You bring up a lot of fantastic points. But being an absolute car fanatic, I'm sure going to miss the sound of a healthy American v8 if we do indeed go with a nuclear/electrical route.:(
Think about it like this - a standard 3.5" drive of this variety would indeed sound like a velociraptor. The 2.5" drives sound more like a herd of fierce gerbils.
But they're *very* angry gerbils. Fitting for gaming hard drives.
If codecs are an issue, why not just go grab VideoLAN? They have all sorts of Linux variants, including one for Fedora. I'm not an OSS junkie so I don't know if it's relevant to Fedora 9. However, windows doesn't exactly come with all of the codecs in the world either.
Maybe I misunderstood, though. My userID is over 1,000,000 which makes me a nub.
This is assuming standard pressure, of course. Any advancement in the operating temperature of a superconductor would make it easier to pressurize a system in order to bring its operating temperature up.
You get enough hardware/corporate support for Linux to warrant not splicing animal DNA into the kernel source for say, a RAID card, and you'll make a Linux user out of me. Looking at kernel source makes me break out into a cold sweat.
Can you blame them? Look at the happenstance. Those kinds of things (and just the sheer odds) don't happen all in a week. Besides - do you think that if people from our country were going to disrupt anything like that, that we'd be out there in a boat that says "LOL USA!!"? Just because the boats were owned by companies and piloted by the proper people doesn't necessarily prove someone else wasn't behind what happened.
Or, you know, the software developers could change the name to something that isn't retarded. If you're going to be referring to the product multiple times in a speech, don't you think that would be a bit tiresome to say repeatedly?
Yes, because they are consumer grade solutions, not enterprise grade. You can engineer a solution that uses a 100% solid copper piping/waterblock framework with absolutely no joints or gaps anywhere in the actual box. Design the thing so the weak points, or any point where water could possibly leak is on the outside of the system (obviously not above or below, might need a custom server cabinet for this) and you can have cooling solutions that will not harm server hardware due to leaking.
I'm not saying my idea is the best (or even decent) as obviously it makes components impossible to upgrade.. but it's one possible solution of many more, I'm sure.
I'm sure there's some engineering to be done to solve that problem for servers. You could make copper piping through the entire solution (this IS a server, no expense is spared, no need for flimsy tubing) that would be good for 70+ years. You don't keep servers operating 70 years typically. Well, at least *I* don't. Some of you guys might just to brag about how much uptime your Linux box has to your great grandchildren.
That's why it's called a delusion. Anyone could say anything and you've got this whole web of false facts or crazy beliefs so you can respond to just about anything with your rhetoric. It's amazing what confidence and a bit of ego will do even with batshit insanity .
I am new 'round these parts, but in my short time of observation I've begun to think that slashdot editors are really a conglomeration of various AI designed to fool us all into thinking they are real people just posting dupes over and over and over again. It's like a very messed up Turing test!
Bearing this in mind things become a little more bearable.:(
Yeah that's a bit of a dilemma if you live in Tennessee, too. For some reason we aren't able to get fiber from Verison here, and I haven't seen any other companies taking any initiative to capitalize on this new trend. It certainly seems to be a state wide thing, or possibly FIOS being only offered in one or two small areas. Makes me wish I were back living in Orange County where I'm originally from.
The root problem and why this guy shifted the argument is that, quite frankly, Linux users need to stop wearing the OS as a badge and rubbing it in. Yes, we get it. Linux is so vastly superior to Windows, OSX is so vastly superior to everything ever and Microsoft made some very dumb mistakes in the entire structure of their OS - but at least windows users don't need to recompile source code to get raid cards to work. Do you guys see how ridiculous all of this is?
I know a lot of you understand how every single bit works in that OS but a lot of people don't, and it's irritating to have the fact being rubbed in all the time. Oh wow, we've heard for the 3 millionth time that Windows is inferior in security once again. Not much people can do about it when it's an industry standard for like 90% of everything in history. It's a pity, I agree. But it's fact.
I never said it was useful for business or even the average user. But yes, it is merely a "nice idea". Linux was a "nice idea" to begin with too, once upon a time.
How is it not free? I can download the source and run the thing right now. What exactly are you talking about? How has he not shared? There's been forks of the source, namely http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en just to prove the point.
And no, I'm not talking about Linux or variants. Has anyone heard of this great little gem? http://www.menuetos.net/ - coded in 32/64 bit assembly, fits on a floppy disk, looks sleek as hell. I personally love the fact it's written in assembly and is not based on any particular OS. It's pretty much a clean slate which drew me to BeOS back in the day.
I wonder if anyone will wind up developing for this. It looks to be a gem in the rough, for sure. After seeing Vista's train wreck, it makes me very happy to see a team who understands exactly the kind of thing I'm (and possibly many others) are looking for.
You know, for all the free advertising this program has been given, it doesn't work very well. I installed the bundle and Vidalia wouldn't even let me save my port settings. Maybe it's user stupidity, but when I type valid ports in, click "save".. they shouldn't disappear the next time I look at settings.
Perhaps I just have crappy luck when it comes to OSS.
Wasn't Vista touted as a complete rethinking? And XP before it, for that matter? I can't count how many times I've heard "the next version of windows is going to be an overhaul!".. and it never is. I also can't count how many times they've said with 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista, installations and driver installs won't require reboots nearly as often. And they alllllways do. I'm definitely noticing a cycle here.
I'm getting tired of them saying "rethinking" because it never means anything good. I just wish they'd get back to the basics and design a nice core OS with minimal software (or allow the user to choose only software they want, like Linux does). While I'm not much of a Linux guy, I definitely do enjoy how many options the user is given during install in the distros I have used. Microsoft ought to learn how to keep things minimal for their sake, because ultimately it means they can focus on making things more secure and give users what they want at the same time. If I want a core OS that runs in 16mb of RAM, looks as bare a GUI as you get, but runs fast as hell.. I should be given that option. I'd pay for a well supported OS like that.
As it is right now.. you pick between:
1) a well supported OS that's great for gaming due to said support. Productivity software isn't bad. However, everything is expensive. But the OS is designed in a dumb way and gets in the way of a lot of things due to its immense bloat. No, nlite doesn't get it all out. 2) a not as well supported OS in a certain sense, lots of free software, can be made as minimal as you want and runs very, very efficiently. However, there's only a very few games on it.
There is no option for people like me that want to do everything with their systems unless we get more than one computer, dualboot or use emulation type software. I would pay good money for a competent OS that does all that stuff. Neither Linux nor Windows delivers. However, with the points made above, it's easy to see why people are switching away from Windows now.
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Eh, it's just the ol' Slashdot Linux-user elitism rearing its ugly head again.
Yeah. At least for me. Once the song started playing in my head, it was game over for me.
Wow, good call!
Too bad absolutely nothing is gonna change, huh?
You bring up a lot of fantastic points. But being an absolute car fanatic, I'm sure going to miss the sound of a healthy American v8 if we do indeed go with a nuclear/electrical route. :(
Think about it like this - a standard 3.5" drive of this variety would indeed sound like a velociraptor. The 2.5" drives sound more like a herd of fierce gerbils.
But they're *very* angry gerbils. Fitting for gaming hard drives.
If codecs are an issue, why not just go grab VideoLAN? They have all sorts of Linux variants, including one for Fedora. I'm not an OSS junkie so I don't know if it's relevant to Fedora 9. However, windows doesn't exactly come with all of the codecs in the world either.
Maybe I misunderstood, though. My userID is over 1,000,000 which makes me a nub.
This is assuming standard pressure, of course. Any advancement in the operating temperature of a superconductor would make it easier to pressurize a system in order to bring its operating temperature up.
You get enough hardware/corporate support for Linux to warrant not splicing animal DNA into the kernel source for say, a RAID card, and you'll make a Linux user out of me. Looking at kernel source makes me break out into a cold sweat.
Who's coming up with these terms, Bill Cosby?
Can you blame them? Look at the happenstance. Those kinds of things (and just the sheer odds) don't happen all in a week. Besides - do you think that if people from our country were going to disrupt anything like that, that we'd be out there in a boat that says "LOL USA!!"? Just because the boats were owned by companies and piloted by the proper people doesn't necessarily prove someone else wasn't behind what happened.
Or, you know, the software developers could change the name to something that isn't retarded. If you're going to be referring to the product multiple times in a speech, don't you think that would be a bit tiresome to say repeatedly?
Yes, because they are consumer grade solutions, not enterprise grade. You can engineer a solution that uses a 100% solid copper piping/waterblock framework with absolutely no joints or gaps anywhere in the actual box. Design the thing so the weak points, or any point where water could possibly leak is on the outside of the system (obviously not above or below, might need a custom server cabinet for this) and you can have cooling solutions that will not harm server hardware due to leaking.
I'm not saying my idea is the best (or even decent) as obviously it makes components impossible to upgrade.. but it's one possible solution of many more, I'm sure.
I'm sure there's some engineering to be done to solve that problem for servers. You could make copper piping through the entire solution (this IS a server, no expense is spared, no need for flimsy tubing) that would be good for 70+ years. You don't keep servers operating 70 years typically. Well, at least *I* don't. Some of you guys might just to brag about how much uptime your Linux box has to your great grandchildren.
Linux bastards.
That's why it's called a delusion. Anyone could say anything and you've got this whole web of false facts or crazy beliefs so you can respond to just about anything with your rhetoric. It's amazing what confidence and a bit of ego will do even with batshit insanity .
I am new 'round these parts, but in my short time of observation I've begun to think that slashdot editors are really a conglomeration of various AI designed to fool us all into thinking they are real people just posting dupes over and over and over again. It's like a very messed up Turing test!
:(
Bearing this in mind things become a little more bearable.
Yeah that's a bit of a dilemma if you live in Tennessee, too. For some reason we aren't able to get fiber from Verison here, and I haven't seen any other companies taking any initiative to capitalize on this new trend. It certainly seems to be a state wide thing, or possibly FIOS being only offered in one or two small areas. Makes me wish I were back living in Orange County where I'm originally from.
The root problem and why this guy shifted the argument is that, quite frankly, Linux users need to stop wearing the OS as a badge and rubbing it in. Yes, we get it. Linux is so vastly superior to Windows, OSX is so vastly superior to everything ever and Microsoft made some very dumb mistakes in the entire structure of their OS - but at least windows users don't need to recompile source code to get raid cards to work. Do you guys see how ridiculous all of this is?
I know a lot of you understand how every single bit works in that OS but a lot of people don't, and it's irritating to have the fact being rubbed in all the time. Oh wow, we've heard for the 3 millionth time that Windows is inferior in security once again. Not much people can do about it when it's an industry standard for like 90% of everything in history. It's a pity, I agree. But it's fact.
I never said it was useful for business or even the average user. But yes, it is merely a "nice idea". Linux was a "nice idea" to begin with too, once upon a time.
How is it not free? I can download the source and run the thing right now. What exactly are you talking about? How has he not shared? There's been forks of the source, namely http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en just to prove the point.
And no, I'm not talking about Linux or variants. Has anyone heard of this great little gem? http://www.menuetos.net/ - coded in 32/64 bit assembly, fits on a floppy disk, looks sleek as hell. I personally love the fact it's written in assembly and is not based on any particular OS. It's pretty much a clean slate which drew me to BeOS back in the day.
I wonder if anyone will wind up developing for this. It looks to be a gem in the rough, for sure. After seeing Vista's train wreck, it makes me very happy to see a team who understands exactly the kind of thing I'm (and possibly many others) are looking for.
You know, for all the free advertising this program has been given, it doesn't work very well. I installed the bundle and Vidalia wouldn't even let me save my port settings. Maybe it's user stupidity, but when I type valid ports in, click "save".. they shouldn't disappear the next time I look at settings.
Perhaps I just have crappy luck when it comes to OSS.
Wasn't Vista touted as a complete rethinking? And XP before it, for that matter? I can't count how many times I've heard "the next version of windows is going to be an overhaul!".. and it never is. I also can't count how many times they've said with 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista, installations and driver installs won't require reboots nearly as often. And they alllllways do. I'm definitely noticing a cycle here.
I'm getting tired of them saying "rethinking" because it never means anything good. I just wish they'd get back to the basics and design a nice core OS with minimal software (or allow the user to choose only software they want, like Linux does). While I'm not much of a Linux guy, I definitely do enjoy how many options the user is given during install in the distros I have used. Microsoft ought to learn how to keep things minimal for their sake, because ultimately it means they can focus on making things more secure and give users what they want at the same time. If I want a core OS that runs in 16mb of RAM, looks as bare a GUI as you get, but runs fast as hell.. I should be given that option. I'd pay for a well supported OS like that.
As it is right now.. you pick between:
1) a well supported OS that's great for gaming due to said support. Productivity software isn't bad. However, everything is expensive. But the OS is designed in a dumb way and gets in the way of a lot of things due to its immense bloat. No, nlite doesn't get it all out.
2) a not as well supported OS in a certain sense, lots of free software, can be made as minimal as you want and runs very, very efficiently. However, there's only a very few games on it.
There is no option for people like me that want to do everything with their systems unless we get more than one computer, dualboot or use emulation type software. I would pay good money for a competent OS that does all that stuff. Neither Linux nor Windows delivers. However, with the points made above, it's easy to see why people are switching away from Windows now.
From the looks of it, most of us "USians" (that is my new favorite term) haven't cared much for American policies or politics for quite some time!
How'd you run it? I bought a copy of Vista Ultimate and before I even put the DVD in the drive, my computer jumped out a window!