You dont know Lisa! She's so smart, they hooked her up to a computer to teach it some things, but she had so much knowledge that the computer got really hot and caught fire!
What makes you think that trashing all their current Wintel boxes in favor of Macs makes any sort of financial sense?
Hey lets get rid of the PC's we bought for 500 bucks 2 years ago and replace them with $2000 Macs! We'll save a ton of money on... umm.. Yay they match the decor in the computer room!
Problem with propane is that it dirties the engine and eventually you dramatically lose horsepower.
It is much more economical, which is why many police cruisers, delivery trucks, etc, etc use it.
A friend of mine bought a used Purolator van that was propane powered. They sell em off cheap once the engine is all clogged with residue. It was gutless, but he got much much more mileage out of a $20 dollar bill than any gasoline powered car could.
You dont just throw 100 billion dollars around and expect for all of the rules of physics and chemistry that make extracting hydrogen a wasteful process go away.
Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source. The best we can hope for is that it's better than batteries, but the hydrogen needs to be made.
Oh, and before the fuel celled cars show up, we need to come up with something to replace plastics and styrofoams, as thats where most of the produced oil ends up.
If they were commercially viable (ie; someone could realize a profit from them), they wouldnt need any government funding at all.
So far, noones come up with a more profitable replacement to the internal combustion engine. It's as simple as that.
And more oil goes into plastics production and heating every year than ever goes into vehicles as gasoline. The whole "it's all about the cars" thing is a bunch of intellectual dishonesty.
How about harvestable fuels based on corn/flax/hemp oil, rather than pumping it out of the ground? Sounds reasonable to me.
Conspicuously missing from the article, where the hydrogen comes from.
We dont know how to make hydrogen a commercially viable alternative. As soon as it's profitable, it'll take off in a big way.
It's the simplest element, it's everywhere in the universe, we'd never run out of it, but we dont know how to get it without putting more energy into the extraction than we would get from it as a fuel.
Why not just write an article on how a pixie-dust based economy is the wave of the future? Or another one about rocket cars and living in giant plastic bubbles under the ocean?
Because none of the Red Hat, Mandrake stuff works all that well, and none of it is integrated into the system, but big ass monolithic userland apps that hog memory and system resources.
It's a frigging joke (look an article down) that it took until kernel 2.5 to finally get a beta patch that will fix the multitasking to allow you to play an mp3 without skipping on a P4 2ghz+ machine.
Consider that the only reason any other media player ever got onto my Windows desktop (RealPlayer, QuickTime, Divx Player) is because they can handle a file that Media Player cant.
Now suppose we mandate 'open formats' for those media files. I would have absolutely no reason to install any of them, because Media Player would already play everything.
And why must they be punished? They cant make it any easier to install a different default media player.
>> if you dont like windows media player - write a fucking better one. if you cant, look on the internet - for surely someone already has
Noone has. I've looked. Media Player leaves a *lot* to be desired, but everything else out there is just crap. I dont like WinAmp, it's too awkward. Divx Playa is buggy, crashes, and resets my monitor resolution to 800x600 every time I start it up. Quicktime is a friggin joke. RealPlayer One, puhlease.
The only way these guys see to compete is to get the courts to bar MS from having a better product than they do.
No, Joe User wants a turnkey solution, he doesnt want to deal with installing an OS. And if he did, he'd chose the easiest to install. This would be Windows.
So then there'd be a lawsuit that states "make your installer a pain in the ass and rename your driver files to stuff like tulip.o so noone knows what the hell is going on."
Now, selling OEM hardware preinstalled with a Linux distro that works well and does everything Joe User wants it to, without having to learn any new skills or become a l337 h4xor would be the solution.
Because Joe User isnt fixing what isnt broken. He'll use Linux all day and night so long as it works. How many people still run Windows 95 or 98 because thats what came on the machine when they bought it?
I cant. Make linux/BSD/OS2/BeOS/WhateverOS competitive, use the same techniques.
Lets see some real binary code reuse in linux, and not this crap where App A needs libfoo1.1.so and App B needs libfoo3.4.so. If I need two different versions of the library for two different apps, guess what, that ain't code reuse.
I mean sue Microsoft when they break laws. Having a better product isn't anti-competitive. It is competitive, it's just that noone else is competing.
Linux (for example) will neither gain mind nor market share in the courtroom. You cant mandate 'make your product shitty so the alternatives dont look so bad'.
Yes. The window manager and GDI and DirectX all need to be removed too. Oh and the scheduler, and ODBC subsystem. And the filesystem - why should I be forced by evil businessmen to choose between FAT32 and NTFS?
MSFT has been dragged into court for legitimate reasons before. This reeks more of anti-american zealotry than a legitimate case.
Media player is integrated into the OS, much like IE. And thus it loads faster and is generally more robust, for the same reasons IE loads faster than Mozilla.
Why are the antitrust suits always centered around breaking part of windows?
Windows is good because of the integration of the multimedia subsystem, web browser, DirectX, and so on.
Media Player is already "uncoupled" in that you can go to control panel and use an alternate default player now. I suppose they want them to rip out all of the system level code that makes media player more robust than monolithic user-land replacements.
I dont go for laws and rulings that seek to reverse developments in technology. Find a legitimate beef to sue Microsoft. "Your product is so good we cant compete" is not one.
I mean why dont we make a rule that Porches, Mercedes and BMWs need to drive and handle like Ford Escorts, so that everyone can be on a "level playing field".
It reminds me of the DOS days when you had to pick your soundcard from a list of 6 for each and every app/game you'd install.
I dont want to configure each seperate app for my hardware. This is the 21st century for crying out loud! So make some rules about how linux makes noise. Just writing to/dev/dsp is no good, lets have a standard api that can do proper positional mixing, fading, and whatnot.
I know such libraries/sound servers exist. Just pick one that works and run with it.
I spent 3 years chasing a CS degree, when I realized it was an absolute waste of my time. Everything I know about computers I learned on my own, by doing.
The straw that broke my back was the OpenGL course I took, where we spent the whole semester revisiting high school algebra, matrices and projections and normal vectors and whatnot. Not one line of friggen code written, not one technique learned (I wanted to learn a bit about bsp trees, gourad shading, environment mapping, you know.. the cool stuff). We didnt even learn the differences between gl.h, glu.h, glut.h.. It was a huge crock of crap.
So I just switched to a pure math degree.
Comp sci, and IT in particular, is something you learn by doing.
You're also better off realizing that no amount of 'locking down' or 'securing' your servers will eliminate the need for a sound backup and restore plan.
Usually when I see a server get pooched, it's the admin that did it.
Ie, they mean to type "DELETE FROM customers WHERE last_name = 'malda'", but forget the where clause.
Or wiping the current directory with rm -rf./*, but the . key is sticky and doesnt register.
Seems Intel found a way to dramatically lower power consumption and heat without sacrificing too much CPU power.
I cant wait until we can get flex-atx or something like miniitx boards designed for these centrinos.
I want to put together little console-ish media players and gaming machines to plug into the TV, and VIA Edens offerings so far are just a little to gutless, and Shuttles spacewalker boards are great, but screaming CPU and case fans wont cut it.
I wonder how these things would cluster (yeah, imagine a beow...). Possibilities for my own personal little server farm without having to run another 150 amps of service to my PC room, and wont deafen me (a beowulf cluster of fans I dont need).
Would you be upset if you got an email you werent expecting announcing Red Hat Advanced Server?
They didnt forge emails. There was no deceptive subject header. You've all owned a microsoft product before, so theres a prior customer relationship. Theres an opt-out link for future emails.
Microsoft sent out a bunch of emails to announce that Win 2003 is ready to go.
The best thing a bunch of outrage and pretend shock can do is lock down the 'net with more government controls. That's just the thing to teach bad ole Bill Gates.
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You dont know Lisa! She's so smart, they hooked her up to a computer to teach it some things, but she had so much knowledge that the computer got really hot and caught fire!
What makes you think that trashing all their current Wintel boxes in favor of Macs makes any sort of financial sense?
Hey lets get rid of the PC's we bought for 500 bucks 2 years ago and replace them with $2000 Macs! We'll save a ton of money on... umm.. Yay they match the decor in the computer room!
"the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students"
What benefit to the students?
The benefit to the students is making financially responsible decisions. Idealism doesnt lower tuition costs.
You dont need 100Mbps to play quake (or anything else) with your friends across town. That's all about lag times, not bandwidth.
Problem with propane is that it dirties the engine and eventually you dramatically lose horsepower.
It is much more economical, which is why many police cruisers, delivery trucks, etc, etc use it.
A friend of mine bought a used Purolator van that was propane powered. They sell em off cheap once the engine is all clogged with residue. It was gutless, but he got much much more mileage out of a $20 dollar bill than any gasoline powered car could.
300 dollars please.
You dont just throw 100 billion dollars around and expect for all of the rules of physics and chemistry that make extracting hydrogen a wasteful process go away.
Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source. The best we can hope for is that it's better than batteries, but the hydrogen needs to be made.
Oh, and before the fuel celled cars show up, we need to come up with something to replace plastics and styrofoams, as thats where most of the produced oil ends up.
If they were commercially viable (ie; someone could realize a profit from them), they wouldnt need any government funding at all.
So far, noones come up with a more profitable replacement to the internal combustion engine. It's as simple as that.
And more oil goes into plastics production and heating every year than ever goes into vehicles as gasoline. The whole "it's all about the cars" thing is a bunch of intellectual dishonesty.
How about harvestable fuels based on corn/flax/hemp oil, rather than pumping it out of the ground? Sounds reasonable to me.
Conspicuously missing from the article, where the hydrogen comes from.
We dont know how to make hydrogen a commercially viable alternative. As soon as it's profitable, it'll take off in a big way.
It's the simplest element, it's everywhere in the universe, we'd never run out of it, but we dont know how to get it without putting more energy into the extraction than we would get from it as a fuel.
Why not just write an article on how a pixie-dust based economy is the wave of the future? Or another one about rocket cars and living in giant plastic bubbles under the ocean?
Because none of the Red Hat, Mandrake stuff works all that well, and none of it is integrated into the system, but big ass monolithic userland apps that hog memory and system resources.
It's a frigging joke (look an article down) that it took until kernel 2.5 to finally get a beta patch that will fix the multitasking to allow you to play an mp3 without skipping on a P4 2ghz+ machine.
Consider that the only reason any other media player ever got onto my Windows desktop (RealPlayer, QuickTime, Divx Player) is because they can handle a file that Media Player cant.
Now suppose we mandate 'open formats' for those media files. I would have absolutely no reason to install any of them, because Media Player would already play everything.
And why must they be punished? They cant make it any easier to install a different default media player.
>> if you dont like windows media player - write a fucking better one. if you cant, look on the internet - for surely someone already has
Noone has. I've looked. Media Player leaves a *lot* to be desired, but everything else out there is just crap. I dont like WinAmp, it's too awkward. Divx Playa is buggy, crashes, and resets my monitor resolution to 800x600 every time I start it up. Quicktime is a friggin joke. RealPlayer One, puhlease.
The only way these guys see to compete is to get the courts to bar MS from having a better product than they do.
No, Joe User wants a turnkey solution, he doesnt want to deal with installing an OS. And if he did, he'd chose the easiest to install. This would be Windows.
So then there'd be a lawsuit that states "make your installer a pain in the ass and rename your driver files to stuff like tulip.o so noone knows what the hell is going on."
Now, selling OEM hardware preinstalled with a Linux distro that works well and does everything Joe User wants it to, without having to learn any new skills or become a l337 h4xor would be the solution.
Because Joe User isnt fixing what isnt broken. He'll use Linux all day and night so long as it works. How many people still run Windows 95 or 98 because thats what came on the machine when they bought it?
>> I can see how this is bad for competition
I cant. Make linux/BSD/OS2/BeOS/WhateverOS competitive, use the same techniques.
Lets see some real binary code reuse in linux, and not this crap where App A needs libfoo1.1.so and App B needs libfoo3.4.so. If I need two different versions of the library for two different apps, guess what, that ain't code reuse.
I mean sue Microsoft when they break laws. Having a better product isn't anti-competitive. It is competitive, it's just that noone else is competing.
Linux (for example) will neither gain mind nor market share in the courtroom. You cant mandate 'make your product shitty so the alternatives dont look so bad'.
Why, exactly, should it be illegal to adhere to whatever the hell standards they want?
The government can regulate what *they* buy. They can make a certain standard a requirement for their systems.
But what gives them the right to say that I cant play back format X anymore, because it's not an open standard?
There's nothing stopping you from playing MPEG 1 or 2 or DivX or ogg or whatever on a windows machine. They're also much more prolific than WMV files.
Yes. The window manager and GDI and DirectX all need to be removed too. Oh and the scheduler, and ODBC subsystem. And the filesystem - why should I be forced by evil businessmen to choose between FAT32 and NTFS?
MSFT has been dragged into court for legitimate reasons before. This reeks more of anti-american zealotry than a legitimate case.
Media player is integrated into the OS, much like IE. And thus it loads faster and is generally more robust, for the same reasons IE loads faster than Mozilla.
Why are the antitrust suits always centered around breaking part of windows?
Windows is good because of the integration of the multimedia subsystem, web browser, DirectX, and so on.
Media Player is already "uncoupled" in that you can go to control panel and use an alternate default player now. I suppose they want them to rip out all of the system level code that makes media player more robust than monolithic user-land replacements.
I dont go for laws and rulings that seek to reverse developments in technology. Find a legitimate beef to sue Microsoft. "Your product is so good we cant compete" is not one.
I mean why dont we make a rule that Porches, Mercedes and BMWs need to drive and handle like Ford Escorts, so that everyone can be on a "level playing field".
I thougt ogg was supposed to be lossless?
Linux audio is still hellish.
/dev/dsp is no good, lets have a standard api that can do proper positional mixing, fading, and whatnot.
It reminds me of the DOS days when you had to pick your soundcard from a list of 6 for each and every app/game you'd install.
I dont want to configure each seperate app for my hardware. This is the 21st century for crying out loud! So make some rules about how linux makes noise. Just writing to
I know such libraries/sound servers exist. Just pick one that works and run with it.
I spent 3 years chasing a CS degree, when I realized it was an absolute waste of my time. Everything I know about computers I learned on my own, by doing.
The straw that broke my back was the OpenGL course I took, where we spent the whole semester revisiting high school algebra, matrices and projections and normal vectors and whatnot. Not one line of friggen code written, not one technique learned (I wanted to learn a bit about bsp trees, gourad shading, environment mapping, you know.. the cool stuff). We didnt even learn the differences between gl.h, glu.h, glut.h.. It was a huge crock of crap.
So I just switched to a pure math degree.
Comp sci, and IT in particular, is something you learn by doing.
You're also better off realizing that no amount of 'locking down' or 'securing' your servers will eliminate the need for a sound backup and restore plan.
./*, but the . key is sticky and doesnt register.
Usually when I see a server get pooched, it's the admin that did it.
Ie, they mean to type "DELETE FROM customers WHERE last_name = 'malda'", but forget the where clause.
Or wiping the current directory with rm -rf
It happens to the best of em.
>> So, what's next on the crackers' list of challenges to prove their bravery
Posting something like 'linux is gay' as AC on slashdot.
Seems Intel found a way to dramatically lower power consumption and heat without sacrificing too much CPU power.
I cant wait until we can get flex-atx or something like miniitx boards designed for these centrinos.
I want to put together little console-ish media players and gaming machines to plug into the TV, and VIA Edens offerings so far are just a little to gutless, and Shuttles spacewalker boards are great, but screaming CPU and case fans wont cut it.
I wonder how these things would cluster (yeah, imagine a beow...). Possibilities for my own personal little server farm without having to run another 150 amps of service to my PC room, and wont deafen me (a beowulf cluster of fans I dont need).
Would you be upset if you got an email you werent expecting announcing Red Hat Advanced Server?
They didnt forge emails. There was no deceptive subject header. You've all owned a microsoft product before, so theres a prior customer relationship. Theres an opt-out link for future emails.
Microsoft sent out a bunch of emails to announce that Win 2003 is ready to go.
The best thing a bunch of outrage and pretend shock can do is lock down the 'net with more government controls. That's just the thing to teach bad ole Bill Gates.
If you have a prior business relationship with a company, they can contact you until you tell them to stop.
Send an email back to MSFT saying you don't want them contacting you, and if they persist, then get all uppity.