The modern nation of India isn't that old, in all fairness. It was a British possession for centuries, and before that it was never united. In this period they haven't actually invaded anybody, but they've had countless skirmishes with Pakistan, border disputes with China, and have spent a good portion of the last half century oppressing both people in the Kashmir region and Sikhs throughout the country.
Actually the graphic system is just similar to all these. He borrows the best parts of many early consoles and throws them all together.
The actual graphics capabilities, according to the site, will be 50% to 200% better than an SNES. That's not too shabby for $99
Since we can, for example, go to the library and read the same book for free, what's the incentive? There's nobody in the lower 48 states who lives so far from a decent library that it isn't possible to go there.
The only time I use an eBook is if the hard copy is not available. This pretty much means out of print books and illegal books.
Likewise, posting informative things on slashdot is useful to the 'public' as some ill-defined collective, so why not nationalize slashdot and pay people by the post? Or better still, pay them by karma?
The minute the government claims the provision of a service to be their responsiblity they start working toward the inevitable position of being a monopoly.
You think Microsoft is an anticompetitive entity? Imagine how 'free' software would be once we start taxing everybody to pay for its development, and put the responsibility of that development into the hands of an organization with access to hundreds of thousands of police and military to make sure the consumer 'chooses properly'.
Personal predicition: If the U.S. government decides that it should be in the business of producing 'free software' en masse, within 10 years time it will be illegal for a private citizen to own a compiler without a license. Can't have irresponsible commoners with access to the means of production, who knows what they might create.
I've heard a lot of good things about NiMH batteries, although I haven't had the pleasure of using one.
I was using two pairs of NiCds in my PDA for several years (swap them out when they die and recharge). After a couple years they stop holding a charge, but in the meantime I reused them probably 50 times. Definately financially worthwhile.
"Companies that offshore their labor should do the right thing and offshore their headquarters and management as well, so they can adequately supervise their operations."
Yeah... lets chase MORE jobs overseas... that'll solve the problem of some jobs going.
I just watched the CNBC interview with the Buymusic.com founder and Tommy "I deserve to get paid, its the right thing" Lee.
The introduction to the piece had the CNBC reporter call it "A site with over 4,000 different songs available for download". When the founder got on, he claimed over 300,000 songs on the site.
I got plenty of Karma to burn to, so I have to say I agree.
But OTOH there were plenty of people calling the Corel acquisition by Vector an anti-competitive move by MS just because Paul Allen happens to invest some in Vector.
"I thought photons had no mass, and every reference I can find says they don't."
Use a better reference. Photons have no rest mass, but they definately have a mass, and its a function of their wavelength (incidentally, my equation got screwed up by slashdot, there's a lambda in there but it didn't display properly).
"And jeez, mass would be a drag..."
Why should it? Many things in the universe have mass and continue to move around at constant speeds. Light travels at a constant speed in a given medium. It does, however, change speeds when it enters a different medium, this is how refraction happens.
Besides which, for one, I can't find any text that defines mass specifically as a "resistance to acceleration", but I assume you mean it will require more force to accelerate a larger mass. That's true enough.
BUT (and this is a huge but). You first argue that mass hinders acceleration, then proclaim photons do not accelerate (actually they do in special cases...)? If photons were truly 'massless', would they not be accelerating all over the place with no hinderance?
Photons definately have NO rest mass. The value of the mass of a photon is a function of its wavelength, and if its not moving (which can't happen to begin with) it will not have a wavelength to begin with.
It really isn't a matter of redefining mass, but rather that our further understanding of the photon neccesitates us quantifying it. Photons have Kinetic Energy, this is readily proven. Kinetic Energy is a function of mass and velocity. Einstein may have never fully appreciated the quantum theory of light, but once we accept that a photon is a particle, the idea that it must gain a mass at high speeds is a natural consequence of his own relativistic work.
A lot of it has to do with how well your video card is supported, of course, but in general so long as you have plenty of RAM they should all perform approximately the same.
The processor emulators in MAME are pretty much the only bottleneck if you're not swapping to disk, and they are OS independant.
if you're really lacking in RAM, you'll probably have the best luck with the DOS version... but then, if you're lacking in RAM Knoppix is the LAST thing you should be looking at.
Hatch is a millionaire. You telling me none of that money came from politics, and that the website isn't designed to promote him as a political candidate.
I for one would be pissed if a politician used a piece of software I wrote claiming to be a non-profit group.
Competition is a good thing, and I hope that MSN makes a nice offering. If its good, I'd use it, but only so long as it works in my browser.
MSN MoneyCentral has the best free stock screener, bar none, of any on the internet. You wouldn't know it if you don't use IE though, because the link to the deluxe screener doesn't even show up in other browsers.
More important than protecting the rights of people to do what they want with a product they bought?
Seems to me this is just the latest example of a long line of abuses by the RIAA/MPAA that all boil down to the same thing: they want to sell you things and tell you how to use them.
Slashdot Mirror
Slackware is nice for embedded systems, but let us not forget Lineo/embeddix.
Mandrake is alive, more or less, but its still in bankrupcy for the time being. Debian isn't a company as such, but it definately warrants mentioning.
Does anyone actually run SuSE Linux outside of Europe?
I do and I'm in the U.S.
What does SuSE bring to the table?
YaST2
So they figure with 30 years and billions of dollars they can produce something with the intellect of a 5 year old?
I can do it in 5 years and 9 months and all it'll cost you is a nice Japanese girl of childbearing age.
Funny, that's a lot different story than I get from Sikhs that aren't posting anonymously on message boards.
The modern nation of India isn't that old, in all fairness. It was a British possession for centuries, and before that it was never united. In this period they haven't actually invaded anybody, but they've had countless skirmishes with Pakistan, border disputes with China, and have spent a good portion of the last half century oppressing both people in the Kashmir region and Sikhs throughout the country.
Still, its useful for times like this.
Actually the graphic system is just similar to all these. He borrows the best parts of many early consoles and throws them all together. The actual graphics capabilities, according to the site, will be 50% to 200% better than an SNES. That's not too shabby for $99
I can't tell you how many of his books I've got on my shelf right now. Now he's whipping up fun hardware to play with too?
Can sainthood be far behind?
Since we can, for example, go to the library and read the same book for free, what's the incentive? There's nobody in the lower 48 states who lives so far from a decent library that it isn't possible to go there.
The only time I use an eBook is if the hard copy is not available. This pretty much means out of print books and illegal books.
Jesus H. Castillo, when will you authoritarians learn?
Likewise, posting informative things on slashdot is useful to the 'public' as some ill-defined collective, so why not nationalize slashdot and pay people by the post? Or better still, pay them by karma?
The minute the government claims the provision of a service to be their responsiblity they start working toward the inevitable position of being a monopoly.
You think Microsoft is an anticompetitive entity? Imagine how 'free' software would be once we start taxing everybody to pay for its development, and put the responsibility of that development into the hands of an organization with access to hundreds of thousands of police and military to make sure the consumer 'chooses properly'.
Personal predicition: If the U.S. government decides that it should be in the business of producing 'free software' en masse, within 10 years time it will be illegal for a private citizen to own a compiler without a license. Can't have irresponsible commoners with access to the means of production, who knows what they might create.
As an act of protest I have uninstalled Caldera's DR-DOS from my luggable and replaced it with OS/2.
*cough* Sun Micro *cough*
I've heard a lot of good things about NiMH batteries, although I haven't had the pleasure of using one.
I was using two pairs of NiCds in my PDA for several years (swap them out when they die and recharge). After a couple years they stop holding a charge, but in the meantime I reused them probably 50 times. Definately financially worthwhile.
"Companies that offshore their labor should do the right thing and offshore their headquarters and management as well, so they can adequately supervise their operations."
Yeah... lets chase MORE jobs overseas... that'll solve the problem of some jobs going.
I just watched the CNBC interview with the Buymusic.com founder and Tommy "I deserve to get paid, its the right thing" Lee.
The introduction to the piece had the CNBC reporter call it "A site with over 4,000 different songs available for download". When the founder got on, he claimed over 300,000 songs on the site.
I got plenty of Karma to burn to, so I have to say I agree. But OTOH there were plenty of people calling the Corel acquisition by Vector an anti-competitive move by MS just because Paul Allen happens to invest some in Vector.
"I thought photons had no mass, and every reference I can find says they don't."
Use a better reference. Photons have no rest mass, but they definately have a mass, and its a function of their wavelength (incidentally, my equation got screwed up by slashdot, there's a lambda in there but it didn't display properly).
"And jeez, mass would be a drag..."
Why should it? Many things in the universe have mass and continue to move around at constant speeds. Light travels at a constant speed in a given medium. It does, however, change speeds when it enters a different medium, this is how refraction happens.
Besides which, for one, I can't find any text that defines mass specifically as a "resistance to acceleration", but I assume you mean it will require more force to accelerate a larger mass. That's true enough.
BUT (and this is a huge but). You first argue that mass hinders acceleration, then proclaim photons do not accelerate (actually they do in special cases...)? If photons were truly 'massless', would they not be accelerating all over the place with no hinderance?
Photons definately have NO rest mass. The value of the mass of a photon is a function of its wavelength, and if its not moving (which can't happen to begin with) it will not have a wavelength to begin with.
It really isn't a matter of redefining mass, but rather that our further understanding of the photon neccesitates us quantifying it. Photons have Kinetic Energy, this is readily proven. Kinetic Energy is a function of mass and velocity. Einstein may have never fully appreciated the quantum theory of light, but once we accept that a photon is a particle, the idea that it must gain a mass at high speeds is a natural consequence of his own relativistic work.
Yeah, slashdot chopped off my lambda it would seem. its supposed to read:
I ENT_CONTENT_MANAGEMENT_PHP_PIECE_OF_CRAP)
m = h / (c * BIG_GREEK_LETTER_THAT_GETS_CHOPPED_OUT_BY_INEFFIC
oh, and screw the crappy lameness filter.
Photons do have mass, and its related to wavelength thusly
m = h / (c)
A lot of it has to do with how well your video card is supported, of course, but in general so long as you have plenty of RAM they should all perform approximately the same.
The processor emulators in MAME are pretty much the only bottleneck if you're not swapping to disk, and they are OS independant.
if you're really lacking in RAM, you'll probably have the best luck with the DOS version... but then, if you're lacking in RAM Knoppix is the LAST thing you should be looking at.
I'm pretty sure in this case the buck stops at him. The computer on which the software is installed is unlikely the property of the US Government.
Hatch is a millionaire. You telling me none of that money came from politics, and that the website isn't designed to promote him as a political candidate.
I for one would be pissed if a politician used a piece of software I wrote claiming to be a non-profit group.
Competition is a good thing, and I hope that MSN makes a nice offering. If its good, I'd use it, but only so long as it works in my browser.
MSN MoneyCentral has the best free stock screener, bar none, of any on the internet. You wouldn't know it if you don't use IE though, because the link to the deluxe screener doesn't even show up in other browsers.
More important than protecting the rights of people to do what they want with a product they bought?
Seems to me this is just the latest example of a long line of abuses by the RIAA/MPAA that all boil down to the same thing: they want to sell you things and tell you how to use them.
Its central to the EFF's goal, which is EF.