Some might not call them classics, (I beg to differ) but the Mazda RX-7 is the car I have a passion for. I got my first one 4 years ago, and purchased another one last fall, and fixed it up, gave it a new life.
THe Rotary engine is a marvle of simplicity and efficency of design (not fuel, gas guzler..) means out of 1.3 Leters, you can get 280 HP. (Current Design, older designs can get 180HP)
Sadly they don't import the RX-7 anymore to the US, but there is hope, read Rotary News for more info.
The Rotary is not dead!! The new Renesis is a 1.3 Leter, 280 HP, no turbo engine. Mazda just doesn't import it into this country because everyone here wants those damn SUV's, not high-tech sports cars. Take a look at Rotary News
The rotary has 3 moving parts, no valves, rods, pistons, rings, cams, and whatever the other 250+ parts that move in that ancient design of a piston.
The article goes into little detail about the archetecture, other than saying it has 1024 bytes, or 1k of RAM. How much was it a tube computer, electronic switching computer or what else?
If it was a tube computer, could you imagine the heat of 40 meters square of tubes and switches would generate! I though my area was warm with 2 21" and 2 17" tubes a-blazing!
I saw you guys at the Andover/Slashdot booth at Comdex... I know you were there, where's the Comdex report? slackers! Or are you telling me that with the hundred quintillion PC's, Laptop's and whatever else at comdex, you could not find one machine to record sound for a 10-15 minute report. hum... you even had a link to the net from the booth.
An interesting thing I got out of his keynote, was the fact that the Linux Kernel will scale both UP and DOWN. . . Will other OS's do this? I guess I had never seen it from that point of view. Wouldn't you want to develop on your desktop, deploy to either clusters or handhelds? The fact that Linux will scale like this, is reason enough for me to develop for the OS. Personal note, when Linus mentioned Mozilla, I was the one who started the "smattering of applause" in the audience...
I had a long talk with my boss, Brad Hilton (Manager Systems Development for Hilton Hotels Corp) last week when the news broke about "Hilton in space". While he and I would love to have hotels in space, that we would have to install servers in ourselves, he also stated that the technology to keep people safe is not there, yet. The liability of having something go wrong is just too big of a risk right now. If we were to much of a rush to go into space industry, after the first accident, the industry would be dead for 5-10 years after, as better safety measures are engineered. The idea is not a new one, by a long shot. Brad's uncle, Barron Hilton gave this address in 1967, and if you watch 2001, you will see the space station in the beginning sporting the Hilton logo. Brad perdicts that there will be a Hilton in space, some day... by 2100 maybe, but when the exact date it opens depends on technology advances, funding, and demand by the public. If it costs $1,000,000 a night plus "air fare", only the richest of the rich will be able to go. It is not on the radar screen right now, but the idea is out there, right now Hilton is too busy trying to combine the hotel systems of acquired company Promus and ours
If you want to go to comdex, first you have to register at Comdex's Website and use the priority code: LINUX (Cool, eh?!) This code will get you into "the exhibits, keynotes, and Millenium Perspectives; the SuperSession; and Sm@rt Solutions." for free... Still $595 for the Linux Business Solutions Expo, but, on Monday, Nov. 15, 6:30pm, Linus Torvalds is giving his keynote...
Warning, if you don't already have a hotel to stay, be forwarned, the prices around town skyrocket when comdex is in town. Get a hotel room off the strip, like at a Station Hotel/Casio, or a Boyd Hotel/Casino Good L
According to this article at CNN, Scientists think they have liquid seas on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Not below ice like Europa, but above the surface. They hypothesize that the liquid are hydrocarbons. This was also released 2 years ago (April 9, 1997)
Uh, read this (DARPA,U.S. Air Force,General Electric,NASA, CALTRANS, U.S. Navy,...)
I would bet a simpler personal air buggy will start working long before a more complex one
I'd rather have a body around me... The same reason I drive a sports car instead of a motorcycle. Not saying that motorcycles are unsafe, but I feel safer in my RX-7.
Moller International of Davis California has a full blown Skycar It uses 8 Wankel Rotary Engines(? ) (ala Mazda RX-7) the M400 gets 15 MPG (like the RX-7 too) and top speed of 390 mph (uh, not like the RX-7). The M150 gets 45 MPG and a top speed of 375 MPH. Cnet did a write-up of it a few weeks ago (that I sent into/. but was never posted), and can be found on the Rotary News site
So the company that makes the Super Slim VAIO is investing in the TiVo. It would be very cool to have the TiVo as slim as the VAIO. Will this technology and entertailment exchange with TiVo Sony's Computing Division to give us the VaTiVio?
Wasn't Sir Alec Guinness the only star in the original trilogy to be paid with the profits from the movies? If I were Sir Alec I would just be happy with the continuing revenue.
Re:Application Stability: Linux vs NT
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No, you don't get it. My Mom, (we'll, change this to my Dad, as my Mom is not a computer user at all) does not know the difference between OS, Hardware, software, whatever, However, he does know that Windows (NT) crashes... That is bad. He also knows that when his Netscape Messenger (in Linux) crashes, he starts it back up. it works fine. The same in NT? No. Many a time after an application crashes in NT, shotty memory de-allocation makes the program un-runnable without a reboot. It is simply a design flaw in the OS. Bad memory handling.
Sure, it doesn't take down the OS and require a reboot like Windows95, but they still lose their work!
True, true, but if an application takes the OS down, corrupts the file system, and destroys ALL the work, not just one file, then the OS failed the job. And we are not comparing Linux to 95, we are comparing it to NT. 9X to Linux would be like comparing a 91 Ford Escort to a 99 Mazda RX-7.
It seems obvious that you had a bad crash of an application or two with Linux. Thus, your claim that all the OS and applications are crap is not valid. Have you spent any time on Linux in recent months/years? I have. My "Swear at the screen" factor has gone down by 10 fold. Then, back on an NT box for a project. same old fist shaking... waiting for things to finish up and get done, so I can do something else... applications crashing, unable to come back up without a reboot. Linux's memory handling and multitasking is superior, i can do many things at the same time. No stupid hour glasses in my way, and no OS Crashes that take away everything I was working on. If an application dies, I just start it back up without the worry of it not working properly.
Let's consider a reductio ad absurdum to prove my argument: What if every Linux user application crashed after running for 1 minute.
Ok, then lets look at the case of the operating system crashing ever minute, or even every 3 hours (about average around here). What then? wait 3-5 (more like 5-10) minutes for the OS to come back up. Loss in productivity. If a user application were to die every minute, there would be a need for a new application. This is exacly why Linux is gaining popularity. NT Crashes, a solution was needed, Linux/UNIX is it (and has been, people just were swoon by MS Marketing, they are getting over it now.)
Besides, the developers of the apps would be under pressure to write better code. The open source community could pitch in, and send in bug fixes. If this were a commercial product, it would simply not exist. No developer in their right mind would release it, even for NT.
KDE is stable, but not "rock solid" GNOME stability is a fantasy.
Now agian, let us consider the windows case: An unstable shell so tightly integrated with the kernel that a simple web browser crash can cause a BSOD. The industry accepts this as the norm, and begin to live with it. If KDE crashes... um.. I don't know! I have never had it crash... It would probably leave the other applications alone, with out and "chrome" around them. You could either logout, and back in again, or just restart the WM.
XFree86 has a habit of tanking on some chipsets or sucking up mega amounts of memory over a long period of time.
Please provide some examples. I don't think you can. You know what this is called? FUD. Pure and Simple. This Trio3d runs faster under XF86 than NT.
WordPerfect and Netscape are both very risky programs on Linux., etc,etc
Word is even more of a risk. Why do you hear of Word viri? Internet Explorer? Please! a crash a minute kludge built upon a program from 1991 (Mosaic). While the same can be said about Netscape, this is not the case with Mozilla (NS5). Do you think the Utah police would want the Melissa virus to send porn sites to everybody in their address book? Why do you not hear about such things happening to Linux boxen/users? Because MS is the one that takes short cuts in code, more concerned with presentation than functionality, security or stability. I could give more examples from the past 10 years, but that would be getting too off topic.
Linux zealots like to champion the stability of Linux vs NT at the OS level (I dispute that NT crashes as much as claimed. Given my heavily used NT4sp5 box that's been up non-stop since february) But the sorry state of many Linux apps is, ahem, overlooked.
Um.. Non-stop? meaning no reboots? with Service Pack 5? Funny, I though SP5 came out in May. I have a 2.0.35 box that hasn't been rebooted since June 1998. While it is true you need to reboot it install a new kernel, that's just about it.
Ok, here is my FUD Buster short list:
Star Office
Gimp
Pine
Vi
Elm
Povray
xv
gv
Now lets talk about some of the NT Server products: Exchange. When congress got flooded with 100,000 emails, the exchange servers died, mail was lost. IIS? Take a look at the 2000 beta crack sight. MS claims all that down time was due to "analysis." Spin Doctors. File and print services? ZDnet's Benchmark shows samba is faster at NT's own game.
Now, if the services Linux provides are that rock solid, why is it so hard for you to beleive the user applications are not too? Or at the least, more so than NT's. it is just an accepted fact the NT needs a swift kick and more administration than UNIX boxen. The same goes for Desktop boxen too. Applications will get better in stability, all around.
Re:What's the uptime of WordPerfect and Afterstep?
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You guys are making such big deal out of someone using Linux as a desktop to TELNET (3270) into an HP box, and to write reports on Word Perfect? It's not like Linux is hooked up to the PBX and is routing calls or controlling tapes. It's not doing anything important that a NT box running CRT couldn't do.
The default telnet on NT crashes often. Period. While it is possible to go out and pay for a telnet client? Why? When the one on Linux does not crash and is free.
Moreover, what's even more important than OS stability is application stability
Exactly.
It's all well and good that Linux doesn't crash, but if AfterStep, GNOME, or X crashes while they are taking a report, it would be JUST AS BAD!
Time to reboot NT: 3-5 Minutes, time to log back in: 30 seconds. Hum.. NT Box here, explo(d)er has crashed 3 times today (it is only noon!) KDE on the box next to me has been up... lets see, oh 28 days... With Seti@home client, Netscape, Xosview, xterm(s),and gimp all running for about that time too. Word... Access... Excel all go haywire when exploder crashes... What about Linux? Memory protection, remember that?
I'm sick of the arguments for Linux stability when Linux apps themselves are so poor when it comes to stability. Say what you want about Word, but it won't crash nearly as much as WordPerfect on Linux. And NT's windowing system won't crash nearly as much as GNOME or AfterStep
NT Crashes more, for me. Exploder (like the name says) explodes. KDE has not for me since 0.9. I cannot talk for GNOME, but in terms of desktop stability, NT just does not have it...
You forget that the real tool is the application, not the operating system. It's nice to have a great foundation, but if you bedroom floor falls into the basement on a daily basis, your house should still be condemned.
So where is the line drawn? is explorer a port of the operating system, or a tool? if it crashes, and causes a BSOD, is it an application that failed, or the OS? Microsoft is innovating (read stuffing) so much stuff (read crap) into their OS, that one thing can take the entire thing down. Applications will crash, but if they take down the OS also, then there is a Real problem. If you weld your bed to the wall and floor, and it breaks, it will take the floor and wall down with it. That is why it is good to separate things out.
Exchange is just a plain pain. The senate uses it for, what, maybe 1000 users (Senators and support)... When they were flooded with email last year, the servers locked up totaly. Many messages for days on end were lost. A cluster of Linux boxen would be a bit overkill, but if you wanted to do it, it would be a far better solution than ANYTHING Micro$oft. If you need some white papers to convince your boss(es) go to: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/
Slashdot Mirror
- Access
- Excel
- Outlook
And the best one...Microsoft Works! (?)
Some might not call them classics, (I beg to differ) but the Mazda RX-7 is the car I have a passion for. I got my first one 4 years ago, and purchased another one last fall, and fixed it up, gave it a new life.
THe Rotary engine is a marvle of simplicity and efficency of design (not fuel, gas guzler..) means out of 1.3 Leters, you can get 280 HP. (Current Design, older designs can get 180HP)
Sadly they don't import the RX-7 anymore to the US, but there is hope, read Rotary News for more info.
The Rotary is not dead!! The new Renesis is a 1.3 Leter, 280 HP, no turbo engine. Mazda just doesn't import it into this country because everyone here wants those damn SUV's, not high-tech sports cars. Take a look at Rotary News
The rotary has 3 moving parts, no valves, rods, pistons, rings, cams, and whatever the other 250+ parts that move in that ancient design of a piston.
The article goes into little detail about the archetecture, other than saying it has 1024 bytes, or 1k of RAM. How much was it a tube computer, electronic switching computer or what else?
If it was a tube computer, could you imagine the heat of 40 meters square of tubes and switches would generate! I though my area was warm with 2 21" and 2 17" tubes a-blazing!
I saw you guys at the Andover/Slashdot booth at Comdex... I know you were there, where's the Comdex report? slackers! Or are you telling me that with the hundred quintillion PC's, Laptop's and whatever else at comdex, you could not find one machine to record sound for a 10-15 minute report. hum... you even had a link to the net from the booth.
An interesting thing I got out of his keynote, was the fact that the Linux Kernel will scale both UP and DOWN. . . Will other OS's do this? I guess I had never seen it from that point of view. Wouldn't you want to develop on your desktop, deploy to either clusters or handhelds? The fact that Linux will scale like this, is reason enough for me to develop for the OS. Personal note, when Linus mentioned Mozilla, I was the one who started the "smattering of applause" in the audience...
I had a long talk with my boss, Brad Hilton (Manager Systems Development for Hilton Hotels Corp) last week when the news broke about "Hilton in space". While he and I would love to have hotels in space, that we would have to install servers in ourselves, he also stated that the technology to keep people safe is not there, yet. The liability of having something go wrong is just too big of a risk right now. If we were to much of a rush to go into space industry, after the first accident, the industry would be dead for 5-10 years after, as better safety measures are engineered.
The idea is not a new one, by a long shot. Brad's uncle, Barron Hilton gave this address in 1967, and if you watch 2001, you will see the space station in the beginning sporting the Hilton logo.
Brad perdicts that there will be a Hilton in space, some day... by 2100 maybe, but when the exact date it opens depends on technology advances, funding, and demand by the public. If it costs $1,000,000 a night plus "air fare", only the richest of the rich will be able to go.
It is not on the radar screen right now, but the idea is out there, right now Hilton is too busy trying to combine the hotel systems of acquired company Promus and ours
If you want to go to comdex, first you have to register at Comdex's Website and use the priority code: LINUX (Cool, eh?!) This code will get you into "the exhibits, keynotes, and Millenium Perspectives; the SuperSession; and Sm@rt Solutions." for free... Still $595 for the Linux Business Solutions Expo, but, on Monday, Nov. 15, 6:30pm, Linus Torvalds is giving his keynote...
Warning, if you don't already have a hotel to stay, be forwarned, the prices around town skyrocket when comdex is in town. Get a hotel room off the strip, like at a Station Hotel/Casio, or a Boyd Hotel/Casino Good L
According to this article at CNN, Scientists think they have liquid seas on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Not below ice like Europa, but above the surface. They hypothesize that the liquid are hydrocarbons.
This was also released 2 years ago (April 9, 1997)
I'd rather have a body around me... The same reason I drive a sports car instead of a motorcycle. Not saying that motorcycles are unsafe, but I feel safer in my RX-7. Uh, ok.
Moller International of Davis California has a full blown Skycar It uses 8 Wankel Rotary Engines(? ) (ala Mazda RX-7) the M400 gets 15 MPG (like the RX-7 too) and top speed of 390 mph (uh, not like the RX-7). The M150 gets 45 MPG and a top speed of 375 MPH. Cnet did a write-up of it a few weeks ago (that I sent into /. but was never posted), and can be found on the Rotary News site
So the company that makes the Super Slim VAIO is investing in the TiVo. It would be very cool to have the TiVo as slim as the VAIO. Will this technology and entertailment exchange with TiVo Sony's Computing Division to give us the VaTiVio?
Wasn't Sir Alec Guinness the only star in the original trilogy to be paid with the profits from the movies?
If I were Sir Alec I would just be happy with the continuing revenue.
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My Mom, (we'll, change this to my Dad, as my Mom is not a computer user at all) does not know the difference between OS, Hardware, software, whatever, However, he does know that Windows (NT) crashes... That is bad. He also knows that when his Netscape Messenger (in Linux) crashes, he starts it back up. it works fine. The same in NT? No. Many a time after an application crashes in NT, shotty memory de-allocation makes the program un-runnable without a reboot. It is simply a design flaw in the OS. Bad memory handling.
True, true, but if an application takes the OS down, corrupts the file system, and destroys ALL the work, not just one file, then the OS failed the job. And we are not comparing Linux to 95, we are comparing it to NT. 9X to Linux would be like comparing a 91 Ford Escort to a 99 Mazda RX-7.
It seems obvious that you had a bad crash of an application or two with Linux. Thus, your claim that all the OS and applications are crap is not valid. Have you spent any time on Linux in recent months/years? I have. My "Swear at the screen" factor has gone down by 10 fold. Then, back on an NT box for a project. same old fist shaking... waiting for things to finish up and get done, so I can do something else... applications crashing, unable to come back up without a reboot. Linux's memory handling and multitasking is superior, i can do many things at the same time. No stupid hour glasses in my way, and no OS Crashes that take away everything I was working on. If an application dies, I just start it back up without the worry of it not working properly. Ok, then lets look at the case of the operating system crashing ever minute, or even every 3 hours (about average around here). What then? wait 3-5 (more like 5-10) minutes for the OS to come back up. Loss in productivity. If a user application were to die every minute, there would be a need for a new application. This is exacly why Linux is gaining popularity. NT Crashes, a solution was needed, Linux/UNIX is it (and has been, people just were swoon by MS Marketing, they are getting over it now.)
Besides, the developers of the apps would be under pressure to write better code. The open source community could pitch in, and send in bug fixes. If this were a commercial product, it would simply not exist. No developer in their right mind would release it, even for NT.
Now agian, let us consider the windows case: An unstable shell so tightly integrated with the kernel that a simple web browser crash can cause a BSOD. The industry accepts this as the norm, and begin to live with it. If KDE crashes... um.. I don't know! I have never had it crash... It would probably leave the other applications alone, with out and "chrome" around them. You could either logout, and back in again, or just restart the WM. Please provide some examples. I don't think you can. You know what this is called? FUD. Pure and Simple. This Trio3d runs faster under XF86 than NT. Word is even more of a risk. Why do you hear of Word viri? Internet Explorer? Please! a crash a minute kludge built upon a program from 1991 (Mosaic). While the same can be said about Netscape, this is not the case with Mozilla (NS5). Do you think the Utah police would want the Melissa virus to send porn sites to everybody in their address book? Why do you not hear about such things happening to Linux boxen/users? Because MS is the one that takes short cuts in code, more concerned with presentation than functionality, security or stability. I could give more examples from the past 10 years, but that would be getting too off topic. Um.. Non-stop? meaning no reboots? with Service Pack 5? Funny, I though SP5 came out in May. I have a 2.0.35 box that hasn't been rebooted since June 1998. While it is true you need to reboot it install a new kernel, that's just about it.
Ok, here is my FUD Buster short list:
- Star Office
- Gimp
- Pine
- Vi
- Elm
- Povray
- xv
- gv
Now lets talk about some of the NT Server products: Exchange. When congress got flooded with 100,000 emails, the exchange servers died, mail was lost. IIS? Take a look at the 2000 beta crack sight. MS claims all that down time was due to "analysis." Spin Doctors. File and print services? ZDnet's Benchmark shows samba is faster at NT's own game.Now, if the services Linux provides are that rock solid, why is it so hard for you to beleive the user applications are not too? Or at the least, more so than NT's. it is just an accepted fact the NT needs a swift kick and more administration than UNIX boxen. The same goes for Desktop boxen too. Applications will get better in stability, all around.
The default telnet on NT crashes often. Period. While it is possible to go out and pay for a telnet client? Why? When the one on Linux does not crash and is free.
Exactly.
Time to reboot NT: 3-5 Minutes, time to log back in: 30 seconds.
Hum.. NT Box here, explo(d)er has crashed 3 times today (it is only noon!) KDE on the box next to me has been up... lets see, oh 28 days... With Seti@home client, Netscape, Xosview, xterm(s),and gimp all running for about that time too.
Word... Access... Excel all go haywire when exploder crashes... What about Linux? Memory protection, remember that?
NT Crashes more, for me. Exploder (like the name says) explodes. KDE has not for me since 0.9. I cannot talk for GNOME, but in terms of desktop stability, NT just does not have it... So where is the line drawn? is explorer a port of the operating system, or a tool? if it crashes, and causes a BSOD, is it an application that failed, or the OS? Microsoft is innovating (read stuffing) so much stuff (read crap) into their OS, that one thing can take the entire thing down. Applications will crash, but if they take down the OS also, then there is a Real problem.
If you weld your bed to the wall and floor, and it breaks, it will take the floor and wall down with it. That is why it is good to separate things out.
Good Luck to the St. George, Utah PD.
Exchange is just a plain pain. The senate uses it for, what, maybe 1000 users (Senators and support)... When they were flooded with email last year, the servers locked up totaly. Many messages for days on end were lost. A cluster of Linux boxen would be a bit overkill, but if you wanted to do it, it would be a far better solution than ANYTHING Micro$oft.
If you need some white papers to convince your boss(es) go to: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/
Do you think that Microsoft will ever embrace Linux?
Well, they sponsored the page!