That article, and the one it links to, are misquoting an answer to a conference call question with investors regarding if the netbooks under 10" where competing with the sales of their notebooks over 10". He said no, accept with their very small market for 11" notebooks. He also said nothing about increasing the amount of linux or windows. Just the raw number regarding what was sold.
Look for the audio recording of the conference call.
Fore hose this post, they are just baiting the linux community on slashdot.
PIII 900mhz, 512 megs of sdram, 30 gig hard drive. It is the primary computer I use for watching movies in my bedroom hooked up to a good monitor, running kde.
I could load it up with something much smaller, but it runs PCLINUXOS perfectly, so why bother trimming the fat.
My small, none IT, buisness runs on all linux and open source software. Savings is conservatively well over $250,000 US a year, when I throw in the desktops, mail servers, web servers, and so on with just about a half dozen employees. I would likely not be able to afford to be in buisness if it was not for open source software.
You can not compete with free. This is the open source coming out party. I am just bummed there has not been more IPO's yet for open source companies so I can pick up some more stock. Guess I will just settle for donating to my favorite open source project, as it directly makes me money everyday.
It seems that they are totally unqualified for the job they are doing, so just take over. People like that are easily pushed out of the way. Once you are in charge, implement all the Open Source you like. It is for the of the company anyway.
I would start by going over the dumb asses head to the first boss that is running the numbers pinching pennies and does not know shit about computers and show him FREE replacements. Money talks, bs walks in biz.
I have been working in developing countries on the fringe of the internet for about 10 years now. You would be surprised at what problems this would cause. Places where very old computers are new, windows 98 is still around, network admins can hardly do much more than configure dhcp, a lot of things will break if IPv6 is suddenly forced. Among other things I know hospitals, stores, government servers that will not be able to make the switch because they can not afford to and the "computer guy" does not know how to make the switch.
The original version does not end. The human is fooled 100% of the time, just like humans, until they fail. This did show however that humans can only pass for intelligent about 75% of the time, and that one has my attention.
I have a masters degree in Philosophy of AI and Language, and have studied at one point or another every aspect of the field. He is far from any sort of founding father or leading thinker.
He has done more than any one else to advance the field of bitchy refrigerators.
I have an entire office full of staff using an all linux shop with Openoffice being the most used tool. Only a small percent had more than a little computers experience at all before we hired them, even in Windows. For them, they now can not use MS, if they are presented with a computer running windows system. They have adjusted to Office, and that is what they expect.
As for the export BS. We export documents to clients all over the World without a problem. So, that is just FUD.
The only way to win the Turing test, is not to fail. It goes on forever, just like the real world where intelligence is only intelligence until it fails.
I sell property in Chile, and have a massive part of my client base that is composed of IT workers that believe that North America is screwed for one reason or another already and have already relocated to South America.
Many already work from relatively remote isolated locations. The only issue is will the pipelines from South America continue to function, and many are considering installing off grid power and SAT backups ( even for regular grid failures ).
On the other hand, at some point there might not be anything to connect to up North and the World will just adjust.
I have worked on some projects in South America to reach rural areas. Internet is normally the easy part, getting electricity to the remote place is the hard and expensive part.
The only options are things like wind and solar, which are very expensive.
Some years ago there was a virus that caused modems to dial in together to the 911 system at the same time, I believe in Florida. The measure of loss of human life or injury during such an attack from an overwhelmed emergency responders likely would be very difficult to calculate (who would have suffered or died from the typical response vs. who was delayed care while the mess was sorted out).
There have been several cases of 911 denial of service attacks by such things as viruses causing modems to all call in to 911, or redirecting 911 calls.
If anyone ever added such an attack to a real world attack, the cost to human life could be very big.
Considering the limited number of cards I will own in my life (say no more than a 100), I have had 1.5 fail on me this month from NVIDIA, and I have never had any video card fail on me in my life.
I just had a new nvida 7025 in a biostar motherboard get toasted after one day of use on a new desktop.
If you put a piece of hardware together for the general public, it should withstand certain normal uses including playing the most basic openGL games if that is what it is designed and advertised to do. It was obvious that the heat sink was insufficient to fully protect the motherboard, and the software also did not kick in to do anything like turn it off when it overheated. It is like a car being sold without a radiator or a temperature gauge. Yes, I know there is software to see it, but what about even automatic protection? That a processor of any sort is allowed, without manual intervention, to burn itself up in a stock configuration is the fault of Nvidia 100%.
That is a design flaw from both nvidia and the motherboard makers.
The sad thing is that was the first Nvidia anything I had ever bought, after all my years in computing. It will be the last.
I hope this slashdot thread has the powers that be at Nvidia squirming. You are in danger of loosing your biggest market, GEEKS, Gamers, IT people who make decisions about what to buy for entire office buildings.
This is junk science for headlines. Someone's funding was running out.
We could have gone to the zoo and the natural history museum and determined this, and it still would not really say anything about human language development.
It takes TWO OR MORE to tango, and use language. Language is about communities/communication and if I may apply some philosophical shop talk, "intentionality".
Hearing range has nothing to do with Language of any sort. The birds in the area they liked to eat might have made sounds in that range, or the tiger that would eat them might have made sounds in that range.
I have been a Mandriva (Mandrake) user for years. The thing that bothered me the most in recent years is the bloat of the distribution. I finally turned in Mandriva for PCLinuxOS and have never looked back. Small to the point packages that just work, with the ability to add on as needed.
Mandriva had been throwing everything including the kitchen sink in to their default install, and that has increased instability. It has become increasingly hard to run it on older computers without problems.
PCLOS gives us all the benefits of what works in Mandriva, without the experimental stuff (unless you add it later). It is what Mandriva should be, and what Ubunto never will be. Everything to all people (new users, geeks, servers, and so on).
How about a definition of AI, so everyone is not running around pissing money in the breeze?
Really, I am not joking. I have spent 12 years studying Philosophy of Language and AI, and I would challenge anyone in the field to give me a coherent definition. Hell, even a goal. When we built the atom bomb, we had a goal. When we went to the moon we had a goal. Where or what is the goal of AI?
The 'we will know it when we see it' does not count.
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That article, and the one it links to, are misquoting an answer to a conference call question with investors regarding if the netbooks under 10" where competing with the sales of their notebooks over 10". He said no, accept with their very small market for 11" notebooks. He also said nothing about increasing the amount of linux or windows. Just the raw number regarding what was sold.
Look for the audio recording of the conference call.
Fore hose this post, they are just baiting the linux community on slashdot.
PIII 900mhz, 512 megs of sdram, 30 gig hard drive. It is the primary computer I use for watching movies in my bedroom hooked up to a good monitor, running kde.
I could load it up with something much smaller, but it runs PCLINUXOS perfectly, so why bother trimming the fat.
My small, none IT, buisness runs on all linux and open source software. Savings is conservatively well over $250,000 US a year, when I throw in the desktops, mail servers, web servers, and so on with just about a half dozen employees. I would likely not be able to afford to be in buisness if it was not for open source software. You can not compete with free. This is the open source coming out party. I am just bummed there has not been more IPO's yet for open source companies so I can pick up some more stock. Guess I will just settle for donating to my favorite open source project, as it directly makes me money everyday.
It seems that they are totally unqualified for the job they are doing, so just take over. People like that are easily pushed out of the way. Once you are in charge, implement all the Open Source you like. It is for the of the company anyway. I would start by going over the dumb asses head to the first boss that is running the numbers pinching pennies and does not know shit about computers and show him FREE replacements. Money talks, bs walks in biz.
I have been working in developing countries on the fringe of the internet for about 10 years now. You would be surprised at what problems this would cause. Places where very old computers are new, windows 98 is still around, network admins can hardly do much more than configure dhcp, a lot of things will break if IPv6 is suddenly forced. Among other things I know hospitals, stores, government servers that will not be able to make the switch because they can not afford to and the "computer guy" does not know how to make the switch.
The original version does not end. The human is fooled 100% of the time, just like humans, until they fail. This did show however that humans can only pass for intelligent about 75% of the time, and that one has my attention.
I have a masters degree in Philosophy of AI and Language, and have studied at one point or another every aspect of the field. He is far from any sort of founding father or leading thinker. He has done more than any one else to advance the field of bitchy refrigerators.
I have an entire office full of staff using an all linux shop with Openoffice being the most used tool. Only a small percent had more than a little computers experience at all before we hired them, even in Windows. For them, they now can not use MS, if they are presented with a computer running windows system. They have adjusted to Office, and that is what they expect. As for the export BS. We export documents to clients all over the World without a problem. So, that is just FUD.
The only way to win the Turing test, is not to fail. It goes on forever, just like the real world where intelligence is only intelligence until it fails.
Google it for more info, it will do everything you are asking for in a secure manner.
I sell property in Chile, and have a massive part of my client base that is composed of IT workers that believe that North America is screwed for one reason or another already and have already relocated to South America. Many already work from relatively remote isolated locations. The only issue is will the pipelines from South America continue to function, and many are considering installing off grid power and SAT backups ( even for regular grid failures ). On the other hand, at some point there might not be anything to connect to up North and the World will just adjust.
I have worked on some projects in South America to reach rural areas. Internet is normally the easy part, getting electricity to the remote place is the hard and expensive part. The only options are things like wind and solar, which are very expensive.
Some years ago there was a virus that caused modems to dial in together to the 911 system at the same time, I believe in Florida. The measure of loss of human life or injury during such an attack from an overwhelmed emergency responders likely would be very difficult to calculate (who would have suffered or died from the typical response vs. who was delayed care while the mess was sorted out).
There have been several cases of 911 denial of service attacks by such things as viruses causing modems to all call in to 911, or redirecting 911 calls. If anyone ever added such an attack to a real world attack, the cost to human life could be very big.
Considering the limited number of cards I will own in my life (say no more than a 100), I have had 1.5 fail on me this month from NVIDIA, and I have never had any video card fail on me in my life.
I just had a new nvida 7025 in a biostar motherboard get toasted after one day of use on a new desktop. If you put a piece of hardware together for the general public, it should withstand certain normal uses including playing the most basic openGL games if that is what it is designed and advertised to do. It was obvious that the heat sink was insufficient to fully protect the motherboard, and the software also did not kick in to do anything like turn it off when it overheated. It is like a car being sold without a radiator or a temperature gauge. Yes, I know there is software to see it, but what about even automatic protection? That a processor of any sort is allowed, without manual intervention, to burn itself up in a stock configuration is the fault of Nvidia 100%. That is a design flaw from both nvidia and the motherboard makers. The sad thing is that was the first Nvidia anything I had ever bought, after all my years in computing. It will be the last. I hope this slashdot thread has the powers that be at Nvidia squirming. You are in danger of loosing your biggest market, GEEKS, Gamers, IT people who make decisions about what to buy for entire office buildings.
This is junk science for headlines. Someone's funding was running out. We could have gone to the zoo and the natural history museum and determined this, and it still would not really say anything about human language development. It takes TWO OR MORE to tango, and use language. Language is about communities/communication and if I may apply some philosophical shop talk, "intentionality". Hearing range has nothing to do with Language of any sort. The birds in the area they liked to eat might have made sounds in that range, or the tiger that would eat them might have made sounds in that range.
I have been a Mandriva (Mandrake) user for years. The thing that bothered me the most in recent years is the bloat of the distribution. I finally turned in Mandriva for PCLinuxOS and have never looked back. Small to the point packages that just work, with the ability to add on as needed. Mandriva had been throwing everything including the kitchen sink in to their default install, and that has increased instability. It has become increasingly hard to run it on older computers without problems. PCLOS gives us all the benefits of what works in Mandriva, without the experimental stuff (unless you add it later). It is what Mandriva should be, and what Ubunto never will be. Everything to all people (new users, geeks, servers, and so on).
How about a definition of AI, so everyone is not running around pissing money in the breeze? Really, I am not joking. I have spent 12 years studying Philosophy of Language and AI, and I would challenge anyone in the field to give me a coherent definition. Hell, even a goal. When we built the atom bomb, we had a goal. When we went to the moon we had a goal. Where or what is the goal of AI? The 'we will know it when we see it' does not count.