Actually yes, since server 2008 they've moved to a CLI-before-GUI system, where all tasks can be performed from the CLI and the GUI only handles a subset of them, as in Linux. This is good since everything now becomes scriptable, the GUI becomes optional, and you don't need a full virtual desktop to get things done remotely.
I'll be waiting for Windows 9 after this iOS mimicry flops. This could end up being the worst mistake yet, ME and Vista could both look like minor failures in comparison.
It doesn't help that Windows uses swap regardless of how much RAM is free (on my gaming machine, if I enable the swap file it is used when there is MORE THAN 10GB RAM AVAILABLE). Switch to Linux and that limitation disappears, it will only start swapping when the RAM is somewhere between 2/3 full and completely full, depending on the (much more sane) default setting. 4GB RAM is actually pretty hard to use up - especially without help from a Firefox instance with a zillion tabs open. Most average users will always have lots to spare.
Average desktops come with the slowest bargain-basement hard drives the manufacturer can buy by the truckload. There is an excess of processing power and RAM, which apps haven't wasted. There is sure as hell no excess of disk speed.
These guys are supposed to be the cheapest in dollars-for-gigs, don't know if anyone's overtaken them. They also claim to offer true encryption, in which only the user has the key.
Oh I know, tons of companies and even a few misguided people use Blackberries. But nobody cares about the OS. It's a boring appliance for messaging and some basic browsing. Upgrades add just a few features, usually bringing the BlackberryOS' capabilities in line with what cheapo phones had 5 years ago (and thus the good battery life). It's the most boring part of the boring tool that is the boring Blackberry.
The Blackberry is the fleet van of the mobile device world. Nobody raves about the Ford Econoline and most would not like one for a personal vehicle. Same with Blackberries.
MS would be smart to buy RIM, but they'd probably do something dumb with it (like switching the OS to godawful WP7) rather than just making the Blackberry network more reliable (as in not completely centralized!) and continuing to sell bland, admin-friendly corporate messaging appliances.
Rockets are certainly much dirtier than commercial jet engines so they're not directly comparable. Every little bit helps, and a space elevator would be cheaper too, so it's a win/win.
I wonder if any Caribbean islands would be close enough, I'm sure Trinidad or Barbados (where the experimental space launch guns were built) would be happy to accept a launch facility.
I was hoping they would have finally made a Second Life-like virtual conferencing system. For a small fraction of the cost of any of the G20/whatever conferences, they could instead build such a system with Crysis-quality graphics, facial motion capture, secure high-quality conferencing terminals, you name it. It would be much more eco-friendly as well, and what governments will really like is that it doesn't create an opportunity for protests.
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Actually yes, since server 2008 they've moved to a CLI-before-GUI system, where all tasks can be performed from the CLI and the GUI only handles a subset of them, as in Linux. This is good since everything now becomes scriptable, the GUI becomes optional, and you don't need a full virtual desktop to get things done remotely.
Task manager --> Performance?
I'll be waiting for Windows 9 after this iOS mimicry flops. This could end up being the worst mistake yet, ME and Vista could both look like minor failures in comparison.
It doesn't help that Windows uses swap regardless of how much RAM is free (on my gaming machine, if I enable the swap file it is used when there is MORE THAN 10GB RAM AVAILABLE). Switch to Linux and that limitation disappears, it will only start swapping when the RAM is somewhere between 2/3 full and completely full, depending on the (much more sane) default setting. 4GB RAM is actually pretty hard to use up - especially without help from a Firefox instance with a zillion tabs open. Most average users will always have lots to spare.
Average desktops come with the slowest bargain-basement hard drives the manufacturer can buy by the truckload. There is an excess of processing power and RAM, which apps haven't wasted. There is sure as hell no excess of disk speed.
These guys are supposed to be the cheapest in dollars-for-gigs, don't know if anyone's overtaken them. They also claim to offer true encryption, in which only the user has the key.
Sounds good, DynDNS + port forwarding on your home router to a machine/VM running the hosting service = problem solved.
If your rsync source/destination is of the format username@hostname:/path/to/files it uses SSH by default.
Oh I know, tons of companies and even a few misguided people use Blackberries. But nobody cares about the OS. It's a boring appliance for messaging and some basic browsing. Upgrades add just a few features, usually bringing the BlackberryOS' capabilities in line with what cheapo phones had 5 years ago (and thus the good battery life). It's the most boring part of the boring tool that is the boring Blackberry.
The Blackberry is the fleet van of the mobile device world. Nobody raves about the Ford Econoline and most would not like one for a personal vehicle. Same with Blackberries.
MS would be smart to buy RIM, but they'd probably do something dumb with it (like switching the OS to godawful WP7) rather than just making the Blackberry network more reliable (as in not completely centralized!) and continuing to sell bland, admin-friendly corporate messaging appliances.
'Sup bonch.
Now they'll have to name their minor revision of an OS that nobody cares about slightly differently!
Compared to a race like the Irkens from Invader Zim, yeah that's right.
Yes, and does anyone know where I can get cheap replica handbags?
My guess is that the cannonball bounced off of one of the backing berms, the "hill" being spoken about in the news.
Just checked the Google Caches. Nothing relevant in Grant's or Tori's, but when I try to load Kari's cache I get a 404...hmm...
Forget heat, what about the acceleration? You'd be squished into a layer of red goo on the spaceship floor by the 10-zillion G force.
Rockets are certainly much dirtier than commercial jet engines so they're not directly comparable. Every little bit helps, and a space elevator would be cheaper too, so it's a win/win.
You're serously suggesting a space elevator could lift ENTIRE Islands into space. A small Island has a mass of at least 1 billion metric tons.
That's not required, just the chunk of ground the cable is attached to, if that bit of ground is weak enough. You're using Katamari Damacy physics.
Aw damn I was just thinking about graphene car body panels :-(
I wonder if a few layers of clearcoat would safely seal it in? Just hold your breath if you get in an accident :-P
I wonder if any Caribbean islands would be close enough, I'm sure Trinidad or Barbados (where the experimental space launch guns were built) would be happy to accept a launch facility.
A couple of the frozen rocks in our solar system have water below the ice and quite likely contain multicellular life.
Besides, don't you think the cheap and eco-friendly satellite launches that would be possible with a space elevator would be a good thing?
I was hoping they would have finally made a Second Life-like virtual conferencing system. For a small fraction of the cost of any of the G20/whatever conferences, they could instead build such a system with Crysis-quality graphics, facial motion capture, secure high-quality conferencing terminals, you name it. It would be much more eco-friendly as well, and what governments will really like is that it doesn't create an opportunity for protests.
...reiterating that it was a regular routine disaster that only caused damage due to gross negligence.
Also you DIDN'T SEE any space cash!