2) The new Disney Character iMacs, now even less ergonomic with character faced mice and classic Disney scenes preburnt into the monitor. Comes in such wonderful flavors as poison apple. Includes the World of Disney screensaver package and the MDE (Mickey Desktop Environment) for Apples newly renamed operating system Creationism.
3) Pixar will be dumping all of their high-end graphics machinery and customized code for a stack of iMac DV's, but customized for SMP...
4) The new Pixar desktop assistant, a jumping, mute desklamp that gestures help files and procedures to you in its cute and witty but speech free way of expressing itself. The ultimate in userfriendliness, as now computer users not only do not need to be computer literate, but they can also lack basic reading and speech skills entirely.
5) iMac Story, the touching story of a bunch of fruity flavored fishbowls, in a desparate attempt to save iMac blue from the clutch of Bill Gates.
Take a deep breath, reread. I said that there is no reason to run office under WINE, but there are many games that are not ported to Linux. I have Windows loaded in order to play games, but many of them will work under WINE. I also said that people who are running office, might as well just run it under windows, as if you merely wanted office compatibility, you could get StarOffice or something.
A little info on WINE, it doesn't actually EMULATE. What it does do is allow for Windows executables to be loaded on the platforms that WINE is compiled under. It also feeds the applications with false information/conversions needed in order to operate under this environment. For instance, my C: drive is actually a FAT32 partition loaded under Linux. In the config file, it is/mnt/fat-c. When the program asks for the C: drive, WINE returns that mount point as if it were the C: drive. It can also pass info to my sound and networking capabilities.
Interestingly, WINE just sort of started as a posting to a news group on letting Linux load Windows binaries, which it technically can with a little kernel hacking, it just won't actually RUN them if they need the.dll's and environment that Windows provides.
WINE may never be able to run programs quite as fast as Windows, but supposing that the Linux equivalents of the DLL's used by Windows apps are faster, it actually is theoretically possible that it could run programs FASTER. The steps are translation, not emulation.
Why should WINE be used to run Office? It requires the X86 architecture, so, it's not going to run Office on a computer that CAN'T run office. I think that GAMES should be first. If you want to run M$ products, you might as well run them under their operating system. GAMES are one of the few things that Linux doesn't have a version of (yeah, quake and doom and tetris, I mean Swat 3! I gotsta have my SWAT 3!) At any rate, I run a dual boot so I can run my games, but many of THOSE can be run under WINE too! JOY!
D0000D! They read that off a website or something, it didn't look to me that they had a very good knowledge of what they were actually doing from their conversation. They didn't even seem to cover their asses very well.
I would have to say that script kiddies piss me off way more than crackers. Why? Script kiddies think that they are "1337," when they just downloaded someone else's little program off some website, and ran it on some computer. Most of them couldn't even tell you what ls -al does, let alone truly explain how to crack a password file. I actually like crackers, just as long as they aren't doing too much damage. If they are doing it from an intellectual interest, more power to them. I feel bad about it now, but last time I met a script kiddie I made him cry. There is this one who I wouldn't mind making him cry, mwahahaha! Score 1 for the hackers!
Yeah, there are a lot of Zip and Jazz drives out, and about 50 other types of media that they make. I use Zip and Jazz... I don't use ORB drives or anything like that though.
It's a quick buzz. It makes them feel knowledgeable and powerful with little need for ability, knowledge, or a significant time investment. Low learning curve, and they get to show off their 1337 sk1lls to their girlfriends, or to someone else's girlfriend for that matter.
This will be like many of the iomega products, flopticals, and the superdisk.
Almost obsolete when it comes out, not that great to begin with, closed so no one else can make them, and people won't even remember it a year from now.
"Each was tested on it's own network, with 2 subnets of 24 servers, the windows network consisted of 48 PII's, whereas the linux network had the added advantage of having a Cray Supercomputer making requests at full charge on the 24th node of the first subnet..."
I would assume that they are solid state. I always wonder why people feel the need to throw an OS into equipment that works fine solid state as well... A little basic knowledge tells you that unless the software is really helping the system to work, solid state is a better way to go, faster, more efficient, less prone to breakdown.
Perhaps. I dunno, I run both. I get better performance from Linux. Just speaking from my experience. I really don't HATE M$, as many people here do. Also, Unix was designed multi-user, and Linux is pretty much a Unix knockoff. What I'd really like to see in this benchmark is BSD, but since Linux is the flavor of the month *sigh*
Where the hell does this drop at the number 20 come from? It's like, good...good...good, DOH! 20, BOMB OUT! It's not even a power of 2! *VBG*
This really makes little sense. Also, what about other Linux distros, is RedHat optimized in some way that causes this?
I can hardly see why Linux would just go apeshit once 20 users is met. I mean, you think that you'd see more of a slight downward progression than the floor falling out.
It seems hard to me to believe that Windows, that wasn't even really a multiuser multitasking OS until not too long ago, is now smoking the hell out of Linux at what the Unix comminity has been doing for years...
I believe that interfaces are moving beyond the standard GUI. Much research is now being done in cybernetitcs and other more holistic interface views. I think that the emphasis of research as a whole is turning to more than just the GUI, it's going to speach, motion, phone, web, device. The GUI has more life in it, and will continue to evolve, but in concert with all of these other interfaces. When you think about it, your pager is just another interface to a computer.
Just because you slap a computer in a classroom doesn't make it useful. Just because you put what goes up in the blackboard into a webpage doesn't make it more informative. If the computers are actually used in some way, they are useful, but usually all I see on the computers in most HS classrooms is crap. I have also taken classes that are hard to teach without computers. Classes with 300+ people are definately more suited to overheads and presentations than to a chalkboard. At any rate, I've seen useful things done with them, and useless things done with them, but if they are just there because supposedly you are learning better by reading text off a screen than copying it off a blackboard, that's just silly. At least copying it off a blackboard you have to pretend to pay attention.
Ok, this kinda compliments my first post. I meant to say this as well...
In elementary school, my class learned BASIC on Apple II's. It was a great experience (and an easy A for me since I already knew BASIC).
This is what I mean by using the computer to teach. If you are teaching something on the computer, then it is good. If you are telling the kids to play Oregon trail for an hour, it's more like recess than any kind of lesson.
Critical thinking can be taught with computers, but you have to make sure that you are teaching the thinking, not just how to query search engines.
There are also lots of reasons to get kids away from the terminal, but that doesn't mean keep them away from it, it just means, maybe they should have some social development time, and science time and such. Watching a chemistry experiment on laserdisc was never as fun as doing it for real. I am sure that it is the same with DVD...
As far as posture and eyesight are concerned. Staring into books all day isn't great for the eyes, and kids already have bad posture. I would think that looking up at a monitor instead of down at a desk would actually help. I had private education as a kid, and we were actually taught good posture. Perhaps more public schools should go this route. If you want kids to behave like proper little adults, teach them to be that way. I think that the posture argument was completely invalid.
Besides, if computers were bad for kids, I wouldn't be the social/intellectual butterfly that I am now *VBG*
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Hrmm, Tabitha? I'm not sure honestly.
:-)
It doesn't sound preposterous at all to me
Lots wife certainly takes salt more seriously now.
^-- Biblical reference to a woman who was turned into a pillar of salt.
I however, don't take this merger seriously at all. Or the source.
Here's a few one-liner thoughts.
1) Apple now has to buy its customers...
2) The new Disney Character iMacs, now even less ergonomic with character faced mice and classic Disney scenes preburnt into the monitor. Comes in such wonderful flavors as poison apple. Includes the World of Disney screensaver package and the MDE (Mickey Desktop Environment) for Apples newly renamed operating system Creationism.
3) Pixar will be dumping all of their high-end graphics machinery and customized code for a stack of iMac DV's, but customized for SMP...
4) The new Pixar desktop assistant, a jumping, mute desklamp that gestures help files and procedures to you in its cute and witty but speech free way of expressing itself. The ultimate in userfriendliness, as now computer users not only do not need to be computer literate, but they can also lack basic reading and speech skills entirely.
5) iMac Story, the touching story of a bunch of fruity flavored fishbowls, in a desparate attempt to save iMac blue from the clutch of Bill Gates.
Good job man!
Take a deep breath, reread. I said that there is no reason to run office under WINE, but there are many games that are not ported to Linux. I have Windows loaded in order to play games, but many of them will work under WINE. I also said that people who are running office, might as well just run it under windows, as if you merely wanted office compatibility, you could get StarOffice or something.
Had I a G4, I would be trying tonight :-)
A little info on WINE, it doesn't actually EMULATE. What it does do is allow for Windows executables to be loaded on the platforms that WINE is compiled under. It also feeds the applications with false information/conversions needed in order to operate under this environment. For instance, my C: drive is actually a FAT32 partition loaded under Linux. In the config file, it is /mnt/fat-c. When the program asks for the C: drive, WINE returns that mount point as if it were the C: drive. It can also pass info to my sound and networking capabilities.
.dll's and environment that Windows provides.
Interestingly, WINE just sort of started as a posting to a news group on letting Linux load Windows binaries, which it technically can with a little kernel hacking, it just won't actually RUN them if they need the
WINE may never be able to run programs quite as fast as Windows, but supposing that the Linux equivalents of the DLL's used by Windows apps are faster, it actually is theoretically possible that it could run programs FASTER. The steps are translation, not emulation.
Why should WINE be used to run Office? It requires the X86 architecture, so, it's not going to run Office on a computer that CAN'T run office. I think that GAMES should be first. If you want to run M$ products, you might as well run them under their operating system. GAMES are one of the few things that Linux doesn't have a version of (yeah, quake and doom and tetris, I mean Swat 3! I gotsta have my SWAT 3!) At any rate, I run a dual boot so I can run my games, but many of THOSE can be run under WINE too! JOY!
No way dude, that's my Married with Children command.
D0000D! They read that off a website or something, it didn't look to me that they had a very good knowledge of what they were actually doing from their conversation. They didn't even seem to cover their asses very well.
I would have to say that script kiddies piss me off way more than crackers. Why? Script kiddies think that they are "1337," when they just downloaded someone else's little program off some website, and ran it on some computer. Most of them couldn't even tell you what ls -al does, let alone truly explain how to crack a password file. I actually like crackers, just as long as they aren't doing too much damage. If they are doing it from an intellectual interest, more power to them. I feel bad about it now, but last time I met a script kiddie I made him cry. There is this one who I wouldn't mind making him cry, mwahahaha! Score 1 for the hackers!
Yeah, there are a lot of Zip and Jazz drives out, and about 50 other types of media that they make. I use Zip and Jazz... I don't use ORB drives or anything like that though.
It's a quick buzz. It makes them feel knowledgeable and powerful with little need for ability, knowledge, or a significant time investment. Low learning curve, and they get to show off their 1337 sk1lls to their girlfriends, or to someone else's girlfriend for that matter.
This will be like many of the iomega products, flopticals, and the superdisk.
Almost obsolete when it comes out, not that great to begin with, closed so no one else can make them, and people won't even remember it a year from now.
Here's to beta!
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"Each was tested on it's own network, with 2 subnets of 24 servers, the windows network consisted of 48 PII's, whereas the linux network had the added advantage of having a Cray Supercomputer making requests at full charge on the 24th node of the first subnet..."
I would assume that they are solid state. I always wonder why people feel the need to throw an OS into equipment that works fine solid state as well... A little basic knowledge tells you that unless the software is really helping the system to work, solid state is a better way to go, faster, more efficient, less prone to breakdown.
Perhaps. I dunno, I run both. I get better performance from Linux. Just speaking from my experience. I really don't HATE M$, as many people here do. Also, Unix was designed multi-user, and Linux is pretty much a Unix knockoff. What I'd really like to see in this benchmark is BSD, but since Linux is the flavor of the month *sigh*
We aren't standing still. We're improving the product
A rather thick pun if I do say so myself...
They were serving applications...
Where the hell does this drop at the number 20 come from? It's like, good...good...good, DOH! 20, BOMB OUT! It's not even a power of 2! *VBG*
This really makes little sense. Also, what about other Linux distros, is RedHat optimized in some way that causes this?
I can hardly see why Linux would just go apeshit once 20 users is met. I mean, you think that you'd see more of a slight downward progression than the floor falling out.
It seems hard to me to believe that Windows, that wasn't even really a multiuser multitasking OS until not too long ago, is now smoking the hell out of Linux at what the Unix comminity has been doing for years...
I believe that interfaces are moving beyond the standard GUI. Much research is now being done in cybernetitcs and other more holistic interface views. I think that the emphasis of research as a whole is turning to more than just the GUI, it's going to speach, motion, phone, web, device. The GUI has more life in it, and will continue to evolve, but in concert with all of these other interfaces. When you think about it, your pager is just another interface to a computer.
Just because you slap a computer in a classroom doesn't make it useful. Just because you put what goes up in the blackboard into a webpage doesn't make it more informative. If the computers are actually used in some way, they are useful, but usually all I see on the computers in most HS classrooms is crap. I have also taken classes that are hard to teach without computers. Classes with 300+ people are definately more suited to overheads and presentations than to a chalkboard. At any rate, I've seen useful things done with them, and useless things done with them, but if they are just there because supposedly you are learning better by reading text off a screen than copying it off a blackboard, that's just silly. At least copying it off a blackboard you have to pretend to pay attention.
Ok, this kinda compliments my first post. I meant to say this as well...
In elementary school, my class learned BASIC on Apple II's. It was a great experience (and an easy A for me since I already knew BASIC).
This is what I mean by using the computer to teach. If you are teaching something on the computer, then it is good. If you are telling the kids to play Oregon trail for an hour, it's more like recess than any kind of lesson.
Critical thinking can be taught with computers, but you have to make sure that you are teaching the thinking, not just how to query search engines.
There are also lots of reasons to get kids away from the terminal, but that doesn't mean keep them away from it, it just means, maybe they should have some social development time, and science time and such. Watching a chemistry experiment on laserdisc was never as fun as doing it for real. I am sure that it is the same with DVD...
As far as posture and eyesight are concerned. Staring into books all day isn't great for the eyes, and kids already have bad posture. I would think that looking up at a monitor instead of down at a desk would actually help. I had private education as a kid, and we were actually taught good posture. Perhaps more public schools should go this route. If you want kids to behave like proper little adults, teach them to be that way. I think that the posture argument was completely invalid.
Besides, if computers were bad for kids, I wouldn't be the social/intellectual butterfly that I am now *VBG*