To the poster asking about the "more expensive" PPC chips, I think they're pretty much in the same range, or cheaper, than X86 chips. The CPU probably costs a small fraction of the cost of the computer, especially on the Apple high-end Blue-and-whites. The Apple Tax is probably larger. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
The problem is that Linux desktop is much more sluggish then the Mac one ( assuming the same hardware ) It might look cooler but is simply slower.
I have a 233 Mhz mac clone that runs netscape (in MacOS) a lot slower than my linux machine does. Granted, the modem's slower, but it still persists if I switch modems. Part of the reason is that netscape *freezes* for long periods of time. Subjectively, Linux is faster, on a much slower piece of hardware. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Yes, Apple is much better about this than they once were. However, the "Who cares?" attitude is perhaps the reason *why* more OSes don't run on it. And last I checked, there are other operating systems that run on Macs. OpenBSD? NetBSD? BeOS? Ever heard of them? If Apple hadn't been as open as they've been lately, you wouldn't see any of them, including Linux, running on the Mac.
Actually, they have been less than forthcoming to Be with the information necessary to port BeOS to their latest machines. Which is why it doesn't run on the Blue and Whites or the Imac; not to mention, it has never run on the powerbooks.
They practice benign neglect towards Linux because they don't feel threatened by it. I think in the future they're going to find out this is a mistake:-)
From what I've read about the fossil evidence, pretty much every "major find" that provides a transitional form from some ape-like ancestor to us has been a hoax.
When was, to pick one example, Australopithecus, or Homo Habalis, shown to have been a hoax?
Well... this is almost like the Happy Hacker wargames, except that it's worthwhile (prizes amounting to more than recognition). That, and it isn't intrisically (sic) flawed because it isn't run by Carolyn Meinel...
What happened? Did she turn you down on a date or something?
Since Iridium is a LEO constellation, the satellites are always moving wrt the Earth. The US and China should be having the same satellite coverage.
I wonder if there's a source of electrical interference causing the problems instead, like maybe a frequency conflict with a different ground-based communications system, i.e. some wildcat mobile phone operator infringing on their bandwidth.
NASA also should probably triple the price it charges the US Military to launch satellites, and THEN keep the profits, since some of the money that's getting sucked out of NASA is being diverted to Military pork.
The US military mostly launches its satellites without NASA's help. Once in a long while they used to launch on the shuttle, but they have mostly moved those payloads to Titan IV and other rockets, bought from the suppliers (at higher than commercial rates, however).
You know, you might want to check the details of Slashdot's moderation system before you label it "censorship." You might also want to check out what Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel did for a living. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, they announced during one of Bill G.'s trips there that Windows is the official OS of China. Wierd, isn't it? Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
No, I don't want to censor you. The current moderation setup is not censorship. I'd just want to rate my opinion that your post looks like a troll.
And if the Romans had managed to crush Christianity, we'd probably have never gotten the idea that fusion reactors were possible. The Christians in the so-called "Dark" ages worked a lot harder on replacing manpower with machinepower (windmills and watermills) than the Romans did, because the Romans had gotten addicted to slavery.
Gawd, all these propaganda mouthpieces for the dictatorship, and me without my moderator access.
Personally, I suspect that if you don't understand why freedom of religion is important, you won't really understand how to put together a democracy that doesn't collapse into dictatorship like a three dollar suitcase the way Weimar Germany collapsed into Nazi Germany, or even what a real democracy is...
Why should we believe all these statements about Falun Gong from people who apparently want expanded government authority to deal with religions they don't like?
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Actually, I heard that the Marines were getting a lot of use out of Newtons, albeit somewhat hacked Newtons, and were miffed when they were cancelled. I don't know all the details. I think some of the modifications involved comm gear.
It's really too bad, because I am not sure anything else has caught up to where the Newton was when it "failed." Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Explain to me again how they're going to develop a replacement for the shuttle without funding.
NASA officials, including director Dan Goldin, have been making public statements about the new RLV companies that seem meant to scare off public investment in them. If they were to stop doing it, and invest in them themselves (and not the schemes of people like Lockmart, who couldn't even build their own engine test setup, as happened in the LASRE project, which was meant to provide data for X-33), they wouldn't need as much money.
It takes about three billion dollars a year to run the shuttle. If used more rationally, it could be used to develop a much cheaper vehicle. They don't do this because they feel obliged to keep doing things in an expensive fashion. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I remembered driving in to work that I put the wrong url in. The correct URL for the Space Access Society is http://www.space-access.org, or in hyperlink form, here.
I think that with the recent news of NASA working to discourage investment in private RLV ventures not connected to the traditional MIC old boy network (see http://www.sas.org for more information), they shouldn't complain if their own budget gets cut. I believe it's just karma, and perhaps a form of karma we need.
BTW, Rob, when are you going to cover the Roton hover tests here?
Hm. I do believe the series of features on Columbine were in protest of the effect of the techno-milking, not in participation therewith.
But it's interesting to compare and contrast how Katz talked about the Columbine incident here and how he did elsewhere, where he did a good job of parroting the party line about how much guns were responsible, etc... at the same time, he was taking a different attitude towards the gun situation here, and actually admitting that there were people on the other side of the issue that weren't raving loons (something the mainstream press doesn't do, and that he didn't do when discussing the accident in "mainstream press" mode rather than on slashdot) and trying to act like he wasn't pontificating, because he knows this is a different audience. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, that bit about the spacesuit inflating on Leonov has been known for a long while. I saw an interview with him once where he talked about the whole situation in depth.
Part of the problem, you see, was that they were using an inflatable airlock...
This is a prime example of what Linux brings to the table and why the decision on Amiga's part to go with Linux, an advanced and mature desktop platform, was better than the decision to go with QNX, a rarely-used desktop platform with not much general-purpose software and a shallow bench of programmers to draw off of.
I thought QNX was POSIX-compliant?
I wouldn't be suprised if GNOME wound up on QNX fairly quickly.
What was your friend measuring it _with_? I don't even think you *can* measure microwaves with anything that measures REMs. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, you have it backwards; Motorola will be supplying the Altivec-enabled chips, while IBM is concentrating on increacing the clock speed rather than the number of instructions. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Hadn't the Chinese government "standardized" on Microsoft Windows a year or two ago as their "official" OS, during one of Bill Gates' visits there? Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I don't think there's anything to these things; the alleged inventor repeatedly trolls sci.space.policy, and won't even keep a constant ID on his posts so you can kill-file him. Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
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IBM has just as much rights to Altivec as Motorola does, and AFAIK doesn't have to ask permission from anyone to use it...
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
To the poster asking about the "more expensive" PPC chips, I think they're pretty much in the same range, or cheaper, than X86 chips. The CPU probably costs a small fraction of the cost of the computer, especially on the Apple high-end Blue-and-whites. The Apple Tax is probably larger.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I have a 233 Mhz mac clone that runs netscape (in MacOS) a lot slower than my linux machine does. Granted, the modem's slower, but it still persists if I switch modems. Part of the reason is that netscape *freezes* for long periods of time. Subjectively, Linux is faster, on a much slower piece of hardware.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
When was, to pick one example, Australopithecus, or Homo Habalis, shown to have been a hoax?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
What happened? Did she turn you down on a date or something?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Since Iridium is a LEO constellation, the satellites are always moving wrt the Earth. The US and China should be having the same satellite coverage.
I wonder if there's a source of electrical interference causing the problems instead, like maybe a frequency conflict with a different ground-based communications system, i.e. some wildcat mobile phone operator infringing on their bandwidth.
br)Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
The US military mostly launches its satellites without NASA's help. Once in a long while they used to launch on the shuttle, but they have mostly moved those payloads to Titan IV and other rockets, bought from the suppliers (at higher than commercial rates, however).
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
You know, you might want to check the details of Slashdot's moderation system before you label it "censorship." You might also want to check out what Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel did for a living.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, they announced during one of Bill G.'s trips there that Windows is the official OS of China.
Wierd, isn't it?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
No, I don't want to censor you. The current moderation setup is not censorship. I'd just want to rate my opinion that your post looks like a troll.
And if the Romans had managed to crush Christianity, we'd probably have never gotten the idea that fusion reactors were possible. The Christians in the so-called "Dark" ages worked a lot harder on replacing manpower with machinepower (windmills and watermills) than the Romans did, because the Romans had gotten addicted to slavery.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Gawd, all these propaganda mouthpieces for the dictatorship, and me without my moderator access.
Personally, I suspect that if you don't understand why freedom of religion is important, you won't really understand how to put together a democracy that doesn't collapse into dictatorship like a three dollar suitcase the way Weimar Germany collapsed into Nazi Germany, or even what a real democracy is...
Why should we believe all these statements about Falun Gong from people who apparently want expanded government authority to deal with religions they don't like?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
It's really too bad, because I am not sure anything else has caught up to where the Newton was when it "failed."
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
NASA officials, including director Dan Goldin, have been making public statements about the new RLV companies that seem meant to scare off public investment in them. If they were to stop doing it, and invest in them themselves (and not the schemes of people like Lockmart, who couldn't even build their own engine test setup, as happened in the LASRE project, which was meant to provide data for X-33), they wouldn't need as much money.
It takes about three billion dollars a year to run the shuttle. If used more rationally, it could be used to develop a much cheaper vehicle. They don't do this because they feel obliged to keep doing things in an expensive fashion.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I remembered driving in to work that I put the wrong url in. The correct URL for the Space Access Society is http://www.space-access.org, or in hyperlink form, here.
Sorry about that!
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I think that with the recent news of NASA working to discourage investment in private RLV ventures not connected to the traditional MIC old boy network (see http://www.sas.org for more information), they shouldn't complain if their own budget gets cut. I believe it's just karma, and perhaps a form of karma we need.
BTW, Rob, when are you going to cover the Roton hover tests here?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
But it's interesting to compare and contrast how Katz talked about the Columbine incident here and how he did elsewhere, where he did a good job of parroting the party line about how much guns were responsible, etc... at the same time, he was taking a different attitude towards the gun situation here, and actually admitting that there were people on the other side of the issue that weren't raving loons (something the mainstream press doesn't do, and that he didn't do when discussing the accident in "mainstream press" mode rather than on slashdot) and trying to act like he wasn't pontificating, because he knows this is a different audience.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, that bit about the spacesuit inflating on Leonov has been known for a long while. I saw an interview with him once where he talked about the whole situation in depth.
Part of the problem, you see, was that they were using an inflatable airlock...
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I thought QNX was POSIX-compliant?
I wouldn't be suprised if GNOME wound up on QNX fairly quickly.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
What was your friend measuring it _with_? I don't even think you *can* measure microwaves with anything that measures REMs.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, you have it backwards; Motorola will be supplying the Altivec-enabled chips, while IBM is concentrating on increacing the clock speed rather than the number of instructions.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Hadn't the Chinese government "standardized" on Microsoft Windows a year or two ago as their "official" OS, during one of Bill Gates' visits there?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Instead of "20 year-old technology," how about mature software technology implementation?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
I don't think there's anything to these things; the alleged inventor repeatedly trolls sci.space.policy, and won't even keep a constant ID on his posts so you can kill-file him.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, that's fairly bloody malicious to the people who have their data in those files.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita