hmm.. I have to agree. I'm sure he's very qualified but I just don't think that he has the experience necessary to take on this responsibility.
I'm (almost) 18 too and I know I wouldn't trust myself to do something like that no matter how much time I've spent hacking the kernel.
Maybe thats just me.. We'll all see I guess.
Here's a question, what if he really screws something up or is considered to be a detriment to the project? Has it ever happened that someone like that was replaced? Would Linus have the power to pick someone else halfway through?
whats stopping them from just making it crappy?
They could just introduce so many inconveniences and bugs that it wouldn't be useable and then blame it on linux deficiencies.
I don't see how this will solve anything.
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Really? wow, who woulda thunk it??
I'm aware of the purpose of a gyro. I'm just saying that you don't need two of them.
What happens if your engine fails in a Cessna or some other small plane? You're fucked. So why dont they have two engines? Cause the reliability of the engine is very high and the added cost and weight of two engine would be prohibitive.
And even falling over at max speed wouldnt be that bad. So you're going, what, 20km/h and the thing screws. Bigass deal.. Might get a few scrapes if you're totally uncoordinated in falling.
The point is we trust these same parts for other, more critical applications without requiring 2 of them, so why do we need two for low risk device like this?
Finally someone who gets it right!
This so called "addiction" is nothing more than another excuse by those who can't cope with reality.
Although it may sound callous, I do believe this is a sign of weakness.
Gaming/gambling addictions are NOT the same as a drug addiction in that there are no real withdrawal symptoms when one tries to quit. With drugs, the withdrawal will almost kill you sometimes. Theses are real addictions, that must be treated properly.
The reason gaming "addicts" don't quit is because they just can't summon enough willpower to just get up and leave. Once they do that they're fine..
So stop all the whining about being addicted. You're not.
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Why do they need two of everything anyway? Ok, maybe two motors are acceptable to increase the reliability of the thing but two boards and two gyros? C'mon. These are highly reliable parts and adding two of everything will only increase the price and the weight.
Now maybe if they put out a value edition without all this useless crap and chopped, say 2500 off the price tag, I would get one. Not cause its particularily useful (it isn't) but its just so cool!
jesus. what a way to back down you weak spined wimp..;) just kidding.
I agree with your points, even though they were made a little too strongly.
Like seriously, I don't see the point of haphazardly screwing a bunch of parts together to make a system that will end up being (most likely) worse than anything commercially available. Nothing wrong with building your own system but if you're going to go through all that trouble then it should at least be superior than anything else. It doesn't look like it would end up being anything worthwile from your specs.
While a lightweight developing laptop sounds like a good idea, you're going to need much more than just a platform for vi or emacs for serious developing.. Do you really want to switch back to your desktop if you want access to a design program or the net? Of course if you want the net you need a machine capable of handling the heavyweight programs needed to access it. Which would never run on your 50Mhz processor.
I'm not even going to get into the battery life issue. Others have already pointed out the (obvious) problems. One of the biggest power drains will always be the lcd screen so even your 50MHZ processor will lead to an insignificant gain in battery life. You will NEVER (with current battery technology) get a one week battery life unless your battery is a 20kg beast strapped to your back..
Maybe I should askslashdot how to design a rocket that will send me to mars faster than a multibillion $ NASA probe... powered by AAA batteries
what if you stuff your laptop full of.. Your laptop would still be working and you could demonstrate it for the security personnel. But as soon as you had it running for a few minutes, the fan would turn on and everything would be blown around the airplane...
Common! What is the point of this article if no one (except for certain spoilt rich bastards, god I wish I was one of them;) )has the money to actually get one of these beasts..
Something more useful would be a good system that can be had for cheap.. I can scrounge together a 1.4 T-Bird w/ ide raid and other decent components for under $1000 CAN.. (That's like $2 US for all you yanks!) An article on how to build the most kickass sub $1000 box would be far more usefull..
That basically sums it all up. I've tried almost all the major distros and what made me go back to w2k in the end was the program installation.
Now I'm running Debian and I'm moderately happy with it.. If something is in the package database its easy to install. This is way better than anything windows has to offer.
But if I want something that hasn't been packaged it's still hard as hell. Actually it seems even harder if there's always some special "debian way" to install stuff.
I tried to install the alsa drivers for my sound card (my sound broke in 2.4.x) and failed miserably. After spending 2 hours trying various methods of installing it and reading all possible documentation on the website, I joined the alsa-user mailing list. No suggestions helped though and so I gave up..
Why does this have to be made so complicated?? My card is supported in alsa and in the 2.4.x kernels so why doesnt it work? For all the RTFM ppl, fsck off. I've read all the FMs there are. And something this trivial shouldn't need a manual in the first place!
Ohwell, I guess there's no sound in linux for me then.. Anyone had any luck getting a C-Media 8338 sound card working with the drivers in kernel 2.4.x? It worked fine for 2.2.19.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
sure right now there are almost no linux virii but if it ever does gain widespread acceptance you can be sure the virus writers will target it...
THere should be an antivirus program for linux... the only problem being, who wants to write a program that may never be used?
I suppose there would be enough time to write it when the viruses start appearing..
"Something monolithic must be starting, otherwise why does Word take so long to load, even on the fastest machine?"
umm.. what? The only reason I like word (and other ms apps; IE springs to mind) is because they load a hell of a lot faster than any open source equivalent.
Word loads in ~3 seconds on my modest machine (Celery 333MHz). With staroffice on the other hand, I can go out and take a dump before the damn thing starts up. KWord is much better but still not as speedy as MS Word.
I'm not even going to get into browsers but in effectively optimizing loading times, Microsoft is far ahead of anyone else.
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Amen.
Society in general is way too concerned with people looking at porn.. The notion that porn is inherently evil and will lead to corruption/sin is an unwelcome leftover from the days when the church controlled the views of the people. I too have no problem with porn, if someone else does, thats fine with me too, just shut up about it.
That said, I do agree that the trading of child porn and the fact that small children can access porn is a big problem. However, as the report pointed out, there's no effective way to combat that asside from program specific blocks. And even those will be only half-assed.
These are not problems to be solved technologically but through responsible parents and a crackdown against child porn.
CRT monitors are surprisingly rugged.. I found out just how while I was driving to a LAN. The monitor was sitting in the back of the jeep and during one particularily sharp corner it did a sort of sideways flip and crashed against the wall with surprising force..
the plastic on the side was pushed in and I thought my monitor was dead for good but turns out it didnt mind the unexpected acrobatics class at all and still works fine too this day...
we change the GPL by one character and rename it?
Obviously not realistic but then it wouldn't be listed in MS's license and we could go ahead and use the code.
just something that crossed my mind.. maybe I'll do it just to piss off the MS zealots.;)
Loosing VA Linux would be pretty harsh.. Not that I give a rats ass about them or their products but what about all the sites that they host? You have to admit that the sites they host(slashdot, OSDN, sourceforge(i think those are all VA, correct me if I'm wrong)) are really useful to the whole open source community.
Even from an entirely selfish viewpoint, it would be a terrible shame to loose such a valuable resource.
first of all, the fact that Microsoft (partially) sponsored this "study" invalidates it completely. The public loves statistics, they're a neat, simple method of analysing that even the average moron can understand. However, most things are too complex for a simple statistic to explain. There are inevitably other factors that come in to play that can be handily ignored in order to make statistics lie. (ie, most linux machines aren't bought with linux preinstalled)
And this is MS's newest weapon in their FUD war against anything that has the potential to hurt their sales. (or as they like to call it "curing the cancer");) Good luck MS!
perhaps one of his best books was "Last chance to see". This is a true masterpiece, telling the story of a few endangered species from his own experiences. Not many people know about this one but it is told with the same honesty and unexpected twists of hilaririty that made his other books so popular and I believe it ranks within the best books I have ever read.
Let us pass on the legend and not forget his genius.
oh god I feel like marvin must have felt..:(
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That's too confusing.. I and everyone I know have always used CS for counterstrike and COSC for comp sci...
;P
of course then some morons will be wondering how you can cheat in Cosco...
This would just impose another barrier to companies accepting open source software..
"What? It isn't Certified Secure?? Better go with Microsoft..."
And if course most OSS authors wont have the money to get the certification..
what the hell? I don't believe.
hmm.. I have to agree. I'm sure he's very qualified but I just don't think that he has the experience necessary to take on this responsibility.
I'm (almost) 18 too and I know I wouldn't trust myself to do something like that no matter how much time I've spent hacking the kernel.
Maybe thats just me.. We'll all see I guess.
Here's a question, what if he really screws something up or is considered to be a detriment to the project? Has it ever happened that someone like that was replaced? Would Linus have the power to pick someone else halfway through?
Just a question. Nothing against this guy per se.
whats stopping them from just making it crappy?
They could just introduce so many inconveniences and bugs that it wouldn't be useable and then blame it on linux deficiencies.
I don't see how this will solve anything.
Really? wow, who woulda thunk it??
I'm aware of the purpose of a gyro. I'm just saying that you don't need two of them.
What happens if your engine fails in a Cessna or some other small plane? You're fucked. So why dont they have two engines? Cause the reliability of the engine is very high and the added cost and weight of two engine would be prohibitive.
And even falling over at max speed wouldnt be that bad. So you're going, what, 20km/h and the thing screws. Bigass deal.. Might get a few scrapes if you're totally uncoordinated in falling.
The point is we trust these same parts for other, more critical applications without requiring 2 of them, so why do we need two for low risk device like this?
Finally someone who gets it right!
This so called "addiction" is nothing more than another excuse by those who can't cope with reality.
Although it may sound callous, I do believe this is a sign of weakness.
Gaming/gambling addictions are NOT the same as a drug addiction in that there are no real withdrawal symptoms when one tries to quit. With drugs, the withdrawal will almost kill you sometimes. Theses are real addictions, that must be treated properly.
The reason gaming "addicts" don't quit is because they just can't summon enough willpower to just get up and leave. Once they do that they're fine..
So stop all the whining about being addicted. You're not.
Why do they need two of everything anyway? Ok, maybe two motors are acceptable to increase the reliability of the thing but two boards and two gyros? C'mon. These are highly reliable parts and adding two of everything will only increase the price and the weight.
Now maybe if they put out a value edition without all this useless crap and chopped, say 2500 off the price tag, I would get one. Not cause its particularily useful (it isn't) but its just so cool!
bah. ignore that shit. I guess checking xfce.org would have been an idea... ;)
but google is on crack too..
could you provide a link to the XFCE site? for some reason google failed to turn anything up....
jesus. what a way to back down you weak spined wimp.. ;) just kidding.
I agree with your points, even though they were made a little too strongly.
Like seriously, I don't see the point of haphazardly screwing a bunch of parts together to make a system that will end up being (most likely) worse than anything commercially available. Nothing wrong with building your own system but if you're going to go through all that trouble then it should at least be superior than anything else. It doesn't look like it would end up being anything worthwile from your specs.
While a lightweight developing laptop sounds like a good idea, you're going to need much more than just a platform for vi or emacs for serious developing.. Do you really want to switch back to your desktop if you want access to a design program or the net? Of course if you want the net you need a machine capable of handling the heavyweight programs needed to access it. Which would never run on your 50Mhz processor.
I'm not even going to get into the battery life issue. Others have already pointed out the (obvious) problems. One of the biggest power drains will always be the lcd screen so even your 50MHZ processor will lead to an insignificant gain in battery life. You will NEVER (with current battery technology) get a one week battery life unless your battery is a 20kg beast strapped to your back..
Maybe I should askslashdot how to design a rocket that will send me to mars faster than a multibillion $ NASA probe... powered by AAA batteries
on the first screen:
Do you have experience with linux?
Yes
No
If you check yes it will give you all the options and if you check no it will just install with default selections.
This would take about 5 minutes to add to an installer and would make everything a lot easier I think.
so would this make linux an OS for petaphiles?
ok, if there are any terrorists on /. look away!
.. Your laptop would still be working and you could demonstrate it for the security personnel. But as soon as you had it running for a few minutes, the fan would turn on and everything would be blown around the airplane...
what if you stuff your laptop full of
anyways, happy traveling!
Common! What is the point of this article if no one (except for certain spoilt rich bastards, god I wish I was one of them ;) )has the money to actually get one of these beasts..
Something more useful would be a good system that can be had for cheap.. I can scrounge together a 1.4 T-Bird w/ ide raid and other decent components for under $1000 CAN.. (That's like $2 US for all you yanks!) An article on how to build the most kickass sub $1000 box would be far more usefull..
That basically sums it all up. I've tried almost all the major distros and what made me go back to w2k in the end was the program installation.
Now I'm running Debian and I'm moderately happy with it.. If something is in the package database its easy to install. This is way better than anything windows has to offer.
But if I want something that hasn't been packaged it's still hard as hell. Actually it seems even harder if there's always some special "debian way" to install stuff.
I tried to install the alsa drivers for my sound card (my sound broke in 2.4.x) and failed miserably. After spending 2 hours trying various methods of installing it and reading all possible documentation on the website, I joined the alsa-user mailing list. No suggestions helped though and so I gave up..
Why does this have to be made so complicated?? My card is supported in alsa and in the 2.4.x kernels so why doesnt it work? For all the RTFM ppl, fsck off. I've read all the FMs there are. And something this trivial shouldn't need a manual in the first place!
Ohwell, I guess there's no sound in linux for me then.. Anyone had any luck getting a C-Media 8338 sound card working with the drivers in kernel 2.4.x? It worked fine for 2.2.19.
Sorry for the rant but I had to get that off my chest.
sure right now there are almost no linux virii but if it ever does gain widespread acceptance you can be sure the virus writers will target it...
THere should be an antivirus program for linux... the only problem being, who wants to write a program that may never be used?
I suppose there would be enough time to write it when the viruses start appearing..
"Something monolithic must be starting, otherwise why does Word take so long to load, even on the fastest machine?"
umm.. what? The only reason I like word (and other ms apps; IE springs to mind) is because they load a hell of a lot faster than any open source equivalent.
Word loads in ~3 seconds on my modest machine (Celery 333MHz). With staroffice on the other hand, I can go out and take a dump before the damn thing starts up. KWord is much better but still not as speedy as MS Word.
I'm not even going to get into browsers but in effectively optimizing loading times, Microsoft is far ahead of anyone else.
oh god I loved that game..
In elementary we used to fight over the two 8086s so we could play all recess and lunch...
Disclaimer: I'm 17
Amen.
Society in general is way too concerned with people looking at porn.. The notion that porn is inherently evil and will lead to corruption/sin is an unwelcome leftover from the days when the church controlled the views of the people. I too have no problem with porn, if someone else does, thats fine with me too, just shut up about it.
That said, I do agree that the trading of child porn and the fact that small children can access porn is a big problem. However, as the report pointed out, there's no effective way to combat that asside from program specific blocks. And even those will be only half-assed.
These are not problems to be solved technologically but through responsible parents and a crackdown against child porn.
CRT monitors are surprisingly rugged.. I found out just how while I was driving to a LAN. The monitor was sitting in the back of the jeep and during one particularily sharp corner it did a sort of sideways flip and crashed against the wall with surprising force..
the plastic on the side was pushed in and I thought my monitor was dead for good but turns out it didnt mind the unexpected acrobatics class at all and still works fine too this day...
we change the GPL by one character and rename it? Obviously not realistic but then it wouldn't be listed in MS's license and we could go ahead and use the code. ;)
just something that crossed my mind.. maybe I'll do it just to piss off the MS zealots.
Loosing VA Linux would be pretty harsh.. Not that I give a rats ass about them or their products but what about all the sites that they host? You have to admit that the sites they host(slashdot, OSDN, sourceforge(i think those are all VA, correct me if I'm wrong)) are really useful to the whole open source community.
Even from an entirely selfish viewpoint, it would be a terrible shame to loose such a valuable resource.
first of all, the fact that Microsoft (partially) sponsored this "study" invalidates it completely. The public loves statistics, they're a neat, simple method of analysing that even the average moron can understand. However, most things are too complex for a simple statistic to explain. There are inevitably other factors that come in to play that can be handily ignored in order to make statistics lie. (ie, most linux machines aren't bought with linux preinstalled) And this is MS's newest weapon in their FUD war against anything that has the potential to hurt their sales. (or as they like to call it "curing the cancer") ;) Good luck MS!
perhaps one of his best books was "Last chance to see". This is a true masterpiece, telling the story of a few endangered species from his own experiences. Not many people know about this one but it is told with the same honesty and unexpected twists of hilaririty that made his other books so popular and I believe it ranks within the best books I have ever read. Let us pass on the legend and not forget his genius. oh god I feel like marvin must have felt.. :(