I haven't thought about this before, but since most laptops come with the same hardware for each laptop, wouldn't it be pretty easy to distribute kernel-configurations for different laptops? This would make it easy for not-so-experienced linux users to compile their own kernel the way they want it, but still have a valid configuration to start with.
They shouldn't be part of the kernel-dist, but rather the linux-dist or even some other entity.
I always keep my conf-file, just loading it into the new kernel with each new version.
I would do it if I had the time, which I sadly do not have - two full time jobs (one which brings money and one which brings fun) and a "full time" relationship...
The page loaded, and what did I see?
OpenTV is the biggest platform in use in Europe, Liberate are real big in Europe (where, I think, digital-TV usage is biggest - UK, France and Germany have come a long way).
Pace builds loads of boxen, and who said Motorola and Sun (who also owns OpenTV) are insignificant!?
I've worked with developing digital-TV applications, and the current platforms suck so bad it aint even fun. MHP (http://www.mhp.org/) seems more interesting though, than OpenTV and Canal+'s platforms.
What's more, OpenTV development is based off of GNU stuff (libc, gcc et al) and they won't give away the source. After getting my story about this rejected on Slashdot a couple of times last fall, I went to RMS and had a conversation with one of their lawyers about it. Haven't heard anything since.
Well, I'm not familiar with the NBCi thing, but I'd guess that they did that on their own pages?
Guess what? Microsoft does it on _every damn page there is_ (except, perhaps, maybe, those who explicitly say "no thanks") and they control which links will show up.
Say, for instance, ZDNet, or Yahoo, or Slashdot, writes about TheNewCoolTechnology(tm), and IE links that story to a story about that tech on a Microsoft-owned page.
Both the original page and the MS-page depends on advertising. Guess who will score more ad money?
Correctamundo - the MS-page...
It doesn't have to be as blatant as in ZDNets example, but there are many other much more subtle uses which will guide the money into Microsofts greedy, greasy hands.
This just occurred to me: The Aqua interface must be the single most copied interface before release.
I mean, when I look at it now, when the product is released, it just looks like some old stuff I've seen a thousand times before. I've been running it under Enlightenment and GTK and all that.
Don't get me wrong here - I'm not talking about the actual look & feel sitting at the box, it's just the feeling I get from looking at screenshots.
Among the things Monsanto has done is a "brand" of potato which produces it's own round-ups.
Ie, if for instance a Colorado bug gets to a Monsanto potato and starts eating, in a few minutes it falls dead on the ground.
And people are supposed to eat that food.
Probable scenarios in the future is that genetically modified food spreads it's DNA to "real" plants, eg via pollination, and then some day a disease shows up that Monsanto didn't think about. Woops! All our crops are dead!
What to do? Where to get the original seeds?
This is truly fantastic, and it doesn't end with poor farmers.
For instance, say you're eating a genetically modified apple. The seeds drop into your flowerpot and starts growing, and voilà - you have to pay!
Would something like the echelon movement do here? What I mean is that people include words that trigger echelon in sigs and what not. In the same spirit, people could just get their hands on lots and lots of genetically modified and patented seeds, and plant them everywhere all over the earth - in public places, parks, governmental areas.
Not that that would be good for our poor planet, since we have no idea what can come of this genetic engineering with nature...
From the Daily Press coverage: "People could hook into central hypercomputers to run their entire households -- from the coffee pot to the television set, the shower to the garage door"
Yeah, that's exactly what springs to my mind when I try to come up with uses for a supercomputer the size of a PC. To run my coffee pot.
Finally I can actually make coffee at home; I've always wondered how they ran the coffee pot at 7-11 - where I buy all my coffee - but now I know: They use a supercomputer!
From the Daily Press article: "It looks like any other computer case (the rectangular part of a PC that contains all the chips and wiring to run it)".
But I looked at the pictures and that was simply not the case! The case being, it didn't look like a case. Uuuhh, should I be writing this in upper case?
Aargh, that damn coffee. How fast will it compile my kernel?
MIT has some research on some kind of electric ink - it looks like an ordinary paper but you can light [the equivalent of] pixels. Last I heard, they only had greyscale.
No seriously - if the artist wanted to keep a copy of the song he/she submitted to Evil Record Company, it would've been a trivial matter to make a backup. No, the artist was robbed of nothing.
When I went to high school we had a project in religion class, students would group together and study a religion more carefully. Me and a friend chose Scientology, and went to visit them in Stockholm (capital of Sweden).
Our teacher was very concerned that we shouldn't listen to their lies.
We got to try the E-meter, which was basically a voltmeter which measured the voltage between your two hands.
Our teacher told us about another student who managed to manipulate the E-meter by putting different pressure on his hands depending on the nature of the questions asked, so he got zero effect on everything.
The stupid Scientologist hadn't seen anything like it, apparently he became quite startled, afraid even. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't do the same thing, so they grilled me with questions about school and which classes I didn't do well in. The moron "saw" on his E-meter that I didn't do well in some class, thing is, I had top marks in every subject.
Oh well, what shall we do with these stupids?
Concerning the stars, I guess they don't have to pay (as much) for the seminars and hopes to be "clear". Maybe it is status in it in Hollywood, I don't really know.
This sort of findings make me more and more suprised of people who still don't think there are foreign life forms in the Universe.
Each finding suggests that life is probably a common thing in our Universe, since, with the findings of other solar systems with reasonably sized planets and even, as here, water, points out the conditions of the creation of life.
Given the vast number of stars out there, even a tiny percentage of life-friendly planets makes it really probable of lots of life in every galaxy.
Thing is, can we contact them? Can we travel to them, and they to us?
Imagine finding out that there is (almost surely) life everywhere, but not being able to make contact. Hope not.
Of course there was "open source" or "free software" before Linux. In fact, this was the norm until sometimes in the 70's, even if it didn't have a spiffy name back then.
Bill Gates was actually one of the first to think of source code as their property, of which there are countless records.
Just read about the climate back when RMS was coding away at MIT way back in the days.
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Last I heard, the algorithm only worked in base 16, but that may have changed now.
I haven't thought about this before, but since most laptops come with the same hardware for each laptop, wouldn't it be pretty easy to distribute kernel-configurations for different laptops? This would make it easy for not-so-experienced linux users to compile their own kernel the way they want it, but still have a valid configuration to start with.
They shouldn't be part of the kernel-dist, but rather the linux-dist or even some other entity.
I always keep my conf-file, just loading it into the new kernel with each new version.
I would do it if I had the time, which I sadly do not have - two full time jobs (one which brings money and one which brings fun) and a "full time" relationship...
That must have meen the most confused, and confusing, articles I've read in a while... I couldn't even figure out what they meant half of the time!?
Ummm....
That'd make Microsoft XBill, wouldn't it?
Most of the articles I've read are dated mid-October '99.
But I have now received responses about it from several ACs so I feel pretty enligted!
Ok, I mitigate.
I didn't know this, thanks for enlightening me!
The page loaded, and what did I see?
OpenTV is the biggest platform in use in Europe, Liberate are real big in Europe (where, I think, digital-TV usage is biggest - UK, France and Germany have come a long way).
Pace builds loads of boxen, and who said Motorola and Sun (who also owns OpenTV) are insignificant!?
I've worked with developing digital-TV applications, and the current platforms suck so bad it aint even fun. MHP (http://www.mhp.org/) seems more interesting though, than OpenTV and Canal+'s platforms.
What's more, OpenTV development is based off of GNU stuff (libc, gcc et al) and they won't give away the source. After getting my story about this rejected on Slashdot a couple of times last fall, I went to RMS and had a conversation with one of their lawyers about it. Haven't heard anything since.
What happened with the oh-so-great plans of a Nokia-Intel-Linux box with DVB and MHP plus more that everybody talked about 'round 99?
Well, I'm not familiar with the NBCi thing, but I'd guess that they did that on their own pages?
Guess what? Microsoft does it on _every damn page there is_ (except, perhaps, maybe, those who explicitly say "no thanks") and they control which links will show up.
Say, for instance, ZDNet, or Yahoo, or Slashdot, writes about TheNewCoolTechnology(tm), and IE links that story to a story about that tech on a Microsoft-owned page.
Both the original page and the MS-page depends on advertising. Guess who will score more ad money?
Correctamundo - the MS-page...
It doesn't have to be as blatant as in ZDNets example, but there are many other much more subtle uses which will guide the money into Microsofts greedy, greasy hands.
Umm... Big Swedish music exports include Abba, Ace of Base, Roxette, Meja and the Cardigans.
Not that I'm very proud about it...
What about Aqua?
This just occurred to me: The Aqua interface must be the single most copied interface before release.
I mean, when I look at it now, when the product is released, it just looks like some old stuff I've seen a thousand times before. I've been running it under Enlightenment and GTK and all that.
Don't get me wrong here - I'm not talking about the actual look & feel sitting at the box, it's just the feeling I get from looking at screenshots.
Among the things Monsanto has done is a "brand" of potato which produces it's own round-ups.
Ie, if for instance a Colorado bug gets to a Monsanto potato and starts eating, in a few minutes it falls dead on the ground.
And people are supposed to eat that food.
Probable scenarios in the future is that genetically modified food spreads it's DNA to "real" plants, eg via pollination, and then some day a disease shows up that Monsanto didn't think about. Woops! All our crops are dead!
What to do? Where to get the original seeds?
This is truly fantastic, and it doesn't end with poor farmers.
For instance, say you're eating a genetically modified apple. The seeds drop into your flowerpot and starts growing, and voilà - you have to pay!
Would something like the echelon movement do here? What I mean is that people include words that trigger echelon in sigs and what not. In the same spirit, people could just get their hands on lots and lots of genetically modified and patented seeds, and plant them everywhere all over the earth - in public places, parks, governmental areas.
Not that that would be good for our poor planet, since we have no idea what can come of this genetic engineering with nature...
Well, now when you comment on it, isn't that reversed? Or do you just lose all you points?
From the Daily Press coverage: "People could hook into central hypercomputers to run their entire households -- from the coffee pot to the television set, the shower to the garage door"
Yeah, that's exactly what springs to my mind when I try to come up with uses for a supercomputer the size of a PC. To run my coffee pot.
Finally I can actually make coffee at home; I've always wondered how they ran the coffee pot at 7-11 - where I buy all my coffee - but now I know: They use a supercomputer!
From the Daily Press article: "It looks like any other computer case (the rectangular part of a PC that contains all the chips and wiring to run it)".
But I looked at the pictures and that was simply not the case! The case being, it didn't look like a case. Uuuhh, should I be writing this in upper case?
Aargh, that damn coffee. How fast will it compile my kernel?
MIT has some research on some kind of electric ink - it looks like an ordinary paper but you can light [the equivalent of] pixels. Last I heard, they only had greyscale.
A few links:
Salon article
E-Ink
More info should be available at www.media.mit.edu, but it seems to be down for the moment.
All your wished are belong to us.
No seriously - if the artist wanted to keep a copy of the song he/she submitted to Evil Record Company, it would've been a trivial matter to make a backup. No, the artist was robbed of nothing.
When I went to high school we had a project in religion class, students would group together and study a religion more carefully. Me and a friend chose Scientology, and went to visit them in Stockholm (capital of Sweden).
Our teacher was very concerned that we shouldn't listen to their lies.
We got to try the E-meter, which was basically a voltmeter which measured the voltage between your two hands.
Our teacher told us about another student who managed to manipulate the E-meter by putting different pressure on his hands depending on the nature of the questions asked, so he got zero effect on everything.
The stupid Scientologist hadn't seen anything like it, apparently he became quite startled, afraid even. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't do the same thing, so they grilled me with questions about school and which classes I didn't do well in. The moron "saw" on his E-meter that I didn't do well in some class, thing is, I had top marks in every subject.
Oh well, what shall we do with these stupids?
Concerning the stars, I guess they don't have to pay (as much) for the seminars and hopes to be "clear". Maybe it is status in it in Hollywood, I don't really know.
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This sort of findings make me more and more suprised of people who still don't think there are foreign life forms in the Universe.
Each finding suggests that life is probably a common thing in our Universe, since, with the findings of other solar systems with reasonably sized planets and even, as here, water, points out the conditions of the creation of life.
Given the vast number of stars out there, even a tiny percentage of life-friendly planets makes it really probable of lots of life in every galaxy.
Thing is, can we contact them? Can we travel to them, and they to us?
Imagine finding out that there is (almost surely) life everywhere, but not being able to make contact. Hope not.
Of course there was "open source" or "free software" before Linux. In fact, this was the norm until sometimes in the 70's, even if it didn't have a spiffy name back then.
Bill Gates was actually one of the first to think of source code as their property, of which there are countless records.
Just read about the climate back when RMS was coding away at MIT way back in the days.
What?
I am a developer for digital TV. Our company has bought stuff from OpenTV - a SDK license and a box from Pace (but bought through OpenTV).