One of the big issues isn't running Linux, but using all of that already-paid-for Windows educational software.
The performance of WINE is going to be a major lever in moving schools to Linux. If it can be shown that they can use most or all of their existing, paid-for (proprietary) software like Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, etc. then the migration will be that much easier.
Yes, GNU software is better. However, trying to get them to jump 100% from what they ahve to GNU is going to have one major speedbump -- and it will be made from the pile of existing software that they paid for and still works.
Step #1 is removing Windows, MS Works and MS Office and replacing them with Linux and OpenOffice (or KDE Office, or Gnome Office, or...).
Another step would be a good, reliable list of Windows Educational software and how it works on WINE. (Heck, most of it is still Win 3.1 compliant!)
How long until they offer an "improved" version, that has an overlaid clock/calendar, or just a HUD connected to the implanted, bone-conductive phone?
How about that "cybog" professor and all the hassles he had getting past airport security. While these things are tiny, I can easily forsee a future whene implants are regulated country-by-country.
"Sorry sir. Memory-storage implants are not legal in Canada. You must reboard the airplane."
The number was a rough guess. Assume a 40w lamp uses, I dunno, 40w of electricity. Then assuming that the picture on the page was showing an actual lamp -- with an array of 10 LEDs, each consuming 0.1w of power, that works out to 1w of power.
That right there is a 1/40 ratio. Factor in the *much* longer MTFB, the reduction in heat energy emitted, etc. and it is a damn good ratio.
Yes, I would like to see a lumens output rating on the LEDs for a better comparison. I've seen reports of 120 lumens from a 5W white LED package. A standard 40w is 460 lumens.
So, that is only a 1/2 ratio, which isn't good. However, factor in the much longer life and reduction in heating and it adds up.
For a bit more info:
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20001212S0034 http:// www.efi.org/articles/bulbs.html http://www.lumile ds.com/newsandevents/news_index.h tml?page=http://www.lumileds.com/newsandevents/rel eases/press04-14-02.htm
One way to bring down the cost would be to sell them in the developed world. A finished product, that could screw into a standard light socket, but use 1/100th the power to provide the same light would sell well in the U.S.
Especially with all the noise about power shortages and rolling blackouts.
Selling them in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world would go a long way towards creating enough demand for serious mass production.
Wrong. Linux USED to be a render-only platform, now it is taking over the workstations as well. Check out this Slashdot link titled DreamWorks Switches to Linux for only the most recent convert. Many major post houses use a lot of home-grown tools, and Linux is a godsend for them. Porting those tools from Irix to Linux is much easier than to Windows or even Mac -- since they have the source code for many items.
From what some engineers at HP told me, the Itanium is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the PA-RISC processor. I brought this up at an HPOV class I was attending and was told that the Itanium is pretty much binary compatible with the PA-RISC.
HP is a *big* seller of Unix in certain (non-ISP) markets. They are bigger than Sun in the Enterprise markets. They dwarf Compaq's Tru64, so I expect that product to be silently killed off
Soon any "undefined/future use" bits on a devices will be retroactively defined as access/copyright control and used as an excuse to sue thru DMCA.
Sad.
First step rats, the next step Congressman!
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The title says it all.
Makes for a great alibi, though. Combine it with a bone-conductive radio impland and it gives new credence to the old "voices told me to do it" excuse.
Until then Pres. Clinton signed the "No Electronic Theft" act in 1997, modifying Titles 17 & 18 of the USC, copyright violation was strictly a civil matter. In my opinion, that is the way it should stay.
However, all that has changed and copyright violations are now criminal acts under U.S. law, punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
The U.S. already has law enforcement bureaus on all levels: Federal, State and Municipal. We do NOT need YAPD -- Yet Another Police Dept.
Now, legislation providing funding for existing agencies to hire personnel, obtain equipment and training, is another matter.
The VERY big problem, is that data can easily cross State if not International boundaries. Jurisdictional disputes will tie up the courts for years.
If a legislator wants to actually do some good, they need to look into legislation modeled after various International Law, such as the Law of the Sea, etc.
They should also fight any half-baked, feel-good, unenforcable laws that some grandstanding legislators try and force thru Sen. Hollings.
Finally, legislators need to educate themselves and their staffs (staves?) on the international, distributed, fault-tolerant realities of the Internet. And I don't mean learn how to send their own e-mail. The basics of routing, backbones, peering, P2P, client-server, etc. Networking 101
Yes, they cost ungodly sums of money, but don't be fooled. Lucas isn't pushing DLP because of the great resolution. He is pushing it because a major release (3,000+ screens) means $33 - $35 MILLION in duplication costs.
Digital distribution cuts that to a fraction. Add to that the ability to check dailies in Hollywood via an optical link -- so the execs don't have to get dirty on site, and you have a winner.
Just now? They've been all over Orlando for the last year and a half. The company I used to work for got their HQ (Long Island City, NY) audited and scared the hell out of the Orlando office I had converted to about 1/3 Linux. They forked over big $$ for licenses they don't need, use or want -- just to avoid the hassle.
The BSA is nothing more than a legalized protection racket.
Apple was supposed to stay out of ALL music-related industry. However, they were big into MIDI and digital audio editing. This led to the famous "sosueme" sound on Apples.
I think they've aleady fought this particular battle.
You are going to have to define the scope of the audit. Is it just web servers, desktops, your security policies, legacy or the whole ball of wax? Are you talking a mixed environment (multiple-Unix, Windows, Mac, other?)
How wide is your network area? Multiple locations? Same cities? How about your network infrastructure itself? Routers, switches, etc.
A complete audit can take a while and cost a lot of $$, especially if you have a wide range of system types and network spread. It also can depend on how deep you want the audit to go.
I work for Lucent doing large scale audits, so can only comment on what I've experienced. Security is as much policy, training and implementation as it is software/hardware.
Nice. Yes, power animators will have to learn to script in whatever language is available. Way back when LW was only on Amiga, it had AREXX for a scripting language and the power that gave you was mind-numbing compared to not scripting at all. (All the LW Modeler macros were originally ARexx scripts. There was an entire segment of the industry based off selling those scripts.)
BTW, LW 7.5 is supposed to be announced today in New York. Also, NewTek has been saying there will be a "Linux announcement" "soon" since sometime last year. Today would be nice.:-)
Speeds for Bluetooth spec out at under 1 Mbps, depending on range, obstacles, etc. At an average speed of 750 Kbps, could you watch an MPEG-4 encoded video clip at a decent resolution on a handheld? (Hmmm...that OQO has Bluetooth built in.)
Check out the specs on Bluetooth.
Akkadian, not Acadian Rubies (red gems), not rupees (currency in India)
What's the REAL speed?
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11 Mbps to 22 Mbps SOUNDS like a 100% increase, but what is the real speed/range gain? Given an 11 Mbps system with 3 nodes each at 10m from the access point, what is the actual thruput? Is switching to the USR system going to actually DOUBLE that?
Network speeds rank right up there with CRT sizes, CD-ROM spin speeds and tape storage capacity as some of the biggest bullshit numbers in computing.
Currently the cost of switching equipment to hook up that dark fiber is still outrageous. I may be able to get an unopened FORE Systems OC3 ATM card for my PC off of Ebay for $10, but the telco isn't going to get that price. They need port density, support, reliability, features, etc.
Cisco, Lucent, Nortel, etc. equipment for high-speed fiber is EXPENSIVE.
Looked at the amount of taxes/fees on your cell phone lately? Besides, most mega-minute packages are 90% "nights/weekends" and 10% elsewhen. VoiceStream seems to be an exception.
And with Verizon (Florida) at lease, "nights" means "after 10:00 p.m.". Bastards.
Hours? Minutes? Seconds? It shouldn't take long for the entire CD to appear on the Gnutella network and other P-2-P sessions. In fact, it will probably be one of the most ripped CDs of all time, just out of spite -- not that anyone wants to listen to it.
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One of the big issues isn't running Linux, but using all of that already-paid-for Windows educational software.
...).
The performance of WINE is going to be a major lever in moving schools to Linux. If it can be shown that they can use most or all of their existing, paid-for (proprietary) software like Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, etc. then the migration will be that much easier.
Yes, GNU software is better. However, trying to get them to jump 100% from what they ahve to GNU is going to have one major speedbump -- and it will be made from the pile of existing software that they paid for and still works.
Step #1 is removing Windows, MS Works and MS Office and replacing them with Linux and OpenOffice (or KDE Office, or Gnome Office, or
Another step would be a good, reliable list of Windows Educational software and how it works on WINE. (Heck, most of it is still Win 3.1 compliant!)
How long until they offer an "improved" version, that has an overlaid clock/calendar, or just a HUD connected to the implanted, bone-conductive phone?
How about that "cybog" professor and all the hassles he had getting past airport security. While these things are tiny, I can easily forsee a future whene implants are regulated country-by-country.
"Sorry sir. Memory-storage implants are not legal in Canada. You must reboard the airplane."
Johnny Mnemonic, here we come.
The number was a rough guess. Assume a 40w lamp uses, I dunno, 40w of electricity. Then assuming that the picture on the page was showing an actual lamp -- with an array of 10 LEDs, each consuming 0.1w of power, that works out to 1w of power.
/ www.efi.org/articles/bulbs.htmle ds.com/newsandevents/news_index.h tml?page=http://www.lumileds.com/newsandevents/rel eases/press04-14-02.htm
That right there is a 1/40 ratio. Factor in the *much* longer MTFB, the reduction in heat energy emitted, etc. and it is a damn good ratio.
Yes, I would like to see a lumens output rating on the LEDs for a better comparison. I've seen reports of 120 lumens from a 5W white LED package. A standard 40w is 460 lumens.
So, that is only a 1/2 ratio, which isn't good. However, factor in the much longer life and reduction in heating and it adds up.
For a bit more info:
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20001212S0034
http:/
http://www.lumil
One way to bring down the cost would be to sell them in the developed world. A finished product, that could screw into a standard light socket, but use 1/100th the power to provide the same light would sell well in the U.S.
Especially with all the noise about power shortages and rolling blackouts.
Selling them in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world would go a long way towards creating enough demand for serious mass production.
Wrong. Linux USED to be a render-only platform, now it is taking over the workstations as well. Check out this Slashdot link titled DreamWorks Switches to Linux for only the most recent convert. Many major post houses use a lot of home-grown tools, and Linux is a godsend for them. Porting those tools from Irix to Linux is much easier than to Windows or even Mac -- since they have the source code for many items.
From what some engineers at HP told me, the Itanium is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the PA-RISC processor. I brought this up at an HPOV class I was attending and was told that the Itanium is pretty much binary compatible with the PA-RISC.
HP is a *big* seller of Unix in certain (non-ISP) markets. They are bigger than Sun in the Enterprise markets. They dwarf Compaq's Tru64, so I expect that product to be silently killed off
Barratry? Intentionally stranding/wrecking a ship in order to claim salvage or collect insurance?
Soon any "undefined/future use" bits on a devices will be retroactively defined as access/copyright control and used as an excuse to sue thru DMCA.
Sad.
The title says it all.
Makes for a great alibi, though. Combine it with a bone-conductive radio impland and it gives new credence to the old "voices told me to do it" excuse.
Until then Pres. Clinton signed the "No Electronic Theft" act in 1997, modifying Titles 17 & 18 of the USC, copyright violation was strictly a civil matter. In my opinion, that is the way it should stay.
.
However, all that has changed and copyright violations are now criminal acts under U.S. law, punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
The U.S. already has law enforcement bureaus on all levels: Federal, State and Municipal. We do NOT need YAPD -- Yet Another Police Dept.
Now, legislation providing funding for existing agencies to hire personnel, obtain equipment and training, is another matter.
The VERY big problem, is that data can easily cross State if not International boundaries. Jurisdictional disputes will tie up the courts for years.
If a legislator wants to actually do some good, they need to look into legislation modeled after various International Law, such as the Law of the Sea, etc.
They should also fight any half-baked, feel-good, unenforcable laws that some grandstanding legislators try and force thru Sen. Hollings
Finally, legislators need to educate themselves and their staffs (staves?) on the international, distributed, fault-tolerant realities of the Internet. And I don't mean learn how to send their own e-mail. The basics of routing, backbones, peering, P2P, client-server, etc. Networking 101
Yes, they cost ungodly sums of money, but don't be fooled. Lucas isn't pushing DLP because of the great resolution. He is pushing it because a major release (3,000+ screens) means $33 - $35 MILLION in duplication costs.
Digital distribution cuts that to a fraction. Add to that the ability to check dailies in Hollywood via an optical link -- so the execs don't have to get dirty on site, and you have a winner.
Just now? They've been all over Orlando for the last year and a half. The company I used to work for got their HQ (Long Island City, NY) audited and scared the hell out of the Orlando office I had converted to about 1/3 Linux. They forked over big $$ for licenses they don't need, use or want -- just to avoid the hassle.
The BSA is nothing more than a legalized protection racket.
Apple was supposed to stay out of ALL music-related industry. However, they were big into MIDI and digital audio editing. This led to the famous "sosueme" sound on Apples.
I think they've aleady fought this particular battle.
You are going to have to define the scope of the audit. Is it just web servers, desktops, your security policies, legacy or the whole ball of wax? Are you talking a mixed environment (multiple-Unix, Windows, Mac, other?)
How wide is your network area? Multiple locations? Same cities?
How about your network infrastructure itself? Routers, switches, etc.
A complete audit can take a while and cost a lot of $$, especially if you have a wide range of system types and network spread. It also can depend on how deep you want the audit to go.
I work for Lucent doing large scale audits, so can only comment on what I've experienced. Security is as much policy, training and implementation as it is software/hardware.
E-mail me if you want some detailed information.
Charles Hill
Nice. Yes, power animators will have to learn to script in whatever language is available. Way back when LW was only on Amiga, it had AREXX for a scripting language and the power that gave you was mind-numbing compared to not scripting at all. (All the LW Modeler macros were originally ARexx scripts. There was an entire segment of the industry based off selling those scripts.)
:-)
BTW, LW 7.5 is supposed to be announced today in New York. Also, NewTek has been saying there will be a "Linux announcement" "soon" since sometime last year. Today would be nice.
You mean, besides the ability to run all those existing Intel apps?
Hmmm... add a EULA to the latest virus, warning that you are not permitted to run any antivirus software and it will uninstall any it finds...
Speeds for Bluetooth spec out at under 1 Mbps, depending on range, obstacles, etc. At an average speed of 750 Kbps, could you watch an MPEG-4 encoded video clip at a decent resolution on a handheld? (Hmmm...that OQO has Bluetooth built in.) Check out the specs on Bluetooth.
They are great for quickly examining thick-film hybrid circuits. Much better than straining your eyes on a conventional scope when you don't have to.
Akkadian, not Acadian
Rubies (red gems), not rupees (currency in India)
11 Mbps to 22 Mbps SOUNDS like a 100% increase, but what is the real speed/range gain? Given an 11 Mbps system with 3 nodes each at 10m from the access point, what is the actual thruput? Is switching to the USR system going to actually DOUBLE that?
Network speeds rank right up there with CRT sizes, CD-ROM spin speeds and tape storage capacity as some of the biggest bullshit numbers in computing.
Currently the cost of switching equipment to hook up that dark fiber is still outrageous. I may be able to get an unopened FORE Systems OC3 ATM card for my PC off of Ebay for $10, but the telco isn't going to get that price. They need port density, support, reliability, features, etc.
Cisco, Lucent, Nortel, etc. equipment for high-speed fiber is EXPENSIVE.
If it doesn't belong to you, it is theft.
Now, if they wired it to automatically start the ignition and pop open the driver's door when someone walked by...
Looked at the amount of taxes/fees on your cell phone lately? Besides, most mega-minute packages are 90% "nights/weekends" and 10% elsewhen. VoiceStream seems to be an exception.
And with Verizon (Florida) at lease, "nights" means "after 10:00 p.m.". Bastards.
Hours? Minutes? Seconds? It shouldn't take long for the entire CD to appear on the Gnutella network and other P-2-P sessions. In fact, it will probably be one of the most ripped CDs of all time, just out of spite -- not that anyone wants to listen to it.