Pollution and safety regulations in the U.S. also contribute a good deal to the 'SUV' phenomenon. Cars have to meet stringent safety standards, and car makers must meet 'average of entire fleet sold' mileage standards, which force them to produce a certain percentage of economy cars to balance out their gas guzzler 'sports' models. Trucks have lax safety and fuel consumption standards, because of 'exemptions' granted to them by the government.
So what does Detroit do? They heavily promote less-safe, gas-guzzling SUVs.
In a sense, the loophole-ridden emissions and safety standards are to blame for the 'SUV explosion' on the roads.
My first hand experience, running OpenOffice on Linux and Office 2000 on Windows 98 on the same older Pentium I laptop, is that it's nearly impossible to run 'productivity' apps on a 'popular' desktop like Gnome on said hardware. Office 2000 was no racehorse, either, but it at least was usable.
No, it is a misnomer to claim that modern Linux-based OSes are less resource hungry than Redmond bloatware. The modern 'Linuxes' may have caught up to Win98 in terms of usability, but they're resource pigs.
My tactic is to instead run a 'classic' X environment. In my case, I run FVWM2 but have also run the Window Manager (mwm) in OpenMotif (it's pretty nice, actually) on my systems.
Object-Oriented-C++/BlahBlah 'modern' environments like Gnome and KDE don't cut it, frankly.
Yes, and the FCC has decreed that the frequencies used for Wireless Networking are open. That is specifically why the manufacturers have standardized on that bit of spectrum for Wireless Networking devices.
That's the extent of the FCC's authority in that part of the spectrum.
Yes, this whole matter is nothing more than another twist on what happens if you move into a sucky neighborhood where there are 'covenants' that you must abide by to live there. It's no different than the rules like 'no parking a vehicle on the driveway' or 'yard equipment sheds must be painted xx color' or any of the other bullshit that many of us would NEVER abide by.
True, but all the money I save by not buying a new car means I have more money to spend on herbicides to spray on my land to kill the weeds.
Also, I'm saving up so I can afford to get the transmission fixed on the old 1970 Chevy C-10 pickup truck. Now THERE is a machine that makes that fricking Hummer look clean. Plus I can haul a LOT of herbicide in the long bed of the thing.
(not that we have that much land, just a lot of weeds to spray at the moment)
unfortunately computers are still treated as big, confusing pieces of collected hardware and not the integrated appliances that Apple sells.
And here's to computers remaining what they are. You go ahead and call them 'big and confusing.' I and a bunch of us will call them 'open expandable architectures.'
Go ahead. Flash plastic at the Apple Store. It's your right. Thank goodness 'the rest of us' have figured it out.
Battery compartments are one of the most expensive parts of case design. Particularly for devices that use COTS batteries. You have to fit all the batteries the customer is likely to try to use. Having a user openable door makes a case MUCH more expensive.
The 'sealed battery' iPod is an indication that:
1. Apple doesn't have a particulary good design staff. 2. They're cheap with their products.
I 'dropped in' a CD player that plays MP3's burned to CD. A more expensive model had a jack on front to plug in an external MP3 player, but I prefer burning MP3's to cheap CDR media. I'm conducting a sort of 'life test' this summer on cheap CDR media. It holds up surprisingly well in the hot passenger compartment of a car, even lying on the seat exposed to the sun.
My '93 Saturn has over 180,000 miles with no major rebuilds or mantenance and gets 32MPG. And that's with an engine that is presently buring about 2/3 of a quart of oil with every gas fill.
Gasoline has a long proven history of relative safety. The liquid isn't flammable at all. You can douse out a match in liquid gasoline, as long as the vapors are well ventilated.
And if you don't think a car using 6000 cells is going to have rigorous cost containment measures taken in the cells' design, you're dreaming.
(the above is an attempt at visualizing all those lithium ion batteries igniting all at once).
If you put enough of something together that are prone to a certain sort of behavior, it seems very likely that said behavior will happen somewhere in the population. Hasn't there been discussion recently about these batteries spontaneously igniting?
It just doesn't seem like a good idea to amass that many of them in a big movable cluster that can crash and cause cell ruptures. Really, it just doesn't.
I thought there was a rule that anybody who still has cassette in their dashboard is prohibited from purchasing an iPod.
Speaking to your second sentence: it's good to see all this 'me too' trendy shit overtaking the iPod. Nothing makes Steve Jobs Enterprises look more like what it really is better than knockoff iPod accessories on the endcap at Dollar General.
OSX is the latest version of NextStep. Surely you've heard of it. It's what Apple decided to support on their hardware after they gave up on patching and repatching their old kludge OS.
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Pollution and safety regulations in the U.S. also contribute a good deal to the 'SUV' phenomenon. Cars have to meet stringent safety standards, and car makers must meet 'average of entire fleet sold' mileage standards, which force them to produce a certain percentage of economy cars to balance out their gas guzzler 'sports' models. Trucks have lax safety and fuel consumption standards, because of 'exemptions' granted to them by the government.
So what does Detroit do? They heavily promote less-safe, gas-guzzling SUVs.
In a sense, the loophole-ridden emissions and safety standards are to blame for the 'SUV explosion' on the roads.
My first hand experience, running OpenOffice on Linux and Office 2000 on Windows 98 on the same older Pentium I laptop, is that it's nearly impossible to run 'productivity' apps on a 'popular' desktop like Gnome on said hardware. Office 2000 was no racehorse, either, but it at least was usable.
No, it is a misnomer to claim that modern Linux-based OSes are less resource hungry than Redmond bloatware. The modern 'Linuxes' may have caught up to Win98 in terms of usability, but they're resource pigs.
My tactic is to instead run a 'classic' X environment. In my case, I run FVWM2 but have also run the Window Manager (mwm) in OpenMotif (it's pretty nice, actually) on my systems.
Object-Oriented-C++/BlahBlah 'modern' environments like Gnome and KDE don't cut it, frankly.
Yes, and the FCC has decreed that the frequencies used for Wireless Networking are open. That is specifically why the manufacturers have standardized on that bit of spectrum for Wireless Networking devices.
That's the extent of the FCC's authority in that part of the spectrum.
The only machine I use in a 'wireless' mode on my home network is a notebook computer that doesn't have a USB port.
Yes, this whole matter is nothing more than another twist on what happens if you move into a sucky neighborhood where there are 'covenants' that you must abide by to live there. It's no different than the rules like 'no parking a vehicle on the driveway' or 'yard equipment sheds must be painted xx color' or any of the other bullshit that many of us would NEVER abide by.
There are other places to live.
True, but all the money I save by not buying a new car means I have more money to spend on herbicides to spray on my land to kill the weeds.
Also, I'm saving up so I can afford to get the transmission fixed on the old 1970 Chevy C-10 pickup truck. Now THERE is a machine that makes that fricking Hummer look clean. Plus I can haul a LOT of herbicide in the long bed of the thing.
(not that we have that much land, just a lot of weeds to spray at the moment)
Well, Microsoft will come along and say, "Hey! There is an alternative," and have the marketing clout to back it up.
Microsoft may very well do to Apple's iPod sales what the IBM PC did to the Apple ][.
Steve Jobs should be getting nervous about now, to be truthful.
unfortunately computers are still treated as big, confusing pieces of collected hardware and not the integrated appliances that Apple sells.
And here's to computers remaining what they are. You go ahead and call them 'big and confusing.' I and a bunch of us will call them 'open expandable architectures.'
Go ahead. Flash plastic at the Apple Store. It's your right. Thank goodness 'the rest of us' have figured it out.
Now I can archive the originals in a safe place and not worry about damaging them.
I mostly store 'the originals' where I got them. At the library.
It isn't that good of a 'safe place' but the price was right.
He's either not a very big Rush fan, or one who is a bit more monotheistic than most.
If they ignore a 5% market share OS, they are not competitors?
Gee. I wonder if they will support NetBSD on StrongARM?
I'm not going to hold my breath that a client will come out for NT 4.0 on PowerPC, though. . .
Battery compartments are one of the most expensive parts of case design. Particularly for devices that use COTS batteries. You have to fit all the batteries the customer is likely to try to use. Having a user openable door makes a case MUCH more expensive.
The 'sealed battery' iPod is an indication that:
1. Apple doesn't have a particulary good design staff.
2. They're cheap with their products.
I 'dropped in' a CD player that plays MP3's burned to CD. A more expensive model had a jack on front to plug in an external MP3 player, but I prefer burning MP3's to cheap CDR media. I'm conducting a sort of 'life test' this summer on cheap CDR media. It holds up surprisingly well in the hot passenger compartment of a car, even lying on the seat exposed to the sun.
You know what they say. The only thing a Camaro stops at is every gas station along the way to fuel up.
My '93 Saturn has over 180,000 miles with no major rebuilds or mantenance and gets 32MPG. And that's with an engine that is presently buring about 2/3 of a quart of oil with every gas fill.
Gasoline has a long proven history of relative safety. The liquid isn't flammable at all. You can douse out a match in liquid gasoline, as long as the vapors are well ventilated.
And if you don't think a car using 6000 cells is going to have rigorous cost containment measures taken in the cells' design, you're dreaming.
(the above is an attempt at visualizing all those lithium ion batteries igniting all at once).
If you put enough of something together that are prone to a certain sort of behavior, it seems very likely that said behavior will happen somewhere in the population. Hasn't there been discussion recently about these batteries spontaneously igniting?
It just doesn't seem like a good idea to amass that many of them in a big movable cluster that can crash and cause cell ruptures. Really, it just doesn't.
I thought there was a rule that anybody who still has cassette in their dashboard is prohibited from purchasing an iPod.
Speaking to your second sentence: it's good to see all this 'me too' trendy shit overtaking the iPod. Nothing makes Steve Jobs Enterprises look more like what it really is better than knockoff iPod accessories on the endcap at Dollar General.
Is it available in a custom 'Tux the Penguin' shape?
When Firefox 3 is released, we can compare that with Opera 10 and Internet Explorer 8,
Not unless there's a native binary of IE8 for NetBSD on sparc, we won't.
I don't know why people even act like there's a competition. IE is a non-player.
Important communications method? Cellular??
(maybe to thousands of cliques of teenage girls)
Cool. So I can built it for my Mac SE/30, which runs NetBSD.
Third party developers can view the NT kernel source under NDA. Many have.
OSX is the latest version of NextStep. Surely you've heard of it. It's what Apple decided to support on their hardware after they gave up on patching and repatching their old kludge OS.
Where's the source tarball for when I want to use the archives twenty years from now on NetBSD/arch-not-invented-yet ?