As someone that has used several brands of SSDs in our embedded equipment which must meet extremely high levels of shock and temperature requirements I have had quite a bit of experience with this "bleeding edge" line of hardware.
Currently I have not seen a single SSD (True SSD, not CF cards that some people CLAIM are SSDs in their equipment) that have been reliable in the long term at all. CF card based boot drives are MUCH more reliable.
The worst of the drives (though those with the highest specs and claims) will reinitilize themselves or lose partitions one out of every 30-50 power cycles. Better ones will do it once out of every 100-500 cycles. Data loss is rampent. Conventional notebook drives in the exact same scenarios go thousands of restarts with no problem. (All failures are the result of a power cycle)
It'll be at least another 3 to 5 years before this tech has matured enough to be reliable for anything important.
The real question is, how have SO MANY people been duped by them for so long?
Google has been doing evil for a long time and I've nbeen warning people to watch out for them quite a bit.
Why do they even have a "do no evil" motto? Only a company that KNEW it was doing something people would perceive as evil would think about coming up with a motto like that.
The enourmous mass of information, even public information is truly evil at it's core, not to mention the metric tonnes of private info they suckup along the way and hand out to anyone that asks.
And the flamebait mod? Yeah.. ironicly, in the bastian of "freedom" in every conceiovable form that is/. there seem to be plenty of people who would silence criticism of the cannons of/. faith, just like anywhere else, corporate, religeous, nationalistic or political...
I have never had a version of Linux installed on any machine or from any distro that was "finished" ever.
Have you? Where did you get it? Which version of Linux doesn't have dozens of updates for core components every month? Which non-micorosft browser that shows anything more than text hasn't (also) had several vulnerabilities a year in it?
How many other OSes support their customers as long as Microsoft does? (With etended XP support for another 5 years). Apple and most distros are 12-24 MONTHS period.
What you say may have some truth to it, but look at the mud puddle were standing in right here...
If/. FOSS etc don't stop throwing stones around their glass houses soon...
I was a die-hard N user up till 4.0 put me off it for good. IE WAS crap, IE4 was finally better than Netscape 4 from a user perspective when Netscape took a sharp down-turn in quality and stability.
Hmmm, you know... the real solution might be that Adobe does their own distro compeltely. Since they are otherwise trying to be the ONE SOURCE for all digital arts software.. they might as well give away a free "Adobe Linux" along with the "Suite"... That would be FAR easier than supporting X number of distros and their 1 or 2 times a year compeltely imcompatible upgrades...
"A" version? For which distro? And wouldn't they be compeltely and utterly booed out of the Linux universe for releasing closed binary code on Linux? (Like Nvidia is constantly)
There are ASTRONOMICAL barriers to releasing closed source on "Linux" with very little hope of return (even still).
Having had to support pre-built binaries for our "stupid" customers on Linux for some time, i can tell you it's about 10-20 times as man power consuming to support "Linux" to end users than Windows. That means your income had better be pretty substantial to match or it's just a no-go.
They can reclaim what? 2.5 gallons of fuel a day from an entire coal plant?
Reclaim 45 lbs of CO2 per day? Isn't that like 0.00001% of the output per day per plant?
Looking it up on line (http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/CGD_Ranks_CO2_Emissions_From_Power_Plants_Worldwide_999.html), 8000 US plants produce 2.8 billion tons of CO2 a year, that makes an average output of CO2 by a coal plant in the US is 958 tons a day!
In fact is specifically calls out that it is allowed as long as you "verify" that you are over 18.
I quote: "service providers will have to check that people accessing MA15-plus content are aged over 15 years and those accessing R18-plus and X18-plus content are over 18."
How could that have possibly be interpereted as X18+ is banned?!?!?
Exactly, and so maybe a skiddie won't beable to bring down our nations forces (They shouldn't on Windows either but apparently the army knows nothing at all about security, how ironic) but a small dedicated team from some unfriendly country could still bring the mac systems down wthin days with any version of OS_X with the same lack of security consciousness that they are apparently using with Windows now:/
And yes the same goes for Linux!
If there is no security policy in place, NO OS is automatically and permanently "secure".
That being said, they really should go with Linux just so that they are using something they can have complete custom control over and not be relying on any specific OS vendor to screw them (and Apple has a much bigger history of screwing its customers than anynoe else)
The Earth's climate has NEVER stopped changing... It has been changing since there was a climate to begin with and it always will, drasticly and massivly. Don't go changing the language to fit the adgenda now, that's completely unscientific. "It may be another sign of the Earth's on-going climate change."
They have a decent core ad revenue buisness but they are just THROWING their money away at things that they know nothing about and have no buisness plan for. Investors are going to get tired of it. If Google just starts tossing money out "for their principles" with even LESS chance of recouping it than in previsous fruitless ventures, people will simpley stop giving them any more money. Stock price/could/ severely DROP if they go through with this...
Of course we all know that "logic" no longer controls the stock market at all or Googles share price would only be $200 as it is so who knows...
Windows update breaking healthy system? Virtually never, Linux on the other hand...
This happens with EVERY linux distro I have ever installed within 6-12 months of use. The only way to keep a linux install from breakign is to NEVER update after a clean install.
The updates come almost DAILY. Kernel updates come in "stable" kernel lines that break the ABI and cause perfectly installed and functioning hardware to stop working until you hand rebuild and hand re-install the drivers for them.
People complain about Windows version upgrades but Linux routinely breaks itself with point point releases in "stable" lines:( I've hand updates that just break gnomes "task bar" so bad I had to swtich to KDE to continue using that install till I could reinstall the entire thing. Functionality erodes at the rate that after 6-12 months any linux install I've ever had that I put updates too (some I do and some I don;t as required by my job pf maintaining some kernel and X drivers) THe install becomes so hosed it's useless and I have to reinstall from the latest didks for that distro. (Some merely cut off support completely after 12 months)
I have ZERO trust in ANY update I do with Linux now, Microsoft has 100 times as much information about their updates than any Linux distro (even if it isn't 100% complete) and the non-breakage trust is about 100 times higher for Windows than Linux (pick any distro, I've installed moret of them).
An awful lot of these posts really seem more like freudian slips than anything informational. Unconsciously everyone KNOWS what a shabmbles the Linux update situation is so to try to stave off some kind of guilt about it they find ways of picking no their enemy for the same thing instead.
What a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is not just the electrical energy of the device (Which can be substantial for the package size) but the materials (largely LITHIUM) contain a TREMENDOUS amount of chemical energy and actually BURN just like gunpowewder contains a lot of chemical energy that is released when it caches fire. Li=pos are not THAT incindiary but... they do burn with ferosity when they light.
With the lithium-polymer batteries, merely getting a hole in the thin packaging (They are typically not contained in a metal can but in a soft "foil" like package) can be enough to get them to "spontaniously" combust when humid air gets inside them. Even though current Li-Po batteries are supposed to be LESS incindiary than the previous generation of Li-Ion.. you wouldn't know it.
Now that we've all seen the video on YouTube, I demand that you bow to my "Infinite Wisdom" that allowed me to predict that a large wooden replica of a non-aerodynamic space-craft rocketed aloft would not so much fly as disintegrate mid air and make spectacular video.
Way to go Mr. I believe anything I hear without even thinking about it for two seconds...
TWO/. articles claiming that it "actually flies" when it actually has NOT flown and will more than likety completely self destruct in a giant fire ball when they attempt it...
Well the video shuld be spectacular anyway.:)
But seriously, until it has flown it is entirely wrong to say that it actually flies, espceially something that has like a 5% chance of "flying" for any period of time at all.
ODF cannot possibly support all the specialised functionality in current office or future features Microsoft may want to add. If they started using ODF they would HAVE to IMMEDIATELY start extending it.
Now even though this is PERMITTED it doesn't matter, if it's Microsoft doing the extending there will be a NEVER ENDING hew and cry from the Open community about it.
Let Microsoft have their own formant and KEEP ODF "clean".
My ghod, talk about not seeing the forest for the trees:(
Sure, internal code can be embarassing. Whee, is that a revelation to anyone that works in or with software engineering?
But that is NOT the reason AT ALL.
Why doesn't Adobe open source Photoshop?
Because then no one would buy it! You just DL a free compiled version from the net, or if you are a little elss savvy, from one of the 50 value added clones now all selling by people other than Adobe for $65 to the same peolpe that buy it now for $650.
DUH!
Companies don't just give away code they have been working on for years and has earned them and is still earning them millions of dollars. Virtually all of the large projects that have gone closed to open have done so because the original company went out of buisness or was bought by someone else and the bigger company didn't care about the source (re AMD/ATI for a recent (partial) example) Or the code really was now outdated and had no real profit potential anymore.
Embarassing or not, if code is earning a company money, it's extremely unlikely they are just going to give it away.
"Because it's embarassing" yeah, THAT'S the reason:(
Considering that 99.9% of everyone replying has been duped by a hoax. Can you now really say that social engineering tricks wouldn't work on Linux users? Even the "smart" ones as we all must be?
With attention to detail as absent as it can possibly be with everyone here as demonstrated clearly by this sincle article+followups... there is simply/no hope/ for anyone using any OS that is targeted.:(
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As someone that has used several brands of SSDs in our embedded equipment which must meet extremely high levels of shock and temperature requirements I have had quite a bit of experience with this "bleeding edge" line of hardware.
Currently I have not seen a single SSD (True SSD, not CF cards that some people CLAIM are SSDs in their equipment) that have been reliable in the long term at all. CF card based boot drives are MUCH more reliable.
The worst of the drives (though those with the highest specs and claims) will reinitilize themselves or lose partitions one out of every 30-50 power cycles. Better ones will do it once out of every 100-500 cycles. Data loss is rampent. Conventional notebook drives in the exact same scenarios go thousands of restarts with no problem. (All failures are the result of a power cycle)
It'll be at least another 3 to 5 years before this tech has matured enough to be reliable for anything important.
Anyone that reads /. with any regularity knows /exactly/ how that works... Or rather.. they SHOULD. :)
The real question is, how have SO MANY people been duped by them for so long?
Google has been doing evil for a long time and I've nbeen warning people to watch out for them quite a bit.
Why do they even have a "do no evil" motto? Only a company that KNEW it was doing something people would perceive as evil would think about coming up with a motto like that.
The enourmous mass of information, even public information is truly evil at it's core, not to mention the metric tonnes of private info they suckup along the way and hand out to anyone that asks.
And the flamebait mod? Yeah.. ironicly, in the bastian of "freedom" in every conceiovable form that is /. there seem to be plenty of people who would silence criticism of the cannons of /. faith, just like anywhere else, corporate, religeous, nationalistic or political...
People ARE people after all.
Interesting.
/. FOSS etc don't stop throwing stones around their glass houses soon...
On the other hand...
I have never had a version of Linux installed on any machine or from any distro that was "finished" ever.
Have you? Where did you get it? Which version of Linux doesn't have dozens of updates for core components every month? Which non-micorosft browser that shows anything more than text hasn't (also) had several vulnerabilities a year in it?
How many other OSes support their customers as long as Microsoft does? (With etended XP support for another 5 years). Apple and most distros are 12-24 MONTHS period.
What you say may have some truth to it, but look at the mud puddle were standing in right here...
If
You are right up till 4.0
IE 4.0 was finally better than Netscape 4.0
I was a die-hard N user up till 4.0 put me off it for good. IE WAS crap, IE4 was finally better than Netscape 4 from a user perspective when Netscape took a sharp down-turn in quality and stability.
Considering that the FOSS world ridicules Microsoft about a million times more than Microsoft ridicules FOSS.. who is going to win?!?
Hmmm, you know... the real solution might be that Adobe does their own distro compeltely. Since they are otherwise trying to be the ONE SOURCE for all digital arts software.. they might as well give away a free "Adobe Linux" along with the "Suite"... That would be FAR easier than supporting X number of distros and their 1 or 2 times a year compeltely imcompatible upgrades...
"A" version? For which distro? And wouldn't they be compeltely and utterly booed out of the Linux universe for releasing closed binary code on Linux? (Like Nvidia is constantly)
There are ASTRONOMICAL barriers to releasing closed source on "Linux" with very little hope of return (even still).
Having had to support pre-built binaries for our "stupid" customers on Linux for some time, i can tell you it's about 10-20 times as man power consuming to support "Linux" to end users than Windows. That means your income had better be pretty substantial to match or it's just a no-go.
They can reclaim what? 2.5 gallons of fuel a day from an entire coal plant?
Reclaim 45 lbs of CO2 per day? Isn't that like 0.00001% of the output per day per plant?
Looking it up on line (http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/CGD_Ranks_CO2_Emissions_From_Power_Plants_Worldwide_999.html), 8000 US plants produce 2.8 billion tons of CO2 a year, that makes an average output of CO2 by a coal plant in the US is 958 tons a day!
?!?!?
Because slamming Microsoft for not being perfect in every way and for every situation is SlashDot's job #1.
It does NOT say X18+ is banned.
In fact is specifically calls out that it is allowed as long as you "verify" that you are over 18.
I quote: "service providers will have to check that people accessing MA15-plus content are aged over 15 years and those accessing R18-plus and X18-plus content are over 18."
How could that have possibly be interpereted as X18+ is banned?!?!?
Please explain.
Exactly, and so maybe a skiddie won't beable to bring down our nations forces (They shouldn't on Windows either but apparently the army knows nothing at all about security, how ironic) but a small dedicated team from some unfriendly country could still bring the mac systems down wthin days with any version of OS_X with the same lack of security consciousness that they are apparently using with Windows now :/
And yes the same goes for Linux!
If there is no security policy in place, NO OS is automatically and permanently "secure".
That being said, they really should go with Linux just so that they are using something they can have complete custom control over and not be relying on any specific OS vendor to screw them (and Apple has a much bigger history of screwing its customers than anynoe else)
Jeeze...
The Earth's climate has NEVER stopped changing... It has been changing since there was a climate to begin with and it always will, drasticly and massivly. Don't go changing the language to fit the adgenda now, that's completely unscientific. "It may be another sign of the Earth's on-going climate change."
Your welcome.
They have a decent core ad revenue buisness but they are just THROWING their money away at things that they know nothing about and have no buisness plan for. Investors are going to get tired of it. If Google just starts tossing money out "for their principles" with even LESS chance of recouping it than in previsous fruitless ventures, people will simpley stop giving them any more money. Stock price /could/ severely DROP if they go through with this...
Of course we all know that "logic" no longer controls the stock market at all or Googles share price would only be $200 as it is so who knows...
Exactly how many Linux distributers support 7 year old versions of their OS?!?!?
(Well MAYBE Debian...)
Most of them crap out after 12 months!
Yeah, really, why use anything other than slack 5?
Windows update breaking healthy system? Virtually never, Linux on the other hand...
:( I've hand updates that just break gnomes "task bar" so bad I had to swtich to KDE to continue using that install till I could reinstall the entire thing. Functionality erodes at the rate that after 6-12 months any linux install I've ever had that I put updates too (some I do and some I don;t as required by my job pf maintaining some kernel and X drivers) THe install becomes so hosed it's useless and I have to reinstall from the latest didks for that distro. (Some merely cut off support completely after 12 months)
This happens with EVERY linux distro I have ever installed within 6-12 months of use. The only way to keep a linux install from breakign is to NEVER update after a clean install.
The updates come almost DAILY. Kernel updates come in "stable" kernel lines that break the ABI and cause perfectly installed and functioning hardware to stop working until you hand rebuild and hand re-install the drivers for them.
People complain about Windows version upgrades but Linux routinely breaks itself with point point releases in "stable" lines
I have ZERO trust in ANY update I do with Linux now, Microsoft has 100 times as much information about their updates than any Linux distro (even if it isn't 100% complete) and the non-breakage trust is about 100 times higher for Windows than Linux (pick any distro, I've installed moret of them).
An awful lot of these posts really seem more like freudian slips than anything informational. Unconsciously everyone KNOWS what a shabmbles the Linux update situation is so to try to stave off some kind of guilt about it they find ways of picking no their enemy for the same thing instead.
It's REALLY EMBARASSING GUYS!
What a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is not just the electrical energy of the device (Which can be substantial for the package size) but the materials (largely LITHIUM) contain a TREMENDOUS amount of chemical energy and actually BURN just like gunpowewder contains a lot of chemical energy that is released when it caches fire. Li=pos are not THAT incindiary but... they do burn with ferosity when they light.
With the lithium-polymer batteries, merely getting a hole in the thin packaging (They are typically not contained in a metal can but in a soft "foil" like package) can be enough to get them to "spontaniously" combust when humid air gets inside them. Even though current Li-Po batteries are supposed to be LESS incindiary than the previous generation of Li-Ion.. you wouldn't know it.
Now that we've all seen the video on YouTube, I demand that you bow to my "Infinite Wisdom" that allowed me to predict that a large wooden replica of a non-aerodynamic space-craft rocketed aloft would not so much fly as disintegrate mid air and make spectacular video.
Way to go Mr. I believe anything I hear without even thinking about it for two seconds...
TWO /. articles claiming that it "actually flies" when it actually has NOT flown and will more than likety completely self destruct in a giant fire ball when they attempt it...
:)
Well the video shuld be spectacular anyway.
But seriously, until it has flown it is entirely wrong to say that it actually flies, espceially something that has like a 5% chance of "flying" for any period of time at all.
Why on EARTH would anyone want them too?
ODF cannot possibly support all the specialised functionality in current office or future features Microsoft may want to add. If they started using ODF they would HAVE to IMMEDIATELY start extending it.
Now even though this is PERMITTED it doesn't matter, if it's Microsoft doing the extending there will be a NEVER ENDING hew and cry from the Open community about it.
Let Microsoft have their own formant and KEEP ODF "clean".
My ghod, talk about not seeing the forest for the trees :(
:(
Sure, internal code can be embarassing. Whee, is that a revelation to anyone that works in or with software engineering?
But that is NOT the reason AT ALL.
Why doesn't Adobe open source Photoshop?
Because then no one would buy it! You just DL a free compiled version from the net, or if you are a little elss savvy, from one of the 50 value added clones now all selling by people other than Adobe for $65 to the same peolpe that buy it now for $650.
DUH!
Companies don't just give away code they have been working on for years and has earned them and is still earning them millions of dollars. Virtually all of the large projects that have gone closed to open have done so because the original company went out of buisness or was bought by someone else and the bigger company didn't care about the source (re AMD/ATI for a recent (partial) example) Or the code really was now outdated and had no real profit potential anymore.
Embarassing or not, if code is earning a company money, it's extremely unlikely they are just going to give it away.
"Because it's embarassing" yeah, THAT'S the reason
Really, where are mod points when I need them.
... :)
A small bug in an unusual case, easily gotten around by the end user in 2 seconds.
Should it be fixed? Yes, Does MS need to be raked over the coals for this? No. Do some people really need to get a life?
Wow, did you actually just say "4 Gig should be enough for anybody"?!?!?
Dud you have NO IDEA where computers will be in 20 years, but one thing that is sure, 4 gig will be NOTHING.
So...
/no hope/ for anyone using any OS that is targeted. :(
Considering that 99.9% of everyone replying has been duped by a hoax. Can you now really say that social engineering tricks wouldn't work on Linux users? Even the "smart" ones as we all must be?
With attention to detail as absent as it can possibly be with everyone here as demonstrated clearly by this sincle article+followups... there is simply
This article thread is amazingly enlightening!