I've run an iMac DVSE, which is also fanless for about 4 months straight uptime. (It crunches SETI when I'm not at my work desk. ) The only problem I ever saw with heating was when a user left a DVSE in direct sunlight for an extended period of time. No damage to the machinej, it just froze a lot until the shade was closed.
The new versions of YellowDog Linux, LinuxPPC, and quite probably PPC SUSE, make it possible to start a PPC Linux box without ever going into Mac OS.
There was nothing particurlarly different about the immediate pre-Jobs era. The Mac cloners were using the same logic board designs as Apple. They were as "Mac OS dependent" as anything coming out of Apple itself at the same time. IBM has released a Power PC reference set of specs, but as far as I know, no one's used them yet.
The machines you use at work are generally a lot louder in a home environment which doesn't have all that background noise, although things are getting a bit better in that regard, My Blue and White G3 is considerably more quiet than my 9500 or my Amiga 4000.
That's what those radiators are for.u Just like the one stuck on top of the CPU for your computer. Besides with most probes heading away from the Sun, solar heating becomes a nonissue after a point.
The reactors you mention are called "Breeder" reactors were specifically designed to produce Plutonium in the corse of their operation for two reasons, 1. for atomic weapons production and 2. For civillian pllutonium reactors that are never going to be built because of the many fold risks of either plutonium theft, not to mention what would happen if the stuff were released into the atmosphere.
Historically, humans have seldom "explored for exploration's sake." Usually there are lots of practical reasons, such as the search for trade routes and new lands to conquer and colonise.
BTW, Pluto has already left the near portion in its orbit and is now occupying it's 9'th planet out from the Sun listing again. It's rather doubtful at this point that there is any meaning temperature difference between the near and far side of it's orbits considering the distances from solar heat in either case.
.... is still a matter of speculation at this point. It's got an oddball orbit for a planet, but so do many objects not considered planets. The leading ideal now is that Uranus was hit by something fairly massive, a planet about Earth size or bigger. The sudden tilt is beleived to have caused disruptions which destroyed the original Uranian moons which resulted in debris rings from which the present moons formed.
Pluto may have been thrown out of it's orbit prior to the collison or it's origin may be totally unrelated to what happened to Uranus. We may not know this answer for centuries, perhaps there is no way to truly find out, short of intensive examination of the Plutonian crust.
As for the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it's not so much thought of as a planet that blew up or was smashed, but left over solar system formation material that never condensed into a planet because of the proximity to Jupiter.
It's not a matter of just letting Mir come down whenever it feels like. The planned is for a controlled lowering of orbit in stages followed by a deorbit burn. That way when it does come down, it'll be over a stretch of ocean which nobody uses.
One: Skylab fulfilled all it's mission directives, despite a severe mishap at the station's launch, not bad for being built from Apollo's leftovers.
The ISS promises a good deal more immediate benefits to humanity than some foolhardy manned stunt to Mars. As far as the rest of your diatribe, unfortunately science simply hasn't caught up to Trek special effects. As for AI, well, the work is being done at it's own pace in several different approaches by different people, there's no need of an Apollo project for AI. (Personally, the last thing I want are HAL's popping up all over the place until we tame the bloody ATMs.:)
The most important thing about the station is that it'll actually be a full time space settlement. I didn't fully approve of the way it's being done now, but now that we've spent the money and the time, we might as well start making use of it.
You also need to get a more expansive understanding of progress. Progress seldom happens in big dramatic steps, usually even the most important things go unnoticed until much later. Anyone remember the big hoorah when packet switching was invented? Didn't think so.
Let's spend our money wisely. Let's develop our cislunar presence, enlarge Spacewatch, and learn to manage the junk we're leaving in orbit. As for Mars, there's much to do with unmanned flights before we go to the dangerous and expensive route of sending people.
I've known a few of Objectivists in my time. They either were brilliant minds, or sufficiently convinced of their own abilities. Ayn Rand was a competent writer if a bit on the wordy side. The attitude of "Selfishness as a virtue" isn't so much different as the idea that "Technocrats should rule!". It's hard to resist the idea that you're bright and right, especially if you do have some reason for self-congratulation every now and then.
The international astronomy organisation (IAU?) did float a proposal to redesignate Pluto as a minor planet last year. Got voted down mainly due to opposition from the American side as Pluto is the only "planet" discovered by an American. (Clyde Tombaugh)
Personally I see their point, Pluto is smaller than our Moon and has a pretty wacky orbit for a planet. And apparantly although Tombaugh did use good science to track it, it's only dumb luck that he found it as Pluto does not account for the perturbation of the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.
But claiming that there ARE aliens because I can't prove that they don't exist is sloppy logic. The fact is that a 17" iMac simply doesn't make the same king of logic that the original machine was targeted for.
The G4 cube is targeted at that inbetween market. It's an easy machine to setup, cute, inoffensive, and can appeal to those who don't want to be either tied to a specific monitor size, or run a perceived "low power" machine. It's the exact machine for the market you might be thinking of.
The point I'm making is not to slam AppleInsider, it's just to take it in proper perspective and to recognise that AI and other sites like this "leak" news like this to keep the hits (and thus the ad rates) hopping. I've been reading there news for quite sometime and their track record for each Macworld I've read their predictions for pretty much match these last two.
The decimation of Jewish populations of Europe under the Nazi governments was an atrocity. What the Serbians and the Bosnians have been doing to each other in turns was an atrocity. The National Guard firing on unarmed peaceful student protestors was an atrocity.
But Monica Lewinsky? That was an overinflated soap opera that virtually crippled a Presidency, distracted a Congress that resulted in a straight-laced prosecutor publishing the most salacious library of reading material at taxpayer expense.
Echelon already exists and is reading the email of everyone on this planet. Computer technology can actually do these massive scaled searching and sorting operations to an increasing degree. Give it another 5 years and who knows what may be possible by then. Brin argues quite convincingly that government and corporate agencies are developing and using the tools neccessary to strip our privacy.
Brin isn't arguing that we should surrender our privacy in order to buy government accountability. He's arguing that we've already lost it, are losing it more, and we can't prevent it. And the only defense is to return the offense.
That is the problem, agencies like the FBI and the CIA have been acquiring powers without the accountability to go with them. A problem with any enforcement group with powers "over and above" is the development of a "Men in Black" or even more dangerously Us vs. Them, where the definition of Them becomes more and more inclusive.
The X-Files may not be real, but Echelon and Carnivore sure are. If you take a good look at an FBI or CIA man and compare their mentality to someone who works or worked for the Soviet KGB, or the South African, Chinese, French, or Israeli secret services you'd be hardly pressed to find enough differences that matter.
Who Should Watch the Watchmen? It may be one of the most important questions of our time.
The cube seems to be targeted specifically at a market segment that has looked at the iMac and likes the simplicity but wants more power and does not want to be locked into a 15 inch display. I could definitely see someone plugging in for the full setup plus the Cinema display for a well to do living room or home den setup. I could also see it for a DTP worker who doesn't have the need for PCI slots and wants to save on desk space as the Cube has Firewire which will suffice for most high bandwidth device needs.
Apple has never really been that much into the server market. Servers are mainly an afterthought, usually by tricking out the top of the line model and slapping a server software package. The only time Apple actually built a specifically server machine, the late lamented Apple Network Server was a dismal failure. I think that when OS X becomes sufficiently established, there'll be room for some innovative tech company to come out with a properly designed enterprise server running on Darwin.
Apple does understand open source to the extent that they know that Darwin was as far as it should go at this point in time. And judging from selling close to 4 million iMacs in two years, with about 40% being either Wintel-escapees or first time computer users, Apple seems definitely clued as to what sells.
BTW, I know a deep dyed in the wool Filepro programmer who's spent the major part of his life tooling about in SCO. Guess which was HIS first Mac..... the tangerine ibook.
Geeks are people, and like any group of people there's a lot of variation in taste. You remind me of a guy I know at the Onenet network who still thinks that the only proper color for a Mac or any other computer should be beige.
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Well, those 21" Apple ColorSynch displays ARE a heavy lift, they've got to be the most bulkiest, heaviest, and space consuming monitors I've ever handled.
But oh.... the color accuracy makes it all worth it. The built in USB hub is a nice plus.
Einstein was never comfortable with quantum theory despite the fact that his own work was part of the lead-in for it. The best way to examine this dichotomy would be to look up the dialogues between him and Niels Bohr.
Despite that however, Einstein didn't have have the cow you seem to be having so chill. What you don't seem to understand is that the leading edge of Physics is happening in areas so esoteric that it's extremely difficult to explain in any language besides mathematics, so naturally it comes out seeming a lot more weird in Human.
On a semi-related note, there's an interesting play by the name of Copenhagen on Broadway about a hypothetical meeting between Bohr, Heisenberg, and Dirac during the World War 2 era.
Watched a PBS series on the Vikings recently. The Viking colony in "Vinland" was abandoned for a variety of reasons, including conflict with the natives whom the Vikings referred to as "Skraelings". The colony didn't pan out enough to cope with the hazards of living there, so the Vikings turned there attentions to developing a trade route with Constantinople and as an almost accidental side effect created the roots of Modern Russia. Check it out on www.pbs.org.
I've always wondered about the nature of both Cyclop's vision and his visor. Given the unique nature of his eyeballs, is his visual spectrum receptivity the same as a humans? If so this would mean that he would be effectively color blind while wearing either the visor or his special glasses. Unfortunately there was never any indication of this that I can remember from the Marvel series.
jacobm writes: It's quickly becoming an IE-only world, but it's not because Microsoft uses proprietary tags-honestly, why would Microsoft care about squashing Netscape 4.7 at this point? The only people who use it are die-hards and people without any IE option anyway.
At this point on my Mac I mainly use Netscape for Slashdot, as IE 5 tends to choke at the level I usually read at (uncut and raw). But otherwise I use MSIE 5 as it's considerably more Mac friendly than Netscape and for particular feautures such as one button minimise and AutoFill.
One particular annoyance about Communicator is the new insistance upon installing everything as opposed to the formerly customisable install, including versions of AIM which are a lot older than the release I have already installed. The other is the stubborn refusal to update the browser only version of Navigator.
In a sense Bill isn't out to fracture the web space, he's out to unify it. Somone once said we needed a Techno Czar to unilaterally declare one standard for the technologies we need to use in life. By the time all the appeals are done and the dust has settled. William H. Gates the Third will be that Czar by default.
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This is what we call one of the more subtle and successful forms of flamebait folks, and all of the folks above fell for it.
The G4 Cube uses one, not two processors.
I've run an iMac DVSE, which is also fanless for about 4 months straight uptime. (It crunches SETI when I'm not at my work desk. ) The only problem I ever saw with heating was when a user left a DVSE in direct sunlight for an extended period of time. No damage to the machinej, it just froze a lot until the shade was closed.
The new versions of YellowDog Linux, LinuxPPC, and quite probably PPC SUSE, make it possible to start a PPC Linux box without ever going into Mac OS.
There was nothing particurlarly different about the immediate pre-Jobs era. The Mac cloners were using the same logic board designs as Apple. They were as "Mac OS dependent" as anything coming out of Apple itself at the same time. IBM has released a Power PC reference set of specs, but as far as I know, no one's used them yet.
The machines you use at work are generally a lot louder in a home environment which doesn't have all that background noise, although things are getting a bit better in that regard, My Blue and White G3 is considerably more quiet than my 9500 or my Amiga 4000.
That's what those radiators are for.u Just like the one stuck on top of the CPU for your computer. Besides with most probes heading away from the Sun, solar heating becomes a nonissue after a point.
The reactors you mention are called "Breeder" reactors were specifically designed to produce Plutonium in the corse of their operation for two reasons, 1. for atomic weapons production and 2. For civillian pllutonium reactors that are never going to be built because of the many fold risks of either plutonium theft, not to mention what would happen if the stuff were released into the atmosphere.
Historically, humans have seldom "explored for exploration's sake." Usually there are lots of practical reasons, such as the search for trade routes and new lands to conquer and colonise.
BTW, Pluto has already left the near portion in its orbit and is now occupying it's 9'th planet out from the Sun listing again. It's rather doubtful at this point that there is any meaning temperature difference between the near and far side of it's orbits considering the distances from solar heat in either case.
.... is still a matter of speculation at this point. It's got an oddball orbit for a planet, but so do many objects not considered planets. The leading ideal now is that Uranus was hit by something fairly massive, a planet about Earth size or bigger. The sudden tilt is beleived to have caused disruptions which destroyed the original Uranian moons which resulted in debris rings from which the present moons formed.
Pluto may have been thrown out of it's orbit prior to the collison or it's origin may be totally unrelated to what happened to Uranus. We may not know this answer for centuries, perhaps there is no way to truly find out, short of intensive examination of the Plutonian crust.
As for the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it's not so much thought of as a planet that blew up or was smashed, but left over solar system formation material that never condensed into a planet because of the proximity to Jupiter.
It's not a matter of just letting Mir come down whenever it feels like. The planned is for a controlled lowering of orbit in stages followed by a deorbit burn. That way when it does come down, it'll be over a stretch of ocean which nobody uses.
One: Skylab fulfilled all it's mission directives, despite a severe mishap at the station's launch, not bad for being built from Apollo's leftovers.
:)
The ISS promises a good deal more immediate benefits to humanity than some foolhardy manned stunt to Mars. As far as the rest of your diatribe, unfortunately science simply hasn't caught up to Trek special effects. As for AI, well, the work is being done at it's own pace in several different approaches by different people, there's no need of an Apollo project for AI. (Personally, the last thing I want are HAL's popping up all over the place until we tame the bloody ATMs.
The most important thing about the station is that it'll actually be a full time space settlement. I didn't fully approve of the way it's being done now, but now that we've spent the money and the time, we might as well start making use of it.
You also need to get a more expansive understanding of progress. Progress seldom happens in big dramatic steps, usually even the most important things go unnoticed until much later. Anyone remember the big hoorah when packet switching was invented? Didn't think so.
Let's spend our money wisely. Let's develop our cislunar presence, enlarge Spacewatch, and learn to manage the junk we're leaving in orbit. As for Mars, there's much to do with unmanned flights before we go to the dangerous and expensive route of sending people.
They were selling it at 14 bucks a pop at the Javits Center show in NYC last year until they sold out.
I've known a few of Objectivists in my time. They either were brilliant minds, or sufficiently convinced of their own abilities. Ayn Rand was a competent writer if a bit on the wordy side.
The attitude of "Selfishness as a virtue" isn't so much different as the idea that "Technocrats should rule!". It's hard to resist the idea that you're bright and right, especially if you do have some reason for self-congratulation every now and then.
The international astronomy organisation (IAU?) did float a proposal to redesignate Pluto as a minor planet last year. Got voted down mainly due to opposition from the American side as Pluto is the only "planet" discovered by an American. (Clyde Tombaugh)
Personally I see their point, Pluto is smaller than our Moon and has a pretty wacky orbit for a planet. And apparantly although Tombaugh did use good science to track it, it's only dumb luck that he found it as Pluto does not account for the perturbation of the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.
But claiming that there ARE aliens because I can't prove that they don't exist is sloppy logic. The fact is that a 17" iMac simply doesn't make the same king of logic that the original machine was targeted for.
The G4 cube is targeted at that inbetween market. It's an easy machine to setup, cute, inoffensive, and can appeal to those who don't want to be either tied to a specific monitor size, or run a perceived "low power" machine. It's the exact machine for the market you might be thinking of.
The point I'm making is not to slam AppleInsider, it's just to take it in proper perspective and to recognise that AI and other sites like this "leak" news like this to keep the hits (and thus the ad rates) hopping. I've been reading there news for quite sometime and their track record for each Macworld I've read their predictions for pretty much match these last two.
.... than it must be TRUE!
I'm putting in an order for my 17" G4 iMac as we speak.
The decimation of Jewish populations of Europe under the Nazi governments was an atrocity. What the Serbians and the Bosnians have been doing to each other in turns was an atrocity. The National Guard firing on unarmed peaceful student protestors was an atrocity.
But Monica Lewinsky? That was an overinflated soap opera that virtually crippled a Presidency, distracted a Congress that resulted in a straight-laced prosecutor publishing the most salacious library of reading material at taxpayer expense.
Echelon already exists and is reading the email of everyone on this planet. Computer technology can actually do these massive scaled searching and sorting operations to an increasing degree. Give it another 5 years and who knows what may be possible by then. Brin argues quite convincingly that government and corporate agencies are developing and using the tools neccessary to strip our privacy.
Brin isn't arguing that we should surrender our privacy in order to buy government accountability. He's arguing that we've already lost it, are losing it more, and we can't prevent it. And the only defense is to return the offense.
That is the problem, agencies like the FBI and the CIA have been acquiring powers without the accountability to go with them. A problem with any enforcement group with powers "over and above" is the development of a "Men in Black" or even more dangerously Us vs. Them, where the definition of Them becomes more and more inclusive.
The X-Files may not be real, but Echelon and Carnivore sure are. If you take a good look at an FBI or CIA man and compare their mentality to someone who works or worked for the Soviet KGB, or the South African, Chinese, French, or Israeli secret services you'd be hardly pressed to find enough differences that matter.
Who Should Watch the Watchmen? It may be one of the most important questions of our time.
The cube seems to be targeted specifically at a market segment that has looked at the iMac and likes the simplicity but wants more power and does not want to be locked into a 15 inch display. I could definitely see someone plugging in for the full setup plus the Cinema display for a well to do living room or home den setup. I could also see it for a DTP worker who doesn't have the need for PCI slots and wants to save on desk space as the Cube has Firewire which will suffice for most high bandwidth device needs.
Apple has never really been that much into the server market. Servers are mainly an afterthought, usually by tricking out the top of the line model and slapping a server software package. The only time Apple actually built a specifically server machine, the late lamented Apple Network Server was a dismal failure. I think that when OS X becomes sufficiently established, there'll be room for some innovative tech company to come out with a properly designed enterprise server running on Darwin.
Apple does understand open source to the extent that they know that Darwin was as far as it should go at this point in time. And judging from selling close to 4 million iMacs in two years, with about 40% being either Wintel-escapees or first time computer users, Apple seems definitely clued as to what sells.
BTW, I know a deep dyed in the wool Filepro programmer who's spent the major part of his life tooling about in SCO. Guess which was HIS first Mac..... the tangerine ibook.
Geeks are people, and like any group of people there's a lot of variation in taste. You remind me of a guy I know at the Onenet network who still thinks that the only proper color for a Mac or any other computer should be beige.
Well, those 21" Apple ColorSynch displays ARE a heavy lift, they've got to be the most bulkiest, heaviest, and space consuming monitors I've ever handled.
But oh.... the color accuracy makes it all worth it. The built in USB hub is a nice plus.
Einstein was never comfortable with quantum theory despite the fact that his own work was part of the lead-in for it. The best way to examine this dichotomy would be to look up the dialogues between him and Niels Bohr.
Despite that however, Einstein didn't have have the cow you seem to be having so chill. What you don't seem to understand is that the leading edge of Physics is happening in areas so esoteric that it's extremely difficult to explain in any language besides mathematics, so naturally it comes out seeming a lot more weird in Human.
On a semi-related note, there's an interesting play by the name of Copenhagen on Broadway about a hypothetical meeting between Bohr, Heisenberg, and Dirac during the World War 2 era.
check out. http://www.copenhagenbroadway.com/
Watched a PBS series on the Vikings recently. The Viking colony in "Vinland" was abandoned for a variety of reasons, including conflict with the natives whom the Vikings referred to as "Skraelings". The colony didn't pan out enough to cope with the hazards of living there, so the Vikings turned there attentions to developing a trade route with Constantinople and as an almost accidental side effect created the roots of Modern Russia. Check it out on www.pbs.org.
I've always wondered about the nature of both Cyclop's vision and his visor. Given the unique nature of his eyeballs, is his visual spectrum receptivity the same as a humans? If so this would mean that he would be effectively color blind while wearing either the visor or his special glasses. Unfortunately there was never any indication of this that I can remember from the Marvel series.
As I remember that would call for Color Kid of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. :) (Yes that was his power, he could change the colors of things.)
jacobm writes:
It's quickly becoming an IE-only world, but it's not because Microsoft uses proprietary tags-honestly, why would Microsoft care about squashing Netscape 4.7 at this point? The only people who use it are die-hards and people without any IE option anyway.
At this point on my Mac I mainly use Netscape for Slashdot, as IE 5 tends to choke at the level I usually read at (uncut and raw). But otherwise I use MSIE 5 as it's considerably more Mac friendly than Netscape and for particular feautures such as one button minimise and AutoFill.
One particular annoyance about Communicator is the new insistance upon installing everything as opposed to the formerly customisable install, including versions of AIM which are a lot older than the release I have already installed. The other is the stubborn refusal to update the browser only version of Navigator.
In a sense Bill isn't out to fracture the web space, he's out to unify it. Somone once said we needed a Techno Czar to unilaterally declare one standard for the technologies we need to use in life. By the time all the appeals are done and the dust has settled. William H. Gates the Third will be that Czar by default.