Somehow Microsoft will find a way to make word take 2.4gigs of ram... so they can make money off their investments;P and perpetuate the bug making machine which is microsoft
1. It's overly confusing for windows average users.
2. It's something that's easily bypassed.
3. Printscreen + CTRL-V
4. Printers used in conjunction with scanners... (hackneyed but hey it happens)
5. Fax machines.
6. Microsoft decides how these rules work.....
7... did I say microsoft?
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But if Linux' surge continues, it will be due in large part to the Goliaths of the tech industry. Companies including IBM, Intel, Oracle, and Dell have thrown their weight behind it--and have given the technology credibility with corporate tech buyers
Ok that's it... people use things cause they're good, and cause they work. MAYBE the reason Linux works is because PEOPLE made it work... and PEOPLE use it.... and corporations are coming in now that it DOES work.... and not back when the kernel would segfault every 5 minutes.....
People hopping on the bandwagon now, are behind the curve. And some device they use is probably already running it, and they don't know it.
Now maybe that all these companies are recognizing linux I can get some drivers for my USB camera......
And don't be fooled by Linux' harmless-looking penguin mascot, Tux: This stuff is shaking up the balance of power in the computer industry. It poses the biggest threat to Microsoft's hegemony since the Netscape browser in 1995.
You'd figure they'd heard of MOSAIC... being Businessweek... and doing their research and all...
I really really really want an eye tracker myself, the cost has been prohibitive I have found for the lowly engineer. However, these might be helpful.
also the Ability hub has an interesting piece on accessibility.
The TrackIR GX looks interesting, although not as a mouse alternative, it can be used to make your neck hurt so you can script 17 actions with the movement of your head.
IBM has been working on an eye tracking solution, I remember seeing something on TechTV a while back, anyone know the progress on that?
Mostly because the longer you live in our atmosphere with the nastiness we put in it, and all the nasties we put in our foods if cancer wasn't one of the main reasons people died, I would be surprised.
to get the tether long enough so that the centrifugal force is greater than the gravitational force.... so a low eart orbit tether isn't feasable.... if it were only a tether.
If the tether had some other way of fighting off gravity, then maybe we could have LoE tethers.
am I mistaken, or will this clock (or the technology therin) help nasa and the relativity theorists? The already have "precise" clocks according to this
It was my understanding that the more precise the clock the easier it would be to test the speed of light.
The japanese decided it was a bad idea to persue the atomic bomb (heavily) because of the shortage of deuterium. The germans and the french had the nice little plant, Norsk Hydro in Norway, to make enough of the stuff to have a burgeoning atomic program, fortunately there was enough sabotage that Hitler didn't get the bomb. Especially since he already had an excellent delivery system.
I'm sorry, if there is a network of email monitoring already set-up around the world, why should the NSA/FBI/CIA/MI6 etc etc etc etc ad naseuam stop reading everyone's mail (cat/var/spool/mail/everybody |grep KILL BUSH)
I mean... wouldn't they be doing a poor job of information management if they didn't read Everybody's mail?....
I don't know why they bother to tell us what they do... I have a feeling anything they tell GQ public is to assuage fears anyways... if they'll only tell us of this, then what else might they have in store?... I guess when the chinese steal it, market it and sell it back to us in the consumer market I'll find out what my tax money went to.
1. Opera is good even with the ads it's better than mozilla a lot of the time (not all the time mind you mozilla is good sometimes when opera is bad. But under most cases Opera shines especially in linux. And the reason to run linux is so you get to choose what kinda browser you want. They are all decent and do the job of WEB BROWSER, so what else is there more than choice and functionality?
2. You can change anything in the boot that you would like, if you wanna mount corrupted file systems or possibly completely blank filesystems, by all means please do.
3.There are wizards for nearly everything in linux, you can download them in binary form as well you just need to learn the titles. If you download Linux drivers for Lexmark/Compaq they are getting better about including wizard style driver installation for Linux. (printers)
4. To this I will do a little bullet point thing of my own. The next few resources are available to those who have trouble with linux:
-www.Linuxnewbie.org (wonderful doc selection) and a decent forum for discussing noobish questions. -www.Linuxdocs.org (howtos up the wazoo tons of awesome step-by-steps and a bunch of good articles on how to document your work older tho) -www.tldp.org (the new linux doc site with updated material) -www.sourceforge.com lots of neet stuff specifically questions about applications, although not exactly the best place to go it is a nice thing to have last resort, sometimes if the program is really esoteric you can get ahold of the author.
5. From what I understand this is on the todo list
6. there are process managers for different enviros... for instance KDE has one, as does Gnome. atm we don't have an autokill process manager I suppose we could.
7.If you wanna easily share files use LinuxNeigborhood I believe it allows you to share directories relatively easily in a gui.
8. OSS is fine, for new stuff. Otherwise ALSA does rock, the new kernel is gonna be awesome.
9. Umm... Pico? http://www.washington.edu/pine/
10. You can change resolution with hotkeys so I don't know what problem you're having changing resolution.
Transparent proxy only lets you do so much with wireless (EG surf.) so if you're not worried about checking your email(pop), and sending your email(smtp) then you're ok. But if you want full blown and the time line for your conference is short enough even crummy WEP would be a good step.
The longer the timeframe you keep that same WEP the more useless it becomes.
pardon, I I misunderstood, I thought it was on dells laptops. Compaq has been taking floppies out of their main circulation... the #1 item people most likely buy in the misc section? USB floppy drives.
JV: But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAH
JV: I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
Yes, Lobbying turns Capitol hill into Capitalism... every dollar has a vote! YAY!
Kevin Mitnick's "Hero worship" as you so aptly put wouldn't have existed if the gov't hadn't incarcerated him in such an unprecedented manner the whole FREE KEVIN campaign was based upon this and the unjust inflation of damages he caused was a byproduct. Any hero worship based upon his hacking repetoir was most likely based nearly entirely in fiction ( As Markoff was nearly the only "reporter" reporting kevin's exploits. ) I do not include AP garbage or Reuters nonsensical rehashing of NYT articles as original pieces of work.
If you choose to hate anyone hate the horrible fiction writer John Markoff.
*AHEM* comprimised security systems cost tons yes believable.... but a complete security system starting with trained personel and backed by patched systems coulda saved all that money.
Then again, if humans had been born without having an inquisitive nature then people wouldn't have to have security systems at all, Right?
It's too bad our government doesn't really want to kill anyone *cough* cause if we could get expendable orbit vehicles they could drop bombs anywhere in the world in minutes
Michael Flynn's dream will probably never come true, and we all will probably be crushed by an asteroid/comet or something else we don't have the infrastructure to defend against.
The *star series (firestar saga) is all about cheapening space flight by deregulation and comercialization of space flight. Although I don't agree entirely with the concept it is one option of the many many we could do.
I believe there was also talk of a space cannon a while back, (obviously for payloads and not individuals.) Such a thing could be powered by natural gasses, or refined gasses. It would be interesting to see at the very least a new generation actually setting their sights on the stars, instead of saying "The moon, what good is the moon?"
The part which ties B5 away from any other Sci fi is most likely the ending of Season 4. (Where JMS wasn't sure he was going to get picked up for Season 5 or not so he had to sum up the plot in the final episode.) He made sure we all realized that no matter what a few heroes did, it all gets distorted by current historians in the end. That was a powerful message, as was almost every single episode he wrote.
If there was a deep meaning that Gene-The human race sucks and so I wrote a few scripts-Rodenberry ever put down into film form that even comes near this one simple part of an awesome story full of wonderful little nuggets like that one I'd like to hear about it.
... Just think of how many people have 200-266 mhz linux machines (or had) that were running low end apps, (BUT WERE DOING THEIR JOBS.) Hell, aging sparcs that run at 1/4 that Processor speed still sit on people's desks running remote desktops. It's all cost relative, and also OS dependent.
I would say, in many situations when someone needs a low cost computer (or in cases where the gov't gives you one) it would be much easier to attain a computer if it cost under 100$ US to manufacture and get in the hands of the user.
Also, Imagine (quite seriously) a beowulf cluster of these. I don't pretend to understand all the complexities of mobo manufacture, but I would think it would be within reason to create quad or possibly even (depending on the design) create limited space Mobos that could be clustered (See wearables.blu.org) for low power/limited space requirements for higher clockspeeds.
My big guess is that coupled with current open source projects and a gov't designed OS whatever clock speed their mobo's have can easily be used to the fullest, (with great care taken to make sure USEABILITY is as high as possible and COST is as low as possible.)
Hell, they could design their whole system to be low power to save on state power costs, and other money saving/nationalization techniques could be used as well.
I would say it is a good step towards nationalizing another aspect of their technology dependence.
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Somehow Microsoft will find a way to make word take 2.4gigs of ram... so they can make money off their investments ;P and perpetuate the bug making machine which is microsoft
a list of reasons why this is stupid:
1. It's overly confusing for windows average users.
2. It's something that's easily bypassed.
3. Printscreen + CTRL-V
4. Printers used in conjunction with scanners... (hackneyed but hey it happens)
5. Fax machines.
6. Microsoft decides how these rules work.....
7... did I say microsoft?
Ok that's it... people use things cause they're good, and cause they work. MAYBE the reason Linux works is because PEOPLE made it work... and PEOPLE use it.... and corporations are coming in now that it DOES work.... and not back when the kernel would segfault every 5 minutes.....
People hopping on the bandwagon now, are behind the curve. And some device they use is probably already running it, and they don't know it.
Now maybe that all these companies are recognizing linux I can get some drivers for my USB camera......
You'd figure they'd heard of MOSAIC... being Businessweek... and doing their research and all...
Besides Tux is cute.
I really really really want an eye tracker myself, the cost has been prohibitive I have found for the lowly engineer. However, these might be helpful.
also the Ability hub has an interesting piece on accessibility.
The TrackIR GX looks interesting, although not as a mouse alternative, it can be used to make your neck hurt so you can script 17 actions with the movement of your head.
IBM has been working on an eye tracking solution, I remember seeing something on TechTV a while back, anyone know the progress on that?
if each card costs 25-50 cents to replace ... that's 550k-1.1m dollars.... that should have gone to the following:
... I think you get the point...
.... maybe someone who works there just mailed the database home.
TRAINING STAFF: The first line of defense is someone who won't just give 5 million credit card numbers out over the phone.
TRAINING STAFF: The second line of defense is someone who won't let leave their console logged on when they go to the bathroom.
TRAINING STAFF: The third line of defense is someone who doesn't give out his password to someone over the phone.
TRAINING STAFF:
Ok, so maybe it wasn't this easy,
Mostly because the longer you live in our atmosphere with the nastiness we put in it, and all the nasties we put in our foods if cancer wasn't one of the main reasons people died, I would be surprised.
to get the tether long enough so that the centrifugal force is greater than the gravitational force.... so a low eart orbit tether isn't feasable.... if it were only a tether.
If the tether had some other way of fighting off gravity, then maybe we could have LoE tethers.
am I mistaken, or will this clock (or the technology therin) help nasa and the relativity theorists? The already have "precise" clocks according to this
It was my understanding that the more precise the clock the easier it would be to test the speed of light.
I'd say hitler's anti-semitism did 6 million jews the most harm... but that's just me
The japanese decided it was a bad idea to persue the atomic bomb (heavily) because of the shortage of deuterium. The germans and the french had the nice little plant, Norsk Hydro in Norway, to make enough of the stuff to have a burgeoning atomic program, fortunately there was enough sabotage that Hitler didn't get the bomb. Especially since he already had an excellent delivery system.
... ok somebody had to say it
I'm sorry, if there is a network of email monitoring already set-up around the world, why should the NSA/FBI/CIA/MI6 etc etc etc etc ad naseuam stop reading everyone's mail (cat /var/spool/mail/everybody |grep KILL BUSH)
... I guess when the chinese steal it, market it and sell it back to us in the consumer market I'll find out what my tax money went to.
I mean... wouldn't they be doing a poor job of information management if they didn't read Everybody's mail?....
I don't know why they bother to tell us what they do... I have a feeling anything they tell GQ public is to assuage fears anyways... if they'll only tell us of this, then what else might they have in store?
1. Opera is good even with the ads it's better than mozilla a lot of the time (not all the time mind you mozilla is good sometimes when opera is bad. But under most cases Opera shines especially in linux. And the reason to run linux is so you get to choose what kinda browser you want. They are all decent and do the job of WEB BROWSER, so what else is there more than choice and functionality?
2. You can change anything in the boot that you would like, if you wanna mount corrupted file systems or possibly completely blank filesystems, by all means please do.
3.There are wizards for nearly everything in linux, you can download them in binary form as well you just need to learn the titles. If you download Linux drivers for Lexmark/Compaq they are getting better about including wizard style driver installation for Linux. (printers)
4. To this I will do a little bullet point thing of my own.
The next few resources are available to those who have trouble with linux:
-www.Linuxnewbie.org (wonderful doc selection) and a decent forum for discussing noobish questions.
-www.Linuxdocs.org (howtos up the wazoo tons of awesome step-by-steps and a bunch of good articles on how to document your work older tho)
-www.tldp.org (the new linux doc site with updated material)
-www.sourceforge.com lots of neet stuff specifically questions about applications, although not exactly the best place to go it is a nice thing to have last resort, sometimes if the program is really esoteric you can get ahold of the author.
5. From what I understand this is on the todo list
6. there are process managers for different enviros... for instance KDE has one, as does Gnome. atm we don't have an autokill process manager I suppose we could.
7.If you wanna easily share files use LinuxNeigborhood I believe it allows you to share directories relatively easily in a gui.
8. OSS is fine, for new stuff. Otherwise ALSA does rock, the new kernel is gonna be awesome.
9. Umm... Pico? http://www.washington.edu/pine/
10. You can change resolution with hotkeys so I don't know what problem you're having changing resolution.
Transparent proxy only lets you do so much with wireless (EG surf.) so if you're not worried about checking your email(pop), and sending your email(smtp) then you're ok. But if you want full blown and the time line for your conference is short enough even crummy WEP would be a good step.
The longer the timeframe you keep that same WEP the more useless it becomes.
pardon, I I misunderstood, I thought it was on dells laptops. Compaq has been taking floppies out of their main circulation... the #1 item people most likely buy in the misc section? USB floppy drives.
Blah blah, compaq did this a while ago as well as making XP the ONLY MS os they would install dropping 2k and ME
JV: But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAH
JV: I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
Yes, Lobbying turns Capitol hill into Capitalism... every dollar has a vote! YAY!
Who gave this guy a chairmans seat?
I was speaking of ICBMS and the space race. If you could not see that connection perhaps /sarcasm is in order.
Kevin Mitnick's "Hero worship" as you so aptly put wouldn't have existed if the gov't hadn't incarcerated him in such an unprecedented manner the whole FREE KEVIN campaign was based upon this and the unjust inflation of damages he caused was a byproduct. Any hero worship based upon his hacking repetoir was most likely based nearly entirely in fiction ( As Markoff was nearly the only "reporter" reporting kevin's exploits. ) I do not include AP garbage or Reuters nonsensical rehashing of NYT articles as original pieces of work.
If you choose to hate anyone hate the horrible fiction writer John Markoff.
*AHEM* comprimised security systems cost tons yes believable.... but a complete security system starting with trained personel and backed by patched systems coulda saved all that money.
Then again, if humans had been born without having an inquisitive nature then people wouldn't have to have security systems at all, Right?
It's too bad our government doesn't really want to kill anyone *cough* cause if we could get expendable orbit vehicles they could drop bombs anywhere in the world in minutes
Michael Flynn's dream will probably never come true, and we all will probably be crushed by an asteroid/comet or something else we don't have the infrastructure to defend against.
The *star series (firestar saga)
is all about cheapening space flight by deregulation and comercialization of space flight. Although I don't agree entirely with the concept it is one option of the many many we could do.
I believe there was also talk of a space cannon a while back, (obviously for payloads and not individuals.) Such a thing could be powered by natural gasses, or refined gasses. It would be interesting to see at the very least a new generation actually setting their sights on the stars, instead of saying "The moon, what good is the moon?"
The part which ties B5 away from any other Sci fi is most likely the ending of Season 4. (Where JMS wasn't sure he was going to get picked up for Season 5 or not so he had to sum up the plot in the final episode.) He made sure we all realized that no matter what a few heroes did, it all gets distorted by current historians in the end. That was a powerful message, as was almost every single episode he wrote.
If there was a deep meaning that Gene-The human race sucks and so I wrote a few scripts-Rodenberry ever put down into film form that even comes near this one simple part of an awesome story full of wonderful little nuggets like that one I'd like to hear about it.
... Just think of how many people have 200-266 mhz linux machines (or had) that were running low end apps, (BUT WERE DOING THEIR JOBS.) Hell, aging sparcs that run at 1/4 that Processor speed still sit on people's desks running remote desktops. It's all cost relative, and also OS dependent.
I would say, in many situations when someone needs a low cost computer (or in cases where the gov't gives you one) it would be much easier to attain a computer if it cost under 100$ US to manufacture and get in the hands of the user.
Also, Imagine (quite seriously) a beowulf cluster of these. I don't pretend to understand all the complexities of mobo manufacture, but I would think it would be within reason to create quad or possibly even (depending on the design) create limited space Mobos that could be clustered (See wearables.blu.org) for low power/limited space requirements for higher clockspeeds.
My big guess is that coupled with current open source projects and a gov't designed OS whatever clock speed their mobo's have can easily be used to the fullest, (with great care taken to make sure USEABILITY is as high as possible and COST is as low as possible.)
Hell, they could design their whole system to be low power to save on state power costs, and other money saving/nationalization techniques could be used as well.
I would say it is a good step towards nationalizing another aspect of their technology dependence.