I wonder if any of the "powers to be" have considred the possibility that organizing the national power grid into a set of isolated regional grids would be more fault tolerant.
In the IT server world, multiple servers (redundancy) is the key to uninterruptable service. Would it not stand to reason that we would want something so critical to our nation's welfare as our electricity to have a bit of redundant fault tolerance?
I suppose the paranoid, untrusting, conspiracy theorist in me would have something to say about this too...
I consider myself to be somewhat computer literate. I've been building and servicing PCs for 6 years, and seen what wintel has to offer. I've also worked as a systems administrator (*NIX systems).
I bought my first mac about 6 months ago. I chose mac vs. pc due to the higher quality hardware, the tighter integration of the OS, and the feature set (try to find a good small, leight-weight wintel laptop with internal DVD and 802.11b that doesn't burn the batteries in 1.5 hours). I'm also a big fan of OS X. I'm sold on the integration between UNIX and a good GUI. Yes, there are a bugs and annoyances, but overall, I'm happier with my mac than I have ever been with a PC. My main argument is this: You get what you pay for. I chose to pay more for my mac because I expect more from a computer system than wintel can provide.
Sure, you do see a nice PC once in a while, but for the most part, they are klunky, thrown-together (read: no top-level design), and let's not forget to factor in the chineese discount (read: cheap quality) hardware. (No offense to chineese hardware manufacturers! Please, keep making $7 10/100 NICs!) A wintel box will provide a big bang for your buck, but unless you're a power user, you'll never see the difference--or care for that matter.
Why choose the bare minimum in satisfaction? Isn't it better to be pleased/happy with a purchace, rather than just satisfied?
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I wonder if any of the "powers to be" have considred the possibility that organizing the national power grid into a set of isolated regional grids would be more fault tolerant.
In the IT server world, multiple servers (redundancy) is the key to uninterruptable service. Would it not stand to reason that we would want something so critical to our nation's welfare as our electricity to have a bit of redundant fault tolerance?
I suppose the paranoid, untrusting, conspiracy theorist in me would have something to say about this too...
of jumping into the Mac vs. PC war...
I consider myself to be somewhat computer literate. I've been building and servicing PCs for 6 years, and seen what wintel has to offer. I've also worked as a systems administrator (*NIX systems).
I bought my first mac about 6 months ago. I chose mac vs. pc due to the higher quality hardware, the tighter integration of the OS, and the feature set (try to find a good small, leight-weight wintel laptop with internal DVD and 802.11b that doesn't burn the batteries in 1.5 hours). I'm also a big fan of OS X. I'm sold on the integration between UNIX and a good GUI. Yes, there are a bugs and annoyances, but overall, I'm happier with my mac than I have ever been with a PC. My main argument is this: You get what you pay for. I chose to pay more for my mac because I expect more from a computer system than wintel can provide.
Sure, you do see a nice PC once in a while, but for the most part, they are klunky, thrown-together (read: no top-level design), and let's not forget to factor in the chineese discount (read: cheap quality) hardware. (No offense to chineese hardware manufacturers! Please, keep making $7 10/100 NICs!) A wintel box will provide a big bang for your buck, but unless you're a power user, you'll never see the difference--or care for that matter.
Why choose the bare minimum in satisfaction? Isn't it better to be pleased/happy with a purchace, rather than just satisfied?
That's my $0.02 anyway.