I have yet to find a linux distribution or any alternative operating system (besides BeOS and Mac OS X) that didn't run Gnome or KDE, had a functional desktop, and could run nicely under 256mb of ram.
is this some funny goverment or business broadband? What sites are those?
Not that funny - the ISP I use has 24,000kbps available with a broadband2 (ADSL2 DSLAMs) connection starting at AU$29.95. You need an ADSL2 capable modem to get above 8 megs/sec, but any current 10/100 or better network card works fine. Anyway, since gigabit cards can be bought for less than $20, buying one's not a difficult choice to make.
Hopefully this I2 backbone will reduce some of our upstream bottlenecks.
TFA is actually two TFAs merged into one. The 100mph electric car is vapourware, while the 60mph CLEVER car is a prototype that runs on gas (real gas, not gasoline).
The CLEVER looks like fun but is not really a car, more a 3 wheel motorcycle with a suspension which leans into corners. It might appeal to commuters who would be nervous about a real bike or who want a bit more dry storage than a traditional scooter or motorcycle would allow. Sort of like a motorbike for Volvo drivers...
not as much as the olden cultures where a lot of things were made from stone, stone just lasts better.
We make a lot of things out of stone and ceramics too, and given the size of our civilisation, I'd say we make a hell of a lot more of them than those "olden cultures".
Taller structures may fall, but granite plinths, retaining walls, foundations and even smaller detailed pieces have as good a chance of surviving as a dinosaur bone had.
I wonder what things will be like 200 million years from today, what adanced (or not so advanced) civilization will uncover the golden gate bridge, or statue of liberty.
They'll probably collapse onto the sand and shout "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
I'd always thought the money chain for Al Quaeda funding was reasonably clear, with most coming from donations to "charitable" organisations such as the Muwafaq ("Blessed Relief") Foundation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4963025/
That was pretty much how the IRA got their money too, so it's not like this is a novel concept. Why not introduce laws banning anonymous donations? It'd be more efefctive than this crap.
I totally agree with your sentiment but you maths seems a small bit off.
Assumptions rather than maths. I based the calc on a million hours, which is the traditional measure of an average working life (used for safety and mortality calculations). It doesn't take into account leisure hours.
None the less, we're still within an order of magnitude of agreement, so I think the principle remains.
Not if they bump the storage on the larger iPods as well.
No, there's a break-even point. Even a 20GB iPod will play about music for about two weeks continuously, day and night before repeating. Every CD and vinyl record I've collected in the past 20 years will fit on a 40GB iPod, and that's close to AU$20,000 worth.
I suspect everything I'd ever want to listen to would fit on a 100G iPod, and it would only take a 6 TB iPod to play music continuously for every waking hour of my life without repeats. I wouldn't want to buy anything bigger than that.
Windows 2000 would silently wait until you actually tried to use the larger partitions before trashing your hard drive.
XP without SP1 will do this as well. I once reinstalled XP onto a machine that had an 80GB system drive and a 200GB data drive. It installed onto the smaller drive properly, but the disk manager cheerfully and silently altered the partition on the 200GB drive to fit within 137GB.
It looked like all the data had been wiped, but I shut down, disconnected the big drive, installed SP1 and reattached the drive. The partition was still hosed, but Partition Rescue got it back again. Not what you need on a Friday afternoon...
I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury, 1950 something or other.
Or even Walt Whitman, 1850 something or other.
The expression of the face balks account,
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of
his hips and wrists,
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist
and knees, dress does not hide him,
This is part of a standard FUD tactic you'll get with any discussion of Linux. Somebody'll always post an anecdote about an esoteric piece of hardware they're unable to get to work, normally with the one specific distro of Linux that doesn't support it. It is a deliberate tactic to make it look like Linux has poor hardware support.
The best approach would be to let the mods do their work and it'd be -1 Troll in no time. Sadly, there are enough winshills with mod points to abuse that it'll be more likely to hit +5 Informative.
But there comes a time after which we actually run out of relevant data to put on it.
Video will consume that much space. I shoot a lot of live music footage, and on an average night the storage requirements of the downloaded DV video will be 70-100GB. If I were to take the step up to HD formats, that would increase to about half a TB for a night's work.
The only real question is whether a niche purpose like video production can generate enough revenue to continue driving the research.
I also think that it's worth keeping an eye out for MS' answer to VMWare's hypervisor-style server product
I think Hypervisor is going to be more than just a server product. It, or something similar is the only real answer to MS ongoing security and stability problems with the NT line OSs.
I think that what they'll eventually do is release Singularity, or whatever its successor is called with Hypervisor tech built in. Singularity will then host an instance of the current XP/Vista to run legacy Win32/64 software in a transparently sandboxed environment. It will be similar in concept to Apple's OS9/OSX legacy support. Native Singularity ports will then gradually displace the legacy software.
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Hmm... you think that if the IFPI wanted us to take them seriously at all, they'd have what the hell that stands for *somewhere* on their website.
Will you take them seriously now that you know IFPI stands for "International Federation of the Phonograph Industry"? It's an appropriately anachronistic name for an organisation determined to block progress in music distribution.
The problem is no OEMs and no consumers actually WANT a Windows version without a media player and I believe it has sold less than 10000 copies thus far.
No, the problem is that Microsoft has been allowed to offer Windows XP N for the same price as the standard version of Windows XP. That's why nobody's interested.
Microsoft are using their desktop OS monopoly to bundle a free media player and leverage the use of their proprietary media codecs and DRM, which will lock customers into MS toolchains.
The EU can see this and wishes to stop it.
They can stop it because it is illegal to use monopoly powers in one area to extend that monopoly in other areas, ie media production and distribution.
It's called a minivan, it can haul more people, has more cargo room, and on average gets about 50% better fuel economy.
Yep, I've just bought a Mercedes Vito 115CDi, and I'm amazed by how good those things are getting. It only has a 2.2l diesel, but you wouldn't know it by the performance. It's a big vehicle, but it feels compact while you're driving it, and gets about 8l/100km for a mix of city/country driving.
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Try eLive.
Not that funny - the ISP I use has 24,000kbps available with a broadband2 (ADSL2 DSLAMs) connection starting at AU$29.95. You need an ADSL2 capable modem to get above 8 megs/sec, but any current 10/100 or better network card works fine. Anyway, since gigabit cards can be bought for less than $20, buying one's not a difficult choice to make.
Hopefully this I2 backbone will reduce some of our upstream bottlenecks.
TFA is actually two TFAs merged into one. The 100mph electric car is vapourware, while the 60mph CLEVER car is a prototype that runs on gas (real gas, not gasoline).
The CLEVER looks like fun but is not really a car, more a 3 wheel motorcycle with a suspension which leans into corners. It might appeal to commuters who would be nervous about a real bike or who want a bit more dry storage than a traditional scooter or motorcycle would allow. Sort of like a motorbike for Volvo drivers...
We make a lot of things out of stone and ceramics too, and given the size of our civilisation, I'd say we make a hell of a lot more of them than those "olden cultures".
Taller structures may fall, but granite plinths, retaining walls, foundations and even smaller detailed pieces have as good a chance of surviving as a dinosaur bone had.
They'll probably collapse onto the sand and shout "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
I'd always thought the money chain for Al Quaeda funding was reasonably clear, with most coming from donations to "charitable" organisations such as the Muwafaq ("Blessed Relief") Foundation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4963025/
That was pretty much how the IRA got their money too, so it's not like this is a novel concept. Why not introduce laws banning anonymous donations? It'd be more efefctive than this crap.
Assumptions rather than maths. I based the calc on a million hours, which is the traditional measure of an average working life (used for safety and mortality calculations). It doesn't take into account leisure hours.
None the less, we're still within an order of magnitude of agreement, so I think the principle remains.
No, there's a break-even point. Even a 20GB iPod will play about music for about two weeks continuously, day and night before repeating. Every CD and vinyl record I've collected in the past 20 years will fit on a 40GB iPod, and that's close to AU$20,000 worth.
I suspect everything I'd ever want to listen to would fit on a 100G iPod, and it would only take a 6 TB iPod to play music continuously for every waking hour of my life without repeats. I wouldn't want to buy anything bigger than that.
XP without SP1 will do this as well. I once reinstalled XP onto a machine that had an 80GB system drive and a 200GB data drive. It installed onto the smaller drive properly, but the disk manager cheerfully and silently altered the partition on the 200GB drive to fit within 137GB.
It looked like all the data had been wiped, but I shut down, disconnected the big drive, installed SP1 and reattached the drive. The partition was still hosed, but Partition Rescue got it back again. Not what you need on a Friday afternoon...
I work at numerous companies as well. What's so surprising about that?
Or even Walt Whitman, 1850 something or other.
This is part of a standard FUD tactic you'll get with any discussion of Linux. Somebody'll always post an anecdote about an esoteric piece of hardware they're unable to get to work, normally with the one specific distro of Linux that doesn't support it. It is a deliberate tactic to make it look like Linux has poor hardware support.
The best approach would be to let the mods do their work and it'd be -1 Troll in no time. Sadly, there are enough winshills with mod points to abuse that it'll be more likely to hit +5 Informative.
She does. Sadly, you're 9,999th in line, so it'll a while before you get your hummer.
Video will consume that much space. I shoot a lot of live music footage, and on an average night the storage requirements of the downloaded DV video will be 70-100GB. If I were to take the step up to HD formats, that would increase to about half a TB for a night's work.
The only real question is whether a niche purpose like video production can generate enough revenue to continue driving the research.
I think Hypervisor is going to be more than just a server product. It, or something similar is the only real answer to MS ongoing security and stability problems with the NT line OSs.
I think that what they'll eventually do is release Singularity, or whatever its successor is called with Hypervisor tech built in. Singularity will then host an instance of the current XP/Vista to run legacy Win32/64 software in a transparently sandboxed environment. It will be similar in concept to Apple's OS9/OSX legacy support. Native Singularity ports will then gradually displace the legacy software.
Sounds a lot like the Pogues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues
Will you take them seriously now that you know IFPI stands for "International Federation of the Phonograph Industry"? It's an appropriately anachronistic name for an organisation determined to block progress in music distribution.
No, the problem is that Microsoft has been allowed to offer Windows XP N for the same price as the standard version of Windows XP. That's why nobody's interested.
The EU can see this and wishes to stop it.
They can stop it because it is illegal to use monopoly powers in one area to extend that monopoly in other areas, ie media production and distribution.
Yep, I've just bought a Mercedes Vito 115CDi, and I'm amazed by how good those things are getting. It only has a 2.2l diesel, but you wouldn't know it by the performance. It's a big vehicle, but it feels compact while you're driving it, and gets about 8l/100km for a mix of city/country driving.
We tried. You just blew it.
Where do you think the spyware's been installed?
I wonder how many people in the audience were saying "This'll ruin the movie industry. We'd better kill it off before that happens".
I bet they're looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope. If they turn Hubble around, that thing'll turn out to be HUGE!
That's not how you start a flame war.
Now THAT'S how you start a flame war...