All right, I'll defend Obama. This really sucks but he's still the right man to be President.
It's pretty darned inconceivable that he was ever going to agree with us on everything. This particular issue is going to be a difficult one for us to win, even with reasonably enlightened political officials. Don't forget that NOBODY voted against DMCA.
I still feel wonderful that Obama's going into office rather than McCain. And you can't seriously believe that McCain was going to help us on electronic freedom issues.
I do hope that EFF, Lessig, etc. raise a platform on this issue that we can help them with.
I'll be in DC, and in front of some politicians and their staffers, next week. I'll be sure to put in a word about this. But that's going to be the first word, not the last.
Those of us in the U.S. will get to celebrate our extra second during a reasonable time of day, as it's in UTC. The local astronomy museum generally has a baloon drop at that time, so that the kids can feel they celebrated New Year's properly.
If you search here for the term "Netbook", 18 entries come up, one of which is a live trademark assigned to Psion. It's interesting that neither Intel nor the various manufacturers and retailers marketing computers under the term "netbook" took the trouble to do this simple web search.
You don't have to have a bridge rectifier. Just run two strings of LEDs with opposing polarity, in parallel, and you have the light of one string containing the same number of LEDs, but at 120 Hz. What the bridge rectifier gains you is a fuller duty cycle, rather than one something less than 50%, and just more light from each LED. Whether you want that or not depends on heat.
LEDs for this sort of light would be surface-mount - it makes automated assembly possible. And thus they would not generally have the hemispherical plastic dome you're used to from the leaded components. They'd probably just have a transparent coating that would not bend the light much.
With all of the new fads, some computer users may not be aware of the danger of touch screens with multiple partners. Diseases like Onchomyosis can be spread from one finger to another by touching a screen that has multiple partners. Be frank and honest with your screen. Purchase finger cotts, always have one on hand before you consider touching, and use them consciontiously!
I come through London every month or so, and it's interesting to see how the Linux notebooks wax and wane in places like Dixon's. What I'm seeing right now is handicapped Linux systems on tiny SSDs next to windows systems on 160 GB disks, in otherwise identical systems.
I have it in black, with 160 GB disk. They had the unit at Fry's, with Windows, for USD$350. No Linux. Amazon is fine, but IMO retail stores count for more.
I'm not a big fan of Limpus (pun indended). It's handicapped. Someone had to make it even dumber than Windows. It doesn't represent Linux as well as something like Ubuntu or Debian. Certainly someone used to Windows would not have much trouble with the Ubuntu menu.
Oops. My Acer Aspire One has 1G RAM and 160GB disk. It works great with Debian, the only big issue I've found so far is that it used up all the MTRRs (memory type and range registers) and that made X slower. I was able to free one up for X.
Didn't we have a story here complaining about the iphone store? Apparently it's difficult to sell anything that doesn't cost 0.99 or 4.99 because their store gives the best presentation to low-cost items.
People can make a living writing applications that have depth, like PhotoShop, or are timely, like TurboTax for the specific tax year, or that have tremendous liability and accuracy issues, like TurboTax, or that, again like TurboTax, aren't written for love, and aren't written by programmers at all but by accountants.
If your software doesn't have depth, or timeliness, etc., it's too late to make money from it. This isn't particularly an Open Source issue.
That leaves us with games, and netbooks aren't game machines, and all of the content you vend via web sites, which is probably where any money to be made will come from.
The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy
a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without
Windows. Microsoft certainly does not want notebook vendors selling them
that way, and has effective strategies to induce them not to do so.
I
expect they start with legal bribes, price structures
effecting both the vendors larger systems and the smaller ones, and if
that doesn't work the patent portfolio comes out and they discuss whether
you'd like to cross-license on their terms or be sued.
All of which means you won't see many of the Linux machines at retail.
So, the customer has to self-install, which is beyond most of them.
SATA 2 is 300 Mega BYTES - not bits - per second or about 1/2 the projected maximum rate for USB 3. Besides the speed, USB 3 would need an interrupt capability, and data integrity verification, neither of which USB 2 has. I've not read the 3.0 spec to see if they are there. USB OTG is more than a bit of a kludge, and not well supported, hopefully that's not what 3.0 uses to have multiple masters.
Sure, the USB connector is more sturdy, but I've seen a lot of external SATA connectors for computers.
I don't think they're reducing the cost of the hardware, though. $350 USD pays for an Acer Aspire One with 1G RAM and 160G disk at retail. And you can probably get a much better price in a bulk purchase. I think they are budgeting AU $500 per unit. That leaves a lot of money for Microsoft even in the initial purchase.
Educational applications on a web server are nothing new. It's funny, though, that Windows would need them. I have one of these small-cheap-light laptops that cost $350 and is intended for use with Windows "only for web browsing and email". I put Debian on it. There's only one thing I have found that it can't do: build the Linux kernel quickly. It's kind of slow at that, but it works. OpenOffice is no problem, etc.
But with a cloud, you can tie all of those kids into a network that Microsoft will be able to monetize, propogandize, etc.
Well, if we're going to talk about rights, I think we need to go farther than anonymity. How about the right to free speech? This is so abridged that regular people feel the need to speak anonymously, lest they be fired from their work, denied a new job, sued, etc. So, it seems to me that anonymity is a symptom of the problem rather than the fundamental right that is being violated.
I don't allow ACs on my own blog. And perhaps that is part of the reason that the signal/noise ratio is much better than here. There are still "handles", and in the end the only thing I have to identify most subscribers is an email (which can itself be anonymous). But even that much reduction in anonymity seems to prompt people to behave better.
he sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
It's probably failing to render the entire movement in a frame, then. I'll try to make that happen with mine. On Intel architecture, the thing that most often slows down that chipset is insufficient availability of MTRRs. That has halved the render speed on my desktop when it happens. Look in/proc/mtrr on Linux when X isn't started, if 8 are already used, there's a problem. This is actually happening on my Aspire One, and there seems to be redundant use of the MTRRs. I enabled the kernel MTRR cleaner, but don't have it working yet.
This may no longer be a problem if X can use PAT, the modern replacement for MTRRs. But I'm not sure it does.
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All right, I'll defend Obama. This really sucks but he's still the right man to be President.
It's pretty darned inconceivable that he was ever going to agree with us on everything. This particular issue is going to be a difficult one for us to win, even with reasonably enlightened political officials. Don't forget that NOBODY voted against DMCA.
I still feel wonderful that Obama's going into office rather than McCain. And you can't seriously believe that McCain was going to help us on electronic freedom issues.
I do hope that EFF, Lessig, etc. raise a platform on this issue that we can help them with.
I'll be in DC, and in front of some politicians and their staffers, next week. I'll be sure to put in a word about this. But that's going to be the first word, not the last.
Bruce
Those of us in the U.S. will get to celebrate our extra second during a reasonable time of day, as it's in UTC. The local astronomy museum generally has a baloon drop at that time, so that the kids can feel they celebrated New Year's properly.
If you search here for the term "Netbook", 18 entries come up, one of which is a live trademark assigned to Psion. It's interesting that neither Intel nor the various manufacturers and retailers marketing computers under the term "netbook" took the trouble to do this simple web search.
You don't have to have a bridge rectifier. Just run two strings of LEDs with opposing polarity, in parallel, and you have the light of one string containing the same number of LEDs, but at 120 Hz. What the bridge rectifier gains you is a fuller duty cycle, rather than one something less than 50%, and just more light from each LED. Whether you want that or not depends on heat.
LEDs for this sort of light would be surface-mount - it makes automated assembly possible. And thus they would not generally have the hemispherical plastic dome you're used to from the leaded components. They'd probably just have a transparent coating that would not bend the light much.
Aw darn, you beat me by 3 minutes.
Holy Fonts, Batman!
With all of the new fads, some computer users may not be aware of the danger of touch screens with multiple partners. Diseases like Onchomyosis can be spread from one finger to another by touching a screen that has multiple partners. Be frank and honest with your screen. Purchase finger cotts, always have one on hand before you consider touching, and use them consciontiously!
I come through London every month or so, and it's interesting to see how the Linux notebooks wax and wane in places like Dixon's. What I'm seeing right now is handicapped Linux systems on tiny SSDs next to windows systems on 160 GB disks, in otherwise identical systems.
Bruce
I have it in black, with 160 GB disk. They had the unit at Fry's, with Windows, for USD$350. No Linux. Amazon is fine, but IMO retail stores count for more.
I'm not a big fan of Limpus (pun indended). It's handicapped. Someone had to make it even dumber than Windows. It doesn't represent Linux as well as something like Ubuntu or Debian. Certainly someone used to Windows would not have much trouble with the Ubuntu menu.
Oops. My Acer Aspire One has 1G RAM and 160GB disk. It works great with Debian, the only big issue I've found so far is that it used up all the MTRRs (memory type and range registers) and that made X slower. I was able to free one up for X.
Didn't we have a story here complaining about the iphone store? Apparently it's difficult to sell anything that doesn't cost 0.99 or 4.99 because their store gives the best presentation to low-cost items.
You might not want to run either of those on a netbook. That's just where someone can make money with software.
Then again, the Gimp would probably run OK on my netbook. I take lots of photos while traveling. I'll have to try it.
People can make a living writing applications that have depth, like PhotoShop, or are timely, like TurboTax for the specific tax year, or that have tremendous liability and accuracy issues, like TurboTax, or that, again like TurboTax, aren't written for love, and aren't written by programmers at all but by accountants.
If your software doesn't have depth, or timeliness, etc., it's too late to make money from it. This isn't particularly an Open Source issue.
That leaves us with games, and netbooks aren't game machines, and all of the content you vend via web sites, which is probably where any money to be made will come from.
The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without Windows. Microsoft certainly does not want notebook vendors selling them that way, and has effective strategies to induce them not to do so.
I expect they start with legal bribes, price structures effecting both the vendors larger systems and the smaller ones, and if that doesn't work the patent portfolio comes out and they discuss whether you'd like to cross-license on their terms or be sued.
All of which means you won't see many of the Linux machines at retail. So, the customer has to self-install, which is beyond most of them.
[using it for disks]
SATA 2 is 300 Mega BYTES - not bits - per second or about 1/2 the projected maximum rate for USB 3. Besides the speed, USB 3 would need an interrupt capability, and data integrity verification, neither of which USB 2 has. I've not read the 3.0 spec to see if they are there. USB OTG is more than a bit of a kludge, and not well supported, hopefully that's not what 3.0 uses to have multiple masters.
Sure, the USB connector is more sturdy, but I've seen a lot of external SATA connectors for computers.
Replace HDMI?
HD-resolution cameras, etc?
The next, even more expensive, version of the USRP?
That's what "monetize" meant :-)
I don't think they're reducing the cost of the hardware, though. $350 USD pays for an Acer Aspire One with 1G RAM and 160G disk at retail. And you can probably get a much better price in a bulk purchase. I think they are budgeting AU $500 per unit. That leaves a lot of money for Microsoft even in the initial purchase.
Educational applications on a web server are nothing new. It's funny, though, that Windows would need them. I have one of these small-cheap-light laptops that cost $350 and is intended for use with Windows "only for web browsing and email". I put Debian on it. There's only one thing I have found that it can't do: build the Linux kernel quickly. It's kind of slow at that, but it works. OpenOffice is no problem, etc.
But with a cloud, you can tie all of those kids into a network that Microsoft will be able to monetize, propogandize, etc.
Bruce
That might actually help. Registration requires email confirmation. It takes time. You have to want to participate.
Bruce
I don't allow ACs on my own blog. And perhaps that is part of the reason that the signal/noise ratio is much better than here. There are still "handles", and in the end the only thing I have to identify most subscribers is an email (which can itself be anonymous). But even that much reduction in anonymity seems to prompt people to behave better.
But, where then would Slashdot get its readers?
What GL extensions are you missing? I haven't seen this.
This may no longer be a problem if X can use PAT, the modern replacement for MTRRs. But I'm not sure it does.