Remember smartphones, the growing market segment (unlike the shrinking PDA segment)?
"2003 was a breakout year for mobile operating system vendor Symbian Software, which shipped 6.67 million operating systems worldwide--an 88 percent market share of advanced OS-based handset sales. Before 2003, the Symbian OS was resident on only five handset models--all but one from Nokia. At the end of 2003, the number of Symbianbased handsets remained modest, at 11 models from four vendors, with five more scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2004."
...when property law is viewed in anything less than abolute terms.
There is no physical component to ideas, so their propagation outside of the originator's control is not a violation of their person no matter what kind of spin you or other absolutists try to put on the subject. Illegal copying is a violation of IP law alone, which exists to provide a creative incentive.
When those incentives are twisted into an extremism where people share culture and information only to the extent that they can pay for it directly, then you might as well have no community at all. Where property rights are concerned, a sense of entitlement can go too far in EITHER direction: pro-community or pro-corporate.
Hmmm, lets see:
Shutdown system in OSX.... I get a chance to save the data in my applications.
Shutdown in KDE.... complete and instant oblitteration of unsaved data!
KDE/X/Linux is a failure on the desktop. Those three software groups simply WILL NOT COORDINATE the best way to handle the most basic use-case there is. I've waited six goddamned years.
Oh yes it is. X doesn't even provide a way to serialize its own settings back to disk. We are talking about a major part of the OS that refuses responsibility for its own configuration (the distro installers have to take up that slack, and then they have to provide additional video-settings tools for use at runtime).
This is not unusual for Linux subsystems (Samba and printing come to mind). But X is central to the user experience so it gets picked on the most.
Oh yeah enthusiastic X user: What happens when an X application has unsaved data and you tell the system to shut down? It doesn't even try to help you with an orderly shutdown so you can get your data saved. Everything instantly disappears!!!
The hostile attitute toward GUI applications also shows up in the way you can oblitterate everything just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
"The problems are all people-related now."
Yeah, the people writing the software have never heard of use cases and requirements traceability. They are still back in the 1980's with no proper user focus.
* Manufactured, sentient life and its emergent qualities
* Relationship of law enforcement with technology
* How technology is used for sex
* Climate and cultural change on the Pacific Rim
* Holographic photography
* Technology making identities AND our humanity more ambiguous (transhumanism)
* EMPATHY. A being had to display sufficient empathy toward humans to 'pass' (interestingly, this test was administered with a machine). But the movie itself is a kind of empathy test for humanity: which side did you root for?
It did all this in a terrific "film noir" fashion, too.
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...and labels it 'general release' within a few months.
I have several major applications "made for Redhat" back in the 6.x and 7.x days. They all stopped working with Redhat 8; I am sad to say the same is true for every other distro I've tried that is based on Redhat. But these apps all STILL WORK on Debian Testing which is itself only one step away from bleeding-edge.
I'll take Debian Testing over a "finished" Redhat release any day.
The EU has a balance of relative capital??? Yeah, like Iberia and esp. Eastern Europe aren't going through a major transition away from dire poverty.
The EU's success has more to do with the fact that corporations aren't the only ones with transnational rights. They have a parlaiment, not just a secret "free trade" court system intended to maximize corporate profits to the exclusion of all else. Face it, NAFTA is Kool Aid compared to the EU's 'V8' juice.
The economic hard-Right doesn't need an atrocity like the Soviet Union to have healthy competition of ideas. As seen in the EU and Canada, a hard-Left presence keeps the other side honest... especially where coalition governments are possible. The U.S. system is a sick system based on the false dichotomy of Right and Center.
No, unfortunately there are still no error codes. Like other Linuxes, when programs crash they disappear with any explanation or notice whatsoever.
And somehow I get the sense you'd prefer a dialog full of gibberish and codewords when you try to print something? UI accessibility and consistency are more important than candy.
Xandros routinely achieves the highest ratings for a desktop OS on sites ranging from PC Magazine to CNet to the Sydney Morning Herald. It has done so for *years*, since it was Corel Linux. Desktop Linux is a tiny market, so it doesn't have the recognition that RedHat does in IT/server circles. But neither does Mandrake.
And thanks for the trolling about its looks. Linux has been 'famous' for its flashy, candy-coated desktops for sometime... but they are still rather dysfunctional. IMO, they all have catching up to do.
What does visual candy (on Gnome, no less) have to do with meeting the requirements of a modern, functional desktop? Honestly, what does all the crap on that screenshot hand to do with integrating seamlessly into a Windows domain (or creating a Windows domain yourself, for that matter)?
The Xandros desktop is KDE 3.1, with additions that allow the system to WORK as smoothly as Windows XP. If you want candy, download a KDE theme for it.
Impossible. This address only includes the free components.
You would be missing:
* Commercial hardware drivers (video card, etc.)
* Xandros File Manager (Konqueror still reeks for network file sharing).
* Acrobat, RealPlayer, Flash
* Crossover Office
* Enhanced SMB support including intelligent caching of passwords
* Control panel modules for setting screen res, etc.
* Xandros' GUI for CUPS (printing)
* Xandros Networks software managerment (a friendly layer over APT).
In short, you'll have Debian (which itself is a very nice system...for power users who don't need printing or integrated access to networked file shares).
I'd hope so, otherwise Mr. Thermodynamics might have to have a few strong words with Mr. and Mrs. Biodiesel.
They love biodiesel. Looking at biodiesel production around the world, U.S. biodiesel has one of the least efficient lifecycles: 3.2 units of energy are harvested for each unit used to farm and process the fuel. In Europe, the biodiesel from rapeseed results in a better energy balance of 4.3:1. Corn ethanol, at about 1.2:1 can barely turn an energy profit in comparison.
This means that current biodiesel production acts as a very effective solar energy-collector. Even so, the future of biodiesel (and ethanol) is in different crops like mustardseed, microalgae, and
switchgrass.
Because TDP apparently produces 'crude' oil which (after the energy losses of TDP) must still be refined and then transesterized into biodiesel.
Oil from microalgae IS a refined oil. With such a regular vegetable oil feedstock, it is cheaper to cold-press the algae and directly transesterize the resulting oil. In that sense it is not much different than the current practice of producing biodiesel from soy or rapeseed. Then the non-oil remains are used: fed back into the algae growth cycle or turned into organic-grade fertilizer.
...complete with purdy pictures of an existing microalgae plant:
"A plant in Hawaii is using the flue gas from a small power plant to supply the CO2, required in microalgae production. Microalgae ponds are also extensively used in many countries for wastewater treatment and at least one plant in California is using the methane obtained from the harvested algal biomass to produce electricity."
The authors used the 11% of the sonora desert figure as a means of illustrating the relatively tiny land requirements for producing energy with microalgae. As a comparison, growing corn for ethanol would require 95% of the entire U.S. land area to produce the same amount of energy mentioned in the UNH report.
So we can see the drastic difference in land use between these two crops. No one is saying that we SHOULD replace all our energy sources with this one crop, or that we should continue our present high rate of energy consumption.
Bottom line is that this technology is shaping up to be a highly efficient and benign way to harvest solar energy.
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Last week I ran Xandros Linux on a 200MHz Dell Optiplex with 32MB RAM. I kid you not!
It took 3+ min to boot, but the applications were quite usable if you only ran one at a time.
I can also run some pretty impressive apps on the thing under Damn Small Linux without the long wait times.
And I'm just sure you're no exception. Taking the parent's general description of his work environment as an opportunity to go a personal ego-trip?
Remember smartphones, the growing market segment (unlike the shrinking PDA segment)?
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"2003 was a breakout year for mobile operating system vendor Symbian Software, which shipped 6.67 million operating systems worldwide--an 88 percent market share of advanced OS-based handset sales. Before 2003, the Symbian OS was resident on only five handset models--all but one from Nokia. At the end of 2003, the number of Symbianbased handsets remained modest, at 11 models from four vendors, with five more scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2004."
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http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/story.php?id=388
...when property law is viewed in anything less than abolute terms.
There is no physical component to ideas, so their propagation outside of the originator's control is not a violation of their person no matter what kind of spin you or other absolutists try to put on the subject. Illegal copying is a violation of IP law alone, which exists to provide a creative incentive.
When those incentives are twisted into an extremism where people share culture and information only to the extent that they can pay for it directly, then you might as well have no community at all. Where property rights are concerned, a sense of entitlement can go too far in EITHER direction: pro-community or pro-corporate.
Shutdown in KDE.... complete and instant oblitteration of unsaved data!
KDE/X/Linux is a failure on the desktop. Those three software groups simply WILL NOT COORDINATE the best way to handle the most basic use-case there is. I've waited six goddamned years.
Oh yes it is. X doesn't even provide a way to serialize its own settings back to disk. We are talking about a major part of the OS that refuses responsibility for its own configuration (the distro installers have to take up that slack, and then they have to provide additional video-settings tools for use at runtime).
This is not unusual for Linux subsystems (Samba and printing come to mind). But X is central to the user experience so it gets picked on the most.
Oh yeah enthusiastic X user: What happens when an X application has unsaved data and you tell the system to shut down? It doesn't even try to help you with an orderly shutdown so you can get your data saved. Everything instantly disappears!!!
The hostile attitute toward GUI applications also shows up in the way you can oblitterate everything just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
"The problems are all people-related now."
Yeah, the people writing the software have never heard of use cases and requirements traceability. They are still back in the 1980's with no proper user focus.
They will look at the G5 iMac and think:
"Looks like a tablet, but without the touchscreen."
or
"A Mac pretending to be a tablet."
Subjects that Bladerunner depicted:
* Manufactured, sentient life and its emergent qualities
* Relationship of law enforcement with technology
* How technology is used for sex
* Climate and cultural change on the Pacific Rim
* Holographic photography
* Technology making identities AND our humanity more ambiguous (transhumanism)
* EMPATHY. A being had to display sufficient empathy toward humans to 'pass' (interestingly, this test was administered with a machine). But the movie itself is a kind of empathy test for humanity: which side did you root for?
It did all this in a terrific "film noir" fashion, too.
It figures.
I used it for the first time several months ago. Its nice and easy, but a little slow and not at all flashy.
It is about time.
...and labels it 'general release' within a few months.
I have several major applications "made for Redhat" back in the 6.x and 7.x days. They all stopped working with Redhat 8; I am sad to say the same is true for every other distro I've tried that is based on Redhat. But these apps all STILL WORK on Debian Testing which is itself only one step away from bleeding-edge.
I'll take Debian Testing over a "finished" Redhat release any day.
Clue: Redhat isn't meant for end-users... at all.
The EU has a balance of relative capital??? Yeah, like Iberia and esp. Eastern Europe aren't going through a major transition away from dire poverty.
The EU's success has more to do with the fact that corporations aren't the only ones with transnational rights. They have a parlaiment, not just a secret "free trade" court system intended to maximize corporate profits to the exclusion of all else. Face it, NAFTA is Kool Aid compared to the EU's 'V8' juice.
The economic hard-Right doesn't need an atrocity like the Soviet Union to have healthy competition of ideas. As seen in the EU and Canada, a hard-Left presence keeps the other side honest... especially where coalition governments are possible. The U.S. system is a sick system based on the false dichotomy of Right and Center.
Oh, it's the good ol' days again...
Invading defenseless 3rd world countries, and ol' chickenlips.
These are quite valid points. The only thing I would add is that Linux distros have made significant strides in usability.
No, unfortunately there are still no error codes. Like other Linuxes, when programs crash they disappear with any explanation or notice whatsoever.
And somehow I get the sense you'd prefer a dialog full of gibberish and codewords when you try to print something? UI accessibility and consistency are more important than candy.
Xandros routinely achieves the highest ratings for a desktop OS on sites ranging from PC Magazine to CNet to the Sydney Morning Herald. It has done so for *years*, since it was Corel Linux. Desktop Linux is a tiny market, so it doesn't have the recognition that RedHat does in IT/server circles. But neither does Mandrake.
And thanks for the trolling about its looks. Linux has been 'famous' for its flashy, candy-coated desktops for sometime... but they are still rather dysfunctional. IMO, they all have catching up to do.
What does visual candy (on Gnome, no less) have to do with meeting the requirements of a modern, functional desktop? Honestly, what does all the crap on that screenshot hand to do with integrating seamlessly into a Windows domain (or creating a Windows domain yourself, for that matter)?
The Xandros desktop is KDE 3.1, with additions that allow the system to WORK as smoothly as Windows XP. If you want candy, download a KDE theme for it.
Impossible. This address only includes the free components.
...for power users who don't need printing or integrated access to networked file shares).
You would be missing:
* Commercial hardware drivers (video card, etc.)
* Xandros File Manager (Konqueror still reeks for network file sharing).
* Acrobat, RealPlayer, Flash
* Crossover Office
* Enhanced SMB support including intelligent caching of passwords
* Control panel modules for setting screen res, etc.
* Xandros' GUI for CUPS (printing)
* Xandros Networks software managerment (a friendly layer over APT).
In short, you'll have Debian (which itself is a very nice system
ftp://ftp2.xandros.com/src/
They love biodiesel. Looking at biodiesel production around the world, U.S. biodiesel has one of the least efficient lifecycles: 3.2 units of energy are harvested for each unit used to farm and process the fuel. In Europe, the biodiesel from rapeseed results in a better energy balance of 4.3:1. Corn ethanol, at about 1.2:1 can barely turn an energy profit in comparison.
This means that current biodiesel production acts as a very effective solar energy-collector. Even so, the future of biodiesel (and ethanol) is in different crops like mustardseed, microalgae, and switchgrass.
You can get more info here.
Their RPC cells seem to have a power and convenience advantage over almost everything else.
Because TDP apparently produces 'crude' oil which (after the energy losses of TDP) must still be refined and then transesterized into biodiesel.
Oil from microalgae IS a refined oil. With such a regular vegetable oil feedstock, it is cheaper to cold-press the algae and directly transesterize the resulting oil. In that sense it is not much different than the current practice of producing biodiesel from soy or rapeseed. Then the non-oil remains are used: fed back into the algae growth cycle or turned into organic-grade fertilizer.
"A plant in Hawaii is using the flue gas from a small power plant to supply the CO2, required in microalgae production. Microalgae ponds are also extensively used in many countries for wastewater treatment and at least one plant in California is using the methane obtained from the harvested algal biomass to produce electricity."
"yikes, I've been besieged by emails! Yargh! :-D"
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Give him your sympathy -
http://forums.biodieselnow.com/topic.asp?TOPIC
The authors used the 11% of the sonora desert figure as a means of illustrating the relatively tiny land requirements for producing energy with microalgae. As a comparison, growing corn for ethanol would require 95% of the entire U.S. land area to produce the same amount of energy mentioned in the UNH report.
So we can see the drastic difference in land use between these two crops. No one is saying that we SHOULD replace all our energy sources with this one crop, or that we should continue our present high rate of energy consumption.
Bottom line is that this technology is shaping up to be a highly efficient and benign way to harvest solar energy.