I think my macbook's backlit keyboard is pretty cool. Sometimes, like right now I'm in a dimly lit room and I don't feel like turning on a light. I've had many friends say that they wish their laptop's keyboard was backlight.
Why do I want this? I'm more than willing to get a piece of plastic out of my wallet or on my keychain to pay for something. I can't wait for the hack that lets people walk by you and get you to pay for things. It's bad enough credit cards have RFID tags in them now. I don't need my phone doing it too.
Convenience would be the only attractor. The security issues are a non-issue because the banks will be responsible just like with credit cards, not the card carrier. At this time, I think that my wallet is more convenient because I have to have it with me. Drivers license, insurance cards, etc. I don't have to have my phone with me, and I would rather not be forced to carry both a wallet and a cell phone in order to go about my day to day business. Put all of my IDs on the phone, and I'm OK with it. Actually, the latter would be better. Have some kind of self destruct on the phone and a way to retrieve all of my info in case of malfunction or loss, and I would be happy.
Imagine being able to buy the entire place a round of drinks with just the lift of a finger. Oh the power!
I haven't had to worry about spelling since I was in grade school. Since then spell checkers have done my spelling for me. I can't be the only one. I can't think of an occasion where I would be using written text without using a computer. If this were true, then I would also assume that the writing would have to be in longhand, and trust me, my handwriting is much worse than my spelling.
The nVidia Linux drivers came from DOE's Office of Science. I know the guy that funded the project. Now that GPGPUs are very common in science, and the nVidia drivers are already there, continuing to develop the drivers for Linux is in nVidia's best interest.
What distribution of Linux are you talking about? All this talk about drivers and stuff makes me think you are talking about Windows or something. The Linux I use has flawless support for OpenGL, Bluetooth, wifi, etc right out of the box. No HOWTOs or any of that needed. Same goes with all of my Apple products. I don't even know what or where drivers are for these things. Why should I?
You've given us rather little in regards to guidance.
Is this class part of a larger arc focusing on security? Programming?
It seems more like a community college class or something. I've never heard of a CS department that teaches "Linux". The CS, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology departments that I've dealt with in the past had a lab of computers that had some kind of OS on them and the students were told to get their programming project done using them.
Wanna teach them Linux? I would suggest giving them Android phones. All that silly CLI, KDE, and Gnome stuff is so 90s. They will learn Linux real good by swiping around and installing and uninstalling apps from the app store.
If necessary, it will be forked. Between OpenSFS and WhamCloud there will always be a home for lustre. WhamCloud already has contraclts with Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab. Oak Ridge already has the largest Lustre filesystem to date. And there is also DDN which supplies the hardware for most of the larger Lustre sites which has a local copy of Lustre that they distribute as well. Luistre is more than fine, its just a little lost finding a home at this time.
It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
To be pedantic, Floyd's "album art" stuff was only from 1973-1979 with DSOTM through The Wall. The earlier works were disjoint, very psychedelic songs up to 20 minutes in length. After the Wall the albums were more failed/loose attempts at complete album works. I have all of their albums, bootlegs, and I've seen them in concert. Oh, and when I saw them, they didn't play 2 songs back to back from a single album. I was actually disappointed in the concert. I much prefer their older material, but they did open with Astronome Domine and they did sling out a One of these Days...
If MS has something like all-you-can-watch video similar to the all-you-can-download subscription system for the Zune, it might be something worth considering.
However, why does MS need a TV set top box? They already have one... the XBox 360.
And this thing still left over from the 90s: http://www.webtv.com/pc/ Still looks like it belongs in the 90s with the big, ugly keyboard and the CRT 4:3 TV.
Even a non-microsoft apologist like myself can give MS credit where credit is due. They have persistance as if no one else on the planet has even heard of it. They can continuously throw engineers at horrible products until they become usable or even comperable if not even superior to other products (DirectX comes to mind).
I too welcome competition. Especially from Microsoft, because they have such a known brand. Its an uphill battle for them though, because they cannot seem to make things simple enough for embedded devices like TVs.
They never even define "popular". I would assume popular means the number of friends you have or some other metric. There are people on FB that have a good number of friends that are really obnoxious (at least to me) to have as friends on FB.
A friend of mine on FB who has over 4,000 friends is a nationally known guitar player/singer in a band.
I never understood why there is a hardware button that was SOOOO easy to hit by accident over something that could much easier and better been done with software.
Can all hardware vendors get away from the CAPLOCKS key?
There is a difference between patents and trademarks. Like copyright, you can trademark anything, and again like copyright, its up to the holder to defend it themselves. Trademarks are there to maintain brand integrity and recognition. Its OK, there is no controversy here. If a rapper wants to Donky Kong stuff, I don't see where this would be a trademark violation because they are in entirely different businesses, and there is no way to confuse Mr Rapper with Nintendo.
I'm actually reading a book about filesystems with a focus on the BFS from Be Inc. The author in it actually says that renaming a file is the most complicated operation on a file. Before the file is renamed, lots of validation must take place in some implementations a rename locks the entire filesystem. The source and destination must be verified to be reachable and unused. The rename could go into another directory, so its must do the proper checks there as well. There are edge cases if the source or destination is a directory.
Its still seems like an O(1) maybe with a big 1, but this author spent a considerable amount of time on renaming.
Give it up. Some people feel compelled on social networking sites to complain about people using social networking sites. I guess/. is different in that you don't have to use your real name.
I have been having issue after issue with the power supplies in pretty much every dell I run. We really like to run the SFF style units and they use a specially sized power supply. Dell refuses to acknowledge that there is an issue even though I have a 25% failure rate in power supplies at the one year mark.
I have to call BS here. Dell servers come with 3 year maintenance at a minimum and will replace the power supplies. Power supplies are a known failure point on machines, and on those that care they get redundant ones. Also, I've never heard of SFF servers.
I work with well over $2mil of Dell servers and more than that from other vendors. I prefer Dells.
Be patient, in 10 years.porn,.adult and.sex will be available as well. This will help to eliminate any confusion. TLDs are getting better all the time. What would we do without.mobi,.name,.museum,.biz,.coop,.info,.int,.jobs,.pro,.tel, and.travel?
TLDs are bullshit. Just search slashdot.com or slashdot.net if you don't believe me.
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I think my macbook's backlit keyboard is pretty cool. Sometimes, like right now I'm in a dimly lit room and I don't feel like turning on a light. I've had many friends say that they wish their laptop's keyboard was backlight.
Each to their own.
ubuntu is to debian as firefox is to gecko
Why do I want this? I'm more than willing to get a piece of plastic out of my wallet or on my keychain to pay for something. I can't wait for the hack that lets people walk by you and get you to pay for things. It's bad enough credit cards have RFID tags in them now. I don't need my phone doing it too.
Convenience would be the only attractor. The security issues are a non-issue because the banks will be responsible just like with credit cards, not the card carrier. At this time, I think that my wallet is more convenient because I have to have it with me. Drivers license, insurance cards, etc. I don't have to have my phone with me, and I would rather not be forced to carry both a wallet and a cell phone in order to go about my day to day business. Put all of my IDs on the phone, and I'm OK with it. Actually, the latter would be better. Have some kind of self destruct on the phone and a way to retrieve all of my info in case of malfunction or loss, and I would be happy.
Imagine being able to buy the entire place a round of drinks with just the lift of a finger. Oh the power!
I haven't had to worry about spelling since I was in grade school. Since then spell checkers have done my spelling for me. I can't be the only one. I can't think of an occasion where I would be using written text without using a computer. If this were true, then I would also assume that the writing would have to be in longhand, and trust me, my handwriting is much worse than my spelling.
The nVidia Linux drivers came from DOE's Office of Science. I know the guy that funded the project. Now that GPGPUs are very common in science, and the nVidia drivers are already there, continuing to develop the drivers for Linux is in nVidia's best interest.
What distribution of Linux are you talking about? All this talk about drivers and stuff makes me think you are talking about Windows or something. The Linux I use has flawless support for OpenGL, Bluetooth, wifi, etc right out of the box. No HOWTOs or any of that needed. Same goes with all of my Apple products. I don't even know what or where drivers are for these things. Why should I?
You've given us rather little in regards to guidance.
Is this class part of a larger arc focusing on security?
Programming?
It seems more like a community college class or something. I've never heard of a CS department that teaches "Linux". The CS, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology departments that I've dealt with in the past had a lab of computers that had some kind of OS on them and the students were told to get their programming project done using them.
Wanna teach them Linux? I would suggest giving them Android phones. All that silly CLI, KDE, and Gnome stuff is so 90s. They will learn Linux real good by swiping around and installing and uninstalling apps from the app store.
If necessary, it will be forked. Between OpenSFS and WhamCloud there will always be a home for lustre. WhamCloud already has contraclts with Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab. Oak Ridge already has the largest Lustre filesystem to date. And there is also DDN which supplies the hardware for most of the larger Lustre sites which has a local copy of Lustre that they distribute as well. Luistre is more than fine, its just a little lost finding a home at this time.
It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
To be pedantic, Floyd's "album art" stuff was only from 1973-1979 with DSOTM through The Wall. The earlier works were disjoint, very psychedelic songs up to 20 minutes in length. After the Wall the albums were more failed/loose attempts at complete album works. I have all of their albums, bootlegs, and I've seen them in concert. Oh, and when I saw them, they didn't play 2 songs back to back from a single album. I was actually disappointed in the concert. I much prefer their older material, but they did open with Astronome Domine and they did sling out a One of these Days...
If MS has something like all-you-can-watch video similar to the all-you-can-download subscription system for the Zune, it might be something worth considering.
However, why does MS need a TV set top box? They already have one... the XBox 360.
And this thing still left over from the 90s: http://www.webtv.com/pc/ Still looks like it belongs in the 90s with the big, ugly keyboard and the CRT 4:3 TV.
Even a non-microsoft apologist like myself can give MS credit where credit is due. They have persistance as if no one else on the planet has even heard of it. They can continuously throw engineers at horrible products until they become usable or even comperable if not even superior to other products (DirectX comes to mind).
I too welcome competition. Especially from Microsoft, because they have such a known brand. Its an uphill battle for them though, because they cannot seem to make things simple enough for embedded devices like TVs.
They never even define "popular". I would assume popular means the number of friends you have or some other metric. There are people on FB that have a good number of friends that are really obnoxious (at least to me) to have as friends on FB.
A friend of mine on FB who has over 4,000 friends is a nationally known guitar player/singer in a band.
I never understood why there is a hardware button that was SOOOO easy to hit by accident over something that could much easier and better been done with software.
Can all hardware vendors get away from the CAPLOCKS key?
Maybe I'm a naysayer, but I fail to see how a coal powered trolly car* is more efficient than an internal combustion engine. Sounds like 1800s to me.
* 57% of the electricity in the US comes from coal, and it is shipped over aluminum and copper wires, very similar to a trolley car.
***The lack of CALs and different levels of the OS already makes them easier to deal with than windows licensing.***
Whats next? Oracle licenses?
There is a difference between patents and trademarks. Like copyright, you can trademark anything, and again like copyright, its up to the holder to defend it themselves. Trademarks are there to maintain brand integrity and recognition. Its OK, there is no controversy here. If a rapper wants to Donky Kong stuff, I don't see where this would be a trademark violation because they are in entirely different businesses, and there is no way to confuse Mr Rapper with Nintendo.
Sounds a lot like an unpopular tax.
I'm actually reading a book about filesystems with a focus on the BFS from Be Inc. The author in it actually says that renaming a file is the most complicated operation on a file. Before the file is renamed, lots of validation must take place in some implementations a rename locks the entire filesystem. The source and destination must be verified to be reachable and unused. The rename could go into another directory, so its must do the proper checks there as well. There are edge cases if the source or destination is a directory.
Its still seems like an O(1) maybe with a big 1, but this author spent a considerable amount of time on renaming.
I've got an SSD in my laptop, and I couldn't be happier. Its easily lengthened the life of my laptop by about 2 years.
I think the trojan writers already came up with this idea.
Give it up. Some people feel compelled on social networking sites to complain about people using social networking sites. I guess /. is different in that you don't have to use your real name.
I run PS3MediaServer on my fileserver. Streams (and trancodes when necessary) over the network to my PS3. Works well.
I would frequently get stuttering with this setup, even just doing flac audio files.
I'm thinking of one of these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/home-entertainment/d3fe/
Any experiences here? It looks great from the description.
Yeah, ever since the enterprise drives and the 1 million hour MTBF, RAID arrays above level 0 have became obsolete.
We live in good times.
My company currently runs a dell shop
New to dell shops. Nice to meet you.
over $100,000 in Dell servers.
I have been having issue after issue with the power supplies in pretty much every dell I run. We really like to run the SFF style units and they use a specially sized power supply. Dell refuses to acknowledge that there is an issue even though I have a 25% failure rate in power supplies at the one year mark.
I have to call BS here. Dell servers come with 3 year maintenance at a minimum and will replace the power supplies. Power supplies are a known failure point on machines, and on those that care they get redundant ones. Also, I've never heard of SFF servers.
I work with well over $2mil of Dell servers and more than that from other vendors. I prefer Dells.
Idle. A joke. Content please...
Be patient, in 10 years .porn, .adult and .sex will be available as well. This will help to eliminate any confusion. TLDs are getting better all the time. What would we do without .mobi, .name, .museum, .biz, .coop, .info, .int, .jobs, .pro, .tel, and .travel?
TLDs are bullshit. Just search slashdot.com or slashdot.net if you don't believe me.