I'll make a new Linux Distro and call it SmallNix or something but it will be the kernel on a floppy and then when you need drivers it will go to an ftp site and get them, same if you want any packages. And it will only cost 40$ for a boxed set with a manual.
"For example, say that you recently installed RealNetworks RealPlayer to watch some streaming video on the Web, but now it wants to play all of your MP3 files, instead of your favorite player, Winamp. You want to switch it back to the way it was, but you don't want to uninstall RealPlayer or reinstall Winamp. How is it done? Do you know?"
Or you could pay attention while you are installing RealPlayer and only tell it to use ra and ram files, oh yea they don't have WINamp on linux, it's X86Amp and mpg123 is better.
". And the phrase could just as easily be the ethos of Linux distribution vendors. But big Linux distributions packed with thousands of apps are likely to leave the average desktop user dazed and confused."
They don't do it to confuse you they do it so you have a choice about 5-10 of those thousand apps is window managers, I personally like KDE, but I know many people who much prefer GNOME, and I know some that use nextStep/AfterStep, or even wvm/wvm95. Its all a matter of preference.
"Does the average user really need a bunch of terminal apps, several hex editors, a mail and Web server, and a bevy of compilers? Heck, the average developer doesn't even need all that." Yeah but we would all be mad if they didn't. Maybe not Johnny Q. WindowsUser but all the geeks and nerds would be.
"conservative roster of applications, including an email client; a Web browser; office tools such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, and presentation apps; an image editor; a media player; an HTML editor; Telnet, FTP, and other network utilities."
To make us pay for any other things we may need?, or make us download them, some people don't have cable or a T1 running to their house(but we all should)."Secondly, Linux is too much for most people to handle. For Linux to succeed on the desktop, the people who need to like it don't care about open source or packages or GNU."
MEMS devices are extremely small machines. They are about one to ten millimeters in size, which makes them smaller than the width of a human hair. The individual components of a MEMS machine are one-thousandth of a millimeter, or a micron, in size. Some MEMS gears, for example, are 100 microns tall, with gear teeth 5 microns wide. MEMS technology is sometimes referred to as micron-scale manufacturing.
I do care how fast encryption can be broken, and you should too. It should also serve as an example to not let the government get like they did in france because in 5 years the best encryption we have will broken by one computer in a matter of minutes, of for frances case a few seconds.
"Critics of video games have claimed that such toys have contributed to short attention spans and lack of focus in children. "
I don't know what games they have been playing but even a game like Resident Evil much less a game real-time strategy games, or many others, I think that games actually tend to increase attention span. Because games now for the most part make you think throughout the game, unless it's like quake and most people will play that for a long period of time.
"...the target audience is kids who have trouble concentrating or sitting still to do their homework, have little motivation or are hyperactive. "
Its great that they have finally solved how to fix this, but how do you know that the child wants to play the game it doesn't sound like much fun to me.
typically the honey pot will be on a subnet with just its self, with far to many services running than necessary but not so many that it seem obvious. Then it is heavly loged not to procecute people but to find out how they are trying and make sure their real servers can't be cracked in this way. But if they do break into a real server then you can see how they did and possibly be able to find them.
Then the government would create their own software for it and in 5 years put it into private beta, only a limited number of functions, so that it can be evaluated and then 2 years later it will be implemented on a small number of schools and libraries as a focus group to further evaluated the software and then finally release a very buggy version, then by the time hotfixes and patches are applied it will be 2010. Kinda like what they did with carnivore.
"For more than ten years CDC has been involved with the defense of micro broadcasters who went on the air at a time when the FCC refused to license low power stations. We argued that those rules were unconstitutional, and the risk of losing in court was one factor in the FCC changing its position and authorizing LPFM. " "....after months of intensive lobbying, NPR and the NAB convinced Congress to quietly kill the service, and prevent schools, libraries, community groups and local government from operating low watt stations."
isn't that stopping free speech? And isn't that like an amendment or something?!? Maybe the First amendment? So unless you had a lot of money and were able to pay and get lots of advertisers and equipment you don't get radio. That's fair.
"A single PlayStation can generate up to 75 million polygons per second. Polygons, as noted in the DIA report, are the basic units used to generate the surface of 3-D models -- extremely useful in military design and modeling applications."
The governments of the world don't want him to have computers powerful enough to do anything but play pac-man and a ps2 has enough computing power to calculate any one of a thousand military computations, design new bombs and aircraft these things would take years with their computers. The same reason that one version of the ps2 is not for export to any country. With these he could create a cluster and have a mainframe. That would be pretty cool though a cluster of PS2s take on ASCI white.
Java is very good for cross-platform computing but under testing circumstances I think a faster and more operating system specific program would be a better choice. Java is also not generally only used with web-browsers which would make cheating much easier, giving students access to other parts of the operating system which could help students on parts of the test.
"autoslack will look at your machine and a distribution tree of your choice and tell you what packages can be removed, upgrade, or new ones that can be installed. Optionally it can download those packages and/or perform the actual package operation."
I remember when slack was one of the most difficult distributions to setup and maintain, I think it was a very good idea for them to become a more accessible distribution and appeal to more people, without losing their original customer-base. AutoSlack will help in that process but is not necessary to run Slack.
It would take a traditional computer 447 years to solve the first equations that were constructed, according to Michael Mott, a spokesperson for NuTec Sciences, Inc. That's a long time to wait for the health miracles promised by the decoding DNA.
I'm sure than in only 47 years not 447, that there will be pcs that can put ascii white to shame.
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actually a minium install for linux can be 1.44mb, thats kernel, shell, and a couple other utils.
I'll make a new Linux Distro and call it SmallNix or something but it will be the kernel on a floppy and then when you need drivers it will go to an ftp site and get them, same if you want any packages. And it will only cost 40$ for a boxed set with a manual.
"For example, say that you recently installed RealNetworks RealPlayer to watch some streaming video on the Web, but now it wants to play all of your MP3 files, instead of your favorite player, Winamp. You want to switch it back to the way it was, but you don't want to uninstall RealPlayer or reinstall Winamp. How is it done? Do you know?"
Or you could pay attention while you are installing RealPlayer and only tell it to use ra and ram files, oh yea they don't have WINamp on linux, it's X86Amp and mpg123 is better.
". And the phrase could just as easily be the ethos of Linux distribution vendors. But big Linux distributions packed with thousands of apps are likely to leave the average desktop user dazed and confused."
They don't do it to confuse you they do it so you have a choice about 5-10 of those thousand apps is window managers, I personally like KDE, but I know many people who much prefer GNOME, and I know some that use nextStep/AfterStep, or even wvm/wvm95. Its all a matter of preference.
"Does the average user really need a bunch of terminal apps, several hex editors, a mail and Web server, and a bevy of compilers? Heck, the average developer doesn't even need all that."
Yeah but we would all be mad if they didn't. Maybe not Johnny Q. WindowsUser but all the geeks and nerds would be.
"conservative roster of applications, including an email client; a Web browser; office tools such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, and presentation apps; an image editor; a media player; an HTML editor; Telnet, FTP, and other network utilities."
To make us pay for any other things we may need?, or make us download them, some people don't have cable or a T1 running to their house(but we all should)."Secondly, Linux is too much for most people to handle. For Linux to succeed on the desktop, the people who need to like it don't care about open source or packages or GNU."
Then why do they really want linux?
I don't know but your prolly right.
MEMS devices are extremely small machines. They are about one to ten millimeters in size, which makes them smaller than the width of a human hair. The individual components of a MEMS machine are one-thousandth of a millimeter, or a micron, in size. Some MEMS gears, for example, are 100 microns tall, with gear teeth 5 microns wide. MEMS technology is sometimes referred to as micron-scale manufacturing.
Maybe in zero gravity with a protein rich diet 10+ mm hair strands could be achieved.
I do care how fast encryption can be broken, and you should too. It should also serve as an example to not let the government get like they did in france because in 5 years the best encryption we have will broken by one computer in a matter of minutes, of for frances case a few seconds.
Right but the idea of distributed.net is how fast can a key be broken with brute force.
I wouldn't say it to loud or sadaam will use seti to link his PS2s.
"Critics of video games have claimed that such toys have contributed to short attention spans and lack of focus in children. "
I don't know what games they have been playing but even a game like Resident Evil much less a game real-time strategy games, or many others, I think that games actually tend to increase attention span. Because games now for the most part make you think throughout the game, unless it's like quake and most people will play that for a long period of time.
"...the target audience is kids who have trouble concentrating or sitting still to do their homework, have little motivation or are hyperactive. "
Its great that they have finally solved how to fix this, but how do you know that the child wants to play the game it doesn't sound like much fun to me.
typically the honey pot will be on a subnet with just its self, with far to many services running than necessary but not so many that it seem obvious. Then it is heavly loged not to procecute people but to find out how they are trying and make sure their real servers can't be cracked in this way. But if they do break into a real server then you can see how they did and possibly be able to find them.
Then the government would create their own software for it and in 5 years put it into private beta, only a limited number of functions, so that it can be evaluated and then 2 years later it will be implemented on a small number of schools and libraries as a focus group to further evaluated the software and then finally release a very buggy version, then by the time hotfixes and patches are applied it will be 2010. Kinda like what they did with carnivore.
The FCC would say yes!
And if you want to be on the air slip us a bribe!
Right but you can say a lot more on the radio,even low power radio, than on a street corner with a bullhorn.
"For more than ten years CDC has been involved with the defense of micro broadcasters who went on the air at a time when the FCC refused to license low power stations. We argued that those rules were unconstitutional, and the risk of losing in court was one factor in the FCC changing its position and authorizing LPFM. "
"....after months of intensive lobbying, NPR and the NAB convinced Congress to quietly kill the service, and prevent schools, libraries, community groups and local government from operating low watt stations."
isn't that stopping free speech? And isn't that like an amendment or something?!? Maybe the First amendment? So unless you had a lot of money and were able to pay and get lots of advertisers and equipment you don't get radio. That's fair.
Where do you think he got them in the first place?
"A single PlayStation can generate up to 75 million polygons per second. Polygons, as noted in the DIA report, are the basic units used to generate the surface of 3-D models -- extremely useful in military design and modeling applications."
The governments of the world don't want him to have computers powerful enough to do anything but play pac-man and a ps2 has enough computing power to calculate any one of a thousand military computations, design new bombs and aircraft these things would take years with their computers. The same reason that one version of the ps2 is not for export to any country. With these he could create a cluster and have a mainframe. That would be pretty cool though a cluster of PS2s take on ASCI white.
Java is very good for cross-platform computing but under testing circumstances I think a faster and more operating system specific program would be a better choice. Java is also not generally only used with web-browsers which would make cheating much easier, giving students access to other parts of the operating system which could help students on parts of the test.
you can have a directory sturcture with the kenwood.
Slide Rule "No engineering student would dare venture out in public...without his (or her) slide rule in its 'holster' and hanging from the belt,"
Didn't they replace that with the calulator and more recently the laptop? Sometimes change is for the better.
"autoslack will look at your machine and a distribution tree of your choice and tell you what packages can be removed, upgrade, or new ones that can be installed. Optionally it can download those packages and/or perform the actual package operation."
I remember when slack was one of the most difficult distributions to setup and maintain, I think it was a very good idea for them to become a more accessible distribution and appeal to more people, without losing their original customer-base. AutoSlack will help in that process but is not necessary to run Slack.
I'm sure it wont be solitaire. Although a quake deathmatch would be very interesting.
Even though I don't agree with the project is is a much better use of an IBM mainframe than a chess game.
It would take a traditional computer 447 years to solve the first equations that were constructed, according to Michael Mott, a spokesperson for NuTec Sciences, Inc. That's a long time to wait for the health miracles promised by the decoding DNA.
I'm sure than in only 47 years not 447, that there will be pcs that can put ascii white to shame.
The kenwood z919 pays cd-rs that have mp3s on them, just like a computer would.