You are assuming that people will pay enough attention to notice who is in the wrong. The mother like many assume that the MPAA are some kind of authority and thus if they are bringing up a case what ever the other side is doing is assumed to be wrong. Most people do not look at fair use, or their own rights until they are trying to use those rights and are blocked directly.
In order for Linux to go much further there has to be a concerted effort to advertise and educate people about linux. Also while that is done the software quality has to be kept up. No small task considering that there is no linux boardroom where people can be told what to do from the comfort of big leather chairs.
Heh, I always heard it as most of the Internet is porn by the amount of data transfered. Websites would be a rough measurement of the number of transfers but not the amount of data. Because porn tends to be pictures and movies it takes up more space and is thus more of the Internet. However I am also not surprised that it has been put down because of things like ipods, Utube, ect.
Shield nothing. Just lowering the cost of freight alone will go a long way to opening up space and most freight doesn't care about radiation. Still someday something will probably break and we'll have to fix it in the radiation belts, so we might as well work on solving the radiation problem. However the rads are nothing to stop the elevator, just a hindrance.
Remember Linus didn't release the entire package we know as linux in one blow. In fact he didn't even write most of it.
What he did was he helped to manage the release and development of linux. It is hard to say how Linux would have developed had he used a non-free model. Different developers would have contributed with different ideas. The same goes for Gates and Windows using a "Free" model.
Well to me voting is a duty of each citizen in the US. You should vote. And part of voting is taking the time to at least look up and read something about the candidates. It doesn't take much time people. We are talking a few hours every couple of years to research the candidates, think about what you want, and actually go to the polling stations to vote.
People who don't vote because they are uninformed should try to make themselves more informed. It isn't that hard. If you are reading this then you probably can use google or another search to find a candidate's website. At least read that and see what they say they stand for if nothing else.
That the records don't change over time, and that they can be fully trusted and that they will be available 100+ years from now, or 500+ or even 1000+ years. And of coarse that the human race is alive to do Archeology.
That and there is plenty we don't know about earlier pre-wiki ages so I think Dr. Jones and Dr Zahi Hawass and their compatriots have nothing to worry about.
Yes. Yes they are. They've been developing the technology for years. The only way to stop it is to wrap your computer in aluminum foil. Even the vents. This also means that you'll go through computers quicker...the price of privacy.
They can claim all they want. This title was taken decades ago when the space programs first started. Heck sputnic, the dog may very well qualify. And if the cosmonaughts didn't have any nerds amoung them you can be sure the American Astronaughts did.
Yeah except the internet is part of the curriculum, that and school administrators can get ruffled if the internet that they are paying for isn't being used.
Well Perhaps there is a class of computer that fits between Desktop and Laptop.
One that A. Is portable to a variety of places. B. Is able to handle all major personal applications. C. Has a screen large enough to accomodate easy viewing for a single person or a small group of people. D. Is easilly moved quickly from one space to another.
In this model the Battery is not so much used as a power source but is more a UPS or power backup. Such a machine is not meant to be used in anyone's lap nor is it meant to be used outside of a desk-like enviroment. It is meant to be used where it can be plugged in to an outlet and sit on a table or desk for a short period of a few hours and then be easily moved.
Such a machine is far more mobile than a desktop computer or even one of those mini-desktops as all the major components are joined into one peice. Size does not matter as much as most trips with it are short from one point to another. The above article is really comparing apples to oranges, or rather trying to make an apple pie with oranges.
The way I see it there is a trend to go wireless even when wires are the better/simpler option. Now lets brake this problem down into its parts.
What wires provide: A. Power from an outside source. B. Information to/from an outside source.
The major problem with wires is that they create clutter and can get caught on things if moved around a lot. Otherwise they are a time tested and relativly cheep way of providing A & B to devices. Now clutter can also be dealt with by simple organization for devices that don't move around a lot. Ethernet cables can be run through walls, power cables can be tied together and tucked out of the way etc.
A further problem to consider is that the more "wireless" applications you have around the more volume of trafic is being carried about in the aether. So it is essential to take a moment and think of what is best done wirelessly and what is best to go ahead and wire.
Buy these new DVDs, making sure there is a return policy, and then returning them as "defective" when you can't read them with a standard device. If they label them as "for use with X player only" then don't buy at all.
My problem with this test is that it is timed. While most writers do work under time constraints their working conditions are hardly "You have 1 hour to write about x topic, begin now."
Indeed it should not be expected that young, highschool age writers would be able to truely write well. Truely good writing requires both practice and expiriance. It also requires revision. Lots and lots of revision which most of these tests don't provide time for.
As I recall on my SAT they just forced us to clear the calc's memory before the test started, and the proctors DID know how to do this on the major brands and they did check.
That's probably because it IS late 1990's college student designed. I'll bet you. The date on the template is 1999, and last review of the site was in '03. They probably used an intern to make it.
People get sick. People have prospects that fail to come through due to no fault of their own. Things regularly come up that require money to deal with NOW rather than "when an individual can afford it and garuntee thier ability to pay off debts."
Ask someone with a low paying job and a sick child about the differance between "credit" and "magic money" cards.
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Well reading through the article I found the first problem to be that this future OS requires a lot of training. Sure as things get smarter they adapt and learn how to do certian things, but if you are running a bussiness or working with time critical things you might not have time to "train" the os which emails are important and which are not.
Now I'm not saying that this isn't an improvement. However, I am saying that as the number of options pertaining to a particular decision grows it becomes harder for us to choose rationally. The more options their are means that the more evaluation the user must perform in order to sort through those choises. Now in the Real world we can do this simply through reflex and learning. We've evolved over thousands and millions of years and individualy learn from expiriance. We start off with parents guiding us, a default factory human setting if you will. In the real world our senses have also evolved to detect not everything, but what is relevent. We are omnivores who tend to eat a lot of fruit so we have good color vision to tell at a glance what is tastey and what is not. We do not hunt at night so we have poor night vision. The sense of touch is much more accute in our fingers than our toes in order to use tools better.
The problem comes when we make adaptive computer systems we must also be sure that options are intuitive as well. Just look at the unix shell for a somewhat non-intuitive example, and many aspex of windows are worse as we can't even see into much of those inner workings.
Revolutions make good PR slogans but generally bad development models. The way forward to the "OS of the future" is to keep developing what we have now(my own bias is debian(ubuntu) linux) and perhaps shift to a bit more of a focus on both the backend of how the computer runs the code and the backend of how the user interacts with the computer. While a bell or whisle may be a few wavey lines highlighting some widget on a screen, if they help you find that widget when you need it then they probably have earned their keep.
will make no difference whatsoever in terms of which 1970s technology OS is used,
I'm curios. Just to what extent is Linux 1970's technology, really? I doubt that it really is. I mean compare the original system with the system running today(the entire system not just the kernel) with the system of the 1970's. How much of that older system is still in use in terms of lines of code? Sure the organizing principals might be similar but to call it 1970's tech is about as descriptive as calling cars Roman technology, after all they are sized according to how wide the Romans thought a vehicle and road should be. Road tech hasn't changed that much as far as the basics.
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You are assuming that people will pay enough attention to notice who is in the wrong.
The mother like many assume that the MPAA are some kind of authority and thus if they are bringing up a case what ever the other side is doing is assumed to be wrong. Most people do not look at fair use, or their own rights until they are trying to use those rights and are blocked directly.
Now my family photos are all fading out.
I have to agree.
In order for Linux to go much further there has to be a concerted effort to advertise and educate people about linux. Also while that is done the software quality has to be kept up. No small task considering that there is no linux boardroom where people can be told what to do from the comfort of big leather chairs.
Heh, I always heard it as most of the Internet is porn by the amount of data transfered. Websites would be a rough measurement of the number of transfers but not the amount of data. Because porn tends to be pictures and movies it takes up more space and is thus more of the Internet. However I am also not surprised that it has been put down because of things like ipods, Utube, ect.
Shield nothing. Just lowering the cost of freight alone will go a long way to opening up space and most freight doesn't care about radiation. Still someday something will probably break and we'll have to fix it in the radiation belts, so we might as well work on solving the radiation problem. However the rads are nothing to stop the elevator, just a hindrance.
It depends.
Remember Linus didn't release the entire package we know as linux in one blow. In fact he didn't even write most of it.
What he did was he helped to manage the release and development of linux. It is hard to say how Linux would have developed had he used a non-free model. Different developers would have contributed with different ideas. The same goes for Gates and Windows using a "Free" model.
I would hire John Hodgman to do a series of commercials with his new Linux OS.
I don't know what kind of FUD I'd fill it up with yet.
Any ideas?
Well to me voting is a duty of each citizen in the US. You should vote. And part of voting is taking the time to at least look up and read something about the candidates. It doesn't take much time people. We are talking a few hours every couple of years to research the candidates, think about what you want, and actually go to the polling stations to vote.
People who don't vote because they are uninformed should try to make themselves more informed. It isn't that hard. If you are reading this then you probably can use google or another search to find a candidate's website. At least read that and see what they say they stand for if nothing else.
That the records don't change over time, and that they can be fully trusted and that they will be available 100+ years from now, or 500+ or even 1000+ years. And of coarse that the human race is alive to do Archeology.
That and there is plenty we don't know about earlier pre-wiki ages so I think Dr. Jones and Dr Zahi Hawass and their compatriots have nothing to worry about.
Yes. Yes they are. They've been developing the technology for years. The only way to stop it is to wrap your computer in aluminum foil. Even the vents. This also means that you'll go through computers quicker...the price of privacy.
They can claim all they want. This title was taken decades ago when the space programs first started. Heck sputnic, the dog may very well qualify. And if the cosmonaughts didn't have any nerds amoung them you can be sure the American Astronaughts did.
Yeah except the internet is part of the curriculum, that and school administrators can get ruffled if the internet that they are paying for isn't being used.
Well Perhaps there is a class of computer that fits between Desktop and Laptop.
One that
A. Is portable to a variety of places.
B. Is able to handle all major personal applications.
C. Has a screen large enough to accomodate easy viewing for a single person or a small group of people.
D. Is easilly moved quickly from one space to another.
In this model the Battery is not so much used as a power source but is more a UPS or power backup. Such a machine is not meant to be used in anyone's lap nor is it meant to be used outside of a desk-like enviroment. It is meant to be used where it can be plugged in to an outlet and sit on a table or desk for a short period of a few hours and then be easily moved.
Such a machine is far more mobile than a desktop computer or even one of those mini-desktops as all the major components are joined into one peice. Size does not matter as much as most trips with it are short from one point to another. The above article is really comparing apples to oranges, or rather trying to make an apple pie with oranges.
It isn't practical yet, but a man can dream can't he?
Oh I just assumed that this would have enough transmission power to 'burn' through any obstacle, so that I can use it to destroy my enemies.
What's wrong with Frost Ferret?!
The way I see it there is a trend to go wireless even when wires are the better/simpler option. Now lets brake this problem down into its parts.
What wires provide:
A. Power from an outside source.
B. Information to/from an outside source.
The major problem with wires is that they create clutter and can get caught on things if moved around a lot. Otherwise they are a time tested and relativly cheep way of providing A & B to devices. Now clutter can also be dealt with by simple organization for devices that don't move around a lot. Ethernet cables can be run through walls, power cables can be tied together and tucked out of the way etc.
A further problem to consider is that the more "wireless" applications you have around the more volume of trafic is being carried about in the aether. So it is essential to take a moment and think of what is best done wirelessly and what is best to go ahead and wire.
because the posting guidelines on slashdot ask to post to an existant thread before starting a new one.
Buy these new DVDs, making sure there is a return policy, and then returning them as "defective" when you can't read them with a standard device. If they label them as "for use with X player only" then don't buy at all.
My problem with this test is that it is timed. While most writers do work under time constraints their working conditions are hardly "You have 1 hour to write about x topic, begin now."
Indeed it should not be expected that young, highschool age writers would be able to truely write well. Truely good writing requires both practice and expiriance. It also requires revision. Lots and lots of revision which most of these tests don't provide time for.
As I recall on my SAT they just forced us to clear the calc's memory before the test started, and the proctors DID know how to do this on the major brands and they did check.
That's probably because it IS late 1990's college student designed. I'll bet you. The date on the template is 1999, and last review of the site was in '03. They probably used an intern to make it.
People get sick. People have prospects that fail to come through due to no fault of their own. Things regularly come up that require money to deal with NOW rather than "when an individual can afford it and garuntee thier ability to pay off debts."
Ask someone with a low paying job and a sick child about the differance between "credit" and "magic money" cards.
Well reading through the article I found the first problem to be that this future OS requires a lot of training. Sure as things get smarter they adapt and learn how to do certian things, but if you are running a bussiness or working with time critical things you might not have time to "train" the os which emails are important and which are not.
Now I'm not saying that this isn't an improvement. However, I am saying that as the number of options pertaining to a particular decision grows it becomes harder for us to choose rationally. The more options their are means that the more evaluation the user must perform in order to sort through those choises. Now in the Real world we can do this simply through reflex and learning. We've evolved over thousands and millions of years and individualy learn from expiriance. We start off with parents guiding us, a default factory human setting if you will. In the real world our senses have also evolved to detect not everything, but what is relevent. We are omnivores who tend to eat a lot of fruit so we have good color vision to tell at a glance what is tastey and what is not. We do not hunt at night so we have poor night vision. The sense of touch is much more accute in our fingers than our toes in order to use tools better.
The problem comes when we make adaptive computer systems we must also be sure that options are intuitive as well. Just look at the unix shell for a somewhat non-intuitive example, and many aspex of windows are worse as we can't even see into much of those inner workings.
Revolutions make good PR slogans but generally bad development models. The way forward to the "OS of the future" is to keep developing what we have now(my own bias is debian(ubuntu) linux) and perhaps shift to a bit more of a focus on both the backend of how the computer runs the code and the backend of how the user interacts with the computer. While a bell or whisle may be a few wavey lines highlighting some widget on a screen, if they help you find that widget when you need it then they probably have earned their keep.
will make no difference whatsoever in terms of which 1970s technology OS is used,
I'm curios. Just to what extent is Linux 1970's technology, really? I doubt that it really is. I mean compare the original system with the system running today(the entire system not just the kernel) with the system of the 1970's. How much of that older system is still in use in terms of lines of code? Sure the organizing principals might be similar but to call it 1970's tech is about as descriptive as calling cars Roman technology, after all they are sized according to how wide the Romans thought a vehicle and road should be. Road tech hasn't changed that much as far as the basics.