"Just install Windows over" does not work. Most end users are not technically competent to install Windows on a PC. They want the machine to work out of the box. People who sell PCs and don't supply a mchine that works out of the box will be selling into only a small specialt market
So let's see.... G W Bush has a few of his thugs break into your house, drag you off shoot you. You are never seen again. This is all part of his new "Pure Thoughts" program where they will eliminate people who they guess might one day think a bad thought.
Many people here may feel that this program is wrong and possibly illegal.
But under the NEW system...
1) GW would simply pardon (or commute the sentence of) his thugs if they were caught. With the promise of a pardon they can act with impunity.
2) There is nothing WE can do to stop it because WE were not effected. The courts hold that only those who were actually killed can sue. And the killing are a state secret.
When I was in school they told us we should study history so that we don't have to repeat it. Looks like a few people in our government were asleep when they covered the part about Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40'.
"With some artists, like the Beatles for instance, I like their singles. Their good stuff was really good, but their bad stuff was, well, crap."
Odd that you should pick the Beatles as an example. Beatles are usually sighted as THE example of how albums can be more then just a collection of unrelated tunes. The albums that you listed "Dark Side of the Moon".. came later after the beatles had broken the ground and shown what could be done.
The other thing about the Beatles was that they were popular enough that they could experiment and include a huge range of music styles. You say "some of it is crap". What it means is that their range of styles was wider then your range of taste.
There most certainly is a standard, uniform graphic interface on Linux. It's called "Xlib". (Hey that's a joke, no flames please.)
More seriously I've started to use a web browser for my GUIs. If your needs are simple it works well and people actually like the idea. But then, I'm only doing simple DBMS based forms and not writing a game.
For those who have not actually read the GPL here is the shortest summary I can think of:
"You can use this for free so long as you also agree to give it away free"
The user is not really giving up any rights. If not for the GPL he would not be able to re-distribute my copyrighted work in any way. So I use GPL and give him a limited method where if he wants he can re-distribute my work. Without the GPL he does not even have that limited right
You can argue the GPL is not "100% free" because it only gives users limited rights and I could have simply placed the work in the public domain. You'd be correct. I choose to use the GPL if I want to be sure the EVERYONE can get a free copy of my work even if they did not get it from me. Also I simply don't want someone making money off my work and GPL prevents that.
I have to agree. Have you read Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"? It's anything but light reading but I think Heidegger hit the nail right on the head. Basically he said that being a human is to be "in time". The "arrow of time" is not something that happens outside of us that we can watch. Without time there is no "thinking or planing of needding or wanting or even causality.
GPL really does not even apply to end users. It comes into effect when you distribute copies of the program. As long as you only run the software there are no requirements on what you must do. End users have no reason to care about this.
"More younger people know how to use Linux and know enough about it to use it properly."
Really? I thought it was us "old folks" who had the UNIX background from the the 1970's and 90's that were now the ones using Linux. From my point of view Microsoft is the "up start". We'd been using UNIX for almost a decade before there was even an MS-DOS, let alone Windows
I think it's only the younger ones, the ones who think that TV was always in color who would thing that UNIX and the Internet are new. Both pre-date the founding of Microsoft.
Here in the US if you want to sell hot dogs you need about a hundred government permits. There are forms and taxes and fees just to hire the guy to run the pushcart and there is a business license and health inspectors and so on and so on. the goernment even tells you how long you can keep a hot dog after you heat it and how and where is get rid of the hot dogs you can't sell. Every stage of a hot dog vending in the US is regulated and controled by the government. In China if you want to sell hot dogs all you need is are some hot dogs. If you want to sell a picture of Micky Mouse on a tee shirt all you need is some ink and tee shirts, no need to ask Disney first I think much of China works this way. People just do what they want and if they don't cause any trouble are left alone. I won't argue it this is a good thing or bad. Maybe it's best to give up some freedom so we can eat USDA inspected hot dogs.
But the governments are different. In the US the leaders know and accept that they will leave office one day and they are pretty sure the system of government will continue on. In China the government took power and holds power by force and the goal of the leadership is to remain in office for life.
So in some way the people in China are more free. They can do as they like as long is that is no threat the government.
It is _very_ conservatively designed I would expect many years of "up time". It's an 8-core machine. The cores are slow compared to a Intel C2D but overall it is a very powerfull little box
"I always wondered if terraforming could just be done my massive planting of hardy fauna."
The problem with the above is finding the "hardy fauna". What will grow with zero liquid water a pressure nearer to vacuum then what we have and temperaures a hundred degrees below zero. Nothing that we know of.
I would go so far to say that __by definition__ you can NOT terraform a plant by using vegitation because if the plants would grow it is already so Earth-like that the term "terraforming" could not apply.
The Internet is "cost effective?". For eMail maybe. But not if you want to stream audio to a few hundred or thousand people. A low power transmitters costs very little. Just a few thosand dolars to get on the air and then after that you don't pay for bandwidth. We are talking about 50 watt stations so thebasic transmitters is in the low four digit price range. If you stream audio over the internet you will need an Internet connection that will set you back at least $1,000 a month. And then how to reach people in their cars with the Internet. FM radio is still very usful.
Linus decided. He wrote specific terms into the modified version of the GPL he uses with Linux. He makes it very clear. Linux does NOT use the "standard GLP" it makes a few changes for example he removed the "and later versions" part.
"Let me put it this way. By scientific consensus, we believed the Earth was flat"
Even in Greek times, no educated person beveled the Earth to be flat. That said, until very recently only a very few rich kids had the ability to spend the first 22 years of their life in school. Most people could not read and write, the equivalent of a university education was quire rare. So many people did think the Earth was flat
There were several attempts even to measure the Earth's diameter in the ancient world. When Columbus sailed off to Central America people did not think he'd fall off the edge. Most figured the Earth was to large to sail around and they would run out of supplies and die at sea and get lost and never return.
Long before Columbus mariners carried an astrolab. No one would would even think of such an instrument if they though the Earth was flat. An astrolab just couldn't work on a flat Earth. It was a common instrument used for centuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
Columbus set out to find the "direct route" to China not to prove the world was round. He know there was a vast ocean to the East of China and also one to the West of Europe. So reasoned that they were the same ocean and he looked at those estimats of the diameter of the Earth made in ancient times.
By his second voyage they actually did have the technology to measure his location on the globe relative to Europe. They measure the elevation of Jupiter above the horizon at the exact time the one of it's moons pased in front of the planet. If you perform this observation from both Europe and America then the difference between elevation angles equals the difference in longitude. No one who thought the Earth was flat would have spent the years of effort to compile the astronomical tables needed.
They missed the point. Apple's purpose of having Safari on Windows is NOT to give Windows users a taste of Mac OS. Not at all. The purpose is so that the stuff that runs on the iPhone will also run on the Windows desktop.
Very soon people will start buying iPhones and very soon after they will start runing iPhone applications on their phones. Then some one would ant to run that same app on their desktop. Tey will need safari to do that.
In theory they could run the iPhone app on IE or FF but I doubt many iPhone apps will be tested on any browser but Safari.
I think what Aple SOULD have done wil dump safri and ship all Macs and iPhones with Fire fox. I don't know what safri does the FF can't.
None of the PPC Macs have EFI. Apple needs to handle both PPC and Intel and who knws if Apple is not working on yet another processor in the back room.
Sun has not quite gotten ZFS out the door all the way yet. So it's no surprize that Apple hasn't. And I'm not following BSD closely enough to know the status there but I don't think ZFS is ready on BSD yet either. But in 6 months to a year I think we will see it.
It's pretty clear the ZFS simply was not ready to ship. Leopard was to be "Feature Complete" by yesterday and ZFS was not ready, so it gets cut. Even Sun can't make it so that ZFS is bootable on a production version of Solaris. Also the "user land" utilities are not quite what a typical Mac user would want.
When you are in the software biz. There are two ways to release a produt (1) You set a date. Then you ship what ever you have at that date and don't ship what's not yet working. Or (2) You make a feature list and ship when everything on the list is working,when ever that might be.
The biggest mistake is to try and combine 1 and 2 and ship a fixed set of features on a given date.
Yes, Windows Vista is a big system and it is hard to make it secure and correct but. Compare it to other big systems and see if it is better or worse. So we can ask "How does Windows compare to Solaris?" or "How does Windows compare to Mac OS X?". You have to rate the quality relative to other state of the art modern systems.
If you do compare them Windows look rather poor. What's s worse is that thaey spent five billion dollars to create Vista. That's a huge abount of money compared to what the others spent and what does Microsoft have to show for it? The Vista delvelopment must stand as one of the historic examples of mismanagment and waste. Makeing any government look good by comparison.
So you are right. One should not expect absolute "bulit proof" but one might expect "almost as good as something that cost less to make" but they didn't even do that.
Safari on Windows is a BETA version. the intent of BETA versions is for uses to use it and report any problem. Problems (of all types) are to be expected. Looks like (may) he was found one problem.
Actually I know the real truth: I (yes me) created the universe about 30 seconds ago (Fri Jun 8 16:44:24 PDT 2007) I'll give $1000 to anyone who can prove me wrong.
Doesn't everyone get some Fourier analysis in college these days?
No, The people who study English, Journalism and Education don't have to take any math past finger counting. OK, well maybe decimals and fractions. It's quite rare to find someone who can understand "technical stuff" and write well enough to explain it.
This looks like the part of the roof of a large dome fell in. The area inside is likely much larger then the hole we can see. It must have fallen "recently" (few hundred thousand years??) or else blowing sand would have filled it up.
Lava tubes form when a river of lava flows fast and the top surface cools and becomes solid and then the liquid flows out from under the "frozen" surface. This could be a lava tube with a thin section of roof that fell down.
ZFS is software. Software no matter how good can't replace a fiber channel cable or switch. I think ZFS will be the overall framework into wich Apples storage fits. So you would "add a RAID to a Pool" in the new terminology.
First off if this is this a home system that you are building as a hobby, just use a simple mirror. It doesn't matter that much what you do. But if this is to hold a lot of important data that people care a lot about then seriously look at ZFS. Sun as raised the bar very high. It's the best thing in storage to come along this century. Read more here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
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"Just install Windows over" does not work. Most end users are not technically competent to install Windows on a PC. They want the machine to work out of the box. People who sell PCs and don't supply a mchine that works out of the box will be selling into only a small specialt market
So let's see.... G W Bush has a few of his thugs break into your house, drag you off shoot you. You are never seen again. This is all part of his new "Pure Thoughts" program where they will eliminate people who they guess might one day think a bad thought.
Many people here may feel that this program is wrong and possibly illegal.
But under the NEW system...
1) GW would simply pardon (or commute the sentence of) his thugs if they were caught. With the promise of a pardon they can act with impunity.
2) There is nothing WE can do to stop it because WE were not effected. The courts hold that only those who were actually killed can sue. And the killing are a state secret.
When I was in school they told us we should study history so that we don't have to repeat it. Looks like a few people in our government were asleep when they covered the part about Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40'.
"With some artists, like the Beatles for instance, I like their singles. Their good stuff was really good, but their bad stuff was, well, crap."
Odd that you should pick the Beatles as an example. Beatles are usually sighted as THE example of how albums can be more then just a collection of unrelated tunes. The albums that you listed "Dark Side of the Moon".. came later after the beatles had broken the ground and shown what could be done.
The other thing about the Beatles was that they were popular enough that they could experiment and include a huge range of music styles. You say "some of it is crap". What it means is that their range of styles was wider then your range of taste.
You are right but you picked a bad example. Apache is not GPL. It has it's own license.
There most certainly is a standard, uniform graphic interface on Linux. It's called "Xlib". (Hey that's a joke, no flames please.)
More seriously I've started to use a web browser for my GUIs. If your needs are simple it works well and people actually like the idea. But then, I'm only doing simple DBMS based forms and not writing a game.
For those who have not actually read the GPL here is the shortest summary I can think of:
"You can use this for free so long as you also agree to give it away free"
The user is not really giving up any rights. If not for the GPL he would not
be able to re-distribute my copyrighted work in any way. So I use GPL and
give him a limited method where if he wants he can re-distribute my work.
Without the GPL he does not even have that limited right
You can argue the GPL is not "100% free" because it only gives users limited rights
and I could have simply placed the work in the public domain. You'd be
correct. I choose to use the GPL if I want to be sure the EVERYONE can get
a free copy of my work even if they did not get it from me. Also I simply
don't want someone making money off my work and GPL prevents that.
I have to agree. Have you read Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"? It's anything but light reading but I think Heidegger hit the nail right on the head. Basically he said that being a human is to be "in time". The "arrow of time" is not something that happens outside of us that we can watch. Without time there is no "thinking or planing of needding or wanting or even causality.
GPL really does not even apply to end users. It comes into effect when you distribute copies of the program. As long as you only run the software there are no requirements on what you must do. End users have no reason to care about this.
"More younger people know how to use Linux and know enough about it to use it properly."
Really? I thought it was us "old folks" who had the UNIX background from the the 1970's and 90's that were now the ones using Linux. From my point of view Microsoft is the "up start". We'd been using UNIX for almost a decade before there was even an MS-DOS, let alone Windows
I think it's only the younger ones, the ones who think that TV was always in color who would thing that UNIX and the Internet are new. Both pre-date the founding of Microsoft.
Here in the US if you want to sell hot dogs you need about a hundred government permits. There are forms and taxes and fees just to hire the guy to run the pushcart and there is a business license and health inspectors and so on and so on. the goernment even tells you how long you can keep a hot dog after you heat it and how and where is get rid of the hot dogs you can't sell. Every stage of a hot dog vending in the US is regulated and controled by the government. In China if you want to sell hot dogs all you need is are some hot dogs. If you want to sell a picture of Micky Mouse on a tee shirt all you need is some ink and tee shirts, no need to ask Disney first I think much of China works this way. People just do what they want and if they don't cause any trouble are left alone. I won't argue it this is a good thing or bad. Maybe it's best to give up some freedom so we can eat USDA inspected hot dogs.
But the governments are different. In the US the leaders know and accept that they will leave office one day and they are pretty sure the system of government will continue on. In China the government took power and holds power by force and the goal of the leadership is to remain in office for life.
So in some way the people in China are more free. They can do as they
like as long is that is no threat the government.
"Now what I would like to see advertised - but won't - is slower but highly reliable motherboards, processors and memory at commercial prices."
x .xml
Then you should be reading this...
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/inde
It is _very_ conservatively designed I would expect
many years of "up time". It's an 8-core machine. The
cores are slow compared to a
Intel C2D but overall it is a very powerfull little box
"I always wondered if terraforming could just be done my massive planting of hardy fauna."
The problem with the above is finding the "hardy fauna". What will grow with zero liquid water a pressure nearer to vacuum then what we have and temperaures a hundred degrees below zero. Nothing that we know of.
I would go so far to say that __by definition__ you can NOT terraform a plant by using vegitation because if the plants would grow it is already so Earth-like that the term "terraforming" could not apply.
The Internet is "cost effective?". For eMail maybe. But not if you want to stream audio to a few hundred or thousand people. A low power transmitters costs very little. Just a few thosand dolars to get on the air and then after that you don't pay for bandwidth. We are talking about 50 watt stations so thebasic transmitters is in the low four digit price range. If you stream audio over the internet you will need an Internet connection that will set you back at least $1,000 a month. And then how to reach people in their cars with the Internet. FM radio is still very usful.
"It has been decided": When? By whom?"
Linus decided. He wrote specific terms into the modified version of the GPL he uses with Linux. He makes it very clear. Linux does NOT use the "standard GLP" it makes a few changes for example he removed the "and later versions" part.
"Let me put it this way. By scientific consensus, we believed the Earth was flat"
Even in Greek times, no educated person beveled the Earth to be flat.
That said, until very recently only a very few rich kids had the ability to spend the first 22 years of their life in school. Most people could not read and write, the equivalent of a university education was quire rare. So many people did think the Earth was flat
There were several attempts even to measure the Earth's diameter in the ancient world. When Columbus sailed off to Central America people did not think he'd fall off the edge. Most figured the Earth was to large to sail around and they would run out of supplies and die at sea and get lost and never return.
Long before Columbus mariners carried an astrolab. No one would would even think of such an instrument if they though the Earth was flat. An astrolab just couldn't work on a flat Earth. It was a common instrument used for centuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
Columbus set out to find the "direct route" to China not to prove the world was round. He know there was a vast ocean to the East of China and also one to the West of Europe. So reasoned that they were the same ocean and he looked at those estimats of the diameter of the Earth made in ancient times.
By his second voyage they actually did have the technology to measure his location on the globe relative to Europe. They measure the elevation of Jupiter above the horizon at the exact time the one of it's moons pased in front of the planet. If you perform this observation from both Europe and America then the difference between elevation angles equals the difference in longitude. No one who thought the Earth was flat would have spent the years of effort to compile the astronomical tables needed.
Long before Columbus, marinars carried astrolabs.
They missed the point. Apple's purpose of having Safari on Windows is NOT to give Windows users a taste of Mac OS. Not at all. The purpose is so that the stuff that runs on the iPhone will also run on the Windows desktop.
Very soon people will start buying iPhones and very soon after they will start runing iPhone applications on their phones. Then some one would ant to run that same app on their desktop. Tey will need safari to do that.
In theory they could run the iPhone app on IE or FF but I doubt many iPhone apps will be tested on any browser but Safari.
I think what Aple SOULD have done wil dump safri and ship all Macs and iPhones with Fire fox. I don't know what safri does the FF can't.
None of the PPC Macs have EFI. Apple needs to handle both PPC and Intel and who knws if Apple is not working on yet another processor in the back room.
Sun has not quite gotten ZFS out the door all the way yet. So it's no surprize that Apple hasn't. And I'm not following BSD closely enough to know the status there but I don't think ZFS is ready on BSD yet either.
But in 6 months to a year I think we will see it.
It's pretty clear the ZFS simply was not ready to ship. Leopard was to be "Feature Complete" by yesterday and ZFS was not ready, so it gets cut. Even Sun can't make it so that ZFS is bootable on a production version of Solaris. Also the "user land" utilities are not quite what a typical Mac user would want.
When you are in the software biz. There are two ways to release a produt (1) You set a date. Then you ship what ever you have at that date and don't ship what's not yet working. Or (2) You make a feature list and ship when everything on the list is working,when ever that might be.
The biggest mistake is to try and combine 1 and 2 and ship a fixed set of features on a given date.
Yes, Windows Vista is a big system and it is hard to make it secure and correct but. Compare it to other big systems and see if it is better or worse. So we can ask "How does Windows compare to Solaris?" or "How does Windows compare to Mac OS X?". You have to rate the quality relative to other state of the art modern systems.
If you do compare them Windows look rather poor. What's
s worse is that thaey spent five billion dollars to create Vista. That's a huge abount of money compared to what the others spent and what does Microsoft have to show for it? The Vista delvelopment must stand as one of the historic examples of mismanagment and waste. Makeing any government look good by comparison.
So you are right. One should not expect absolute "bulit proof" but one might expect "almost as good as something that cost less to make" but they didn't even do that.
Safari on Windows is a BETA version. the intent of BETA versions is for uses to use it and report any problem. Problems (of all types) are to be expected. Looks like (may) he was found one problem.
Actually I know the real truth: I (yes me) created the universe about 30 seconds ago (Fri Jun 8 16:44:24 PDT 2007) I'll give $1000 to anyone who can prove me wrong.
Doesn't everyone get some Fourier analysis in college these days?
No, The people who study English, Journalism and Education don't have to take any math past finger counting. OK, well maybe decimals and fractions. It's quite rare to find someone who can understand "technical stuff" and write well enough to explain it.
This looks like the part of the roof of a large dome fell in. The area inside is likely much larger then the hole we can see. It must have fallen "recently" (few hundred thousand years??) or else blowing sand would have filled it up.
Lava tubes form when a river of lava flows fast and the top surface cools and becomes solid and then the liquid flows out from under the "frozen" surface. This could be a lava tube with a thin section of roof that fell down.
ZFS is software. Software no matter how good can't replace a fiber channel cable or switch. I think ZFS will be the overall framework into wich Apples storage fits. So you would "add a RAID to a Pool" in the new terminology.
First off if this is this a home system that you are building as a hobby, just use a simple mirror. It doesn't matter that much what you do. But if this is to hold a lot of important data that people care a lot about then seriously look at ZFS. Sun as raised the bar very high. It's the best thing in storage to come along this century. Read more here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS