This is quite closed-minded, one must take into consideration the different chip making techniques used, and how they have changed since the early 86's,
With changes in techniques, and how one does it, many things are possible
For one example, just look at the changes in building manufacturing. At one time they couldn't get something super big, because of stone's limitations, then because of iron's, and now we make buildings exponentially larger with improved steel, created with new techniques.
FreeBSD, holding the best SMP support, can only support at the moment 16 CPUs, I read the mailing list, and I don't think they work on 16+ CPU set-ups that much, let alone the Itanium port isn't as prevelent as the i386, and/or Alpha.
Wishful thinking, but not possible at the moment, sorry
It's been obvious for some time that the U.S. government accepts a LOT of fundraising and soft money, OSS doesn't give politicians any, so why should they care about it?
Meanwhile, MS lobbies, and gives money to keep MS in the government. .
Except for a select few, the U.S. reps in power don't really go off idealism. They like their power, the money they get, and all the comps, until we get them to reform their own system, we don't have a choice
"Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month"
It's the 21st Century, doesn't this seem a little out dated? I reboot my Macintosh once.....once...a month? I reboot my FreeBSD box only when I am switching out hardware.
How can an OS that costs so damn much crash so often? How can this be possible in a world with super-sonic jets, Segways, super-computers in a 24U enclosure, how does that work?
the larger problem is Windows being wide open upon default install, instead of a *nix box which has many ports, 80,23,135,139 locked up on installation.
I think it would have been nice to have recieved something of this nature when I bought my new macintosh. Something to give me a little peek into the power of the iApps.
I think that would help Apple out a lot, to have more in-depth PDFs on their iApps, like iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto
I think that would help more and more normal mac users become power mac users (get it! powermac;-))
This is slightly off-topic, but what about a 1U or 2U rackmount case from Antec or such? I figure that would be great to slip a HTPC into, and then put feet on it, and slip it in there with the DVD Player and Radio-Amp.
I figure using a rackmount design, you'd get that nice black you want, and you can put the hardware you want in there, hell, you could even have a dual CPU redhat box serving a web site, and playing back DVD's at the same time >-)
What I would like to see is smarter cameras that make use of that cheaper 256MB of CF memory, instead of me having to spend a bundle on 512MB or 1GB+
I think it would just be a great feature to be able to Zip or Tar my older pictures on a camera, say everytime I take 100 pictures on my 2MP camera, it asks me if it can compact the last 50 to save disk space. That would be really awesome, then I could take more pictures per card.
Me personally, I got a copy of the new Foo Fighters CD from a friend, and listened to it for a while, and then gave it back and went to a concert.
After hearing various news specials about where the "Money spent on a CD goes" why on earth would anyone buy one?
If I know that the store gets 40% and the labels 30% and then the artist gets 5%, why am I going to reward the companies for the artist's talent? I'd rather go to a concert, where the artists can see my visual support, and get a larger piece of my money that I intend for them to recieve for some great music.
I do believe the terrorists from 9-11 arrived in the U.S. because of a severely flawed student visa system.
Instead of anally reaming U.S. citizens flying to see Grandma on Labor Day, why not fix the problem before it arrives. I cannot see how "terrorists" just magically appear on flights from D.C. to New York, without doing something first to get there. Like flight training in the U.S.. Every attempted terrorist attack in the past two years hasn't been by somebody that just decided to go on a plane and blow it up. There were flags before hand.
That's what they should do. Ream those who are coming in, it is a privilege to come to this country, make sure they'll appreciate it.
On another note, last summer while travelling back from California to southern texas, I connected on two flights, somehow I was (along with my sisters, who are under 18) "randomly" checked 3 times I was checked after simply switching planes. I never even left the terminal. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I can see how caucasian suburban minors are on the top of the U.S.'s hitlist.
If they do get cracked, couldn't it be by the leaving politicians request, at which the "changes" made by a cracker wouldn't be looked at, they could just let him on by.
A similar problem is with non-electronic means, somebody has to be trusted enough to get the votes from voters, counted, and registered. The system ain't perfect, but India, I believe is cutting out more temptations for folks to fiddle with results.
Anyways, they could use IPv6 to transfer results, I don't know a script kiddie that can even spell IPv6;-)
Now, I understand the concept, but this sucker loads the OS into a RAM disk, meaning it eats a bit of RAM to begin with, then what if you're checking out lots of websites, I guess it stores the caches and cookies on a file server, or RAM disk. All on 256MB RAM?
This is a nifty idea, but only if you have a network file server, and can deal with all your HD-less boxen being offline, when you upgrade the NFS, or when it breaks down.
I pulled some quotes from the commercial, little text fade ins. hereMovies. They're worth it
These people have obviously never seen a Hollywood movie
This is completely ridiculous, this guy is talking about how piracy affects him, but not big "multi-million dollar employees" like producers. But he seems to have left out that these producers make an insane amount of money, as is, and then these companies are making "anti-piracy" ads that cost $$$ to make and to air.
So, while we watched another stupid commercial, some guy like him gets fired, cause they can't pay the producer $xxx million, make commercials for $xx million, pamper stars for another $xxx million, and pay him his damn $12-20 an hour.
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This is quite closed-minded, one must take into consideration the different chip making techniques used, and how they have changed since the early 86's,
:-p
With changes in techniques, and how one does it, many things are possible
For one example, just look at the changes in building manufacturing. At one time they couldn't get something super big, because of stone's limitations, then because of iron's, and now we make buildings exponentially larger with improved steel, created with new techniques.
It's all in the wrist
The "portable bomb" issue is ridiculous, what about a water bottle filled with vodka, or propane, natural gas (can't smell it!)
I understand caution, but unless they restrict ALL liquids and bottles, they can't really prevent the "portable bomb" issue
Anyways, a savvy airline would PROHIBIT them as carry ons, and then sell them to users on board, like the movie theaters do with food.
How many more benchmarks are going to be necessary for people to start believing that this _is_ a great, viable, and priceworthy computer?
1Ghz FSU, dual 2Ghz 64-bit CPUs, 8GB RAM, serial-ata drives
All that for less than a UltraSPARC server, and you _still_ (!) need "proof" or validation???
This is getting ridiculous
FreeBSD, holding the best SMP support, can only support at the moment 16 CPUs, I read the mailing list, and I don't think they work on 16+ CPU set-ups that much, let alone the Itanium port isn't as prevelent as the i386, and/or Alpha.
Wishful thinking, but not possible at the moment, sorry
I guess he was getting too many ridiculous e-mails :-p
This is _sort of_ true
If you recall the days of 68K macintosh, and Windows 3.11, there were quite a few macintosh virii.
Market share has gone down, while the emotions towards the OS have changed.
A much much larger percentage of Windows users _hate_ Windows, while more mac users love macs, that's why they chipped out for them.
It's been obvious for some time that the U.S. government accepts a LOT of fundraising and soft money, OSS doesn't give politicians any, so why should they care about it?
Meanwhile, MS lobbies, and gives money to keep MS in the government. .
Except for a select few, the U.S. reps in power don't really go off idealism. They like their power, the money they get, and all the comps, until we get them to reform their own system, we don't have a choice
In Soviet russia the clients send the servers the time!
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
A feature MS wants you to patch and remove to optimize the feature's capability, really, I swear
Don't you hate a linux geek that gloats >-)
An obvious sign of the end of the world
-OR-
MS's focus on the projects that make the real money, XBox, and MS Keyboards and mice
"Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month"
It's the 21st Century, doesn't this seem a little out dated? I reboot my Macintosh once.....once...a month? I reboot my FreeBSD box only when I am switching out hardware.
How can an OS that costs so damn much crash so often? How can this be possible in a world with super-sonic jets, Segways, super-computers in a 24U enclosure, how does that work?
the larger problem is Windows being wide open upon default install, instead of a *nix box which has many ports, 80,23,135,139 locked up on installation.
I think the FCC is just using this as a ploy to draw in illegal Spammers, and Mp3 downloaders.
Don't use their network! You'll be pegged as a terrorist by those McCarthian bastards
or is there not enough mac news today that we're posting simple software updates?
I mean, I can understand a major MacOS, or Yellow Dog Linux update, but MS Office v.X updates? Along with iPod Firmware updates?
If there's no good mac news, why post anything?
I think it would have been nice to have recieved something of this nature when I bought my new macintosh. Something to give me a little peek into the power of the iApps.
;-))
I think that would help Apple out a lot, to have more in-depth PDFs on their iApps, like iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto
I think that would help more and more normal mac users become power mac users (get it! powermac
This is slightly off-topic, but what about a 1U or 2U rackmount case from Antec or such? I figure that would be great to slip a HTPC into, and then put feet on it, and slip it in there with the DVD Player and Radio-Amp.
I figure using a rackmount design, you'd get that nice black you want, and you can put the hardware you want in there, hell, you could even have a dual CPU redhat box serving a web site, and playing back DVD's at the same time >-)
What I would like to see is smarter cameras that make use of that cheaper 256MB of CF memory, instead of me having to spend a bundle on 512MB or 1GB+
I think it would just be a great feature to be able to Zip or Tar my older pictures on a camera, say everytime I take 100 pictures on my 2MP camera, it asks me if it can compact the last 50 to save disk space. That would be really awesome, then I could take more pictures per card.
Me personally, I got a copy of the new Foo Fighters CD from a friend, and listened to it for a while, and then gave it back and went to a concert.
After hearing various news specials about where the "Money spent on a CD goes" why on earth would anyone buy one?
If I know that the store gets 40% and the labels 30% and then the artist gets 5%, why am I going to reward the companies for the artist's talent? I'd rather go to a concert, where the artists can see my visual support, and get a larger piece of my money that I intend for them to recieve for some great music.
I do believe the terrorists from 9-11 arrived in the U.S. because of a severely flawed student visa system.
Instead of anally reaming U.S. citizens flying to see Grandma on Labor Day, why not fix the problem before it arrives. I cannot see how "terrorists" just magically appear on flights from D.C. to New York, without doing something first to get there. Like flight training in the U.S.. Every attempted terrorist attack in the past two years hasn't been by somebody that just decided to go on a plane and blow it up. There were flags before hand.
That's what they should do. Ream those who are coming in, it is a privilege to come to this country, make sure they'll appreciate it.
On another note, last summer while travelling back from California to southern texas, I connected on two flights, somehow I was (along with my sisters, who are under 18) "randomly" checked 3 times I was checked after simply switching planes. I never even left the terminal. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I can see how caucasian suburban minors are on the top of the U.S.'s hitlist.
I wish they'd stop doing everything ass backwards
What disturbs me is who monitors the systems?
;-)
If they do get cracked, couldn't it be by the leaving politicians request, at which the "changes" made by a cracker wouldn't be looked at, they could just let him on by.
A similar problem is with non-electronic means, somebody has to be trusted enough to get the votes from voters, counted, and registered. The system ain't perfect, but India, I believe is cutting out more temptations for folks to fiddle with results.
Anyways, they could use IPv6 to transfer results, I don't know a script kiddie that can even spell IPv6
Now, I understand the concept, but this sucker loads the OS into a RAM disk, meaning it eats a bit of RAM to begin with, then what if you're checking out lots of websites, I guess it stores the caches and cookies on a file server, or RAM disk. All on 256MB RAM?
This is a nifty idea, but only if you have a network file server, and can deal with all your HD-less boxen being offline, when you upgrade the NFS, or when it breaks down.
And then there's network traffic......
Television found to contain 25% less nudity, swearing, and pr0n than the internet.
More at 11.
Microsoft(tm)(c) has just sent a memo asking all Slashdot users to refer to them as Features and not bugs.
Thank you.
Yeah, they phased it out actually, two years ago, Ever since I can't find my damn red stapler.
also, for some reason they keep moving my office.
I'll just burn the place down
I pulled some quotes from the commercial, little text fade ins. here Movies. They're worth it
These people have obviously never seen a Hollywood movie
This is completely ridiculous, this guy is talking about how piracy affects him, but not big "multi-million dollar employees" like producers. But he seems to have left out that these producers make an insane amount of money, as is, and then these companies are making "anti-piracy" ads that cost $$$ to make and to air.
So, while we watched another stupid commercial, some guy like him gets fired, cause they can't pay the producer $xxx million, make commercials for $xx million, pamper stars for another $xxx million, and pay him his damn $12-20 an hour.