Actually, in most cases the MAC is technically superior. Better processor (M68k) or even much better (PPC), better bus etc. Only the OS and the single button mouse sucks.
As an immigrant in this fine country I have to admit to beeing proud. The idea though is stolen. I remember in the 70's when someone (presumably students at the Royal Institute of Technology) hung a complete bug under the span of Stockholms largest bridge.
And LinCity is better than Sim
One game that I actually, honestly think is better on Linux than MicroShaft Winblows
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Actually Hotmail runs FreeBSD, and when they tried to port to run on NiceTry it ended up being enough of a mess so they had to leave it be a free Unix clone;-)
I have installed Linux on various laptops since 1.2.10 on a ThinkPad 750 only in two cases did I have problems, the first with an old 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad 600 (I had to trouble myself to actually dowload a driver from IBM) and the other A Toshiba Portege that I had to actually spend some time searching for a driver. All others I just used the distro CD (Debian early and Red Hat since 6.0). Not even making intelligent choices since the installer figured everything out nicely.
I have had more problems installing volume desktops from DELL.
I know how US works and therefore I did not move there when I left my home country.
safety, come on, get real wer're talking about the country in the western world with the highest (no competition...) rate of murder and violent crime.
freedom, yes if you have plenty dough, otherwise probably not.
quality of life, sorry dude, top of the list for many years is Canada (one of the reasons that I moved here) US haven't made the top ten ever I believe.
The 'merican patriotism is inbred. In school they learn that World War 2 started with Pearl Harbor, not with Germanys invasion of Poland and US entered after Pearl Harbor. This according to my American childhood friend who said Re this "we Americans have to be the dombest in the world"
Fact:
The speed of sound at 50000 ft is higher than at sea level and even higher at 165000ft.
The Concord flies at Mach 2
A 747 flies 850 - 1000 km/h (that's 5-600 MPH)
Logic 101:
BA and Air France is paying lots of money for the Concorde to fly at 1000 km/h at 50000 ft transporting 100 people when they could transport 350 people in a 747 at 35000ft at 1000 km/h for less money?? I don't think so.
Physics 101:
Travel NYC - London in a 747 at 35000 ft takes 6 - 7 hours.
You are suggesting that at 50000 ft 640MPH is about Mach2. That raises the question, how can the Concorde do NYC - London in about half the time travelling a longer distance at the same or just slightly higher speed than the 747.
(The distance is a little bit longer due to the longer curve at 50000 ft)
The problem with a peer to peer network is that the number of possible connections grows exponentially.
2 machines 1 connection
3 machines 3 connections
4 machines 6 connections
5 machines 10 connections
6 machines 15 connections
7 machines 21 connections
2 million boxes means a helluva lot of ways to search....
A star configuration means you only have one connection to search....
So even if we have a peta-bit network and a yota-Hz CPU this kind of config will not scale
Well for starters you as will most Joe Sixpack assumes that a 2GHz is 2X 1GHz...
That is nowhere near true due to how this beast works. In Intels own demo of the new processor the compared a 1.5 GHz P-4 against a 750 MHz P-3.
My guess is that if you have a 6-700 MHz today you may want to upgrade to 1.6-2GHz to be able to run the next WinDoze.
By implementing filtering the library will implicitly accept responsibility for the content viewed. If the filtering fails, and we all know it does, they have not properly lived up to the responsibility they accepted. Big lawsuit coming down...
And not only from allowing content that they claim not to allow, but from filtering content that should get through. Try accessing a page about breast cancer, in many filters that page will be banned for the "breast" word...
Perl is an absolutely great tool for all these things that you would not have the time for otherwise!
I recently cooked up a small internal web-site with a few interactive screens and a database for my development team. I spent all of a day;->
Using any "real language" that would have taken at least a week and never been done.
We also use Perl for some administrative tools in our product with great result.
Would I create a large heavy use system in Perl? Probably not.
But don't knock it it's a great language and will be around!
That's a rather stupid approach. It's like saying let's not require passwords since that gives a false sense of security.
Sure, permissions is not the ultimate secure solution, but it's a whole lot safer than letting everyone read users home directories.
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Actually, in most cases the MAC is technically superior. Better processor (M68k) or even much better (PPC), better bus etc. Only the OS and the single button mouse sucks.
As an immigrant in this fine country I have to admit to beeing proud. The idea though is stolen. I remember in the 70's when someone (presumably students at the Royal Institute of Technology) hung a complete bug under the span of Stockholms largest bridge.
And LinCity is better than Sim
One game that I actually, honestly think is better on Linux than MicroShaft Winblows
Actually Hotmail runs FreeBSD, and when they tried to port to run on NiceTry it ended up being enough of a mess so they had to leave it be a free Unix clone ;-)
I have installed Linux on various laptops since 1.2.10 on a ThinkPad 750 only in two cases did I have problems, the first with an old 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad 600 (I had to trouble myself to actually dowload a driver from IBM) and the other A Toshiba Portege that I had to actually spend some time searching for a driver. All others I just used the distro CD (Debian early and Red Hat since 6.0). Not even making intelligent choices since the installer figured everything out nicely.
I have had more problems installing volume desktops from DELL.
I know how US works and therefore I did not move there when I left my home country.
safety, come on, get real wer're talking about the country in the western world with the highest (no competition...) rate of murder and violent crime.
freedom, yes if you have plenty dough, otherwise probably not.
quality of life, sorry dude, top of the list for many years is Canada (one of the reasons that I moved here) US haven't made the top ten ever I believe.
The 'merican patriotism is inbred. In school they learn that World War 2 started with Pearl Harbor, not with Germanys invasion of Poland and US entered after Pearl Harbor. This according to my American childhood friend who said Re this "we Americans have to be the dombest in the world"
Fact:
The speed of sound at 50000 ft is higher than at sea level and even higher at 165000ft.
The Concord flies at Mach 2
A 747 flies 850 - 1000 km/h (that's 5-600 MPH)
Logic 101:
BA and Air France is paying lots of money for the Concorde to fly at 1000 km/h at 50000 ft transporting 100 people when they could transport 350 people in a 747 at 35000ft at 1000 km/h for less money?? I don't think so.
Physics 101:
Travel NYC - London in a 747 at 35000 ft takes 6 - 7 hours.
You are suggesting that at 50000 ft 640MPH is about Mach2. That raises the question, how can the Concorde do NYC - London in about half the time travelling a longer distance at the same or just slightly higher speed than the 747.
(The distance is a little bit longer due to the longer curve at 50000 ft)
Funny!!
;-)
My brother used the password 'secret' for some time. Ask for his password, "It's secret" would be his answer
I do belive that Word is a reference to M$ Bloatware Word. That piece of crap I can outtype on my Office P-2 400. And I'm no fast typing secretary...
Intel has been a strong proponent of Vaporware for quite some time now.
Anyone seen a 1GHz P!!! system yet? I havn't but I have seen actual 1GHz AMD boxes.
And, remember the 1.13 GHz that Intel released and revoked just to beat AMD (who has released a 1.1GHz).
And you won't get the *2 speed boost, more like 1.2-1.6 due to the fundamental difference in design.
Remember that Intel pitched a P!!!-750 against a P4-1.5GHz in their initial demo...
Actually a Ultra 5 (US-II 450, with a 17" monitor) I believe is about $3000 US, so go ahead....
Actually more like AMD having the Athlon when chipzilla released Pentium 90...
The problem with a peer to peer network is that the number of possible connections grows exponentially.
2 machines 1 connection
3 machines 3 connections
4 machines 6 connections
5 machines 10 connections
6 machines 15 connections
7 machines 21 connections
2 million boxes means a helluva lot of ways to search....
A star configuration means you only have one connection to search....
So even if we have a peta-bit network and a yota-Hz CPU this kind of config will not scale
Well for starters you as will most Joe Sixpack assumes that a 2GHz is 2X 1GHz...
That is nowhere near true due to how this beast works. In Intels own demo of the new processor the compared a 1.5 GHz P-4 against a 750 MHz P-3.
My guess is that if you have a 6-700 MHz today you may want to upgrade to 1.6-2GHz to be able to run the next WinDoze.
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The post that you so smartly swallowed is making fun of the incorrect spelling of tera byte. Terra hints at earth == dirt -> dirty bytes :-)
I belive that after tera comes petabyte.
No that strategy is actually from the sixties :-)
(But IBM is right)
No, it is for the ease of mind of certain adults that have no clue of how active parenting works...
And saves mucho dineros -)
By implementing filtering the library will implicitly accept responsibility for the content viewed. If the filtering fails, and we all know it does, they have not properly lived up to the responsibility they accepted. Big lawsuit coming down...
And not only from allowing content that they claim not to allow, but from filtering content that should get through. Try accessing a page about breast cancer, in many filters that page will be banned for the "breast" word...
Intels own demo pitched a 1.5 GHz P-4 vs a .75 GHz P-!!!
;->
Draw your own conclusions
There is an even easier fix. :-)
Use Linux and Mozilla
Perl is an absolutely great tool for all these things that you would not have the time for otherwise! ;->
I recently cooked up a small internal web-site with a few interactive screens and a database for my development team. I spent all of a day
Using any "real language" that would have taken at least a week and never been done.
We also use Perl for some administrative tools in our product with great result.
Would I create a large heavy use system in Perl? Probably not.
But don't knock it it's a great language and will be around!
That's a rather stupid approach. It's like saying let's not require passwords since that gives a false sense of security.
Sure, permissions is not the ultimate secure solution, but it's a whole lot safer than letting everyone read users home directories.