Although the idea of community built software seemed to be a good one, it appears as though most programmers that are any good want to get paid for the software they write. So although the GPL/Open software is pretty good, the best software is the closed source commercial software. I started an open source project once, (an alternative client for the old game 'dragonrealms') and found extremely lackluster support from the coding community on continuing/debugging my project for the communal use, even from other coders that could possibly have been able to add something to the project. I assume other OSS projects are this way too, where one person does most of the work, posts it publicly, the public doesn't add anything to the project, and the original author then does their next project closed source commercial. On the other hand, it is nice to have source and free projects available...they just don't seem to fit in with our capitalistic society. Perhaps if more companies sold the source to their commercial (old?) products, that would be a superior alternative to OSS? Especially if some of the larger companies released their source as an API, kind of similar to what ID does with its quake series, except for a reasonable price and with some documentation, perhaps.
Maybe some kind of hi-tech omnidirectional treadmill would be nice; in terms of a duck-hunt style shooting gallery, that may or may not be as good as the soul caliber style of game or a fps... I'm not sure how fun nunchucks would be as a game controller, I'd rather have a gun controller, or a bazooka controller, similar to the nintendo light gun and the snes super scope 6. On the upside, the wii controller with both parts does kind of resemble a gun...still, although the previous VR headsets sucked, it would be nice to have a lightweight, 120+fps (60+fps on each screen) VR motion tracking headset and omnidirectional (do those exist) treadmill to run around on, and a variety of controller shapes, from blowtorches to guns to steering wheels...maybe a chair add-on too...that would be a much cooler gaming system. Although multi-shaped controllers could be a big thing, the wii controller and the tennis game looked pretty cool, especially if the controller can track foot motion, and you have a pretty big room to play in.
Since the above are all illegal, especially in scientific quantities and are forbidden from schools and other training facilities, not much happens in terms of industrial science these days. I'm happily reinventing the wheel; how many mechanical engineering grads can build a wheel without going to a store?
This has to be BS. Either that, or I'm moving to France. This amazing speed of 2,500 Mbits/second will revolutionize computing, computer software, multiplayer computer games, and much more. Expect to see (more) video on demand, (such as youtube and ifilm), amazing LAN-style p2p software, and probably something else awesome...perhaps an easier to use network API than remoting, rpc, or sockets...plus those counter-strike maps would download at a reasonable speed, perhaps allowing 3D games to update resources on the fly. This amazing speed (unless they actually meant mb/s, in which case it's between dsl & cable) would even allow the network computer to exist, and you could toss your HDD and boot from a shared drive on the network. Perhaps a shared drive with all the software already installed. You could also run software 'on the fly', reading the instructions into memory from another computer on the network, instead of from the HD. Also, those MMORPGS wouldn't lag up with 30 people on the screen at the same time.;O, and CDs could be discontinued since they could be downloaded in 2 seconds.
I'm a noob at this, but isn't the only factor in website speed the speed of the websites internet connection? I'm sure dinkySQL, mySQL, and MS SQL can all handle 10 simultaneous DSL clients connecting at 768k...and 768k * 10 is 7Mbits...those above programs can probably handle 100 or 1000 users, although this increases the bandwith usage to 70Mbits and 700Mbits/second...for the price of those connections, can the website be written in any language with any database, and the speed difference could simply be accounted for with a $10k quad-processor raid-5 10k rpm system? Or is that even necessary, since most websites have close to zero processing required and can probably cache all the resources in RAM, and a P2 would be fast enough to host across a 1.4Mbit T-1? Or is this book aimed at people with 10+Mbit connections, who may or may not need 3 or 4 computers to host send their web pages fast enough across the internet connection bottleneck?
They're mostly graduate student BS. They can't tell you how to reproduce their results in a simple way because their not doing real science, which apparently has been completely censored out of existance. The actual way to heal faster appears to be to heal more often, doing so will increase the rate of healing. Ironically, the only first aid that humans ever need to do is staunching blood flow and reattachment, both of which are very simple techniques. (fold the skin back into place and apply pressure & put the limb back where it belongs, fold the skin, and apply pressure) There is no need for this electrical treatment, it's either a scam whereupon a person is told that their bones will heal in 6 weeks, when the actual healing time for that individual is 3-5 days, then they zap the person with some electricity and tell them it's healed in 3 weeks, and charge $50k + 4.2% of their salary. (If it's not a scam, it also could be a student doing some flawed research to get a degree), hence the lack of a simple, english instruction on the actual, practical technique.
The posession laws make it so that most people own the same things. Although programmers get 3 year old cars, and bricklayers get 10 year old cars, it doesn't actually matter what you do with your money, you'll get a TV, Internet, a car, a house, clothes, and...am I forgetting anything? as long as your work your 40 hours per week. You even get to go somewhere and hang out in a hotel every year. Don't expect to purchase anything fun, such as a private aircraft or blowtorch, or even some TNT to dig a big cave in your backyard...or anything that could be built with these technologies and no longer exists. I still remember when I had a job, I'm pretty sure the boss based my pay increases on personal need, (and not ability, benefit to the company, or anything relevant) so there might be a small personal advantage to wasting money. I'd suggest investing in strippers and beer, personally, you'll have a good time and you'll still get the same things. Or invest in some cages and reproducing animals, and get eschewed by the neighbors instead. Althouth your food bill will get smaller.:)
Since power consumption is one of the biggest turn-offs for me on a laptop, specifically that most last 4 hours at full speed, and when I'm off grid it's usually for more than 24 or 48 hours, much too long even for a big bag of kind of expensive batteries, is there a power saving solution that's better than bringing a bunch of batteries for a laptop, a hi-density battery or an extremely low power usage laptop? One solution is a 12vdc - 120vac inverter on an engine...does anyone have a little gas, propane, or other powered engine that could power a laptop, and is small enough to carry around, either inside the laptop or in a bag with one? Or are laptops mostly for desktop/travel on-grid use, and plugged in, in which case it would make sense to eliminate the power efficiency of laptops and simply use them as portable desktops...
How is it not a FPS? Because it has an option for a third person camera? It's first person, there's guns, there's hostiles to shoot in a variety of open and mission settings...it's first person with shooting? How is that not an FPS?
I just want to save my customer's orders and messages, then load them. Why must this be so complicated??? In the old days, before we had these fancy 'shared webhosts', I could simply create an 'order' object, with fields such as price, shipping address, billing info, etc (floats and strings), then...uh...I guess in the old days I had to streamwriter(price);streamwriter(shipping);streamw riter(billing), etc, for each object, which kind of sucked when I made changes to the object's variables...the same is true of SQL 2k5, I have to make an SQL query for each primitive type in the object, I can't just SQLWrite(object, table, database);...for some reason...actually, I'll just stop complaining and go write that exact method. Does anyone want to purchase a function? (Strongly Typed Datasets may or may not solve that...I'm actually not familiar with them, although they did not look useful from the C# Station tutorial:( Plus, XML scares me, and everything that uses XML or any other standard is almost always useless) Oh, and on second thought, it's not exactly 100% clear to me how to parse through an arbitrary object and store the variables from it in C#...without tweaking the compiler?
Why does the API for the databases suck so much? I've been using ADO.net with C#.NET 2.0 on SQL 2005, and why must I use the arcane and shitty SQL language to save my web objects in a datafile? Isn't there an option somewhere between writing 25 lines of SQL code for each action for each object (either in code or in a SPROC), and managing the files myself on the local HD, which most webhosts won't allow? How about a nice simple DBObject that my other objects can inherit from, that provides a nice 'SaveAllInTable(String table)' method, that replaces the INSERT INTO VALUE for each )*(&%# variable in my object? (and other similar SQL wrapper methods...I guess I could write that, but it would be a PITA, and that's what APIs are for, anyways!) Unless there's a good C# SQL wrapper that I don't know about...the datatable and datagrid isn't useful for anything more than displaying a raw table, something that a webapp usually shouldn't do, anyways...Of course, streamreader and streamwriters aren't much better, perhaps we need a good shared file i/o api that's better than SQL?
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It's another wolf3d clone! Wow! Where's the entropia reviews? 15 hours is pretty short, and there's no mining, crafting, or pet raising...entropia's a first person shooter, it's got co-op (team hunts), pve, pvp, looting pvp, building, mining, cars, 3D graphics and environments, maps that take more than 15 hours to run across, hundreds of different guns, knives, mortars and other heavy weapons, and brawling weapons, clothing that appears on the player, made by other players, and much more. Why would a POS like this game 'prey' get a big slashdot coverage, when entropia never gets mentioned anywhere???
Linux hangs out in the bin, sbin, proc, kernel, and a few other directories. Windows is mostly self contained...except for the stupid registry...and you cannot simply copy the windows directory from one computer to another and have windows keep working, unlike the good old days of software where you could copy a directory and the software would still work.
Remember when DOS used to install into ONE arbitrary directory, and put a 3 or 4 files in the root of the drive? Reinstalling dos, or installing multiple OSes was as simple as having two dos directories. Multiple versions could be installed that way, also, although there could only be one set of boot files in the root of the active partition...although I'm sure the Windows way is necessary with all the new hardware, DOS did run on multiple hardware platforms, and was easy to install...I wish more software installed into one directory, and kept all its data files in its directory too...then installing windows & linux would be as simple as putting windows in c:\win and linux in c:\lin, and some kind of program to swap the root files when the system boots...(a bootloader?) Yeah, okay, so the partitions (harddisk bit layouts) are incompatable, so I guess this may be kind of a pointless post...
I'm pretty sure that the distance a person can see increases with the different weapons they fight with. In particular, a person with brawling or stickfighting capabilities can only see a short distance, while gunfighters can perceive targets a bit further. F-15 pilots have pretty good eyesight, and can typically spot a missile or aircraft at ranges in excess of 400 km, much further than other humans. Animals, on the other hand, have pretty bad eyesight since no animals can use tools or weapons to fight. Eyesight abilities are not constant, of course, and this theory can easily be tested by learning to fight with a gun, and determining if after gun training and gun killing, a person can identify another person at a greater range than before, without telescopes and/or 'glasses'. (I've personally tested this theory, and it is accurate.)
What the university student's report failed to mention, about the fear of snakes, is what archaeological & DNA evidence supported this theory. It's a stupid theory, imho, and was probably voiced not because of any particular insight on the part of the student, but instead to get reputation and/or credentials and was written to 'sound good'.
Just a wild theory; perhaps someone wrote something anti-government on their blog, and then their blog buddies all wrote it on their blogs, exponential information propagation happened and bits started appearing on a large number of blogs, and now the government's shut down myspace to censor whatever that forbidden information happened to be? Especially since a power surge is the kind of thing the government could make happen, such as putting 5000v down the 120v line @ 500 amps for a quarter second.
Although it's always nice to have more tools for software creation and/or building...these so called visual novels will probably be made by a bunch of idiots, and therefore will be worth less than the time it takes to read / play them...Perhaps these people's time would better be spent creating non-clonable goods instead of easily cloned, nonunique software? Only a few can create superior software products, and because software is copy-able there's no need for hordes of idiots to manufacture it...unlike traditional products, which require hordes of idiots to manufacture...
Although the universitys are pumping out thousands of qualified, certified programmers, there doesn't seem to have been any great innovations in software since Wolf3d & Office...And perhaps AOL & TCP...we need another new 'genre' of software...just for fun, here's the genres I can think of off hand: POS/Inventory, Email, File Sharing / Downloading, FPS, Paper Preperation, Scheduling and Coordination, motor control (fuel injectors / cars), RTS, Strategy/War, MMORPG, MMOFPS, Textgames, 2d photo/art, 3d modeling/art, business simulation, flight simulation, car/driving games, publishing (via the web),...and, uh, I'm probably forgetting a bunch, such as program building software (compilers, visual studio) and much more...although the future of computers is probably neat new software, that may or may not require more mhz, and not necessarily more mhz that allows the current styles of software to get more refined.
Sometimes, when information conflicts with what a person already believes, they lie about their personal experiences or knowledge to cover up their error. It's easier than changing their mind. Apparently both moderators and bullshit spewers hate it when accurate censored information is posted that fucks up their ways of understanding things, such as that you don't disassemble already constructed things, or that cars are exact and fragile. Metal on metal wears very slowly, train brakes are metal on metal, and although they make a noise they do not break. All this shit that the government legislates companies to make breaks, the term is planned obsoleteness, and it has been around since the 50's when multiple companies formed monopolies on certain products, then claimed that those products (such as cars) are very exact and fragile, and any random person building them would create a dangerous situation, when in fact a metal engine, metal & solid rubber wheels, metal breaks, and a metal drivetrain/tranmission creates a car that does not break, even when crashed or hit with a weapon. (The second part actually depends upon the weapon) These are the same people that banned most aircraft, when an aircraft (specifically a glider or hot air balloon) is much easier to manufacture than a car, and the powered airplanes are of approximately equal manufacturing difficulty, without the need of roads. It is also possible to land in a parking space with an airplane that has an appropriate wing surface area / weight ratio, especially on stretched canvas airplanes, banned by the government since the 40's.
DOS: Run 1 program at a time. Windows: Run multiple programs at the same time. YouOS: Run programs accross the network...
If only the network was as fast as SATA...there's been talk of a 'network' PC since the 80's, but the network's always been too slow to load large, good software that's comparable to the stuff that's downloaded to a HDD or that ships on a CD. A serious upgrade from the current multi-tasking windows OS (with the explorer file browser, and the win32 multitasking API, and notepad) would be...gametap? Or perhaps an OS that could run every program from a server...but the limitation is the network speed. I think I'll stick with windows, although a 3D environment "os" that downloads content, similar to entropia or second life, might be good, if the downloaded 3d content included a paper/document maker (similar to word/publisher...in 3d?) a scheduler & spreadsheet, and video games...is there anything else computers do? Perhaps an OS that already includes all of those things on the CDs, in an integrated, easy to use way... (such as linux...minus the bugs and hardness of setup/maintenence) YouOS looks gimmicky and useless, especially factoring in the speed of the internet. These 'run anywhere' applications have been around for a while, each one being its own app, such as the 'outlook anywhere' app called 'hotmail'.
Actually, those mainboards, although flexable, are pretty dang hard. Although I don't have any data on bullet penetration vs. most mainboards, I bet they bounce off those finely woven metal wires. Ironically, a thin, lightweight piece of kevlar is not bulletproof, yet 10 feet of fiberglass is! (Uh...I'm assuming that second part, data on the first part is from www.theboxotruth.com, in the 'ballistic armor penetration' section.)
Lets say your net worth at this time is $500k, and your annual salary is $50k. Then, you win a free spacewalk as a prize for a call in radio contest. My theory is, and I'm pretty sure it's accurate, although mostly from personal experience and not from a certified college student or magazine source, is that within a few years of your spacewalk your annual salary will rise to $95k and your net worth will jump to $5M. This is because doing things enhances your mind and body, and doing extreme things (an awesome price/ability increase thing you can do for cheap is a G-spinner @ 8-11Gs) enhances your organs, bloodflow, brainmass, concentration, and much more. It's easy to test, just compute your expected hourly salary & net worth for the next few years, hop in a G-spinner, and see if your numbers go up.
When you ask for a source...what were you expecting? A college student's essay? A book? These are simply other people's writings, and a person cannot write anything that they either have not experienced themselves, or read from someone else's writings. Videos and internet messages count as writings in this example. A group of people cannot write one document or book, they must write several individual writings. Although they can talk about it, in the end there is only each person's personal observations and experiences.
Plus it's made from a 'carbon-fiber alloy'. What's a carbon fiber alloy? (I'm assuming alloys are when two materials are dissolved in acid/water, then mixed...although I'm no chemist...such as carbon-fiber and...) And why would anyone want a carbon-fiber alloy linux laptop, when they could have a stainless steel no-os laptop, then install linux on it for free & fun? This seems to be about as useless a product as a mac...although an ultra-light (or an ultra-durable, waterproof) laptop may be desirable for some people, why put linux on it? Isn't that two seperate products? And come on, kevlar is only $33/yard, why not put that around the laptop? It's lighter than carbon fiber with equal strength, or much stronger with equal weight.
Wouldn't most people with the technical ability to use/maintain a linux laptop just save a bit of money and get a laptop (probably a 'barebones' laptop) with no OS on it? Especially when you consider how custom linux is, and how advanced most linux users are...I wouldn't want someone else to install linux for me, although I actually am a Windows user...
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Although the idea of community built software seemed to be a good one, it appears as though most programmers that are any good want to get paid for the software they write. So although the GPL/Open software is pretty good, the best software is the closed source commercial software. I started an open source project once, (an alternative client for the old game 'dragonrealms') and found extremely lackluster support from the coding community on continuing/debugging my project for the communal use, even from other coders that could possibly have been able to add something to the project. I assume other OSS projects are this way too, where one person does most of the work, posts it publicly, the public doesn't add anything to the project, and the original author then does their next project closed source commercial. On the other hand, it is nice to have source and free projects available...they just don't seem to fit in with our capitalistic society. Perhaps if more companies sold the source to their commercial (old?) products, that would be a superior alternative to OSS? Especially if some of the larger companies released their source as an API, kind of similar to what ID does with its quake series, except for a reasonable price and with some documentation, perhaps.
Maybe some kind of hi-tech omnidirectional treadmill would be nice; in terms of a duck-hunt style shooting gallery, that may or may not be as good as the soul caliber style of game or a fps... I'm not sure how fun nunchucks would be as a game controller, I'd rather have a gun controller, or a bazooka controller, similar to the nintendo light gun and the snes super scope 6. On the upside, the wii controller with both parts does kind of resemble a gun...still, although the previous VR headsets sucked, it would be nice to have a lightweight, 120+fps (60+fps on each screen) VR motion tracking headset and omnidirectional (do those exist) treadmill to run around on, and a variety of controller shapes, from blowtorches to guns to steering wheels...maybe a chair add-on too...that would be a much cooler gaming system. Although multi-shaped controllers could be a big thing, the wii controller and the tennis game looked pretty cool, especially if the controller can track foot motion, and you have a pretty big room to play in.
Since the above are all illegal, especially in scientific quantities and are forbidden from schools and other training facilities, not much happens in terms of industrial science these days. I'm happily reinventing the wheel; how many mechanical engineering grads can build a wheel without going to a store?
Could they push a copy of Halo 2 and Crimson skies via Windows Update while they're at it?
This has to be BS. Either that, or I'm moving to France. This amazing speed of 2,500 Mbits/second will revolutionize computing, computer software, multiplayer computer games, and much more. Expect to see (more) video on demand, (such as youtube and ifilm), amazing LAN-style p2p software, and probably something else awesome...perhaps an easier to use network API than remoting, rpc, or sockets...plus those counter-strike maps would download at a reasonable speed, perhaps allowing 3D games to update resources on the fly. This amazing speed (unless they actually meant mb/s, in which case it's between dsl & cable) would even allow the network computer to exist, and you could toss your HDD and boot from a shared drive on the network. Perhaps a shared drive with all the software already installed. You could also run software 'on the fly', reading the instructions into memory from another computer on the network, instead of from the HD. Also, those MMORPGS wouldn't lag up with 30 people on the screen at the same time. ;O, and CDs could be discontinued since they could be downloaded in 2 seconds.
I'm a noob at this, but isn't the only factor in website speed the speed of the websites internet connection? I'm sure dinkySQL, mySQL, and MS SQL can all handle 10 simultaneous DSL clients connecting at 768k...and 768k * 10 is 7Mbits...those above programs can probably handle 100 or 1000 users, although this increases the bandwith usage to 70Mbits and 700Mbits/second...for the price of those connections, can the website be written in any language with any database, and the speed difference could simply be accounted for with a $10k quad-processor raid-5 10k rpm system? Or is that even necessary, since most websites have close to zero processing required and can probably cache all the resources in RAM, and a P2 would be fast enough to host across a 1.4Mbit T-1? Or is this book aimed at people with 10+Mbit connections, who may or may not need 3 or 4 computers to host send their web pages fast enough across the internet connection bottleneck?
They're mostly graduate student BS. They can't tell you how to reproduce their results in a simple way because their not doing real science, which apparently has been completely censored out of existance. The actual way to heal faster appears to be to heal more often, doing so will increase the rate of healing. Ironically, the only first aid that humans ever need to do is staunching blood flow and reattachment, both of which are very simple techniques. (fold the skin back into place and apply pressure & put the limb back where it belongs, fold the skin, and apply pressure) There is no need for this electrical treatment, it's either a scam whereupon a person is told that their bones will heal in 6 weeks, when the actual healing time for that individual is 3-5 days, then they zap the person with some electricity and tell them it's healed in 3 weeks, and charge $50k + 4.2% of their salary. (If it's not a scam, it also could be a student doing some flawed research to get a degree), hence the lack of a simple, english instruction on the actual, practical technique.
The posession laws make it so that most people own the same things. Although programmers get 3 year old cars, and bricklayers get 10 year old cars, it doesn't actually matter what you do with your money, you'll get a TV, Internet, a car, a house, clothes, and...am I forgetting anything? as long as your work your 40 hours per week. You even get to go somewhere and hang out in a hotel every year. Don't expect to purchase anything fun, such as a private aircraft or blowtorch, or even some TNT to dig a big cave in your backyard...or anything that could be built with these technologies and no longer exists. I still remember when I had a job, I'm pretty sure the boss based my pay increases on personal need, (and not ability, benefit to the company, or anything relevant) so there might be a small personal advantage to wasting money. I'd suggest investing in strippers and beer, personally, you'll have a good time and you'll still get the same things. Or invest in some cages and reproducing animals, and get eschewed by the neighbors instead. Althouth your food bill will get smaller. :)
Since power consumption is one of the biggest turn-offs for me on a laptop, specifically that most last 4 hours at full speed, and when I'm off grid it's usually for more than 24 or 48 hours, much too long even for a big bag of kind of expensive batteries, is there a power saving solution that's better than bringing a bunch of batteries for a laptop, a hi-density battery or an extremely low power usage laptop? One solution is a 12vdc - 120vac inverter on an engine...does anyone have a little gas, propane, or other powered engine that could power a laptop, and is small enough to carry around, either inside the laptop or in a bag with one? Or are laptops mostly for desktop/travel on-grid use, and plugged in, in which case it would make sense to eliminate the power efficiency of laptops and simply use them as portable desktops...
How is it not a FPS? Because it has an option for a third person camera? It's first person, there's guns, there's hostiles to shoot in a variety of open and mission settings...it's first person with shooting? How is that not an FPS?
I just want to save my customer's orders and messages, then load them. Why must this be so complicated??? In the old days, before we had these fancy 'shared webhosts', I could simply create an 'order' object, with fields such as price, shipping address, billing info, etc (floats and strings), then...uh...I guess in the old days I had to streamwriter(price);streamwriter(shipping);streamw riter(billing), etc, for each object, which kind of sucked when I made changes to the object's variables...the same is true of SQL 2k5, I have to make an SQL query for each primitive type in the object, I can't just SQLWrite(object, table, database);...for some reason...actually, I'll just stop complaining and go write that exact method. Does anyone want to purchase a function? (Strongly Typed Datasets may or may not solve that...I'm actually not familiar with them, although they did not look useful from the C# Station tutorial :( Plus, XML scares me, and everything that uses XML or any other standard is almost always useless) Oh, and on second thought, it's not exactly 100% clear to me how to parse through an arbitrary object and store the variables from it in C#...without tweaking the compiler?
Why does the API for the databases suck so much? I've been using ADO.net with C# .NET 2.0 on SQL 2005, and why must I use the arcane and shitty SQL language to save my web objects in a datafile? Isn't there an option somewhere between writing 25 lines of SQL code for each action for each object (either in code or in a SPROC), and managing the files myself on the local HD, which most webhosts won't allow? How about a nice simple DBObject that my other objects can inherit from, that provides a nice 'SaveAllInTable(String table)' method, that replaces the INSERT INTO VALUE for each )*(&%# variable in my object? (and other similar SQL wrapper methods...I guess I could write that, but it would be a PITA, and that's what APIs are for, anyways!) Unless there's a good C# SQL wrapper that I don't know about...the datatable and datagrid isn't useful for anything more than displaying a raw table, something that a webapp usually shouldn't do, anyways...Of course, streamreader and streamwriters aren't much better, perhaps we need a good shared file i/o api that's better than SQL?
It's another wolf3d clone! Wow! Where's the entropia reviews? 15 hours is pretty short, and there's no mining, crafting, or pet raising...entropia's a first person shooter, it's got co-op (team hunts), pve, pvp, looting pvp, building, mining, cars, 3D graphics and environments, maps that take more than 15 hours to run across, hundreds of different guns, knives, mortars and other heavy weapons, and brawling weapons, clothing that appears on the player, made by other players, and much more. Why would a POS like this game 'prey' get a big slashdot coverage, when entropia never gets mentioned anywhere???
Linux hangs out in the bin, sbin, proc, kernel, and a few other directories. Windows is mostly self contained...except for the stupid registry...and you cannot simply copy the windows directory from one computer to another and have windows keep working, unlike the good old days of software where you could copy a directory and the software would still work.
Remember when DOS used to install into ONE arbitrary directory, and put a 3 or 4 files in the root of the drive? Reinstalling dos, or installing multiple OSes was as simple as having two dos directories. Multiple versions could be installed that way, also, although there could only be one set of boot files in the root of the active partition...although I'm sure the Windows way is necessary with all the new hardware, DOS did run on multiple hardware platforms, and was easy to install...I wish more software installed into one directory, and kept all its data files in its directory too...then installing windows & linux would be as simple as putting windows in c:\win and linux in c:\lin, and some kind of program to swap the root files when the system boots...(a bootloader?) Yeah, okay, so the partitions (harddisk bit layouts) are incompatable, so I guess this may be kind of a pointless post...
I'm pretty sure that the distance a person can see increases with the different weapons they fight with. In particular, a person with brawling or stickfighting capabilities can only see a short distance, while gunfighters can perceive targets a bit further. F-15 pilots have pretty good eyesight, and can typically spot a missile or aircraft at ranges in excess of 400 km, much further than other humans. Animals, on the other hand, have pretty bad eyesight since no animals can use tools or weapons to fight. Eyesight abilities are not constant, of course, and this theory can easily be tested by learning to fight with a gun, and determining if after gun training and gun killing, a person can identify another person at a greater range than before, without telescopes and/or 'glasses'. (I've personally tested this theory, and it is accurate.)
What the university student's report failed to mention, about the fear of snakes, is what archaeological & DNA evidence supported this theory. It's a stupid theory, imho, and was probably voiced not because of any particular insight on the part of the student, but instead to get reputation and/or credentials and was written to 'sound good'.
Just a wild theory; perhaps someone wrote something anti-government on their blog, and then their blog buddies all wrote it on their blogs, exponential information propagation happened and bits started appearing on a large number of blogs, and now the government's shut down myspace to censor whatever that forbidden information happened to be? Especially since a power surge is the kind of thing the government could make happen, such as putting 5000v down the 120v line @ 500 amps for a quarter second.
Although it's always nice to have more tools for software creation and/or building...these so called visual novels will probably be made by a bunch of idiots, and therefore will be worth less than the time it takes to read / play them...Perhaps these people's time would better be spent creating non-clonable goods instead of easily cloned, nonunique software? Only a few can create superior software products, and because software is copy-able there's no need for hordes of idiots to manufacture it...unlike traditional products, which require hordes of idiots to manufacture...
Although the universitys are pumping out thousands of qualified, certified programmers, there doesn't seem to have been any great innovations in software since Wolf3d & Office...And perhaps AOL & TCP...we need another new 'genre' of software...just for fun, here's the genres I can think of off hand: POS/Inventory, Email, File Sharing / Downloading, FPS, Paper Preperation, Scheduling and Coordination, motor control (fuel injectors / cars), RTS, Strategy/War, MMORPG, MMOFPS, Textgames, 2d photo/art, 3d modeling/art, business simulation, flight simulation, car/driving games, publishing (via the web),...and, uh, I'm probably forgetting a bunch, such as program building software (compilers, visual studio) and much more...although the future of computers is probably neat new software, that may or may not require more mhz, and not necessarily more mhz that allows the current styles of software to get more refined.
Bullshit vs. Personal Experience:
Sometimes, when information conflicts with what a person already believes, they lie about their personal experiences or knowledge to cover up their error. It's easier than changing their mind. Apparently both moderators and bullshit spewers hate it when accurate censored information is posted that fucks up their ways of understanding things, such as that you don't disassemble already constructed things, or that cars are exact and fragile. Metal on metal wears very slowly, train brakes are metal on metal, and although they make a noise they do not break. All this shit that the government legislates companies to make breaks, the term is planned obsoleteness, and it has been around since the 50's when multiple companies formed monopolies on certain products, then claimed that those products (such as cars) are very exact and fragile, and any random person building them would create a dangerous situation, when in fact a metal engine, metal & solid rubber wheels, metal breaks, and a metal drivetrain/tranmission creates a car that does not break, even when crashed or hit with a weapon. (The second part actually depends upon the weapon) These are the same people that banned most aircraft, when an aircraft (specifically a glider or hot air balloon) is much easier to manufacture than a car, and the powered airplanes are of approximately equal manufacturing difficulty, without the need of roads. It is also possible to land in a parking space with an airplane that has an appropriate wing surface area / weight ratio, especially on stretched canvas airplanes, banned by the government since the 40's.
DOS: Run 1 program at a time.
Windows: Run multiple programs at the same time.
YouOS: Run programs accross the network...
If only the network was as fast as SATA...there's been talk of a 'network' PC since the 80's, but the network's always been too slow to load large, good software that's comparable to the stuff that's downloaded to a HDD or that ships on a CD. A serious upgrade from the current multi-tasking windows OS (with the explorer file browser, and the win32 multitasking API, and notepad) would be...gametap? Or perhaps an OS that could run every program from a server...but the limitation is the network speed. I think I'll stick with windows, although a 3D environment "os" that downloads content, similar to entropia or second life, might be good, if the downloaded 3d content included a paper/document maker (similar to word/publisher...in 3d?) a scheduler & spreadsheet, and video games...is there anything else computers do? Perhaps an OS that already includes all of those things on the CDs, in an integrated, easy to use way... (such as linux...minus the bugs and hardness of setup/maintenence) YouOS looks gimmicky and useless, especially factoring in the speed of the internet. These 'run anywhere' applications have been around for a while, each one being its own app, such as the 'outlook anywhere' app called 'hotmail'.
Actually, those mainboards, although flexable, are pretty dang hard. Although I don't have any data on bullet penetration vs. most mainboards, I bet they bounce off those finely woven metal wires. Ironically, a thin, lightweight piece of kevlar is not bulletproof, yet 10 feet of fiberglass is! (Uh...I'm assuming that second part, data on the first part is from www.theboxotruth.com, in the 'ballistic armor penetration' section.)
Lets say your net worth at this time is $500k, and your annual salary is $50k. Then, you win a free spacewalk as a prize for a call in radio contest. My theory is, and I'm pretty sure it's accurate, although mostly from personal experience and not from a certified college student or magazine source, is that within a few years of your spacewalk your annual salary will rise to $95k and your net worth will jump to $5M. This is because doing things enhances your mind and body, and doing extreme things (an awesome price/ability increase thing you can do for cheap is a G-spinner @ 8-11Gs) enhances your organs, bloodflow, brainmass, concentration, and much more. It's easy to test, just compute your expected hourly salary & net worth for the next few years, hop in a G-spinner, and see if your numbers go up.
When you ask for a source...what were you expecting? A college student's essay? A book? These are simply other people's writings, and a person cannot write anything that they either have not experienced themselves, or read from someone else's writings. Videos and internet messages count as writings in this example. A group of people cannot write one document or book, they must write several individual writings. Although they can talk about it, in the end there is only each person's personal observations and experiences.
Plus it's made from a 'carbon-fiber alloy'. What's a carbon fiber alloy? (I'm assuming alloys are when two materials are dissolved in acid/water, then mixed...although I'm no chemist...such as carbon-fiber and...) And why would anyone want a carbon-fiber alloy linux laptop, when they could have a stainless steel no-os laptop, then install linux on it for free & fun? This seems to be about as useless a product as a mac...although an ultra-light (or an ultra-durable, waterproof) laptop may be desirable for some people, why put linux on it? Isn't that two seperate products? And come on, kevlar is only $33/yard, why not put that around the laptop? It's lighter than carbon fiber with equal strength, or much stronger with equal weight.
Wouldn't most people with the technical ability to use/maintain a linux laptop just save a bit of money and get a laptop (probably a 'barebones' laptop) with no OS on it? Especially when you consider how custom linux is, and how advanced most linux users are...I wouldn't want someone else to install linux for me, although I actually am a Windows user...