I think one of the biggest reasons is Database access.. I know where I work, and many other places, Excell has become less of a calculation tool, and more of a reporting tool.
I think that 10% is a pretty big step. Keep in mind that something like 40% of PC's are purchased by busineses, and that makes apples 10% of PC's something like 18% of home computers. Thats pretty significant.
Sorry, my post was a bit unclear. I want a project that will let me run OSX apps on a linux machine, just like with WINE, we can run Win32 apps on linux machines..
when will a project similar to WINE come out for OSX? I have seen all sorts of apps that run on Mac and/or PC's but not linux. One would think it would almost be easier to "not emulate" the OSX software, as it is mostly unix based. If more software starts coming out for mac and PC, it might be easier to get the Mac software running under linux.
Because of the way that windows "pages" memory (and I'm assuming your running a server version of the OS, cause XP and vista don't work with PAE) you still can't have a single process with much more than 3GB of ram on a 32bit system. You can have multiple processes running with 3GB of ram, but then you get some slowdowns from paging in and out the memory.
If Memory serves, this is part of the reason that Exchange 2007 requires 64-bit OS's and processors. (except for the demo and SMB versions)
I really like the fact the Ubuntu versions have a year.month naming. It much easier for me to remember 8.04 than it is to remember things like Breezy Badger, or Hoary Hedgehog, or even "redhat EL 4.1". I can easily remember that the release was last spring.
You just eliminated one third of the US population from accessing your site.. Sad, isn't it. Now if you had said, What color of hair does the 3rd girl on the right have, A: green B: brown c: Blond D: I drive a ferrari, I don't care about hair color! you would only eliminate about one eighth
Yes, run a multithreaded app on the system, or run two single threaded apps. (photoshop is multithreaded, as are many rendering software, etc) Not much software is yet multi-threaded, at least not on windows.
Take a formatted ZFS drive out of one of your Sun servers or dekstops. Place it in a Mac. Note that it mounts, and you can read the files on the drive. Note also that apple has stated it "WILL" be in the next release of OSX server.. Note the apple patents for converting file systems on the fly, with no downtime. (seriously, lookem up!) Note also that Linux, BSD, and Solaris can all work now with ZFS, as its been opened up to the world. ZFS is brand new. WinFS was a concept that never got off the ground.. (although, I sure wish it had, soemthing along the lines of "Select * from ALL_DOMAIN_Workstataions" where Filename="Somefile.dll" and Version="11.3.2343" sure would rock!)
The biggest advantage to this is that it can go where there are no roads.. If you want to do a logging operation, and the trucks can only get within 20 miles, right now, you use a single helicopter, and lift small amounts of logs and ferry them back to the area where the trucks are. 40 tons is a lot of logs that this thing can carry back. The fuel savings are huge, since after it drops its load, and goes back, it doesn't need to use its rotors for lift, just the propellers for propulsion. Also, think about northern Alaska and Canada. (I like the show "Ice road truckers) but imagine if you could ferry the supplies up to remote locations where there are no roads, year round, instead of just a few month window when the ice is thick.
NanoSolar was all over slashdot for quite some time... (they basically print solar panels on flexible plastic). They are much cheaper than regular solar panels (although much less effecient per sq. meter, but the cost/watt is still cheap) You can now buy them. However, their production capacity for the next few years is already purchased, so you might find them from a distributor, if you know someone who knows someone..
3G is $10 more and doesn't include the 200 messages I can already send
Yeah, so why the hell is that? you can have unlimited data, sent at very fast rates, watch streaming video, check your mail, etc, but those little 140byte packets, sorry, those are $0.20 each...
Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, instead of playing a TV program, I can hear it, but see a windows XP desktop, with a minimized window of the video playing, and a notice that updates are ready to install. That usually sticks around until late afternoon, or early evening, when someone finally either installs the patches and reboots, or just restores the minimized screen..
It is entirely too easy to deploy another VM client with virtualization. Soon, I see Microsoft Cracking down on the licensing.. After a few companies get audited, things will start changing...
My parents were big time republicans, my dad was in the leadership for his city's republican party. They would always talk about how the government needs it, and the president wouldn't do anything bad, etc.. I would always ask (this was over a year ago) if they were then OK with Hillary Clinton having those abilities, (man do those republicans hate her!) and they would get really, really mad. I think it finaly sunk in to them that they can't trust one person to follow the laws we have created, but everyone from that day on. Seems to have really changed their opinions on the matter. (My dad even became gung-ho for Ron Paul!)
My brothers neighbor spent 60k on a solar/wind system for his house. We thought he was crazy, but then realized that tax credits and rebates and incentives from the electric company paid for almost half of it, so lets call it $35k owed. Now, he's working on getting an electric car for trips to the store, and converting his dryer and stove back to electric. Figures that the whole system will pay for itself in about 8-10 years, depending on how much electric bills increase over the next few years.. And he likes the fact that he will never have to pay the power company any money again.. (has batteries and a biodiesel generator to keep the house going for a few days in case of a bad winter)
The space shuttle originally was a cost savings project. After the military realized that there weren't any rockets big enough to lift some of their planned satelittes, they pushed to greatly increase the size of the shuttle..
Neubud purchases ad space on tons of websites.. when the web page is requested, they check the requesting IP. If its on a network they "service" then they call up the cookie and the profile from the monitoring hardware at the ISP, and instead of displaying a static ad, display one targeted to your surfing habits. Then they give the ISP a chunk of change (or a percentage of ad revenue, not sure), for allowing them to have their monitoring/profiling tools installed at their access points.. The ads don't go "over" other ads, IE, you won't see them on your personal blog.. only on sites where they have already purchased advertising. (at least thats what they claim for now)
Charter Communications announced last month that it would suspend a trial of NebuAd due to customer concerns about privacy.
The sad thing was, their page specifically stated that their Cookie would opt you out of seeing the ads. They did not say that the cookie would keep you from being tracked. Even most non-tech people know to clean their cookies, and many programs will do it for you, like ccleaner on windows. Their privacy policy explicity states they will turn over all logs and information for a warrant or supeana.
There is nothing "opt-in" about what they were trying.
Have you ever seen the oppositte? A bunch of coders trying to be sys-admins.. scary! Was the first admin at a software dot-com, they wanted to know why the network, consisting of a dozen $50 100MB "Switches" they got a staples daisy chained together were so slow.. I can understand their idea, as in theory, it should work, but in reality it doesn't. (kinda like when I program. It always compiles, doesn't always work...)
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I think one of the biggest reasons is Database access.. I know where I work, and many other places, Excell has become less of a calculation tool, and more of a reporting tool.
I think that 10% is a pretty big step. Keep in mind that something like 40% of PC's are purchased by busineses, and that makes apples 10% of PC's something like 18% of home computers. Thats pretty significant.
Sorry, my post was a bit unclear. I want a project that will let me run OSX apps on a linux machine, just like with WINE, we can run Win32 apps on linux machines..
when will a project similar to WINE come out for OSX? I have seen all sorts of apps that run on Mac and/or PC's but not linux. One would think it would almost be easier to "not emulate" the OSX software, as it is mostly unix based. If more software starts coming out for mac and PC, it might be easier to get the Mac software running under linux.
Because of the way that windows "pages" memory (and I'm assuming your running a server version of the OS, cause XP and vista don't work with PAE) you still can't have a single process with much more than 3GB of ram on a 32bit system. You can have multiple processes running with 3GB of ram, but then you get some slowdowns from paging in and out the memory.
If Memory serves, this is part of the reason that Exchange 2007 requires 64-bit OS's and processors. (except for the demo and SMB versions)
I really like the fact the Ubuntu versions have a year.month naming. It much easier for me to remember 8.04 than it is to remember things like Breezy Badger, or Hoary Hedgehog, or even "redhat EL 4.1". I can easily remember that the release was last spring.
You just eliminated one third of the US population from accessing your site.. Sad, isn't it.
Now if you had said,
What color of hair does the 3rd girl on the right have,
A: green
B: brown
c: Blond
D: I drive a ferrari, I don't care about hair color!
you would only eliminate about one eighth
Yeah, its not like its rocket science or anything.. Oh, wait!
Yes, run a multithreaded app on the system, or run two single threaded apps. (photoshop is multithreaded, as are many rendering software, etc) Not much software is yet multi-threaded, at least not on windows.
Yeah, right, it has optical connections. they will have to be disabled to play videos, otherwise you might copy them!
I do believe they have some other exotic things, like Sapphire coatings for additional EMP protection. Stuff that is crazy-expensive!
Take a formatted ZFS drive out of one of your Sun servers or dekstops. Place it in a Mac. Note that it mounts, and you can read the files on the drive. Note also that apple has stated it "WILL" be in the next release of OSX server.. Note the apple patents for converting file systems on the fly, with no downtime. (seriously, lookem up!) Note also that Linux, BSD, and Solaris can all work now with ZFS, as its been opened up to the world. ZFS is brand new. WinFS was a concept that never got off the ground.. (although, I sure wish it had, soemthing along the lines of "Select * from ALL_DOMAIN_Workstataions" where Filename="Somefile.dll" and Version="11.3.2343" sure would rock!)
The biggest advantage to this is that it can go where there are no roads.. If you want to do a logging operation, and the trucks can only get within 20 miles, right now, you use a single helicopter, and lift small amounts of logs and ferry them back to the area where the trucks are. 40 tons is a lot of logs that this thing can carry back. The fuel savings are huge, since after it drops its load, and goes back, it doesn't need to use its rotors for lift, just the propellers for propulsion. Also, think about northern Alaska and Canada. (I like the show "Ice road truckers) but imagine if you could ferry the supplies up to remote locations where there are no roads, year round, instead of just a few month window when the ice is thick.
NanoSolar was all over slashdot for quite some time... (they basically print solar panels on flexible plastic). They are much cheaper than regular solar panels (although much less effecient per sq. meter, but the cost/watt is still cheap) You can now buy them. However, their production capacity for the next few years is already purchased, so you might find them from a distributor, if you know someone who knows someone..
Yeah, so why the hell is that? you can have unlimited data, sent at very fast rates, watch streaming video, check your mail, etc, but those little 140byte packets, sorry, those are $0.20 each...
Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, instead of playing a TV program, I can hear it, but see a windows XP desktop, with a minimized window of the video playing, and a notice that updates are ready to install. That usually sticks around until late afternoon, or early evening, when someone finally either installs the patches and reboots, or just restores the minimized screen..
It is entirely too easy to deploy another VM client with virtualization. Soon, I see Microsoft Cracking down on the licensing.. After a few companies get audited, things will start changing...
I can barely fill a 250GB drive, and I want one.. Multiple versions of backups....
My parents were big time republicans, my dad was in the leadership for his city's republican party. They would always talk about how the government needs it, and the president wouldn't do anything bad, etc.. I would always ask (this was over a year ago) if they were then OK with Hillary Clinton having those abilities, (man do those republicans hate her!) and they would get really, really mad. I think it finaly sunk in to them that they can't trust one person to follow the laws we have created, but everyone from that day on. Seems to have really changed their opinions on the matter. (My dad even became gung-ho for Ron Paul!)
My brothers neighbor spent 60k on a solar/wind system for his house. We thought he was crazy, but then realized that tax credits and rebates and incentives from the electric company paid for almost half of it, so lets call it $35k owed. Now, he's working on getting an electric car for trips to the store, and converting his dryer and stove back to electric. Figures that the whole system will pay for itself in about 8-10 years, depending on how much electric bills increase over the next few years.. And he likes the fact that he will never have to pay the power company any money again.. (has batteries and a biodiesel generator to keep the house going for a few days in case of a bad winter)
The space shuttle originally was a cost savings project. After the military realized that there weren't any rockets big enough to lift some of their planned satelittes, they pushed to greatly increase the size of the shuttle..
Neubud purchases ad space on tons of websites.. when the web page is requested, they check the requesting IP. If its on a network they "service" then they call up the cookie and the profile from the monitoring hardware at the ISP, and instead of displaying a static ad, display one targeted to your surfing habits. Then they give the ISP a chunk of change (or a percentage of ad revenue, not sure), for allowing them to have their monitoring/profiling tools installed at their access points.. The ads don't go "over" other ads, IE, you won't see them on your personal blog.. only on sites where they have already purchased advertising. (at least thats what they claim for now)
Charter Communications announced last month that it would suspend a trial of NebuAd due to customer concerns about privacy. The sad thing was, their page specifically stated that their Cookie would opt you out of seeing the ads. They did not say that the cookie would keep you from being tracked. Even most non-tech people know to clean their cookies, and many programs will do it for you, like ccleaner on windows. Their privacy policy explicity states they will turn over all logs and information for a warrant or supeana. There is nothing "opt-in" about what they were trying.
Have you ever seen the oppositte? A bunch of coders trying to be sys-admins.. scary! Was the first admin at a software dot-com, they wanted to know why the network, consisting of a dozen $50 100MB "Switches" they got a staples daisy chained together were so slow.. I can understand their idea, as in theory, it should work, but in reality it doesn't. (kinda like when I program. It always compiles, doesn't always work...)
No, its binary, real men solder a telegraph device to the motherboard, and just push down for 1, up for 0, Really, really fast!