I have linux servers and Mac desktops, and I think you may be mistaken in 'faster'. I have a Dual G5 Powermac, where everything happens instantly, but I also have a couple 1st generation G4 Mac Mini's that were maddeningly slow with OS X.
I put Ubuntu linux on the Mac Minis and found they are now fast enough to be actually usable.
Firefox on OS X on the mini, is so slow it is almost unusable, but Firefox on the same boxen with Ubuntu is right up there with your typical low end Intel box.
Open office is usable with Ubuntu, and everything else runs fast enough not to be annoying.
There are some issues with PPC Ubuntu, like no flash, but for office use, I think it is better than OS X on older, slower Mac hardware.
Viacom is getting greedy. Fair use allows for clips, etc. Viacom could bitch if the entire show was uploaded, but copyright is not ownership, it is just exclusive right to publish for a limited time ( well, sorry Mickey ) with the ability of others to use excerpts, and make parodies.
There is no such thing as IP OWNERSHIP.
I hope Google fights this, but I am sure they will just settle with the whiners.
This may be vista off topic, but I installed ubuntu on a slower than molasses in January original Mac Mini. It works so will, I am going to put it on a 1 ghz iLamp I have hanging around.
Now for the Vista Part. I am really thinking M$ is headed in the wrong direction. Anyone that uses Google docs, calendar, etc, can see that the OS is becoming less and less important. If internet connections will be getting faster and faster, then the Google world approach should mean that computer OS's would be getting lighter and faster.
To bad BeOS isnt around any more. Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, on BeOS would really be the bomb.
People will continue to whine about the DRM laded pig Vista, but maybe the time is getting near for a quick, light, new OS.
How bout a nice little ARM based lappy with a zillion hours of battery life, and..... Symbian?
Actually I would think that the medical field would embrace Apple with open arms.
OS X is far more reliable and stable than any windows flavor hands down. Apple hardware may cost more than the generic Dell, but is always of high quality. Getting something that is a few hundred dollars cheaper where you are charging more than the cost of the hardware just to look at 1 X-Ray would not make any sense.
If there is software available for OS X that meets the needs of the medical staff, there is no need to take the risks associated with using any flavor of windows, from ME, to Vista.
Think about is Slashdot readers, your life depends on this, which would you see being used?
I am beginning to agree. I have a bunch on all flavors of Macs and am beginning to be disenchanted whit what apple is up to.
I have a new MacBook Pro, and am not totally enchanted with the whole Intel thing. Think the Intel thing is really a DRM thing.
Then i hear the the iPhone will be totally locked out, while at the same time Nokia is trying to get people to write programs for the new N Series phones in Series 60 Symbian. You can download the SDK and even a free C++ cross compilier. I do not buy the Cingular BS that they dont want the whole west coast taken down.
Apples intel speed claims are generous at best. My Dual G5 Power Mac is lightning fast.
I am thinking that Apple is really trying to go mainstream by going whole hog down the DRM road, and also no longer treating us loyal users as customer to be sold, but as consumers to be culled.
Remember, a consumer is a customer with no choice.
Ill be getting a Nokia N95 when it comes out, not an iPhone, and I really may be tempted to looking at a high end Intel lappy with Umbutu instead of my next MacBook.
The Prius is an off the shelf ABB VFD with a 60hz motor right now. I was just saying that in the future, faster processors will lead to faster torque calculations and higher frequencies in AC electric motors.
I have been looking at several articles to see if GM followed the modern path of AC motors ala Toyota, and not the obsolete cumbersome DC motors of the past. ( Yes this includes computer controlled brushless DC systems ).
Toyota and ABB of Sweden really have taken the first step in the future of transportation making a 500 volt integrated Variable Frequency Drive ( VFD ) to an AC drive motor.
This 1st step was really only scratching the surface and in the future you will see 400hz and above AC motors where the VFD's DC bus is excited by batteries.
Tesla experimented with many frequencies and found 60hz right for the 1890's bearings and engineering technologies.
Jet aircraft starter motors are usually 400hz AC multi pole motors. These are very light and have tremendous torque.
As computer controls become faster in processing speed, and the IGBT transistors can be switched faster VFD's and AC motors of 400, 600, 1200hz will bring more power and lower weight than ever imagined.
The limiting factor is the processing speed of the VFD cpu's in order to do sensor less torque vector calculations, then fire off the IGBT transistors.
I hope that one of the major VFD makers will have some engineer playing games on a CELL based console and have the brilliant idea that this would solve the intense calculation requirements needed.
If Toshiba ( major VFD maker ) and Nintendo ever merge, this will be the beginning of the electric era and the sunset of the internal combustion time on earth.
Wow, Finally a way to get this administration to fund space exploration. Petroleum.
Now if we could only start a rumor there are weapons of mass destruction, terrorist training camps, and Oceans of petroleum product on Titan, we could leave Iraq, and start a gold rush like rocket race to Saturn's moon.
I do not agree that piracy has anything to do with losses. Who is to say that those that watch movies without paying a fee would actually pay to see them in the first place?
The only way there is a real loss is if some one is SELLING copied DVDs as if they are original. That is not what we are talking about here. We are in this insane mindset that if we see or hear something that we owe money to some one for it.
Utter stupidity if you really think about the concept.
The only way there is a real loss, is if you counterfeit the media and sell it to some one that actually WANTS to pay for it.
This whole issue of IP ownership makes no sense if one steps back and clearly thinks about it.
Ossama Bin Laden dies, and is standing at the Pearly Gates. St Peter comes up on the other side, looks at Ossama and says "No , don't tell me, let me guess".
St Peter studies him a while, then turns his head and yells out:
It seems that M$'s vision of having your computer being nothing more than a "content delivery device" that you have to buy and they control is coming to fruition.
It is amazing to me how far those people that use M$ products will allow themselves to be, 0wn3d.
Change is hard and scary, but why would one ever actually pay to be treated in the manner M$ wants to treat you.
Sheep.
Cheers
PS> This is not a troll, it is really the way I feel.
Well, this gives more weight to doing a manned mission sooner than later , and since a big problem is going to be long term health effects from all the radiation of the space flight, it gives even more impetus to a ONE WAY manned mission.
I really think a ONE WAY manned mission is doable in the next few years, and I would be willing to bet there would be volunteers for it.
Im not saying this a a troll, I really think it is a viable option. Many more experiments could be carried aboard, no worries about long term heath effects, many more , and better samples returned to earth.
I really think it is the best way to further exploration of Mars.
The only reason that internet porn is down is that every web page now comes with 5 or 6 aggressive pop ups for some type of medication scam, and about 100 spam emails.
Normal internet usage, from what i can tell is visiting sites many times a day. An example would be:
9:00 am
Slashdot Fark Groklaw Pornsite Google News
Now repeat that about 50 times a day.
Seems like porn accounts for 20(something) percent of normal internet usage to me.
I have to disagree on stiff penalties for so called computer crime. Where is the REAL damage? It is not like some ones truck tires are flattened, or a sign is defaced by paint, requiring physical repair.
DOS attacks simply slow down web page access, so what!
Defacing a web page just requires some one to reload another copy. no real world harm is done.
I think these types of crimes deserve not more penalties than tagging a wall, or dressing up some ones yard with toilet paper.
Why would this warrant a real world jail term.
A more appropriate penalty would be "loss of stuff" in whatever on line massive mulitplayer game the offender was into.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it is good, ( no sarcasm )
I think I can decide for myself what is fair use, and what is not.
I also prefer to be a customer to be sold, and not a consumer to be culled.
I have linux servers and Mac desktops, and I think you may be mistaken in 'faster'. I have a Dual G5 Powermac, where everything happens instantly, but I also have a couple 1st generation G4 Mac Mini's that were maddeningly slow with OS X.
I put Ubuntu linux on the Mac Minis and found they are now fast enough to be actually usable.
Firefox on OS X on the mini, is so slow it is almost unusable, but Firefox on the same boxen with Ubuntu is right up there with your typical low end Intel box.
Open office is usable with Ubuntu, and everything else runs fast enough not to be annoying.
There are some issues with PPC Ubuntu, like no flash, but for office use, I think it is better than OS X on older, slower Mac hardware.
Cheers
Viacom is getting greedy. Fair use allows for clips, etc. Viacom could bitch if the entire show was uploaded, but copyright is not ownership, it is just exclusive right to publish for a limited time ( well, sorry Mickey ) with the ability of others to use excerpts, and make parodies.
There is no such thing as IP OWNERSHIP.
I hope Google fights this, but I am sure they will just settle with the whiners.
Cheers
This may be vista off topic, but I installed ubuntu on a slower than molasses in January original Mac Mini. It works so will, I am going to put it on a 1 ghz iLamp I have hanging around.
..... Symbian?
Now for the Vista Part. I am really thinking M$ is headed in the wrong direction. Anyone that uses Google docs, calendar, etc, can see that the OS is becoming less and less important. If internet connections will be getting faster and faster, then the Google world approach should mean that computer OS's would be getting lighter and faster.
To bad BeOS isnt around any more. Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, on BeOS would really be the bomb.
People will continue to whine about the DRM laded pig Vista, but maybe the time is getting near for a quick, light, new OS.
How bout a nice little ARM based lappy with a zillion hours of battery life, and
Cheers
Actually I would think that the medical field would embrace Apple with open arms.
OS X is far more reliable and stable than any windows flavor hands down. Apple hardware may cost more than the generic Dell, but is always of high quality. Getting something that is a few hundred dollars cheaper where you are charging more than the cost of the hardware just to look at 1 X-Ray would not make any sense.
If there is software available for OS X that meets the needs of the medical staff, there is no need to take the risks associated with using any flavor of windows, from ME, to Vista.
Think about is Slashdot readers, your life depends on this, which would you see being used?
Cheers
I am beginning to agree. I have a bunch on all flavors of Macs and am beginning to be disenchanted whit what apple is up to.
I have a new MacBook Pro, and am not totally enchanted with the whole Intel thing. Think the Intel thing is really a DRM thing.
Then i hear the the iPhone will be totally locked out, while at the same time Nokia is trying to get people to write programs for the new N Series phones in Series 60 Symbian. You can download the SDK and even a free C++ cross compilier. I do not buy the Cingular BS that they dont want the whole west coast taken down.
Apples intel speed claims are generous at best. My Dual G5 Power Mac is lightning fast.
I am thinking that Apple is really trying to go mainstream by going whole hog down the DRM road, and also no longer treating us loyal users as customer to be sold, but as consumers to be culled.
Remember, a consumer is a customer with no choice.
Ill be getting a Nokia N95 when it comes out, not an iPhone, and I really may be tempted to looking at a high end Intel lappy with Umbutu instead of my next MacBook.
The Prius is an off the shelf ABB VFD with a 60hz motor right now. I was just saying that in the future, faster processors will lead to faster torque calculations and higher frequencies in AC electric motors.
Cheers
I have been looking at several articles to see if GM followed the modern path of AC motors ala Toyota, and not the obsolete cumbersome DC motors of the past. ( Yes this includes computer controlled brushless DC systems ).
Toyota and ABB of Sweden really have taken the first step in the future of transportation making a 500 volt integrated Variable Frequency Drive ( VFD ) to an AC drive motor.
This 1st step was really only scratching the surface and in the future you will see 400hz and above AC motors where the VFD's DC bus is excited by batteries.
Tesla experimented with many frequencies and found 60hz right for the 1890's bearings and engineering technologies.
Jet aircraft starter motors are usually 400hz AC multi pole motors. These are very light and have tremendous torque.
As computer controls become faster in processing speed, and the IGBT transistors can be switched faster VFD's and AC motors of 400, 600, 1200hz will bring more power and lower weight than ever imagined.
The limiting factor is the processing speed of the VFD cpu's in order to do sensor less torque vector calculations, then fire off the IGBT transistors.
I hope that one of the major VFD makers will have some engineer playing games on a CELL based console and have the brilliant idea that this would solve the intense calculation requirements needed.
If Toshiba ( major VFD maker ) and Nintendo ever merge, this will be the beginning of the electric era and the sunset of the internal combustion time on earth.
Think of the possibilities.
Cheers
Wow, Finally a way to get this administration to fund space exploration. Petroleum.
Now if we could only start a rumor there are weapons of mass destruction, terrorist training camps, and Oceans of petroleum product on Titan, we could leave Iraq, and start a gold rush like rocket race to Saturn's moon.
Ye Ha , lakes full or petro.
Cheers
I do not agree that piracy has anything to do with losses. Who is to say that those that watch movies without paying a fee would actually pay to see them in the first place?
The only way there is a real loss is if some one is SELLING copied DVDs as if they are original. That is not what we are talking about here. We are in this insane mindset that if we see or hear something that we owe money to some one for it.
Utter stupidity if you really think about the concept.
The only way there is a real loss, is if you counterfeit the media and sell it to some one that actually WANTS to pay for it.
This whole issue of IP ownership makes no sense if one steps back and clearly thinks about it.
Cheers
Ossama Bin Laden dies, and is standing at the Pearly Gates. St Peter comes up on the other side, looks at Ossama and says "No , don't tell me, let me guess".
St Peter studies him a while, then turns his head and yells out:
" Hey Jesus, did you order a cab? "
Cheers
It seems that M$'s vision of having your computer being nothing more than a "content delivery device" that you have to buy and they control is coming to fruition.
It is amazing to me how far those people that use M$ products will allow themselves to be, 0wn3d.
Change is hard and scary, but why would one ever actually pay to be treated in the manner M$ wants to treat you.
Sheep.
Cheers
PS> This is not a troll, it is really the way I feel.
Interesting , he actually has a point.
cheers
Here is a permanent fix to this latest Windoze exploit.
Permanent Fix to this and all other Windoze flaws
Really, no more issues.
Cheers
Well, this gives more weight to doing a manned mission sooner than later , and since a big problem is going to be long term health effects from all the radiation of the space flight, it gives even more impetus to a ONE WAY manned mission.
I really think a ONE WAY manned mission is doable in the next few years, and I would be willing to bet there would be volunteers for it.
Im not saying this a a troll, I really think it is a viable option. Many more experiments could be carried aboard, no worries about long term heath effects, many more , and better samples returned to earth.
I really think it is the best way to further exploration of Mars.
Cheers
A military junta is the ideal form of governmet to support Microsoft, or the MPAA, or the RIAA.
Maybe we should try that here.
Wait.........
Cheers
This might burn some karma and upset some M$ fanbois, but ....
I think it would be more appropriate to say M$ is one step away from being the worlds most evil company.
Well maybe not even one step.
Cheers
I am sorry, does anyone here really believe this?
The only reason that internet porn is down is that every web page now comes with 5 or 6 aggressive pop ups for some type of medication scam, and about 100 spam emails.
Normal internet usage, from what i can tell is visiting sites many times a day. An example would be:
9:00 am
Slashdot
Fark
Groklaw
Pornsite
Google News
Now repeat that about 50 times a day.
Seems like porn accounts for 20(something) percent of normal internet usage to me.
Cheers
Wow, they can now manufacture Republicans, and they are made in Korea yet.
I wonder what happens when one of these comes across a Diebold touch screen voting machine?
Cheers
I think Ballmers, and M$'s ideas on free software can be sumed up by the following statement:
" Free software is fine, as long as it isn't really free, and we control it "
Anything more is simply a waste of words.
Cheers
True, and if the USA was a modern society, then we would all have universal health care.
Sorry, glad you pointed out my mistake.
I have to disagree on stiff penalties for so called computer crime. Where is the REAL damage? It is not like some ones truck tires are flattened, or a sign is defaced by paint, requiring physical repair.
DOS attacks simply slow down web page access, so what!
Defacing a web page just requires some one to reload another copy. no real world harm is done.
I think these types of crimes deserve not more penalties than tagging a wall, or dressing up some ones yard with toilet paper.
Why would this warrant a real world jail term.
A more appropriate penalty would be "loss of stuff" in whatever on line massive mulitplayer game the offender was into.
It is not a physical crime.
Look at what M$ is pulling with Novel and Linux. This is typical M$ arrogance and disdain for the law.
They should have been broken up before, and they should now.
No one, or company should be allowed to act this way in any modern society.
Cheers.
No, really?
Tell me it isn't so.
Wow, now our troops can come home, it's over.
And just 2 days before an election, how convenient.
Cheers