Clerks (animated) is a shining example of that.:( It's one of the few shows that would have really made it on UPN because UPN was practically begging Kevin Smith for the show, but he went with ABC because ABC convinced him that UPN would be instant death for the show. It (apparantly) turned out that ABC didn't really want Clerks, but that they did not want their competitors to have it. They promoted the premiere (delayed until late spring), kind of, then it shifted timeslots before it even aired, and then cancelled before the premiere even aired. They ended up airing two episodes and then everyone had to wait for the DVDs to see the rest (all SIX episodes. Blah.)
At least Fox gave Futurama and Family Guy half a snowball's chance in Hell. Kind of. I think there are some at Fox who really wanted the show to succeed but the folks in programming/scheduling didn't "get" the shows and sought to sabotage them by playing musical timeslots, and putting them in the worst possible timeslots they could find.
Did Futurama really have to NOT have a delayed start? Did has-been athletes really have to drone on about how great/crappy/mediocre the just-aired game was for 20-30 minutes into the show, then cut over to the show after it ran 20-25 minutes, leaving the last 5 to 10 minutes for people to watch? Jumping in the middle of a Futurama episode often leaves one thinking "Huh? I don't get it" - especially episodes like "The Why of Fry" or "Roswell that Ends Well" or "Time keeps on slippin'" where "getting" the episode really relies on catching tbe beginning of the show. But, at least they stuck through it for three seasons before finally cancel^H^H^H^H^Hcutting production orders short. (remember, FOX never cancels shows, they cut orders short and put them on permanent hiatus)
Yep! They both speed up playback by dropping a couple of frames per second PLUS the chop out parts of scenes, just so they can fit one more 30-second advertisement in that half-hour space.
Remember, here in the us; MONEY = GOD ALMIGHTY, even if the gain is short term and can result in a long-term loss. No one thinks long term any more.
Thanks very much for the corrections!:) SCO's situation is far worse than I thought.
The corrections you posted underscore the possibility that SCO's current actions are preemptive strikes against Novell because they know that monkey on their back (UNIX royalties) have grown into an 800lb gorilla since then, and that gorilla is a bit hungry and hot-tempered because SCO hasn't fed it in a while.
Even if IBM loses (they won't), SCO is toast when Novell gets through with them.
In any event the ultimate outcome will be very good for Linux and UNIX at large, and will hopefully pave the way for better driver support.
SCO of today is not Caldera of yesteryear, back when they were opening up DOS, innovating more advanced package management and central management for Linux, and being generally a "do no evil" company.
Then, the novell folks left Caldera to move on to yet other wonderful things, scumbags moved in, killed DR-DOS, killed Caldera Linux/(SCO OpenLinux), and started being all-round assmunchers and fucktards.
I don't think that is going to work considering how much SCO owes Novell in UNIX licensing royalties. Novell is supposed to receive 85% to 90% of the take and the last news I've read on it, SCO hasn't forked over a dime to Novell in ages.
Also FWIW, SCO does not own UNIX copyrights, patents, or anything else UNIX. They are merely the holders of a contract to act as the UNIX licensing broker, under contract with Novell, and SCO's take on that is supposed to be a measly sum somewhere between 10% and 15%.
FYI strictly speaking Linux is not Unix because it is a clean-room clone of UNIX - it is not derived from the original code.
From functionality/feature set, performance, and user experience Linux may as well be considered Unix but the semantical distinction is very important for precisely this kind of issue (e.g., SCO trying to get all Linux users to fork $600/processor over to them)
ALSO as an aside:
SCO is guilty of not paying the 90%+ of licensing fees that they owe to Novell. I believe the suit against Novell was launched because the shit was about to hit the fan with Novell's demanding that they receive the royalties for the use of their copyrighted works, since SCO was under contract to handle UNIX license brokering.
Now, for the conspiracy theories of Microsoft's being the puppeteer behind SCO's actions since 2000 - well, that's open for debate and I don't know whether or not to believe them, but I do know that projects like Linux, BSD, and OOo are striking fear deep into the hearts of Microsoft execs, because they know vendor lock-in is a dying business practice in modern computing. Think of it as the third PC revolution:
PC revolution 1. PCs entered homes and small businesses in the late '70s, early '80s. There was no standardization, and file sharing/networking was largely limited to sneaker net, and god help you if you didn't buy all your computers from the same vendor because one computer won't read another computer's disks/tapes/etc.
PC revolution 2. The IBM PC came in with semi-standardized hardware and Microsoft came in with an OS which later introduced some networking capability, and shortly thereafter a usable GUI and an suite of office apps which were (relatively) easy to use, and was relatively inexpensive (at the time) due to competing standards. Microsoft did not dominate the market by far then, so DOS, Windows, and Office became downright cheap to buy, and Microsoft actually took market share from then-king-of-mainframe-word processing WordPerfect.
PC revolution 3. 15 years later, Microsoft owns the market. Whether you like it or not you own and run Windows - on at least one computer in your office. That computer has the latest version of Microsoft Office on it so you can exchange files with other companies. Competitors have been killed off (SmartSuite) or effectively killed off (Corel Office/WordPerfect) or unnoticed (StarOffice). Windows and Office skyrocketed in price - quadrupling over the course of a few years, far ahead of inflation and not following the trend of the rest of the software and hardware world (coming down in price) Frustrated vendor lock blocking ANY opportunity to compete against the monopoly, Sun Microsystems gave away Star Office and even opened up the source, targeting a rewrite and eventually an opportunity to level the playing ground to make their platform attractive to customers once again. The availability of OpenOffice with its improved M$ format filters make Linux and Solaris attractive alternatives to home and business users alike, and improved security is a nice benefit in the deal. SCO has a monkey on their back because they haven't paid the 85%-90% of the UNIX licensing fees they have collected to Novell. Microsoft, knowing their days of vendor lock are at risk, and knowing SCO's position, buys a pile of UNIX licenses and whispers in Darl McBride's ear that perhaps SCO can convince courts that they own the copyrights to UNIX (not merely holders of the licensing brokerage rights) and that Linux violates those copyrights. This tactic is designed to scare companies which are considering open source or other alternatives right back to Microsoft.
Possible? Definitely. Is it actually true? only Darl McBride and Microsoft insiders know for sure.
Since when does SCO own anything UNIX besides licensing rights, which they get under contract FROM Novell, which is the company that actually owns the copyrights to UNIX and is supposed to receive 85% to 90% of the licensing fees SCO collects?
MeThinks Novell is going to squash SCO Real Soon Now(tm)
If history is an indicator of Future performance, Urge will:
1. Break iTunes when installed 2. Prevent iPods from connecting 3. "embrace and extend" your AAC files by automatically converting them to WMA, deleting the original AAC files in the process 4. Run on any OS you like, as long as it's Windows XP or higher. You run MacOS? Linux? BSD? HA! 5. absolutely REQUIRE Internet Explorer 6. Display ads as you listen
I believe the real reason behind the forced switch is so that the government's pet vendors can buy scads of bandwidth on the cheap and then resell/relicense those rights to companies which cannot afford to get in on the bidding process. This also provides the benefit of eliminating fair use rights (e.g., broadcast flags) which is supported by so many senators who own stakes in MPAA member and broadcast companies. Do you think John Doe's startup will have a shot in hell of winning any auctions for bandwidth for the next invention by a small company? Hell no, Google, Microsoft, Dell, NBC, Citadel, Clearchannel, etc. will buy it up all on speculation, just like real estate speculators and domain squatters.
The auctioning off of bandwidth will effectively save $10bil from the budget? Big. Fooking. Deal. Doesn't the government blow that much every single week in Iraq? Recall the troops to save money. Let the Middle Eastern countries sort out their own bullshit themselves; we shouldn't foot the bill for everyone else's problems.
There is no benefit to forcing the switch when most televisions on the market are still NTSC. I still cannot find a portable ATSC set. TV audio receivers (blind people buy them) don't pick up ATSC broadcasts. People who buy wristwatch TVs (a couple are in production, Seiko's first in the 1980s wasn't the only one ever) are buying what will be a useless trinket, most (nearly all) PC tuner cards are still NTSC-only.
Reality TV will be just as lame whether broadcast in NTSC, low-res ATSC, or HDTV. Stargate, Futurama, Arrested Development, and The Simpsons are all equally entertaining on NTSC as they would be in HDTV.
HDTV will reveal that "actresses" in your precious pr0n really are not so perfect. On E! you'll notice that Jessica Simpson has acne, on the news you'll notice John Kerry's botox treatments worked.
Football may be improved with HDTV (I wouldn't know - football bores me with the commercial breaks every two seconds). I'd love to see hockey on HDTV - if anything would make me lust after HDTV it would definitely be hockey.
My next television will be an HDTV - because I obviously don't want a paperweight LCD panel when the cutover happens - but from what I've seen of HDTV so far, I'm underwhelmed. DiscoveryHD is amazing, but watching the Discovery HD channel is like listening to a Dolby or DTS test disc over and over. If I want such a close look at a flower, I'll go hiking and look at them IRL.
NTSC -> ATSC Net gain: ????
Net loss: broadcast flag eliminating fair use, folks in fringe reception areas will have NO picture rather than a fuzzy picture, every portable and mobile TV receiver will be useless, and there is no real benefit. At all.
Still funny though! "france surrenders" is one of those jokes that is so lame that it just gets more funny every time someone posts it - what makes it funy is not the joke itself, but that people keep at it and the same flame wars and french military competence debates take place as a result every. damn. time.
wow. This is in no way similar to the C=64 - it appears to have been superior in every way. I wish we had those here in the US in the '80s. I never heard of it until now. I thought I had it good with a C=128.:(
The Microsoft online service doesn't/won't compare:
1. You will need an Internet connection to access it 2. It will likely be married to MSIE - or at minimum be severely crippled on all browsers which are not MSIE 3. It will cost money and will not be a perpetual license 4. If the server or even just route to host goes down, you're SOL until it comes back up 5. You will be using any document format you like, as long as it's a Microsoft format
Also if you're considering an hosted office suite (or any enterprise-level app) for a business, you're putting your enterprise at risk. What if they screw up on billing and mistekenly cancel your service? What if they tank, and your data is hosted with them? What if they get hacked? Or worse, what if they have dirtbags working there who use your company's proprietary info for their own gain, e.g., using your trade secrets for their own personal ventures, or selling info to your competitors?
. . . and the water cooling your car's internal engine is cooling the intake manifold, then the heads and then the block. Many times the amount of heat that you're dealing with in any PC power supply(according to howstuffworks, a gallon of gasoline contains the equivalent of 60 kilowatt hours worth of energy. If you're burning a gallon of gasoline per hour, you need to dissipate at least 75% of that much energy in waste heat. That's downright scary, considering that expansion/contraction needs to be constrainted to a couple thousandths of an inch for any given moving part!
Why do I mention this? As a comparison - cooling them in series isn't that big of deal when you're talking about a 180W power supply and 3/8" tubing, and ANY type of radiator to actually dissipate the heat. Given restrictions introduced by typical automotive thermostats, the effective flow for coolant in an automotive system won't be much better than the 3/8" tubing used in the XBox cooler for this article (in fact the auto thermostat is designed to restrict water flow, both to increase heat transfer and to help prevent the pump from bursting the radiator at high RPMs).
Hmm, Apple seems to get great performance out of lowly Rage128 cards in OS/X, so why can't the x.org team do the same on later-generation hardware? Also, why MUST I have a shared framebuffer for 3D support? When I want to run OpenGL apps (or at least run them in a stable environment) I need to restart X in a single head configuration.:( It should be able to support acceleration on multiple video cards - or at bare minimum accelerate the primary display and not break when I run a 3D app with Xinerama enabled. It should at worst case handle the situation gracefully - trap any errors and display a dialog scolding me, or ideally, move the app to the primary accelerated display (assuming they can achieve that).
This is a HUGE negative for X.org relative to OS/X or even Windows.
First off you mentioned you were running in an Office environment, which would imply you have some sort of server running. I remarked that if you find Windows to be problem-free and maintenance-free then you're obviously not running Exchange.
And as far as nothing being out there to do what Exchange does? Check out Scalix. Check out groupwise. Additionally, check out any number of web-based alternatives (Open-Xchange for example, although I hate web clients it IS an alternative).
Email + Notes + group calendaring (meeting server) + journal? Scalix, as I mentioned. Check it out.
{ I love the fact that Windows "just works" and I don't have to think about it. }
You're obviously not running Exchange, or if you are, you are not performing the required/recommended maintenance and are not worrying about the "scheduled maintenance" (read: downtime Microsoft does NOT count in their uptime comparisons) such as info store integrity checks and defrags, which have to be done offline.
Better solutions exist, such as Linux/Scalix (Scalix maintenance is all done live and is fully scriptable)
and yet, code red, sober, slammer, code blue, and countless other worms that Microsoft issued patches for eons ago run rampant - this doesn't even take into effect the latest-publicized exploits for which viruses are already in the wild and spy/ad/scumware programs (many of them posting as spyware-removal and popup-blocking) which actively disable installed antivirus and firewall software.
{ First off, when the L.A. Times says "sources tell us", }
Would that source happen to be a crackpot like John Dvorak, who has been right about two times in the 20-some-odd years he's been randomly pecking at the keyboard while tripping on LSD?
{ The one possibility which hasn't been discussed is a google-branded version of Windows. }
Unless it's a standard OEM windows build, customized using the OEM preinstall kit that ANYONE can use to customize Windows, "it ain't gonna happen" because Microsoft "is gonna fvcking kill Google"
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Clerks (animated) is a shining example of that. :( It's one of the few shows that would have really made it on UPN because UPN was practically begging Kevin Smith for the show, but he went with ABC because ABC convinced him that UPN would be instant death for the show. It (apparantly) turned out that ABC didn't really want Clerks, but that they did not want their competitors to have it. They promoted the premiere (delayed until late spring), kind of, then it shifted timeslots before it even aired, and then cancelled before the premiere even aired. They ended up airing two episodes and then everyone had to wait for the DVDs to see the rest (all SIX episodes. Blah.)
At least Fox gave Futurama and Family Guy half a snowball's chance in Hell. Kind of. I think there are some at Fox who really wanted the show to succeed but the folks in programming/scheduling didn't "get" the shows and sought to sabotage them by playing musical timeslots, and putting them in the worst possible timeslots they could find.
Did Futurama really have to NOT have a delayed start? Did has-been athletes really have to drone on about how great/crappy/mediocre the just-aired game was for 20-30 minutes into the show, then cut over to the show after it ran 20-25 minutes, leaving the last 5 to 10 minutes for people to watch? Jumping in the middle of a Futurama episode often leaves one thinking "Huh? I don't get it" - especially episodes like "The Why of Fry" or "Roswell that Ends Well" or "Time keeps on slippin'" where "getting" the episode really relies on catching tbe beginning of the show. But, at least they stuck through it for three seasons before finally cancel^H^H^H^H^Hcutting production orders short. (remember, FOX never cancels shows, they cut orders short and put them on permanent hiatus)
Yep! They both speed up playback by dropping a couple of frames per second PLUS the chop out parts of scenes, just so they can fit one more 30-second advertisement in that half-hour space.
Remember, here in the us; MONEY = GOD ALMIGHTY, even if the gain is short term and can result in a long-term loss. No one thinks long term any more.
Thanks very much for the corrections! :) SCO's situation is far worse than I thought.
The corrections you posted underscore the possibility that SCO's current actions are preemptive strikes against Novell because they know that monkey on their back (UNIX royalties) have grown into an 800lb gorilla since then, and that gorilla is a bit hungry and hot-tempered because SCO hasn't fed it in a while.
Even if IBM loses (they won't), SCO is toast when Novell gets through with them.
In any event the ultimate outcome will be very good for Linux and UNIX at large, and will hopefully pave the way for better driver support.
polygamists, mormons, and a spotted owl or two. That's about it.
SCO of today is not Caldera of yesteryear, back when they were opening up DOS, innovating more advanced package management and central management for Linux, and being generally a "do no evil" company.
Then, the novell folks left Caldera to move on to yet other wonderful things, scumbags moved in, killed DR-DOS, killed Caldera Linux/(SCO OpenLinux), and started being all-round assmunchers and fucktards.
Why should hungry sharks be fed poison? It's animal cruelty, I tell ya!
I don't think that is going to work considering how much SCO owes Novell in UNIX licensing royalties. Novell is supposed to receive 85% to 90% of the take and the last news I've read on it, SCO hasn't forked over a dime to Novell in ages.
Also FWIW, SCO does not own UNIX copyrights, patents, or anything else UNIX. They are merely the holders of a contract to act as the UNIX licensing broker, under contract with Novell, and SCO's take on that is supposed to be a measly sum somewhere between 10% and 15%.
FYI strictly speaking Linux is not Unix because it is a clean-room clone of UNIX - it is not derived from the original code.
From functionality/feature set, performance, and user experience Linux may as well be considered Unix but the semantical distinction is very important for precisely this kind of issue (e.g., SCO trying to get all Linux users to fork $600/processor over to them)
ALSO as an aside:
SCO is guilty of not paying the 90%+ of licensing fees that they owe to Novell. I believe the suit against Novell was launched because the shit was about to hit the fan with Novell's demanding that they receive the royalties for the use of their copyrighted works, since SCO was under contract to handle UNIX license brokering.
Now, for the conspiracy theories of Microsoft's being the puppeteer behind SCO's actions since 2000 - well, that's open for debate and I don't know whether or not to believe them, but I do know that projects like Linux, BSD, and OOo are striking fear deep into the hearts of Microsoft execs, because they know vendor lock-in is a dying business practice in modern computing. Think of it as the third PC revolution:
PC revolution 1. PCs entered homes and small businesses in the late '70s, early '80s. There was no standardization, and file sharing/networking was largely limited to sneaker net, and god help you if you didn't buy all your computers from the same vendor because one computer won't read another computer's disks/tapes/etc.
PC revolution 2. The IBM PC came in with semi-standardized hardware and Microsoft came in with an OS which later introduced some networking capability, and shortly thereafter a usable GUI and an suite of office apps which were (relatively) easy to use, and was relatively inexpensive (at the time) due to competing standards. Microsoft did not dominate the market by far then, so DOS, Windows, and Office became downright cheap to buy, and Microsoft actually took market share from then-king-of-mainframe-word processing WordPerfect.
PC revolution 3. 15 years later, Microsoft owns the market. Whether you like it or not you own and run Windows - on at least one computer in your office. That computer has the latest version of Microsoft Office on it so you can exchange files with other companies. Competitors have been killed off (SmartSuite) or effectively killed off (Corel Office/WordPerfect) or unnoticed (StarOffice). Windows and Office skyrocketed in price - quadrupling over the course of a few years, far ahead of inflation and not following the trend of the rest of the software and hardware world (coming down in price) Frustrated vendor lock blocking ANY opportunity to compete against the monopoly, Sun Microsystems gave away Star Office and even opened up the source, targeting a rewrite and eventually an opportunity to level the playing ground to make their platform attractive to customers once again. The availability of OpenOffice with its improved M$ format filters make Linux and Solaris attractive alternatives to home and business users alike, and improved security is a nice benefit in the deal. SCO has a monkey on their back because they haven't paid the 85%-90% of the UNIX licensing fees they have collected to Novell. Microsoft, knowing their days of vendor lock are at risk, and knowing SCO's position, buys a pile of UNIX licenses and whispers in Darl McBride's ear that perhaps SCO can convince courts that they own the copyrights to UNIX (not merely holders of the licensing brokerage rights) and that Linux violates those copyrights. This tactic is designed to scare companies which are considering open source or other alternatives right back to Microsoft.
Possible? Definitely.
Is it actually true? only Darl McBride and Microsoft insiders know for sure.
Since when does SCO own anything UNIX besides licensing rights, which they get under contract FROM Novell, which is the company that actually owns the copyrights to UNIX and is supposed to receive 85% to 90% of the licensing fees SCO collects?
MeThinks Novell is going to squash SCO Real Soon Now(tm)
If it's a personal machine install AVG Free.
I'd also install clamwin and schedule a nightly scan.
If history is an indicator of Future performance, Urge will:
1. Break iTunes when installed
2. Prevent iPods from connecting
3. "embrace and extend" your AAC files by automatically converting them to WMA, deleting the original AAC files in the process
4. Run on any OS you like, as long as it's Windows XP or higher. You run MacOS? Linux? BSD? HA!
5. absolutely REQUIRE Internet Explorer
6. Display ads as you listen
This is what I believe:
I believe the real reason behind the forced switch is so that the government's pet vendors can buy scads of bandwidth on the cheap and then resell/relicense those rights to companies which cannot afford to get in on the bidding process. This also provides the benefit of eliminating fair use rights (e.g., broadcast flags) which is supported by so many senators who own stakes in MPAA member and broadcast companies. Do you think John Doe's startup will have a shot in hell of winning any auctions for bandwidth for the next invention by a small company? Hell no, Google, Microsoft, Dell, NBC, Citadel, Clearchannel, etc. will buy it up all on speculation, just like real estate speculators and domain squatters.
The auctioning off of bandwidth will effectively save $10bil from the budget? Big. Fooking. Deal. Doesn't the government blow that much every single week in Iraq? Recall the troops to save money. Let the Middle Eastern countries sort out their own bullshit themselves; we shouldn't foot the bill for everyone else's problems.
There is no benefit to forcing the switch when most televisions on the market are still NTSC. I still cannot find a portable ATSC set. TV audio receivers (blind people buy them) don't pick up ATSC broadcasts. People who buy wristwatch TVs (a couple are in production, Seiko's first in the 1980s wasn't the only one ever) are buying what will be a useless trinket, most (nearly all) PC tuner cards are still NTSC-only.
Reality TV will be just as lame whether broadcast in NTSC, low-res ATSC, or HDTV. Stargate, Futurama, Arrested Development, and The Simpsons are all equally entertaining on NTSC as they would be in HDTV.
HDTV will reveal that "actresses" in your precious pr0n really are not so perfect. On E! you'll notice that Jessica Simpson has acne, on the news you'll notice John Kerry's botox treatments worked.
Football may be improved with HDTV (I wouldn't know - football bores me with the commercial breaks every two seconds). I'd love to see hockey on HDTV - if anything would make me lust after HDTV it would definitely be hockey.
My next television will be an HDTV - because I obviously don't want a paperweight LCD panel when the cutover happens - but from what I've seen of HDTV so far, I'm underwhelmed. DiscoveryHD is amazing, but watching the Discovery HD channel is like listening to a Dolby or DTS test disc over and over. If I want such a close look at a flower, I'll go hiking and look at them IRL.
NTSC -> ATSC
Net gain: ????
Net loss: broadcast flag eliminating fair use, folks in fringe reception areas will have NO picture rather than a fuzzy picture, every portable and mobile TV receiver will be useless, and there is no real benefit. At all.
And vice-versa, if you go a little further back.
Still funny though! "france surrenders" is one of those jokes that is so lame that it just gets more funny every time someone posts it - what makes it funy is not the joke itself, but that people keep at it and the same flame wars and french military competence debates take place as a result every. damn. time.
YM cheese-eating chain-smoking surrender monkeys who never bathe. :D
Did I leave out any French stereotypes?
(kidding, only kidding)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
:(
wow. This is in no way similar to the C=64 - it appears to have been superior in every way. I wish we had those here in the US in the '80s. I never heard of it until now. I thought I had it good with a C=128.
slashdotted! :(
a bleapps.com%2Fsuite+&btnG=Google+Search
Google cache: http://216.239.51.104/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Aport
The Microsoft online service doesn't/won't compare:
1. You will need an Internet connection to access it
2. It will likely be married to MSIE - or at minimum be severely crippled on all browsers which are not MSIE
3. It will cost money and will not be a perpetual license
4. If the server or even just route to host goes down, you're SOL until it comes back up
5. You will be using any document format you like, as long as it's a Microsoft format
Also if you're considering an hosted office suite (or any enterprise-level app) for a business, you're putting your enterprise at risk. What if they screw up on billing and mistekenly cancel your service? What if they tank, and your data is hosted with them? What if they get hacked? Or worse, what if they have dirtbags working there who use your company's proprietary info for their own gain, e.g., using your trade secrets for their own personal ventures, or selling info to your competitors?
Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are definitely not the roadblocks for Futurama - FOX is.
. . . and the water cooling your car's internal engine is cooling the intake manifold, then the heads and then the block. Many times the amount of heat that you're dealing with in any PC power supply(according to howstuffworks, a gallon of gasoline contains the equivalent of 60 kilowatt hours worth of energy. If you're burning a gallon of gasoline per hour, you need to dissipate at least 75% of that much energy in waste heat. That's downright scary, considering that expansion/contraction needs to be constrainted to a couple thousandths of an inch for any given moving part!
Why do I mention this? As a comparison - cooling them in series isn't that big of deal when you're talking about a 180W power supply and 3/8" tubing, and ANY type of radiator to actually dissipate the heat. Given restrictions introduced by typical automotive thermostats, the effective flow for coolant in an automotive system won't be much better than the 3/8" tubing used in the XBox cooler for this article (in fact the auto thermostat is designed to restrict water flow, both to increase heat transfer and to help prevent the pump from bursting the radiator at high RPMs).
Hmm, Apple seems to get great performance out of lowly Rage128 cards in OS/X, so why can't the x.org team do the same on later-generation hardware? Also, why MUST I have a shared framebuffer for 3D support? When I want to run OpenGL apps (or at least run them in a stable environment) I need to restart X in a single head configuration. :( It should be able to support acceleration on multiple video cards - or at bare minimum accelerate the primary display and not break when I run a 3D app with Xinerama enabled. It should at worst case handle the situation gracefully - trap any errors and display a dialog scolding me, or ideally, move the app to the primary accelerated display (assuming they can achieve that).
This is a HUGE negative for X.org relative to OS/X or even Windows.
First off you mentioned you were running in an Office environment, which would imply you have some sort of server running. I remarked that if you find Windows to be problem-free and maintenance-free then you're obviously not running Exchange.
And as far as nothing being out there to do what Exchange does? Check out Scalix. Check out groupwise. Additionally, check out any number of web-based alternatives (Open-Xchange for example, although I hate web clients it IS an alternative).
Email + Notes + group calendaring (meeting server) + journal? Scalix, as I mentioned. Check it out.
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I love the fact that Windows "just works" and I don't have to think about it.
}
You're obviously not running Exchange, or if you are, you are not performing the required/recommended maintenance and are not worrying about the "scheduled maintenance" (read: downtime Microsoft does NOT count in their uptime comparisons) such as info store integrity checks and defrags, which have to be done offline.
Better solutions exist, such as Linux/Scalix (Scalix maintenance is all done live and is fully scriptable)
and yet, code red, sober, slammer, code blue, and countless other worms that Microsoft issued patches for eons ago run rampant - this doesn't even take into effect the latest-publicized exploits for which viruses are already in the wild and spy/ad/scumware programs (many of them posting as spyware-removal and popup-blocking) which actively disable installed antivirus and firewall software.
{
First off, when the L.A. Times says "sources tell us",
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Would that source happen to be a crackpot like John Dvorak, who has been right about two times in the 20-some-odd years he's been randomly pecking at the keyboard while tripping on LSD?
{
The one possibility which hasn't been discussed is a google-branded version of Windows.
}
Unless it's a standard OEM windows build, customized using the OEM preinstall kit that ANYONE can use to customize Windows, "it ain't gonna happen" because Microsoft "is gonna fvcking kill Google"