I Agree things like national ID do tend to be misused and yes the nazis did use this to round up jews. I'm no terrorist but the less information the goverment has on my everyday life the better. Most of the early adopters of smartcard based national IDs are not exactly the poster child for protection of human rights and free speech. Many used the information gathered to hunt down political dissetents etc.
If a drm technology does cause harm they should be liable I think sony should be held liable for damages down time on many office machines that got the sony rootkit installed. BTW even if you did not try to remove it the system would still crash and was pretty much left open to a hacker as if backorafice had been installed on the machine. Also in the case of hospitals and doctors where medical information is supposed to remain private a maker of a drm that compramises securety on a system containing medical records should be held accountable as if they hacked in to the system themselves.
Even a sempron 64 can handle more then 5 web cam quality video streams with ease the daul core amd64 and opterons processors likely can handle much more then skype's max of ten.
Last I checked my web cam app never took more then 6% of my processor time this is on a single core AMD fx.
Now this is pure BS on skype's part as it's common knowlage that even a single core AMD fx 64 will out perform an intel core duo in most real world apps esp in something that requires memory bandwidth. Last I check intel processors tend to perform lower in high memory bandwidth applications because they lack hyper transport and an integrated memory controller. Also it's an example of shoddy programming as chipsets,the presence of a dsp in the sound card,even the OS version etc also can effect performance. How hard is it to simply read the processor load from the OS with a synthetic bench and have the app give a recomdation of a perfered setting. Over clockers also must be upset over this since I personally have gotten sempron 64s to OC to 2.8 to 3ghz and still remain stable.
Censorship allways fails those who support it are ignoring the lessons of history.
If people want to know something they will allways find a way they allways had.
Wind turbines usaully offer more watt per $ then solar panels but some people do not have the space for panels or wind turbines.
People in an uban environment have no choice but to pay the power company.
They are too protective of kids any more and do not foster indipendant thinking like they should.
And yes some people do not give their kids good technical toys like legos robtics and chemistry sets which BTW are a shawdow of what they were 20 years ago they took all the cool compounds out of them.
The Uk takes this protectionism the farthest though also they need more good hands on science in schools even in the US there is a lack of this.
As a kid I rember playing with legos technics and heathkit electronics kits , those electronics labs from radio shack and making games on my old trs80 coco.
Heck they gone so far they now age check the purchase of epoxy at some stores.
I used epoxy for lots of stuff as a kid you can't bond metal to plastic in a robot or model airplane project with elmer's glue or even super glue doesn't work well.
The nanny state mind set has to go.
I know about the research in using an MRI's to see what someone is thinking and it's far from 100% this guy is full of it and what he's trying to do is extremely dangerous.
This what I call a classic example of misuse of technology this guy should have his research license revoked for promoting junk like that.
Who the hell signs the registration thing I allways command Q that.
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No it's the radeon X1000/x800 making the thing fast OSX allways was demanding on video hardware if it had an intel GMA900 instead it would run like a slug.
OSX uses whats called a PDF display a superset of postscript it's also rendered in opengl making use of oepngl textures for the UI effects.
So ATI should rightfully get more credit for the performance then Intel.
Equivlent to an athlon 64 highly doubtful even both cores would not be equal to one AMD 64 for most tasks the duals might be faster for highly multi threaded applications but these are an exception not the rule. The cores are equivilent to an AMD XP or Pentium Norwood since they are 32bit.
A shuttle derived launch vehical might be the only thing that can get a bird that big in orbit since were talking something 4 or 5 times larger then previous communications satelites.
Though some of boeing's delta IV variants they have in planning also are quite powerful and might also fit the bill.
The most likely booster they'll end up using will be some heavy version of the EELVs as this sat could have a GLOW of 35 to 40+ tons.
Yah they'll need the ESA and nasa's help esp nasa in the really big launchers they'll have by 2015.Though if they go with an ion rocket upper stage something in the delta IV heavy's class might do the job so maybe a three core version of the H2a could pull it off then.
I'm not sure if even the russian proton can lift a payload that big into GEO.
So they'll need the US's help to launch it as the most powerful rockets that will be avilible by 2010 will be either a delta IV super heavy 50 tons to LEO and 25 to GEO five core booster or one of the many shuttle derived launchers nasa plans to build some of which will eclipse the payload of the mighty saturn V the biggest will lift something like 200tons to LEO and could send over 100tons to mars.
They'll most likely end up buying an SDV a saturn V class launch vehical for lunar missions off nasa to get that thing in orbit.
Though if they trim alot of fat and use an inflatable structure for the main dish it might fit on a heavy EELV persently the most powerful model is the delta IV heavy with a 55,000lbs or 27.5 ton paylaod .
Remeber they have to get it to GEO which is 22,000 miles up it takes as much delta V to get there as it does to the moon.
Though they could use ion engines which would cut 40% off the gross weight at launch but this still would require a booster much more powerful then the native H11a.
The US could stand to regain much of the satelite launch market if large birds like this become the norm.
One thing I wonder is how will they manage to get such a massive satelite in GEO as it's weight most likely will exceed the payload of the the HII launch vehical.
I know a sat like this can be launch in sections but you need to do a few manned space walks to assemble the parts.
So far all in space assembley has required a manned presence and usually a spacecraft similiar to the US shuttle as well.
Another option I wonder if they'll do it is to buy a heavy booster from the US lunar program the heavy SDV could launch such a huge satilite and it's booster need to place it in GEO.
Also the concept reminds of of an old nasa plan to give everyone in the US low cost satilite phone access.
This was a very large satilite that was to be assembled in LEO by the shuttle and then was to fly to geostationary orbit once assembled using ion rockets.
Same here if a bussiness mistreats me in someway I take my bussiness elsewhere.
Forcing a bag search on me everytime would definetly make me shop elsewhere and I'd tell my friends and family to adviod this store.
US insurance companies are well known the world over to be scams ran by religous conservative asshats .
This might sound trollish but it is true.
The ecomonics in europe are no different insurance companies there also do such studies but they are unbiased some thats lagrely unheard of in the US anymore.
If TC is used to prevent copying it will hurt hardware sales badly people will advoid TC enabled products that do not allow this feature to be disabled.
If TC is used for anti priacy of OSX like windows WPA in XP this really could hurt sells of macs as servers as one of the selling feature of mac OS is you can get a mac server up and running agian with an image on another harddrive or even an ipod.
I can get a mac that suffered an HD crash or even had a motherboard fialure running again in 30 minutes try that with a windows XP machine with out cracking the WPA.
Remeber the backlash over broadcast flags in HDTVs sells suffer and the FCC removed the requirment from advocacy groups and manufactures or the one over the P3 PSN intel had to remove that feature sells were dropping like a rock.
As for commercial OS's linux and BSD are not the difficult and kludgy OSes they once where you can do everything including open MS office files in them.
Don't be just a fish be a shark and let them know when they do something to annoy you.
DMCa needs to repeeled and the paper it's printed on recycled into toilet paper.As it has been very damaging to the US IT industry killing competition.
Linux has no spyware which is very a serious problem on windows.
Spyware poses a very serious securety risk and I have seens cases of phishing and identity thieft that have resulted from such malware.
The threat is great enough I feel no bank should ever require one to use IE .
Yes one can lock out spyware but remeber the average user is a total noob and is not going to use the advanced secuety settings in IE or even download spybuster and adaware and run them in safemode.
Heck most users do not even know you can make windows a little safer by making a sperate admin and user account and this is microsoft's fault by having windows install that way by defualt.
Also as for configureation in linux you rarely have to edit something in/etc manually anymore.
Also I do not find even that bloated WM gnome slow even on something as lowly as a PIII 600MHz with 384MB and a radeon 7200.
Also iceWM is fast on just about everything I tested even an old toshibia 730CDT with only 64MB.
So you are either talking about a bad experience with linux in it's early days or are simply trolling.
Windows comes with suprsingly few drivers on it's own the drivers do come with the device on a cd or you must search the internet for them.
As for ease of setting up a a machine the mac is by far the easiest no hunting for drivers.
Linux used to be difficult but now that it finally has good hardware recognition it's no big deal now.
As for not having a linux drivers for a given peice of hardware that is mostly the hardware vender's fault for not documenting said hardware.
If some specs are published the driver will be made and even included in the kernel tree.
The linux community is very good at making drivers for hardware that has been documented.
Also most good products just happen to have a macos or linux driver.
I have yet to see a sound card that is not supported by alsa or OSS unless it's very old or very new .
What sound and graphics drivers does windows have built in?
Most of the driver issues are with cheapo odd ball stuff you buy at walmart.
Yah it would be a good thing if all the MS execs got struck by lightining or hit by a crashing chinese rocket unlikely but we can dream.
Well after what Balmer once said about china the latter might happen....
I'm worried microshaft will try and sue apple over them including a windows API emulation in later version of OSX for X86 processors.
Microsoft actively tries to lock people into their OS but making things proporitary and not documenting stuff well so they can be reversed engineered.
DMCA is the work of companies like microsoft.
Mac OS is not that much more expensive the windows the mac mini is under $500 which is not much to spend yes there are cheaper PCs but do htey have a real 3d card? do they have a nice compact design? and are they fanless? NO.
Also OSX is very easy to use in someways easier to use then windows and the standard version of OSX is not castrated like XP home is.
If apple ever releases OSX for a standard X86 PC it would be curtians for windows in my book.
Install is all GUI need to revive a dead mac no problem you can boot a mac with an OSX image from another mac with very vaguely semiliar hardware on an ipod or any other portable hardrive.
The OS automaticlly found the drivers for the different machine and did not pull anything stupid like going BSOD or saying it needed to be activated and allowed me to quickly repair the imac's HD and get it booting on it's own drive again when the repair option on the CD failed.
Now on to linux being overrated and hard to use which cannot be farther from the truth.
Linux is not a difficult to install command line only OS anymore.
I tried the new ubuntu and mepis ditributions and I was greeted with a GUI installer something even XP does not have untill your are done with partitioning.
As for apps it came with everything needed for home/office tasks.
I was able to open MS office files in openoffice,media files in mplayer or xmms and the default browser was firefox which is now the browser of choice for many windows users as well.
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I Agree things like national ID do tend to be misused and yes the nazis did use this to round up jews.
I'm no terrorist but the less information the goverment has on my everyday life the better.
Most of the early adopters of smartcard based national IDs are not exactly the poster child for protection of human rights and free speech.
Many used the information gathered to hunt down political dissetents etc.
If a drm technology does cause harm they should be liable I think sony should be held liable for damages down time on many office machines that got the sony rootkit installed.
BTW even if you did not try to remove it the system would still crash and was pretty much left open to a hacker as if backorafice had been installed on the machine.
Also in the case of hospitals and doctors where medical information is supposed to remain private a maker of a drm that compramises securety on a system containing medical records should be held accountable as if they hacked in to the system themselves.
Even a sempron 64 can handle more then 5 web cam quality video streams with ease the daul core amd64 and opterons processors likely can handle much more then skype's max of ten. Last I checked my web cam app never took more then 6% of my processor time this is on a single core AMD fx.
Now this is pure BS on skype's part as it's common knowlage that even a single core AMD fx 64 will out perform an intel core duo in most real world apps esp in something that requires memory bandwidth. ,the presence of a dsp in the sound card,even the OS version etc also can effect performance. How hard is it to simply read the processor load from the OS with a synthetic bench and have the app give a recomdation of a perfered setting.
Last I check intel processors tend to perform lower in high memory bandwidth applications because they lack hyper transport and an integrated memory controller.
Also it's an example of shoddy programming as chipsets
Over clockers also must be upset over this since I personally have gotten sempron 64s to OC to 2.8 to 3ghz and still remain stable.
Censorship allways fails those who support it are ignoring the lessons of history. If people want to know something they will allways find a way they allways had.
Wind turbines usaully offer more watt per $ then solar panels but some people do not have the space for panels or wind turbines. People in an uban environment have no choice but to pay the power company.
They are too protective of kids any more and do not foster indipendant thinking like they should. And yes some people do not give their kids good technical toys like legos robtics and chemistry sets which BTW are a shawdow of what they were 20 years ago they took all the cool compounds out of them. The Uk takes this protectionism the farthest though also they need more good hands on science in schools even in the US there is a lack of this. As a kid I rember playing with legos technics and heathkit electronics kits , those electronics labs from radio shack and making games on my old trs80 coco. Heck they gone so far they now age check the purchase of epoxy at some stores. I used epoxy for lots of stuff as a kid you can't bond metal to plastic in a robot or model airplane project with elmer's glue or even super glue doesn't work well. The nanny state mind set has to go.
I know about the research in using an MRI's to see what someone is thinking and it's far from 100% this guy is full of it and what he's trying to do is extremely dangerous. This what I call a classic example of misuse of technology this guy should have his research license revoked for promoting junk like that.
Who the hell signs the registration thing I allways command Q that.
No it's the radeon X1000/x800 making the thing fast OSX allways was demanding on video hardware if it had an intel GMA900 instead it would run like a slug. OSX uses whats called a PDF display a superset of postscript it's also rendered in opengl making use of oepngl textures for the UI effects. So ATI should rightfully get more credit for the performance then Intel.
Equivlent to an athlon 64 highly doubtful even both cores would not be equal to one AMD 64 for most tasks the duals might be faster for highly multi threaded applications but these are an exception not the rule.
The cores are equivilent to an AMD XP or Pentium Norwood since they are 32bit.
Funny how this war on terror is really a war on our rights and civil liberties.
I'd rather be stumbling through a bad porno then an Orwellian nightmare.
A shuttle derived launch vehical might be the only thing that can get a bird that big in orbit since were talking something 4 or 5 times larger then previous communications satelites. Though some of boeing's delta IV variants they have in planning also are quite powerful and might also fit the bill. The most likely booster they'll end up using will be some heavy version of the EELVs as this sat could have a GLOW of 35 to 40+ tons.
Yah they'll need the ESA and nasa's help esp nasa in the really big launchers they'll have by 2015.Though if they go with an ion rocket upper stage something in the delta IV heavy's class might do the job so maybe a three core version of the H2a could pull it off then.
I'm not sure if even the russian proton can lift a payload that big into GEO. So they'll need the US's help to launch it as the most powerful rockets that will be avilible by 2010 will be either a delta IV super heavy 50 tons to LEO and 25 to GEO five core booster or one of the many shuttle derived launchers nasa plans to build some of which will eclipse the payload of the mighty saturn V the biggest will lift something like 200tons to LEO and could send over 100tons to mars. They'll most likely end up buying an SDV a saturn V class launch vehical for lunar missions off nasa to get that thing in orbit. Though if they trim alot of fat and use an inflatable structure for the main dish it might fit on a heavy EELV persently the most powerful model is the delta IV heavy with a 55,000lbs or 27.5 ton paylaod . Remeber they have to get it to GEO which is 22,000 miles up it takes as much delta V to get there as it does to the moon. Though they could use ion engines which would cut 40% off the gross weight at launch but this still would require a booster much more powerful then the native H11a. The US could stand to regain much of the satelite launch market if large birds like this become the norm.
One thing I wonder is how will they manage to get such a massive satelite in GEO as it's weight most likely will exceed the payload of the the HII launch vehical. I know a sat like this can be launch in sections but you need to do a few manned space walks to assemble the parts. So far all in space assembley has required a manned presence and usually a spacecraft similiar to the US shuttle as well. Another option I wonder if they'll do it is to buy a heavy booster from the US lunar program the heavy SDV could launch such a huge satilite and it's booster need to place it in GEO. Also the concept reminds of of an old nasa plan to give everyone in the US low cost satilite phone access. This was a very large satilite that was to be assembled in LEO by the shuttle and then was to fly to geostationary orbit once assembled using ion rockets.
Same here if a bussiness mistreats me in someway I take my bussiness elsewhere. Forcing a bag search on me everytime would definetly make me shop elsewhere and I'd tell my friends and family to adviod this store.
US insurance companies are well known the world over to be scams ran by religous conservative asshats . This might sound trollish but it is true. The ecomonics in europe are no different insurance companies there also do such studies but they are unbiased some thats lagrely unheard of in the US anymore.
If TC is used to prevent copying it will hurt hardware sales badly people will advoid TC enabled products that do not allow this feature to be disabled. If TC is used for anti priacy of OSX like windows WPA in XP this really could hurt sells of macs as servers as one of the selling feature of mac OS is you can get a mac server up and running agian with an image on another harddrive or even an ipod. I can get a mac that suffered an HD crash or even had a motherboard fialure running again in 30 minutes try that with a windows XP machine with out cracking the WPA. Remeber the backlash over broadcast flags in HDTVs sells suffer and the FCC removed the requirment from advocacy groups and manufactures or the one over the P3 PSN intel had to remove that feature sells were dropping like a rock. As for commercial OS's linux and BSD are not the difficult and kludgy OSes they once where you can do everything including open MS office files in them. Don't be just a fish be a shark and let them know when they do something to annoy you.
DMCa needs to repeeled and the paper it's printed on recycled into toilet paper .As it has been very damaging to the US IT industry killing competition.
Linux has no spyware which is very a serious problem on windows. Spyware poses a very serious securety risk and I have seens cases of phishing and identity thieft that have resulted from such malware. The threat is great enough I feel no bank should ever require one to use IE . Yes one can lock out spyware but remeber the average user is a total noob and is not going to use the advanced secuety settings in IE or even download spybuster and adaware and run them in safemode. Heck most users do not even know you can make windows a little safer by making a sperate admin and user account and this is microsoft's fault by having windows install that way by defualt. Also as for configureation in linux you rarely have to edit something in /etc manually anymore.
Also I do not find even that bloated WM gnome slow even on something as lowly as a PIII 600MHz with 384MB and a radeon 7200.
Also iceWM is fast on just about everything I tested even an old toshibia 730CDT with only 64MB.
So you are either talking about a bad experience with linux in it's early days or are simply trolling.
Windows comes with suprsingly few drivers on it's own the drivers do come with the device on a cd or you must search the internet for them. As for ease of setting up a a machine the mac is by far the easiest no hunting for drivers. Linux used to be difficult but now that it finally has good hardware recognition it's no big deal now. As for not having a linux drivers for a given peice of hardware that is mostly the hardware vender's fault for not documenting said hardware. If some specs are published the driver will be made and even included in the kernel tree. The linux community is very good at making drivers for hardware that has been documented. Also most good products just happen to have a macos or linux driver. I have yet to see a sound card that is not supported by alsa or OSS unless it's very old or very new . What sound and graphics drivers does windows have built in? Most of the driver issues are with cheapo odd ball stuff you buy at walmart.
Yah it would be a good thing if all the MS execs got struck by lightining or hit by a crashing chinese rocket unlikely but we can dream. Well after what Balmer once said about china the latter might happen.... I'm worried microshaft will try and sue apple over them including a windows API emulation in later version of OSX for X86 processors. Microsoft actively tries to lock people into their OS but making things proporitary and not documenting stuff well so they can be reversed engineered. DMCA is the work of companies like microsoft.
Mac OS is not that much more expensive the windows the mac mini is under $500 which is not much to spend yes there are cheaper PCs but do htey have a real 3d card? do they have a nice compact design? and are they fanless? NO. Also OSX is very easy to use in someways easier to use then windows and the standard version of OSX is not castrated like XP home is. If apple ever releases OSX for a standard X86 PC it would be curtians for windows in my book. Install is all GUI need to revive a dead mac no problem you can boot a mac with an OSX image from another mac with very vaguely semiliar hardware on an ipod or any other portable hardrive. The OS automaticlly found the drivers for the different machine and did not pull anything stupid like going BSOD or saying it needed to be activated and allowed me to quickly repair the imac's HD and get it booting on it's own drive again when the repair option on the CD failed. Now on to linux being overrated and hard to use which cannot be farther from the truth. Linux is not a difficult to install command line only OS anymore. I tried the new ubuntu and mepis ditributions and I was greeted with a GUI installer something even XP does not have untill your are done with partitioning. As for apps it came with everything needed for home/office tasks. I was able to open MS office files in openoffice,media files in mplayer or xmms and the default browser was firefox which is now the browser of choice for many windows users as well.