Linux is secure for the same reason as Mac OS X is secure: it's not the dominant OS. I feel pretty happy that my Mac isn't going to get hit by a virus or worm any time soon, but not because the OS itself is any more secure: I've had to download three security updates since June:
So the measure of the security of an OS is whether or not they make security patches available? Balderdash!
OS X, or any Unix-derived OS, is vastly more secure than Windows. Part of it's the design: you can't easily override the permissions inherent in a *nix system; with Windows; you're free to nuke or alter almost any file in the system. Part of it's the design of the applications: Outlook's ability to auto-open attachments for you, for example. How convenient!
YOU HAD TO PAY EXTRA for a sync cable/software. And it's not like you had $15 or $20, or even $50. If I remember correctly you had to pay $100.
That's odd, because I bought every Newton ever made, including the Sharp variants (so I'm a geek, sue me) and still have a clear Newton, 130, and 2100, and every single one of them came with sync software and a cable. Admittedly in the case of the 2x00, it was awfully beta software, but still...
You could sync a Newton over Ethernet, but I think it was AppleTalk over Ethernet, and not IP...
I've got a CRW-F1. Yes, the included software-- a version of Nero 5 which, incidentally, is too stupid to match the curvature of your text to the CD (you have to adjust it manually)-- does burn text and images to the unused portion of a CDR.
Too bad that on most CDs the difference between the burned and unburned portion is so slight you'll have to hold the CD up to bright light at an angle to see anything. Yamaha includes a single CD-R with a deep blue dye layer that shows off the effect very well...but so far hasn't made these special CD-Rs available for purchase.
Gosh, maybe you should move to a country with a greater degree of privacy and freedom of speech.
I'm sure you're out there tirelessly working against bills like to to hold back these corporations from their creeping encroachments into our personal information. Maybe you can give us some pointers, based on your own personal experience, of what we can do to help.
Unless, of course, you haven't actually done a damn thing except post insightful (albeit anonymous) messages railing against "Corporate Fascist Republic of Amerikkka"
"Oh, and that little thing called alternating current [varchive.org]"
Wow. Gosh. I didn't know that. So I started looking around. Turns out he also invented the laser, radar, voice-controlled automatons (speaker-independent, responded to volunteers from the audience, demonstrated in 1898!), and perhaps his most impressive invention, the death ray, with which he disintegrated a bird in flight on June 30, 1908. Unfortunately the ray subsequently shot halfway around the world and was the cause of the mysterious Tunguska explosion.
He also invented the electromagnetic disk brake, which admittedly isn't mentioned on any of the many, many Tesla web sites I visited, but I have personally seen demonstrated at a Tesla museum some years ago.
I am not making any of this up.
But arguments about Tesla aside-- God knows he will always have legions of fanboys to support him-- let's get back to the main topic: the recharged-by-magic battery powered Delorean. BTW, the "race tracks put more stress on bearings" excuse is also, unsurprisingly, bullshit. Automakers routinely test street cars on race tracks, at much higher velocities than the wondermobile failed under.
"Well, I haven't witnessed any of it PERSONALLY, but if the information here [tilleyfoundation.com] is accurate, then I was say that's a start."
But it's not accurate. It's bullshit. Remember that famous quote about those who fail to learn the lessons of history being doomed to repeat it? This "We'll run an electric car an impossible distance with our new power source" crap has popped up regularly since the 1970s. This latest variant tried to make itself seem more real by using a power source that could actually run the car a few miles-- I've seen previous "demonstrations" running a car on a pair of "AA" batteries, as well as a site that claimed their car could run on tap water.
It's ALWAYS A HOAX OR CON. You'd think even people born since 1990 would know this. For the terminally stupid and credulous, I provide for free this list of warning signs to be used to evaluate claims like this in the future:
* Does the new power source depend on vacuum energy, the Casimir effect, or new interpretations of quantum theory?
* Is the claim made that large corporations are actively working to suppress this technology?
* Are enough details of the new energy source provided to allow experts in the field to either verify or experimentally reproduce the results claimed by the inventor?
* Are they soliciting investors on their web site? Especially small, individual investors?
And here's an important one:
* Does the web site, materials, or anything related mention Nikolai Tesla in any way, shape or form?
If any of these questions, except #3, can be answered "Yes", then it's a hoax or con. Jesus, Tesla was a f**king crackpot whose major contribution to science was the Tesla coil, primarily used to generate big sparks at children's museums.
there seems to be very little interest in getting more power directly from our sun.
That's because solar power is a very diffuse, low-density thing here at the earth's surface. You need really, really huge fields of solar collectors (mirrors, photovotaics, whatever) to collect enough solar energy to be useful...and even then you're at the mercy of the weather.
So your solar electricity plant has a large ecological impact (dozens or hundreds of acres required) and can't produce electricity as reliably as a stinky old coal plant. Plus you have to clean the mirrors/solar cells.
Yep! I've met a lot of French people who think we're all a bunch of gun carying death-penalty xenophobes.
I tend to agree with a quote I read once: "As far as I'm concerned, your French should be bowing down to America on a daily basis, thanking us for saving your butts from the Nazis, which I'm still not convinced was that great an idea in the first place."
"Why the hell can't we have a President who doesn't look and sound like a block of wood?"
The same reason we have to deal with lame-ass trolls posting off-topic crap like this, I'd guess...
Interesting that your post quotes "500 million billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month." while the original article says "500 billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month."
But what's a minor 10^6 error when you're trying to make a point? And isn't the British "billion" equivalent to the American "million"?
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So the measure of the security of an OS is whether or not they make security patches available? Balderdash!
OS X, or any Unix-derived OS, is vastly more secure than Windows. Part of it's the design: you can't easily override the permissions inherent in a *nix system; with Windows; you're free to nuke or alter almost any file in the system. Part of it's the design of the applications: Outlook's ability to auto-open attachments for you, for example. How convenient!
I've got a CRW-F1. Yes, the included software-- a version of Nero 5 which, incidentally, is too stupid to match the curvature of your text to the CD (you have to adjust it manually)-- does burn text and images to the unused portion of a CDR. Too bad that on most CDs the difference between the burned and unburned portion is so slight you'll have to hold the CD up to bright light at an angle to see anything. Yamaha includes a single CD-R with a deep blue dye layer that shows off the effect very well...but so far hasn't made these special CD-Rs available for purchase.
Gosh, maybe you should move to a country with a greater degree of privacy and freedom of speech.
I'm sure you're out there tirelessly working against bills like to to hold back these corporations from their creeping encroachments into our personal information. Maybe you can give us some pointers, based on your own personal experience, of what we can do to help.
Unless, of course, you haven't actually done a damn thing except post insightful (albeit anonymous) messages railing against "Corporate Fascist Republic of Amerikkka"
"Oh, and that little thing called alternating current [varchive.org]"
Wow. Gosh. I didn't know that. So I started looking around. Turns out he also invented the laser, radar, voice-controlled automatons (speaker-independent, responded to volunteers from the audience, demonstrated in 1898!), and perhaps his most impressive invention, the death ray, with which he disintegrated a bird in flight on June 30, 1908. Unfortunately the ray subsequently shot halfway around the world and was the cause of the mysterious Tunguska explosion.
He also invented the electromagnetic disk brake, which admittedly isn't mentioned on any of the many, many Tesla web sites I visited, but I have personally seen demonstrated at a Tesla museum some years ago.
I am not making any of this up.
But arguments about Tesla aside-- God knows he will always have legions of fanboys to support him-- let's get back to the main topic: the recharged-by-magic battery powered Delorean. BTW, the "race tracks put more stress on bearings" excuse is also, unsurprisingly, bullshit. Automakers routinely test street cars on race tracks, at much higher velocities than the wondermobile failed under.
"Well, I haven't witnessed any of it PERSONALLY, but if the information here [tilleyfoundation.com] is accurate, then I was say that's a start."
But it's not accurate. It's bullshit. Remember that famous quote about those who fail to learn the lessons of history being doomed to repeat it? This "We'll run an electric car an impossible distance with our new power source" crap has popped up regularly since the 1970s. This latest variant tried to make itself seem more real by using a power source that could actually run the car a few miles-- I've seen previous "demonstrations" running a car on a pair of "AA" batteries, as well as a site that claimed their car could run on tap water.
It's ALWAYS A HOAX OR CON. You'd think even people born since 1990 would know this. For the terminally stupid and credulous, I provide for free this list of warning signs to be used to evaluate claims like this in the future:
* Does the new power source depend on vacuum energy, the Casimir effect, or new interpretations of quantum theory?
* Is the claim made that large corporations are actively working to suppress this technology?
* Are enough details of the new energy source provided to allow experts in the field to either verify or experimentally reproduce the results claimed by the inventor?
* Are they soliciting investors on their web site? Especially small, individual investors?
And here's an important one:
* Does the web site, materials, or anything related mention Nikolai Tesla in any way, shape or form?
If any of these questions, except #3, can be answered "Yes", then it's a hoax or con. Jesus, Tesla was a f**king crackpot whose major contribution to science was the Tesla coil, primarily used to generate big sparks at children's museums.
The Accutrons Bulova sells now have nothing in common with the old tuning-fork watches-- they're modern (cheap) quartz movements.
there seems to be very little interest in getting more power directly from our sun.
That's because solar power is a very diffuse, low-density thing here at the earth's surface. You need really, really huge fields of solar collectors (mirrors, photovotaics, whatever) to collect enough solar energy to be useful...and even then you're at the mercy of the weather.
So your solar electricity plant has a large ecological impact (dozens or hundreds of acres required) and can't produce electricity as reliably as a stinky old coal plant. Plus you have to clean the mirrors/solar cells.
Yep! I've met a lot of French people who think we're all a bunch of gun carying death-penalty xenophobes.
I tend to agree with a quote I read once: "As far as I'm concerned, your French should be bowing down to America on a daily basis, thanking us for saving your butts from the Nazis, which I'm still not convinced was that great an idea in the first place."
"Why the hell can't we have a President who doesn't look and sound like a block of wood?" The same reason we have to deal with lame-ass trolls posting off-topic crap like this, I'd guess...
Interesting that your post quotes "500 million billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month." while the original article says "500 billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month." But what's a minor 10^6 error when you're trying to make a point? And isn't the British "billion" equivalent to the American "million"?