I like reading about Google's various projects. They have a lot of fingers in a lot of different pies lately and I'm curious to see where their ambitions take them over the next five years.
The funny part is how many people scrutinise their various projects as if we're are being forced to participate and use their products/services. We're not. That said - I'm certainly using them. Insofar all of Google's services I quite enjoy, with the exception of the desktop search and deskbar stuff which I don't really have a need for.
The 'recompile your kernel' point about modem changes I found pretty funny.
I think this article was silly and perhaps written by someone with not a lot of long term exposure to Windows or Linux. To each their own though. For the writer of the article, Windows is perhaps the best choice for them.
However, it would appear nationalism is still high on the agenda for many; which is a shame as I like the idea of 'mankind' in space being a joint effort, irrespective of our imaginary borders.
That said, there is an element of collaboration for many endeavours, particulary astronomy. Cassini was also a good example of collaboration. Though - it would be nice to not only see skills, experience and culture melded into one space faring team - but also the financial support and world-wide interest such a project would usher in.
Ho well. I'm appreciative of any achievement we make off the Earth, but at the same time I feel we are capable of much better.
They say blocking advertising is going to destroy the Internet and its going to cost us lots of money to use it and our newspapers are going to be $5 as a result of implementing adblock in conjunction with Firefox.
Isn't this the same croud of people that see no threat to the browser market with Firefox by citing that IE is still the dominate browser?
I quite enjoyed this article. It gave me some hope that the narrowminded view of the Internet being geared around commercial interest only is being woken up to the fact that not everyone is chuffed with it becoming swamped and destroyed with advertising.
What about it?
What I'm posting from right now is a brand spanking new Dell GX-280 that shipped with Windows XP. As soon as I opened the box it and plugged it in, I put the new Debian release in the CD drive, rebooted, allowed Debian to bulldoze the HDD away and now I have a fully functional desktop machine based on Debian running Gnome, OpenOffice and &%^*&^@ Outlook if WINE wouldn't bomb out of the Office 2K install!
My point is, Dell hardware runs Linux ( and actually supports all the inherent hardware ) by default. Hell, I actually have to APPLY drivers for XP to install properly without a Dell CDROM - not the case with Debian.
Whether this is intentional or not on Dell's behalf of cource is another discussion:)
Dell supports Linux anyways officially too. Well, Redhat that is.
I'm running running Fedora 3 on a laptop ( which actually runs very well ) and I'd like to keep up with what is happenng on the Fedora front via upgrading to 4.
Is there an 'upgrade' method of sorts that isn't hellish to adhere to, or is my better option a complete re-install?
"I was just joking around and typed 'apt-get install bioperl', thinking to myself "if only life could be that nice". I couldn't beleive my eyes when I realized that bioperl was actually in the package repos. It blew me away."
I can relate to this entirely. Its a very cool experience. Especially if you're required to install multiple dependencies in a row in order to get a program to run, with each dependency going through smoothly and the final piece falls into place and the program fires up.
I hope this continues with subsequent versions of Debian for newer versions of existing applications. It works well in Debian's favour when I reccommend it to other guys here at work.
I recently finished a trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Prior to entering the more remote areas ( towards Tengboche, out of Nache for those that care ) there was a sattelite Internet provider operating. It worked out to be around $10 Australian dollars for ten minutes.
What was funny is that I did this whilist the rest of the country was under a declared state of emergency due to the maoist problems, whereupon the king severed all telecommunications in the country. Obviously, the sattelite feeds couldn't be tampered with in this way ( they literally used side cutters to chop data lines in the towns and Kathmandu ) - so while everyone else was cut off from the world, myself and a mate were able to send e-mails to friends back home - dispite the fact that we were half way up a mountain.
I recall Arthur Clarke pitching the initial concept for a Space Elevator some time back, and revisited the idea in 3001 : The Final Odyssey - in which he depicted planet Earth having a fully functional ( four actually ) space elevator system; which facilitated a subset of human civilisation living in low earth orbits in reduced gravity - thus invoking presumed benefits of doing so.
Anywho. He spoke a couple years ago, subsequent to 3001's release on how at the time of writing, such a feat was nigh on impossible at this stage - as the materials to construct the 'elevator' were yet to be developed. Until now. The carbon molecule Buckminsterfullerene ( C60 ), also known as 'Fullerene', is supposedly strong enough to actually make such a concept a reality - which is in part the reason the space elevator was hurled back into the limelight of late.
I think its a fascinating idea - which until we develop propulsion systems beyond the primative scope of the 1,000+ year old firecracker concept, certainly seems a more elegant way for the species to venture into Space more regulary. Or, at the very least, be the catalyst for what could perhaps become the initial stepping stones to establishing a permanent presence in space which will hopefully later lead to space initiated launches.
Blow hards attract blow hards. Much like flies are attracted to shit.
Thing is, people DO give a shit about blogs - because there's a lot of idiots out there who enjoy them.
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Its only natural some people are going to assume trivial decisions and undertakings of Google are going to usher in Armageddon.
The funny part is how many people scrutinise their various projects as if we're are being forced to participate and use their products/services. We're not. That said - I'm certainly using them. Insofar all of Google's services I quite enjoy, with the exception of the desktop search and deskbar stuff which I don't really have a need for.
bwahahaha! This certainly was an interesting read!
I think this article was silly and perhaps written by someone with not a lot of long term exposure to Windows or Linux. To each their own though. For the writer of the article, Windows is perhaps the best choice for them.
However, it would appear nationalism is still high on the agenda for many; which is a shame as I like the idea of 'mankind' in space being a joint effort, irrespective of our imaginary borders.
That said, there is an element of collaboration for many endeavours, particulary astronomy. Cassini was also a good example of collaboration. Though - it would be nice to not only see skills, experience and culture melded into one space faring team - but also the financial support and world-wide interest such a project would usher in.
Ho well. I'm appreciative of any achievement we make off the Earth, but at the same time I feel we are capable of much better.
I bet this guy wants us all to eventually be eating the same flavour ice cream aswell.
Alternatives exist, kids.
Isn't this the same croud of people that see no threat to the browser market with Firefox by citing that IE is still the dominate browser?
I quite enjoyed this article. It gave me some hope that the narrowminded view of the Internet being geared around commercial interest only is being woken up to the fact that not everyone is chuffed with it becoming swamped and destroyed with advertising.
In fact, much less than it is often.
What about it? What I'm posting from right now is a brand spanking new Dell GX-280 that shipped with Windows XP. As soon as I opened the box it and plugged it in, I put the new Debian release in the CD drive, rebooted, allowed Debian to bulldoze the HDD away and now I have a fully functional desktop machine based on Debian running Gnome, OpenOffice and &%^*&^@ Outlook if WINE wouldn't bomb out of the Office 2K install! My point is, Dell hardware runs Linux ( and actually supports all the inherent hardware ) by default. Hell, I actually have to APPLY drivers for XP to install properly without a Dell CDROM - not the case with Debian. Whether this is intentional or not on Dell's behalf of cource is another discussion :)
Dell supports Linux anyways officially too. Well, Redhat that is.
Is there an 'upgrade' method of sorts that isn't hellish to adhere to, or is my better option a complete re-install?
"I was just joking around and typed 'apt-get install bioperl', thinking to myself "if only life could be that nice". I couldn't beleive my eyes when I realized that bioperl was actually in the package repos. It blew me away." I can relate to this entirely. Its a very cool experience. Especially if you're required to install multiple dependencies in a row in order to get a program to run, with each dependency going through smoothly and the final piece falls into place and the program fires up. I hope this continues with subsequent versions of Debian for newer versions of existing applications. It works well in Debian's favour when I reccommend it to other guys here at work.
I recently finished a trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Prior to entering the more remote areas ( towards Tengboche, out of Nache for those that care ) there was a sattelite Internet provider operating. It worked out to be around $10 Australian dollars for ten minutes. What was funny is that I did this whilist the rest of the country was under a declared state of emergency due to the maoist problems, whereupon the king severed all telecommunications in the country. Obviously, the sattelite feeds couldn't be tampered with in this way ( they literally used side cutters to chop data lines in the towns and Kathmandu ) - so while everyone else was cut off from the world, myself and a mate were able to send e-mails to friends back home - dispite the fact that we were half way up a mountain.
Can we also work towards freeing Hat?
I recall Arthur Clarke pitching the initial concept for a Space Elevator some time back, and revisited the idea in 3001 : The Final Odyssey - in which he depicted planet Earth having a fully functional ( four actually ) space elevator system; which facilitated a subset of human civilisation living in low earth orbits in reduced gravity - thus invoking presumed benefits of doing so.
Anywho. He spoke a couple years ago, subsequent to 3001's release on how at the time of writing, such a feat was nigh on impossible at this stage - as the materials to construct the 'elevator' were yet to be developed. Until now. The carbon molecule Buckminsterfullerene ( C60 ), also known as 'Fullerene', is supposedly strong enough to actually make such a concept a reality - which is in part the reason the space elevator was hurled back into the limelight of late.
I think its a fascinating idea - which until we develop propulsion systems beyond the primative scope of the 1,000+ year old firecracker concept, certainly seems a more elegant way for the species to venture into Space more regulary. Or, at the very least, be the catalyst for what could perhaps become the initial stepping stones to establishing a permanent presence in space which will hopefully later lead to space initiated launches.
Blow hards attract blow hards. Much like flies are attracted to shit. Thing is, people DO give a shit about blogs - because there's a lot of idiots out there who enjoy them.