Dude.... at least we're not reading posts about new weapons of mass destruction. And theoretically these third-world citizens, etc. can benefit from these advances (although i doubt they ever will).
Quit flaming and do something real.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is going to make me want to put more money into buying the actual album.
I do NOT think people should simply download music; just wanted to put that out of the way.
The example you gave was horrid. "Your friends are doing it, other people are doing it, you are finding the better sources for it, theres ~5 different ways to get it... so you ARENT GOING TO DO IT." That simply doesnt make sense. By that point I would simply buy the more simple (as in 2 channel, CD quality audio) version and be done with it. It's the same everywhere, be it mp3 player, stereo, or computer. I don't have to ask questions and I don't have a lower quality on my other form of playback.
Why not use a metal or wire cage around the theater? It would work just like the cage around a microwave: capture the electrons and make them flow around the box and not inside it. That way no one has a signal in the theater?
Wouldn't that work?
Actually, the fact that it is in the CVS makes it accessable to anyone who wants it. Granted not many end users will connect to the CVS and get the latest dev version of KDE, but at least it's there.
Windows on the other hand cannot do this. I respect your point in saying they have a lot of money and customers to deal with, but their perspective on security is a bit skewed. No Windows user can fix their SSL flaw if theyre extremely paranoid, they can only hope that MS will sheild the exploit from the script kiddies of the world.
A good majority of their software is not written by them, although they support it. It's community written and you dont HAVE to have support from them (anyone can read the source and modify/fix it). They're just htere to help the new guys out (or the ones with enough money to not hvae to).
Just a quick note, the electrons flow on the wire (they go on the easiest/quickest path). Ya, thats simplified but its the same concept on, yes, your microwave, computer, etc etc etc. Look around and be amazed.;)
If you take Linux (source based, optimized for cpu) and a modern window manager like enlightenment (if you think its not modern, prove it in a reply) with a preemptive kernel and put it on a Celeron ~500mhz with 128mb of PC100 SDRAM it WILL BEAT the Windows 98 in speed, although it is different.
I just don't see how people assume KDE and Gnome are "modern" because they resemble Windows. Is that the trend?
Or IT department deals with Windows computers everyday, although EVERY server we have is either Linux, SGI or Solaris (and only Solaris because of some of the proprietary applications).
We write programs to run on Linux, using MySQL, PHP, Oracle (SGI's), and a number of other mature daemons/server apps. All are acessible from the Windows computers via either Apache or some other form of custom-written client/server packages (although this is less common).
We have written many powerful packages to operate beautifully between Windows/Linux and Linux/Linux (client/server, respectively).
But it all happens because we have flexibility from the voices above. Our Boss is actually a very technically-knowledgable manager who also has a good deal of electrical engineering experience.
But everyday we have to have the intern fix approx. 5 Windows 2000 desktop machines, consuming our time and his; this amount of time in no way compares to the time it would take for us to teach chemists and biologists their way around a Linux desktop.
Right now, setting aside the horrors of MS licensing, our Windows 2000 desktops and Linux servers/workstations is a prime example of how things can we be easily compromised.
Sure remote users can have java-based (?) remote applications launched, but theyre slower than anything I've ever seen. And unless you have THOUSANDS of users, its generally cheaper to purchase licenses for the users. Many real-estate and government-funded organizations that I've worked with use Citrix; at the end of the day they avoid it like the plague.
My Sony Picturebook, with a Quad battery, can last 10 hours. Doesnt that beat the iBook? And mine can run Linux on an x86 architecture. Although my current 128mb of ram chokes Windows 2000 it runs Gentoo quite well (Gentoo w/ enlightenment consumes 50mb on average).
What are the advantages of an iBook? (And that sentence is serious, not a troll;) My picturebook is smaller, lighter, and has a long battery life. And it was $1200 new (last years model).
I know this may be a bit off-topic, but hopefully someone with a bit of programming skills will read it.
I am a Super Mario Bros addict. I have my NES still, clean and polished; I play almost once a week with a bunch of buddies. Nothing better than sitting around with a ~10 year old 2-d gaming system and jumping on innocent turtles.
But could someone create a multiplayer Super Mario Brothers? I'm talking team play; more than one Mario, both working together across the internet to defeat the King. It'd be like 2D Counter-Strike!
I do agree with your last statement, but do not agree with the first.
I work with a small research company; we have around 70 employees and it is understood that absolutely no one except the IT Department (only half-a-dozen people) can gain Administrative access. We've only had one user complain about this, but the same guy also agrued that Windows XP Home could do "so much more that Windows 2000 Professional couldnt do!" (direct quote). He took that far enough to go buy himself a laptop with company money.
"Also if you need extra help with writting documents (for exmaple if you are dyslexic)..."
This is an honest question but I really dont know, but what tools are offered by MS Office for individuals that suffer from dyslexicia? I've never checked into that; I have however seen things for other disabilities.
If you are an individual with this disability I would strongly suggest you enter comments to developers about this (e-mail, irc, etc) because without your input they may never realize there is a need. Some of these developers havent used Microsoft products in several years!
Yes, I know that a Gentoo [http://gentoo.org] review was covered in a recent Slashdot frontpage, but I would like to emphasize how amazing it is.
Fully source-based, get-only-what-you-want distro. I was running RedHat at the beginning of the week but decided to switch over to something a little slimmer.
My workstation now loads windows in half the time and my memory usage has been cut in half. And this is all on a Athlon 1700+.
Setup to a console took 2 hours (using stage-3 filesystem image) and took about 4-6 hours to get into XFree/KDE.
You have to keep in mind all of these people arent sys/network admins, programmers, or anything to do with computers. I work at a drug discovery lab and the NMR and masspec machines take a while to run, let alone the 24 hour runs on the SGIs.
Some people just have time to burn in their occupation, and its not their fault.
Often I have to wait 45 minutes to parse an excessively large text [log] file and I'm restrained by ATA33 hard-disks and Celeron 300 processors. It's not that I'm wasting time, it's that I have to wait on due to hardware restrictions set by workstation standards, that sorta thing.
Don't assume everyone is just trying to get out of work; maybe they're just trying to not let the boss know they have spare time (so he doesnt think poorly of the worker, etc. etc.).
I dont believe they were complaining that it wouldnt run Linux, they were saying that it would be a "killer app" so to speak if it HAD an OS; with it there would be no other computer equipment needed for a family-solution.
Don't be so quick to flame.;)
I've always seen that CS would install with Wine, but never could get it to work right. I always had problems with Wine/CS either running in 16-bit mode or if it was in 32-bit, OpenGL wouldnt work. This is on a [fairly] stock RH 7.2 system with updated Nvidia drivers for a Geforce 2 MX 400.
Any good places for me to read up on it? Maybe a FAQ? What about other games?
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Of course it SHOULD be, but us [not-so-rich] programmers dont have the leverage/capital it requires to push developers to different platforms.
The efforts put forth by projects like Wine show that these games have the ability to run and run VERY well on Linux/Unix/etc. It also shows that Linux is not just for business and servers anymore but for recreation and peoples' home offices. Maybe because of this new Wine release 20 people will notice that games can run on Linux with just a little bit of work and they'll notice that *nix is a bit more flexible than they thought. If 1 out of those 20 people give it a shot and like it, word of mouth could have 2 people with it, and it slows spreads in that manner (hopefully).
And hey, even if that doesnt work, you can always dual boot;)
I thought it was the opposite; that TW could say who can and cannot use their cable lines. Maybe I just read somthing wrong. And what happens once AOL's High-Speed Access service kicks in and clogs their lines? I'm guessing thats the main reason behind all of this.
Would this apply to their High-Speed AOL users as well? Or are they fore-seeing their AOL user-base switching from dialup to their cable lines? If this did happen, this would severely cripple the available bandwidth in TW areas forcing this rating system, although I personally believe a reasonable download cap would be more appropriate.
At least with a download cap (we're already capped at 40 kilobytes per sec upstream) the users could have something consistance to look at. Maybe they could even turn on some sort of automatic management system which would limit the download rate for N amount of hours if a user breaks a download limit per day.
If they did use something like an automatic management system it would not be all too hard to deploy; they already have their network masks for the IPs subnetted to 255.255.248.0. This leaves all traffic for each subnetwork going out through a single point, limiting the shared bandwidth in that network (this may be stated a bit confusing, but hopefully everyone gets the idea). Each subnet has its own gateway for these connections which also serves as the dhcpd.
Since I live in the Triad of North Carolina (outside of a major city with no DSL availible) TW's RoadRunner is my only reasonable option for a residential subscription; just to put out in the open that I am going to be forced to pay what I have to pay. The only thing keeping MANY people in my area from switching to Road Runner is that they are not able to use AOL through it (they just dont realize there is a Bring Your Own Connection option availible which reduces AOL's monthly cost by $10).
Just some thoughts, although I do think this is a bit ridiculous, but could push some innovations (load-balancing for bandwidth and P2P through public 802.11a networks anyone?).
The heat is actually generated by inefficiency of the particles moving (friction, etc) or loss of energy (collisions of particles). This device would actually cause more collisions, I believe, and cause the ocean to heat up (but by very, very litle).
Having energy doesnt mean matter has heat; having energy means matter has the potential for heat (or movement or to do work).
But then again, I'm only a physics student, not a teacher. Maybe I'm wrong::shrug::
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Dude.... at least we're not reading posts about new weapons of mass destruction. And theoretically these third-world citizens, etc. can benefit from these advances (although i doubt they ever will). Quit flaming and do something real.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is going to make me want to put more money into buying the actual album.
I do NOT think people should simply download music; just wanted to put that out of the way.
The example you gave was horrid. "Your friends are doing it, other people are doing it, you are finding the better sources for it, theres ~5 different ways to get it... so you ARENT GOING TO DO IT." That simply doesnt make sense. By that point I would simply buy the more simple (as in 2 channel, CD quality audio) version and be done with it. It's the same everywhere, be it mp3 player, stereo, or computer. I don't have to ask questions and I don't have a lower quality on my other form of playback.
I love life. RIAA/MPAA creates confusion.
Ya, that commercial annoyed the hell out of me. I think of it all the time. And ya, I have that much time to think. ;)
Why not use a metal or wire cage around the theater? It would work just like the cage around a microwave: capture the electrons and make them flow around the box and not inside it. That way no one has a signal in the theater? Wouldn't that work?
Actually, the fact that it is in the CVS makes it accessable to anyone who wants it. Granted not many end users will connect to the CVS and get the latest dev version of KDE, but at least it's there.
Windows on the other hand cannot do this. I respect your point in saying they have a lot of money and customers to deal with, but their perspective on security is a bit skewed. No Windows user can fix their SSL flaw if theyre extremely paranoid, they can only hope that MS will sheild the exploit from the script kiddies of the world.
But youre right, LinuxToday is getting bad.
A good majority of their software is not written by them, although they support it. It's community written and you dont HAVE to have support from them (anyone can read the source and modify/fix it). They're just htere to help the new guys out (or the ones with enough money to not hvae to).
And Windows? Microsoft only. End of story.
I do think that without MY old Freon A/C and frig I would have died in the heat wave of `97 ;)
Or maybe I need to go outside.
I didn't realize people from Greensboro actually read Slashdot. Just never thought about it.
Ya, this is offtopic but what the hell.
Just a quick note, the electrons flow on the wire (they go on the easiest/quickest path). Ya, thats simplified but its the same concept on, yes, your microwave, computer, etc etc etc. Look around and be amazed. ;)
Actually, you're right. Sorta.
If you take Linux (source based, optimized for cpu) and a modern window manager like enlightenment (if you think its not modern, prove it in a reply) with a preemptive kernel and put it on a Celeron ~500mhz with 128mb of PC100 SDRAM it WILL BEAT the Windows 98 in speed, although it is different.
I just don't see how people assume KDE and Gnome are "modern" because they resemble Windows. Is that the trend?
Or IT department deals with Windows computers everyday, although EVERY server we have is either Linux, SGI or Solaris (and only Solaris because of some of the proprietary applications).
We write programs to run on Linux, using MySQL, PHP, Oracle (SGI's), and a number of other mature daemons/server apps. All are acessible from the Windows computers via either Apache or some other form of custom-written client/server packages (although this is less common).
We have written many powerful packages to operate beautifully between Windows/Linux and Linux/Linux (client/server, respectively).
But it all happens because we have flexibility from the voices above. Our Boss is actually a very technically-knowledgable manager who also has a good deal of electrical engineering experience.
But everyday we have to have the intern fix approx. 5 Windows 2000 desktop machines, consuming our time and his; this amount of time in no way compares to the time it would take for us to teach chemists and biologists their way around a Linux desktop.
Right now, setting aside the horrors of MS licensing, our Windows 2000 desktops and Linux servers/workstations is a prime example of how things can we be easily compromised.
In my opinion Citrix is WAY over-rated.
Sure remote users can have java-based (?) remote applications launched, but theyre slower than anything I've ever seen. And unless you have THOUSANDS of users, its generally cheaper to purchase licenses for the users. Many real-estate and government-funded organizations that I've worked with use Citrix; at the end of the day they avoid it like the plague.
My Sony Picturebook, with a Quad battery, can last 10 hours. Doesnt that beat the iBook? And mine can run Linux on an x86 architecture. Although my current 128mb of ram chokes Windows 2000 it runs Gentoo quite well (Gentoo w/ enlightenment consumes 50mb on average). What are the advantages of an iBook? (And that sentence is serious, not a troll ;) My picturebook is smaller, lighter, and has a long battery life. And it was $1200 new (last years model).
% apt-get update
% apt-get upgrade
...and on my Gentoo box I did:
% emerge update
-or-
% emerge world
Emerge world will make every package installed current, while update does system packages only (at least thats my understanding).
I know this may be a bit off-topic, but hopefully someone with a bit of programming skills will read it.
I am a Super Mario Bros addict. I have my NES still, clean and polished; I play almost once a week with a bunch of buddies. Nothing better than sitting around with a ~10 year old 2-d gaming system and jumping on innocent turtles.
But could someone create a multiplayer Super Mario Brothers? I'm talking team play; more than one Mario, both working together across the internet to defeat the King. It'd be like 2D Counter-Strike!
Oh, that would be the day.
I do agree with your last statement, but do not agree with the first. I work with a small research company; we have around 70 employees and it is understood that absolutely no one except the IT Department (only half-a-dozen people) can gain Administrative access. We've only had one user complain about this, but the same guy also agrued that Windows XP Home could do "so much more that Windows 2000 Professional couldnt do!" (direct quote). He took that far enough to go buy himself a laptop with company money.
"Also if you need extra help with writting documents (for exmaple if you are dyslexic)..."
This is an honest question but I really dont know, but what tools are offered by MS Office for individuals that suffer from dyslexicia? I've never checked into that; I have however seen things for other disabilities.
If you are an individual with this disability I would strongly suggest you enter comments to developers about this (e-mail, irc, etc) because without your input they may never realize there is a need. Some of these developers havent used Microsoft products in several years!
Yes, I know that a Gentoo [http://gentoo.org] review was covered in a recent Slashdot frontpage, but I would like to emphasize how amazing it is.
Fully source-based, get-only-what-you-want distro. I was running RedHat at the beginning of the week but decided to switch over to something a little slimmer.
My workstation now loads windows in half the time and my memory usage has been cut in half. And this is all on a Athlon 1700+.
Setup to a console took 2 hours (using stage-3 filesystem image) and took about 4-6 hours to get into XFree/KDE.
You have to keep in mind all of these people arent sys/network admins, programmers, or anything to do with computers. I work at a drug discovery lab and the NMR and masspec machines take a while to run, let alone the 24 hour runs on the SGIs.
Some people just have time to burn in their occupation, and its not their fault.
Often I have to wait 45 minutes to parse an excessively large text [log] file and I'm restrained by ATA33 hard-disks and Celeron 300 processors. It's not that I'm wasting time, it's that I have to wait on due to hardware restrictions set by workstation standards, that sorta thing.
Don't assume everyone is just trying to get out of work; maybe they're just trying to not let the boss know they have spare time (so he doesnt think poorly of the worker, etc. etc.).
I dont believe they were complaining that it wouldnt run Linux, they were saying that it would be a "killer app" so to speak if it HAD an OS; with it there would be no other computer equipment needed for a family-solution. Don't be so quick to flame. ;)
I've always seen that CS would install with Wine, but never could get it to work right. I always had problems with Wine/CS either running in 16-bit mode or if it was in 32-bit, OpenGL wouldnt work. This is on a [fairly] stock RH 7.2 system with updated Nvidia drivers for a Geforce 2 MX 400.
Any good places for me to read up on it? Maybe a FAQ? What about other games?
Of course it SHOULD be, but us [not-so-rich] programmers dont have the leverage/capital it requires to push developers to different platforms.
;)
The efforts put forth by projects like Wine show that these games have the ability to run and run VERY well on Linux/Unix/etc. It also shows that Linux is not just for business and servers anymore but for recreation and peoples' home offices. Maybe because of this new Wine release 20 people will notice that games can run on Linux with just a little bit of work and they'll notice that *nix is a bit more flexible than they thought. If 1 out of those 20 people give it a shot and like it, word of mouth could have 2 people with it, and it slows spreads in that manner (hopefully).
And hey, even if that doesnt work, you can always dual boot
I thought it was the opposite; that TW could say who can and cannot use their cable lines. Maybe I just read somthing wrong. And what happens once AOL's High-Speed Access service kicks in and clogs their lines? I'm guessing thats the main reason behind all of this.
Would this apply to their High-Speed AOL users as well? Or are they fore-seeing their AOL user-base switching from dialup to their cable lines? If this did happen, this would severely cripple the available bandwidth in TW areas forcing this rating system, although I personally believe a reasonable download cap would be more appropriate.
At least with a download cap (we're already capped at 40 kilobytes per sec upstream) the users could have something consistance to look at. Maybe they could even turn on some sort of automatic management system which would limit the download rate for N amount of hours if a user breaks a download limit per day.
If they did use something like an automatic management system it would not be all too hard to deploy; they already have their network masks for the IPs subnetted to 255.255.248.0. This leaves all traffic for each subnetwork going out through a single point, limiting the shared bandwidth in that network (this may be stated a bit confusing, but hopefully everyone gets the idea). Each subnet has its own gateway for these connections which also serves as the dhcpd.
Since I live in the Triad of North Carolina (outside of a major city with no DSL availible) TW's RoadRunner is my only reasonable option for a residential subscription; just to put out in the open that I am going to be forced to pay what I have to pay. The only thing keeping MANY people in my area from switching to Road Runner is that they are not able to use AOL through it (they just dont realize there is a Bring Your Own Connection option availible which reduces AOL's monthly cost by $10).
Just some thoughts, although I do think this is a bit ridiculous, but could push some innovations (load-balancing for bandwidth and P2P through public 802.11a networks anyone?).
The heat is actually generated by inefficiency of the particles moving (friction, etc) or loss of energy (collisions of particles). This device would actually cause more collisions, I believe, and cause the ocean to heat up (but by very, very litle). Having energy doesnt mean matter has heat; having energy means matter has the potential for heat (or movement or to do work). But then again, I'm only a physics student, not a teacher. Maybe I'm wrong ::shrug::