How big are most non-profit organizations? Assuming one computer/person, that's a 15 member organization, if they all need to use computers. However, in some cases (such as a local animal shelter), I could see a use for maybe one or two computers for records and book keeping. The law of diminishing returns then kicks in, by giving an animal shelter another computer, little benefit is realized. I'm curious what they mean by when they say 90% of organizations can't afford to network more then 15 computers. Do they need a network of more then 15 computers? If so, what type of network do they try to buy? Does someone try to sell them state of the art 1 gigabit ethernet and switches when all they need a 10 megabit ethernet and a few hubs? By itself, the statistic is almost meaningless, we need other statistics to draw a conclusion.
Ignoring the fact that SDMI is crackable, and ignoring the reports that digital watermarking does interfere with the sound quality of certain music genres (such as jazz, I'm told), what's left - nothing!
Doesn't matter if they try to sell it or not, they will fail. Its simple, there are already good music formats out there, such as everyone's favorite - mp3. Encryption might allow SDMI to be able to sell to the PHBs, but John Q. Public will stick with mp3s, because mp3 is the defacto music compression scheme. There *is* no market for SDMI. If electronic music was the only means of distribution then it might be possible to keep music in a proprietary format (and I doubt it even then, due to the fact that it all has to be turned into sound), but with the big labels releasing music on CDs, its just one step away from being ripped to mp3. The only chance SDMI had to take ground away from mp3s was if the compression was better, say, 1/2 the size of an equivelant mp3. But since they decided to spend their money on implimenting a half-assed watermarking scheme, they are going to crash and burn, simple as that. I'm not going to rip all my cds again just for watermarking, neither is 99.999% of the people, and the mp3 traders won't, so who's left?
Tumbleweed writes: Unfortunately, it almost certainly won't spred into the general population unless it's done on purpose. Tetrachromat vision doesn't give any measurable survival advantage in the modern world, therefore it won't be in a majority of the 'surviving' population.
If you read the article, you could have avoided
shooting yourself in the foot.
From the article: Would there be any practical advantages to tetrachromacy? Dr. Jordan notes that a mother could more easily spot when her children were pale or flushed, and therefore ill. Mrs. M reports that she has always been able to match even subtle colors from memory -- buying a bag, for example, to match shoes she hasn't laid eyes on for months. And computers, color monitors, and the Internet raise a whole raft of possibilities. Just as someone with normal three-color vision surfs rings around a dichromat on the Internet, a tetrachromat, looking at a special computer screen based on four primary colors rather than the standard three, could theoretically dump data into her head faster than the rest of us.
So, Tetrachromatics have an increased chance of catching diseases in their children (improving offspring's chance of survival), can match outfits better (improving attractiveness and desirability), and might be able to intake more data.
Not sure how this sounded to you, but I'd say that the genes for Tetrachromatics are beneficial (at least to the female half of our population).
Now just imagine if we had a beowulf cluster of these? We could analyze all the pictures of Natalie Portman (petrified, of course), in their true tetrachromatic glory! I already have a name for it: Project Hotgrits.
Neuneu writes: Heroin got a lot of loosers hooked, should we display drugs in museums? I don't think so.
Why not? H. Sapiens seems to be a huge user of mind altering substances, yet when I go to a museum, the only drug I see is a rare reference to alcohol or tobacco. Unless ancient cultures were a lot more victorian in their drug use then ours, I'm guessing that the museum's picture is flawed.
Drugs, illegal and legal, are a huge part of life. Coffee, tea, and pop are consumed daily by millions of people, as is tobacco and alcohol. Millions of dollars has been spent on controlling the illegal drug trade and treating legal and illegal drug abuse. Some legal drugs are literal lifesavers, others just improve the quality of life, such as pain relievers. What drugs are used tells a lot about a society. Due to the resources and technology open to us, we are developing new drugs daily.
I don't know about you, but when I visit a museum, I would like to see an accurate representation of a period. That includes drugs, for drugs tell a lot about a society. Sure, drugs or video games might not be as highbrow as some other items, but it doesn't make them any less important. You shouldn't do revisionist history, and try to conceal what you don't like, for all you will end up doing is lying to yourself and others, making a mockery of the sciences involved.
The pay thing sucks, its not what you are being paid, its that there are others in the building that seem to be equally skilled, that are getting more. In any environment, this is going to cause problems.
Also, have you tried explaining to the powers that be that for every two hours that you privately tutor a secretary, it cost the university $20 (your time), and put you behind schedual? Heck, for every 30 or so secretaries, they put you a week behind schedual, and costs the university half a grand.
Oh, and if you are expected to help out the users in a university setting, I feel for you, especially if you are near one of the labs and the computer users know it. *Shudder* That job has some bad times. Plenty of "I've been using this floppy for 2 years and it has all my data on it, what do you mean its bad?" and "My computer just froze, and I'm almost done writing my term paper" (no save, of course). Unless you have an understanding boss (I never did), it can be a horrible job. You are considered a god when you fix some trivial problem, but you quickly become a witch when the problem can't be solved, and witches are burned at the stake.
Now you filled my head with bad memories, I'm gonna stand in the corner and bang my head against the wall.
Later there was Walter Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz," which talked about a post-nuclear war US in which guarding a nuclear facility becomes a religious ritual, not science.
Er, what? "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is one of my favorite books, and a hidden classic of Sci Fi, IMHO, and it does not have any incident of a religious group guarding a nucler facility.
The book takes place in 3 parts. All the parts involve a Monestry, somewhere in the southwest, who were involved with the storage of knowlege after a nuclear holocaust. Although the holocaust does not take place during the events of the book, one is told that the population rose up against the idea of knowledge, and tried to destroy all sources of knowlege. The Order of Leibowitz was dedicated to preserving this knowledge, by memorizing books and by smuggling them. The first part of the book takes place around 600? years after the holocaust, and involves the order undercoving some evidence about the life of Leibowitz, which would presumably help the attempt fot Leibowitz's sainthood.
The second part involves the state of Texarkana expanding into an empire, and the power struggle between it and New Rome. This part of the book has one of my favorite lines, after the chief Hogan Os finds out that he has been betrayed, he vents his rage in the directions of his enemies, and also heavenwards, the latter accomplished by "burning a shaman a day." (Sorry, don't have the book atm, loaned it to a friend, otherwise I could give the exact quote.) In this section humanity is regaining the skills that it once had, there are primitive firearms, and electricity has been discovered again. It also has one of the most colorful characters in the book, a man named Poet.
The final third of the book has the Texarkana Empire stretched out so it controls most of North America. The empire is at a state of hostilities with another nation, and there is the threat of nuclear destruction once again.
Take a small icy moon of a large gas giant. The tides heat up the ice to form a liquid ocean under a small layer of ice. Under the ice is nice water, above it is vacuum, or what passes as vacuum, perhaps a very low atmosphere, like our moon has. (Look up Europa, for an example.) Lets say life evolves in this nice wet world. On Europa, the ice sometimes splits, letting the water contact vacuum, where it both boils and flash freezes. Probably, most of the time, any life forms in that water die, but suppose one has the adaptation that allows it to survive in a vacuum. Maybe it has a harder crystaline "shell" that protects from the effects of a vacuum. Maybe its something else. Perhaps it would go in stasis, in which bacteria can survive thousands of years in a low energy state. Sooner or later the ice is recycled back into the "ocean" of the planet, it melts, and our vacuum hardy friend survives and goes on to make the next generation, with a blessing by Darwin himself. Let some time pass and now we have the surface ice on the planet loaded with millions of freeze-dried stasis creatures. Lets give another one of these a random mutation so it doesn't need to go into stasis, instead it finds some way of "eating" the ice in the vacuum, and lives off a combination of photosynthesis for energy and impurities in the ice for building materials. We just need a meteor to come along at the right angle and speed to knock a few of these into space, where they spend long periods of time in stasis, only becoming active when they "bump" into cosmic dust or any other thing they use for food while at the same time using photosynthesis for energy. Heck, give them enough time, they might be able to drift between stars (the starlight would be dim though, energy might be a problem). And, of course, there is no reason why they have to remain one-celled.
We have life forms on earth that survive inside of rocks, by hot geothermal vents, in the cold antartic, and buried thousands of feet down. Some bacteria can survive intense amounts of radiation. I'm seeing no reason why it shouldn't be possible for them to conquer space.
Caffiene does improve memory, if taken during/before the event one is trying to remember, IIRC. My college psychology teacher conducted a study on a North Dakota campus that helped to prove this effect. The teacher's name was MacPherson, the campus was either UMD or NDSU.
Amazingly enough, alcohol, under some circumstances, will also improve memory. If one studies for a test and then drinks some beer afterwords (not during), they have a better chance of remembering what they learned. The theory is that alcohol intake helps prevent new input and thus allows what happened before be remembered better. For the non-drinkers, sleep will do the same thing. (Of course, this is the exception rather then the rule, most of the time, alcohol use, especially heavy alcohol use, destroys memory.)
Speaking of drugs that are bad for you and yet can improve memory, I believe nicotine also does so. I remember reading a few years ago in a scientific journal that researchers had discovered the pathway that nicotine uses to help improve memory.
For the caffiene study, the effect was a moderate amount of caffine, due to the university's regulations, high doses of caffiene can't be tested on people. I'm guessing the study involving alcohol had a simular restriction.
Sure, geeks might switch to open source, if they haven't already, but the average user doesn't even know what linux is, or that there even *is* an alternative.
We are dealing with people who are lucky if they know the difference between an Athlon and a Pentium III. These are the sort of people who reply to the question "what kind of computer do you have" with "its a compaq" or "its an emachine".
No offense, but I'm guessing that the average user stays with Microsoft, and doesn't even blink an eye. Perhaps this is best for them. Microsoft keeps changing their file formats, at least this way the average joe is forced to upgrade. No more confusion about why the file they created at work/school can't be opened with an older version of the software at home.
As for myself, I've switched to Star Office about a year ago and haven't looked back.:) Simple text files are looking pretty good too.
Thinking about it, perhaps Firewire is the hard drive of choice. IIRC Firewire can transfer a lot more information then SCSI or lowly IDE. Does anyone know what is the top speed a firewire hard drive can tranfer data at, and the highest sustained speed? Throwing in the results for IDE and SCSI would be nice so we can compare.:)
Is there any other reason for not going firewire? Is anyone using a firewire drive atm? What's your experience with it?
Also, all the firewire drives I'm finding are external, anyone have an address for large capacity internal drives?
I'm guessing rounded cables improve airflow and might make it easier to route cables through wierd places.
However, don't ask me why they cut them instead of folding them. I took an old IDE cable and practiced with it, I can fold it into 1/4 its width with no difficulty, and it seems safer then cutting.
If you're going through college for a non-technical job, the only training you will get in computer applications is probably a class or two in a Microsoft product. The computer labs on a college campus usually run windows, and MS Office. Unless you are going to an institute of higher learning to be a programmer/sys admin, almost all of your experience will be in Microsoft products. When a secretary or an accountent is hired at your company, they need to learn an entirely new program to get their email. PHBs notice the increased employee training time. Don't assume your boss is dumb, he's probably ignorant of technical issues and making a call based on limited information.
Not that I'm advocating Exchange/Outlook. I prefer a less virus-friendly environment.
If plex86 runs win95, how far away is it from running win98 (especially win98SE)? I'm sure I'm not the only slashdot user that has no clue about the differences between 95 and 98, besides the obvious ones.
Oh, and congrats Plex86 team! You did one hell of a job.
Quite frankly, they are trying to milk the dune money making machine by doing prequels to the stories, and including the most well known characters from the original book. In doing so, they set themselves up for a horrible fall.
The Dune universe wasn't set up for prequels, it was set up for the events in Dune, and the books that followed it.
To continue the Dune universe, I'd either place the time far before the events in the first book, or after the events of the last book. Good ideas would be during the machine jihad and the rise of the mentats to replace them, how the Ix/Choam/Sisterhood/Imperial House formed, discovery of Dune & spice, or (after the last book) perhaps dealing with the free facedancers (a threat to the sisterhood?), or the God Emperor's seed of concious in all the sand worms.
But don't try to make a prequal by setting it only a few decades before the first book. It will be stale.
Not sure about you, but I love playing the older NES/SNES games that were never released in the states. Current fav is Tenchi Muyo for the SNES, a nicely done RPG that has a complete English Translation patch due to some wonderful hobbyists.
Never did get into Atari though, other then for the original frogger.
The reason why the terminator looked human was to infiltrate enemy bases. The first ones had rubber skin, and were spotted rather easily, but the later ones had living flesh over a machine frame. Of course, the humans started to use dogs then to 'recognize' the terminators.
There were other killing machines, such as the simple HK's, and the flying and large killing machines with tank treads.
I'm just getting the picture in starcraft where the one zergling "sees" the 20 or so marines, and leaves the safety of the group of 50 mixed zerg units to attack the marines. Unfortunately, it is killed before it even gets into range. The rest of the zerg group doesn't even move.
Saying that LSD came out of Berkeley is not exactly truthful. LSD was 'discovered' by a Swiss chemist in 1938 as he was searching for a headache medicine. Animal testing showed no painkilling properties, so he left it on his laboratory shelf. On April 16, 1943, he decided to do further testing on the drug and accidentally injested a small, unknown amount of LSD, thus experiencing the fun effects of LSD. (His diary entry about that day is rather interesting.) The US was first shipped LSD in 1949, and in the decade that followed, was tested on human beings to try to treat a variety of problems, including, but not limited to, alcoholism, schizophrenics, narcotics addicts, and criminals. Of course, it was found ineffective. (Source for this information.)
So, therefore, saying that BSD came out of Berkeley is like saying that Redhat "developed" Linux. Both might be instrumental in spreading the word about the respective product, but neither developed it.
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Its rather obvious now, isn't it?
First one reaches enlightenment, then one starts to use the penguin.
I haven't really noticed it, but now that you mention it, the mouse seems a little jumpy on this machine. However, that could be psycological in nature.
BUT this isn't a pressing problem for any GUI that I use. Windows has some huge problems, and Gnome needs work too (although they are both very fine products). If this was a simple fix, then I say go for it, knock yourself out if you are a programmer on a GUI, but, if this would take valuable resources away from bug fixes and more important feature requests, then don't do it.
I learned vi in about one hour when I needed to remotely edit a file on a linux machine. Arrow keys (or jkl;) are for moving, i is for inserting, cancels out of insertation, w saves, q quits, q! forces a quit without saving. Add cut, copy and paste, and that's all you need to know.
For actually word processing, there is Star Office, which is a lovely product, or, you could learn Emacs. (I haven't, but don't let that stop you =)
I believe that people forget how hard it was to learn how to use a specific program on a specific OS, and when they try to learn a new one, they are startled at how difficult it is. With all new software, its best to RTFM!
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How big are most non-profit organizations? Assuming one computer/person, that's a 15 member organization, if they all need to use computers. However, in some cases (such as a local animal shelter), I could see a use for maybe one or two computers for records and book keeping. The law of diminishing returns then kicks in, by giving an animal shelter another computer, little benefit is realized. I'm curious what they mean by when they say 90% of organizations can't afford to network more then 15 computers. Do they need a network of more then 15 computers? If so, what type of network do they try to buy? Does someone try to sell them state of the art 1 gigabit ethernet and switches when all they need a 10 megabit ethernet and a few hubs? By itself, the statistic is almost meaningless, we need other statistics to draw a conclusion.
Ignoring the fact that SDMI is crackable, and ignoring the reports that digital watermarking does interfere with the sound quality of certain music genres (such as jazz, I'm told), what's left - nothing!
Doesn't matter if they try to sell it or not, they will fail. Its simple, there are already good music formats out there, such as everyone's favorite - mp3. Encryption might allow SDMI to be able to sell to the PHBs, but John Q. Public will stick with mp3s, because mp3 is the defacto music compression scheme. There *is* no market for SDMI. If electronic music was the only means of distribution then it might be possible to keep music in a proprietary format (and I doubt it even then, due to the fact that it all has to be turned into sound), but with the big labels releasing music on CDs, its just one step away from being ripped to mp3. The only chance SDMI had to take ground away from mp3s was if the compression was better, say, 1/2 the size of an equivelant mp3. But since they decided to spend their money on implimenting a half-assed watermarking scheme, they are going to crash and burn, simple as that. I'm not going to rip all my cds again just for watermarking, neither is 99.999% of the people, and the mp3 traders won't, so who's left?
Tumbleweed writes: Unfortunately, it almost certainly won't spred into the general population unless it's done on purpose. Tetrachromat vision doesn't give any measurable survival advantage in the modern world, therefore it won't be in a majority of the 'surviving' population.
If you read the article, you could have avoided shooting yourself in the foot.
From the article: Would there be any practical advantages to tetrachromacy? Dr. Jordan notes that a mother could more easily spot when her children were pale or flushed, and therefore ill. Mrs. M reports that she has always been able to match even subtle colors from memory -- buying a bag, for example, to match shoes she hasn't laid eyes on for months. And computers, color monitors, and the Internet raise a whole raft of possibilities. Just as someone with normal three-color vision surfs rings around a dichromat on the Internet, a tetrachromat, looking at a special computer screen based on four primary colors rather than the standard three, could theoretically dump data into her head faster than the rest of us.
So, Tetrachromatics have an increased chance of catching diseases in their children (improving offspring's chance of survival), can match outfits better (improving attractiveness and desirability), and might be able to intake more data.
Not sure how this sounded to you, but I'd say that the genes for Tetrachromatics are beneficial (at least to the female half of our population).
Teenage Mutant Tetrachromat Females!
Now just imagine if we had a beowulf cluster of these? We could analyze all the pictures of Natalie Portman (petrified, of course), in their true tetrachromatic glory! I already have a name for it: Project Hotgrits.
Neuneu writes: Heroin got a lot of loosers hooked, should we display drugs in museums? I don't think so.
Why not? H. Sapiens seems to be a huge user of mind altering substances, yet when I go to a museum, the only drug I see is a rare reference to alcohol or tobacco. Unless ancient cultures were a lot more victorian in their drug use then ours, I'm guessing that the museum's picture is flawed.
Drugs, illegal and legal, are a huge part of life. Coffee, tea, and pop are consumed daily by millions of people, as is tobacco and alcohol. Millions of dollars has been spent on controlling the illegal drug trade and treating legal and illegal drug abuse. Some legal drugs are literal lifesavers, others just improve the quality of life, such as pain relievers. What drugs are used tells a lot about a society. Due to the resources and technology open to us, we are developing new drugs daily.
I don't know about you, but when I visit a museum, I would like to see an accurate representation of a period. That includes drugs, for drugs tell a lot about a society. Sure, drugs or video games might not be as highbrow as some other items, but it doesn't make them any less important. You shouldn't do revisionist history, and try to conceal what you don't like, for all you will end up doing is lying to yourself and others, making a mockery of the sciences involved.
The pay thing sucks, its not what you are being paid, its that there are others in the building that seem to be equally skilled, that are getting more. In any environment, this is going to cause problems.
Also, have you tried explaining to the powers that be that for every two hours that you privately tutor a secretary, it cost the university $20 (your time), and put you behind schedual? Heck, for every 30 or so secretaries, they put you a week behind schedual, and costs the university half a grand.
Oh, and if you are expected to help out the users in a university setting, I feel for you, especially if you are near one of the labs and the computer users know it. *Shudder* That job has some bad times. Plenty of "I've been using this floppy for 2 years and it has all my data on it, what do you mean its bad?" and "My computer just froze, and I'm almost done writing my term paper" (no save, of course). Unless you have an understanding boss (I never did), it can be a horrible job. You are considered a god when you fix some trivial problem, but you quickly become a witch when the problem can't be solved, and witches are burned at the stake.
Now you filled my head with bad memories, I'm gonna stand in the corner and bang my head against the wall.
Later there was Walter Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz," which talked about a post-nuclear war US in which guarding a nuclear facility becomes a religious ritual, not science.
Er, what? "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is one of my favorite books, and a hidden classic of Sci Fi, IMHO, and it does not have any incident of a religious group guarding a nucler facility.
The book takes place in 3 parts. All the parts involve a Monestry, somewhere in the southwest, who were involved with the storage of knowlege after a nuclear holocaust. Although the holocaust does not take place during the events of the book, one is told that the population rose up against the idea of knowledge, and tried to destroy all sources of knowlege. The Order of Leibowitz was dedicated to preserving this knowledge, by memorizing books and by smuggling them. The first part of the book takes place around 600? years after the holocaust, and involves the order undercoving some evidence about the life of Leibowitz, which would presumably help the attempt fot Leibowitz's sainthood.
The second part involves the state of Texarkana expanding into an empire, and the power struggle between it and New Rome. This part of the book has one of my favorite lines, after the chief Hogan Os finds out that he has been betrayed, he vents his rage in the directions of his enemies, and also heavenwards, the latter accomplished by "burning a shaman a day." (Sorry, don't have the book atm, loaned it to a friend, otherwise I could give the exact quote.) In this section humanity is regaining the skills that it once had, there are primitive firearms, and electricity has been discovered again. It also has one of the most colorful characters in the book, a man named Poet.
The final third of the book has the Texarkana Empire stretched out so it controls most of North America. The empire is at a state of hostilities with another nation, and there is the threat of nuclear destruction once again.
All in all, its a great book.
I believe Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions Stranger in a Strange Land (definately referring to the book).
Take a small icy moon of a large gas giant. The tides heat up the ice to form a liquid ocean under a small layer of ice. Under the ice is nice water, above it is vacuum, or what passes as vacuum, perhaps a very low atmosphere, like our moon has. (Look up Europa, for an example.) Lets say life evolves in this nice wet world. On Europa, the ice sometimes splits, letting the water contact vacuum, where it both boils and flash freezes. Probably, most of the time, any life forms in that water die, but suppose one has the adaptation that allows it to survive in a vacuum. Maybe it has a harder crystaline "shell" that protects from the effects of a vacuum. Maybe its something else. Perhaps it would go in stasis, in which bacteria can survive thousands of years in a low energy state. Sooner or later the ice is recycled back into the "ocean" of the planet, it melts, and our vacuum hardy friend survives and goes on to make the next generation, with a blessing by Darwin himself. Let some time pass and now we have the surface ice on the planet loaded with millions of freeze-dried stasis creatures. Lets give another one of these a random mutation so it doesn't need to go into stasis, instead it finds some way of "eating" the ice in the vacuum, and lives off a combination of photosynthesis for energy and impurities in the ice for building materials. We just need a meteor to come along at the right angle and speed to knock a few of these into space, where they spend long periods of time in stasis, only becoming active when they "bump" into cosmic dust or any other thing they use for food while at the same time using photosynthesis for energy. Heck, give them enough time, they might be able to drift between stars (the starlight would be dim though, energy might be a problem). And, of course, there is no reason why they have to remain one-celled.
We have life forms on earth that survive inside of rocks, by hot geothermal vents, in the cold antartic, and buried thousands of feet down. Some bacteria can survive intense amounts of radiation. I'm seeing no reason why it shouldn't be possible for them to conquer space.
Caffiene does improve memory, if taken during/before the event one is trying to remember, IIRC. My college psychology teacher conducted a study on a North Dakota campus that helped to prove this effect. The teacher's name was MacPherson, the campus was either UMD or NDSU.
Amazingly enough, alcohol, under some circumstances, will also improve memory. If one studies for a test and then drinks some beer afterwords (not during), they have a better chance of remembering what they learned. The theory is that alcohol intake helps prevent new input and thus allows what happened before be remembered better. For the non-drinkers, sleep will do the same thing. (Of course, this is the exception rather then the rule, most of the time, alcohol use, especially heavy alcohol use, destroys memory.)
Speaking of drugs that are bad for you and yet can improve memory, I believe nicotine also does so. I remember reading a few years ago in a scientific journal that researchers had discovered the pathway that nicotine uses to help improve memory.
For the caffiene study, the effect was a moderate amount of caffine, due to the university's regulations, high doses of caffiene can't be tested on people. I'm guessing the study involving alcohol had a simular restriction.
Sure, geeks might switch to open source, if they haven't already, but the average user doesn't even know what linux is, or that there even *is* an alternative.
:) Simple text files are looking pretty good too.
We are dealing with people who are lucky if they know the difference between an Athlon and a Pentium III. These are the sort of people who reply to the question "what kind of computer do you have" with "its a compaq" or "its an emachine".
No offense, but I'm guessing that the average user stays with Microsoft, and doesn't even blink an eye. Perhaps this is best for them. Microsoft keeps changing their file formats, at least this way the average joe is forced to upgrade. No more confusion about why the file they created at work/school can't be opened with an older version of the software at home.
As for myself, I've switched to Star Office about a year ago and haven't looked back.
Thinking about it, perhaps Firewire is the hard drive of choice. IIRC Firewire can transfer a lot more information then SCSI or lowly IDE. Does anyone know what is the top speed a firewire hard drive can tranfer data at, and the highest sustained speed? Throwing in the results for IDE and SCSI would be nice so we can compare. :)
Is there any other reason for not going firewire? Is anyone using a firewire drive atm? What's your experience with it?
Also, all the firewire drives I'm finding are external, anyone have an address for large capacity internal drives?
I'm guessing rounded cables improve airflow and might make it easier to route cables through wierd places.
However, don't ask me why they cut them instead of folding them. I took an old IDE cable and practiced with it, I can fold it into 1/4 its width with no difficulty, and it seems safer then cutting.
When I first looked at this I thought:
:)
P-P-P-P-P-chan! He's good for nothin'!
And guess what, if the pentium 5 sucks, just replace "chan" with "pentium" and use the proper pronoun.
(My apologizes to those who don't get this joke. I'm a sad, sad soul who watches far too much anime.)
If you're going through college for a non-technical job, the only training you will get in computer applications is probably a class or two in a Microsoft product. The computer labs on a college campus usually run windows, and MS Office. Unless you are going to an institute of higher learning to be a programmer/sys admin, almost all of your experience will be in Microsoft products. When a secretary or an accountent is hired at your company, they need to learn an entirely new program to get their email. PHBs notice the increased employee training time. Don't assume your boss is dumb, he's probably ignorant of technical issues and making a call based on limited information.
Not that I'm advocating Exchange/Outlook. I prefer a less virus-friendly environment.
If plex86 runs win95, how far away is it from running win98 (especially win98SE)? I'm sure I'm not the only slashdot user that has no clue about the differences between 95 and 98, besides the obvious ones.
Oh, and congrats Plex86 team! You did one hell of a job.
Quite frankly, they are trying to milk the dune money making machine by doing prequels to the stories, and including the most well known characters from the original book. In doing so, they set themselves up for a horrible fall.
The Dune universe wasn't set up for prequels, it was set up for the events in Dune, and the books that followed it.
To continue the Dune universe, I'd either place the time far before the events in the first book, or after the events of the last book. Good ideas would be during the machine jihad and the rise of the mentats to replace them, how the Ix/Choam/Sisterhood/Imperial House formed, discovery of Dune & spice, or (after the last book) perhaps dealing with the free facedancers (a threat to the sisterhood?), or the God Emperor's seed of concious in all the sand worms.
But don't try to make a prequal by setting it only a few decades before the first book. It will be stale.
Not sure about you, but I love playing the older NES/SNES games that were never released in the states. Current fav is Tenchi Muyo for the SNES, a nicely done RPG that has a complete English Translation patch due to some wonderful hobbyists.
Never did get into Atari though, other then for the original frogger.
Hope that someone didn't already answer this...
The reason why the terminator looked human was to infiltrate enemy bases. The first ones had rubber skin, and were spotted rather easily, but the later ones had living flesh over a machine frame. Of course, the humans started to use dogs then to 'recognize' the terminators.
There were other killing machines, such as the simple HK's, and the flying and large killing machines with tank treads.
(I just rewatched that movie the other night)
I'm just getting the picture in starcraft where the one zergling "sees" the 20 or so marines, and leaves the safety of the group of 50 mixed zerg units to attack the marines. Unfortunately, it is killed before it even gets into range. The rest of the zerg group doesn't even move.
I wonder if the weapon's AI will be smarter.
Saying that LSD came out of Berkeley is not exactly truthful. LSD was 'discovered' by a Swiss chemist in 1938 as he was searching for a headache medicine. Animal testing showed no painkilling properties, so he left it on his laboratory shelf. On April 16, 1943, he decided to do further testing on the drug and accidentally injested a small, unknown amount of LSD, thus experiencing the fun effects of LSD. (His diary entry about that day is rather interesting.) The US was first shipped LSD in 1949, and in the decade that followed, was tested on human beings to try to treat a variety of problems, including, but not limited to, alcoholism, schizophrenics, narcotics addicts, and criminals. Of course, it was found ineffective. (Source for this information.)
So, therefore, saying that BSD came out of Berkeley is like saying that Redhat "developed" Linux. Both might be instrumental in spreading the word about the respective product, but neither developed it.
Its rather obvious now, isn't it?
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First one reaches enlightenment, then one starts to use the penguin.
I haven't really noticed it, but now that you mention it, the mouse seems a little jumpy on this machine. However, that could be psycological in nature.
BUT this isn't a pressing problem for any GUI that I use. Windows has some huge problems, and Gnome needs work too (although they are both very fine products). If this was a simple fix, then I say go for it, knock yourself out if you are a programmer on a GUI, but, if this would take valuable resources away from bug fixes and more important feature requests, then don't do it.
I learned vi in about one hour when I needed to remotely edit a file on a linux machine. Arrow keys (or jkl;) are for moving, i is for inserting, cancels out of insertation, w saves, q quits, q! forces a quit without saving. Add cut, copy and paste, and that's all you need to know.
For actually word processing, there is Star Office, which is a lovely product, or, you could learn Emacs. (I haven't, but don't let that stop you =)
I believe that people forget how hard it was to learn how to use a specific program on a specific OS, and when they try to learn a new one, they are startled at how difficult it is. With all new software, its best to RTFM!
According to some news sources (cnn, etc) the Oregon vote is still too close to call. Now if Gore takes Oregon, he has 267 electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 votes to win. Each state has a minimum of 3 electoral votes (2 senators + 1 (minimum) house member). Looking at the states, New Hampshire was given to Bush with a difference of less then 8000 votes (abcnews). If there are still absentee votes for New Hampshire, or a miscount, then Bush can take Florida and Gore could still win.
Of course, this is all very hypothetical and has almost no chance of happening. But it is an interesting "what-if" game to play.