I wish I could say that I have not had a server or desktop crash, but I have unfortunately crashed eveything including FreeBSD, and Win and Solaris, and Linux.
The real question is why is FreeBSD not a desktop OS? That is because FreeBSD is more typically considered UNIX and UNIX is not considered a desktop OS it is a server OS. That is just the way it is. Windows and Mac started out as desktop OSes. They are now both trying to move to more of the server arena, but they include as a basis all the desktop features which makes them bloated for a server. Think of it this way if you run W2k or Mac OS X you need 64 meg of RAM for teh OS itself, where with FreeBSD, Linux, or Solaris you don't need that much for the OS.
FreeBSD was originally designed as a server operating system. It was based on BSD and while it does have access to all the basic items for a desktop it just seems that becuase it was designed as a server OS it has never really tried to get away from that. Yes you can use it as a desktop but it just does not promote itself as that type of OS.
I disagree though that is cannot be used as a good desktop. I used to work with people who used FreeBSD as there main machine and they hated Linux becuase of the package system and becuase the Linux upgrades are not standard. One person told me that when you upgrade a FreeBSD kernel you don't ahve to recompile any of your programs. They also said that when you upgrade your services or any of that all your settings are saved. Unlike Redhat where they keep moving things around. (Redhat 6.2 vs 7.0 is a good example.)
I also disagree with the 'console vs mouse' argument as you can run X with BSD and use kde or GNOME whcih also both encourage the more use of the mouse.
Personally I think that the GUI has to be redeveloped anyway. It needs to have voice to text as ANOTHER standard way of inputting. As well stylus pens and such need to be encouraged. Sony is moving in this direction as they created a new computer flat panel display that is also a touch pad that is used as both a screen and an input device. It would be nice to have an OS that I could talk to muy computer (AT HOME mind you) in a quite room by myself and speak my thoughts rather than type them all.
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I have a friend who does this for a living. Go to http://www.hiddenline.com. There is more info there.
He did an exhibit at the national museam of art when the van gogh exhibit was there. It was called exploring edo. They had touch screen computers that allowed you to go throught a 3d representation of Japan during the edo period where you could see a gesha show and more things like that. They also had artwork from that period in other parts of the exhibit.
Lastly look at blaxxum.com. They do 3d worlds as well look at pulse.com. They also do 3d multimedia. pulse does some really cool things.
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... then we can have a list of all the people who do piercings as well. Then we can have a list of all the people who are not catholic, and so on and so on. While it may be free speach, what about the rights of the people that DON'T want there names listed? Don't they have a right to privacy? Does this mean that someone can start listing my name on some anti somethign web site because I don't agree with them. While this may be a win for Free Speach, it is a violation and loss for privacy as well.
So what about someone who set up an anti gay site or an anti semetic site? Would that be free speach if they gave names and addresses of gays or jews? And then some of them started showing up dead????
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A module is a driver. In windows 95/98/NT 4.0 you have to reboot after adding a new driver. Try this.. turn off your scanner on windows (if you have one) then start your windows box. After your system boots up turn on your scanner. Is is recgonized? Probably not. I ahve not tried w2k so maybe that will, but with Linux you can modprobe -a and presto it is. Then when you are done you can rmmod if you want. I do this with my scsi cdrom and scanner as they share the scsi card and I don't use them all the time. This is what I meant by modules. A modules is a peice of code that makes things work. It may be a driver like in case of my scsi card or it may be some peice of code that can be dynamically loaded and unlaoded from the OS to change 'running' behavior of the system. Linux has been doing this for years and windows has not.
I think the problem here is that you don't care about learning anything about your system, not Linux. Windows is making things easier in that sense, however there is a cost. The latest windows XP almost needs 128Meg of RAM as well as a pretty fast processor to run quickly. I imagine that soon your need the power of a web server to run the desktop windows operating system. No joke here cause that is where they are heading and they really are not adding anything but useless fluff that people could do without.
Use what you like.. I use Linux and windows as I think they both have plusses and minuses...
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With that kind of attitude I hope that you are not running windows as it sucks just as bad. I'm sorry but If you look at what you are getting with Linux vs windows you get a whole lot more bang for your buck. The installations for both windows and Linux are for someone who is slightly experienced in installations, and computers as are the upgrades.
Both have problems recognizing hardware and my experience has been that windows networking is not as good as Linux networking and Linux is nice cause it is easier to load and unload modules from the kernel without the reboot that is required in win 95/98/NT4. I have not tried w2k or winme but I know both of them still crash and they only are supposed to support a limited hardware, so they say.
If you don't like Linux you can try solaris, or a BSD or even MAC OS X. Don't think of this as flame that is not what I am intending, more my point is that just because they are requiring money is not a bad thing for them to do. They need to make money to continue doing what they are doing. you want a free Linux distro, get debian. It will probalby always be free.
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I think he needs to shift from CS to CE. Computer Engineering. Most computer engineers are now required to learn C programming and Calc I-III and Diff Equ.
I am a semi skilled programmer and may even fit there 'requirements'. I studied Electrical Engineering in school and now I have been in the industry as a programmer analyst. I have done Perl, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Tcl/Tk, COBOL, Pascal, and Fortran. When in school I programmed a few scientific applications, but nothing fancy. I did not know enough C at the time to do programming for Digital Filters, but now I think that I could and am actually interessted in doing so. I of course may be rare. Most programmers are not interested in scientific programming they are more business oriented.
So where is this job located? I live in SF, CA and am not interested in relocating.
How is this job funded?
I had signal and systems, Microwaves, semiconductor design (really cool class with awesome instructor) and digital filter design. What kind of scientific stuff are they doing???
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.. but am employed now. The pay rates were slighly over inflated, just 6 months ago. Just last year you 'd be able to, as the article suggests, get a job in 2 weeks. That has changed. Employers are being more picky. They are also paying less. Perl programmers should not expect large 70k+ salaries for Jr or entry level. Expect 45k to 55k or even less. Not all but most. Many companies realize that there have been so many people laid off that are tech skilled and they are taking advantage of that. I to am like "Mike of the article" Skilled in C/C++, Java Perl, etc, but unles you are skilled at the Sr or better level you are still hurting.
This is a good article, but the downturn started in December. That was when it started to get more difficult. I have friends that think that they can make those same salaries that they used to make and they are still unemployed. I klooked for a lower salary and got a job. I am even making a little more than I was before I got laid off.
Of course normally when you leave a job an dgo to a new job you get a 20% pay increase, I only got about 3%. I am happy to be employed, but it took 6 weeks.
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I usually visit the store before ordering online. Not because I don't trust the online transaction, but because I can get it today, now and when I want it. There are so many things that I'd rather see in person, that it just makes sense to go to the store. Clothes are one of those things. Some of us have wide feet or short bodies that not just any clothing will fit. To order something online then have to exchange it is a pain in the butt. By going to the store I can see how it fits. This also applies to many of the electronics I buy as well. I want to 'hear' that stereo. Books too. I can go to a book store and see if the book has what I am interested in. (Tech - programming books mainly).
I'd buy software online or a book that I knew I wanted, or cdroms, but even cdroms I can go to tower and hear some of them to see if I want the cd in the first place.
I think that this will satisfy some people, but not everyone, and not for everything. I like to buy my groceries in the store, so I know that my bnananas are fresh.
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I think ABC would know all about Big Brother, didn't they do that TV show not to long ago? What was that called? OR was that CBS?
ANy way, another company that people should be on the watch for is planetu. Of course that is if you use a coupon and a frequent buyers card. They are linking off line shopping habits with online coupons. And collecting lots of information on who you are (name address etc), as well as what you shop for, (mainly groceries now, but who knows later), and how often. Scary to me. And they build an online / offline database about you. Good idea behind what they are trying to acomplish, but to big brotherish for me.
This is only the beginning. Choicepoint is only the first step in 'identity' theft and making the little guy (like me) getting f***** over by the system in some way. Suddenly the police show up at your door for something that you did not do, but you cannot prove it cause your identity has been stolen. Oh this happened to a friend of mine. Well sort of...
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Everyone always wonders is this possible. Then they do tis or do that and they find out it is. Just like cloning. But the real questions should be:
Is there a reason to do this?
Is there a market for this, or are there people who need this service (other than yourself)?
What are the moral implications?
Of course the last question does not apply to this, but the first two do. Mainly the second question. If you were to set this up would there be a market for this service and would it be a money maker. This is the real question. I think that there is company that lets you access a linux desktop from a web browser. This is not much different. You must of course pay for the service. Oh and by the way, much of the internet is going to be pay for services in the not so near future. It sucks, but all these companies need to make money someway.
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Laptops are not upgradable like desktops are. Try taking that video card out of your lap top. Oh you cannot. Some people have made desktop computers that are more in the direction I am talking about. Sort of like the cube. The problem with the cube is that it is not upgradeable. I am talking about a MB that is about 1/3 the size and 1/3 the power of current mb's. yes laptops are that small, but like I said try upgrading the video card on a laptop, or playing games. Also the price on an equivelant laptop (compared to the same desktop) is to great.
So tell me why does a PCI scsi card have to be 4" or so wide when the chips on it only take uyp about an inch? The fact is that many PCI and AGP cards today could be 2" wide. Also laptops either have a cdrom or floppy else everything is external. I want the computer to have a zip, floppy, 52x or greater cdrom and cdburner INSIDE the machine.
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In IEEE there was an article a year ago on single atom AND and OR gates. Basically they were dealing with the spin of the electrons. This would be equivelant to two transistors(maybe). At the time I am not sure if it was theoretical or not, but it does not suprise me. The problem is dealing with an interface to that level of technology. How do you connect a wire to this to actually get the output somewhere. This is the problem they had a year ago. If you have a micro chip that has atom sized transistors, how do you connect the wires to these chips to get the power to. Also with a conventional power supply how do you step down the power to that level without the massive overhead of creating a major conversion mechanism. 220/110 W to ??
Anyway it is a step, now we need the leap. What would really be neat is to see smaller PC parts today. A 2" network card and a 2" modem connecting to an 8"x6" MB would be sweet. Then my pc would be cut down to about 1/3 its current size. A cdrom drive that only 1/2 the cd went it rather than a drawer. Hmmm
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There are already standards.. There is a web sie called the IAB or internet advertising board. I think there site is www.iab.net. This is the internet advertising bureau.
The problem with ads now is that 1 most are images and they take up precious bandwidth. Ads on the internet need to be blended with the content more. Take google for instance. They have ads on their site, but they blend them with the search result. Ususally every 100 searches an add is show. The ad apears at teh top of the search results, but it looks like part of the search results. It is even the same topic as the search results. So if you search for computers then an ad may apear that has to do with computers. It may be something like come to buy.com and check out the selection of computers. Or it may be from a computer compnay. It is none obtrusive though.
Ads need to be more like that. Who wants flashy java or flash ads that take up bandwidth and slow page loading? Not I! Even if I did have a broadband connection, I still would not want it. Maybe some text links on a page would be good. They would also be harder to filter out with ad software cause they would apear as just links on a page rather than an iframe, javascript popup, or a standard sized ad, like a 468x60 banner ad.
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Computer SCience really is a science. It deal with the science of computing. What dos this mean? It means that you are probably going to study about things like how a database works. The software part of a database. Computer Science also requires more programming classes, like C or C++ and probably now Java. You'd probably not be required to take any electronics courses, but you'd probably have to take lots of numerical analysis courses and logic courses.
Computer Engineering is moreof how the hardware works. Like how to build your own CPU and such. This would actually get into the transistor level of hardware in many cases. You probably would take a few electronics courses as well.
Computer Engineering is an off shoot of Electrical Engineering, with a focus in Computer Electronics rather than general electronics. In some schools the difference between CS and CE or CE and EE is not that big. In the school that I went to it was assumed that if you were a computer engineer that you would basically be an electrical engineer with a focus in computers. Many of my CE friends (I was EE) had al the same classes as me except for maybe 6 were different. I had to take Signals and systems which dealt with fourier transforms and complex applied math, where the CE's did not as well as an EE I had to take Microwaves where as the CE's did not. However they all had to take Elcetronics, Semiconductors, and Computer Architecture, where as the CS students did not take these classes.
This was a few years ago so things could have changed since.
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A tremendous performance boost for demanding compute-intensive applications.
Sun ushers in the next generation of exceptional tools for technical professionals with the Sun Blade[tm] 1000 workstation. The Sun Blade 1000 system accommodates up to two superscalar, 64-bit, high-performance UltraSPARC[tm]-III CPUs. It features a high-performance, crossbar-switch system interconnect that provides high bandwidth (up to 4 GB/sec.) for today's and tomorrow's ultra-high-speed processors and graphic subsystems. It also delivers plenty of internal disk and memory and a 64-bit PCI bus for incredibly fast I/O. The Sun Blade 1000 workstation provides both USB and IEEE1394 interfaces for connectivity to the leading edge in third-party peripherls. With state-of-the-art high-end graphics, dual monitor capabilities, and support for Sun's advanced storage systems, this workstation is truly a powerful, flexible next-generation desktop.
Processor Powered by up to two 600-, 750-, or 900-MHz UltraSPARC-III CPUs. Memory Delivers up to 8 GB of main memory and up to 72 GB of 10,000-rpm FC/AL disk storage. Graphics Choice of Sun[tm] Creator3D, Sun[tm] Elite3D m6 and Sun Expert3D graphics technology for high-performance graphics functionality. I/O Interfaces IEEE 1394 ports for high-speed digital video transfers; USB ports for connecting USB devices such as Iomega Zip® or JAZ® drives. Peripheral Drives Three removable media slots for choice of DVD-ROM, 4-mm tape, or floppy; smart-card reader is standard. PCI Cards Four industry-standard PCI slots provide access to hundreds of expansion and high-performance networking options. Operating System Runs Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment; binary compatible with previous Solaris versions and entire workstation and server lines.
This is all from there site.. who posted this?? What did they not use the little search box on the www.sun.com web site??
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Yes it does in many cases. Think of it this way. As you grow up you get accustomed to a way of life and when you reach a certain age you expect a certain quality of living. This may be aplace that has good schools for you kids or it may be a place with lots of bars. It may be a place with a local music scene.
I interviewed for a job at Evan and Sutherland whn I lived in Florida. When I found out they were in Utah (before my interview) I basically blew them off. I am not into mormans and that is there home land. They have this screwed up thinking that Joseph Smith is right. Of course they have some good things, but they are all 'holy than thou' and blah blah..
Needless to say I am not trying to bash mormans, I just can't help myself when it comes to them. Anyway.. yes I think it is important. A job is basically your life, so why not make it as enjoyable as possible. After all they wouldn't call it work if you really enjoyed it ALL the time. Dot-commers though that work was always supposed to be enjoyed and now how many of them are looking for new jobs.. including my self;-)
Anyone looking for a programmer / analyst / software engineer / techie, skilled in Perl, C/ some C++, Java, or php???
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Didn't I read an article a little while ago that said that someone was working on integrating apt-get into rpm (http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/02/2049234.sht ml)? Isn't apt-get a front end to deselect or dpkg? So if this guy is so for apt-get why is he putting down rpm? I think in time (that article said) that this would happen.. In time apt-get would become the standard front end.
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Now throw in the fact that if you want earthlink dsl, Covad installs the line to your house, but they are pac bell lines (in my area) and if something goes wrong who's to fix it. Then you call earthlink and they have to call covad and pac bell or in some cases you do, and you have to deal with three people. It is not as easy as install nic and your up and running. In the case of using a modem, anyone can install a modem, and they do have written directions. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about sighing up for the service and getting the stuff. Why do you think that AOL is so popular?? Cause every modem sold just about comes with there software. You install the card, you install there software and then you register through their service. Easy as 1.. 2.. 3.. . In the case of dsl you have to call the company, they send someone out to hook up the lines and connectivity, and the whole process is made of wait wait wait...
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If I develop software does that mean that someone who uses this software can sue me if it does something bad, even though the software already has a warning? This is confusing.
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First I hope your broadband connection goes down for a long long time and you are forced to play your games at 28.8k.
Next what you are failing to realize is taht the point that this person was trying to make is that the games that he likes to play are designed for broadband. If you are not totally clueless as some people are when they create these games, then you'd realize that broadband has not just taken off. Not everyone can afford it nor is it available everywhere. What needs to happend is these game developers need to take the lowband into consideration when they design the games so that they do not LOOSE AUDIENCE. I think it is real dumb on their part to think of ONLY the broadband customer, when the reality is that they probably could loose 50% of there sales by ignoring the low band users. It is just bad business to go for a small audience.
I used to work for a site that catered to broadband. Guess what. They did not have enough traffic to support the site and now it no longer exists.
While broadband is the 'way of the future' the future is just no here yet for all of us.
Broadband wil not take off until it is as easy to set up as a modem is today. If I have to order something from a company then wait till they pull there heads out of there ass to sent it to me like so many companies have done to so many people then NO THANKS. I'll spend my $30 and get a 56k. If I have to have a second line or deal with the cable company then no thanks. Cable goes out enough as it is, do I really want my internet connection
the same way? NO THANKS. It is simple really companies already make the technology. Telocity is one company, Radio Shack is another. They both sell modems that you install at home and filters for your phones that can hook you up with dsl. The problem is that unlike normal 56k modems you cannot but the modem seperate from the service. You have to get them togeather. This is unattractive. Why is this? Cause DSL and broadband do not have the same standardization that modems do. Until it does it will lag the modem world. That and the price. hmm $10 to 20 a month or even free with ads and a 56k connection or $40+ for dsl and possible connection??? see dslreports.com and see the horror stories about dsl and just about all the known providers are there. I have heard problems from friends of how covad screwed up the installation and forgot to cap a wire and this caused his connection to be 5 times slower than it should and it took them a year to fix.... it is not rocket science here people...
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Aren't these scientists biased? Aren't ALL people biased in some way? I am not sure about the rest of you, but when I was in school I had teachers that were biased to prefer one way or another way of what was best. It's like M$ and win 95. M$ said that the browser was integrated part of the desktop, and now with the releases of win me and win 2k it pretty much is. The web browser is now the file manager. Many said otherwise before and it was not necessary, but we see it is more so now. Many people who were anti M$ complained that it was not fair, but today we see almost teh same thing with kde and konqueror.
The point is that everybody has an opinion about tech and how it should be taugh and what is right and not. What is to stop these 'paid' scientists from teaching their biased opinion? Furthermore what is to stop them from being bribed to teach a biased opinion?
Unless they are talking about teaching judges concepts in programming and such I see problems ahead.
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I agree with you. Personally I think what they will end up inevitable doing is alienating more users that way. can you image if you go to a site and it say s you must upgrade? Then the upgrade is 12 Megs or more and you are on a 28.8 / 56k modem? I'd leave the site never to return.
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windows always sufferes from feature creep. Look at going from Win 98 to win 2k or win ME. Not really that much different just a few new bells and whistles that most can do without. Of course they can't make it faster then noone would buy a new pc.
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You describe a process that shouldn't be necessary.
So far I have seen many people pose solutions for running glibc2.1 and glibc2.2 together on one system. Or to get your RH 7.0 to have glibc2.1 libs on it. Someone even said that this is really a none issue since you can run 2.1 and 2.2 on the same machine.
I think you ALL missed the point. The question is really WHY are there so many incompatiblities between 2.1 and 2.2? These are MINOR revisions. Going from libc 5 to libc6 was considered a major change. One had thread support one did not have very good thread support. Plus there were other changes.
I noticed that developers in the open source community are more for lets make this revision better and fix these bugs, but screw it if it does not work with the previous software revisons, people can just upgrade or recompile the old software. This is the general attitude. That and oh they can keep multiple revisions of the libraries (gtk+1.0 and gtk+1.2 rings a bell). Hey just look at kde. kde 2.0 was so different from kde 1.x that You basically had to uninstall (kde) and reinstall (I did). The whole architecture was that different.
I have used windows and between Win 3.1 and Win 95 there were problems, but I do not have that many between 95 98 and NT 4.0. (Oh and I do use Linux as my primary system).
One of the things that open source groups try to do is to get the program 'right'. While this is good, they often overlook those of us who don't use a particular distribution (or rather would not), and they say well let the distributions figure it out for the community and anyone else can get the source. Redhat tries to do this (and of cource they add there own stuff) and then you end up with them releasing something like RH 7.0 which so many people have had problems with.
What ALL these people either fail to realize to maybe it's that they just don't care, is that no mater how easy of a GUI Linux has with kde or GNOME, and how easy of an installer you make, when someone wants to upgrade one package on their system if there is not an easy way to do it then they run into the problem that this person has. Trying to run a program that comes in binary form only with a library that it wont work with.
Is there a solution? I say yes, but it lies in the hands of the developers to say lets get it right the first time. How can they do this. They can try using a design and a design document first rather than just coding and making changes later. The other thing they can do is eliminate scope creap. Scope creep is what happens with the Linux kernel. They say we will fix this and that in development x.x.x and then they start finding other things to fix and start work on those systems as well and the whole development cycle takes twice as long. Then by the time that they are done the whole architecture has changed and they have done more then they planned. (Scope Creep).
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I wish I could say that I have not had a server or desktop crash, but I have unfortunately crashed eveything including FreeBSD, and Win and Solaris, and Linux.
The real question is why is FreeBSD not a desktop OS? That is because FreeBSD is more typically considered UNIX and UNIX is not considered a desktop OS it is a server OS. That is just the way it is. Windows and Mac started out as desktop OSes. They are now both trying to move to more of the server arena, but they include as a basis all the desktop features which makes them bloated for a server. Think of it this way if you run W2k or Mac OS X you need 64 meg of RAM for teh OS itself, where with FreeBSD, Linux, or Solaris you don't need that much for the OS.
FreeBSD was originally designed as a server operating system. It was based on BSD and while it does have access to all the basic items for a desktop it just seems that becuase it was designed as a server OS it has never really tried to get away from that. Yes you can use it as a desktop but it just does not promote itself as that type of OS.
I disagree though that is cannot be used as a good desktop. I used to work with people who used FreeBSD as there main machine and they hated Linux becuase of the package system and becuase the Linux upgrades are not standard. One person told me that when you upgrade a FreeBSD kernel you don't ahve to recompile any of your programs. They also said that when you upgrade your services or any of that all your settings are saved. Unlike Redhat where they keep moving things around. (Redhat 6.2 vs 7.0 is a good example.)
I also disagree with the 'console vs mouse' argument as you can run X with BSD and use kde or GNOME whcih also both encourage the more use of the mouse.
Personally I think that the GUI has to be redeveloped anyway. It needs to have voice to text as ANOTHER standard way of inputting. As well stylus pens and such need to be encouraged. Sony is moving in this direction as they created a new computer flat panel display that is also a touch pad that is used as both a screen and an input device. It would be nice to have an OS that I could talk to muy computer (AT HOME mind you) in a quite room by myself and speak my thoughts rather than type them all.
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He did an exhibit at the national museam of art when the van gogh exhibit was there. It was called exploring edo. They had touch screen computers that allowed you to go throught a 3d representation of Japan during the edo period where you could see a gesha show and more things like that. They also had artwork from that period in other parts of the exhibit.
Lastly look at blaxxum.com. They do 3d worlds as well look at pulse.com. They also do 3d multimedia. pulse does some really cool things.
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... then we can have a list of all the people who do piercings as well. Then we can have a list of all the people who are not catholic, and so on and so on. While it may be free speach, what about the rights of the people that DON'T want there names listed? Don't they have a right to privacy? Does this mean that someone can start listing my name on some anti somethign web site because I don't agree with them. While this may be a win for Free Speach, it is a violation and loss for privacy as well.
So what about someone who set up an anti gay site or an anti semetic site? Would that be free speach if they gave names and addresses of gays or jews? And then some of them started showing up dead????
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A module is a driver. In windows 95/98/NT 4.0 you have to reboot after adding a new driver. Try this.. turn off your scanner on windows (if you have one) then start your windows box. After your system boots up turn on your scanner. Is is recgonized? Probably not. I ahve not tried w2k so maybe that will, but with Linux you can modprobe -a and presto it is. Then when you are done you can rmmod if you want. I do this with my scsi cdrom and scanner as they share the scsi card and I don't use them all the time. This is what I meant by modules. A modules is a peice of code that makes things work. It may be a driver like in case of my scsi card or it may be some peice of code that can be dynamically loaded and unlaoded from the OS to change 'running' behavior of the system. Linux has been doing this for years and windows has not.
I think the problem here is that you don't care about learning anything about your system, not Linux. Windows is making things easier in that sense, however there is a cost. The latest windows XP almost needs 128Meg of RAM as well as a pretty fast processor to run quickly. I imagine that soon your need the power of a web server to run the desktop windows operating system. No joke here cause that is where they are heading and they really are not adding anything but useless fluff that people could do without.
Use what you like .. I use Linux and windows as I think they both have plusses and minuses...
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Both have problems recognizing hardware and my experience has been that windows networking is not as good as Linux networking and Linux is nice cause it is easier to load and unload modules from the kernel without the reboot that is required in win 95/98/NT4. I have not tried w2k or winme but I know both of them still crash and they only are supposed to support a limited hardware, so they say.
If you don't like Linux you can try solaris, or a BSD or even MAC OS X. Don't think of this as flame that is not what I am intending, more my point is that just because they are requiring money is not a bad thing for them to do. They need to make money to continue doing what they are doing. you want a free Linux distro, get debian. It will probalby always be free.
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I am a semi skilled programmer and may even fit there 'requirements'. I studied Electrical Engineering in school and now I have been in the industry as a programmer analyst. I have done Perl, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Tcl/Tk, COBOL, Pascal, and Fortran. When in school I programmed a few scientific applications, but nothing fancy. I did not know enough C at the time to do programming for Digital Filters, but now I think that I could and am actually interessted in doing so. I of course may be rare. Most programmers are not interested in scientific programming they are more business oriented.
So where is this job located? I live in SF, CA and am not interested in relocating.
How is this job funded?
I had signal and systems, Microwaves, semiconductor design (really cool class with awesome instructor) and digital filter design. What kind of scientific stuff are they doing???
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This is a good article, but the downturn started in December. That was when it started to get more difficult. I have friends that think that they can make those same salaries that they used to make and they are still unemployed. I klooked for a lower salary and got a job. I am even making a little more than I was before I got laid off.
Of course normally when you leave a job an dgo to a new job you get a 20% pay increase, I only got about 3%. I am happy to be employed, but it took 6 weeks.
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I'd buy software online or a book that I knew I wanted, or cdroms, but even cdroms I can go to tower and hear some of them to see if I want the cd in the first place.
I think that this will satisfy some people, but not everyone, and not for everything. I like to buy my groceries in the store, so I know that my bnananas are fresh.
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ANy way, another company that people should be on the watch for is planetu. Of course that is if you use a coupon and a frequent buyers card. They are linking off line shopping habits with online coupons. And collecting lots of information on who you are (name address etc), as well as what you shop for, (mainly groceries now, but who knows later), and how often. Scary to me. And they build an online / offline database about you. Good idea behind what they are trying to acomplish, but to big brotherish for me.
This is only the beginning. Choicepoint is only the first step in 'identity' theft and making the little guy (like me) getting f***** over by the system in some way. Suddenly the police show up at your door for something that you did not do, but you cannot prove it cause your identity has been stolen. Oh this happened to a friend of mine. Well sort of...
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Is there a reason to do this?
Is there a market for this, or are there people who need this service (other than yourself)?
What are the moral implications?
Of course the last question does not apply to this, but the first two do. Mainly the second question. If you were to set this up would there be a market for this service and would it be a money maker. This is the real question. I think that there is company that lets you access a linux desktop from a web browser. This is not much different. You must of course pay for the service. Oh and by the way, much of the internet is going to be pay for services in the not so near future. It sucks, but all these companies need to make money someway.
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So tell me why does a PCI scsi card have to be 4" or so wide when the chips on it only take uyp about an inch? The fact is that many PCI and AGP cards today could be 2" wide. Also laptops either have a cdrom or floppy else everything is external. I want the computer to have a zip, floppy, 52x or greater cdrom and cdburner INSIDE the machine.
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Anyway it is a step, now we need the leap. What would really be neat is to see smaller PC parts today. A 2" network card and a 2" modem connecting to an 8"x6" MB would be sweet. Then my pc would be cut down to about 1/3 its current size. A cdrom drive that only 1/2 the cd went it rather than a drawer. Hmmm
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The problem with ads now is that 1 most are images and they take up precious bandwidth. Ads on the internet need to be blended with the content more. Take google for instance. They have ads on their site, but they blend them with the search result. Ususally every 100 searches an add is show. The ad apears at teh top of the search results, but it looks like part of the search results. It is even the same topic as the search results. So if you search for computers then an ad may apear that has to do with computers. It may be something like come to buy.com and check out the selection of computers. Or it may be from a computer compnay. It is none obtrusive though.
Ads need to be more like that. Who wants flashy java or flash ads that take up bandwidth and slow page loading? Not I! Even if I did have a broadband connection, I still would not want it. Maybe some text links on a page would be good. They would also be harder to filter out with ad software cause they would apear as just links on a page rather than an iframe, javascript popup, or a standard sized ad, like a 468x60 banner ad.
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Computer Engineering is moreof how the hardware works. Like how to build your own CPU and such. This would actually get into the transistor level of hardware in many cases. You probably would take a few electronics courses as well.
Computer Engineering is an off shoot of Electrical Engineering, with a focus in Computer Electronics rather than general electronics. In some schools the difference between CS and CE or CE and EE is not that big. In the school that I went to it was assumed that if you were a computer engineer that you would basically be an electrical engineer with a focus in computers. Many of my CE friends (I was EE) had al the same classes as me except for maybe 6 were different. I had to take Signals and systems which dealt with fourier transforms and complex applied math, where the CE's did not as well as an EE I had to take Microwaves where as the CE's did not. However they all had to take Elcetronics, Semiconductors, and Computer Architecture, where as the CS students did not take these classes.
This was a few years ago so things could have changed since.
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A tremendous performance boost for demanding compute-intensive applications.
Sun ushers in the next generation of exceptional tools for technical professionals with the Sun Blade[tm] 1000 workstation. The Sun Blade 1000 system accommodates up to two superscalar, 64-bit, high-performance UltraSPARC[tm]-III CPUs. It features a high-performance, crossbar-switch system interconnect that provides high bandwidth (up to 4 GB/sec.) for today's and tomorrow's ultra-high-speed processors and graphic subsystems. It also delivers plenty of internal disk and memory and a 64-bit PCI bus for incredibly fast I/O. The Sun Blade 1000 workstation provides both USB and IEEE1394 interfaces for connectivity to the leading edge in third-party peripherls. With state-of-the-art high-end graphics, dual monitor capabilities, and support for Sun's advanced storage systems, this workstation is truly a powerful, flexible next-generation desktop.
Processor Powered by up to two 600-, 750-, or 900-MHz UltraSPARC-III CPUs. Memory Delivers up to 8 GB of main memory and up to 72 GB of 10,000-rpm FC/AL disk storage. Graphics Choice of Sun[tm] Creator3D, Sun[tm] Elite3D m6 and Sun Expert3D graphics technology for high-performance graphics functionality. I/O Interfaces IEEE 1394 ports for high-speed digital video transfers; USB ports for connecting USB devices such as Iomega Zip® or JAZ® drives. Peripheral Drives Three removable media slots for choice of DVD-ROM, 4-mm tape, or floppy; smart-card reader is standard. PCI Cards Four industry-standard PCI slots provide access to hundreds of expansion and high-performance networking options. Operating System Runs Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment; binary compatible with previous Solaris versions and entire workstation and server lines.
This is all from there site.. who posted this?? What did they not use the little search box on the www.sun.com web site??
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I interviewed for a job at Evan and Sutherland whn I lived in Florida. When I found out they were in Utah (before my interview) I basically blew them off. I am not into mormans and that is there home land. They have this screwed up thinking that Joseph Smith is right. Of course they have some good things, but they are all 'holy than thou' and blah blah..
Needless to say I am not trying to bash mormans, I just can't help myself when it comes to them. Anyway.. yes I think it is important. A job is basically your life, so why not make it as enjoyable as possible. After all they wouldn't call it work if you really enjoyed it ALL the time. Dot-commers though that work was always supposed to be enjoyed and now how many of them are looking for new jobs.. including my self ;-)
Anyone looking for a programmer / analyst / software engineer / techie, skilled in Perl, C/ some C++, Java, or php???
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If I develop software does that mean that someone who uses this software can sue me if it does something bad, even though the software already has a warning? This is confusing.
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Next what you are failing to realize is taht the point that this person was trying to make is that the games that he likes to play are designed for broadband. If you are not totally clueless as some people are when they create these games, then you'd realize that broadband has not just taken off. Not everyone can afford it nor is it available everywhere. What needs to happend is these game developers need to take the lowband into consideration when they design the games so that they do not LOOSE AUDIENCE. I think it is real dumb on their part to think of ONLY the broadband customer, when the reality is that they probably could loose 50% of there sales by ignoring the low band users. It is just bad business to go for a small audience.
I used to work for a site that catered to broadband. Guess what. They did not have enough traffic to support the site and now it no longer exists.
While broadband is the 'way of the future' the future is just no here yet for all of us.
Broadband wil not take off until it is as easy to set up as a modem is today. If I have to order something from a company then wait till they pull there heads out of there ass to sent it to me like so many companies have done to so many people then NO THANKS. I'll spend my $30 and get a 56k. If I have to have a second line or deal with the cable company then no thanks. Cable goes out enough as it is, do I really want my internet connection the same way? NO THANKS. It is simple really companies already make the technology. Telocity is one company, Radio Shack is another. They both sell modems that you install at home and filters for your phones that can hook you up with dsl. The problem is that unlike normal 56k modems you cannot but the modem seperate from the service. You have to get them togeather. This is unattractive. Why is this? Cause DSL and broadband do not have the same standardization that modems do. Until it does it will lag the modem world. That and the price. hmm $10 to 20 a month or even free with ads and a 56k connection or $40+ for dsl and possible connection??? see dslreports.com and see the horror stories about dsl and just about all the known providers are there. I have heard problems from friends of how covad screwed up the installation and forgot to cap a wire and this caused his connection to be 5 times slower than it should and it took them a year to fix.... it is not rocket science here people...
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The point is that everybody has an opinion about tech and how it should be taugh and what is right and not. What is to stop these 'paid' scientists from teaching their biased opinion? Furthermore what is to stop them from being bribed to teach a biased opinion?
Unless they are talking about teaching judges concepts in programming and such I see problems ahead.
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So far I have seen many people pose solutions for running glibc2.1 and glibc2.2 together on one system. Or to get your RH 7.0 to have glibc2.1 libs on it. Someone even said that this is really a none issue since you can run 2.1 and 2.2 on the same machine.
I think you ALL missed the point. The question is really WHY are there so many incompatiblities between 2.1 and 2.2? These are MINOR revisions. Going from libc 5 to libc6 was considered a major change. One had thread support one did not have very good thread support. Plus there were other changes.
I noticed that developers in the open source community are more for lets make this revision better and fix these bugs, but screw it if it does not work with the previous software revisons, people can just upgrade or recompile the old software. This is the general attitude. That and oh they can keep multiple revisions of the libraries (gtk+1.0 and gtk+1.2 rings a bell). Hey just look at kde. kde 2.0 was so different from kde 1.x that You basically had to uninstall (kde) and reinstall (I did). The whole architecture was that different.
I have used windows and between Win 3.1 and Win 95 there were problems, but I do not have that many between 95 98 and NT 4.0. (Oh and I do use Linux as my primary system).
One of the things that open source groups try to do is to get the program 'right'. While this is good, they often overlook those of us who don't use a particular distribution (or rather would not), and they say well let the distributions figure it out for the community and anyone else can get the source. Redhat tries to do this (and of cource they add there own stuff) and then you end up with them releasing something like RH 7.0 which so many people have had problems with.
What ALL these people either fail to realize to maybe it's that they just don't care, is that no mater how easy of a GUI Linux has with kde or GNOME, and how easy of an installer you make, when someone wants to upgrade one package on their system if there is not an easy way to do it then they run into the problem that this person has. Trying to run a program that comes in binary form only with a library that it wont work with.
Is there a solution? I say yes, but it lies in the hands of the developers to say lets get it right the first time. How can they do this. They can try using a design and a design document first rather than just coding and making changes later. The other thing they can do is eliminate scope creap. Scope creep is what happens with the Linux kernel. They say we will fix this and that in development x.x.x and then they start finding other things to fix and start work on those systems as well and the whole development cycle takes twice as long. Then by the time that they are done the whole architecture has changed and they have done more then they planned. (Scope Creep).
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