This might be a bit off-topic, but how do these efficiency increases actually *end* our addiction to oil/gas. We're still using cars powered by gasoline, after all (even hybrids have a gas engine that runs at higer speeds). It seems that to end our addiction we need another way to power our cars entirely.
As a lot of people have probably mentioned already, how is it Apple/Mac OS X's fault that malware was installed on the computer? The malware is a program after all, which was given administrator privileges when the pirated iWork was installed. It didn't exploit anything; the user installed it manually. The same thing could happen on Linux/BSD for pirated programs that are binary-only. Same goes for any MSOffice for Windows from TPB.
I remember reading about some Dell laptops that had both an Intel chip and an ARM chip. The Intel was used for Windows/Linux normally. For simpler tasks (basic browsing, email, etc.), the laptop booted Linux using the ARM chip, attached to the same hardware. It had much better battery life on ARM, but still was able to use the Intel if it needed to do more processor-intense tasks. Or run Windows.
Ahh...here's the article
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-and-ARM-Processors-Inside-the-Same-Notebook-98601.shtml
This video looks more like apt updating and installing than debian booting, so we don't know how long it takes to boot. On the other hand, if it takes this long to install packages using apt, installing programs is going to be really painful.
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It's still a little bit off, but anyone thinking 2012?
This might be a bit off-topic, but how do these efficiency increases actually *end* our addiction to oil/gas. We're still using cars powered by gasoline, after all (even hybrids have a gas engine that runs at higer speeds). It seems that to end our addiction we need another way to power our cars entirely.
As a lot of people have probably mentioned already, how is it Apple/Mac OS X's fault that malware was installed on the computer? The malware is a program after all, which was given administrator privileges when the pirated iWork was installed. It didn't exploit anything; the user installed it manually. The same thing could happen on Linux/BSD for pirated programs that are binary-only. Same goes for any MSOffice for Windows from TPB.
I remember reading about some Dell laptops that had both an Intel chip and an ARM chip. The Intel was used for Windows/Linux normally. For simpler tasks (basic browsing, email, etc.), the laptop booted Linux using the ARM chip, attached to the same hardware. It had much better battery life on ARM, but still was able to use the Intel if it needed to do more processor-intense tasks. Or run Windows. Ahh...here's the article http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-and-ARM-Processors-Inside-the-Same-Notebook-98601.shtml
This video looks more like apt updating and installing than debian booting, so we don't know how long it takes to boot. On the other hand, if it takes this long to install packages using apt, installing programs is going to be really painful.