Hear hear! I do hope, though, these ARM-x86 mongrels will help some people convert away from Windows. At least the laptops that you can boot into a light mode, instead of just running Linux in the back end.
As far as I understand, purpose of a Netbook is having Windows or Linux with a huge set of software selection/support (thanks to x86) instead of a Smart device.
This really only applies to Windows. The huge selection of Linux software is open source. Opera is the odd one out, being closed source for Linux.
I'm running Linux on x86, x86-64, PPC and ARM, and thanks to open source I can run pretty much any software I want on any of these platforms. I'm running the same things on embedded appliances, desktops/laptops and supercomputers. Of course, some things are not practical on the embedded ones. But this just means I can choose the platform on actual technical merits like memory and CPU speed, rather than the availability of closed binaries.
Red Hat 6.0 in August/September 1999. I don't remember the very first things I did, but after about a week I recompiled the kernel succesfully. I also recall thinking that, during that one week with Linux, I learned more about computers than I'd done during the many years with DOS and Windows before that.
-no one has quite figured out why life has the handedness it does
I recall a theory that it is due to the slight asymmetry in weak interaction, but I've forgotten the exact mechanism. This asymmetry exists basically everywhere in the universe, but as life is self-replicating, it can amplify the effect to a great extent. Here's the first reference found via quick googling:
For most PDFs I use xpdf, but for longer texts I prefer Acroread despite the obvious flaws. So far I haven't found any other PDF reader for Linux that does subpixel font rendering. Are there any Free readers that don't smudge up the fonts?
One really annoying thing about Evo 2.0 is that people that should be having more kids (kind, intelligent, financially responsible) are not but those that should not (lazy, stupid people, with anachronistic religious views) are pumping them out like it's their job to overpopulate the world.
IMHO this is still bad old natural selection. We have created a society for the lazy and the stupid, so in this environment the intelligent ones are not the fittest ones. Evolution doesn't have a goal, even though it would be great for some people if it did have one of intelligence.
In other words, build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
What's wrong with "data rate" and "bandwidth" as different words for different things?
If this is how language evolves, I predict that in a few hundred years we will only use one word for everything, and its meaning must be inferred from the context.
Your post is confusing, but it makes sense when 'then' is replaced by 'than'. Those words have a very different meaning, and in this case it completely alters the meaning of the sentence.
Actually, the uncertainty principle comes from the pure mathematics of Fourier transforms, and applies to all kinds of waves. For example, the kick of a drum is well defined in time, and contains a wide range of frequencies. An ideal sine wave, on the other hand, has only one frequency, and extends infinitely in time.
It just happens in QM that the momentum of a particle is defined by its wavelength. A narrow range of wavelengths corresponds to a wide range of positions, and vice versa. There are other pairs of complementary quantities, such as time and energy. In each pair, one is the Fourier transform of the other, and you cannot escape the maths without a fundamental redefinition of QM.
I for one don't welcome this particular acronymous coward;)
Linux (and open source in general) is great because you can switch architectures much more freely. You can make choices based on technical merit, instead of being stuck on x86 due to some closed application.
For example, a few months ago, the power supply in my x86 server crashed. I mounted its hard drive with a USB adapter into an iMac, emerged the requisite servers, and continued serving the same content from the same partitions.
To me, MLC has a conceptual problem of going against the fine tradition of binary computing, which is all about data integrity. Why don't we go back to analog computers for even higher densities, while we're at it.
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Hear hear! I do hope, though, these ARM-x86 mongrels will help some people convert away from Windows. At least the laptops that you can boot into a light mode, instead of just running Linux in the back end.
In case you prefer something more than a preconfigured appliance: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Main_Page
Debian is also available, in fact it officially supports devices like this.
As far as I understand, purpose of a Netbook is having Windows or Linux with a huge set of software selection/support (thanks to x86) instead of a Smart device.
This really only applies to Windows. The huge selection of Linux software is open source. Opera is the odd one out, being closed source for Linux.
I'm running Linux on x86, x86-64, PPC and ARM, and thanks to open source I can run pretty much any software I want on any of these platforms. I'm running the same things on embedded appliances, desktops/laptops and supercomputers. Of course, some things are not practical on the embedded ones. But this just means I can choose the platform on actual technical merits like memory and CPU speed, rather than the availability of closed binaries.
Red Hat 6.0 in August/September 1999. I don't remember the very first things I did, but after about a week I recompiled the kernel succesfully. I also recall thinking that, during that one week with Linux, I learned more about computers than I'd done during the many years with DOS and Windows before that.
-no one has quite figured out why life has the handedness it does
I recall a theory that it is due to the slight asymmetry in weak interaction, but I've forgotten the exact mechanism. This asymmetry exists basically everywhere in the universe, but as life is self-replicating, it can amplify the effect to a great extent. Here's the first reference found via quick googling:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0743577n4716u23j/
For most PDFs I use xpdf, but for longer texts I prefer Acroread despite the obvious flaws. So far I haven't found any other PDF reader for Linux that does subpixel font rendering. Are there any Free readers that don't smudge up the fonts?
just do it
One really annoying thing about Evo 2.0 is that people that should be having more kids (kind, intelligent, financially responsible) are not but those that should not (lazy, stupid people, with anachronistic religious views) are pumping them out like it's their job to overpopulate the world.
IMHO this is still bad old natural selection. We have created a society for the lazy and the stupid, so in this environment the intelligent ones are not the fittest ones. Evolution doesn't have a goal, even though it would be great for some people if it did have one of intelligence.
In other words, build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
What's wrong with "data rate" and "bandwidth" as different words for different things?
If this is how language evolves, I predict that in a few hundred years we will only use one word for everything, and its meaning must be inferred from the context.
I've never understood the spectator part of any real sport either.
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Your post is confusing, but it makes sense when 'then' is replaced by 'than'. Those words have a very different meaning, and in this case it completely alters the meaning of the sentence.
Links schminks. W3M is where it's @.
Actually, the uncertainty principle comes from the pure mathematics of Fourier transforms, and applies to all kinds of waves. For example, the kick of a drum is well defined in time, and contains a wide range of frequencies. An ideal sine wave, on the other hand, has only one frequency, and extends infinitely in time.
It just happens in QM that the momentum of a particle is defined by its wavelength. A narrow range of wavelengths corresponds to a wide range of positions, and vice versa. There are other pairs of complementary quantities, such as time and energy. In each pair, one is the Fourier transform of the other, and you cannot escape the maths without a fundamental redefinition of QM.
Erm shouldn't fancy stuff like 3d acceleration be handled by plug-ins not browsers? I don't even think putting ogg in the browser was a good idea!
Why not put it in both? I mean, you should not put all your oggs in one basket.
Its not intuitive, its just what you're used to
What's the difference?
She sells C shells from the C source.
Yes, the http daemon was called WSPlug.
I for one don't welcome this particular acronymous coward ;)
Linux (and open source in general) is great because you can switch architectures much more freely. You can make choices based on technical merit, instead of being stuck on x86 due to some closed application.
For example, a few months ago, the power supply in my x86 server crashed. I mounted its hard drive with a USB adapter into an iMac, emerged the requisite servers, and continued serving the same content from the same partitions.
And that's why they call it "GUI".
My first webserver was a 486 laptop with 8 MB of memory, running Windows 3.1. (you insensitive clod)
What a bunch of geeks. You really need to get laden.
Thanks. I stand corrected. This doesn't make me any happier about MLC flash, though.
To me, MLC has a conceptual problem of going against the fine tradition of binary computing, which is all about data integrity. Why don't we go back to analog computers for even higher densities, while we're at it.
The cluster computing store will have a Moshe Bar, the quantum mechanic store will have the h Bar, and the meteorology store will just have a Bar.