Cup your palm, move it around on a table and a cursor on the screen hovers. Tap on the table like you would click a real mouse, and the computer responds.
Think about all the spinoffs from the wiimote.
And now you're telling me I can 'cup the palm of my hand' and 'move it around' and 'tap my fingers' grrrr. Can't wait.
I couldn't agree more. I feel Science is renewed Christianity.
Space exploration is the desire to go to heaven.
Genetic engineering is playing at God.
Weaponary is the power of the armagedon.
AI is removing the soul from the body.
God is real because God says so, Science is real because science proves it.
Priests wear clothing for service, Scientists put on their white robes.
A Priest's holy place is the Church, a Scientist's is the Lab.
Christian believers pray, recite, and count rosmary beads efectively nullifying themselves as thinking people while Tech believers watch TV, play video games and get on social networks.
A Christian's place of worship is the chapel, new world order citizenes worship at the computer.
Christians light candles at the chapel. How many LED's are glowing on your desk right now?
They are both used to control us, Slave! (myself included)
Although the idea of getting it off with lots of younger women is very stimulating, I can't imagine anything worse than coming home after a day of work to a house full of children, babies and wives.
Or maybe Slashdot published this article as part of a long term plot to get us all spending more time at work. Becuase we all know what we do at work, don't we?
Here in Spain there is an area that is experimenting with a crop irrigation system that works via cell phones.
If these kind of things work and get widely accepted, farmers will eventually lose their traditional how-to.
My worry is about what will happen the day the network goes down. In th event of a local or global catastrophy , networks and electricity grid may just be some of the first services to go.
That may lead to a scary situation where not even the milenium old skills like agrigulture and animal husbandry are commonly known.
At work some staff have been using kde3 for some time now. We are gradually move more staff onto linux desktops and we thought we'd make the switch to gnome before we had too many users to re-educate.
It has really paid off. The semi-idiots find the desktop 'easy', and that's what we wanted.
try using iptables. you could use them on the server host or perhaps even better, on a dedicated router/firewall and then place your servers on a protected internal network.
Well, we're using a homebrew setup. HP and other virtual desktop solutions are very, very expensive and don't seem any less beta than our own system.
So we spent some money on a server
Server SuperMicro Dual X: 3,625 + tax
Plus we bought 2 clones (4 core, 8GB ram, no hard drive).
On the SuperMicro we've installed xen and run many different servers like dns, ldap, samba, cups, etc, etc. One of those virtual servers boots the clones (cluster nodes) via the network. The nodes are diskless servers running ubuntu desktop.
Users connect to a virtual freenx server that balances the load between the nodes.
And that's about it. Cheap and effective. We're still going through some teething pains but, according to previous experience with the current production desktop server, we think we can get about 20 users onto each node. 2x20=40 and we are only 35 people.
At work we use thinclient hardware. Each one has a 20W transformer plugger into the wall.
Some people work from home some of the time opening a remote session using freenx. Desktop speed is quite acceptable, I'm at home write now.
We also have many office branches. IT staff (two of us), haven't needed to get in the car and drive out there for a long time.
I'd disagree with you. My experience is that a Linux network once set up correctly will just keep going and going. There are many good options to centralize a schools desktops, from nfs exports to thin clients.
Unfortunately, at the school where my kids go, the physical network is a complete mess (network cables running under doors and such) because the IT admin is a job that rotates between all teachers every year, none of whom have any real idea.
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Cup your palm, move it around on a table and a cursor on the screen hovers. Tap on the table like you would click a real mouse, and the computer responds.
Think about all the spinoffs from the wiimote.
And now you're telling me I can 'cup the palm of my hand' and 'move it around' and 'tap my fingers' grrrr. Can't wait.
Brussels just needs to pass a law and European states will bend over nicely.
When our dystopian society eventually bottoms out, there ain't going to be much to connect to anyway.
Yes Sir. I don't trust the European Star Fleet any more than I do Google.
There's a difference between Free and Open Source .
From what I've heard, H.264 is not free.
RMS believes in free software, not in open source software.
The Science is in!
http://noagendashow.com/
Dude, you hit the nail on the head. Have you seen 'Children of Men'?
Nothing moves us backwards faster than progress.
I couldn't agree more. I feel Science is renewed Christianity.
Space exploration is the desire to go to heaven.
Genetic engineering is playing at God.
Weaponary is the power of the armagedon.
AI is removing the soul from the body.
God is real because God says so, Science is real because science proves it.
Priests wear clothing for service, Scientists put on their white robes.
A Priest's holy place is the Church, a Scientist's is the Lab.
Christian believers pray, recite, and count rosmary beads efectively nullifying themselves as thinking people while Tech believers watch TV, play video games and get on social networks.
A Christian's place of worship is the chapel, new world order citizenes worship at the computer.
Christians light candles at the chapel. How many LED's are glowing on your desk right now?
They are both used to control us, Slave! (myself included)
so do I
Correction. It's now called 'Climate change'.
all 50 toothbrushes
Miguel plans to make some bucks with Mono on the iPhone. Perhaps Microsoft just can't handle someone making more money then them with their own tech.
..that he's got to be wrong.
I think Gates belongs at the front.
Schools. Collaborative software makes live fun from students and prepares them for the networked world.
I've just got to work out how to plug my time-lense into my VideoRecorder. :(
Or maybe Slashdot published this article as part of a long term plot to get us all spending more time at work. Becuase we all know what we do at work, don't we?
If these kind of things work and get widely accepted, farmers will eventually lose their traditional how-to.
My worry is about what will happen the day the network goes down. In th event of a local or global catastrophy , networks and electricity grid may just be some of the first services to go.
That may lead to a scary situation where not even the milenium old skills like agrigulture and animal husbandry are commonly known.
It has really paid off. The semi-idiots find the desktop 'easy', and that's what we wanted.
try using iptables. you could use them on the server host or perhaps even better, on a dedicated router/firewall and then place your servers on a protected internal network.
Well, we're using a homebrew setup. HP and other virtual desktop solutions are very, very expensive and don't seem any less beta than our own system.
So we spent some money on a server
Server SuperMicro Dual X: 3,625 + tax
Plus we bought 2 clones (4 core, 8GB ram, no hard drive).
On the SuperMicro we've installed xen and run many different servers like dns, ldap, samba, cups, etc, etc. One of those virtual servers boots the clones (cluster nodes) via the network. The nodes are diskless servers running ubuntu desktop.
Users connect to a virtual freenx server that balances the load between the nodes.
And that's about it. Cheap and effective. We're still going through some teething pains but, according to previous experience with the current production desktop server, we think we can get about 20 users onto each node. 2x20=40 and we are only 35 people.
Cheers.
At work we use thinclient hardware. Each one has a 20W transformer plugger into the wall.
Some people work from home some of the time opening a remote session using freenx. Desktop speed is quite acceptable, I'm at home write now.
We also have many office branches. IT staff (two of us), haven't needed to get in the car and drive out there for a long time.
a thinclient infraestructure needs to be resource aware because many people are using the same system at the same time.
Unfortunately, at the school where my kids go, the physical network is a complete mess (network cables running under doors and such) because the IT admin is a job that rotates between all teachers every year, none of whom have any real idea.