And for those where only open source will do, check out OpenBIOS, a open implementation of OpenFirmware (IEEE 1275-1994). Note I believe that it is still a work in progress.
Who gets included on this CD and who don't? Could it be possible to make this fair?
The simplest approach would be a sponsorship approach. Basically if you want to be on it, you pay a certain fee. After all you don't expect the OS manufacturers to give you something for free. I had thought of the big link approach, but then you would probably be using the default browser for that and you would need to have at least a DSL to make the downloads worthwhile.
Apple also neglets to add third-party software that is competitive to its own on the computer. Without looking at the issue closer I would suspect reasons for not including them would be effort, support, QA and maybe even not wanting to give the competition an edge.
What I would like to see, whether this be Microsoft, Apple or any other computer company, is a third-party showcase CD bundled with the OS. The CD would include a showcase of software available for the OS. The content would be the sort included with your average computer magazine. I would suggest that the third-parties on the CD should subsidise the cost of the CD, since they are being done a favour by be being included. Its not necessarily a perfect solution, but it is one that could be of interest to some people. Of course if you make a 'temporary' installation of these OSs you won't necessarily have this CD, but then the choice of yours for purchasing a permananent CD. Maybe the competitors could get together and have shops include this CD with all new computers. The OS manufacturers needn't be the ones with the initiative.
I have an Epson Deskjet 842C and for most printing I simply print in draft mode and grayscale. Then I noticed that the other day, despite this setting, the printer is using magenta when it prints in grayscale, along with the black. Since when do I need colour to print grays!?
Flash is smooth, it allows you to do a lot of fancy stuff, like annoying ads and badly designed web sites, but say sweet good bye to your CPU. What I mean by that is anytime I visit a page with flash I see a 10-20% increase in CPU usage per embeded flash. In some cases I have had my CPU usage at 80% until I closed all web page with flash in it. For this reason I ask Macromedia to please be considerate with my CPU. Maybe we need an option to be able to do a 'nice' on plug-ins?
If it makes a difference, my browser is Mozilla. If you want an example of CPU usage and Flash visit http://movies.yahoo.com/oscars/
no - wired phones. CELL phones didn't exist then!! Sure, but that sounds like the argument for adding 'electronically' in front of some every day process and then trying to claim a patent.
Reading the replies my posting got, it looks like there were things I hadn't though of such as vote buying - in fact it hadn't even crossed my mind. Maybe I'm just hoping for an ideal world? Then again in an ideal world we wouldn't need to vote since we would have an ideal government.
The other thing that I get from reading the replies, is sometimes trying to solve a problem with technology just creates more issues.
With all this talk about potential election fraud, with these electronic voting machines, I was wondering whether a certain idea could work:
When you fill in your voting form you get a receipt with a record of your voting and a unique number (generated on the spot). At any time you could visit a validation web site, where you would type in the number you were given and check whether the entry matches what you have. Sure you could type in a random number and see someone else's record, but since its not tied to any personal info, it wouldn't be much of an issue. If at any time there is an inconsistency, you have proof in your hands.
I thought FAAC was a non-lossy compression format? In that case I surprised that it rated so badly. In fact thinking about it, maybe they should have played the orginal CD as a control and indicated how that rated.
When developing a game, in general you are going to be working on the sort of game you would like to play. Since guys make up the vast majority of games developers they are going to make the sort of games that they like to play. In order to get games that interest girls then you are going to need to have female programmers that have the same sort of taste that the rest of women do. After all said and done, what games do women enjoy? Is there any evidence that these sort of games don't exist?
What I have found is that the girls, that I know, fall into two categories: the girls who play games and those who don't. The girls who don't play games wouldn't play any computer game, simply because the idea of playing a computer game is not their idea of fun. The other girls I know, who play games have a taste as varied as any guy out there. My sister manages to beat me at a number of games when I play against her. I also know a fair number of guys who don't like playing games like Counter-Strike, because there is not enough strategy involved.
I wonder how much the media is to blame for these stereotypes and how much the minority of guys who are scared at being challenged by a girl at anything are to blame for scaring women off?
Bush's science adviser, John Marburger, called the report biased and said he was troubled that some very prestigious scientists had signed the statement.
I do believe that's the point.... and the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around the Earth.
From what I can tell there has been a big trend to move to lower powered devices, while at the same time look for more processing. The x86 is a poor player in this field, since compared to other chips on the market it consumes a lot of power. The two big chips seem to the PowerPC and the ARM chip. Both are RISC chips. My perspective is mainly based from looking at PDAs and the direction that game consoles are going.
When you don't have too much money you buy the toy you can afford, when you are comfortable you buy the toy you like.
Mac users are probably seen as people with a good education and a good income (see parent post's link), because you need something that brings in enough money to excuse the expense. Its like any luxury toy, they may be a minority in terms of what people buy, but a lot of people want one. Other examples (cars this time): Mercedes, BMW, Cadilac and Ferrari. SGI also makes nice boxes, but the OS just doesn't have the same finish and feel, as OS X.
But when I listen to music on my iPod, I am listening to music that I have bought. I can't be listening to my CDs AND my iPod at the same time (I could but I wouldn't want to), so what am I taking away from the artist?
This is the country that already has some pretty high media levies based on the assumption that illegal copies are being made. It's currently $0.21 (data CD) and $0.77 (audio CD), but there are proposed increases, including an $840 levy on each 40GB iPod! ($0.021/MB)
I am confused. Am I getting fined in advance, so that I can download or does the industry want it all ways?
What ever you do, don't let the code influence your projects. The last thing we want is Microsoft joining in with SCO and accusing the open source community of using MS code in an open source project such as Linux. Sure you probably wouldn't want to with its reputation, but I am sure there would be those who would be tempted.
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If your head to the Canadian Apple Store you can see that it also affects the iPod. Quick link (URL may include session reference).
Hates new XBox. Hates it!
Gollum, I didn't know they had XBoxes in Middle Earth?
Never mind, probaly worth -2 for poor joke.
And for those where only open source will do, check out OpenBIOS, a open implementation of OpenFirmware (IEEE 1275-1994). Note I believe that it is still a work in progress.
Think bigger: How about the outside wall of the neighbours house?
Who gets included on this CD and who don't? Could it be possible to make this fair?
The simplest approach would be a sponsorship approach. Basically if you want to be on it, you pay a certain fee. After all you don't expect the OS manufacturers to give you something for free. I had thought of the big link approach, but then you would probably be using the default browser for that and you would need to have at least a DSL to make the downloads worthwhile.
If you have any suggestions add them here.
Apple also neglets to add third-party software that is competitive to its own on the computer. Without looking at the issue closer I would suspect reasons for not including them would be effort, support, QA and maybe even not wanting to give the competition an edge.
What I would like to see, whether this be Microsoft, Apple or any other computer company, is a third-party showcase CD bundled with the OS. The CD would include a showcase of software available for the OS. The content would be the sort included with your average computer magazine. I would suggest that the third-parties on the CD should subsidise the cost of the CD, since they are being done a favour by be being included. Its not necessarily a perfect solution, but it is one that could be of interest to some people. Of course if you make a 'temporary' installation of these OSs you won't necessarily have this CD, but then the choice of yours for purchasing a permananent CD. Maybe the competitors could get together and have shops include this CD with all new computers. The OS manufacturers needn't be the ones with the initiative.
I have an Epson Deskjet 842C and for most printing I simply print in draft mode and grayscale. Then I noticed that the other day, despite this setting, the printer is using magenta when it prints in grayscale, along with the black. Since when do I need colour to print grays!?
What are you using, a 100Mhz pentium?
P3, 800 Mhz, 512Mb of memory. This is a workstation, not a games machine.
Do note that the page doesn't have its stylesheet, so what you see in the archive is probably a poor representation of its active form.
Flash is smooth, it allows you to do a lot of fancy stuff, like annoying ads and badly designed web sites, but say sweet good bye to your CPU. What I mean by that is anytime I visit a page with flash I see a 10-20% increase in CPU usage per embeded flash. In some cases I have had my CPU usage at 80% until I closed all web page with flash in it. For this reason I ask Macromedia to please be considerate with my CPU. Maybe we need an option to be able to do a 'nice' on plug-ins?
If it makes a difference, my browser is Mozilla. If you want an example of CPU usage and Flash visit http://movies.yahoo.com/oscars/
no - wired phones. CELL phones didn't exist then!!
Sure, but that sounds like the argument for adding 'electronically' in front of some every day process and then trying to claim a patent.
I take it that this wouldn't affect SCO's position? Do they have any facts?
Reading the replies my posting got, it looks like there were things I hadn't though of such as vote buying - in fact it hadn't even crossed my mind. Maybe I'm just hoping for an ideal world? Then again in an ideal world we wouldn't need to vote since we would have an ideal government.
The other thing that I get from reading the replies, is sometimes trying to solve a problem with technology just creates more issues.
With all this talk about potential election fraud, with these electronic voting machines, I was wondering whether a certain idea could work:
When you fill in your voting form you get a receipt with a record of your voting and a unique number (generated on the spot). At any time you could visit a validation web site, where you would type in the number you were given and check whether the entry matches what you have. Sure you could type in a random number and see someone else's record, but since its not tied to any personal info, it wouldn't be much of an issue. If at any time there is an inconsistency, you have proof in your hands.
Yep, I confused FAAC with FLAC. Thanks for clearing things up.
I thought FAAC was a non-lossy compression format? In that case I surprised that it rated so badly. In fact thinking about it, maybe they should have played the orginal CD as a control and indicated how that rated.
Finally those capitalist bastards will pay for their crimes. 'Eh comrades? 'Eh?
Ironically socialism and capitalism are not exclusive. Check out China as example of this.
When developing a game, in general you are going to be working on the sort of game you would like to play. Since guys make up the vast majority of games developers they are going to make the sort of games that they like to play. In order to get games that interest girls then you are going to need to have female programmers that have the same sort of taste that the rest of women do. After all said and done, what games do women enjoy? Is there any evidence that these sort of games don't exist?
What I have found is that the girls, that I know, fall into two categories: the girls who play games and those who don't. The girls who don't play games wouldn't play any computer game, simply because the idea of playing a computer game is not their idea of fun. The other girls I know, who play games have a taste as varied as any guy out there. My sister manages to beat me at a number of games when I play against her. I also know a fair number of guys who don't like playing games like Counter-Strike, because there is not enough strategy involved.
I wonder how much the media is to blame for these stereotypes and how much the minority of guys who are scared at being challenged by a girl at anything are to blame for scaring women off?
Bush's science adviser, John Marburger, called the report biased and said he was troubled that some very prestigious scientists had signed the statement.
... and the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around the Earth.
I do believe that's the point.
Maybe we should just know as Y-Win, hmm, then again that sounds too much like the opposite of Y-Lose :(
Maybe since XY makes a male chromosome and it is in terms of computing whe should call it Nerd-Windows.
Though I do prefer Chromo-Windows, if we keep in the chromosome line of thought.
From what I can tell there has been a big trend to move to lower powered devices, while at the same time look for more processing. The x86 is a poor player in this field, since compared to other chips on the market it consumes a lot of power. The two big chips seem to the PowerPC and the ARM chip. Both are RISC chips. My perspective is mainly based from looking at PDAs and the direction that game consoles are going.
If you think to the contary, then please tell me.
When you don't have too much money you buy the toy you can afford, when you are comfortable you buy the toy you like.
Mac users are probably seen as people with a good education and a good income (see parent post's link), because you need something that brings in enough money to excuse the expense. Its like any luxury toy, they may be a minority in terms of what people buy, but a lot of people want one. Other examples (cars this time): Mercedes, BMW, Cadilac and Ferrari. SGI also makes nice boxes, but the OS just doesn't have the same finish and feel, as OS X.
But when I listen to music on my iPod, I am listening to music that I have bought. I can't be listening to my CDs AND my iPod at the same time (I could but I wouldn't want to), so what am I taking away from the artist?
This is the country that already has some pretty high media levies based on the assumption that illegal copies are being made. It's currently $0.21 (data CD) and $0.77 (audio CD), but there are proposed increases, including an $840 levy on each 40GB iPod! ($0.021/MB)
I am confused. Am I getting fined in advance, so that I can download or does the industry want it all ways?
What ever you do, don't let the code influence your projects. The last thing we want is Microsoft joining in with SCO and accusing the open source community of using MS code in an open source project such as Linux. Sure you probably wouldn't want to with its reputation, but I am sure there would be those who would be tempted.