Err, you can't make a perpetual motion machine just by sticking a planet-sized lump of dirt together and except that it will keep generating heat to all eternity from "pressure".
Pressure, or more like it, initial work done by gravity (and collisions when the solar system was young and crowded) when Earth formed did create enormous amounts of heat but nothing ever since, it's all residual. Radioactive reactions are what is *keeping* it molten to this day.
And yes, there is steady fission going on down there. Of course it's probably nothing like reactor (though even that's been speculated) but there are gigantic amounts of slightly radioactive materials, some with LONG half-lifes that are very slowly breaking down, one atom might not produce whole lot of energy but when it's isolated by billions and billions of tons of rock it's not going to go anywhere soon either, so it'll add up.
Uranium 235 isn't highly radioactive, it's very "cool".
Nothing with half-life in millions of years is highly radioactive, the harder something radiates the faster it'll turn into something else, leading to shorter half-lifes. Uranium and other long-lived isotopes are not a problem in nuclear waste.
If there is any problem at all, it's the mid-level ones, with half-lifes of thousands to tens of thousands years, they are hot enough to be dangerous and long-lived enough so they'll be here for a while
That nuclear weapons are bad (weapons are designed to be bad. That's all they do) and have capacity to make a land area uninhabitable while even the worst imaginable (and one that couldn't happen again) nuclear plant accident was nowhere as bad.
Seriously though, do you honestly think anyone is going to dump nuclear waste in the ocean? Just because terrorists can't get to it doesn't mean it isn't causing harm to whatever life is down there.
He wasn't just dumping it somewhere in the ocean floor. He was talking about subduction zones.
That's a place where tectonic plate goes under another one. Which means the waste buried there is going to go with it, eventually during millions of years all the way down into the Earth's core...
I wouldn't hold my breath for finding life in there, and even if some poor microbe has happened to adapt to live in Hell they've got plenty of radioisotopes already, since nuclear reactions are what keeps the insides of planet molten.
After all efficient packing is one way to reach critical mass and get some megaboss
These pebbles have very little fissionable material encased in thick graphite shell (=moderator) you CAN'T pack them efficiently enough to get supercritical. Even unspent ones.
APPLICATIONS as opposed to libraries (similar to windows) so that somebody can find an old app they installed and uninstall it.
redhat-config-packages does something very much like this, no idea how it selects which packages should be showed, though. And it only works for packages that come with distro, not 3rd party extras.
Something like Athlon is probably overkill for just like every embedded market there is. It's damn fast but it's also (just like all the other fast desktop chips) power-hungry and runs damn hot.
AMD doesmake small chips for embedded systems... I don't see them trowing those out, this is just for the biggies, and even for them, why would they throw away the designs just because they don't make the things any more?
The big costs have been in development, it doesn't cost them much more to put a 64 bit chip on silicon than it does with their 32 bit chips.
Perhaps not generally, however the Opterons and Athlon64 chips are big. Way bigger than AMD's "sweet spot" for silicon is, so they actually do cost more than XP's to churn out.
But logically, freedom from terrorist attack has to precede building mega-science superstructures.
Then those superstructures can never be built. NEVER. Which means the terrorists have won. Good luck waiting while the rest of the world goes by, unhindered by illogical fear...
Because there won't be such thing as "freedom from terrorist attacks" no matter what fools like to think. Violence is part of human nature, and will always be with us, no matter how much we might hate that, there's no point denying it.
Eh? That review has a real problem with exactly one package (redhat-install-packages).
Other stuff she's complaining is either a minor nuisance far less severe than lots of things were in stable RHL distributions OR as third party package.
I suggest you give it a try first. It's not nearly as bad as that bitch Eugenia and lots of trolls here try to make it look.
IMHO it's an improvement in every way over RedHat 9, not at all unstable, and trying out for few weeks for yourself gives out better impression than bazillion idiot reviews and slashdrones.
#1. GTK/Gnome file selector *still* sucks. We all already knew that, and yes it's going to be fixed in the next GTK. But I wish RH had seen fit to do what the folks at Ximian did, and at least pretty up the existing one and make it somewhat usable. Those "Home" "Desktop" and "Documents" quick access buttons in the XD2 version make things much nicer.
Agreed. Someone will probably provide an extra rpm that does this at some point, but it'd be nice to have out-of-the-box.
I wish RH would just support the same menu-editing functionality found in Ximian Desktop 2. It's not great, but at least it's possible.
I'm not sure what kind of menu-editing functionality XD2 provides, but you can enable menu-ediding in RH/Fedora Nautilus with following steps: cd/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules cp default-modules.conf default-modules.conf-no-menu-editing cp default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing default-modules.conf
And perhaps this as well for invidual users: cd ~/.gnome2/vfolders cp/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu applications.vfolder-info
After that you can just drag'n'drop icons in applications://, etc.
What is laughable is that Eugenia still had those old RPM dependency hell issues. You would have thought they would have been solved by now, or that somebody would have created a decent desktop based on a base distribution with decent package management tools.
She was trying to install third party Shrike RPM (Shrike == RH9). Packages built for different distributions should not be expected to work, and generally will not work, no matter whether you're running Debian, Gentoo or FC.
Fedora with some verynicepackage management (this is old page, Fedora up2date doesn't use RHN, but instead supports both apt and yum repositories) tools.
Have you actually tried it or are you STILL bitching without bothering to test?
After about a week I can easily say that this is by far better and more stable desktop product than either RH8 or 9 were.
"Core n" releases ARE stable snapshots of the entire distribution, even if you for some reason still don't want to believe it.
What comes to bugfix releases, if the stables are (they seem to be) good enough and the invidual packages are updated (they are) whenever there are problems, they aren't really needed.
The average consumer cannot install it or configure it
I agree. But only because average consumer can not install or configure Microsoft Windows either.
In optimal case, both are probably about equally hard to install, sometimes Linux is even easier and sometimes Windows is easier.
or get it to do what they want with a reasonable measure of training.
That depends. I'd say they can do basic tasks (web browsing, email, maybe a bit of word processing...) on both just as easily as well. It's not like there is any difference in clicking on a browser icon in gnome or in explorer. Everything beyong that is not within their reach, regardless of the operating system.
An Opteron box may be faster, but it isn't any more a `personal computer' than [insert some Japanese supercomputer here] is. Until manufacturers start using the Opteron in systems, the G5 is still king for people who don't know how to build their own.
Opteron as Opteron might not be marketed towards "personal computer", but Athlon64 FX is, at the moment, just a relabeled opteron (eg. just as fast, or maybe faster, if it runs on higher clockspeeds than opteron-opterons).
And 64 FX's certainly are targeted to personal computers, the "enthusiast market" part of it, gamers that want most powerful hardware there is and other such speed freaks. And yes, you can get prebuilt systems that are clearly not meant to be servers.
Compare a dual Xeon from Dell to a G5, and you'll see they're fairly similar.
That's the point. They are fairly similar, as would be dual Athlon64 or Opteron. Each might win a few benchmarks and lose in another, and thus claiming any one of them to be absolutely the fastest on the world is lying.
Logically, You should be able to compare processors by how fast they perform some common software functions.
Yes, but that can or should not be generalized too much, they are only valid for that very functionality tested. If your processor is faster than everything else in common software function a but slower in b, then it clearly is not "world's fastest processor".
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It makes no sense. You go through all this effort to have, effectively, multiple windows inside your browser space
Yes, that's what it effectively is. And that's exactly why it does make sense for people who tend to have lots web pages open.
You can't even alt+tab through browser windows!
I don't WANT to alt-tab trough them, because then I'd have to cycle trough all the OTHER bazillion windows in addition to browser ones, to get into the one I want (and the same otherway, it I'd want into some other program all those browser windows would slow it). Now I can ctrl-tab or ctrl-pgup/down to cycle trough only browser tabs instead of all the other clutter and alt-tab quickly if I want to change between browser and non-browser windows.
Another damn use is sorting things, I can keep slashdot article and it's comments on one window and its tabs, and something else on other. If each page was in a separate window, they would be cluttered instead of in neat order.
If you have 2 pages open at time, you're right, tabbed browsing is useless. If you have twenty, it's a life-saver.
For linux, well, heck, now I know why you guys are so crazy about multiple desktops. You fill up every desktop you have with all these browser tabs.
I can't figure out how anyone can "fill up" even one damn small, not to mention several, desktops with that is about 20px tall, care to elaborate that stupid claim? It doesn't take any more space than "leaving your taskpar popped up".
Hundreds of people labor for months to design a graphics processor that can do real-time procedural shading of near-Renderman complexity, and the "reviewers" at Tom's Hardware focus on the heat sink.
And why you think they shouldn't consider the cooling design?
I know I damn certainly don't want a "graphics processor that can do real-time procedural shading of near-Renderman complexity" if it sounds like a jet engine.
Of course there are some speed idiots who don't care if their personal desktop puts out 100dBa of noise and ruins their hearing forever, but guess what? You're a VERY small minority.
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Err, you can't make a perpetual motion machine just by sticking a planet-sized lump of dirt together and except that it will keep generating heat to all eternity from "pressure".
Pressure, or more like it, initial work done by gravity (and collisions when the solar system was young and crowded) when Earth formed did create enormous amounts of heat but nothing ever since, it's all residual. Radioactive reactions are what is *keeping* it molten to this day.
And yes, there is steady fission going on down there. Of course it's probably nothing like reactor (though even that's been speculated) but there are gigantic amounts of slightly radioactive materials, some with LONG half-lifes that are very slowly breaking down, one atom might not produce whole lot of energy but when it's isolated by billions and billions of tons of rock it's not going to go anywhere soon either, so it'll add up.
Decades. He said _highly radioactive_ substances.
Uranium 235 isn't highly radioactive, it's very "cool".
Nothing with half-life in millions of years is highly radioactive, the harder something radiates the faster it'll turn into something else, leading to shorter half-lifes. Uranium and other long-lived isotopes are not a problem in nuclear waste.
If there is any problem at all, it's the mid-level ones, with half-lifes of thousands to tens of thousands years, they are hot enough to be dangerous and long-lived enough so they'll be here for a while
Sooo... what can we conclude from this?
That nuclear weapons are bad (weapons are designed to be bad. That's all they do) and have capacity to make a land area uninhabitable while even the worst imaginable (and one that couldn't happen again) nuclear plant accident was nowhere as bad.
Sounds good.
Seriously though, do you honestly think anyone is going to dump nuclear waste in the ocean? Just because terrorists can't get to it doesn't mean it isn't causing harm to whatever life is down there.
He wasn't just dumping it somewhere in the ocean floor. He was talking about subduction zones.
That's a place where tectonic plate goes under another one. Which means the waste buried there is going to go with it, eventually during millions of years all the way down into the Earth's core...
I wouldn't hold my breath for finding life in there, and even if some poor microbe has happened to adapt to live in Hell they've got plenty of radioisotopes already, since nuclear reactions are what keeps the insides of planet molten.
After all efficient packing is one way to reach critical mass and get some megaboss
These pebbles have very little fissionable material encased in thick graphite shell (=moderator) you CAN'T pack them efficiently enough to get supercritical. Even unspent ones.
APPLICATIONS as opposed to libraries (similar to windows) so that somebody can find an old app they installed and uninstall it.
redhat-config-packages does something very much like this, no idea how it selects which packages should be showed, though. And it only works for packages that come with distro, not 3rd party extras.
Something like Athlon is probably overkill for just like every embedded market there is. It's damn fast but it's also (just like all the other fast desktop chips) power-hungry and runs damn hot.
AMD does make small chips for embedded systems... I don't see them trowing those out, this is just for the biggies, and even for them, why would they throw away the designs just because they don't make the things any more?
The big costs have been in development, it doesn't cost them much more to put a 64 bit chip on silicon than it does with their 32 bit chips.
Perhaps not generally, however the Opterons and Athlon64 chips are big. Way bigger than AMD's "sweet spot" for silicon is, so they actually do cost more than XP's to churn out.
This might change as they move into 90nm.
But logically, freedom from terrorist attack has to precede building mega-science superstructures.
Then those superstructures can never be built. NEVER. Which means the terrorists have won.
Good luck waiting while the rest of the world goes by, unhindered by illogical fear...
Because there won't be such thing as "freedom from terrorist attacks" no matter what fools like to think. Violence is part of human nature, and will always be with us, no matter how much we might hate that, there's no point denying it.
Eh? That review has a real problem with exactly one package (redhat-install-packages).
Other stuff she's complaining is either a minor nuisance far less severe than lots of things were in stable RHL distributions OR as third party package.
No ISO's but the source rpm's are all there for building a nigh-identical system.
Of course it takes a bit of tinkering, and you don't get support (though bugfix rpm's should install on your white hat enterprise ws just fine).
And once it's done, be free to distribute the thingy, just remember to swap out trademarked images and logos.
LCD is a display technology.
Light sensor on this thing is CMOS.
I suggest you give it a try first. It's not nearly as bad as that bitch Eugenia and lots of trolls here try to make it look.
IMHO it's an improvement in every way over RedHat 9, not at all unstable, and trying out for few weeks for yourself gives out better impression than bazillion idiot reviews and slashdrones.
Nothing to lose.
#1. GTK/Gnome file selector *still* sucks. We all already knew that, and yes it's going to be fixed in the next GTK. But I wish RH had seen fit to do what the folks at Ximian did, and at least pretty up the existing one and make it somewhat usable. Those "Home" "Desktop" and "Documents" quick access buttons in the XD2 version make things much nicer.
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu applications.vfolder-info
Agreed. Someone will probably provide an extra rpm that does this at some point, but it'd be nice to have out-of-the-box.
I wish RH would just support the same menu-editing functionality found in Ximian Desktop 2. It's not great, but at least it's possible.
I'm not sure what kind of menu-editing functionality XD2 provides, but you can enable menu-ediding in RH/Fedora Nautilus with following steps:
cd
cp default-modules.conf default-modules.conf-no-menu-editing
cp default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing default-modules.conf
And perhaps this as well for invidual users:
cd ~/.gnome2/vfolders
cp
After that you can just drag'n'drop icons in applications://, etc.
She says in one spot that using them "wouldn't have helped in this situation", which is true in that case (the Flash install)
There is a apt/yum repository that has flash plugin packaged for Fedora, so yes, it'd helped in that case also.
And yes, apt comes with Fedora
It doesn't (yum comes, and it would have helped her with those just as well). But up2date supports apt repositories.
What is laughable is that Eugenia still had those old RPM dependency hell issues. You would have thought they would have been solved by now, or that somebody would have created a decent desktop based on a base distribution with decent package management tools.
She was trying to install third party Shrike RPM (Shrike == RH9). Packages built for different distributions should not be expected to work, and generally will not work, no matter whether you're running Debian, Gentoo or FC.
Fedora with some very nice package management (this is old page, Fedora up2date doesn't use RHN, but instead supports both apt and yum repositories) tools.
Have you actually tried it or are you STILL bitching without bothering to test?
After about a week I can easily say that this is by far better and more stable desktop product than either RH8 or 9 were.
"Core n" releases ARE stable snapshots of the entire distribution, even if you for some reason still don't want to believe it.
What comes to bugfix releases, if the stables are (they seem to be) good enough and the invidual packages are updated (they are) whenever there are problems, they aren't really needed.
The average consumer cannot install it or configure it
I agree. But only because average consumer can not install or configure Microsoft Windows either.
In optimal case, both are probably about equally hard to install, sometimes Linux is even easier and sometimes Windows is easier.
or get it to do what they want with a reasonable measure of training.
That depends. I'd say they can do basic tasks (web browsing, email, maybe a bit of word processing...) on both just as easily as well. It's not like there is any difference in clicking on a browser icon in gnome or in explorer. Everything beyong that is not within their reach, regardless of the operating system.
An Opteron box may be faster, but it isn't any more a `personal computer' than [insert some Japanese supercomputer here] is. Until manufacturers start using the Opteron in systems, the G5 is still king for people who don't know how to build their own.
Opteron as Opteron might not be marketed towards "personal computer", but Athlon64 FX is, at the moment, just a relabeled opteron (eg. just as fast, or maybe faster, if it runs on higher clockspeeds than opteron-opterons).
And 64 FX's certainly are targeted to personal computers, the "enthusiast market" part of it, gamers that want most powerful hardware there is and other such speed freaks. And yes, you can get prebuilt systems that are clearly not meant to be servers.
Compare a dual Xeon from Dell to a G5, and you'll see they're fairly similar.
That's the point. They are fairly similar, as would be dual Athlon64 or Opteron. Each might win a few benchmarks and lose in another, and thus claiming any one of them to be absolutely the fastest on the world is lying.
Then we can't compare any processors.
Well, we can't. Not accurately.
Logically, You should be able to compare processors by how fast they perform some common software functions.
Yes, but that can or should not be generalized too much, they are only valid for that very functionality tested. If your processor is faster than everything else in common software function a but slower in b, then it clearly is not "world's fastest processor".
It makes no sense. You go through all this effort to have, effectively, multiple windows inside your browser space
Yes, that's what it effectively is. And that's exactly why it does make sense for people who tend to have lots web pages open.
You can't even alt+tab through browser windows!
I don't WANT to alt-tab trough them, because then I'd have to cycle trough all the OTHER bazillion windows in addition to browser ones, to get into the one I want (and the same otherway, it I'd want into some other program all those browser windows would slow it). Now I can ctrl-tab or ctrl-pgup/down to cycle trough only browser tabs instead of all the other clutter and alt-tab quickly if I want to change between browser and non-browser windows.
Another damn use is sorting things, I can keep slashdot article and it's comments on one window and its tabs, and something else on other. If each page was in a separate window, they would be cluttered instead of in neat order.
If you have 2 pages open at time, you're right, tabbed browsing is useless. If you have twenty, it's a life-saver.
For linux, well, heck, now I know why you guys are so crazy about multiple desktops. You fill up every desktop you have with all these browser tabs.
I can't figure out how anyone can "fill up" even one damn small, not to mention several, desktops with that is about 20px tall, care to elaborate that stupid claim? It doesn't take any more space than "leaving your taskpar popped up".
Hundreds of people labor for months to design a graphics processor that can do real-time procedural shading of near-Renderman complexity, and the "reviewers" at Tom's Hardware focus on the heat sink.
And why you think they shouldn't consider the cooling design?
I know I damn certainly don't want a "graphics processor that can do real-time procedural shading of near-Renderman complexity" if it sounds like a jet engine.
Of course there are some speed idiots who don't care if their personal desktop puts out 100dBa of noise and ruins their hearing forever, but guess what? You're a VERY small minority.
Think of the lights as an unpatched winxp box with every service running and no firewall in front of it.
Ok. I'll do: running unpatched windows without a firewall is sloppy, begging blood from your nose and unresponsible, but breaking into it IS illegal.
Most phones have menu navigation buttons between start and end, this probably can't be misunderstood as such.