"I have also been offered a specfic amount of "hush-money" if I would just shut up and go away, but the amount offered would not even cover my most direct expenses."
Now that I think about it, once a windows virus wiped out my master boot record, which is easy to fix - but this works differently and I don't think the concept applies here. It used to be (a whole different era) that Linux would destroy the windows partition when doing things like mounting the windows partition and reading\writing files to the FAT32\NTFS volume from Linux could easily destroy Windows or at least delete some files.
Let's hope that this new boot loading technology really knows how to 'em seperated while allowing file sysem access seamleslly across an MS volume and a Mac volume. Otherwise, could a Windows virus simply damage file structure across the entirety of a magnetic disk, destroying everything? I very much hope that someone with the knowledge to clarify this matter stumbles across this thread.
From Apples Boot Camp page:
"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
"Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes."
Well said, Apple.
I wonder how massively cripling viri and malware infections on the Windows partition could potentialy damage or even wipe out the OS X partition. Perhaps it is now possible to infect windows with a virus that is designed to attack the helpless OS X partitiion?
Apple has always refered to themselves as a HARDWARE company. So I guess it makes perfect since to allow dual booting of operating systems now that they are on the intel platform.
One concern: This recent topic of discussion: " http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/ 1826257" on slashdot is linked to an article that gives me the creeps by presenting sound logic for ditching OS X, keeping their interface and plopping it on top of MS Windows. If that happens, I will go scurying back to Slackware like "insert something clever or funny here".
AOL has some chat rooms with hundreds of the very best hackers in the whole wide world answering questions and handing out all kinds of scripts 24/7. You have to be very smart and a real hacker to run a script from an AOL hacker chatroom.
Ya. I'll bet you would also use it to simulate an improbably large bowl of very hots grits down to the level of every last grit relative to every last grit relative to thermodynamics; that is to say the tempature throughout the various regions of the improbably large bowl of very hot grits and the dynamics that presents.
The diffuculty is considering things like: is the distribution of heat energy across a bowl of hot grits predictable regarding the size of the bowl, the volume of grits, and maybe even a specific geometry of the bowl? Can we make a reliable model scaled up from the scientific study of a real and regular sized bowl of hot grits? Plastic or ceramic?
Too much to bother adressing here. I am sure you are aware of all of the difficulties rendering an accurate model of something the size of a galaxy based on something that you will eventually poop.
I have long since lost track, what are we otherwise up to in teraflops?
Also, I am curious how some of the folks here on slashdot would answer the question: If 100 teraflops can be achieved and sustained, what are the three best single uses to apply that much processing power against?
Personaly, I have no idea. As for Vista, I believe that joke has already been made once or twice in the discussion.
Of coarse no one want's a cell phone that requires a recharge every three to four hours, no one would even want a cell phone that lasted but one day with "average" usuage.
The two main problems are the power requirements for decoding and playing mp3's along with sending power to a speaker producing the audio. Another problem faced is the power requirements for many and frequent decently long web and other IP services sessions - it's the sending and recieving of the signal here, it adds the equivalent of talk time you would not otherwise be engaged in, further shorting the battery life.
If we cannot make longer lasting batteries, we need batteries that can go from dead to fully charged pretty much instantly and are chargable everywhere including public places where a charge needs to last at least a day or two. Not likely.
It seems to me that we need a replacement technology for small form factor batteries that can run a whole lot of stuff for a more than reasonable amount of time. I believe it is this scenerio that has kept Apply from making there own innovative little phone. I believe this problem of storing power has likely resulted in Apple having a whole bunch super tech that must sit around on paper until some battery of the future is invented.
Also, Apple has proven they are capable of producing a very light weight and simple interface for mobile devices. I would suppose that the running of the operating system and applications on any small device would affect power consumption by way of processing requirements.
I appreciate you argument, it is something my mind often considers and I just wanted to add my thoughts.
Like the artical says, I am going to sit this one out and wait for the next next generation of optical storage.
Technology companies, the big ones, need to realize that an industry sweeping technology excpected to dominate over an older technology can ONLY be properly developed and marketed with said big companies developing a universal standard\device or full and fair compatabilty standards. The market does not need choice to work itself out, it needs solid technological standards and compatabilties. This thinking *must* become the next big paradigm shift in how these companies operate, manage, and develop.
William
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"I have also been offered a specfic amount of "hush-money" if I would just shut up and go away, but the amount offered would not even cover my most direct expenses."
Let's hope that this new boot loading technology really knows how to 'em seperated while allowing file sysem access seamleslly across an MS volume and a Mac volume. Otherwise, could a Windows virus simply damage file structure across the entirety of a magnetic disk, destroying everything? I very much hope that someone with the knowledge to clarify this matter stumbles across this thread.
"Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes."
Well said, Apple.
I wonder how massively cripling viri and malware infections on the Windows partition could potentialy damage or even wipe out the OS X partition. Perhaps it is now possible to infect windows with a virus that is designed to attack the helpless OS X partitiion?
One concern: This recent topic of discussion: " http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/ 1826257" on slashdot is linked to an article that gives me the creeps by presenting sound logic for ditching OS X, keeping their interface and plopping it on top of MS Windows. If that happens, I will go scurying back to Slackware like "insert something clever or funny here".
Thanks. I have been reloading slashdot 1 - 50 times a day for about nine years now. I only recently started posting here and there.
AOL has some chat rooms with hundreds of the very best hackers in the whole wide world answering questions and handing out all kinds of scripts 24/7. You have to be very smart and a real hacker to run a script from an AOL hacker chatroom.
That's all fine and dandy. One thing though: May I please have the URL?
The diffuculty is considering things like: is the distribution of heat energy across a bowl of hot grits predictable regarding the size of the bowl, the volume of grits, and maybe even a specific geometry of the bowl? Can we make a reliable model scaled up from the scientific study of a real and regular sized bowl of hot grits? Plastic or ceramic?
Too much to bother adressing here. I am sure you are aware of all of the difficulties rendering an accurate model of something the size of a galaxy based on something that you will eventually poop.
Also, I am curious how some of the folks here on slashdot would answer the question: If 100 teraflops can be achieved and sustained, what are the three best single uses to apply that much processing power against?
Personaly, I have no idea. As for Vista, I believe that joke has already been made once or twice in the discussion.
The two main problems are the power requirements for decoding and playing mp3's along with sending power to a speaker producing the audio. Another problem faced is the power requirements for many and frequent decently long web and other IP services sessions - it's the sending and recieving of the signal here, it adds the equivalent of talk time you would not otherwise be engaged in, further shorting the battery life.
If we cannot make longer lasting batteries, we need batteries that can go from dead to fully charged pretty much instantly and are chargable everywhere including public places where a charge needs to last at least a day or two. Not likely.
It seems to me that we need a replacement technology for small form factor batteries that can run a whole lot of stuff for a more than reasonable amount of time. I believe it is this scenerio that has kept Apply from making there own innovative little phone. I believe this problem of storing power has likely resulted in Apple having a whole bunch super tech that must sit around on paper until some battery of the future is invented.
Also, Apple has proven they are capable of producing a very light weight and simple interface for mobile devices. I would suppose that the running of the operating system and applications on any small device would affect power consumption by way of processing requirements.
I appreciate you argument, it is something my mind often considers and I just wanted to add my thoughts.
Later
So does this effectively end the subject of blue ray vs. HDDVD as the standard for the comming years or what?
Like the artical says, I am going to sit this one out and wait for the next next generation of optical storage.
Technology companies, the big ones, need to realize that an industry sweeping technology excpected to dominate over an older technology can ONLY be properly developed and marketed with said big companies developing a universal standard\device or full and fair compatabilty standards. The market does not need choice to work itself out, it needs solid technological standards and compatabilties. This thinking *must* become the next big paradigm shift in how these companies operate, manage, and develop. William