Good point. I'm sure lot's of people will try to escape this point but unless I see a writing recognition and "virtual ink" program on Linux that can rival or overtake the Tablet PC version I don't think I'll see too many people putting Linux on these things. It's great that Linux has a better kernel, CLI, customization and overall stability, in the end when I get tired of playing around with the kernel, the drivers and the config files and want to go back to having the computer work for me, not the other way around
The government of the United States passed a new law prohibiting the manufacturing of internal combustion engines in order to protect the extensive investments of the horse-and-buggy industry against the encroachment of "automobiles". A new 50% tax increase is also planned on the steel and rubber industries as the products of these industries are used extensively in the manufacturing of "automobiles"
"...Those companies, which include Linux firms, use a special "free software" license called the General Public License that bars any payment."
Since when?
Actually this is just beautifull for network and system developers who don't want to spend money for vmware and others like it. The fact that it will be integrated into the kernel (and hopefully be usefully stable) will make Linux a very serious contender in the heavy duty enterprise level market and be a clear reason to prefer this over a puny Windows server environment or even heavy duty Unix giants. AFAIK no other OS will offer this functionality.
I like the joke btw:)
You can follow the example of another indie duo which rose to international fame through mp3.com...PPK( regular site, mp3.com site). This is a band which come from a city (Rostov) near the Russian Siberia and met online. They started by offering their music for free on mp3.com and now you can't drive in NYC for 5 minutes without hearing their "Resurection" or other songs on the radio or in a passing car.
...how many talented former Soviet Union scientists are wasting away in no name research labs in Russia and former republics. With no funding, no equipment and no corporate or government backing I am sure that countless great ideas are being discarded as we speak. It's too bad that while many companies are expanding into third world countries and building facilities and recruiting people there, a country with a huge established base of high class engineers, scientists and researchers is being forgotten about. I'm sure that any company that knows its business well would be able to recruit hordes of very competent scientists with wordclass education and knowledge for very little money and be lauded as a local hero and savior by the people in Russia.
It is exactly this kind of fighting that is keeping Linux from focusing on its move towards acceptance. The fact is that a few of the supporters of Linux are also arrogant technocrats who are anti big business, anti big government and anti big anything. They choose Linux exactly for the anarchy and pseudo-intellectual bragging rights that not being a fully commercialized and accepted OS affords. We should, in fact, expect them to throw these kinds of childish accusations around, as anything above Linux From Scratch or Debian will be accused of being monopolistic and evil. These are not the people who are lauding Linux for its actual merits and achievements but are instead talking about it because it makes them feel superior to think that only they can use a highly complex and advanced Operating System. Instead of letting these trolls trick us into bickering with each other and starting flame wars we should instead be focusing on the important thing. Extending and expanding Linux into the best and most accepted OS that it could be if we all just concentrated.
"Commander divert all power to (or is it from?) the deflector shields."
But seriously. It seems that with the rise of highly charged/energetic weapons we will also see a rise in electric/plasma/whathave you "force fields" in order to counteract these threats. I remember reading something about using "cold" plasma trapped by magnetic fields to deflect or dissipate energy beams. With technologies like that anti- energy/particle beam "shields" aren't far off.
Maybe if they used these with those portable fuel cells that we keep hearing about this could be an extremely effective accessory. Think an information/communication/GPS/Phone accessory all in one. Since its very close to a desktop computer it can do anything a desktop can. If someone puts a camera on it it can even be a video phone and digital camera all in one. Everything from reading ebooks or watching videos to having video conferences in the middle of the street and wirelessly accessing your home computer. It would also solve the problem of not having enough space on your mp3 player/digital camera/pda I think that this MMC and the OQO are actually the future of portable computing.
If only the battery life problem was solved there wouldn't be anyone who would not want one of these.
Yes and then sit for 2 hours transfering 2 images at a time out of a 10 lb stack of floppies that let me take less pictures then a postage stamp sized flash card. No thanx but I'll stick to card.
With the wireless networking push that Microsoft is trying to make they can just leverage an already existing PC platform for all the additional non-graphics tasks that the PS3 will have problems with. That way they will provide cheaper more robust set-top boxes while also keeping and even increasing the Windows software strangle hold on the desktop PC.
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Good point. I'm sure lot's of people will try to escape this point but unless I see a writing recognition and "virtual ink" program on Linux that can rival or overtake the Tablet PC version I don't think I'll see too many people putting Linux on these things. It's great that Linux has a better kernel, CLI, customization and overall stability, in the end when I get tired of playing around with the kernel, the drivers and the config files and want to go back to having the computer work for me, not the other way around
The government of the United States passed a new law prohibiting the manufacturing of internal combustion engines in order to protect the extensive investments of the horse-and-buggy industry against the encroachment of "automobiles". A new 50% tax increase is also planned on the steel and rubber industries as the products of these industries are used extensively in the manufacturing of "automobiles"
"...Those companies, which include Linux firms, use a special "free software" license called the General Public License that bars any payment." Since when?
Actually this is just beautifull for network and system developers who don't want to spend money for vmware and others like it. The fact that it will be integrated into the kernel (and hopefully be usefully stable) will make Linux a very serious contender in the heavy duty enterprise level market and be a clear reason to prefer this over a puny Windows server environment or even heavy duty Unix giants. AFAIK no other OS will offer this functionality. I like the joke btw :)
You can follow the example of another indie duo which rose to international fame through mp3.com...PPK( regular site, mp3.com site). This is a band which come from a city (Rostov) near the Russian Siberia and met online. They started by offering their music for free on mp3.com and now you can't drive in NYC for 5 minutes without hearing their "Resurection" or other songs on the radio or in a passing car.
...how many talented former Soviet Union scientists are wasting away in no name research labs in Russia and former republics. With no funding, no equipment and no corporate or government backing I am sure that countless great ideas are being discarded as we speak. It's too bad that while many companies are expanding into third world countries and building facilities and recruiting people there, a country with a huge established base of high class engineers, scientists and researchers is being forgotten about. I'm sure that any company that knows its business well would be able to recruit hordes of very competent scientists with wordclass education and knowledge for very little money and be lauded as a local hero and savior by the people in Russia.
It is exactly this kind of fighting that is keeping Linux from focusing on its move towards acceptance. The fact is that a few of the supporters of Linux are also arrogant technocrats who are anti big business, anti big government and anti big anything. They choose Linux exactly for the anarchy and pseudo-intellectual bragging rights that not being a fully commercialized and accepted OS affords. We should, in fact, expect them to throw these kinds of childish accusations around, as anything above Linux From Scratch or Debian will be accused of being monopolistic and evil. These are not the people who are lauding Linux for its actual merits and achievements but are instead talking about it because it makes them feel superior to think that only they can use a highly complex and advanced Operating System. Instead of letting these trolls trick us into bickering with each other and starting flame wars we should instead be focusing on the important thing. Extending and expanding Linux into the best and most accepted OS that it could be if we all just concentrated.
"Commander divert all power to (or is it from?) the deflector shields." But seriously. It seems that with the rise of highly charged/energetic weapons we will also see a rise in electric/plasma/whathave you "force fields" in order to counteract these threats. I remember reading something about using "cold" plasma trapped by magnetic fields to deflect or dissipate energy beams. With technologies like that anti- energy/particle beam "shields" aren't far off.
That site might as well just point to the amd webpage itself. It sounds as though its a bunch of AMD corporate fluff talking employees.
Maybe if they used these with those portable fuel cells that we keep hearing about this could be an extremely effective accessory. Think an information/communication/GPS/Phone accessory all in one. Since its very close to a desktop computer it can do anything a desktop can. If someone puts a camera on it it can even be a video phone and digital camera all in one. Everything from reading ebooks or watching videos to having video conferences in the middle of the street and wirelessly accessing your home computer. It would also solve the problem of not having enough space on your mp3 player/digital camera/pda I think that this MMC and the OQO are actually the future of portable computing. If only the battery life problem was solved there wouldn't be anyone who would not want one of these.
Does anyone else get an eerie Terminator feeling from those dancing droplets?
Yes and then sit for 2 hours transfering 2 images at a time out of a 10 lb stack of floppies that let me take less pictures then a postage stamp sized flash card. No thanx but I'll stick to card.
With the wireless networking push that Microsoft is trying to make they can just leverage an already existing PC platform for all the additional non-graphics tasks that the PS3 will have problems with. That way they will provide cheaper more robust set-top boxes while also keeping and even increasing the Windows software strangle hold on the desktop PC.