the kernel modules are not its downfall, they are its biggest asset.
I have a laptop HD with my copy of Ubuntu running on it. I popped it into another model of laptop yesterday, (from a Dell D630 to a Lenovo T400) everything worked fine.
I plugged a printer in a week ago, worked fine. Connected my Cannon camera, it popped up and asked if I wanted to import the photos. I plugged in my wife's ipod, and it asked if I wanted to open Rythmbox.
On windows, I would have had to go to countless websites, download drivers (or itunes) install, and troubleshoot. With linux, all of that just worked. On XP it was a pain in the ass to switch between AHCI and compatibility mode on my laptop. With linux, I can switch whenever I want.. it just works..
And if a user is using too much bandwith, the ISP can cite the now published policies on acceptable use, and slow down your entire connection to 256k for a while. They are not blocking anything, and they are not discriminating on traffic, but slowing down that one user. However, they have to actually be transparent, and publish how and why and WHEN they do this..
Exactly, only a few thousand iPhone users would be "enthusiasts", so obviously they are not apples target audience? That the millions of real users just need a phone? I am flat out claiming that the small number of enthusiasts are the keys to success.
But your missing the point.. It was a thousand million 1GB memory sticks.
if you were a true geek, you would have first asked if that was a 1 GB memory stick, or a 1GiB of capacity, then you would of asked how they were formatting the drives, to see how much usable space their really would be. When your talking about a thousand million of them.. the difference between 1024 and 1000 used in counting, plus the loss of area for formatting and such really ads up!
Isn't it funny how an entire office goes crazy with word about *possible* layoffs coming, but somehow "Someone" (which always seems to be the other major political party than the person telling you) has this hugely elaborate plan, involving ridiculous amounts of logistics and pre-planning, involving thousands of people.. And nothing is leaked? I mean really, Not a single whistleblower in the government? I mean hell, an executive can't even buy a Corporate Jet, or $30,000 wastebasket and keep it from the media.. but "they" are building mass concentration camps, and planning an elaborate means at turning this country into a puppet controlled by the Illuminatti. Or that they reaaaalllly want to force everyone to depend on the government for health care so that .... Yeah. that makes much more sense then just stupid committee decisions by government employees, who are constantly having to cover their ass..
They don't drop the terrorism alert level, because IF they dropped it to its lowest, THEN an attack happened, they would be dragged in front of congress, and be forced to testify about why they are so stupid, then be fired..
You know, considering some of the bears you might be facing would be several hundred pounds, and several times stronger than you, maybe you wouldn't want a "bear suit" to be light weight. Just cause their claws and teeth couldn't puncture the suit, doesn't mean they couldn't throw you into trees, pin you to the ground, or knock you into the water. Sometimes weight is a good thing. Unless of course, you are trying to outrun the bear, which you can't do...
Or to put it differently, do you really want every appliance in your house directly addressable from anywhere in the world?
Smart grid requires two way communication between your devices in your house, and other houses or electric company. The "Smart Grid" is the ability to do things like get a lower rate for electricity, but they tell your AC to turn off if there is too much load on the grid. Or to have your car charge only at certain electric rates, etc. That does not work if the actual devices are not addressable from outside your home.
Even more Ironic: Many of these came about due to complaints from the media, caused by one School district.
A few years ago, the publicly elected board of a very small rural school district in southern Oregon decided to investigate some reports of fraud, embezzlement, unfair contract favoritism, and lots of other nasty allegations about some employees at the school. Not the teachers, but, if I remember right, the food service, facilities, etc. So the board hired someone they liked to investigate. (He happened to also be the school board's lawyer). So he did his investigation, and when they did the presentation to the board, they kicked everyone out of the room, chatted for a few minutes, and let everyone back in.. then the board said "there was nothing in the report that showed any truth the rumors". So people asked to see the damn report. And the board claimed it was Attorney client privilege under state of Oregon law, which is not available under the open records laws.
Basically, the Gist of why every newspaper and TV channel (and a bunch of citizens) were filing objections, was the district was arguing that even if they pay a lawyer to do anything for the district (even write a book report) that could be considered client-attorney privilege, if the board decides.
Well, that and the people were pissed that the Small school district, that had huge money problems, had a roof collapse in a school they couldn't afford to fix, etc.. spent huge amounts of money, appealing rulings too keep secret a report paid for with tax payer dollars, about how tax payer dollars were potentially being abused. (I don't miss living in the small towns) http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A126655.htm
And what a pain in the ass that would be! True north is different from magnetic north depending on WHERE you are measure it from. So that whole ankle thing would have to have a GPS or something, to know how far off of magnetic north to point...
Also, think of how hard it would be to find True north in Australia. Now Magnetic south, that would be easy.. (or do AUS compasses just have the other part of the dial weighted, so the point south.. i've never been sure on that one...)
It doesn't look like we'll have to wait too long to see these implementations in action either. Schorn reckons we'll be seeing ARM ecosystem products containing Cortex A9 designs in the first half of 2009 and then Osprey related silicon to appear later that year.
From the Hexus Article..
It sure would be nice to have an update to that linked article that was written a year ago. I've seen lots of info on ATOM since then, but not much on the A9 systems that should already be out.
Just out of curiosity, does the ARM version of Ubuntu take advantage of some of the stuff in ARM for doing HD video at low power? Or is it just ubuntu, recompiled for the architecture? There are several advantages to each different CPU. Do things like Flash (or even Gnash) work on ARM? Or VLC, or anything?
No.. Oregon's biggest city sits right across a bridge from the state of Washington. Supposedly, in the study, you would only be taxed for driving in the state of Oregon, however, one of the things they envisioned was getting rid of gas taxes, and tollbooths, and if you drove between states, you would pay to each state based on how many miles you drove in it.
While advertising always paid for the content, the biggest cost was distribution. Your right, the $15 didn't cover the cost of printing and distributing those huge stacks of paper in a month.
However, with this new arrangement, their largest costs, the actual printing and distribution, are gone. The internet (and Google) allow them to go from 100,000 subscribers to 4million subscribers overnight, with just about nothing in extra costs. For every 1,000,000 article reads at a nickel each, your talking about $35,000 after Google gets its cut. This is the same as how artists can make more money selling 99 cent songs on Itunes than they could selling $15 albums in stores.
But how awesome would it be if your landlord said "don't worry about paying for renters insurance when your with us. if you lose something, due to fire, theft, or whatever, we'll just replace it, whether its the couch, TV, whatever...
Like if the Airlines all got together and decided to double all their rates overnight (which they would never admit to, but it sure seems like they do..)
Are you upgrading both systems over the network? or did you actually pop an Ubuntu CD into the drive? Its kinda unfair to compare installing from CD/DVD to installing from FTP server on the day of the release because Update-manager told you there was a new version...
They have a HUGE upside to helping people move their data out of Exchange servers (emails, contacts, appointments, etc) into the paid Google Apps service.. Last time I looked, their tools for doing just this were coming along nicely. That was one of the biggest complaints, getting the email and archives out. This same thing was a big pain, when MS wanted people to migrate from Groupwise and Lotus Notes to Exchange. MS made a nice little importer, but they didn't make their data easy to Export.
That can lead to very tempting sales pitches, give us 6 months, (or a year, or whatever) and if you don't like our service, we'll help you go right back to what you had before.
I agree wholeheartedly with your post, but to be clear, if you have a camera recording in your car, and you get into an accident, (or you see one happen) the other party can subpoena your videos.
If you made as much profit as IBM selling giant printers (for printing things like bank statements) you would prolong their life too.
And Microsoft.. if they didn't have printer drivers as an easy way to royally screw a system up, blue screens, reboots, crawling slow for no reason, then nobody would upgrade to vista or windows 7.
Google can't search paper. So they don't care.
These laws are deliberately vague so that if you act like a dick when the cop stops you, he's got plenty of leeway to charge you with something
Especially if your a black professor at a white ivy league school.. Hell, they charged Mr. Gates with "disorderly conduct" for getting mad that he didn't want to prove he didn't break into his own damn house! Hauled him off in handcuffs, and then, after word got out, just "dropped the charges" and hoped everything would be okay.
I would be livid..
I've been looking into recording any and every call when I need to call for "support". I am getting way too tired about having someone promise something, then not get it, call back, and hear "well, its not in the notes" even though the first person told me specifically that it was in the notes. or that the person would never had said that, etc. I often ask if the call was recorded for quality purposes, but they can never seem to get access to that. So I would like to save them the trouble. Play a little clip of "Jenny" saying "We'll credit that to your account in the next 2-3 business days..."
I was really hoping Grand Central (google voice) would allow that, but sadly, they will only record if the person calls you.
Isn't this the exact reason that using clustered, smaller nuclear reactors is gaining so much favor lately? instead of a single 2GW reactor, you run 8x250MW reactors. You can take one down for maintenance, and lose about 12% of your output, instead of 100%. or you can take a few down when they are not needed, and better control power flow.
Then the small ones can be built modularly, offsite, and transported whole to the site, drastically shortening construction time. Basically, it would make an assembly line for nukes. And do the reprocessing and storage offsite. All nice and modular.
Wait, when have Developers and IT departments EVER favored macs? Outside of education, and some Niche's in Marketing firms, Mac's are probably less supported than Linux. (which they probably run in the server room). Apple has been throwing a ton of resources at things like working with exchange, so they don't have to rely on others (microsoft) to provide them with the tools to overtake MS in offices..
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the kernel modules are not its downfall, they are its biggest asset.
I have a laptop HD with my copy of Ubuntu running on it. I popped it into another model of laptop yesterday, (from a Dell D630 to a Lenovo T400) everything worked fine.
I plugged a printer in a week ago, worked fine. Connected my Cannon camera, it popped up and asked if I wanted to import the photos. I plugged in my wife's ipod, and it asked if I wanted to open Rythmbox.
On windows, I would have had to go to countless websites, download drivers (or itunes) install, and troubleshoot. With linux, all of that just worked. On XP it was a pain in the ass to switch between AHCI and compatibility mode on my laptop. With linux, I can switch whenever I want.. it just works..
And if a user is using too much bandwith, the ISP can cite the now published policies on acceptable use, and slow down your entire connection to 256k for a while. They are not blocking anything, and they are not discriminating on traffic, but slowing down that one user. However, they have to actually be transparent, and publish how and why and WHEN they do this..
Exactly, only a few thousand iPhone users would be "enthusiasts", so obviously they are not apples target audience? That the millions of real users just need a phone? I am flat out claiming that the small number of enthusiasts are the keys to success.
I'm pretty sure its impossible to ship out Cadavers for anatomy classes.
But your missing the point.. It was a thousand million 1GB memory sticks.
if you were a true geek, you would have first asked if that was a 1 GB memory stick, or a 1GiB of capacity, then you would of asked how they were formatting the drives, to see how much usable space their really would be. When your talking about a thousand million of them.. the difference between 1024 and 1000 used in counting, plus the loss of area for formatting and such really ads up!
Isn't it funny how an entire office goes crazy with word about *possible* layoffs coming, but somehow "Someone" (which always seems to be the other major political party than the person telling you) has this hugely elaborate plan, involving ridiculous amounts of logistics and pre-planning, involving thousands of people.. And nothing is leaked? I mean really, Not a single whistleblower in the government? I mean hell, an executive can't even buy a Corporate Jet, or $30,000 wastebasket and keep it from the media.. but "they" are building mass concentration camps, and planning an elaborate means at turning this country into a puppet controlled by the Illuminatti. Or that they reaaaalllly want to force everyone to depend on the government for health care so that .... Yeah. that makes much more sense then just stupid committee decisions by government employees, who are constantly having to cover their ass..
They don't drop the terrorism alert level, because IF they dropped it to its lowest, THEN an attack happened, they would be dragged in front of congress, and be forced to testify about why they are so stupid, then be fired..
You know, considering some of the bears you might be facing would be several hundred pounds, and several times stronger than you, maybe you wouldn't want a "bear suit" to be light weight. Just cause their claws and teeth couldn't puncture the suit, doesn't mean they couldn't throw you into trees, pin you to the ground, or knock you into the water. Sometimes weight is a good thing. Unless of course, you are trying to outrun the bear, which you can't do...
Or to put it differently, do you really want every appliance in your house directly addressable from anywhere in the world?
Smart grid requires two way communication between your devices in your house, and other houses or electric company. The "Smart Grid" is the ability to do things like get a lower rate for electricity, but they tell your AC to turn off if there is too much load on the grid. Or to have your car charge only at certain electric rates, etc. That does not work if the actual devices are not addressable from outside your home.
Perhaps it really is Free as in Beer, and not just Free as in Speech?
Even more Ironic: Many of these came about due to complaints from the media, caused by one School district.
A few years ago, the publicly elected board of a very small rural school district in southern Oregon decided to investigate some reports of fraud, embezzlement, unfair contract favoritism, and lots of other nasty allegations about some employees at the school. Not the teachers, but, if I remember right, the food service, facilities, etc. So the board hired someone they liked to investigate. (He happened to also be the school board's lawyer). So he did his investigation, and when they did the presentation to the board, they kicked everyone out of the room, chatted for a few minutes, and let everyone back in.. then the board said "there was nothing in the report that showed any truth the rumors". So people asked to see the damn report. And the board claimed it was Attorney client privilege under state of Oregon law, which is not available under the open records laws.
Basically, the Gist of why every newspaper and TV channel (and a bunch of citizens) were filing objections, was the district was arguing that even if they pay a lawyer to do anything for the district (even write a book report) that could be considered client-attorney privilege, if the board decides.
Well, that and the people were pissed that the Small school district, that had huge money problems, had a roof collapse in a school they couldn't afford to fix, etc.. spent huge amounts of money, appealing rulings too keep secret a report paid for with tax payer dollars, about how tax payer dollars were potentially being abused. (I don't miss living in the small towns)
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A126655.htm
And what a pain in the ass that would be! True north is different from magnetic north depending on WHERE you are measure it from. So that whole ankle thing would have to have a GPS or something, to know how far off of magnetic north to point...
Also, think of how hard it would be to find True north in Australia. Now Magnetic south, that would be easy.. (or do AUS compasses just have the other part of the dial weighted, so the point south.. i've never been sure on that one...)
It doesn't look like we'll have to wait too long to see these implementations in action either. Schorn reckons we'll be seeing ARM ecosystem products containing Cortex A9 designs in the first half of 2009 and then Osprey related silicon to appear later that year.
From the Hexus Article..
It sure would be nice to have an update to that linked article that was written a year ago. I've seen lots of info on ATOM since then, but not much on the A9 systems that should already be out.
Just out of curiosity, does the ARM version of Ubuntu take advantage of some of the stuff in ARM for doing HD video at low power? Or is it just ubuntu, recompiled for the architecture? There are several advantages to each different CPU. Do things like Flash (or even Gnash) work on ARM? Or VLC, or anything?
No.. Oregon's biggest city sits right across a bridge from the state of Washington. Supposedly, in the study, you would only be taxed for driving in the state of Oregon, however, one of the things they envisioned was getting rid of gas taxes, and tollbooths, and if you drove between states, you would pay to each state based on how many miles you drove in it.
While advertising always paid for the content, the biggest cost was distribution. Your right, the $15 didn't cover the cost of printing and distributing those huge stacks of paper in a month.
However, with this new arrangement, their largest costs, the actual printing and distribution, are gone. The internet (and Google) allow them to go from 100,000 subscribers to 4million subscribers overnight, with just about nothing in extra costs. For every 1,000,000 article reads at a nickel each, your talking about $35,000 after Google gets its cut. This is the same as how artists can make more money selling 99 cent songs on Itunes than they could selling $15 albums in stores.
But how awesome would it be if your landlord said "don't worry about paying for renters insurance when your with us. if you lose something, due to fire, theft, or whatever, we'll just replace it, whether its the couch, TV, whatever...
Isnt' this collusion?
Like if the Airlines all got together and decided to double all their rates overnight (which they would never admit to, but it sure seems like they do..)
Are you upgrading both systems over the network? or did you actually pop an Ubuntu CD into the drive? Its kinda unfair to compare installing from CD/DVD to installing from FTP server on the day of the release because Update-manager told you there was a new version...
They have a HUGE upside to helping people move their data out of Exchange servers (emails, contacts, appointments, etc) into the paid Google Apps service.. Last time I looked, their tools for doing just this were coming along nicely. That was one of the biggest complaints, getting the email and archives out. This same thing was a big pain, when MS wanted people to migrate from Groupwise and Lotus Notes to Exchange. MS made a nice little importer, but they didn't make their data easy to Export.
That can lead to very tempting sales pitches, give us 6 months, (or a year, or whatever) and if you don't like our service, we'll help you go right back to what you had before.
I agree wholeheartedly with your post, but to be clear, if you have a camera recording in your car, and you get into an accident, (or you see one happen) the other party can subpoena your videos.
If you made as much profit as IBM selling giant printers (for printing things like bank statements) you would prolong their life too. And Microsoft.. if they didn't have printer drivers as an easy way to royally screw a system up, blue screens, reboots, crawling slow for no reason, then nobody would upgrade to vista or windows 7. Google can't search paper. So they don't care.
These laws are deliberately vague so that if you act like a dick when the cop stops you, he's got plenty of leeway to charge you with something
Especially if your a black professor at a white ivy league school.. Hell, they charged Mr. Gates with "disorderly conduct" for getting mad that he didn't want to prove he didn't break into his own damn house! Hauled him off in handcuffs, and then, after word got out, just "dropped the charges" and hoped everything would be okay. I would be livid..
I've been looking into recording any and every call when I need to call for "support". I am getting way too tired about having someone promise something, then not get it, call back, and hear "well, its not in the notes" even though the first person told me specifically that it was in the notes. or that the person would never had said that, etc. I often ask if the call was recorded for quality purposes, but they can never seem to get access to that. So I would like to save them the trouble. Play a little clip of "Jenny" saying "We'll credit that to your account in the next 2-3 business days..."
I was really hoping Grand Central (google voice) would allow that, but sadly, they will only record if the person calls you.
Isn't this the exact reason that using clustered, smaller nuclear reactors is gaining so much favor lately? instead of a single 2GW reactor, you run 8x250MW reactors. You can take one down for maintenance, and lose about 12% of your output, instead of 100%. or you can take a few down when they are not needed, and better control power flow.
Then the small ones can be built modularly, offsite, and transported whole to the site, drastically shortening construction time. Basically, it would make an assembly line for nukes. And do the reprocessing and storage offsite. All nice and modular.
Wait, when have Developers and IT departments EVER favored macs? Outside of education, and some Niche's in Marketing firms, Mac's are probably less supported than Linux. (which they probably run in the server room). Apple has been throwing a ton of resources at things like working with exchange, so they don't have to rely on others (microsoft) to provide them with the tools to overtake MS in offices..