I for one would never buy a device that was useless once you lose your signal! A "real" linux version with the ability to run applications on the hardware would be imminently preferable to one that is "only" a browser that need a connection to do anything useful!
Too bad people are such individuals when it come to component placement! Otherwise they could just run a tape of the first successful operation and automate the process like they do in the automotive industry! An operator controls the robot till they get the job done perfect once, then they just play that recorded session over for each job! Lack of standardization in human anatomy really makes thing tough! 8-)
Have you ever come across the fact that one small asteroid has more iron in it than all the iron mined in the history of mankind? That the nickel mine in Sudbury is mining the remains of a meteorite? Another fact that slipped your mind is that it will be a lot cheaper to build something in space from materials already out of the earths gravity well than it would be to boost the same thing into orbit from earth! Though you are perfectly correct, if all we plan to do is sit here and wait for the next, Megavolcano, comet, asteroid strike or some other mega natural disaster to wipe us out!
From reading the Article I got the idea this was going to be another Federally mandated not for profit organization on the lines of http://www.itsa.org/ ! They get a lot of their funding from the dues that members pay to have access to all the info they collect! Basically a clearing house for all the technical info for Space like ITSA is for highways!
You must use some pretty unusual software if you have cut and paste in terminal to get it to install, I usually just point and click in Synaptic Package Manager, or Ubuntu Software Center or Ubuntu Tweak! I think the only thing I have had to cut and paste to install is Calibre eBook Library Manager! Oh wait I once even had to compile a Game called Vega Strike years ago, that is now in the Software center!
This reminds me of both the benefits and shortcomings of CP/M! A CP/M program would run on multiple different machine and processors without modification, but it limited you to the lowest common denominator as far as utilizing the hardware of each different machine was concerned, This is like CP/M for different OSes instead of different processors, so you are limited to the lowest common denominator as far as special OS dependent features are concerned!
I guess that eventually they will have to be satisfied with being the Airborne truck drivers, bus drivers and in-flight fuel stations! Might even get to fly the mother ship than launches the little zippy Armed UAVs and then re-fuels them in flight! The real problem with expanding into aerial combat is going to be bandwidth for the video the Controllers on the ground are going to need to be able to have situational awareness, that and the slight lag time for the signals to go half way around the world and back!
Using Occam's Razor it is a lot more likely to be caused by bugs in the programming than believing that 100s of computers in 100s of cars, were all hit by stray cosmics rays in the same place on the chip to cause the same effect! That seems much more unlikely to me than a programming error that only shows up under a specific set of circumstances!
He could have done like Harlan Ellison and given them the Bird! Harlan made them use the Name Cordwainer Bird instead of his own name for a TV series where they messed up his script! Actually Battlefield Earth wasn't "ALL THAT BAD", considering it was Space Opera and supposed to be Hokey in the first place, or at least I hope it was! The movie really sucked though, left out all the best parts and "Switcheroos", that had you changing your opinion on who the BAD guys were several time in reading the book!
I call that the Art Bell effect, after the man that legitimized the Outer Fringe whackos and Tin Foil Hat wearers, by showing them that they were not alone and that there was a whole community that believed in the same kind of things that they did! So Microwave sufferers, Pyramid power, hidden rooms created by Space Aliens under the Sphinx, bottomless holes guarded by the Army, Black Helicopters, Alien Abductions, You name it, they all were accepted as legitimate on his show!
This seems right in line with Sony's "shoot yourself in the Foot" efforts for quite a while now! They haven't seemed to get it right for quite some time, or even to "Get it" at all!
Well if there are any pictures of the Cheerleaders getting dressed on those computers, someone is going to spend a really long time locked up! Because it was done on a computer!! It is still on the hard drive somewhere and they know how to find it!!
If they watched it on their computer or had it recorded to later check their conduct, then it is on the hard drives somewhere! Makes no difference to the police whether or not it was erased! Guilty!
One image of an under 18 year old nude will get them convicted of possession of Child Pornography, doesn't come much worse than that now a days, especially for anyone connected with a school!
You can help things along, by not buying ebooks in DRMed formats. There are many other places that sell ebooks in multiple non-DRM formats. Just avoid Amazon and others that insist on DRM! Fictionwise, Webscriptions, feedbooks and others are a very good alternative!
I bet this thing is going to be locked down tighter than Fort Knox! They will probably bring out their own DRM scheme to be sure that you will have to re-buy anything that you already have in ebook versions from anyone else! I'll stick with a device that supports as many Open formats as I can get, thus enabling me to shop around for the best content at the best prices! Right now use a Sony prs505 with Ubuntu linux and Calibre for a library organizer and ebook converter!
Checkout Fictionwise.com, they have a lot of this type of stuff and most is in non-DRMed formats! You can have it sent to your kindle in locked down mode if you wish!
You have nailed it! With some nerve tissue a TENS unit will supply all the Stimulation and exercise it needs and also expect someone like Cargill or Monsanto to buy up the patents and start funding PETA and firing up it's bank of Lobbyists!
You also have to take in to account that, 1. Linux users are not your typical Windows user, we tend to be a bit more "computer savvy". 2. Our apps mainly come from a trusted source, the Repositories of our chosen Distro, we don't just download and install stuff from all over the web. 3. Having to type in your password to install something is not an automatic response to "do you want to run XXXX.exe a windows app"!
Slashdot Mirror
I for one would never buy a device that was useless once you lose your signal! A "real" linux version with the ability to run applications on the hardware would be imminently preferable to one that is "only" a browser that need a connection to do anything useful!
Too bad people are such individuals when it come to component placement! Otherwise they could just run a tape of the first successful operation and automate the process like they do in the automotive industry! An operator controls the robot till they get the job done perfect once, then they just play that recorded session over for each job! Lack of standardization in human anatomy really makes thing tough! 8-)
Have you ever come across the fact that one small asteroid has more iron in it than all the iron mined in the history of mankind? That the nickel mine in Sudbury is mining the remains of a meteorite? Another fact that slipped your mind is that it will be a lot cheaper to build something in space from materials already out of the earths gravity well than it would be to boost the same thing into orbit from earth! Though you are perfectly correct, if all we plan to do is sit here and wait for the next, Megavolcano, comet, asteroid strike or some other mega natural disaster to wipe us out!
From reading the Article I got the idea this was going to be another Federally mandated not for profit organization on the lines of http://www.itsa.org/ ! They get a lot of their funding from the dues that members pay to have access to all the info they collect! Basically a clearing house for all the technical info for Space like ITSA is for highways!
You must use some pretty unusual software if you have cut and paste in terminal to get it to install, I usually just point and click in Synaptic Package Manager, or Ubuntu Software Center or Ubuntu Tweak! I think the only thing I have had to cut and paste to install is Calibre eBook Library Manager! Oh wait I once even had to compile a Game called Vega Strike years ago, that is now in the Software center!
You realize that GSM is not the dominant Cell phone system in the US, like it is in the rest of the world?
Sudo nautilus and type in your password! We got a GUI for all that stuff 8-)
This reminds me of both the benefits and shortcomings of CP/M! A CP/M program would run on multiple different machine and processors without modification, but it limited you to the lowest common denominator as far as utilizing the hardware of each different machine was concerned, This is like CP/M for different OSes instead of different processors, so you are limited to the lowest common denominator as far as special OS dependent features are concerned!
I guess that eventually they will have to be satisfied with being the Airborne truck drivers, bus drivers and in-flight fuel stations! Might even get to fly the mother ship than launches the little zippy Armed UAVs and then re-fuels them in flight! The real problem with expanding into aerial combat is going to be bandwidth for the video the Controllers on the ground are going to need to be able to have situational awareness, that and the slight lag time for the signals to go half way around the world and back!
Using Occam's Razor it is a lot more likely to be caused by bugs in the programming than believing that 100s of computers in 100s of cars, were all hit by stray cosmics rays in the same place on the chip to cause the same effect! That seems much more unlikely to me than a programming error that only shows up under a specific set of circumstances!
He could have done like Harlan Ellison and given them the Bird! Harlan made them use the Name Cordwainer Bird instead of his own name for a TV series where they messed up his script! Actually Battlefield Earth wasn't "ALL THAT BAD", considering it was Space Opera and supposed to be Hokey in the first place, or at least I hope it was! The movie really sucked though, left out all the best parts and "Switcheroos", that had you changing your opinion on who the BAD guys were several time in reading the book!
Thanks for No.2, somehow I overlooked the Easy fix!
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/ Yada, Yada, Blah, Blah, Blah! Get over it! this is Ubuntu we are talking about, if you don't like something you can change it!
I call that the Art Bell effect, after the man that legitimized the Outer Fringe whackos and Tin Foil Hat wearers, by showing them that they were not alone and that there was a whole community that believed in the same kind of things that they did! So Microwave sufferers, Pyramid power, hidden rooms created by Space Aliens under the Sphinx, bottomless holes guarded by the Army, Black Helicopters, Alien Abductions, You name it, they all were accepted as legitimate on his show!
This seems right in line with Sony's "shoot yourself in the Foot" efforts for quite a while now! They haven't seemed to get it right for quite some time, or even to "Get it" at all!
Well if there are any pictures of the Cheerleaders getting dressed on those computers, someone is going to spend a really long time locked up! Because it was done on a computer!! It is still on the hard drive somewhere and they know how to find it!!
If they watched it on their computer or had it recorded to later check their conduct, then it is on the hard drives somewhere! Makes no difference to the police whether or not it was erased! Guilty!
One image of an under 18 year old nude will get them convicted of possession of Child Pornography, doesn't come much worse than that now a days, especially for anyone connected with a school!
Spread the word that this is a Stalinist tactic all around Texas, that ought to take care of the problem!
You can help things along, by not buying ebooks in DRMed formats. There are many other places that sell ebooks in multiple non-DRM formats. Just avoid Amazon and others that insist on DRM! Fictionwise, Webscriptions, feedbooks and others are a very good alternative!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, I think that says it all!
I bet this thing is going to be locked down tighter than Fort Knox! They will probably bring out their own DRM scheme to be sure that you will have to re-buy anything that you already have in ebook versions from anyone else! I'll stick with a device that supports as many Open formats as I can get, thus enabling me to shop around for the best content at the best prices! Right now use a Sony prs505 with Ubuntu linux and Calibre for a library organizer and ebook converter!
Checkout Fictionwise.com, they have a lot of this type of stuff and most is in non-DRMed formats! You can have it sent to your kindle in locked down mode if you wish!
You have nailed it! With some nerve tissue a TENS unit will supply all the Stimulation and exercise it needs and also expect someone like Cargill or Monsanto to buy up the patents and start funding PETA and firing up it's bank of Lobbyists!
You also have to take in to account that, 1. Linux users are not your typical Windows user, we tend to be a bit more "computer savvy". 2. Our apps mainly come from a trusted source, the Repositories of our chosen Distro, we don't just download and install stuff from all over the web. 3. Having to type in your password to install something is not an automatic response to "do you want to run XXXX.exe a windows app"!