Whatever it is that makes for a better education, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the time you spend in school. My wife is from Uzbekistan (former Soviet republic) and the quality of her education seems much higher than the one I received. Yet, she only went to school from 8am to noon 5 days a week from the age of 7 til age 17. That's quite a difference from the typical age 5 to 18, 7:30am to 3pm we go through in the U.S.
And yes (to those who were going to ask), the length of the school year is about the same.
See, the nice thing about Open Source is that it exists as long as people keep working on it. So if Microsoft is trying to give people a bad impression, it will only work until they see the software functioning again in 3-5 years and see that it works well.
Florida seems to be the snitching capital of the world. Wasn't it there that so meone told police that 3 doctors where plotting something evil when they overheard them at a resturaunt.
When I think of people. I think that there are a lot of them. More than 6 billion actually. It would seem that there is enough people that there would be people doing all kinds of things, including memorizing digits of Pi. I'm sure there is also a whole underground group of people who memorize digits of e and are disgruntled because the pi memorizing people get more attention.
Maybe this isn't write cycles, but when I was at ApacheCon 2001, I met the guy who setup the webserver for the Showgirls (movie) website. He had the server right there and it used a 32MB flash drive for storage. That's a lot of read cycles.
though one has to wonder how well it deals with people moving their wireless access points.
And thats exactly what it will not catch on. No company in their right mind would make products that counted on devices that aren't guarenteed to not be moved. Although it might work if the WiFi APs received GPS data and then acted as base stations to enhance the resolution of your GPS device. What I'd really like to see if GPS that worked in buildings and underground.
See, I always knew that having a table for what planet you are from was a good idea for our customer user database. Its all part of my scalability plan. Heh heh heh.
But we don't even really try to sell Linux boxes (just Linux support). I didn't want to delve much into the computer hardware market. But a few people just asked if we could put together a Linux system for them, so we did.
Well, I guess I can't read that well because I dropped out of college too.
Jobs also recounted founding Apple in his parent's basement and his tough times after being forced out of the company he founded when he was only 30.
Yep, read it again, still says that he founded Apple when he was 30 and was forced out of it later (by Sculley). I guess it takes a college graduate to get a writing/editing job at Wired. (Flame on!)
And with businesses like Suso you can actually stop by and pick up a free live CD so that you don't even have to bother downloading and burning the CD.
This is redundant, but you can't kill something that isn't tied to the ownership of a company. Just like HAM radio, Linux will be used by enthusiasts who still like using it for a long long time to come. Sure, some perhaps many people will switch to OS X86, many will not.
In the long run I think the Apple move to Intel will help non-windows people in general by creating a more dominant force of alternative operating systems on th e Intel platform. We all win out by having more choice and interoperability between operating systems. You have to admit, its all getting better.
IMHO, the problem has never been about price, performance or convience (well, maybe a little). Its been mainly about titles. What games are actually available and if those games are solely for a specific platform. In the early 80s, Ataris were nice, but lost their luster with the availability of the C64. In the late 80s, most of the best games available where for the console systems, in the early 90s we started to see a switch back to computers and when Doom came out, it seemed like everyone was picking up a PC. Then Quake came out and with the Internet boom everyone bought new computers. Now people are going back to consoles because there are so many good games there that aren't available for computers. If someone made a game for Linux that really kicked ass, I imagine that suddenly a lot of people would be running Linux. Take for instance, Frozen Bubble. Great game play and highly addictive, got a lot of people to use Linux who didn't before.
This can be especially said of the 18-34 demographic which surprisingly always seems to have the money to get something that they really want. Like a new $400 video card to play Half-Life 2.
Someone needs to write a unique and really great game that is only available for Linux.
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Well of course they would say that. I mean, given their history, is there any other choice they would have for how to respond to this.
Corporate America feels like a childish game of "You go home.... no you go home..... No you go home.... No"
Whatever it is that makes for a better education, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the time you spend in school. My wife is from Uzbekistan (former Soviet republic) and the quality of her education seems much higher than the one I received. Yet, she only went to school from 8am to noon 5 days a week from the age of 7 til age 17. That's quite a difference from the typical age 5 to 18, 7:30am to 3pm we go through in the U.S.
And yes (to those who were going to ask), the length of the school year is about the same.
See, the nice thing about Open Source is that it exists as long as people keep working on it. So if Microsoft is trying to give people a bad impression, it will only work until they see the software functioning again in 3-5 years and see that it works well.
I'm sure after this book is about the last book that anyone cares they get from scolastic. ;-)
Its not WiFi, its DeJa Vu. All over again.
Florida seems to be the snitching capital of the world. Wasn't it there that so
meone told police that 3 doctors where plotting something evil when they overheard them at a resturaunt.
When I think of people. I think that there are a lot of them. More than 6 billion actually. It would seem that there is enough people that there would be people doing all kinds of things, including memorizing digits of Pi. I'm sure there is also a whole underground group of people who memorize digits of e and are disgruntled because the pi memorizing people get more attention.
Maybe this isn't write cycles, but when I was at ApacheCon 2001, I met the guy who setup the webserver for the Showgirls (movie) website. He had the server right there and it used a 32MB flash drive for storage. That's a lot of read cycles.
"Hacking in its pure form is to show what you can do.'"
;-)
Alright then, given enough time, you can do anything, so there is no need to try.
though one has to wonder how well it deals with people moving their wireless access points.
And thats exactly what it will not catch on. No company in their right mind would make products that counted on devices that aren't guarenteed to not be moved. Although it might work if the WiFi APs received GPS data and then acted as base stations to enhance the resolution of your GPS device. What I'd really like to see if GPS that worked in buildings and underground.
See, I always knew that having a table for what planet you are from was a good idea for our customer user database. Its all part of my scalability plan. Heh heh heh.
Brainlessly agreeing with what marketers say without seeking out more information is bad for you.
Not that I'm against cookies, I'm just against stupidity.
But we don't even really try to sell Linux boxes (just Linux support). I didn't want to delve much into the computer hardware market. But a few people just asked if we could put together a Linux system for them, so we did.
Well, I guess I can't read that well because I dropped out of college too.
Jobs also recounted founding Apple in his parent's basement and his tough times after being forced out of the company he founded when he was only 30.
Yep, read it again, still says that he founded Apple when he was 30 and was forced out of it later (by Sculley). I guess it takes a college graduate to get a writing/editing job at Wired. (Flame on!)
Jobs founded Apple when he was 21, not 30.
Heh heh. You know, sometimes I wish we all could take a step back and see the humor in saying things like:
After 3 years we finally get to have a look at the new Debian.
And then link to a picture of an empty desktop that looks like everyone else's Gnome. No wonder lay people don't care about what we care about.
Just do what the cruisers do, just put a sticker on your computer of a kid pissing all over the logo of another platform. A new product for ThinkGeek?
But the Cool Cube has WAY more class. I'm impressed.
And installing it was a breeze.
And with businesses like Suso you can actually stop by and pick up a free live CD so that you don't even have to bother downloading and burning the CD.
could he be right on this one too?
Harm? yes.
Kill? no.
This is redundant, but you can't kill something that isn't tied to the ownership of a company. Just like HAM radio, Linux will be used by enthusiasts who still like using it for a long long time to come. Sure, some perhaps many people will switch to OS X86, many will not.
In the long run I think the Apple move to Intel will help non-windows people in
general by creating a more dominant force of alternative operating systems on th
e Intel platform. We all win out by having more choice and interoperability between operating systems. You have to admit, its all getting better.
You killed Bell Labs.
Are you sure [y/N]?
I would like to see a game where you take on religious zealots.
That's nothing, I heard that you can make Windows secure by changing 106,351,876 bytes before installing.
Ta-dit-boom!
IMHO, the problem has never been about price, performance or convience (well, maybe a little). Its been mainly about titles. What games are actually available and if those games are solely for a specific platform. In the early 80s, Ataris were nice, but lost their luster with the availability of the C64. In the late 80s, most of the best games available where for the console systems, in the early 90s we started to see a switch back to computers and when Doom came out, it seemed like everyone was picking up a PC. Then Quake came out and with the Internet boom everyone bought new computers. Now people are going back to consoles because there are so many good games there that aren't available for computers. If someone made a game for Linux that really kicked ass, I imagine that suddenly a lot of people would be running Linux. Take for instance, Frozen Bubble. Great game play and highly addictive, got a lot of people to use Linux who didn't before.
This can be especially said of the 18-34 demographic which surprisingly always seems to have the money to get something that they really want. Like a new $400 video card to play Half-Life 2.
Someone needs to write a unique and really great game that is only available for Linux.