I have used a Android phone tethered for 3G via USB, Wi-Fi tethering was also possible. I had an app that would automaticly detect and connect to open access points. I actually hadn't tested that, but it would be possible to leech nearby open hotspots as required.
You totally forgot New Zealand's only native land mammal, the bat. There's an amazing video of the native bat running, because it'd evolved to be flightless like the birds.
The native bat is not flightless. It does a funny scamper thing along the ground but this does not make it flightless.
But, the Haast Eagle was unconfirmed before this? I've been brought up and it's always been a fact to me.
Haasts Eagle bones were identified in 1870 by Julius Von Haast. This thing preyed on the Moa, a 12-foot tall 500lb flightless bird. There is no question that a human would have been a much easier much more defenseless snack than a Moa. It would be unlikely that they didn't eat the occasional human.
I wonder if making singular devices do more and more tasks otherwise performed by individual is actually going to come back and hurt companies like Apple. Many people don't see the point of a camera in a Nano or a Touch, as they may also own a digital camera, a cellphone with a camera, or even an iPhone.
I fear I'll wind up with every device I own having a camera, wi-fi, 3G and video playback that works acceptably, Yet I'll have no specialised devices that will do any one of these things very well.
I can understand the advantages of consolidating tasks into a single device, but this may mean people end up buying less gadgets because of the duplication of features, and the high cost of that one. The price of an iphone at full retail buys you a basic gps-equiped cellphone that has a camera, a netbook and a digital camera.
We're paying a high price for every new feature shoe horned into small shiny things, the expense of lacking in gadgets that do one thing really well.
I've never had a in-place upgrade in any operating system that was issue free, many that are a complete headache. I generally do not bother. Both Windows and Linux are better off with clean installs.
Since Schrodinger demonstrated their strange quantum properties by studying his own.
I'm sure my cat exists in a supposition of all possible locations including next to the food bowl and the wave function only collapses when the food container lid is cracked.
What is interesting is that Windows 7 has a few percentage points of market share (I read the charts as 3%?), obviously made up of people who are using Windows 7 RC full time. That's impressive for a release canidate six weeks from hitting the market.
In the 90s games like Doom and Quake caused a lot of people motion sickness as their brain simply had no prior experience of a first person perspective 3D environment. Yet this doesn't seem to be a problem today with much more immersive games on bigger clearer monitors. Our eyes and brains have adapted being exposed to bigger TVs and cinema screens, games all with bigger action and quick cutting camera work and movement (think Cloverfield etc).
So we can handle the sensory input now but things are about to change. With current 2D displays the brain is processing a 2D image using parralax and geometry to interpret the 3D environment. This has been happening since the first days of cinema. There will be quite a difference when your actually seeing what appears to be a window into another world. Many more neurons are engaged and the brain is much more convinced of what it's looking at. 3D movies now like Up and Coraline are already incredibly immersive. Whats going to happen with games?
It's going to be very cool of course. But it's also going to make people sick again.
At least as far as comprehension vocabulary goes. Literacy is far higher today than in 1800 and 1900 and more people go to university than ever before. We're far more educated on average.
Most text messages are one or two sentences, sometimes with only a few words, the average text is probably under 10 words in length. Then when you consider 2000 a month is 66 per day, this kid is managing less than 600 words per day by text message. Thats peanuts. What's that really, two or three emails, slashdot rants, one phone conversation?
I really think there is no plausible basis to the assumption texting is replacing conversation as the prosetlyising of a generation of paranoid parents implies.
I think text messaging fills a gap, a need not previously met. It enables communication where otherwise we'd have kept our thoughts to ourselves or just plain been out of contactable reach:
It fits where you want to send a few thoughts, but there isn't really enough reason to waste someones time in a full conversation or you'd otherwise be out of contact.
Could women possibly misinterperate general lower mental function as being a response to their attractivness rather than the fact the guy is a stupid jerk, thus overestimating the intellegence of a potential mate, explaining finally why all the dumb a-holes out there get the hot girls before we do?
Something to not is food is not the only crucial consumable.
Consumables need to include, toothpaste, medicines, sanitary needs, shampoo/washing detegents. Clothing (wears out with use and washing)
Yet a/. poster probably uses less of these than average. *ducks*
Foods can be stabilised for years such as military MREs (Meal: ready to eat) packets that can have a 3-5 year shelf life. But most of the essiential nutrients in food are prone to break down over time. This is before you consider the effects of ambient radiation speeding up this process.
Mars colonists would have no choice but to have a complete self contained bio recycling system right off the bat. And that manurfacturing capacity better be pretty comprehensive too, for everything from cleaning products through to chemotherapy drugs.
There are craters at the north and south poles of the moon that would be permanently in darkness. The field of view would be limited to that hemisphere of sky somewhat. But this would be ideal for observations outside our galaxy, looking above or below the galactic disk. A large telescope in such a position could allow us to study other galaxies in the detail we study the farthest regions of our own.
A telescope positioned in open ground at the poles would be easy to shield from the sun directionally with a shade, yet also have permanent access to solar power.
These craters are also considered likely to have water ice and other frozen volatiles. A permanent manned observatory would be feasible.
But then, considering there is no atmosphere to scatter light on the moon it would be possible to use a telescope in broad daylight, even within quite a narrow angle of the sun. Provided you shield adequatley both the sun and from reflected light from the surface.
Bare in mind nuclear is heavily subsidised, expensive to run, and with additional hidden costs that are not accounted for. Factor in environmental impact and you have a strong case for space based solar power.
Oh and the cost of launching a given mass to space is falling, and will get much lower.
So... how about the original topic of the story? OS performance??
From the reviews, and from seeing other comparissions, it seems that we have three damn good stable reliable operating systems, the best ever in each class, with a compelling case for each one, based finally only on what really matters: what you actually want to do with the OS.
The classes being: Free as in Beer. Free as in Warez. Not free as in Hackintosh (you pay in pain)
30 bucks..
a proprietary OS for 30 bucks deserves 5 points on price.
apple releasing a version of osx for 30 bucks is metaphorically equivalent to an 2010 infiniti M slapped with a 20k(US) sticker price.
...and negative 50 points because $30 is only if your an already an owner of a Intel based Mac. Otherwise getting Snow Leopard will require you to fork out for Mac hardware. Not a cheap OS if one doesn't convieniently exclude that fact.
+ 1 point to Microsoft for platform freedom: you can put Windows 7 on your Mac but you can't put Snow Leopard on your existing Windows machine.
Metaphor works when you add a caveat: You need to be an existing owner of a 2006 or later Infiniti to get the cheap sticker price.
Negative points to you all for not noticing that this is equivlent to charging $30 for a service pack. Only Apple can get away with this.
(Maybe my impression is wrong, but it really doesn't seem to be THAT much more than a service pack to justify fleecing customers and wouldn't it be a win if they distributed as freebie for existing fans? For a contrast: I have a Ubuntu 6.06 box that has been upgraded in-place all the way to 9.04, it is brilliantly convienient).
Ok $30 will be easy enough for me to swallow to upgrade my Leopard Mac (and/or my hackintosh:D), frankly I'm annoyed at having to pay anything at all.
If your looking to switch to Snow Leopard from $ANYTHING_ELSE expect to have to buy a new rig. These comparission articles doesn't really point this out. Thus it's like comparing two horses in two entirely different races, like comparing and Indy Car to a Formula One car and debating which is the best new model for next season, well 90% of the time your choice depends on your platform you're already with.
Microsoft and it's Windows 7 has gained from learning from it's compeition, Linux and OSX, and is all the better for it. Apple is still Apple unfortunatley.
I'm a little disappointed the journalists couldn't ask nicely for some in-sim imagery. This thing must be pretty! I presume current generation military flight simulators have amazing detail like volumetric clouds, weather conditions and atmospheric effects that were traditionally the hardest to replicate in the past.
I can't think how many press releases i've seen about advancements paving the way towards single-molecule switches. Is there really any grounds for anyone doubting moores law just not stopping for at least the next 15 years?
I now no longer believe the FUD from the freetard crowd any more than I do from the Apple, Microsoft or whoevers marketing department.
FSF clearly has Microsoft hate disease to the point it is leaping into the FUD game with claims that are quite a stretch. Talk of 'sins'.. seriously? It is unhelpful, silly even and works against an otherwise good cause.
Microsoft has previously been the dirty monoploy, but many claims are a stretch, some as good as ficticious. Furthormore things have started to change in Redmond.
DRM is hardly a threat anymore. DRM in WIndows was a flop, it's progressing no further, it's a seldom invoked codepath that somehow got blamed for performane problems, crops failing and stillborn babies in Vista (guess what same DRM is in Windows 7, problems there? No dead babies).
These 'sins' are tenuous at best, and are mostly situations that are improving. FSF: please do not be unhelpful, stick to facts or go beat up on Apple please.
Lock in? Seriously, that's being erroded, Microsofts supposed Lock-in is now as feeble as ever, consumers and developers have long taken matters in to their own hands.
Poisoning education? Maybe previously, but you can actually get Linux qualifications nowadays, and the tremendous growth of Linux in schools and universities is another point.
To the more lawless of individuals DRM is so insubstantial as to be no exsistant. Example:
'Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files,'
Let me fix that for you, FSF:
'Windows, for some time now, has really been a piracy platform, the OS of choice for pirates, warez, and hell the OS itself is the most pirated OS ever.
I would add, that 'piracy' is a feature of Windows. DRM of any kind has been a failure, people take matters into their own hands and get what they want restrictions be damned
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I have used a Android phone tethered for 3G via USB, Wi-Fi tethering was also possible. I had an app that would automaticly detect and connect to open access points. I actually hadn't tested that, but it would be possible to leech nearby open hotspots as required.
TFP (the scientific paper) may be titled: "M. avium found in showerheads at 100 times the level of drinking water"
Science magazine headline (Newscientist) was: "Shower heads make a perfect home for bugs "
Slashdot: "Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health"
(Correlation != Causation) != We'reAllGoingToDIE
Anything that requires faith is not truth.
You totally forgot New Zealand's only native land mammal, the bat. There's an amazing video of the native bat running, because it'd evolved to be flightless like the birds.
The native bat is not flightless. It does a funny scamper thing along the ground but this does not make it flightless.
But, the Haast Eagle was unconfirmed before this? I've been brought up and it's always been a fact to me.
Haasts Eagle bones were identified in 1870 by Julius Von Haast. This thing preyed on the Moa, a 12-foot tall 500lb flightless bird. There is no question that a human would have been a much easier much more defenseless snack than a Moa. It would be unlikely that they didn't eat the occasional human.
When the first polynesian settlers showed up they would have climbed out of their Waka http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/waka-canoes and on to the lunch menu.
I wonder if making singular devices do more and more tasks otherwise performed by individual is actually going to come back and hurt companies like Apple. Many people don't see the point of a camera in a Nano or a Touch, as they may also own a digital camera, a cellphone with a camera, or even an iPhone.
I fear I'll wind up with every device I own having a camera, wi-fi, 3G and video playback that works acceptably, Yet I'll have no specialised devices that will do any one of these things very well.
I can understand the advantages of consolidating tasks into a single device, but this may mean people end up buying less gadgets because of the duplication of features, and the high cost of that one. The price of an iphone at full retail buys you a basic gps-equiped cellphone that has a camera, a netbook and a digital camera.
We're paying a high price for every new feature shoe horned into small shiny things, the expense of lacking in gadgets that do one thing really well.
I've never had a in-place upgrade in any operating system that was issue free, many that are a complete headache. I generally do not bother. Both Windows and Linux are better off with clean installs.
computer engineers are most likely to crash
Ah, I finally understand why I occasionally need to hard reset just about every computer powered device I own.
So where do I go to find software coded by abulance drivers in their spare time?
Since Schrodinger demonstrated their strange quantum properties by studying his own.
I'm sure my cat exists in a supposition of all possible locations including next to the food bowl and the wave function only collapses when the food container lid is cracked.
What is interesting is that Windows 7 has a few percentage points of market share (I read the charts as 3%?), obviously made up of people who are using Windows 7 RC full time. That's impressive for a release canidate six weeks from hitting the market.
In the 90s games like Doom and Quake caused a lot of people motion sickness as their brain simply had no prior experience of a first person perspective 3D environment. Yet this doesn't seem to be a problem today with much more immersive games on bigger clearer monitors. Our eyes and brains have adapted being exposed to bigger TVs and cinema screens, games all with bigger action and quick cutting camera work and movement (think Cloverfield etc).
So we can handle the sensory input now but things are about to change. With current 2D displays the brain is processing a 2D image using parralax and geometry to interpret the 3D environment. This has been happening since the first days of cinema. There will be quite a difference when your actually seeing what appears to be a window into another world. Many more neurons are engaged and the brain is much more convinced of what it's looking at. 3D movies now like Up and Coraline are already incredibly immersive. Whats going to happen with games?
It's going to be very cool of course. But it's also going to make people sick again.
Doubtful of your decline.
At least as far as comprehension vocabulary goes. Literacy is far higher today than in 1800 and 1900 and more people go to university than ever before. We're far more educated on average.
Usage is a different problem
Most text messages are one or two sentences, sometimes with only a few words, the average text is probably under 10 words in length. Then when you consider 2000 a month is 66 per day, this kid is managing less than 600 words per day by text message. Thats peanuts. What's that really, two or three emails, slashdot rants, one phone conversation?
I really think there is no plausible basis to the assumption texting is replacing conversation as the prosetlyising of a generation of paranoid parents implies.
I think text messaging fills a gap, a need not previously met. It enables communication where otherwise we'd have kept our thoughts to ourselves or just plain been out of contactable reach:
It fits where you want to send a few thoughts, but there isn't really enough reason to waste someones time in a full conversation or you'd otherwise be out of contact.
Could women possibly misinterperate general lower mental function as being a response to their attractivness rather than the fact the guy is a stupid jerk, thus overestimating the intellegence of a potential mate, explaining finally why all the dumb a-holes out there get the hot girls before we do?
It's a 532MHz ARM11.
Almost identical ARM cpu in the HTC G2 and Hero. So why not try get Android running on the kindle?
Something to not is food is not the only crucial consumable.
/. poster probably uses less of these than average. *ducks*
Consumables need to include, toothpaste, medicines, sanitary needs, shampoo/washing detegents. Clothing (wears out with use and washing)
Yet a
Foods can be stabilised for years such as military MREs (Meal: ready to eat) packets that can have a 3-5 year shelf life. But most of the essiential nutrients in food are prone to break down over time. This is before you consider the effects of ambient radiation speeding up this process.
Mars colonists would have no choice but to have a complete self contained bio recycling system right off the bat. And that manurfacturing capacity better be pretty comprehensive too, for everything from cleaning products through to chemotherapy drugs.
I hear the internet wants a pwnie.
There I fixed that for you. Obligatory. Sorry.
There are craters at the north and south poles of the moon that would be permanently in darkness. The field of view would be limited to that hemisphere of sky somewhat. But this would be ideal for observations outside our galaxy, looking above or below the galactic disk. A large telescope in such a position could allow us to study other galaxies in the detail we study the farthest regions of our own.
A telescope positioned in open ground at the poles would be easy to shield from the sun directionally with a shade, yet also have permanent access to solar power.
These craters are also considered likely to have water ice and other frozen volatiles. A permanent manned observatory would be feasible.
But then, considering there is no atmosphere to scatter light on the moon it would be possible to use a telescope in broad daylight, even within quite a narrow angle of the sun. Provided you shield adequatley both the sun and from reflected light from the surface.
Bare in mind nuclear is heavily subsidised, expensive to run, and with additional hidden costs that are not accounted for. Factor in environmental impact and you have a strong case for space based solar power.
Oh and the cost of launching a given mass to space is falling, and will get much lower.
I suggest using intelligent robots to manage the Space Power Plant.
Of course, you need to be careful that they don't develop their own religion...
Something about one true god? In our reality it'd be the other way around as we already have a predominant monotheism.
Can you hear that music?
So... how about the original topic of the story? OS performance??
From the reviews, and from seeing other comparissions, it seems that we have three damn good stable reliable operating systems, the best ever in each class, with a compelling case for each one, based finally only on what really matters: what you actually want to do with the OS.
The classes being: Free as in Beer. Free as in Warez. Not free as in Hackintosh (you pay in pain)
30 bucks.. a proprietary OS for 30 bucks deserves 5 points on price. apple releasing a version of osx for 30 bucks is metaphorically equivalent to an 2010 infiniti M slapped with a 20k(US) sticker price.
...and negative 50 points because $30 is only if your an already an owner of a Intel based Mac. Otherwise getting Snow Leopard will require you to fork out for Mac hardware. Not a cheap OS if one doesn't convieniently exclude that fact.
:D), frankly I'm annoyed at having to pay anything at all.
+ 1 point to Microsoft for platform freedom: you can put Windows 7 on your Mac but you can't put Snow Leopard on your existing Windows machine.
Metaphor works when you add a caveat: You need to be an existing owner of a 2006 or later Infiniti to get the cheap sticker price.
Negative points to you all for not noticing that this is equivlent to charging $30 for a service pack. Only Apple can get away with this.
(Maybe my impression is wrong, but it really doesn't seem to be THAT much more than a service pack to justify fleecing customers and wouldn't it be a win if they distributed as freebie for existing fans? For a contrast: I have a Ubuntu 6.06 box that has been upgraded in-place all the way to 9.04, it is brilliantly convienient).
Ok $30 will be easy enough for me to swallow to upgrade my Leopard Mac (and/or my hackintosh
If your looking to switch to Snow Leopard from $ANYTHING_ELSE expect to have to buy a new rig. These comparission articles doesn't really point this out. Thus it's like comparing two horses in two entirely different races, like comparing and Indy Car to a Formula One car and debating which is the best new model for next season, well 90% of the time your choice depends on your platform you're already with.
Microsoft and it's Windows 7 has gained from learning from it's compeition, Linux and OSX, and is all the better for it. Apple is still Apple unfortunatley.
A flat spin killed Goose.
Screenies or it didn't happen.
I'm a little disappointed the journalists couldn't ask nicely for some in-sim imagery. This thing must be pretty! I presume current generation military flight simulators have amazing detail like volumetric clouds, weather conditions and atmospheric effects that were traditionally the hardest to replicate in the past.
I can't think how many press releases i've seen about advancements paving the way towards single-molecule switches. Is there really any grounds for anyone doubting moores law just not stopping for at least the next 15 years?
FSF clearly has Microsoft hate disease to the point it is leaping into the FUD game with claims that are quite a stretch. Talk of 'sins'
Microsoft has previously been the dirty monoploy, but many claims are a stretch, some as good as ficticious. Furthormore things have started to change in Redmond.
DRM is hardly a threat anymore. DRM in WIndows was a flop, it's progressing no further, it's a seldom invoked codepath that somehow got blamed for performane problems, crops failing and stillborn babies in Vista (guess what same DRM is in Windows 7, problems there? No dead babies).
These 'sins' are tenuous at best, and are mostly situations that are improving. FSF: please do not be unhelpful, stick to facts or go beat up on Apple please.
Lock in? Seriously, that's being erroded, Microsofts supposed Lock-in is now as feeble as ever, consumers and developers have long taken matters in to their own hands.
Poisoning education? Maybe previously, but you can actually get Linux qualifications nowadays, and the tremendous growth of Linux in schools and universities is another point.
To the more lawless of individuals DRM is so insubstantial as to be no exsistant. Example:
'Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files,'
Let me fix that for you, FSF:
'Windows, for some time now, has really been a piracy platform, the OS of choice for pirates, warez, and hell the OS itself is the most pirated OS ever.
I would add, that 'piracy' is a feature of Windows. DRM of any kind has been a failure, people take matters into their own hands and get what they want restrictions be damned