For an instant I thought you said "spacegoat".. People want to find a damn spacegoat??? Geez, is that why we are sending all those rockets into space.. its all about the space goats!!!..
We have a rating system in Australia I guess, but is it enforced? If you go to the games wizards or the EB, I dont know whether they'll refuse to sell you the game if you don't meet the age requirements.
Dammit, how did you know??
If you know the words to a song and sing along (or even hum along) are you infringing copyright? As you are reproducing someone else's intellectual property?...
Not going to happen. We would need accurate measures of the trajectory of the earth before and after the collision to determine the momentum, and thus direction, of the meteor. In principle, if we knew everything that happened in the solar system since that time to a very high accuracy, we could run Newton's equations backward and find the trajectory of the earth after the event.
I agree - a lot of games these days with slick graphics, but poor gameplay. A game which really involves you is going to be good regardles of whether it has DirectX 40343233 or is text mode. Hell, has anyone played LORD on a BBS before?
Well, try and train some normal everyday office people and see for yourself how quickly people learn when they are already used to something else, and not even 100% comfortable with it either.
I don't agree. The fact that users are already used to Windows will make the switch much easier. In Windows, everything is really dumbed down for the end user. The learning curve that someone will need to go through is much steeper when switching from Windows to Linux rahter then upgrading to a newer windows version.
I have seen so many people in my industry (electronics design) who only know the basics of using the computer. It is sometimes painful watching them using a Windows PC to do simple operations, I would only imagine they would be totaly lost in Linux, making the re-training cost higher.
If an organisation has any long term benefit from switching to Linux (provided that the applications they need are available), then they really should bite the bullet and re-train the staff, in small portions at a time.
A very pessimistic way of looking at it. What it does give is the opportunity for kids who absolutely cannot afford a computer to have a chance to learn more about it. Which direction they choose is up the them. With good enough education, hopefully they would go in the right direction and use it for positive and productive means.
In the end, the "Great White Hunters" as you like to say will always be in need of cheap (computer literate) labor...
The CNN has a ground breaking report about an ethiopian village who have had to relocate after illegal dumping of deleted e-mails. They say that millions of deleted spam e-mails were falling on their village daily, dumped by the super-stealthy e-Bombers. The problem became too much to bear when their goats stopped producing milk, and instead were producing printouts advertising Viagra, causing an over-population, and not enough food.
When RC2 came out I think, i thought i'd give it a go - I downloaded the ISO, burned it, and put it in my CD Rom. Win XP then told me I need to run some advisory tool. So fine, I ran it. The results came out ok - you are ready to put Vista on. Vista installer started, and after 10 mins or so, it told me that it cannot continue because it does not support my SATA hard drive. Mind you, I was trying to install it on my standard IDE drive. So what did I do next? Took the CD out, threw it away, and installed Ubuntu. (the install was a bit bumpy at the begining but then finished smoothly). Installing KDE was a dream, and all the other apps I wanted on my home PC.
I don't really care any more how long vista takes to come out, i'll keep using Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and keep WinXP for the games I can't get working with transgaming..
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Is that career working out for you? Get back to ditch digging mate, computer break is over.
You reinstall windows at least once a month? Why, theres something you are doing wrong my friend.. I've had my install of windows XP for about 3 years now. Using it for work (hardware and firmware development), internet use, gaming.. my hardware doesn't change as often as that, but even when it does (more ram, new graphics card..) it doesn't warrant a reinstall. Plus, I couldn't go through the pain of sitting through another install.
Microsoft is finally doing something right by someone else. Whatever the motivation behind it is, its a step forward. Now they just have to work on reducing the price of their OS. They'll find more people would be willing to buy it.
You already can - most microprocessors have flash memory and its own OS (MSP430 for example by TI).Youll fnd them in just about everything - water heaters, lcd screens, washing machines, microwaves.. The idea of putting them in PCs however is silly because of the amount of hardware that is out there, and how will you decide that you'll have drivers for this, and not drivers for that..
Everyone wants to glorify themselves these days. Every technician calls himself an engineer, i've even heard of helpesk staff calling themselves helpdesk engineers. Like doctors, engeering titles should be applied to people who have engineering degrees and are doing actual engineering work. Same goes with these glorified OS things.
Why would you want to run an OS from within a browser, in your own OS, and then surf the net from the browser in an os which is in your browser on your OS!!. The idea is ridiculous. How about just making a "functional website" rather then glorify it by calling it an OS. I'm sure if you had enough time you could do the whole thing in flash. It stinks - as much as the idea of Office live.
Yeah, and whos to blame for putting ass cream on your face? The chemist who sold you ass cream, or the idiot who put it on his face. Its like someone installing linux for you as your hardcore gaming machine! Clearly its Linus's fault!. LOL. Be realistic poeple. Everything has its intended use, and needs to be used for that intended purpose.
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I thought they were built by aliens who used them as space ships... StarGate...
For an instant I thought you said "spacegoat".. People want to find a damn spacegoat??? Geez, is that why we are sending all those rockets into space.. its all about the space goats!!!..
We have a rating system in Australia I guess, but is it enforced? If you go to the games wizards or the EB, I dont know whether they'll refuse to sell you the game if you don't meet the age requirements.
Dammit, how did you know?? If you know the words to a song and sing along (or even hum along) are you infringing copyright? As you are reproducing someone else's intellectual property?...
I don't do either. I can't be bothered buying it or downloading it. I listen to the radio... soon enough some asshole will put in radio tax!! argghhhh
Not going to happen. We would need accurate measures of the trajectory of the earth before and after the collision to determine the momentum, and thus direction, of the meteor. In principle, if we knew everything that happened in the solar system since that time to a very high accuracy, we could run Newton's equations backward and find the trajectory of the earth after the event.
Time for someone to invent a huge "replay" button
I reckon one of the Unicorns farted, and killed the dinosaurs...
I agree - a lot of games these days with slick graphics, but poor gameplay. A game which really involves you is going to be good regardles of whether it has DirectX 40343233 or is text mode. Hell, has anyone played LORD on a BBS before?
Well, try and train some normal everyday office people and see for yourself how quickly people learn when they are already used to something else, and not even 100% comfortable with it either.
I don't agree. The fact that users are already used to Windows will make the switch much easier. In Windows, everything is really dumbed down for the end user. The learning curve that someone will need to go through is much steeper when switching from Windows to Linux rahter then upgrading to a newer windows version. I have seen so many people in my industry (electronics design) who only know the basics of using the computer. It is sometimes painful watching them using a Windows PC to do simple operations, I would only imagine they would be totaly lost in Linux, making the re-training cost higher. If an organisation has any long term benefit from switching to Linux (provided that the applications they need are available), then they really should bite the bullet and re-train the staff, in small portions at a time.
A very pessimistic way of looking at it. What it does give is the opportunity for kids who absolutely cannot afford a computer to have a chance to learn more about it. Which direction they choose is up the them. With good enough education, hopefully they would go in the right direction and use it for positive and productive means. In the end, the "Great White Hunters" as you like to say will always be in need of cheap (computer literate) labor...
The electronics are definitely serviceable - the problem is the time spent to repair an item. Thats where the real cost lies.
The CNN has a ground breaking report about an ethiopian village who have had to relocate after illegal dumping of deleted e-mails. They say that millions of deleted spam e-mails were falling on their village daily, dumped by the super-stealthy e-Bombers. The problem became too much to bear when their goats stopped producing milk, and instead were producing printouts advertising Viagra, causing an over-population, and not enough food.
When RC2 came out I think, i thought i'd give it a go - I downloaded the ISO, burned it, and put it in my CD Rom. Win XP then told me I need to run some advisory tool. So fine, I ran it. The results came out ok - you are ready to put Vista on. Vista installer started, and after 10 mins or so, it told me that it cannot continue because it does not support my SATA hard drive. Mind you, I was trying to install it on my standard IDE drive. So what did I do next? Took the CD out, threw it away, and installed Ubuntu. (the install was a bit bumpy at the begining but then finished smoothly). Installing KDE was a dream, and all the other apps I wanted on my home PC. I don't really care any more how long vista takes to come out, i'll keep using Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and keep WinXP for the games I can't get working with transgaming..
Is that career working out for you? Get back to ditch digging mate, computer break is over.
If you are complaining about editing the registry, its easier to run regedit then locate a config file...
LOL. can someone moderate parent funny.
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You reinstall windows at least once a month? Why, theres something you are doing wrong my friend.. I've had my install of windows XP for about 3 years now. Using it for work (hardware and firmware development), internet use, gaming.. my hardware doesn't change as often as that, but even when it does (more ram, new graphics card..) it doesn't warrant a reinstall. Plus, I couldn't go through the pain of sitting through another install. Microsoft is finally doing something right by someone else. Whatever the motivation behind it is, its a step forward. Now they just have to work on reducing the price of their OS. They'll find more people would be willing to buy it.
To make vote rigging easier.. DUH..
You already can - most microprocessors have flash memory and its own OS (MSP430 for example by TI).Youll fnd them in just about everything - water heaters, lcd screens, washing machines, microwaves.. The idea of putting them in PCs however is silly because of the amount of hardware that is out there, and how will you decide that you'll have drivers for this, and not drivers for that..
Everyone wants to glorify themselves these days. Every technician calls himself an engineer, i've even heard of helpesk staff calling themselves helpdesk engineers. Like doctors, engeering titles should be applied to people who have engineering degrees and are doing actual engineering work. Same goes with these glorified OS things.
Why would you want to run an OS from within a browser, in your own OS, and then surf the net from the browser in an os which is in your browser on your OS!!. The idea is ridiculous. How about just making a "functional website" rather then glorify it by calling it an OS. I'm sure if you had enough time you could do the whole thing in flash. It stinks - as much as the idea of Office live.
Yeah, and whos to blame for putting ass cream on your face? The chemist who sold you ass cream, or the idiot who put it on his face. Its like someone installing linux for you as your hardcore gaming machine! Clearly its Linus's fault!. LOL. Be realistic poeple. Everything has its intended use, and needs to be used for that intended purpose.