They can call it what they want, I still won't buy.
It's like why I won't buy Nike, because of the Vietnamese Sweatshops. I don't buy Windows because of the developers kept in dugeons by their evil Dungeon Master. Herr Gates.
" If battery-powered electric vehicles were adopted, the need to recharge them using electricity from conventional power stations would produce about as much carbon dioxide as the vehicles that they replace. Emissions of sulphur dioxide would also rise by up to 85%.
"
This doesn't occur if the power stations are Hydrogen, Wind, or Hydro-electric. Therefore cutting out the carbon monoxide (Dioxide is what we exhale doofus).
That and hugging and/or planting a tree helps
"Small sites have two huge advantages over big sites: there are many more of them and they are more specialized and thus more targeted."
Therefore making the smaller sites the bigger sites, while the smaller sites have advantages over the bigger sites which aren't more targeted, therefore becoming smaller sites, which then become targeted and, and and?
Am I the only one noticing the heat sinks on these dual Xeons? They are ridiculously massive, along with the cooling fans.
It's great to care about performance, and integer calculation, but sooner or later, people will get their power bills and start to think about power consumption
Like, is Johnny's new dual CPU massive game PC really that necessary???
This is what we need, lots of sketchy looking people running around aiming there cell-phones like they are real weapons, am I the only one seeing a problem with this.
"Put the money in the bag or get fragged Mr. Johnson!"
Just one great idea after the other.
In fact, this is probably from the same folks who make water pistols that look EXACTLY like real guns.
They're just trying to help the crappy economy out guys!
Look at it this way, if the "Department of Tee" has 50 employees, each with a computer, and a need for office software, that's 1 package of Windows XP Professional $143 and 1 package of Microsoft Office Professional $179. Multiply that by 50, and that's $7,150 for the OS, and $8950 for office software, together $16,100. But don't forget, they might need new computers to meet XP's software requirements
Meaning another $16K pumped into MS, and the world's economy.
Instead of MS branching out to put it's name in other areas of computing, such as search engines, and gaming consoles, etc, etc.
Maybe they should focus their resources on getting something right. For instance, instead of making "MSNbot" use those programmers, and those minds to improve Windows, or create a better server OS.
Spreading resources leaves a company weak and too spread out, I know this is most likely not going to happen with MS, but I can hope:-)
I am a huge FreeBSD advocate, and I use it all the time, and the only major things I have seen that may not have happened without Linux, were the great Xfree Window Managers, along with the software that uses the X Window system, GTK+, Netscape, QT, etc, etc. That and maybe the publicity.
Otherwise I'd say the *BSD community has been moving along fine, and wuold have with or without the existance of Linux or GNU. Look at applications such as MySQL, Apache, and clustering software. People have been using BSD since before the invention of Linux, somehow they survived without "ersatz hacks" (crazy german)
If a troll is killed by a falling tree in the forest, will anybody miss him?
This is great news for Windows users, but what about the Linux and MacOS X users?
I use Konquerer under redhat 8, and Safari under MacOS X.
Unfortunatly I am on a modem, so has anybody tested it yet against the rendering of Safari, and Konquerer?
I am a big fan of Mozilla, but not of it's speed, does this release improve it much? Will it be worth it to download the linux and MacOS X versions?
I think Apple's business plan is quite correct, protecting it's own interests is what everybody does.
For instance, how would you like it if I copied your thesis paper in college, and then sold it for $10 on eBay, a $50 difference than the $60 you were selling it on eBay for.
You'd be pissed, because, not only am I using your hard work, but taking away your business too.
Now do you really think good quality parts are just laying around at repair centers?
Great business strategy, buy broken, or unusable parts, build computer out of them, and sell to Joe Smoe who can't afford an Apple, so he'll buy an Apple?
He also wants all those meanies in Iraq to stop being so bad, and that Coyote finally catches Roadrunner (after which they talk their differences out like adults)
He also requests that we start an initiative to assist pigs in flight, along with one to use liquid nitrogen not only to make cool ice cream but to freeze hell as well.
Very very interesting. At first glance I would say you are talking about the old days of macintosh, with MacOS 8 and 9.
But that can't be true, I can't find the links, but over the years people have put up MacOS 8 Servers on the web to try to have somebody crack them, couldn't be done.
In fact, the U.S. Army switched it's web site(s) over to MacOS 8 Servers just for that purpose. (not sure if they still run them though)
They're so secure because of the lack of a command line interface. So you can't exactly telnet in.
But now onto MacOS X. You should do your reading on this one. MacOS X is based on FreeBSD (to a point), the same FreeBSD which runs many HIGH traffic web sites, Apache, Yahoo!, and (shameless plug) Tiger Site Development. I realize you're talking about the hardware, but come on, you're whining about how the FSB is too slow, and the motorola PPC, blah blah blah. You're missing the big picture, this server is in 1U That's dual CPUs, 4GB of RAM, up to 720GB of drive space, Gigabit ethernet, etc. In 1U! And don't forget Server Software included, finely tuned to the Server hardware.
If anyone wants to try to fit two Athlon MP's, or two Xeons in 1U, you can have fun frying eggs on that machine.
And since you are whining about the CPU being "too underpowered" it sounds like you're just looking at the Ghz. Ghz means something, but not everything, chip architecture is more important, that's why AMD, and Motorola's chips have a lower Ghz, they have better chip design, meaning they don'T have to jack up the frequencies (ahem Intel) to get performance.
Lots of people care, this is another victory for NetBSD and the BSD community.
Why?
My take on the NetBSD idea, is not why, but why not?
If you can run NetBSD on a dreamcast, or any other piece of equipement with a CPU, then you can have a simple firewalling router, or a file server. The possibilities aren't endless, but there's a lot.
"This innovation could change the face of the construction industry,"
By raising the price ridiculously.
The average brick costs about 5 cents, or $500 for every thousand.
I am guessing since, they slice, dice, and cook dinner too, the bricks should be about $99.95, or $99,950 for every thousand.
The thing is just like with Microsoft, and the standardizing of Document transfer.
Someone, needs to set standards. I am not happy saving AppleWorks documents in MS Word format, but that's the standard. If not, we'd be trying to trade Claris Works, Word Perfect, etc.
I don't like the fact that the US "controls" the internet, but if somebody doesn't set the standards, it won't be set.
This goes hand in hand with another nanotech announcement about a year back, where I beleive a group at MIT successfully created a transistor from a couple of atoms.
As we all (should) know, a processor is quite dependent on transistors, so if we can create atomic transistors, can you imagine how many of those little suckers can fit on a 1" square piece of silicon.
Even if this means waiting until 2020, it's worth it. Imagine fitting what today's super computers do, in a PDA.
That's where nanotech benifits many.
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I currently live in Germany, where it has become the latest cool thing to be wireless
Kids that have hardly hit puberty ask for Cell Phones with intergrated Digital Cameras, so they can send pictures to friends in the middle of class, or where ever.
Meanwhile their parents go into the T-Mobile store and check out the latest phone/wireless devices where they can check e-mail anywhere, or surf the web.
Anyways, who wants to be in the office reading e-mail, when they can be at a drunken soccer game reading e-mail.
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Why on earth would someone need a 1000+ node cluster?
NASA was able to launch a rocket using a low-cost 96-node red hat linux cluster, what else needs this much computing power
I imagine with the power requirements, and the fans' exhaust from 1000+ computers clustered together you might just be able to build a hovering super computer.
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They can call it what they want, I still won't buy.
It's like why I won't buy Nike, because of the Vietnamese Sweatshops. I don't buy Windows because of the developers kept in dugeons by their evil Dungeon Master. Herr Gates.
" If battery-powered electric vehicles were adopted, the need to recharge them using electricity from conventional power stations would produce about as much carbon dioxide as the vehicles that they replace. Emissions of sulphur dioxide would also rise by up to 85%. "
This doesn't occur if the power stations are Hydrogen, Wind, or Hydro-electric. Therefore cutting out the carbon monoxide (Dioxide is what we exhale doofus).
That and hugging and/or planting a tree helps
"Small sites have two huge advantages over big sites: there are many more of them and they are more specialized and thus more targeted."
Therefore making the smaller sites the bigger sites, while the smaller sites have advantages over the bigger sites which aren't more targeted, therefore becoming smaller sites, which then become targeted and, and and?
I need a drink
Am I the only one noticing the heat sinks on these dual Xeons? They are ridiculously massive, along with the cooling fans.
It's great to care about performance, and integer calculation, but sooner or later, people will get their power bills and start to think about power consumption
Like, is Johnny's new dual CPU massive game PC really that necessary???
This is what we need, lots of sketchy looking people running around aiming there cell-phones like they are real weapons, am I the only one seeing a problem with this.
"Put the money in the bag or get fragged Mr. Johnson!"
Just one great idea after the other.
In fact, this is probably from the same folks who make water pistols that look EXACTLY like real guns.
Somehow seeing this article right above the DNS story I immediately thought about IPv4 & IPv6
I was just about to blabber on about the Great Firewall of China, and this and that. Anyways, go india! China = bad
Nothing goes better together than Big Naturals and Politics
Maybe it's Mrs. Hatch?`eeeeeeyy.....
They're just trying to help the crappy economy out guys!
Look at it this way, if the "Department of Tee" has 50 employees, each with a computer, and a need for office software, that's 1 package of Windows XP Professional $143 and 1 package of Microsoft Office Professional $179. Multiply that by 50, and that's $7,150 for the OS, and $8950 for office software, together $16,100. But don't forget, they might need new computers to meet XP's software requirements
Meaning another $16K pumped into MS, and the world's economy.
They're just trying to help, really.
Instead of MS branching out to put it's name in other areas of computing, such as search engines, and gaming consoles, etc, etc.
:-)
Maybe they should focus their resources on getting something right. For instance, instead of making "MSNbot" use those programmers, and those minds to improve Windows, or create a better server OS.
Spreading resources leaves a company weak and too spread out, I know this is most likely not going to happen with MS, but I can hope
I am not comfortable knowing that the Cyber Sex I had two years ago with GlitzyGirl44 on the job can come back and haunt me.
I guess this means I need more Caffeine Pills to put in my coffee now, how am I ever going to get work done without my Caffeinated Coffee?
I guess i'll have to give heroin a try, I hear it works better anyways.
Because your eyes are closed.
If a troll falls on pointy rocks in the forest, will anybody miss him?
I am a huge FreeBSD advocate, and I use it all the time, and the only major things I have seen that may not have happened without Linux, were the great Xfree Window Managers, along with the software that uses the X Window system, GTK+, Netscape, QT, etc, etc. That and maybe the publicity.
Otherwise I'd say the *BSD community has been moving along fine, and wuold have with or without the existance of Linux or GNU. Look at applications such as MySQL, Apache, and clustering software. People have been using BSD since before the invention of Linux, somehow they survived without "ersatz hacks" (crazy german) If a troll is killed by a falling tree in the forest, will anybody miss him?
This is great news for Windows users, but what about the Linux and MacOS X users?
I use Konquerer under redhat 8, and Safari under MacOS X.
Unfortunatly I am on a modem, so has anybody tested it yet against the rendering of Safari, and Konquerer? I am a big fan of Mozilla, but not of it's speed, does this release improve it much? Will it be worth it to download the linux and MacOS X versions?
Apple Customers != iBox customers
I think Apple's business plan is quite correct, protecting it's own interests is what everybody does.
For instance, how would you like it if I copied your thesis paper in college, and then sold it for $10 on eBay, a $50 difference than the $60 you were selling it on eBay for.
You'd be pissed, because, not only am I using your hard work, but taking away your business too.
Now do you really think good quality parts are just laying around at repair centers?
Great business strategy, buy broken, or unusable parts, build computer out of them, and sell to Joe Smoe who can't afford an Apple, so he'll buy an Apple?
He also wants all those meanies in Iraq to stop being so bad, and that Coyote finally catches Roadrunner (after which they talk their differences out like adults)
He also requests that we start an initiative to assist pigs in flight, along with one to use liquid nitrogen not only to make cool ice cream but to freeze hell as well.
Very very interesting. At first glance I would say you are talking about the old days of macintosh, with MacOS 8 and 9.
But that can't be true, I can't find the links, but over the years people have put up MacOS 8 Servers on the web to try to have somebody crack them, couldn't be done.
In fact, the U.S. Army switched it's web site(s) over to MacOS 8 Servers just for that purpose. (not sure if they still run them though)
They're so secure because of the lack of a command line interface. So you can't exactly telnet in.
But now onto MacOS X. You should do your reading on this one. MacOS X is based on FreeBSD (to a point), the same FreeBSD which runs many HIGH traffic web sites, Apache, Yahoo!, and (shameless plug) Tiger Site Development. I realize you're talking about the hardware, but come on, you're whining about how the FSB is too slow, and the motorola PPC, blah blah blah. You're missing the big picture, this server is in 1U That's dual CPUs, 4GB of RAM, up to 720GB of drive space, Gigabit ethernet, etc. In 1U! And don't forget Server Software included, finely tuned to the Server hardware.
If anyone wants to try to fit two Athlon MP's, or two Xeons in 1U, you can have fun frying eggs on that machine.
And since you are whining about the CPU being "too underpowered" it sounds like you're just looking at the Ghz. Ghz means something, but not everything, chip architecture is more important, that's why AMD, and Motorola's chips have a lower Ghz, they have better chip design, meaning they don'T have to jack up the frequencies (ahem Intel) to get performance.
I would say you're an obvious Windows Turd.
Lots of people care, this is another victory for NetBSD and the BSD community.
Why?
My take on the NetBSD idea, is not why, but why not?
If you can run NetBSD on a dreamcast, or any other piece of equipement with a CPU, then you can have a simple firewalling router, or a file server. The possibilities aren't endless, but there's a lot.
I just cheat, and recompile my linux or *bsd kernel, and then call it a day.
That's a lot easier than actually...coding
"This innovation could change the face of the construction industry,"
By raising the price ridiculously.
The average brick costs about 5 cents, or $500 for every thousand.
I am guessing since, they slice, dice, and cook dinner too, the bricks should be about $99.95, or $99,950 for every thousand.
but...does it run linux?
The thing is just like with Microsoft, and the standardizing of Document transfer.
Someone, needs to set standards. I am not happy saving AppleWorks documents in MS Word format, but that's the standard. If not, we'd be trying to trade Claris Works, Word Perfect, etc.
I don't like the fact that the US "controls" the internet, but if somebody doesn't set the standards, it won't be set.
This goes hand in hand with another nanotech announcement about a year back, where I beleive a group at MIT successfully created a transistor from a couple of atoms.
As we all (should) know, a processor is quite dependent on transistors, so if we can create atomic transistors, can you imagine how many of those little suckers can fit on a 1" square piece of silicon.
Even if this means waiting until 2020, it's worth it. Imagine fitting what today's super computers do, in a PDA.
That's where nanotech benifits many.
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"Wireless email is a rather small niche"
I currently live in Germany, where it has become the latest cool thing to be wireless
Kids that have hardly hit puberty ask for Cell Phones with intergrated Digital Cameras, so they can send pictures to friends in the middle of class, or where ever.
Meanwhile their parents go into the T-Mobile store and check out the latest phone/wireless devices where they can check e-mail anywhere, or surf the web.
Anyways, who wants to be in the office reading e-mail, when they can be at a drunken soccer game reading e-mail.
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Why on earth would someone need a 1000+ node cluster?
NASA was able to launch a rocket using a low-cost 96-node red hat linux cluster, what else needs this much computing power
I imagine with the power requirements, and the fans' exhaust from 1000+ computers clustered together you might just be able to build a hovering super computer.
and yes, it does run linux
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