Mankind didn't evolve in the 14th century. Mankind evolved over millions of years. Feminists, today, are trying to redefine what men and women are. They blame culture for all the differences between men and women. But, various drugs have measurable different effects on males and females. Similar experiences in sports have vastly different results on their bodies. No matter how much some would like to pretend that there is no difference between men and women, it remains a fallacy.
As for intelligence - I've read many an article over the years, both before and after the advent of the internet. More women's intelligence are closer to the center of any scale, while more men are found at the far ends of any scale. Meaning, an idiot is more likely to be a male, and a genius is more likely to be a male.
Granted, IQ tests reflect whatever the authors consider to be important. Design a test that places greater importance on remembering actor's names, recognizing colors, remembering details of friend's and family's vital details, women will almost ALWAYS score higher than men. Design a test that places greater importance on spatial recognition, mechanical skills, and computing RBI's and such, men will almost ALWAYS score higher.
Gender roles? Since we've spent millions of years LEARNING our gender roles, I see nothing wrong with them. They work. They have ensured the survival of our species all this time.
Go ahead - mess with the roles, and teach the kids new ways. Tell the little girls that they don't have to be little girls, and little boys don't have to grow up to be men.
Has anyone noticed that the most "modern", "advance", "civilized", and "liberal" nations in the world have a decreasing fertility rate, while the barbarians continue to breed? Has anyone noticed the invasion of those "civilized" nations taking place all around us?
Let's wait another 100 years or so, and see how this all works out. Change those roles, and experiment, while the rest of the world retains the old roles. Don't be at all surprised if the Muslims and the Catholics inherit the world. The old fashioned roles WORK! Damn fools.
"If this thing includes a microscope then the average Windows fanboy can use it to locate their invisible penises." and "And you could use it to locate your invisible brain."
Don't you just HATE it when the dentist starts drilling before the Novocaine takes effect? When he hits that freaking NERVE, you can't help responding - sometimes violently. I see someone got YOUR NERVE, LMAO
"In Iran (and many other failed states), no external force is imposing the current brutal government on the Iranians."
In a vacuum, and discounting history, your statement would be true. You don't mention a trio of factors that have strong bearing on the situation.
1. The US and the UK imposed an unwanted government on the Iranians only a lifetime ago. (My lifetime - I was born within a couple years of the Shah of Iran taking power) Prior to Operation Ajax, the Iranians enjoyed a true democracy. There is one external source.
2. The Iranians are predominantly Moslems. There IS pressure on Islam. We might sit back and congratulate ourselves that no one uses the violence used to spread Islam - but there remains outside pressure on the way of life in Iran.
3. Third point actually validates your statement. The people of Iran DID overthrow an oppressive, corrupt regime when they threw the Shah out. The people of Iran installed a government which WAS more in line with Iranian values. As with all governments, it took only a short time for that government to start losing touch with it's people. More, the people have begun to change, making it more difficult for the government to keep up.
Damnit! I just looked for the moderation button. I've lost my unused mod points.
Geoffrey is right on target. It's ALWAYS in the best interests of everyone involved to counter propaganda and oppression with the TRUTH!! Please don't give the tyrants free ammunition with which to convince the oppressed that THEY are right!
Ehhh. I won't even consider the technology or the product. The name is enough for me to decide what I think. Hearst. Patty Hearst. The terrorist little bitch with the rich daddy. Should properly have been executed decades ago. Fuck 'em. Given the choice between being screwed by a Hearst, or a Jobs, or a Gates, or any of dozens of other rat bastards, Hearst will come in last. I hope their reader turns into one HUGE money sink, that never makes them two cents.
Mmm-hmmm. Whatever. But, if you're doing 75 or 80, and refuse to get out of the way of the guy doing 100, how do you KNOW he doesn't have a child bleeding to death in the back seat, and you are delaying his trip to the hospital? Or, how do you KNOW that it isn't an unmarked police vehicle, on his way to a bad accident, or a bank robbery, or whatever the hell?
Just because YOU judge him to be a reckless moron, doesn't mean you have all the facts. Chances are, he is really just another moron endangering everyone on the road. But, you just never know for sure. I had a set of headlights come into sight WAY behind me one night, on a two lane road - to far to judge how fast they were going. A minute later, I looked, and they were much closer - I knew he was moving on. I was speeding, 70 in a 55, and he was going at LEAST double my speed. When he caught up to me, I eased as far right as I could get, to make it easier for him to pass me. As he passed, I noticed a flash of blue behind his grill, an emblem on his door, and another flash of blue inside his rear window. Cop? Fire marshall? Medical? I don't know, but he had SOMETHING important to do!
Your post gives no indication that you understand the difference between "weather", "climate", and "climate change".
Climate has changed drastically, many times in earth's history. (actually, man's pre-history) The same land in America's north central regions has had a mile of ice sitting atop it, and it has had tropical forest growing on it.
Everyone is aware that we are between ice ages. Everyone is aware that the earth warms and cools between ice ages. But, almost no one actually thinks about what that MEANS! The climate that we have grown accustomed to over the last ~1000 years is changeable and malleable entirely without man's presence.
The question is, whether man influences climate change, and if so, how much. There is NO QUESTION that we are between glacial ages, and that the earth would warm with or without man. The only question is, does man make that climate change happen more quickly?
Gullible people simply accept the worst case scenarios put out by the doomsayers, and work it into some kind of religion. Phhht.
How 'bout that dude in Europe who died on the ice ~5000 years ago, became encased in the glacier, and was only recently exposed to the world again? Obviously, the glacier GREW for some part of the last 5000 years, then started RECEDING. All part of the world's natural order.
To many idjits have poked their fingers into the law in to many places. I can't tell you what is "legal". But, I learned, "keep right, except to pass". If you're doing 80 or 180 mph, you BELONG IN THE RIGHT LANE, until you actually PASS SOMEONE!! It's just that simple. The boob who rides in the left lane is almost certainly not watching his mirrors for a faster vehicle to overtake him. He has gotten comfortable, and he intends to use that PASSING lane forever. Note the term, "PASSING lane". If one single care moves into the TRAVEL LANE (what you refer to as the "slow lane") so that he can get around you, then you are indeed impeding traffic.
Seti has always been available as that screensaver thing, or it could be installed as a service. More, it could be set to go inactive while the computer was in use, or to continue while the computer was in use. I always saw the screensaver as a waste. Why use processing power to draw pictures of the work being done, when the same processing power could be used to do more work? I always set it up as a service. The settings have changed over the years, but generally, my machines go inactive during use, and resume 3 minutes after users go inactive. All my machines have a "Blank screen" screensaver setting.
If the feds want to know about you, they can talk to your friends, and ask questions. They can talk to your business associates, and ask question. They can question your mom, dad, sisters, cousins, etc. If they get enough trash on you, they can get a warrant to search your house, your car, your home, computer, and your person. If they think your friends or family has good dirty evidence, they can get warrants to search THEIR homes, cars, persons.
So. Given all of that - just exactly how much privacy is expected with an online social networking thing? Far less privacy than your home, for which a warrant is required before searching it. Maybe - just maybe - a little more privacy than a conversation with a job associate, for which no warrant is required before talking to him. Considerably less privacy than a conversation with your spouse, for which no warrant is required before speaking to him/her.
I really do think that SOME DEGREE of privacy is appropriate for Facebook, etc. But, the question is, "How private should Facebook be?"
Obviously, those pages that are publicly accessible to any bot, any viewer, are most definitely NOT private. If you've set your page so that it is publicly viewable, by all means, any law enforcement agent in the world can look at it, and use the data. But, if you set all your pages with maximum privacy and security, then maybe the cop should be required to get a warrant before gaining access.
I can't really decide where a social networking account sits in the scale of privacy. I can't agree that they should all be off-limits to the law, nor can I agree that the law should be able to peruse everything ever put onto any page either. Much depends on those privacy and security settings.
Bottom line, though - if you have something that you DO NOT want the law to find out about you, DO NOT put it online!! Don't tell your job associate, don't tell your best friend, don't tell your drinking buddy, don't tell the busybody across the street, and DON'T PUT IT ONLINE!!! If more than one person shares a secret, it is no longer a secret.
Not a bad write up - except for one thing. The judge did not renege on a bargain. The plea deal was in place, and Roman was going to be sentenced for one single charge. But, Roman got scared, and ran before the sentencing. In the transcript where Roman pleads guilty, he is made to clearly understand that the judge is not bound by any terms of a plea deal, and that sentencing would depend, in part, on the results of the psychiatric evaluation. After those few weeks of evaluation, Roman simply decided that he would not face sentencing, and he skipped.
It's great to have millions, and the media at your disposal, so that you can spin a story your way, and make most of the world believe that you have been wronged.
I can't accept that having your wife murdered might turn you into a pedo, or a child molester. (Since the girl had reached puberty, Polanski isn't technically a pedo, but he's real close to it.) Like millions of other men from his era, my Dad was blown to bits in the pacific, and shipped home in a basket. It didn't turn him into a pedo, a rapist, a dopehead, or any other sort of a criminal. I simply can't accept any excuses for what a man CHOOSES to do.
PowerPC owners take heart: Win 7 runs on Virtual PC
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Fred Horvat reported that he can run Windows 7 Beta 1 on a PowerPC Mac with the (long discontinued) Virtual PC emulator:
I got Windows 7 Beta running under Virtual PC 7.03 on my dual G5 with OSX 10.5.6. I also got the network card working inside the Virtual machine. I had to follow the Vista install steps for Virtual PC Mac to get it to install (do a Web Search for instructions if curious). Performance is a bit pokey and not really for day to day use though. I can't say yet if performance is any better than Vista under Virtual PC. I have not done any Windows performance optimization yet.
I've never owned a Mac, or a PPC. I can't say what can and cannot be done, but people are claiming to have run Win 7 in a VM on Mac PPC. If I can get someone to donate a Mac, I'll be happy to experiment!
I won't get into a discussion about which is the better virtualization software - but I'm using Sun's Virtual Box - version 3.0.12 and I update with each new release. I allocate 1 gig of memory, and I enable all virtualization options. CPU is an AMD 3400+ (the stupid Victoria chip - I don't have all the virtualization that other chips have)
I turn Aero off, because the video card isn't up to it - or at least not from the VM. (I don't like Aero anyway, I prefer the "Classic" desktop) I also do a little bit of tweaking, but nothing radical. I run Win 7 with Microsoft's security essentials and Threatfire - don't install a heavy duty anti-virus. I tested the earliest beta releases, and I was pleased. The release candidate was a disappointment, because it ran slower than the betas for some reason. But, the final release is right back where the Betas were. It runs just as good as Windows XP with the same memory and options on the same machine.
If it makes any difference at all, I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid on this machine. A Mac may get different results, I have no idea. I just looked - if you're running and INTEL MAC, you're in luck. I don't see a download for PPC MAC. And, I see that they now have version 3.1 available. Time for me to upgrade.
Executive summary? Let me google that. Ahhhh. Executive summary. Something required by a pompous ass with delusions of grandeur. Such requirements are generally needed by lazy asses who can't or won't read, and are willing to burden their peers with doing the reading, thinking, and decision making, while taking all the credit for their peers work.
Not so. I have installed 7 on the very same hardware that Vista barfed on. I've never seen the BOSD on 7 that Vista threw up frequently. More, 7 runs beautifully in a VM, while Vista is something of a dog. As I said, 7 runs decently on a 1 ghz machine with one gig of RAM. Vista will not.
I used a euphemism, sorry. The fact is Polanski got a little girl who had just reached puberty drunk, drugged her, then forcibly raped her. I've read the transcripts at thesmokinggun.com What a disgusting pig. And, it wasn't a one-off thing - he's had other little girlfriends, both publicly acknowledged and otherwise.
"It's quite common knowledge that Chrome OS will be locked down."
Sometimes common knowledge isn't all that accurate. No matter WHAT you don't like about ChromeOS, you can fix it. The source code is available. Recompile for whatever architecture you want, use common Linux drivers, modify the conf files to your liking. The same thing has been done with Slackware, Suse, Debian - there is really nothing new here.
Given a kernel and a browser, you can do just about anything you want under the hood. Do it!! It's open source!
Of course people are upgrading from XP to 7 - if they are upgrading at all. Who upgrades from Debian to Windows? Or, Solaris to Windows? Oh - 6 XP users upgrade for every Vista user? Surprise, surprise!! Probably half a billion people in this world THOUGH about upgrading to Vista, but decided not to when Vista proved to be such a bomb. Let's remember, Vista wouldn't run on old equipment, while Win7 runs on anything over a gigahertz with a gig of memory. A lot of XP users COULDN'T upgrade to Vista!!
Yes, please, define "mainstream". Just because an organization makes the news frequently doesn't make them "mainstream". Take a hard look at the people who claim to be Scientologists. Fringe freaking element, all around. Huh? You point to some celebrity or other? Your point being what, exactly? Whoa, dude, you need to look at those celebrities again. We make celebrities out of people like Roman Polanski, who likes little girls. We make celebrities out of the likes of Michael Jackson, who liked - uhhh - sleepovers with little boys. We make celebrities out of rap singers who "sing" about killing cops. We make celebrities of other "singers" who celebrate gang raping little girls. Just because Tom Cruise happens to be in movies, people like his movies, does NOT make CoS "mainstream". America worships freaks, but that worship doesn't make them "mainstream".
Red Roof Inns. Super 8. Best Western. Holiday Inn. Your assumptions are kind of funny. Not every city I have ever passed through has a 5 star hotel. I've slept in some places that didn't inspire me to write home about them - but hey, I didn't need a home. I just wanted a place to sleep. And, in recent years, even the real dives have wifi. There's a motel just a couple blocks from my place of employment with a collapsing roof, and obvious water damage visible in the walls - I'd rather sleep in my car, than rent a room there. But, they have wifi. You should get out more.
You can expect Starbucks to be suing you for a patent infringement soon, I think. It's people like you who steal other people's ideas, and cause them to go bankrupt.;^)
"when you use the service in the Hotel, Coffee shop, Airport, cellphone, you're most probably identified."
This assumes that you provide real ID when renting a room, or using services at a coffee shop or airport, or whatever. I've rented many motel rooms using false identities. $50 cash money talks. "Name?" "Ulysses Grant." "Driver's license?" "I don't drive." "How did you get here if you don't drive?" "I called a taxi." "Do you have a photo ID?" "My picture is right here, on this $50 bill." "Oh, I see - well, have a pleasant stay, Mr. Grant. Checkout time is 11:AM, and there is instant coffee in your room, and a continental breakfast in the lobby."
"If you falsify the MAC or provide wrongful data, you get life in prison."
Yes, I caught the sarcasm. But, PLEASE!! We can't even get dangerous, violent criminals put in jail for life. Put a petty thief in prison for life? Oh, lord - there is no sanity left in the world. None, I tell you. "Your honor, the defendant has copied my ideas, without authorization. I think he cost me somewhere between 1 dollar and 29 gazillion dollars. I want to make an example of him, so please, sentence him to life without parole."
Meanwhile, political whores like Mike Huckleberry release confirmed violent nutcases to walk the streets, so that they can execute cops.
There are times when I'm GLAD that I'll be leaving this world someday. The idea of going insane along with the rest of the world is more scary than dying.
Naturally, I can't address unions in any country outside the US. Believe me - both the unions and the businesses they deal with are BOTH guilty of a lot of evils here. The Teamsters Union is probably the one with the most corruption in it's history here. The one union I ever belonged to was a bogus front to help the company rip off employees, and enforce company policy. I didn't belong to it for long.
Overall, unions have done more good than harm in the US, but there has been a lot more harm than most people ever wanted to know about.
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared for a reason. Union corruption is a powerful force here.
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"14th-century gender roles"
Mankind didn't evolve in the 14th century. Mankind evolved over millions of years. Feminists, today, are trying to redefine what men and women are. They blame culture for all the differences between men and women. But, various drugs have measurable different effects on males and females. Similar experiences in sports have vastly different results on their bodies. No matter how much some would like to pretend that there is no difference between men and women, it remains a fallacy.
As for intelligence - I've read many an article over the years, both before and after the advent of the internet. More women's intelligence are closer to the center of any scale, while more men are found at the far ends of any scale. Meaning, an idiot is more likely to be a male, and a genius is more likely to be a male.
Granted, IQ tests reflect whatever the authors consider to be important. Design a test that places greater importance on remembering actor's names, recognizing colors, remembering details of friend's and family's vital details, women will almost ALWAYS score higher than men. Design a test that places greater importance on spatial recognition, mechanical skills, and computing RBI's and such, men will almost ALWAYS score higher.
Gender roles? Since we've spent millions of years LEARNING our gender roles, I see nothing wrong with them. They work. They have ensured the survival of our species all this time.
Go ahead - mess with the roles, and teach the kids new ways. Tell the little girls that they don't have to be little girls, and little boys don't have to grow up to be men.
Has anyone noticed that the most "modern", "advance", "civilized", and "liberal" nations in the world have a decreasing fertility rate, while the barbarians continue to breed? Has anyone noticed the invasion of those "civilized" nations taking place all around us?
Let's wait another 100 years or so, and see how this all works out. Change those roles, and experiment, while the rest of the world retains the old roles. Don't be at all surprised if the Muslims and the Catholics inherit the world. The old fashioned roles WORK! Damn fools.
"If this thing includes a microscope then the average Windows fanboy can use it to locate their invisible penises."
and
"And you could use it to locate your invisible brain."
Don't you just HATE it when the dentist starts drilling before the Novocaine takes effect? When he hits that freaking NERVE, you can't help responding - sometimes violently. I see someone got YOUR NERVE, LMAO
"In Iran (and many other failed states), no external force is imposing the current brutal government on the Iranians."
In a vacuum, and discounting history, your statement would be true. You don't mention a trio of factors that have strong bearing on the situation.
1. The US and the UK imposed an unwanted government on the Iranians only a lifetime ago. (My lifetime - I was born within a couple years of the Shah of Iran taking power) Prior to Operation Ajax, the Iranians enjoyed a true democracy. There is one external source.
2. The Iranians are predominantly Moslems. There IS pressure on Islam. We might sit back and congratulate ourselves that no one uses the violence used to spread Islam - but there remains outside pressure on the way of life in Iran.
3. Third point actually validates your statement. The people of Iran DID overthrow an oppressive, corrupt regime when they threw the Shah out. The people of Iran installed a government which WAS more in line with Iranian values. As with all governments, it took only a short time for that government to start losing touch with it's people. More, the people have begun to change, making it more difficult for the government to keep up.
Damnit! I just looked for the moderation button. I've lost my unused mod points.
Geoffrey is right on target. It's ALWAYS in the best interests of everyone involved to counter propaganda and oppression with the TRUTH!! Please don't give the tyrants free ammunition with which to convince the oppressed that THEY are right!
Ehhh. I won't even consider the technology or the product. The name is enough for me to decide what I think. Hearst. Patty Hearst. The terrorist little bitch with the rich daddy. Should properly have been executed decades ago. Fuck 'em. Given the choice between being screwed by a Hearst, or a Jobs, or a Gates, or any of dozens of other rat bastards, Hearst will come in last. I hope their reader turns into one HUGE money sink, that never makes them two cents.
Mmm-hmmm. Whatever. But, if you're doing 75 or 80, and refuse to get out of the way of the guy doing 100, how do you KNOW he doesn't have a child bleeding to death in the back seat, and you are delaying his trip to the hospital? Or, how do you KNOW that it isn't an unmarked police vehicle, on his way to a bad accident, or a bank robbery, or whatever the hell?
Just because YOU judge him to be a reckless moron, doesn't mean you have all the facts. Chances are, he is really just another moron endangering everyone on the road. But, you just never know for sure. I had a set of headlights come into sight WAY behind me one night, on a two lane road - to far to judge how fast they were going. A minute later, I looked, and they were much closer - I knew he was moving on. I was speeding, 70 in a 55, and he was going at LEAST double my speed. When he caught up to me, I eased as far right as I could get, to make it easier for him to pass me. As he passed, I noticed a flash of blue behind his grill, an emblem on his door, and another flash of blue inside his rear window. Cop? Fire marshall? Medical? I don't know, but he had SOMETHING important to do!
Your post gives no indication that you understand the difference between "weather", "climate", and "climate change".
Climate has changed drastically, many times in earth's history. (actually, man's pre-history) The same land in America's north central regions has had a mile of ice sitting atop it, and it has had tropical forest growing on it.
Everyone is aware that we are between ice ages. Everyone is aware that the earth warms and cools between ice ages. But, almost no one actually thinks about what that MEANS! The climate that we have grown accustomed to over the last ~1000 years is changeable and malleable entirely without man's presence.
The question is, whether man influences climate change, and if so, how much. There is NO QUESTION that we are between glacial ages, and that the earth would warm with or without man. The only question is, does man make that climate change happen more quickly?
Gullible people simply accept the worst case scenarios put out by the doomsayers, and work it into some kind of religion. Phhht.
How 'bout that dude in Europe who died on the ice ~5000 years ago, became encased in the glacier, and was only recently exposed to the world again? Obviously, the glacier GREW for some part of the last 5000 years, then started RECEDING. All part of the world's natural order.
To many idjits have poked their fingers into the law in to many places. I can't tell you what is "legal". But, I learned, "keep right, except to pass". If you're doing 80 or 180 mph, you BELONG IN THE RIGHT LANE, until you actually PASS SOMEONE!! It's just that simple. The boob who rides in the left lane is almost certainly not watching his mirrors for a faster vehicle to overtake him. He has gotten comfortable, and he intends to use that PASSING lane forever. Note the term, "PASSING lane". If one single care moves into the TRAVEL LANE (what you refer to as the "slow lane") so that he can get around you, then you are indeed impeding traffic.
In short, GET OUT OF THE WAY STUPID!!
Seti has always been available as that screensaver thing, or it could be installed as a service. More, it could be set to go inactive while the computer was in use, or to continue while the computer was in use. I always saw the screensaver as a waste. Why use processing power to draw pictures of the work being done, when the same processing power could be used to do more work? I always set it up as a service. The settings have changed over the years, but generally, my machines go inactive during use, and resume 3 minutes after users go inactive. All my machines have a "Blank screen" screensaver setting.
If the feds want to know about you, they can talk to your friends, and ask questions. They can talk to your business associates, and ask question. They can question your mom, dad, sisters, cousins, etc. If they get enough trash on you, they can get a warrant to search your house, your car, your home, computer, and your person. If they think your friends or family has good dirty evidence, they can get warrants to search THEIR homes, cars, persons.
So. Given all of that - just exactly how much privacy is expected with an online social networking thing? Far less privacy than your home, for which a warrant is required before searching it. Maybe - just maybe - a little more privacy than a conversation with a job associate, for which no warrant is required before talking to him. Considerably less privacy than a conversation with your spouse, for which no warrant is required before speaking to him/her.
I really do think that SOME DEGREE of privacy is appropriate for Facebook, etc. But, the question is, "How private should Facebook be?"
Obviously, those pages that are publicly accessible to any bot, any viewer, are most definitely NOT private. If you've set your page so that it is publicly viewable, by all means, any law enforcement agent in the world can look at it, and use the data. But, if you set all your pages with maximum privacy and security, then maybe the cop should be required to get a warrant before gaining access.
I can't really decide where a social networking account sits in the scale of privacy. I can't agree that they should all be off-limits to the law, nor can I agree that the law should be able to peruse everything ever put onto any page either. Much depends on those privacy and security settings.
Bottom line, though - if you have something that you DO NOT want the law to find out about you, DO NOT put it online!! Don't tell your job associate, don't tell your best friend, don't tell your drinking buddy, don't tell the busybody across the street, and DON'T PUT IT ONLINE!!! If more than one person shares a secret, it is no longer a secret.
Not a bad write up - except for one thing. The judge did not renege on a bargain. The plea deal was in place, and Roman was going to be sentenced for one single charge. But, Roman got scared, and ran before the sentencing. In the transcript where Roman pleads guilty, he is made to clearly understand that the judge is not bound by any terms of a plea deal, and that sentencing would depend, in part, on the results of the psychiatric evaluation.
After those few weeks of evaluation, Roman simply decided that he would not face sentencing, and he skipped.
It's great to have millions, and the media at your disposal, so that you can spin a story your way, and make most of the world believe that you have been wronged.
I can't accept that having your wife murdered might turn you into a pedo, or a child molester. (Since the girl had reached puberty, Polanski isn't technically a pedo, but he's real close to it.) Like millions of other men from his era, my Dad was blown to bits in the pacific, and shipped home in a basket. It didn't turn him into a pedo, a rapist, a dopehead, or any other sort of a criminal. I simply can't accept any excuses for what a man CHOOSES to do.
PowerPC owners take heart: Win 7 runs on Virtual PC
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Fred Horvat reported that he can run Windows 7 Beta 1 on a PowerPC Mac with the (long discontinued) Virtual PC emulator:
I got Windows 7 Beta running under Virtual PC 7.03 on my dual G5 with OSX 10.5.6. I also got the network card working inside the Virtual machine. I had to follow the Vista install steps for Virtual PC Mac to get it to install (do a Web Search for instructions if curious). Performance is a bit pokey and not really for day to day use though. I can't say yet if performance is any better than Vista under Virtual PC. I have not done any Windows performance optimization yet.
http://www.macwindows.com/win7beta.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrK5hJTtTo
I've never owned a Mac, or a PPC. I can't say what can and cannot be done, but people are claiming to have run Win 7 in a VM on Mac PPC. If I can get someone to donate a Mac, I'll be happy to experiment!
I won't get into a discussion about which is the better virtualization software - but I'm using Sun's Virtual Box - version 3.0.12 and I update with each new release. I allocate 1 gig of memory, and I enable all virtualization options. CPU is an AMD 3400+ (the stupid Victoria chip - I don't have all the virtualization that other chips have)
I turn Aero off, because the video card isn't up to it - or at least not from the VM. (I don't like Aero anyway, I prefer the "Classic" desktop) I also do a little bit of tweaking, but nothing radical. I run Win 7 with Microsoft's security essentials and Threatfire - don't install a heavy duty anti-virus. I tested the earliest beta releases, and I was pleased. The release candidate was a disappointment, because it ran slower than the betas for some reason. But, the final release is right back where the Betas were. It runs just as good as Windows XP with the same memory and options on the same machine.
If it makes any difference at all, I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid on this machine. A Mac may get different results, I have no idea. I just looked - if you're running and INTEL MAC, you're in luck. I don't see a download for PPC MAC. And, I see that they now have version 3.1 available. Time for me to upgrade.
I hope that helps!! ;^)
Executive summary? Let me google that. Ahhhh. Executive summary. Something required by a pompous ass with delusions of grandeur. Such requirements are generally needed by lazy asses who can't or won't read, and are willing to burden their peers with doing the reading, thinking, and decision making, while taking all the credit for their peers work.
"Vista runs on anything 7 runs on"
Not so. I have installed 7 on the very same hardware that Vista barfed on. I've never seen the BOSD on 7 that Vista threw up frequently. More, 7 runs beautifully in a VM, while Vista is something of a dog. As I said, 7 runs decently on a 1 ghz machine with one gig of RAM. Vista will not.
I used a euphemism, sorry. The fact is Polanski got a little girl who had just reached puberty drunk, drugged her, then forcibly raped her. I've read the transcripts at thesmokinggun.com What a disgusting pig. And, it wasn't a one-off thing - he's had other little girlfriends, both publicly acknowledged and otherwise.
"It's quite common knowledge that Chrome OS will be locked down."
Sometimes common knowledge isn't all that accurate. No matter WHAT you don't like about ChromeOS, you can fix it. The source code is available. Recompile for whatever architecture you want, use common Linux drivers, modify the conf files to your liking. The same thing has been done with Slackware, Suse, Debian - there is really nothing new here.
Given a kernel and a browser, you can do just about anything you want under the hood. Do it!! It's open source!
Of course people are upgrading from XP to 7 - if they are upgrading at all. Who upgrades from Debian to Windows? Or, Solaris to Windows?
Oh - 6 XP users upgrade for every Vista user? Surprise, surprise!! Probably half a billion people in this world THOUGH about upgrading to Vista, but decided not to when Vista proved to be such a bomb.
Let's remember, Vista wouldn't run on old equipment, while Win7 runs on anything over a gigahertz with a gig of memory. A lot of XP users COULDN'T upgrade to Vista!!
Yes, please, define "mainstream". Just because an organization makes the news frequently doesn't make them "mainstream". Take a hard look at the people who claim to be Scientologists. Fringe freaking element, all around. Huh? You point to some celebrity or other? Your point being what, exactly? Whoa, dude, you need to look at those celebrities again. We make celebrities out of people like Roman Polanski, who likes little girls. We make celebrities out of the likes of Michael Jackson, who liked - uhhh - sleepovers with little boys. We make celebrities out of rap singers who "sing" about killing cops. We make celebrities of other "singers" who celebrate gang raping little girls. Just because Tom Cruise happens to be in movies, people like his movies, does NOT make CoS "mainstream".
America worships freaks, but that worship doesn't make them "mainstream".
Red Roof Inns. Super 8. Best Western. Holiday Inn. Your assumptions are kind of funny. Not every city I have ever passed through has a 5 star hotel. I've slept in some places that didn't inspire me to write home about them - but hey, I didn't need a home. I just wanted a place to sleep. And, in recent years, even the real dives have wifi. There's a motel just a couple blocks from my place of employment with a collapsing roof, and obvious water damage visible in the walls - I'd rather sleep in my car, than rent a room there. But, they have wifi. You should get out more.
You can expect Starbucks to be suing you for a patent infringement soon, I think. It's people like you who steal other people's ideas, and cause them to go bankrupt. ;^)
"when you use the service in the Hotel, Coffee shop, Airport, cellphone, you're most probably identified."
This assumes that you provide real ID when renting a room, or using services at a coffee shop or airport, or whatever. I've rented many motel rooms using false identities. $50 cash money talks. "Name?" "Ulysses Grant." "Driver's license?" "I don't drive." "How did you get here if you don't drive?" "I called a taxi." "Do you have a photo ID?" "My picture is right here, on this $50 bill." "Oh, I see - well, have a pleasant stay, Mr. Grant. Checkout time is 11:AM, and there is instant coffee in your room, and a continental breakfast in the lobby."
"If you falsify the MAC or provide wrongful data, you get life in prison."
Yes, I caught the sarcasm. But, PLEASE!! We can't even get dangerous, violent criminals put in jail for life. Put a petty thief in prison for life? Oh, lord - there is no sanity left in the world. None, I tell you. "Your honor, the defendant has copied my ideas, without authorization. I think he cost me somewhere between 1 dollar and 29 gazillion dollars. I want to make an example of him, so please, sentence him to life without parole."
Meanwhile, political whores like Mike Huckleberry release confirmed violent nutcases to walk the streets, so that they can execute cops.
There are times when I'm GLAD that I'll be leaving this world someday. The idea of going insane along with the rest of the world is more scary than dying.
Naturally, I can't address unions in any country outside the US. Believe me - both the unions and the businesses they deal with are BOTH guilty of a lot of evils here. The Teamsters Union is probably the one with the most corruption in it's history here. The one union I ever belonged to was a bogus front to help the company rip off employees, and enforce company policy. I didn't belong to it for long.
Overall, unions have done more good than harm in the US, but there has been a lot more harm than most people ever wanted to know about.
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared for a reason. Union corruption is a powerful force here.