If in the movie Spider-man they rendered the whole city would then also be required to program the computers in with their competitors ads? I think they are in their right to remove the ads. if Samsung wants product placement they can go right ahead and pay Sony for it.
What do you mean gone? Many companies still use that hardware. In many cases it's at the request of the client who has remote locations that have updated their hardware since the punch card system was new and need that backward capability.
One year ago I worked in a place that had tape drives the size of washing machines, tape reels that store 137bytes per foot, a vt-100 terminal that interfaces with an ibm s/390 and a dot-matrix printer to print up job requests....that was a year ago and they are still running it that way to this day.
Yes, it indeed used to be run that way. So did Apple.
The good old quote "You get what you paid for." applies here. When it was done on a volunteer basis I expected nothing - it was free, they were doing this for fun. Now that they are paid I don't think it's too much to expect some form of accuracy, maybe a dash of grammer and if I'm really lucky they might use a spell checker.
They are paid, I pay them by loading this page and looking at their ads. I expect what I paid for. I just don't think they realize that they are professionals now and need to start acting like it.
I was under the impression that the slashdot staff is paid. If they are paid and they do this for a living they are professional reviewers. They may be in the shallow end of the professional pool but don't go thinking that this is a site run by a couple guys in their basements.
As a professional site now we should expect some form of grammer, spelling and accuracy in the reporting.
As for Jon Katz, wow, it's been a long time since I've read one of his reviews. I usually have my slashdot set up to ignore his postings....
If there was a slot were I could slide my iPod into my PDA that would likely mean the PDA is bigger than the iPod. I think that would be too big. The PDA should be about the same size and weight as the iPod.
What would be nice is a hybrid of a PDA and the iPod. If Apple was to release such a beast - a PDA with 5gb of hard disk storage along with its 32mb of memory and a firewire connection all bundled with an Apple creation of a mobile OS (it's Apple so I would expect an amazing interface and fully capable PIM) then I would be sold on it.
It wouldn't have to be colour (probably decide not do that to retain battery life) and I'd imagine it would look like the current iPod but have the screen longer (75%) and wider (5%-10%).
I'm not sure if such a thing is possible but with the current technology that it is going into the iPod such a creation can't be that far off.
So in closing, I don't think the way to go is an iPod/PDA dual combo I think it's for the iPod to take over the functionality of the PDA and replace it. As for hooking the iPod up t a digital camera (video and still) I totally agree. Especially considering some digital still cameras will take video for up to 30 seconds - if they had 5, 10 or 20gb to work with then there would be much more flexabilty.
...oh, and don't forget Enlightenment.
but some of us just son't have the horsepower to run it;)
I'm impressed that people are still saying that. I remember having a usable Enlightenment enviroment working on a P150. Not all the features were turned though (okay, most of them weren't). I moved from that up to a K6-2 350 and Enlightenment ran just fine on it (not as fast as KDE though but much prettier).
Enlightenment is one of my favourite window managers it's really unfortunate that it hasn't made any progress for a long time (can't wait for 17.0 though).
Obligatory Apple comment: I really must admit my all time favourite UI is Aqua.
I have definately noticed that an LCD screen is much easier on the eyes. Less strain - more relaxing. Not sure if that would have anything to do with bad eyesight but with an LCD screen you can sit closer to it more comfortably and look at it for longer periods of time.
And bigger is always better...except for dot pitch...small is better there.
On another note with respect to bad eyesight...does anyone really use the high-contrast theme that comes with windows (the white on balck theme)?
I just got a Mac along with an iPod. Since the iPod uses the ID3 tags in mp3s for the display and sorting I've starting buying the music I listen to and ripping it (iTunes is really great for this). most of my current mp3 collection (along with a lot over p2p systems) have little to nothing in the ID3 tags - mostly just title and artist in the filename.
I'm now in the process of making my collection a legal collection because of this. If I can't buy the CD and rip it on my Mac then it's kind of pointless for me to buy the CD since I don't own a CD player.
Oh well, I wish the best of luck to them. I just hope copy-protected cd are properly labeled so I don't waste my time with buying and returning them.
True, but clicking on the a folder to open a directory takes quite a bit of time whereas under KDE it's instant. Much more than 5 times faster.
Yes, the apple looks much better but the comment about speed being an issue is quite true. I have Win XP running at 1400x1050 w/Nvidia Geforce2Go (16mb) 256mb Ram and a PIII 1GHZ running a laptop that is much faster response in the GUI than OS X is.
All in all I found the best GUI to respond to user input is by far BeOS.
7 - OS X is kinda slow
i assume you're still running the public beta. 10.1.2 is snappier than kde on the same machine
I agree with all your points with the exception of the above. I have kde (the distribution is mandrake) running on a celeron 600 w/256mb PC100 and an ATI 4 mb video card. I also have OS X running oon a 600mhz Granite iMac (16mb video card and 256mb of PC100). The only difference is the mac is running at 1024x768 and the pc is at 640x480.
KDE is MUCH faster then the response I get from my Mac (and remember the old myth of mac mhz being faster than PC mhz). OS X may be prettier but it certainly can't compare with ti's speed.
On another note, the mouse handling is weird. The mouse is much slower even on its fastest setting. I even tried editing the value in the.GlobalPreferences.plist and it still wouldn't help.
Compaq is largely into the mid-range server business. That is where the money is at. HP has been loosing a lot of ground with businesses, Compaq could change that.
As a long time PC user I find myself more an more tempted to get theh new iMac. I can't really justify it let alone afford it yet I can't help myself - it's so tempting now with OS X.
My best guess is that Apple computers are laced with crack....it's an addiction and it may cost me a fortune.
You obviously don't have a dachshund. They have this need to rip teddy bear apart. The dog toys that make sounds (Santa said "Ho ho ho" for instance) don't last long. The longest working dog toy is at 2 toys after purchase.
I would put this bear anywhere near a small dog unless you want your network to go down fast.
It would be nice if you guys knew a little more of the huge country north of you. Our population may not be large but there is a large lack of Canadian knowledge in the US.
There was a show put on here call Talking to American. Absolutely hillarious. I thought it was funny that Harvard professors and students could be convinced that it would be a good idea for our Prime Minister (Jean Poutine as you guys may know him) to stop the the seal slaughter in Saskatchewan.
Yes, the whole movie was shot digitally. The video cameras had swapable hard drives for them that they would just fill up and replace. The whole point of AOTC was that it was completely digitial, no conversion - hence the super high quality.
Until the last month, I as a Rogers customer never even saw what 100% of my connection was. I was told 100 times faster than the 28.8 dialup connection (roughly 300Kbs). In my time with high speed (Rogers for 3 years in three different locations of Ottawa Ontario) I have seen 270Kbs ONCE. For the last month or so I've been lucky to average 180Kbs, a year ago it was 80Kbs (if I was lucky). When I started it was 50Kbs.
It's also one of those nice companies that I don't get any more than a 95% uptime during the day (I don't check during the night, I'm sleeping). Routinely I get disconnected, I call in and get "Sorry, there's a scheduled change in your area". They never notify affected customers...okay, I shouldn't say that - they send you an e-mail afterwards saying "Service is now upgraded!".
The fact of the matter is this is Rogers, a company that service has been less than exceptional. Hell, they charge me $200 to move my internet and cable 1km (to a new house) where the cable was already hooked up. They paid a cable guy to come out, disconnect the cable then reconnect the cable the same day (the cable guy laughed at how stupid the request was). There tech support is generally pretty bad.
Me (linux box couldn't resolve the pop address "pop"): What's the ip address of the mail server?
Tech support: We no longer give out ip addresses because they were being used to hack us.
Me: Alright.....what's the full address name then?
Tech: mail.rchrd1.on.wave.home.com
Me: You could have just told me it was 24.2.9.10.
Tech: But then that wouldn't be secure. Have a nice day.
My only other option for highspeed is Bell...another favourite.
If your serious about backing up that much data you could also use a 9840 drive which holds 20gb uncompressed and (they say) 80 gb compressed however in my experience you can get 140gb onto a tape. Also, it'll write faster (when backing pu a terabyte having the backup take 32 hours is not a good idea). The 9840B drives write at up to 50gb/hour but usually run closer to 30-35gb/hour. While DLT drives usually write at about 5gb/hour.
I haven't tested it out but StorageTek has a drive called the 9940 which has tapes that hold 60gb uncompressed (likely 200+gb compressed), it writes faster (10mb/sec ~= 55gb/hour). Also, the drive itself will put you out $33.5k with the tapes being a couple hundred a piece.
In this case, it'd probably be better just to have a second 1tb raid - then again tapes are much more stable.
Escape velocity is the speed required to exert a force "upwards" (away from the centre of gravity) greater than the force that gravity has upon the object that is attempting to escape.
In a black hole, supposedly there is so much mass (no necissarily at a single point like a singularity, but there are theories that it would be since matter would collapse upon itself with so much gravity - no one really knows) that even light cannot escape.
A rocket could not escape because the force of gravity from the black hole would be greater than the force exert by the rocket going anywhere near the speed of light (which we still can't do).
For a better explaination read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
NVidia has the GeForce2Go which would seem like the most likely candidate for the suggestion you put forth. Course the GeForce2Go is usually found in laptops but it has great performance.
I complain about my laptop getting 50fps in Quake 3, can't imagine what it's be like with shared video...
I have a full tower sized system since its easier to upgrade. The system I use now was oringinally a P150 w/16mb of ED0 ram and a 2.1gb hard disk. Slowly over time I've upgraded the parts, one by one. The first thing I got rid of was the mini-tower case that the computer came with. It was such a PITA to work with a mini-tower computer case.
I also find most Compaq and HP computer cases to be incredibly annoying to work in.
I can understand the merits of the mini-computer for individuals (like my sister) who want their computers to look cute, never being upgrading and having only three large buttons on the desktop - email, msn, and ebay.
I can totally see your point, as such I have never had a water cooled system and then over clocked it. But now I'm in the situation where my parents have a computer that is inside a desk (it's in the living room so they don't want an ugly computer case showing) with poor circulation. The problem with this the thing has a tendancy to heat up quite fast. It's just an athlon 1ghz, nothing terribly high end like in the article. But I do wonder if I system like the Z4 would allow the computer to run better in an area with poor curculation.
Also, with it being quieter that would be another bonus.
Then again $350 USD to a Canadian like myself would hurt (hell, it's another complete athlon 1ghz system).
I always think comments like yours are neat since for me anyways I have the exact opposite problem. I currently work almost 100% in windows (XP and 2000). The install of XP was a lot better than most windows systems but still not as easy as a linux (redhat or mandrake). An install of Windows XP on my desktop system took 55 minutes plus two reboots. I had rehat 7.0 beta full install from scratch including formating in under 15 minutes. Although Windows XP and 2000 are great for not needing a lot of driver disks Windows 98 is horrible for repeatedly needing the Win98 disk and driver disks. I love the fact that when I add new printer under linux I don't need to go find my linux install disks. I love the fact that changing a network setting doesn't require the install disks.
Yes, much of this was fixed in Windows XP and 2000 but try under Windows XP (Home edition) to set the login sytle to the same as Windows 2000. Well, you have to visit the registry. For a lot of the configurations in Windows XP it cannot be done via the GUI. In fact several options are available via the GUI under the professional version but not in the home edition. Personally I prefer the documented organized text files verus the huge registry that windows has.
The example concerning RPM v4 I actually had that headache myself. Yes, that was annoying. The flash bit is also something that the linux community needs to work on, but its not because linux is more difficult it's because a high standard is put on linux users. Under windows there is a install program that puts the files in the right place (and with many/most program requires you to reboot your pc) however with linux in most cases they don't even bother since they assume that the average linux user knows how to add the plugins into the right directories.
All in all, I use Windows every day. The Windows XP GUI is amazing (considering I'm using netscape 4.x running w/twm as the window manager). I like Windows for the most parts since it works now - the reason I originally went to using linux (slackware at the time - now that involved much more).
In order from most complicated to least complicated OSes that I use on a daily/weekly basis I would put them in this order:
Linux
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 98
FreeBSD
SUN/OS
Vax/VMS
My favourite of all time is FreeBSD even though I find it a little complicated (damn that naming convention for devices)
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If in the movie Spider-man they rendered the whole city would then also be required to program the computers in with their competitors ads? I think they are in their right to remove the ads. if Samsung wants product placement they can go right ahead and pay Sony for it.
What do you mean gone? Many companies still use that hardware. In many cases it's at the request of the client who has remote locations that have updated their hardware since the punch card system was new and need that backward capability.
One year ago I worked in a place that had tape drives the size of washing machines, tape reels that store 137bytes per foot, a vt-100 terminal that interfaces with an ibm s/390 and a dot-matrix printer to print up job requests....that was a year ago and they are still running it that way to this day.
Yes, it indeed used to be run that way. So did Apple.
The good old quote "You get what you paid for." applies here. When it was done on a volunteer basis I expected nothing - it was free, they were doing this for fun. Now that they are paid I don't think it's too much to expect some form of accuracy, maybe a dash of grammer and if I'm really lucky they might use a spell checker.
They are paid, I pay them by loading this page and looking at their ads. I expect what I paid for. I just don't think they realize that they are professionals now and need to start acting like it.
I was under the impression that the slashdot staff is paid. If they are paid and they do this for a living they are professional reviewers. They may be in the shallow end of the professional pool but don't go thinking that this is a site run by a couple guys in their basements.
As a professional site now we should expect some form of grammer, spelling and accuracy in the reporting.
As for Jon Katz, wow, it's been a long time since I've read one of his reviews. I usually have my slashdot set up to ignore his postings....
If there was a slot were I could slide my iPod into my PDA that would likely mean the PDA is bigger than the iPod. I think that would be too big. The PDA should be about the same size and weight as the iPod.
What would be nice is a hybrid of a PDA and the iPod. If Apple was to release such a beast - a PDA with 5gb of hard disk storage along with its 32mb of memory and a firewire connection all bundled with an Apple creation of a mobile OS (it's Apple so I would expect an amazing interface and fully capable PIM) then I would be sold on it.
It wouldn't have to be colour (probably decide not do that to retain battery life) and I'd imagine it would look like the current iPod but have the screen longer (75%) and wider (5%-10%).
I'm not sure if such a thing is possible but with the current technology that it is going into the iPod such a creation can't be that far off.
So in closing, I don't think the way to go is an iPod/PDA dual combo I think it's for the iPod to take over the functionality of the PDA and replace it. As for hooking the iPod up t a digital camera (video and still) I totally agree. Especially considering some digital still cameras will take video for up to 30 seconds - if they had 5, 10 or 20gb to work with then there would be much more flexabilty.
Oh well, till then I'll dream.
Enlightenment is one of my favourite window managers it's really unfortunate that it hasn't made any progress for a long time (can't wait for 17.0 though).
Obligatory Apple comment: I really must admit my all time favourite UI is Aqua.
I have definately noticed that an LCD screen is much easier on the eyes. Less strain - more relaxing. Not sure if that would have anything to do with bad eyesight but with an LCD screen you can sit closer to it more comfortably and look at it for longer periods of time.
And bigger is always better...except for dot pitch...small is better there.
On another note with respect to bad eyesight...does anyone really use the high-contrast theme that comes with windows (the white on balck theme)?
I just got a Mac along with an iPod. Since the iPod uses the ID3 tags in mp3s for the display and sorting I've starting buying the music I listen to and ripping it (iTunes is really great for this). most of my current mp3 collection (along with a lot over p2p systems) have little to nothing in the ID3 tags - mostly just title and artist in the filename.
I'm now in the process of making my collection a legal collection because of this. If I can't buy the CD and rip it on my Mac then it's kind of pointless for me to buy the CD since I don't own a CD player.
Oh well, I wish the best of luck to them. I just hope copy-protected cd are properly labeled so I don't waste my time with buying and returning them.
True, but clicking on the a folder to open a directory takes quite a bit of time whereas under KDE it's instant. Much more than 5 times faster.
Yes, the apple looks much better but the comment about speed being an issue is quite true. I have Win XP running at 1400x1050 w/Nvidia Geforce2Go (16mb) 256mb Ram and a PIII 1GHZ running a laptop that is much faster response in the GUI than OS X is.
All in all I found the best GUI to respond to user input is by far BeOS.
I agree with all your points with the exception of the above. I have kde (the distribution is mandrake) running on a celeron 600 w/256mb PC100 and an ATI 4 mb video card. I also have OS X running oon a 600mhz Granite iMac (16mb video card and 256mb of PC100). The only difference is the mac is running at 1024x768 and the pc is at 640x480.
KDE is MUCH faster then the response I get from my Mac (and remember the old myth of mac mhz being faster than PC mhz). OS X may be prettier but it certainly can't compare with ti's speed.
On another note, the mouse handling is weird. The mouse is much slower even on its fastest setting. I even tried editing the value in the
Compaq is largely into the mid-range server business. That is where the money is at. HP has been loosing a lot of ground with businesses, Compaq could change that.
Actually, I know someone who got 25 legal copies of windows 95 from his co-op placement since they never used them.
As a long time PC user I find myself more an more tempted to get theh new iMac. I can't really justify it let alone afford it yet I can't help myself - it's so tempting now with OS X.
My best guess is that Apple computers are laced with crack....it's an addiction and it may cost me a fortune.
You obviously don't have a dachshund. They have this need to rip teddy bear apart. The dog toys that make sounds (Santa said "Ho ho ho" for instance) don't last long. The longest working dog toy is at 2 toys after purchase.
I would put this bear anywhere near a small dog unless you want your network to go down fast.
It would be nice if you guys knew a little more of the huge country north of you. Our population may not be large but there is a large lack of Canadian knowledge in the US.
There was a show put on here call Talking to American. Absolutely hillarious. I thought it was funny that Harvard professors and students could be convinced that it would be a good idea for our Prime Minister (Jean Poutine as you guys may know him) to stop the the seal slaughter in Saskatchewan.
- Cuyler
Yes, the whole movie was shot digitally. The video cameras had swapable hard drives for them that they would just fill up and replace. The whole point of AOTC was that it was completely digitial, no conversion - hence the super high quality.
I can't wait to see the dvd when it comes out.
Until the last month, I as a Rogers customer never even saw what 100% of my connection was. I was told 100 times faster than the 28.8 dialup connection (roughly 300Kbs). In my time with high speed (Rogers for 3 years in three different locations of Ottawa Ontario) I have seen 270Kbs ONCE. For the last month or so I've been lucky to average 180Kbs, a year ago it was 80Kbs (if I was lucky). When I started it was 50Kbs.
It's also one of those nice companies that I don't get any more than a 95% uptime during the day (I don't check during the night, I'm sleeping). Routinely I get disconnected, I call in and get "Sorry, there's a scheduled change in your area". They never notify affected customers...okay, I shouldn't say that - they send you an e-mail afterwards saying "Service is now upgraded!".
The fact of the matter is this is Rogers, a company that service has been less than exceptional. Hell, they charge me $200 to move my internet and cable 1km (to a new house) where the cable was already hooked up. They paid a cable guy to come out, disconnect the cable then reconnect the cable the same day (the cable guy laughed at how stupid the request was). There tech support is generally pretty bad.
Me (linux box couldn't resolve the pop address "pop"): What's the ip address of the mail server?
Tech support: We no longer give out ip addresses because they were being used to hack us.
Me: Alright.....what's the full address name then?
Tech: mail.rchrd1.on.wave.home.com
Me: You could have just told me it was 24.2.9.10.
Tech: But then that wouldn't be secure. Have a nice day.
My only other option for highspeed is Bell...another favourite.
If your serious about backing up that much data you could also use a 9840 drive which holds 20gb uncompressed and (they say) 80 gb compressed however in my experience you can get 140gb onto a tape. Also, it'll write faster (when backing pu a terabyte having the backup take 32 hours is not a good idea). The 9840B drives write at up to 50gb/hour but usually run closer to 30-35gb/hour. While DLT drives usually write at about 5gb/hour.
I haven't tested it out but StorageTek has a drive called the 9940 which has tapes that hold 60gb uncompressed (likely 200+gb compressed), it writes faster (10mb/sec ~= 55gb/hour). Also, the drive itself will put you out $33.5k with the tapes being a couple hundred a piece.
In this case, it'd probably be better just to have a second 1tb raid - then again tapes are much more stable.
-Cuyler
Escape velocity is the speed required to exert a force "upwards" (away from the centre of gravity) greater than the force that gravity has upon the object that is attempting to escape.
In a black hole, supposedly there is so much mass (no necissarily at a single point like a singularity, but there are theories that it would be since matter would collapse upon itself with so much gravity - no one really knows) that even light cannot escape.
A rocket could not escape because the force of gravity from the black hole would be greater than the force exert by the rocket going anywhere near the speed of light (which we still can't do).
For a better explaination read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
NVidia has the GeForce2Go which would seem like the most likely candidate for the suggestion you put forth. Course the GeForce2Go is usually found in laptops but it has great performance.
I complain about my laptop getting 50fps in Quake 3, can't imagine what it's be like with shared video...
I have a full tower sized system since its easier to upgrade. The system I use now was oringinally a P150 w/16mb of ED0 ram and a 2.1gb hard disk. Slowly over time I've upgraded the parts, one by one. The first thing I got rid of was the mini-tower case that the computer came with. It was such a PITA to work with a mini-tower computer case.
I also find most Compaq and HP computer cases to be incredibly annoying to work in.
I can understand the merits of the mini-computer for individuals (like my sister) who want their computers to look cute, never being upgrading and having only three large buttons on the desktop - email, msn, and ebay.
I can totally see your point, as such I have never had a water cooled system and then over clocked it. But now I'm in the situation where my parents have a computer that is inside a desk (it's in the living room so they don't want an ugly computer case showing) with poor circulation. The problem with this the thing has a tendancy to heat up quite fast. It's just an athlon 1ghz, nothing terribly high end like in the article. But I do wonder if I system like the Z4 would allow the computer to run better in an area with poor curculation.
Also, with it being quieter that would be another bonus.
Then again $350 USD to a Canadian like myself would hurt (hell, it's another complete athlon 1ghz system).
-Cuyler
What about Dell? They offer a custom built systems shipping with RedHat 7.0 (on many of their servers but along side with their laptops too).
Do you suppose this story has anything to do with the Ask Slashdot story about backuping up massive amounts of data?
I always think comments like yours are neat since for me anyways I have the exact opposite problem. I currently work almost 100% in windows (XP and 2000). The install of XP was a lot better than most windows systems but still not as easy as a linux (redhat or mandrake). An install of Windows XP on my desktop system took 55 minutes plus two reboots. I had rehat 7.0 beta full install from scratch including formating in under 15 minutes. Although Windows XP and 2000 are great for not needing a lot of driver disks Windows 98 is horrible for repeatedly needing the Win98 disk and driver disks. I love the fact that when I add new printer under linux I don't need to go find my linux install disks. I love the fact that changing a network setting doesn't require the install disks.
Yes, much of this was fixed in Windows XP and 2000 but try under Windows XP (Home edition) to set the login sytle to the same as Windows 2000. Well, you have to visit the registry. For a lot of the configurations in Windows XP it cannot be done via the GUI. In fact several options are available via the GUI under the professional version but not in the home edition. Personally I prefer the documented organized text files verus the huge registry that windows has.
The example concerning RPM v4 I actually had that headache myself. Yes, that was annoying. The flash bit is also something that the linux community needs to work on, but its not because linux is more difficult it's because a high standard is put on linux users. Under windows there is a install program that puts the files in the right place (and with many/most program requires you to reboot your pc) however with linux in most cases they don't even bother since they assume that the average linux user knows how to add the plugins into the right directories.
All in all, I use Windows every day. The Windows XP GUI is amazing (considering I'm using netscape 4.x running w/twm as the window manager). I like Windows for the most parts since it works now - the reason I originally went to using linux (slackware at the time - now that involved much more).
In order from most complicated to least complicated OSes that I use on a daily/weekly basis I would put them in this order:
Linux
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 98
FreeBSD
SUN/OS
Vax/VMS
My favourite of all time is FreeBSD even though I find it a little complicated (damn that naming convention for devices)