It will not run well an the Asus EEEPc or any of the other netbooks coming out.
That looks like the new big market well volume wise anyway. Most people that want one already have a Home or office PC. Those PCs now do pretty much everything the need them to. Most people that need a powerful notebook already have one. So now you can get the cheap and light netbooks.
So you no programs that can not run on XP. So in other other words Vista gives you NO value. That is the key problem with Vista. Some pain and no real gain. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand what most users need and want. Not counting gamers. Most users don't need more features in the OS. The only feature that most XP users need added is the ability to burn a DVD and it would be nice to have the ability to burn an ISO out of the box. Yes you can add both to XP. Most users would like better security but don't want to do any work to get it. What it comes down to is most users don't need a more powerful PC. Most home and office users want a smaller, cheaper, and less power hungry PC that does what their current one does. That is one reason why the Asus EEE is doing so well. Ubuntu will run just fine on a sub 1 GHZ 512 mb notebook even with compwiz. Vista can not do that. Heck most people don't even need a Core2Duo. I have a feeling that we are going to be seeing a lot of dual core atom based systems. The one question is what OS will they run?
"Antarctica is easier, and we still haven't colonized it yet..." Well wrong on a lot of counts. 1. We do have bases there. 2. Come countries have put settlements there to try and establish territorial claims. See three.. 3. Under international law nobody owns Antarctica and there are strict rules about what you can and can not do there. So that hopefully has stopped any plans to colonize it.
They have found coal and other minerals on Antarctica. I wonder what else might be under the ice. What new fossils for example.
The reason we have not moved into Antartica in mass is because of international law. I worry what will happen if they ever find massive amounts of oil there. You could have a terrible war between South Africa, Australia, NZ, Chile, and Argentina.
A P1 will do just fine for some tasks even now. A firewall, maybe a NAS. I would tend to stick to at least a PII. As to the power for watts. Remember most PCs today spend a large amount of their time waiting. Only renderfarms and HPC worry about peak MIPS per watt.
I would pay that much more also for better education. That is just it the amount will not make any difference. And of course what everyone forgets is that the US school system was at it's best when we where spending the most on Space...
"But educating the next generation of people is of much greater concern and importance. They will be the ones who travel beyond the moon." Funny but when I was three and watched man land on the moon I thought it was going to my generation.
But that is the point. The amount spent as a total of the US budget is TINY. It isn't going to make a difference. As I said it is nothing but closing the strip joints because you have hookers on mainstreet. It looks like you are doing something but ends up doing nothing.
Let me see. Video games vs manned space exploration.... Sorry but some limits can in my option help art. Take a look at the Smothers Brothers sometime. Having to get around restricts can make cometary a lot more subtle and frankly more entertaining. As far as video games go? I have yet to see any censorship of video games. Age restrictions are not censorship.
The last time they did it was when the shutdown Apollo. That made things so much better. They are getting rid of the Shuttle the Moonbase I am not so sure is such a bad idea but more landings on the moon I think would be great. So little of the moon has really been explored.
Yes I do. They work on on training in Texas, Engine testing in Florida and Texas, building the external tank in Louisiana, support in California, Shuttle processing and other support in Florida.
Obama wants to stop the manned space program for five years and give the money to education. Well stopping it for five years will effectivly kill it. Anybody that is any good will leave for a new job. The total amount for education if any of it gets to education will be something like.01% of the each of our tax bill. Yes I will pay that much more in taxes for the manned space program. Any money saved will be spent on the back side when they try and restart the program. All in all a REALLY BAD PLAN.
It will put thousands of people out of work in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and California and provide little to no help with education. The whole thing reminds me of a town near where I lived. They had a huge problem with drugs and prostitution. There solution was to close the strip clubs. Well that solved.... nothing but sure sounded good.
At this point I am hoping Clinton does get the nomination.
No you probably don't. What about a web browser for research? An IRC client for asking questions? Ubuntu is will do what you want. It may have a few extras you don't need so uninstall them.
I can see your point but for the average person to use Linux they are going to want it pre-installed. To get to that point the companies that are offering Linux need customers. Your tactic looks like Anti-Microsoft tactic. But it really isn't since so few people will ever do it to make any difference. Buying a Dell with Linux is a much better Pro-Linux move.
Really? At can you not get as much as you want? What about electricity? energy is still very cheap when you look at how much you can for how little real effort compared to the rest of human history.
I hate to tell you this sparky but we do have a large amount of cheap energy. Not as cheap as it was just a few years ago but we do have a lot even now.
They restict you making alcohol fuels at home because you can drink it and they tax that a lot. They don't at least in most places in the US restrict bio diesel or even cooking oil use.
Anyway cheap energy would be great and the goverment would love it. You give me enough super cheap electricity and I will make you all the oil you want from water and air. Not only that but I will make you all the fresh water you want as well.
"We should be sending rovers nearer to the poles" They are solar powered... I don't think they would too well at the pole. Now if they put a SNAP on one that would rock.
I guess you missed this part of my post. "Are there currently abuses with copyright law? Things like DMCA and other attacks on fair use and time shifting? Yes there is. But not allowing people to distribute copyrighted material that they don't have a right to? Well how good an idea this law is should be up to debate. Is it an attack on free speech or censorship? I don't think so."
But frankly I am sick of people using piracy, porn, and kiddie porn as examples of "protecting free speech". There are some real threats to free speech but the pirates that try to hide behind free speech are the scum of the earth.
Actually we are getting down to part symantics and part a lack of understanding. Agree with and like are getting into splitting hairs. The trade of you speak of is true but it is a trade off you where free to choose. The only thing that stopped you from creating your own FOSS license was you. My point is every author has a right to pick the trade off they want. Open or Closed source and that choice should be respected.
I think DRM is a waste of time. And yes copyright infringement should be a Civil problem unless it is for profit then it is theft. But just because a law is hard to enforce doesn't make the action moral or the law immoral. It is impossible to stop every rapist car thief, child molester, speeder, and drunk driver without make the world a police state. Does that mean those actions should just be made legal or that they are moral?
No I think you should take a look at the post I was responding too. It was a load of dung about how you really can own anything that is currently copyrighted. As to current copyright laws. Yes they are trying to take away our rights of time shifting, fair use, and are becoming draconian. I don't like them. I totally agree that copyright violation should be a civil and not criminal matter. However I don't think that Pirates Bay is a not for profit. I have no love for those that are trying to take away the rights of Authors just so they can take free stuff.
Art? Food and shelter maybe. But you can live for a very long time without "art" Even then theft is still wrong. If you are hungry and you take food you may cause someone else to go hungry. You can argue that individuals have the obligation to give food to the hungry if you yourself have an excess. But to just take it? That isn't moral. It is the I want or need something so I have the right to take it. As far as ART? Yea right you need those 500 gigs of MP3s and Rips of DVDs..... Please that is also nothing but justification.
How can you own your name? Your social security number? Your identiy? By your same line of reasoning you can not own any of these things a well. It is also kind of silly to think you can own a part of the planet. Let me fill you in on something sparky. Ownership IS a completely legal construct. Society has decided that you can own land and society has decided you can own what you write. Be it a book or a program. You don't really own it you are granted a license for a limited time at which point it enters the public domain. But yes all of your noise and it really is just noise is flailing around trying to justify pirating stuff. Your tamping out greed is the worst hypocrisy since you want to keep your personal wealth while taking the fruits of others work. An author has a right to set the conditions of how his work is used and distributed for specific period of time. You don't have the right to take away the authors rights! I will defend the right of anybody to release code they have written under the GPL as I myself have. I will defend their rights to defend that copyright. But your little game of logical twister is just silly. Just as I can own a piece of land, the fruit that a tree that I plant on that land, and the home on that land I can own a program, book, or poem that I write.
You don't get it. If you don't want people to use your stuff in that way then chose a different license. Nothing in the world stops you from even writing your own. That is freedom. You are free to choose what license to use. That is your choice. That is what copyright law is all about. The creator of a work does have control over their work. Those people are not using your work in a way you don't agree with because you did agree to let them use it in that way!
The only time someone is using your creations is ways that you didn't agree to is when they are in violation of your copyright license.
"Also look at your own example: books. How scarce is Homer's Iliad? " Very there is only one. How many books of the same quality exist? And yes Homer got paid for it. And paid very well.
The rest is still justification of you wanting free stuff and pretending you have some right to it. The answer is simple If you don't like the conditions of the copyright then don't use the material. If you are right there will be no need for you to to use anything but free software, music, and books. Any other action and you are taking away the author rights.
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Will it work on a Mac? How about Linux? What about Firefox?
I keep wondering how long before someone writes an audio device driver that just creates a ogg,flac, or MP3.
It will not run well an the Asus EEEPc or any of the other netbooks coming out.
That looks like the new big market well volume wise anyway.
Most people that want one already have a Home or office PC. Those PCs now do pretty much everything the need them to.
Most people that need a powerful notebook already have one.
So now you can get the cheap and light netbooks.
So you no programs that can not run on XP. So in other other words Vista gives you NO value.
That is the key problem with Vista.
Some pain and no real gain.
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand what most users need and want.
Not counting gamers.
Most users don't need more features in the OS. The only feature that most XP users need added is the ability to burn a DVD and it would be nice to have the ability to burn an ISO out of the box. Yes you can add both to XP.
Most users would like better security but don't want to do any work to get it.
What it comes down to is most users don't need a more powerful PC. Most home and office users want a smaller, cheaper, and less power hungry PC that does what their current one does.
That is one reason why the Asus EEE is doing so well.
Ubuntu will run just fine on a sub 1 GHZ 512 mb notebook even with compwiz. Vista can not do that.
Heck most people don't even need a Core2Duo. I have a feeling that we are going to be seeing a lot of dual core atom based systems. The one question is what OS will they run?
"Antarctica is easier, and we still haven't colonized it yet..."
Well wrong on a lot of counts.
1. We do have bases there.
2. Come countries have put settlements there to try and establish territorial claims. See three..
3. Under international law nobody owns Antarctica and there are strict rules about what you can and can not do there. So that hopefully has stopped any plans to colonize it.
They have found coal and other minerals on Antarctica. I wonder what else might be under the ice. What new fossils for example.
The reason we have not moved into Antartica in mass is because of international law. I worry what will happen if they ever find massive amounts of oil there. You could have a terrible war between South Africa, Australia, NZ, Chile, and Argentina.
A P1 will do just fine for some tasks even now. A firewall, maybe a NAS. I would tend to stick to at least a PII.
As to the power for watts. Remember most PCs today spend a large amount of their time waiting. Only renderfarms and HPC worry about peak MIPS per watt.
I would pay that much more also for better education.
That is just it the amount will not make any difference.
And of course what everyone forgets is that the US school system was at it's best when we where spending the most on Space...
"But educating the next generation of people is of much greater concern and importance. They will be the ones who travel beyond the moon."
Funny but when I was three and watched man land on the moon I thought it was going to my generation.
But that is the point. The amount spent as a total of the US budget is TINY. It isn't going to make a difference. As I said it is nothing but closing the strip joints because you have hookers on mainstreet.
It looks like you are doing something but ends up doing nothing.
Let me see. Video games vs manned space exploration....
Sorry but some limits can in my option help art. Take a look at the Smothers Brothers sometime.
Having to get around restricts can make cometary a lot more subtle and frankly more entertaining.
As far as video games go? I have yet to see any censorship of video games. Age restrictions are not censorship.
The last time they did it was when the shutdown Apollo. That made things so much better.
They are getting rid of the Shuttle the Moonbase I am not so sure is such a bad idea but more landings on the moon I think would be great. So little of the moon has really been explored.
Yes I do.
They work on on training in Texas, Engine testing in Florida and Texas, building the external tank in Louisiana, support in California, Shuttle processing and other support in Florida.
Obama wants to stop the manned space program for five years and give the money to education. .01% of the each of our tax bill. Yes I will pay that much more in taxes for the manned space program. Any money saved will be spent on the back side when they try and restart the program.
Well stopping it for five years will effectivly kill it. Anybody that is any good will leave for a new job. The total amount for education if any of it gets to education will be something like
All in all a REALLY BAD PLAN.
It will put thousands of people out of work in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and California and provide little to no help with education. The whole thing reminds me of a town near where I lived. They had a huge problem with drugs and prostitution. There solution was to close the strip clubs. Well that solved.... nothing but sure sounded good.
At this point I am hoping Clinton does get the nomination.
No you probably don't.
What about a web browser for research? An IRC client for asking questions?
Ubuntu is will do what you want. It may have a few extras you don't need so uninstall them.
I can see your point but for the average person to use Linux they are going to want it pre-installed.
To get to that point the companies that are offering Linux need customers.
Your tactic looks like Anti-Microsoft tactic. But it really isn't since so few people will ever do it to make any difference.
Buying a Dell with Linux is a much better Pro-Linux move.
How knew that PerÃn moved to Chile?
Really?
At can you not get as much as you want? What about electricity? energy is still very cheap when you look at how much you can for how little real effort compared to the rest of human history.
I hate to tell you this sparky but we do have a large amount of cheap energy. Not as cheap as it was just a few years ago but we do have a lot even now.
They restict you making alcohol fuels at home because you can drink it and they tax that a lot.
They don't at least in most places in the US restrict bio diesel or even cooking oil use.
Anyway cheap energy would be great and the goverment would love it.
You give me enough super cheap electricity and I will make you all the oil you want from water and air.
Not only that but I will make you all the fresh water you want as well.
"We should be sending rovers nearer to the poles"
They are solar powered... I don't think they would too well at the pole.
Now if they put a SNAP on one that would rock.
I guess you missed this part of my post.
"Are there currently abuses with copyright law? Things like DMCA and other attacks on fair use and time shifting? Yes there is. But not allowing people to distribute copyrighted material that they don't have a right to? Well how good an idea this law is should be up to debate. Is it an attack on free speech or censorship? I don't think so."
But frankly I am sick of people using piracy, porn, and kiddie porn as examples of "protecting free speech".
There are some real threats to free speech but the pirates that try to hide behind free speech are the scum of the earth.
Actually we are getting down to part symantics and part a lack of understanding.
Agree with and like are getting into splitting hairs.
The trade of you speak of is true but it is a trade off you where free to choose. The only thing that stopped you from creating your own FOSS license was you.
My point is every author has a right to pick the trade off they want. Open or Closed source and that choice should be respected.
I think DRM is a waste of time. And yes copyright infringement should be a Civil problem unless it is for profit then it is theft.
But just because a law is hard to enforce doesn't make the action moral or the law immoral.
It is impossible to stop every rapist car thief, child molester, speeder, and drunk driver without make the world a police state. Does that mean those actions should just be made legal or that they are moral?
No I think you should take a look at the post I was responding too. It was a load of dung about how you really can own anything that is currently copyrighted.
As to current copyright laws. Yes they are trying to take away our rights of time shifting, fair use, and are becoming draconian. I don't like them.
I totally agree that copyright violation should be a civil and not criminal matter. However I don't think that Pirates Bay is a not for profit.
I have no love for those that are trying to take away the rights of Authors just so they can take free stuff.
Art?
Food and shelter maybe. But you can live for a very long time without "art"
Even then theft is still wrong. If you are hungry and you take food you may cause someone else to go hungry. You can argue that individuals have the obligation to give food to the hungry if you yourself have an excess.
But to just take it? That isn't moral. It is the I want or need something so I have the right to take it.
As far as ART? Yea right you need those 500 gigs of MP3s and Rips of DVDs.....
Please that is also nothing but justification.
How can you own your name? Your social security number? Your identiy?
By your same line of reasoning you can not own any of these things a well.
It is also kind of silly to think you can own a part of the planet.
Let me fill you in on something sparky. Ownership IS a completely legal construct.
Society has decided that you can own land and society has decided you can own what you write. Be it a book or a program. You don't really own it you are granted a license for a limited time at which point it enters the public domain.
But yes all of your noise and it really is just noise is flailing around trying to justify pirating stuff. Your tamping out greed is the worst hypocrisy since you want to keep your personal wealth while taking the fruits of others work.
An author has a right to set the conditions of how his work is used and distributed for specific period of time.
You don't have the right to take away the authors rights!
I will defend the right of anybody to release code they have written under the GPL as I myself have. I will defend their rights to defend that copyright. But your little game of logical twister is just silly. Just as I can own a piece of land, the fruit that a tree that I plant on that land, and the home on that land I can own a program, book, or poem that I write.
You don't get it.
If you don't want people to use your stuff in that way then chose a different license.
Nothing in the world stops you from even writing your own. That is freedom.
You are free to choose what license to use. That is your choice.
That is what copyright law is all about. The creator of a work does have control over their work.
Those people are not using your work in a way you don't agree with because you did agree to let them use it in that way!
The only time someone is using your creations is ways that you didn't agree to is when they are in violation of your copyright license.
"Also look at your own example: books. How scarce is Homer's Iliad? "
Very there is only one. How many books of the same quality exist?
And yes Homer got paid for it. And paid very well.
The rest is still justification of you wanting free stuff and pretending you have some right to it.
The answer is simple
If you don't like the conditions of the copyright then don't use the material.
If you are right there will be no need for you to to use anything but free software, music, and books.
Any other action and you are taking away the author rights.