I just bought an IBM ThinkPad 390 from PC Connetion. It seemed to be a great value. I don't have any personal experience with it (it's in the mail somewhere) yet, but it was recommended to me. The only trouble is the integrated win-modem.
I have to give credit to IBM. I never paid attention to their products until their announcement of future Linux support for their products. So my purchase is a result of that.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Well, I actually have no use for one. I was wondering if there was such a thing.
I agree that it's better for you to have a light on when computing.
But the best light to use is a halogen light. This light approximates the light from the sun more than other lights sources and is better for your eyes. It keeps me from having headaches.
Unfortunately at work all the lights are flourescent lights in cubicals. By turning the lights off from above my cube, things are better. Oh well.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Some critics of Linux in the enterprise have cited its wide open development community as a major deterrent to adoption. Too many versions of the OS and too many application development efforts lead to chaos that commercial vendors don't experience when developing in-house or with licensed ISVs, critics argue.
Is it me or does that arguement not make sense. In my work environment, there are Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. All of these are similar, but I do know that there are certainly compatibility issues.
At least with the open development in Linux, you can fix the changes yourself to make everything work the way you want to. Plus, everything is based on unix, so the administration stays the same. With all these differences in Windows versions, that's not necessarily true.
I believe the quote above is misleading and completely ignores the point of open source.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Laws are important. In the U.S., if you break the law, you are punished. That's the theory. Now it seams, if you control the law enforcement, Clinton demonstrated that the law doesn't apply to you.
I don't know about France, but the law is important to democracy in the U.S. These lessons are taught extensively in the U.S., but once you graduate and read news reports, those lessons don't seem to apply.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Most European countries (all?) do have socialist economies. This is the reason for the extremely large taxes and government subsidies. I don't know if this definition is changing with many ex-government companies becoming private.
Don't get the economies confused with the types of government.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I've been thinking of getting a laptop, but find the Thinkpad prices are too darned high. Is there any reason one should buy a Thinkpad over other (cheaper) laptops?
Let me know if that's not true.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
The wheel on the rover falls off, and the axel gets stuck in the soil. How does AI solve the problem of putting the wheel back on?
My main point is with humans you can decide real time which rocks might reveal the most science and make the most observations.
Again, AI is only a tool. It can help with automation and extending human capabilities. But I've yet to see AI do "exploration" in the true sense of the word.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I think for such a long trip it's important to have good food. One way to add variety is to have some good beer. I would like to improve my brewing skills and expand general brewing knowledge by experimenting with brewing on Mars. After all, humans will eventually colonize Mars. Might as well start on the right foot....
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
This site includes MUCH information on electron configuration, physical properties, history, and much more. What's interesting are the humorous cartoons and.au files to educate the correct pronounciation of the element name.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Sawyer says: Lasers are short waves at high frequencies.
wavelength=(speed of light)/frequency
Anyone ever see long waves at high frequencies? Maybe physics works differently in the press.
Sawyer says: 20/20 has also learned from a well-placed Russian official that those rebels in Chechnya also used an RF weapon to knock out police communications during a hostage situation.
Let's suggest to the CIA to have Sawyer place more well-placed Russian officials. Maybe even in other countries.
I find the press to be fun entertainment.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Frost on a heat sink is obviously a joke. I haven't been able to see the link yet, but if it's true it can't be a passive heat sink. You can only get as cool as the ambient temperature obviously. At 20degC ambient and 60% humidity, DEW doesn't even form until the temperature is 10degC, approximately.
Some folks mentioned Peltier heat sinks. I have never heard it by that name, but it sounds like a thermoelectric cooler. Put the current one way, it's a cooler, switch the direction of the current and you have a heater. We use it all the time to cool detectors used in space applications.
I'm wondering what kind of new features M$ will include in NT 2000.
I'm guessing they'll add an especially cool new feature for fluid dynamics. This new feature can have up to 200,000 element mesh and display accurate fluid flow dynamics with flow velocities between Mach 0.1-1.5. It will also have very good display features that will benefit from being part of the OS.
That will put Linux to shame. Imagine how cool your OS would be with that feature!
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Two weeks ago (in January at least), I saw ad's for the latest Red Hat Deluxe Edition. Media Play had it for $69 or more. CompUSA that had it for $29 (maybe the prices were switched). I don't know how much of this was mistake or stupid marketing.
Any dominance in the Linux world will come from a company that writes proprietary code. I just don't see how a Linux distributor who writes propritary code and limits the distributions can last very long. Some one can try and convince me otherwise.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I doubt a new site is really that useful. Usually it takes time to get the content together and organized in a useful fashion.
The Internet grew on word of mouth didn't it? If it is really a great site, people will be talking about it and adding it to their links increasing the probability it would show up in a Google search.
Personally, this concern may only be for business reasons, i.e. you're selling a product. In which case I don't want to see it in ANY results unless enough folks think it's cool enough to link to.
I don't see the need for instantaneous acceptance for search engines. Go to Alta Vista or something if you REALLY want all those extra links. Leave Google the way it is so I can find what I'm looking for.
BTW, it's the first search engine (and 90% of the time the only one) I use.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Talk to your State's Attorney General
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If I ran across this bundling, eliminating my OS choice, I would immediately call your state's Attorney General and discuss the legalities of such an agreement. I just don't see, legaly, how such a contract can be binding without consent from both parties. I'm not a lawyer, so check into it!! If there are enough calls, your state may take some action!
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Q: What are the BikeBrain's unique features? A: Think of a cyclometer, now think ultimate! The VeloTrend BikeBrain includes,
Patented Route Directions feature
Route/Split recording
Speed recording
Real-time graphs of speed vs. time or distance
Automatic wheel calibration
Foolproof setup
Data upload to your PC or Mac for analysis and display
And it's the world's best functioning and best selling hand-held computer!
How can you patent a route directions finder? Isn't this just software or are they patenting the display? The automatic wheel calibration should be wheel diameter database included. I don't see anything automatic about selecting your wheel size.
If I biked and had the money, this could be cool.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
The paper said Linux is somewhat taxing for nontechnical users. However, programmers are working on friendlier versions of the language that have a Window-like interface.
Others already caught the language discrepancy. But don't they mean a "dumbed down Window-like interface?" I already have an interface that can display multiple windows and do many other things.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Judging by the comments here in this forum, I would never have guessed so many people in the Linux community did not support Open Source Software. That is so much more scary than any influx of Windows programmers. I think any programer should be welcomed to the Linux community. If someone thinks they can develop an interface that satisfies many people, why shouldn't they try? Who cares where the heritage comes from?
What matters in the end is robust and usefull software. You pick what YOU want. If you have some senseless aversion to anything connected to Windows go use software developed by some die hard UNIX guru. But, with OSS, you have that choice.
Better yet, why not work with the new migrated-from-Windows (MFW?) programmer and help him learn the philosophy of UNIX and why things are the way they are (30 years is many years of experimenting).
Linux is about CHOICE. Who cares where the choices come from? Welcome any programmer who wishes to join!
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
You get the satisfaction and often the recognition for finding and creating a new solution. As for a company making money off of such an innovation, why? If it is open source, anyone can use it. So most likely all of one particular company's competitors will use it. It's not a marketing advantage. So who wins? The users or customers! There may not be money involved, but prestige and and the satisfaction are not to be ignored.
How many examples are there in the sciences where new processes are invented? There's medicine (chemicals), energy, and whatever else that helped develop products that are in use today that help everyone. I don't know that all of these were rewarded with cash....
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I think there's too much discussion that goes on through anti-Microsoft glasses. Open source is great, it gives us many choices that weren't there before. While there were no popular choices, Microsoft spews out bad products. There's no reason to "improve the product."
Open source should be used as an infrastructure and not necessarily as an end product.
The Internet is a new infrastrucutre like the highway system. It gives everyone a new form of communication. Many systems globally now count on this. There better damn well be some peer review among everyone if everyone is going to depend on it. Just like the bridge example. I don't want the thing falling under my feet. My goods may travel over that bridge to my customer. There are many consequences.
But, if I'm building a building for a customer, as a customer, I damn well want to be involved in the design. I sure as hell want bathrooms installed on each floor. So someone can develop a software product, show how it's going to work and use open standards so I know what's going on. But the final product may be something proprietary that can be sold. The bricks and mortar are not proprietary, but the building might be.
Open source should be the tools to make life better. Monopolies (like Microsoft) make crapy code. Competition makes better code. I feel open source provides an infrastructure for an equal footing for competition and is not a replacement for "closed source" software.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
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I just bought an IBM ThinkPad 390 from PC Connetion. It seemed to be a great value. I don't have any personal experience with it (it's in the mail somewhere) yet, but it was recommended to me. The only trouble is the integrated win-modem.
I have to give credit to IBM. I never paid attention to their products until their announcement of future Linux support for their products. So my purchase is a result of that.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Well, I actually have no use for one. I was wondering if there was such a thing.
I agree that it's better for you to have a light on when computing.
But the best light to use is a halogen light. This light approximates the light from the sun more than other lights sources and is better for your eyes. It keeps me from having headaches.
Unfortunately at work all the lights are flourescent lights in cubicals. By turning the lights off from above my cube, things are better. Oh well.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Is it me or does that arguement not make sense. In my work environment, there are Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. All of these are similar, but I do know that there are certainly compatibility issues.
At least with the open development in Linux, you can fix the changes yourself to make everything work the way you want to. Plus, everything is based on unix, so the administration stays the same. With all these differences in Windows versions, that's not necessarily true.
I believe the quote above is misleading and completely ignores the point of open source.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Isn't this a way to help retailers keep higher prices?
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I was wondering if anyone knows of any keyboards where the keys are backlit for computing in the dark. Just curious.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Laws are important. In the U.S., if you break the law, you are punished. That's the theory. Now it seams, if you control the law enforcement, Clinton demonstrated that the law doesn't apply to you.
I don't know about France, but the law is important to democracy in the U.S. These lessons are taught extensively in the U.S., but once you graduate and read news reports, those lessons don't seem to apply.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Most European countries (all?) do have socialist economies. This is the reason for the extremely large taxes and government subsidies. I don't know if this definition is changing with many ex-government companies becoming private.
Don't get the economies confused with the types of government.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
This might explain why ESR is so slow in getting a logo selected for OSI after canceling the logo contest some months ago.
My impression is priorities need to be re-examined. I think FSF and SPI seem the most consistent and speak for the most people.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I've been thinking of getting a laptop, but find the Thinkpad prices are too darned high. Is there any reason one should buy a Thinkpad over other (cheaper) laptops?
Let me know if that's not true.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
The wheel on the rover falls off, and the axel gets stuck in the soil. How does AI solve the problem of putting the wheel back on?
My main point is with humans you can decide real time which rocks might reveal the most science and make the most observations.
Again, AI is only a tool. It can help with automation and extending human capabilities. But I've yet to see AI do "exploration" in the true sense of the word.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I think for such a long trip it's important to have good food. One way to add variety is to have some good beer. I would like to improve my brewing skills and expand general brewing knowledge by experimenting with brewing on Mars. After all, humans will eventually colonize Mars. Might as well start on the right foot....
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Here's a thrid periodic table at:o dic-table.html
.au files to educate the correct pronounciation of the element name.
http://ww w.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/nofr-key/peri
This site includes MUCH information on electron configuration, physical properties, history, and much more. What's interesting are the humorous cartoons and
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Sawyer says:
Lasers are short waves at high frequencies.
wavelength=(speed of light)/frequency
Anyone ever see long waves at high frequencies? Maybe physics works differently in the press.
Sawyer says:
20/20 has also learned from a well-placed Russian official that those rebels in Chechnya also used an RF weapon to knock out police communications during a hostage situation.
Let's suggest to the CIA to have Sawyer place more well-placed Russian officials. Maybe even in other countries.
I find the press to be fun entertainment.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I wish I've seen the quote in a Micro$oft add as well. 'til I see it, I don't believe it.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Frost on a heat sink is obviously a joke. I haven't been able to see the link yet, but if it's true it can't be a passive heat sink. You can only get as cool as the ambient temperature obviously. At 20degC ambient and 60% humidity, DEW doesn't even form until the temperature is 10degC, approximately.
Some folks mentioned Peltier heat sinks. I have never heard it by that name, but it sounds like a thermoelectric cooler. Put the current one way, it's a cooler, switch the direction of the current and you have a heater. We use it all the time to cool detectors used in space applications.
Check out http://www.melcor.com/teccover.htm if you really want one.
I think it's pretty bad that you would ever need active cooling for a CPU. That really has to hurt reliability.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
This seams like an obvious security hole. I'm assuming this doesn't apply to other OS's?
But I'm curious, was this hole discovered because the source was released?
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I'm wondering what kind of new features M$ will include in NT 2000.
I'm guessing they'll add an especially cool new feature for fluid dynamics. This new feature can have up to 200,000 element mesh and display accurate fluid flow dynamics with flow velocities between Mach 0.1-1.5. It will also have very good display features that will benefit from being part of the OS.
That will put Linux to shame. Imagine how cool your OS would be with that feature!
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Two weeks ago (in January at least), I saw ad's for the latest Red Hat Deluxe Edition. Media Play had it for $69 or more. CompUSA that had it for $29 (maybe the prices were switched). I don't know how much of this was mistake or stupid marketing.
Any dominance in the Linux world will come from a company that writes proprietary code. I just don't see how a Linux distributor who writes propritary code and limits the distributions can last very long. Some one can try and convince me otherwise.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I doubt a new site is really that useful. Usually it takes time to get the content together and organized in a useful fashion.
The Internet grew on word of mouth didn't it? If it is really a great site, people will be talking about it and adding it to their links increasing the probability it would show up in a Google search.
Personally, this concern may only be for business reasons, i.e. you're selling a product. In which case I don't want to see it in ANY results unless enough folks think it's cool enough to link to.
I don't see the need for instantaneous acceptance for search engines. Go to Alta Vista or something if you REALLY want all those extra links. Leave Google the way it is so I can find what I'm looking for.
BTW, it's the first search engine (and 90% of the time the only one) I use.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
If I ran across this bundling, eliminating my OS choice, I would immediately call your state's Attorney General and discuss the legalities of such an agreement. I just don't see, legaly, how such a contract can be binding without consent from both parties. I'm not a lawyer, so check into it!! If there are enough calls, your state may take some action!
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
How can you patent a route directions finder? Isn't this just software or are they patenting the display? The automatic wheel calibration should be wheel diameter database included. I don't see anything automatic about selecting your wheel size.
If I biked and had the money, this could be cool.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Judging by the comments here in this forum, I would never have guessed so many people in the Linux community did not support Open Source Software. That is so much more scary than any influx of Windows programmers. I think any programer should be welcomed to the Linux community. If someone thinks they can develop an interface that satisfies many people, why shouldn't they try? Who cares where the heritage comes from?
What matters in the end is robust and usefull software. You pick what YOU want. If you have some senseless aversion to anything connected to Windows go use software developed by some die hard UNIX guru. But, with OSS, you have that choice.
Better yet, why not work with the new migrated-from-Windows (MFW?) programmer and help him learn the philosophy of UNIX and why things are the way they are (30 years is many years of experimenting).
Linux is about CHOICE. Who cares where the choices come from? Welcome any programmer who wishes to join!
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
You get the satisfaction and often the recognition for finding and creating a new solution. As for a company making money off of such an innovation, why? If it is open source, anyone can use it. So most likely all of one particular company's competitors will use it. It's not a marketing advantage. So who wins? The users or customers! There may not be money involved, but prestige and and the satisfaction are not to be ignored.
How many examples are there in the sciences where new processes are invented? There's medicine (chemicals), energy, and whatever else that helped develop products that are in use today that help everyone. I don't know that all of these were rewarded with cash....
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I think there's too much discussion that goes on through anti-Microsoft glasses. Open source is great, it gives us many choices that weren't there before. While there were no popular choices, Microsoft spews out bad products. There's no reason to "improve the product."
Open source should be used as an infrastructure and not necessarily as an end product.
The Internet is a new infrastrucutre like the highway system. It gives everyone a new form of communication. Many systems globally now count on this. There better damn well be some peer review among everyone if everyone is going to depend on it. Just like the bridge example. I don't want the thing falling under my feet. My goods may travel over that bridge to my customer. There are many consequences.
But, if I'm building a building for a customer, as a customer, I damn well want to be involved in the design. I sure as hell want bathrooms installed on each floor. So someone can develop a software product, show how it's going to work and use open standards so I know what's going on. But the final product may be something proprietary that can be sold. The bricks and mortar are not proprietary, but the building might be.
Open source should be the tools to make life better. Monopolies (like Microsoft) make crapy code. Competition makes better code. I feel open source provides an infrastructure for an equal footing for competition and is not a replacement for "closed source" software.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"