Does he just sit at home and go ooo "space-coke-rocket-bottle well thats my work done for the year"? Sure inventor sounds cooler on your c.v / patent-troll website, but at the end of the day this guy is an enginier! And while im being picky WTF does a scientist do? Im fairly sure nobody would even put scientist on thier CV
I dont think its ready. i suggested installing Linux on a friends PC it was incredibly buggy and because it uses so many hacks there was next to no help for in the normal channels (although ive found the help to generally be lacking now i have a clue what im doing). *this may be because the laptop was incompatible but there were tricks the installer should have picked up on it just missed.
You offer a losing argument. If it is hostile when we do it then it is hostile when they do it. I wasnt saying that theyre not hostile just that what china do is nothing compaired to what the CIA do. Both are wrong.
Uh, the war and the massive deficits that it contributes to harms US currency. You may want to add an econ text to that reading list of yours. I didnt say it worked, hell nothing in the iraq war worked, my only source was a more4 doc so it was biased but it did make some convincing arguments. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159) sorry i couldn't find a summary but they were all too biased, either for or against him.
My capitalism argument was simply that everything has to turn a buck, and people will do anything to turn a buck. I think that's a valid description of capitalism the same way the communism Soviet Russia/china can be used to describe communism, im just saying what i see.
No but its not the Chinese government producing the counterfeit goods, its the same sweatshops producing the real good in a lot of cases. The only thing the Chinese government do is not bothering to hurt their own ecconomy.
They attempt to manipulate our electoral system with illegal campaign contributions Pot kettle black, have you heard of this little agency called the CIA, the middle east didnt supress themselves.
recall their ramming of our surveillance aircraft erm you were spying on them, if they were aggressive then bye bye plane!
The blind eye turned towards piracy and counterfeiting. Supply and demand, if people are going to buy fakes then people are going to make them, its called capitalism look it any good bookshop. As for piracy i much prefer sweeden's approach more than a blind eye a straight out finger up to tell you that sweeden is not your jurisdiction.
Their involvement in the drug trade (precursor chemicals and opium exports, and money laundering) Again, not your jurisdiction
Their currency manipulation to remain an extremely inexpensive exporter. Atleast theyre not invading countries to try keep their currency afloat. (im not saying its why you went into iraq but definitely up there)
they entered the Korean War to save the North Koreans when they were on the verge of defeat. I have to admit, i don't know the specifics of Korea but i KNOW that if it wasn't for some American interest you wouldn't have been there at all(freedom doesnt count as an interest for the same reason it didnt count in nam,afganistan (both times) & doesnt count in iraq now).
They seem well poised to need a diversion and a scapegoat. We seem to be their number one candidate. Not everybody is dumb enough to ignore that their countries falling apart while they're spending millions fighting to rid the world of...evil!
i was merely pointing out that compiling programs isnt often needed on binary distros like ubuntu.
And last time i checked people were moving to downloads, instead of CDs, who wants a stack of CDs when you can just install software through downloads. Repos are not hard to use, its a lot easier to simply select a program and click install than run an exe then go through a 10 minute quiz to install the software. If you need to install a deb from a website you just download and double click it (pretty much like an exe). alien is a litle harder but as i rarely use it ( current install hasnt used it at all) thats not too much.
Surely a program called add/remove programs is simpler than using a CD. And even if the program your looking to install is in a repo, a install program file type ( a.l.a msi ) is alot simpler to use than.exe as it give the same approach everytime.
The main problem is the install, most people just cant be bother, until something like wubi becomes worthwhile. Or something like KDE4win gets people using linux apps the sameway itunes did for mac
Dell are treating linux users like normal customers, theyve got the 1 up on thier competition (they sell linux the rest dont) and they think going to get them sales!
They couldn't care less about Linux, Ubuntu or FOSS and never will, hopefully somebody else will break rank then dell + them will fight it out on the Linux market. Low end laptops, with full systems (about 512 + 1*1GHz can easily handle compiz+kde) High end laptops, wine / virtualisation are easily capable of gaming bespoke software + hardware combination's (selling advertising instead of demos) bespoke software + peripherals (there's plenty of money in peripherals ) if only there was a bit of competition dell might actually do something!
must be very troublesome apps, Ive not seen a program that wasnt avalible in: *the repos *in a deb for ubuntu *in an rpm that can be installed using alien my current install has a couple of 3rd party installed apps but the only thing ive compiled are a few compiz extentions!
It's one thing to hotplug an external hard drive, quite another to swap processors while running. I meant CPU hotplugable, i think it was originally developed purely for a few highend servers that allow hotplugable CPUs, but now its main application (AFAIK) is in visualization.
Most consumer applications don't max out a processor. Having a switchable processor would be worth it only in really specialized situations. As a result, no one would code the software for it. The software would simply have to be multithreaded the OS would take care of the rest, the software wouldn't need to do anything special.
I will concede that i cant think of an application for switching between modes( perhaps compiling? or gaming (old games dont multi thread well but then again old games wont max out cpu)? or if a core is known to fail at high temp (but then again you'd just throttle the cpu usage to keep it from failing) ), but if disabled cores are not disabled physically then at least if quadcores were being shipped people would be able to enable the last core.
I realize it would be complex but would it be possible?
it'd probably require a restart. Linux can be compiled to be hotplugable, if i understood correctly it means this isnt true.
people know what workload will max out their computer, and build around that I was looking for the desktop market, were one minute ill be running everyday stuff (mail + web browser, want as many slow cores as i can get so i save power), then ill edit some pictures ( I dont know much about graphics but i think multicores are generally good for this) then ill play some games ( some games are better at threading than others).
It also wouldn't work under Windows, because you'd have to reauthorize WGA every time you switched. true but i was looking at it from a purely technical point of view, if it became practically useful im sure windows would allow you to pay for WGA-flexy-core that gets around this.
By the way, that kind of stuff generates interest in the product by itself - people like the idea of buying a low-end product and turn it into a high-end one. Of course it's always a bit of a lottery, but it does attract people. How is the last core disabled? is it physical or firmware. It would be quite interesting if the triple core demand gets so high that they're probably shipping quad cores.
If its hackable, it would even be interesting to see how the defective cores perform. For example if i have a 2.6 tricore because the last core cant go above 2.0 ( im sure marketing would do this sort of thing ). For multithreaded stuff my computer could run in quadcore mode at a low clock rate (4*2 > 3*2.6) but when the programs running cant really multithread the last core could be switched of to allow the clock to be increased ( 2.6 > 2.0). Is this possible or is the last core disabled physically?
p.s i dont know why i care, as my laptop runs fast enough for everyday stuff with a 1.6 single core since i got more than 256 ram(it uses a whole 390MB now). Is there a demand for this anywhere outside the server/gaming market?
Right.. people still don't want the troublesome little bastards congregating even if they're not currently in "kill" mode. have you heard of this little thing called freedom, im not sure if you've come across the concept. Its basically the core foundation of the modern world, people die for it.
Your comparison is not germane. There is a problem, and comparing it to another nation is irrelevant. I will also submit that there are quite a few more fatalities due to blunt force trauma and shanking than there are in the U.S., which is arguably more savage than shooting somebody. It's one thing to pull a trigger, quite another to kick somebody in the head until they stop moving or to close distance and stick a blade in them. Your right theres no need to compare the UK to america, just look at our past the 80s were full of trouble, things were made worse by blanket discrimination that you suggest not better.
And you're an apologist for the troublemakers. You wouldn't happen to be one of them, now would you? I make no apologies for the trouble makers, i just oppose to the blanket use of tools that attack the innocent & the guilty. Yes by night i go and mug old grannies, but by day i post on Slashdot, if your going to stoop to personal attacks then get a clue. (Not that its any of your business, but im actually a physics student at one of the best universities in the world and i didn't get here by being lazy)
These devices are only used to disperse gangs which have already accumulated and who are causing trouble. that's complete rubbish, these devices are used indiscriminately, i have to put up with 1 near my town hall where, the kids do not cause trouble.
They are not emitting this sound on a constant basis, and are just fired for very short periods of time as required. they do emit for short periods of time but not as required they emit for about 20mins whenever somebody moves, then thiers a 5-10 minute wait before it kicks in again, this is not as required.
As many others have said, the UK has a very serious problem with gangs of youths causing trouble, and we're not just talking a little petty crime, there have been a number of recent cases where individuals, often adults, have actually being kicked to death or stabbed by such groups. The deaths are not in public places and out side shops where these are being used so that is completly of topic. In fact if the gang had been outside a shop instead of the mans home, people would have seen the attack. Your argment is based on the fact that we have a problem with some youths (its not at all serious compaired to US), so we should punish them all. And about half a dozen times isnt often!
When people talk about the rights of children, they always think of the relatively innocent ones, the ones who are probably more like we were when we were young (and this is an image that those who are anti-Mosquito are trying to foster) but the truth of the matter is that the kids this device is being used on, have little in common with the British kids of the 80s. Defending an idea because some people deserve it is like saying because some adults are terrorists we should all be watched, it is in fact you that's attacking the liberties of the innocent! the kids of the 80s, wernt the kids of the 80s the punks that would hang around in gangs and start fights, just because you didnt go round causing trouble doesn't mean your generation is innocent!
I think the problem ultimately lies in society itself, as the rich/poor divide gets wider kids on the lower end have less and less hope. While hope cant be forced on people, something has to be done about hope! Attacking them with devices like this and stop and search just reinforces the divide. The lib-dem candidate for london mayor said "we need effective policing" (he was a police oficer for 31 years so waether or not hed be a good mayor he does know exactly what hes talking about (btw he was policing the brixton riots in 81)) not blanket police suppression, thats failed in the past and is going to fail now too.
btw im 20 and live in hoxton london, which isnt a 'safe' area but these things couldnt be further from the solution.
That would be the ultimate whitehat worm, as the 60% of people that don't care about linux/windows are the same people that don't patch. Unfortunately i don't think that's what ms are planning.
Perhaps its because it took slashdoters about 30mins to use an exploit to fix the latest kernel bug that ms think it would work for them, but they don't understand its that only they are going to be able to write the worms!
we've don't nothing, monopoly stifles innovation, since the end of the cold war (actually since it was clear the US was winning ) spy technology stoped advancing and just stagnated. The only thing that has happened is gadgets getting smaller but that's because of the electronics market
mod parent up parent^2 is just stupid TBH unless everywhere in europe should belong to rome and all of america is given back to the natives the post is pure bullshit, i only hope people with no perspective moded it up
wow you got it to install! windows xp refused to: Remember it was 1/2 installed on my system Read my partition table Read past 1/2 way on my drive so when i went to install ubuntu i found xp sitting in the middle On my laptop it refuses to even boot the CD (because its an acer but i dont have the acer disc, ofc you cant d/l the CD anywhere!) I had the 'privalage' of setting up vista on a mates PC where, the mail program cant be reduced to the tray,
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Lets not forget that the entire base is build on illegal ground, and Cuba want it back!
Does he just sit at home and go ooo "space-coke-rocket-bottle well thats my work done for the year"? Sure inventor sounds cooler on your c.v / patent-troll website, but at the end of the day this guy is an enginier!
And while im being picky WTF does a scientist do? Im fairly sure nobody would even put scientist on thier CV
I dont think its ready. i suggested installing Linux on a friends PC it was incredibly buggy and because it uses so many hacks there was next to no help for in the normal channels (although ive found the help to generally be lacking now i have a clue what im doing).
*this may be because the laptop was incompatible but there were tricks the installer should have picked up on it just missed.
Once it works well it will be great tho!
My capitalism argument was simply that everything has to turn a buck, and people will do anything to turn a buck. I think that's a valid description of capitalism the same way the communism Soviet Russia/china can be used to describe communism, im just saying what i see.
No but its not the Chinese government producing the counterfeit goods, its the same sweatshops producing the real good in a lot of cases. The only thing the Chinese government do is not bothering to hurt their own ecconomy.
i was merely pointing out that compiling programs isnt often needed on binary distros like ubuntu.
.exe as it give the same approach everytime.
And last time i checked people were moving to downloads, instead of CDs, who wants a stack of CDs when you can just install software through downloads. Repos are not hard to use, its a lot easier to simply select a program and click install than run an exe then go through a 10 minute quiz to install the software. If you need to install a deb from a website you just download and double click it (pretty much like an exe). alien is a litle harder but as i rarely use it ( current install hasnt used it at all) thats not too much.
Surely a program called add/remove programs is simpler than using a CD.
And even if the program your looking to install is in a repo, a install program file type ( a.l.a msi ) is alot simpler to use than
Actually i think he was complaining that if you search for that you get a quiz :s IMO its the best way to get people to the rigt distro (its just a shame they dont favor ubuntu as much as they should)
http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
http://www.tuxs.org/chooser/
The main problem is the install, most people just cant be bother, until something like wubi becomes worthwhile. Or something like KDE4win gets people using linux apps the sameway itunes did for mac
Dell are treating linux users like normal customers, theyve got the 1 up on thier competition (they sell linux the rest dont) and they think going to get them sales!
They couldn't care less about Linux, Ubuntu or FOSS and never will, hopefully somebody else will break rank then dell + them will fight it out on the Linux market.
Low end laptops, with full systems (about 512 + 1*1GHz can easily handle compiz+kde)
High end laptops, wine / virtualisation are easily capable of gaming
bespoke software + hardware combination's (selling advertising instead of demos)
bespoke software + peripherals (there's plenty of money in peripherals )
if only there was a bit of competition dell might actually do something!
must be very troublesome apps, Ive not seen a program that wasnt avalible in:
*the repos
*in a deb for ubuntu
*in an rpm that can be installed using alien
my current install has a couple of 3rd party installed apps but the only thing ive compiled are a few compiz extentions!
actually its more like suing a tourist information office,
for telling you where the post office is,
so you could buy a map,
to rob a bank.
the pirate bay don't even link to copyrighted material( files on computers) they link to links to copyrighted (torrent trackers) material.
I will concede that i cant think of an application for switching between modes( perhaps compiling? or gaming (old games dont multi thread well but then again old games wont max out cpu)? or if a core is known to fail at high temp (but then again you'd just throttle the cpu usage to keep it from failing) ), but if disabled cores are not disabled physically then at least if quadcores were being shipped people would be able to enable the last core.
then ill edit some pictures ( I dont know much about graphics but i think multicores are generally good for this)
then ill play some games ( some games are better at threading than others). It also wouldn't work under Windows, because you'd have to reauthorize WGA every time you switched. true but i was looking at it from a purely technical point of view, if it became practically useful im sure windows would allow you to pay for WGA-flexy-core that gets around this.
If its hackable, it would even be interesting to see how the defective cores perform. For example if i have a 2.6 tricore because the last core cant go above 2.0 ( im sure marketing would do this sort of thing ). For multithreaded stuff my computer could run in quadcore mode at a low clock rate (4*2 > 3*2.6) but when the programs running cant really multithread the last core could be switched of to allow the clock to be increased ( 2.6 > 2.0).
Is this possible or is the last core disabled physically?
p.s i dont know why i care, as my laptop runs fast enough for everyday stuff with a 1.6 single core since i got more than 256 ram(it uses a whole 390MB now). Is there a demand for this anywhere outside the server/gaming market?
& the guilty. Yes by night i go and mug old grannies, but by day i post on Slashdot, if your going to stoop to personal attacks then get a clue. (Not that its any of your business, but im actually a physics student at one of the best universities in the world and i didn't get here by being lazy)
I think the problem ultimately lies in society itself, as the rich/poor divide gets wider kids on the lower end have less and less hope. While hope cant be forced on people, something has to be done about hope! Attacking them with devices like this and stop and search just reinforces the divide. The lib-dem candidate for london mayor said "we need effective policing" (he was a police oficer for 31 years so waether or not hed be a good mayor he does know exactly what hes talking about (btw he was policing the brixton riots in 81)) not blanket police suppression, thats failed in the past and is going to fail now too.
btw im 20 and live in hoxton london, which isnt a 'safe' area but these things couldnt be further from the solution.
stop feeding microsoft, just ignore them they'll go away and make a good product if they want some attention.
That would be the ultimate whitehat worm, as the 60% of people that don't care about linux/windows are the same people that don't patch. Unfortunately i don't think that's what ms are planning.
Perhaps its because it took slashdoters about 30mins to use an exploit to fix the latest kernel bug that ms think it would work for them, but they don't understand its that only they are going to be able to write the worms!
we've don't nothing, monopoly stifles innovation, since the end of the cold war (actually since it was clear the US was winning ) spy technology stoped advancing and just stagnated.
The only thing that has happened is gadgets getting smaller but that's because of the electronics market
thats why you shouldn't worry.
south America is 2nd world. There is a big difference between developing, and undeveloped/ not developing.
mod parent up
parent^2 is just stupid TBH unless everywhere in europe should belong to rome and all of america is given back to the natives the post is pure bullshit, i only hope people with no perspective moded it up
wow you got it to install! windows xp refused to:
Remember it was 1/2 installed on my system
Read my partition table
Read past 1/2 way on my drive so when i went to install ubuntu i found xp sitting in the middle
On my laptop it refuses to even boot the CD (because its an acer but i dont have the acer disc, ofc you cant d/l the CD anywhere!)
I had the 'privalage' of setting up vista on a mates PC where, the mail program cant be reduced to the tray,
yahoo works fine? thats news to me the new yahoo webmail doesnt work on my firefox3 on ubuntu