Aqua is nice and all, but it is extremely heavy especially for all day use. I prefer something that is quick and lightweight and cannot get that behavior out of Aqua. Linux gives me more choices in that arena.
Hands down the 1Ghz PowerPC chip is the fastest, most stable chip in it's price range. Most servers of this type are used to run application servers anyway and they are not usually disk intensive as the database would be somewhere else. If the Java implementation for PPC linux was just a little better I would use them for our app servers.
I run YDL 2.2 and before that I ran 2.1 on a QuickSilver (867 Mhz) PowerMac. I have been running glitch free for over a year now and my uptime is currently 85 days (power outage caused a reboot).
The one drawback is that setup was a PITA. I think it's great that Terra Soft is selling these pre-installed to take some of the ass sores out of the setup. Also Kudos to Apple for allowing them to resell with another OS on the machine.
The primary reason for the RIAA's position is not the hurting of record sales. After all, when Napster was up record sales were up significantly, as well.
The real reason is that record companies spend a lot of money on generating one hit song and a persona to go with it. If you delve beneath the surface of the album (listen to any other song) you will realize it's a piece of shit and the jig is up. The record companies survive on the top 40 radio songs that convince people to buy the album because the song is so catchy, knowing full well that the rest of the album is crap.
Like any sales practice (including software), it's about vaporware. Any movement to shed some light on the "product" would be squashed by any company.
Can you imagine Microsoft or Oracle allowing people to sample snippets of source code before they buy the product? That'll be the day.
nation-states and their constituents now have to choose between globalism (and its attendant prosperity) or religious fanaticism.
First problem: These are the only two choices? What about socialism or secular fanaticism? That's the Bush, "Your with us or your with the terrorists." line.
Second problem: Globalism is not a choice of a constituency. Did you vote for globalism? I certainly didn't
Third problem: The focus of Soros' book is that goverments and the capital that drives them are inherently good if we would just use the governmental powers for good and not evil. Unfortunately, this has proven to be false. The nature of capital is that it has to keep expanding to survive. When a market is consumed the capital needs to grow to other markets (other nations) or that structure of capital will collapse. Governments based on this concept of growing capital need to do whatever is takes to continue the growth of that capital or the government will collapse. They have to do whatever it takes to "smoke out" the terrorists in the 9/11 case. To "smoke out" the people that disagree with expanding capital interests.
"Free competition is the fundamental characteristic of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist over it and alongside of it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system."
In order for capitalism to survive there must be monopoly. In order for monopoly to survive there must be globalism. In order for business to grow it has to grow somewhere.
This coming world conflict has to do with masses of laborers having their rights removed by large multi-nationals. It's already happening here. It's the only way that a multi-national can survive and continue to grow.
In short. Globalism will be short lived.
Re:Katz misses the point again.
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Never said that religion is the reason for war. It's just the opposite, religion is a tool to get the common man to fight. Profit is the reason for war.
Katz misses the point again.
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Religion has historically been used as a motivator for war. From the Inquisition to the Holy wars in Turkey it has been used to get men to fight, but it has never been the reason to fight.
In this case as well you are seeing a reaction to rampant captialism (globalization) wrapped in the wonderfully motivating skin of religious fundamentalism.
Middle Easterners do not hate the working man in America. They hate the huge multi-nationals and their US military police force that secures them further profit at the expense of lives and sometimes countries.
This country has been living off of the fat of the rest of the world for 2 generations or longer. Wouldn't you resent a country that swoops in bombs and kills many of your population and then sets up your government for you, all in the name of oil profit?
How come there is no Italian or Japanese military base on US soil? How come there is NO other countries military base on US soil, yet we have 60+ major military installation in other countries in the world?
And all of this safety that left you warm and cosy in Israel, has it done shit-all in stopping any of the violence there? If you were of Palestinian descent, do you think that you would feel "safer knowing these checks were being made"? How many people died in Israel last year?
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until the power goes out.
self evident - ani difranco
I wanna know what right the US has to grant commercial missions to the moon. Like we are the only country that has rights to the moon as a resource.
The next big wars will be over space shipping lanes.
riley
Yes and no.
Aqua is nice and all, but it is extremely heavy especially for all day use. I prefer something that is quick and lightweight and cannot get that behavior out of Aqua. Linux gives me more choices in that arena.
Morons!
Hands down the 1Ghz PowerPC chip is the fastest, most stable chip in it's price range. Most servers of this type are used to run application servers anyway and they are not usually disk intensive as the database would be somewhere else. If the Java implementation for PPC linux was just a little better I would use them for our app servers.
I run YDL 2.2 and before that I ran 2.1 on a QuickSilver (867 Mhz) PowerMac. I have been running glitch free for over a year now and my uptime is currently 85 days (power outage caused a reboot).
The one drawback is that setup was a PITA. I think it's great that Terra Soft is selling these pre-installed to take some of the ass sores out of the setup. Also Kudos to Apple for allowing them to resell with another OS on the machine.
The primary reason for the RIAA's position is not the hurting of record sales. After all, when Napster was up record sales were up significantly, as well.
The real reason is that record companies spend a lot of money on generating one hit song and a persona to go with it. If you delve beneath the surface of the album (listen to any other song) you will realize it's a piece of shit and the jig is up. The record companies survive on the top 40 radio songs that convince people to buy the album because the song is so catchy, knowing full well that the rest of the album is crap.
Like any sales practice (including software), it's about vaporware. Any movement to shed some light on the "product" would be squashed by any company.
Can you imagine Microsoft or Oracle allowing people to sample snippets of source code before they buy the product? That'll be the day.
nation-states and their constituents now have to choose between globalism (and its attendant prosperity) or religious fanaticism.
First problem: These are the only two choices? What about socialism or secular fanaticism? That's the Bush, "Your with us or your with the terrorists." line.
Second problem: Globalism is not a choice of a constituency. Did you vote for globalism? I certainly didn't
Third problem: The focus of Soros' book is that goverments and the capital that drives them are inherently good if we would just use the governmental powers for good and not evil. Unfortunately, this has proven to be false. The nature of capital is that it has to keep expanding to survive. When a market is consumed the capital needs to grow to other markets (other nations) or that structure of capital will collapse. Governments based on this concept of growing capital need to do whatever is takes to continue the growth of that capital or the government will collapse. They have to do whatever it takes to "smoke out" the terrorists in the 9/11 case. To "smoke out" the people that disagree with expanding capital interests.
Has anyone ever known a company to be honest in it's business practices?
"Free competition is the fundamental characteristic of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist over it and alongside of it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system."
Lenin: Imperialism
In order for capitalism to survive there must be monopoly. In order for monopoly to survive there must be globalism. In order for business to grow it has to grow somewhere.
This coming world conflict has to do with masses of laborers having their rights removed by large multi-nationals. It's already happening here. It's the only way that a multi-national can survive and continue to grow.
In short. Globalism will be short lived.
Never said that religion is the reason for war. It's just the opposite, religion is a tool to get the common man to fight. Profit is the reason for war.
Religion has historically been used as a motivator for war. From the Inquisition to the Holy wars in Turkey it has been used to get men to fight, but it has never been the reason to fight.
In this case as well you are seeing a reaction to rampant captialism (globalization) wrapped in the wonderfully motivating skin of religious fundamentalism.
Middle Easterners do not hate the working man in America. They hate the huge multi-nationals and their US military police force that secures them further profit at the expense of lives and sometimes countries.
This country has been living off of the fat of the rest of the world for 2 generations or longer. Wouldn't you resent a country that swoops in bombs and kills many of your population and then sets up your government for you, all in the name of oil profit?
How come there is no Italian or Japanese military base on US soil? How come there is NO other countries military base on US soil, yet we have 60+ major military installation in other countries in the world?
Globalization is the problem not the solution.
And all of this safety that left you warm and cosy in Israel, has it done shit-all in stopping any of the violence there? If you were of Palestinian descent, do you think that you would feel "safer knowing these checks were being made"? How many people died in Israel last year?