Very true. Along the same lines today hard drives park their heads when you shut down your machine. You no longer need to run any complicated parking procedure before shiping your computer and worry about head-disk crashes.
however, scanners are just the other way. most hve a locking mechanism you are supposed to throw on the back to prevent damage. forget to move that baby over and the scanner is toast. I know this, it happened to me...
Has anyone noticed on Apple's main page where they picture iTunes running on WinXP, that Apple themselves has not patched their WinXP system? Take a look, on the bottom right corner of the screen you can see the icon for new paths are availble for download/ready to install/we're going to force you to reboot your system now. Lol!
not really. the ipod has an enormous load of memory and preloads several songs in advance of playing them, then parks the disk head already. so 99% of the time the disk isn't spinning at all. this protects the disk, and reduces power consumption. so this technology will only help out an ipod during those few milliseconds when it is pulling hte next few tracks off disk to play them.
Bullshit, you've seen PEOPLE ruin their lives by allowing themselves to be prosecuted becuase THEY decided to use POT. Law's against drugs don't ruin people's lives, people who allow their lives to be ruined ruin their own damn lives. People need to start taking more blame for once. Jesus.
p2p will always be in the best interest of all us. Sure, Apple has a product for distributing music legall. But mp3's arn't the only usage of p2p. Yes, people use it for porn too, but p2p also allows all of us to share ANYTHING. p2p is somewhat like the web, a way for us all to speak up, to share things, to "publish" our ideas. We live in a world where it is hard to speak out. Until the web one had to run for public office or write a letter to the editor of your local paper. p2p and the web changed all that. While legal mechanism like iTunes will continue to grow and be used, in all fairness Apple is designing a service that will make them money, not one that will let me be heard, or share my work with others. p2p is the easiest way, although not necessarily the best way, to acheive that.
mplayer and xine websites were pseudo-closed with what-if fake 404 pages that you could click through. libxslt and libxml sites also had these pages, which is quite annoying when you are trying to flip through documentation...
dell laptop batteries have done the same thing
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a few years ago Dell recalled a number of laptop batteries due to similar concerns. This problem is most definately not limited to cell phones.:)
Not everything the government does is done well. Take the USPS. In general goverment paid employees do their jobs badly (every been to the DMV?). I don't see government funding helping out the OS movement much. Corporations spending money to develop COMPETITIVE open source products, now that's what I'm interested in seeing...
I was very disappointed by that article. On the right they listed various tips for dealing with all these problems, but nowhere did they suggest exploring open source alternatives! I mean come on, this has always been the problem with closed source applications. Bugs crop up, well known software makers either a.) don't fix them or b.) demand more of your money to upgrade. Open source developers often respond in a much more timely manner. That journalist didn't do their homework.:(
The title of this article is misleading. While they are running photoshop under wine, the more interesting fact I found was that they ported all their GUI stuff to QT and are running that natively! Clearly their goal is to be using platform indepent stuff based on Qt. Awesome!
no, just click on my computer and type a url in the location bar. ie is baked into your windoze system. you can't remove it. want to force your girlfriend to use something else? run linux.
I'd have to disagree, all the people that used to lug around their laptops but stopped are those that bought those big heavy Dell's and IBM thinkpads that weigh a ton. I have an ultralight Dell and I've been bringing it everywhere I go for the last two years. I rarely take notes in class on it (use it to check email more often) but it's awesome to go to the library where it is quiet and do work on my laptop. Back when I had a desktop I was a slave to my cramped loud dorm room. Apparently most of you all forget what freshmen dorms are like: loud, cramped, and imposibble to actually do any work in. I found the library sophomore year and never turned back, with an ultra light laptop you can work there, battery life isn't a big issue since you can plug in jsut about anywhere, and with wireless you can get stuff online for writing your paper or doing your work. Desktops have been replaced unless you want to play games.
I used to compete in RoboCup (for 3 years with Cornell) in the Small Size league. I believe the writer of this post is referring to small size (f-180) bots when he uses the term "wheeled soccer robots." I'd like to point out that very few small size robots use two wheels to move around any more. Most use omni-directional drive which consists of a number of spinning balls on the bottom of the robot which allow them to move in any direction at any time. This is very little to do with this post and might be seen as a rant, but since I was on the Cornell team when we brought this different design to competition first I feel a little dedicated to point out that wheeled robots are old school, omni designs now rule the playing field.:)
Try Slackware. It works well. It forces you to understand your system more, but that's a good thing. the/etc/rc.d/ scripts make sense, nothing nonstandard like in RedHat, and compiling and using a new kernel works the way it should. Slackware's packaging system is the best IMHO. Debian may have the upper hand but Debian is still running the 2.2 kernel and xfree 2.3 right?:)
Step 1: Burn Slackware CD Step 2: Insert CD into machine, boot, format and install slackware-current with KDE 3.1
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Forget shoes, windows, and cars. Think people! Just spray it all over your body and you'll never need to shower again, just run through a lake, or if you do decide to shower now soap is necessary? All the filth just rolls off your body.:)
It is just me or is the quality of storage media going down altogether? I've found floppy drives to be much much much more prone to failure then ever before. I remember back in the day all the kids at school had their own 3.5" floppy disk which they kept all their work on over 2 years. Now I'd be lucky to keep stuff on a floppy for over 2 weeks. Installing linux off floppies is nearly impossible since by disk 24 you've usually hit a snag somewhere reading data you wrote to the disk only hours before. Why is storage media quality and reliability so poor these days? On a related note, zip disks seem to be more reliable than ever. Hardly anybody remembers the click of death any more...
What are you talking about?!! Word Perfect 7 for windows worked GREAT, on windows 95. If you had problems with it's buginesss I bet you tried it on win98 or later. Microsoft made who knows what changes that made the package suddenly unstable. Funny eh?
I do admit World Perfect 6 for windows was pretty cruddy. but wp6 was made by novel, before that it was the word perfect company and 7+ have all been made by Corel. Novel screwed up the product for a few years. But you honestly can't call WP a piece of shit. It's very popular by a lot of people and still has the most useful and unadopted feature by other word processors: reveal codes.
Lovely, and you'll be writing a piece of software that only runs on Windows. I get the feeling that isn't what you want. I suggest finding a group of individuals with similar interests, writing it in C++, and using Qt for the GUI since it's very portable...
We have a similar thing at Cornell University called Blackboard. It's a standard interface of class websites that is maintained through the browser so any professor can do it. It isn't publically available ot the rest of the world (all pages are password protected) but most of all it's slow as hell. I don't know many people here that like it.
If MIT's page set turns out nice, is fast, and provides me another source of information in even greater detail than just HowStuffWorks.com then I think this is a great thing for all us non-MIT world members.
In terms of MIT students and faculty, these pages provide employeers a glimpse of what the course offerings really cover, hopefully conveying the idea to potential employeers of students that they truely did get a good background in the material they may claim to on their resumes'.
Not true. 1.) Microsoft bought Corel stock, a lot of it, proping them up right before they caved in 2.) Corel suddenly cuts it's entire Linux program, both it's port of Word Perfect and Corel Draw for linux, and it's Debian-based linux distro 3.) Microsoft either got worried it looked bad, or realized how badly Corel was still hemmoraging money, DUMPS Corel stock.
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Very true. Along the same lines today hard drives park their heads when you shut down your machine. You no longer need to run any complicated parking procedure before shiping your computer and worry about head-disk crashes.
however, scanners are just the other way. most hve a locking mechanism you are supposed to throw on the back to prevent damage. forget to move that baby over and the scanner is toast. I know this, it happened to me...
Has anyone noticed on Apple's main page where they picture iTunes running on WinXP, that Apple themselves has not patched their WinXP system? Take a look, on the bottom right corner of the screen you can see the icon for new paths are availble for download/ready to install/we're going to force you to reboot your system now. Lol!
not really. the ipod has an enormous load of memory and preloads several songs in advance of playing them, then parks the disk head already. so 99% of the time the disk isn't spinning at all. this protects the disk, and reduces power consumption. so this technology will only help out an ipod during those few milliseconds when it is pulling hte next few tracks off disk to play them.
Bullshit, you've seen PEOPLE ruin their lives by allowing themselves to be prosecuted becuase THEY decided to use POT. Law's against drugs don't ruin people's lives, people who allow their lives to be ruined ruin their own damn lives. People need to start taking more blame for once. Jesus.
p2p will always be in the best interest of all us. Sure, Apple has a product for distributing music legall. But mp3's arn't the only usage of p2p. Yes, people use it for porn too, but p2p also allows all of us to share ANYTHING. p2p is somewhat like the web, a way for us all to speak up, to share things, to "publish" our ideas. We live in a world where it is hard to speak out. Until the web one had to run for public office or write a letter to the editor of your local paper.
p2p and the web changed all that. While legal mechanism like iTunes will continue to grow and be used, in all fairness Apple is designing a service that will make them money, not one that will let me be heard, or share my work with others. p2p is the easiest way, although not necessarily the best way, to acheive that.
mplayer and xine websites were pseudo-closed with what-if fake 404 pages that you could click through. libxslt and libxml sites also had these pages, which is quite annoying when you are trying to flip through documentation...
a few years ago Dell recalled a number of laptop batteries due to similar concerns. This problem is most definately not limited to cell phones. :)
Not everything the government does is done well. Take the USPS. In general goverment paid employees do their jobs badly (every been to the DMV?). I don't see government funding helping out the OS movement much. Corporations spending money to develop COMPETITIVE open source products, now that's what I'm interested in seeing...
I was very disappointed by that article. On the right they listed various tips for dealing with all these problems, but nowhere did they suggest exploring open source alternatives! I mean come on, this has always been the problem with closed source applications. Bugs crop up, well known software makers either a.) don't fix them or b.) demand more of your money to upgrade. Open source developers often respond in a much more timely manner. That journalist didn't do their homework. :(
The title of this article is misleading. While they are running photoshop under wine, the more interesting fact I found was that they ported all their GUI stuff to QT and are running that natively! Clearly their goal is to be using platform indepent stuff based on Qt. Awesome!
no, just click on my computer and type a url in the location bar. ie is baked into your windoze system. you can't remove it. want to force your girlfriend to use something else? run linux.
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Start charging them $1 every time it happens or threaten to lower their grades. That's what they do in the business school here, works like a charm...
I'd have to disagree, all the people that used to lug around their laptops but stopped are those that bought those big heavy Dell's and IBM thinkpads that weigh a ton. I have an ultralight Dell and I've been bringing it everywhere I go for the last two years. I rarely take notes in class on it (use it to check email more often) but it's awesome to go to the library where it is quiet and do work on my laptop. Back when I had a desktop I was a slave to my cramped loud dorm room. Apparently most of you all forget what freshmen dorms are like: loud, cramped, and imposibble to actually do any work in. I found the library sophomore year and never turned back, with an ultra light laptop you can work there, battery life isn't a big issue since you can plug in jsut about anywhere, and with wireless you can get stuff online for writing your paper or doing your work. Desktops have been replaced unless you want to play games.
I used to compete in RoboCup (for 3 years with Cornell) in the Small Size league. I believe the writer of this post is referring to small size (f-180) bots when he uses the term "wheeled soccer robots." I'd like to point out that very few small size robots use two wheels to move around any more. Most use omni-directional drive which consists of a number of spinning balls on the bottom of the robot which allow them to move in any direction at any time. This is very little to do with this post and might be seen as a rant, but since I was on the Cornell team when we brought this different design to competition first I feel a little dedicated to point out that wheeled robots are old school, omni designs now rule the playing field. :)
Don't you mean Firebird nightly?
According to the article it's 11 million POUNDS, not dollars.
Try Slackware. It works well. It forces you to understand your system more, but that's a good thing. the /etc/rc.d/ scripts make sense, nothing nonstandard like in RedHat, and compiling and using a new kernel works the way it should. Slackware's packaging system is the best IMHO. Debian may have the upper hand but Debian is still running the 2.2 kernel and xfree 2.3 right? :)
Step 1: Burn Slackware CD
Step 2: Insert CD into machine, boot, format and install slackware-current with KDE 3.1
Forget shoes, windows, and cars. Think people! Just spray it all over your body and you'll never need to shower again, just run through a lake, or if you do decide to shower now soap is necessary? All the filth just rolls off your body. :)
It is just me or is the quality of storage media going down altogether? I've found floppy drives to be much much much more prone to failure then ever before. I remember back in the day all the kids at school had their own 3.5" floppy disk which they kept all their work on over 2 years. Now I'd be lucky to keep stuff on a floppy for over 2 weeks. Installing linux off floppies is nearly impossible since by disk 24 you've usually hit a snag somewhere reading data you wrote to the disk only hours before. Why is storage media quality and reliability so poor these days? On a related note, zip disks seem to be more reliable than ever. Hardly anybody remembers the click of death any more...
What are you talking about?!! Word Perfect 7 for windows worked GREAT, on windows 95. If you had problems with it's buginesss I bet you tried it on win98 or later. Microsoft made who knows what changes that made the package suddenly unstable. Funny eh?
I do admit World Perfect 6 for windows was pretty cruddy. but wp6 was made by novel, before that it was the word perfect company and 7+ have all been made by Corel. Novel screwed up the product for a few years. But you honestly can't call WP a piece of shit. It's very popular by a lot of people and still has the most useful and unadopted feature by other word processors: reveal codes.
Lovely, and you'll be writing a piece of software that only runs on Windows. I get the feeling that isn't what you want. I suggest finding a group of individuals with similar interests, writing it in C++, and using Qt for the GUI since it's very portable...
We have a similar thing at Cornell University called Blackboard. It's a standard interface of class websites that is maintained through the browser so any professor can do it. It isn't publically available ot the rest of the world (all pages are password protected) but most of all it's slow as hell. I don't know many people here that like it.
If MIT's page set turns out nice, is fast, and provides me another source of information in even greater detail than just HowStuffWorks.com then I think this is a great thing for all us non-MIT world members.
In terms of MIT students and faculty, these pages provide employeers a glimpse of what the course offerings really cover, hopefully conveying the idea to potential employeers of students that they truely did get a good background in the material they may claim to on their resumes'.
Not true.
1.) Microsoft bought Corel stock, a lot of it, proping them up right before they caved in
2.) Corel suddenly cuts it's entire Linux program, both it's port of Word Perfect and Corel Draw for linux, and it's Debian-based linux distro
3.) Microsoft either got worried it looked bad, or realized how badly Corel was still hemmoraging money, DUMPS Corel stock.
Microsoft no longer owns Corel stock.