Bringing computers into pubs? No, No i tells ya. I work with computers all week. Theres a few things i like doing at the friday happy hour with my work mates. Thats, getting cheap or free beers and playing pool.
This thing doesnt bellong in a pub. It belongs in a pinball palar... Or whatever you call those things...
Computers in pubs? pfffffffft... why dont i just start bringing beer to work?
Actualy, i make a good point, why dont i?:/
My point is the pub is my one place to ungeekatise myself... bringing a computer to a pub might have the oposite effect.
AustralianIT also covers this with their own article. In this, it states that 3 Million songs have beeen paid for and downloaded so far. This is absolutly amazing. Apples market share is nothing compared to Windows. Imagine if it was even close to have a market share like windows, or imagine if instead each other market share was switched for a moment. Im guess there'd be a hell of a lot of Mp3s being sold. This could eventualy make up a very large part of Apples future. Well, they've said they've been wanting to go into this area for quite a while now, i never really though they'd pull it off though. Looks like they've jumped their first hurdle!:}
certainly a great idea. However, from my experiance (and theres been very little) A lot of diffrent clients or supporting platforms, dont seem to support it as well as it could.
We were useing it with PHP on a recent project, that was returning XML to javascript from an HTML page.
When keep alive was turned on, Network performance off course would be a little better off, however, for some reason we had various unexplained crashes.
We didnt put it down to keepAlive at first, but eventualy we found out that when it was turned off, we had no problems. This was annoying because speed was a major factor of our project.
Its a shame its been depreciated, but from my experiance, a lot of vendors didnt seem to support it properly.:}
I know what these people have done has an over-all BAD feeling. But these guys obviously have an interest in it, and they obviously have a certain skill. Could governments start to hire these known hackers to defend themselfs...
I mean, generaly, when interest and skills are combined, you get a good result. And by nature, i dont think these guys were really that bad.
I didnt say they'd do it. I just think i'd be nice. I know the government has made some reforms to the IT industry and IT related things that hasnt gone down well with most of us.
This could help them gain a little more support in those areas. I think i a bloody house can be protected from being bulldozed because its just plane old, then computers have just as much right. If not more. Sure will live in houses, but really some of them are just old, and dont hold any signicant historical value. These computers sure the hell do.
Im not expecting the government to do it, im just saying it'd be nice if they would. And if they can protect houses, why not these computers?
This is a great cause for the government to step in, wouldnt you agree? I love knowing about the past computers, how they were concieved, what happened that brought us here. I suspect the next generation would be just as curious. To loose this would be a total disaster.
If they can not find something, the goverment should find something for them, even if its temporary, until the find somewhere permeant!!
The fridge is usualy a clean place. Its supposed to preserve food. The toilet is a place you put food after its been digested. Something that germs like to cling too. Thats why you wash you hands after you've been. Its also why you should disinfect your tolite every once in a while.
Its like the place to socialise, read the paper, or print out your stock reports on toilet paper.
Dont know about you, but i like to spend as little time as possible in the loo. I know people who sit down and read the bloody paper. I dont understand why they do this. Whats so good about reading the paper in the crapa?
ATM (at the moment) my password is kept within my brain, hidden under millions of billions of neurons. I bet, that if i had also billions of dollars in my account, that any robber would kill me to get my eye, but if ATMs (automatic teller machines) still use passwords, i've got several minutes to think of an escape plan!
And what about funeral directors, or those people that make dead people look pretty? Would they not be tempted to take an eye, and replace it with a glass one, then take off with the dead guys millions?
I agree with the personthat said, i think atm (at the moment) we have enough security with a card and a pin number. The chances of someone stealing your card and guessing your pin number (unless your stupid enough to write it down somewhere[like on the back of the card]) is very high. High enough for me!
I Giant retailer in Australia Harvey Norman doesnt get paid anything at all... Although he prolly owns around 50% of the company, i guess the shares (and any dividends) are enough!
Their pretty popular in Australia. I'd never seen on, but i heard of how powerful they were. And i first heard of them using Oranges, not potatos, but i dont see why it wouldnt work... It prolly works better. would make larger dints anyway, for sure.
It was well reported In Australia (at least i've seen it several times) that one person in melbourne turned heaps and heaps of FAT, taken from corner takeaway shops into Biodiesele and runs it in his unmodified diesele engine. I believe he now sells this stuff around melbourne some where.
The PicoGUI people mentioned Fresco which is a similar peice of software (aparantly the author didnt know it existed). However, Fresco is a little different. It doesnt target PDAs (well at least not exclusivly).
Unfortunatly, Fresco is really only useful for Demo's right now. But something like this could replace X in years to come, basicly because it'll standardise a lot of things that initial scare users and have them running for the hills when they first encounter X, kde, gnome, window-managres+, gtk, qt, etc... This things, turns all that, into one package, something i've been waiting for.
MacOSX does a pretty good job of this, but who has the money for it really?:)
The fresco homepage is above, but go right here to find out what it really is.
Well, I've linux installed. I've got debian and an not so good install of gentoo (which doesnt seem to want to boot on my logical partition). I havnt event used Debian yet:).
I've also got OpenBSD, i use it most these days, but only really to work on my OOPHP web portal thingy i like to muck around with.
I might want to start writing some sort of XML compressor though.
Anyway, the thing keeping me on Windows is that, im too busy to stuff around setting up Linux and BSD to use the hardware i have and get it the way i want it too look.
I rebeled against Windows (i was obviously going through one of those teeny stages where i think im cool if i use something other than windows) but the truth was, despit Windows Bugs, slowness and uglyness, and linux's speed, configurability, control, its awsome CLI Shell and GUI Shells, i still like Windows because, its set up for me, i dont have to F*&k around with it to get it to do what i want to do. Dont get me wrong, i like linux and i want to learn how to use it better, but i just cant be stuffed atm. I have too much to do, i have a full time job, im in my second to third year of a Bachelor of Software Engineering and, i just enjoy BSD and Linux as a retreat.
One day i may fully move over, but maybe ill move over to AmigaOS first? Im also looking at that and MacOSX.
But Windows has the applications im used to, and plus. Linux never seemed consistant.
What do i use for help, man or info? What do i use for a package manager, RPM, apt, do i recompile from source, or do i just untar the binaries? What distro should i use? What graphical environemnt (and when i started i was really confused about all the layers, CLI, X, Gnome-gtk-Sawfish (and whateve other layers go with either enlightenment, or kde) etc...
When i found OpenBSD i was saved from all that (except it doesnt support my win modem, and has less application supportnow, but im happy to compile) and i found things became far more consistant. I worked how to configure X (after i worked out i had a Serial Mouse and not a PS/2 daaahh) and i also found its pre compiled binaries, all in one place. One package manager, one help system, one community, and an OS that had the bar minimum. Thats a big problem with a lot of the big linux groups these days. I dont know what half the shit does, and im sure i dont want it if all i wanna do is run Xchat, Mozzilla and maybe an office suit.
While having a varied diet is good, eating too much makes you bloated. That how i feel after useing RH and other Operating systems, i just want something a bit more simple.
Windows provides the simpleness, and BSD gives me that power and stability in a nice consistant package.
Seriously people, there are soooooooo many linux distros out there, im pretty sure it would only take a few days, and before you know it, you have a new favourite distro.
This reminds me of a SubWay add here in Australia. This same guy comes in everyday at the same time and orders the same thing. Someone else tells him to try something different. He ignores initialy, but eventualy gives in and gives another Sub a try.
After a few minutes of pricing information and pretty pictures, we return to our borring old friend and find, not only did he like the new Sub, but he has a "new favourite".
What does this mean? Well, just like in the Sub add, the consumer was already happy, and had no reason to change. But when he did venture outside of his familiar souroundings, he foudn he loved it.
Now our situation is a little different because they're forcing us to conform to something we're not used to.
So while you might want to fight it, and tell RH boo boo, other people might be praising this move. So, why dont you look at some other platforms with a unix flavour. Like the hundreds of Linux distros out there? Maybe also you could dip your toe in to the BSD's? Maybe have a go at MacOSX and see what all the fuss is about?
Bottom line, if you dont like it, dont use it, find something else that does what you want it to do. Thats not going to be hard either!!!!
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Bringing computers into pubs? No, No i tells ya. I work with computers all week. Theres a few things i like doing at the friday happy hour with my work mates. Thats, getting cheap or free beers and playing pool.
:/
This thing doesnt bellong in a pub. It belongs in a pinball palar... Or whatever you call those things...
Computers in pubs? pfffffffft... why dont i just start bringing beer to work?
Actualy, i make a good point, why dont i?
My point is the pub is my one place to ungeekatise myself... bringing a computer to a pub might have the oposite effect.
AustralianIT also covers this with their own article. In this, it states that 3 Million songs have beeen paid for and downloaded so far. This is absolutly amazing. Apples market share is nothing compared to Windows. Imagine if it was even close to have a market share like windows, or imagine if instead each other market share was switched for a moment. Im guess there'd be a hell of a lot of Mp3s being sold. This could eventualy make up a very large part of Apples future. Well, they've said they've been wanting to go into this area for quite a while now, i never really though they'd pull it off though. Looks like they've jumped their first hurdle! :}
certainly a great idea. However, from my experiance (and theres been very little) A lot of diffrent clients or supporting platforms, dont seem to support it as well as it could.
:}
We were useing it with PHP on a recent project, that was returning XML to javascript from an HTML page.
When keep alive was turned on, Network performance off course would be a little better off, however, for some reason we had various unexplained crashes.
We didnt put it down to keepAlive at first, but eventualy we found out that when it was turned off, we had no problems. This was annoying because speed was a major factor of our project.
Its a shame its been depreciated, but from my experiance, a lot of vendors didnt seem to support it properly.
I know what these people have done has an over-all BAD feeling. But these guys obviously have an interest in it, and they obviously have a certain skill. Could governments start to hire these known hackers to defend themselfs...
I mean, generaly, when interest and skills are combined, you get a good result. And by nature, i dont think these guys were really that bad.
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Say, instead of stealing credit card number or anything at all, they just left evidence on the computer that they were there (like they did).
:)).
Could they still have been prosequted, or would anyone ever have bothered to bring it this far?
Sounds like these guys could have made a business out of it, if only it was done right (not that im suggesting my suggestion was right
I didnt say they'd do it. I just think i'd be nice. I know the government has made some reforms to the IT industry and IT related things that hasnt gone down well with most of us.
This could help them gain a little more support in those areas. I think i a bloody house can be protected from being bulldozed because its just plane old, then computers have just as much right. If not more. Sure will live in houses, but really some of them are just old, and dont hold any signicant historical value. These computers sure the hell do.
Im not expecting the government to do it, im just saying it'd be nice if they would. And if they can protect houses, why not these computers?
This is a great cause for the government to step in, wouldnt you agree? I love knowing about the past computers, how they were concieved, what happened that brought us here. I suspect the next generation would be just as curious. To loose this would be a total disaster.
If they can not find something, the goverment should find something for them, even if its temporary, until the find somewhere permeant!!
"Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor..."
The standard CPU is much much faster then the GPU. The GPU like the CPU is good for certain things, but not all.
As a guess, im thinking a CPU would be better then integer calculations and floting point calculations than a GPU.
However, as mentioned the GPU is a lot better at linear algebra.
What i've been pondering latly is that, why dont computers come with a standard GPU, just like our standard CPUs?
Maybe oneday when we all have 3D inriched desktops, that'll come to light (like MacOSX)
The fridge is usualy a clean place. Its supposed to preserve food. The toilet is a place you put food after its been digested. Something that germs like to cling too. Thats why you wash you hands after you've been. Its also why you should disinfect your tolite every once in a while.
Its like the place to socialise, read the paper, or print out your stock reports on toilet paper.
a beowulf custer...
Dont know about you, but i like to spend as little time as possible in the loo. I know people who sit down and read the bloody paper. I dont understand why they do this. Whats so good about reading the paper in the crapa?
i wonder if this was inspired by the Apple iToilet
Hyperion not only develop games for AmigaOS, they're also developing AmigaOS4 to run on the new hardware AmigaOnes from Eyetech!
ATM (at the moment) my password is kept within my brain, hidden under millions of billions of neurons. I bet, that if i had also billions of dollars in my account, that any robber would kill me to get my eye, but if ATMs (automatic teller machines) still use passwords, i've got several minutes to think of an escape plan!
And what about funeral directors, or those people that make dead people look pretty? Would they not be tempted to take an eye, and replace it with a glass one, then take off with the dead guys millions?
I agree with the personthat said, i think atm (at the moment) we have enough security with a card and a pin number. The chances of someone stealing your card and guessing your pin number (unless your stupid enough to write it down somewhere[like on the back of the card]) is very high. High enough for me!
wow - imagine how fast photoshop is going to run on Apples now!!!
Good by photoshop, hello Mhz Myth!
This is also grand news for the POP boards coming out from MAI, Eyetech, bplan and that guy developing that barbie board. Not only good for Apple!
I Giant retailer in Australia Harvey Norman doesnt get paid anything at all... Although he prolly owns around 50% of the company, i guess the shares (and any dividends) are enough!
Their pretty popular in Australia. I'd never seen on, but i heard of how powerful they were. And i first heard of them using Oranges, not potatos, but i dont see why it wouldnt work... It prolly works better. would make larger dints anyway, for sure.
It was well reported In Australia (at least i've seen it several times) that one person in melbourne turned heaps and heaps of FAT, taken from corner takeaway shops into Biodiesele and runs it in his unmodified diesele engine. I believe he now sells this stuff around melbourne some where.
Today Tonights website, on which the story was reported has the following link to the Australian Biodiesel Consultancy site.
Just going by the main page there is a biodiesel brocher, a trial program in progress and more detailed information.
With AmigaOS responsive times (4 microseconds context switching, faster then QNX) who needs QNX? :)
The PicoGUI people mentioned Fresco which is a similar peice of software (aparantly the author didnt know it existed). However, Fresco is a little different. It doesnt target PDAs (well at least not exclusivly).
:)
Unfortunatly, Fresco is really only useful for Demo's right now. But something like this could replace X in years to come, basicly because it'll standardise a lot of things that initial scare users and have them running for the hills when they first encounter X, kde, gnome, window-managres+, gtk, qt, etc... This things, turns all that, into one package, something i've been waiting for.
MacOSX does a pretty good job of this, but who has the money for it really?
The fresco homepage is above, but go right here to find out what it really is.
Well, I've linux installed. I've got debian and an not so good install of gentoo (which doesnt seem to want to boot on my logical partition). I havnt event used Debian yet :).
I've also got OpenBSD, i use it most these days, but only really to work on my OOPHP web portal thingy i like to muck around with.
I might want to start writing some sort of XML compressor though.
Anyway, the thing keeping me on Windows is that, im too busy to stuff around setting up Linux and BSD to use the hardware i have and get it the way i want it too look.
I rebeled against Windows (i was obviously going through one of those teeny stages where i think im cool if i use something other than windows) but the truth was, despit Windows Bugs, slowness and uglyness, and linux's speed, configurability, control, its awsome CLI Shell and GUI Shells, i still like Windows because, its set up for me, i dont have to F*&k around with it to get it to do what i want to do. Dont get me wrong, i like linux and i want to learn how to use it better, but i just cant be stuffed atm. I have too much to do, i have a full time job, im in my second to third year of a Bachelor of Software Engineering and, i just enjoy BSD and Linux as a retreat.
One day i may fully move over, but maybe ill move over to AmigaOS first? Im also looking at that and MacOSX.
But Windows has the applications im used to, and plus. Linux never seemed consistant.
What do i use for help, man or info? What do i use for a package manager, RPM, apt, do i recompile from source, or do i just untar the binaries? What distro should i use? What graphical environemnt (and when i started i was really confused about all the layers, CLI, X, Gnome-gtk-Sawfish (and whateve other layers go with either enlightenment, or kde) etc...
When i found OpenBSD i was saved from all that (except it doesnt support my win modem, and has less application supportnow, but im happy to compile) and i found things became far more consistant. I worked how to configure X (after i worked out i had a Serial Mouse and not a PS/2 daaahh) and i also found its pre compiled binaries, all in one place. One package manager, one help system, one community, and an OS that had the bar minimum. Thats a big problem with a lot of the big linux groups these days. I dont know what half the shit does, and im sure i dont want it if all i wanna do is run Xchat, Mozzilla and maybe an office suit.
While having a varied diet is good, eating too much makes you bloated. That how i feel after useing RH and other Operating systems, i just want something a bit more simple.
Windows provides the simpleness, and BSD gives me that power and stability in a nice consistant package.
Think of DOS
:)
Think of configurable
Know pretent you love it like a religion
Now, runn along and install your latest RH distro and find something that says terminal on your desktop and press it.
type
> man man
Theres a good start
Seriously people, there are soooooooo many linux distros out there, im pretty sure it would only take a few days, and before you know it, you have a new favourite distro.
This reminds me of a SubWay add here in Australia. This same guy comes in everyday at the same time and orders the same thing. Someone else tells him to try something different. He ignores initialy, but eventualy gives in and gives another Sub a try.
After a few minutes of pricing information and pretty pictures, we return to our borring old friend and find, not only did he like the new Sub, but he has a "new favourite".
What does this mean? Well, just like in the Sub add, the consumer was already happy, and had no reason to change. But when he did venture outside of his familiar souroundings, he foudn he loved it.
Now our situation is a little different because they're forcing us to conform to something we're not used to.
So while you might want to fight it, and tell RH boo boo, other people might be praising this move. So, why dont you look at some other platforms with a unix flavour. Like the hundreds of Linux distros out there? Maybe also you could dip your toe in to the BSD's? Maybe have a go at MacOSX and see what all the fuss is about?
Bottom line, if you dont like it, dont use it, find something else that does what you want it to do. Thats not going to be hard either!!!!
nerds???
:)
GEEKS!!! - pfft get it right!