Space tourism will be a huge business. Just from discussing it with customers of mine (who pay $150,000 for a week in Vegas for 2 people, what's $150,000 to hit space?), I bet there are at least 100,000 people in the world who would pay $50,000 to travel.
What we need to do is take the money from these people that have so much of it to frivilously throw away and redirect it to more worthy causes like educating our children or feeding the hungry.
It runs Ubuntu 5.10 without an X environmeny, and has a single 300GB hard drive that I fully intend to beef up with an identical drive in RAID-1 at a later point in time (I have a RAID controller, but the motherboard is too old to support it, and I lack funds anyways).
Better yet, put another 300GB drive in it and DON'T use RAID. Just setup a cron job every 6-12 hours or so that runs rdiff-backup against your source drive and backs it up to the spare 300GB drive. You'll have the benefit of version control and an identical copy of your source drive's data all online at the same time. Why is that important? Ever done rm -rf/archive accidently? Probably not, but it only takes once and voila.. your 300GB RAID-1 setup is toast and you're looking for file recovery software. If you really need more granular backup than that then setup special directories that get backed up every 10 minutes or something and put important stuff there. Everything else can be backed up once a day.
Either way, that's a pretty darn good schedule for *any* piece of software - completely up to date with totally new hardware within 2 or so months.
I can't imagine it's that hard to recompile a native x86 version of Firefox on MacOS X. The same code base they use for PPC will probably compile without any changes if you just try. That was kind of Apple's point of this switch wasn't it?
It has already been said, there is nothing stopping you to run Windows OS on Intel macs.
Where did you find that? Can you point out positive proof of Windows XP Pro booting up on a MacBook or Intel iMac? Frankly I don't want to dual-boot between Windows and MacOS X anyway, I want Windows to run at near-full-speed inside VirtualPC under MacOS X so I can play games and such.
It wouldn't have been too bad except he wasn't a very good programmer and we had to spend a lot of time cleaning up his mistakes.
Programmers seem to be about the only job telecommuting works for. System administrators can never telecommute or be farther than a half hour away from their servers even when on vacation unless they have a backup in place.. you NEVER know when a machine is going to croak and when it does you have a bunch of whiny ass programmers from Hawaii or India phoning you up and bitching that they can't upload their changes. Bah.
I didn't say I wanted all integrated phones eliminated, just that they don't interest me. Go back and read the original parent to my post. He was asking which I would prefer, a phone or a phone with an iPod in it. All I said was I want a good solid phone that makes clear voice calls and has a long battery life. You guys need to stop reading into someone's opinion as being a troll post and lighten up a little. Save your fury for the GNAA retards.
A week of programming could use the KOffice Calc part with Openoffice's file input filters. I'll bet that whenever Apple's agenda gets to building a spreadsheet, that's going to be their strategy.
Unlikely since they'd have to release it under the GPL.
I love when trolls call other people trolls. Congrats. You win the prize!
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Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in?
I want a phone that has crystal clear voice and never drops a call and has an 8 hour talk time and a 2 week standby time. I don't want it to have a camera, web browsing, a PDA, mp3 player, or any other garbage and I want it to be as small as possible while still being sturdy. For mp3 playing I'll use my iPod.
Let me just start off by saying that I'm relieved that my 6 month old Powerbook G4 is now the base for their benchmarks for the "4x faster" MacBook Pro. The funniest thing is that I finally broke down and bought it 3 weeks before they announced a complete switch to Intel chips because I was getting sick of the slow 800MHz G3 iBook I was using. Hahahaha. I wonder how much my $2500 Powerbook G4 is worth in trade-in value towards a MacBook Pro... $2000? $1500? It's only 6 months new! *sob*
They don't have laws such as the DMCA making it a crime to sell region free players, you ca walk into Tescos (a supermarket chain) and buy a region free DVD player with your milk and other groceries.
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed. I can understand them using CSS to encrypt the DVDs to prevent copying since that directly eats into their profits, but why should they care where you watch the DVD? If I want to buy anime directly from Japan why should I need a region-free DVD player to view it? Same goes for people in Europe buying the "American" version of a movie. Has region-locking ever been held up in court in the USA anyway? What law would they use to support it? It's not copy protection so the DMCA doesn't apply.
This wouldn't even be an issue unless everyone in the US accepted the thought of phones as something the carrier provides.
Even if you didn't have to buy a new phone when switching carriers they'd still probably cripple it with their own software version as soon as you connect to their network whether you want it or not. If it isn't an automatic upload then they'll simply say you can't use that phone on the network until you take it in and have the firmware updated to an authorized version to prevent "hacking" or some other nonsense argument. In the end we all know it's really about profit more than anything.
So to save money I need to buy a new car and move to a new house closer to work? That's a fantastic idea.. I should break even on fuel savings sometime in 2068.
Since DVDs look absolutely fantastic on my 110" projection screen I don't see how they're going to make much improvement. DVD quality is head and shoulders above broadcast quality analog TV that HDTV is replacing so I'm not sure where the market is for HD-DVD since it's only a minor bump in quality.
As it says in the article, some people in the corporate world won't do it if the patch didn't come from MS. It's sad, really. If I had an exploitable machine around, I would trust their patch.
But you're probably coming at it from a different mindset. If you're used to open source software you probably regularly trust patches from people who you otherwise wouldn't know simply because they released the patch as open source. You probably figure SOMEONE out there must know how to read the thing to determine if it's malicious and would throw up a red flag if they found something.
With Windows users they're not used to that level of trust, even when it involves a patch that includes source code. How many Windows desktops do you know of that have Visual Studio on them to compile this patch from scratch to verify the binary version isn't malicious? Coming from a UNIX world, not having a compiler on your system just seems weird, but Windows users are trained to trust in their binary patches and cross their fingers.
IE5.5mac is not a compatible browser solution, most of the time.
I didn't say I use IE 5.x on a Mac.. it doesn't work with my company's apps either. I'm just saying that a true IE-compatible browser would be incredibly useful on alternative platforms. Unfortunately that requires implementing ActiveX and is a security nightmare. I guess the rest of us will just stick to running IE in Virtual PC or VMWare to get to corporate apps or use a Terminal Server.
I prefer to just NOT use IE-only sites. If some business is so stupid as to allow their site to be IE-only, then they are too stupid to deserve my money/time.
That's easy enough for you to say, but some of us are required to use IE-only sites to do our jobs. I can't even fill out my timesheet without loading an IE-only site and our help desk system (Remedy) requires IE on Windows the way they have it setup. Yes, my company has drank the MS Kool-Aid and is 100% devoted to Microsoft only solutions, but there are still many of us out here using Macs and Linux that would love a compatible browser solution.
And that happened around 600 years ago... before the invention of the automobile or factories or evil clearcutting companies. I don't understand why people find it so hard to believe that the changes occuring on our planet are out of our control and will happen whether we existed here or not. Humanity has only existed here a fraction of that time (roughly 6000 years according to my Bible, yuck yuck yuck) and the earth is billions of years old and has changed temperatures thousands of times.
Ohio taxes this very seriously too. If I buy something at 6.5% sales tax in one county and bring it back to my home county where the tax is 7% I'm expected to report that 0.5% as Use Tax on my Ohio State tax return. Amazingly this situation has NEVER happened to me. *cough*.
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What we need to do is take the money from these people that have so much of it to frivilously throw away and redirect it to more worthy causes like educating our children or feeding the hungry.
Better yet, put another 300GB drive in it and DON'T use RAID. Just setup a cron job every 6-12 hours or so that runs rdiff-backup against your source drive and backs it up to the spare 300GB drive. You'll have the benefit of version control and an identical copy of your source drive's data all online at the same time. Why is that important? Ever done rm -rf /archive accidently? Probably not, but it only takes once and voila.. your 300GB RAID-1 setup is toast and you're looking for file recovery software. If you really need more granular backup than that then setup special directories that get backed up every 10 minutes or something and put important stuff there. Everything else can be backed up once a day.
I can't imagine it's that hard to recompile a native x86 version of Firefox on MacOS X. The same code base they use for PPC will probably compile without any changes if you just try. That was kind of Apple's point of this switch wasn't it?
This isn't a vulnerability, it's just how all network interfaces work on Windows. If you're really that paranoid then just disable the interface.
Where did you find that? Can you point out positive proof of Windows XP Pro booting up on a MacBook or Intel iMac? Frankly I don't want to dual-boot between Windows and MacOS X anyway, I want Windows to run at near-full-speed inside VirtualPC under MacOS X so I can play games and such.
Programmers seem to be about the only job telecommuting works for. System administrators can never telecommute or be farther than a half hour away from their servers even when on vacation unless they have a backup in place.. you NEVER know when a machine is going to croak and when it does you have a bunch of whiny ass programmers from Hawaii or India phoning you up and bitching that they can't upload their changes. Bah.
I didn't say I wanted all integrated phones eliminated, just that they don't interest me. Go back and read the original parent to my post. He was asking which I would prefer, a phone or a phone with an iPod in it. All I said was I want a good solid phone that makes clear voice calls and has a long battery life. You guys need to stop reading into someone's opinion as being a troll post and lighten up a little. Save your fury for the GNAA retards.
Unlikely since they'd have to release it under the GPL.
I love when trolls call other people trolls. Congrats. You win the prize!
I want a phone that has crystal clear voice and never drops a call and has an 8 hour talk time and a 2 week standby time. I don't want it to have a camera, web browsing, a PDA, mp3 player, or any other garbage and I want it to be as small as possible while still being sturdy. For mp3 playing I'll use my iPod.
Let me just start off by saying that I'm relieved that my 6 month old Powerbook G4 is now the base for their benchmarks for the "4x faster" MacBook Pro. The funniest thing is that I finally broke down and bought it 3 weeks before they announced a complete switch to Intel chips because I was getting sick of the slow 800MHz G3 iBook I was using. Hahahaha. I wonder how much my $2500 Powerbook G4 is worth in trade-in value towards a MacBook Pro... $2000? $1500? It's only 6 months new! *sob*
Smells like ODIN.
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed. I can understand them using CSS to encrypt the DVDs to prevent copying since that directly eats into their profits, but why should they care where you watch the DVD? If I want to buy anime directly from Japan why should I need a region-free DVD player to view it? Same goes for people in Europe buying the "American" version of a movie. Has region-locking ever been held up in court in the USA anyway? What law would they use to support it? It's not copy protection so the DMCA doesn't apply.
Even if you didn't have to buy a new phone when switching carriers they'd still probably cripple it with their own software version as soon as you connect to their network whether you want it or not. If it isn't an automatic upload then they'll simply say you can't use that phone on the network until you take it in and have the firmware updated to an authorized version to prevent "hacking" or some other nonsense argument. In the end we all know it's really about profit more than anything.
So to save money I need to buy a new car and move to a new house closer to work? That's a fantastic idea.. I should break even on fuel savings sometime in 2068.
Is that some other software that Google provides? Is it some "free software" that I haven't heard about?
It is a proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft of Redmond, Washington. It is usually freely included with new PCs.
Since DVDs look absolutely fantastic on my 110" projection screen I don't see how they're going to make much improvement. DVD quality is head and shoulders above broadcast quality analog TV that HDTV is replacing so I'm not sure where the market is for HD-DVD since it's only a minor bump in quality.
Why not just buy an extra power adapter and leave it in your notebook bag or keep it at work?
But you're probably coming at it from a different mindset. If you're used to open source software you probably regularly trust patches from people who you otherwise wouldn't know simply because they released the patch as open source. You probably figure SOMEONE out there must know how to read the thing to determine if it's malicious and would throw up a red flag if they found something.
With Windows users they're not used to that level of trust, even when it involves a patch that includes source code. How many Windows desktops do you know of that have Visual Studio on them to compile this patch from scratch to verify the binary version isn't malicious? Coming from a UNIX world, not having a compiler on your system just seems weird, but Windows users are trained to trust in their binary patches and cross their fingers.
I didn't say I use IE 5.x on a Mac.. it doesn't work with my company's apps either. I'm just saying that a true IE-compatible browser would be incredibly useful on alternative platforms. Unfortunately that requires implementing ActiveX and is a security nightmare. I guess the rest of us will just stick to running IE in Virtual PC or VMWare to get to corporate apps or use a Terminal Server.
That's easy enough for you to say, but some of us are required to use IE-only sites to do our jobs. I can't even fill out my timesheet without loading an IE-only site and our help desk system (Remedy) requires IE on Windows the way they have it setup. Yes, my company has drank the MS Kool-Aid and is 100% devoted to Microsoft only solutions, but there are still many of us out here using Macs and Linux that would love a compatible browser solution.
Read up on the Little Ice Age that occured in Europe. I watched a very interesting documentary on the History Channel about it last month.
And that happened around 600 years ago... before the invention of the automobile or factories or evil clearcutting companies. I don't understand why people find it so hard to believe that the changes occuring on our planet are out of our control and will happen whether we existed here or not. Humanity has only existed here a fraction of that time (roughly 6000 years according to my Bible, yuck yuck yuck) and the earth is billions of years old and has changed temperatures thousands of times.
I hear a lot of people use his keyboard layout.
Ohio taxes this very seriously too. If I buy something at 6.5% sales tax in one county and bring it back to my home county where the tax is 7% I'm expected to report that 0.5% as Use Tax on my Ohio State tax return. Amazingly this situation has NEVER happened to me. *cough*.