Heh, i actually attended the same middle school / high school as Scott Bakula, and i was pretty crushed when they canceled the show:(. I've seen torrents of the shows floating around though....
When i was younger, nobody seemed to care much that i was slashing away in Ninja Gaiden on my trusty NES, or spraypainting via some simpsons NES title. Has technology really changed so much to make this difference, or has the view just been given a shady light in the events of the past 5 years? I guess what im trying to say....in the words of David Cross, "What were the video games that hitler played?"
Well, i suppose that depends on what you feel GNU/Linux should do in this world. In my opinion, i see it as a robust, elegant and rapidly evolving OS that has such a seemingly unlimited potential usage that it eclipses the scope of not only my own knowlege, but the purpose of this comment. I know homogenous computing enviornments are "bad", but if it were up to me, everything would run linux. I'm not trying to sound like a zealot (apologies if i do) but as far as operating systems go, i find it absurd that we havent been able to stand on the shoulders of our former software engineers more than we have. We can thank our ridiculous means of handling intellectual property for that...*cough SCO cough*. Ranting aside, I dont feel linux could ever achieve this sort of acceptance if there isnt money to be made from it. IBM, Sun, HP, SGI... none of these companies would contribute if there wasnt something in it for them. Companies cannot afford to be altruistic most of the time, and it is beyond reason to ask them to. If Linspire can make a buck selling something, i dont care. If Turbolinux can make a buck selling propritary codecs, i dont care. It amazes me how much it fails to reach people that ISV's arent going desire developing their products for a platform where core users flame about including proprietary video codecs. If non-free software and free software cant get along, (given the current desktop market) free software will suffer.
that profitable companies using / pushing linux are essential for it to gather mainstream acceptance. I know it may leave a nasty taste in your mouth to witness the commercialization of linux, but really, its something we should not only get used to, but push. Im sorry, but the trailing sentance in the article posting made my inner penguin frown...
This is actually something i've been working with for years, although not as direct as supplying textbooks on the laptops. I set up a number of schools in Missouri, New Mexico and Arizona to use a nifty client / server setup for curriculum. Rather than staring a book for hours, the students are presented with interactive multimedia content and games.... the kind of stuff i would have killed for while i was in school;) We did hand out laptops as a project in one school, but they were very old (166 mhz) Thinkpads, and there really wasnt much of a problem. Id also like to thank IBM for making the sturdiest laptops ive ever seen... What was by far more of a problem was keeping track of all the pcmcia wireless cards...:(
The most spyware i've ever cleaned off of a box was 877, as reported by adaware. The unfortunate soul was a windows ME box, so it wasnt destined for greatness even without the spyware. By the time i got there, opening a browser would cause the machine to reboot, and there was no "System" icon in the control panel. Oh yea, he was running AOL too... Beat that:p
Im really curious to see how they handle head to head gaming... Although they didnt mention it in the article, i can imagine that some sort of clever networking setup was required, for both "machines" to be recognized by any modern game. My best guess is that the primary "slice" runs as a NAT server for the secondary, but this is simply speculation. Anyone have more info on this?
["Currently, the USS La Salle has a 3Mbit connection. We think we can get a 6Mbit connection and up to 24Mbit using accelerators," said Dick Pearson, a systems engineering consultant at Dataline Inc.]
Yea, i think netzero tried to sell me on that crap about six months ago:p
I figured it will probably be slashdotted soon, heres a mirror.
Server Error in '/' Application.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
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ASP.article_aspx.Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs E) in D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx:20
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731
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In all seriousness, if google did decide to open an email service like this, the phonetic similarities between e-mail and gmail make it a perfect title.
Its not that i disagree with the fact that windows hasnt gotten better about uptimes, its simply the fact that certain tasks, even with windows xp, require a reboot. Driver updates, browser updates(WTF), patching services, its all much more than i care for. Given the rate that these patches are released, the fabled long uptimes that MS coders have worked so hard for is completely negated.
Very elegantly put;)
["If you have been using Windows for a long time, you are accustomed to rebooting the system for many reasons, from software installation to correcting problems with a service. This is a habit you will need to change to start thinking in Linux. Linux tends to be rather Newtonian in nature. Once set in motion, it will tend to stay in motion until it is acted upon by an outside force, such as a hardware failure."]
Its openly stated that speed is secondary to stability and core features, and although i dont remember what version space, they did have speed optimizations slated on their dev roadmap. Btw, i agree. I use open office, and it still takes about 5-6 seconds to open OO Writer on this box, where even the bloated Office 2003 is almost instant.
For the most part, you've made strong points but I recommend you take a peak at what the opterons have been able to do with audio encoding in a native 64 bit enviornment. Im just nitpicking though, your point was a good one;).
Whats even more interesting is that according to him, the Dept of Insurance had encouraged his activities. The Dept of course denies this, and i'm having to wonder if this is just a means to distance themselves from any sort of legal mess that could come along with encouraging a wiretap without a warrant. Then again, maybe im just wearing this tinfoil hat backwards.
IBM is a company, and a company sells what its customers want. If 6% of IBM's customer base wanted to use dr-dos, im sure IBM would find a means to deliver it. Thats all, theres nothing more to see here.
Suse, for those that havent used it, is a fantastic distro btw... it was the first one to convince me to buy a boxed copy;). Both home and personal versions on 8.2 and 9.
Also, suse sells 3 foot inflatible penguins on their website, i paid 25 bucks for mine, and TRUST ME... it impresses the ladies.
Ill be selling licenses to indemnify any persons guilty of illegally downloading mp3s. Of course, I dont own the rights to any of said mp3s, but from what i can tell, that doesnt seem to matter
oh yea.
4)Profit!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Heh, i actually attended the same middle school / high school as Scott Bakula, and i was pretty crushed when they canceled the show :(. I've seen torrents of the shows floating around though....
THANK GOD.
You know its scary when legions of geeks are overwhelmingly against a new form of technology....
When i was younger, nobody seemed to care much that i was slashing away in Ninja Gaiden on my trusty NES, or spraypainting via some simpsons NES title.
Has technology really changed so much to make this difference, or has the view just been given a shady light in the events of the past 5 years?
I guess what im trying to say....in the words of David Cross, "What were the video games that hitler played?"
Well, i suppose that depends on what you feel GNU/Linux should do in this world. In my opinion, i see it as a robust, elegant and rapidly evolving OS that has such a seemingly unlimited potential usage that it eclipses the scope of not only my own knowlege, but the purpose of this comment.
I know homogenous computing enviornments are "bad", but if it were up to me, everything would run linux.
I'm not trying to sound like a zealot (apologies if i do) but as far as operating systems go, i find it absurd that we havent been able to stand on the shoulders of our former software engineers more than we have. We can thank our ridiculous means of handling intellectual property for that...*cough SCO cough*.
Ranting aside, I dont feel linux could ever achieve this sort of acceptance if there isnt money to be made from it. IBM, Sun, HP, SGI... none of these companies would contribute if there wasnt something in it for them. Companies cannot afford to be altruistic most of the time, and it is beyond reason to ask them to. If Linspire can make a buck selling something, i dont care. If Turbolinux can make a buck selling propritary codecs, i dont care. It amazes me how much it fails to reach people that ISV's arent going desire developing their products for a platform where core users flame about including proprietary video codecs. If non-free software and free software cant get along, (given the current desktop market) free software will suffer.
that profitable companies using / pushing linux are essential for it to gather mainstream acceptance.
I know it may leave a nasty taste in your mouth to witness the commercialization of linux, but really, its something we should not only get used to, but push.
Im sorry, but the trailing sentance in the article posting made my inner penguin frown...
This is actually something i've been working with for years, although not as direct as supplying textbooks on the laptops. I set up a number of schools in Missouri, New Mexico and Arizona to use a nifty client / server setup for curriculum. ;)
Rather than staring a book for hours, the students are presented with interactive multimedia content and games.... the kind of stuff i would have killed for while i was in school
We did hand out laptops as a project in one school, but they were very old (166 mhz) Thinkpads, and there really wasnt much of a problem.
Id also like to thank IBM for making the sturdiest laptops ive ever seen...
What was by far more of a problem was keeping track of all the pcmcia wireless cards...:(
Winrar
Smartftp
Win32pad
Warcraft III
Dark Age of Camelot
Mozilla
Call of Duty
Teh Gimp
WinDVD
Audacity
Until Doom III comes out, thats pretty much all the software i want on my box...
They advertise 54oz cans, but you really end up getting between 15-20.
What a ripoff!
The most spyware i've ever cleaned off of a box was 877, as reported by adaware. :p
The unfortunate soul was a windows ME box, so it wasnt destined for greatness even without the spyware.
By the time i got there, opening a browser would cause the machine to reboot, and there was no "System" icon in the control panel. Oh yea, he was running AOL too...
Beat that
Im really curious to see how they handle head to head gaming...
Although they didnt mention it in the article, i can imagine that some sort of clever networking setup was required, for both "machines" to be recognized by any modern game.
My best guess is that the primary "slice" runs as a NAT server for the secondary, but this is simply speculation. Anyone have more info on this?
Microsoft obviously must have sent him a S&D letter claiming that "balls" infringes on one of their trademarks....
It doesnt destroy the photon, it simply alters its polarization, instantly turning the conversation to jibberish ;)
["Currently, the USS La Salle has a 3Mbit connection. We think we can get a 6Mbit connection and up to 24Mbit using accelerators," said Dick Pearson, a systems engineering consultant at Dataline Inc.] :p
Yea, i think netzero tried to sell me on that crap about six months ago
I figured it will probably be slashdotted soon, heres a mirror.
.NET Framework
Server Error in '/' Application.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred
during the execution of the current web
request. Please review the stack trace for
more information about the error and where it
originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
Line 18:
Line 19: ldr = MCP.GetDR("SELECT
tsDocuments.*, Users.userLogin,
Users.userFirstName, Users.userLastName,
Users.userEmail FROM tsDocuments INNER JOIN
Users ON tsDocuments.docCreator = Users.userID
WHERE docID = " & lintID)
Line 20: ldr.Read()
Line 21:
Line 22: 'Update User Location
Source File:
D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx
Line: 20
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not
set to an instance of an object.]
ASP.article_aspx.Page_Load(Object Sender,
EventArgs E) in
D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx:20
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain()
+731
Version Information: Microsoft
Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573
In all seriousness, if google did decide to open an email service like this, the phonetic similarities between e-mail and gmail make it a perfect title.
Real men travel via |
Its not that i disagree with the fact that windows hasnt gotten better about uptimes, its simply the fact that certain tasks, even with windows xp, require a reboot. Driver updates, browser updates(WTF), patching services, its all much more than i care for. Given the rate that these patches are released, the fabled long uptimes that MS coders have worked so hard for is completely negated.
Very elegantly put ;)
["If you have been using Windows for a long time, you are accustomed to rebooting the system for many reasons, from software installation to correcting problems with a service. This is a habit you will need to change to start thinking in Linux. Linux tends to be rather Newtonian in nature. Once set in motion, it will tend to stay in motion until it is acted upon by an outside force, such as a hardware failure."]
Its openly stated that speed is secondary to stability and core features, and although i dont remember what version space, they did have speed optimizations slated on their dev roadmap. Btw, i agree. I use open office, and it still takes about 5-6 seconds to open OO Writer on this box, where even the bloated Office 2003 is almost instant.
ROFL i wanna meet the guy who comes up with their acronyms. Seriously.
For the most part, you've made strong points but I recommend you take a peak at what the opterons have been able to do with audio encoding in a native 64 bit enviornment. Im just nitpicking though, your point was a good one ;).
Whats even more interesting is that according to him, the Dept of Insurance had encouraged his activities.
The Dept of course denies this, and i'm having to wonder if this is just a means to distance themselves from any sort of legal mess that could come along with encouraging a wiretap without a warrant. Then again, maybe im just wearing this tinfoil hat backwards.
IBM is a company, and a company sells what its customers want. If 6% of IBM's customer base wanted to use dr-dos, im sure IBM would find a means to deliver it. Thats all, theres nothing more to see here. ;). Both home and personal versions on 8.2 and 9.
Suse, for those that havent used it, is a fantastic distro btw... it was the first one to convince me to buy a boxed copy
Also, suse sells 3 foot inflatible penguins on their website, i paid 25 bucks for mine, and TRUST ME... it impresses the ladies.
Ill be selling licenses to indemnify any persons guilty of illegally downloading mp3s. Of course, I dont own the rights to any of said mp3s, but from what i can tell, that doesnt seem to matter
oh yea.
4)Profit!!!
This has got to be the work of those KDE bastards!