Maybe we could plop it next to the Nuclear Waste repository. That way, in a couple million years when the radiation has died off, the DNS capsule will be there for the next species. Surely, we will not outlive that.
Line of sight allows for the signal to be useful from further away... Trying to do this in a downtown setting would get you a fraction of the coverage.
Features like planes, air vehicles in general, boats, 2-wheeled autos(motorcycles) and simlar features just make GTA the 'One True Engine'.
Wether you want to kill people, move up in the mob, or write a wholesome mod, these features make GTA's engine be able to scale from a third-person shooter, flight sim game, boat sim game, car race game..
GTA 4, or similar engine, will have the real world features that make it the most powerful engine out there. You will be limited by your imagination, not the game.
Now all we need is a game disk and map engine that can scale from 1 city, to an entire state... And have it be online based, where crossing county boarders is equal to crossing to another server... Fly a cesna from LA to NYC, if you want. Heck, make it use information off of mapquest, or similar, to stay updated if you want.
Most home users don't care if they get the 'source code' to their 'operating system' but some of us appreciate that option. I want the option to affordably secure my data wirelessly.
Here is an off-shoot question. Don't mod off-topic, just ignore if you don't like the post.
I work for the IT department of the second largest school district in Oregon. 15,000 workstations, 200-300 servers. Mostly 2k/XP workstations, with some 98 machines in the process of upgrading. Servers are 75% NT/2k/2003 25% Netware.
We have 90 locations, about half or so of those locations(middle and high schools, some of the elementary schools, none at the department buildings) have dedicated SysAdmins for various support. Our IT department wants a web interface-based image server. The IT department(admins) should have full access to multi-ghost and manage(ghost, patch, bios/firmware upgrade would be cool) all machines, and then user accounts for the on-site SysAdmins to ghost the machines they administrate, but obviously not the ability to see/ghost another school's systems.
The more automated the better. Remote client install for 2k/XP(the vast majority of our 15,000 machines). Pull profile for backups and restore, etc. Random other cool IT management stuff would be nice, but not at all necesary.
We think the closest thing to this is ZenWorks, which we have in the longterm plans of implementing when upgrading of our servers are done. Currently all imaging is done hdd->hdd, individually.
That was from the original creators of hotmail. MS bought out hotmail... It took several years, but Hotmail was finally moved over to an NT base, which it now runs on.
I think it will change the internet from a download-save-view to a streaming view as you download, but don't save internet. The speed could grossly outweight the development of harddrives. Also, the vast speed of streaming and bandwidth would make it worthless to save things that are just 1 time views...
I imagine VOIP being completely used worldwide. I see radio streaming, in place of radio. I see video phones, as a standard use of audio-only. I see cable TV over IP.
Dell has this functionality with their server... Mouse+Keyboard+Video -> RJ-45 dongle plugs into every server/PC... That RJ-45 plugs into a switch, and then some Dell client software auto recognizes the Systems plugged in, and lets you KVM between them, using a simple text popup window... Very badass setup.
Could we develop a web interface, that deploys software in a Steam/bittorrent fassion and does dependency checking and such? Picture an apt web interface ran off a server(not a local cache) that will also allow for new software and software purchases to be installed.
But the application needs to be system level, not desktop enviroment level... It should be just as accessible from the command-line as it is from the KDE gui. It needs to be universal, to be useful.
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We need a single distro that is so locked down, that users don't even know the UNIX side exisits... Imagine...
1. Use a web interface for purchasing/downloading/updating software. 2. Use Zero Install for software installs, running them off the internet(a local server from the distro, or the developer's) and cache the download for 'offline'/faster loading use. 3. The culmination of all things automated, best hardware autorecognition, X/Sound/Video auto configured. 4. Hide the entire filesystem except for/home/YOUR_USERNAME/ and/home/SHARED/. Nothing else is visible, and is basicly read-only. 5. Simple interface, just the basics, nothing overly fancy. 6. 1 app for each problem. 1 mp3 player, 1 word processor, 1 video player. 7. Auto updates configured to run. Firewall installed, but invisible to the user.
Wal-mart cheapo PCs for 300 bucks, with Linspire + AOL subscription... That is a sweet spot for the ma 'n' pop users of the world... This isn't something that should be rushed into the debian -unstable branch, but that isn't the market Linspire wants. They want the users that don't know how to use a computer, they want the users that buy a pc because of a coupon in the newspaper from wal-mart advertising computers cheap. Linspire wants the 'windows 98 is good enough for me' crowd... and you know what? the more users of linux, the better.
"XP has a built in firewall, did you know this? When it it turned on, even an unpatched system is protected from attempts at remote intrusion. You are still vulnerable to IE exploits, but if you're using IE on an unpatched system you need to be smacked. Actually if you're using IE at all you deserve to be smacked, just not as hard."
How, then, should I download Windows Updates on an unpatched machine quickly, when my only browser that is not rejected to WU is IE?
That is the microsoft way. They release version 1, and it sucks, version 2, sucks less... They don't have a bid deal on 1.0! the way Apple or open source projects do. Microsoft evolves their software publicly, not in the lab...
Office, IE, IIS, Windows... in their latest incarnations, they are varying degrees of good/decent software(configured correctly, ofcourse)... But their first 2 or 3 or 4 versions were bad/horrible/unholy. They got better, but they did so within the public sector, not an R&D lab.
Is there a mac hyper terminal-like program? I have to console into routers/switches at work constantly, and am stuck with Window's Hyper Terminal software. Any alternatives for my PowerBook?
I had a class with a russian girl last year. Not russian actually, but a former satelite state whose name escapes me. Anyway, because she was born within a certain distance from Chernobyl(she was 17, or so as of this past year) the Red Cross will never except her blood for donation for her entire life.
I thought that was fairly interesting, that they have a lifelong ban on all people's blood that lived/were born within a certain perimeter of the accident.
"I personally don't want my OS and applications dumbed down to the level of other OSs."
They are not mutually exclusive. You can have easy-to-use interfaces, simple enough for a newb, and powerful enough for the geekiest among us. Flame me if you wish, but OS X really hits the sweet spot in this area.
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Yes, but these Beowolf Clusters would be much smaller, and less energy intensive, then their Opteron or Itanium counterparts.
Maybe we could plop it next to the Nuclear Waste repository. That way, in a couple million years when the radiation has died off, the DNS capsule will be there for the next species. Surely, we will not outlive that.
Line of sight allows for the signal to be useful from further away... Trying to do this in a downtown setting would get you a fraction of the coverage.
Features like planes, air vehicles in general, boats, 2-wheeled autos(motorcycles) and simlar features just make GTA the 'One True Engine'.
Wether you want to kill people, move up in the mob, or write a wholesome mod, these features make GTA's engine be able to scale from a third-person shooter, flight sim game, boat sim game, car race game..
GTA 4, or similar engine, will have the real world features that make it the most powerful engine out there. You will be limited by your imagination, not the game.
Now all we need is a game disk and map engine that can scale from 1 city, to an entire state... And have it be online based, where crossing county boarders is equal to crossing to another server... Fly a cesna from LA to NYC, if you want. Heck, make it use information off of mapquest, or similar, to stay updated if you want.
Sounds like a job for...
*duh duh duh-duh!*
BitTorrent!
That would be beautiful, thousands of HUGE files posted to one massive bittorrent tracker!
RAM... lots and lots and LOTS of RAM.
Most home users don't care if they get the 'source code' to their 'operating system' but some of us appreciate that option. I want the option to affordably secure my data wirelessly.
Here is an off-shoot question. Don't mod off-topic, just ignore if you don't like the post.
I work for the IT department of the second largest school district in Oregon. 15,000 workstations, 200-300 servers. Mostly 2k/XP workstations, with some 98 machines in the process of upgrading. Servers are 75% NT/2k/2003 25% Netware.
We have 90 locations, about half or so of those locations(middle and high schools, some of the elementary schools, none at the department buildings) have dedicated SysAdmins for various support. Our IT department wants a web interface-based image server. The IT department(admins) should have full access to multi-ghost and manage(ghost, patch, bios/firmware upgrade would be cool) all machines, and then user accounts for the on-site SysAdmins to ghost the machines they administrate, but obviously not the ability to see/ghost another school's systems.
The more automated the better. Remote client install for 2k/XP(the vast majority of our 15,000 machines). Pull profile for backups and restore, etc. Random other cool IT management stuff would be nice, but not at all necesary.
We think the closest thing to this is ZenWorks, which we have in the longterm plans of implementing when upgrading of our servers are done. Currently all imaging is done hdd->hdd, individually.
"qmail+unix on their hotmail"
That was from the original creators of hotmail. MS bought out hotmail... It took several years, but Hotmail was finally moved over to an NT base, which it now runs on.
I think it will change the internet from a download-save-view to a streaming view as you download, but don't save internet. The speed could grossly outweight the development of harddrives. Also, the vast speed of streaming and bandwidth would make it worthless to save things that are just 1 time views...
I imagine VOIP being completely used worldwide. I see radio streaming, in place of radio. I see video phones, as a standard use of audio-only. I see cable TV over IP.
Cable TV over IP... That would be badass.
Dell has this functionality with their server... Mouse+Keyboard+Video -> RJ-45 dongle plugs into every server/PC... That RJ-45 plugs into a switch, and then some Dell client software auto recognizes the Systems plugged in, and lets you KVM between them, using a simple text popup window... Very badass setup.
Had I not been at work *cough*, I would be reading your post from my G4 12" Powerbook... I agree with you.
Could we develop a web interface, that deploys software in a Steam/bittorrent fassion and does dependency checking and such? Picture an apt web interface ran off a server(not a local cache) that will also allow for new software and software purchases to be installed.
But the application needs to be system level, not desktop enviroment level... It should be just as accessible from the command-line as it is from the KDE gui. It needs to be universal, to be useful.
We need a single distro that is so locked down, that users don't even know the UNIX side exisits... Imagine...
/home/YOUR_USERNAME/ and /home/SHARED/. Nothing else is visible, and is basicly read-only.
1. Use a web interface for purchasing/downloading/updating software.
2. Use Zero Install for software installs, running them off the internet(a local server from the distro, or the developer's) and cache the download for 'offline'/faster loading use.
3. The culmination of all things automated, best hardware autorecognition, X/Sound/Video auto configured.
4. Hide the entire filesystem except for
5. Simple interface, just the basics, nothing overly fancy.
6. 1 app for each problem. 1 mp3 player, 1 word processor, 1 video player.
7. Auto updates configured to run. Firewall installed, but invisible to the user.
Any more ideas?
Wal-mart cheapo PCs for 300 bucks, with Linspire + AOL subscription... That is a sweet spot for the ma 'n' pop users of the world... This isn't something that should be rushed into the debian -unstable branch, but that isn't the market Linspire wants. They want the users that don't know how to use a computer, they want the users that buy a pc because of a coupon in the newspaper from wal-mart advertising computers cheap. Linspire wants the 'windows 98 is good enough for me' crowd... and you know what? the more users of linux, the better.
"XP has a built in firewall, did you know this? When it it turned on, even an unpatched system is protected from attempts at remote intrusion. You are still vulnerable to IE exploits, but if you're using IE on an unpatched system you need to be smacked. Actually if you're using IE at all you deserve to be smacked, just not as hard."
How, then, should I download Windows Updates on an unpatched machine quickly, when my only browser that is not rejected to WU is IE?
That is the microsoft way. They release version 1, and it sucks, version 2, sucks less... They don't have a bid deal on 1.0! the way Apple or open source projects do. Microsoft evolves their software publicly, not in the lab...
Office, IE, IIS, Windows... in their latest incarnations, they are varying degrees of good/decent software(configured correctly, ofcourse)... But their first 2 or 3 or 4 versions were bad/horrible/unholy. They got better, but they did so within the public sector, not an R&D lab.
NO, the meltdown will occur when the entire Windows Personnel userbase installs SP2, and half the world blue screens.
and if ever user liked to click first, think second.
"But why use WORD to create HTML documents? That's what notepad is for."
But why use NOTEPAD to create HTML documents? That's what vi is for.
Is there a mac hyper terminal-like program? I have to console into routers/switches at work constantly, and am stuck with Window's Hyper Terminal software. Any alternatives for my PowerBook?
I had a class with a russian girl last year. Not russian actually, but a former satelite state whose name escapes me. Anyway, because she was born within a certain distance from Chernobyl(she was 17, or so as of this past year) the Red Cross will never except her blood for donation for her entire life.
I thought that was fairly interesting, that they have a lifelong ban on all people's blood that lived/were born within a certain perimeter of the accident.
"I personally don't want my OS and applications dumbed down to the level of other OSs."
They are not mutually exclusive. You can have easy-to-use interfaces, simple enough for a newb, and powerful enough for the geekiest among us. Flame me if you wish, but OS X really hits the sweet spot in this area.
Why have it centralized with a offshore NOC? Have it be encrypted and decentralized, with some phonebook caching and such.