A number of people alive today and almost certainly the 15 year old Linux geeks bitching about GNU software haven't paid for these programs. Should it be free to send stuff up on the Space Shuttle since the US taxpayer hasalready paid for it? I want my own space suit as well as a ride on the net supply mission to the ISS since my taxes are paying for it.
MWSG, more whining slashdot geeks. Those free for non-commercial use contracts people use are ridiculous because you all know damn well that it is rare that anyone who uses that software in a corporate fashion pays for the stuff. How many of you have "free for educational or non-commercial use" software on your PCs at work? I bet a good number of you do. If you just want the code to play around with you can find a number of CFD Fortran programs all over the internet. The cost of binaries for these toys is about what you'll pay for FLUENT anyhow. Funny how the same people that complain about NASA messing up mission or needing more money are the same ones bitching that they dare charge money for something they worked on.
Millions of millions of Windows PCs using Internet Explorer, I don't think Microsoft is scared in the slightest about anything anyone wants to throw at their browser. Netscape was cool way back when but then they broke it and ignored oppertunities. IE picked up the slack and mopped the floor with Netscape in the minds of the people that count, the users. Shut up.
All you need to do is run the numbers really. ASCI White runs about 12 TFLOPS and is the single most powerful computer you're going to find anywhere. This is pretty powerful by most standards but given a single POWER3 chip can probably do about a million and a half DES keys per second and ASCI White's got eight thousand or so processors, do a quick computation to figure out how long it would take it to go through 2^4096 keys. Even if you had an ASCI White sized system with a custom ASIC that could crank through a key in five cycles it would still take a long ass time to find the key for a big DH cypher. Now lets say you run some cyphertext through more than once you end up really fucking somebody who wants to read your stuff. The FBI and NSA may have really powerful computers locked in some basement somewhere but they aren't so super duper that you can't keep them boggled for a while.
IIRC the Xeon processor from Intel uses SMT but is complimented by being SMP capable. You're right that SMT has really no bearing on whether or not you can use multiple processors in a system. I don't know why the dude was seeing them as competing technologies because they most definitely aren't. Just look at the POWER4, they have several processors on a single chip and you can use more than a single chip in a system as well as using SMT which IIRC they are also going to stick in them once they're released.
GNOM...Heli...Ximian already tried this and I don't think it worked very well dispite being a cool concept. The widespread distros like SuSE and RH sort of pack everything onto their CDs which many people find pretty daunting. Windows and MacOS even Be only pack relavant apps and tools with the main OS and let end users install what else they want. It's sort of ridiculous having upwards of 4 CDs on a basic Linux distribution.
Maybe the answer to your question lies in the simple fact that KDE and GNOME aren't Windows? Weird. I don't think you've ever used CDE before or else you'd realize where Windows got nearly all of its ideas for not only how the interface ought to act and look but also the sort of features that they ought to include. Both GNOME and KDE came from the concepts CDE originally pioneered not Windows. Only recently have KDE and GNOME been developing Windows-like features due to the increased demand for them. As OSS projects they're also under the philosophy that if you want something you can go ahead and build it yourself. If you want a KDE or GNOME docklet that acts like the Windows Start menu you can pretty easily build your own. As an individual user this may seem like a ridiculous concept but for those with the wil land way this is very beneficial. I can write a GNOME docklet that looks just like the new Windows XP Start Panel (which I happen to like, it reminds me of the *Step panel). I think KDE and GNOME are pretty impressive actually. Windows has been in the works for nearly two decades where they both have been in development for just now half a decade and have pretty incredible functionality.
My friend just got an iBook (of which I'm quite jealous) and he says its battery life is about the same as mine if not a little better because of the smaller screen. AppleSpec Online says the power requirements for the new iBooks are about the same as a Lombard. One thing that holds me back from getting a new iBook or maybe even a new Powerbook since they've dropped in price so much is the lack of a second battery. I wish Apple's engineers could have figured out a way to get a removable drive bay inside the thin profile of the iBook or Powerbook.
Smallpox is a pretty wellknown disease and while a few people might end up infected and maybe die it would die out pretty quickly. If something was really widespread the CDC could engineer Salk or Sabin like vaccine they could stick in Big Macs. You go to McDonald's and pick up a McCure for 1.99$ with fries and a Coke andblamo you're innoculated. To get decent infection rates you'd need to lace thousands of dollars worth of bills and put them in a bank. That's pretty ineffective because the money would probably remain in storage long after the virii's outdoor lifetime.
The O'Reilly conference was the same way, walking the floor and getting in doesn't cost you any money but if you wanted to attend the workshops you had to shell out beaucoup bucks. That is the concept behind shows like this. Companies or groups spend cash to attend the convention, they are there to show off something they hopefully intend to sell. The tutorials however are put on by professionals who need to be lured to said convention. In the past barbequed ribs were plenty but soon the advent of a monetary system lowered the apparent value of a rack of ribs. Back in the 50's it was found that people could be lured with these green coloured pieces of paper but there was a problem, the convention goers paid nothing to attend the show itself in most cases and thus the professionals could not be lured with green paper that wasn't there. Then an individual by the name of J.D. Bandersnatchenstein came up with the idea of charging convention goers for attendance of tutorial sessions put on by professionals. It worked well because the professionals could be lured with green paper and there was a mound of green paper to attract them with.
I have a Lombard series Powerbook that I can get about 5 hours of on a single battery charge. From what I have read and heard about (look on forums.macnn.com for more info) the Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, and Titanium series Powerbooks have excellent battery life as well as performance under the battery. A good deal of the time I'm running my Powerbook at home or hotel room (like right now) on line power but lots of times have to go to the battery. You can easily set up a low power profile in the location manager in MacOS (8.5-10.1) so you can switch pretty quickly and easily to low battery mode to get every last bit of power out of your battery. With the screen brightness down as low as it can get and the hard drive set up to sleep after five minutes of inactivity I have gotten five hours usage (running Office2001). With the screen set low I can get nearly 3 hours of playing games like Star Wars racer and Diablo2. Unfortunately I don't have and iBook but they apparently have the same battery performance. One cool aspect of the Wallstreet, Lombard, and Pismo series Powerbooks is you can use a second battery which literally doubles your power lifetime. With plenty of RAM Mac laptops will go for a very long time. You can pick up 400 and 500 MHz Pismo Powerbooks on MacResQ and Powermac for a little over a thousand dollars. IIRC Yellow Dog runs just fine on the G3 based Powerbooks if you're interested in running it. OSX can run X apps through XDarwin and about half of the FreeBSD Ports collection pretty well if you want to go that route too. Besides the battery life of the Mac laptops you get the low weight only rivaled by the smallest PC laptops (Sony and Fujitsus as well as a couple others), though with the caveat that the Mac laptops have an internal drive bay where some smaller PC laptops have external ones which means they have one more thing to lug in your bag. Hopefully that helps. Luckily the hype is to be believed when it comes to Apple's power claims on their portables.
Most IDE controllers are rather dumb where SCSI controllers are a bit smarter (at the controller level) and thus provide you with a bit better performance in real world applications. Raw throughput doesn't mean shit in some cases like hardcore DB applications because performance deals mainly with block seek time. The card he pointed out is a very smart IDE controller and allows normally dumb IDE RAID set ups to be as good as SCSi ones performance wise.
Broadband is failing because their market analysis was way off bead and their business model was ridiculous. Somehow they expected to get the CLECs and ILECs to first provide them with the external bandwidth and space for their DLS equipment and be able to undercut the price that the LECs could offer for the same service. Typical dot-bomb thinking. Broadband technology isn't dying and neither is availability, what is dying are the companies with the shittiest management and business plans. THis is natural and ought to speed the fuck up so LECs can buy the equipment cheap and increase their own capacity. I think municipalities ought to start laying down their own fibre (maybe alongside or inside gas lines or power lines) and then reselling it to LECs and cable companies for whatever they want to do with it. The cost would end up subsidized inside city taxes you're already paying and the work will be done by crews already paid for to do some other work. Costs for broadband would be dirt cheap especially if the resale contract to the LECs put the responsibility on them to do line termination and all switching/routing.
How exactly do you get any bigger than HP without being IBM? Apple and HP aren't opposed to this because of internet standard, they will get screwed in the internet to paper transition of these technologies. Say HP has to pay a royalty on SVG support for printers, could you imagine where HP would be if they had to pay to include PostScript support in printers? Same goes with Apple, say they include native support for SVG in the Quartz engine, they would get fucked from royalty fees. It isn't about who holds the patents, its about who stands to lose if they need to use stuff under those patents. You're right about them and the short end of the stick but it isn't due to their lack of patents or technology research.
Not enough people obviously. PGP suffers from the problem that web browsers suffer from in the consumer market, it is based around a specification rather than a proprietary product. NAI was basically trying to sell a look and feel product on top of something that corporations could easily impliment on their own (assuming they have a decent programming staff) and end users wouldn't pay for because they didn't know what the fuck it was for.
Car engines don't spin backwards when in reverse, rotation direction is all handled by the gearbox of the vehicle. If for some odd reason you did want to spin the main rotor shaft the opposite direction you reverse the piston firing order and blamo you've got a counter rotational spin on the main shaft.
I was watching C-Span this morning in my room in Grand Junction, how did the house vote end up turning out? I was pretty fucking disgusted by the way the judiciary commitee was handling the bill. I mean you're not going to sign your name to something you didn't fucking read and changing the bill after the Senate passed it was just sneaky I think all the reps who voted for the bill are just foolish. It's sad that people in the heat of emotion can't seem to make rational descisions about their iminent fate. It isn't hard to see that the bill in its current form is pretty sweeping yet with no clear proof that it will lead to the accomplishment of anything. It seems to me its pretty retarded to make so sweeping and broad reaching of a bill. I'd rather see airline/airport security separate from domestic intelligence because the two are not necessarily interlinked. Something needs to be done about our current vulnerabilities to attack but taking away essencial freedoms is not the answer.Some are suggesting only those with something to hide (namely a C-Span caller from Tennesee) are opposed to a bill which would let government agencies set the fourth amendment aside. I think you'd havea different tone if it was your telephone they were bugging. Peoplewere complaining earlier about people profiting in the wake of the WTC/Pentagon attacks, the government is going the same thing corporations are. Congresspeople are using this to expand their careers and temporarily please their constituants. Does anyone read their fucking history? We've seen what happens when the government gives itself the ability to ignore the Constitution by which it is itself governed. To paraphrase both Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson, those who would give up a little liberty for a little safety deserve neither and will soon lose both.
If I was required to have a national ID that linked me to all of my personal records and history I would move to Brainainia. To think someone might think to impliment such a thing in the name of social security....well I guess it's time to pack and get my shots.
Do you send paper mail in envelopes? Looks like you've got something to hide. Let's hal you down to the Ministry of Truth for some examinations. It's the "something to hide" stigma which is retardedly holding back the use and acceptance of cryptography. Encryption technologies are not just for people hiding warez (I've never even fucking heard of encrypted warez before and PGP is free for non-commercial use anyhow). E-mail is an inherently insecure communication medium. Few if any ISPs actually use or support secure e-mail in any fashion so that responsibility falls onto the user. You don't need illicit reasons for secureity, plain day to day business needs plenty of it. For a dallar of security you saveseveral dollars in losses.
This isn't exactly wide roll-out but my town has a pretty big Unix backend on nearly all of the city's systems. There's several big rooms filled with old Sun machines and if you go to the court offices every secretary has an X terminal on their desk (though they usually have a Windows PC as well). Besides city government and the courts I'm sure there's a bit more Unix usage but I haven't seen it personally. Though none of these are free and so you don't see them as real Unicies but oh well.
I think MS has poorly used the file extension concept. The onus of figuring out what to do with a particular file lies entirely on the OS so it'd be a good idea to give it some context. Windows with its DOS roots doesn't bother much with context. You get three letters to give context to the rest of your system. You run into alot of problems in cases like versioning. Word95 documents have the same extension as WordXP documents do. Then as it happens the two formats may not be compatible dispite the OS saying a.doc file needs to be read by WordXP (assuming that is what you've got). This works in this direction because of backwards compatibility. The concept doesn't do so well when you're on an old system with out dated sofware that can't read new.docs dispite the OS not seeing a difference and therefore assuming it is doing the right thing.
Uh, every software company ever has been doing that. Microsoft didn't invent (innovate?) jumping on the bandwagon. Way back when Adventure became Thief which became Nethack. VisiCalc was great and popular but because its stakeholders didn't smell the fire burning under the IBM PC and Intel processors Mitch Kapor came along with Lotus and blamo it because de facto numero uno. Shit man by the same token you can bash nearly every Linux app meant to replace a Windows app. KOffice is a complete ripoff of Office97 concepts! The only reason your argument makes sense to you is it is easy to notice when Microsoft jumps on a paradigm yet this goes on all the time in all aspects of the computer industry.
According to IBM's datasheets on the 750CX and CXe (the iBook uses a 750CX IIRC) they can use up to a 10x multiplier and a 133MHz memory bus. Theoretically IBM could spit out 1.3GHz G3s if it ever needed to. The problem with mere speed bumps on the PowerPC line is EOL concerns. The G3 750 and previous models had 60x pins and thus were compatible with older systems but the 750CX has none of these and is only compatible with more up to date systems. Thus making G3 chips for the system upgrade folks like Sonnet wouldn't bring in good returns for either company since the upgrades would only work on relatively new systems where a fair percentage of chip upgrades go into EOL Apple products. IBM, Mot, and Apple all need to keep their eyes on the future too. The G4 is able with little modification to use 64-bit instructions and a 128-bit memory bus width. The G5 will have that stuff by default so most likely Apple's going to go full fledged 64-bit Weapon X style (10.2 supposedly will come in 32 and 64-bit flavourings while >2 will be 64 bit only). That'd mean keeping the older G4 around for the low end systems and going with the G5 in the high end systems or so I surmise. I don't really see it as processor crippling but more like Apple has a much better sense of where their processors are going and what is happening with them. They're much more involved than the PC OEMs that just buy crates of whatever Intel happens to be making at a particular time. It's too bad no one will pick up the G3 to ramp the speed up to super fast levels. I really like that chip.
I have an old iWill dual board (DBD-100) and it supports at max an 8.5x multiplier like yours. However the iWill will clock the memory anywhere from 66MHz to 133MHz would would give me a theoretical 1100MHz chip. I've got two P3 Katmais in it right now but I'm thinking of upgrading to dual 100FBS Celerons on Slocket adapters. You should delve into the BIOS or jumpers, the iWill has soft jumpers so everything's set in the BIOS rather than physically, and see if you can get a 133MHz memory FSB. You could probably jam two Tualatin or Coppermines on the board if you wanted.
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A number of people alive today and almost certainly the 15 year old Linux geeks bitching about GNU software haven't paid for these programs. Should it be free to send stuff up on the Space Shuttle since the US taxpayer hasalready paid for it? I want my own space suit as well as a ride on the net supply mission to the ISS since my taxes are paying for it.
MWSG, more whining slashdot geeks. Those free for non-commercial use contracts people use are ridiculous because you all know damn well that it is rare that anyone who uses that software in a corporate fashion pays for the stuff. How many of you have "free for educational or non-commercial use" software on your PCs at work? I bet a good number of you do. If you just want the code to play around with you can find a number of CFD Fortran programs all over the internet. The cost of binaries for these toys is about what you'll pay for FLUENT anyhow. Funny how the same people that complain about NASA messing up mission or needing more money are the same ones bitching that they dare charge money for something they worked on.
Millions of millions of Windows PCs using Internet Explorer, I don't think Microsoft is scared in the slightest about anything anyone wants to throw at their browser. Netscape was cool way back when but then they broke it and ignored oppertunities. IE picked up the slack and mopped the floor with Netscape in the minds of the people that count, the users. Shut up.
All you need to do is run the numbers really. ASCI White runs about 12 TFLOPS and is the single most powerful computer you're going to find anywhere. This is pretty powerful by most standards but given a single POWER3 chip can probably do about a million and a half DES keys per second and ASCI White's got eight thousand or so processors, do a quick computation to figure out how long it would take it to go through 2^4096 keys. Even if you had an ASCI White sized system with a custom ASIC that could crank through a key in five cycles it would still take a long ass time to find the key for a big DH cypher. Now lets say you run some cyphertext through more than once you end up really fucking somebody who wants to read your stuff. The FBI and NSA may have really powerful computers locked in some basement somewhere but they aren't so super duper that you can't keep them boggled for a while.
IIRC the Xeon processor from Intel uses SMT but is complimented by being SMP capable. You're right that SMT has really no bearing on whether or not you can use multiple processors in a system. I don't know why the dude was seeing them as competing technologies because they most definitely aren't. Just look at the POWER4, they have several processors on a single chip and you can use more than a single chip in a system as well as using SMT which IIRC they are also going to stick in them once they're released.
Ionic bonds. If it were covalent it wouldn't be a crystal now would it?
GNOM...Heli...Ximian already tried this and I don't think it worked very well dispite being a cool concept. The widespread distros like SuSE and RH sort of pack everything onto their CDs which many people find pretty daunting. Windows and MacOS even Be only pack relavant apps and tools with the main OS and let end users install what else they want. It's sort of ridiculous having upwards of 4 CDs on a basic Linux distribution.
Maybe the answer to your question lies in the simple fact that KDE and GNOME aren't Windows? Weird. I don't think you've ever used CDE before or else you'd realize where Windows got nearly all of its ideas for not only how the interface ought to act and look but also the sort of features that they ought to include. Both GNOME and KDE came from the concepts CDE originally pioneered not Windows. Only recently have KDE and GNOME been developing Windows-like features due to the increased demand for them. As OSS projects they're also under the philosophy that if you want something you can go ahead and build it yourself. If you want a KDE or GNOME docklet that acts like the Windows Start menu you can pretty easily build your own. As an individual user this may seem like a ridiculous concept but for those with the wil land way this is very beneficial. I can write a GNOME docklet that looks just like the new Windows XP Start Panel (which I happen to like, it reminds me of the *Step panel). I think KDE and GNOME are pretty impressive actually. Windows has been in the works for nearly two decades where they both have been in development for just now half a decade and have pretty incredible functionality.
My friend just got an iBook (of which I'm quite jealous) and he says its battery life is about the same as mine if not a little better because of the smaller screen. AppleSpec Online says the power requirements for the new iBooks are about the same as a Lombard. One thing that holds me back from getting a new iBook or maybe even a new Powerbook since they've dropped in price so much is the lack of a second battery. I wish Apple's engineers could have figured out a way to get a removable drive bay inside the thin profile of the iBook or Powerbook.
Smallpox is a pretty wellknown disease and while a few people might end up infected and maybe die it would die out pretty quickly. If something was really widespread the CDC could engineer Salk or Sabin like vaccine they could stick in Big Macs. You go to McDonald's and pick up a McCure for 1.99$ with fries and a Coke andblamo you're innoculated. To get decent infection rates you'd need to lace thousands of dollars worth of bills and put them in a bank. That's pretty ineffective because the money would probably remain in storage long after the virii's outdoor lifetime.
The O'Reilly conference was the same way, walking the floor and getting in doesn't cost you any money but if you wanted to attend the workshops you had to shell out beaucoup bucks. That is the concept behind shows like this. Companies or groups spend cash to attend the convention, they are there to show off something they hopefully intend to sell. The tutorials however are put on by professionals who need to be lured to said convention. In the past barbequed ribs were plenty but soon the advent of a monetary system lowered the apparent value of a rack of ribs. Back in the 50's it was found that people could be lured with these green coloured pieces of paper but there was a problem, the convention goers paid nothing to attend the show itself in most cases and thus the professionals could not be lured with green paper that wasn't there. Then an individual by the name of J.D. Bandersnatchenstein came up with the idea of charging convention goers for attendance of tutorial sessions put on by professionals. It worked well because the professionals could be lured with green paper and there was a mound of green paper to attract them with.
I have a Lombard series Powerbook that I can get about 5 hours of on a single battery charge. From what I have read and heard about (look on forums.macnn.com for more info) the Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo, and Titanium series Powerbooks have excellent battery life as well as performance under the battery. A good deal of the time I'm running my Powerbook at home or hotel room (like right now) on line power but lots of times have to go to the battery. You can easily set up a low power profile in the location manager in MacOS (8.5-10.1) so you can switch pretty quickly and easily to low battery mode to get every last bit of power out of your battery. With the screen brightness down as low as it can get and the hard drive set up to sleep after five minutes of inactivity I have gotten five hours usage (running Office2001). With the screen set low I can get nearly 3 hours of playing games like Star Wars racer and Diablo2. Unfortunately I don't have and iBook but they apparently have the same battery performance. One cool aspect of the Wallstreet, Lombard, and Pismo series Powerbooks is you can use a second battery which literally doubles your power lifetime. With plenty of RAM Mac laptops will go for a very long time. You can pick up 400 and 500 MHz Pismo Powerbooks on MacResQ and Powermac for a little over a thousand dollars. IIRC Yellow Dog runs just fine on the G3 based Powerbooks if you're interested in running it. OSX can run X apps through XDarwin and about half of the FreeBSD Ports collection pretty well if you want to go that route too. Besides the battery life of the Mac laptops you get the low weight only rivaled by the smallest PC laptops (Sony and Fujitsus as well as a couple others), though with the caveat that the Mac laptops have an internal drive bay where some smaller PC laptops have external ones which means they have one more thing to lug in your bag. Hopefully that helps. Luckily the hype is to be believed when it comes to Apple's power claims on their portables.
Most IDE controllers are rather dumb where SCSI controllers are a bit smarter (at the controller level) and thus provide you with a bit better performance in real world applications. Raw throughput doesn't mean shit in some cases like hardcore DB applications because performance deals mainly with block seek time. The card he pointed out is a very smart IDE controller and allows normally dumb IDE RAID set ups to be as good as SCSi ones performance wise.
Broadband is failing because their market analysis was way off bead and their business model was ridiculous. Somehow they expected to get the CLECs and ILECs to first provide them with the external bandwidth and space for their DLS equipment and be able to undercut the price that the LECs could offer for the same service. Typical dot-bomb thinking. Broadband technology isn't dying and neither is availability, what is dying are the companies with the shittiest management and business plans. THis is natural and ought to speed the fuck up so LECs can buy the equipment cheap and increase their own capacity. I think municipalities ought to start laying down their own fibre (maybe alongside or inside gas lines or power lines) and then reselling it to LECs and cable companies for whatever they want to do with it. The cost would end up subsidized inside city taxes you're already paying and the work will be done by crews already paid for to do some other work. Costs for broadband would be dirt cheap especially if the resale contract to the LECs put the responsibility on them to do line termination and all switching/routing.
How exactly do you get any bigger than HP without being IBM? Apple and HP aren't opposed to this because of internet standard, they will get screwed in the internet to paper transition of these technologies. Say HP has to pay a royalty on SVG support for printers, could you imagine where HP would be if they had to pay to include PostScript support in printers? Same goes with Apple, say they include native support for SVG in the Quartz engine, they would get fucked from royalty fees. It isn't about who holds the patents, its about who stands to lose if they need to use stuff under those patents. You're right about them and the short end of the stick but it isn't due to their lack of patents or technology research.
Not enough people obviously. PGP suffers from the problem that web browsers suffer from in the consumer market, it is based around a specification rather than a proprietary product. NAI was basically trying to sell a look and feel product on top of something that corporations could easily impliment on their own (assuming they have a decent programming staff) and end users wouldn't pay for because they didn't know what the fuck it was for.
Car engines don't spin backwards when in reverse, rotation direction is all handled by the gearbox of the vehicle. If for some odd reason you did want to spin the main rotor shaft the opposite direction you reverse the piston firing order and blamo you've got a counter rotational spin on the main shaft.
I was watching C-Span this morning in my room in Grand Junction, how did the house vote end up turning out? I was pretty fucking disgusted by the way the judiciary commitee was handling the bill. I mean you're not going to sign your name to something you didn't fucking read and changing the bill after the Senate passed it was just sneaky I think all the reps who voted for the bill are just foolish. It's sad that people in the heat of emotion can't seem to make rational descisions about their iminent fate. It isn't hard to see that the bill in its current form is pretty sweeping yet with no clear proof that it will lead to the accomplishment of anything. It seems to me its pretty retarded to make so sweeping and broad reaching of a bill. I'd rather see airline/airport security separate from domestic intelligence because the two are not necessarily interlinked. Something needs to be done about our current vulnerabilities to attack but taking away essencial freedoms is not the answer.Some are suggesting only those with something to hide (namely a C-Span caller from Tennesee) are opposed to a bill which would let government agencies set the fourth amendment aside. I think you'd havea different tone if it was your telephone they were bugging. Peoplewere complaining earlier about people profiting in the wake of the WTC/Pentagon attacks, the government is going the same thing corporations are. Congresspeople are using this to expand their careers and temporarily please their constituants. Does anyone read their fucking history? We've seen what happens when the government gives itself the ability to ignore the Constitution by which it is itself governed. To paraphrase both Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson, those who would give up a little liberty for a little safety deserve neither and will soon lose both.
If I was required to have a national ID that linked me to all of my personal records and history I would move to Brainainia. To think someone might think to impliment such a thing in the name of social security....well I guess it's time to pack and get my shots.
Do you send paper mail in envelopes? Looks like you've got something to hide. Let's hal you down to the Ministry of Truth for some examinations. It's the "something to hide" stigma which is retardedly holding back the use and acceptance of cryptography. Encryption technologies are not just for people hiding warez (I've never even fucking heard of encrypted warez before and PGP is free for non-commercial use anyhow). E-mail is an inherently insecure communication medium. Few if any ISPs actually use or support secure e-mail in any fashion so that responsibility falls onto the user. You don't need illicit reasons for secureity, plain day to day business needs plenty of it. For a dallar of security you saveseveral dollars in losses.
This isn't exactly wide roll-out but my town has a pretty big Unix backend on nearly all of the city's systems. There's several big rooms filled with old Sun machines and if you go to the court offices every secretary has an X terminal on their desk (though they usually have a Windows PC as well). Besides city government and the courts I'm sure there's a bit more Unix usage but I haven't seen it personally. Though none of these are free and so you don't see them as real Unicies but oh well.
I think MS has poorly used the file extension concept. The onus of figuring out what to do with a particular file lies entirely on the OS so it'd be a good idea to give it some context. Windows with its DOS roots doesn't bother much with context. You get three letters to give context to the rest of your system. You run into alot of problems in cases like versioning. Word95 documents have the same extension as WordXP documents do. Then as it happens the two formats may not be compatible dispite the OS saying a .doc file needs to be read by WordXP (assuming that is what you've got). This works in this direction because of backwards compatibility. The concept doesn't do so well when you're on an old system with out dated sofware that can't read new .docs dispite the OS not seeing a difference and therefore assuming it is doing the right thing.
Uh, every software company ever has been doing that. Microsoft didn't invent (innovate?) jumping on the bandwagon. Way back when Adventure became Thief which became Nethack. VisiCalc was great and popular but because its stakeholders didn't smell the fire burning under the IBM PC and Intel processors Mitch Kapor came along with Lotus and blamo it because de facto numero uno. Shit man by the same token you can bash nearly every Linux app meant to replace a Windows app. KOffice is a complete ripoff of Office97 concepts! The only reason your argument makes sense to you is it is easy to notice when Microsoft jumps on a paradigm yet this goes on all the time in all aspects of the computer industry.
According to IBM's datasheets on the 750CX and CXe (the iBook uses a 750CX IIRC) they can use up to a 10x multiplier and a 133MHz memory bus. Theoretically IBM could spit out 1.3GHz G3s if it ever needed to. The problem with mere speed bumps on the PowerPC line is EOL concerns. The G3 750 and previous models had 60x pins and thus were compatible with older systems but the 750CX has none of these and is only compatible with more up to date systems. Thus making G3 chips for the system upgrade folks like Sonnet wouldn't bring in good returns for either company since the upgrades would only work on relatively new systems where a fair percentage of chip upgrades go into EOL Apple products. IBM, Mot, and Apple all need to keep their eyes on the future too. The G4 is able with little modification to use 64-bit instructions and a 128-bit memory bus width. The G5 will have that stuff by default so most likely Apple's going to go full fledged 64-bit Weapon X style (10.2 supposedly will come in 32 and 64-bit flavourings while >2 will be 64 bit only). That'd mean keeping the older G4 around for the low end systems and going with the G5 in the high end systems or so I surmise. I don't really see it as processor crippling but more like Apple has a much better sense of where their processors are going and what is happening with them. They're much more involved than the PC OEMs that just buy crates of whatever Intel happens to be making at a particular time. It's too bad no one will pick up the G3 to ramp the speed up to super fast levels. I really like that chip.
I have an old iWill dual board (DBD-100) and it supports at max an 8.5x multiplier like yours. However the iWill will clock the memory anywhere from 66MHz to 133MHz would would give me a theoretical 1100MHz chip. I've got two P3 Katmais in it right now but I'm thinking of upgrading to dual 100FBS Celerons on Slocket adapters. You should delve into the BIOS or jumpers, the iWill has soft jumpers so everything's set in the BIOS rather than physically, and see if you can get a 133MHz memory FSB. You could probably jam two Tualatin or Coppermines on the board if you wanted.