"Once again, we are seeing the fruits of the two key commitments of the Human Genome Project: to make the sequence freely available and to produce a quality finished sequence."
How long would it take for politicians to understand that? Again, this shows that innovation can only come from having information/knowledge freely available.
Just wishing that we had more enlightened politicians..... is this just a fat dream?
Shit, I thought it was a feature....
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Man, when I found two weeks ago that I can remotely control my XP machine and appliances, I thought: "Yeah, finally, something from MS that is usefull". When I do tech support, I don't have to go the user's cubicle anymore, I can just remotely fix the problem.
And now, this is a security hole. Man, nowaday, you can't know for sure if it's a bug or a feature anymore.
Well, what can you expect when the school computers run Windows? I know, I'm typing from a computer lab at San Jose State University.
No, I'm not a student here. I just drove my wife for her final exam, coz she can't drive due to her surgery last week.
I wandered around, and found a computer lab "donated by Microsoft". There are about 80 machines here, every single one running NT. Guess what is the development tool? Yeah, VB 6.0. And the MS Office package, WinQBS, and SPSS. I think this is for student development work, as I see people working on VB things. This is a bad trend, as these people will go out and only think that MS is the only software company.
Besides, every machine has a 17" ViewSonic monitor, but the resolution is set at 800x600, with 60Hz refresh rate. And the admin privilege is locked, so you can change it. I bet the admin is a MCSE.
Nope, that does not help. I turned off AA, remove all the applets (except the battery monitoring one), run rxvt instead of Kterm, only have two desktops, and only one app at a time. And I have no unnecessary daemons (sendamil, ftpd,....), it just run enough to bring a bare machine up. And KDE still makes it crawl.
And oh, for those flamers who said I just need to do some research because AA is already in GTK, blah blah blah, well yeah, I knew that. But I want to be able to turn it on/off thru Gnome Control, and apply it to the whole environment.
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I run Linux on my Sony VAIO 505FX (the first generation ultraslim) with 96MB of memory, and the highest res is only 800x600 (I know, I wish it could do better). I find the AA text from KDE to be a really nice feature to have, as it makes everything much smoother. However, KDE is gigantic bloat, and it makes my little vaio crawl.
This machine is quite zippy running Gnome+Sawfish. And I'd wish to have AA fonts on Gnome too. Is this a hi-pri feature for 2.0? Can't wait to see that.
You know, when I look for an apartment, I look for something that does not have a pizza store near by. And I love to order pizza delivery from those chains that claim I can get it for free, if they can't deliver it within 30 minutes.
I've actually got quite a few pizza this way. If this NP solution helps to speed up pizza delivery, I don't I would like that, at all.
A lot of obscure laws have been passed, and the majority of the population are not even aware of their existence. However, the technical community is watching the legislation quite closely. And we seem to understand the potential impact and risk on freedom and privacy. But the technical community has a very small influence on politics, and seems almost clueless in "playing political games".
How can we leverage the knowledge of the community to help educate politicians and the general population in terms of technologies, and the impact of the proposed bills? Briefly, how can we help better, not just sending letters to congress people or senators?
When I was attending McGill University (in Montreal), we saw addiction problems among the CS students too. However, it was not entirely for games. Some people are simply addicted to online chat (irc), gopher (can't believe this!), or just ftp (they just hopped from one ftp site to another, and d/l whatever they see. What's so fun about this?).
We saw those rich kids who can afford 32MB of memory (at a time when 16MB cost $1400, and the standard config was 1MB) on their brand new 486DX2, killing their time away in front of their computers playing games. Quite a few of them never graduated. I personnally know one who has been expulsed by the school, as his grade was simply FUBAR.
Anyways, those nice sysadmins were trying to help. If you know that you are an addicted kind, you can let the sysadmin know, and they can block you for a specific period of time (at your request). That only blocks the thing you are addicted to (e.g. irc), but you can still use the school computer for anything else.
Obviously, this measure was not enough to save those rich kids who had their nice PC at home, with good internet access of their own.
I'm not too sure about the reasons of opening up the source now, do they think they can get anything back, or generate a flood of "renewed interest" in it?
Besides a bit of values from a computer historical perspective, what else? Ok, maybe some embedded device still use the code, but I don't see any new project is going to go into that direction, when you have Linux and *BSD.
Ok, that micro turbine is efficient in generating power. The problem is in the heat that it generates. Can you re-use that extra heat and convert it into another source of power? Let's say we wrap a few of these babies inside some box (the size of normal batterie), and use not only the power generated by the turbines, and also use the heat to generate extra power. Then combine multiple power sources into the output.
A lot of posters said:"Bull, this is just a PR stunt for RH. How's this going to help the kids? There's education softwares for Linux."
Hold on, why do you think kids nowadays need those stupid edu softwares? Kids I've seen have been doing really serious stuff, not just learning ABC on their computers.
From the number of posts that stated the guy screwed himself for being negligent on packaging, I see that UPS and other shipping companies have done a great job in conditioning people in accepting shit like this.
Let's face it. The guy paid them to handle the shipment. Isn't this the responsibility of UPS to deliver the box in piece, like when their took it?
I just don't buy the fact that they took your money to do the work, they screwed, now it's your fault, because you didn't pay us more for extra insurance. So many people have been conditioned to accept shit like this. Extra insurance is just extra profit for these companies. Do you provide you extra services for that?
Now, if I run a delivery company, and I want people to pay me extra money to fatten my profit, well, I may just screw a few customers who didn't pay me extra money, and then say:"Too bad, your fault". That's really extortion, my friends.
Imagine you board on a train or airplane, and you arrive at your destination with a limb less, or a thorax has been crushed during the travel. And the company says:"Too bad, you didn't package yourself properly".
Yeah, fuck, if I run a delivery company, I would screw a few of customers like that too. Then I declare: "Well, that's your fault. You should have pay us more for insurance".
I bet there's a way to recognize which box has extra insurance, and which one does not. So, screw only those that do not have insurance. If you do this a couple of times, then everyone will have extra insurance. This is like extra profit in their pocket.
I just buy the fact that they took your money to ship your product, and it's your fault if they screw. What kind of logic is that?
Why can't we have a very simple but intelligent suggestion for newbie kernel config?
For example, the utility starts by doing a hardware diagnostics first, to see what does the system has. Then ask a few simple questions on the normal usage patterns, like
- Do you have any plug-and-play hardwares that you plug in on run-time?
- what kind of pnp hardwares?
- do you do multimedia?
-...
Then base on the user answers, just come up with an "optimal" configuration, and ask for the user's approval (you may want to tell the user the reason behind this config, e.g. put the sound module as loadable module, because the user said s/he is using sound only once a while). Then compile the kernel for optimal performance for the user's specific hardware configuration and usage patterns.
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How long would it take for politicians to understand that? Again, this shows that innovation can only come from having information/knowledge freely available.
Just wishing that we had more enlightened politicians..... is this just a fat dream?
And now, this is a security hole. Man, nowaday, you can't know for sure if it's a bug or a feature anymore.
This is a place no high speed internet connection is available at all. Pathetic, isn't it? You wouldn't think this is the heart of Silicon Valley.
No, I'm not a student here. I just drove my wife for her final exam, coz she can't drive due to her surgery last week.
I wandered around, and found a computer lab "donated by Microsoft". There are about 80 machines here, every single one running NT. Guess what is the development tool? Yeah, VB 6.0. And the MS Office package, WinQBS, and SPSS. I think this is for student development work, as I see people working on VB things. This is a bad trend, as these people will go out and only think that MS is the only software company.
Besides, every machine has a 17" ViewSonic monitor, but the resolution is set at 800x600, with 60Hz refresh rate. And the admin privilege is locked, so you can change it. I bet the admin is a MCSE.
I'm going to get out of here before I vomit.
And oh, for those flamers who said I just need to do some research because AA is already in GTK, blah blah blah, well yeah, I knew that. But I want to be able to turn it on/off thru Gnome Control, and apply it to the whole environment.
Mars is the future. Humankind will be populating Mars in a couple of years. Don't let the opportunity pass through. We have a list of prime real estates for sale on Mars.
For more information, please contact
Mars Development Corporation
representative: CowboyNeal
I run Linux on my Sony VAIO 505FX (the first generation ultraslim) with 96MB of memory, and the highest res is only 800x600 (I know, I wish it could do better). I find the AA text from KDE to be a really nice feature to have, as it makes everything much smoother. However, KDE is gigantic bloat, and it makes my little vaio crawl.
This machine is quite zippy running Gnome+Sawfish. And I'd wish to have AA fonts on Gnome too. Is this a hi-pri feature for 2.0? Can't wait to see that.
I've actually got quite a few pizza this way. If this NP solution helps to speed up pizza delivery, I don't I would like that, at all.
Publish it as soon as possible, get credit for it, and rack up the monetary prize, don't you think?
Boy, that'll be fun!
How can we leverage the knowledge of the community to help educate politicians and the general population in terms of technologies, and the impact of the proposed bills? Briefly, how can we help better, not just sending letters to congress people or senators?
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Who can games addicts can't be a "hero" too?
We saw those rich kids who can afford 32MB of memory (at a time when 16MB cost $1400, and the standard config was 1MB) on their brand new 486DX2, killing their time away in front of their computers playing games. Quite a few of them never graduated. I personnally know one who has been expulsed by the school, as his grade was simply FUBAR.
Anyways, those nice sysadmins were trying to help. If you know that you are an addicted kind, you can let the sysadmin know, and they can block you for a specific period of time (at your request). That only blocks the thing you are addicted to (e.g. irc), but you can still use the school computer for anything else.
Obviously, this measure was not enough to save those rich kids who had their nice PC at home, with good internet access of their own.
Some of friends who got cable modem thru @Home were laughing at me, telling me to catch up with the rest of the world, blah blah blah...
I guess I just got the last laugh, eh?
Besides a bit of values from a computer historical perspective, what else? Ok, maybe some embedded device still use the code, but I don't see any new project is going to go into that direction, when you have Linux and *BSD.
Or is this too complicated?
Hold on, why do you think kids nowadays need those stupid edu softwares? Kids I've seen have been doing really serious stuff, not just learning ABC on their computers.
Let's face it. The guy paid them to handle the shipment. Isn't this the responsibility of UPS to deliver the box in piece, like when their took it?
I just don't buy the fact that they took your money to do the work, they screwed, now it's your fault, because you didn't pay us more for extra insurance. So many people have been conditioned to accept shit like this. Extra insurance is just extra profit for these companies. Do you provide you extra services for that?
Now, if I run a delivery company, and I want people to pay me extra money to fatten my profit, well, I may just screw a few customers who didn't pay me extra money, and then say:"Too bad, your fault". That's really extortion, my friends.
Imagine you board on a train or airplane, and you arrive at your destination with a limb less, or a thorax has been crushed during the travel. And the company says:"Too bad, you didn't package yourself properly".
I bet there's a way to recognize which box has extra insurance, and which one does not. So, screw only those that do not have insurance. If you do this a couple of times, then everyone will have extra insurance. This is like extra profit in their pocket.
I just buy the fact that they took your money to ship your product, and it's your fault if they screw. What kind of logic is that?
Why can't we have a very simple but intelligent suggestion for newbie kernel config?
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For example, the utility starts by doing a hardware diagnostics first, to see what does the system has. Then ask a few simple questions on the normal usage patterns, like
- Do you have any plug-and-play hardwares that you plug in on run-time?
- what kind of pnp hardwares?
- do you do multimedia?
-
Then base on the user answers, just come up with an "optimal" configuration, and ask for the user's approval (you may want to tell the user the reason behind this config, e.g. put the sound module as loadable module, because the user said s/he is using sound only once a while). Then compile the kernel for optimal performance for the user's specific hardware configuration and usage patterns.
Now that you are suddenly famous, do you see a lot of girls flocking to you yet?