And even if you do use IE, the google toolbar will defeat the popups for you. There really is no reason to be seeing popups if you don't want to anymore.
I work at Caltech, and I can say that there is definitely a need for high-speed communications between collaborating labs. When I do a simulation run it's quite easy to get several gigabytes of output, most of which is useful in some sense or another. But it's still not very feasible to send this raw data back and forth across the country. Especially when you do multiple simulation runs, and there's more then just you doing the stuff. The bandwidth needed adds up quickly.
When I had it on I didn't have too many problems with it slowing down the system. Although windows isn't as good at switching the resources around as linux is, so there is a noticable lag when programs first start up because the cpu use hasn't been switched over yet. I ended up turning it off though, because I was having fan troubles (again! I swear the dust is out to get me) and so my cpu was overheating.
I would hope they have it completely sealed so nothing can get into the pipes after it gets filled. And hopefully they'll use something with more cooling efficiency then water... although water is pretty darned good. But if they're sealing it up anyways they might as well use something better.
I have been able to remove it by removing explorer completely. Of course, this means that the GUI interface to deal with the filesystem is broken too. It was really interesting (for the short time I did this) - I would browse my files through mozilla or a command prompt. Not a recommended modification to windows, although it is possible to live with it with enough tweaking (which I was too lazy to do).
I'm one of the crowd who will probably stick with init. It took me many many tries to tune my scripts the way I like it (and since I'll be reinstalling at some point, I'll have to spend some more time tuning) and I'm just too lazy to learn a new way. This is of course why old stuff is still all over the place, but hey, if it isn't broken, I'm not in a big hurry to replace it.
I work as a researcher as a university, and while the internet is good for quick searches (say, what is the boiling point of such and such fluid) it lacks in-depth information which I often need. And then there are random things that I was simply unable to find on the internet, for whatever reason, like what SSP meant when referring to silicon wafers.
I do use the university library website to find papers which I then usually download via the internet to read up on the more in-depth stuff. I'm not sure if this counts as using the internet to find information, or using scientific journals. For me, it's just faster then walking down to the library and photocopying (plus saves copying fee) although I still do that every once in a while for journals who don't post their articles online, or for older articles.
There are plenty of firewalls for linux. In fact, when I installed Mandrake 9.1, my biggest problem was opening up the default firewall enough to let my server function as a server.
On the same note, hopefully pop-up ads will slow down a bit as more and more people install pop-up blockers and more and more software supports it. I suspect if IE were to ever incorporate a pop-up blocker the practice would die out fairly quickly. Granted, it doesn't matter to me anymore because I have a pop-up blocker (google toolbar) and could care less whether they're there or not because it does an exceptional job of blocking them out.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is the xfce plugin for fvwm. I kinda liked xfce, but really liked fvwm but didn't want to spend the time customizing, and then I find that there's a plugin to load into fvwm and suddenly I have the xfce taskbar. It's really the best of both worlds. Fvwm's efficient management of the desktop, and a nice toolbar to keep everything organized. Although I suppose the fact that three of the buttons on the taskbar get set to different sizes and colors of xterms says something about me....
I use an xfce plugin in fvwm2 and get the advantages of both. It takes a bit of work to get it going, and I'm an extreme desktop user (I use a desktop space that's 6 times my screen size) but it handles it just fine because it's fvwm2 managing the desks.
I wonder if Microsoft got any money from the RIAA to do this? I imagine if done properly something like this could actually put a bit damper on illegal music.
That first flight might not have lasted very long, but in a couple of years they had versions out that stayed aloft for hours at a time. And the wind is probably only required to get the airplane off the ground, although I'm guessing on that point. Would someone with a better aircraft background then me care to elaborate on this?
Still, I'm not about to choose one implementation over another simply to add diversity. I'm going to pick the one I think is the best.
Perhaps the reasons I use are wrong, and I probably don't know all the facts. But I tend to trust OpenSSH more then the other implementations. So I'm going to use OpenSSH. Period.
I choose what I do because I don't want to deal with a worm at all. Not because I want to set things up so that when I do get a worm, it's only me and half of the sshd servers out there, rather then all of them. I acknowledge that diversity is good, but it's never going factor into my decisions regarding my security software.
I also use google simply because the toolbar blocks popups better then any other piece of software I've tried (other then Mozilla, but I was getting tired of slow load times).
They've been saying that for years and years now. As long as people continue thinking they need the "latest" in processor technology and shelling out money, the chip makers will find some way. transistors using only a few atoms have already been demonstrated, and people have been throwing quantum computing ideas around for a long time now. In fact, AMD and Intel probably both have active research into these fields, and I wouldn't be too surprised if in 5 years or so they try to one-up each other in trying to announce the first chip built using "single-atom" technology or some other crazy catchphrase like that.
The point of making it smaller is so there's less current flow, and thus less heat. Granted, they'll pack more in, so the overall effect will probably be more heat generation, but per transistor, smaller ones do generate less heat.
I'm not going to post this anonymously, but in some ways I agree with this statement. See my post earlier. What they're doing is like when Redhat makes their download link for a free download so hard to find, and so painfully slow. In the end, they want to make money. And in some ways you have to respect that.
Granted there's making money, and there's stealing money. But until someone else can offer what they do in terms of an integrated set of software that a company can buy and install into 100 computers over the course of a weekend, they will continue to make money. And if people are so against their "safe computing" initiative, then there will be hardware made that doesn't support that, and those hardware makers will be the ones making the money. Or else we computer geeks will have to make due with the current generation of technology for a while. I don't know about you, but 1.53 Ghz (what this machine has) will be plenty for quite some time in terms of home computing.
If they're that bad, then they will. But in the meantime, they'll try every means they have to turn a profit, and I still respect their right to do that, no matter how poorly run they are.
Like it or not, software companies do need to turn a profit to keep on working and paying salaries and stuff. And when you start making game consoles, all your profits are from selling the games. If you want a computer, get a computer. It won't cost much more, and works so much better as a computer. Game consoles are inherently different beasts - I know from various gaming friends that we who prefer computer games never see eye-to-eye in terms of what makes a good game with the people who prefer console games. And the name of the game with a console is being exclusive. Computers are designed to do everything under the moon with the right program. Consoles only run games, and only those specifically made for it. There's a reason they don't publish API's for a game console.
If you made Halo for computers, no one would by Xbox's, and much fewer people would be buying the game (for the computer). Consoles simply are not computers, and I don't think we should treat them as such. PDA's are much closer to computers then game consoles.
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And even if you do use IE, the google toolbar will defeat the popups for you. There really is no reason to be seeing popups if you don't want to anymore.
I work at Caltech, and I can say that there is definitely a need for high-speed communications between collaborating labs. When I do a simulation run it's quite easy to get several gigabytes of output, most of which is useful in some sense or another. But it's still not very feasible to send this raw data back and forth across the country. Especially when you do multiple simulation runs, and there's more then just you doing the stuff. The bandwidth needed adds up quickly.
When I had it on I didn't have too many problems with it slowing down the system. Although windows isn't as good at switching the resources around as linux is, so there is a noticable lag when programs first start up because the cpu use hasn't been switched over yet. I ended up turning it off though, because I was having fan troubles (again! I swear the dust is out to get me) and so my cpu was overheating.
I would hope they have it completely sealed so nothing can get into the pipes after it gets filled. And hopefully they'll use something with more cooling efficiency then water... although water is pretty darned good. But if they're sealing it up anyways they might as well use something better.
I have been able to remove it by removing explorer completely. Of course, this means that the GUI interface to deal with the filesystem is broken too. It was really interesting (for the short time I did this) - I would browse my files through mozilla or a command prompt. Not a recommended modification to windows, although it is possible to live with it with enough tweaking (which I was too lazy to do).
I'm one of the crowd who will probably stick with init. It took me many many tries to tune my scripts the way I like it (and since I'll be reinstalling at some point, I'll have to spend some more time tuning) and I'm just too lazy to learn a new way. This is of course why old stuff is still all over the place, but hey, if it isn't broken, I'm not in a big hurry to replace it.
I work as a researcher as a university, and while the internet is good for quick searches (say, what is the boiling point of such and such fluid) it lacks in-depth information which I often need. And then there are random things that I was simply unable to find on the internet, for whatever reason, like what SSP meant when referring to silicon wafers. I do use the university library website to find papers which I then usually download via the internet to read up on the more in-depth stuff. I'm not sure if this counts as using the internet to find information, or using scientific journals. For me, it's just faster then walking down to the library and photocopying (plus saves copying fee) although I still do that every once in a while for journals who don't post their articles online, or for older articles.
There are plenty of firewalls for linux. In fact, when I installed Mandrake 9.1, my biggest problem was opening up the default firewall enough to let my server function as a server.
On the same note, hopefully pop-up ads will slow down a bit as more and more people install pop-up blockers and more and more software supports it. I suspect if IE were to ever incorporate a pop-up blocker the practice would die out fairly quickly. Granted, it doesn't matter to me anymore because I have a pop-up blocker (google toolbar) and could care less whether they're there or not because it does an exceptional job of blocking them out.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is the xfce plugin for fvwm. I kinda liked xfce, but really liked fvwm but didn't want to spend the time customizing, and then I find that there's a plugin to load into fvwm and suddenly I have the xfce taskbar. It's really the best of both worlds. Fvwm's efficient management of the desktop, and a nice toolbar to keep everything organized. Although I suppose the fact that three of the buttons on the taskbar get set to different sizes and colors of xterms says something about me....
I use an xfce plugin in fvwm2 and get the advantages of both. It takes a bit of work to get it going, and I'm an extreme desktop user (I use a desktop space that's 6 times my screen size) but it handles it just fine because it's fvwm2 managing the desks.
I wonder if Microsoft got any money from the RIAA to do this? I imagine if done properly something like this could actually put a bit damper on illegal music.
That first flight might not have lasted very long, but in a couple of years they had versions out that stayed aloft for hours at a time. And the wind is probably only required to get the airplane off the ground, although I'm guessing on that point. Would someone with a better aircraft background then me care to elaborate on this?
I should clarify. The program itself is slow to load. Once the program is up the pages load fine.
Still, I'm not about to choose one implementation over another simply to add diversity. I'm going to pick the one I think is the best. Perhaps the reasons I use are wrong, and I probably don't know all the facts. But I tend to trust OpenSSH more then the other implementations. So I'm going to use OpenSSH. Period. I choose what I do because I don't want to deal with a worm at all. Not because I want to set things up so that when I do get a worm, it's only me and half of the sshd servers out there, rather then all of them. I acknowledge that diversity is good, but it's never going factor into my decisions regarding my security software.
I also use google simply because the toolbar blocks popups better then any other piece of software I've tried (other then Mozilla, but I was getting tired of slow load times).
They've been saying that for years and years now. As long as people continue thinking they need the "latest" in processor technology and shelling out money, the chip makers will find some way. transistors using only a few atoms have already been demonstrated, and people have been throwing quantum computing ideas around for a long time now. In fact, AMD and Intel probably both have active research into these fields, and I wouldn't be too surprised if in 5 years or so they try to one-up each other in trying to announce the first chip built using "single-atom" technology or some other crazy catchphrase like that.
The point of making it smaller is so there's less current flow, and thus less heat. Granted, they'll pack more in, so the overall effect will probably be more heat generation, but per transistor, smaller ones do generate less heat.
I'm not going to post this anonymously, but in some ways I agree with this statement. See my post earlier. What they're doing is like when Redhat makes their download link for a free download so hard to find, and so painfully slow. In the end, they want to make money. And in some ways you have to respect that. Granted there's making money, and there's stealing money. But until someone else can offer what they do in terms of an integrated set of software that a company can buy and install into 100 computers over the course of a weekend, they will continue to make money. And if people are so against their "safe computing" initiative, then there will be hardware made that doesn't support that, and those hardware makers will be the ones making the money. Or else we computer geeks will have to make due with the current generation of technology for a while. I don't know about you, but 1.53 Ghz (what this machine has) will be plenty for quite some time in terms of home computing.
If they're that bad, then they will. But in the meantime, they'll try every means they have to turn a profit, and I still respect their right to do that, no matter how poorly run they are.
Like it or not, software companies do need to turn a profit to keep on working and paying salaries and stuff. And when you start making game consoles, all your profits are from selling the games.
If you want a computer, get a computer. It won't cost much more, and works so much better as a computer. Game consoles are inherently different beasts - I know from various gaming friends that we who prefer computer games never see eye-to-eye in terms of what makes a good game with the people who prefer console games. And the name of the game with a console is being exclusive. Computers are designed to do everything under the moon with the right program. Consoles only run games, and only those specifically made for it. There's a reason they don't publish API's for a game console.
If you made Halo for computers, no one would by Xbox's, and much fewer people would be buying the game (for the computer). Consoles simply are not computers, and I don't think we should treat them as such. PDA's are much closer to computers then game consoles.