Linux never had anything from fear from Windows 7. It's well past Windows in terms of usability and elegance. All Linux needs now is more high quality applications.
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So does this mean that different virtual desktops can have different wallpapers? I'm a very visual person, so different wallpapers are very important to me to emphasize the difference between each virtual desktop.
This is good. Really good. Because this will drive more people towards AMD's video cards. This will also make those who are contributing to getting AMD's video cards working well in Linux redouble their efforts. This is essentially the beginning of the end for NVIDIA. Yes, it is a good business decision for them in the short term, but a VERY bad one for them in the long term and somebody high up will be paying the price a few years down the line because it was their call.
So I say again, buy AMD and make the AMD drivers better than the binaries that NVIDIA is shipping. Take away the reason for anyone who is using Linux to buy NVIDIA. Keep competition alive and support companies that support open source. Whether NVIDIA sees it or not, Linux's mind share is going to increase by an order of magnitude over the next couple of years simply because of smart phones. More people are also going to be running it as their desktop, in particular the mum and dad types who just want to browse the internet on cheap hardware and not worry about viruses.
Again, the reason I say this is good is that this is an opportunity for us, the open source community to show companies who are watching from the sidelines, what a difference supporting open source can make. Use your coding skills. Contribute. Help AMD and others who support Linux and open source. We can make a huge difference to a company's fortunes. Flaming NVIDIA is not going to help. Contributing to make sure the competition's products work so well that there is no need for NVIDIA's products is.
And companies won't make products like that unless they're willing to abandon their business strategy and relinquish control. A company makes products for the company's sake. Its the same thing that governs the product's features (implemented, locked in and otherwise). If a company was willing to create a product for the product's sake, they would have no control of it because it would be so many different things to so many different users. How many companies do you know that are willing to take that risk? That's open source's niche and that's what makes it so amazing. Its a meritocracy.
Don't know about you, but I'd rather spend less on a CPU and more on a GPU that can use OpenCL about now. NVIDIA's Ion platform has proven that you do not need a strong CPU : To watch 1080p video - an Atom 270 will suffice. So forget the i7. I'd rather that AMD came out with some good GPGPU parts. Then I'd gladly buy their slower processors and a couple of their slightly slower gfx cards because I know I'd be getting WAY more performance to the dollar than if I bought an i7.
Speaking of DnD playing, AI characters with a consciousness in an always on MMORPG would add a huge level of depth to the game. Heck, within an MMORPG, you could experiment with all types of consciousness - from completely good to completely evil. It would be fascinating to watch them develop. Imagine say, going on one of the highest level WoW quests with a conscious AI that was completely good against another AI - the arch nemesis. Wouldn't it be an amazing quest if the character's personality actually made an impression on you one way or the other?
+1 to this.
The Office Acid Test. It doesn't exist yet. People are already used to the idea of it in the browser space and may hev already heard of it from their nerdy friends telling them why Internet Explorer sucks so much.
Its a simple way to enforce and be transparent about compatibility. Nobody should be able to "work around" the standard.
It would be a HUGE plus if there was a way for the ACID test to also check for "embrace and extends"
Do your Masters. Choose a field you want to study. Bonus points if its something you can use immediately. Knowledge is a good thing. Some of the best discoveries in science have been made using knowledge from another discipline. Do not underestimate yourself or the knowledge you might gather. Just apply yourself so you are able to fully absorb and apply what they teach you - doing a Masters for the sake of passing exams is truly a waste.
But thats the way we as a race seem to work - use technologies without understanding their consequences in the hope that by the time the consequences manifest, we'll be in a position to deal with them or they won't affect us - the "Shoot first, ask questions later" approach.
May have worked for us till now...not sure about the future.
You're partly right.
Rule 1 in the Exploit Author's Bible :
Wait for some MS Exec/Fanboy to say they have the most secure OS ever. Release exploit 5 minutes later.
The info I got was from a pretty detailed article in the NZ Herald print edition (http://www.nzherald.co.nz). The article seems to have dissappeared into the archives, or I've not searched hard enough. I was wondering the same too. The newspaper article however, had a picture of the rocket and the third stage was mentioned to be a solid fueled one capable of carrying a 500kg payload. The third stage was carried inside a shell at the top of the second one. So I'm not sure what happened to the third stage - but I suspect the rocket never carried one.
Sheldon Cooper, is that you? This is Leonard.
I disagree. The Taepodong 2 that they launched was a 3 stage rocket capable of delivering a 500kg payload. That's enough for a nuke. The first stage landed in the ocean west of Japan. The second stage landed in the ocean east of Japan. So that says they had a successful launch, successful separation of the first and second stages and a successful flight of the second stage - over 200 seconds of continuous flight. That's quite a bit considering their previous test blew up only 40 seconds after launch - the first stage exploded.
Now, do you still think they didn't learn from their mistakes? Sure, there might be a nut in the seat of power, but don't let that discredit their scientists' and engineers' capability.
+1. I hope they were NOT using this themselves before release - a negative track record has gotta be the worst recommendation.
Then again, maybe its a beautiful tool, but they misused it, relying on it too heavily. Then when it didn't fix all their problems and they ran out of ideas to improve it, they decided to open source it, coz we all know that's what a company does when they need ideas they don't want to pay for.
Or maybe Ballmer threw a chair at the guy responsible for this product after all the negative press M$ got for security. Maybe the project was declared "no good". Then Ballmer, in a fit of genius, thought of poisoning the open source well by adding this one to the drinking water.
Uh Steve, if you're reading this, I bet you're shifting uncomfortably in your chair...or maybe I should start writing conspiracy theories:)
A lot of technology is the combination of existing pieces. What makes it useful is how the pieces are combined. Are search engines useful for that matter - they're essentially queries running on databases right? Besides, it's a demo of a work in progress. You could have come up with this - but did you? Did you even think about it and envision it as completely as it was presented in the video, let alone implement it? This is a work of genius. Please do not belittle it.
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Linux never had anything from fear from Windows 7. It's well past Windows in terms of usability and elegance. All Linux needs now is more high quality applications.
So does this mean that different virtual desktops can have different wallpapers? I'm a very visual person, so different wallpapers are very important to me to emphasize the difference between each virtual desktop.
And here I am expecting some comments along the opposite lines - like, "I don't use a web browser, I just observe the cloud".
This is good. Really good. Because this will drive more people towards AMD's video cards. This will also make those who are contributing to getting AMD's video cards working well in Linux redouble their efforts. This is essentially the beginning of the end for NVIDIA. Yes, it is a good business decision for them in the short term, but a VERY bad one for them in the long term and somebody high up will be paying the price a few years down the line because it was their call. So I say again, buy AMD and make the AMD drivers better than the binaries that NVIDIA is shipping. Take away the reason for anyone who is using Linux to buy NVIDIA. Keep competition alive and support companies that support open source. Whether NVIDIA sees it or not, Linux's mind share is going to increase by an order of magnitude over the next couple of years simply because of smart phones. More people are also going to be running it as their desktop, in particular the mum and dad types who just want to browse the internet on cheap hardware and not worry about viruses. Again, the reason I say this is good is that this is an opportunity for us, the open source community to show companies who are watching from the sidelines, what a difference supporting open source can make. Use your coding skills. Contribute. Help AMD and others who support Linux and open source. We can make a huge difference to a company's fortunes. Flaming NVIDIA is not going to help. Contributing to make sure the competition's products work so well that there is no need for NVIDIA's products is.
Does the 5D Mark 2 do RAW video? If so, that leads to my next question - what is the max storage size it supports?
And companies won't make products like that unless they're willing to abandon their business strategy and relinquish control. A company makes products for the company's sake. Its the same thing that governs the product's features (implemented, locked in and otherwise). If a company was willing to create a product for the product's sake, they would have no control of it because it would be so many different things to so many different users. How many companies do you know that are willing to take that risk? That's open source's niche and that's what makes it so amazing. Its a meritocracy.
Don't know about you, but I'd rather spend less on a CPU and more on a GPU that can use OpenCL about now. NVIDIA's Ion platform has proven that you do not need a strong CPU : To watch 1080p video - an Atom 270 will suffice. So forget the i7. I'd rather that AMD came out with some good GPGPU parts. Then I'd gladly buy their slower processors and a couple of their slightly slower gfx cards because I know I'd be getting WAY more performance to the dollar than if I bought an i7.
Wanna bet the next phone will do HD video and probably have an SD slot?
Thats when you say "sudo make me a coffee"
Speaking of DnD playing, AI characters with a consciousness in an always on MMORPG would add a huge level of depth to the game. Heck, within an MMORPG, you could experiment with all types of consciousness - from completely good to completely evil. It would be fascinating to watch them develop. Imagine say, going on one of the highest level WoW quests with a conscious AI that was completely good against another AI - the arch nemesis. Wouldn't it be an amazing quest if the character's personality actually made an impression on you one way or the other?
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+1 to this. The Office Acid Test. It doesn't exist yet. People are already used to the idea of it in the browser space and may hev already heard of it from their nerdy friends telling them why Internet Explorer sucks so much. Its a simple way to enforce and be transparent about compatibility. Nobody should be able to "work around" the standard. It would be a HUGE plus if there was a way for the ACID test to also check for "embrace and extends"
Do your Masters. Choose a field you want to study. Bonus points if its something you can use immediately. Knowledge is a good thing. Some of the best discoveries in science have been made using knowledge from another discipline. Do not underestimate yourself or the knowledge you might gather. Just apply yourself so you are able to fully absorb and apply what they teach you - doing a Masters for the sake of passing exams is truly a waste.
Or route the butts differently :)
You mean, that's a lot of intelligent pirates.
Do you look for shoes when you need to run? I just do it.
You mean, "For shine is the power for the kingdom forever and ever, Amen" ;)
But thats the way we as a race seem to work - use technologies without understanding their consequences in the hope that by the time the consequences manifest, we'll be in a position to deal with them or they won't affect us - the "Shoot first, ask questions later" approach. May have worked for us till now...not sure about the future.
You're partly right. Rule 1 in the Exploit Author's Bible : Wait for some MS Exec/Fanboy to say they have the most secure OS ever. Release exploit 5 minutes later.
The info I got was from a pretty detailed article in the NZ Herald print edition (http://www.nzherald.co.nz). The article seems to have dissappeared into the archives, or I've not searched hard enough. I was wondering the same too. The newspaper article however, had a picture of the rocket and the third stage was mentioned to be a solid fueled one capable of carrying a 500kg payload. The third stage was carried inside a shell at the top of the second one. So I'm not sure what happened to the third stage - but I suspect the rocket never carried one.
Sheldon Cooper, is that you? This is Leonard. I disagree. The Taepodong 2 that they launched was a 3 stage rocket capable of delivering a 500kg payload. That's enough for a nuke. The first stage landed in the ocean west of Japan. The second stage landed in the ocean east of Japan. So that says they had a successful launch, successful separation of the first and second stages and a successful flight of the second stage - over 200 seconds of continuous flight. That's quite a bit considering their previous test blew up only 40 seconds after launch - the first stage exploded. Now, do you still think they didn't learn from their mistakes? Sure, there might be a nut in the seat of power, but don't let that discredit their scientists' and engineers' capability.
For those who don't know, the final straw was when simply said no ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2252415/TelstraClear-rejects-copyright-code ). It would not implement the law because its customers were complaining and were might pissed.
+1. I hope they were NOT using this themselves before release - a negative track record has gotta be the worst recommendation.
Then again, maybe its a beautiful tool, but they misused it, relying on it too heavily. Then when it didn't fix all their problems and they ran out of ideas to improve it, they decided to open source it, coz we all know that's what a company does when they need ideas they don't want to pay for.
Or maybe Ballmer threw a chair at the guy responsible for this product after all the negative press M$ got for security. Maybe the project was declared "no good". Then Ballmer, in a fit of genius, thought of poisoning the open source well by adding this one to the drinking water.
Uh Steve, if you're reading this, I bet you're shifting uncomfortably in your chair...or maybe I should start writing conspiracy theories :)
Oh the possible scenarios .... hehe.
A lot of technology is the combination of existing pieces. What makes it useful is how the pieces are combined. Are search engines useful for that matter - they're essentially queries running on databases right?
Besides, it's a demo of a work in progress. You could have come up with this - but did you? Did you even think about it and envision it as completely as it was presented in the video, let alone implement it?
This is a work of genius. Please do not belittle it.
It's quite sad, the lengths people from RIAA will go to, in the name of greed. The drug is money and they're addicted.