Chinese have the best education system -- minus red politics.
Nonetheless, it'd be foolish for us to believe that native of that country will not take any action, or they won't fight back. Not all of them are going to kill themselves like it happened in Apple's concentration camp "Foxconn Technology"
I am not a Apple fan, but I gotta say if Apple came up with 500Gig iPod Touch, with bluetooth, camera, and speaker -- and it's jail breakable. I would buy it in a sec. It's one of those thing you gotta have it...
Japanese normally copies American. Just look at youtube "This video is not available in your country" As far as I know there are not restriction in Canada yet they are blocking some of the videos. I can just cross the border (five minutes walk from my girl friend's house in US and watch it. These new censorship are enforced right here in USA so don't blame Asian & Europeans.
Apple's operating system is running on x86 architecture, and user can even install Microsoft Windows, or x86 Linux without needing a patch. However, Apple has gone in a great deal to make sure it's products will not work in a competing x86 hardware. And this is illegal and unethical. In fact, if you look at Apple's behavior you'd see that they make it difficult for people to upgrade their hardware. For example, apple has seal battery inside the iPod there by making it hard for people to replace it in a conventional way, or opening iMac, and Mini Mac is almost impossible. This is why most people simply buy new iProducts and throw the old one away -- which adds to landfills. This also make Apple's technology harmful to environment.
It's ture computers are becoming a commodity, however, it's only ture for Desktop PC. In 90s having a computer was consider something special, and fashionable. However, as time went buy people got tired of big ugly desktop, and they were replace with towers, and then smaller towers like Shuttle XPC, iMac.
This is why people are not longer buy PC anymore, they prefer notebooks, because users can carry then and thanks to wifi it can be connect to internet. Which is why Notebooks types of computers still commands the PC markets. I think we are reaching a point where we will see less and less of big huge computers -- after all it did happen to Mainframe computers.
First it was SIS, and now Abit. So, at the rate we are going in five to ten years motherboard companies will no longer exist..
If you think about it's true. More and more people are buying laptops, or portable computers like Shuttle XPC, Mac Mini.This is why companies like VIA, and Abits are quiting they have seen writing on the wall.
After all it makes sense why built $3000 desktop just to upgrade when you can buy a decent laptop for $800.
Space first came out in 2006, the most important thing about this device is that it is running on linux. Perhaps, I would be even more impress if it can run Vista! Nevertheless, this is quite an interesting device and definatly demonstrates our various technological developments, but there is no practical use for such a device, atleast not with those specs.
Whenever I install a new distro, I compile a new kernel on it. The default kernel is normally very bloated -- most of loaded modules are not even used by hardware,and it is also weak on security. Atleast this has been the case with Ubuntu. Finally, custom kernel is be very strong on security.
Not all of them. I for one will not be buying touch screen hardware until I am quite sure that it will work with Linux. I also use iMac, but Linux is my main OS, and this will not change.
I believe/hope that most of my fellow linux users will think about hardware compatibility when buying a new hardware. I mean who can forget winmodem nightmare -- or for that matter atheros proprietary wifi cards. Many of us spends hours trying to make these things work with out machine.
At this point CPU's brands don't matter much, because they are as fast as we need them to be. And OS such as Windows is not fully using all the cores of a CPU -- and most games are not design to benefit duel core or quad core processors.
I read some where that 90% of the people do what they because they are told to do so. They are are called herds, and we should not be angry at them, if we had too much "individualism" our society (what's left of it) would be in total chaos.
Perhaps it's good to have lemmings. What should concern us is who is herding them, and where.
Are you saying we are becoming another Soviet Union. I always thought George Orwell's novel 1984 had become reality. Masses are being control through TV & Internet.
I start using Mac last month, and I gotta say my relation with it is a love hate one. I will start with a good stuff here -- it is rock solid, although time to time it does need to be reboot. No virus, no spyware etc is an added bonus.
2nd biggest plus -- OSX at its core is unix based. I really love this stuff. Also ability to run linux based application is just takes my breath away.
Bad thing, some mac users are very cult like -- say anything bad and ready to be flamed. Also, the price of its hardware is lot to be desire.
I have same issue with iPhone, however, if it is Linux friendly I would buy it in near future.
Right now I own Motorola W510 -- very simple phone. I was thinking about buying a smart phone. Basically what I would normally be doing is -- storing my weekly schedule, phone numbers, and sync with Mac, or Linux. So, I would need something that will work with Linux & Mac.
As a Linux user I would like to think this is not going to be easy. Giving the nature of Linux. Installing a software require root account, and as far as I know no Linux user will be surfing the internet with full admin.
Building viruses for Unix base operating system including OS X is not very easy, yes it can be done but it will not have Windows' like affect.
Well, my Babylon 5 friend you are not wrong in your assessment. If you think about it, apple is rising for one reason only -- iPod. Apple represent their products as "fashionable" now problem with fashion is they fade away in near future. sooner or later people will get sick of everything label with "i".
Now right now they are like Sony version of Walkman, sooner or later they will lose just as Microsoft is losing its customers over Vista.
If I am not mistaken, VIA sell fanless CPU with motherboard -- speed is around 600mhz. It's small, and quit amazing.
I believe licensing is one of the reason why Chinese are making MIPS design cpu. I would love to get my hand on it.
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Chinese have the best education system -- minus red politics. Nonetheless, it'd be foolish for us to believe that native of that country will not take any action, or they won't fight back. Not all of them are going to kill themselves like it happened in Apple's concentration camp "Foxconn Technology"
I am not a Apple fan, but I gotta say if Apple came up with 500Gig iPod Touch, with bluetooth, camera, and speaker -- and it's jail breakable. I would buy it in a sec. It's one of those thing you gotta have it...
Why not just wait until Windows 7 SP2 arrive? Windows XP is not as good Linux, or OSX, but it's better then any "beta operating system".
First off, it implies that users know the difference. 99% of the times they don't. To some users "copy right' material is same as GPL.
Japanese normally copies American. Just look at youtube "This video is not available in your country" As far as I know there are not restriction in Canada yet they are blocking some of the videos. I can just cross the border (five minutes walk from my girl friend's house in US and watch it. These new censorship are enforced right here in USA so don't blame Asian & Europeans.
Cell phone companies should provided us with unlimited incoming & outgoing calls. If we all join together this can be done.
Apple's operating system is running on x86 architecture, and user can even install Microsoft Windows, or x86 Linux without needing a patch. However, Apple has gone in a great deal to make sure it's products will not work in a competing x86 hardware. And this is illegal and unethical. In fact, if you look at Apple's behavior you'd see that they make it difficult for people to upgrade their hardware. For example, apple has seal battery inside the iPod there by making it hard for people to replace it in a conventional way, or opening iMac, and Mini Mac is almost impossible. This is why most people simply buy new iProducts and throw the old one away -- which adds to landfills. This also make Apple's technology harmful to environment.
It's ture computers are becoming a commodity, however, it's only ture for Desktop PC. In 90s having a computer was consider something special, and fashionable. However, as time went buy people got tired of big ugly desktop, and they were replace with towers, and then smaller towers like Shuttle XPC, iMac. This is why people are not longer buy PC anymore, they prefer notebooks, because users can carry then and thanks to wifi it can be connect to internet. Which is why Notebooks types of computers still commands the PC markets. I think we are reaching a point where we will see less and less of big huge computers -- after all it did happen to Mainframe computers.
First it was SIS, and now Abit. So, at the rate we are going in five to ten years motherboard companies will no longer exist..
If you think about it's true. More and more people are buying laptops, or portable computers like Shuttle XPC, Mac Mini.This is why companies like VIA, and Abits are quiting they have seen writing on the wall.
After all it makes sense why built $3000 desktop just to upgrade when you can buy a decent laptop for $800.
Space first came out in 2006, the most important thing about this device is that it is running on linux. Perhaps, I would be even more impress if it can run Vista! Nevertheless, this is quite an interesting device and definatly demonstrates our various technological developments, but there is no practical use for such a device, atleast not with those specs.
Whenever I install a new distro, I compile a new kernel on it. The default kernel is normally very bloated -- most of loaded modules are not even used by hardware,and it is also weak on security. Atleast this has been the case with Ubuntu. Finally, custom kernel is be very strong on security.
Not all of them. I for one will not be buying touch screen hardware until I am quite sure that it will work with Linux. I also use iMac, but Linux is my main OS, and this will not change. I believe/hope that most of my fellow linux users will think about hardware compatibility when buying a new hardware. I mean who can forget winmodem nightmare -- or for that matter atheros proprietary wifi cards. Many of us spends hours trying to make these things work with out machine.
Unless I am mistaken Iowa gets more tornado then flood. Can anyone shed more light to this?
At this point CPU's brands don't matter much, because they are as fast as we need them to be. And OS such as Windows is not fully using all the cores of a CPU -- and most games are not design to benefit duel core or quad core processors.
I read some where that 90% of the people do what they because they are told to do so. They are are called herds, and we should not be angry at them, if we had too much "individualism" our society (what's left of it) would be in total chaos. Perhaps it's good to have lemmings. What should concern us is who is herding them, and where.
Are you saying we are becoming another Soviet Union. I always thought George Orwell's novel 1984 had become reality. Masses are being control through TV & Internet.
I start using Mac last month, and I gotta say my relation with it is a love hate one. I will start with a good stuff here -- it is rock solid, although time to time it does need to be reboot. No virus, no spyware etc is an added bonus. 2nd biggest plus -- OSX at its core is unix based. I really love this stuff. Also ability to run linux based application is just takes my breath away. Bad thing, some mac users are very cult like -- say anything bad and ready to be flamed. Also, the price of its hardware is lot to be desire. I have same issue with iPhone, however, if it is Linux friendly I would buy it in near future.
Right now I own Motorola W510 -- very simple phone. I was thinking about buying a smart phone. Basically what I would normally be doing is -- storing my weekly schedule, phone numbers, and sync with Mac, or Linux. So, I would need something that will work with Linux & Mac.
What I would like most is ability to power my usb hard-drive with USB so I don't need extra cable. That would be fun. I wonder if eSata does that?
I believe Raven are also known for building tools.
As a Linux user I would like to think this is not going to be easy. Giving the nature of Linux. Installing a software require root account, and as far as I know no Linux user will be surfing the internet with full admin. Building viruses for Unix base operating system including OS X is not very easy, yes it can be done but it will not have Windows' like affect.
Well, my Babylon 5 friend you are not wrong in your assessment. If you think about it, apple is rising for one reason only -- iPod. Apple represent their products as "fashionable" now problem with fashion is they fade away in near future. sooner or later people will get sick of everything label with "i". Now right now they are like Sony version of Walkman, sooner or later they will lose just as Microsoft is losing its customers over Vista.
Can we say same about apple? I install Linux on my Mac, and it couldn't even read ext3 format even those it is running on unix kernel. Go figure.
If I am not mistaken, VIA sell fanless CPU with motherboard -- speed is around 600mhz. It's small, and quit amazing. I believe licensing is one of the reason why Chinese are making MIPS design cpu. I would love to get my hand on it.
For some reason I have never liked Novell/Suse there is something bad (like Caldera) about them.