God, I love THIS argument. It's a pretty common and facile argument, and contains, I believe, no outright logical fallacy. I will provide a summary of your points: The history of our country is bloody. Our forefathers took the land by force. Therefore, putting aside morality (a murky and illogical concept, hard to pin down or agree on) there is nothing amiss with it still being a bloody place.
If you write a program for DOS which needs to read from a disk, get swapped out of memory, read from the kbd or print to the screen, you don't write those services yourself. They are part of the OS. Granted, DOS is minimal. It's not even a multitasking OS, I think. But still, it did what it was called upon to do, and was stable. It is still around, in various forms, on boot disks and such. Doesn't NetWare run on it or something?
Now, Verizon wants to use info about your calling patterns so they can offer you long distance savings [...]
Are you crazy? Did you just copy that line from a Verizon brochure? This is what repetitive viewing of TV commercials is doing to the geek community!
Actually, I agree with most of what you are saying about the Government, but this obviously goes beyond annoyance at telemarketers.
Seems that one good way to fight this wholesale distribution of personal information is to point out that it is a huge security risk for our country to allow so much personal information on its citizens to be sold to whoever wants to buy it. For example, assumedly Verizon numbers among its customers law enforcement and government officials.
And they strongly recommend anything with a SCSI interface over IDE -- not for performance reasons (there's really not that much difference if you cache) but for reliability.
Why would a SCSI drive be more relaible? This is a tacit assumption in a lot of the above posts, so please correct it if it's wrong: Isn't the point of failure generally the mechanics, which would be basically the same in SCSI vs. IDE?
i'm a grad student in cs in new york, and most of my colleagues have tons of real-world experience, yet still it's common for them not to understand what i would consider the basic stuff. take one project partner of mine: she has 20 years' experience as an assembly language programmer on IBM mainframes, but does not understand how you would use a uri to refer to something on the same machine your code is running on. she does not understand what a web server does. yet, it's great to have her on the team because her debugging skills are intense. another colleague, also formerly a professional programmer, was completely confused by the idea that mySQL does not have a gui where you can see the tables and cut and paste data between cells, etc. seems there are a lot of non-geeks even in the midst of the computer world. the difference with geeks is, i guess, we can't sit at a computer for hours a day and not want to know everything about how it works. the downside of this curiosity is a lot of wasted time (tinkering with your box when you should be coding, for instance) but the upside is well-roundedness.
I had a similar idea to this (and probably millions of other people did too) but I thought it would be cool to have the thing solar powered. It would seek out a spot of sunshine and recharge for a while, then clean until it got almost dead, then seek out light again. it would not be able to sweep for long on any given charge, but you could put it in a room and let it just go on and on. maybe it could alert you if it got stuck or if it was in need of a new bag.
This is scraping the bottom of the "news for nerds" barrel. It's not funny. It's boring.
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thanks. Quite a good article. The problem is, now, how can we reverse this process? Everybody in an office already has their computer (and the act that this is only slight exaggeration is scary).
actually, what recently got me thinking about this is working in an office where up until last year, they only used typewriters. They actually are quite well organized with paper files, phones, and typewriters.
i fear for them, entering into the digital world.
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A bit off topic: I don't understand MS on the desktop. More, I don't understand why all users need a multipurpose machine, with a sound card, color monitor, can run millions of apps,... when their job is to edit documents and read emails. Mostly, I think the multimedia computer is just a way for employees to waste time, and is a huge waste of time for sysadmins. Seems like the problem is that linux has been ready for the desktop for a while, but the desktop is not ready for it.
Yeah. Actually, something more like a bucket-brigade system would be a lot more cool. Many people are working on this type of thing, which indeed needs a certain cellular phone user (actually not cellular if p2p) density, as well as users voluntarily alloing their phones to route for others. Could do it with Wi-Fi, too.
when i used to work at a place where i had access to a plain text file of the passwords people had created to log on to the site, the most common password was 'password'. most seemed to be names of pets, lovers, or teams, and the best one was 'domenow'. the most stupid was 'kleenex' -- obviously somebody just typed in the first thing he saw. this was a mutual fund news site, by the way.
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At the last LinuxWorld Expo in New York, I noticed that every booth had a newton with a card reader attached to it, so they could swipe guests' badges and get a record of who visited their table. They must have had 100s of newtons.
The article gives no information about the criteria police use to collect their data, or about the data collection process at all, or about just how these data will be used, yet hundreds of people comment liberally. Obvious, redundant references to "Minority Report" get modded up throughout the thread. "News for nerds"? I think I'm hanging with the wrong nerds.
I'm sorry to say this if English is not your native language, but your post indicates that you could use some lessons on certain humanities subjects, notably basic usage, pluralization, and grammar.
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assume they use DC becuase it's easier to design train motors for DC, or something like that.
Yeah, I think it's because DC motors are better when you need a large motor (but not sure why) and also because dc motors are much better at being variable speed.
Anyway, nice to know that this job is in the hands of some serious geekz.
Here is an article to grok if you want to know about DC:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/~rfitzp/teaching/302l/lectures/node77.html
The single fan in the SS51 pulls air from the inside of the case and exhausts it through the rear vents. Holes in the sides of the case act as cool air intakes that are functional through the low pressure that's created on the inside of the case courtesy of the single exhaust fan.
As an aside, wouldn't low pressure air absorb less heat? Wouldn't it be better to direct the airflow in, thus having the pressure be higher at the heat sink?
Then, of course, you'd be blowing hot air around the inside of the computer case. Still... anyone have some actual knowledge to drop on this subject?
perhaps a bit OT, but once i was repairing 2 sets of headphones with blown drivers, for a friend of mine.
one set was sony's cheap headset marketed to people who want to look kool with big headphones on their walkmans. the other set cost $160 dollars and were supposed to be hi-fi. when i opened them up -- the same exact drivers inside. the only difference between these two headphones was $100US and the shape of the plastic. ever since then, i am suspicious of sony in general.
Now, where would one find a large file (say an ISO) that lots of people wish to simultaneously download every once in a while?? THAT's what this is perfect for.
I was thinking it would be funny to suggest someone start work on an open-source, GPL'd DRM scheme. Luckily I checked SourceForge first, because there already is such seemingly contradictory work going on.
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You are misusing the term "begging the question". It means to use circular reasoning. You mean, "raises the question".
Yes, sadly, that is a possible conclusion. I want to state, though, because my point may not be obvious: only a fool puts aside morality.
God, I love THIS argument. It's a pretty common and facile argument, and contains, I believe, no outright logical fallacy. I will provide a summary of your points: The history of our country is bloody. Our forefathers took the land by force. Therefore, putting aside morality (a murky and illogical concept, hard to pin down or agree on) there is nothing amiss with it still being a bloody place.
If you write a program for DOS which needs to read from a disk, get swapped out of memory, read from the kbd or print to the screen, you don't write those services yourself. They are part of the OS. Granted, DOS is minimal. It's not even a multitasking OS, I think. But still, it did what it was called upon to do, and was stable. It is still around, in various forms, on boot disks and such. Doesn't NetWare run on it or something?
Are you crazy? Did you just copy that line from a Verizon brochure? This is what repetitive viewing of TV commercials is doing to the geek community!
Actually, I agree with most of what you are saying about the Government, but this obviously goes beyond annoyance at telemarketers.
Seems that one good way to fight this wholesale distribution of personal information is to point out that it is a huge security risk for our country to allow so much personal information on its citizens to be sold to whoever wants to buy it. For example, assumedly Verizon numbers among its customers law enforcement and government officials.
Why would a SCSI drive be more relaible? This is a tacit assumption in a lot of the above posts, so please correct it if it's wrong: Isn't the point of failure generally the mechanics, which would be basically the same in SCSI vs. IDE?
i'm a grad student in cs in new york, and most of my colleagues have tons of real-world experience, yet still it's common for them not to understand what i would consider the basic stuff. take one project partner of mine: she has 20 years' experience as an assembly language programmer on IBM mainframes, but does not understand how you would use a uri to refer to something on the same machine your code is running on. she does not understand what a web server does. yet, it's great to have her on the team because her debugging skills are intense. another colleague, also formerly a professional programmer, was completely confused by the idea that mySQL does not have a gui where you can see the tables and cut and paste data between cells, etc. seems there are a lot of non-geeks even in the midst of the computer world. the difference with geeks is, i guess, we can't sit at a computer for hours a day and not want to know everything about how it works. the downside of this curiosity is a lot of wasted time (tinkering with your box when you should be coding, for instance) but the upside is well-roundedness.
That, and make sure all your boxes are
1. liftable
2. well taped so they won't fall apart
3. closed on top so you can stack them
[4. belong to us]
And put everything in a box. Don't leave anything loose.
I had a similar idea to this (and probably millions of other people did too) but I thought it would be cool to have the thing solar powered. It would seek out a spot of sunshine and recharge for a while, then clean until it got almost dead, then seek out light again. it would not be able to sweep for long on any given charge, but you could put it in a room and let it just go on and on. maybe it could alert you if it got stuck or if it was in need of a new bag.
This is scraping the bottom of the "news for nerds" barrel. It's not funny. It's boring.
actually, what recently got me thinking about this is working in an office where up until last year, they only used typewriters. They actually are quite well organized with paper files, phones, and typewriters.
i fear for them, entering into the digital world.
A bit off topic: I don't understand MS on the desktop. More, I don't understand why all users need a multipurpose machine, with a sound card, color monitor, can run millions of apps, ... when their job is to edit documents and read emails. Mostly, I think the multimedia computer is just a way for employees to waste time, and is a huge waste of time for sysadmins. Seems like the problem is that linux has been ready for the desktop for a while, but the desktop is not ready for it.
Yeah. Actually, something more like a bucket-brigade system would be a lot more cool. Many people are working on this type of thing, which indeed needs a certain cellular phone user (actually not cellular if p2p) density, as well as users voluntarily alloing their phones to route for others. Could do it with Wi-Fi, too.
when i used to work at a place where i had access to a plain text file of the passwords people had created to log on to the site, the most common password was 'password'. most seemed to be names of pets, lovers, or teams, and the best one was 'domenow'. the most stupid was 'kleenex' -- obviously somebody just typed in the first thing he saw. this was a mutual fund news site, by the way.
At the last LinuxWorld Expo in New York, I noticed that every booth had a newton with a card reader attached to it, so they could swipe guests' badges and get a record of who visited their table. They must have had 100s of newtons.
The article gives no information about the criteria police use to collect their data, or about the data collection process at all, or about just how these data will be used, yet hundreds of people comment liberally. Obvious, redundant references to "Minority Report" get modded up throughout the thread. "News for nerds"? I think I'm hanging with the wrong nerds.
I'm sorry to say this if English is not your native language, but your post indicates that you could use some lessons on certain humanities subjects, notably basic usage, pluralization, and grammar.
Yeah, I think it's because DC motors are better when you need a large motor (but not sure why) and also because dc motors are much better at being variable speed.
Anyway, nice to know that this job is in the hands of some serious geekz.
Here is an article to grok if you want to know about DC: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/~rfitzp/teaching/302l /lectures/node77.html
That will tell you more than me.
As an aside, wouldn't low pressure air absorb less heat? Wouldn't it be better to direct the airflow in, thus having the pressure be higher at the heat sink?
Then, of course, you'd be blowing hot air around the inside of the computer case. Still... anyone have some actual knowledge to drop on this subject?
-jim
perhaps a bit OT, but once i was repairing 2 sets of headphones with blown drivers, for a friend of mine.
one set was sony's cheap headset marketed to people who want to look kool with big headphones on their walkmans. the other set cost $160 dollars and were supposed to be hi-fi. when i opened them up -- the same exact drivers inside. the only difference between these two headphones was $100US and the shape of the plastic. ever since then, i am suspicious of sony in general.
Now, where would one find a large file (say an ISO) that lots of people wish to simultaneously download every once in a while?? THAT's what this is perfect for.
I was thinking it would be funny to suggest someone start work on an open-source, GPL'd DRM scheme. Luckily I checked SourceForge first, because there already is such seemingly contradictory work going on.
not to start a boring war, or anything.
j.n.