That's pretty interesting. Out of curiosity, are you still able to navigate evenly lit staircases and stuff? They did something to my eyes a long while ago and for a short while after I couldn't make out depth (or so they said, something to do with the drug they gave me) and I had a little trouble with staircases, especially since the ones I was going along weren't lit by anything but reflected sunlight. What about shaving or cutting paper, do you ever 'miss'?
That's a bit of a funny reaction. Think of this statement, "All logos within a circle refer to good things, hence Amarok is good." A response to that along the lines of "But the Nazi Swastika was frequently depicted in a circle so that can't be right." would be perfectly acceptable however much I say, "Are you really comparing Hitler to Matthias Ettrich?!"
I'm no expert, but why not just use a database and print all your stuff out of that? Say, like Wordpress (I know, bad example). That way you only have to secure one part, the part interacting with the database and you could make all your files immutable:)
That's very interesting, however I was in the same situation. Until recently I only had a 56k dialup connection, so I couldn't download an ISO. What I could do was order one from shipit.ubuntu.com, I clearly read what I needed and got the standard ubuntu alternate CD, and installed and used it (after reading a couple of guides on the internet on how to pare it down) on an Intel Pentium III Celeron 733Mhz with 128MB RAM. Stuff like that is assigned to the garbage heap these days and it's not even outdated. Fortunately the computer was too old to have an internal modem and I had a Motorola VoiceSURFR which was recognised right off. Maybe it's just me having a lucky experience, I don't know, I am certainly no Linux expert. I'll say one thing though, Windows 98 is more responsive than Ubuntu, but then, it's more responsive than XP too.
As for video, I had onboard i810 graphics and they worked just fine to play Unreal Tournament back in 2002/2003 when I installed Red Hat on that very computer. At that time, I couldn't get the CDs any other way, so a bunch of us put in some money (around 300 rupees) and got all the RH8 ISOs downloaded at an Internet cafe. I'll tell you this, no one who can afford a computer is too poor for 300 rupees (or in our case 100 rupees). All of us had a good experience (except me, I wiped the damn hard drive in the partitioning stage, mixing up stuff).
In fact, to abuse a popular slashdot meme, if step 6 is Profit! then step 5 is having a clue. You don't go buy engine oil, stuff it in your fuel tank and then grumble when there's trouble.
We have cameras on buildings leading to classrooms, and even a few IN classrooms, because of people committing rapes and getting into fights. Holy Jesus, if the people in your universities also studied in your schools, let me say that your schools and your parents have failed miserably. There are rapists and murderers amongst our youth here in India too (and I'm willing to bet there are more here) but even those educated in a public school (public schools are notoriously bad here) would _never_ rape or kill someone in a freaking university classroom and this is a much poorer country. Your schools have failed because they have failed to instil any civic sense and because some values _must_ be taught, the respect for human life being one of those. I am a great fan of Western Universities, in general they are amazing places to study in comparison to here, and have far more respect for the student. This is disappointing, man.
Naturally when I say never I mean highly unlikely, it happens, but it's so rare that it is usually a topic of national debate not something that happens so often that you need cameras. Jesus, that is pathetic.
The BSD licence interpreted literally can permit distribution of binaries without Source Code. The BSD people work their backsides off to ensure that nobody does this.
I beg to disagree, one of the arguments of the proponents of the BSD licence is that it allows more freedom than the GPL. This is where the long standing war is fought. There is a famous aphorism: (a bit misquoted by me here probably)
The GPL protects the rights of users, the BSD licence protects the rights of developers It sums up the whole argument quite simply, and recognises that both licences have a purpose.
However, let us just assume that what you say in that quote is right. In that case no argument for BSDL vs. GPL exists, because the BSD licences simply suck given the job you've assigned them to do, while the GPL handles it perfectly -- the job being providing a licence for software such that the software is always free. Laziness here is just a desire for efficiency -- a desire to not have to do the boring repetitive task of asking people who use code in closed projects to contribute that code back to the original project.
That's funny, there was an Asimov story 'Franchise' about just this. I think it's partly a joke, but it has a world in which statistical analysis is so perfect that a computer (Multivac naturally) chooses the perfect 'average' man and that man's one vote is the sample it uses to measure who must get elected. Funny.
That's a dangerous game you're playing. Other people could point at the lack of strikes in say, America and claim that that means people there are meek and don't mind being shafted by huge corporations.
I think you guys will notice how silly this whole thing is. You're reacting so emotionally it's ridiculous. Just look at what you're doing. Jesus.
In addition, if you're going to make cracks about how French think they're culturally superior and bullshit like that, let me point you to a survey which came to the conclusion that Americans are worse: http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=258 . Of course the Indians are the worst of the lot on that count, but then I knew that already, being from there. Go ahead, search for 'our culture' and you'll get to the right point. It's in the complete report.
Do they expect sales of a book about exploiting online games? Oh come on...
Seriously though, why not? People pay big money for stuff in those games. Sure, the book's probably not going to help the guy who just wants to 'hax gold' in WoW or whatever's the latest fad I'm pretty sure that same fellow would buy it.
I have to agree. This applies at least to Pentium IIIs or IVs because I had an old PC that refused to boot up in summer because the fan wasn't working properly. It would go a little way and then halt.
Frankly, I find betting on technologies that haven't yet been made a bit dangerous. We may develop the required space-based infrastructure to get all those things, but its not something we can count on. On the other hand, we will always have demand for Helium (science, coolant, rockets). As other people have noted, most of the Helium reserves in natural gas are right at the top so throwing away Helium in the hope that there'll be more there at the bottom is a bit not-smart.
Consider now, if the demand for Helium rises very slowly, too slowly for it to be extremely profitable to go through the process of extracting Helium just to sell it, we'll run through our Helium before that profitable stage is reached. I agree with you about reserves, but look at what I'm saying in the context of the article -- a He reserve being depleted..
If all that demand happens, then prices will go up and supply increase My problem lies here, if the resources are exhausted before we get to that demand, (which is possible), the supply will be limited by the amount of actual He available. However profitable it becomes, you will only be able to get so much Helium. Sounds like a terrible waste to me.
Now, explain to me again why it would be in my best economic interest to buy a computer with cores that could be disabled if I don't pay my rent? I suppose because you could just buy the ones with some cores disabled and get someone who knows stuff to enable them again, like the way people did for some of the older nVidia cards that had some things disabled. Or maybe I don't know anything about how the two things work.
That's all very well, but there's limited supply of Helium. Suppose the rate at which the price increases is not fast enough, we may run through most of the Helium reserves before any company decides to extract it instead of throwing it away. That is not counting the possibility that new technology is built that needs a lot of Helium or the possibility that a large number of people switch to nuclear power. The Free Market cannot create raw resources.
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Ah, interesting, I don't do all that so it doesn't strike me. I usually set different playlists on my phone and on my laptop anyway.
You've got a point about all of that though, I agree. And that bit about it continuing the podcast at the same place is one damn good feature. It's all a nice integrated world, and it sounds good. However, the songs I have are just that: songs. With id3 tags. And I don't see a need for me to have any more than that. So, I'll stick with copying, but I'll concede that yes, having a database does help.
See, I'm not an expert on UI design, but frankly I like the whole copying file operation to be consistent - copying from one hard drive to another, from the hard drive to a usb drive, from the computer to a phone via bluetooth, from one computer on a network to another,... All these things are done from one interface and I find it hard to imagine a system where I would need to use different programs to do each one of these things.
Agreed! I live here in Chennai, and though I hate the fact that this car just means that there'll be much more traffic, this will be much safer than those two wheelers for those people and it'll be nice for all those people who crowd four people onto a motorbike (it's only twice the cost of a reasonably powerful bike). In that way it's nice. I wonder if there'll be an LPG version, I'm sure that'll be hugely popular if it does come because LPG is about twice the mileage per rupee.
It's $50 cheaper than the Classmate PC. At $200 for the OLPC laptop that means that you can give five kids laptops for the same amount of money that you could give four kids the Classmate PC. And that's after the fact that the Linux discount saved them $35. Of course, one would assume that all the effort gone into designing an interface for children that encourages them to search and learn has some additional value. So basically the idea is to get more educational value for less price.
As for the advantages of open source, I'm not sure how long these kids will get to use the laptops, but 13, 14 year olds can do things that I can't think of.
I personally think that spending the money on books, libraries and teachers would work better. Atleast in my country (India), that is true, and I'm glad they backed off from the OLPC. However, Intel's actions are unconscionable any way. It is obvious their goals are different. Those few hundred thousand who won't get laptops because the price is higher won't matter to them.
Try Athene, I used it on an old machine and it was super fast. The only problem was with the cursor not being properly drawn, though that didn't show up on another machine. Just make sure that you run it by itself, outside an xserver. Inside an xserver there seems to be no point to it.
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That's pretty interesting. Out of curiosity, are you still able to navigate evenly lit staircases and stuff? They did something to my eyes a long while ago and for a short while after I couldn't make out depth (or so they said, something to do with the drug they gave me) and I had a little trouble with staircases, especially since the ones I was going along weren't lit by anything but reflected sunlight. What about shaving or cutting paper, do you ever 'miss'?
That's a bit of a funny reaction. Think of this statement, "All logos within a circle refer to good things, hence Amarok is good." A response to that along the lines of "But the Nazi Swastika was frequently depicted in a circle so that can't be right." would be perfectly acceptable however much I say, "Are you really comparing Hitler to Matthias Ettrich?!"
I'm no expert, but why not just use a database and print all your stuff out of that? Say, like Wordpress (I know, bad example). That way you only have to secure one part, the part interacting with the database and you could make all your files immutable :)
That's very interesting, however I was in the same situation. Until recently I only had a 56k dialup connection, so I couldn't download an ISO. What I could do was order one from shipit.ubuntu.com, I clearly read what I needed and got the standard ubuntu alternate CD, and installed and used it (after reading a couple of guides on the internet on how to pare it down) on an Intel Pentium III Celeron 733Mhz with 128MB RAM. Stuff like that is assigned to the garbage heap these days and it's not even outdated. Fortunately the computer was too old to have an internal modem and I had a Motorola VoiceSURFR which was recognised right off. Maybe it's just me having a lucky experience, I don't know, I am certainly no Linux expert. I'll say one thing though, Windows 98 is more responsive than Ubuntu, but then, it's more responsive than XP too.
As for video, I had onboard i810 graphics and they worked just fine to play Unreal Tournament back in 2002/2003 when I installed Red Hat on that very computer. At that time, I couldn't get the CDs any other way, so a bunch of us put in some money (around 300 rupees) and got all the RH8 ISOs downloaded at an Internet cafe. I'll tell you this, no one who can afford a computer is too poor for 300 rupees (or in our case 100 rupees). All of us had a good experience (except me, I wiped the damn hard drive in the partitioning stage, mixing up stuff).
In fact, to abuse a popular slashdot meme, if step 6 is Profit! then step 5 is having a clue. You don't go buy engine oil, stuff it in your fuel tank and then grumble when there's trouble.
My browser passes Acid 2. It displays the following when you visit the page: img except that an internal feature creates the blue mouseover.
Naturally when I say never I mean highly unlikely, it happens, but it's so rare that it is usually a topic of national debate not something that happens so often that you need cameras. Jesus, that is pathetic.
I don't understand, your claim is that
I beg to disagree, one of the arguments of the proponents of the BSD licence is that it allows more freedom than the GPL. This is where the long standing war is fought. There is a famous aphorism: (a bit misquoted by me here probably) The GPL protects the rights of users, the BSD licence protects the rights of developers It sums up the whole argument quite simply, and recognises that both licences have a purpose.However, let us just assume that what you say in that quote is right. In that case no argument for BSDL vs. GPL exists, because the BSD licences simply suck given the job you've assigned them to do, while the GPL handles it perfectly -- the job being providing a licence for software such that the software is always free. Laziness here is just a desire for efficiency -- a desire to not have to do the boring repetitive task of asking people who use code in closed projects to contribute that code back to the original project.
PS: I like those first four lines :)
Indeed, I agree. Changing its status just broke backwards compatibility with all those old textbooks.
That's funny, there was an Asimov story 'Franchise' about just this. I think it's partly a joke, but it has a world in which statistical analysis is so perfect that a computer (Multivac naturally) chooses the perfect 'average' man and that man's one vote is the sample it uses to measure who must get elected. Funny.
That's a dangerous game you're playing. Other people could point at the lack of strikes in say, America and claim that that means people there are meek and don't mind being shafted by huge corporations.
I think you guys will notice how silly this whole thing is. You're reacting so emotionally it's ridiculous. Just look at what you're doing. Jesus.In addition, if you're going to make cracks about how French think they're culturally superior and bullshit like that, let me point you to a survey which came to the conclusion that Americans are worse: http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=258 . Of course the Indians are the worst of the lot on that count, but then I knew that already, being from there. Go ahead, search for 'our culture' and you'll get to the right point. It's in the complete report.
There's some irony in a millions-uid user saying that to hundred-thousands-uid user.
You mean like the exact number of squares on a chessboard. Death by numerology!
Do they expect sales of a book about exploiting online games? Oh come on...
Seriously though, why not? People pay big money for stuff in those games. Sure, the book's probably not going to help the guy who just wants to 'hax gold' in WoW or whatever's the latest fad I'm pretty sure that same fellow would buy it.
PacMan was my first computer game too, if we did well on our computer classes in the 4th grade we were allowed to play PacMan after we finished class.
I have to agree. This applies at least to Pentium IIIs or IVs because I had an old PC that refused to boot up in summer because the fan wasn't working properly. It would go a little way and then halt.
Frankly, I find betting on technologies that haven't yet been made a bit dangerous. We may develop the required space-based infrastructure to get all those things, but its not something we can count on. On the other hand, we will always have demand for Helium (science, coolant, rockets). As other people have noted, most of the Helium reserves in natural gas are right at the top so throwing away Helium in the hope that there'll be more there at the bottom is a bit not-smart.
Consider now, if the demand for Helium rises very slowly, too slowly for it to be extremely profitable to go through the process of extracting Helium just to sell it, we'll run through our Helium before that profitable stage is reached. I agree with you about reserves, but look at what I'm saying in the context of the article -- a He reserve being depleted..
If all that demand happens, then prices will go up and supply increase My problem lies here, if the resources are exhausted before we get to that demand, (which is possible), the supply will be limited by the amount of actual He available. However profitable it becomes, you will only be able to get so much Helium. Sounds like a terrible waste to me.It should, but then you get someone else's popcorn on your carpet.
That's all very well, but there's limited supply of Helium. Suppose the rate at which the price increases is not fast enough, we may run through most of the Helium reserves before any company decides to extract it instead of throwing it away. That is not counting the possibility that new technology is built that needs a lot of Helium or the possibility that a large number of people switch to nuclear power. The Free Market cannot create raw resources.
Ah, interesting, I don't do all that so it doesn't strike me. I usually set different playlists on my phone and on my laptop anyway.
You've got a point about all of that though, I agree. And that bit about it continuing the podcast at the same place is one damn good feature. It's all a nice integrated world, and it sounds good. However, the songs I have are just that: songs. With id3 tags. And I don't see a need for me to have any more than that. So, I'll stick with copying, but I'll concede that yes, having a database does help.
It's wonky because you get an integer overflow when attempting to calculate 1/0 :)
See, I'm not an expert on UI design, but frankly I like the whole copying file operation to be consistent - copying from one hard drive to another, from the hard drive to a usb drive, from the computer to a phone via bluetooth, from one computer on a network to another,... All these things are done from one interface and I find it hard to imagine a system where I would need to use different programs to do each one of these things.
Agreed! I live here in Chennai, and though I hate the fact that this car just means that there'll be much more traffic, this will be much safer than those two wheelers for those people and it'll be nice for all those people who crowd four people onto a motorbike (it's only twice the cost of a reasonably powerful bike). In that way it's nice. I wonder if there'll be an LPG version, I'm sure that'll be hugely popular if it does come because LPG is about twice the mileage per rupee.
It's $50 cheaper than the Classmate PC. At $200 for the OLPC laptop that means that you can give five kids laptops for the same amount of money that you could give four kids the Classmate PC. And that's after the fact that the Linux discount saved them $35. Of course, one would assume that all the effort gone into designing an interface for children that encourages them to search and learn has some additional value. So basically the idea is to get more educational value for less price.
As for the advantages of open source, I'm not sure how long these kids will get to use the laptops, but 13, 14 year olds can do things that I can't think of.
I personally think that spending the money on books, libraries and teachers would work better. Atleast in my country (India), that is true, and I'm glad they backed off from the OLPC. However, Intel's actions are unconscionable any way. It is obvious their goals are different. Those few hundred thousand who won't get laptops because the price is higher won't matter to them.
Try Athene, I used it on an old machine and it was super fast. The only problem was with the cursor not being properly drawn, though that didn't show up on another machine. Just make sure that you run it by itself, outside an xserver. Inside an xserver there seems to be no point to it.
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