Well, first you would cool it to a liquid. I am assuming that with the proper cooling of that Liquid, and possibly passing electricity or something through it, you might be able to get it to form crystals. I don't see why not.
It should be noted that dilithium has a chemical symbol of Li2 (that is, two lithium atoms covalently bonded together), whereas the ST dilithium has a chemical symbol of Dt
Programming languages Linux is written in the version of the C programming language supported by GCC (which has introduced a number of extensions and changes to standard C), together with a number of short sections of code written in the assembly language (in GCC's "AT&T-style" syntax) of the target architecture. Because of the extensions to C it supports, GCC was for a long time the only compiler capable of correctly building Linux. In 2004, Intel claimed to have modified the kernel so that its C compiler also was capable of compiling it.[24] Many other languages are used in some way, primarily in connection with the kernel build process (the methods whereby the bootable image is created from the sources). These include Perl, Python, and various shell scripting languages. Some drivers may also be written in C++, Fortran, or other languages, but this is strongly discouraged. Linux's build system only officially supports GCC as a kernel and driver compiler.
So I am assuming that the answer is Perl, Python, various scripting languages, and Fortran
Yes, but seriously, how many people back up 12 terrabytes?
I have about 50 gigs of Data that I absolutely do not want to use (growing at about 10 gig a year now that I have full TV resolution on my point and shoot camera). Basically, this is pictures. My word documents and databases could all fit on a single CD. I think I am extreme for most users.
All the rest of the storage space I have (2 terrabytes) goto storing movies off of my DVR, or installing applications (CS4 itself was over a 10 gig install), or for scratch space for projects. No, all the rest of that data is non-crucial, and does not need to be backed up.
As Blu-Ray media comes more popular, I can easily back up 50 gig to a single disc. So, that goes from burning your 1446 DVDs every few years to burning a couple of Blu-Ray discs every year. Much more managable.
Throw in a cheap 100 gig drive, and put it in an offsite storage facility with your BluRay media, and you are fine. Shoot, most of my photos I have 4 copies laying around. I have lost pictures before, and have learned from my mistakes.
Most of my friends have as well, and back up pictures to online picture sites, or burn discs as well.
In the office, wow, lets see, you have your servers, the backup servers, the daily snapshots, tape backups, and then the tapes that we ship to offsite facilities. And we have a data-recovery service we sometimes use (expensive, but effective). A bad sector on a HD should not take down an entire Raid array - you are talking worse case scenarios, and if you DO loose data, you have your backup servers, and then your tape backups. If you don't, I doubt you are SOX compliant.
Truthfully, this sounds like a bunch of FUD to me. You have ALWAYS had this issue with RAID-5, which is WHY you have backup plans in place. And IF you are geeky enough to be running RAID at home, you should understand the importance of backup anyways.
I agree. I got a 750 gig drive in my desktop, and its actually partitioned out, for three OSes, and one large storage area. All my other drives are used for storing photos and video, and are ALL externals. I care much more about how well the data holds up over time, and how well the drive handles shock, than the throughput. Shoot, my 750 gig external is hooked up via USB2 to my Dish Network HD reciever. Even when I am storing broadcast HD, you are only dealing with 17Mbps (a little more than 2MBps).
The exception would be if I was dealing with Uncompressed HD video - THEN throughput would be an issue for me.
This may sound like a "duh", but make sure if you take it apart, you know how to put it back together. Oh, and if you are taking apart anything that stores a charge, make sure you do not try to clean that (ie no submersing CRT tubes - BAD idea).
Here is another Duh. You know what kills mildew and mold really well? Lysol!
So, yeah, take it apart, let it dry out COMPLETELY (as many people have said, wait DAYS), take a can of Lysol to it, let it set, then do fine cleaning with rubbing alcohol and a Q-Tip. Then once again, let dry COMPLETELY. Once its dry, wait another day or two. Then put back together.
You MIGHT be able to save the speakers as well, if you know how to caulk. Probably won't have the same sound quality, but should work until you can replace them. If the speakers have wood casing, you may want to let them dry out more than the other stuff. After recaulking, you will probably get a sound that sounds similar to a 1950s or 1960s speaker hooked up to a tube amp (at least in my experience). Don't turn up too loud, or you will blow the seal. Does give you an interesting sound, but you are right, you will need to eventually replace them.
I truthfully find these numbers a little swayed. I doubt its anywhere near this high, or else we have a different idea of what a public university is. If they had a halfway decent knowledgable IT department (most universities I know have IT departments made up of students, with one or two non-students over them), they probably throw an old pentium with linux in a closet and setup packet shaping or something. Even a couple of servers running Windows should not push the costs anywhere near that costs. And if you have a good server, you are probably running multiple services on it anyways. I am skiming the article, and find little to support these numbers.
I graduated in 2001, and P2P was just begining to become a problem (WinMX was really popular at that time). To avoid issues with the students claiming that we are blocking them, we just took all traffic on the general ports the software used, and forced it through a 56k pipeline. Students would give up when it was taking 4 hours to download a single MP3. Granted, some of the smarter students could force it to another port, at which case the university could say that the student circumvented university preventive measurements if the **AA said something.
At my job, we just block the ports all together.
Seriously, just implement either port blocking or packet shaping, or just apply for common carrier status, invest the money in faster pipes to the Internet, and tell the **AA to go eff themselves, because you took preventive measurements.
Great. So how do you propose I handle an MFM drive? Last I checked, you needed an MFM controller, not just the right kind of connector.
I think the question will most likely be what can be built to handle the most number of controller cards, and so forth. You will probably also need to dual, triple,or possibly quad-boot the PC, because some of the drivers are DOS, some are Windows 3, some are 95, some may be OS/2, etc. Now, I am sure someone is going to bring up the concept of virtual machines, so let me put a stop to that right here - for a virtual machine to talk to hardware on your existing machine, you must have the driver installed on the existing machine, and then the virtual software must allow the virtual OS to talk to the real hardware. Defeats the purpose.
I truthfully doubt that you are going to be able to find a one-machine solution. You will not have enough ISA and PCI slots, you will run out of IRQs and addresses, you will have hardware conflicting with each other, and software trying to access devices that it should not be accessing, possibly corrupting data. Just go out and pick up some old 286s and 386s (places are usually willing to just give these away), throw your controller cards in them, and just accept the fact that you are going to have to use multiple machines.
Who in their right mind would go with an ISP that has flash video on their front page? How annoying. Of course, mine uses cPanel, so who am I to judge?
I am surprised that companies are JUST NOW getting into this concept of instant on. My C64 was instant on 25 years ago. Granted, I then had to type LOAD"$",8 LIST
then when I made sure it was the right disk, LOAD"KONGO BONGO",8,1 and wait about 90 seconds for it to load up the 50k program.
My point was that cookies just do not really store enough information to be of concern. They track what you tend to do on that website, unless I am totally wrong.
My question has always been, are cookies even really that bad? This may just be me, but I am not that concerned - unless a cookie for one site is actually tracking what I am DOING on another site - ie if Slashdot suddenly started tracking what I was doing at my bank. I may be totally ignorant here, but I did not think cookies worked that way. And who actually has time to poll through all that user data? I have a low-traffic website, and just for grins, I will go in sometimes and look at the server logs, but most of these is just kind of curiosity over what countries are visiting me. Sometimes I will look at the terms people typed into search engines to find me (this is not a cookie, just standard Apachee server logs), but that is about it. I do not have the time, nor the desire to look at mroe than that. In fact, I usually do nt have the time to look at even that.
So, let's just say that someone is using a shared object to store browsing history. So what? Unless my church saw that after I went to their website I visited some girl-on-girl site (or vice versa), I really don't care. Of course, it could just be me being ignorant, but cookies are not what I am worried about. I am worried about other people going to Smiley Central or Living Screensavers or Coupon Toolbar or something than about cookies.
This does make sense. I was about to say you forgot NT and 2000, but those were not consumer OSes. I was then going to say you forgot Windows 3.1 and Windows 98 SE, but those were really just revisions. Any Windows prior to Windows 3 was really just workplace, so, yeah, makes sense that this is the 7th consumer incarnation of Windows.
Actually, this works for the Professional market as well - Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Windows NT 3.5 Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7
I have it set as my default browser, as it launches fast and seems to have a relatively low overhead. It is great for the majority of my websurfing. However, there are some rendering issues on a few sites, and for those one or two, I fire up Firefox. IE has not been launched on my PC in a while.
I agree. The only time I have the volume up full blast on my iPod is when it is hooked up to the aux port in my car stereo.
If you are just trying to block out other sound, stop using the default-issued Apple earbuds, and spend about $20-$90 and get yourself a decent pair of noise canceling earphones. I got mine for $30 from Creative Labs, runs for about 20 hours on a single AAA battery, and I can keep the volume at around 1/3 of max and still block out most noise without my eardrums ringing.
Um, wasn't it said in earlier posts that the e0mail accounts had already been deleted? Yeah, let's pass a court ruling saying that you must keep a backup after it has already been deleted. Kinda like that stupid thing going on in Washington - if the ruling was passed BEFORE the deletion, that is one thing, but you cannot pass the rulling after the deletion. People should be shot for passing such insane court rulings.
This does not surprise me. I have lived in areas where you pretty much have the choice in Broadband between US West and Cox. US West was AWFUL, and everyone thought that when Qwest acquired them, everything would change. It soon came apparent that all Qwest did was slap their name on the side of the trucks. For internet, at least, we ditched them after another year of putting up with their crap and went with Cox.
I am so glad I live in an area now where I don't have to put up with Qwest. I had SBC who bought out AT&T (and took the AT&T name), and I must say, they are great. As for whether they have IPv6 or not, I would assume AT&T does, but I really don't care. I don't think it does, I think I still have an IPv4 address. I don't care, that goes to the modem, then I guess my router is doing a NAT thingy (I use this term loosely - i know what NAT is, and what IPv6 is, the point is I don't care). I mean, I can get online, I get good fast downloads, I never get booted - the only issues i have is I sometimes have to reboot that cheap-ass modem or router because they get flooded with errors - thanks P2P. But no, I really do not care. I do not need every machine on my network to have its on global IP address - in fact, I would prefer if it didn't. In a large corporation, I really could care less if I have a global IP address. Our webservers, yes, but not every single client. That is ridiculous.
Truthfully, yeah, I see the end coming for IPv4, but at the moment, I really do not care. You can NAT away for all I care - it works, and I have yet to see a notable difference.
BD-Live though is any internet-enabled content, from my understanding. So, they can use it to load new items in the future. Transformers just did this - they added a new game or something, they have another int eh works, and there is rumors that they will eventually have promos for Transformers 2 accessable here.
Now my understanding is that it was just delays in starting the disc, and did not keep you from watching the movie. I mean, if you did not have an internet connection, or the site went down, it should have just gave an error message to the disc, and the disc should have jumped straight to the main menu. Instead, the servers were overloaded, causing the disc to kind of time out. So, really long loads. But it should not have kept you from watching the movie all together, and, at least on the PS3, you turn off the ability of a BD to access the Internet.
I think this will help some people, but I doubt it will make a significant difference. I know many people who have bought cheap Linux computers, then ask me to install Windows on them. Most of these I have seen actually come with Windows driver discs, so all you have to do is dump a Windows OS on them, and then pop in the driver discs. These netbooks may be different from what I have worked on in the past, though.
Truthfully, I think this has a lot to do with why Vista is doing so badly right now - people want what they are used to. Granted, once I show people that Vista is not all that different than what they are used to, they are generally happy with it. I expect the same is true with Linux. However, at least with Vista, it is not THAT different than what they are used to. While Linux (or at least, some flavors of it) are not relatively difficult to pick up, it is different enough that it is going to frustrate people. I would truthfully expect the general population to have a much lower tollerance for Linux than they do Vista, even if there is videos on the desktop. When you get a computer, you want to plug it in and start working, not have to learn a new OS and new software.
I mean, What do I have to do to start using a Word Processor? First I have to learn the OS, then learn how to install a printer (will probably have to figure out what the freak root is to be able to install this new hardware), scratch your head when your printer is not listed, call up the manufactoror to ask what is compatable, then learn Open Office.
What if you have DSL and do not have a router? Forget running AT&T's automatic software.
Yeah, I kind of doubt that you will see a huge acceptance of Linux from the general population.
Can we mark this "Sudden Outbreak of Common Sense?
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Very interesting theory. So, we all know that what we see, hear, whatever, is caused by different wavelengths. So, why is it that we can only see in one wavelength spectrum and hear in another? Hmmm. So, if there is a way to slightly shift those wavelengths that another sensory in the body can understand, I doubt you could "see", but, with proper training, I guess it would be possible to train that sense to make sense (no pun intended) of the data.
Then again, I may be totally forgetting something, and this doesn't make any sense at all and I could just be spouting off BS.
However, if this is possible, then this could be a different way of recording data from the world around us. I understand how the eye works, and I understand how a camera works. But, if we use something different than optics to record wavelengths in the visual spectrum, and use a computer program to interperate that data into something we could see.... Hmmm, its a longshot, but it sounds highly fascinating to me.
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Well, first you would cool it to a liquid. I am assuming that with the proper cooling of that Liquid, and possibly passing electricity or something through it, you might be able to get it to form crystals. I don't see why not.
It should be noted that dilithium has a chemical symbol of Li2 (that is, two lithium atoms covalently bonded together), whereas the ST dilithium has a chemical symbol of Dt
Well, as you can fit linux on a floppy...
From Wikipedia:
Programming languages
Linux is written in the version of the C programming language supported by GCC (which has introduced a number of extensions and changes to standard C), together with a number of short sections of code written in the assembly language (in GCC's "AT&T-style" syntax) of the target architecture. Because of the extensions to C it supports, GCC was for a long time the only compiler capable of correctly building Linux. In 2004, Intel claimed to have modified the kernel so that its C compiler also was capable of compiling it.[24]
Many other languages are used in some way, primarily in connection with the kernel build process (the methods whereby the bootable image is created from the sources). These include Perl, Python, and various shell scripting languages. Some drivers may also be written in C++, Fortran, or other languages, but this is strongly discouraged. Linux's build system only officially supports GCC as a kernel and driver compiler.
So I am assuming that the answer is Perl, Python, various scripting languages, and Fortran
Yes, but seriously, how many people back up 12 terrabytes?
I have about 50 gigs of Data that I absolutely do not want to use (growing at about 10 gig a year now that I have full TV resolution on my point and shoot camera). Basically, this is pictures. My word documents and databases could all fit on a single CD. I think I am extreme for most users.
All the rest of the storage space I have (2 terrabytes) goto storing movies off of my DVR, or installing applications (CS4 itself was over a 10 gig install), or for scratch space for projects. No, all the rest of that data is non-crucial, and does not need to be backed up.
As Blu-Ray media comes more popular, I can easily back up 50 gig to a single disc. So, that goes from burning your 1446 DVDs every few years to burning a couple of Blu-Ray discs every year. Much more managable.
Throw in a cheap 100 gig drive, and put it in an offsite storage facility with your BluRay media, and you are fine. Shoot, most of my photos I have 4 copies laying around. I have lost pictures before, and have learned from my mistakes.
Most of my friends have as well, and back up pictures to online picture sites, or burn discs as well.
In the office, wow, lets see, you have your servers, the backup servers, the daily snapshots, tape backups, and then the tapes that we ship to offsite facilities. And we have a data-recovery service we sometimes use (expensive, but effective). A bad sector on a HD should not take down an entire Raid array - you are talking worse case scenarios, and if you DO loose data, you have your backup servers, and then your tape backups. If you don't, I doubt you are SOX compliant.
Truthfully, this sounds like a bunch of FUD to me. You have ALWAYS had this issue with RAID-5, which is WHY you have backup plans in place. And IF you are geeky enough to be running RAID at home, you should understand the importance of backup anyways.
I agree. I got a 750 gig drive in my desktop, and its actually partitioned out, for three OSes, and one large storage area. All my other drives are used for storing photos and video, and are ALL externals. I care much more about how well the data holds up over time, and how well the drive handles shock, than the throughput. Shoot, my 750 gig external is hooked up via USB2 to my Dish Network HD reciever. Even when I am storing broadcast HD, you are only dealing with 17Mbps (a little more than 2MBps).
The exception would be if I was dealing with Uncompressed HD video - THEN throughput would be an issue for me.
Slashdot covered this last month
This may sound like a "duh", but make sure if you take it apart, you know how to put it back together. Oh, and if you are taking apart anything that stores a charge, make sure you do not try to clean that (ie no submersing CRT tubes - BAD idea).
Here is another Duh. You know what kills mildew and mold really well? Lysol!
So, yeah, take it apart, let it dry out COMPLETELY (as many people have said, wait DAYS), take a can of Lysol to it, let it set, then do fine cleaning with rubbing alcohol and a Q-Tip. Then once again, let dry COMPLETELY. Once its dry, wait another day or two. Then put back together.
You MIGHT be able to save the speakers as well, if you know how to caulk. Probably won't have the same sound quality, but should work until you can replace them. If the speakers have wood casing, you may want to let them dry out more than the other stuff. After recaulking, you will probably get a sound that sounds similar to a 1950s or 1960s speaker hooked up to a tube amp (at least in my experience). Don't turn up too loud, or you will blow the seal. Does give you an interesting sound, but you are right, you will need to eventually replace them.
So, is 4:33 PM also the time of day that you corrupt your site's style sheets?
Yeah, mark it as troll, I don't care, its 4:58 PM.
I truthfully find these numbers a little swayed. I doubt its anywhere near this high, or else we have a different idea of what a public university is. If they had a halfway decent knowledgable IT department (most universities I know have IT departments made up of students, with one or two non-students over them), they probably throw an old pentium with linux in a closet and setup packet shaping or something. Even a couple of servers running Windows should not push the costs anywhere near that costs. And if you have a good server, you are probably running multiple services on it anyways. I am skiming the article, and find little to support these numbers.
I graduated in 2001, and P2P was just begining to become a problem (WinMX was really popular at that time). To avoid issues with the students claiming that we are blocking them, we just took all traffic on the general ports the software used, and forced it through a 56k pipeline. Students would give up when it was taking 4 hours to download a single MP3. Granted, some of the smarter students could force it to another port, at which case the university could say that the student circumvented university preventive measurements if the **AA said something.
At my job, we just block the ports all together.
Seriously, just implement either port blocking or packet shaping, or just apply for common carrier status, invest the money in faster pipes to the Internet, and tell the **AA to go eff themselves, because you took preventive measurements.
Great. So how do you propose I handle an MFM drive? Last I checked, you needed an MFM controller, not just the right kind of connector.
I think the question will most likely be what can be built to handle the most number of controller cards, and so forth. You will probably also need to dual, triple,or possibly quad-boot the PC, because some of the drivers are DOS, some are Windows 3, some are 95, some may be OS/2, etc. Now, I am sure someone is going to bring up the concept of virtual machines, so let me put a stop to that right here - for a virtual machine to talk to hardware on your existing machine, you must have the driver installed on the existing machine, and then the virtual software must allow the virtual OS to talk to the real hardware. Defeats the purpose.
I truthfully doubt that you are going to be able to find a one-machine solution. You will not have enough ISA and PCI slots, you will run out of IRQs and addresses, you will have hardware conflicting with each other, and software trying to access devices that it should not be accessing, possibly corrupting data. Just go out and pick up some old 286s and 386s (places are usually willing to just give these away), throw your controller cards in them, and just accept the fact that you are going to have to use multiple machines.
I agree, you think that in 30 years, I won't want to look at my porn? Might as well throw out your 1978 Playboys and Dutch porn
Who in their right mind would go with an ISP that has flash video on their front page? How annoying. Of course, mine uses cPanel, so who am I to judge?
I am surprised that companies are JUST NOW getting into this concept of instant on. My C64 was instant on 25 years ago. Granted, I then had to type LOAD"$",8
LIST
then when I made sure it was the right disk,
LOAD"KONGO BONGO",8,1
and wait about 90 seconds for it to load up the 50k program.
And a more immediate question: Why no Gears for offline Gmail access at very least, Google?
I enabled imap support in my gmail, and added the account to my Outlook, and enabled Cached mode. Bingo, problem solved!
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77689&topic=12814
My point was that cookies just do not really store enough information to be of concern. They track what you tend to do on that website, unless I am totally wrong.
My question has always been, are cookies even really that bad? This may just be me, but I am not that concerned - unless a cookie for one site is actually tracking what I am DOING on another site - ie if Slashdot suddenly started tracking what I was doing at my bank. I may be totally ignorant here, but I did not think cookies worked that way. And who actually has time to poll through all that user data? I have a low-traffic website, and just for grins, I will go in sometimes and look at the server logs, but most of these is just kind of curiosity over what countries are visiting me. Sometimes I will look at the terms people typed into search engines to find me (this is not a cookie, just standard Apachee server logs), but that is about it. I do not have the time, nor the desire to look at mroe than that. In fact, I usually do nt have the time to look at even that.
So, let's just say that someone is using a shared object to store browsing history. So what? Unless my church saw that after I went to their website I visited some girl-on-girl site (or vice versa), I really don't care. Of course, it could just be me being ignorant, but cookies are not what I am worried about. I am worried about other people going to Smiley Central or Living Screensavers or Coupon Toolbar or something than about cookies.
This does make sense. I was about to say you forgot NT and 2000, but those were not consumer OSes. I was then going to say you forgot Windows 3.1 and Windows 98 SE, but those were really just revisions. Any Windows prior to Windows 3 was really just workplace, so, yeah, makes sense that this is the 7th consumer incarnation of Windows.
Actually, this works for the Professional market as well -
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
I have it set as my default browser, as it launches fast and seems to have a relatively low overhead. It is great for the majority of my websurfing. However, there are some rendering issues on a few sites, and for those one or two, I fire up Firefox. IE has not been launched on my PC in a while.
I agree. The only time I have the volume up full blast on my iPod is when it is hooked up to the aux port in my car stereo.
If you are just trying to block out other sound, stop using the default-issued Apple earbuds, and spend about $20-$90 and get yourself a decent pair of noise canceling earphones. I got mine for $30 from Creative Labs, runs for about 20 hours on a single AAA battery, and I can keep the volume at around 1/3 of max and still block out most noise without my eardrums ringing.
Um, wasn't it said in earlier posts that the e0mail accounts had already been deleted? Yeah, let's pass a court ruling saying that you must keep a backup after it has already been deleted. Kinda like that stupid thing going on in Washington - if the ruling was passed BEFORE the deletion, that is one thing, but you cannot pass the rulling after the deletion. People should be shot for passing such insane court rulings.
This does not surprise me. I have lived in areas where you pretty much have the choice in Broadband between US West and Cox. US West was AWFUL, and everyone thought that when Qwest acquired them, everything would change. It soon came apparent that all Qwest did was slap their name on the side of the trucks. For internet, at least, we ditched them after another year of putting up with their crap and went with Cox.
I am so glad I live in an area now where I don't have to put up with Qwest. I had SBC who bought out AT&T (and took the AT&T name), and I must say, they are great. As for whether they have IPv6 or not, I would assume AT&T does, but I really don't care. I don't think it does, I think I still have an IPv4 address. I don't care, that goes to the modem, then I guess my router is doing a NAT thingy (I use this term loosely - i know what NAT is, and what IPv6 is, the point is I don't care). I mean, I can get online, I get good fast downloads, I never get booted - the only issues i have is I sometimes have to reboot that cheap-ass modem or router because they get flooded with errors - thanks P2P. But no, I really do not care. I do not need every machine on my network to have its on global IP address - in fact, I would prefer if it didn't. In a large corporation, I really could care less if I have a global IP address. Our webservers, yes, but not every single client. That is ridiculous.
Truthfully, yeah, I see the end coming for IPv4, but at the moment, I really do not care. You can NAT away for all I care - it works, and I have yet to see a notable difference.
It does.
BD-Live though is any internet-enabled content, from my understanding. So, they can use it to load new items in the future. Transformers just did this - they added a new game or something, they have another int eh works, and there is rumors that they will eventually have promos for Transformers 2 accessable here.
Now my understanding is that it was just delays in starting the disc, and did not keep you from watching the movie. I mean, if you did not have an internet connection, or the site went down, it should have just gave an error message to the disc, and the disc should have jumped straight to the main menu. Instead, the servers were overloaded, causing the disc to kind of time out. So, really long loads. But it should not have kept you from watching the movie all together, and, at least on the PS3, you turn off the ability of a BD to access the Internet.
I think this will help some people, but I doubt it will make a significant difference. I know many people who have bought cheap Linux computers, then ask me to install Windows on them. Most of these I have seen actually come with Windows driver discs, so all you have to do is dump a Windows OS on them, and then pop in the driver discs. These netbooks may be different from what I have worked on in the past, though.
Truthfully, I think this has a lot to do with why Vista is doing so badly right now - people want what they are used to. Granted, once I show people that Vista is not all that different than what they are used to, they are generally happy with it. I expect the same is true with Linux. However, at least with Vista, it is not THAT different than what they are used to. While Linux (or at least, some flavors of it) are not relatively difficult to pick up, it is different enough that it is going to frustrate people. I would truthfully expect the general population to have a much lower tollerance for Linux than they do Vista, even if there is videos on the desktop. When you get a computer, you want to plug it in and start working, not have to learn a new OS and new software.
I mean, What do I have to do to start using a Word Processor? First I have to learn the OS, then learn how to install a printer (will probably have to figure out what the freak root is to be able to install this new hardware), scratch your head when your printer is not listed, call up the manufactoror to ask what is compatable, then learn Open Office.
What if you have DSL and do not have a router? Forget running AT&T's automatic software.
Yeah, I kind of doubt that you will see a huge acceptance of Linux from the general population.
Bear with me, I am thinking out loud here
Very interesting theory. So, we all know that what we see, hear, whatever, is caused by different wavelengths. So, why is it that we can only see in one wavelength spectrum and hear in another? Hmmm. So, if there is a way to slightly shift those wavelengths that another sensory in the body can understand, I doubt you could "see", but, with proper training, I guess it would be possible to train that sense to make sense (no pun intended) of the data.
Then again, I may be totally forgetting something, and this doesn't make any sense at all and I could just be spouting off BS.
However, if this is possible, then this could be a different way of recording data from the world around us. I understand how the eye works, and I understand how a camera works. But, if we use something different than optics to record wavelengths in the visual spectrum, and use a computer program to interperate that data into something we could see.... Hmmm, its a longshot, but it sounds highly fascinating to me.
Nah, FTP was so 1998. In 2001, we were using Napster, AIMster, and WinMX