On February 28, 2002, AMD announced the support of SuSE Linux for the Opteron processors. Good news to home computer users, on April 24, 2002, Microsoft has also collaborated to further 64-bit computing. (Emphasis added.)
Yet another article implying Linux is not for the home. People read enough of these articles and they will conclude a priori Linux is not to be used in the home and never try it for themselves.
Note I'm not saying it's completely ready for home use, especially by people with extremely limited computer knowledge, but people should decide for themselves. If everything they read says or implies Linux isn't for the home, they won't even consider it an option.
I just went to that guys site, and it had examples of sites using their anti-adblocker.
So I visited them using Mozilla with popups disabled and an ad blocking proxy, and I didn't see a single ad. Some product that guy's pushing. Doesn't even work.
4 years from now a bunch of grads will be heading to interviews...
Grad: "I know C#! Hire me!"
Industry: "C#. Check. What else do you know?"
Grad: "Huh? Like what?"
Industry: "Well, what did you learn in some of your other courses?
Grad: "I know how to design a web page so that it only works under Internet Explorer."
Industry: "Hmm..okaaaay. What type of degree did you say you have again?"
Grad: "I have a copy right here..."
Industry: "That says MCSE. That's not a diploma."
Grad: "No, it is. There's some fine print at the bottom. See?" ...
Just make a 51st state that includes Everyone Living on the Thick Black Lines of the US Map.
Think of all the interstate commerce with all the states they'd border!
Oh, but wait, what about the people living on the border between the new Border State and the other states? Let's create another...ouch. **Brain implosion**
Finisterre said that while he wanted to resolve the dispute with HP, he resented receiving DMCA threats. "We are like the guys that found out that Firestone tires have issues on Ford explorers," he said. "It's not our fault your Explorer has crap tires. We just pointed it out. We should not get attacked for pointing out issues in someone's product nor for proving it is possible."
Except a car isn't a general purpose machine. It has one purpose...you drive it. You may drive it many different places, but you still drive it.
A computer can be used for so many different things. People need to learn some minimal knowledge about how they work, since you can't expect every program to behave the same way. The programs are doing different things, but as long as you take the time to learn the basic principles of how most GUI interfaces work and how software interacts with hardware, you're pretty much there in terms of knowing enough about how your computer works for an average user.
What really scares me is when you take an MS Word user, put them in front of Wordperfect, AbiWord, or whatever...and they can't even begin to figure out how to use it. Even though the menus and the toolbars at the top are practically the same. If we want to use your car analogy here, how come a Ford owner can drive a Chevy? Because they know enough about the basic principles of operating cars to get by. Basic principles of computing may be a little more difficult to grasp, but it's still the user's responsibility.
I can make the same argument for sitting a Windows user in front of KDE or OS X. It should take a couple hours at most to determine the differences in the interface and what actions correspond to what you're familiar with.
This paper details our study of how video games decrease brain activity. We played video games for many many hours and are now pleased to present our results. What we found was that...um...I can't really remember right now. Interesting...I have this sudden urge to click on something and make it explode. Fire! Fire! Heh heh. Heh. Does anyone reviewing this paper know where I can find the magic key that opens the locked door on level 7?
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Probably declaring a to be volatile would have worked too.
Perhaps it would raise the "barrier to entry" for breaking into systems, but once in I think the potential to cause havoc is even worse. Even if they do have some of it implemented in hardware, there will always be a piece of software code somewhere that sends/receives info from that hardware. So now instead of klez spamming you and everyone 6 levels removed from you, your computer starts telling everyone you're an untrusted entity and you cease to be able to interact with anyone (at least anyone with the same system, but assuming this would become pervasive) over the internet. It's not exactly identity theft, more like you now have a big neon sign floating above your head saying "I'm a crook" and whenever you look up to see what's there it disappears...they only way you can tell is asking someone else if its there or not.
I've got a dual-Athlon system, running W2K & Debian. I get some strange pops and jumps in the sound whenever I have mp3's playing and some other program plays a sound...but only in W2K. So I have to assume the Windows driver has a problem the Linux driver doesn't, and it may very well be an SMP issue but I haven't tried it with a proc disabled.
If you're a tech person who enjoys writing, this seems to be a hot area at the moment. It requires the skills to...well...um...okay, so maybe even if you're completely unqualified you could get hired for this.
These computers do not ship with Microsoft Windows. They ship with an exciting new UNIX based Operating System (OS) named Lindows. This exciting new OS delivers the stability of UNIX...
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say Linux-based since from a user's viewpoint it looks like Windows but runs Windows and Linux programs? And technically didn't they build this off Linux and not BSD? I'm just wondering if Walmart made a simple mistake or if they're intentionally wanting to associate it with UNIX instead of Linux for some reason.
Given that the current Linux support for the 8500 is limited to a binary-only driver that is intended for a related professional-level card, the delivery of an open driver is excellent news.
I think this part is a bit misleading. XFree86 4.2 has support for several ATI 8500 chips, and there are and have been Radeon drivers in the
Linux kernel that work with it. From what I remember reading when I got my card working (yes, I'm running an ATI 8500 under Linux with no problems) all of the 2D support is there, and some limited 3D support.
I agree more open source work for this card is good news, but that sentence almost makes it sound like you can't use the 8500 well with Linux at this point.
It would be so cool if this worked because then NASA could run an ad asking people to support their funding and show them taking people on tour of a space shuttle...only to find a little black rocket where the engine should be.
Of course the Genuity people probably would have something to say about that...
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On February 28, 2002, AMD announced the support of SuSE Linux for the Opteron processors. Good news to home computer users, on April 24, 2002, Microsoft has also collaborated to further 64-bit computing. (Emphasis added.)
Yet another article implying Linux is not for the home. People read enough of these articles and they will conclude a priori Linux is not to be used in the home and never try it for themselves.
Note I'm not saying it's completely ready for home use, especially by people with extremely limited computer knowledge, but people should decide for themselves. If everything they read says or implies Linux isn't for the home, they won't even consider it an option.
Well anyone who's seen the commercial knows the cow can talk, so I bet it's smart enough they can teach it algebra.
Oh wait...maybe I should read the article...
"You have chosen to distribute medication to halt the spread of the bioterror weapon. Windows must reboot to continue saving the world. Please wait."
from the unable-to-slashdot dept.
Same here with Verizon.
Do a 'host listen4ever.com' and use the IP as the first part of the address to get around it.
Doesn't seem to work for downloading music from them though, as I keep getting messages about the virtual directory listing being denied.
Same here...wtf?
;)
Can ANYONE view this article and if so can they post the contents? I even went through the main msnbc page and eventually just got a blank page.
Guess they don't like Mozilla.
I just went to that guys site, and it had examples of sites using their anti-adblocker.
So I visited them using Mozilla with popups disabled and an ad blocking proxy, and I didn't see a single ad. Some product that guy's pushing. Doesn't even work.
4 years from now a bunch of grads will be heading to interviews...
...
Grad: "I know C#! Hire me!"
Industry: "C#. Check. What else do you know?"
Grad: "Huh? Like what?"
Industry: "Well, what did you learn in some of your other courses?
Grad: "I know how to design a web page so that it only works under Internet Explorer."
Industry: "Hmm..okaaaay. What type of degree did you say you have again?"
Grad: "I have a copy right here..."
Industry: "That says MCSE. That's not a diploma."
Grad: "No, it is. There's some fine print at the bottom. See?"
Flying pigs! Help! I'm being attacked by flying pigs!
Don't we already have that?
Just make a 51st state that includes Everyone Living on the Thick Black Lines of the US Map. Think of all the interstate commerce with all the states they'd border! Oh, but wait, what about the people living on the border between the new Border State and the other states? Let's create another...ouch. **Brain implosion**
Finisterre said that while he wanted to resolve the dispute with HP, he resented receiving DMCA threats. "We are like the guys that found out that Firestone tires have issues on Ford explorers," he said. "It's not our fault your Explorer has crap tires. We just pointed it out. We should not get attacked for pointing out issues in someone's product nor for proving it is possible."
When will people learn this is the same thing?
I'll bite. What does this refer too? None of the articles mention a baby do they?
Except a car isn't a general purpose machine. It has one purpose...you drive it. You may drive it many different places, but you still drive it.
A computer can be used for so many different things. People need to learn some minimal knowledge about how they work, since you can't expect every program to behave the same way. The programs are doing different things, but as long as you take the time to learn the basic principles of how most GUI interfaces work and how software interacts with hardware, you're pretty much there in terms of knowing enough about how your computer works for an average user.
What really scares me is when you take an MS Word user, put them in front of Wordperfect, AbiWord, or whatever...and they can't even begin to figure out how to use it. Even though the menus and the toolbars at the top are practically the same. If we want to use your car analogy here, how come a Ford owner can drive a Chevy? Because they know enough about the basic principles of operating cars to get by. Basic principles of computing may be a little more difficult to grasp, but it's still the user's responsibility.
I can make the same argument for sitting a Windows user in front of KDE or OS X. It should take a couple hours at most to determine the differences in the interface and what actions correspond to what you're familiar with.
This paper details our study of how video games decrease brain activity. We played video games for many many hours and are now pleased to present our results. What we found was that...um...I can't really remember right now. Interesting...I have this sudden urge to click on something and make it explode. Fire! Fire! Heh heh. Heh. Does anyone reviewing this paper know where I can find the magic key that opens the locked door on level 7?
Probably declaring a to be volatile would have worked too.
Perhaps it would raise the "barrier to entry" for breaking into systems, but once in I think the potential to cause havoc is even worse. Even if they do have some of it implemented in hardware, there will always be a piece of software code somewhere that sends/receives info from that hardware. So now instead of klez spamming you and everyone 6 levels removed from you, your computer starts telling everyone you're an untrusted entity and you cease to be able to interact with anyone (at least anyone with the same system, but assuming this would become pervasive) over the internet. It's not exactly identity theft, more like you now have a big neon sign floating above your head saying "I'm a crook" and whenever you look up to see what's there it disappears...they only way you can tell is asking someone else if its there or not.
That's what's on the front page of their site right now. Ironic isn't it? As we read that title, sites are shutting down.
I've got a dual-Athlon system, running W2K & Debian. I get some strange pops and jumps in the sound whenever I have mp3's playing and some other program plays a sound...but only in W2K. So I have to assume the Windows driver has a problem the Linux driver doesn't, and it may very well be an SMP issue but I haven't tried it with a proc disabled.
If you're a tech person who enjoys writing, this seems to be a hot area at the moment. It requires the skills to...well...um...okay, so maybe even if you're completely unqualified you could get hired for this.
From the Walmart ad:
These computers do not ship with Microsoft Windows. They ship with an exciting new UNIX based Operating System (OS) named Lindows. This exciting new OS delivers the stability of UNIX...
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say Linux-based since from a user's viewpoint it looks like Windows but runs Windows and Linux programs? And technically didn't they build this off Linux and not BSD? I'm just wondering if Walmart made a simple mistake or if they're intentionally wanting to associate it with UNIX instead of Linux for some reason.
could do without the lights and just rely on the glow from their monitor?
:)
12% of slashdot judging from the current poll: Preciousss, the sunsss hurtssss.....
Given that the current Linux support for the 8500 is limited to a binary-only driver that is intended for a related professional-level card, the delivery of an open driver is excellent news.
I think this part is a bit misleading. XFree86 4.2 has support for several ATI 8500 chips, and there are and have been Radeon drivers in the Linux kernel that work with it. From what I remember reading when I got my card working (yes, I'm running an ATI 8500 under Linux with no problems) all of the 2D support is there, and some limited 3D support.
I agree more open source work for this card is good news, but that sentence almost makes it sound like you can't use the 8500 well with Linux at this point.
It would be so cool if this worked because then NASA could run an ad asking people to support their funding and show them taking people on tour of a space shuttle...only to find a little black rocket where the engine should be.
Of course the Genuity people probably would have something to say about that...