By putting a computer in a desk, as in permanently mounting it there, 1.you loose the portability, 2.get a crappier desk/pc at twice the cost of buying a like desk and computer separately, 3.loose some of the ability to upgrade,
I'm assuming the pc is able to get out of the desk, but your limited in case size and shape. On top of all that my desk that I've had for years has a place to put a mid-size tower in it with plenty of room for ventilation on all sizes, and poof my computer is built into the desk, without the added cost and bad materials.
If this technology is as good as they say it is, this will do very well in the presentations and home theater markets if their price comes down(we know this isn't going to cost less than 900$ when it comes out) and they can support the sizes that plasma can. With their smaller size and weight it will be much easier to mount the televison to the wall and so digital picture frames and the like, however their increased price may stop that from happing in the next 15 years.
With this decision they will apparently be deciding if and when an actual non-profit organization can have a.org domain(what the top-level domain was designed for) and stop companies from buying.org addrs to go with their net and com ones.
However this also poses a domain squatting and slanderous sites to be able to have domains like microsoft.org for instance(i of course like microsoft as little as the next guy) but if someone owns the site a mistyped url could hurt smaller businesses, and geniune orginzations who should have the.org domains. Hopefully the ICANN will properly saction org domains and not try to hurt people using them now. Or for profit companys who need to use them.
When will a consumer version be anywhere near that, and why do we really need to have 11mpixels for most shots, after 2mpix it was really hard to tell the difference anyway.
The company has developed an artificial intelligence system that learns a gamer's style of play and can take over and play for them if they have to spend time away from the game.
So If i'm not very good at a game the ai wont be either? Even so this could be exploitable and used to be better at a game than a friend, we all remeber zbot from quake2.
He said many players of online games become frustrated because their lifestyle limited their interaction with a game world.
but in a stragagy game you can run when nature calls and be mostly ok
Typically they involve creating lots of slightly different solutions to a problem, testing to see which perform best and then taking and randomly mutating these to produce a new batch that are again tested, mutated and so on.
They should focus this advanced AI on the computer players of the game not into an autopilot mode.
The way most things are going they should allow you to have a secured web interface on the PVR to allow you to configure it from the internet or using a direct dialin connection. I also haven't seen any pictures but if it is expandable to 320GB it's probably not going to fit on a tv.
Just becuase it runs on a version of linux doesn't make it special, now if they gave you the option to install whatever os you wanted and set it up the way you want, that would be different.
Another example of that thinking: Neeleman gives all JetBlue pilots and technicians a laptop computer so they can get procedure changes online from the FAA. That way, there's no chance they'll miss a memo
So we'll have pilots playing quake in the cockpit, that doesn't sit well with me.
I seems the interviewer didn't care what he said, and was just asking the questions he/she wanted to, Do you still use e-mail as a way of sending commercial messages to a mass audience?
i gathered that he used USENet not e-mail. So, you're not sending unsolicited e-mail anymore?
I've never heard usenet being called e-mail.
The states also want Microsoft to divulge the blueprints for its Internet Explorer browser.
Microsoft, like most software firms, jealously guards its technical data. I don't really like the term blue print for source code, the source is more that the blue prints it's the building materials, labor, blue prints, land, and building inspection all toether. With blue prints you can find materals to build a house with and use them accordingly,with source all you need is a compiler, and you have the product they created. This entire article in my opionon was written to make the whole of america believe what most slashdot readers already know, MS is evil, they are not however telling nontechnical america the real reasons why the anti-trust lawsuits started, why they should realease there source, or how they have put their competiotors on the brink of bankrupsy.
honestly think that Sun's Solaris platform does not have much of a future. They will see their market share shrinking to the rarefied world of mainframe-class machines while Linux steadily erodes from below. And if Sun abandons Solaris to start selling Linux boxes, they're just making commodity boxes, which doesn't justify Sun's current cost structure. I thought sun was stoping the i386 version of solaris to only make it for sparc, not make i386 workstations with linux installed.
Optimization is not merely about reducing run times or footprint, it also is about choosing the right design and architecture. If you have a program where a given feature is used >1% of the time by >1% of the users and you keep it in new version, you have "non-optimized" code. If that was a key function that some people use sometimes, then it is a good feature, no one is going to pay 200$ for MS Word unless it does something that notepad doesn't which is free, if you go cutting features out of your program to make it Optimized then you could end up with completely optimized version of ms word, that looks alot like Notepad
Joel: First of all, yes, you should hold onto a program in FORTRAN "just because it works." So since you have no fortran programers, and probably can't find a good one, what happens when your pay-roll program breaks, not have payroll for 4 months until you can get another written?
Once you completed the installation and booted your new Lycoris Desktop/LX system, you'll be greeted with a handsome X login window (KDM). A feature most of us don't use anyway, which has been an option in most distros for about 3 years now.
As a GNOME user, I didn't realize that with KDE 2.1x, the kpackage RPM management tool was integrated with the desktop so that it would launch when you double-click an RPM file in Konqueror. looks like thats a KDE feature, which is avalible with every major distro
Other than Samba, no other system daemons that could be security risks are running this i feel actually is a feature, i've always thought it was dumb to by default install and run 17 daemons that home users really aren't going to use.
And the linux desktop isn't going to appear over night, it's going to take lots of apps, mainly game and business app support. When you can buy a game with a linux binary and windows on the same cd.
If you use Back Orifice, or netbus or any of the other fake hacker tools like that, is it the attacker or the victim that has to pay for the extra license or be scared of the M$ SWAT team?
It looks to me like they copied the page exactly from MS, changed the background to black(which is why the pictures looke crappy) and added small comments, It's nice to have a collection of most certs in one place, but at least make it look like you wrote it.
The next-generation Graphics Device Interface is part of Windows XP, meaning that the operating system itself could be at risk.
the colors were just screaming security flaw already weren't they?
Yet, the incident seemingly proves that Microsoft, despite dismissing open-source code publicly, has used software from others to create their own products.
And now they are forced to admit what we already knew, they haven't written anything original since...well...ever!:P
The zlib compression library doesn't use the GPL, however. and the war between MS and GPL coninues, maybe the linux community could use Anime-based uniforms to storm microsoft and take the code back.
I've seen studies about thermal reflecting suits, which i would assume you could wear over this suit(not that we're going to see this anytime in the future anyway) that would reflect the heat emmited by your body back, and make you nearly invisible to thermal dectection, if worn properly i believe the studies and testing said that you had about 2 hours before the suit heated enouh to be shown.
probably through nuclear fission, so that when you kill one of these "anime warriors" you not only kill him, but his side, your side, a three square mile area around him. So we get about 15 of these, go into enmy territory and split up, let them shoot first and *poof* we win( didn't they try that in WWII?)
Supercharged shoes could release energy when soldiers jump, propelling them over a 20-foot wall.
-What happens after the wall, is there also a parachute, or are you just supposed to land after your 20 foot fall.
Micoreactors could detect bleeding and apply pressure.
-So that the enemies crackers can cut off circulation in battle to help their side
Light-deflecting material could make the suit blend in with surroundings.
-So that the number of soilders hurt or killed by friendly fire increases.
MIT's research centers had been working on nanotechnology ideas long before getting involved with the Army, but not with military applications in mind. -Isn't that how it always happens, soon the MIT reasercher will make a peace time achievment award.
the system the article was talking about was not an imac it was a gateway fashioned in the imac style *not an imac*, and firewire has been a part of apple's computers for some time now, but it's just now chatching on with the pcs thats why i posted
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By putting a computer in a desk, as in permanently mounting it there,
1.you loose the portability,
2.get a crappier desk/pc at twice the cost of buying a like desk and computer separately,
3.loose some of the ability to upgrade,
I'm assuming the pc is able to get out of the desk, but your limited in case size and shape. On top of all that my desk that I've had for years has a place to put a mid-size tower in it with plenty of room for ventilation on all sizes, and poof my computer is built into the desk, without the added cost and bad materials.
NT admins have had this philosophy for years, although most people trust Microsoft less and with good reason.
If this technology is as good as they say it is, this will do very well in the presentations and home theater markets if their price comes down(we know this isn't going to cost less than 900$ when it comes out) and they can support the sizes that plasma can. With their smaller size and weight it will be much easier to mount the televison to the wall and so digital picture frames and the like, however their increased price may stop that from happing in the next 15 years.
With this decision they will apparently be deciding if and when an actual non-profit organization can have a .org domain(what the top-level domain was designed for) and stop companies from buying .org addrs to go with their net and com ones.
.org domains. Hopefully the ICANN will properly saction org domains and not try to hurt people using them now. Or for profit companys who need to use them.
However this also poses a domain squatting and slanderous sites to be able to have domains like microsoft.org for instance(i of course like microsoft as little as the next guy) but if someone owns the site a mistyped url could hurt smaller businesses, and geniune orginzations who should have the
When will a consumer version be anywhere near that, and why do we really need to have 11mpixels for most shots, after 2mpix it was really hard to tell the difference anyway.
The company has developed an artificial intelligence system that learns a gamer's style of play and can take over and play for them if they have to spend time away from the game.
So If i'm not very good at a game the ai wont be either? Even so this could be exploitable and used to be better at a game than a friend, we all remeber zbot from quake2.
He said many players of online games become frustrated because their lifestyle limited their interaction with a game world.
but in a stragagy game you can run when nature calls and be mostly ok
Typically they involve creating lots of slightly different solutions to a problem, testing to see which perform best and then taking and randomly mutating these to produce a new batch that are again tested, mutated and so on.
They should focus this advanced AI on the computer players of the game not into an autopilot mode.
The way most things are going they should allow you to have a secured web interface on the PVR to allow you to configure it from the internet or using a direct dialin connection. I also haven't seen any pictures but if it is expandable to 320GB it's probably not going to fit on a tv.
Just becuase it runs on a version of linux doesn't make it special, now if they gave you the option to install whatever os you wanted and set it up the way you want, that would be different.
this week, but how many did spiderman have at open?
Another example of that thinking: Neeleman gives all JetBlue pilots and technicians a laptop computer so they can get procedure changes online from the FAA. That way, there's no chance they'll miss a memo
So we'll have pilots playing quake in the cockpit, that doesn't sit well with me.
It's also in war the economy booms, we are now just coming off the gulf war, so with this we will be good for a few years
I seems the interviewer didn't care what he said, and was just asking the questions he/she wanted to,
Do you still use e-mail as a way of sending commercial messages to a mass audience?
i gathered that he used USENet not e-mail.
So, you're not sending unsolicited e-mail anymore?
I've never heard usenet being called e-mail.
The states also want Microsoft to divulge the blueprints for its Internet Explorer browser.
Microsoft, like most software firms, jealously guards its technical data.
I don't really like the term blue print for source code, the source is more that the blue prints it's the building materials, labor, blue prints, land, and building inspection all toether. With blue prints you can find materals to build a house with and use them accordingly,with source all you need is a compiler, and you have the product they created. This entire article in my opionon was written to make the whole of america believe what most slashdot readers already know, MS is evil, they are not however telling nontechnical america the real reasons why the anti-trust lawsuits started, why they should realease there source, or how they have put their competiotors on the brink of bankrupsy.
I will hold you personally liable," he said. "I will seek damages for every hour that I'm in custody."
This made a good impression i'm sure.
honestly think that Sun's Solaris platform does not have much of a future. They will see their market share shrinking to the rarefied world of mainframe-class machines while Linux steadily erodes from below. And if Sun abandons Solaris to start selling Linux boxes, they're just making commodity boxes, which doesn't justify Sun's current cost structure.
I thought sun was stoping the i386 version of solaris to only make it for sparc, not make i386 workstations with linux installed.
Optimization is not merely about reducing run times or footprint, it also is about choosing the right design and architecture. If you have a program where a given feature is used >1% of the time by >1% of the users and you keep it in new version, you have "non-optimized" code. If that was a key function that some people use sometimes, then it is a good feature, no one is going to pay 200$ for MS Word unless it does something that notepad doesn't which is free, if you go cutting features out of your program to make it Optimized then you could end up with completely optimized version of ms word, that looks alot like Notepad
Joel: First of all, yes, you should hold onto a program in FORTRAN "just because it works."
So since you have no fortran programers, and probably can't find a good one, what happens when your pay-roll program breaks, not have payroll for 4 months until you can get another written?
Once you completed the installation and booted your new Lycoris Desktop/LX system, you'll be greeted with a handsome X login window (KDM).
A feature most of us don't use anyway, which has been an option in most distros for about 3 years now.
As a GNOME user, I didn't realize that with KDE 2.1x, the kpackage RPM management tool was integrated with the desktop so that it would launch when you double-click an RPM file in Konqueror.
looks like thats a KDE feature, which is avalible with every major distro
Other than Samba, no other system daemons that could be security risks are running
this i feel actually is a feature, i've always thought it was dumb to by default install and run 17 daemons that home users really aren't going to use.
And the linux desktop isn't going to appear over night, it's going to take lots of apps, mainly game and business app support. When you can buy a game with a linux binary and windows on the same cd.
If you use Back Orifice, or netbus or any of the other fake hacker tools like that, is it the attacker or the victim that has to pay for the extra license or be scared of the M$ SWAT team?
It looks to me like they copied the page exactly from MS, changed the background to black(which is why the pictures looke crappy) and added small comments, It's nice to have a collection of most certs in one place, but at least make it look like you wrote it.
The next-generation Graphics Device Interface is part of Windows XP, meaning that the operating system itself could be at risk.
:P
the colors were just screaming security flaw already weren't they?
Yet, the incident seemingly proves that Microsoft, despite dismissing open-source code publicly, has used software from others to create their own products.
And now they are forced to admit what we already knew, they haven't written anything original since...well...ever!
The zlib compression library doesn't use the GPL, however.
and the war between MS and GPL coninues, maybe the linux community could use Anime-based uniforms to storm microsoft and take the code back.
I've seen studies about thermal reflecting suits, which i would assume you could wear over this suit(not that we're going to see this anytime in the future anyway) that would reflect the heat emmited by your body back, and make you nearly invisible to thermal dectection, if worn properly i believe the studies and testing said that you had about 2 hours before the suit heated enouh to be shown.
probably through nuclear fission, so that when you kill one of these "anime warriors" you not only kill him, but his side, your side, a three square mile area around him. So we get about 15 of these, go into enmy territory and split up, let them shoot first and *poof* we win( didn't they try that in WWII?)
That was the inspired by anime aspect of the article.
Supercharged shoes could release energy when soldiers jump, propelling them over a 20-foot wall.
-What happens after the wall, is there also a parachute, or are you just supposed to land after your 20 foot fall.
Micoreactors could detect bleeding and apply pressure.
-So that the enemies crackers can cut off circulation in battle to help their side
Light-deflecting material could make the suit blend in with surroundings.
-So that the number of soilders hurt or killed by friendly fire increases.
MIT's research centers had been working on nanotechnology ideas long before getting involved with the Army, but not with military applications in mind.
-Isn't that how it always happens, soon the MIT reasercher will make a peace time achievment award.
the system the article was talking about was not an imac it was a gateway fashioned in the imac style *not an imac*, and firewire has been a part of apple's computers for some time now, but it's just now chatching on with the pcs thats why i posted