What "baggage" are you referring to? Unix is fine for PDAs because you can simply remove those pieces you don't need. And 32M of RAM is more than plenty - lots of people ran Linux on 486's with 8 or even 4M.
As far as why Linux is a good choice, it's because the standard is there and people are familiar with it. Jumping to something like QNX just slashes your developer base. As well, think about the future - even two years from now, that processor is going to double in power and the RAM will increase, and pretty soon all the reasons why you chose QNX have dissappeared.
If I'm going to be carrying something like this around in my pocket, it better be tailorable to exactly what I want it to do. Linux is the way to make this possible.
"I sent people to the amazon site 2,651 times. Only 4 of those people ignored the 25 extra links and bought books off the very first page. One of them bought a special order book for which the dogs at Angell got nothing. Bottom line: The standard Internet price for a clickthrough is 10 cents; it would have cost amazon.com $265 per week to get these users by purchasing ads on other folks' sites; amazon got them from me for $3.95."
...so I buy a motherboard, and it comes with a version of a well-known linux distribution tuned specifically for my motherboard. Why would anyone possibly bitch about that kind of opportunity?
Nothing has been fragmented, nothing has been forked. There's no difference between this and purchasing linux pre-installed on a computer (ala VA Linux or Penguin Computing). ABIT simply saw that their hardware was not optimally supported by a well-known linux distribution, so they tweaked it for their hardware and released it. It's almost like having an ABIT technician on the phone while you're installing linux so he can tell you exactly what to do - but this is even better.
Lose the silly complaints about "fragmentation". Linux itself is a fragmentation - Linus Torvalds saw that a need wasn't being met, and he fulfilled it, just like ABIT.
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I can see how you'd use this for everyday use - staring at a stereoscopic image all day would have to be pretty tough on the eyes and likely to give you headaches. Any reading of text would probably be terrible.
Don't get your hopes up. The best you might see are CAD/CAM programs or perhaps use in a few video arcade machines. Either way, you'll still need your regular monitor for the majority of your work.
It's silly how all this craziness erupts when commercial entities start throwing money into Linux development. Why is it always thought that open source developers won't survive without a similar amount of money?
There's no mention of building software in the OSD spec. It won't tackle the problem that the author of the editorial describes: making it possible to compile the software on heterogenous systems.
Why, when no one has released any information as to the nature of these attacks, that everyone is so quick to jump on the bandwagon that this is a trinoo, TFN, stacheldracht, or similar daemon causing the trouble? How do we know that this isn't some kind of security hole in Cisco routers, or simply someone tapped into a large fiber cable (in some subway, sewer, or similar) launching the attacks?
If the government knew what they were doing, they'd get the judge to order him to turn over the keys to decrypt the data. If he fails to comply, hold him in contempt of court and throw him back in jail. The government had a valid search warrant when they siezed the data -- they just haven't enforced it completely.
Now that's funny. He makes a post satirizing the previous one, and absolutely nobody caught it (the discussion about color TV being backwards compatible to black & white was interesting too). As far as digital vs. analog, digital takes less than half as much bandwidth as analog -- this is the benefit. The FCC is trying to get rid of legacy systems and everyone seems to flame them for it.
For a worm like this to occur, it would likely affect some sort of daemon (mail, httpd, etc.) and not the kernel itself. Any mediocre sysadmin would just look at the code and see how they were exploited, exclaim a nice "oh duh" and fix the problem.
That's the point of Linux - the source is open. When you can dig in and look at the exploit, it's not a mystery occurance that makes you lose faith in the OS. Exploits like these hurt NT or other closed-source OS's much worse because the sysadmin has no way of seeing what happened, thus they lose faith in the system.
It's just another rediculous patent. See for yourself: Google has basically patented ranking by counting the number of links to the given page.
Granted, if I were building a search engine, it might take me a few tries figuring out the best ranking algorithm to use, but anyone would assuredly brainstorm this one sooner or later.
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What "baggage" are you referring to? Unix is fine for PDAs because you can simply remove those pieces you don't need. And 32M of RAM is more than plenty - lots of people ran Linux on 486's with 8 or even 4M.
As far as why Linux is a good choice, it's because the standard is there and people are familiar with it. Jumping to something like QNX just slashes your developer base. As well, think about the future - even two years from now, that processor is going to double in power and the RAM will increase, and pretty soon all the reasons why you chose QNX have dissappeared.
If I'm going to be carrying something like this around in my pocket, it better be tailorable to exactly what I want it to do. Linux is the way to make this possible.
From that page:
- "I sent people to the amazon site 2,651 times. Only 4 of those people ignored the 25 extra links and bought books off the very first page. One of them bought a special order book for which the dogs at Angell got nothing. Bottom line: The standard Internet price for a clickthrough is 10 cents; it would have cost amazon.com $265 per week to get these users by purchasing ads on other folks' sites; amazon got them from me for $3.95."
'nuff said.Children's Internet Protection Act (S.97) - sponsored by McCain
Try your local community college - they likely have classes on the Internet that will help you out a lot.
Nothing has been fragmented, nothing has been forked. There's no difference between this and purchasing linux pre-installed on a computer (ala VA Linux or Penguin Computing). ABIT simply saw that their hardware was not optimally supported by a well-known linux distribution, so they tweaked it for their hardware and released it. It's almost like having an ABIT technician on the phone while you're installing linux so he can tell you exactly what to do - but this is even better.
Lose the silly complaints about "fragmentation". Linux itself is a fragmentation - Linus Torvalds saw that a need wasn't being met, and he fulfilled it, just like ABIT.
Don't get your hopes up. The best you might see are CAD/CAM programs or perhaps use in a few video arcade machines. Either way, you'll still need your regular monitor for the majority of your work.
Money doesn't make good software.
The voice in the demo is pretty dang warble-y. The Festival speech system does much better, IMHO.
There's no mention of building software in the OSD spec. It won't tackle the problem that the author of the editorial describes: making it possible to compile the software on heterogenous systems.
Maybe George Lucas was right in not releasing The Phantom Menace on DVD?
Same thing there. The techs are absolutely clueless anymore.
FTPPro is a windows application. ProFTPd is an FTP daemon with a GNU license.
If the government knew what they were doing, they'd get the judge to order him to turn over the keys to decrypt the data. If he fails to comply, hold him in contempt of court and throw him back in jail. The government had a valid search warrant when they siezed the data -- they just haven't enforced it completely.
Now that's funny. He makes a post satirizing the previous one, and absolutely nobody caught it (the discussion about color TV being backwards compatible to black & white was interesting too).
As far as digital vs. analog, digital takes less than half as much bandwidth as analog -- this is the benefit. The FCC is trying to get rid of legacy systems and everyone seems to flame them for it.
(http://www.luratech.com/products/productoverview/ pricelist_e.html)
What I can't find is information regarding the patents/etc. regarding the new format - anyone?
He's hit the nail on the head. Idiotic press just plain "does not matter".
That's the point of Linux - the source is open. When you can dig in and look at the exploit, it's not a mystery occurance that makes you lose faith in the OS. Exploits like these hurt NT or other closed-source OS's much worse because the sysadmin has no way of seeing what happened, thus they lose faith in the system.
Maybe they have some sort of Y2K compliance issue with their clothes irons.
Gross negligence suit, anyone?
Granted, if I were building a search engine, it might take me a few tries figuring out the best ranking algorithm to use, but anyone would assuredly brainstorm this one sooner or later.
Aw dammit! I give up.
E2 - E4 (the starting move required by white)
D7 - D6 (black queen's pawn)
F2 - F4 (white king's pawn)
G8 - F6 (black king's knight)
E1 - F2 (white king)
F6 - G4 (black king's knight - check)
F2 - G3 (white king)
G4 - F2 (black king's knight)
G1 - F3 (white king's knight)
F2 - H1 (black king's knight takes white king's rook - checkmate)
Apologies for my lack of knowledge of chess notation...
h7 - h6 (black king's rook's pawn)
g1 - f3 (white king's knight)
g7 - g6 (black king's knight's pawn)
f3 - e5 (white king's knight)
f7 - f6 (black king's bishop's pawn)
e5 - g6 (white king's knight)
a7 - a6 (black queen's rook's pawn - irrelevant)
d1 - h5 (white queen)
a6 - a5 (black queen's rook's pawn - irrelevant)
g6 - h8 (white king's knight takes rook)
I think that satisfies all of the requirements.