American suggests US govt - no better than Sadam's
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Do you honestly believe any governmental system can be much different?
Do you honestly believe all governmental systems are the same?
So you are saying that all governmental systems are the same? So the US and its poodles have replaced one "shady", "perhaps amoral" government in IRAQ with another one, that's no better?
Next you'll be saying that the torture and rape perpetrated by Sadam's thugs is being continued by the US.
You'll be saying that the US govt is the same as the Nazis with it's concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay - come on get with it, concentration camps are so last century.- ok I'm making your point here.
BUT just because the US is run by xenophobic, oil funded, religious extremists, doesn't mean the whole world is.
There are better forms of government than the system that the US (+poodles) is trying to force on the rest of the world. Many European democracies are more democratic and less ruled by money than the Land of the Free. Our governments still lie and we do have the odd bent copper, but in general we live in far less of a police state than the US.
I've had several dealings with the police and they've always been very friendly and polite even when I've been unloading computers from the back of a car at 3am. This is in stark contrast to what I hear about the US police who seem to aggressively harass people for such subversive activities as walking. Jay walking, wtf is that? If I want to cross the street and it looks safe I cross, seriously I don't understand. I've even heard of several accounts of Europeans being harassed by US police for walking on pavements in residential areas - you need a permit or a car or something.
So yes I do believe governmental systems can be different and furthermore they should be different.
Wouldnt it be ridiculously easy to just tap into the signal
not if it is focused and highish up - you'd see anyone trying to snoop it.(ok fog might disperse it enough for someone with *VERY* good equipment to pick up).
Any way whats this about wireless being insecure??
I'd trust wireless as much as the cable link to my house, anything I want to be secure I use encryption (as does everyone else who shopps online etc).
If you want it more reliable use a few widely spaced beams and TCP/IP.
It's probably quite hard to intercept a beam 10m above ground without people thinking:-
"hey why's that bloke standing on a ladder waving his laptop about between our two buildings"
or
"why is that bloke mucking about in a hot air ballon between our two skyscrapers?"
ok you might be able to pick up a tiny bit of the signal dispersed by rain/dust etc but it would be far harder to snoop than radio and probably harder than copper at ground level.
You say 99% of users are primarily interested in reliability, which (although one of the 97.65% of statistics made up on the spot) is probably true.
You don't say that this has very little effect on what people buy. I don't currently know anyone who buys IDE hard disks with an eye to reliability. Most people I know just go on size to price ratio, next they either look at speed or they look at noise and choose a Barracuda.
Perhaps reviewers could try to test the hard disks to destruction to find how reliable they are, but even constant reads and writes to opposite sectors of the disk, interspersed with stopping and then respinning the disks would hopefully take weeks/months to kill a disk.
Although its a rather dangerous thing to have out there does anyone know of any hard disk torture setups, or even what usually kills them.
I lost an IBM drive to a power spike caused by my desklamp (one of those funky 12v halogen ones with a lousy switch I'd put in the cable).
I've had a drive dead on arrival from scan.co.uk sent out with only two layers of thin bubble wrap. (-replaced no problem)
The only drive I've had die of natural causes was a quantum which serves me right for buying a "fireball"
So if no-one buys disks based on reliability because there is no information about this until it is too late and if waranties are usless to most users who need to buy another drive rather than wait 6 weeks for a replacement to be shipped to them, then whatever peoples holy grail is said to be this will have little effect on manufacturers.
If after a few days of the check clearing, the stuff hasn't arrived, most people get suspicious.
Example: if some Buffy DVDs do not arrive in Bristol tomorrow then the check for them will be cancelled, as it was taken out of my girlfriends' account on Monday.
I'm sure this is not an uncommon reaction. Certainly you will never get any positive feedback if you wait that long before sending the goods.
All the posts here are from the sellers perspective, come on most of the ppl here buy on ebay too (or is/. now only populated by crooks who fence their stuff on ebay and are worried about being scammed).
If you are selling something that expensive you do need to use some escrow service or trusted third party.
What about fed-ex or local post offices (they used to exist in the uk anyway-don't know about USA) having credit/debit card machines so the buyer can pay on delivery, or you send the goods to a shop near the buyer who then collects them and pays there - ok the overheads would make it unfeasible but it was an idea.
-no I haven't read the article (./ed) but good luck to the guy.
First I think your title is misleading, talking about 'alternative operating systems' when it seems you blatantly mean 'free Unix clones'.
If you are giving a talk on alternative operating systems, I think you'd do well to mention other things than just Unix clones (especially those trying to emulate windows). Try to show more variety - MacOS, RISCOS etc. Remember the gui/WIMP operating system as you know it is not here to stay.
I'm not convinced buy all this WIMP (Desktop) environment stuff. I started using a command line of sorts (BBC model B), before switching to RISCOS which was (debatably still is) a very good alternative operating system - there are many advantages with being stored on a ROM.
RISCOS is also in some ways the purest graphical desktop I've ever used. It is almost entirely mouse driven and is the only OS I've found with true drag'n'drop saving. (you drag what you want to save into the folder you want to put it in and let go instead of typing(messing around) in save dialog menus.)
Nowadays I tend to use X-windows with a completely blank desktop without KDE/Gnome or any of that stuff and just use keyboard shortcuts, and the occasional terminal. I've completely forsaken graphical file managers.
Windows XP initially keeps the screen as uncluttered as possible and tries to obscure the filemanager by hiding the 'mycomputer' icon. So we are already moving away from our mid 90s obsession with graphical file managers. The next version of windows (the evil copy protection infested one) is rumored to be moving further away from a desktop to create a more 'integrated' feel and is said to use some database backend instead of a normal file system.
Anyway my point is, operating systems (or at least their user interfaces) are changing, and in 10 years time, will look nothing like what they currently do. So try to equip these Kids to be flexible, and please try to inspire them to think about what they want operating systems/user interfaces to be like.
We must surely be heading towards computers like Holly from Red Dwarf or the computer on the Heart of Gold. We have the technology we just need the will to develop it so please don't kill anyone's imagination by showing them, 'alternative operating systems' that are merely less flashy immitations of Windows.
Computer operating systems and user-interfaces are in cars, wearable computers, cash points, phones, robots, not just dull PC clones. We are already moving away from being tied to using keyboards and mice the whole time.
From the quality of the work here you should get some recognition. There really should be an award for stuff like this. It's first class and thourougly deserves the score 5, it's a great pitty you at the UANC don't believe in karma.
Very effective stuff!I applaud your work wholeheartedly!
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Amd and Intel may well have a slight lead in some manufacturing processes, but transmeta are using.13 micron for their chips and there is no way that you could get an Athlon or Celeron using 0.4-1.3 watts.
Can you think of anything people would want to do with a laptop that needs more than a 500Mhz pentium?
Most people don't play quake on a laptop, serious users of Maya tend to use Linux clusters I believe - not laptops, and 500Mhz is perfectly good for playing DVDs.
What I want from a laptop is: enough speed to run enlightenment comfortably - 350mhz PII copes ok 128Mb + RAM a big screen with decent resolution to get two e-terms next to each other enough battery life to last all day a usable internet connection.
the The Fujitsu® LifeBook(TM) P Series has 933Mhz processor - fast enough for dvd/any other non-gaming/rendering use, has a 1280 wide screen more than big enough for two terminals next to each other, 128Mb ram, and over 10 hrs battery life (with the dual battery option).
-only thing lacking is the internet connection, but no-one does broadband acess more than a few hundred metres from a base station, so I'd have to make do with a mobile, yes I have surfed at 9600 and a terminal is certainly usable at that speed, and no I'm not setting up my own satellite link, that isn't portable yet (mobile but not portable).
Give me one example of an AMD/Intel powered product that 'spanks' this laptop and a rational explanation of the selection criteria. (excluding games and running a portable server).
This surely does all that is normally wanted from a laptop and far more without turning its users into stircrazed power junkies madly searching for their next AC fix.
All Transmeta need is more publicity and to find a supplier that stops spreading the myth tha Mhz is everything, (unfortunately the PC resale industry is built on this myth, to get people to upgrade). - it would also be nice to find somewhere to buy one without windows preinstalled.
Hmm, nice figures and a nice site, I wish I could move some of the spare (and overrated) points from my comments onto this.
I do however run an Athlon 1.4 with a G-force card and a 19 inch monitor (at 100hz) which is displaying mostly white (this page's background), and I know athlons use far more power than an original Pentium, - just compare the heatsinks,
also this table which shows a consumption of over 70 watts for the more modern processors - I seem to remember seeing 90watts quoted as what the newest (2Ghz+) beasts suck.
However I know this is only when the processors are running full pelt, as my CPU cools a few degrees when idling.
I'll certainly accept that unless you are burning CDs (the drives do get hot) and running several hard drives you will not use all 350 watts.
There is still the efficiency factor - when using 200 Watts DC you are drawing a fair bit more AC which is lost in the conversion process.
While I accept noone uses their CD writer constantly and most don't use their processor fully, I'd reckon your figures are an underestimate for most new machines.
I'd be very interested in a more modern page - I was recently looking at powering my pc from a generator or car battery so I'd have liked to know how much juice it needed. (in the end we used a laptop but it wasn't really fast enough).
Just as you aren't using all 185 horsepower in your car.... I wish:-) it's rated at 42hp but it's certainly not giving that now (uses as much water as petrol). - this is one reason I was dubious about powering a PC off it.
All the suns in the lab at uni here are configured to run CDE, GNOME or Openwindows, but there are several other flavours being used - enlightenment etc,
So they are perfectly good *nix machines: gcc enlightenment, bash, remapped keyboard, what more do you want?
Hey if you spend a little while you can almost convince yourself that the Ultra 10 infront of you is a perfectly good Slakware PII 350 box, then you realise the opengl is nasty indexed colour mode.
- You can console yourself that even if the OS isn't bullet proof (it isn't) the physical hardware probably is, Sun do make lovely cases.
- then you remember the list price of the hardware.
I don't see arrogance,... it's generally the first fault non US citizens find with the USA.
Americans traditionally are regarded as fat, loud and arrogant, rich and stupid none of which are fair to most of those that I've met, but that's the general sterio-type in the 4 continents I've surveyed. (One is generally treated better when travelling when one explains one is not American).
The USA's hypocritical stance on human rights(prisons etc)/ police brutality, and general belief that the US is above international law could possibly be construed as arrogant, as could the failure to agree to the Kyoto agreement etc.
However this is the best snippet that I found on google when searching for 'American Arrogance' It's an old one, but I'd love to believe it's not urban myth, and they may have been french Canadians (which should keep you happy).
...but, if I may be so bold, I don't watch much TV. Perhaps some of your countrymen and women should follow that example.
Ahh yes - I'd heard that in the land of the free, there were so many channels, that you were all too busy switching through 100s of channels to watch any TV;-P
yup then how much does your monitor use? 150 watts?
150+350 = 500 n'est pas?
Also the rating of 350 watts is meant to be the output of the supply - not what it draws, and I think pc power supplies are less than 70% efficient, so your 350 watt power supply might actually draw 400 watts and give out 350watts supply and a fair bit of heat. (Ok it probably isn't on full load most of the time..)
machine with an LCD screen, but even this would tend to use 200-300watts. (But I still want one, if anyone wants to do one for me in a 1:12 blue mini-cooper body)
These Solo machiness use 8.5 watts all in including monitor.
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Europeans that hate Americans are the funniest lot,....
Erm thats most of us. Well we mostly hate American culture and the nation in general. I've liked almost all individual Americans that I've met so far, (the naivety can even be cute).
However when Americans can elect senators who are quoted as saying "Israel is for the Jews, God said so, it's in the Bible -read it," and then complain about the evils of other peoples' religious fundamentalism, there is little wonder the rest of the world has no respect for the USA. That coupled with your nation's supreme arrogance/cultural imperialism, tends to lead to hatred.
because they forget that they're[sic] country sucked enough for people to go across oceans to avoid.
If the first (white) americans hated europe so much why did they name all their cities after european ones? Methinks they left for a number of reasons, they were: misfits, adventurers, opportunists, anarchists and yes people trying to avoid religious persecution, and the other evils in Europe at the time.
The main reason was that the Americas were huge, full of natural resourses with a very small poorly armed local population.
a neat ARM powered machine that used 8.5 watts all in (including monitor) and can be solar powered. Instead of 500ish watts for a standard desktop.
No I don't work for ARM I just like their kit.
It looks like the ultimate silent pc - no noise even in the power generation. Although RISC_OS isn't open source it is pretty solid and isn't part of the Evil Empire.
You know, if everybody hates you because of the job you do, maybe you should change jobs?
I wrote that I quit after a couple of days. Then I started looking for another summer job. I ended up delivering pizzas for a bit, great student job, driving round listening to the radio, free pizza AND everyone loves you (or the pizza).
I worked for a Market Research Company, the system we used in the office was to divide up a phone book for an area and flick through it until we had someone from the postcode we were targeting.
That person was then called (and crossed off in the book).... and then we added 1 to the number and called that and repeat until we'd tried 10 people or called someone who complained we'd already called them.
This way we got people in the area we wanted and we didn't pay for any phone numbers - the phone book was probably free.
Occasionally we called the same person twice - but they would be very unlikely to be called more than twice.
Being X-directory or whatever would have had no effect whatsoever, and we did get a few people complain about this - surprise surprise.
P.S.
In my defence we were NOT selling anything, we were asking questions about what people thought of their water board and what they thought its environmental priorities should be. I quit after a couple of days anyway (not what I'd signed up for). I'd signed up to call up companies and I see little wrong with calling bored secretaries and asking about what printers their firm uses (they are paid to answer the phone and are quite capable of saying they're busy).
Next time you're cold-called have *some* sympathy for the caller though as it is one of the most soul destroying jobs out there, having the phone slammed down and taking abuse 20 times an hour.
-- If you laid all the cold callers in the world around the equator end to end.... 2/3 of them would drown.... and they'd probably be glad.
Depending on quite what you signed I'd say the Eula wasn't signed for you and didn't apply to you.
Possibly the cable installer has actually broken the Eula by transfering the software to someone else.
Eitherway you haven't agreed to not reverse-engineering the spyware. It would be nice then to keep sending them back reports on your computers activity that are completely bogus if enough people did this then all their data would be pretty worthless.
I'm sure most people dmake up names etc when they are asked to give out personal information (income gender age job etc) to get a service.
The general tactic is its even better to give wrong data than it is to refuse to give any at all. As this way you are invalidating anything other people are conned into giving.
AFAIK someone has plans for this, it would be easier to design and market a standard 18v (or whatever) fuel cell than fit one to work in each laptop. So I'd heard (possibly on the radio or in the New Scientist) that fuel cell manufacturers were hoping to make and market mini fuel cells that would power/recharge laptops(phones etc) via their DC port. This way they have a far larger target market for each model, and we could use fuel cells on older kit.
If you put all the Toshibas in the world, end to end around the equator 2/3 of them would drown.
...you've published the CEO's details here, and he's been, LARTed out of his office by a mob trying to win the new 3rd person Darwin Award, or at least/.ed off the web.
go on who is it:-) . . . you know you want to need a lawyer.
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Do you honestly believe any governmental system can be much different?
Do you honestly believe all governmental systems are the same?
So you are saying that all governmental systems are the same? So the US and its poodles have replaced one "shady", "perhaps amoral" government in IRAQ with another one, that's no better?
Next you'll be saying that the torture and rape perpetrated by Sadam's thugs is being continued by the US.
You'll be saying that the US govt is the same as the Nazis with it's concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay - come on get with it, concentration camps are so last century.- ok I'm making your point here.
BUT just because the US is run by xenophobic, oil funded, religious extremists, doesn't mean the whole world is.
There are better forms of government than the system that the US (+poodles) is trying to force on the rest of the world. Many European democracies are more democratic and less ruled by money than the Land of the Free. Our governments still lie and we do have the odd bent copper, but in general we live in far less of a police state than the US.
I've had several dealings with the police and they've always been very friendly and polite even when I've been unloading computers from the back of a car at 3am. This is in stark contrast to what I hear about the US police who seem to aggressively harass people for such subversive activities as walking. Jay walking, wtf is that? If I want to cross the street and it looks safe I cross, seriously I don't understand. I've even heard of several accounts of Europeans being harassed by US police for walking on pavements in residential areas - you need a permit or a car or something.
So yes I do believe governmental systems can be different and furthermore they should be different.
I really can't say I've missed the windows key, who needs a keyboard on an mp3/DVD player anyway?
Anyway my T40 came with 2 spare textured nipples and 2GB ram.
My mp3 player's better than yours so nah.
Wouldnt it be ridiculously easy to just tap into the signal
not if it is focused and highish up - you'd see anyone trying to snoop it.(ok fog might disperse it enough for someone with *VERY* good equipment to pick up).
Any way whats this about wireless being insecure??
I'd trust wireless as much as the cable link to my house, anything I want to be secure I use encryption (as does everyone else who shopps online etc).
If you want it more reliable use a few widely spaced beams and TCP/IP.
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It's probably quite hard to intercept a beam 10m above ground without people thinking
"hey why's that bloke standing on a ladder waving his laptop about between our two buildings"
or
"why is that bloke mucking about in a hot air ballon between our two skyscrapers?"
ok you might be able to pick up a tiny bit of the signal dispersed by rain/dust etc but it would be far harder to snoop than radio and probably harder than copper at ground level.
Anyone heard of VPN???
-ok so I'm probably feeding a troll but...
Make snowmen?
You don't say that this has very little effect on what people buy. I don't currently know anyone who buys IDE hard disks with an eye to reliability. Most people I know just go on size to price ratio, next they either look at speed or they look at noise and choose a Barracuda.
Perhaps reviewers could try to test the hard disks to destruction to find how reliable they are, but even constant reads and writes to opposite sectors of the disk, interspersed with stopping and then respinning the disks would hopefully take weeks/months to kill a disk. Although its a rather dangerous thing to have out there does anyone know of any hard disk torture setups, or even what usually kills them.
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I lost an IBM drive to a power spike caused by my desklamp (one of those funky 12v halogen ones with a lousy switch I'd put in the cable).
- I've had a drive dead on arrival from scan.co.uk sent out with only two layers of thin bubble wrap. (-replaced no problem)
- The only drive I've had die of natural causes was a quantum which serves me right for buying a "fireball"
So if no-one buys disks based on reliability because there is no information about this until it is too late and if waranties are usless to most users who need to buy another drive rather than wait 6 weeks for a replacement to be shipped to them, then whatever peoples holy grail is said to be this will have little effect on manufacturers.If after a few days of the check clearing, the stuff hasn't arrived, most people get suspicious.
/. now only populated by crooks who fence their stuff on ebay and are worried about being scammed).
Example: if some Buffy DVDs do not arrive in Bristol tomorrow then the check for them will be cancelled, as it was taken out of my girlfriends' account on Monday.
I'm sure this is not an uncommon reaction. Certainly you will never get any positive feedback if you wait that long before sending the goods.
All the posts here are from the sellers perspective, come on most of the ppl here buy on ebay too (or is
If you are selling something that expensive you do need to use some escrow service or trusted third party.
What about fed-ex or local post offices (they used to exist in the uk anyway-don't know about USA) having credit/debit card machines so the buyer can pay on delivery, or you send the goods to a shop near the buyer who then collects them and pays there - ok the overheads would make it unfeasible but it was an idea.
-no I haven't read the article (./ed) but good luck to the guy.
First I think your title is misleading, talking about 'alternative operating systems' when it seems you blatantly mean 'free Unix clones'.
If you are giving a talk on alternative operating systems, I think you'd do well to mention other things than just Unix clones (especially those trying to emulate windows). Try to show more variety - MacOS, RISCOS etc. Remember the gui/WIMP operating system as you know it is not here to stay.
I'm not convinced buy all this WIMP (Desktop) environment stuff. I started using a command line of sorts (BBC model B), before switching to RISCOS which was (debatably still is) a very good alternative operating system - there are many advantages with being stored on a ROM.
RISCOS is also in some ways the purest graphical desktop I've ever used. It is almost entirely mouse driven and is the only OS I've found with true drag'n'drop saving. (you drag what you want to save into the folder you want to put it in and let go instead of typing(messing around) in save dialog menus.)
Nowadays I tend to use X-windows with a completely blank desktop without KDE/Gnome or any of that stuff and just use keyboard shortcuts, and the occasional terminal. I've completely forsaken graphical file managers.
Windows XP initially keeps the screen as uncluttered as possible and tries to obscure the filemanager by hiding the 'mycomputer' icon. So we are already moving away from our mid 90s obsession with graphical file managers. The next version of windows (the evil copy protection infested one) is rumored to be moving further away from a desktop to create a more 'integrated' feel and is said to use some database backend instead of a normal file system.
Anyway my point is, operating systems (or at least their user interfaces) are changing, and in 10 years time, will look nothing like what they currently do. So try to equip these Kids to be flexible, and please try to inspire them to think about what they want operating systems/user interfaces to be like.
We must surely be heading towards computers like Holly from Red Dwarf or the computer on the Heart of Gold. We have the technology we just need the will to develop it so please don't kill anyone's imagination by showing them, 'alternative operating systems' that are merely less flashy immitations of Windows.
Computer operating systems and user-interfaces are in cars, wearable computers, cash points, phones, robots, not just dull PC clones. We are already moving away from being tied to using keyboards and mice the whole time.
Look he's called TuringTest, he's blatantly a bot, and a damn fine one too.
The spelling mistakes and other errors like the stupid title are all deliberately put there to convince you that he's a real person/slashdotter.
A bot couln't hope to fit in, if his article looked like it'd been spell-checked could it.
So stop being a muppet and congratulate whoever designed TuringTest, his genious should be recognised.
You've at least got to acknowledge how fitting it is, that the first article by an artificial life form is about the dawn of organinc life.
From the quality of the work here you should get some recognition. There really should be an award for stuff like this. It's first class and thourougly deserves the score 5, it's a great pitty you at the UANC don't believe in karma.
Very effective stuff!I applaud your work wholeheartedly!
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Anyone any idea which decade they're releasing it now?
Amd and Intel may well have a slight lead in some manufacturing processes, but transmeta are using .13 micron for their chips and there is no way that you could get an Athlon or Celeron using 0.4-1.3 watts.
Can you think of anything people would want to do with a laptop that needs more than a 500Mhz pentium?
Most people don't play quake on a laptop, serious users of Maya tend to use Linux clusters I believe - not laptops, and 500Mhz is perfectly good for playing DVDs.
What I want from a laptop is:
enough speed to run enlightenment comfortably - 350mhz PII copes ok
128Mb + RAM
a big screen with decent resolution to get two e-terms next to each other
enough battery life to last all day
a usable internet connection.
the The Fujitsu® LifeBook(TM) P Series
has 933Mhz processor - fast enough for dvd/any other non-gaming/rendering use, has a 1280 wide screen more than big enough for two terminals next to each other, 128Mb ram, and over 10 hrs battery life (with the dual battery option).
-only thing lacking is the internet connection, but no-one does broadband acess more than a few hundred metres from a base station, so I'd have to make do with a mobile, yes I have surfed at 9600 and a terminal is certainly usable at that speed, and no I'm not setting up my own satellite link, that isn't portable yet (mobile but not portable).
Give me one example of an AMD/Intel powered product that 'spanks' this laptop and a rational explanation of the selection criteria. (excluding games and running a portable server).
This surely does all that is normally wanted from a laptop and far more without turning its users into stircrazed power junkies madly searching for their next AC fix.
All Transmeta need is more publicity and to find a supplier that stops spreading the myth tha Mhz is everything, (unfortunately the PC resale industry is built on this myth, to get people to upgrade). - it would also be nice to find somewhere to buy one without windows preinstalled.
Hmm, nice figures and a nice site, I wish I could move some of the spare (and overrated) points from my comments onto this.
.... :-) it's rated at 42hp but it's certainly not giving that now (uses as much water as petrol). - this is one reason I was dubious about powering a PC off it.
I do however run an Athlon 1.4 with a G-force card and a 19 inch monitor (at 100hz) which is displaying mostly white (this page's background), and I know athlons use far more power than an original Pentium, - just compare the heatsinks,
also this table which shows a consumption of over 70 watts for the more modern processors - I seem to remember seeing 90watts quoted as what the newest (2Ghz+) beasts suck.
However I know this is only when the processors are running full pelt, as my CPU cools a few degrees when idling.
I'll certainly accept that unless you are burning CDs (the drives do get hot) and running several hard drives you will not use all 350 watts.
There is still the efficiency factor - when using 200 Watts DC you are drawing a fair bit more AC which is lost in the conversion process.
While I accept noone uses their CD writer constantly and most don't use their processor fully, I'd reckon your figures are an underestimate for most new machines.
I'd be very interested in a more modern page - I was recently looking at powering my pc from a generator or car battery so I'd have liked to know how much juice it needed. (in the end we used a laptop but it wasn't really fast enough).
Just as you aren't using all 185 horsepower in your car
I wish
All the suns in the lab at uni here are configured to run CDE, GNOME or Openwindows, but there are several other flavours being used - enlightenment etc,
So they are perfectly good *nix machines: gcc enlightenment, bash, remapped keyboard, what more do you want?
Hey if you spend a little while you can almost convince yourself that the Ultra 10 infront of you is a perfectly good Slakware PII 350 box, then you realise the opengl is nasty indexed colour mode.
- You can console yourself that even if the OS isn't bullet proof (it isn't) the physical hardware probably is, Sun do make lovely cases.
- then you remember the list price of the hardware.
Americans traditionally are regarded as fat, loud and arrogant, rich and stupid none of which are fair to most of those that I've met, but that's the general sterio-type in the 4 continents I've surveyed. (One is generally treated better when travelling when one explains one is not American).
The USA's hypocritical stance on human rights(prisons etc)/ police brutality, and general belief that the US is above international law could possibly be construed as arrogant, as could the failure to agree to the Kyoto agreement etc.
However this is the best snippet that I found on google when searching for
'American Arrogance'
It's an old one, but I'd love to believe it's not urban myth, and they may have been french Canadians (which should keep you happy).
Ahh yes - I'd heard that in the land of the free, there were so many channels, that you were all too busy switching through 100s of channels to watch any TV
yup then how much does your monitor use? 150 watts?
150+350 = 500 n'est pas?
Also the rating of 350 watts is meant to be the output of the supply - not what it draws, and I think pc power supplies are less than 70% efficient, so your 350 watt power supply might actually draw 400 watts and give out 350watts supply and a fair bit of heat. (Ok it probably isn't on full load most of the time..)
Yes I know you could get a
C3 based
machine with an LCD screen, but even this would tend to use 200-300watts. (But I still want one, if anyone wants to do one for me in a 1:12 blue mini-cooper body)
These Solo machiness use 8.5 watts all in including monitor.
Europeans that hate Americans are the funniest lot,....
Erm thats most of us. Well we mostly hate American culture and the nation in general. I've liked almost all individual Americans that I've met so far, (the naivety can even be cute).
However when Americans can elect senators who are quoted as saying "Israel is for the Jews, God said so, it's in the Bible -read it," and then complain about the evils of other peoples' religious fundamentalism, there is little wonder the rest of the world has no respect for the USA. That coupled with your nation's supreme arrogance/cultural imperialism, tends to lead to hatred.
because they forget that they're[sic] country sucked enough for people to go across oceans to avoid.
If the first (white) americans hated europe so much why did they name all their cities after european ones? Methinks they left for a number of reasons, they were: misfits, adventurers, opportunists, anarchists and yes people trying to avoid religious persecution, and the other evils in Europe at the time.
The main reason was that the Americas were huge, full of natural resourses with a very small poorly armed local population.
This sounds like a good market for the
Solo computer
a neat ARM powered machine that used 8.5 watts all in (including monitor) and can be solar powered.
Instead of 500ish watts for a standard desktop.
No I don't work for ARM I just like their kit.
It looks like the ultimate silent pc - no noise even in the power generation.
Although RISC_OS isn't open source it is pretty solid and isn't part of the Evil Empire.
You know, if everybody hates you because of the job you do, maybe you should change jobs?
I wrote that I quit after a couple of days.
Then I started looking for another summer job. I ended up delivering pizzas for a bit, great student job, driving round listening to the radio, free pizza AND everyone loves you (or the pizza).
or were you not writing directly to me?
I worked for a Market Research Company, the system we used in the office was to divide up a phone book for an area and flick through it until we had someone from the postcode we were targeting.
.... 2/3 of them would drown .... and they'd probably be glad.
That person was then called (and crossed off in the book).... and then we added 1 to the number and called that and repeat until we'd tried 10 people or called someone who complained we'd already called them.
This way we got people in the area we wanted and we didn't pay for any phone numbers - the phone book was probably free.
Occasionally we called the same person twice - but they would be very unlikely to be called more than twice.
Being X-directory or whatever would have had no effect whatsoever, and we did get a few people complain about this - surprise surprise.
P.S.
In my defence we were NOT selling anything, we were asking questions about what people thought of their water board and what they thought its environmental priorities should be.
I quit after a couple of days anyway (not what I'd signed up for). I'd signed up to call up companies and I see little wrong with calling bored secretaries and asking about what printers their firm uses (they are paid to answer the phone and are quite capable of saying they're busy).
Next time you're cold-called have *some* sympathy for the caller though as it is one of the most soul destroying jobs out there, having the phone slammed down and taking abuse 20 times an hour.
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If you laid all the cold callers in the world around the equator end to end
Depending on quite what you signed I'd say the Eula wasn't signed for you and didn't apply to you.
Possibly the cable installer has actually broken the Eula by transfering the software to someone else.
Eitherway you haven't agreed to not reverse-engineering the spyware. It would be nice then to keep sending them back reports on your computers activity that are completely bogus if enough people did this then all their data would be pretty worthless.
I'm sure most people dmake up names etc when they are asked to give out personal information (income gender age job etc) to get a service.
The general tactic is its even better to give wrong data than it is to refuse to give any at all. As this way you are invalidating anything other people are conned into giving.
AFAIK someone has plans for this, it would be easier to design and market a standard 18v (or whatever) fuel cell than fit one to work in each laptop. So I'd heard (possibly on the radio or in the New Scientist) that fuel cell manufacturers were hoping to make and market mini fuel cells that would power/recharge laptops(phones etc) via their DC port. This way they have a far larger target market for each model, and we could use fuel cells on older kit.
If you put all the Toshibas in the world, end to end around the equator 2/3 of them would drown.
In the UK (though I'd wrongly assumed it was intenational) to pass your JAR Class 1 (Professional Pilot) medical.
If you have had refractive surgery, Class 1 certification will not normally be considered until one year after the operation. Please note that:
the pre-operative refraction must not have exceeded +/- 5.00 dioptres;
an assessment by an eye specialist at Gatwick will be required.
from the CAA
For a class 2 license your initial eye sight is ignored it's just the corrected vision that matters (a recent change).
If your eyesight is not good enough to be a pilot or ATCO already then you won't be allowd to after laser surgery either.
So I'd best stick to the BSD game ATC.
...you've published the CEO's details here, and he's been, /.ed off the web.
:-) . . . you know you want to need a lawyer.
LARTed out of his office by a mob trying to win the new 3rd person Darwin Award,
or at least
go on who is it