It would be nice if the government could get their aerospace act together and just make something that works, wouldn't it? The X-33 is just another project that has peen hyped and funded too much, and is too manager controlled, and tries to be the swiss-army-chainsaw of rockets. Just make a specialized rocket that does one thing well. It's like comparing the Quake engine to the Unreal engine: one is really fast indoors and in small outdoor situations, the other takes 5 minutes to load a board.
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This might be news to you, but some people actually have limits to their cynicism and prefer to give others benefit of the doubt. Also, the firm will probably not press charges against him for informing them of their security hole, compared with the fraud case that would have followed if he ripped off $100 million.
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There is one form of currency transaction that suffers from no security loophole caused by the internet, and that is accepted more places than any variety of e-cash. One could argue that it's the most widely accepted type of currency worldwide.
US Cash - always good, always accepted, almost always works in soda machines.
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Are there any volunteers who would like to have a microscopic robot working inside themselves? If the technology isn't accepted by the populace, it's just like it doesn't exist.
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I would tend to agree with you, but not because Free software doesn't cost anything. Pay software has prevailed so far because its architecture is made for games, which is the primary use of computers. One might argue that Word 2000 isn't a game, but, last time I checked, games were the only computer program that used an animated character.
Windows is installed on most every computer sold, and mostly because people like the way it works with their games. If the computer manufacturers give consumers the option of Linux or dual-booting, not only do they lose the gaming aspect(not in dual booting, though), but M$ charges a lot more for the Win98/SE/ME/whatever license included.
If people would quit screwing around with their toy computers and try to get work done, they might see the benefit of Linux. Or, then again, they might not.
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Due to the sheer expense of connecting the 'Dark Continent,' individuals are unlikely to be able to provide internet access to Africa, which is the best way to get a copy of Linux there. Companies won't do it after the example Iridium set for global telephone and network access, and the fact that Africa isn't really rich enough to provide a source of income for any company with investors nuts enough to inves in them.
Unless something commercially viable happens in Africa, they are unlikely to get Internet and Linxu access in the near future.
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First of all, M$'s licensing agreements change more frequently than the coloring on most chameleons/octopi (whichever you prefer), so a single change that allows reimaging isn't as big a deal as a change that would allow people to view their source code and openly mock it for the cobbled together garbage that it is.
Second, Microsoft isn't completely evil, thanks to good hardware such as the Explorer mouse, which holds the place of honor on my desk; the good gaming hardware at good prices (the original M$ Gamepad, the first FF Joystick that worked w/ many games); and the timely support that they give to new hardware, thanks to their marketing efforts. Thanks to the >75% margin of Windows 9x on desktops, most hardware manufacturers include a windows driver, while few put linux drivers inside the box.
While Linux may be technically superior, Windows is still the only operating system that can give rise to a good game of Half-Life: Counterstrike. (Lest you count the dedicated server for linux)
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Does freecell granny need security? Most home-computer users I know run programs like Solitaire, Freecell, and Hearts. A quasi-stable and secure distribution like Mandrake is overkill for their market, security wise.
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I'm a nerd, and Mandrake matters because it, more than most other distros, will get Linux into every home. They release more often than Corel, and offer a nicer system. Their release is more open to somebody who messes around, yet is still easy to use. If I were to recomment Linux to anyone who isn't hard-core linux is great, I'd recommend Mandrake.
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Mandrake is damn cool. It's not as cool as an installer as RH6.2, and it's not as fast, but I could actually trust somebody else in my family to install it without hosing anything up.
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Why wouldn't Mandrake wait a while for the new kernel - they just released 7.1 about a month ago, so they can stand to cool down between announcing releases. Sure this new one is just a beta, but they should wait for more than a couple new things.
Debian waits for a year to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.2, so Mandrake can wait for a couple months, right?
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This patent-swapping shouldn't be too much of a problem for intel's high end chips - a Athsoe or Cruthlon (name fusion BAD) wouldn't pose a serious threat to Intel's chips because the technology still has limits. Now, if Intel's entire market was low-power chips, they might be screwed.
However, they are diversified and have other products that they can fall back on, such as crappy HomePNA networks (<100BaseT BAD), eyeball USB cameras, the Intel@play microscope Hasbro sold for a while a year or so ago, network cards, on-board video cards, and other things I don't care to enumerate. Don't forget that Intel still has loyalty from enough OEMs that AMD would have a hard time breaking into Intel's entire market share for chips.
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Could this mean that we could finally get athlon laptops that have decent battery life? Insanely fast Crusoes? Lord only knows what a low-power-consumption chip with a 200mHz backside cache could do for your Game Boy or MP3 player.
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Most games don't list all the other resolutions. If you have a GeForce 2, you can't play Homeworld or Half-Life in 1280x960 if it runs basically the same with a better view at 1280x1024. GeForce 2s still support 1280x960, but with that kind of video card, why not go all the way up to what your monitor supports? If you have a crazy high-res monitor, you're doubling that res, though.
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I use 3DS MAX to model things and create videos for school projects. Unfortunately, I have to use the school's copy because it is out of the price range of somebody who works in the summer on minimum wage. If I could own my own copy, I would have something to use when I stop going to school.
Since it's open source, it had better not crash as much as MAX R3 does, which barely runs on my system with 128M of ram. And it will run in Linux, because almost all open source programs do.
Kinetix should be congratulated for this excellent effort at bringing excellent 3D animation and modeling to the common man.
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An SLI interpreter could only work really well on a closed system that can't be modified... say an Internet search site, Nintendo 64 et. al., or an Internet appliance. This is because these systems are unlikely to have extensions that change a whole lot from time to time. If your system has scads of extensions that don't obey rules, like in *nix, Windows, and MacOS, you'll run into problems like naming of files, locations of these files, and more.
If you look in some Linux man pages, you find that some essential files have different locations, names, and command line options. In Windows, I throw my documents on the D: drive, while Windows wants them in the C:\My Documents directory. On the Mac, you can drag and drop a folder full of executable files to another location without warnings or apparent problems. This would drive an SLI interpreter crazy.
If the filename is automatically deduced from the contents, and properly indexed, an SLI could work on one of these open systems. (I'm not referring to open source, but to the fact that its' internal workings are somewhat modifiable.) But what smart Windows user keeps the Fast Find extension running constantly? Automatic systems don't like interference, and open systems thrive by it. SLI will only work reliably on video games, internet appliances, and web site indices.
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Was this the Dilbert TV show? Actually, that could be a problem. I propose hacking the defunct Iridium network and using them as ramming ships to knock all the other worthless satellites out.
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Because I live near KSC, I hope for my health's sake that any Russian rockets they launch don't blow up like ours did about 4 years ago. There were all these crazy safety precautions, and we weren't supposed to go outside. If our 'superior American capitalist' technology is like that, lord knows what the Russian rockets that haven't had the benefit of Darwanian competition will do.
I'll keep watching my backyard for debris.
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If I buy from independent labels, I avoid the $16 price, and I get better music as well. However, if you are one of those freaks who only listens to songs that get lots of radio play, you're stuck there.
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Another way to support the artist is to shun the big record companies like BMG and others. Instead, support small independent record companies like the nice folks at Asian Man Records and other companies that push bands that get almost no radio play and are not sold by the fat money grubbing hogs of big music publishers.
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Tympani??!! Bwah - go for the really giant bass drum. Actually, in our marching band at school, we had a big pirate ship that shot nerf(tm) balls out of cannons with compressed air. They weren't very loud, though.
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That wouldn't work in reality, but the Internet is just different enough to make it feasible.
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US Cash - always good, always accepted, almost always works in soda machines.
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Windows is installed on most every computer sold, and mostly because people like the way it works with their games. If the computer manufacturers give consumers the option of Linux or dual-booting, not only do they lose the gaming aspect(not in dual booting, though), but M$ charges a lot more for the Win98/SE/ME/whatever license included.
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Unless something commercially viable happens in Africa, they are unlikely to get Internet and Linxu access in the near future.
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Second, Microsoft isn't completely evil, thanks to good hardware such as the Explorer mouse, which holds the place of honor on my desk; the good gaming hardware at good prices (the original M$ Gamepad, the first FF Joystick that worked w/ many games); and the timely support that they give to new hardware, thanks to their marketing efforts. Thanks to the >75% margin of Windows 9x on desktops, most hardware manufacturers include a windows driver, while few put linux drivers inside the box.
While Linux may be technically superior, Windows is still the only operating system that can give rise to a good game of Half-Life: Counterstrike. (Lest you count the dedicated server for linux)
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Debian waits for a year to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.2, so Mandrake can wait for a couple months, right?
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However, they are diversified and have other products that they can fall back on, such as crappy HomePNA networks (<100BaseT BAD), eyeball USB cameras, the Intel@play microscope Hasbro sold for a while a year or so ago, network cards, on-board video cards, and other things I don't care to enumerate. Don't forget that Intel still has loyalty from enough OEMs that AMD would have a hard time breaking into Intel's entire market share for chips.
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Since it's open source, it had better not crash as much as MAX R3 does, which barely runs on my system with 128M of ram. And it will run in Linux, because almost all open source programs do.
Kinetix should be congratulated for this excellent effort at bringing excellent 3D animation and modeling to the common man.
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If you look in some Linux man pages, you find that some essential files have different locations, names, and command line options. In Windows, I throw my documents on the D: drive, while Windows wants them in the C:\My Documents directory. On the Mac, you can drag and drop a folder full of executable files to another location without warnings or apparent problems. This would drive an SLI interpreter crazy.
If the filename is automatically deduced from the contents, and properly indexed, an SLI could work on one of these open systems. (I'm not referring to open source, but to the fact that its' internal workings are somewhat modifiable.) But what smart Windows user keeps the Fast Find extension running constantly? Automatic systems don't like interference, and open systems thrive by it. SLI will only work reliably on video games, internet appliances, and web site indices.
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I'll keep watching my backyard for debris.
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