Living in So. Cal. the place first and hardest hit with rising energy prices, I spent some time investigating a solar system. Even with the state of CA paying for 50% of the system, I calculated that it would take 20 years to just break even at the currently outrageously high energy prices. So, the economics just aren't there yet. It was pretty dissapointing. MAYBE in the future with ultra high density cells and high efficiency air-gell storage systems it could become more reasonable. But right now, it just doesn't make any sense for anyone that is connected to a large energy grid. (Atleast in the US, no idea about power prices elsewhere)
You are NEVER secure OR stable. Why are we up to 2.4.6? Why did 2.4.0 socket open/c lose/read/kernalpanic? Was that because it was "ready"? Why were there 7 count them SEVEN security exploits found in various linux packages last week? The same week that ZDNet ran an article saying "Kudos to open source" Kudos for what? Being the buggiest most insecure software that week? Why have there been BIND exploints in existance for YEARS if O.S. is so much more stable and secure? Try keeping up with Security Portal if you dare. You'll have to read about weekly exploits and bugs in Linux. (And Windows and Solaris and Cicso's NOS). You're spouting PURE unadulterated FUD there mister. Hey! Welcome to the/. community!:)
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Actually if this story is true, then the actions of these individuals has severely degraded the whole. No sane person is going to put up with such actions. It only serves to cement anti-eco and especially anti-ecology sentiments. That is VERY BAD for their cause:(
I assume by your anti MS FUD that your a Linux advocate? And we have a Linux advocate ragging on MS about SWAPPING? Geez ghod man, what color is the sky in your world? You can't even PUT enough ram in a linux machine to keep 2 copies of netscape from swapping you to a kernal panic!
Ok, but when are we going to have computer enhancement to 2d photographs that let you look around corners to see stuff behind walls like in Bladerunner?:)
Bob Young is saying only what is necessary for Bob Young to be succsessful. He's a buisness man. He sits on the board of a company that has lifted the work of a million programmers for their own profits. Of course he's going to have an alternate view of IP. You can tell from just those statements that he believes in JUST enough of IP as it currently suits his position in life, nothting more or less is "good" as far as it suits HIS purposes. You must understand that he is NOT capable of making an unbiased philosophical statement in this area being on the board of Red Hat. His opinion means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
That's still bad theory. Good theory would have taken the mass of the inside of the battery case and converted that total enery. The original comment is right. You cannot "theoreticly" consume the processor when calculating the limit of power available to the processor!
That title could be applied to/. in spades. Lets be honest. The anti-MS FUD here is RAMPANT. I'd sort of hope that MS was big enough to ignore it. But I don't think you can run up to a bear and kick it in the nuts 100 times without it taking a swipe at you. Well now it's YOUR turn to be bigger than that. And so far the posts have been 10 little minds to one big... Oh well.
I found it kind of amusing. I theorise that because the word "Fucked" is in the site name that it's expected and/or required to be used as often as possible while posting there:) It actually seemed to be a little bit more honest than/. postings where the moderation system does funny things to the way people post. I think the best way to read/. would be at 5 and 0 simultaniously. That way you get both the truly useful posts and all the posts that "they" don't want you to see;)
Windows most certainly DOES idle the cpu when there are no interrupts pending, check your CPU temp with windows idle and seti NOT running. Then check it 10 minutes after seti is running. On my machine (intel) there is a 30% increase in CPU temp when running the RC5 client! That is certainly an indication of increased current usage. I finally gave it up when I realised it was costing me about $10 a month to do someone elses work:( Windows also has a comprehensive power saving system when it is set up. I now hibernate my home and work machines every night (Both desktops, works exactly the same as laptops). Unfortunately people that like to run SETI and other distributed apps are less likely to even allow their machines to go into energy saving mode and are less likely to power them off at night because they won't get their block counts. This also applies to some screen savers. We've had some people with screen savers here that are constantly going out on the web and downloading images and crap all night. Keeping the machine alive constantly. Now imagine an entire office building like that. The cost of excess power because of machines reconfigures by the employees could easily run into $1000's a year. "Stealing" may be too strong of a word, but don't underestimate the amount of "Waste" that SETI has caused...
And it's own spyware, and it's own subscription, and it's own auto upgrades to kill everything you've done to it. (Yes, I know you can use it without the phone line, but eveyone I know with one thinks the TV guide is the best part, and yes they are also HUGE linux supporters, not your average mom and pop, so I suspect a lot of you are using that as well)
I HAVE an ATI allinwonder card in a dedicated media PC. The PC sits by my stereo rack (Still looking for a cooler rack case) it serves MP3's to the stereo and all PCs in the house. It serves video captured from the ATI card and from the net to the TV and all computers in the house. I can watch WinAMP visualisations on my big screen while playing the MP3's throught the stereo. I can surf the web and MUD from the TV. And so on. In this situation, my Windows media machine seems to be a lot more Linux like than the Tivo running Linux! Far more breadth of use and customization than a Tivo.
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Some cards will do 96Khz 24bit. Usually used for pro audio. But you won't get that over the telco lines. It just won't go very far. And the crosstalk to the other lines in the junction boxes is also a complication. You can't just pretend that the telco system is a piece of 6 foot cat5 cable...
Please, PLEASE ask yourself the following two questions before accidentally posting the result of your next paranoia trip. "Is this NEWS for nerds?" "Does this matter?" Any article posted should be a yes anwer to BOTH questions, though on a slow news day, maybe one is good enough. But THIS, THIS was a huge and resounding NO to both. It really makes/. look bad when the article posters are either borderline nuts or the biggest trolls/flamers on the entire site. Seriously, this sort of thing makes the Linux community LOOK like a bunch of loonies. It that what we want? We should make that a poll, I'm not honestly sure. I know that I certainly don't. But maybe the majority don't care. I'd really like to know. How many people think that this sort of nonsense is funny and entertaining, and how many think it's demeaning and stunting (by whatever amount) the growth and acceptance of Linux as a serious alternative to Windows?
Possibly for somethings, not all though.
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I've had to pass on qt for cross platform development because they steadfastly refuse to believe in the concept of shareware. You are allowed by the qt lisence to either give your software away for free or sell it (For any amount from 1 dollar to a million) by paying them a tremendously high yearly commercial fee. Their own page discounts the shareware market as too small to be bothered with. I think a quick look at winfiles or tucows will prove them wrong. Low cost software is a huge market, qt refuses to be a part of it. Personally I'm hoping they come around, it used to not even be available for free software. wxWindows is pretty good for windows/linux ports, but it's Mac port is way lagging. So in short. Free software? Yes, Large expensive packages? Yes. Cheap shareware type software? Not yet.
Doh! My apologies, yes, an exclusive contract gave Apple a head start. Though even if they were available today for ISA hardware, the high cost of the drive (Higher that some computers!) and the media means waiting till at least 6-12 months anyway:P Maybe for x-mas!
The "SuperDrive" will be nothing more than a repackaged product from Philips, Sony or one of the several other DVD-R/CD-R drives that are just about to be released. And Apple won't have them before any PC parts house will. I've already seen ads for them in Publishing Perfection for the PC. Personally I'm going to wait a bit. The $10 a disc price for the recordable DVD-R media is still 3x cost of an equivilent amount of stoarage on CD-Rs:(
I love reading the one in ten sane and rational posts. Thank you. It gives me hope for/. as a whole. I can't can't figure out why MS is publicly commenting on OSS and the GPL, but the level of foaming and FUD in reply is only making the OSS communitly look like bigger fools. I respect Tim O'Reilly quite a bit but his FUDing comment on Windows code forking is making me lose that respect quickly.
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Course, people are too stupid to drive their cars without crashing them all the time too. Yes, the average person is too stupid and lazy to operate the average computer without problems regardless of the OS. I agree that administrators SHOULD NOT be required, but the fact is, THEY ARE. When this issuse has been addressed, as it has in the near past with internet terminals and other dumbed down devices, they are not accepted by the general public. Why? Because making them foolproof also limits their potential. People want the tremendous power of a generalized OS, they just can't handle it. (I think the same could be said about cars, motorcycles, guns, god any almost anything else as well) You can't have absolute power and flexibility and total safety from misuse. SO we sit in a middle ground of giving users the power and flexibility they want and hope they don't misuse it, when they do they call their local family computer expert (or in the case of a car, a mechanic) to fix it for them. Frankly I think that situation fits the bill quite nicely, any move to either side is a detriment to all.
How is it that the EFF has thing one to say about distribution of music? How many of them make their living as musicians? How many are even amatures? The gall of this is apalling! Let the musicians use their own liscences as they see fit. I can't fathom how the OS crowd (The PRODUCERS of OS software, music, code, film, etc)can put up with SO many people telling them how they should, or have, to distribute their creations. Stay out of my buisness EFF!!! I don't need YOUR help to sell or give away my creations. If this liscence takes off like the GPL did, it will only LIMIT my choices like the GPL does, releasing anything counter to the GPL these days gets you rebuke from "the revolution". The best thing the EFF can do is stay out of the policy making buisness and keep to the defence individuals that define their own (legal) policies.
Okay, I'll reply to my own post. This is for "Developers" to come and advertise their own wares. My mistake./. and Freshmeat are one. Move along, nothing to see here...
Why is the innagural post to the developers section about something that is not a developers tool or involved in the barest way with development? Wouldn't this make the entire article "Off Topic"? 8 minutes later is a post about a real development tool. Samba is a network tool. Are FTP and Web servers developer tools too according to/.? Just curious...
Sorry, this is pure flamebait. Anytime someone says anything negative about *nix or anything positive about windows the flamebait tag is pulled out and stamped on the post instantly, yet this type of thing gets high "Funny" or "Insightful" scores. Come on./. could be 10 times the site it is today if this sort of thing wasn't so rampant. Flamebait is flamebait, mark it so. (Haha, go ahead and mark this reply as flamebait just to "get" me...)
A recent article indicated that a Russian company successfully patented bottles and sued Russian breweries for bottle royalties. They also claim to have patents on nails and railroad tracks.
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Living in So. Cal. the place first and hardest hit with rising energy prices, I spent some time investigating a solar system. Even with the state of CA paying for 50% of the system, I calculated that it would take 20 years to just break even at the currently outrageously high energy prices. So, the economics just aren't there yet. It was pretty dissapointing. MAYBE in the future with ultra high density cells and high efficiency air-gell storage systems it could become more reasonable. But right now, it just doesn't make any sense for anyone that is connected to a large energy grid. (Atleast in the US, no idea about power prices elsewhere)
You are NEVER secure OR stable. Why are we up to 2.4.6? Why did 2.4.0 socket open/c lose/read/kernalpanic? Was that because it was "ready"? Why were there 7 count them SEVEN security exploits found in various linux packages last week? The same week that ZDNet ran an article saying "Kudos to open source" Kudos for what? Being the buggiest most insecure software that week? Why have there been BIND exploints in existance for YEARS if O.S. is so much more stable and secure? Try keeping up with Security Portal if you dare. You'll have to read about weekly exploits and bugs in Linux. (And Windows and Solaris and Cicso's NOS). You're spouting PURE unadulterated FUD there mister. Hey! Welcome to the /. community! :)
Actually if this story is true, then the actions of these individuals has severely degraded the whole. No sane person is going to put up with such actions. It only serves to cement anti-eco and especially anti-ecology sentiments. That is VERY BAD for their cause :(
I assume by your anti MS FUD that your a Linux advocate? And we have a Linux advocate ragging on MS about SWAPPING? Geez ghod man, what color is the sky in your world? You can't even PUT enough ram in a linux machine to keep 2 copies of netscape from swapping you to a kernal panic!
Ok, but when are we going to have computer enhancement to 2d photographs that let you look around corners to see stuff behind walls like in Bladerunner? :)
Bob Young is saying only what is necessary for Bob Young to be succsessful. He's a buisness man. He sits on the board of a company that has lifted the work of a million programmers for their own profits. Of course he's going to have an alternate view of IP. You can tell from just those statements that he believes in JUST enough of IP as it currently suits his position in life, nothting more or less is "good" as far as it suits HIS purposes. You must understand that he is NOT capable of making an unbiased philosophical statement in this area being on the board of Red Hat. His opinion means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Man that first paragraph describes Red Hat Perfectly! :)
That's still bad theory. Good theory would have taken the mass of the inside of the battery case and converted that total enery. The original comment is right. You cannot "theoreticly" consume the processor when calculating the limit of power available to the processor!
That title could be applied to /. in spades. Lets be honest. The anti-MS FUD here is RAMPANT. I'd sort of hope that MS was big enough to ignore it. But I don't think you can run up to a bear and kick it in the nuts 100 times without it taking a swipe at you. Well now it's YOUR turn to be bigger than that. And so far the posts have been 10 little minds to one big... Oh well.
I found it kind of amusing. I theorise that because the word "Fucked" is in the site name that it's expected and/or required to be used as often as possible while posting there :) It actually seemed to be a little bit more honest than /. postings where the moderation system does funny things to the way people post. I think the best way to read /. would be at 5 and 0 simultaniously. That way you get both the truly useful posts and all the posts that "they" don't want you to see ;)
"Hibernation" on Windows does turn the power completely off on desktop as well as laptop computers.
Windows most certainly DOES idle the cpu when there are no interrupts pending, check your CPU temp with windows idle and seti NOT running. Then check it 10 minutes after seti is running. On my machine (intel) there is a 30% increase in CPU temp when running the RC5 client! That is certainly an indication of increased current usage. I finally gave it up when I realised it was costing me about $10 a month to do someone elses work :( Windows also has a comprehensive power saving system when it is set up. I now hibernate my home and work machines every night (Both desktops, works exactly the same as laptops). Unfortunately people that like to run SETI and other distributed apps are less likely to even allow their machines to go into energy saving mode and are less likely to power them off at night because they won't get their block counts. This also applies to some screen savers. We've had some people with screen savers here that are constantly going out on the web and downloading images and crap all night. Keeping the machine alive constantly. Now imagine an entire office building like that. The cost of excess power because of machines reconfigures by the employees could easily run into $1000's a year. "Stealing" may be too strong of a word, but don't underestimate the amount of "Waste" that SETI has caused...
And it's own spyware, and it's own subscription, and it's own auto upgrades to kill everything you've done to it. (Yes, I know you can use it without the phone line, but eveyone I know with one thinks the TV guide is the best part, and yes they are also HUGE linux supporters, not your average mom and pop, so I suspect a lot of you are using that as well) I HAVE an ATI allinwonder card in a dedicated media PC. The PC sits by my stereo rack (Still looking for a cooler rack case) it serves MP3's to the stereo and all PCs in the house. It serves video captured from the ATI card and from the net to the TV and all computers in the house. I can watch WinAMP visualisations on my big screen while playing the MP3's throught the stereo. I can surf the web and MUD from the TV. And so on. In this situation, my Windows media machine seems to be a lot more Linux like than the Tivo running Linux! Far more breadth of use and customization than a Tivo.
Some cards will do 96Khz 24bit. Usually used for pro audio. But you won't get that over the telco lines. It just won't go very far. And the crosstalk to the other lines in the junction boxes is also a complication. You can't just pretend that the telco system is a piece of 6 foot cat5 cable...
Please, PLEASE ask yourself the following two questions before accidentally posting the result of your next paranoia trip. "Is this NEWS for nerds?" "Does this matter?" Any article posted should be a yes anwer to BOTH questions, though on a slow news day, maybe one is good enough. But THIS, THIS was a huge and resounding NO to both. It really makes /. look bad when the article posters are either borderline nuts or the biggest trolls/flamers on the entire site. Seriously, this sort of thing makes the Linux community LOOK like a bunch of loonies. It that what we want? We should make that a poll, I'm not honestly sure. I know that I certainly don't. But maybe the majority don't care. I'd really like to know. How many people think that this sort of nonsense is funny and entertaining, and how many think it's demeaning and stunting (by whatever amount) the growth and acceptance of Linux as a serious alternative to Windows?
I've had to pass on qt for cross platform development because they steadfastly refuse to believe in the concept of shareware. You are allowed by the qt lisence to either give your software away for free or sell it (For any amount from 1 dollar to a million) by paying them a tremendously high yearly commercial fee. Their own page discounts the shareware market as too small to be bothered with. I think a quick look at winfiles or tucows will prove them wrong. Low cost software is a huge market, qt refuses to be a part of it. Personally I'm hoping they come around, it used to not even be available for free software. wxWindows is pretty good for windows/linux ports, but it's Mac port is way lagging. So in short. Free software? Yes, Large expensive packages? Yes. Cheap shareware type software? Not yet.
Doh! My apologies, yes, an exclusive contract gave Apple a head start. Though even if they were available today for ISA hardware, the high cost of the drive (Higher that some computers!) and the media means waiting till at least 6-12 months anyway :P Maybe for x-mas!
The "SuperDrive" will be nothing more than a repackaged product from Philips, Sony or one of the several other DVD-R/CD-R drives that are just about to be released. And Apple won't have them before any PC parts house will. I've already seen ads for them in Publishing Perfection for the PC. Personally I'm going to wait a bit. The $10 a disc price for the recordable DVD-R media is still 3x cost of an equivilent amount of stoarage on CD-Rs :(
I love reading the one in ten sane and rational posts. Thank you. It gives me hope for /. as a whole. I can't can't figure out why MS is publicly commenting on OSS and the GPL, but the level of foaming and FUD in reply is only making the OSS communitly look like bigger fools. I respect Tim O'Reilly quite a bit but his FUDing comment on Windows code forking is making me lose that respect quickly.
Course, people are too stupid to drive their cars without crashing them all the time too. Yes, the average person is too stupid and lazy to operate the average computer without problems regardless of the OS. I agree that administrators SHOULD NOT be required, but the fact is, THEY ARE. When this issuse has been addressed, as it has in the near past with internet terminals and other dumbed down devices, they are not accepted by the general public. Why? Because making them foolproof also limits their potential. People want the tremendous power of a generalized OS, they just can't handle it. (I think the same could be said about cars, motorcycles, guns, god any almost anything else as well) You can't have absolute power and flexibility and total safety from misuse. SO we sit in a middle ground of giving users the power and flexibility they want and hope they don't misuse it, when they do they call their local family computer expert (or in the case of a car, a mechanic) to fix it for them. Frankly I think that situation fits the bill quite nicely, any move to either side is a detriment to all.
How is it that the EFF has thing one to say about distribution of music? How many of them make their living as musicians? How many are even amatures? The gall of this is apalling! Let the musicians use their own liscences as they see fit. I can't fathom how the OS crowd (The PRODUCERS of OS software, music, code, film, etc)can put up with SO many people telling them how they should, or have, to distribute their creations. Stay out of my buisness EFF!!! I don't need YOUR help to sell or give away my creations. If this liscence takes off like the GPL did, it will only LIMIT my choices like the GPL does, releasing anything counter to the GPL these days gets you rebuke from "the revolution". The best thing the EFF can do is stay out of the policy making buisness and keep to the defence individuals that define their own (legal) policies.
Okay, I'll reply to my own post. This is for "Developers" to come and advertise their own wares. My mistake. /. and Freshmeat are one. Move along, nothing to see here...
Why is the innagural post to the developers section about something that is not a developers tool or involved in the barest way with development? Wouldn't this make the entire article "Off Topic"? 8 minutes later is a post about a real development tool. Samba is a network tool. Are FTP and Web servers developer tools too according to /.? Just curious...
Sorry, this is pure flamebait. Anytime someone says anything negative about *nix or anything positive about windows the flamebait tag is pulled out and stamped on the post instantly, yet this type of thing gets high "Funny" or "Insightful" scores. Come on. /. could be 10 times the site it is today if this sort of thing wasn't so rampant. Flamebait is flamebait, mark it so. (Haha, go ahead and mark this reply as flamebait just to "get" me...)
A recent article indicated that a Russian company successfully patented bottles and sued Russian breweries for bottle royalties. They also claim to have patents on nails and railroad tracks.