Yeah man, it's like they're everywhere! They could be watching you every minute of every day, with their super-secret PCs modified for laser vision and, like, ninja hearing!
Could it be that China is actually just ahead of us this time? Maybe we aren't looking at a bad example across the ocean... we're seeing the next inevitable phase.
That's not funny.
They're developing more rapidly than us, manufacturing more than we probably ever will and only exporting more and more every year. On that scale, if anybody can be said to be advanced, 'tis they. Business wants a piece of that action, and government wants a piece of that business. Sounds like an express flight to Beijing imho.
Or else the "new kid" version. Remember when the click-wheel was still worth a good omg? Well, it ain't anymore. Apple's motto was "Think Different" for quite a while, and they seem to still hold with that.
The Zune is trying very hard to cash in on the form factor of the iPod, and it's probably going to work pretty well. Even if there proves to be a quality issue, and I expect there will be with how crowded the case (and budget) is on that device, American consumers have proven by now that they'll sacrifice a lot on quality if they can save twenty bucks. So if being higher quality can't beat cheap price and a longer feature-set, what can?
Being unique. Even when Macs were consistently lower quality, like with those awful candy-colour iMacs (IMHO, of course), Mac clung on by being a unique user experience and a unique form-factor. That's what's kept the company viable for at least the last fifteen years, and I expect they'll stick with that.
Sounds fine. That means I get to have a crazy-fast hard-drive for my swap / page-file / scratch disc, and server farms get to have 10,000rpm drives that save scads of energy.
Just because most companies spin the discs faster doesn't mean that everyone will, or that it's a bad thing. The upshot is more options, with far higher peak performance on the chosen primary parametre.
Also, isn't speed controller more or less free pie when you're using steppers?
How about a dedicated antivirus board? I'm on a Mac so I dunno, but everyone around me is constantly complaining about the CPU load for antivirus software.
Imagine, then, a cheap processor (an Intel embedded-grade unit, for instance, running about 100-150 mhz) connecting to a new slot on the motherboard that runs background virus scans while your HD(s) is(are) idle. Got sensitive data or a long vulnerability list? Drop fifty, hundred bucks and upgrade the card.
CPU load isn't the only reason for this either. Vista is trying to kill off antivirus software, remember? This could be a chance for hardware manufacturers to get McAfee, Norton, Symantec, and all them good ol' boys right back into the ball-game.
So why does Microsoft think they can add security to Internet Explorer that way?
M$ seems to view this as gamble. If they put in their oar with the add-ons theory and it actually works, then they've beat the odds and saved lots of man-hours. The computer industry went from zero to hero based on such gutsy moves, and I'm sure it seemed alluring at the time.
Now they appear to be trapped in this mentality, because nobody wants to throw away the progress they've made, or perceive they've made with some massive redesign strategy. Plus the old problem still remains: all those man-hours. M$ has too many things in the oven to make light of their human resources.
Same with Windows networking, CIFS, CIFS-authentication for HTTP, and everything else they've done to lower the barriers between local and remote resources.
Bit of a mess, that, and notice the lowered barriers between local resources and other local resources as well. But I think it's becoming increasingly plain that M$ is a software company, not an operating-system company. Their MO says to give more power to executables, some would argue too much power, and they seem intent to stick with that theme. They are, as I said, in a rut.
So, an OS that serves everything up unfiltered, with satelite objects responsible for security, advanced tasks, and services ad nauseum. How many degrees of seperation are there between that and Mach?
Yes, they are. Ever noticed how everyone around you keeps throwing "File Not Found" errors? The worst part is, you can only reboot a person once a day.
Reference television program Myth Busters: firing a 9mm bullet into the window of a pressurized aircraft will not shatter the window, nor so much as steal a magazine from the nearest passenger.
Eat lead, Hollywood.
If it's transparent, where's the issue? I see a pull-down menu on the login screen. The actual login will be to the central box, and then an image will be sent to the host you logged in from. Process is as follows:
Login to account: Khabok Password: ****** Operating System: Ubuntu
Want a new image on the box? It'll be on CDs marked "operating system extension." Put it in any computer on the network and it installs it to the central resource and sends an update to every host on the network. To remove, simply go to network/Operating\ Systems/ and right-click the icon. Easy.
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MacBooks with good heat characteristics? Count on it. I don't even remember the last time I heard my iBook fan turn on. I've also heard the PowerBooks are great about that too. They tend to get warmer underneath and on the left handrest area (over the drive) but they still don't have to blow themselves out like a Dell.
I keep hearing that PPC is a hot chip, and supposedly Yonah is very cool, so I'd say the MacBook will be better if anything.
You want to be careful about that. I know the Yonah chipset looks nice, but theoretically the Pentium 4 is fairly nice too. But I've proven in the past that as far as PhotoShop 7 goes, my iBook G4 can out-perform a mid-market Dell tower Pentium 4 by a mile, even though my laptop was deep into virtual memory and the tower had a gig unused.
Whatever the Yonah looks like now, my G4 has been damn good to me. On top of which, I don't even remember the last time I heard the fan turn on. I'll believe the Intel version when I see it. For now, I say wait if you must, but don't be afraid to log into Ebay and look for a G4.
12" iBook G4, on the list for fewest repairs... I coulda told you that myself.
I am proud of any nation that is better at providing paid vacation, civil services, and public transportation than fighting wars. Perhaps it would be comforting to know that the United States placed more value upon keeping its own population comfortable, happy, and healthy than upon killing the population of other nations.
The number of bloodbaths achieved is not the final determination of national merit. In fact, it is a detriment. In terms of violent war against years in existence, the United States could be considered to be the worst nation ever founded. When we can truly say that racism and ignorance are behind us, then we may have earned the right to mitigate our version of justice to the world. The evidence of your comment shows that that time is not now.
Being conquered by Hitler does not show that your nation is useless, it merely demonstrates that your military is not the largest project on your budget. In this way, France was superior to Hitler and continues to be superior to the United States.
I can't believe you quoted Marge Simpson and Rush Limbaugh as reliable sources.
Maybe true, and definitely a little cute, but entirely lacking in good sense. Whatever they happen to hate, the thing that really gets them pissed is when we try to give them these things militarily. Do they hate freedom, Christians, and MTV? What about Jews, Atheists, Buddhists, and the rest? Then let them close their wallets. Hell, let them close their borders if they like. Whenever a nation gets to feel comfortable on its own soil and nothing blows up, everybody is a winner.
The question about restriction of US trade is essentially the question of where we're allowed to look for alternative opportunities when any particular group decides to make things tough for us. You're right, the USD is good stuff over there. If it's all going to Afghanis instead of Saudis, chances are the Saudis are going to start thinking about changing their game. They're capitolists over there too, you now.
You seem to have taken a very cynical opinion, but allowing businesses such as your business to take their operations and their money elsewhere is exactly how to improve your situation.
You really SHOULD be on the Watch list, you sound a lot like some of the OKC terrorists in many ways.
Well... it does and it doesn't. IE is inherently less secure because it allows for the nasty buffer-overflows and assorted scripts to run. Once the system has maliscious code running within userspace, anything can happen. For instance, users running 10.3.6 or earlier are in imanent danger of having their passwords stolen, since you can have UNIX dump the hashes from any privclass.
However: the fact still remains that attacks from within the system are much more difficult and less likely to succeed on a Mac, and more importantly the number of Mac users is still so low that virus authors very rarely bother to code for Mac systems. Even through FireFox 1.5 my computer has a few tracking cookies and little bits of spyware, but none of it is ever running or causing trouble because it's designed for Windows.
But where does this leave us? The best protection for Mac is the relatively small number of them running. When Mac gets large enough (and numbers are increasing) then we'll start seeing maliscious code for Macs, in which case the particular decrepitude of Internet Explorer is just a big, open door. Mac may well be more secure than Windows for the rest of eternity, but that's no reason to throw caution to the winds.
They do, or are in the process of doing so, if you read the link. They seem to think that temperatures "up to 95 degrees" are unnacceptable, however, which is odd seeing as how everybody on foot is that hot or hotter. Thus the vests, which are meant to supplement the AC. In fact, they rely on the vehicle's AC to function, so whatever sollution they employ is going to require installing AC units.
Personally, I'd say being in Iraq is bad for American soldiers' health... but that's just me.
I think our friend's got the better point, though. Imagine being on the ground in Iraq with a resperatory condition or developing circulatory problems. I think the best course would be to use an air-conditioning system only so far as to keep the air inside the vehicle the same temperature as the outside air. Not only is there a health concern, but there's a psychological aspect to jumping out the door to handle a crisis and suddenly being hit with a thirty or fourty degree temperature change.
The Army website says the airconditioners were effective enough to keep temperatures down to 95 in even the worst conditions, which seems to fit the bill of preventing heat-stroke. Adding the cooling vests to the equation introduces health risks that might take soldiers out of action and/or cause lasting problems, costs money, takes up space in the vehicle, may reduce combat effectiveness in serious crisis situations, and also adds another layer to the uniform. Note that it's underneath the armor vest, which makes the unit very difficult to remove in the field.
While I do like the idea of getting soldiers out of action, I don't expect that giving them all double pneumonia is really a good way to do it. I move to enlist the nation's supply of Republican Senators in the Marines and see how long they continue to support the war.
The internet was not made so that people could speak ignorantly, regardless of what it has subsequently evolved into. If you want to argue that Windows is a superior OS to Mac, then by all means, do so. At this point, however, you have failed utterly and completely.
I call shenanigans. You've made no effort to back up your claim, despite the fact that you support an opinion that does not seem to be shared by any significant number of people on this site. Taken literally, it seems as though you have a point to make. If there is some marvelous secret to Windows that can repair the hours of cursing and outweigh the nice browsing and security features of more progressive systems, then I for one am eager to hear it. Teach us, if you will.
However, I am seeing evidence that your only genuine intention is to make noise cause trouble for people intending serious discussion, in much the same way as disgruntled teenagers cause pointless destruction with bricks and spray-paint cans. If you want to prove me wrong, please do so. I am eager for strong evidence that people so uselessly foul-minded are better people than they appear on the surface.
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Yeah man, it's like they're everywhere! They could be watching you every minute of every day, with their super-secret PCs modified for laser vision and, like, ninja hearing!
Could it be that China is actually just ahead of us this time? Maybe we aren't looking at a bad example across the ocean... we're seeing the next inevitable phase.
That's not funny.
They're developing more rapidly than us, manufacturing more than we probably ever will and only exporting more and more every year. On that scale, if anybody can be said to be advanced, 'tis they. Business wants a piece of that action, and government wants a piece of that business. Sounds like an express flight to Beijing imho.
Or else the "new kid" version. Remember when the click-wheel was still worth a good omg? Well, it ain't anymore. Apple's motto was "Think Different" for quite a while, and they seem to still hold with that.
The Zune is trying very hard to cash in on the form factor of the iPod, and it's probably going to work pretty well. Even if there proves to be a quality issue, and I expect there will be with how crowded the case (and budget) is on that device, American consumers have proven by now that they'll sacrifice a lot on quality if they can save twenty bucks. So if being higher quality can't beat cheap price and a longer feature-set, what can?
Being unique. Even when Macs were consistently lower quality, like with those awful candy-colour iMacs (IMHO, of course), Mac clung on by being a unique user experience and a unique form-factor. That's what's kept the company viable for at least the last fifteen years, and I expect they'll stick with that.
Sounds fine. That means I get to have a crazy-fast hard-drive for my swap / page-file / scratch disc, and server farms get to have 10,000rpm drives that save scads of energy.
Just because most companies spin the discs faster doesn't mean that everyone will, or that it's a bad thing. The upshot is more options, with far higher peak performance on the chosen primary parametre.
Also, isn't speed controller more or less free pie when you're using steppers?
IANAE.
How about a dedicated antivirus board? I'm on a Mac so I dunno, but everyone around me is constantly complaining about the CPU load for antivirus software.
...Beuller?
Imagine, then, a cheap processor (an Intel embedded-grade unit, for instance, running about 100-150 mhz) connecting to a new slot on the motherboard that runs background virus scans while your HD(s) is(are) idle. Got sensitive data or a long vulnerability list? Drop fifty, hundred bucks and upgrade the card.
CPU load isn't the only reason for this either. Vista is trying to kill off antivirus software, remember? This could be a chance for hardware manufacturers to get McAfee, Norton, Symantec, and all them good ol' boys right back into the ball-game.
Dell? Are you listening?
Yes, they are. Ever noticed how everyone around you keeps throwing "File Not Found" errors? The worst part is, you can only reboot a person once a day.
Reference television program Myth Busters: firing a 9mm bullet into the window of a pressurized aircraft will not shatter the window, nor so much as steal a magazine from the nearest passenger. Eat lead, Hollywood.
If it's transparent, where's the issue? I see a pull-down menu on the login screen. The actual login will be to the central box, and then an image will be sent to the host you logged in from. Process is as follows:
Login to account: Khabok
Password: ******
Operating System: Ubuntu
Want a new image on the box? It'll be on CDs marked "operating system extension." Put it in any computer on the network and it installs it to the central resource and sends an update to every host on the network. To remove, simply go to network/Operating\ Systems/ and right-click the icon. Easy.
MacBooks with good heat characteristics? Count on it. I don't even remember the last time I heard my iBook fan turn on. I've also heard the PowerBooks are great about that too. They tend to get warmer underneath and on the left handrest area (over the drive) but they still don't have to blow themselves out like a Dell.
I keep hearing that PPC is a hot chip, and supposedly Yonah is very cool, so I'd say the MacBook will be better if anything.
Haven't actually seen one yet, though.
You want to be careful about that. I know the Yonah chipset looks nice, but theoretically the Pentium 4 is fairly nice too. But I've proven in the past that as far as PhotoShop 7 goes, my iBook G4 can out-perform a mid-market Dell tower Pentium 4 by a mile, even though my laptop was deep into virtual memory and the tower had a gig unused.
Whatever the Yonah looks like now, my G4 has been damn good to me. On top of which, I don't even remember the last time I heard the fan turn on. I'll believe the Intel version when I see it. For now, I say wait if you must, but don't be afraid to log into Ebay and look for a G4.
12" iBook G4, on the list for fewest repairs... I coulda told you that myself.
I am proud of any nation that is better at providing paid vacation, civil services, and public transportation than fighting wars. Perhaps it would be comforting to know that the United States placed more value upon keeping its own population comfortable, happy, and healthy than upon killing the population of other nations.
The number of bloodbaths achieved is not the final determination of national merit. In fact, it is a detriment. In terms of violent war against years in existence, the United States could be considered to be the worst nation ever founded. When we can truly say that racism and ignorance are behind us, then we may have earned the right to mitigate our version of justice to the world. The evidence of your comment shows that that time is not now.
Being conquered by Hitler does not show that your nation is useless, it merely demonstrates that your military is not the largest project on your budget. In this way, France was superior to Hitler and continues to be superior to the United States.
I can't believe you quoted Marge Simpson and Rush Limbaugh as reliable sources.
When you sell those shares, can multiple people buy and hold them simultaneously?
Maybe true, and definitely a little cute, but entirely lacking in good sense. Whatever they happen to hate, the thing that really gets them pissed is when we try to give them these things militarily. Do they hate freedom, Christians, and MTV? What about Jews, Atheists, Buddhists, and the rest? Then let them close their wallets. Hell, let them close their borders if they like. Whenever a nation gets to feel comfortable on its own soil and nothing blows up, everybody is a winner.
The question about restriction of US trade is essentially the question of where we're allowed to look for alternative opportunities when any particular group decides to make things tough for us. You're right, the USD is good stuff over there. If it's all going to Afghanis instead of Saudis, chances are the Saudis are going to start thinking about changing their game. They're capitolists over there too, you now.
You seem to have taken a very cynical opinion, but allowing businesses such as your business to take their operations and their money elsewhere is exactly how to improve your situation.
You really SHOULD be on the Watch list, you sound a lot like some of the OKC terrorists in many ways.
And you called him ignorant...
Well... it does and it doesn't. IE is inherently less secure because it allows for the nasty buffer-overflows and assorted scripts to run. Once the system has maliscious code running within userspace, anything can happen. For instance, users running 10.3.6 or earlier are in imanent danger of having their passwords stolen, since you can have UNIX dump the hashes from any privclass.
However: the fact still remains that attacks from within the system are much more difficult and less likely to succeed on a Mac, and more importantly the number of Mac users is still so low that virus authors very rarely bother to code for Mac systems. Even through FireFox 1.5 my computer has a few tracking cookies and little bits of spyware, but none of it is ever running or causing trouble because it's designed for Windows.
But where does this leave us? The best protection for Mac is the relatively small number of them running. When Mac gets large enough (and numbers are increasing) then we'll start seeing maliscious code for Macs, in which case the particular decrepitude of Internet Explorer is just a big, open door. Mac may well be more secure than Windows for the rest of eternity, but that's no reason to throw caution to the winds.
We can have that warm, fuzzy maliscious app feeling too... just download IE for Mac!
They do, or are in the process of doing so, if you read the link. They seem to think that temperatures "up to 95 degrees" are unnacceptable, however, which is odd seeing as how everybody on foot is that hot or hotter. Thus the vests, which are meant to supplement the AC. In fact, they rely on the vehicle's AC to function, so whatever sollution they employ is going to require installing AC units.
Personally, I'd say being in Iraq is bad for American soldiers' health... but that's just me.
I think our friend's got the better point, though. Imagine being on the ground in Iraq with a resperatory condition or developing circulatory problems. I think the best course would be to use an air-conditioning system only so far as to keep the air inside the vehicle the same temperature as the outside air. Not only is there a health concern, but there's a psychological aspect to jumping out the door to handle a crisis and suddenly being hit with a thirty or fourty degree temperature change.
The Army website says the airconditioners were effective enough to keep temperatures down to 95 in even the worst conditions, which seems to fit the bill of preventing heat-stroke. Adding the cooling vests to the equation introduces health risks that might take soldiers out of action and/or cause lasting problems, costs money, takes up space in the vehicle, may reduce combat effectiveness in serious crisis situations, and also adds another layer to the uniform. Note that it's underneath the armor vest, which makes the unit very difficult to remove in the field.
While I do like the idea of getting soldiers out of action, I don't expect that giving them all double pneumonia is really a good way to do it. I move to enlist the nation's supply of Republican Senators in the Marines and see how long they continue to support the war.
The internet was not made so that people could speak ignorantly, regardless of what it has subsequently evolved into. If you want to argue that Windows is a superior OS to Mac, then by all means, do so. At this point, however, you have failed utterly and completely.
I call shenanigans. You've made no effort to back up your claim, despite the fact that you support an opinion that does not seem to be shared by any significant number of people on this site. Taken literally, it seems as though you have a point to make. If there is some marvelous secret to Windows that can repair the hours of cursing and outweigh the nice browsing and security features of more progressive systems, then I for one am eager to hear it. Teach us, if you will.
However, I am seeing evidence that your only genuine intention is to make noise cause trouble for people intending serious discussion, in much the same way as disgruntled teenagers cause pointless destruction with bricks and spray-paint cans. If you want to prove me wrong, please do so. I am eager for strong evidence that people so uselessly foul-minded are better people than they appear on the surface.