had an Physics background along with an Mathematics background, you would know that Relativity Theory is an *extention* of Newtonian Physics, *not* a replacement or proof against it. If you run Einsteinian Physics at sub-light speeds you will eventually end up with Newtonian Physics. Same equations as Newton. Scary to learn something new, isn't it? Mathematics is *never* wrong. Only the uneducated and the ignorant speak against it, because when you know nothing about a topic, there is no limit to what you can believe and speak about it.
And what HS student modded the comment I am replying to up to a +5??? The education system makes me just shake my head in depression and get sick to my stomach for the upcoming generation. A world filled with Tech School graduates and the rest of the people too dumb to understand an Math beyond balancing their checkbooks (which they use a calculator for). Oh, and I am sure Pi is simply made up too
Actually, you havent' been paying attention at all. A PhD makes you an expert in a particular subject. They are not given away for free (I am not talking about Liberal Arts PhD's...I am pursuing my MS in Theoretical Mathematics and no one on Slashdot even has the slighest idea...). In *my* experience, the people with their GED, and/or the 2 year Tech. School graduates working in Tech. Support believe they know everything about everything. Why would a man/woman with a PhD in Physics give a shit about his laptop? He/she is concerned with matters of a completely different and much higher magnitude than "...they can't even get the mouse to work right because they dropped it on the floor..." Sorry Tech Support people, that is *your* job. You don't have a PhD in Computer Science and both you and I know you could never get one, so why be bitter about it. Your self-proclaimed speciality may be in playing with Linux or random bits of hardware, but these PhD people, myself included, either have no care in the world how their computers work because they are there to get something done and not play with their computers and become experts on them, or they *are* experts on their computers, but don't have time to fuck around with them because they have many other *much* more important things to do.
Granted, I think it is funny sometimes myself when I see a Doctor in AstroPhysics become annoyed with his computer, but then I also understand that he/she can tell me about how and where to discover alien planets orbiting alien suns and give me the Mathematics/Physics to back it up...and all I can do is smile and help him/her out with their computers.
I don't always enjoy Slashdot...A PhD *is* a big deal. You don't have one. Don't pretend you do or that you could get one. Believing you are smart does *not* give you one either. Flipping hamburgers or working as Tech Support at some no name company while you play with Linux or computers claiming to know everything about the world without have a shit of a clue does get you one either...Rather, it makes *you* the ignorant one with the ego problem. Some people care about things %1000 other than Linux or computers. If they don't have a PhD in CS, they why should they?
Okay, right. Who the fuck moderated this piece of shit parent post at a +3? A gun and a bullet?
If Slashdot is going to be run by moderators who are nothing except female hating assholes, ignorant asshole high school kids, or just plain idiots, then fuck this place.
I am sorry if you feel that sharing responsibility and everything else in a relationship is a problem for you. Welcome to joining the ranks of the "divorced statistic". Maybe you should be shot in the head with a bullet for being a pig headed piece of shit. You are also the exact type to have illegitimate kids with some whores or have some kids with a female and then destroy your life, her life, and your children's lives...simply because you are an ignorant, pig headed, chauvinist piece of shit. Fuck you.
Actually, you are part right and part wrong. Microsoft *did* make Windows a viable gaming platform by providing all of the tools needed for a programmer to access everything from joysticks to sound to direct hardware access for video. And they did it all in one place...DirectX. Now, Linux could easily be used for graphics...OpenGL, but there is not just one single environment that is common to *all* Linux fragments that a company can program too that is as simple and singular as DirectX.
Now, on to your other comment, I was a long time OS/2 user. Your argument of using WineX for gaming is along the same lines as using Windows software in OS/2. "You can run your Windows software in OS/2 faster and safer, since OS/2 won't allow Windows to crash the system." This of course led to OS/2 demise. Why write software for OS/2 when you can write software for Windows *only* and have it run on both? Having Windows emulation work in OS/2 and having it work *better* than in native Windows *killed* OS/2. Plain and simple. Projects exactly like WineX will kill Linux gaming *exactly* the same. History has already shown this to be true and the logic behind both is the same.
As for your third argument, Linux is not that rock solid OS you and other keep saying. By avoiding the truth does not change it. I have been running Linux on my various computers since 1994. Many games, *especially* OpenGL games and programs *still* lock up my machine and many other people's machines. They will lock up and lock up hard. No ALT-F(insert number here) or ALT-SysReq anything will help you. Unless you have your computer on a network, have your IP address memorized (and this is hard since most networks are DHCP and unless you expected your computer to lock up, you don't write down your IP everytime you turn your computer on its address gets renewed), and have Telnet or SSH or whatever turned on to login and kill the process you are SOL. Period. Hard reboot time. Everytime. Linux gaming. Windows gaming. Same hardware/software lockup problems. Period. You can solve this by running WineX and killing WineX if you have problems...But, that brings me back to my original argument and truth about what happened to OS/2.
So, what is the solution? Don't bring Linux into the sort of certain death seen by OS/2 with its emulation of Windows and believing that people will run OS/2, just like Linux, because it is a better OS to run another OS's software on. People won't do that, people will just run Windows to run Windows software and games. Much simpler. Linux needs to standardize on *one* gaming API and accompanying libraries and software, stick to it *exactly* and make it so that companies can write for it exactly like they feel comfortable writing for DirectX. Also make it work across *all* Linux fragments. Noone cares about RedHat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Ultra Penguin, Polished Linux, Turbo Linux, blah, blah, blah. I want to play the hottest, newest game on the market, period. And gaming companies don't care either. DirectX works the same on Windows 98 as it does on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Period. No fscking around with it. And hardware in Linux? That should be as easy to work with as any card that supports OpenGL, ALSA, or whatever. Let OpenGl or ALSA or whatever worry about it. Game programmers shouldn't. I know, it is not that easy, but with DirectX and Windows, it is *almost* that easy. Unless you want something very, very specific from your graphics hardware, you can write a game to use just DirectX and have it work with all games DirectX supports.
I wish Linux gaming the best of luck. Only one thing, Linux gamers and users...Remember OS/2 when using and arguing about WineX and others.
Going the furthest by making the least effort is never, ever true. Making the least or no effort makes you go nowhere. What is true and what you, I am sure what you meant to say since I have the feeling you have a brain, is that %100-%150 effort is always a good thing and never, ever a bad thing. Just that instead of spending %90 of their/the effort on releasing 100 times a year, they should instead be spending %90 of their/the effort on planning, forward thinking, implementation, and exacting code, with %10 of their efforts directed towards schedules or 'public image'. A public image that avoids creating an image of not doing any work by releasing stable, yet far between/apart releases. Actually, there needs to be medium struck between the two ideologies...I mean, look at FreeBSD for example. It appears that nothing ever happens that is exciting or interesting with that camp. But, that is only because they seem to release major upgrades about once a year. This is also why BSD is so incredibly stable. In actuality, BSD is very exciting all around. But, it's appearance in the public image is terrible because it appears to be basically dead in the water, due to long release cycles. Linux takes the exact other approach...and well, 2.4.15 is the result.
Never, ever, ever give less effort than you possibly can to anything in your life. Or your life will just be a waste. But, without wisely finding a middle ground -or- better approach to this software problem it may be hard to not either fall out of the public image of being a leader or fall into the public image of never being stable/bug-free and not worth the risk of trying.
If you have a
Actually, Windows *can* do everything X can do. At my company, I am the Network Administrator. We recently built a very nice rack mounted server for our entire organization. On this server we have installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server Terminal Server. WTS can do *everything* X can do, plus some very nice things X *cannot* do, such as multiple terminal cut and paste, the ability to run everything from our Interbase DB for our data entry to AutoCad for our engineers. Plus, it is *entirely* GUI. Not one single command line anywhere. And the hardware requirements for the clients doesn't have to be anything more than a simple 386 (although all of our are Celeron's) because *all* of the processing is done on our servers. Plus, WTS is an ultra-thin client. The network 'chatter' is very, very minimal. There are clients available for everything hardware platform out there (Windows 2000 comes with a built in license, all other versions of Windows needs a license, and Unix/Mac/Linux/etc. need an OEM client and license). Plus, unlike many X applications, all Windows programs can be run in WTS without a single rewrite/recode or any special "hacks" (although AutoCAD was a tad bit of a trick at first...for you AutoCAD fans
Instead of pounding your chests and praising X, you should look at what the competition is doing and see that they are actually do it *better* than you. Plus, Remote Administration? WTS is *awesome* with remote administration. Security? Not a problem at all. Try 128-bit secure login. Plus, We firewalled the entire system before it even gets to our servers, then subnetted the entire organization with no way in our out for the clients to the outside. The only port open to the world? The WTS Remote Admin Port. That port is heavily monitored and only specific IP's can address/access it. Email viruses/worms? Nope, we have our mail servers at AT&T. They scan them before we receive them, then we scan them after we receive them, then we disabled all Java/JavaScript/Macros on the client Terminals. Simple. Effective. Efficient.
Honestly, if these people can give Linux a GUI straight from Kernel load, plus somehow allow an ultra-thin client/server version of X on top of that, then this world would be a better place. A BeOS with a Remote Display Extension/Protocol. That would be perfect.
PS-This is not your dorm room
PPS-Why are we switching our servers to Linux in the possibly forseeable/late future? Microsoft Licensing.