There probably aren't many New Beetles in Army field operations, either. And what few there are, alas, probably don't have a flower in the dashboard's vase.
It doesn't strike me as surprising that the West Wing producers are so clueless about the military and the real world and stuff that they don't recognize smoking wouldn't be allowed on a submarine.
I have a hell of a lot of good Windows and Linux, and BSD software.
Why would I wander down a proprietary blind alley? Why would I want to be forced to buy my software from the 'short aisle in the back' of the computer store?
The G5 will be worth less than $800 in two years. The big cluster will have a hell of a lot better resale and upgrade value. Hell, the big cluster owner will just slap in new and faster motherboards.
Where do I buy a motherboard upgrade for the Mac I bought three years ago??
They're appliance machines for people who treat their computer like a toaster.
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It's humorous how people compare the prices of cheap OEM hardware but always seem to slap in a full retail box priced copy of Windows when making their rhetorical comparison.
Windows OEM does NOT cost the $140-80 that the small white-box OEM dealers have to sell it for, when it's bought in volume by the big resellers.
What 'Billy Gates puts out' isn't that bloated compared to KDE and GNOME these days. That is, what Billy Gates put out a few years ago. My wife needed a faster machine because she's a Diablo II fanatic, so I gave her the Pentium III 450 machine. That meant my main desktop machine had to be scaled back to a Pentium II 233. I run Windows 2000, Office 2000, and various graphics programs to edit pix and whatnot. It works fine.
The fastest machine in the house, the Pentium III 800, is dedicated to video editing.
That is, if all the Sparc hardware is discounted. None of which is 'fast' Megahertz-wise, but a machine with dual Sparc processors each with 1 meg of cache isn't a pokey box.
My girlfriend wants to play with dolphins. So she's striving to get into a marine biology program.
When our parents were kids they wanted to be astronauts. When we were kids we wanted to be Rock Stars.
Don't stop reaching for the highest you can attain. But let's be real here. 'Playing with iquanas' translates into 'shovel shit in grad school for peanuts to support your faculty advisor's cocktail party habit, then flip burgers' most of the time.
Reseating memory chips is a practice of the past. No modern machine uses the kind of old-school technology like DIP IC sockets which don't have a postive retention latch anymore.
Your historical evidence shows that its, yes, a rather historical practice to always leave the PC on.
Agreed that for servers the power should stay on. I have machines here that haven't been powered off, except for maintenance for months and months.
Many musicians, i.e. said jazz musicians and oboists, don't want people recording their music because they are modest musicians and always strive to play better. No 'take' that you steal of their music will be good enough and if people are forever recording them, they'll probably stop performing in public.
Music performance is for the moment, unless the performer chooses to share it beyond that moment, and artists should be respected. To do otherwise takes the control away from the artist and gives it to marketing types.
You don't need to decode at each copying. Goodness sakes. Are you the guy who records with a ghetto blaster microphone sitting next to the speaker of your stereo?
What you're saying is a little like claiming 'the surgeon just snipped a little bit here, a little bit there. Clearly someone who's watched a video about field dressing deer has the snipping skill that's needed.'
People and companies spend years developing the core capabilities to develop business software. Geeks talking about it on slashdot are like the drunk guys in the deer stand, overconfident and thankfully never allowed near an operating table.
You mean Apple will finally have a 64-bit machine?
Kinda late, but I guess they've finally been invented. Now someone else can come along and copy them with, err, the Sparc and the Alpha.....
They finally have symmetric multiprocessing (got it by buying it in from outside the company after failing time after time after time to implement their own SMP OS), so they might as well have the capability of slapping 'Now with 64 bits!' stickers on those plastic cases as well.
As the mass of disk drives has come down from the old monster full height 5-1/4" drives with seventeen platters in them, the stress of powering it up has actually reduced.
There should be a strong body of evidence both for and against powering off the PC on the snopes.com website, for anybody who cares to research it. There have been people maintaining a 'don't shut it off' mantra since the PC had only one continuously moving part (the fan) back in the days of the dual floppy PC-XT.
In some regards it's kind of a 'here's something we experts know that we thought we'd let you know too' thing.
If you're running an operating system intended for timesharing applications where you never know who might need to log on the system at 2 AM from the VT-100 in their office, i.e. a legacy UNIX based system, you're more likely to want to leave it on all the time. Timesharing systems aren't designed for power-up, power-down usage.
It's rumored that some people actually turn off the whole computer when they're not using it.
The Uptime Fashion Police are working on a rigorous ostricization program, however. It's just not cool to turn one's PC off, and it defeats the main purpose of running Linux.
There are probably more third party commercial vendors supplying addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator than there are thrid party commercial software vendors for all of Linux.
Win98 machines can't "BSOD" because the blue 'hex dump' screen that represents a BSOD (which contains debug information that is useful in figuring out why the crash happened) is an NT-only feature.
People who talk about Windows 98 "BSOD's" discredit themselves.
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There probably aren't many New Beetles in Army field operations, either. And what few there are, alas, probably don't have a flower in the dashboard's vase.
You didn't even read everything he wrote there, did you? The aggregate cost of R&D for the entire system is spread over it's components.
It doesn't strike me as surprising that the West Wing producers are so clueless about the military and the real world and stuff that they don't recognize smoking wouldn't be allowed on a submarine.
I definitely don't want to run OS X.
I have absolutely no software for it.
I have a hell of a lot of good Windows and Linux, and BSD software.
Why would I wander down a proprietary blind alley? Why would I want to be forced to buy my software from the 'short aisle in the back' of the computer store?
The G5 will be worth less than $800 in two years. The big cluster will have a hell of a lot better resale and upgrade value. Hell, the big cluster owner will just slap in new and faster motherboards.
Where do I buy a motherboard upgrade for the Mac I bought three years ago??
They're appliance machines for people who treat their computer like a toaster.
It's humorous how people compare the prices of cheap OEM hardware but always seem to slap in a full retail box priced copy of Windows when making their rhetorical comparison.
Windows OEM does NOT cost the $140-80 that the small white-box OEM dealers have to sell it for, when it's bought in volume by the big resellers.
What 'Billy Gates puts out' isn't that bloated compared to KDE and GNOME these days. That is, what Billy Gates put out a few years ago. My wife needed a faster machine because she's a Diablo II fanatic, so I gave her the Pentium III 450 machine. That meant my main desktop machine had to be scaled back to a Pentium II 233. I run Windows 2000, Office 2000, and various graphics programs to edit pix and whatnot. It works fine.
The fastest machine in the house, the Pentium III 800, is dedicated to video editing.
That is, if all the Sparc hardware is discounted. None of which is 'fast' Megahertz-wise, but a machine with dual Sparc processors each with 1 meg of cache isn't a pokey box.
Nobody has any business recording someone else's performance, without their permission. Especially for redistribution.
It's no more complicated than that.
Down there the birds migrate to cooler weather in the summer.
My girlfriend wants to play with dolphins. So she's striving to get into a marine biology program.
When our parents were kids they wanted to be astronauts. When we were kids we wanted to be Rock Stars.
Don't stop reaching for the highest you can attain. But let's be real here. 'Playing with iquanas' translates into 'shovel shit in grad school for peanuts to support your faculty advisor's cocktail party habit, then flip burgers' most of the time.
Reseating memory chips is a practice of the past. No modern machine uses the kind of old-school technology like DIP IC sockets which don't have a postive retention latch anymore.
Your historical evidence shows that its, yes, a rather historical practice to always leave the PC on.
Agreed that for servers the power should stay on. I have machines here that haven't been powered off, except for maintenance for months and months.
Many musicians, i.e. said jazz musicians and oboists, don't want people recording their music because they are modest musicians and always strive to play better. No 'take' that you steal of their music will be good enough and if people are forever recording them, they'll probably stop performing in public.
Music performance is for the moment, unless the performer chooses to share it beyond that moment, and artists should be respected. To do otherwise takes the control away from the artist and gives it to marketing types.
Why would anybody decode and copy and burn again?
You don't need to decode at each copying. Goodness sakes. Are you the guy who records with a ghetto blaster microphone sitting next to the speaker of your stereo?
Hang on, let me try to play UT2k3 and DivX on my P100, the oldest one still around.
So get an X-Box.
Do you seriously think that everbody who needs a knife sharpener should go out and buy a $50,000 surface grinder?
What you're saying is a little like claiming 'the surgeon just snipped a little bit here, a little bit there. Clearly someone who's watched a video about field dressing deer has the snipping skill that's needed.'
People and companies spend years developing the core capabilities to develop business software. Geeks talking about it on slashdot are like the drunk guys in the deer stand, overconfident and thankfully never allowed near an operating table.
You're right, but the two guys who get hired for the year make out pretty good.
Needless to say....
Where's the opportunity?
How are you going to market a timesheet system being Open Source as an advantage?
I'm not saying it can't be done. I am saying it doesn't appear on the surface to be any kind of opportunity.
An important part of capitalism is for companies like this to fail.
You mean Apple will finally have a 64-bit machine?
Kinda late, but I guess they've finally been invented. Now someone else can come along and copy them with, err, the Sparc and the Alpha.....
They finally have symmetric multiprocessing (got it by buying it in from outside the company after failing time after time after time to implement their own SMP OS), so they might as well have the capability of slapping 'Now with 64 bits!' stickers on those plastic cases as well.
As the mass of disk drives has come down from the old monster full height 5-1/4" drives with seventeen platters in them, the stress of powering it up has actually reduced.
There should be a strong body of evidence both for and against powering off the PC on the snopes.com website, for anybody who cares to research it. There have been people maintaining a 'don't shut it off' mantra since the PC had only one continuously moving part (the fan) back in the days of the dual floppy PC-XT.
In some regards it's kind of a 'here's something we experts know that we thought we'd let you know too' thing.
If you're running an operating system intended for timesharing applications where you never know who might need to log on the system at 2 AM from the VT-100 in their office, i.e. a legacy UNIX based system, you're more likely to want to leave it on all the time. Timesharing systems aren't designed for power-up, power-down usage.
I think he meant 'big' in terms of ego, marketing hype, all that stuff.
I, for one, wasn't aware there was another Jobs pep-fest today. Yay Apple, or whatever.
It's rumored that some people actually turn off the whole computer when they're not using it.
The Uptime Fashion Police are working on a rigorous ostricization program, however. It's just not cool to turn one's PC off, and it defeats the main purpose of running Linux.
If you can't tell the difference you shouldn't complain. Just go to the store and buy a single.
There are probably more third party commercial vendors supplying addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator than there are thrid party commercial software vendors for all of Linux.
Win98 machines can't "BSOD" because the blue 'hex dump' screen that represents a BSOD (which contains debug information that is useful in figuring out why the crash happened) is an NT-only feature.
People who talk about Windows 98 "BSOD's" discredit themselves.