The problem is that you need to buy some computer. And at least here in Sweden, there are NO laptop alternatives (AFAIK, and I've looked for them) without Windows...
Yes, and to many people American bears the connotation of beign stupid, and French of being snobby. So if you feel that is undeserved, get another word, 'cause the masses decide.
OK, thats somewhat different, but yet, the people who are Hackers and started using the term Hacker to describe themselves should defenitely have a say in what the meaning of that word is.
To bad I don't live in Canada:-) That ISP seems like a good one. No, I live in sweden, and I happen to live in an rather small area that only has 1 ISP offering (somewhat) high-speed internet. So the choice is between fast and somewhat relaible connection w/o p2p or modem w/ p2p, not much of an choice:-)/Spreetin
My ISP (also a small local one) has done the extreme opposite. He is blocking every port that is used by any know p2p program so that we can't use those "server-programs" to share files with the internet. Even tho no one has complained on those programs, he just don't like p2p programs, he thinks they "waste" the users precious bandwidth. My question to him was of course how he could think that the users themself was wasting their bandwidth, isn't OUR choice on how to waste our bandwidth, since we have paid for it?
He was in a shadow of a mountain during sunrise but the shadow of teh mountain was shrinking towards them so he had to get cover before the sun would shine throu the whole valley
Always fun to nitpick a nitpicking of a nitpicking of a nitpicking:-)
Actually, sound travels quite slow. If the ships were only a couple of hundred meters apart as you say then the sound would lag 1-2 secs after the light. Every ~330m of distance to the object would add a additional lag of 1 sec, 'cause that is the speed of sound:-)
Light travels at a speed of 299792458m / sec (in vacuum) Sound travels at a speed of 330m/sec (but ofcourse that is only if there is air for it to travel in, otherwise the speed can be different. And in space it doesn't travel at all:-)
Defenitely, my IBM hdd stopped working after just a few months (I didn't have a guarantee) and I lost 6,4GB of information. It may not seem that much but thinking of the fact that few new computers at the time had bigger drives than 4GB it was alot of stuff on that drive:-(
*miss the good old games that I no longer have my diskettes of, because they were all safely stored on my harddrive*
I ran into something kinda simmilar when I bought one of my first soundcards for my 386, in that time. I wanted a fully SB-compatible card, but the real things was a bit to expensive for me (I was just 12 or something) so I asked him two questions:
1, Is it fully SB-compatible and will work in all MS-DOS applications and games that use SB?
2, Will it work under both windows 3.1 and windows 95?
The answer to both of these questions was ofcourse yes. I was a bit doubtful but he asured me that he was telling the truth so I bought it. I got home and tried it. I found out the following: It wasn't SB-compatible at all, it was SB PRO 2.0 COMPATIBLE!!! I could only run it under a few games that used SB PRO 2.0 and as said on only a few of the ones that could support the real thing. Most would not run at all. Second, it didn't work very well under either win3.1 or win95, but after a few months I got new drivers for (I didn't have a internet connection back then) it so I could get it to work under win95, but it was a pain in the ass.
After that I learned two things: Never ever trust a sales person. And second never ever buy a "fully compatible clone" of whatever.
That's actually wrong. It isn't the same. Hence the name Neo-Darwinism. Darwin didn't know about mutations, and his system of evolution could NOT have worked because of that. Only after the discovery of mutations did evolution really become a serious theory by todays standards.
Sure, sounds like a good idea. I would be glad if you put such a page up and then persueded the slashdot crew to put it on the front page:-) Seriously speaking, it would be cool if you did that.
Actually there already is a mini-island-country outside of england. It is called sealand and they host internetservices without much restriction. Perhaps we should put up a p2p network homepage on one of their servers?
If we had a server there it would even work with a cetralized server system!
Ok, but I think GNU/Linux is really hard to duplicate, thinking of the fact that it is a whole OS with every thinkable computer-program made up by users. That if something is a wonder to me, getting so many people together to do something this big, and getting them to do it freely and without compensation.
I can admit that Linux really isn't so very special in the technical part, it mostly consists of ideas and tools allreadey existing, but it is made in a manner that no other is (there are other free systems but none so big, and so various)
As you say it also have a social impication, but that is but a part of all the things that would make it a wonder.
Seriously, MS have done big things but none so big as GNU/Linux. And as Linux, DOS was based of an other system also, the difference being that Linus wrote it as a well-working and very useful OS. MS-DOS really isn't very good, it ain't multitasking, you can't suspend programs, and it has terrible multitasking! (among other things)
I can understand your view on it, and I present here my idea for a rough draft of a '7 wonders of the computer world so far' list in no special order of importance what so ever.
1. GNU/Linux (already explained)
2. WWW (Really big and well-working network of information, that is much bigger then USENET although harder to find information on)
3. The big distrubuted projects, mainly SETI@HOME (does this really need explaining)
4. P2P (a great thing that has as big potential as the USENET had)(I say had because although it still is big, it isn't really well used counted in %)
5. e-mail (it may not seem so big, but think of it, instantanious mail delivery, that's something for the post companys to work on:)
6. CVS (space saving and makes things so much simpler)
7. CDs, DVDs, floppys, hardrives, tapes and much more (saving information on a small space without having problem reading it later because of small print:)
Well, this list may not be the most thougth trou thing I have wrote but it made me think of the subjcet, so it can't be total crap./S
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The problem is that you need to buy some computer. And at least here in Sweden, there are NO laptop alternatives (AFAIK, and I've looked for them) without Windows...
His hair don't grow.
Except in one episode of the comic, where some red Kryotonite makes his hair, nails and beard grow.
He then needed both Supergirl and Superdog to use their heatsight to cut it off.
Yes, and to many people American bears the connotation of beign stupid, and French of being snobby. So if you feel that is undeserved, get another word, 'cause the masses decide. OK, thats somewhat different, but yet, the people who are Hackers and started using the term Hacker to describe themselves should defenitely have a say in what the meaning of that word is.
/home anyone? OK, it's not exactly the same, but it's in many ways comparable.
I realised that. I just like to point out the obvious.
Actually Jesus was from Israel, so he would have had dark hair.
To bad I don't live in Canada :-) That ISP seems like a good one. No, I live in sweden, and I happen to live in an rather small area that only has 1 ISP offering (somewhat) high-speed internet. So the choice is between fast and somewhat relaible connection w/o p2p or modem w/ p2p, not much of an choice :-) /Spreetin
My ISP (also a small local one) has done the extreme opposite. He is blocking every port that is used by any know p2p program so that we can't use those "server-programs" to share files with the internet. Even tho no one has complained on those programs, he just don't like p2p programs, he thinks they "waste" the users precious bandwidth. My question to him was of course how he could think that the users themself was wasting their bandwidth, isn't OUR choice on how to waste our bandwidth, since we have paid for it?
Try reading http://www.badastronomy.com/ that is a page that takes this idea and makes something really good out of it.
He was in a shadow of a mountain during sunrise but the shadow of teh mountain was shrinking towards them so he had to get cover before the sun would shine throu the whole valley
:-)
Always fun to nitpick a nitpicking of a nitpicking of a nitpicking
Actually, sound travels quite slow. If the ships were only a couple of hundred meters apart as you say then the sound would lag 1-2 secs after the light. Every ~330m of distance to the object would add a additional lag of 1 sec, 'cause that is the speed of sound :-)
/sec (but ofcourse that is only if there is air for it to travel in, otherwise the speed can be different. And in space it doesn't travel at all :-)
:-)
Light travels at a speed of 299792458m / sec (in vacuum)
Sound travels at a speed of 330m
How is that for nitpicking
The best proposition so far.
:-)
I vote for you as the new Linus
The only question that is relevant is -- what does it cost to fix it if it doesn't work?'"
:-)
Or in MS case, how much does it cost to make sure it doesn't work so that all users have to get the new upgrade?
Defenitely, my IBM hdd stopped working after just a few months (I didn't have a guarantee) and I lost 6,4GB of information. It may not seem that much but thinking of the fact that few new computers at the time had bigger drives than 4GB it was alot of stuff on that drive :-(
*miss the good old games that I no longer have my diskettes of, because they were all safely stored on my harddrive*
I ran into something kinda simmilar when I bought one of my first soundcards for my 386, in that time. I wanted a fully SB-compatible card, but the real things was a bit to expensive for me (I was just 12 or something) so I asked him two questions:
1, Is it fully SB-compatible and will work in all MS-DOS applications and games that use SB?
2, Will it work under both windows 3.1 and windows 95?
The answer to both of these questions was ofcourse yes. I was a bit doubtful but he asured me that he was telling the truth so I bought it. I got home and tried it. I found out the following: It wasn't SB-compatible at all, it was SB PRO 2.0 COMPATIBLE!!! I could only run it under a few games that used SB PRO 2.0 and as said on only a few of the ones that could support the real thing. Most would not run at all. Second, it didn't work very well under either win3.1 or win95, but after a few months I got new drivers for (I didn't have a internet connection back then) it so I could get it to work under win95, but it was a pain in the ass.
After that I learned two things: Never ever trust a sales person. And second never ever buy a "fully compatible clone" of whatever.
Mine was just over 80GB. And considering that my harddrive is 40GB that means I have to put alot on CD's :-)
Sure, sounds like a good idea. I would be glad if you put such a page up and then persueded the slashdot crew to put it on the front page :-) Seriously speaking, it would be cool if you did that.
Actually there already is a mini-island-country outside of england. It is called sealand and they host internetservices without much restriction. Perhaps we should put up a p2p network homepage on one of their servers?
/S
If we had a server there it would even work with a cetralized server system!
Ok, but I think GNU/Linux is really hard to duplicate, thinking of the fact that it is a whole OS with every thinkable computer-program made up by users. That if something is a wonder to me, getting so many people together to do something this big, and getting them to do it freely and without compensation. I can admit that Linux really isn't so very special in the technical part, it mostly consists of ideas and tools allreadey existing, but it is made in a manner that no other is (there are other free systems but none so big, and so various) As you say it also have a social impication, but that is but a part of all the things that would make it a wonder. Seriously, MS have done big things but none so big as GNU/Linux. And as Linux, DOS was based of an other system also, the difference being that Linus wrote it as a well-working and very useful OS. MS-DOS really isn't very good, it ain't multitasking, you can't suspend programs, and it has terrible multitasking! (among other things) I can understand your view on it, and I present here my idea for a rough draft of a '7 wonders of the computer world so far' list in no special order of importance what so ever. 1. GNU/Linux (already explained) 2. WWW (Really big and well-working network of information, that is much bigger then USENET although harder to find information on) 3. The big distrubuted projects, mainly SETI@HOME (does this really need explaining) 4. P2P (a great thing that has as big potential as the USENET had)(I say had because although it still is big, it isn't really well used counted in %) 5. e-mail (it may not seem so big, but think of it, instantanious mail delivery, that's something for the post companys to work on :)
6. CVS (space saving and makes things so much simpler)
7. CDs, DVDs, floppys, hardrives, tapes and much more (saving information on a small space without having problem reading it later because of small print :)
Well, this list may not be the most thougth trou thing I have wrote but it made me think of the subjcet, so it can't be total crap. /S