I am the proud owner of a D-Link wireless card, and as much as I love this card, I hate having to use a binary blob to make it work. Ubuntu's the only distribution I've found that works well out of the box with this card because of the streamlined restricted modules.
Hi, if you're not going to read the article, maybe you should at least read the summary?
Emphasis mine:
After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product.
In other words, they know that Vista is far too broken to start making incremental releases for it. They need a stable working base to start from.
Windows 2000 would have been the perfect opportunity for Microsoft to lock into a fixed release cycle. It was good enough that even if they did nothing at all, they could still make a new release every year; this meant they could have focused their energy on smaller changes.
Unfortunately for everyone, they got lazy and sat on their monopoly, and fell behind OS X (and more recently Linux) in terms of security, visual quality, and ease of use. Now they're at a point where they've got a bug-ridden half-featured OS released to try and catch up. They need to get back to the stability of Windows 2000 before they can lock into a stable release cycle.
So it'll be progressively better operating systems (with the possible exclusion of XP over 2000 IMO) that aren't "perfect"? That sounds fine to me. Agreed. I'm quite surprised that no one in this discussion seems to have made reference to Ubuntu's release schedule. Ubuntu's six-month release plan is tremendously successful in both providing users with cutting-edge features and motivating developers to improve the operating system. It seems Microsoft is realizing the flaws in its own development model and is trying to fix it. This is good; it means better software for everyone.
Windows releases don't always have to have groundbreaking changes, and we don't all have to upgrade to the latest and greatest Windows before the next one comes out. It's okay for them to release a new Windows every year for $300; we can just pick and choose to which versions we want to upgrade, and their user base can be evenly spread over several different versions.
I can name at least 50 nations more deserving of the OLPC program than Nigeria More "deserving"? Why, of all people, should we hold the children accountable for what their government is doing?
If anything, they are a better target for the OLPC, because these children can now get a better education to change their own government when their generation grows up.
"Given the widespread use of Cisco". So Windows must be pretty good too, right? You misunderstood. I wasn't implying anything about the quality of Cisco routers.
Suppose Duke University (and only Duke university) suddenly has problems with all of their Windows boxes. Do you think it's a Windows problem? Given the widespread use of Windows compared to the isolated nature of the problem, it's far more likely that they themselves configured something incorrectly, otherwise all universities should be encountering similar problems.
This isn't to say that there aren't such problems; just as you said, both Cisco and Windows have widespread flaws that affect all universities. But for THIS particular problem, it's more likely to be just a misconfiguration, simply because of the fact that it's localized to Duke.
I have an Atheros chipset wireless card which requires binary drivers to work. It does not work with VMware.
This is the Ubuntu bug report (note the length and number of duplicates) which actually breaks apt on installation, but it's not Ubuntu specific; you can't configure it manually with this wireless card either. The only solution is to disable networking virtualization, which means I can't even have VMware use my wired connection unless I disable the wireless card entirely or physically remove it from my system.
Was I seriously modded down for that? Mods, what the hell?
More importantly, lguest apparently does not require a CPU with virtualization technology. This is exciting news for those of us running on older hardware.
As a cross-platform developer, I'm interested in installing Windows on a virtual machine instead of dual-booting, and the current virtualization technologies don't cut it for me; VMware player is proprietary and doesn't work with my wireless card, QEMU is just too darn slow, and everything else requires a VT CPU. I'm looking forward to trying out lguest.
I'm curious to find more information on this. TFA just says "Cisco has provided a fix". What nature of fix was this? Was it actually a flaw in the routers, or did someone just configure them wrong?
Given the widespread use of Cisco routers compared to the isolated nature of the problem, it sounds a bit like Duke is just trying to save face.
Agreed. The second game had better combat, but the first game had a better story. I still feel nostalgic when I see the flight deck of the Galatea. The game did a fantastic job of making it feel like home; I almost cried when it went down.
Fuel. It takes way too much fuel to stop your orbital motion and to avoid crashing into the planet at a million miles per hour. That's why shuttles on Earth are designed like planes; they counteract gravity using air resistance, the same way planes do.
Having to bring fuel along means the costs go up exponentially. Putting enough fuel in space for both a landing and a launch from Mars would cost simply too much, especially when a little research could yield us some alternative landing mechanisms that would be essentially free in comparison.
Exactly. Streamripping is a fundamental possibility in any kind of broadcast media. If it can reach my ears, I can build a device to record it.
I just don't understand why they care so much about online streams; they're often lower quality than common radio signals. Why aren't they clamoring to stop people from streamripping ordinary radio stations? Are they secretly devising DRM'd radios with encrypted ratio broadcasts? If they aren't applying the same tactics to analog broadcasts, the whole endeavor is pointless.
UHF frequencies (millimeter waves and microwaves) cannot cause cancer. The photon energy is not high enough to break chemical bonds in biological tissue.
When a chemical bond is formed (say, in DNA), a certain amount of energy is released. To break that bond (and cause cancer), you need to put that energy back. The catch is, because of quantum mechanics, the energy can't be accumulated. You can't pile in more and more photons until it finally snaps; you have to get one big photon to come in and snap it. When you state the frequency of a photon source (e.g. 60 GHz), that indicates the energy of each individual photon (0.00024 eV). Typical bonds in DNA are on the order of hundreds of eV. It's physically impossible for this to cause cancer.
Even if you put your cat in a microwave oven, it won't get cancer (though it will die a pretty horrible death).
The danger with electromagnetic waves is heat and depth. UHF electromagnetic waves have far less energy per photon than visible light (~2.5 eV), but they have much greater depth penetration. They go deeper before they collide with your molecules, so they deposit heat deeper into your flesh than visible light or UV radiation. This is why putting your cat in a microwave is very bad; it essentially gets "cooked from the inside out". But the energy outputted by wireless devices is barely enough to cause even measurable changes in the temperature of human flesh. How much heat can you apply to a glass of water with a 1.5 V AA battery? Not much. Now spread that out spherically in a 100 meter radius. Almost zero.
Even then, biological organisms are very good at regulating their temperature; humans live across a wide variety of climates all across Earth, and yet still manage to balance their internal temperature.
Let's say event A occurs when I press a button, just for the sake of simplicity. So if this formula is correct, event B will happen BEFORE I press the button. This is hurting my brain a little, but I think this would imply that event B could not happen unless I was truly planning on pressing the button. I can't "fake" the universe out by pretending to hit it, witness B, and then stop. Because if I were to do that, B would never happen. And... uhhh... Check this out: Novikov self-consistency principle
This basically states that paradoxes are impossible. Say you build a device such as the one in your post: When you press the button, the light will blink five minutes ago. The above principle says that if you suddenly see the light blink, *somehow* five minutes from now with absolute certainty the button will be pressed. More than likely however, the light will never blink; our decision-making processes would probably never allow for a consistent loop to take place.
If however this principle is true, and if sending information back in time is possible, it does allow you to do some shit-awesome things with computers. Time Loop Logic is a field of computing in which you program a computer which can send information back in time.
Obviously this principle is unproven, and may turn out to be useless if time travel is proven to be impossible, but still, it's quite an elegant solution to the whole paradox business.
I know, that's kind of my point. They're essentially lying to us in telling us that it has TV-out through composite. I wonder how many people will buy a new PSP with a composite cable, then return it to the store because it doesn't work.
Your NES didn't advertise being able to output to your black and white TV. Sony IS avertising the fact that their new PSP has composite out capability.
a) If these do exist, please, link. I searched online and I could not find one; what I did find however is a lot of other people looking for the same thing.
b) They said several times throughout E3, in their main presentation and in various interviews, that it would support TV-out gaming through composite. It does not. They flat out lied.
Go to FutureShop, all TVs have had those for years. How many years? We're not all rich, and we don't all own new HDTVs. I live in a college house with 6 guys, and there are three TVs in our house; none of them take component.
For it to be a portable console, it should work on any hand-me-down TV. If I'm going to have a TV in my room, I would expect the TV-out to work on it. It's no good if it only works on the new TV in parents' living rooms.
Mostly I'm just pissed off that Sony lied to us again. For once I was excited about their products, but between this and the PS3 price drop fiasco, we're starting to see all the goodwill they gained at E3 being washed away.
Really? Because I can't find any online. And how much would such a device cost? Most video converters run anywhere from $300 to $800.
I did however find a lot of people asking this on forums, and people often recommend converting component to VGA, then VGA to composite. That runs at about a thousand dollars. Seems a bit ridiculous to me.
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What the hell? Why not?
Around where I live (Canada), I've never even seen a TV that takes component cables. Don't virtually all older TVs in North America take only composite? I thought the point of this was to make it into a sort of portable console; what's the point if you can't just plug it into any TV?
This is so incredibly frustrating. I was all excited about the new PSP, and now I find it won't even work on my TV. Why didn't they tell us this in the presentation? Did they think we weren't going to notice?
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I am the proud owner of a D-Link wireless card, and as much as I love this card, I hate having to use a binary blob to make it work. Ubuntu's the only distribution I've found that works well out of the box with this card because of the streamlined restricted modules.
Here's hoping this makes it into the kernel soon!
Emphasis mine: After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product.
In other words, they know that Vista is far too broken to start making incremental releases for it. They need a stable working base to start from.
Windows 2000 would have been the perfect opportunity for Microsoft to lock into a fixed release cycle. It was good enough that even if they did nothing at all, they could still make a new release every year; this meant they could have focused their energy on smaller changes.
Unfortunately for everyone, they got lazy and sat on their monopoly, and fell behind OS X (and more recently Linux) in terms of security, visual quality, and ease of use. Now they're at a point where they've got a bug-ridden half-featured OS released to try and catch up. They need to get back to the stability of Windows 2000 before they can lock into a stable release cycle.
Windows releases don't always have to have groundbreaking changes, and we don't all have to upgrade to the latest and greatest Windows before the next one comes out. It's okay for them to release a new Windows every year for $300; we can just pick and choose to which versions we want to upgrade, and their user base can be evenly spread over several different versions.
If anything, they are a better target for the OLPC, because these children can now get a better education to change their own government when their generation grows up.
Suppose Duke University (and only Duke university) suddenly has problems with all of their Windows boxes. Do you think it's a Windows problem? Given the widespread use of Windows compared to the isolated nature of the problem, it's far more likely that they themselves configured something incorrectly, otherwise all universities should be encountering similar problems.
This isn't to say that there aren't such problems; just as you said, both Cisco and Windows have widespread flaws that affect all universities. But for THIS particular problem, it's more likely to be just a misconfiguration, simply because of the fact that it's localized to Duke.
Obviously I tried that, as have the dozens of other people who encountered this problem. It doesn't work either.
I have an Atheros chipset wireless card which requires binary drivers to work. It does not work with VMware.
This is the Ubuntu bug report (note the length and number of duplicates) which actually breaks apt on installation, but it's not Ubuntu specific; you can't configure it manually with this wireless card either. The only solution is to disable networking virtualization, which means I can't even have VMware use my wired connection unless I disable the wireless card entirely or physically remove it from my system.
Was I seriously modded down for that? Mods, what the hell?
More importantly, lguest apparently does not require a CPU with virtualization technology. This is exciting news for those of us running on older hardware.
As a cross-platform developer, I'm interested in installing Windows on a virtual machine instead of dual-booting, and the current virtualization technologies don't cut it for me; VMware player is proprietary and doesn't work with my wireless card, QEMU is just too darn slow, and everything else requires a VT CPU. I'm looking forward to trying out lguest.
I'm curious to find more information on this. TFA just says "Cisco has provided a fix". What nature of fix was this? Was it actually a flaw in the routers, or did someone just configure them wrong?
Given the widespread use of Cisco routers compared to the isolated nature of the problem, it sounds a bit like Duke is just trying to save face.
Agreed. The second game had better combat, but the first game had a better story. I still feel nostalgic when I see the flight deck of the Galatea. The game did a fantastic job of making it feel like home; I almost cried when it went down.
These two games were amazing.
Theoretically, sure, but in practice, no.
Fuel. It takes way too much fuel to stop your orbital motion and to avoid crashing into the planet at a million miles per hour. That's why shuttles on Earth are designed like planes; they counteract gravity using air resistance, the same way planes do.
Having to bring fuel along means the costs go up exponentially. Putting enough fuel in space for both a landing and a launch from Mars would cost simply too much, especially when a little research could yield us some alternative landing mechanisms that would be essentially free in comparison.
Exactly. Streamripping is a fundamental possibility in any kind of broadcast media. If it can reach my ears, I can build a device to record it.
I just don't understand why they care so much about online streams; they're often lower quality than common radio signals. Why aren't they clamoring to stop people from streamripping ordinary radio stations? Are they secretly devising DRM'd radios with encrypted ratio broadcasts? If they aren't applying the same tactics to analog broadcasts, the whole endeavor is pointless.
UHF frequencies (millimeter waves and microwaves) cannot cause cancer. The photon energy is not high enough to break chemical bonds in biological tissue.
When a chemical bond is formed (say, in DNA), a certain amount of energy is released. To break that bond (and cause cancer), you need to put that energy back. The catch is, because of quantum mechanics, the energy can't be accumulated. You can't pile in more and more photons until it finally snaps; you have to get one big photon to come in and snap it. When you state the frequency of a photon source (e.g. 60 GHz), that indicates the energy of each individual photon (0.00024 eV). Typical bonds in DNA are on the order of hundreds of eV. It's physically impossible for this to cause cancer.
Even if you put your cat in a microwave oven, it won't get cancer (though it will die a pretty horrible death).
The danger with electromagnetic waves is heat and depth. UHF electromagnetic waves have far less energy per photon than visible light (~2.5 eV), but they have much greater depth penetration. They go deeper before they collide with your molecules, so they deposit heat deeper into your flesh than visible light or UV radiation. This is why putting your cat in a microwave is very bad; it essentially gets "cooked from the inside out". But the energy outputted by wireless devices is barely enough to cause even measurable changes in the temperature of human flesh. How much heat can you apply to a glass of water with a 1.5 V AA battery? Not much. Now spread that out spherically in a 100 meter radius. Almost zero.
Even then, biological organisms are very good at regulating their temperature; humans live across a wide variety of climates all across Earth, and yet still manage to balance their internal temperature.
Hence, UHF communications are not dangerous.
This basically states that paradoxes are impossible. Say you build a device such as the one in your post: When you press the button, the light will blink five minutes ago. The above principle says that if you suddenly see the light blink, *somehow* five minutes from now with absolute certainty the button will be pressed. More than likely however, the light will never blink; our decision-making processes would probably never allow for a consistent loop to take place.
If however this principle is true, and if sending information back in time is possible, it does allow you to do some shit-awesome things with computers. Time Loop Logic is a field of computing in which you program a computer which can send information back in time.
Obviously this principle is unproven, and may turn out to be useless if time travel is proven to be impossible, but still, it's quite an elegant solution to the whole paradox business.
It was not Einsteins idea. Nope. He didn't discover it at all.
Good job linking to the paper he wrote when he didn't discover it.
Just because a scientist discovers something unpleasant doesn't mean he didn't discover it.
I know, that's kind of my point. They're essentially lying to us in telling us that it has TV-out through composite. I wonder how many people will buy a new PSP with a composite cable, then return it to the store because it doesn't work.
Your NES didn't advertise being able to output to your black and white TV. Sony IS avertising the fact that their new PSP has composite out capability.
a) If these do exist, please, link. I searched online and I could not find one; what I did find however is a lot of other people looking for the same thing.
b) They said several times throughout E3, in their main presentation and in various interviews, that it would support TV-out gaming through composite. It does not. They flat out lied.
If I can afford a $170 portable gaming system, I may as well pay triple that to replace my TV along with it? Sure, that makes sense.
See that's just it, I don't want to use it just on my "main TV". Why can't I play games on the TV in my room?
For it to be a portable console, it should work on any hand-me-down TV. If I'm going to have a TV in my room, I would expect the TV-out to work on it. It's no good if it only works on the new TV in parents' living rooms.
Mostly I'm just pissed off that Sony lied to us again. For once I was excited about their products, but between this and the PS3 price drop fiasco, we're starting to see all the goodwill they gained at E3 being washed away.
Really? Because I can't find any online. And how much would such a device cost? Most video converters run anywhere from $300 to $800.
I did however find a lot of people asking this on forums, and people often recommend converting component to VGA, then VGA to composite. That runs at about a thousand dollars. Seems a bit ridiculous to me.
What the hell? Why not?
Around where I live (Canada), I've never even seen a TV that takes component cables. Don't virtually all older TVs in North America take only composite? I thought the point of this was to make it into a sort of portable console; what's the point if you can't just plug it into any TV?
This is so incredibly frustrating. I was all excited about the new PSP, and now I find it won't even work on my TV. Why didn't they tell us this in the presentation? Did they think we weren't going to notice?
Hm. I've never even heard of Autopatcher. I don't know anyone who uses it.
Interesting...