Either this is a subtle variant of the classic "performance" *BSD troll, or your laptop has crap hardware (think: cheesy no-DMA nic and/or slow HD). I've never seen a box go unresponsive due to a combination of HD and net access, running Win3.11, 95, Linux, Solaris, AIX or HPUX.
Dude, the US is not the only country in the world. Want to bash countries for consuming natural resources? How about Indonesia, who has generated 40% of the world's CO2 since 1990 by burning off their natural forests.
Isn't it great, where the State can mandate the advance of technology? This reminds me of that Simpon's quote "Young lady, in this house we obey the 2nd law of Thermodynamics!"
Who's to say that these energy mandates are even achievable, or desirable? Since they won't be affordable, all this does is create a new class of subsidized business, and executives to run the businesses, and higher taxes on (in the case of Scotland) an already under-performing economy.
The web in some high speed paper mills moves at 8000 fpm, or about 90 mph. It's a 400 inch wide piece of nylon webbing, on top of which a warm slurry of.5% paper is sprayed at high pressure. It goes over rollers and dewatering points, where the water is sucked out of it by vacuum. Some of the rollers are small, so they have higher RPMs. At the other end of the machine, there are huge heated drums spinning at a faster rate (to pull the paper out). All of this is accompanied by pump noise, air compression noise, and vibration. It is so loud that earplugs are mandatory, and your chest hurts from merely being in the plant. But I know exactly what its doing, so its not "out of control".
So now we have to depend on the processor in a $79 piece of asiaware to correctly detect and 'bleep' or otherwise censor dirty words? Please. This reminds me of the so-called "web censoring software" that looked for images with sufficient pixels in the color range of human flesh, and 'decided' that it was pr0n. It had a false positive rate = false negative rate.
Here's a suggestion to all you Concerned Parents: Stop foisting the responsibility of raising your children onto other people. Watch TV with your kids. Know what they watch. Heck, buy them books instead.
I love how everyone is pre-emptively trolling the PC users, who are supposed to troll about Mac viruses, yet no PC users are saying this. Why are Mac people so fervent and testy about this sort of thing?
Go to running store or good sports store Buy shoes Place shoes on feet Run, during run observe surroundings, smile at people, collect your thoughts for the day, enjoy self
C'mon guys, give your brain a rest from the constant barrage of electronika, no wonder so many kids have so-called ADD.
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I have one, its called a stereo. Really, for the 99.99% of the population that doesn't read Slashdot, who is going to actually do this? Nobody in the iPod generation for sure.
Again, people are accepting the C|Net, Cringely, Dvorak and MS premises of the argument for or against Linux - the OS is utterly independent of the GUI. That is true everywhere. Just because you come from an environment where they're melted together doesn't make that a reality. I can run any number of GUIs on a Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, *BSD, etc. system, depending on what I need and want. Linux does not have to be a desktop OS, Windows does.
"We should be using wind power" "We need more regulation to fix this" "We're all dependant on each other" "I am my brother's keeper" "It was Bush's fault" "It was Cheney's fault" "I love my bicycle, I hear they use lots of them in France" "I hate technology, I was glad"
Dude, you're lacking in the "how an OS actually fscking works" department. Also in the "I think KDE = Linux" department. The OS has nothing to do with the applications on it. Don't like it? Sorry, stick to Windows. There's no necessary link between applications and the OS. Consequently, there's no DLL hell, where if you upgrade IE, your other applications die because you hosed some internal HTML rendering library. If your OS (including kernel, system binaries, and libraries) doesn't have the functionality an app requires, YOU NEED TO MAKE THE CHOICE to install it. The app isn't going to do it for you.
Drivers are a completely different beast. Try and use a precompiled driver module on a kernel w/o support for it, or the wrong kernel version, and it dies. How many pre 2000/XP Windows installations got hosed by bad or subtly incompatible drivers? Linux ain't Windows, nor will it ever be. There are specific design and architecture requirements of each, and they're mutually exclusive. Just because you want it, and it's easy to utter, doesn't make it practical or desirable.
Your post falls into the same category as those described by Schernau's Law (any use of the word " 'puter " automatically invalidates your post). Its Athlon. Not Athalon. Not Althalon. Not Athelon.
And "signing" your post with a real human name doesn't give it any more credibility.
Technology is the new 'muscle car' of our culture. Back in the day, if you couldn't talk carburetors and rear-end differentials, you weren't cool, you were the loser, you never got laid, etc. Since the Internet boom, it's become cool, a sign of 'being with the times', of not being a dinosaur, if you "know computers". Aging PHBs fear the new breed of young PHBs who at least speak the lingo (and some might actually know what they're doing).
Thus, exposing a PHB's ignorance of a new technology is the easiest way to get on his bad side. The Emperor Has No Clothes. During a huge staff meeting, our bald PHB kept mentioning "Sesus Linux" and how "SCO stole code from Sesus and gave it to IBM", citing these as reasons to avoid putting Linux on our mainframe.
Linux, because it tends to attract the bearded longhair crowd, is even MORE repellent to the aging PHB, someone who grew up with the notion that if you wear a white shirt and went to a good school, then you'd always have a job.
Mod me offtopic, but I for one, welcome a review from someone other than OSNews. Why? Because I want a review containing real information, not gripes about screen antialiasing, the (in)ability to compile packages, and GRUB vs. LILO flamewars.
Hardly. Racism discriminates between people with inherent physical characteristics, which obviously cannot be changed. Drawing a distinction between people with different philosophical systems is entirely appropriate, given that one's choice of philosophy is a conscious one. Failing to make the choice is the same thing. If one chooses a destructive philosophy (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Hussein), then one should be censured appropriately.
That's because you live in a socialist state, where the citizenry is property of the state, not the other way 'round. Sorry.
Any place that talks about 'social solidarity' begs the question "against what?". It's like to old adage about poker games - if you look around the table and don't know who the patsy is, that's because it's you.
Yeah, yeah, -1, Eurotroll, -1, US-Centric, but how about +1, The Fscking Truth?
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Let the KDE/GNOME trolls commence!
And RMS will be muttering: "those fools, those fools, if only they understood what the GPL was about".
He mutters that constantly anyway, you insensitive clod!
Either this is a subtle variant of the classic "performance" *BSD troll, or your laptop has crap hardware (think: cheesy no-DMA nic and/or slow HD). I've never seen a box go unresponsive due to a combination of HD and net access, running Win3.11, 95, Linux, Solaris, AIX or HPUX.
That you are a US-hating, Euro-loving loser.
Mirror early, mirror often!
Dude, the US is not the only country in the world. Want to bash countries for consuming natural resources? How about Indonesia, who has generated 40% of the world's CO2 since 1990 by burning off their natural forests.
Isn't it great, where the State can mandate the advance of technology? This reminds me of that Simpon's quote "Young lady, in this house we obey the 2nd law of Thermodynamics!"
Who's to say that these energy mandates are even achievable, or desirable? Since they won't be affordable, all this does is create a new class of subsidized business, and executives to run the businesses, and higher taxes on (in the case of Scotland) an already under-performing economy.
This was in the Freshmeat slashbox yesterday. wtf?
The web in some high speed paper mills moves at 8000 fpm, or about 90 mph. It's a 400 inch wide piece of nylon webbing, on top of which a warm slurry of .5% paper is sprayed at high pressure. It goes over rollers and dewatering points, where the water is sucked out of it by vacuum. Some of the rollers are small, so they have higher RPMs. At the other end of the machine, there are huge heated drums spinning at a faster rate (to pull the paper out). All of this is accompanied by pump noise, air compression noise, and vibration. It is so loud that earplugs are mandatory, and your chest hurts from merely being in the plant.
But I know exactly what its doing, so its not "out of control".
Sorry, you've violated Schernau's 2nd Law - anyone who signs a slashdot post with a real name to provide credibility automatically loses it.
You must be new here.
So now we have to depend on the processor in a $79 piece of asiaware to correctly detect and 'bleep' or otherwise censor dirty words? Please. This reminds me of the so-called "web censoring software" that looked for images with sufficient pixels in the color range of human flesh, and 'decided' that it was pr0n. It had a false positive rate = false negative rate.
Here's a suggestion to all you Concerned Parents: Stop foisting the responsibility of raising your children onto other people. Watch TV with your kids. Know what they watch. Heck, buy them books instead.
I love how everyone is pre-emptively trolling the PC users, who are supposed to troll about Mac viruses, yet no PC users are saying this. Why are Mac people so fervent and testy about this sort of thing?
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Go to running store or good sports store
Buy shoes
Place shoes on feet
Run, during run observe surroundings, smile at people, collect your thoughts for the day, enjoy self
C'mon guys, give your brain a rest from the constant barrage of electronika, no wonder so many kids have so-called ADD.
You insensitive clod! Or is it GNU/ESR?
I have one, its called a stereo. Really, for the 99.99% of the population that doesn't read Slashdot, who is going to actually do this? Nobody in the iPod generation for sure.
Again, people are accepting the C|Net, Cringely, Dvorak and MS premises of the argument for or against Linux - the OS is utterly independent of the GUI. That is true everywhere. Just because you come from an environment where they're melted together doesn't make that a reality. I can run any number of GUIs on a Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, *BSD, etc. system, depending on what I need and want.
Linux does not have to be a desktop OS, Windows does.
"We should be using wind power"
"We need more regulation to fix this"
"We're all dependant on each other"
"I am my brother's keeper"
"It was Bush's fault"
"It was Cheney's fault"
"I love my bicycle, I hear they use lots of them in France"
"I hate technology, I was glad"
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Dude, you're lacking in the "how an OS actually fscking works" department. Also in the "I think KDE = Linux" department. The OS has nothing to do with the applications on it. Don't like it? Sorry, stick to Windows. There's no necessary link between applications and the OS. Consequently, there's no DLL hell, where if you upgrade IE, your other applications die because you hosed some internal HTML rendering library. If your OS (including kernel, system binaries, and libraries) doesn't have the functionality an app requires, YOU NEED TO MAKE THE CHOICE to install it. The app isn't going to do it for you.
Drivers are a completely different beast. Try and use a precompiled driver module on a kernel w/o support for it, or the wrong kernel version, and it dies. How many pre 2000/XP Windows installations got hosed by bad or subtly incompatible drivers?
Linux ain't Windows, nor will it ever be. There are specific design and architecture requirements of each, and they're mutually exclusive. Just because you want it, and it's easy to utter, doesn't make it practical or desirable.
Your post falls into the same category as those described by Schernau's Law (any use of the word " 'puter " automatically invalidates your post). Its Athlon. Not Athalon. Not Althalon. Not Athelon.
And "signing" your post with a real human name doesn't give it any more credibility.
Technology is the new 'muscle car' of our culture. Back in the day, if you couldn't talk carburetors and rear-end differentials, you weren't cool, you were the loser, you never got laid, etc. Since the Internet boom, it's become cool, a sign of 'being with the times', of not being a dinosaur, if you "know computers". Aging PHBs fear the new breed of young PHBs who at least speak the lingo (and some might actually know what they're doing).
Thus, exposing a PHB's ignorance of a new technology is the easiest way to get on his bad side. The Emperor Has No Clothes.
During a huge staff meeting, our bald PHB kept mentioning "Sesus Linux" and how "SCO stole code from Sesus and gave it to IBM", citing these as reasons to avoid putting Linux on our mainframe.
Linux, because it tends to attract the bearded longhair crowd, is even MORE repellent to the aging PHB, someone who grew up with the notion that if you wear a white shirt and went to a good school, then you'd always have a job.
Mod me offtopic, but I for one, welcome a review from someone other than OSNews. Why? Because I want a review containing real information, not gripes about screen antialiasing, the (in)ability to compile packages, and GRUB vs. LILO flamewars.
Hardly. Racism discriminates between people with inherent physical characteristics, which obviously cannot be changed. Drawing a distinction between people with different philosophical systems is entirely appropriate, given that one's choice of philosophy is a conscious one. Failing to make the choice is the same thing. If one chooses a destructive philosophy (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Hussein), then one should be censured appropriately.
That's because you live in a socialist state, where the citizenry is property of the state, not the other way 'round. Sorry.
Any place that talks about 'social solidarity' begs the question "against what?". It's like to old adage about poker games - if you look around the table and don't know who the patsy is, that's because it's you.
Yeah, yeah, -1, Eurotroll, -1, US-Centric, but how about +1, The Fscking Truth?
Sucks to be you, living in a socialist country and all. I knew there was a reason you were in my foe list.