I've been running 64-bit linux on my very low power amd64 system (idles in the 30 C's:D) for about a year and a half now. Linux has pretty much been flawless for a while since AMD has been working to get support ready since before it ever came out. The biggest problem in open source was doing pointer math using ints. In terms of closed source software flash needs 32-bit emulation, java64 runs fine but there's no firefox plugin (why!?!?). And of course the win32 codecs are all win32:P But I've gotten all those things to work in the 64-bit environment wihtout using a chroot by following one of the thousands of guides.
I've always wanted to know which assholes become developers for these companies. Somewhere out there some talented hackers are getting paid to screw up peoples systems. Very unethical!
Hide in the webpage a bogus email address. Maybe in comments, maybe in the corner with a super tiny font which matches the background. Whatever mail gets sent to that address should be automagically blocked to all other accounts.
Oil companies claim the backers of Prop 87, some of them venture capitalists, would profit from state money flowing into the alternative-energy projects they are funding.
Yet they have no problem with 1/2 Trillion and many lives spent on a war. Or the countless tax cuts in their favor. Imagine 1/2 trillion spent on alternative sources.
Because at +48 the transmission lines will corrode. Remember we are taking about charges here.
Re:Almost sounds like KDE 3...
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On a modern machine none run bloated... but kde's interface sure takes a bit of work. I'm glad in KDE 4 they are cleaning up the "bloated" ui. KDE apps rarely feel streamlined rather they feel large and overwhelming. KDE feels very busy...
To bad we can't used slashdot posters as prior art. For an example saw the children of this post.
phb shifting around paradigms again...
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I don't see what this has to do with an operating system at all. This article shows the level of understanding of a middle-age soccer mom. I don't even think LCARS would fit that definition.
A next gen OS will probably be a virtualized-modular-scalable-secure-networking-ind exed- piece of software with a modular and stable-yet-clean api. Just look at the past and look at what servers are doing/have done. Its not hard to see the trends. What this means for end users is more capable software, more reliable software, and hopefully an end to constant upgrading.
Take mac os x for instance. Add zfs, and more intelligent/complete programs for mail, music, and videos. Add a web 3.0 capable browser and drivers for every device out there. Give it the kernel upgrade (l4 rumours are about!) and perhaps cocoa interfaces for a dozen managed and unmanaged languages. Of course it would be nice to change the user-seen file system to a tagged database rather than a tree-based structure with symlinks and hardlinks. Further develop core video, audio, animations, etc. to completion and add a few other niceties and then you'll have the os of the next decade. The next decade after that computers better lose the keyboard and mouse interface... and hopefully they will be unrecognizable machines entirely! The OS of the future will be something the users will be completely unaware of. It will siltently do its job of running software and managing resources.
Can someone please explain to me the relevance of all these "Switch" stories. Maybe back a few years it would have been news but nowadays people are switching every day. Newsforge had a story a while back on why switching isn't news anymore. Maybe/. should take a hint from its sister site.
I really don't care that it was Matt Damon. He's proven that he can at least do some acting but here's the thing. Enterprise failed because it was too Hollywood. Was it season 3 when they were in the void? What a horrible season because you could tell marketing had a big checklist for all the various "demographics" it was meant to appeal to. The last season finally figure out that a good storyline and real character development is what drives a show. They had already been canceled though and didn't even know it. What a tease! Back to the main point... if matt damon was chosen because he's a famous celebrity this movie is already doomed.
I know if they came out with a simple cheap and durable laptop with software and hardware that just worked and lasted a decade I would buy one for sure. We're all so used to buying new computers and components and constantly updating and patching software. A lot of wasted money, pollution, resources, power, and time. It would be nice if a company put time into something to get it right. So far the closest one is apple and their old g3 and g4 lines. The new intel ones have a lot of maturing to do yet IMO.
btw.. the tinymail project is making good progress for OLPC and it'll be nice to see the fruits of that labour on my desktop:D
I have several problems besides ergonomics that i have with the current mouse. Really short cord, only 1 button can be pressed at once, the ball sometimes doesn't work (push really really hard and roll to fix it), and the side buttons only act as 1 button. I would love it if i could make the left side button and right side button 2 of the 3 expose features and use AT THE SAME TIME the left click or right click to drag. My old cheap (but busted) mouse worked this way. I might just go back...
That's why i think console gaming is the way to go. Less complications, cheaper custom designed hardware, and you, as a customer, never have to worry about framerates, ram, crashing, upgrading, joysticks, etc.
Of course the thought of NOT religiously hitting ctrl-s every few seocond would never occur to windows users. The "save" function is not something normally showing up on profilers.
Somehow i don't think futureshit or crapbuy would "appreciate" their customers quite so well. Crapbuy in particular choses to outright ingore customers.
If I want to work in the field of robotics and AI later on in life, what do I need to do in my current situation to prepare myself?
Go get yourself a degree in systems engineering. Pure AI research is within the realm of computer science and if that's what you want to do go study there. Robitics involve sensors and actuators, control systems, signal processing, embedded systems design, computer vision and image processing, and of course AI. None of those are outside the realm of engineering but pure theory is not our thing. This is after all an applied science and not a pure science.
It's easy to write but no one has done it. First take an image and do a histogram for it. Chose the "n" most common colors with certain restrictions of course. Then simply put a number in the center of the region. Also take the gradient of the image and add it, make em black, and then add to the original to find the borders.
There's a lot of IC development done here in north america (and even here in vancouver). Admitidly a lot of the fabrication and rest is done overseas for cost and to be honest, poor environmental regulations. Chips are quite a concoction of nasty shit.
For some reason lots of people also forget fpga development. At SFU we got into FPGA and ISA/PCI design in our second year (although not anymore since they started babying the curriculum to "double the opportunity"). We still do our VLSI class in 4th year though. Desinging chips is a lot more than merely designing logic.
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You should thank the customer! Web apps are a nightmare.
I've been running 64-bit linux on my very low power amd64 system (idles in the 30 C's :D) for about a year and a half now. Linux has pretty much been flawless for a while since AMD has been working to get support ready since before it ever came out. The biggest problem in open source was doing pointer math using ints. In terms of closed source software flash needs 32-bit emulation, java64 runs fine but there's no firefox plugin (why!?!?). And of course the win32 codecs are all win32 :P But I've gotten all those things to work in the 64-bit environment wihtout using a chroot by following one of the thousands of guides.
I've always wanted to know which assholes become developers for these companies. Somewhere out there some talented hackers are getting paid to screw up peoples systems. Very unethical!
I could be walking down the street and jab someone. Question is... would i actually be able to slice them in half or what!
Hide in the webpage a bogus email address. Maybe in comments, maybe in the corner with a super tiny font which matches the background. Whatever mail gets sent to that address should be automagically blocked to all other accounts.
To immigrate to canada you must speak french, eat poutine and KD, and watch HNIC. It snows all year long and sorry we're full!
Well it is a nice coincidence that this 30% obesity is roughly bush's approval rating..
Nemesis broke it! :( We're fucking owed. 2 bad ones in a row!
Yet they have no problem with 1/2 Trillion and many lives spent on a war. Or the countless tax cuts in their favor. Imagine 1/2 trillion spent on alternative sources.
Because at +48 the transmission lines will corrode. Remember we are taking about charges here.
On a modern machine none run bloated... but kde's interface sure takes a bit of work. I'm glad in KDE 4 they are cleaning up the "bloated" ui. KDE apps rarely feel streamlined rather they feel large and overwhelming. KDE feels very busy...
To bad we can't used slashdot posters as prior art. For an example saw the children of this post.
I don't see what this has to do with an operating system at all. This article shows the level of understanding of a middle-age soccer mom. I don't even think LCARS would fit that definition.
d exed- piece of software with a modular and stable-yet-clean api. Just look at the past and look at what servers are doing/have done. Its not hard to see the trends. What this means for end users is more capable software, more reliable software, and hopefully an end to constant upgrading.
A next gen OS will probably be a virtualized-modular-scalable-secure-networking-in
Take mac os x for instance. Add zfs, and more intelligent/complete programs for mail, music, and videos. Add a web 3.0 capable browser and drivers for every device out there. Give it the kernel upgrade (l4 rumours are about!) and perhaps cocoa interfaces for a dozen managed and unmanaged languages. Of course it would be nice to change the user-seen file system to a tagged database rather than a tree-based structure with symlinks and hardlinks. Further develop core video, audio, animations, etc. to completion and add a few other niceties and then you'll have the os of the next decade. The next decade after that computers better lose the keyboard and mouse interface... and hopefully they will be unrecognizable machines entirely! The OS of the future will be something the users will be completely unaware of. It will siltently do its job of running software and managing resources.
Can someone please explain to me the relevance of all these "Switch" stories. Maybe back a few years it would have been news but nowadays people are switching every day. Newsforge had a story a while back on why switching isn't news anymore. Maybe /. should take a hint from its sister site.
I really don't care that it was Matt Damon. He's proven that he can at least do some acting but here's the thing. Enterprise failed because it was too Hollywood. Was it season 3 when they were in the void? What a horrible season because you could tell marketing had a big checklist for all the various "demographics" it was meant to appeal to. The last season finally figure out that a good storyline and real character development is what drives a show. They had already been canceled though and didn't even know it. What a tease! Back to the main point... if matt damon was chosen because he's a famous celebrity this movie is already doomed.
I know if they came out with a simple cheap and durable laptop with software and hardware that just worked and lasted a decade I would buy one for sure. We're all so used to buying new computers and components and constantly updating and patching software. A lot of wasted money, pollution, resources, power, and time. It would be nice if a company put time into something to get it right. So far the closest one is apple and their old g3 and g4 lines. The new intel ones have a lot of maturing to do yet IMO.
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btw.. the tinymail project is making good progress for OLPC and it'll be nice to see the fruits of that labour on my desktop
I have several problems besides ergonomics that i have with the current mouse. Really short cord, only 1 button can be pressed at once, the ball sometimes doesn't work (push really really hard and roll to fix it), and the side buttons only act as 1 button. I would love it if i could make the left side button and right side button 2 of the 3 expose features and use AT THE SAME TIME the left click or right click to drag. My old cheap (but busted) mouse worked this way. I might just go back...
That's why i think console gaming is the way to go. Less complications, cheaper custom designed hardware, and you, as a customer, never have to worry about framerates, ram, crashing, upgrading, joysticks, etc.
Because IT's much easier to fix a square wheel than a round one!
Since bacteria can get infected i suppose this brings a whole new meaning to virus.
Of course the thought of NOT religiously hitting ctrl-s every few seocond would never occur to windows users. The "save" function is not something normally showing up on profilers.
Somehow i don't think futureshit or crapbuy would "appreciate" their customers quite so well. Crapbuy in particular choses to outright ingore customers.
Go get yourself a degree in systems engineering. Pure AI research is within the realm of computer science and if that's what you want to do go study there. Robitics involve sensors and actuators, control systems, signal processing, embedded systems design, computer vision and image processing, and of course AI. None of those are outside the realm of engineering but pure theory is not our thing. This is after all an applied science and not a pure science.
It's easy to write but no one has done it. First take an image and do a histogram for it. Chose the "n" most common colors with certain restrictions of course. Then simply put a number in the center of the region. Also take the gradient of the image and add it, make em black, and then add to the original to find the borders.
There's a lot of IC development done here in north america (and even here in vancouver). Admitidly a lot of the fabrication and rest is done overseas for cost and to be honest, poor environmental regulations. Chips are quite a concoction of nasty shit.
For some reason lots of people also forget fpga development. At SFU we got into FPGA and ISA/PCI design in our second year (although not anymore since they started babying the curriculum to "double the opportunity"). We still do our VLSI class in 4th year though. Desinging chips is a lot more than merely designing logic.