Suppose someone creates a very minimalist linux distro which includes a very good package management system. Suppose this package management system includes nearly all popular linux software packages.
Now suppose it were rather easy for anyone to install any number of those packages, bundle them together into one meta-package keyword, and call that a distro.
Then Linux would be as simple as installing the minimalist distro, then doing "apt-get install smartphone-system" for a distro customized for smartphones, or "media-system" for a distro customized for mediacenter PCs, etc.
I think this would be a superior option to having many completely independent distributions, and it would allow for faster innovation and easier support.
Satellite technology isn't interesting from a political standpoint. It's launcher technology that is interesting, because that's the tricky part in making ICBMs.
Being unwilling to live on seed ships does not at all prohibit colonizing the galaxy. Suspended embryos (or unfertilized gametes) could certainly be sent on seed ships and raised at a destination by robots.
So, assuming all life has self-replication as a core instinct, the lack of FTL travel or the inhibition to accepting life on a seed ship is not a barrier.
Ever hear of supply and demand? Increase the supply, and the cost goes down.
The H1B program, by its very existence lowers wages for US citizens. Lower wages also discourage US citizens from getting higher education, and discourages US businesses from training their employees.
H1B is not innocent. The people who benefit are those who are not Americans, or the wealthy few who own the largest US companies and profit from lower wages.
Well, I wasn't running adblock plus against slashdot until I loaded this story and got the "Barack the magical negro" ad. Sorry, slashdot. You get no more ad views from me.
I run Vista 64 and have no problems. I'm not sure what you think people are "resisting." No compelling reason to upgrade? Fine, I'll buy that. But "resisting?" There is nothing to resist!
The only thing in your statement that is meaningful is that the user would be less likely to notice performance problems if his data is being encrypted using the drive's firmware--IF the hypothetical virus is written crudely.
Well, yeah. But no virus writer would use this new system, because he wants the system to be bootable to deliver his ransom message. So, basically, your entire hypothetical situation is absurd.
You can already buy eee PC 900A laptops for $200 at BestBuy. Those suckers have 9 inch screens, Atom processors, and a gig of RAM. So who needs this OLPC stuff?
For disk encryption, CPU IO is more of a problem than processing speed.
Crypto pipes everything through the CPU, blowing away cache and interrupting other tasks. You also can't use DMA to load from disk to RAM when doing CPU crypto.
That's a meaningless question. A trojan can encrypt using software or hardware. This technology doesn't make any difference to trojans whatsoever. Your data is just as encrypted.
This is why the word "owned" is used when a trojan takes over. It can do anything it wants with your data.
Get out of your mom's basement and work in real IT.
It is incredibly important for IT departments to be able to encrypt users' data. It is also important that those companies can prevent users from disabling the crypto.
And making the drives valueless to thieves? That's just icing on the cake.
IBD is almost certainly influenced by gut bacteria. Once intenstinal bacteria are fully understood, it would be reasonable to expect either a cure or a highly effective treatment for IBD.
Digg is not a social network site (like facebook and myspace) though it tries to be. It's just a link voting/discussing site, as is slashdot, but it lacks the tech focus.
The best description of digg is "yesterday's reddit links, plus youtube-quality comments".
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Only necessary kernel modules would be installed with such a package management system. There would be no need to install all 30MB of them.
Maybe not. At least, not exactly.
Suppose someone creates a very minimalist linux distro which includes a very good package management system. Suppose this package management system includes nearly all popular linux software packages.
Now suppose it were rather easy for anyone to install any number of those packages, bundle them together into one meta-package keyword, and call that a distro.
Then Linux would be as simple as installing the minimalist distro, then doing "apt-get install smartphone-system" for a distro customized for smartphones, or "media-system" for a distro customized for mediacenter PCs, etc.
I think this would be a superior option to having many completely independent distributions, and it would allow for faster innovation and easier support.
Satellite technology isn't interesting from a political standpoint. It's launcher technology that is interesting, because that's the tricky part in making ICBMs.
Here's what you have wrong:
Being unwilling to live on seed ships does not at all prohibit colonizing the galaxy. Suspended embryos (or unfertilized gametes) could certainly be sent on seed ships and raised at a destination by robots.
So, assuming all life has self-replication as a core instinct, the lack of FTL travel or the inhibition to accepting life on a seed ship is not a barrier.
Ever hear of supply and demand? Increase the supply, and the cost goes down.
The H1B program, by its very existence lowers wages for US citizens. Lower wages also discourage US citizens from getting higher education, and discourages US businesses from training their employees.
H1B is not innocent. The people who benefit are those who are not Americans, or the wealthy few who own the largest US companies and profit from lower wages.
Well, I wasn't running adblock plus against slashdot until I loaded this story and got the "Barack the magical negro" ad. Sorry, slashdot. You get no more ad views from me.
Hate to break it to you, but the commodities bubble has already gone bust. Dollars and Yen are the only things going up in value these days.
... except at night.
I run Vista 64 and have no problems. I'm not sure what you think people are "resisting." No compelling reason to upgrade? Fine, I'll buy that. But "resisting?" There is nothing to resist!
The media spun this as if it makes Dell look bad. It doesn't. It actually makes Putin look insecure because he felt the need to lash out like that.
The only thing in your statement that is meaningful is that the user would be less likely to notice performance problems if his data is being encrypted using the drive's firmware--IF the hypothetical virus is written crudely.
Well, yeah. But no virus writer would use this new system, because he wants the system to be bootable to deliver his ransom message. So, basically, your entire hypothetical situation is absurd.
That's $130, actually. I hope you don't work in finance ;-)
I'm sure there are many (most?) who would prefer the performance capabilities of a netbook to the low-power and durability of OLPC.
But you're right, people without access to power or even generators would prefer the OLPC.
AJAX is not the be-all of internet applications. There is also Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight.
I find most sorts of apps work fine with standard AJAX controls, but Flex isn't hard to learn if you need more sophisticated UI in your internet app.
$199 eee 900A at BBY.
I ended up paying more for the Samsung NC10 (8hr battery, stereo bluetooth), but I'm not a third world kid, so I can afford to be picky.
You can already buy eee PC 900A laptops for $200 at BestBuy. Those suckers have 9 inch screens, Atom processors, and a gig of RAM. So who needs this OLPC stuff?
I'm not sure it would be worth it: coming home to a nice, clean home that smells like burning nachos....
For disk encryption, CPU IO is more of a problem than processing speed.
Crypto pipes everything through the CPU, blowing away cache and interrupting other tasks. You also can't use DMA to load from disk to RAM when doing CPU crypto.
It's about IO.
That's a meaningless question. A trojan can encrypt using software or hardware. This technology doesn't make any difference to trojans whatsoever. Your data is just as encrypted.
This is why the word "owned" is used when a trojan takes over. It can do anything it wants with your data.
Get out of your mom's basement and work in real IT.
It is incredibly important for IT departments to be able to encrypt users' data. It is also important that those companies can prevent users from disabling the crypto.
And making the drives valueless to thieves? That's just icing on the cake.
This is good stuff.
That's just sophistry. Every animal is "physiologically perfect?" Only if your definition of perfect is meaningless...
IBD is almost certainly influenced by gut bacteria. Once intenstinal bacteria are fully understood, it would be reasonable to expect either a cure or a highly effective treatment for IBD.
You say that like it matters.... ?
Personally, I'm glad the industry is moving toward using standard international units. This is 2GB and 1800 GiB.
The silly thing about the situation is that some people prefer to use the wrong units for no good reason other than tradition.
Digg is not a social network site (like facebook and myspace) though it tries to be. It's just a link voting/discussing site, as is slashdot, but it lacks the tech focus.
The best description of digg is "yesterday's reddit links, plus youtube-quality comments".