On top of being hacked I wonder how accurate this is? How does it follow? by 'retracing' the wheels of the car ahead of it? I sure hope it's accurate! 2 things could happen, the car could hit an rock and set it slightly off course. The co-ordinates that the car ahead relay would no longer be totally accurate and the car may start turning at the wrong time! This reminds me of my Omnibot robot. I could program him to follow a certain track and do certain actions, but I had to place him exactly where he was the first time or the second time through the programmed course he would turn too soon and get stuck on a wall. The other tricky part would be lag. What would the car do if it wasn't receiving the data from the car ahead in time for it to process the movements? Both of these I'm sure are handled, but I'd curious to see how.
We had a rep into our office to demo JD from SUN. I haven't tooled around with the live CD that we were given, but to be honest I wasn't very impressed. We asked about why everything is so old on it and they said it was designed that way for stability. The market focus in their mind was for large numbers of very simple desktops, like call centers. The strength of the system is that it can be completely remotely managed on the fly. Application and OS properties can be manipulated on a central server which are then replicated to the desktops. This was demonstrated by changing the desktop colors on the central repository. After a few minutes the background magically changed on the desktop machine. The modifications can be made to a set of standard apps like mozilla, evolution and staroffice. For example you could push out a new proxy server setting to every client. The limitation is that you can't add to the managed apps. For example if you wanted to use KDE instead of the default Gnome you could no longer remotely manage it. Or if you wanted to use opera instead of mozilla, etc. Keep in mind this is still a very young product and they were frank in telling us that a lot of work is still being done. That being said I just don't see this desktop catching on. Suse 9.1 on the other hand is a terrific product that Novell is spending a pile of development dollars on. SUN shouldn't be wasting it's time fragmenting the desktop competition. Let RedHat and Suse duke that one out.
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It's tough to tell how bulky the shirts are. I wish they had a side angle. The shirts appear to have a brick shape behind the screen, or is it fairly flat?
I know there is are several commonly used tools that are ommited from fedora to avoid the IP issues. playing DVDs, Samba and a couple of others. Does anyone have a link to howto on what needs to be installed after the install to make it a regular useful distro?
I've tried a ton of desktops. Mandrake 10, Fedora, Knoppix, etc. All of them were functional, but lacking in certain areas. They just didn't seem ready for an end user. I booted up the Suse 9.1 because I'm intereted in the Novell Linux play. I was instantly blown away. This is the most well designed, streamlined and functional Linux desktop I've used. Finally something tha can be installed and run by an end user without hand holding from a geek.
What are the implications if we can't detect the 'dark matter'? What if our understanding of energy and gravity are wrong? String theory promotes the idea of multiple dimensions. If that's the case than how would we be able to detect those dimensions? We can show their existence with mathematics, but it's quite possible that's it's beyond our current understanding to 'see/feel' it.
" It's been hyped since the mid-90's, but thin clients have never really caught on in the corporate environment." Tell that to our multiple clients that run Citrix farms with over 2000 users. I've been working almost exclusivley on Citrix projects for years!
Here is another article about cold fusion experiments. It uses sound cavitation to collapse acetone vapor. It sounds quite promising. I'm personally fond of the idea of using sound as a controlling force for the reaction. The experiments were funded in part by DARPA. "The research team used a standing ultrasonic wave to help form and then implode the cavitation bubbles of deuterated acetone vapor. The oscillating sound waves caused the bubbles to expand and then violently collapse, creating strong compression shock waves around and inside the bubbles. Moving at about the speed of sound, the internal shock waves impacted at the center of the bubbles causing very high compression and accompanying temperatures of about 100 million Kelvin."
I love the AAC format. I use Winamp Pro to play and encode songs with AAC. I despise Real Player and it's unreasonable level of pop-ups and advertising. It is one of the most invasive pieces of software out there.
Cool! This made me flash back to the days of playing ZORK
The Zork series were old interactive text based games, much like this "new doom". Granted the action wasn't nearly as rivetting as doom.
At least you can order HBO. In Canada we're literally not allowed to have HBO. We have MovieCentral which picks up some of the great HBO programming, but not all. It's no wonder Canadians steal US sattelite signals. We can't get the channles that we really want and hlaf the channels are the same network except time shifted. Why would I want 4 timezones of the same crappy canadian content?!
Congress is suggesting to allow viewers to order channels a la' carte, which is a fantastic step, but it be to little to late.
'Cause you never know when you'll run into a supper hot, bikini clad hottie who wants to play a head to head game of Counterstrike, while sipping Pina Colada's at the Sandal's beach
I don't like the 3 CD distros now a days. Is it really necessary to include the entire opensource library of apps? The CDs should give you the base OS and the major apps. The rest can be installed over the net. An OS installation shouldn't be more than 1 CD. It will be nice when DVD-ROMS are as common as CD-ROMS, then this won't be a problem. Unless by then the OS is 2 or 3 DVDs. =)
I wonder if they have anyway to test the depth of this "mud" before they pull off the lander? Wouldn't it be horrible if the multi-million dollar lander finnaly pulled off the platform and became stuck in the surrounding dirt?
Something I've never understood is why there are X-ray jets blasting from black holes? How are the Xrays emissions not subject to massive gravity? Black Holes swallow 'everything' they say so how do the x-rays escape?
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How Stuff has been slashdotted. Here's another page to view it from.
On top of being hacked I wonder how accurate this is? How does it follow? by 'retracing' the wheels of the car ahead of it? I sure hope it's accurate! 2 things could happen, the car could hit an rock and set it slightly off course. The co-ordinates that the car ahead relay would no longer be totally accurate and the car may start turning at the wrong time! This reminds me of my Omnibot robot. I could program him to follow a certain track and do certain actions, but I had to place him exactly where he was the first time or the second time through the programmed course he would turn too soon and get stuck on a wall.
The other tricky part would be lag. What would the car do if it wasn't receiving the data from the car ahead in time for it to process the movements?
Both of these I'm sure are handled, but I'd curious to see how.
There is another ad by Novell, it features a kid running through an office killing butterflies with a paintball gun. Can anyone find this one?
We had a rep into our office to demo JD from SUN. I haven't tooled around with the live CD that we were given, but to be honest I wasn't very impressed. We asked about why everything is so old on it and they said it was designed that way for stability. The market focus in their mind was for large numbers of very simple desktops, like call centers. The strength of the system is that it can be completely remotely managed on the fly. Application and OS properties can be manipulated on a central server which are then replicated to the desktops. This was demonstrated by changing the desktop colors on the central repository. After a few minutes the background magically changed on the desktop machine. The modifications can be made to a set of standard apps like mozilla, evolution and staroffice. For example you could push out a new proxy server setting to every client. The limitation is that you can't add to the managed apps. For example if you wanted to use KDE instead of the default Gnome you could no longer remotely manage it. Or if you wanted to use opera instead of mozilla, etc. Keep in mind this is still a very young product and they were frank in telling us that a lot of work is still being done. That being said I just don't see this desktop catching on. Suse 9.1 on the other hand is a terrific product that Novell is spending a pile of development dollars on. SUN shouldn't be wasting it's time fragmenting the desktop competition. Let RedHat and Suse duke that one out.
Here are a couple of anti-GM videos to check out.
One from Krafty.org
And another from GNN.TV
It's tough to tell how bulky the shirts are. I wish they had a side angle. The shirts appear to have a brick shape behind the screen, or is it fairly flat?
I know there is are several commonly used tools that are ommited from fedora to avoid the IP issues. playing DVDs, Samba and a couple of others. Does anyone have a link to howto on what needs to be installed after the install to make it a regular useful distro?
I've tried a ton of desktops. Mandrake 10, Fedora, Knoppix, etc. All of them were functional, but lacking in certain areas. They just didn't seem ready for an end user. I booted up the Suse 9.1 because I'm intereted in the Novell Linux play. I was instantly blown away. This is the most well designed, streamlined and functional Linux desktop I've used. Finally something tha can be installed and run by an end user without hand holding from a geek.
Now if only they could get the physical texture right.
http://www.realdoll.com/
What are the implications if we can't detect the 'dark matter'? What if our understanding of energy and gravity are wrong? String theory promotes the idea of multiple dimensions. If that's the case than how would we be able to detect those dimensions? We can show their existence with mathematics, but it's quite possible that's it's beyond our current understanding to 'see/feel' it.
" It's been hyped since the mid-90's, but thin clients have never really caught on in the corporate environment."
Tell that to our multiple clients that run Citrix farms with over 2000 users. I've been working almost exclusivley on Citrix projects for years!
And you guys locked him up for years! Imagine what he could have done for you if his sentence was to contract for the FBI or the NSA!
Under the performance tab you can use the slider to tune the machine for 'foreground' or 'background' apps.
Here is another article about cold fusion experiments. It uses sound cavitation to collapse acetone vapor. It sounds quite promising. I'm personally fond of the idea of using sound as a controlling force for the reaction. The experiments were funded in part by DARPA.
"The research team used a standing ultrasonic wave to help form and then implode the cavitation bubbles of deuterated acetone vapor. The oscillating sound waves caused the bubbles to expand and then violently collapse, creating strong compression shock waves around and inside the bubbles. Moving at about the speed of sound, the internal shock waves impacted at the center of the bubbles causing very high compression and accompanying temperatures of about 100 million Kelvin."
I love the AAC format. I use Winamp Pro to play and encode songs with AAC.
I despise Real Player and it's unreasonable level of pop-ups and advertising. It is one of the most invasive pieces of software out there.
Cool! This made me flash back to the days of playing ZORK The Zork series were old interactive text based games, much like this "new doom". Granted the action wasn't nearly as rivetting as doom.
At least you can order HBO. In Canada we're literally not allowed to have HBO. We have MovieCentral which picks up some of the great HBO programming, but not all. It's no wonder Canadians steal US sattelite signals. We can't get the channles that we really want and hlaf the channels are the same network except time shifted. Why would I want 4 timezones of the same crappy canadian content?! Congress is suggesting to allow viewers to order channels a la' carte, which is a fantastic step, but it be to little to late.
DAMN!! I didn't even think of the 30 day garuntee! I played Halo PC version twice and stuffed it back in the box. It's sat there since.
'Cause you never know when you'll run into a supper hot, bikini clad hottie who wants to play a head to head game of Counterstrike, while sipping Pina Colada's at the Sandal's beach
The Secret Service? Aren't they supposed to look after the presidents (present & past)?
Why wouldn't this be an FBI case?
I don't like the 3 CD distros now a days. Is it really necessary to include the entire opensource library of apps? The CDs should give you the base OS and the major apps. The rest can be installed over the net. An OS installation shouldn't be more than 1 CD.
It will be nice when DVD-ROMS are as common as CD-ROMS, then this won't be a problem. Unless by then the OS is 2 or 3 DVDs. =)
How do you have the space to do this type of stuff? The RAM chips are only 512MB... Do you use a 4GB microdrive?
What?! The home of capitalism is also the home of spam?! How could this be? /sarcasm
I wonder if they have anyway to test the depth of this "mud" before they pull off the lander? Wouldn't it be horrible if the multi-million dollar lander finnaly pulled off the platform and became stuck in the surrounding dirt?
Something I've never understood is why there are X-ray jets blasting from black holes? How are the Xrays emissions not subject to massive gravity? Black Holes swallow 'everything' they say so how do the x-rays escape?