ha ha, i still remember how last year was going to be this great meteor shower, and it was going to be the biggest one in a hundred years.
so me, being a sucker, sat outside in the mountains and froze my can off waiting for the sky to light up like it was US vs. Iraq and got jack
well, it wasn't exactly jack, but it certainly wasn't like daylight. however i will say that it was still one of the coolest things i've ever seen, and by all accounts it was a minor one. if you have the chance i highly recommend watching these. if nothing else it's a nice quiet hour or two to appreciate that some of the best things in life have nothing to do with technology.
If i can listen to it, it can be copied. If i can see it, it can be copied.
There is NO WAY to keep people from recording audio and visual data that is meant to be viewed. if we can see it, we can copy it.
if that's the case, what's the point behind protecting audio and video data, as it will be copied anyway.
or you could ask them
will i still be able to listen to my cd's without having to carry my cd's with me? will i be able to listen to 20GB of mp3's on my iPod if i own a new DRM machine?
if i can't, why would i want to buy one?
or ask them
why are companies so interested in chaining people to their desktops? the ability to space shift media is key to a computer's use, why limit that?
I'm sorry, but that sounds exactly right to me. I still remember when I first went online. It was through AOL. Why? Because they were the only easy way to get online at the time. Any idiot could pull a CD out of their mailbox and be online within hours.
That was the first instant chat that I'd ever seen. It was a GUI IRC, which has a lot of pluses to it. It was basically the first internet that most people could use without having a whole lot of background in the area.
Now fast forward 10 years.
Now you've got everyone and their Uncle working as an ISP. Most companies have usable products to get online. The internet is a much friendlier place, it's pretty, it's readable, not nearly as much tech speak on the pages. It's become another form of TV. (or at least it's trying to)
The biggest problem is that you don't NEED AOL anymore. They are great to get started, like diapers. Then you grow up and move on. AOL's problem is that less and less people need hand holding to get online, as that's gotten easier. At the same time they face some stiff competition, and the pool of brand new users is drying up.
They need to figure out a way to get some fresh meat to stock their coffers.
i like to listen to cd's on my computer. sadly enough, my monitor is larger than my TV, so i watch movies on there too.
if it's already illegal to make and sell copies of these cd's and movies anyway, what the hell is the DMCA doing other than stifling research into useful apps. for everyday folks.
if someone is making an illegal copy and selling it, throw them in jail. there have been laws in place to do this for years.
reminds me of people who want to create more restrictive gun laws. problem is no one is enforcing the ones that we already have.
does it make you feel any better that the criminal broke 17 laws to shoot your ass instead of 15 laws?
didn't think so.
same with this. if it's already illegal to mass produce and sell these cd's/movies, what's the DMCA really doing anyway?
actually, my favorite part after her crowing about purchasing a laptop for $450 less, is that she then had to turn around and purchas winXP pro in order to have her laptop work properly with energy saving features.
lol.
yeah, we'll sell you this laptop for cheap, but battery life is gonna cost ya!
nm, i just reread what i posted and realized Hubble was just a different design. i guess the next stage would be to put a telescope like SCUBA into space, and let it take a look around. could probably see a whole lot more.
"A specially-cooled camera called SCUBA was used to detect the dust because it is too cold and emitted insufficient light to be visible to optical telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
SCUBA operates in the "submillimetre" region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which lies between infrared light and radio waves. Its detectors are cooled to just 0.1C above absolute zero, -273C. "
they're talking about a camera that can see this dust because it's really cold, and that can see this light that they can't even see from telescopes in space.
i thought that space was absolute zero for temperature, or at least something remarkably close. how in the world are they able to get something colder on earth than they can in space?
anyone know anything at all about telescopes and the like as to why Hubble wasn't able to see this before?
Here the first time i put my machine together i was worried to death about cracking my processor or pushing to hard. this guy has time to make a slide show out of it. Showoff.
i know this sounds stupid, but you checked to see if the startup disk is locked? that little lock icon will be shut in the lower corner. that would do exactly what you described. unlock it then try to boot into OS9
i think everyone knew that this was coming. the machines (and people who use them) need to be pushed forward for OSX to be a viable OS for developers to make software for.
it's annoying for those who have thousansd in software that will only run in OS9, they get a bit of a cold shoulder from Apple is seems as of late.
this whole push towards OSX reminds me of one of those situations where everyone knows it has to be done, but no one is really dying to do it. Apple has a new OS that they're still trying to get the bugs worked out of, get it cleaned up and hopefully working to the point where it's a big enough incentive to move people over.
at the same time, OS9 users don't really want to move. they have a lot of time and money invested in both OS9 itself and their software. learning something different after you've gone 10+ years with the same thing isn't something most people look forward to. they also have a legitimate argument that a lot of smaller titles are making it over to OSX. i know in the research community that i work with there are key apps that haven't been ported because they were written by some researcher on their own time, for free years ago. that guy isn't going to take the time to learn how to port his program to OSX most likely. (and yes there is classic mode, but that rather ruins the point of OSX)
time will tell how this works out, but one way or another it had to happen. at least with 10.2 it's not a bad thing anymore.
man, forget about "disabling" this device, this is exactly what we need!
think about it. all that has to happen is one geek cracks the code. then distribute it. then get a few people together and make a database of all the different codes for different games. end result? get a nice little program that artificially inflates the stats for your favorite games!
forget running SETI of d.net, just run PS stacker in the background, sending of piles of info back to the mothership about how gamers REALLY LOVE BUSHIDO BLADE!!!
at least that's one way to do it. besides, break it entirely and they'll come up with another one. better to tweak it and use it to your advantage.
ok, a few things. first, any company that GE's food products does one thing first of all. make them sterile!!
what the hell is the point of creating a great strain of a plant that someone only has to buy once. much better to have agricultural assurance;) have to buy every year or you grow nothing!
on top of that, the fear of GE crops for the most part is unfounded and ignorant.
for example, BT corn was given all sorts of crap for possible killing monarchs. however, it was basiclly unfounded paranoia based on one crappy study that was completely worthless. (the scientist himself said it was pointless to draw conclusions from, his first test was just to see if Bt would do anything)
on top of that, no one seems willing to accept the fact that if the corn didn't have Bt in it already, farmers would just be spraying the corn with pesticide. which do you think is worse, a perfectly targeted weapon or one of spray and pray?
by putting the Bt straight in the corn you keep it from getting to beneficial insects, from running off the plants when it rains, and you don't have to keep reapplying it any time a new infestation occurs
as a whole, GE plants cut way back on dangerous pesticides, and are likely much better for people overall
the only thing better, IMO than GE plants would be pure organic grown plants. problem with them is that yeilds are so low you can't support the population on them.
i used to work at a bio research facility, and i can tell you right now the shit they spray on the plants that you eat is waaay worse than anything they're trying to put straight into the plant.
and if you think that 2 second rinse job you gave that fruit or veggie before you ate it cleared it all off, you're delusional.
yeah, i was a big gamer for a while. then i slowly started to realize that all the games are going for eye candy and no substance. they've lost their luster.
of course, half a dozen win2k reinstalls in a year to keep things clean and stable has also cooled that fire a bit. i now have a PC desktop and an iBook. my pc sits there unused most of the time now. i don't game as much as i used to, and i realized that computers are actually fun when they don't puke their brains out every day.
the little iBook is stable, easy to use and....trustworthy.
i don't have to wonder when it's going to die on me next. i never worry about getting that latest virus patch. i'm not concerned that apple is worried about what licensce i have installed on my machine. i don't have a care in the world about those strange e-mails when they come in.
why? 'cause it works. it works well, it works all the time, and i LIKE IT!
yeah, i actually like computers again. this little fucker is fun to use, go figure! i don't fight it, it doesn't fight me, we work together and stuff actually gets done. today i learned how to make my terminal window transparent. it's totally pointless but cool.
i can tweak, i can twist and pull, and it doesn't break!
for all of those in the windows world this is something that's slowly been drifting away from us, and i've found it again, and i found it in a Mac.
oh yeah, and WC3 is fun to play, on my Mac. (although i do use my MS intellimouse, need those extra buttons!)
oops, link didn't survive.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/03/squabble.idg/
that's better
Morons don't even remember the past for poop.
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For everyone out there saying that "this will never fly" or "those bastards are stealing our privacy" etc., this has been a long time in the making.
Anyone remember a few years back when Intel decided to ship a serial number with all of thier P3 chips? A bunch of people got all pissed off about it, and Intel said they would let people turn it off.
Just to refresh those that don't remember this article at cnn.com covers how hackers found a way around the option to turn off the code and still grab the number.
Know how much people cared at that point? Jack shit.
MS will just placate the average user and tell them that their concerns have been addressed, and show some stupid little ways in which changes were made to make things better, people will buy into it and it will ship just like it was supposed to in the first place.
For those who say that mfrs won't buy into it, esp. MB's mfrs, I would disagree. How hard would it be for MS to tell these folks that if they want to produce x86 boards, they damn well better implement their hardware schemes. AMD has already signed on, I'm sure Intel will as well. Who's left in the x86 world? I don't know a single company that would be able to compete and survive if they lost out on 94% of the computer market.
Sure you'll get a fringe player or two, but they'll be the odd ones out. Building your own machine will no longer have those nice low cost benefits, 'cause that non DRM board will cost a fortune to make. This has ugly written all over it.
'Course, OSX on an iBook is a pretty decent substitue. Glad I got WC3 on here too.:)
outside of college radio stations, there's nothing left worth listening to, and this tells you why.
can't someone show a business model to some exec. that shows that
good music=listeners=money?
instead of
crap music we're supposed to play=industry is happy=money
where's the listener come in?
oh yeah, as a stat on some marketroids excell spreadsheet showing that if you play enough Britney Spears, people's standards drop low enough to where they can sell their product.
if you can't tell, i hate almost all broadcast radio. it's been crap for years now and getting worse. i feel like an old man before my time.:)
actually, seeing this computer, what it has and what it doesn't, really makes me appreciate the cube more.
when it first came out i wasn't all that impressed. it was cool and all, but so much money.
however, i think it gave people a taste for quite, small computers. perhaps this is another newton.
apple enters the market with a great idea, way ahead of everyone else, then charges an arm and a leg and flops. cut back two years later and everyone and their grandma is working to take over that market.
you think that advertisers are going to let you get around watching commercials by just skipping through them? you think that they haven't thought of all of your ways to skip them already?
there are new methods in place already to take care of this, and have been going on for years.
images are placed, products are placed, entire scripts are rewritten to take products into account. it's integrated advertising, and it's where television is going.
you won't be able to watch your tv show w/o getting force fed advertising. now the smart companies will do this so that you don't hate them. but how many you think are going to be smart about it?
lol, i majored in marketing, they are well aware of the limitations of commercials in today's tech society, and are already well on the way to fixing the problem.
one little example. remember sienfeld? those boxes of cereal in his apt. were digitally changed based on the market and who paid the shelf space, and that was years ago. they're better at it now, and you never notice 90% of the time unless you've been trained to watch for it.
and for those saying that they've never bought a single thing due to advertising, you're flat out wrong. you may not realize it, but advertising has measurable, consistant effects on sales in markets. if nothing else it will make you aware of a product that you wouldn't have known about otherwise.
ok, it might cost $10k to get something into orbit, but the VAST majority of that cost is getting the object out of earth's gravitational field.
once you have it in space, it costs almost nothing to move around. it might be slow, but there's no friction or gravity. (although you still have to pay to move mass)
lol, i actually went on e-bay, bought an old 3do system and downloaded star control 2 for 3do. if you look around, you can find irc servers with 3do games. that thing is so much fun. i finally broke down and bought the console to play the game, i was having a hell of a time getting it to run on my hardware.
Oh my Lord! that is so amazingly dangerous i can't believe it. sheesh, here i hope that one time people will try and do security right, and guess not. the maps on CD doesn't seem as bad as having a network where people are checking their mail w/Outlook. you're just begging for trouble.
Um, hate to break it to you, but how the hell do you hack a system that's on a ship and self contained? everyone's talking about virus this and worm that, who gives a crap? my guess is that the ship's navigation systems are secluded from anything that would have outside access.
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They need to hire on Britney. "Oops, I Did It Again"
seems like the fun just never stops in MS land.
ha ha, i still remember how last year was going to be this great meteor shower, and it was going to be the biggest one in a hundred years.
so me, being a sucker, sat outside in the mountains and froze my can off waiting for the sky to light up like it was US vs. Iraq and got jack
well, it wasn't exactly jack, but it certainly wasn't like daylight. however i will say that it was still one of the coolest things i've ever seen, and by all accounts it was a minor one. if you have the chance i highly recommend watching these. if nothing else it's a nice quiet hour or two to appreciate that some of the best things in life have nothing to do with technology.
If i can listen to it, it can be copied. If i can see it, it can be copied.
There is NO WAY to keep people from recording audio and visual data that is meant to be viewed. if we can see it, we can copy it.
if that's the case, what's the point behind protecting audio and video data, as it will be copied anyway.
or you could ask them
will i still be able to listen to my cd's without having to carry my cd's with me? will i be able to listen to 20GB of mp3's on my iPod if i own a new DRM machine?
if i can't, why would i want to buy one?
or ask them
why are companies so interested in chaining people to their desktops? the ability to space shift media is key to a computer's use, why limit that?
I'm sorry, but that sounds exactly right to me. I still remember when I first went online. It was through AOL. Why? Because they were the only easy way to get online at the time. Any idiot could pull a CD out of their mailbox and be online within hours.
That was the first instant chat that I'd ever seen. It was a GUI IRC, which has a lot of pluses to it. It was basically the first internet that most people could use without having a whole lot of background in the area.
Now fast forward 10 years.
Now you've got everyone and their Uncle working as an ISP. Most companies have usable products to get online. The internet is a much friendlier place, it's pretty, it's readable, not nearly as much tech speak on the pages. It's become another form of TV. (or at least it's trying to)
The biggest problem is that you don't NEED AOL anymore. They are great to get started, like diapers. Then you grow up and move on. AOL's problem is that less and less people need hand holding to get online, as that's gotten easier. At the same time they face some stiff competition, and the pool of brand new users is drying up.
They need to figure out a way to get some fresh meat to stock their coffers.
let's see. i want cd's out of there. then movies.
why?
i like to listen to cd's on my computer. sadly enough, my monitor is larger than my TV, so i watch movies on there too.
if it's already illegal to make and sell copies of these cd's and movies anyway, what the hell is the DMCA doing other than stifling research into useful apps. for everyday folks.
if someone is making an illegal copy and selling it, throw them in jail. there have been laws in place to do this for years.
reminds me of people who want to create more restrictive gun laws. problem is no one is enforcing the ones that we already have.
does it make you feel any better that the criminal broke 17 laws to shoot your ass instead of 15 laws?
didn't think so.
same with this. if it's already illegal to mass produce and sell these cd's/movies, what's the DMCA really doing anyway?
actually, my favorite part after her crowing about purchasing a laptop for $450 less, is that she then had to turn around and purchas winXP pro in order to have her laptop work properly with energy saving features.
lol.
yeah, we'll sell you this laptop for cheap, but battery life is gonna cost ya!
nm, i just reread what i posted and realized Hubble was just a different design. i guess the next stage would be to put a telescope like SCUBA into space, and let it take a look around. could probably see a whole lot more.
that'll teach me to RTFA.
"A specially-cooled camera called SCUBA was used to detect the dust because it is too cold and emitted insufficient light to be visible to optical telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
SCUBA operates in the "submillimetre" region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which lies between infrared light and radio waves. Its detectors are cooled to just 0.1C above absolute zero, -273C. "
they're talking about a camera that can see this dust because it's really cold, and that can see this light that they can't even see from telescopes in space.
i thought that space was absolute zero for temperature, or at least something remarkably close. how in the world are they able to get something colder on earth than they can in space?
anyone know anything at all about telescopes and the like as to why Hubble wasn't able to see this before?
Here the first time i put my machine together i was worried to death about cracking my processor or pushing to hard. this guy has time to make a slide show out of it. Showoff.
i know this sounds stupid, but you checked to see if the startup disk is locked? that little lock icon will be shut in the lower corner. that would do exactly what you described. unlock it then try to boot into OS9
it's annoying for those who have thousansd in software that will only run in OS9, they get a bit of a cold shoulder from Apple is seems as of late.
this whole push towards OSX reminds me of one of those situations where everyone knows it has to be done, but no one is really dying to do it. Apple has a new OS that they're still trying to get the bugs worked out of, get it cleaned up and hopefully working to the point where it's a big enough incentive to move people over.
at the same time, OS9 users don't really want to move. they have a lot of time and money invested in both OS9 itself and their software. learning something different after you've gone 10+ years with the same thing isn't something most people look forward to. they also have a legitimate argument that a lot of smaller titles are making it over to OSX. i know in the research community that i work with there are key apps that haven't been ported because they were written by some researcher on their own time, for free years ago. that guy isn't going to take the time to learn how to port his program to OSX most likely. (and yes there is classic mode, but that rather ruins the point of OSX)
time will tell how this works out, but one way or another it had to happen. at least with 10.2 it's not a bad thing anymore.
first, this is possible. monitor spanning can and has been done on iBooks under OS9 and OSX.
seems it's a software limit in the OS for the hardware.
try this site for an account of someone who's done it.
man, forget about "disabling" this device, this is exactly what we need!
think about it. all that has to happen is one geek cracks the code. then distribute it. then get a few people together and make a database of all the different codes for different games. end result? get a nice little program that artificially inflates the stats for your favorite games!
forget running SETI of d.net, just run PS stacker in the background, sending of piles of info back to the mothership about how gamers REALLY LOVE BUSHIDO BLADE!!!
at least that's one way to do it. besides, break it entirely and they'll come up with another one. better to tweak it and use it to your advantage.
ok, a few things. first, any company that GE's food products does one thing first of all. make them sterile!! ;) have to buy every year or you grow nothing!
what the hell is the point of creating a great strain of a plant that someone only has to buy once. much better to have agricultural assurance
on top of that, the fear of GE crops for the most part is unfounded and ignorant.
for example, BT corn was given all sorts of crap for possible killing monarchs. however, it was basiclly unfounded paranoia based on one crappy study that was completely worthless. (the scientist himself said it was pointless to draw conclusions from, his first test was just to see if Bt would do anything)
on top of that, no one seems willing to accept the fact that if the corn didn't have Bt in it already, farmers would just be spraying the corn with pesticide. which do you think is worse, a perfectly targeted weapon or one of spray and pray?
by putting the Bt straight in the corn you keep it from getting to beneficial insects, from running off the plants when it rains, and you don't have to keep reapplying it any time a new infestation occurs
as a whole, GE plants cut way back on dangerous pesticides, and are likely much better for people overall
the only thing better, IMO than GE plants would be pure organic grown plants. problem with them is that yeilds are so low you can't support the population on them.
i used to work at a bio research facility, and i can tell you right now the shit they spray on the plants that you eat is waaay worse than anything they're trying to put straight into the plant.
and if you think that 2 second rinse job you gave that fruit or veggie before you ate it cleared it all off, you're delusional.
then again, maybe not.
yeah, i was a big gamer for a while. then i slowly started to realize that all the games are going for eye candy and no substance. they've lost their luster.
of course, half a dozen win2k reinstalls in a year to keep things clean and stable has also cooled that fire a bit. i now have a PC desktop and an iBook. my pc sits there unused most of the time now. i don't game as much as i used to, and i realized that computers are actually fun when they don't puke their brains out every day.
the little iBook is stable, easy to use and....trustworthy.
i don't have to wonder when it's going to die on me next. i never worry about getting that latest virus patch. i'm not concerned that apple is worried about what licensce i have installed on my machine. i don't have a care in the world about those strange e-mails when they come in.
why? 'cause it works. it works well, it works all the time, and i LIKE IT!
yeah, i actually like computers again. this little fucker is fun to use, go figure! i don't fight it, it doesn't fight me, we work together and stuff actually gets done. today i learned how to make my terminal window transparent. it's totally pointless but cool.
i can tweak, i can twist and pull, and it doesn't break!
for all of those in the windows world this is something that's slowly been drifting away from us, and i've found it again, and i found it in a Mac.
oh yeah, and WC3 is fun to play, on my Mac. (although i do use my MS intellimouse, need those extra buttons!)
oops, link didn't survive. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/03/squabble .idg/
that's better
For everyone out there saying that "this will never fly" or "those bastards are stealing our privacy" etc., this has been a long time in the making.
:)
Anyone remember a few years back when Intel decided to ship a serial number with all of thier P3 chips? A bunch of people got all pissed off about it, and Intel said they would let people turn it off.
Just to refresh those that don't remember this article at cnn.com covers how hackers found a way around the option to turn off the code and still grab the number.
Know how much people cared at that point? Jack shit.
MS will just placate the average user and tell them that their concerns have been addressed, and show some stupid little ways in which changes were made to make things better, people will buy into it and it will ship just like it was supposed to in the first place.
For those who say that mfrs won't buy into it, esp. MB's mfrs, I would disagree. How hard would it be for MS to tell these folks that if they want to produce x86 boards, they damn well better implement their hardware schemes. AMD has already signed on, I'm sure Intel will as well. Who's left in the x86 world? I don't know a single company that would be able to compete and survive if they lost out on 94% of the computer market.
Sure you'll get a fringe player or two, but they'll be the odd ones out. Building your own machine will no longer have those nice low cost benefits, 'cause that non DRM board will cost a fortune to make. This has ugly written all over it.
'Course, OSX on an iBook is a pretty decent substitue. Glad I got WC3 on here too.
outside of college radio stations, there's nothing left worth listening to, and this tells you why.
:)
can't someone show a business model to some exec. that shows that
good music=listeners=money?
instead of
crap music we're supposed to play=industry is happy=money
where's the listener come in?
oh yeah, as a stat on some marketroids excell spreadsheet showing that if you play enough Britney Spears, people's standards drop low enough to where they can sell their product.
if you can't tell, i hate almost all broadcast radio. it's been crap for years now and getting worse. i feel like an old man before my time.
actually, seeing this computer, what it has and what it doesn't, really makes me appreciate the cube more.
when it first came out i wasn't all that impressed. it was cool and all, but so much money.
however, i think it gave people a taste for quite, small computers. perhaps this is another newton.
apple enters the market with a great idea, way ahead of everyone else, then charges an arm and a leg and flops. cut back two years later and everyone and their grandma is working to take over that market.
oh well.
you think that advertisers are going to let you get around watching commercials by just skipping through them? you think that they haven't thought of all of your ways to skip them already?
there are new methods in place already to take care of this, and have been going on for years.
images are placed, products are placed, entire scripts are rewritten to take products into account. it's integrated advertising, and it's where television is going.
you won't be able to watch your tv show w/o getting force fed advertising. now the smart companies will do this so that you don't hate them. but how many you think are going to be smart about it?
lol, i majored in marketing, they are well aware of the limitations of commercials in today's tech society, and are already well on the way to fixing the problem.
one little example. remember sienfeld? those boxes of cereal in his apt. were digitally changed based on the market and who paid the shelf space, and that was years ago. they're better at it now, and you never notice 90% of the time unless you've been trained to watch for it.
and for those saying that they've never bought a single thing due to advertising, you're flat out wrong. you may not realize it, but advertising has measurable, consistant effects on sales in markets. if nothing else it will make you aware of a product that you wouldn't have known about otherwise.
-alcimedes
ok, it might cost $10k to get something into orbit, but the VAST majority of that cost is getting the object out of earth's gravitational field.
once you have it in space, it costs almost nothing to move around. it might be slow, but there's no friction or gravity. (although you still have to pay to move mass)
Star Wars was just a rewritten Japanese film about a Samuari. The movie was titled Hidden Fortress
Thank god for the Japanese, or we might have Howard the Duck part V.
lol, i actually went on e-bay, bought an old 3do system and downloaded star control 2 for 3do. if you look around, you can find irc servers with 3do games. that thing is so much fun. i finally broke down and bought the console to play the game, i was having a hell of a time getting it to run on my hardware.
Oh my Lord! that is so amazingly dangerous i can't believe it. sheesh, here i hope that one time people will try and do security right, and guess not. the maps on CD doesn't seem as bad as having a network where people are checking their mail w/Outlook. you're just begging for trouble.
thanks for the info!
Um, hate to break it to you, but how the hell do you hack a system that's on a ship and self contained? everyone's talking about virus this and worm that, who gives a crap? my guess is that the ship's navigation systems are secluded from anything that would have outside access.
what i'm guessing he wants to know is something more along the lines of this.Windows NT cripples US Navy Cruiser
in which case, he's really asking which software/OS is the least likely to puke and leave you up a creek without a paddle.