You know, for everyone saying how much Mystro is going to suck compared to TiVo, I'd like to make an important observation. Namely, AOL owns a large amount of TiVo stock, and would be stupid to be attacking that investment, much less not capitalizing on it, and they aren't in a position to be financially stupid right now. I'd bet money that Mystro *is* TiVo.
Are usually pretty hard on Apple. I mean, they have to have beat Intel on hardware and Microsoft on software. Now, OSwise, I think they've done the software part with OSX. I really like it and even if it's a touch bloated it's nothing like XP. More than anything, that's the real strength of the Mac.
Sadly for Apple, it's hardware is reliant on Motorola to manufacture a processor faster than Intel, and Motorola doesn't have a lot of interest in that level of competition. That's why we get articles like this and this. The grim truth is that Macs ARE slower than PC's. Everyone who's not a zealot knows it, and bs like the "Mhz Myth" and "Oh, I personally KNOW they're faster" is propaganda and delusion. Even if more is done per clock cycle, the PC's are DOUBLING the cycles the G4 can do, and it's taking it's toll. This is not new, not hidden, not rocket science.
This isn't unique to the G4. Computer rooms across the country are having their PA-RISC, Sparc, MIPS and more yanked in favor of cheaper Intels. Sure there are niche applications you'd never use an X86 on, but by and large you can use a PC with Linux/FreeBSD and beat anything else on price, speed, power consumption, heat, and rack space. These are essentials for businesses, and this is where economies of scale really start to push new technology.
So, Apple needs to get better hardware. They either need to get IBM/Motorola to make them a better platform to run their excellent software, or they need to port to X86. There is no existing platform in the market now that has the economy of scale as X86 and it's really starting to show. The company has reinvented itself many times in the past, so I have confidence in them to do *something* to boost their standing, but this is certainly a dark moment in Apple's production cycle.
I know what you mean, I got mine in November, and it wasn't cheap and I'll have to go through it all again within a year. A certification has to have some time value to it to be really worth something, and year really isn't enough.
What's really disappointingis that they told us while they were selling the class that it would be good for at least 2 years.
I'm disinclined to think that this is part of RedHat's marketing plan, but sure will rake them in some cash, won't it?
A lot of HP-UX clients don't lock properly with ANY non-HP nfs file server. Where I work we've had a devil of a time with people on HP workstations using.history files, because they keep having locking problems and become corrupt.... often causing the user to hang during login. Good luck finding a solution, 'cause we couldn't... moved to Sun/Linux clients instead:)
Ouch, now that's bad. Even the maintainers of Samba say not to use it if anything else is available. Considering all the problems I've had with NFS on Sun, HP, and IRIX, Linux is certainly with the pack performance/headache-wise... and at least I'm not having capitalization and surreal locking problems tossed into the mix.
Huh? You're saying that "Well, if you're spending a few grand on software, the hundreds each you're spending on each box for Windows is so small it might as well be free". That's silly, it's not free at all.
SOMEHOW you pay for the Windows license, even if it's hidden in other costs. And those costs do add up, especially when you can't get drivers any more unless you upgrade your entire infrastructure according to another company's business plan.
Er, not that I heard anybody complain about Herbert getting paid, but I don't think his compensation is of much interest to him... I mean... he's dead, right?
Take off the tinfoil hat my friend. I don't know if you've been exposed to much government, but let me tell you, they don't have the desire, motivation, or courage to be part of any grand design like that. Government workers are, by and large, very poor, unmotivated, and won't do anything to jepoardize their meager existence. Grand designs like these are right the hell out.
Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either. And what you're talking about implies generations of development.
Money flows downhill. It goes where things are cheap, and moves them where they are expensive. You'll never track it by looking for master manipulators, you'll find it by looking for people blatantly trying to make a buck.
Oh, what's that in your url? Subgenius? Aha, I see. Nevermind, you're a lost cause:)
Actually, the ones that have the 14's have *better* air defense, the strength of the F-18 is it's multi-role capability. The F-14 is an air superiority platform for the Pheonix nuclear capable 3,000mph air-to-air missile (Hornet can't carry it), meant for defending against swarms of now non-existent Soviet missile planes. It's also faster than the F-18 (at mach 2+) and costs $10 million more.
So, although it's not as cost effective overall as the 18, for air defense give me a wing of Tomcats any day:)
Whoa there buddy, there's a lot of things that humans do because they can and it's fun. Not everything needs to be done to improve one's person.
For example, unless you're a hardline religious conservative, sex is the first thing that comes to mind. People don't use that exclusively to procreate, and it's exercise value is arguable... in fact it's a great way to spread disease. We still do it of course, because it's fun.
Of course, moving off to your more reasonable point of "What makes this P2P good for the world?". The value is that people can examine things before purchasing them, which the can't legally do now. If you play a game and it sucks, too bad. Buy a movie and it stinks, so what. Buy a CD and it's full of crappy remixes and vapid lyrics, oh well (don't give me that "but you would have heard it on the radio" stuff, the radio doesn't play what I like to hear in these days of consolidation).
So, I download music online. If I like it, I buy the album. If it sucks, I don't. Yes, it's illegal. So is speeding. So is oral sex in the southeast US. So is lighting firecrackers in the northeast US. So is breaking curfew for teenagers. So is passing on the right. So is making a loud noise past 10pm. So are a ton of other things that people blow off on a regular day because they are fun, and it's stupid for them to be illegal.
Oh, and something else that's illegal.. Civil Disobedience, which is really what P2P is. Call it Corporate Disobedience, or Copyright Disobedience, or whatever you like. What it really does is show Corporate America that people hate their methods of media distribution so much they'll do whatever they have to to get around it.
And, finally, the Artists. Isn't all this P2P shit bad for them? Hell no! I never would have heard of the Cruxshadows, Claire Voyant, Attrition or The Shroud if it wasn't for P2P (you'll never hear them on the radio), but now I bought all their albums AND go see their shows. Since they don't make jack off the albums but they DO make money (the artists, not the record companies)off the shows, I think that makes it good for them too.
I hate to respond to any article involving Soviet Russia, but I feel I must. Russians refer to the home country as the Rodinia, or Motherland. The Nazis, wanting to sound superior to their advesary, called their homeland the "Fatherland".
Of course, both are hostorical repressive totalitarian states that fit your argument quite nicely.
Er, the money that they make off of the box you bought (even if it is at a loss) is a whole lot better than having an unsold box left on the shelves (which pisses off retailers and locks them out of markets). It's silly to think that a sold XBox hurts Microsoft more than an unsold one.
Er, well, I'm told I moderated this up, and got dinged a Karma for doing so, but I really don't remember modding it. Maybe I should look into what I'm smoking myself.
As a former rep myself, I have a little bit to say about this.
AOL doesn't try to keep staff from assisting members outside of work (keyword MHM is practically devoted to that), but of course they can't identify themselves as such. There's no way for a random member to differentiate between message board comments posted by a troll or by a tech rep. I mean, c'mon, there's a little warning on the IM window telling people not to give ANYONE they're credit card info, and they do it anyway. Staff impersonation would become impossible to check. But a lot of staff did (and do) go there to help people out simply out of the kindness in there hearts, and all of management knew it, and it was all good.
Of course, if a member DID want to be connected to a definitive response by the company itself, they could always send email to stevecase@aol.com. Steve himself doesn't answer, but they're pretty good about finding someone who can. If I remember correctly the response time was required to be less than 48 hours.
AOL is also fairly tolerant of the TOM program, which is a perfect example of just how BAD employees can fuck things up when decide to volunteer to "help" the company.
Look, I don't care how many things this guy has done on other boards or stories to make himself an ass, the fact is that THIS post of his WAS ACCURATE, and DID explain how you can detect a TV or a radar detector, or lots of other electronic receivers. Whomever modded it as a troll is a nincompoop.
If you don't like him, set him to "enemy", don't mod him down for posting accurate information. I'm metamodding the "Troll" rating "Unfair".
Although I'm not going to discount Soviet scientists, who definetly did have a really great grasp of higher mathematics, I don't see how you can say that a "design bureau" is functionally different than a corporation. Both are driven by greed, one for money, the other for power (which might as well be the same thing). That's not the same as a computer being made by "the people". If you want to talk about computers made by people, check out this list, and don't drag out something that's really got nothing to do with freedom.
Not a beowulf cluster, but you could set up a PVFS cluster of these, which would be an excellent filesystem configuration to support a beowulf cluster.
Yes, we do use rail to move goods, but on a much smaller scale, and the infrastructure to do so is ancient and decaying. It pales in pure throughput and time/cost when compared to trucks on the Eisenhower Interstate System.
That's part of the problem of changing the cost/behavior. Making rail more desireable will require a public works project rival to the EIS, which nobody is going to finance (especially not right now). Simply changing the costs without changing the infrastructure will just result in higher prices and inflation.
As for Germany, it doesn't have any 3000+ mile long highways, while the US has hundreds of them. We use our land much differently than they do, so comparisons like that don't really work. And while I can't vouch for EIS quality compared to the autobahns, there's no reason you can't go 180 on most interstates except for the desire of local law enforcemnt to line their pockets with citations. Maybe the Germans tax gas, while we tax speed? Miserable choice.
Would improving rail and reducing reliance on gas be a good thing? I believe so, but only because of the political and pollution issues. Reducing use of gasoline so we can tax it more doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Well, I now feel better knowing more about Tim Berners-Lee, and can't say I didn't learn anything on Slashdot today.
I would like to note, however, that he doesn't appear to be dead. I imagine that would preclude him spinning in his grave (unless he's far more prepared than most of us).
Gas isn't inherently more valuable in Europe. You too could have 1.40$ gas if you invested in the supply and delivery infrastructure and didn't tax the bejeesus out of your gas.
In the USA, gas *must* be that cheap, or the economy collapses. Think I'm joking? We don't use rail to move goods here, we use long haul trucking and jets. A large percentage of the population drives over 30 miles each way to work. Not having a car is simply unthinkable for anyone except core-city dwellers, and in America (unlike Europe), most people aren't city dwellers, they live in sprawling suburbs.
That's why the country flips out in a military manner when oil supplies get threatened or prices go up. For good or for bad, we've built our whole economy and way of life on the internal combustion engine, and a nickel rise in the cost of a gallon means a similar rise in the price of ALL GOODS in the local store. In Europe, where you can burn enough local coal to power your electric genereators and zoom around your city centers in electric mass transit, transport by car is practically a luxury, and your government is happy to let you deal with $5.37 a gallon because you won't vote them out of office for it.
Could you be more obscure? I mean, if you look up Tim Bernard Lee in Google, you don't get anything meaningful. You DO get a nice picture of a couple with their brand new baby, but I don't think that's relevant.
And if anyone is spinning in their grave about Slashdot running articles on fonts, then dear god, how do they react to the stories about Doom being ported to the Nokia phone?
Isn't the technology all about how the content is presented? Shouldn't that be what geeks care about?
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No, it means that if you want it fixed, do it yourself. Open source doesn't mean a free ride.
Are usually pretty hard on Apple. I mean, they have to have beat Intel on hardware and Microsoft on software. Now, OSwise, I think they've done the software part with OSX. I really like it and even if it's a touch bloated it's nothing like XP. More than anything, that's the real strength of the Mac.
Sadly for Apple, it's hardware is reliant on Motorola to manufacture a processor faster than Intel, and Motorola doesn't have a lot of interest in that level of competition. That's why we get articles like this and this. The grim truth is that Macs ARE slower than PC's. Everyone who's not a zealot knows it, and bs like the "Mhz Myth" and "Oh, I personally KNOW they're faster" is propaganda and delusion. Even if more is done per clock cycle, the PC's are DOUBLING the cycles the G4 can do, and it's taking it's toll. This is not new, not hidden, not rocket science.
This isn't unique to the G4. Computer rooms across the country are having their PA-RISC, Sparc, MIPS and more yanked in favor of cheaper Intels. Sure there are niche applications you'd never use an X86 on, but by and large you can use a PC with Linux/FreeBSD and beat anything else on price, speed, power consumption, heat, and rack space. These are essentials for businesses, and this is where economies of scale really start to push new technology.
So, Apple needs to get better hardware. They either need to get IBM/Motorola to make them a better platform to run their excellent software, or they need to port to X86. There is no existing platform in the market now that has the economy of scale as X86 and it's really starting to show. The company has reinvented itself many times in the past, so I have confidence in them to do *something* to boost their standing, but this is certainly a dark moment in Apple's production cycle.
What's really disappointingis that they told us while they were selling the class that it would be good for at least 2 years.
I'm disinclined to think that this is part of RedHat's marketing plan, but sure will rake them in some cash, won't it?
A lot of HP-UX clients don't lock properly with ANY non-HP nfs file server. Where I work we've had a devil of a time with people on HP workstations using .history files, because they keep having locking problems and become corrupt.... often causing the user to hang during login. Good luck finding a solution, 'cause we couldn't... moved to Sun/Linux clients instead :)
Ouch, now that's bad. Even the maintainers of Samba say not to use it if anything else is available. Considering all the problems I've had with NFS on Sun, HP, and IRIX, Linux is certainly with the pack performance/headache-wise... and at least I'm not having capitalization and surreal locking problems tossed into the mix.
If you're using less as your pager, you use vi commands in your man pages :)
This got modded insightful?? Moderators, it's a link to goatse.
SOMEHOW you pay for the Windows license, even if it's hidden in other costs. And those costs do add up, especially when you can't get drivers any more unless you upgrade your entire infrastructure according to another company's business plan.
Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either. And what you're talking about implies generations of development.
Money flows downhill. It goes where things are cheap, and moves them where they are expensive. You'll never track it by looking for master manipulators, you'll find it by looking for people blatantly trying to make a buck.
Oh, what's that in your url? Subgenius? Aha, I see. Nevermind, you're a lost cause
So, although it's not as cost effective overall as the 18, for air defense give me a wing of Tomcats any day
Oh, references! Tomcat and Hornet
"You use them because you can and it's fun."
Whoa there buddy, there's a lot of things that humans do because they can and it's fun. Not everything needs to be done to improve one's person.
For example, unless you're a hardline religious conservative, sex is the first thing that comes to mind. People don't use that exclusively to procreate, and it's exercise value is arguable... in fact it's a great way to spread disease. We still do it of course, because it's fun.
Of course, moving off to your more reasonable point of "What makes this P2P good for the world?". The value is that people can examine things before purchasing them, which the can't legally do now. If you play a game and it sucks, too bad. Buy a movie and it stinks, so what. Buy a CD and it's full of crappy remixes and vapid lyrics, oh well (don't give me that "but you would have heard it on the radio" stuff, the radio doesn't play what I like to hear in these days of consolidation).
So, I download music online. If I like it, I buy the album. If it sucks, I don't. Yes, it's illegal. So is speeding. So is oral sex in the southeast US. So is lighting firecrackers in the northeast US. So is breaking curfew for teenagers. So is passing on the right. So is making a loud noise past 10pm. So are a ton of other things that people blow off on a regular day because they are fun, and it's stupid for them to be illegal.
Oh, and something else that's illegal.. Civil Disobedience, which is really what P2P is. Call it Corporate Disobedience, or Copyright Disobedience, or whatever you like. What it really does is show Corporate America that people hate their methods of media distribution so much they'll do whatever they have to to get around it.
And, finally, the Artists. Isn't all this P2P shit bad for them? Hell no! I never would have heard of the Cruxshadows, Claire Voyant, Attrition or The Shroud if it wasn't for P2P (you'll never hear them on the radio), but now I bought all their albums AND go see their shows. Since they don't make jack off the albums but they DO make money (the artists, not the record companies)off the shows, I think that makes it good for them too.
Of course, both are hostorical repressive totalitarian states that fit your argument quite nicely.
Now that's a cruel thing to say in an open forum where any nitwit can read it. Are you a field scout for the Darwin Awards?
As a former rep myself, I have a little bit to say about this.
AOL doesn't try to keep staff from assisting members outside of work (keyword MHM is practically devoted to that), but of course they can't identify themselves as such. There's no way for a random member to differentiate between message board comments posted by a troll or by a tech rep. I mean, c'mon, there's a little warning on the IM window telling people not to give ANYONE they're credit card info, and they do it anyway. Staff impersonation would become impossible to check. But a lot of staff did (and do) go there to help people out simply out of the kindness in there hearts, and all of management knew it, and it was all good.
Of course, if a member DID want to be connected to a definitive response by the company itself, they could always send email to stevecase@aol.com. Steve himself doesn't answer, but they're pretty good about finding someone who can. If I remember correctly the response time was required to be less than 48 hours.
AOL is also fairly tolerant of the TOM program, which is a perfect example of just how BAD employees can fuck things up when decide to volunteer to "help" the company.
If you don't like him, set him to "enemy", don't mod him down for posting accurate information. I'm metamodding the "Troll" rating "Unfair".
Although I'm not going to discount Soviet scientists, who definetly did have a really great grasp of higher mathematics, I don't see how you can say that a "design bureau" is functionally different than a corporation. Both are driven by greed, one for money, the other for power (which might as well be the same thing). That's not the same as a computer being made by "the people". If you want to talk about computers made by people, check out this list, and don't drag out something that's really got nothing to do with freedom.
That's part of the problem of changing the cost/behavior. Making rail more desireable will require a public works project rival to the EIS, which nobody is going to finance (especially not right now). Simply changing the costs without changing the infrastructure will just result in higher prices and inflation.
As for Germany, it doesn't have any 3000+ mile long highways, while the US has hundreds of them. We use our land much differently than they do, so comparisons like that don't really work. And while I can't vouch for EIS quality compared to the autobahns, there's no reason you can't go 180 on most interstates except for the desire of local law enforcemnt to line their pockets with citations. Maybe the Germans tax gas, while we tax speed? Miserable choice.
Would improving rail and reducing reliance on gas be a good thing? I believe so, but only because of the political and pollution issues. Reducing use of gasoline so we can tax it more doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
I would like to note, however, that he doesn't appear to be dead. I imagine that would preclude him spinning in his grave (unless he's far more prepared than most of us).
In the USA, gas *must* be that cheap, or the economy collapses. Think I'm joking? We don't use rail to move goods here, we use long haul trucking and jets. A large percentage of the population drives over 30 miles each way to work. Not having a car is simply unthinkable for anyone except core-city dwellers, and in America (unlike Europe), most people aren't city dwellers, they live in sprawling suburbs.
That's why the country flips out in a military manner when oil supplies get threatened or prices go up. For good or for bad, we've built our whole economy and way of life on the internal combustion engine, and a nickel rise in the cost of a gallon means a similar rise in the price of ALL GOODS in the local store. In Europe, where you can burn enough local coal to power your electric genereators and zoom around your city centers in electric mass transit, transport by car is practically a luxury, and your government is happy to let you deal with $5.37 a gallon because you won't vote them out of office for it.
And if anyone is spinning in their grave about Slashdot running articles on fonts, then dear god, how do they react to the stories about Doom being ported to the Nokia phone?
Isn't the technology all about how the content is presented? Shouldn't that be what geeks care about?