Yeah, but flies do not have IQs over 150 and super computers.
Only people with tin foil hats could seriously believe that all the climatologists of the world are in a giant conspiracy.
On one hand we have thousands of climatologists from dozens of countries armed with super computers and the resources of government. They tell us we have a problem.
Arguing against them are a bunch of people, most of whom are not climatologists or even scientists, who do not have super computers or any data of their own. They argue that there is a worldwide conspiracy to falsify data. Thousands of scientists from Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Americas all working in harmony to defraud the world, to drive up taxes and bring down civilisation - all led by the anti-christ Al Gore.
Think about who you are siding with and why you believe in what you believe.
My poorly made point was and still is that Creative created the concept. You are entitled to your opinion. Whatever size HDD the Nomad 1 had it was physically the same size as the 2 (I had both). The first iPods were of a similar size, but had a prettier rounded shape. Style was more important than function to the consumer. The Nomad I only had USB 1.1 as that was what existed at the time. They moved to USB 2 and dropped Firewire, because (as you said) that is what people then had. What killed Creative, apart from Apple's marketing, was jumping in too soon when the hardware was way too expensive. I am, and always will be, biased to not use iPods because I am a Linux user and Apple go out of their way to ensure their products will not work under Linux.All Creative players are plug and play with Amarok under Linux. Only some iPods will work, generally the older models.
I still have a Creative, a Zen 32gb. I have added Sennheiser buds and it runs for 30 plus hours on a charge. I still way prefer it to my daughters iPod Touch. The Touch is way too big and clunky, it is a games machine that can also play music. I do not see anything special about a Nano - oddly a name used by Creative first as well.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/08/23/apple_to_pay_creative_100m_in_settlement.html
The settlement is reported at $100, although no one knows for sure.
I had a first generation Zen, with a 20gb HDD and firewire, and still have the next model with a 30gb HDD, but USB - and it still works. And I do not have one file locked by DRM, all my music came from my CDs and now DRM free MP3s.
You need at least one ext2 formatted thumb drive. When I move source code around I need to preserve symlinks. Can't do that with fat32 without zipping. USB drives are so cheap now you can easily have as many file systems as you want. I also have a 160gb external drive formatted as ext3 for backups - no brainer as it is never going to be read by a Windows machine and permissions and symlinks are preserved.
Having two partitions is a neat solution if you only have one drive.
Linux does have a memory limit, it is subject to the same address mathematics as any OS. What you mean is that Linux can use PAE efficiently. Most end users have never heard of PAE and it is not installed by default on any disto I have used.
With any 32bit OS you cannot even read a whole 4gb, after everything is loaded you only get about 3.5 of your 4gb. To even use the whole 4gb you need to go 64bit.
Motherboards also have chip limitations, not all boards can be crammed with ram even with a 64bit operating system.
Linux now has 64bit flash and java and Linux drivers are all 32 and 64 bit by design. I happily use 64bit Debian Sid and 64bit Ubuntu on my machines. FFMPEG can decode anything I need so 32bit codecs are a limitation of the past. Time to move up and move on.
They have left out the Radome. Maybe in the next edition.
The Radome is the original satellite receiver for the first TV transmissions between Europe and North America. With it's associated telecommunications museum and interesting tours it is a great place for a geek tourist.
An 8.9" netbook is very close in external dimensions to a 7" inch model. All have WiFi.
Get a solid state device like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 running Ubuntu or get an ASUS EeePC 701 for the absolute cheapest.
Use any PDF reader and screen rotation, hold netbook sideways.
With a big USB Thumb drive (or SD card) and headphones it can also be used as a movie player, or a music player and you can surf the net.
This is the sort of use netbooks are good for, better than trying to make them mini notebooks.
It is not the C# language that is the issue, it is the underlying mono libraries that may infringing patents on parts of the.net libraries. If no one can say yes this is clean and clear then why use it. As for Wine, Wine is not part of GNU/Linux or Gnome itself, it is an add on to allow some programs from a foreign OS to function through GNU/Linux. If Wine disappeared it would be sad but Gnu/Linux would continue on. There has been suggestions by Mr de Icaza that Gnome, or parts of it, should be re-written in C#. The threat is where Gnome itself becomes dependent on patent encumbered libs and one court case can stop all comercial sales.
It is not simple and it is not easy.
However there is a proposal to make mono part of the default installation of both Debian and Ubuntu in their next releases. Debian's next stable release will be a lot further into the future than Ubuntu's next release, at least allowing Debian time to have a serious debate on the matter.
You are correct, this article is about one limited form of Geoengineering.
The best form of Geoegineering is one that pulls CO2 from the atmosphere directly. A few hundred million "Artificial Trees" working day and night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_air_capture
Given the trillions of dollars just pissed away in the global financial crises I am sue they can come up with a few more trillion.
We would still need CO2 emission reductions as well, but it is too late for reductions alone to save us.
A term being bandied around is "Thermageddon", a very descriptive word for what is happening.
You seem to be suffering from the delusion that Linux is supposed to run Windows programs, that it is a replacement for a Microsoft Operating System. GNU/Linux is an alternative operating system, just like a Mac is an alternative.
Linux runs Linux programs very well, Mac runs Mac programs very well, Windows runs Windows programs.
The fact that Wine can run some Windows programs is a bonus, not the goal of the operating system. You do not try and run iLife on a Windows box.
The latest kernels have more built in drivers than any operating system ever, even 10 year old gear is not left behind.
I have Ubuntu Intrepid on a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. I plugged in spdif to my Yamaha amp. I selected digital out in the mixer and out came the sound. No settings. Earlier versions required me to hand write asound.conf, but the instructions for that also abound in the Ubuntu forums and the alsa and pulseaudio forums. Pulseaudio is also now working for me without issue, although I accept that took about a year for Ubuntu to get right. I also had a Creative Audigy 4 installed, and it was also as simple to setup.
The first time I setup spdif it took hours to get right, but that was years ago.
No they are not.
Windows gets more viruses and trojans in a day than have ever existed for Linux. The Linux vulnerabilities are quickly removed, and even the few bits of malware that have existed were unable to do anything.
New definition of a Netbook, a notebook without an inbuilt DVD drive.
The manufacturers lost the plot when they went past 9", now they just make cheap notebooks.
I do not have a problem with cheap notebooks, just call them that. A netbook is something you chuck in the car to read your email or check the football scores when you are away from home, if you want to type for more than a minute then a netbook is the wrong device for you.
Buy a usb keyboard and mouse and a 19" external monitor. Set the power saving to just turn off the screen when you shut the lid, not go into standby.
Instant energy efficient desktop computer.
What you do with that is the same questin of what you do with any surplus computer.
I was an avid user of eMusic, but as an Australian I was denied too many downloads so I lost interest. But, for North Americans eMusic is a great service for the discovery of new music and indie material. Plus the artists actually make some money out of the downloads. The other place to go is YouTube, anyone can upload a video of their music to a large audience.
As has already been stated Bittorrent is just a transport medium, I would have no expectation of it to promote an unknown artist.
Handbrake has one feature I use a lot, making a widescreen version of 4:3 video. I use it for my own videos, but it could be used for any original. DVD:Rip can also do this, but just for DVDs, Hnadbrake can do it for any avi or mpeg.
Yes, but with no flash, no java and poor third party driver support, it was not worth bothering with. All that mucking around with 32bit chroots just to view web pages. I also have Debian Sid 64 bit on my spare machine, and it mostly works as well as the Ubuntu one, but the update to 2.6.28 has killed my nvidia setup and I am reduced to using nv. No doubt an update is coming to redress this. The 64 bit flash and 64 bit java are fully functional.
My point was not just Ubuntu, but all Linuxs finally have all the bits to make 64 bit painless. I just happen to use Ubuntu for my day to day computer usage.
This is going way off topic but, I run Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bit and have everything 64 bit. Java, Flash, drivers. Nvidia have had 64 bit video for a long time, Intel drivers are 64 bit. In fact all native Linux drivers are available as 64 bit. Only ATI drivers are a problem, but then so are their 32bit ones. Hopefully RadeonHD will merge with xorg-ati and we will have that fixed soon as well.
2009 - the year the Linux world embraces 64bit. There is no longer any advantage in sticking with 32bit.
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Yeah, but flies do not have IQs over 150 and super computers. Only people with tin foil hats could seriously believe that all the climatologists of the world are in a giant conspiracy.
On one hand we have thousands of climatologists from dozens of countries armed with super computers and the resources of government. They tell us we have a problem. Arguing against them are a bunch of people, most of whom are not climatologists or even scientists, who do not have super computers or any data of their own. They argue that there is a worldwide conspiracy to falsify data. Thousands of scientists from Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Americas all working in harmony to defraud the world, to drive up taxes and bring down civilisation - all led by the anti-christ Al Gore. Think about who you are siding with and why you believe in what you believe.
My poorly made point was and still is that Creative created the concept. You are entitled to your opinion. Whatever size HDD the Nomad 1 had it was physically the same size as the 2 (I had both). The first iPods were of a similar size, but had a prettier rounded shape. Style was more important than function to the consumer. The Nomad I only had USB 1.1 as that was what existed at the time. They moved to USB 2 and dropped Firewire, because (as you said) that is what people then had. What killed Creative, apart from Apple's marketing, was jumping in too soon when the hardware was way too expensive. I am, and always will be, biased to not use iPods because I am a Linux user and Apple go out of their way to ensure their products will not work under Linux.All Creative players are plug and play with Amarok under Linux. Only some iPods will work, generally the older models. I still have a Creative, a Zen 32gb. I have added Sennheiser buds and it runs for 30 plus hours on a charge. I still way prefer it to my daughters iPod Touch. The Touch is way too big and clunky, it is a games machine that can also play music. I do not see anything special about a Nano - oddly a name used by Creative first as well.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/08/23/apple_to_pay_creative_100m_in_settlement.html The settlement is reported at $100, although no one knows for sure. I had a first generation Zen, with a 20gb HDD and firewire, and still have the next model with a 30gb HDD, but USB - and it still works. And I do not have one file locked by DRM, all my music came from my CDs and now DRM free MP3s.
Except all that was done by Creative first - which is why the courts made Apple give them half a billion dollars. What Apple had was marketing
You need at least one ext2 formatted thumb drive. When I move source code around I need to preserve symlinks. Can't do that with fat32 without zipping. USB drives are so cheap now you can easily have as many file systems as you want. I also have a 160gb external drive formatted as ext3 for backups - no brainer as it is never going to be read by a Windows machine and permissions and symlinks are preserved. Having two partitions is a neat solution if you only have one drive.
Linux does have a memory limit, it is subject to the same address mathematics as any OS. What you mean is that Linux can use PAE efficiently. Most end users have never heard of PAE and it is not installed by default on any disto I have used. With any 32bit OS you cannot even read a whole 4gb, after everything is loaded you only get about 3.5 of your 4gb. To even use the whole 4gb you need to go 64bit. Motherboards also have chip limitations, not all boards can be crammed with ram even with a 64bit operating system. Linux now has 64bit flash and java and Linux drivers are all 32 and 64 bit by design. I happily use 64bit Debian Sid and 64bit Ubuntu on my machines. FFMPEG can decode anything I need so 32bit codecs are a limitation of the past. Time to move up and move on.
They have left out the Radome. Maybe in the next edition. The Radome is the original satellite receiver for the first TV transmissions between Europe and North America. With it's associated telecommunications museum and interesting tours it is a great place for a geek tourist.
Not to mention that he dismisses the wrong answer Mathletes as overestimating their abilities in Maths. Logic of preconceived opinion.
An 8.9" netbook is very close in external dimensions to a 7" inch model. All have WiFi. Get a solid state device like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 running Ubuntu or get an ASUS EeePC 701 for the absolute cheapest. Use any PDF reader and screen rotation, hold netbook sideways. With a big USB Thumb drive (or SD card) and headphones it can also be used as a movie player, or a music player and you can surf the net. This is the sort of use netbooks are good for, better than trying to make them mini notebooks.
It is not the C# language that is the issue, it is the underlying mono libraries that may infringing patents on parts of the .net libraries. If no one can say yes this is clean and clear then why use it. As for Wine, Wine is not part of GNU/Linux or Gnome itself, it is an add on to allow some programs from a foreign OS to function through GNU/Linux. If Wine disappeared it would be sad but Gnu/Linux would continue on. There has been suggestions by Mr de Icaza that Gnome, or parts of it, should be re-written in C#. The threat is where Gnome itself becomes dependent on patent encumbered libs and one court case can stop all comercial sales.
It is not simple and it is not easy.
However there is a proposal to make mono part of the default installation of both Debian and Ubuntu in their next releases. Debian's next stable release will be a lot further into the future than Ubuntu's next release, at least allowing Debian time to have a serious debate on the matter.
You are correct, this article is about one limited form of Geoengineering. The best form of Geoegineering is one that pulls CO2 from the atmosphere directly. A few hundred million "Artificial Trees" working day and night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_air_capture Given the trillions of dollars just pissed away in the global financial crises I am sue they can come up with a few more trillion. We would still need CO2 emission reductions as well, but it is too late for reductions alone to save us. A term being bandied around is "Thermageddon", a very descriptive word for what is happening.
Won't be a problem. If the corporations stop paying tax there won't be any Military or Government.
Actually install Ubuntu and dual boot. Run Ubuntu in the class. Being technologically challenged they will take one look and never ask again.
You seem to be suffering from the delusion that Linux is supposed to run Windows programs, that it is a replacement for a Microsoft Operating System. GNU/Linux is an alternative operating system, just like a Mac is an alternative. Linux runs Linux programs very well, Mac runs Mac programs very well, Windows runs Windows programs. The fact that Wine can run some Windows programs is a bonus, not the goal of the operating system. You do not try and run iLife on a Windows box. The latest kernels have more built in drivers than any operating system ever, even 10 year old gear is not left behind.
I have Ubuntu Intrepid on a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard. I plugged in spdif to my Yamaha amp. I selected digital out in the mixer and out came the sound. No settings. Earlier versions required me to hand write asound.conf, but the instructions for that also abound in the Ubuntu forums and the alsa and pulseaudio forums. Pulseaudio is also now working for me without issue, although I accept that took about a year for Ubuntu to get right. I also had a Creative Audigy 4 installed, and it was also as simple to setup. The first time I setup spdif it took hours to get right, but that was years ago.
No they are not. Windows gets more viruses and trojans in a day than have ever existed for Linux. The Linux vulnerabilities are quickly removed, and even the few bits of malware that have existed were unable to do anything.
New definition of a Netbook, a notebook without an inbuilt DVD drive. The manufacturers lost the plot when they went past 9", now they just make cheap notebooks. I do not have a problem with cheap notebooks, just call them that. A netbook is something you chuck in the car to read your email or check the football scores when you are away from home, if you want to type for more than a minute then a netbook is the wrong device for you.
Synergy will allow you to share keyboard and mouse over an ethernet connection, but not a monitor.And it is free. http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/
Buy a usb keyboard and mouse and a 19" external monitor. Set the power saving to just turn off the screen when you shut the lid, not go into standby. Instant energy efficient desktop computer. What you do with that is the same questin of what you do with any surplus computer.
I was an avid user of eMusic, but as an Australian I was denied too many downloads so I lost interest. But, for North Americans eMusic is a great service for the discovery of new music and indie material. Plus the artists actually make some money out of the downloads. The other place to go is YouTube, anyone can upload a video of their music to a large audience. As has already been stated Bittorrent is just a transport medium, I would have no expectation of it to promote an unknown artist.
Handbrake has one feature I use a lot, making a widescreen version of 4:3 video. I use it for my own videos, but it could be used for any original. DVD:Rip can also do this, but just for DVDs, Hnadbrake can do it for any avi or mpeg.
Yes, but with no flash, no java and poor third party driver support, it was not worth bothering with. All that mucking around with 32bit chroots just to view web pages. I also have Debian Sid 64 bit on my spare machine, and it mostly works as well as the Ubuntu one, but the update to 2.6.28 has killed my nvidia setup and I am reduced to using nv. No doubt an update is coming to redress this. The 64 bit flash and 64 bit java are fully functional. My point was not just Ubuntu, but all Linuxs finally have all the bits to make 64 bit painless. I just happen to use Ubuntu for my day to day computer usage.
This is going way off topic but, I run Ubuntu Jaunty 64 bit and have everything 64 bit. Java, Flash, drivers. Nvidia have had 64 bit video for a long time, Intel drivers are 64 bit. In fact all native Linux drivers are available as 64 bit. Only ATI drivers are a problem, but then so are their 32bit ones. Hopefully RadeonHD will merge with xorg-ati and we will have that fixed soon as well. 2009 - the year the Linux world embraces 64bit. There is no longer any advantage in sticking with 32bit.