First it was going to be AIDS, then it was SARS, cancer is slowly being beaten...
Maybe a nice new healthy TB strain will be the new plague to rid ourselves of some of the population.
How long has it been, at least 400-600 years since a nice big population dwindling event has occurred...
My daily commute isn't getting any shorter, oil seems to be running out... air is getting more and more polluted... time for the G-O-D to clean the house out a little...
I have a Windows 2000 Server and a Windows 2000 Professional machine that I swear to GOD I NEVER have to reboot, unless I'm installing some piece of hardware/software that requires it.
I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight, I was amazed at the totals in the "process run-time" in Task Manager.
Windows works great, for people who know how to use them. (Same can be said for Linux, Mac, etc).
Doesn't seem like a source I'd get it from. I'm more of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reader. Although I may be able to recall my Computer Science teacher back at UMASS Lowell 10 years ago having it in his.sig...
Actually, it's still just the walls being the only difference. The big flat thing is still rushing towards you at ~140 mph, but you can't see it. (Thank you, walls!)
"I think Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal from ourselves will prove to be very interesting," he continued, "and I think really has the potential to bring in a different kind of user that is perhaps conventionally viewed as beyond the console gamer."
What a great quote. And, I had no idea R&C was coming out with a new game. I wait with bated breath. This may get me to buy a network adapter, but certainly Gran Turismo 4 will make me plunk down my cash for a network adapter to play online...
When there is something majorly wrong with a car, they perform recalls. Microsoft performs patches, same idea.
And we don't expect car manufacturers to make our old cars safer and new... I have an old beater that doesn't have air bags, or even seatbelts. No crumple zones. It's got a straight shaft steering column that will pierce my chest and probably kill me if I ever crash that car.
So I don't drive 100mph like an idiot and practice safe driving.
Because there are so many idiotic computer users now, we expect the manufacturer of the OS to make them all safe and happy out there on the world wide web.
So, we should soon expect carmakers to put breathalyzers on all ignition systems, put biometrics on the steering wheel/shift sticks to make sure the right driver is operating the vehicle. And all cars will be linked up to GPS (already happening)... and some sort of inter-car networking/radar should be developed so crashes never occur anymore...
In computing, the OS can have near infinite control of all the computer's resources, including all of its outgoing connections/etc, while a car only has control of itself.
You make some good points, but I don't like this one. The OS cannot possibly control everything the user does. That would be considered AI, n'est-ce pas? I don't use Linux much, so I can't be sure, but I'd bet $1 that someone here could send me an executable to my Linux machine's mailbox, and I could run that program, and it could wreak havoc/delete all my data/impregnate my pet dog.
From my post, B is the logical continuation of A, and yes "B" is my opinion. You can't prove me wrong, either, due to Windows owning 80% (statistic made up on the spot) of the desktop market share. When someone else owns the computer market like that, only then will we see the true 'security' of other O/S's.
Aha! That took about 4 minutes... typical knee-jerk SlashDot moderator response to mark a well thought out comparison of Microsoft's product as FLAMEBAIT because it doesn't 'go with the flow' of the OSS typical community found here.
I don't agree with you, so that makes me wrong/flamebait.
Everyone bashes Microsoft because of their fallible software.
Let's think about this for a moment: ALL SOFTWARE IS INSECURE. Microsoft is just the biggest player, so they are targeted the most often. There have been 'proof-of-concept' viruses written for Linux, Macintosh, even cellphones via BlueTooth.
Compare Microsoft to automobile makers. When they started, they were unsafe. So they added a 'fix' like seatbelts. Then they added crumple zones, an enhancement to make them safe. Airbags, side impact curtains, rear-sensors for backing up, and so on, and so on.
If the stupid driver of the car wants to get drunk and drive backwards 100mph down the freeway with no lights on, do we blame the automobile manufacturer?
No... so, maybe we should just START to take a little blame for windows security problems. Stop running that cute screensaver your Aunt Matilda sent you. Don't go to webpages that advertise 'warez' and 'free 3leet mp3z!'
Microsoft is partly to blame, but they're the biggest fish in the sea. Every 'fisherman' is out to get them. When Linux or Mac or Mozilla or whatever becomes the primary player, they will be found out to have just as many liabilities in the security department, I'm sure... They may get fixed quicker because of the relative smallness and open source attributes, but the bugs are there. Just no one is looking/caring too much. Yet.
(I fully expect to be modded down a bajillion points for making a case for Microsoft here. Go ahead, then)
Can I run Doom 3 on it in maximum resolution mode?
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True, but with only 7 Cat 5 Hurricanes in the past 50 years or so (and not all in Florida), and the actual definition of a CAT 5 hurricane is total destruction, with very few structures (if any) being able to withstand the full-force onslaught of a CAT 5 hurricane, I'd certainly live in this SpaceHouse... my Florida home is concrete top to bottom, and only rated to withstand a Category 3-4 hurricane.
History of Cat 5 hurricanes:
Hurricane Carla: This hurricane hit on September 10, 1961. It struck the Texas coast. About 500,000 people were evacuated from the area. Winds near the center of the hurricane were estimated at 150 miles per hour. Damage was about $2 billion (adjusted to 1990 dollars) and 46 people died.
Hurricane Betsy: This hurricane hit on September 8, 1965. It hit Florida first and then turned and hit the Louisiana coast. A total of 75 people lost their lives. The hurricane had winds as high as 160 miles per hour. In 1990 dollars, Betsy caused $6.5 billion of damage -- making it the third most costly hurricane in the U.S.
Hurricane Camille: This hurricane began on August 17, 1969. It was a Category 5 hurricane -- the most powerful rating, with winds as high as 200 miles per hour. The hurricane hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, but also caused flooding in Virginia. About 250 people died because of the hurricane and the flooding. It was the fifth most costly disaster in U.S. history, with damage of $5.2 billion (in 1990 dollars).
Hurricane Celia: This hurricane hit Texas on August 3, 1970 and caused $1.6 billion in damage (in 1990 dollars). Very high winds damaged an airport and demolished a nearby mobile home park, fortunately, only 11 people died.
Hurricane Gilbert: This hurricane hit on September 16, 1988. It was a Category 5 hurricane with winds as high as 160 miles per hour. It went through Jamaica, over the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and came to the U.S. (Texas and Oklahoma) as a heavy rain storm. Damage in Mexico was many billions of dollars, and 318 people died.
Hurricane Andrew: This hurricane hit on August 24, 1992 in southern Florida. It then turned and hit Louisiana. More than a million people had to leave the area due to the storm. Heavy rains and tornadoes were part of the hurricane's destructive power. Andrew was the most expensive hurricane in the history of the U.S.
Hurricane Floyd: This hurricane, which struck in September 1999, brought so much rain that 13 states were issued federal disaster declarations -- more declarations for a single event than ever before. More than $500 million of federal money was spent on helping states recover. North Carolina was hit the hardest of any state.
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Granted, Hurricane Charley would've given this SpaceHouse a run for it's 'structural money' if this was in the path of that particular hurricane. 220km/h roughly 137.5mph, and Charley had windspeeds of 145mph, I believe.
I wonder if this house flies through the air like a frisbee at those speeds. (It doesn't seem likely that it would be torn apart like normal houses are, it's too aerodynamic).
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RTFA -
SpaceHouse can withstand vibrations from earthquakes of up to 7 on the Richter scale, wind speeds of up to 220 km/h and up to 3 metres of flooding
Should handle a nice combination of the worst weather of Florida, L.A., and New Orleans.
Flamebait, sure, fine, whatever. It's a true story, and I've got more to back them up as well. I'm also part of a class action lawsuit against HP/Fujitsu for this whole harddrive fiasco.
I f'in hate moderators. (Aren't you supposed to be paying more attention to modding things UP, not DOWN!?!?)
I can't even BEGIN to explain how BAD HP customer support is. Sometimes you will start off with an American support agent, and as they pass you off to 'technical' people I always end up getting switched to some Indian guy in Bangalore. I don't know why, but I can NEVER understand these guys/gals. I work with people all over the world, Latin American, European, Asian, and I can understand their accents. But never Indian accents. Now when something goes wrong with an HP product I always debate voiding my warranty and fixing it myself rather than going through the hassle of calling their 'hell desk'.
Some problems I've had: Hard drive failure, HP Printer failure, Boot failure (required reinstall). On average, it takes me 4-5 phone calls with various people to get my case resolved. They never call you back, when they say they will. Their managers don't seem to care either. I can't understand how any business in the U.S. thinks this is good support.
I would like to condemn any CEO/CIO who supports Indian outsourcing of IT help desk operations to having to use it for themselves, personally, every time they have a question/issue/problem with their PC. I bet $5 they wise up and stop using outsourcing overseas.
Of course, that will never happen because the CEO/CIO always has their 'IT geek' in their pocket, who they can call at any time and they will personally show up and fix anything/everything that happens.
I guess this outsourcing of the help desk to other countries (mainly India) is just another way to 'screw the middle class'. Can't get your problem resolved? Are you 16 hours out of warranty? Buy a new PC/HardDrive/Printer... because the help desk won't help you.
As a new father, they do this in the U.S. as well. By law, I'm guaranteed up to 12 weeks (pretty sure, I may be off by a couple weeks) Paternity leave when my child is born.
Few dare to take it though... men (at least the ones in my life that I know) start to lose their minds a little bit when they're not working. Retirement kills men in my family.
OR use iTunes. As a non-mac user and all-around Macintosh-detester, iTunes is pretty damned slick.
No issues with it so far, and it handles my 2000+ MP3 database with ease. (Last time I used WinAmp... in the great words of Jon Stewart... eh, not so great-- very choppy).
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First it was going to be AIDS, then it was SARS, cancer is slowly being beaten...
Maybe a nice new healthy TB strain will be the new plague to rid ourselves of some of the population.
How long has it been, at least 400-600 years since a nice big population dwindling event has occurred...
My daily commute isn't getting any shorter, oil seems to be running out... air is getting more and more polluted... time for the G-O-D to clean the house out a little...
(and if it's my time to go, I'm fine with that)
I have a Windows 2000 Server and a Windows 2000 Professional machine that I swear to GOD I NEVER have to reboot, unless I'm installing some piece of hardware/software that requires it.
I think at one point I had the server up for ~180 days straight, I was amazed at the totals in the "process run-time" in Task Manager.
Windows works great, for people who know how to use them. (Same can be said for Linux, Mac, etc).
Ane then it will be replaced with an even larger piece of illogical rubbish.
Some say this has already happened.
Doesn't seem like a source I'd get it from. I'm more of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reader. Although I may be able to recall my Computer Science teacher back at UMASS Lowell 10 years ago having it in his .sig ...
This still has no effect on my offline music/gaming/movie sharing ...
http://www.mediachest.com./
It's free, it's simple, and you get to meet new people in your area with your same interests.
Gravity sucks.
- I forget who said it/wrote it.
Actually, it's still just the walls being the only difference. The big flat thing is still rushing towards you at ~140 mph, but you can't see it. (Thank you, walls!)
Try 'enjoy mud' outside of your house when Prosser tries to knock your house down.
Hilarious.
"I think Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal from ourselves will prove to be very interesting," he continued, "and I think really has the potential to bring in a different kind of user that is perhaps conventionally viewed as beyond the console gamer."
What a great quote. And, I had no idea R&C was coming out with a new game. I wait with bated breath. This may get me to buy a network adapter, but certainly Gran Turismo 4 will make me plunk down my cash for a network adapter to play online...
I'm so sick of that statistic. Apache runs 67% of CRAP public websites.
Windows IIS runs the majority (90%+, I believe) of Fortune 500 companies' websites.
Yet another great point to prove my case...
When there is something majorly wrong with a car, they perform recalls. Microsoft performs patches, same idea.
And we don't expect car manufacturers to make our old cars safer and new... I have an old beater that doesn't have air bags, or even seatbelts. No crumple zones. It's got a straight shaft steering column that will pierce my chest and probably kill me if I ever crash that car.
So I don't drive 100mph like an idiot and practice safe driving.
Because there are so many idiotic computer users now, we expect the manufacturer of the OS to make them all safe and happy out there on the world wide web.
So, we should soon expect carmakers to put breathalyzers on all ignition systems, put biometrics on the steering wheel/shift sticks to make sure the right driver is operating the vehicle. And all cars will be linked up to GPS (already happening)... and some sort of inter-car networking/radar should be developed so crashes never occur anymore...
I like analogies. Here's another one:
I have one house (Microsoft-built) in a heavily populated crime-ridden area of a big city.
I have another home (Linux-built) in the middle of nowhere with no known criminal activity.
Which house is going to get broken into first? Which one will be ATTEMPTED to be broken into more often?
When Linux becomes the standard, and is in almost everyone's home, it's a fact of computing life that there will be more malware written for it.
In computing, the OS can have near infinite control of all the computer's resources, including all of its outgoing connections/etc, while a car only has control of itself.
You make some good points, but I don't like this one. The OS cannot possibly control everything the user does. That would be considered AI, n'est-ce pas? I don't use Linux much, so I can't be sure, but I'd bet $1 that someone here could send me an executable to my Linux machine's mailbox, and I could run that program, and it could wreak havoc/delete all my data/impregnate my pet dog.
From my post, B is the logical continuation of A, and yes "B" is my opinion. You can't prove me wrong, either, due to Windows owning 80% (statistic made up on the spot) of the desktop market share. When someone else owns the computer market like that, only then will we see the true 'security' of other O/S's.
Aha! That took about 4 minutes... typical knee-jerk SlashDot moderator response to mark a well thought out comparison of Microsoft's product as FLAMEBAIT because it doesn't 'go with the flow' of the OSS typical community found here.
I don't agree with you, so that makes me wrong/flamebait.
Putz.
(BTW: THIS post IS flamebait)
Everyone bashes Microsoft because of their fallible software.
Let's think about this for a moment: ALL SOFTWARE IS INSECURE. Microsoft is just the biggest player, so they are targeted the most often. There have been 'proof-of-concept' viruses written for Linux, Macintosh, even cellphones via BlueTooth.
Compare Microsoft to automobile makers. When they started, they were unsafe. So they added a 'fix' like seatbelts. Then they added crumple zones, an enhancement to make them safe. Airbags, side impact curtains, rear-sensors for backing up, and so on, and so on.
If the stupid driver of the car wants to get drunk and drive backwards 100mph down the freeway with no lights on, do we blame the automobile manufacturer?
No... so, maybe we should just START to take a little blame for windows security problems. Stop running that cute screensaver your Aunt Matilda sent you. Don't go to webpages that advertise 'warez' and 'free 3leet mp3z!'
Microsoft is partly to blame, but they're the biggest fish in the sea. Every 'fisherman' is out to get them. When Linux or Mac or Mozilla or whatever becomes the primary player, they will be found out to have just as many liabilities in the security department, I'm sure... They may get fixed quicker because of the relative smallness and open source attributes, but the bugs are there. Just no one is looking/caring too much. Yet.
(I fully expect to be modded down a bajillion points for making a case for Microsoft here. Go ahead, then)
Hey, you.. get back here...
Some people can't afford to have gas/electric heat and a PC in their home.
Intel is hoping to win the home heating business, is all.
Can I run Doom 3 on it in maximum resolution mode?
True, but with only 7 Cat 5 Hurricanes in the past 50 years or so (and not all in Florida), and the actual definition of a CAT 5 hurricane is total destruction, with very few structures (if any) being able to withstand the full-force onslaught of a CAT 5 hurricane, I'd certainly live in this SpaceHouse... my Florida home is concrete top to bottom, and only rated to withstand a Category 3-4 hurricane.
History of Cat 5 hurricanes:
Hurricane Carla: This hurricane hit on September 10, 1961. It struck the Texas coast. About 500,000 people were evacuated from the area. Winds near the center of the hurricane were estimated at 150 miles per hour. Damage was about $2 billion (adjusted to 1990 dollars) and 46 people died.
Hurricane Betsy: This hurricane hit on September 8, 1965. It hit Florida first and then turned and hit the Louisiana coast. A total of 75 people lost their lives. The hurricane had winds as high as 160 miles per hour. In 1990 dollars, Betsy caused $6.5 billion of damage -- making it the third most costly hurricane in the U.S.
Hurricane Camille: This hurricane began on August 17, 1969. It was a Category 5 hurricane -- the most powerful rating, with winds as high as 200 miles per hour. The hurricane hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, but also caused flooding in Virginia. About 250 people died because of the hurricane and the flooding. It was the fifth most costly disaster in U.S. history, with damage of $5.2 billion (in 1990 dollars).
Hurricane Celia: This hurricane hit Texas on August 3, 1970 and caused $1.6 billion in damage (in 1990 dollars). Very high winds damaged an airport and demolished a nearby mobile home park, fortunately, only 11 people died.
Hurricane Gilbert: This hurricane hit on September 16, 1988. It was a Category 5 hurricane with winds as high as 160 miles per hour. It went through Jamaica, over the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and came to the U.S. (Texas and Oklahoma) as a heavy rain storm. Damage in Mexico was many billions of dollars, and 318 people died.
Hurricane Andrew: This hurricane hit on August 24, 1992 in southern Florida. It then turned and hit Louisiana. More than a million people had to leave the area due to the storm. Heavy rains and tornadoes were part of the hurricane's destructive power. Andrew was the most expensive hurricane in the history of the U.S.
Hurricane Floyd: This hurricane, which struck in September 1999, brought so much rain that 13 states were issued federal disaster declarations -- more declarations for a single event than ever before. More than $500 million of federal money was spent on helping states recover. North Carolina was hit the hardest of any state.
Granted, Hurricane Charley would've given this SpaceHouse a run for it's 'structural money' if this was in the path of that particular hurricane. 220km/h roughly 137.5mph, and Charley had windspeeds of 145mph, I believe.
I wonder if this house flies through the air like a frisbee at those speeds. (It doesn't seem likely that it would be torn apart like normal houses are, it's too aerodynamic).
RTFA - SpaceHouse can withstand vibrations from earthquakes of up to 7 on the Richter scale, wind speeds of up to 220 km/h and up to 3 metres of flooding
Should handle a nice combination of the worst weather of Florida, L.A., and New Orleans.
Flamebait, sure, fine, whatever. It's a true story, and I've got more to back them up as well. I'm also part of a class action lawsuit against HP/Fujitsu for this whole harddrive fiasco.
I f'in hate moderators. (Aren't you supposed to be paying more attention to modding things UP, not DOWN!?!?)
I can't even BEGIN to explain how BAD HP customer support is. Sometimes you will start off with an American support agent, and as they pass you off to 'technical' people I always end up getting switched to some Indian guy in Bangalore. I don't know why, but I can NEVER understand these guys/gals. I work with people all over the world, Latin American, European, Asian, and I can understand their accents. But never Indian accents. Now when something goes wrong with an HP product I always debate voiding my warranty and fixing it myself rather than going through the hassle of calling their 'hell desk'.
Some problems I've had: Hard drive failure, HP Printer failure, Boot failure (required reinstall). On average, it takes me 4-5 phone calls with various people to get my case resolved. They never call you back, when they say they will. Their managers don't seem to care either. I can't understand how any business in the U.S. thinks this is good support.
I would like to condemn any CEO/CIO who supports Indian outsourcing of IT help desk operations to having to use it for themselves, personally, every time they have a question/issue/problem with their PC. I bet $5 they wise up and stop using outsourcing overseas.
Of course, that will never happen because the CEO/CIO always has their 'IT geek' in their pocket, who they can call at any time and they will personally show up and fix anything/everything that happens.
I guess this outsourcing of the help desk to other countries (mainly India) is just another way to 'screw the middle class'. Can't get your problem resolved? Are you 16 hours out of warranty? Buy a new PC/HardDrive/Printer... because the help desk won't help you.
As a new father, they do this in the U.S. as well. By law, I'm guaranteed up to 12 weeks (pretty sure, I may be off by a couple weeks) Paternity leave when my child is born.
Few dare to take it though... men (at least the ones in my life that I know) start to lose their minds a little bit when they're not working. Retirement kills men in my family.
OR use iTunes. As a non-mac user and all-around Macintosh-detester, iTunes is pretty damned slick.
No issues with it so far, and it handles my 2000+ MP3 database with ease. (Last time I used WinAmp... in the great words of Jon Stewart... eh, not so great-- very choppy).