The entire article was riddled with errors. The training of navy nuclear personal was and is top notch. This was in 1979 I don't thin chemical plants had level of automation that the article claims. Mainframes where about as powerful as a $300 PC. The first military fly by wire aircraft the F-16 was just entering service. The shuttle still had not made it's first flight.
Let's not forget that TMI was built in 1968 so it was designed in the 60s. It was mostly 1960s tech. Yes it was a terrible design. Today we would could do much better. Too bad we have not built any plants in more than 20 years.
I have one in mine. Doesn't bother me. Beats a coal plant anyday and I like having electricity. How about this. If you live within say 10 miles of a nuclear plant you get power for half price? I bet people wouldn't complain so much then.
Well that and there is a lot of money to be made in stopping it. Coal companies hate it. And hundreds or thousands of "activists" had made a good living protesting it.
They do and I doubt that it makes much money. A lot of FOSS projects probably make more from the Google ads on their page than from the tip jar. Also donations are not the same as being a customer. At least to my way of thinking.
Kind of scary if you ask me. It sounds like you are trying to use simulation to reduce the margin of error you build into a structure. While that can be a good thing it isn't always. It puts a lot higher demand on quality control at the building site which is often outside the control of the engineer. Kind of reminds of some really nice homebuild aircraft in the 80s. They used very low drag laminar flow airfoils. They where very fast and worked well. Soon some where falling out of the sky on take off. They where flying from grass fields. If the grass was freshly cut and happened to stick on the leading edge of the wing that nice airfoil became a nightmare. It was soon found that even bugs could trip the airflow from laminar to none laminar. It was something that the computer simulations and even the wind tunnel tests didn't notice. After all who puts dead bugs on their pretty model.
That will depend on the server. Encryption could benifit from a Larrabee like System as could things like software RAIDs. With extra cpu power available software RAIDs and advanced file system like ZFS could replace hardware RAIDs everywhere.
I know I shouldn't bother but maybe there is some hope for you.
Don't you know the difference between as you put it "adult computer professionals" and "end users"? I am actually a big fan of the command line. I find it disgusting when I hear a "Windows Expert" tell me when I suggest using the command line "I don't know DOS only Windows". Idiots, like ipconfig and tracert where ever in DOS. And yes a server needs a GUI like a submarine needs a screen door. If you can not manage a server over an SSH link you shouldn't be managing a server at all. If I am any type of fan boy it is a Linux one. The thing is I am interested in a Linux that anybody can just sit down and use. People like me can use just about anything. What I am interested in is a Unix that a mother of three that uses her PC to send email and uses Quickbooks to keep the books for her husbands tile business. Slackware isn't going to cut it for her. OS/X has shown that it is possible to make a Unix that anybody can use. Yes it costs but I think in the long run it doesn't cost as much as Windows does. A strict FLOSS system will also not cut it for her. Flash is a requirement for so many websites. So climb down off that high horse. Apple does have some good products and yes it has produced an easy too use desktop Unix. I have no idea about there server stuff. Frankly it is just too easy to throw Linux on any box to make a server if you need on for development or testing. If your going to develop and test on Linux you might as well deploy on it.
If you think any company cares about anything but your money then you have drank the coolaid. I run third party apps on my iPod touch. They are approved apps from the app store but still 3rd party. Once they jail break version 3 I will probably do a jail break but I have no real want for any of the jail broken apps yet. Hey so Apple does what Microsoft and Intel have done. They still made a user friendly Unix. You may say NeXT did but they where even more expensive than Apple. As far as the lack of command line tools? I have heard OS/X users say otherwise but I am not an expert on OS/X. For most end users the GUI is far more important than the command line. But please keep the venom to your self. I am not any type of fan boy and really don't have the time for such rants. If you want a light fast Unixish OS might I suggest Mint Fluxbox edition? It is still in beta but it is very light and fast. You have to know the command line but it is pretty full featured. If you are a strick FLOSS person the Debian with Fluxbox may be more to your liking. I have also had good luck with Zenwalk on older slow machines.
True. Apple made a Unix so user friendly that people forget it is Unix. And so small and light that it runs on a phone. Maybe they really are a great company.
Well that is part of the problem. Most FOSS don't have customers. They have a few developers/owners and a LOT of users. The thing is that the users don't really contribute.
There really needs to be a way for users to contribute to FOSS so they too can take some ownership in the program. There needs to be a way for them to become customers.
Take a look at Windows 7. It isn't great IMHO but it is a LOT better than Vista was. The reason that Microsoft did all that work to improve it was because CUSTOMERS hated Vista enough that they where not buying it. And some even bought Macs.
I don't have a good answer but it would be great if we could work out some way for FOSS users to pay for some of the development. Tip jars just don't work. And not every users will want to pay 100% of the cost for a programmer to put in a feature.
Okay I am technically proficient and like and use Linux. I still have issues that I don't have under Windows XP. I installed a new Videocard. Windows detected it and I installed the drivers. Worked great. I then booted Linux. Linux detected the card and I installed the drivers. Linux couldn't figure out what resolution my monitor supported. I got a terrible image and it looked like crap. Went back to my old card. Got it sort of working but couldn't get it to work in 3d mode. It did before I installed my new card.
To just dismiss a problem is wrong. I can build a PC from scratch. I have even contributed code to the Linux Kernel. But I spent hours working on a video issue. And at least part of the problem was X and not Linux but that isn't a hard and fast distinction anymore. The video drivers are kernel drivers so that is part of Linux.
I disagree. The thing is that it is often hard to fairly criticize FOSS. And example is when I saw a bunch of people ranting about some simple feature that MythTV lacked. My feeling is that they should add it themselves. It wasn't a huge change and they have the code. But then I look at Mint Fluxbox edition. It will run on just about any junkbox you can find but it uses Fluxbox. Fluxbox is an okay UI but it is very unlike Windows. For a brand new Linux user it is actually a pretty strange and hostile interface. I think that light of a Linux needs to be targeted to new users and should be super friendly. But the people actually doing the work must have a different idea of what that distro should be than I do. I feel I have a right to complain about software I pay for. There I am a customer. For the projects I don't contribute my time or money too I am just a user. Oh BTW if you want a really low resource Linux distro to run in a VM or install on some old PII with like 128M of ram take a look at Mint Fluxbox edition. It is far from perfect but boy is it light.
Well they did. It is called HTML. Boxee in this case is just another type of browser. What I find odd is Hulu has no problem with me watching it with a browser. For some reason they see a difference between a Monitor and an HDTV. It is odd since my PC has an HDMI out. What scares them to death is that people might/are dropping cable and watching over the net now. My wife is toying with the idea but Iron Chief Japan and Football keep her from making the jump.
So we gave a gift to the Queen of England of a product made in China... What more can I say. The US has got to stop being a colony of China. Yes I said a colony. The traditional role of a colony was to provide raw material and absorb manufactured goods.
My wife says that the correct response if you like that guy is to smile and the give a small laugh. The next step is say thank you back. At this point it is a toss up as to who shall start conversation. In geek terms it is a simple hand shake protocol. My on suggestion is that you stay very clear of the guy that posted the original question. If a netbook can threaten his self image imagine what a woman with a brain would do. Hopefully your way too smart to want to deal with that level of silliness.
It really is a very good database. I just hope more projects start using it. And that more hosting companies will as well. I am pretty sure that that MySQL still has better client slave replication "Like Slashdot uses" than Postgres. But I could be wrong.
Yes it could be very nice. The problem is that it is too mac centric. MacRuby could make a very good RAD platfrom except that it will only work on a Mac. The problem is that very few Macs are used in business. There are even fewer businesses that are Mac only. Ruby+QT would seem to be a much better idea for a RAD system. It would run everywhere. Honestly I am really hoping that QT 4.5 will help kill Visual Basic onces and for all. It offers an inexpensive platform for cross platform development.
Thank you. As to how to have your netbook make you look more like a man. Not going to happen. The fact that you feel the need to make your netbook more manly means that the problem isn't the netbook. You have some issues to work out and they have nothing to do with your netbook. Probably the most superficial solution would be to start working out but even that doesn't address the real issue. I wish that I could honestly say that I care that your netbook looks too wimpy but frankly nobody should care at all including you. If you are still a teenager all I can say is you will probably out grow this.
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The entire article was riddled with errors. The training of navy nuclear personal was and is top notch.
This was in 1979 I don't thin chemical plants had level of automation that the article claims. Mainframes where about as powerful as a $300 PC. The first military fly by wire aircraft the F-16 was just entering service. The shuttle still had not made it's first flight.
Let's not forget that TMI was built in 1968 so it was designed in the 60s. It was mostly 1960s tech.
Yes it was a terrible design. Today we would could do much better. Too bad we have not built any plants in more than 20 years.
I have one in mine. Doesn't bother me. Beats a coal plant anyday and I like having electricity.
How about this. If you live within say 10 miles of a nuclear plant you get power for half price?
I bet people wouldn't complain so much then.
Well that and there is a lot of money to be made in stopping it.
Coal companies hate it.
And hundreds or thousands of "activists" had made a good living protesting it.
True and it made a so so movie a smash hit and convinced millions of people that a work of fiction was a documentary.
They do and I doubt that it makes much money. A lot of FOSS projects probably make more from the Google ads on their page than from the tip jar.
Also donations are not the same as being a customer. At least to my way of thinking.
Kind of scary if you ask me. It sounds like you are trying to use simulation to reduce the margin of error you build into a structure. While that can be a good thing it isn't always. It puts a lot higher demand on quality control at the building site which is often outside the control of the engineer.
Kind of reminds of some really nice homebuild aircraft in the 80s. They used very low drag laminar flow airfoils. They where very fast and worked well. Soon some where falling out of the sky on take off. They where flying from grass fields. If the grass was freshly cut and happened to stick on the leading edge of the wing that nice airfoil became a nightmare.
It was soon found that even bugs could trip the airflow from laminar to none laminar. It was something that the computer simulations and even the wind tunnel tests didn't notice. After all who puts dead bugs on their pretty model.
That will depend on the server. Encryption could benifit from a Larrabee like System as could things like software RAIDs. With extra cpu power available software RAIDs and advanced file system like ZFS could replace hardware RAIDs everywhere.
I know I shouldn't bother but maybe there is some hope for you.
Don't you know the difference between as you put it "adult computer professionals" and "end users"?
I am actually a big fan of the command line. I find it disgusting when I hear a "Windows Expert" tell me when I suggest using the command line "I don't know DOS only Windows". Idiots, like ipconfig and tracert where ever in DOS. And yes a server needs a GUI like a submarine needs a screen door. If you can not manage a server over an SSH link you shouldn't be managing a server at all.
If I am any type of fan boy it is a Linux one. The thing is I am interested in a Linux that anybody can just sit down and use. People like me can use just about anything. What I am interested in is a Unix that a mother of three that uses her PC to send email and uses Quickbooks to keep the books for her husbands tile business.
Slackware isn't going to cut it for her. OS/X has shown that it is possible to make a Unix that anybody can use. Yes it costs but I think in the long run it doesn't cost as much as Windows does.
A strict FLOSS system will also not cut it for her. Flash is a requirement for so many websites.
So climb down off that high horse. Apple does have some good products and yes it has produced an easy too use desktop Unix. I have no idea about there server stuff. Frankly it is just too easy to throw Linux on any box to make a server if you need on for development or testing. If your going to develop and test on Linux you might as well deploy on it.
If it is POSIX and UNIX03 certified then it is UNIX.
Maybe not by your definition but by official standards it is.
If you think any company cares about anything but your money then you have drank the coolaid.
I run third party apps on my iPod touch. They are approved apps from the app store but still 3rd party.
Once they jail break version 3 I will probably do a jail break but I have no real want for any of the jail broken apps yet.
Hey so Apple does what Microsoft and Intel have done.
They still made a user friendly Unix. You may say NeXT did but they where even more expensive than Apple.
As far as the lack of command line tools? I have heard OS/X users say otherwise but I am not an expert on OS/X. For most end users the GUI is far more important than the command line.
But please keep the venom to your self. I am not any type of fan boy and really don't have the time for such rants. If you want a light fast Unixish OS might I suggest Mint Fluxbox edition? It is still in beta but it is very light and fast. You have to know the command line but it is pretty full featured.
If you are a strick FLOSS person the Debian with Fluxbox may be more to your liking. I have also had good luck with Zenwalk on older slow machines.
True. Apple made a Unix so user friendly that people forget it is Unix.
And so small and light that it runs on a phone.
Maybe they really are a great company.
Well that is part of the problem. Most FOSS don't have customers.
They have a few developers/owners and a LOT of users.
The thing is that the users don't really contribute.
There really needs to be a way for users to contribute to FOSS so they too can take some ownership in the program. There needs to be a way for them to become customers.
Take a look at Windows 7. It isn't great IMHO but it is a LOT better than Vista was. The reason that Microsoft did all that work to improve it was because CUSTOMERS hated Vista enough that they where not buying it. And some even bought Macs.
I don't have a good answer but it would be great if we could work out some way for FOSS users to pay for some of the development. Tip jars just don't work. And not every users will want to pay 100% of the cost for a programmer to put in a feature.
Okay I am technically proficient and like and use Linux.
I still have issues that I don't have under Windows XP.
I installed a new Videocard. Windows detected it and I installed the drivers. Worked great.
I then booted Linux.
Linux detected the card and I installed the drivers. Linux couldn't figure out what resolution my monitor supported.
I got a terrible image and it looked like crap.
Went back to my old card. Got it sort of working but couldn't get it to work in 3d mode.
It did before I installed my new card.
To just dismiss a problem is wrong. I can build a PC from scratch. I have even contributed code to the Linux Kernel. But I spent hours working on a video issue. And at least part of the problem was X and not Linux but that isn't a hard and fast distinction anymore. The video drivers are kernel drivers so that is part of Linux.
Or use the answer.
"You have the source fix it yourself." Or "If you don't like it take the code and fork it".
I disagree. The thing is that it is often hard to fairly criticize FOSS.
And example is when I saw a bunch of people ranting about some simple feature that MythTV lacked. My feeling is that they should add it themselves. It wasn't a huge change and they have the code.
But then I look at Mint Fluxbox edition. It will run on just about any junkbox you can find but it uses Fluxbox. Fluxbox is an okay UI but it is very unlike Windows. For a brand new Linux user it is actually a pretty strange and hostile interface.
I think that light of a Linux needs to be targeted to new users and should be super friendly.
But the people actually doing the work must have a different idea of what that distro should be than I do.
I feel I have a right to complain about software I pay for. There I am a customer. For the projects I don't contribute my time or money too I am just a user.
Oh BTW if you want a really low resource Linux distro to run in a VM or install on some old PII with like 128M of ram take a look at Mint Fluxbox edition. It is far from perfect but boy is it light.
Well they did. It is called HTML. Boxee in this case is just another type of browser.
What I find odd is Hulu has no problem with me watching it with a browser. For some reason they see a difference between a Monitor and an HDTV. It is odd since my PC has an HDMI out.
What scares them to death is that people might/are dropping cable and watching over the net now.
My wife is toying with the idea but Iron Chief Japan and Football keep her from making the jump.
So we gave a gift to the Queen of England of a product made in China...
What more can I say. The US has got to stop being a colony of China.
Yes I said a colony. The traditional role of a colony was to provide raw material and absorb manufactured goods.
Also stay clear of any one that uses the same vocabulary as Bender when talking about women. Like broad.
My wife says that the correct response if you like that guy is to smile and the give a small laugh. The next step is say thank you back.
At this point it is a toss up as to who shall start conversation.
In geek terms it is a simple hand shake protocol.
My on suggestion is that you stay very clear of the guy that posted the original question. If a netbook can threaten his self image imagine what a woman with a brain would do. Hopefully your way too smart to want to deal with that level of silliness.
Make it a diet coke and it's a deal.
It really is a very good database. I just hope more projects start using it. And that more hosting companies will as well.
I am pretty sure that that MySQL still has better client slave replication "Like Slashdot uses" than Postgres. But I could be wrong.
Yes it could be very nice.
The problem is that it is too mac centric.
MacRuby could make a very good RAD platfrom except that it will only work on a Mac. The problem is that very few Macs are used in business. There are even fewer businesses that are Mac only.
Ruby+QT would seem to be a much better idea for a RAD system.
It would run everywhere.
Honestly I am really hoping that QT 4.5 will help kill Visual Basic onces and for all.
It offers an inexpensive platform for cross platform development.
How about this line if it is a girl you want to talk too.
"Thanks and so are you."
Thank you.
As to how to have your netbook make you look more like a man.
Not going to happen. The fact that you feel the need to make your netbook more manly means that the problem isn't the netbook.
You have some issues to work out and they have nothing to do with your netbook.
Probably the most superficial solution would be to start working out but even that doesn't address the real issue.
I wish that I could honestly say that I care that your netbook looks too wimpy but frankly nobody should care at all including you.
If you are still a teenager all I can say is you will probably out grow this.
Not from where I sit. HW support isn't that big of an issue anymore. It is that their old apps don't work as well as under XP