Is the max memory really 2GB ou it suports 4GBs (intel's latest mobile chipset is supposed to support it) ?
Is the processor and the mobo soldered or are upgradable ?
could you define "shortly" ? I have a Thinkpad with a fireGL T2 whose 3D is slower than my three and half year Toshiba Satellite with a Geforce 420 Go...
fact is : we 're talking about present and future not past... if you pretend to live under the shadow of you 're country past it is fine to me...
but remember: Portugal was onced an empire bigger thanthe US ever will be...
back to the main question... how the hell do you justify such a massive failure in the whole system ?...
this history comes from the country that was hit by the 9/11 events, comes from the country that loves so much copyrigth holders that some senators even think in *destroying* end-users PCs as a legitimate way of figthing copyrigths.
This history comes from the country taht even has now a Departement of Homeland Security whose job seems to collect as much data as possible about is own citizens to protect them from *terrorism*.
but, hey - the described events are *pure* terrorism from one side are pure negligency and irresponsabilty from another...
If there is still some sense of rigth or wrong in the US one thing must happen quickly...
get all those irresponssible people (both in the public and private sector) who simply didn Ât care fired imediately...
if nothing happens, well maybe this was a beta testing of some carnivore type technology that went wrong...
don Ât get me wrong on this : I trully love the US as a nation, but some people there should really get back to basic school just to learn a few things : the difference between black and white, the difference between rigth and wrong and above all get some common sense!
This kind of events were supposed to be only possible on Brecht tales or Orwellian stories not in a real nation, not in a real world...
fact is: opensource is changing the IT industry economics and IT providers should adapt or die...
as usual some people really don 't get it (not a big deal - dynossaurs got extint anyway) and will try all sorts of dirty tricks like this one...
I hope as an european netizen and taxpayer that EC watch bodies look very wel at this kind of tricks...
Other than that - lots of good publicity for OpenSource... (anyone in it 's sane mind really believes that OSS is inherently bad and insecure ? got tell that to NSA, NASA, ESA, IBM, the City of Munich or google...)
An European that belives inter-dependency and world cooperation are a desirable thing to pursue not a world where what matters most is ego (no matter from each side of the Atlantic)
US/Canada and broadly speaking Americas are a natural extension of Europe... Repolarizing thw world IMHO is not a good idea... this is a very *small* planet...
Have you ever heard about globalization ?
Republicans Plan a Hydrogen Economy�at our Expense
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On a sunny Saturday morning 30 years from now, you may decide to take your family for a ride to the country. You'll still be driving a car, and you may still get stuck in traffic. But that's OK, because the only thing you'll be breathing in is water vapor from the car in front of you.
Welcome to the seemingly benign "hydrogen economy" President Bush has touted over the past year. Pollution-free cars. Abundant fuel. A cleaner environment.
But there's one factor the president isn't talking much about: the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new nuclear power plants his administration imagines making all of that hydrogen.
The Bush administration and Senate Republicans want to give billions of taxpayer dollars to the nuclear industry to make high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), which--theoretically--can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside cheap modular reactors. Advocates of the plants say they wouldn't need the expensive protections required for traditional models.
This summer, the Senate is expected to vote on the Energy Policy Act of 2003, which includes funding for new HTGR plants and the construction of a pilot co-generation facility to be run by the U.S. Department of Energy in Idaho. The bill was sent to the full chamber by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last month.
Spokespeople for the committee and the DOE say the aim is to cut greenhouse emissions, since energy companies continue to use coal and natural gas in making hydrogen. But small, modular HTGR plants may do it more efficiently and cleanly, they said.
That all depends, of course, on how you define "cleanly." To extract hydrogen from water--to get the H out of the H2O--you first have to make steam. The modular nuclear plants would do that without polluting the air, but would also leave behind radioactive waste.
Scientists have not yet designed a nuclear facility whose safety and efficiency trumps that of gas or coal. One proposal, from MIT, has a nuclear reactor sitting under the same roof as a chemical plant bubbling with sulfuric acid and hydrogen iodide.
Each modular plant would produce as little as one-tenth of the energy of a single light-water reactor. And since by some estimates the United States would need the equivalent of 500 light-water reactors to produce enough hydrogen, it may take thousands of modular plants to get the same job done.
The nuke industry, not surprisingly, says it's interested in joining the hydrogen economy. Entergy, the second-largest nuclear energy producer in the U.S., hopes to break ground on its co-generation Freedom Reactor within five years.
But only the feds seem willing to pay for the research and development that would make the futuristic plants a reality. "We generate electricity," said a spokesperson for Exelon, the country's largest producer. "We're not heavily involved in funding research and development."
Taxpayers may soon be. The Senate's energy bill affords the DOE $1.1 billion to build an HTGR co-generation nuclear plant at its Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory within 10 years.
The bill also proposes to kick-start a nuke renaissance by subsidizing half the cost of six to 10 new HTGR power plants in the United States.
"We need to move toward clean-air energy sources that are more reliable than wind and solar," said Marnie Funk, a spokesperson for New Mexico Republican senator Pete Domenici, chair of the energy and resources committee.
Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, are emissions-free. But the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Many people also see wind turbines as an eyesore: Cape Codders are fighting plans for an offshore wind farm that would obstruct their views. "And then you've got the bird issue," said Funk. Wind turbines earned some notoriety by killing as many as 50 golden eagles along California's Altamont Pass during the 1990s.
Today, wind and solar proponents are appalled that
afaik NASA is one of the major investors and funders of private development not only in US but even in Europe...
There also European and even Portuguese firms subcontracting to them...
If ESA have some rellative sucess it is because they are the *exception* to the rule! They *usually* cooperate with both the US and the remains of the former USSR...
Regarding *competition* GPS is *free* and non-proprietary ; Will the *european* alternative be ?
Amazing...
so the Normande Battle didn 't happened, the Battle of Britain also didn 't happened, the thousands of US *volunteers* that figthed in Europe (mainly joining the RAF) before US formally entered in thye war were a collective ilusion and the Plan Marshal was an invention of some revisionist pro american historians...
Are you drunk or what ?
*technicaly* the US were neutral in the Iran-Iraq war...
they even had some *connections* with Iran (remember the Iran-Contra scandal?)
The single major arms supplier of weapons to IRAQ at the time, was, yes France...
multidimensional worlds...
parallel universes , trevelling *faster* than ligth (assuming average velocity and a non uniform density universe)
we 're already prepared... what is ipv6 for ?
What part of the war against Iraq did you miss?
The part where we lied about the al Qaeda links to Saddam Hussein?
The part where we got caught manufacturing phony evidence that Iraq was building nukes?
The part where we violated international law and waged war on an essentially defenseless nation, killing thousands of people in the process?
Or the part where it turns out that there were never and WMD's at all?
I didn 't miss the part where millions (yeah millions) of innocent iraqii civilians were mass murdered by a brutal dictator...
And if the US acted the way it acted, French and German diplomacy certainly didn 't help...
btw did you noted that *finnaly* we could have peace in the middle east ?
Grow and learn and write what you think but think before you write...
as an European taxpayer i find disgusting this continuing tendency of certain European Governments (always the same Gang : French, Germany and Belgium) of copycatting the US instead of cooperating for the global good...
This is not even competition, it is simply a continued waste of money...
Some European Politicians didn't understood yet what Alexis of Tocqueville (himself a French) found two hundred years ago and still think that Europe must, whatever it takes, be the Center of the Universe...
Imagine if they had learned to cooperate : we could already be on Mars or close...
but no, those Americans are the menace, and yet those Americans saved Democracy in Europe twice in the 20th Century !
by making mainland software a true - free - commodity Microsoft is only opening roads to Linux and other Open Source solutions...
The question that must be done is : why the heck are they giving these us for free when it used to cost big bucks, and why now ?
Either MS is dumping the market - illegal under all countries law - or have been abusing it dominant position and selling overpriced products until now...
Either way it is a loose-loose equation...
Quietly, with the Marketing machine from Microsoft helping the users and developers morale (even through SCO) to be higher and higher OSS solutions keep improving every day and even winning big time (see today's Munich 's Microsoft technical K.O.
Microsoft either adapts and change (as IBM did) or is condemned to a brutal dead...
We may even get to see the day when shareholders sue - via a class action suit - Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Palmer for have failed to react and adapt to the new open-source reality.
Even the Roman Empire have fallen and MS is thinking as the Titanic makers... and even it has sinked...
it is well known that Post Script as a language can do this sort of tricks... just not try this on a true printer, and if you try plz use recycled paper:-)
Online Terrorism and Cowardy ...
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Well, i don 't have a mandate from anyone to defend Daniel Robbins neither he needs either...
Anyone, knowing reasonably well Daniel, here it is what i think about the post above : it has so much hate and lack of objectivity that speaks itself about the author's character (signicantly an anonymous coward)...
Anyway two or three things must be said about gentoo and Daniel: like it or not Gentoo become the first breed of inovation in the Linux/Unixland in the last few years.
Gentoo is not a clone of any old liner *NIX or a clone ony other Linux distro...
It is the first distro to give absolute power and control to the user/admin in a workable way - period
Passed the install process (beeing worked - check gentoo.org) there aren't anything on earth that compares to gentoo from a management point of view , and yes performance is awesome...
The cheer size of the community, the foruns at foruns.gentoo.org, the activity of the #gentoo-* irc channels should speak for itself (and should have made the poster think twice)...
1.4 isn 't *officially* out ? so what, the migration process from the current release candidates is a mere emerge -u world... name any other distro that does this so well (and no, debian doesn 't even come close)
Off course that there are *growing pains*, off course that sometimes there are discussions and misunderstandigs, but, is there any place/communitty (of humans) where that doesn 't happen ?
Bashing Daniel the way that was done, spreading FUD, blatant lyes in the middle, is not only infinitely unfair but also amazingly stupid;
Daniel abdicated for an important period of time of basically having a life outside of gentoo to assemble not only a great distro but also a great and healthy community...
more: the above post is also an insult at all those that devote they 're times and minds to smoother gentoo...
disclaimer: I do not have any, even remote, connection with Gentoo Games (to whom i which all the luck of this world), and yes i 'm biased towards gentoo, i use it all day and put it at my costumers boxes (my only problem is not having more time to dedicate towards it (gentoo the distro) directly), beiing that very rational choice that doesn 't make me any less objective than anyone else in this world!
If the author have any sense left of decency, please come here, not anonymalously, and apologise... One thing are personal diferences, that all we have, another totally different is trying to put a whole community in the mud...
anyone tryed to get a comment from NVidia ?... from all the guys on earth doing reviews of the latest FXs only these ones found this... seems spooky to me... Let 's hope that at least ATI is not involved... FUD you know : also happens with Linux...
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Is the max memory really 2GB ou it suports 4GBs (intel's latest mobile chipset is supposed to support it) ? Is the processor and the mobo soldered or are upgradable ?
could you define "shortly" ? I have a Thinkpad with a fireGL T2 whose 3D is slower than my three and half year Toshiba Satellite with a Geforce 420 Go...
Well, well, there are too much fear about winfs... *but* i wonder if with the proper wrappers reiser4 could be a killer ...
fact is : we 're talking about present and future not past ... if you pretend to live under the shadow of you 're country past it is fine to me ...
but remember: Portugal was onced an empire bigger thanthe US ever will be ...
back to the main question ... how the hell do you justify such a massive failure in the whole system ? ...
this history comes from the country that was hit by the 9/11 events, comes from the country that loves so much copyrigth holders that some senators even think in *destroying* end-users PCs as a legitimate way of figthing copyrigths.
...
...
...
...
...
/. ...
This history comes from the country taht even has now a Departement of Homeland Security whose job seems to collect as much data as possible about is own citizens to protect them from *terrorism*.
but, hey - the described events are *pure* terrorism from one side are pure negligency and irresponsabilty from another
If there is still some sense of rigth or wrong in the US one thing must happen quickly
get all those irresponssible people (both in the public and private sector) who simply didn Ât care fired imediately
if nothing happens, well maybe this was a beta testing of some carnivore type technology that went wrong
don Ât get me wrong on this : I trully love the US as a nation, but some people there should really get back to basic school just to learn a few things : the difference between black and white, the difference between rigth and wrong and above all get some common sense!
This kind of events were supposed to be only possible on Brecht tales or Orwellian stories not in a real nation, not in a real world
thankfully we still have
Cheers from Portugal
see this as a trojan horse kind of move ...
...
*if* EFF wins this then the RIAA and studio arguments against *fair* use od DVD and other electronic material will fall down *very* quickly
fact is: opensource is changing the IT industry economics and IT providers should adapt or die ...
...
...
... (anyone in it 's sane mind really believes that OSS is inherently bad and insecure ? got tell that to NSA, NASA, ESA, IBM, the City of Munich or google ...)
as usual some people really don 't get it (not a big deal - dynossaurs got extint anyway) and will try all sorts of dirty tricks like this one
I hope as an european netizen and taxpayer that EC watch bodies look very wel at this kind of tricks
Other than that - lots of good publicity for OpenSource
Cheers from Portugal
correction :
... Repolarizing thw world IMHO is not a good idea ... this is a very *small* planet ...
An European that belives inter-dependency and world cooperation are a desirable thing to pursue not a world where what matters most is ego (no matter from each side of the Atlantic)
US/Canada and broadly speaking Americas are a natural extension of Europe
Have you ever heard about globalization ?
On a sunny Saturday morning 30 years from now, you may decide to take your family for a ride to the country. You'll still be driving a car, and you may still get stuck in traffic. But that's OK, because the only thing you'll be breathing in is water vapor from the car in front of you.
Welcome to the seemingly benign "hydrogen economy" President Bush has touted over the past year. Pollution-free cars. Abundant fuel. A cleaner environment.
But there's one factor the president isn't talking much about: the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new nuclear power plants his administration imagines making all of that hydrogen.
The Bush administration and Senate Republicans want to give billions of taxpayer dollars to the nuclear industry to make high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), which--theoretically--can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside cheap modular reactors. Advocates of the plants say they wouldn't need the expensive protections required for traditional models.
This summer, the Senate is expected to vote on the Energy Policy Act of 2003, which includes funding for new HTGR plants and the construction of a pilot co-generation facility to be run by the U.S. Department of Energy in Idaho. The bill was sent to the full chamber by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last month.
Spokespeople for the committee and the DOE say the aim is to cut greenhouse emissions, since energy companies continue to use coal and natural gas in making hydrogen. But small, modular HTGR plants may do it more efficiently and cleanly, they said.
That all depends, of course, on how you define "cleanly." To extract hydrogen from water--to get the H out of the H2O--you first have to make steam. The modular nuclear plants would do that without polluting the air, but would also leave behind radioactive waste.
Scientists have not yet designed a nuclear facility whose safety and efficiency trumps that of gas or coal. One proposal, from MIT, has a nuclear reactor sitting under the same roof as a chemical plant bubbling with sulfuric acid and hydrogen iodide.
Each modular plant would produce as little as one-tenth of the energy of a single light-water reactor. And since by some estimates the United States would need the equivalent of 500 light-water reactors to produce enough hydrogen, it may take thousands of modular plants to get the same job done.
The nuke industry, not surprisingly, says it's interested in joining the hydrogen economy. Entergy, the second-largest nuclear energy producer in the U.S., hopes to break ground on its co-generation Freedom Reactor within five years.
But only the feds seem willing to pay for the research and development that would make the futuristic plants a reality. "We generate electricity," said a spokesperson for Exelon, the country's largest producer. "We're not heavily involved in funding research and development."
Taxpayers may soon be. The Senate's energy bill affords the DOE $1.1 billion to build an HTGR co-generation nuclear plant at its Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory within 10 years.
The bill also proposes to kick-start a nuke renaissance by subsidizing half the cost of six to 10 new HTGR power plants in the United States.
"We need to move toward clean-air energy sources that are more reliable than wind and solar," said Marnie Funk, a spokesperson for New Mexico Republican senator Pete Domenici, chair of the energy and resources committee.
Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, are emissions-free. But the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Many people also see wind turbines as an eyesore: Cape Codders are fighting plans for an offshore wind farm that would obstruct their views. "And then you've got the bird issue," said Funk. Wind turbines earned some notoriety by killing as many as 50 golden eagles along California's Altamont Pass during the 1990s.
Today, wind and solar proponents are appalled that
afaik NASA is one of the major investors and funders of private development not only in US but even in Europe ...
...
...
There also European and even Portuguese firms subcontracting to them
If ESA have some rellative sucess it is because they are the *exception* to the rule! They *usually* cooperate with both the US and the remains of the former USSR
Regarding *competition* GPS is *free* and non-proprietary ; Will the *european* alternative be ?
does this mean anything to you ?...
..
go back to school and leran something before coming here with radical leftish propaganda
Amazing... so the Normande Battle didn 't happened, the Battle of Britain also didn 't happened, the thousands of US *volunteers* that figthed in Europe (mainly joining the RAF) before US formally entered in thye war were a collective ilusion and the Plan Marshal was an invention of some revisionist pro american historians ...
Are you drunk or what ?
get real, did they have a choice ?
i must admit that the Portuguese education system is not that great ...
...
...
if the poster hadn 't be asleep at the history classes he would know that Portugal (and, yes, also Spain) always had an *Atlantic tradition*
Regarding the rest of the post - it is an unfortunate sign of the times
*technicaly* the US were neutral in the Iran-Iraq war ...
they even had some *connections* with Iran (remember the Iran-Contra scandal?)
The single major arms supplier of weapons to IRAQ at the time, was, yes France ...
Historical revisionism at its best ...
...
Russia ?!
Did you ever heard of the German-Soviet Pact ?
*technically* WWII only finished with the end of the Berlin Wall and yes, those US nukes mantained peace in Europe until then
multidimensional worlds ...
parallel universes , trevelling *faster* than ligth (assuming average velocity and a non uniform density universe)
we 're already prepared ... what is ipv6 for ?
I didn 't miss the part where millions (yeah millions) of innocent iraqii civilians were mass murdered by a brutal dictator
And if the US acted the way it acted, French and German diplomacy certainly didn 't help
btw did you noted that *finnaly* we could have peace in the middle east ?
Grow and learn and write what you think but think before you write
as an European taxpayer i find disgusting this continuing tendency of certain European Governments (always the same Gang : French, Germany and Belgium) of copycatting the US instead of cooperating for the global good...
...
...
...
...
This is not even competition, it is simply a continued waste of money
Some European Politicians didn't understood yet what Alexis of Tocqueville (himself a French) found two hundred years ago and still think that Europe must, whatever it takes, be the Center of the Universe
Imagine if they had learned to cooperate : we could already be on Mars or close
but no, those Americans are the menace, and yet those Americans saved Democracy in Europe twice in the 20th Century !
Cheers from Portugal, Europe
by making mainland software a true - free - commodity Microsoft is only opening roads to Linux and other Open Source solutions ...
...
...
...
... and even it has sinked ...
The question that must be done is : why the heck are they giving these us for free when it used to cost big bucks, and why now ?
Either MS is dumping the market - illegal under all countries law - or have been abusing it dominant position and selling overpriced products until now
Either way it is a loose-loose equation
Quietly, with the Marketing machine from Microsoft helping the users and developers morale (even through SCO) to be higher and higher OSS solutions keep improving every day and even winning big time (see today's Munich 's Microsoft technical K.O.
Microsoft either adapts and change (as IBM did) or is condemned to a brutal dead
We may even get to see the day when shareholders sue - via a class action suit - Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Palmer for have failed to react and adapt to the new open-source reality.
Even the Roman Empire have fallen and MS is thinking as the Titanic
makers
Cheers from Portugal
it is well known that Post Script as a language can do this sort of tricks ... just not try this on a true printer, and if you try plz use recycled paper :-)
Anyone, knowing reasonably well Daniel, here it is what i think about the post above : it has so much hate and lack of objectivity that speaks itself about the author's character (signicantly an anonymous coward)
Anyway two or three things must be said about gentoo and Daniel: like it or not Gentoo become the first breed of inovation in the Linux/Unixland in the last few years.
Gentoo is not a clone of any old liner *NIX or a clone ony other Linux distro ...
It is the first distro to give absolute power and control to the user/admin in a workable way - period
Passed the install process (beeing worked - check gentoo.org) there aren't anything on earth that compares to gentoo from a management point of view , and yes performance is awesome...
The cheer size of the community, the foruns at foruns.gentoo.org, the activity of the #gentoo-* irc channels should speak for itself (and should have made the poster think twice)...
1.4 isn 't *officially* out ? so what, the migration process from the current release candidates is a mere emerge -u world
Off course that there are *growing pains*, off course that sometimes there are discussions and misunderstandigs, but, is there any place/communitty (of humans) where that doesn 't happen ?
Bashing Daniel the way that was done, spreading FUD, blatant lyes in the middle, is not only infinitely unfair but also amazingly stupid
Daniel abdicated for an important period of time of basically having a life outside of gentoo to assemble not only a great distro but also a great and healthy community...
more: the above post is also an insult at all those that devote they 're times and minds to smoother gentoo
disclaimer: I do not have any, even remote, connection with Gentoo Games (to whom i which all the luck of this world), and yes i 'm biased towards gentoo, i use it all day and put it at my costumers boxes (my only problem is not having more time to dedicate towards it (gentoo the distro) directly), beiing that very rational choice that doesn 't make me any less objective than anyone else in this world!
If the author have any sense left of decency, please come here, not anonymalously, and apologise... One thing are personal diferences, that all we have, another totally different is trying to put a whole community in the mud
just my 2
Cheers from Portugal
anyone tryed to get a comment from NVidia ? ... from all the guys on earth doing reviews of the latest FXs only these ones found this ... seems spooky to me ... Let 's hope that at least ATI is not involved ... FUD you know : also happens with Linux ...
ah! and doesn 't run embeded Linux ...
... don 't have integrated bar, "sombrero", sattelite connection, etc ... in short a waste of money :-)