start teaching them how to install their own linux systems
You haven't tried Mandrake, have you? Installing Linux is easier than Windows. Well, except for Debian and Slackware - which I thought installed fine but gave me crazy error messages.
Anyway, I don't think stopping the teaching of one thing, and replacing it with the teaching of something else would be all that helpful in producing "an army of informed computer users". Providing experience with multiple OSes would be better - familiarity with Linux, BSD, Mac, and definitely MS. Schools shouldn't be crippling kids just to further your agenda. Or Microsoft's, for that matter...
Hmm... 32.9% income tax (including federal/provincial/EI/CPP/etc.), and if I spent 100% of my money and all of it had PST and GST taken off that'd be 14.5% of the money left, or 9.73% of the total. Not including utility bills, because including stuff like power and cell phone bills would be insane, partly since I get pretty good rates for hydro here, and partly since this would be like including my entire rent as "tax" - hello? I don't have a car, and I don't smoke (I don't know even one pharmacist that smokes...cigarettes, anyway;-) ). So, the total is 42.63%. And I live in Canada.
Aren't cellphones normally banned in hospitals? Of the three I've been in, all of them had signs saying cellphones must be turned off. I never asked why, but possibly because of concerns re. interference with sensitive equipment...
If you use SI prefixes, expect people (educated people, anyway) to consider them to have SI meanings. A megapixel isn't an SI unit either, but I'd expect 1000000 pixels, not 1048576 pixels.
Yeah. The computer industry, and everything else. The only reason this exists at all is that some CS bonehead saw that 2^10=1024 and figured he'd call it a kilobyte. It's an international standard, and there's a reason for it. How difficult would it be to just write GiB instead of GB?
Good point. My ADSL is $5 cheaper, but I'm only ~150 miles from the U.S. border. It's been available here for at least 5 years, since that's when my parents got it. Ironically, I had broadband for only one year at UBC due to some stupid rule making cable and ADSL unavailable on campus - only ResNet was available, but the only decent apartments hadn't been wired.
Those were working for me a while ago, but now they're not. Weird. Also, I'm getting nothing at 64.94.110.11 and sitefinder.verisign.com resolves to 12.158.80.10
Encoding, sure. But my 733Mhz VIA C3 doesn't go above ~70% on decoding, and it even has crappy integrated video. Of course, it was also less than half this price, and in Canadian dollars... not very thin, though...
I regularly buy $50-100 a week on DVDs. But most of them are anime, distributed by companies that generally don't support the MPAA or even put Macrovision on their discs.
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Perhaps, but it's about as accurate as describing copyright infringement as "stealing", so it's kinda appropriate.
Well, rebooting a Palm generally does take a while, but since that's only necessary when a program crashes, this wouldn't be useful. However, MRAM might be useful in that it would retain information even if you forget to change/charge the batteries. But I remember hearing that using MRAM requires more energy, and with all new PDAs having colour screens and overpowered processors, it's difficult enough to find a PDA with a decent battery life.
Huh. I've got a VIA C3 on a PC Chips M787 board (yeah, I know, but it was $260 Canadian) and it works fine on linux. The only problem I've had is getting the sound to work on Mandrake 9.1, but Knoppix/Morphix KDE work fine. (I installed the latter, since I couldn't figure out how to get Knoppix to install.)
Hello? The problem with the chads in Florida was because of clumsy voting machines. Marking an X in a box is foolproof. (Yes, even with extraordinary fools.) Your method would probably work, but have its own problems and be a lot more expensive.
In the United States, the Monster Raving Loonies are alternately known as "Republicans" and "Democrats". Apparently some people can tell the difference...
Yeah, it's a great game. The only disappointment for me is that the huge, beautiful 3D world is too static. People just stand around, indoors or out, day and night. Nothing happens unless you act. Ultima 7 had NPCs waking up, eating, walking around, baking bread, drinking in pubs, making potions, spinning thread, training in archery or with swords, and going to sleep - and that was over a decade ago.
Moron - didn't you read the article? This Eden is based on the Nehemiah core, which has a full-speed FPU. Also, I find it unlikely that underclocking a 31W processor could get it down to 1-6W.
Sounds about right - I was wondering whether such a thing could produce enough power to make it worthwhile. I suppose with diamond CPUs running at much higher temperatures it might work, but then there'd be problems like the fourth degree burns you'd get if you actually put in on your lap.
Exactly. Didn't you read the post? The parent essentially said:
1)The processor is hot, the environment is cold.
2)This differential could be usd to produce energy.
3)Recovering some wasted energy may increase battery life.
Breaking the laws of thermodynamics isn't necessary, minimizing heat when designing the processoris. Of course, a processor designed to maximize clock speed at any cost will be faster than one designed to be efficient.
"Housed in VIA's low profile EBGA package that reduces thermal density, the VIA Eden ESP7000 consumes a mere 6 watts of Maximum Thermal Design Power and nearly 1 watt of typical power when running at a clock speed of 733MHz."
Yeah - I'm no longer a starving student, so I've been snapping up DVD collections of HHGTTG, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, etc. Frankly, if I could get the beeb on my TV, unedited and straight from the UK, I'd happily pay the license fee. Unfortunately, Canada's crappy satellite companies (is there even more than one?) only offer their BBC Canada, amongst dozens of sports channels and duplicate channels (Like sci-fi? Then you'll love Space - East Coast, three hours IN THE FUTURE!!! Gag.). They probably put in commercials, too.
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You haven't tried Mandrake, have you? Installing Linux is easier than Windows. Well, except for Debian and Slackware - which I thought installed fine but gave me crazy error messages.
Anyway, I don't think stopping the teaching of one thing, and replacing it with the teaching of something else would be all that helpful in producing "an army of informed computer users". Providing experience with multiple OSes would be better - familiarity with Linux, BSD, Mac, and definitely MS. Schools shouldn't be crippling kids just to further your agenda. Or Microsoft's, for that matter...
Hmm... 32.9% income tax (including federal/provincial/EI/CPP/etc.), and if I spent 100% of my money and all of it had PST and GST taken off that'd be 14.5% of the money left, or 9.73% of the total. Not including utility bills, because including stuff like power and cell phone bills would be insane, partly since I get pretty good rates for hydro here, and partly since this would be like including my entire rent as "tax" - hello? I don't have a car, and I don't smoke (I don't know even one pharmacist that smokes...cigarettes, anyway ;-) ). So, the total is 42.63%. And I live in Canada.
Aren't cellphones normally banned in hospitals? Of the three I've been in, all of them had signs saying cellphones must be turned off. I never asked why, but possibly because of concerns re. interference with sensitive equipment...
If you use SI prefixes, expect people (educated people, anyway) to consider them to have SI meanings. A megapixel isn't an SI unit either, but I'd expect 1000000 pixels, not 1048576 pixels.
Yeah. The computer industry, and everything else. The only reason this exists at all is that some CS bonehead saw that 2^10=1024 and figured he'd call it a kilobyte. It's an international standard, and there's a reason for it. How difficult would it be to just write GiB instead of GB?
Good point. My ADSL is $5 cheaper, but I'm only ~150 miles from the U.S. border. It's been available here for at least 5 years, since that's when my parents got it. Ironically, I had broadband for only one year at UBC due to some stupid rule making cable and ADSL unavailable on campus - only ResNet was available, but the only decent apartments hadn't been wired.
Not sure, but I'd like to move to one where pedestrians on sidewalks aren't considered fair game. (Speaking from personal experience with ICBC.)
Those were working for me a while ago, but now they're not. Weird. Also, I'm getting nothing at 64.94.110.11 and sitefinder.verisign.com resolves to 12.158.80.10
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Encoding, sure. But my 733Mhz VIA C3 doesn't go above ~70% on decoding, and it even has crappy integrated video. Of course, it was also less than half this price, and in Canadian dollars... not very thin, though...
I regularly buy $50-100 a week on DVDs. But most of them are anime, distributed by companies that generally don't support the MPAA or even put Macrovision on their discs.
Perhaps, but it's about as accurate as describing copyright infringement as "stealing", so it's kinda appropriate.
But why would you want a DX9 card for Linux? A Geforce4 Ti would be a lot cheaper and still get excellent OpenGL performance.
Well, rebooting a Palm generally does take a while, but since that's only necessary when a program crashes, this wouldn't be useful. However, MRAM might be useful in that it would retain information even if you forget to change/charge the batteries. But I remember hearing that using MRAM requires more energy, and with all new PDAs having colour screens and overpowered processors, it's difficult enough to find a PDA with a decent battery life.
Yeah, try to take it from a baby named Maggie...
Huh. I've got a VIA C3 on a PC Chips M787 board (yeah, I know, but it was $260 Canadian) and it works fine on linux. The only problem I've had is getting the sound to work on Mandrake 9.1, but Knoppix/Morphix KDE work fine. (I installed the latter, since I couldn't figure out how to get Knoppix to install.)
Hello? The problem with the chads in Florida was because of clumsy voting machines. Marking an X in a box is foolproof. (Yes, even with extraordinary fools.) Your method would probably work, but have its own problems and be a lot more expensive.
In the United States, the Monster Raving Loonies are alternately known as "Republicans" and "Democrats". Apparently some people can tell the difference...
Yeah, it's a great game. The only disappointment for me is that the huge, beautiful 3D world is too static. People just stand around, indoors or out, day and night. Nothing happens unless you act. Ultima 7 had NPCs waking up, eating, walking around, baking bread, drinking in pubs, making potions, spinning thread, training in archery or with swords, and going to sleep - and that was over a decade ago.
Moron - didn't you read the article? This Eden is based on the Nehemiah core, which has a full-speed FPU. Also, I find it unlikely that underclocking a 31W processor could get it down to 1-6W.
Sounds about right - I was wondering whether such a thing could produce enough power to make it worthwhile. I suppose with diamond CPUs running at much higher temperatures it might work, but then there'd be problems like the fourth degree burns you'd get if you actually put in on your lap.
4)??? = Build such a thing, and make sure it isn't huge, noisy, or expensive, and doesn't fry the processor.
1)The processor is hot, the environment is cold.
2)This differential could be usd to produce energy.
3)Recovering some wasted energy may increase battery life.
"Housed in VIA's low profile EBGA package that reduces thermal density, the VIA Eden ESP7000 consumes a mere 6 watts of Maximum Thermal Design Power and nearly 1 watt of typical power when running at a clock speed of 733MHz."
Yeah - I'm no longer a starving student, so I've been snapping up DVD collections of HHGTTG, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, etc. Frankly, if I could get the beeb on my TV, unedited and straight from the UK, I'd happily pay the license fee. Unfortunately, Canada's crappy satellite companies (is there even more than one?) only offer their BBC Canada, amongst dozens of sports channels and duplicate channels (Like sci-fi? Then you'll love Space - East Coast, three hours IN THE FUTURE!!! Gag.). They probably put in commercials, too.