internet = a network that connects other networks.
In the beginning, when time was young, a school district might have a network in each school, plus an internet to connect them together. But of course there was no connection between various disticts' internets. A company might have a lan in each building, and an internet to connect their buildings around town, but different companies weren't connected to each other.
Then came the Internet to end all internets, and today it's (virtually) the only one, so we don't think of it as a particular "internet" any more.
It's fun while it lasts... make stuff where it's cheap, sell where things are expensive and people have money. But of course those are equalizing forces at work. China's economic growth has been putting ours to shame for some years now, which is to say... they're catching up. So maybe we will eventually be able to export to them, which is nice, but I predict natural resources will be getting mighty scarce.
Unfortunately I think it's just too complicated to take changes to the kernel piecemeal. In effect you'd be creating your own version, which might have bugs of its own.
Staying within the same series (i.e. 2.4) "shouldn't" break things. We all know that's occasionally false, but I think the best you can do is file a bug report, then stay with the older version until a newer version fixes your problem.
Unless you have untrusted users running shell accounts on your machine, you usually don't need to upgrade your kernel. If a bug is found in sshd or apache, upgrade that package ASAP.
The guy who started this thread said he doesn't want the possible hassle of an upgrade, and got modded "troll" for it. Huh? I know I always upgrade the kernel with some trepidation, and keep the old kernel bootable for quite a while just in case.
There is misperception and dehumanization on all sides. For instance, assuming most Americans don't already know that the terrorists have their reasons. Assuming that if John Q Public had a clue, everthing would be different. Assuming that flagwaving carries a vacuous message, somehow ignoring the fact that perhaps we've thought through the issue and come to the conclusion those who attacked us are wrong and must be stopped.
You didn't think our protection of the Jews was at issue - what did you think is was then? They don't like our oil money?
The terrorists' reasons are so rarely discussed simply because we've made up our minds that they're wrong. Most of us are not open-minded about whether democracy or Islamic rule is the better system. (Yes, I used the word "better").
So the question becomes not whether to act, but how to act. And on that point, you'll notice, there has been a LOT of thought and debate. In fact it's a central issue of the presidental campaign.
Well, my experience in quieting a PC to sit under my TV for video playback was this: replacing the power supply with a special quiet one made a huge difference, I wish I had done it years ago. Replacing the CPU fan with a quiter, speeed-sensitive one was a worthwhile step also. Then I set the bios to power down the hard drives after some period, and that helped (it especially helped lower the temperature of the drives, which were almost too hot to hold a finger on!)
But then I decided it was quiet enough, and I didn't need a silent PC after all. The air conditioning (or heater), fridge (from the kitchen next door), and sometimes washing machine or dish washer make more noise than my merely "quiet" (not silent) PC, which is already hard to notice from the couch (across the room)... so why spend hundreds more to shave a few Db?
I wonder if your laptop_mode experience is like mine - it hardly makes any difference at all? I already had cpufreq going to control cpu speed, and get good battery life from my T40. But using laptop_mode to let the disk drive spin down makes hardly any difference - at most 10 minutes on top of the normal 4 hours or so. (And I was monitoring the drive with "hdparm -C/dev/hda" to make sure it the drive really was suspended.)
Adjusting the screen brightness makes a slightly larger difference, but not much (maybe 20 minutes between second brightest and most dim).
What really makes the difference is CPU load. If I run a lot of cpu-intensive stuff, and let the system adaptively raise the cpu frequency to handle it, it can cut battery life by more than half! Luckly I can comfortably play movies and do word processing with the CPU locked at the slowest speed (600Mhz), but to do much development work at the same time it really helps to let the cpu ramp up.
The fact is most people don't want to watch sports that require destroying your body to win. They want to see a competition of discipline, determination, and - yes - good genes, not a freak show of folks willing to half their lifespan in order to win.
I vote let's not view this as a broader issue at all. A young researcher was killed in a tragic accident while driving an experimental vehicle. Why can't we just be bummed about it instead of speculating about what it means for solar power, or debating whether somebody should be sued.
...but is it security concerns, and if so, which kind? Fear of being blown up, or fear of not having fun due to delays and the discomfort of being watched all the time?
CNN ran a story on the poor indicators for level of interest, and a lot of Greeks said they weren't comfortable with the police-state nature of the games. You can tell people to have "reasonable expectations" all you want, but Olympic attendance is optional so people can vote with their feet. (Obviously not so easy when Big Brother comes to your home town).
The PowerBook doesn't have as much oomph, but it actually will function well for purposes other than LAN parties
Comparing the weight, size, or cost of laptops lacking comparable performance is nonsensical. The price difference is 13%, do you think the difference in Doom3 frames per second is more or less than that? Because that's the question here. It's a special purpose system.
Also, can somebody who has bought an Alienware system comment on the service?
From what I've heard, Dell now offers home users the typical crap service - if you're willing to wait on hold for long time, you can eventually get somebody to read the manual to you, however they may or may not be able to understand anything you say.
"Power Users" don't usually need a lot of handholding, but I think they will demand quick access to hard information - the antithesis of the norm these days. Will those shelling out a premium to Dell get access to Dell's business support - or better?
Power Users also will not settle for whatever generic part is cheapest in Taiwan this week. They will want to know things like which brand of hard drive comes with that $3500 PC - if not the serial number of the CPU.
Dell might already be aware of these things, but since their fortune is built on extreme efficiency, catering to the high-end market might not fit very well in their business. There's more to it than just charging more:)
Technical analysis of markets is a waste of time. When a pattern is found, it is exploited by many, which changes whatever "meaning" the pattern had before.
You could say the same for any investment strategy.
If my hot dog stand is extremely successful, it will just invite competition until all our profits are minimized, so why bother?
I agree there's no need for govt. intervention here. That means not forcing Apple to open up, but it also means not punishing Real for uncovering the trick to compatibility (which under US law might well happen).
Same way we do it around here (6 machines in our house). First, they don't have admin privileges.
Giving people admin priveliges is essentially what built the MS empire. All the VAX administrators and stodgy corporations went down screaming that laymen could never administer their own machines correctly, which is of course true. But despite the problems, the market has spoken and people want control over their own stuff, that's the market MS caters to by in large. That's why I don't feel too bad for MS having to include spyware repair in their service packs.
If the Indians supposedly felt that way, why were they in a state of nearly constant warfare over which tribe controlled which territory?
That's exactly what people without a tradition of property rights would most likely do - settle the matter by force. The very idea of property is that I'm somehow entitled to hang on to my stuff, even though others are physically strong enough to take it from me.
Granted there are other alternatives to individual property rights, like communal ownership, which is I suppose how Indians managed land within each tribe - any tribal member could hunt the land held by the tribe and I think they often hunted together. But should another tribe come along, then it was back to force.
But this is unrelated to the alleged Linux IP violations that lead to the fishing expedition in the first place. Certainly there must be limits on what you can do with evidence handed over this way, otherwise the courts would be a tool for corporate espionage.
These planets and stars have been around for billions of years, how can any Johnny-come-lately dare think any of it should belong to him?
That's supposedly how the Indians felt when the white man first offered to buy their land. They accepted the deal thinking they were getting money for nothing - how could you really own anything you didn't create and couldn't carry with you? Now it's hard for us to see things that way.
10 years ago there was a real question over ownership of "cyberspace." Some of us thought it should be an apolitical place where real-world laws need not apply. Want to register the domain name McDomalds.com for yourself? Why not? Who ever said copyrights applied to the Internet? Now it's hard to remember how that made sense.
I predict that in 500 years, today's questioning whether property rights should hold in space will seem just as quaint and hard to understand. People never fail to fence things off and keep them for themselves if they can.
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In the beginning, when time was young, a school district might have a network in each school, plus an internet to connect them together. But of course there was no connection between various disticts' internets. A company might have a lan in each building, and an internet to connect their buildings around town, but different companies weren't connected to each other.
Then came the Internet to end all internets, and today it's (virtually) the only one, so we don't think of it as a particular "internet" any more.
So what's the long term effect of that?
It's fun while it lasts... make stuff where it's cheap, sell where things are expensive and people have money. But of course those are equalizing forces at work. China's economic growth has been putting ours to shame for some years now, which is to say... they're catching up. So maybe we will eventually be able to export to them, which is nice, but I predict natural resources will be getting mighty scarce.
Staying within the same series (i.e. 2.4) "shouldn't" break things. We all know that's occasionally false, but I think the best you can do is file a bug report, then stay with the older version until a newer version fixes your problem.
Unless you have untrusted users running shell accounts on your machine, you usually don't need to upgrade your kernel. If a bug is found in sshd or apache, upgrade that package ASAP.
The guy who started this thread said he doesn't want the possible hassle of an upgrade, and got modded "troll" for it. Huh? I know I always upgrade the kernel with some trepidation, and keep the old kernel bootable for quite a while just in case.
You didn't think our protection of the Jews was at issue - what did you think is was then? They don't like our oil money?
The terrorists' reasons are so rarely discussed simply because we've made up our minds that they're wrong. Most of us are not open-minded about whether democracy or Islamic rule is the better system. (Yes, I used the word "better").
So the question becomes not whether to act, but how to act. And on that point, you'll notice, there has been a LOT of thought and debate. In fact it's a central issue of the presidental campaign.
But then I decided it was quiet enough, and I didn't need a silent PC after all. The air conditioning (or heater), fridge (from the kitchen next door), and sometimes washing machine or dish washer make more noise than my merely "quiet" (not silent) PC, which is already hard to notice from the couch (across the room)... so why spend hundreds more to shave a few Db?
Adjusting the screen brightness makes a slightly larger difference, but not much (maybe 20 minutes between second brightest and most dim).
What really makes the difference is CPU load. If I run a lot of cpu-intensive stuff, and let the system adaptively raise the cpu frequency to handle it, it can cut battery life by more than half! Luckly I can comfortably play movies and do word processing with the CPU locked at the slowest speed (600Mhz), but to do much development work at the same time it really helps to let the cpu ramp up.
Obligatory All Drug Olympics reference!
The fact is most people don't want to watch sports that require destroying your body to win. They want to see a competition of discipline, determination, and - yes - good genes, not a freak show of folks willing to half their lifespan in order to win.
I vote let's not view this as a broader issue at all. A young researcher was killed in a tragic accident while driving an experimental vehicle. Why can't we just be bummed about it instead of speculating about what it means for solar power, or debating whether somebody should be sued.
You think all those kids on Ritalin chose it for themselves?
You do realize both the Home and so-called "Professional" versions of XP are already gimped! Not something you're likely to find in Linux :)
CNN ran a story on the poor indicators for level of interest, and a lot of Greeks said they weren't comfortable with the police-state nature of the games. You can tell people to have "reasonable expectations" all you want, but Olympic attendance is optional so people can vote with their feet. (Obviously not so easy when Big Brother comes to your home town).
From what I've heard, Dell now offers home users the typical crap service - if you're willing to wait on hold for long time, you can eventually get somebody to read the manual to you, however they may or may not be able to understand anything you say.
"Power Users" don't usually need a lot of handholding, but I think they will demand quick access to hard information - the antithesis of the norm these days. Will those shelling out a premium to Dell get access to Dell's business support - or better?
Power Users also will not settle for whatever generic part is cheapest in Taiwan this week. They will want to know things like which brand of hard drive comes with that $3500 PC - if not the serial number of the CPU.
Dell might already be aware of these things, but since their fortune is built on extreme efficiency, catering to the high-end market might not fit very well in their business. There's more to it than just charging more :)
If my hot dog stand is extremely successful, it will just invite competition until all our profits are minimized, so why bother?
I agree there's no need for govt. intervention here. That means not forcing Apple to open up, but it also means not punishing Real for uncovering the trick to compatibility (which under US law might well happen).
What I bet is that Penguin will contact Amazon and "get this all sorted out" in short order.
Granted there are other alternatives to individual property rights, like communal ownership, which is I suppose how Indians managed land within each tribe - any tribal member could hunt the land held by the tribe and I think they often hunted together. But should another tribe come along, then it was back to force.
But this is unrelated to the alleged Linux IP violations that lead to the fishing expedition in the first place. Certainly there must be limits on what you can do with evidence handed over this way, otherwise the courts would be a tool for corporate espionage.
Oh, I agree! Property rights are expedient sometimes but they're not natural law. You cannot take it with you.
Apparently you can just pick any linux-using company at random, say Autozone.
10 years ago there was a real question over ownership of "cyberspace." Some of us thought it should be an apolitical place where real-world laws need not apply. Want to register the domain name McDomalds.com for yourself? Why not? Who ever said copyrights applied to the Internet? Now it's hard to remember how that made sense.
I predict that in 500 years, today's questioning whether property rights should hold in space will seem just as quaint and hard to understand. People never fail to fence things off and keep them for themselves if they can.