As a stand-alone company, Apple's hardware unit could offer its users computers equipped with a Microsoft Windows operating system. That move alone, Kastner estimates, would double the company's market share.
Oh yes, very realistic. An Apple with i386 hardware running windows. Yes, I can definitely see how beneficial and appealing that would be.
The problem with most of these announcements is that either due to the lack of
a) funding
b) applicabilty in vivo hominis
these things never ever have an impact on clinical medicine. All these press releases do is please the ego of the biologist. Clinical medicine is mostly untouched by "discoveries" like that.
That just means that as a family physician I will arrange my on - call schedule in close consultations with the local metereological institute. Asthma housecalls are a bummer!
Dirk
Boot Openbsd from the floppy drive and use a serial port CD-Rom for the install.
OpenBsd will virtually work on every machine and even a non X-Windows install should give you enough functuality.
Together with obsolete hardware you will give away the most secure machines ever to your clients.
Oh oh and we pay a SHITLOAD for cars here too, like 15 metric assloads for a car, that's right this BIG fat country with 20 million people and you can't find a decent second hand car under 10,000$ - but our backwards sheep plowing neighbours in NZ can score ex Japanese imports in the 6000$ (NZ!) range... wheeeeee
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So, maybe you'd think that we'd all be more free if the government tells us what we can and can not drive, or if you think you should dictate my life based on your preferences, but personally, I don't care
It's not about me or your government telling you what to drive, it's just that the age of enlightenment obviously passed by you and your kind.
Personal freedom does not mean you're not allowed to make rational choices.
...and isn't contributing to the future and common good of the nation a paramount goal for every american? I always thought you guys are so patriotic. Obviously not at the fuelpump.
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Somehow the editors and most of the clientel of/. don't see the necessity for more efficient individual transport. Maybe this reflects the mainly American clientel of this site, who seems to have decided that fuel-guzzling SUV's and the aforementioned supersportscars are the way to drive into a climate-changed future that still depends on burning gazillions of gallons of refined oil.
Apart from it's tinkerability the nice thing about the Smart is it's fuelconsumption and innovative approach on individual transport: less is more.
As usual though, this is probaly read by some idiot who thinks his personal freedom and personality are expressed by a huge V 12 sportscar/SUV in his garage.
I remember downloading and running a 3 minute demo on my Amiga 2000 that wasn't only mindbogglingly beautiful to look at but also had the coolest EBM-soundtrack you could imagine. Size of the file: 16kb
Why in the world buy this book when you can get a nice, crisp copy of Openbsd for a couple of dollars from here and with just a few man pages get a better and secure platform in a matter of minutes.
If you want to cheat Theo out of his hard earned money you can even ftp it (but that would be cheating).
I have to admit that I have immense respect for these alpha nerds from NASA:
imagine trying to repair a 20 year old computer with continuous hardware and mobo probs from a gazillion miles away with only a console and a lag of a couple of hours....
Fortunately OpenBSD keeps up a good PPC port, and using openbsd on an Ibook or Ti-book is immensely satisfying.
I am running OpenBSD on a 2 GB partition on my Ibook's HD, next to Classic and OS X, and it works like a charm.
Now, can you blame a fashion concious geek for rather sporting a beautiful portable computer with the most secure OS ever next to the most usable Unix ever?
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Oh yes, very realistic. An Apple with i386 hardware running windows. Yes, I can definitely see how beneficial and appealing that would be.
Sheesh...
these things never ever have an impact on clinical medicine. All these press releases do is please the ego of the biologist. Clinical medicine is mostly untouched by "discoveries" like that.
You'll be financing the best OSS in the world and will help Theo forget the Darpa Grant.
Just not if you're black, democrat and live in Florida.
Then you, Sir, are responsible for George "Let's Bomb Syria" Bush, Cheyney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the league of honourable gentlemen.
but if you would work for me, I'd be removing that TV from your office, as I'd prefer you toiling away than watching "Pretty in Pink".
That just means that as a family physician I will arrange my on - call schedule in close consultations with the local metereological institute. Asthma housecalls are a bummer! Dirk
don't you kids read Kim Stanley Robinson? Mars terraforming has never been better researched and presented than in K.S.R.'s Mars Trilogy.
Read and learn all about Mars.
Together with obsolete hardware you will give away the most secure machines ever to your clients.
Thanks, Theo.
What happens if the thing comes down on a street, a house, or a human??
sorry, I only paid 1000 NZ$ for my Accord EX-T
Germany's even better, as the greens, the liberals and the social democrats are all pro - privacy.
It's just around the corner...
It's not about me or your government telling you what to drive, it's just that the age of enlightenment obviously passed by you and your kind.
Personal freedom does not mean you're not allowed to make rational choices.
Telecom New Zealand
Apart from it's tinkerability the nice thing about the Smart is it's fuelconsumption and innovative approach on individual transport: less is more.
As usual though, this is probaly read by some idiot who thinks his personal freedom and personality are expressed by a huge V 12 sportscar/SUV in his garage.
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Bloody amazing...
Will there be a return of the mutant camels?
Just so half of this planet's socially challenged would appear on my doorstep and want a beer?
..as long as Microsoft daoesn't give a fuck these exercises are unfortunately completely useless...
If you want to cheat Theo out of his hard earned money you can even ftp it (but that would be cheating).
Take that, Linux Goonies...
imagine trying to repair a 20 year old computer with continuous hardware and mobo probs from a gazillion miles away with only a console and a lag of a couple of hours....
My hat's off to you, guys...
Dirk
Think of JH's move to Apple as his opportunity to spread the gospel to a wider audience than FreeBSD (of all OS's).
I am running OpenBSD on a 2 GB partition on my Ibook's HD, next to Classic and OS X, and it works like a charm.
Now, can you blame a fashion concious geek for rather sporting a beautiful portable computer with the most secure OS ever next to the most usable Unix ever?
Dirk
Go, man!