Impossible due to the first law of thermodynamics which states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Here's a good link to brush up on your thermo101:
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/6e.h tm l
Actually, I find things like this useful to an extent. For example, if I happened to like the book series he mentions in his chapter then perhaps I'll take his comments differently and buy Praxis.
This is one of the reasons there are so many critics - people tend to agree with some and disagree with others. Having him tell you what he likes provides useful background to those who have read that series.
So relax, ok?
Fish are known to call out to potential mates with low "grunts and buzzes"
Isn't this similar to how man started communicating? Except with grunts and whistles. Next thing you know those fish will have suburban sprawl and SUVs..
A possible side benefit from this might be that, without the perceived dominance on the linux desktop, 3rd party vendors who produce closed source linux solutions may offer something other than RPMs for those of us who don't run Red Hat, Mandrake or Suse.
Yes, I realize that Debian can be made to use RPMs but frankly fooling a 3rd party installer into thinking I'm running Red Hat is not my cup of tea.
I sold my TV 3 years ago and haven't looked back since. I get my entertainment from books, the Internet, and games. Living without a TV was tough for about the first 6 months and then I stopped missing it. I don't smoke, but I wonder if it's something akin to giving up a cigarette habit..
When I am exposed to TV these days (at bars or at a friends house) I can't get over just how much garbage is on it. Not only are the shows bad, the news seems to be aimed at 9 year olds. The final insult is the advertising which seem more and more to appeal to the emotional side (buy this SUV and you'll feel like you're roaring through the mountains!) as opposed to practical advantage (sucks less, costs less, works better).
While TV, video games, and the Internet are all time sinks (and I believe there's data that backs this next claim up) - people tend to use their brains more while playing video games or using the net. And, to me, that can only be a good thing!
Drives are defragged to allow the OS to access the files faster. If there is a speed hit it would one time- overall there would be an increase in file access speeds. I mean, it's not like a hard disk journal where there are safeguards that make taking a speed hit worth it. In this case, defrag is all about access speed.
I read that article and I wonder whether it's time to be more specific when it comes to calling something a virus. Yes, often times the behavior can be annoying either way, but the viruses that most Windows machines are exposed to today are dramatically different than the few macro-viruses that macs are succeptible to.
A trojan horse or something that can slowly kill your hard disk is much more severe than something that adds characters to your Excel spreadsheets.
It makes me feel that the Symantec quote is more FUD than anything else. Aside from that, I enjoyed the read.
This is almost the phone I've always wanted. There's no bluetooth, but according to The Register, that functionality will be coming in a future version.
Sipher and Hawkins fielded some tough questions. There weren't any Bluetooth drivers yet, but support was on its way, probably supporting wireless headsets first.
From the article:
Integrated camera
Polyphonic ringtones
Customized contact list (images and ringtones)
Integrated flashlight
FM radio
IR
JavaTM
Why is it Nokia will release phones with all sorts of 'features' like a radio and a calorie counter, but can't give us more phones with bluetooth? I know they have a couple, but for the US market the offerings are pretty slim unless you want to carry around the big (by today's standards) 3650. IR isn't dead but it should be.
I agree that something needs to be done to make this more mainstream. At the office I installed it on the machines but when I checked back a week later people were still using IE6. Then somebody asked me how to 'play' Mozilla..
That's when I renamed all the 'Mozilla' icons to 'Internet'. It's worked like a charm. I've even got a few folks using Open Office this way.
Even if the audience for this article is the uninitiated there does not seem to be much here except that there are many applications for linux. Given that there are many applications for windows too it's not really a convincing article.
Okay, so maybe you're saying the article wasn't meant to convince but rather to share a story of how easy it was to install linux. In doing that I feel it did a poor job as well.
At the very least the author could have made this more useful if he had even spit out some of the obvious advantages of linux over windows. As it is he doesn't even bother defining 'dual boot' (assuming again the audience is the newbie). Nor does he talk about having a virus free OS environment. At the very least he could define 'free' as both being free as in beer and as in speech..
There is a lot to be said for unmanned flight. Just because the Chinese are getting ready to send a manned spacecraft up does not mean that we should assume that this race is good. In reality it costs a LOT more to send a manned flight into space (safety concerns). That's money that might be better spent in other places.
I can understand if lots of you are skeptical about it given where Congress chooses to spend money. Still, I would think that it might be worth a pause before deciding this is a race we need to win.
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Impossible due to the first law of thermodynamics which states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Here's a good link to brush up on your thermo101:
h tm l
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/6e.
I don't use Windows Media formats you insensitive clod!
Actually, I find things like this useful to an extent. For example, if I happened to like the book series he mentions in his chapter then perhaps I'll take his comments differently and buy Praxis. This is one of the reasons there are so many critics - people tend to agree with some and disagree with others. Having him tell you what he likes provides useful background to those who have read that series. So relax, ok?
It's amazing what a $50 million investment in Novell will do for ones attitude.
Fish are known to call out to potential mates with low "grunts and buzzes"
Isn't this similar to how man started communicating? Except with grunts and whistles. Next thing you know those fish will have suburban sprawl and SUVs..
Eat 'em while you can!
A possible side benefit from this might be that, without the perceived dominance on the linux desktop, 3rd party vendors who produce closed source linux solutions may offer something other than RPMs for those of us who don't run Red Hat, Mandrake or Suse.
Yes, I realize that Debian can be made to use RPMs but frankly fooling a 3rd party installer into thinking I'm running Red Hat is not my cup of tea.
I sold my TV 3 years ago and haven't looked back since. I get my entertainment from books, the Internet, and games. Living without a TV was tough for about the first 6 months and then I stopped missing it. I don't smoke, but I wonder if it's something akin to giving up a cigarette habit..
When I am exposed to TV these days (at bars or at a friends house) I can't get over just how much garbage is on it. Not only are the shows bad, the news seems to be aimed at 9 year olds. The final insult is the advertising which seem more and more to appeal to the emotional side (buy this SUV and you'll feel like you're roaring through the mountains!) as opposed to practical advantage (sucks less, costs less, works better).
While TV, video games, and the Internet are all time sinks (and I believe there's data that backs this next claim up) - people tend to use their brains more while playing video games or using the net. And, to me, that can only be a good thing!
Drives are defragged to allow the OS to access the files faster. If there is a speed hit it would one time- overall there would be an increase in file access speeds. I mean, it's not like a hard disk journal where there are safeguards that make taking a speed hit worth it. In this case, defrag is all about access speed.
I read that article and I wonder whether it's time to be more specific when it comes to calling something a virus. Yes, often times the behavior can be annoying either way, but the viruses that most Windows machines are exposed to today are dramatically different than the few macro-viruses that macs are succeptible to.
A trojan horse or something that can slowly kill your hard disk is much more severe than something that adds characters to your Excel spreadsheets.
It makes me feel that the Symantec quote is more FUD than anything else. Aside from that, I enjoyed the read.
This is almost the phone I've always wanted. There's no bluetooth, but according to The Register, that functionality will be coming in a future version.
Sipher and Hawkins fielded some tough questions. There weren't any Bluetooth drivers yet, but support was on its way, probably supporting wireless headsets first.
I think I'll wait a bit..
I hate to be the guy who cried bluetooth but
BLUETOOTH?
From the article:
Integrated camera Polyphonic ringtones Customized contact list (images and ringtones) Integrated flashlight FM radio IR JavaTM
Why is it Nokia will release phones with all sorts of 'features' like a radio and a calorie counter, but can't give us more phones with bluetooth? I know they have a couple, but for the US market the offerings are pretty slim unless you want to carry around the big (by today's standards) 3650. IR isn't dead but it should be.
I agree that something needs to be done to make this more mainstream. At the office I installed it on the machines but when I checked back a week later people were still using IE6. Then somebody asked me how to 'play' Mozilla.. That's when I renamed all the 'Mozilla' icons to 'Internet'. It's worked like a charm. I've even got a few folks using Open Office this way.
Even if the audience for this article is the uninitiated there does not seem to be much here except that there are many applications for linux. Given that there are many applications for windows too it's not really a convincing article. Okay, so maybe you're saying the article wasn't meant to convince but rather to share a story of how easy it was to install linux. In doing that I feel it did a poor job as well. At the very least the author could have made this more useful if he had even spit out some of the obvious advantages of linux over windows. As it is he doesn't even bother defining 'dual boot' (assuming again the audience is the newbie). Nor does he talk about having a virus free OS environment. At the very least he could define 'free' as both being free as in beer and as in speech..
There is a lot to be said for unmanned flight. Just because the Chinese are getting ready to send a manned spacecraft up does not mean that we should assume that this race is good. In reality it costs a LOT more to send a manned flight into space (safety concerns). That's money that might be better spent in other places. I can understand if lots of you are skeptical about it given where Congress chooses to spend money. Still, I would think that it might be worth a pause before deciding this is a race we need to win.