And let's see.. printing.. there's no clear winner there. HP's got a LaserJet in every office in the universe.. But don't rule out Compaq, they are great at rebranding plastic Lexmark inkjets!
In redards of rebranding, did you know that for most HP laserjets (if not all) the printing mechanic is manufactured by canon? HP only provides the formater (logic, driver connected end), and the brand, the rest is done by canon.
So you've risen to a meta-repost-complainer, as you complain about people who complain about reposts. And I'm a meta-meta-repost-complainer, as with this post I complain about somebody who complains about people who complain about reposts.
Anyway, reading any more into the movie is getting a bit philosophical, need less to say you did a better post then all those arseholes who say shit like why didn't they use horses instead of people.
Maybe this is explained quite simply, if we continue to treat earth like this, maybe in 200 years, men are the only the lifeform left:P
Simply, because gcc is the best compiler of the world!! Note I say gcc, not g++. (C++ is and had it's issues). Well best in regards of retargetability and availability of cpu targets, very good in regards of improving development code warnings and errors, good/better medicore in regards of code generation. below avergare in regards of compilation speed. Absolute first class in regards of price and per-seat licenses:o) On the top of things in regards of standard compability. (Note that there isn't a single c++ compiler in the world that meets the ANSI standards...)
To clear one thing out what this article is completly wrong for. If there is any effect of mobiles in the human body, it's not passive. If at all it effects the user himself. So no need to worry about mobiles that other uses, or the one that is on your roof. For the user himself he does hold it directly to the brain, and it does heat the body 1 degree. That are all the effects, the ultimate question is how does the body take an temperature raise of 1 degree? For a minute he doesn't care really, same goes for a quater, also a day should not be a problem. When we're having fever we have higher temperatur raises for days and sometimes even weeks. So okay if you strap a mobile to ones head, and let it running (in talk mode, not in standby) for a whole month, then we can talk about possible effects.
What you guys all tell is to be afraight of the unknown, to be scared from the future, and this argh! Honestly right now, what are you doing? You're starting with your eyes into an electron tube. I say stop that immediatly! Do you know what effects that could have? The radiation electrons couse? The strong magnetic field that is used inside the screen to focus the beam? Throw away all monitors because they *might* be a danger of something we don't know. Honestly if the world constisted only of such peasant we would not have trains, cars, and all that. Oh yes we would have no medicine at all, die at the age of 20 and on. Do you know how much medicine is and was practisced with techniques which effects were not known? Today such "alternative" medicine is even modern. Stop taking praying to god! we don't know how it functions and what effects it has, so we *don't* *know* what dangers are in there...
Well how about a reply that _agree's_ with the poster? Yes I didn't say it explicitly, but fo you suppose that every reply is from the nature of things against the original poster?
What should we learn from this? That those mercury skin treatments are great! And asbestos is a great material to use everywhere! And that we'll control those pesky bugs by introducing their natural predator, the canetoad!
What we should learn from all this is not to react emotional, but objective. Watch the fact how strong rdiation is, what impacts it does have, etc. "radiation" is in the meanwhile a bad word. I would watch the earth we're walking on. You know? It radiates, and yes relatiwe strongly even. 1/2 of radiation impact upon you comes from the inside of earth.
In contrast of asbestos and xrays we do not know what impact mobilies have. For one I can't tell you for sure for any person but the caller it's indeed "mostly harmless". It's 100 times weaker than radio or television signals. For the caller himself the problem is that you hold the sender directly to the head. It is known that temperature of the brain can increase up to 1 degree, if doing long calls. Maybe you experienced yourself, I did when using a wobile langer than 1 hour, you'll feel you ear warming up. How it impacts on the human body? We don't know honestly. For me who is doing such calls ~once in a month, it's most likely no problem. For one daing this on a day by day basis, well then after ten years he might have effects from that. We'll just see, but it will really effect if at all only the most hardcore mobile users.... (whereever they take the money to use the mobile 4 hours a day or so~)
It's the same with electromagnetic fields "radiated" (uhhh... evil word) by the powersource network. We honestly dan't know what long time impacts are, they are proofen rather weak on a normal dose, as we've electricity over a century already, and haven't noticed anything remarkable. How it is with really strong fields over long times, nobody knows. However i.e. RM medics are exposed to very strongf magnetic fields on day by day, and yet alse nothing noticable seemed to have effected those, who knows exactly?
People used to think that radioactivity and X-rays were really nifty and harmless, but things turned out differently. Maybe we should learn from that and be more careful this time around.
However people also thought humans can never survive speeds at 20 miles per hour, and doomed the frist trains, and were backed by scientist. Even then most medics critizied that there are high possibilities that travelling at such "enormous" speeds is likely to leave permanent damadges on the human body, and warned everybody not to risk that. What do you think today of this?
What should we learn from this? Panoia can also be very rediculous, seen afterwards.
I just want to say, the power transmitted by the radio and television station net, is 100 times larger than the one for mobiles, Just to give you people a comperasion. Before you start worring about the mobile telephone network, demolish 99% radio transmitters first.
Note that we get every year ~ 5-10 (small) astroids that make it until earth surface, and this goes since ever. Now how likely is that _they_ contain extraterrestrial bacteria, especially compared to mars?
I think we should cover earth with huge mega lasers and fire everything that comes near to us, *just* *in* *case*. It could be that suddundly on one of this astrioids some super-mega bacteria hosts that is specialzed to kill every life in whatever form. Not that this wasn't the case for million of years up until now. Earth has never been a quarantined sphere.
Oh yes as we've frozen astroids on north ond south pole, what dangers lure in those? Now due to global earth warming the ice caps melts, can we risk these super bacteria to come from there? I say we should drop a cascade of atomic bombs on both poles, to destroy potential extraterrestrial life, *just* *to* *be* *safe*.
But remember you're refusing humans to enter earth again, without any visible proof, against a thing beyond chances, thats more than vust a liitle caution.
Even let's for one second suppose that there are extraterrestrial bacterias on mars. (which seems to be rather unlikely), how well do you think they are equipped to survive on earth? Not much, they are specialized for a life on mars. How well do you think they understand to use terrestrial life as hosts? Not at all, where should thay have learned?
It's the same on earth, take a lion from the steppe and put him on the south pole and look how well he survives there. Then take a pinguin from south pole and put him into the steppe where the lion was, how many days would you give this poor fellow?
Okay I think there might even be some bacterias on mars, but they are terrestrial and plug in stasis on our probes and landers, and well we're used and well suited for this kind of. Extraterrestrial are very unlikely, and even if existend far more unlikely to be able to infect a human or any life on our planet.
Actually, the latest Wine builds are working better and better even without Microsoft libraries. A far more likely scenario -- and one with a more powerful impact -- would be if MS Office was licensed so that it could only be used with Windows... or if it could only authenticate using Passport, or something along those lines. In fact, I believe that the reason CodeWeavers Office does not yet support MS Office XP has to do with this kind of licensing issue.
Well we have already been there, back some years in the DOS ages. Some microsoft tools tested exactly to be runned only on "MS-DOS", and refused to run with in example DR-DOS. No need to say as this was discovered it there were huge riots about this. But as it is, time covers everything well, who remembers these "crimes" today?
They argued they just wanted to be sure there are no side effects... tsss.. tsss..
Well at that times everybody understood well that you wantded to run a non ms-OS, like DR-DOS, and didn't start eyeing you unbelieving as today if you tell a friend you aren't running any MS-OS on your home system.
Micro$haft is the main company working on Windows networking protocols, and as has always been the case they don't seem to encourage standards or interoperability.
_Please_ just write "microsoft" that gives any comment a better mature feeling, nobody gains anything by writing micro$oft, or mirco$hoft or anything like that. It just makes the first impression of "stupid geek", who knows nothing about economy.
Where do you get this nonsense? Everything is a PC in a box. Why such a fuss over putting a hard drive and Linux on a PS2? Isnt that " Just a pc in a box".
That is not true, as long you understand the same thing from a PC. Under PC he ment an "Intel-PC". Having an Intel or AMD processor, a PCI bus, PCisch RAM's etc.
The difference is that linux runs on a lot more than PC's. In example also on PowerPC's which I guess the PS2 is. (Okay it has also the word PC in it). But a system having a PPC controller is no PC. It's an embedded system and it runs linux, however _not_ any microsoft OS. ms is restricted to "intlish" hardare, and some NT's were for "alphish", but that was it. While linux runs nearly two dozend processors, as far I remember the list, yes with ucLinux it runs even on processors not having an MMU, how sane that is is another opinion:o)
Using PCisch hardware in embedded design has it's advantages and it's disadvantages, advantages is that you don't have a lot to design, you just take a PC. Second advantage is that PCisch hardware is cheap, as it is produced in hugh masses, PC RAMs are for more cheaper to buy than as seperate chips and soldering them together yourself. Disadvantages are first and the main, it's a damm PC! With all it's freaking stupid layout for backward compability upto ~1985 or such when the first 8086 appeared. Yes if you power your super-duper PC today it still starts in a 8086 mode, then enables 286 enhancements to bootloadm then enables 386 to get a sane system, and on the latest stage pentium code to get the last out of the system. BIOS and the whole x86 instruction set is just damm crazy. The second disadvantage is that PCisch components have a short life time in avability, say you want to manufacture another million XBoxes in 3 years. (without a new hardware design, or a new XBox design, you another million that 100% compatible to the existing ones) Do you still get today-style CPU's? RAM's which are bus and timing compatbile to system as they are today state of the art? You get these parts hardly if at all, and then expensive. while conservative compononets are usually provided for years. You can i.e. still buy 8051.
Now for more wierdness...how about Linux on an oscilloscope? I know a guy who wrote "pong" for it using anolog circuits. Perhaps someone should take it further.
It's sad but true, but nearly all current oscilloscopes technology Tektronics, HP, etc. runs windows 98 or 2000. Yes it's really true. Why the vendors do prefer windows over a linux system on their hardware I don't know. First they have to pay royalites. Second the oscilloscope boots slow. Thirs you cannot even start a single measurment without having to log into windows (Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login in) Yes I borrowed the oszi, left the keyboard back, since I just wanted to make a typical digital measurment "high or low". and couldn't pass this stupid login!. Forth writting drivers under win2k is a pain. Really. I wrote for both winNT and linux, and I tell you, the linux drivers interface is 100 times more easier to handle. Just buy the "Rubini" read it through and you're of with you first linux drivers. For windows? Surf through MSDN a month, get a lot of different confusing directions, start playing around, watch the machine crash, use beep codes to debug, start whining etc.:o) But if you get paid for it:o)
Oh yes and the HP one I brought to BSOD several times:o)
I don't like that taste, yes linux is far more efficient with resources than win2k or xp. However only making it public by allowing it to run on lame machines also makes a bad reputation.
One day one student will say, "all linux boxes I worked on were lame-ass". Because they runned on some old Pentium 166, while the windoze of course just had to have the new 1.5 GHz processors, with 40x cdrom speed.
I remember a friend telling me that installing his linux told so much longer than the winxp. Of course! He installed linux on an old PC with a quad 4x speed cdrom, but winXP on one with a 32x cdrom. Now who wonders....
Same with people "trying" linux they give it a 512MB partition on the harddisk and nearly no swap drive, while windows is allowed to take the other 20GB. Now who wonders why you have that less hard disk space available on linux... (or just run it in some linux emulator at all)
When I'm a company there is not real technical problem in buying a competitor product, open it and look how it functions. It think it's legelly even legal. Don't come me what you thing is "right", but as I understood the laws reverse engineering is _not_ illegal at all. (as long there is no "valid" patent on the used technology)
I use and used to be working with embedded products, and everytime I get some interesting box in my fingers (i.e. a friend buyed a firewall, or a modem, or a fax. I find it frilling to open the box, to take a look what CPU they used, what RAM, ROM or Flash they could get/buy, how the print is layered, how much layers they needed etc.
Secondly when I buy a hardware product I buy exactly this, a hardware product, and not a "functionality extension within an os". So I feel it's my right to interact with the hardware, and to know how my PC interacts with it. The company may not do on the PCI bus like it wants, it also has to keep the voltages in valid ranges and all that:o)
In general why I guess that some companies don't give out specs for the interfaces is because the reponsible posts just have no spines. Will it cost my job _not_ to everything secret? guess no, can it cost my job to publish something? If you publish the wrong thing yes, However if you publish the right thing it can get you a raise. For me it's a matter of spine to make career.
From another standpoint, people are always thinking whats best for companies? Thats not the right way to think as a human. A human should ask himself whats best for the society as whole? I mean every company has to watch to keep alive, thats what it should do, but never should forget what companies are for after all. To add something for the society, the community of all people. And there a lot of the greedy all-to-me philosophy fails. But in the long run a freer community will survive eitherway better, as people help each other out, show them the interfaces to their boxes etc. while a parallell closed community will just survive less good. Thats how evolution _will_ take place. It's just a question, do you want to be part of a closed no-one-communicates-with-no-one-just-in-case-commu ntiy or and community targeted to work a bit together. I guess one can estimate witch one will survive in the long run. (some decades, maybe centriues). At least I want to be on a living branch of society, not the dead one.
If you are so worried about this energy beamed from the moon, you should be even more worried about the burning of fossil fuels, since the former is speculation and the latter concrete reality.
Well we're are worried but not too much, at the very latest in 40 years burning of fussil fuels will stop either was, and without our current "high culture". I see it one day in historical books the current age will be written as the high culture of oil.
It sounds harsh and it's not going to be realized but culture as it is currently will end with the oil. We just have to accept that and take a step down from our high horses. Plans like this is like a raving animal scared in a hole, it's not going to happen and fusion or with solar cell loaded moons will not be going to keep our expnsive life style we builded on cost of energy stored over thousend of years, which we now have already nearly spend in what a 100 years?
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Yeah damm ozone layer!
Can't we use FCKW gases to get effictivly rid of it? I think australia had already a ozone hole in the 80/90ies. Everybody get his spray cans and say no to the ozone layer:o)
A better idea that's technically not much less umptuous. Why leave it at the moon? We can build a huge spaceship travel to Alpha Centaury (our nearest star) and then build a sphere right around the star catching *all* it's light. Then send it as a "harmless "microwave to earth, and hope that earth doesn't just evaporate from all the energy.
You also need to take into account what they mean by microwave. I think microwave is a general term for everything between 1Ghz and the visible spectrum. (1mm to 30cm wavelength)
Yes, let us a high energy form, with narrow wavelength, thats close to visible light, or even visible light. Now wait don't we already get this in masses for free from the sun? and not the moon. Why have we to hop ever the moon? Do you see the logical cludge?
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And let's see.. printing.. there's no clear winner there. HP's got a LaserJet in every office in the universe.. But don't rule out Compaq, they are great at rebranding plastic Lexmark inkjets!
In redards of rebranding, did you know that for most HP laserjets (if not all) the printing mechanic is manufactured by canon? HP only provides the formater (logic, driver connected end), and the brand, the rest is done by canon.
So you've risen to a meta-repost-complainer, as you complain about people who complain about reposts. And I'm a meta-meta-repost-complainer, as with this post I complain about somebody who complains about people who complain about reposts.
Anyway, reading any more into the movie is getting a bit philosophical, need less to say you did a better post then all those arseholes who say shit like why didn't they use horses instead of people.
:P
Maybe this is explained quite simply, if we continue to treat earth like this, maybe in 200 years, men are the only the lifeform left
Credit where credit is due.
Erik Anderson maintains the busybox todoy.
The employer you have spoken of is/was Lineo.
Simply, because gcc is the best compiler of the world!! Note I say gcc, not g++. (C++ is and had it's issues). Well best in regards of retargetability and availability of cpu targets, very good in regards of improving development code warnings and errors, good/better medicore in regards of code generation. below avergare in regards of compilation speed. Absolute first class in regards of price and per-seat licenses :o) On the top of things in regards of standard compability. (Note that there isn't a single c++ compiler in the world that meets the ANSI standards...)
To clear one thing out what this article is completly wrong for. If there is any effect of mobiles in the human body, it's not passive. If at all it effects the user himself. So no need to worry about mobiles that other uses, or the one that is on your roof. For the user himself he does hold it directly to the brain, and it does heat the body 1 degree. That are all the effects, the ultimate question is how does the body take an temperature raise of 1 degree? For a minute he doesn't care really, same goes for a quater, also a day should not be a problem. When we're having fever we have higher temperatur raises for days and sometimes even weeks. So okay if you strap a mobile to ones head, and let it running (in talk mode, not in standby) for a whole month, then we can talk about possible effects.
What you guys all tell is to be afraight of the unknown, to be scared from the future, and this argh! Honestly right now, what are you doing? You're starting with your eyes into an electron tube. I say stop that immediatly! Do you know what effects that could have? The radiation electrons couse? The strong magnetic field that is used inside the screen to focus the beam? Throw away all monitors because they *might* be a danger of something we don't know. Honestly if the world constisted only of such peasant we would not have trains, cars, and all that. Oh yes we would have no medicine at all, die at the age of 20 and on. Do you know how much medicine is and was practisced with techniques which effects were not known? Today such "alternative" medicine is even modern. Stop taking praying to god! we don't know how it functions and what effects it has, so we *don't* *know* what dangers are in there...
Well how about a reply that _agree's_ with the poster? Yes I didn't say it explicitly, but fo you suppose that every reply is from the nature of things against the original poster?
What should we learn from this? That those mercury skin treatments are great! And asbestos is a great material to use everywhere! And that we'll control those pesky bugs by introducing their natural predator, the canetoad!
What we should learn from all this is not to react emotional, but objective. Watch the fact how strong rdiation is, what impacts it does have, etc. "radiation" is in the meanwhile a bad word. I would watch the earth we're walking on. You know? It radiates, and yes relatiwe strongly even. 1/2 of radiation impact upon you comes from the inside of earth.
In contrast of asbestos and xrays we do not know what impact mobilies have. For one I can't tell you for sure for any person but the caller it's indeed "mostly harmless". It's 100 times weaker than radio or television signals. For the caller himself the problem is that you hold the sender directly to the head. It is known that temperature of the brain can increase up to 1 degree, if doing long calls. Maybe you experienced yourself, I did when using a wobile langer than 1 hour, you'll feel you ear warming up. How it impacts on the human body? We don't know honestly. For me who is doing such calls ~once in a month, it's most likely no problem. For one daing this on a day by day basis, well then after ten years he might have effects from that. We'll just see, but it will really effect if at all only the most hardcore mobile users.... (whereever they take the money to use the mobile 4 hours a day or so~)
It's the same with electromagnetic fields "radiated" (uhhh... evil word) by the powersource network. We honestly dan't know what long time impacts are, they are proofen rather weak on a normal dose, as we've electricity over a century already, and haven't noticed anything remarkable. How it is with really strong fields over long times, nobody knows. However i.e. RM medics are exposed to very strongf magnetic fields on day by day, and yet alse nothing noticable seemed to have effected those, who knows exactly?
People used to think that radioactivity and X-rays were really nifty and harmless, but things turned out differently. Maybe we should learn from that and be more careful this time around.
However people also thought humans can never survive speeds at 20 miles per hour, and doomed the frist trains, and were backed by scientist. Even then most medics critizied that there are high possibilities that travelling at such "enormous" speeds is likely to leave permanent damadges on the human body, and warned everybody not to risk that. What do you think today of this?
What should we learn from this? Panoia can also be very rediculous, seen afterwards.
I just want to say, the power transmitted by the radio and television station net, is 100 times larger than the one for mobiles, Just to give you people a comperasion. Before you start worring about the mobile telephone network, demolish 99% radio transmitters first.
And all this paranioa. For what?
Note that we get every year ~ 5-10 (small) astroids that make it until earth surface, and this goes since ever. Now how likely is that _they_ contain extraterrestrial bacteria, especially compared to mars?
I think we should cover earth with huge mega lasers and fire everything that comes near to us, *just* *in* *case*. It could be that suddundly on one of this astrioids some super-mega bacteria hosts that is specialzed to kill every life in whatever form. Not that this wasn't the case for million of years up until now. Earth has never been a quarantined sphere.
Oh yes as we've frozen astroids on north ond south pole, what dangers lure in those? Now due to global earth warming the ice caps melts, can we risk these super bacteria to come from there? I say we should drop a cascade of atomic bombs on both poles, to destroy potential extraterrestrial life, *just* *to* *be* *safe*.
But remember you're refusing humans to enter earth again, without any visible proof, against a thing beyond chances, thats more than vust a liitle caution.
I call this inhuman.
Even let's for one second suppose that there are extraterrestrial bacterias on mars. (which seems to be rather unlikely), how well do you think they are equipped to survive on earth? Not much, they are specialized for a life on mars. How well do you think they understand to use terrestrial life as hosts? Not at all, where should thay have learned?
It's the same on earth, take a lion from the steppe and put him on the south pole and look how well he survives there. Then take a pinguin from south pole and put him into the steppe where the lion was, how many days would you give this poor fellow?
Okay I think there might even be some bacterias on mars, but they are terrestrial and plug in stasis on our probes and landers, and well we're used and well suited for this kind of. Extraterrestrial are very unlikely, and even if existend far more unlikely to be able to infect a human or any life on our planet.
Actually, the latest Wine builds are working better and better even without Microsoft libraries. A far more likely scenario -- and one with a more powerful impact -- would be if MS Office was licensed so that it could only be used with Windows... or if it could only authenticate using Passport, or something along those lines. In fact, I believe that the reason CodeWeavers Office does not yet support MS Office XP has to do with this kind of licensing issue.
Well we have already been there, back some years in the DOS ages. Some microsoft tools tested exactly to be runned only on "MS-DOS", and refused to run with in example DR-DOS. No need to say as this was discovered it there were huge riots about this. But as it is, time covers everything well, who remembers these "crimes" today?
They argued they just wanted to be sure there are no side effects... tsss.. tsss..
Well at that times everybody understood well that you wantded to run a non ms-OS, like DR-DOS, and didn't start eyeing you unbelieving as today if you tell a friend you aren't running any MS-OS on your home system.
Micro$haft is the main company working on Windows networking protocols, and as has always been the case they don't seem to encourage standards or interoperability.
_Please_ just write "microsoft" that gives any comment a better mature feeling, nobody gains anything by writing micro$oft, or mirco$hoft or anything like that. It just makes the first impression of "stupid geek", who knows nothing about economy.
Where do you get this nonsense? Everything is a PC in a box. Why such a fuss over putting a hard drive and Linux on a PS2? Isnt that " Just a pc in a box".
That is not true, as long you understand the same thing from a PC. Under PC he ment an "Intel-PC". Having an Intel or AMD processor, a PCI bus, PCisch RAM's etc.
The difference is that linux runs on a lot more than PC's. In example also on PowerPC's which I guess the PS2 is. (Okay it has also the word PC in it). But a system having a PPC controller is no PC. It's an embedded system and it runs linux, however _not_ any microsoft OS. ms is restricted to "intlish" hardare, and some NT's were for "alphish", but that was it. While linux runs nearly two dozend processors, as far I remember the list, yes with ucLinux it runs even on processors not having an MMU, how sane that is is another opinion
Using PCisch hardware in embedded design has it's advantages and it's disadvantages, advantages is that you don't have a lot to design, you just take a PC. Second advantage is that PCisch hardware is cheap, as it is produced in hugh masses, PC RAMs are for more cheaper to buy than as seperate chips and soldering them together yourself. Disadvantages are first and the main, it's a damm PC! With all it's freaking stupid layout for backward compability upto ~1985 or such when the first 8086 appeared. Yes if you power your super-duper PC today it still starts in a 8086 mode, then enables 286 enhancements to bootloadm then enables 386 to get a sane system, and on the latest stage pentium code to get the last out of the system. BIOS and the whole x86 instruction set is just damm crazy. The second disadvantage is that PCisch components have a short life time in avability, say you want to manufacture another million XBoxes in 3 years. (without a new hardware design, or a new XBox design, you another million that 100% compatible to the existing ones) Do you still get today-style CPU's? RAM's which are bus and timing compatbile to system as they are today state of the art? You get these parts hardly if at all, and then expensive. while conservative compononets are usually provided for years. You can i.e. still buy 8051.
I inserted my credit card into a cash dispenser, it BSOD'ed, watchdog rebooted it, and of course it didn't give back my credit card :)
Now for more wierdness...how about Linux on an oscilloscope? I know a guy who wrote "pong" for it using anolog circuits. Perhaps someone should take it further.
:o)
:o)
It's sad but true, but nearly all current oscilloscopes technology Tektronics, HP, etc. runs windows 98 or 2000. Yes it's really true. Why the vendors do prefer windows over a linux system on their hardware I don't know. First they have to pay royalites. Second the oscilloscope boots slow. Thirs you cannot even start a single measurment without having to log into windows (Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login in) Yes I borrowed the oszi, left the keyboard back, since I just wanted to make a typical digital measurment "high or low". and couldn't pass this stupid login!. Forth writting drivers under win2k is a pain. Really. I wrote for both winNT and linux, and I tell you, the linux drivers interface is 100 times more easier to handle. Just buy the "Rubini" read it through and you're of with you first linux drivers. For windows? Surf through MSDN a month, get a lot of different confusing directions, start playing around, watch the machine crash, use beep codes to debug, start whining etc.:o) But if you get paid for it
Oh yes and the HP one I brought to BSOD several times
I don't like that taste, yes linux is far more efficient with resources than win2k or xp. However only making it public by allowing it to run on lame machines also makes a bad reputation.
One day one student will say, "all linux boxes I worked on were lame-ass". Because they runned on some old Pentium 166, while the windoze of course just had to have the new 1.5 GHz processors, with 40x cdrom speed.
I remember a friend telling me that installing his linux told so much longer than the winxp. Of course! He installed linux on an old PC with a quad 4x speed cdrom, but winXP on one with a 32x cdrom. Now who wonders....
Same with people "trying" linux they give it a 512MB partition on the harddisk and nearly no swap drive, while windows is allowed to take the other 20GB. Now who wonders why you have that less hard disk space available on linux... (or just run it in some linux emulator at all)
I don't agree at all
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u ntiy or and community targeted to work a bit together. I guess one can estimate witch one will survive in the long run. (some decades, maybe centriues). At least I want to be on a living branch of society, not the dead one.
When I'm a company there is not real technical problem in buying a competitor product, open it and look how it functions. It think it's legelly even legal. Don't come me what you thing is "right", but as I understood the laws reverse engineering is _not_ illegal at all. (as long there is no "valid" patent on the used technology)
I use and used to be working with embedded products, and everytime I get some interesting box in my fingers (i.e. a friend buyed a firewall, or a modem, or a fax. I find it frilling to open the box, to take a look what CPU they used, what RAM, ROM or Flash they could get/buy, how the print is layered, how much layers they needed etc.
Secondly when I buy a hardware product I buy exactly this, a hardware product, and not a "functionality extension within an os". So I feel it's my right to interact with the hardware, and to know how my PC interacts with it. The company may not do on the PCI bus like it wants, it also has to keep the voltages in valid ranges and all that
In general why I guess that some companies don't give out specs for the interfaces is because the reponsible posts just have no spines. Will it cost my job _not_ to everything secret? guess no, can it cost my job to publish something? If you publish the wrong thing yes, However if you publish the right thing it can get you a raise. For me it's a matter of spine to make career.
From another standpoint, people are always thinking whats best for companies? Thats not the right way to think as a human. A human should ask himself whats best for the society as whole? I mean every company has to watch to keep alive, thats what it should do, but never should forget what companies are for after all. To add something for the society, the community of all people. And there a lot of the greedy all-to-me philosophy fails. But in the long run a freer community will survive eitherway better, as people help each other out, show them the interfaces to their boxes etc. while a parallell closed community will just survive less good. Thats how evolution _will_ take place. It's just a question, do you want to be part of a closed no-one-communicates-with-no-one-just-in-case-comm
If you are so worried about this energy beamed from the moon, you should be even more worried about the burning of fossil fuels, since the former is speculation and the latter concrete reality.
Well we're are worried but not too much, at the very latest in 40 years burning of fussil fuels will stop either was, and without our current "high culture". I see it one day in historical books the current age will be written as the high culture of oil.
It sounds harsh and it's not going to be realized but culture as it is currently will end with the oil. We just have to accept that and take a step down from our high horses. Plans like this is like a raving animal scared in a hole, it's not going to happen and fusion or with solar cell loaded moons will not be going to keep our expnsive life style we builded on cost of energy stored over thousend of years, which we now have already nearly spend in what a 100 years?
Yeah damm ozone layer!
:o)
Can't we use FCKW gases to get effictivly rid of it? I think australia had already a ozone hole in the 80/90ies. Everybody get his spray cans and say no to the ozone layer
I still vote for "quote" Laser "quote" docter Evil will frighten to destroy the white house with, and how ausutin will hinder his evil plans :o)
A better idea that's technically not much less umptuous. Why leave it at the moon? We can build a huge spaceship travel to Alpha Centaury (our nearest star) and then build a sphere right around the star catching *all* it's light. Then send it as a "harmless "microwave to earth, and hope that earth doesn't just evaporate from all the energy.
You also need to take into account what they mean by microwave. I think microwave is a general term for everything between 1Ghz and the visible spectrum. (1mm to 30cm wavelength)
Yes, let us a high energy form, with narrow wavelength, thats close to visible light, or even visible light. Now wait don't we already get this in masses for free from the sun? and not the moon. Why have we to hop ever the moon? Do you see the logical cludge?