Than why bother using the standard X11 drivers? I figure that if I paid $500 it's a nice plus to get Linux drivers for it. I could care less if the drivers are binary and closed source. As an end user, I just want something that works.
The oxygen is then added for color and brightness, while the rest is released into the room.
The rest of the oxygen is released in the room? Granted, that going above 20% oxygen in a room won't harm you, but it does make combustible things more so. How much oxygen is this device creating? It might not be a good idea to smoke near this thing?
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Mod parent up. I've been struggling, wanting to use Linux as my primary box for over 6 years now, but the font issue haunts me every time I install a new distro. I have never seen a good solution to this problem, and until it's remedied, Linux is completly wothless to the consumer market.
Don't tell me about editing this or that config file or recompiling my files. It's not worth my time. If my time is worth $20/hour than I might as well by Windows or a Mac and save my self the frustration.
They're trying to woo moderates back into the fold(Hillary Clinton etc)
Whoah there.... Hillary is FAR from a moderate. You do realize that she is just acting the way she is to improve here election odds in 2008. If she won, you'd see more social spending bills being pushed than ever before.
Yes, because we all know that individual freedom is something that is frightenly dangerous. Just imagine if people everywhere to make their own decisions instaed of doing what the federal government tells them to!
"real world" experience as in working with the "geek squad" at Best Buy? Sure fixing computers as a hobby is one thing, but I guarantee you there are not many jobs for just ugrading and repairing computer systems.
Now if you actually learn how to configure networks, run servers, and install client services, that's another matter.
The AGP slots are probably being ruined from people pulling on the monitor cable. It's fairly common for the card to come loose on older style AGP slots without latching. I'm sure that a video card only having partial contact with the AGP slot could cause some damage.
That's what that sound is! I have a two, 250GB Hitachi drives in RAID0 and every once and a while I'll hear them do a "SCREEEEeeechcreeech" sound. I wasn't sure if they were failing or if that was a normal sound.
Yes, it is slightly annoying at worst. Most of the time it's not very loud at all. However, I have a co-worker who has an old Mac G3 with a hard drive SO DARN loud you can hear it continuously make a high pitch sound. I hope the thing dies soon so I don't have to hear it anymore.
I wouldn't necessarily agree that embedding a web browser into an OS is bad. I mean, so many programs need some basic web interface functionality that it doesn't make sense to not include some type of a browser. However, having a full blown bloated web browser loading for even the simplest of applications is a bit overkill and consumes a large quantity of the base operating systems memory.
I used to work for a university too and we regularly upgraded systems. One of our primary reasons was that old machines simply started wearing out. Floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, power supplies, monitors, etc. all start going bad. Yes, you can repair them, but once you have 100+ systems and stuff starts breaking fairly regularly it comes time to just start replacing entire lines of systems before failures occur. This minimizes student frustration with happening to find that broken machine.
This is a poor excuse. There is no way that any financial application would need to be a windows application. I mean, come on, do you really need a 3 GHz CPU to process your taxes? Whatever GUI you design in windows could just as well be represented as a webform. You'd be amazed what they can do with Javascript and XHTML these days.
It sounds more like the government hired people who did not know what they were doing exactly. Every single in-house form-field application I've seen has been a complete and cumbersome mess. It is also very prone to compatibility problems between versions because you have to upgrade everything at the client side. Very messy.
I really hate this about the wireless network providers. It's just another example of them being completely clueless and short sighted.
One plan for WAP service Another plan for text messaging Another plan for sending images Another plan for sending video Another plan for blackberries Another plan for PC Card wireless modems
And yet guess what? They all use the EXACT same network resources! The only difference is the device or use.
I really wish they would just stop confusing consumers and just have one cellphone internet service plan. The internet is already designed to support all types of protocols, why do the cellphone providers treat them all differently?
Will students be able to install software on the laptop? No,... Students who violate the policy will be disciplined.... All of the software necessary to integrate the laptop technology into the curriculum will be installed when the laptop is issued to the student....
These are the most ridiculus set of rules for computer use I have ever seen. Not allowed to install software on the laptop? Are they afraid some student might install Java, Perl, or Python and actually learn how to program? Are they afraid the students would install photoshop/gimp and be artistic? What is the point of these computers if they are restricted to a predefined set of a circulum some idiot came up with. I guess this is just another case of schools not wanting kids to think for themselves
Will students be able to email, chat, and play games on their laptops? Chat, IM, games, and email software will be removed from all computers.
I guess this is fair enough, but not really. Can't have students colaborating with eachother on homework assignments, or e-mailing their teachers for questions.
Can a student use their iPod or digital camera with the laptop? Can students load music and photos on the computer? Yes, students may connect their iPod music player or digital camera to their issued computer....
Well, It's reassuring to know that at least they allow the students to be good consumers and purchase iPod's and digital cameras. We wouldn't actually want them to learn anything.
What? Hacks for a Sony product? This can't be allowed! Sony must at once produce a new firmware update for all Aibos to make sure this dog-like robot only performs Sony approved actions. I mean, what would the world be like if a robotic dog did anything other than dance and perform tricks in ant entertaining fasion?
We can't have people going around actually writing their own software on hardware they purchased with their own money.
I also read somewhere that the QWERTY layout helps electrons in modern keyboards from getting jammed. See, they work by addressing rows and collumns and if you type too many letters in the same row at once, the electrons start bumping into eachother. They get terribly upset about this and usually only one letter survives the fight.
My guess is that most super computers are at 100% load. The reason being is that after you have spent millions on a new computer system that will be obsolete in two years, you want to get all the utilization out of it you can get in that time. Of course, this probably requires careful planning to queue simulations into the machine to reduce idle time.
It's not like there is one screen with a researcher typing his code away at it. They probably test their code on lesser computers (a simple array of desktops) before deploying it on the big machines.
Yeah, because if I'm a consumer I'm going to spend $450 for a device to look at pictures? You know, what, I could pay $400 for a digital camera and an iRiver and still save $50. People don't usually buy things per/GB. You're comparing two completely different products with different purposes.
I for one never plan to purchase an iPod for the simple reason it doesn't support OGG vorbis.
Okay, the most annoying part of this article is that they never bother to LINK to the new website. What is the point of talking about a new website in a news article and not linking to it?
Slashdot Mirror
Than why bother using the standard X11 drivers? I figure that if I paid $500 it's a nice plus to get Linux drivers for it. I could care less if the drivers are binary and closed source. As an end user, I just want something that works.
The oxygen is then added for color and brightness, while the rest is released into the room.
The rest of the oxygen is released in the room? Granted, that going above 20% oxygen in a room won't harm you, but it does make combustible things more so. How much oxygen is this device creating? It might not be a good idea to smoke near this thing?
The articles are far more accurate than anything on wikipedia, give it a try today! http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is ammusing:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia
Mod parent up. I've been struggling, wanting to use Linux as my primary box for over 6 years now, but the font issue haunts me every time I install a new distro. I have never seen a good solution to this problem, and until it's remedied, Linux is completly wothless to the consumer market.
Don't tell me about editing this or that config file or recompiling my files. It's not worth my time. If my time is worth $20/hour than I might as well by Windows or a Mac and save my self the frustration.
They're trying to woo moderates back into the fold(Hillary Clinton etc)
Whoah there.... Hillary is FAR from a moderate. You do realize that she is just acting the way she is to improve here election odds in 2008. If she won, you'd see more social spending bills being pushed than ever before.
Yes, because we all know that individual freedom is something that is frightenly dangerous. Just imagine if people everywhere to make their own decisions instaed of doing what the federal government tells them to!
(I keep my PC's on UTC thank you very much....)
"real world" experience as in working with the "geek squad" at Best Buy? Sure fixing computers as a hobby is one thing, but I guarantee you there are not many jobs for just ugrading and repairing computer systems.
Now if you actually learn how to configure networks, run servers, and install client services, that's another matter.
The AGP slots are probably being ruined from people pulling on the monitor cable. It's fairly common for the card to come loose on older style AGP slots without latching. I'm sure that a video card only having partial contact with the AGP slot could cause some damage.
That's what that sound is! I have a two, 250GB Hitachi drives in RAID0 and every once and a while I'll hear them do a "SCREEEEeeechcreeech" sound. I wasn't sure if they were failing or if that was a normal sound.
Yes, it is slightly annoying at worst. Most of the time it's not very loud at all. However, I have a co-worker who has an old Mac G3 with a hard drive SO DARN loud you can hear it continuously make a high pitch sound. I hope the thing dies soon so I don't have to hear it anymore.
I wouldn't necessarily agree that embedding a web browser into an OS is bad. I mean, so many programs need some basic web interface functionality that it doesn't make sense to not include some type of a browser. However, having a full blown bloated web browser loading for even the simplest of applications is a bit overkill and consumes a large quantity of the base operating systems memory.
I used to work for a university too and we regularly upgraded systems. One of our primary reasons was that old machines simply started wearing out. Floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, power supplies, monitors, etc. all start going bad. Yes, you can repair them, but once you have 100+ systems and stuff starts breaking fairly regularly it comes time to just start replacing entire lines of systems before failures occur. This minimizes student frustration with happening to find that broken machine.
Hey, give him a break. Maybe he was typing it in Dvorak, in which cause typing "QWERTY" is a bit more challenging.
This is a poor excuse. There is no way that any financial application would need to be a windows application. I mean, come on, do you really need a 3 GHz CPU to process your taxes? Whatever GUI you design in windows could just as well be represented as a webform. You'd be amazed what they can do with Javascript and XHTML these days.
It sounds more like the government hired people who did not know what they were doing exactly. Every single in-house form-field application I've seen has been a complete and cumbersome mess. It is also very prone to compatibility problems between versions because you have to upgrade everything at the client side. Very messy.
They already have this!/ index.html
http://bbpromo.yahoo.co.jp/promotion/adsl/regular
I think it equates to around $40/month for the 50mbps connection. Doubt we'll ever get that good of a deal here.
My question is, which happens faster, first post, or getting a windows machine infected?
Just a theoretical question...
I doubt they would get rid of every analog channel.
They would probably leave one analog emergency channel to broadcast any public announcements. At least until digital radios become ubiquitous.
The chart comparing U.S. to China is impressive as is, but I'd be curious to see one showing broadband as a % of population than just # of households.
I really hate this about the wireless network providers. It's just another example of them being completely clueless and short sighted.
One plan for WAP service
Another plan for text messaging
Another plan for sending images
Another plan for sending video
Another plan for blackberries
Another plan for PC Card wireless modems
And yet guess what? They all use the EXACT same network resources! The only difference is the device or use.
I really wish they would just stop confusing consumers and just have one cellphone internet service plan. The internet is already designed to support all types of protocols, why do the cellphone providers treat them all differently?
Oh, almost forgot. It's all about profit.
These are the most ridiculus set of rules for computer use I have ever seen. Not allowed to install software on the laptop? Are they afraid some student might install Java, Perl, or Python and actually learn how to program? Are they afraid the students would install photoshop/gimp and be artistic? What is the point of these computers if they are restricted to a predefined set of a circulum some idiot came up with. I guess this is just another case of schools not wanting kids to think for themselves
I guess this is fair enough, but not really. Can't have students colaborating with eachother on homework assignments, or e-mailing their teachers for questions.
Well, It's reassuring to know that at least they allow the students to be good consumers and purchase iPod's and digital cameras. We wouldn't actually want them to learn anything.
What? Hacks for a Sony product? This can't be allowed! Sony must at once produce a new firmware update for all Aibos to make sure this dog-like robot only performs Sony approved actions. I mean, what would the world be like if a robotic dog did anything other than dance and perform tricks in ant entertaining fasion?
We can't have people going around actually writing their own software on hardware they purchased with their own money.
I also read somewhere that the QWERTY layout helps electrons in modern keyboards from getting jammed. See, they work by addressing rows and collumns and if you type too many letters in the same row at once, the electrons start bumping into eachother. They get terribly upset about this and usually only one letter survives the fight.
My guess is that most super computers are at 100% load. The reason being is that after you have spent millions on a new computer system that will be obsolete in two years, you want to get all the utilization out of it you can get in that time. Of course, this probably requires careful planning to queue simulations into the machine to reduce idle time.
It's not like there is one screen with a researcher typing his code away at it. They probably test their code on lesser computers (a simple array of desktops) before deploying it on the big machines.
Yeah, because if I'm a consumer I'm going to spend $450 for a device to look at pictures? You know, what, I could pay $400 for a digital camera and an iRiver and still save $50. People don't usually buy things per/GB. You're comparing two completely different products with different purposes.
I for one never plan to purchase an iPod for the simple reason it doesn't support OGG vorbis.
Okay, the most annoying part of this article is that they never bother to LINK to the new website. What is the point of talking about a new website in a news article and not linking to it?
My quess is this is what they are talking about.
Of course, I don't know how to spell "freedom" in Chinese, but if you compare these two searches:
US
China
You can get a pretty good idea of what they block. And to think, we have U.S. companies helping them to achieve this....
Just imagine all the fun you could have taking one of those into best buy. heheh....