MacWorld Expo is put on every year by IDG World Expo... the same guys who run several x86-centric conference and exposition events worldwide.
I have a feeling someone there knows a thing or two about Windows.
However, no one there anticipated the amount of traffic that they were going to get under the situation of Apple not absorbing half a million Internet connections through the live webcast that they usually do.
This has more to do with poor planning on IDG's part than it has to do with some off-centered vague excuse for a Windows bash-a-thon. And it's too bad too; as I was looking for *yet* another excuse to tighten the jaws of the Windows shills that I deal with on a daily basis =D
Maybe it's getting lost on the manufacturers out there, but usually if you want someone to buy your new product that is supposed to supplant an older-yet-functional product, you have to have some kind of compelling reason.
DVD worked where LaserDisc failed, because the electronics became cheaper, and the quality was much better than VHS, while not taking any more physical space than VHS.
Better quality + same price point = commercial success
However, if this new stuff requires consumer purchase without consumer gain, it will be relegated to the halls of failed products, in the display case between DIVX (the single use disc, not the codec) and SunnComm's CD copy protection which could be bypassed through the use of the shift key.
I don't see that option anywhere in Windows Setup. I also don't see the option to not have Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express, or.NET Passport.
Clearly, when talking about choices, the choice is to take what Microsoft mandates that I have, or put something additional on there, but not to remove something I don't want.
That's the problem here. I don't care if they bundle it, but please let me remove it.
If we're going to worry about the lowest-common denominator all day, what about one-galaxy species? What happens if that galaxy we didn't see in our left blind spot doesn't use it's turn signal and rams right into us, leaving everything we know as a massive twisted wreck of stars and planets?
Does Geico insure against that?
(I understand what you are saying, but I couldn't help myself)
Off topic, but the only thing that sucks worse than Business Objects' support, is their software.
Have you actually *used* anything they have besides Crystal Reports? I'll just say there is a damn good reason they bought their competition, and it's not to "pull a Microsoft"
Actually Moore's Law says that the number of transistors per square inch in an integrated circuit will double every 18 months. While this has roughly translated into 2x speed increases in the same period, this has mostly been coincidental.
When figuring how much it would take to transport the stuff back to earth, remember that you are transporting something that does not require "life support", e.g. oxygen, heat, shielding, etc.
Also, you are taking off in 1/6th of Earth's gravity, so it's much easier to get yourself into a trans-earth flight path.
The other thing to remember is that you don't need to use some shuttle-style thermal tile scheme to survive re-entry. Just use an epoxy-based ablative heat shield a la Mercury / Gemini / Apollo to get your container into the Pacific, and then pick it up with a boat and crane.
This could be done pretty damn cheaply (in comparison to using a man-rated spacecraft), assuming you get the stuff ready to go.
While I think that everyone would agree that "green" industry is for the best, it should be pointed out that green != cheap.
It is much more expensive to be green than it is to not be, and that is why Kyoto presents a major issue for the US, as it's chief competitor in industry (China) is exempt from Kyoto because it is a "developing" nation.
Therefore, you get the expensive green products from the US, or the just-as-functional products from China for half the cost. Why would the unenlightened masses spring for option #1?
Any nation that has nuclear weapons and ICBMs is NOT developing. Sorry.
Why is it that whenever for good or bad a product activates itself across the internet, it's "spying" on you and "reporting back"? Maybe, just maybe it's just activating the software. You know, checking your CD key against a database of known good keys?
Do you also worry about the mind-control possibilities of the government putting flouride in the city water supply?
(By the way, you can always put Steam in OFFLINE MODE in order to play single player without anything communicating anywhere.)
While those would be sweet, probably the LucasArts game that I had the most fun playing was Full Throttle. That game was hilarious, challenging, and even had a story.
I have been waiting for YDL 4 to become available for a bit now, as I have a G5 and would like to run Mac-on-Linux to virtualize some of the things I do here at work. Here are some of the tasks that I do that would be great on MOL:
Mac OS 9 administration - tools that only work with OS 9. I have a Blue and White G3 on my desk for the three times a month I have to do this. I would rather have a VM and get that ugly thing off my desk.
Mac OS X Server administration - it would be nice to have a VM that is always set up with a constant list of servers in Server Admin, Server Monitor, and Apple Remote Desktop. Today, I don't get this because of...
Application deployment automation - I do on the Mac what many people do with MSI or InstallShield on Windows. I figure out how to get applications onto 60+ Macs without having to visit each one, or even look at the installation procedure. Tools like FileWave, Radmind, and NetOctopus are great for this kind of thing, but in order to test the deployment, I prefer to have a clean machine, rather than one that I rip out the installed components, and maybe miss a few. VMs are wonderful for this.
For these reasons, I have tried almost every PPC Linux distro out there to find one that I don't hate which will make me more efficient in my job, making me happier, and thus raising the quality of life of everyone I work with.
Why import a dirty bomb when the government just built 20 for you
Except that all reactors within the United States have containment vessels that are made to withstand the reactor having a critical failure. It would take a hell of a lot of explosives to do anything to that.
consider the ships and trains carrying new and spent fuel every four weeks...except that they refuel reactors on an annual basis, and when the waste is taken out, it is stored on site while it cools. Reprocessing would mitigate much of this, as it would be going right back into the reactor instead of sitting around.
Also, I guess it never occurred to you that they might *protect* fuel and waste shipments, did it? No, it's much easier to crank up the FUD machine than it is to think objectively.
Renewable energy is all well and good, but when you see what the 8 dams have done to the Columbia river, and how much everyone is bitching about what they are doing to the salmon popluation, you might think twice.
Myself, living here in Oregon, I'd much rather that they would have refit the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station. Instead, they scrapped it and made Oregon 90% reliant on hydroelectric power, with wind and geothermal making up the other 10%.
I am a watercooler. I built a dual Xeon workstation because I needed to run VMware for studying and playing with stuff for my work. After I built it, the damn thing was so loud I couldn't stand to have it on.
Solution #1: Dynamat. Most of the noise was being caused by the CPU fans being exactly the same, and turning on at the same time, causing sympathetic vibrations through the aluminum case. A little Dynamat here, and a little there, and all the vibrations were gone.
Solution #2: Water cooling. It was still damn loud due to the amount of fans in there. So, I got some copper water blocks, and some tubing from my local Home Depot, and some hose clamps. Combine those with a 12V inline pump at the bottom of the case, and you've got yourself a nice little system. It almost runs as quiet as my PowerBook.
However, if you are to build your own system, be smart about it. Don't use tap water unless you want a leak to destroy your entire box; it's not water that conducts, it's the minerals it carries. Go spend the $1 on a gallon of distilled water - not the kind you buy to drink - reverse osmosis distilled water. Cut that with your standard ethylene glycol anitfreeze about 1:1 and you will have a non-corroding coolant that will work great for years.
BTW - I have a brother that is an auto mechanic that got fired up when he saw what I did, so version 2 will probably feature bent copper tubing that will be soldered from the radiator to the water blocks to the pump. Then I really will have something we'll be proud of, because I can't imagine anyone would go through that process unless they already have all the tools and know-how...
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Ah, silly poster...
MacWorld Expo is put on every year by IDG World Expo... the same guys who run several x86-centric conference and exposition events worldwide.
I have a feeling someone there knows a thing or two about Windows.
However, no one there anticipated the amount of traffic that they were going to get under the situation of Apple not absorbing half a million Internet connections through the live webcast that they usually do.
This has more to do with poor planning on IDG's part than it has to do with some off-centered vague excuse for a Windows bash-a-thon. And it's too bad too; as I was looking for *yet* another excuse to tighten the jaws of the Windows shills that I deal with on a daily basis =D
Maybe it's getting lost on the manufacturers out there, but usually if you want someone to buy your new product that is supposed to supplant an older-yet-functional product, you have to have some kind of compelling reason.
DVD worked where LaserDisc failed, because the electronics became cheaper, and the quality was much better than VHS, while not taking any more physical space than VHS.
Better quality + same price point = commercial success
However, if this new stuff requires consumer purchase without consumer gain, it will be relegated to the halls of failed products, in the display case between DIVX (the single use disc, not the codec) and SunnComm's CD copy protection which could be bypassed through the use of the shift key.
What if I want the choice not to have it there?
.NET Passport.
I don't see that option anywhere in Windows Setup. I also don't see the option to not have Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express, or
Clearly, when talking about choices, the choice is to take what Microsoft mandates that I have, or put something additional on there, but not to remove something I don't want.
That's the problem here. I don't care if they bundle it, but please let me remove it.
If we're going to worry about the lowest-common denominator all day, what about one-galaxy species? What happens if that galaxy we didn't see in our left blind spot doesn't use it's turn signal and rams right into us, leaving everything we know as a massive twisted wreck of stars and planets?
Does Geico insure against that?
(I understand what you are saying, but I couldn't help myself)
Off topic, but the only thing that sucks worse than Business Objects' support, is their software.
Have you actually *used* anything they have besides Crystal Reports? I'll just say there is a damn good reason they bought their competition, and it's not to "pull a Microsoft"
Actually Moore's Law says that the number of transistors per square inch in an integrated circuit will double every 18 months. While this has roughly translated into 2x speed increases in the same period, this has mostly been coincidental.
Linky
Google is your friend.
Wow. Just... wow.
You might want to see your doctor about changing your medication levels.
When figuring how much it would take to transport the stuff back to earth, remember that you are transporting something that does not require "life support", e.g. oxygen, heat, shielding, etc.
Also, you are taking off in 1/6th of Earth's gravity, so it's much easier to get yourself into a trans-earth flight path.
The other thing to remember is that you don't need to use some shuttle-style thermal tile scheme to survive re-entry. Just use an epoxy-based ablative heat shield a la Mercury / Gemini / Apollo to get your container into the Pacific, and then pick it up with a boat and crane.
This could be done pretty damn cheaply (in comparison to using a man-rated spacecraft), assuming you get the stuff ready to go.
You fail it.
In Soviet Russia, IT FAILS YOU!
Wait... I'm not in junior high anymore with that really wierd teacher-lady with the mustache...
over half the people out there voting are below average intelligence
Don't know what definition of average you are working with, but that statement doesn't seem to be possible.
Last time I checked, if over half of something is below the average, doesn't that lower the average to make exactly half below average?
Are we talking about me here?
First of all, find your shift key.
Second, there is a funny concept about manufactured goods: they break.
They didn't where-did-it-go-we-can't-find-it lose it, they it's-a-total-loss-because-the-batteries-exploded lost it.
Subtle difference, but effective.
What does it leave?
Well, a windowing environment that is useable, and applications that most users would consider actually using.
(hint: most non-slashdot reading users don't know of the existance of OpenOffice.)
Please Please PLEASE don't talk about websites getting "black holed" around here.
Jesus Christ on a chocolate rocket! Why don't you just make the goatse link yourself if you are going to leave a setup like that laying there!
I may be a tool in your eyes, but at least I give credit where it is due.
I hate Bush as much as the next guy, but let's at least hate him for stuff he actually did, rather than blame-shift what 100 people did, ass.
So I guess it was Governor Bush of Texas that rejected the Kyoto treaty in 1998?
You, sir, are an idiot.
(PS - The US Senate is who ratifies treaties, and they voted against it 98-0. If you don't like it, fire your Senator.)
Maybe I've had my head up an orifice for all my life, but could you cite a credible source for your "50% in 50 years" claim?
That just sounds like extreme hyperbole to me, but if it's true, it's a real eye-opener.
K thx bye
While I think that everyone would agree that "green" industry is for the best, it should be pointed out that green != cheap.
It is much more expensive to be green than it is to not be, and that is why Kyoto presents a major issue for the US, as it's chief competitor in industry (China) is exempt from Kyoto because it is a "developing" nation.
Therefore, you get the expensive green products from the US, or the just-as-functional products from China for half the cost. Why would the unenlightened masses spring for option #1?
Any nation that has nuclear weapons and ICBMs is NOT developing. Sorry.
Why is it that whenever for good or bad a product activates itself across the internet, it's "spying" on you and "reporting back"? Maybe, just maybe it's just activating the software. You know, checking your CD key against a database of known good keys?
Do you also worry about the mind-control possibilities of the government putting flouride in the city water supply?
(By the way, you can always put Steam in OFFLINE MODE in order to play single player without anything communicating anywhere.)
While those would be sweet, probably the LucasArts game that I had the most fun playing was Full Throttle. That game was hilarious, challenging, and even had a story.
I would love to see another Full Throttle.
I guess for me, "recovering" from an error doesn't mean wishing it didn't happen and obfuscating it from the user.
My bad.
Wait...
You're asking someone to... think... before posting on Slashdot?
Are you new here?
You're right. You don't ever see a BSOD on XP because Microsoft "fixed" it by having it automatically reboot as soon as it does it by default.
Yup, no more BSOD! Just random reboots instead. Good work team!
I have been waiting for YDL 4 to become available for a bit now, as I have a G5 and would like to run Mac-on-Linux to virtualize some of the things I do here at work. Here are some of the tasks that I do that would be great on MOL:
Mac OS 9 administration - tools that only work with OS 9. I have a Blue and White G3 on my desk for the three times a month I have to do this. I would rather have a VM and get that ugly thing off my desk.
Mac OS X Server administration - it would be nice to have a VM that is always set up with a constant list of servers in Server Admin, Server Monitor, and Apple Remote Desktop. Today, I don't get this because of...
Application deployment automation - I do on the Mac what many people do with MSI or InstallShield on Windows. I figure out how to get applications onto 60+ Macs without having to visit each one, or even look at the installation procedure. Tools like FileWave, Radmind, and NetOctopus are great for this kind of thing, but in order to test the deployment, I prefer to have a clean machine, rather than one that I rip out the installed components, and maybe miss a few. VMs are wonderful for this.
For these reasons, I have tried almost every PPC Linux distro out there to find one that I don't hate which will make me more efficient in my job, making me happier, and thus raising the quality of life of everyone I work with.
See! Linux does make a positive contribution!
Why import a dirty bomb when the government just built 20 for you
...except that they refuel reactors on an annual basis, and when the waste is taken out, it is stored on site while it cools. Reprocessing would mitigate much of this, as it would be going right back into the reactor instead of sitting around.
Except that all reactors within the United States have containment vessels that are made to withstand the reactor having a critical failure. It would take a hell of a lot of explosives to do anything to that.
consider the ships and trains carrying new and spent fuel every four weeks
Also, I guess it never occurred to you that they might *protect* fuel and waste shipments, did it? No, it's much easier to crank up the FUD machine than it is to think objectively.
Renewable energy is all well and good, but when you see what the 8 dams have done to the Columbia river, and how much everyone is bitching about what they are doing to the salmon popluation, you might think twice.
Myself, living here in Oregon, I'd much rather that they would have refit the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station. Instead, they scrapped it and made Oregon 90% reliant on hydroelectric power, with wind and geothermal making up the other 10%.
Oh well, at least it's not coal...
I am a watercooler. I built a dual Xeon workstation because I needed to run VMware for studying and playing with stuff for my work. After I built it, the damn thing was so loud I couldn't stand to have it on.
Solution #1: Dynamat. Most of the noise was being caused by the CPU fans being exactly the same, and turning on at the same time, causing sympathetic vibrations through the aluminum case. A little Dynamat here, and a little there, and all the vibrations were gone.
Solution #2: Water cooling. It was still damn loud due to the amount of fans in there. So, I got some copper water blocks, and some tubing from my local Home Depot, and some hose clamps. Combine those with a 12V inline pump at the bottom of the case, and you've got yourself a nice little system. It almost runs as quiet as my PowerBook.
However, if you are to build your own system, be smart about it. Don't use tap water unless you want a leak to destroy your entire box; it's not water that conducts, it's the minerals it carries. Go spend the $1 on a gallon of distilled water - not the kind you buy to drink - reverse osmosis distilled water. Cut that with your standard ethylene glycol anitfreeze about 1:1 and you will have a non-corroding coolant that will work great for years.
BTW - I have a brother that is an auto mechanic that got fired up when he saw what I did, so version 2 will probably feature bent copper tubing that will be soldered from the radiator to the water blocks to the pump. Then I really will have something we'll be proud of, because I can't imagine anyone would go through that process unless they already have all the tools and know-how...