Seriously, there's a world of difference between having your home folder wiped out and having your system wiped out. If you are "still" arguing this position,...
I agree there's a world of difference.
To be precise, that difference is:
if my system files are wiped out and I have no backup... I have to reinstall the OS from the CD, and maybe spend awhile downloading updates.
if my home folder is wiped out and I have no backup... Weeks, months, or years of work are irrevocably lost.
The fact is, I care one hundred times more about my home folder than my system files. That's why I back up my home folder, and not my system files. That's why I use the same home folder on three different operating systems. That's why user-level viruses are potentially just as bad or even worse than root-level viruses.
You also might look at Workspaces, which is the nicest virtual desktop system I've used on any Unix.
Yes, it's shareware, and yes, you still miss a few things, like sending individual windows between screens, but this system is just so slick, especially with multiple monitors.
I'm not saying the war in Iraq was provoked and initiated on behalf of oil.
I mean, I'm a reasonable person, not a raving Dean-hugger or something. And I don't think I'm a jackass, though you seem to disagree.
But I also think it's true that we wouldn't have been nearly as worried about Saddam-era Iraq if it did not have oil. And I support that -- I mean, I'm as dependent on the next guy on a regular oil supply, and I'm definitely against tinpot dictators running half the world's energy reserves, as Saddam clearly wanted to do when he invaded Kuwait.
So all I'm saying is that ensuring a steady supply of oil does cost money, and the war in Iraq is part of that cost. I do think it's a cost worth paying -- I supported the war, and mostly still do.
But I'm just pointing out that throwing a few dollars in to support energy-efficient cars is not such a terrible thing, when you consider how much we spend for our energy security in other ways.
We'll round down the cost of the Iraq war to $150 billion (since some of the above figure is for Afghanistan, which is about something other, and better, than oil).
There are 204 million cars registered in the U.S. (cite), which burn a total of 156 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel each year (cite).
So that's a cost of about $1 per gallon of gas this year. Federal gasoline taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon (cite).
So even if we stopped building roads and bridges, we wouldn't come close to paying that cost with gas taxes.
But I agree, it doesn't look so bad that way. Let's look at it over the next several years: Suppose the cost of being in Iraq drops from $4 billion per month to $2.5 billion over the next year, and we're in there for just 3 more years. That's a total of ($30 billion x 3 = $90 billion + $150 billion) = $240 billion over 4 years. Over that period we'll burn about 600 billion gallons of gas, for a cost of 40 cents per gallon. Now, I'm willing to go without Federal highway spending for one year, but not for 4 years. So rather than applying Federal taxes towards that amount, I think it sounds fair to raise the price of gas by 40 cents per gallon for the next 4 years, don't you?
echo <<<html> <head> <title>My rich-client-like web app</title> </head> <body> [ note to self: put forms and javascript and stuff here ] </body> </html>
That Catholic school was also supported by outside funding, no? So the $3,500 you paid was not what was spent.
Also, any school that gets to pick and choose whom it will admit can spend less on support, aid for the disabled, free lunch programs, discipline and security, etc.
Or do you just think the Catholic school is 40% more efficient, plain and simple?
Those with less imagination might have stood around slowing chopping away at the seemingly endless horde of ninjas coming at them in the first level of Tecmo's demo, but not me. I was running along walls, flinging shurikens, dashing across the floor tagging enemies with 20-hit combos and then unloading a half-dozen shurikens...
Ummmm, okay. Is this a review or a confidence-builder?
Someone having a machine gun is no more a threat than them having a regular gun. What makes them a threat is whether they are a responsible, law abiding citizen or a criminal.
Do you really think this? Let's play a game:
Someone having a fully automatic M16 is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
Someone having a surface-to-air missle is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
Someone having a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
Someone having a low-yield nuclear weapon is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
Someone having a intercontinental ballistic missle is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
There will always be irresponsible, antisocial, crazy, or aggressive people in society. The question is, will they go nuts with a knife, or an ICBM? Or something in-between?
* 1.6Ghz, 1.8Ghz, or dual 2Ghz PowerPC G5 Processors * Up to 1 Ghz processor bus (!!) * Up to 8 GB of DDR SDRAM * Fast Serial ATA hard drives * AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI * Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots * Three USB 2.0 ports * One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports * Bluetooth & Airport Extreme ready * Optical and analog audio in and out
Quite a leap from the current dual 1.42Ghz G4 boxes, with a 166Mhz bus...
I love backpacking, cross-country skiing, river and sea kayaking, and anything else that involves me, the world, and my moving through that world under my own power.
For the usual egocentric geek type, the control freak who likes computers because they obey his every command, the outdoors is really perfect. You can go wherever you want to go -- no WALK/DON'T WALK signals --, there's plenty of techy gear to obsess about if you want to, and yet it's a raw encounter with reality that forces you to concede that living a virtual life is not necessarily the best one.
It's being outdoors that convinces me that I don't actually want to live as a brain in a vat, which I and I'm sure many Slashdotters would otherwise love to be.
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I agree it would be nice. In the meantime I'd go with a used iBook.
or can I use the SIP phone on dialup? ;-)
If they shipped with 10.2.7, can they buy the Panther family pack? Or 220 family packs?
Well, user-level viruses are presumably easier to propogate, and hence overall more dangerous, I'd say.
To be precise, that difference is:
The fact is, I care one hundred times more about my home folder than my system files. That's why I back up my home folder, and not my system files. That's why I use the same home folder on three different operating systems. That's why user-level viruses are potentially just as bad or even worse than root-level viruses.
Interesting...
my third result is Digital Video, which doesn't have "google" in it at all...
Could it be? Google is not perfect? Or are they exerting subtle mind-control techniques?Neat. I like the form at the bottom:
How many? __1__[Add to Shopping Bag]
Somehow, tossing two Aeroboats into my Shopping Bag just breaks the metaphor for me...
Because you presumably don't want your email to be stored in just one place, I'd suggest a quiet (?), cheap RAID setup like this one
You might especially look in to this variation... ;)
You also might look at Workspaces, which is the nicest virtual desktop system I've used on any Unix.
Yes, it's shareware, and yes, you still miss a few things, like sending individual windows between screens, but this system is just so slick, especially with multiple monitors.I'm not saying the war in Iraq was provoked and initiated on behalf of oil.
I mean, I'm a reasonable person, not a raving Dean-hugger or something. And I don't think I'm a jackass, though you seem to disagree.
But I also think it's true that we wouldn't have been nearly as worried about Saddam-era Iraq if it did not have oil. And I support that -- I mean, I'm as dependent on the next guy on a regular oil supply, and I'm definitely against tinpot dictators running half the world's energy reserves, as Saddam clearly wanted to do when he invaded Kuwait.
So all I'm saying is that ensuring a steady supply of oil does cost money, and the war in Iraq is part of that cost. I do think it's a cost worth paying -- I supported the war, and mostly still do.
But I'm just pointing out that throwing a few dollars in to support energy-efficient cars is not such a terrible thing, when you consider how much we spend for our energy security in other ways.
cheers.
We'll round down the cost of the Iraq war to $150 billion (since some of the above figure is for Afghanistan, which is about something other, and better, than oil).
There are 204 million cars registered in the U.S. (cite), which burn a total of 156 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel each year (cite).
So that's a cost of about $1 per gallon of gas this year. Federal gasoline taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon (cite).
So even if we stopped building roads and bridges, we wouldn't come close to paying that cost with gas taxes.
But I agree, it doesn't look so bad that way. Let's look at it over the next several years: Suppose the cost of being in Iraq drops from $4 billion per month to $2.5 billion over the next year, and we're in there for just 3 more years. That's a total of ($30 billion x 3 = $90 billion + $150 billion) = $240 billion over 4 years. Over that period we'll burn about 600 billion gallons of gas, for a cost of 40 cents per gallon. Now, I'm willing to go without Federal highway spending for one year, but not for 4 years. So rather than applying Federal taxes towards that amount, I think it sounds fair to raise the price of gas by 40 cents per gallon for the next 4 years, don't you?
echo <<<html>
<head>
<title>My rich-client-like web app</title>
</head>
<body>
[ note to self: put forms and javascript and stuff here ]
</body>
</html>
EOQ
That was funny, thanks.
Yes, I think international terrorism is an appropriate response to the effort to stop illegal filesharing.
What's this, a low-slashdot-ID-number party? Guess I just crashed it...
That Catholic school was also supported by outside funding, no? So the $3,500 you paid was not what was spent.
Also, any school that gets to pick and choose whom it will admit can spend less on support, aid for the disabled, free lunch programs, discipline and security, etc.
Or do you just think the Catholic school is 40% more efficient, plain and simple?
Ummmm, okay. Is this a review or a confidence-builder?
- Someone having a fully automatic M16 is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
- Someone having a surface-to-air missle is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
- Someone having a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
- Someone having a low-yield nuclear weapon is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
- Someone having a intercontinental ballistic missle is no more a threat than them having a regular gun.
There will always be irresponsible, antisocial, crazy, or aggressive people in society. The question is, will they go nuts with a knife, or an ICBM? Or something in-between?Your humor bit is off.
Double-click on the divider bar.
* 1.6Ghz, 1.8Ghz, or dual 2Ghz PowerPC G5 Processors
* Up to 1 Ghz processor bus (!!)
* Up to 8 GB of DDR SDRAM
* Fast Serial ATA hard drives
* AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI
* Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots
* Three USB 2.0 ports
* One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports
* Bluetooth & Airport Extreme ready
* Optical and analog audio in and out
Quite a leap from the current dual 1.42Ghz G4 boxes, with a 166Mhz bus...
Any other Slashdotters outdoors lovers?
I love backpacking, cross-country skiing, river and sea kayaking, and anything else that involves me, the world, and my moving through that world under my own power.
For the usual egocentric geek type, the control freak who likes computers because they obey his every command, the outdoors is really perfect. You can go wherever you want to go -- no WALK/DON'T WALK signals --, there's plenty of techy gear to obsess about if you want to, and yet it's a raw encounter with reality that forces you to concede that living a virtual life is not necessarily the best one.
It's being outdoors that convinces me that I don't actually want to live as a brain in a vat, which I and I'm sure many Slashdotters would otherwise love to be.
Anyone else?
mithras