I've always wanted to try running DOS on a processor with 1MB of L2 cache...there's just something retro wicked about running an OS where the entire base memory fits in on-die cache.
I have to wonder if qemu and the kernel's kvm will allow me to dedicate an entire core to a DOS image.
Rubbish, Openoffice saves perfectly well in Microsoft's.doc format, and the real thing (Openoffice) is just a click away. By default? Let me check.
Gah...My Linux install of OpenOffice doesn't have a default file type. But I'm pretty sure that the Windows version defaults to odt for Writer. Windows users I've tutored don't usually pay attention to file types. I know this because people come in all the time with Microsoft Works documents, have to have file formats explained, and need to be shown how to save files in.DOC or.RTF.
Remember, for a low-end user, including most of Dell's customers, every click is 40 seconds of deliberation and frustration.
No, they won't. But they might get pissed if they get this "open" Office thingy on their computer that saves documents that they can't open up at school or work. Or they might get pissed if they selected the "No OS" option to try to save a few bucks on the order without realizing how important having an OS is.
And then there's Dell's expense in reworking their order form and portions of their software installation and testing procedures. Especially if they have to run quality assurance on a variety of Linux distros.
This Slashdot article totally screwed up any chance dhart might have had in getting Dell to take his suggestions, because the guys at Dell who make business decisions can't trust their idea ranking site to give them good numbers. It would be extremely foolish to make business decisions with known bad data.
The problem of having a disproportionate polling set is you can estimate a revenue of the people you polled, at the risk of alienating millions more. Millions in sales from Slashdot users could be easily outweighed by billions in sales from the general populace.
This can't be proved unless, of course, you have a poll with a polling set representative of your demographic.
It's a Digg-style ranking site. And items one and three were submitted by the same user (dhart). And now he submits a link to Slashdot to boost the ratings farther.
He calls this an honest representation of customer demand?! When I got linked to by Slashdot, I got 28,000 hits. And that was a Sunday morning. Say bye-bye to any sort of reasonable cross-section of Dell users.
I love Linux, and haven't run anything But Linux on my personal systems since 2001, but this is very nearly astroturfing. At the very least, it'll strongly bias the demographic on ideastorm.
Athletic competitions are about the performance and physical skill humans can achieve through natural means. That includes inherent genetic advantages.
This is actually pretty cool. I have a step-mother and a half-brother with muscular distrophy.
It won't be a silver bullet, though. His disability is so bad that he's never been able to talk, much less walk on his own. Some of his joints have essentially locked up due to disuse. Even if the treatment were available today, he'd still have to learn how to talk. He might even need knee-replacement surgery before he could start learning to walk.
FTFA:
I relieve my stress by working on other things such as my duplicate picture finder (for all those hundreds of thousands of pictures of... stuff... that I have)... I need a copy of that. No, not that, that.
FTFA:
This guarantees that in the future it will *always* be possible for *anyone* to pick up from some point in VC development and continue it or to make their own flavour of it. The GPL also guarantees that VC will always be available for free, even if I or someone else decides to make a commercial derivative later on.
The day the source code to Buzz got lost was a very sad day and there was absolutely nothing anyone could do. We'd just had an updated version of Buzz released and suddenly everyone realised there would *never* be another one. By publishing not just the application but also all of the files that go together to make it, I'm making sure this can't happen to my little corner of the scene again. "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
Well then, people would only allow that if there was some kind of boogey man so scary that they would gladly give up their freedoms at the slightest assurance that this will protect them. Kraut spies. Communist spies. Terrorists. Sex offenders. Children.
Of course, first you'd want to implement full deployment of a more conventional surveillance technology... CCTV cameras, for instance. England...
But, you're right, privacy advocates old be up in arms about that, it'll never happen. -1 Funny
Unfortunately it shall to be run by salesman before every travel - so it isn't very useful. My understanding of quantum computers is certainly limited, but the only inherent time limitation I know of involves loading all possible solutions into the computer before telling the computer to select the best solution. If one can find a way to re-use the solution set, that problem goes away.
Does this mean we'll be able to solve the Traveling Salesman problem soon? That would lead to a revolution in efficiency of everything from travel to mass transit to shipping.
I imagine the USPS and other shipping organizations will be the first to buy commercial versions of these.
"Server Not Found" is the error you get when the DNS address doesn't resolve. "Page Not Found" is a HTTP 404 error, which means you're connecting to an HTTP server.
No you don't. You can analyze documents for keywords and links, and then update your keyword and pagerank indeces. Heck...you can even do that on the incoming HTTP stream, without storing the entire document in a buffer.
Search engines deal with far, far too much data to do full-text searches of the entire known Internet every time someone searches for "Anna Nicole Smith".
After that, of course, one need only outlaw some activity common to the group of people you want to take guns away from. Hey...that's what they've done with votes. (Once you're a felon, you lose your right to vote. Nice way of biasing the vote pool.)
The server side would be easy. The client side wouldn't be; You've got millions of users, many of whom aren't particularly skilled with computer technology.
You'd need a way to get people to use a Freenet client on their systems. You might be able to do that with a Java applet, but how will you provide content for search engines?
I found a copy of their 2005 Q4 budget. Multiply that by four, and you have a rough approximation of how much it costs to run Wikimedia.
It looks like hardware is their single largest expense, at $190,000. Personnel takes a distant second place at $33,000. Bandwidth (well, hosting) takes third, at $24,000.
Also, a note at the bottom:
So far this is little more than a minimal budget, meaning a budget designed to pretty much just keep the foundation going. What is not included are special projects (content and/or software). Please include ideas for that on the talk page. --Daniel Mayer 22:39, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
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Here's a processor that only has 16 pins...
I've always wanted to try running DOS on a processor with 1MB of L2 cache...there's just something retro wicked about running an OS where the entire base memory fits in on-die cache.
I have to wonder if qemu and the kernel's kvm will allow me to dedicate an entire core to a DOS image.
Gah...My Linux install of OpenOffice doesn't have a default file type. But I'm pretty sure that the Windows version defaults to odt for Writer. Windows users I've tutored don't usually pay attention to file types. I know this because people come in all the time with Microsoft Works documents, have to have file formats explained, and need to be shown how to save files in
Remember, for a low-end user, including most of Dell's customers, every click is 40 seconds of deliberation and frustration.
No, they won't. But they might get pissed if they get this "open" Office thingy on their computer that saves documents that they can't open up at school or work. Or they might get pissed if they selected the "No OS" option to try to save a few bucks on the order without realizing how important having an OS is.
And then there's Dell's expense in reworking their order form and portions of their software installation and testing procedures. Especially if they have to run quality assurance on a variety of Linux distros.
This Slashdot article totally screwed up any chance dhart might have had in getting Dell to take his suggestions, because the guys at Dell who make business decisions can't trust their idea ranking site to give them good numbers. It would be extremely foolish to make business decisions with known bad data.
The problem of having a disproportionate polling set is you can estimate a revenue of the people you polled, at the risk of alienating millions more. Millions in sales from Slashdot users could be easily outweighed by billions in sales from the general populace.
This can't be proved unless, of course, you have a poll with a polling set representative of your demographic.
It's a Digg-style ranking site. And items one and three were submitted by the same user (dhart). And now he submits a link to Slashdot to boost the ratings farther.
He calls this an honest representation of customer demand?! When I got linked to by Slashdot, I got 28,000 hits. And that was a Sunday morning. Say bye-bye to any sort of reasonable cross-section of Dell users.
I love Linux, and haven't run anything But Linux on my personal systems since 2001, but this is very nearly astroturfing. At the very least, it'll strongly bias the demographic on ideastorm.
Athletic competitions are about the performance and physical skill humans can achieve through natural means. That includes inherent genetic advantages.
Possibly. And it would be effective for people like my step-mother, whose only problem is a general lack of strength.
This is actually pretty cool. I have a step-mother and a half-brother with muscular distrophy.
It won't be a silver bullet, though. His disability is so bad that he's never been able to talk, much less walk on his own. Some of his joints have essentially locked up due to disuse. Even if the treatment were available today, he'd still have to learn how to talk. He might even need knee-replacement surgery before he could start learning to walk.
At least he'd be able to feed himself, though.
The day the source code to Buzz got lost was a very sad day and there was absolutely nothing anyone could do. We'd just had an updated version of Buzz released and suddenly everyone realised there would *never* be another one. By publishing not just the application but also all of the files that go together to make it, I'm making sure this can't happen to my little corner of the scene again. "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
Does this mean we'll be able to solve the Traveling Salesman problem soon? That would lead to a revolution in efficiency of everything from travel to mass transit to shipping.
I imagine the USPS and other shipping organizations will be the first to buy commercial versions of these.
"Server Not Found" is the error you get when the DNS address doesn't resolve.
"Page Not Found" is a HTTP 404 error, which means you're connecting to an HTTP server.
It gets even worse. You have to follow up with [Windowskey-R] CMD [Enter] to get it to finally load.
Geez!
No you don't. You can analyze documents for keywords and links, and then update your keyword and pagerank indeces. Heck...you can even do that on the incoming HTTP stream, without storing the entire document in a buffer.
Search engines deal with far, far too much data to do full-text searches of the entire known Internet every time someone searches for "Anna Nicole Smith".
Don't you get sick of them?
Yes, current law is like this.
After that, of course, one need only outlaw some activity common to the group of people you want to take guns away from. Hey...that's what they've done with votes. (Once you're a felon, you lose your right to vote. Nice way of biasing the vote pool.)
There is no such thing as an "expert" when talking about gun control. An expert is someone who groks both sides of an argument.
The gun control debate is so polarized, there's no room for anyone to get a full picture.
(As for me? 2nd amendment all the way!)
The server side would be easy. The client side wouldn't be; You've got millions of users, many of whom aren't particularly skilled with computer technology.
You'd need a way to get people to use a Freenet client on their systems. You might be able to do that with a Java applet, but how will you provide content for search engines?
Nine times out of ten, if the article doesn't have that exact name, someone already set up a redirect to point to the correct article.
If not, you can now type your search query into the search box on Wikipedia's sidebar.
It looks like hardware is their single largest expense, at $190,000. Personnel takes a distant second place at $33,000. Bandwidth (well, hosting) takes third, at $24,000.
Also, a note at the bottom: So far this is little more than a minimal budget, meaning a budget designed to pretty much just keep the foundation going. What is not included are special projects (content and/or software). Please include ideas for that on the talk page. --Daniel Mayer 22:39, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
I know I'm a geek, but typing in direct URLs isn't that hard.
Just take your topic of choice, and append it to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"
A search for Christmas becomes "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas".
A search for interferometry becomes "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry"