Oh but if we only could! I'm sorry, sounds like someone is just imagining a 'what-if' scenario. This is not going to happen, unless, a new filetype is made specifically for it, and then you'd need a very specialized peer to peer program, and who knows how much extra work it's going to cost in terms of cpu/networking to determine if a file is similair or not. To me this just sounds stupid. Maybe it's just from waking up. They should work on optimising the 'pipes' or the 'tubes' to carry more data instead. It sounds like all the person thought of was hey, bit-torrent AND a stupid way to increase the number of people I can download from!
I just had a really stupid idea. I know it's silly, but here's a what if. What if a large part of the linux slashdot community decided to get together, roll a distro that was as idiot proof as one could make. I mean truly idiot proof. Targeted for users who don't know what they're doing. (everyone who knows what they're doing can change anything/everything anyway). So who wants to make/.nix?/inux?/.nux? slashdot/inux?...
Reason being as easy as I think linux distros are, I'm sure there are people who wouldn't be able to makes heads or tails of them. So to support them I'm guessing some videos would have to be placed right on the desktop that demonstrates basic usage. Have some more advanced documents packaged in there that are EASY to read. I think there really truly is a market for this, but I'm not sure if as great as the current distros are, if any of them are really targeted the truly new user?
The real benefit to the community however is going to be the backing of DELL to try and get some of these drivers made. The whole community benefits. Like most users are going to comment, it really doesn't matter what distro, as long as the devices work. However from Dell's point of view, it comes down to how many more support calls are there going to be because of this? They realize the market is there for Linux, they're just trying to test the waters before they jump in. I hope this works out well for everyone.
I've been hearing group velocity. I understand nothing, but I remember from a class, no idea which one now, that you can seem to exceed the speed of light, but you're not really doing it. For example take a tube of balls, packed end to end. There is no more room for any of the balls, so the moment you put one in on one end, the other one immediatly pops out. Now, if that tube of balls was empty, then it would take n amount of time for that ball to roll the length of the tube. Is this the same conceptionally or is it different?
Choose your starting equipment for the slashdot article (x) to select
()tinfoil hat
()book for a simplfied plan to making a profit, missing one step
()soviet russia scroll, that happens to read you
()Windows Vista --(hehe, sucker)
()a loyal follower wearing a red shirt
()a replacement for that loyal follower, but just some kind of strange script
()clue bat
()a +5 vorpal sword. (yes it runs linux)
()a beat up chair with the initials SB on it
()explosives (with made by sony on them)
()paper weight (drm enabled device)
()16000 pages of nothing (SCO legal briefs)
some distros really are cash strapped, and have their releases via bittorrents, and such. Sometimes providing xyz version of sourcecode for program abc really does become a problem. Sometimes it's bandwidth, sometimes it's organization (some distros might even have just a lone maintainer) etc... so there are reasons why the source isn't distributed always. (agreed, it would be possible to always package everything with soruce... but sometimes the end user doesn't want all that extra bloat on their download).
This is mostly a non-issue. Why would anyone be wanting the source-code specific from a distrobution based on debian/ubuntu? the binary packages havn't changed, all they really need to do is hunt down the version of the software they wanted the source from. This whole providing the source thing is a bunch of FUD from a small group of people trying to make things difficult for small time distros. Props to the ubuntu for offering to help out, and make the FUD go away.
But I really do think it would be funny to track microsoft by participating in those virtual stock markets. You buy a bunch of shares of chairs (chair manufacturer), and find some wall repair company (or a something similair) sit back, and as they do better, MS does worse. It could be called the chair factor. hmmm perhaps it would foretell microsoft's future share prices? any bets on this?
I'm sorry, Your response has to be in some form of star-trek (or sci-fi) I would have accepted this however...
Best analogy is Spock's gym locker room
Spock has say, 10 space lockers up and 20 space lockers accross
Spock can only put one thing in a locker, so Spock cant put his gym shorts in the same one as your shoes. But since Spock has lots of socks, He can pile them in, and take up two or three if neccessary.
Space is wasted if Spock uses a really big locker, but it's only holding a sock.
Now, you've got to record where all of this stuff is, or you will take forever to find that sock. (I guess the tricorders are broken) So Spock sets aside a locker to hold the clipboard with designations.
Now to bring this back into real life. There are a _lot_ of sectors on a disk. So keeping track of all of them starts requiring a substantial amount of resources. I imagine they are finding it easier to justify wasting space for small files in order to make it easier to keep track of them. Average file sizes are also going up, so it's not as big of a problem as it used to be either. It's all relative...
And they could build the chairs with althetic grip handles, and they could advertise that our chairs fly 25% farther than the competition. I don't know, but I bet a few people would buy them...
I see you're trying to make a page with letters. Your version of Microsoft Office only currently supports numbers, please click me and I'll magically transport your credit card number, and a retinal scan to microsoft, where you will be billed, filed, and issued an upgraded version to support letters.
10 seconds later, I see you're trying to use punctuation...
HAHA you guys are funny modding me +5... now everyone is going to read that post:(
so someone needs to tell me how to stay out of court...
So far i've only come up with one idea...
sudo apt-get install sun-j2re1.5:( I hate when i have stuff sitting ready to paste that i don't want to... anyway I can only hope that sudo apt-get install sun-j2re1.5 will save me a legal case.... ok it won't
So Anyway... my real idea is...
Nick for Sale
I'll offer it for free and pay $5 to the winner who must claim they have owned my nickname since yesterday....
if anyone has any brighter ideas I'm open to them.
This post has been brought to you by 33 different proxy connections, and of course I'm sending this thru someone else's open wifi, while using someone else's computer, while wearing a tinfoil hat. YEP I'm Safe.
Of course you could also apply quantom mechanics and NOT check whether your Roomba is stuck or not. That way it will either be stuck and not be stuck until you check on it!
My guess would be more like Google wanting to leverage AOL's user base (they are the largest ISP, IIRC) for something. Of course, Google could also then get it's toolbar integrated into AOL's browser.
Really? That'd better be one sweet piece of software to justify it. I'd love to see the secret google roadmap. You know, the one with all there crazy plans. Heck I'd love to see everything they thought of that they threw in the dumpster as being TOO crazy. But I've never heard of a company throwing a billion away for a toolbar. Something is a brewing in google-land.
maybe they plan to integrate with aim. Perhaps they're planning on firing up all that unused fiber and making another broadband service company. Or perhaps they've just decided that "hey instead of burning this huge pile of cash, we'll buy some of AOL instead!" But this purchase probably has something to do with what will happen in the future, some crazy scheme google has cooked up. Instant messaging and dail up provider are about the only 2 things aol does well... so I guess flip a coin, and then don't look at it. That way quantom mechanics will be in your favor;)
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Oh but if we only could! I'm sorry, sounds like someone is just imagining a 'what-if' scenario. This is not going to happen, unless, a new filetype is made specifically for it, and then you'd need a very specialized peer to peer program, and who knows how much extra work it's going to cost in terms of cpu/networking to determine if a file is similair or not. To me this just sounds stupid. Maybe it's just from waking up. They should work on optimising the 'pipes' or the 'tubes' to carry more data instead. It sounds like all the person thought of was hey, bit-torrent AND a stupid way to increase the number of people I can download from!
Reason being as easy as I think linux distros are, I'm sure there are people who wouldn't be able to makes heads or tails of them. So to support them I'm guessing some videos would have to be placed right on the desktop that demonstrates basic usage. Have some more advanced documents packaged in there that are EASY to read. I think there really truly is a market for this, but I'm not sure if as great as the current distros are, if any of them are really targeted the truly new user?
The real benefit to the community however is going to be the backing of DELL to try and get some of these drivers made. The whole community benefits. Like most users are going to comment, it really doesn't matter what distro, as long as the devices work. However from Dell's point of view, it comes down to how many more support calls are there going to be because of this? They realize the market is there for Linux, they're just trying to test the waters before they jump in. I hope this works out well for everyone.
You have ALL rights. That is until there is a law that limits a specific right.
All you really need is a chair being gripped by a hand. Problem Solved.
I've been hearing group velocity. I understand nothing, but I remember from a class, no idea which one now, that you can seem to exceed the speed of light, but you're not really doing it. For example take a tube of balls, packed end to end. There is no more room for any of the balls, so the moment you put one in on one end, the other one immediatly pops out. Now, if that tube of balls was empty, then it would take n amount of time for that ball to roll the length of the tube. Is this the same conceptionally or is it different?
when I go outside, I just put the sun behind my neighbor's roof. Someone has the link back to that one article somewhere ;)
Choose your starting equipment for the slashdot article (x) to select ()tinfoil hat ()book for a simplfied plan to making a profit, missing one step ()soviet russia scroll, that happens to read you ()Windows Vista --(hehe, sucker) ()a loyal follower wearing a red shirt ()a replacement for that loyal follower, but just some kind of strange script ()clue bat ()a +5 vorpal sword. (yes it runs linux) ()a beat up chair with the initials SB on it ()explosives (with made by sony on them) ()paper weight (drm enabled device) ()16000 pages of nothing (SCO legal briefs)
Pretty funny though
some distros really are cash strapped, and have their releases via bittorrents, and such. Sometimes providing xyz version of sourcecode for program abc really does become a problem. Sometimes it's bandwidth, sometimes it's organization (some distros might even have just a lone maintainer) etc... so there are reasons why the source isn't distributed always. (agreed, it would be possible to always package everything with soruce... but sometimes the end user doesn't want all that extra bloat on their download).
This is mostly a non-issue. Why would anyone be wanting the source-code specific from a distrobution based on debian/ubuntu? the binary packages havn't changed, all they really need to do is hunt down the version of the software they wanted the source from. This whole providing the source thing is a bunch of FUD from a small group of people trying to make things difficult for small time distros. Props to the ubuntu for offering to help out, and make the FUD go away.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/defau lt.mspx/
someone deserves funny points...
But I really do think it would be funny to track microsoft by participating in those virtual stock markets. You buy a bunch of shares of chairs (chair manufacturer), and find some wall repair company (or a something similair) sit back, and as they do better, MS does worse. It could be called the chair factor. hmmm perhaps it would foretell microsoft's future share prices? any bets on this?
no no, pirates reduce global warming, pirates/pirated songs would never cause heat. Perhaps a deep cooling effect somewhere...arrrr
I'm sorry, Your response has to be in some form of star-trek (or sci-fi) I would have accepted this however...
Best analogy is Spock's gym locker room
Spock has say, 10 space lockers up and 20 space lockers accross
Spock can only put one thing in a locker, so Spock cant put his gym shorts in the same one as your shoes. But since Spock has lots of socks, He can pile them in, and take up two or three if neccessary.
Space is wasted if Spock uses a really big locker, but it's only holding a sock.
Now, you've got to record where all of this stuff is, or you will take forever to find that sock. (I guess the tricorders are broken) So Spock sets aside a locker to hold the clipboard with designations.
Now to bring this back into real life. There are a _lot_ of sectors on a disk. So keeping track of all of them starts requiring a substantial amount of resources. I imagine they are finding it easier to justify wasting space for small files in order to make it easier to keep track of them. Average file sizes are also going up, so it's not as big of a problem as it used to be either. It's all relative...
Someone explain to me how this works! why is this better? oh yeah you can only use sci-fi/startrecky terminology or else it doesn't count.
My God, that's... I don't even know what that is!
Nobody does!
And they could build the chairs with althetic grip handles, and they could advertise that our chairs fly 25% farther than the competition. I don't know, but I bet a few people would buy them...
I see you're trying to make a page with letters. Your version of Microsoft Office only currently supports numbers, please click me and I'll magically transport your credit card number, and a retinal scan to microsoft, where you will be billed, filed, and issued an upgraded version to support letters.
10 seconds later, I see you're trying to use punctuation...
and they could all buy each other and form one giant super company called Ciscifedtecorolamicrokretalanta ! that has a rather nice ring to it.
My poor typing skills have saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars I don't have. Your sir are brilliant.
so someone needs to tell me how to stay out of court... So far i've only come up with one idea...
sudo apt-get install sun-j2re1.5 :( I hate when i have stuff sitting ready to paste that i don't want to... anyway I can only hope that sudo apt-get install sun-j2re1.5 will save me a legal case.... ok it won't
So Anyway... my real idea is...
Nick for Sale
I'll offer it for free and pay $5 to the winner who must claim they have owned my nickname since yesterday....
if anyone has any brighter ideas I'm open to them.
crap i think i logged in by mistake...
Of course you could also apply quantom mechanics and NOT check whether your Roomba is stuck or not. That way it will either be stuck and not be stuck until you check on it!
Really? That'd better be one sweet piece of software to justify it. I'd love to see the secret google roadmap. You know, the one with all there crazy plans. Heck I'd love to see everything they thought of that they threw in the dumpster as being TOO crazy. But I've never heard of a company throwing a billion away for a toolbar. Something is a brewing in google-land.
maybe they plan to integrate with aim. Perhaps they're planning on firing up all that unused fiber and making another broadband service company. Or perhaps they've just decided that "hey instead of burning this huge pile of cash, we'll buy some of AOL instead!" But this purchase probably has something to do with what will happen in the future, some crazy scheme google has cooked up. Instant messaging and dail up provider are about the only 2 things aol does well... so I guess flip a coin, and then don't look at it. That way quantom mechanics will be in your favor ;)