google "irwin schiff and book banned" for starters. There's a lot more if you have been following political news for a long time. Try this one "cia phony journalists". Google "USS Liberty attack coverup". Try "Sibel Edmonds". How about "FDA whistleblowers". or "DOE nuclear whistleblowers".
Just because you can't think of any off the top of your head doesn't mean they don't exist or haven't existed in the past. Free speech issues go several directions, "sunshine laws" have been tried to get government to come clean on shenanigans. The FOIA was passed to try and help there. Under current laws, something like the "pentagon papers" would result not in revelations about government misconduct, but in people going to jail. I mean, really, the thread going on about the black box voting, that's a free speech issue deluxe. We as a perople have been "censored" away from our rights to have open honest transparent elections. That's as fundamentally wrong as it can get.
You have to watch the trends, this is not an absolute one day it's "all bad" deal. It's the direction things are going. Think of it (que obligatory/. bad car analogy) as when your oil light on the dash comes on, do you A keep driving, or B stop and remedy the situation right then and there before the engine goes?
No it's not as bad as it could get yet. That still doesn't mean it's "good" either.
the more immediate pure electronic vote can go forward with the machine, but the voters could verify their vote on the paper,then drop them in another tally box if they look good, then those paper votes get manually counted elsewhere and compared against the electronic result within a few days.
That's one way to do it. Of course I am in favor of no e-voting at all. I've voted for decades, and it's only the last three I have been required to be dieboldized. My vote has disappeared, you can't see it, it's gone, poofed away to some closed source machine only used by a few people with an agenda. We have no vote now, we have an illusion of a vote, we traded magic beans voodoo "new shiny" voting for anything resembling a vote. Paper pencil and wooden box are quite sufficient. worked for centuries. I like tech, but I like simple too. The only *need* for diebold is to hack elections, that's it. all the stuff that has leaked out about diebold screams "hacked elections on mass scales for fun and profit". Obvious as all get out. I don't think it was a coincidence that the first state wide all e-voting (georgia) also resulted in major poll busting differences in the vote, all *conveniently* in favor of the party currently enjoying power. Now I am not a D,nor an R, none of my guys every hardly gets elected, but... but this was fairly easy to see happen. It just sucks. pre and post polling for years was always pretty accurate,not perfect, but usually nailed it well. Then all of a sudden these polls "failed" the same time we started using diebold machines.
uh huh
I just don't believe in coincidences with power politics, not with the stakes as high as controlling large states and the federal government. It is beyond even putting a numerical value in dollars to estimate what control of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government are 'worth", and if that continues for some time, then control of the judiciary, then that's it, you got it wrapped up. Only two parties is dismal enough, but just one party would be a disaster, and with the vote controlled, it would stay a disaster.
what you say is true, but the project appears to be an effort to help migration from what these corps have now-your aforementioned closed source, no evaluation, expensive, etc stuff, to open source and free or cheap stuff. They *already have software* they are using now, and paid for. it's part psychological, people assume free=cheap as in shoddy. These people with the decision making powers want reviews to look at, printouts that make some sense to themselves and their bean counters. They can't just go "swell, I see this free stuff on this website here my nephew showed me that alleges we can do x,y,z, lets migrate all 15,000 desktops to it tomorrow!" That just ain't gonna work too well. They have to be eased into it, and some sort of certification from a review process will help things along for some people.
i.e. "consumer reports" for business software of the FOSS brand. They already have a ton of "reports" for the expensive closed source stuff.
actually I would think the combination of a live cd distro that had many games, along with basic surfing and IM, etc might get the ball rolling more. It's something that could be sold for reasonable at the retail level, say ten bucks,(not 90$ or whatever, keep it in impulse purchase level) and people after they booted it up would have a linux to play with. People in the aisle *are* looking for games, I noticed it this last weekend when I made the rounds of stores that sell computers and accessories, etc around here while they were running the state "no sales tax" weekend. As long as the directions are clearly on the box to set your boot parameters correctly, I think most kids could figure it out, and they could show their parents, etc..
In some areas of the world, main stream news website sources from the west are considered hate filled propoganda arms of the governments there, and one can safely assume that aerial bombardment and assaults from "the west" and etc against entire cities *might* qualify as "violence".
Just depends which side of the fence you are on and which way you are looking.
I live out in rural bubba land, so there aren't any coffeeshops like as described, but the nearest truckstop has paid-for wifi and also ethernet connections at some of the indoor dining tables. They charge by the hour, day or year. If I lived close enough to get a signal I would have bought a year, 100 clams, decent deal. Anyway, they also have a couple of boxes set up kiosk style that take dollar bills. Every time I've been in there that stuff was getting used, truckers like their email and weather and road reports, etc. When we first moved here before I got my net connection I used to drive over twice a week or so just to get some surfin time in. (much closer than the nearest freebie public library net connection). It seems to be another niche product that makes the truckstops money in that regard, I can't imagine it costing them that much for it to get it set up.
I own two of their radios, great stuff! Multiband, no batteries required
And maybe visit a few solar dealers, see if you can get some donated stuff, panel or two, charge controller, etc. snag a truck battery once you are there.
Oh ya, good water filter! I use a royal berkefield with the "black berky" filter elements.
If you get Roblimo's "point and click linux", you get a dvd with him going through the tutorial, as well as the distro. Saved me a ton of tech calls from the other room from my GF.. I can go "n00b, RTFM AND WTFDVD" heh. I have both a simply mepis and a linspire live cd, and I must say the mepis works marginally better than the linspire, but they are very close to being equally easy. With that said for me I'd rather a full Knoppix for a live CD, but for newbs, Mepis and Linspire are perfectly acceptable. Well, anyone really, they are both decent Linuxes. Never tried Xandros so can't comment. Don't really care for Ubuntu.
Neither made my new all-in-one USB printer work though....grumble. Thought I had the model number correct, transposed it in my mind, got one that just doesn't work. Back to de sto'....Not jumping through hoops with hardware any longer. I'll spend and hour or two, after that, nope. This is 2005, stuff should just work. Including ME, double heh.
....accepts costly software products with NO warranty. They don't accept anything tangible without warranty, but for some reason software gets a free skate, people keep buying it, despite the huge number of bugs and the security issues, etc that are plain to see with various softwares. If they eat that, then patents on that stuff are so far down the radar it won't be noticed even if it's pointed out. That and joe consumer has been completely (and righteously) browbeat and brainwashed into accepting just about anything big business and the government throws at them. The population now has a collective mindset of like this: "what can you do about it?". This is because there isn't anything you can do about it, practically speaking. In theory there might be market pressures, in practice the industry as a whole profits from the phenomenon, so there is no pressure to reform, nor any pressure to inform. A consumer kept in ignorance is a consumer you can keep hustling.
...ever agree to the presentation in the first place then? That is one of the weirder aspects here. Both Cisco and ISS management knew about and condoned the paper and talk right up until the last minute. It was given to the defcon show people to publish, it was in the written and digitized media, THEN removed. What changed at the last minute?
you have everyone pull out two hundred bucks and lay it on the table. Layout a copy of xp pro. boot up a preinstalled version of that and flash through the menu selection. Let them stare at it for a few minutes. they will get the connection. A piece of plastic, a disk. Two hundred bucks. Now, pull out some more disks, then you hand them each a knoppix disk (the new DVD would be nice) and have them boot it up on their computers (or a demo box, whatever). Let them check it out, show it off a little. No commentary, just let them *look* at it. Then tell them they can put their 200$ back in their wallets, they get to keep the disks.
Should make for some interesting conversation with the folks who have never seen it before.
Who cares? How about cost to Joe and Josephine Six Pack in sheer aggravation with windows bugs and malewarez leading to mostly non functional machines? Figure it out at minimum rage by the hour of hosed machine, times number of maachines, I bet it's a lot higher than 10 billion.
Ya, they want patents, copyrights, and maximum profit, yet they have NO WARRANTY for their "products". Seriously bogus "industry standard" compared to other industries.
...the past week determining they don't have any idea what caused the Shuttle fuel sensor to read wrong. So they have decided to just ignore it if it happens again, more or less, when they try to launch tomorrow.
Too bad they couldn't have dropped the coin on the Pioneer analysis for past paid-for launches that were ALREADY successful.
to have dual encrypted data? note: IANAC, so bear with me here. You have your seekrit stuff encrypted, but wait there's more! One layer is medium innocuous, the second layer is where the real stuff lives. The first key unveils the stuff that is meant to be found,if some authority figure and or badguy demands your "key". Swell, give it to them, the data gets unencrypted, they can look at it. But what if what they are now looking at is still encrypted, and in such a way it doesn't look like it? Perhaps what they are looking at now looks like data that you might be expected to have, but in reality it is from a one time pad maybe?
late 50's-going to see a mainframe for the first time, where my dad worked, thinking it was just spectacular. Took up a whole building basically, don't remember the make/model though. I *think* at the time it was an IBM, he worked there before going on to RCA.
early 60's, another mainframe, some RCA model, MUCH more blinkenlights
70's, arguing with dad that these new personal computers would be BIG, he countered saying they were a fad, no one really would want one for long or find a use for them....
89-first time I used a box with a GUI- Slickerness!! thinks me. Bought the machine, a mac 512, still got it. Had used various peecees before then but didn't like DOS nor the command line, still don't.
Currently a lot of free software is freely downloadable at no cost, but it seems eventually as more and more people use it that the actual infrastructure cost to provide "free downloads" will have to change. You already see it with all the "please donate" links on various "free software" pages. When it's a small single digits worth of people getting new releases and updates it is already expensive. This is roughly now. Who pays for this once half a billion people (some random very large number) all need some new version of whatever?
We farm, and get no subsidies. What we do get is almost monthly new regulations that *cost* us money, or outright theft when some 'stakeholders" decide the flying three eyed newt is more important so the land just gets seized or put out of production, with no compensation. The vast majority of those subsidies you mention go to humongous good ole boy corporate farms, or international agro biz run through daisy chained paper corporations. They should be classed in with defense department cost overruns on no bid contracts and the like. Leave real merkun farmers out of it, we work harder for less money than about any common occupation and your food is still cheap, despite the packers and "move it around and retail it" industry taking a bigger bite than we do. Believe me, if you saw how much we get compared to what you pay for it you'd understand.
And the Africans don't want ag aid because it's GM, they don't want their farmers to get tied in with GM patented seeds,which would put them into serfdom, and I don't blame them one bit, I think it sucks too. Besides that, Africans got their own problems with tribalism and other forms of ridiculous backwards thinking and their version of the tin pot dictator du juor, THOSE are their biggest economic problems, which they are going to have to solve themselves. The best thing we could do there (IMO) is "tough love", just ignore it, neither exploit them like we have been doing for generations nor try to "help". Example, zimbabwe. Let those folks over there get desparate enough they'll hang mugabwe and his drinkin buds eventually, but if we keep shipping that doofus aid, including food aid when they used to have fantastic farms, it will just prolong things.
What's the boiling point of ethanol? Roughly 160 F? Pretty low in other words? Seems like combining solar thermal into the equation you can get a decent net gain. It's using fossil fuel to evaporate out the alky from the mash that takes the most energy and gives those skewed numbers, that and made from natgas fertilizers. Use a total plant based driven fertilizer scheme with it and you can get methane, alcohol, biodiesel, and whatever is left over as fertilizer, all from the same stuff.
Now if they could stop with the corn and look at doing it with industrial hemp....
Seems like you could get a battery operated atomic clock and stick it on your computer now with some double sided foam or velcro or something like that. It would be nifty if it synced with your clock in the machine somehow (bluetooth?).
Keyboard-cpu. Yes, that would be a nice form factor. It's a laptop basically if you think about it, sans screen. So if you could get a laptop form factor generic box (with the retractable mouse, that's good too) and pay much less by NOT having an integral LCD screen and use your existing monitor it might be neat as a low watt space saver desktop. Aren't the screens still a big part of laptop costs now?
They not only don't look, they don't *know* to look. Most people I know have zero clue that linux exists, or that there is any other way to compute except microsoft with intel inside. They get machines, that is what it says. I know other people who have heard of linux but think it's a program you run on your wintel computer, like a game or something.
This stuff ain't gonna crack until dell and hp-paq, etc, ship mass quantities of desktops and laptops with some flavor linux pre installed. Even the attempts by linspire, etc to get on hardware are good, but it's very small numbers, and mostly web based sales.
I can go into around half a dozen stores locally to me, whitebox shops, a walmart and an office depot. ALL you see is XP, that's it. And the whitebox shops in no way want to give up the cash cow that malware hosed xp installs is. That's how they make most of their money now.
It's like going down the canned foods aisle at the supermarket and only seeing "corn". After seeing that for years in every grocery store most folks would be convinced that "corn" is the only vegetable that exists, and it would be the stores fault.
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google "irwin schiff and book banned" for starters. There's a lot more if you have been following political news for a long time. Try this one "cia phony journalists". Google "USS Liberty attack coverup". Try "Sibel Edmonds". How about "FDA whistleblowers". or "DOE nuclear whistleblowers".
/. bad car analogy) as when your oil light on the dash comes on, do you A keep driving, or B stop and remedy the situation right then and there before the engine goes?
Just because you can't think of any off the top of your head doesn't mean they don't exist or haven't existed in the past. Free speech issues go several directions, "sunshine laws" have been tried to get government to come clean on shenanigans. The FOIA was passed to try and help there. Under current laws, something like the "pentagon papers" would result not in revelations about government misconduct, but in people going to jail. I mean, really, the thread going on about the black box voting, that's a free speech issue deluxe. We as a perople have been "censored" away from our rights to have open honest transparent elections. That's as fundamentally wrong as it can get.
You have to watch the trends, this is not an absolute one day it's "all bad" deal. It's the direction things are going. Think of it (que obligatory
No it's not as bad as it could get yet. That still doesn't mean it's "good" either.
the more immediate pure electronic vote can go forward with the machine, but the voters could verify their vote on the paper,then drop them in another tally box if they look good, then those paper votes get manually counted elsewhere and compared against the electronic result within a few days.
That's one way to do it. Of course I am in favor of no e-voting at all. I've voted for decades, and it's only the last three I have been required to be dieboldized. My vote has disappeared, you can't see it, it's gone, poofed away to some closed source machine only used by a few people with an agenda. We have no vote now, we have an illusion of a vote, we traded magic beans voodoo "new shiny" voting for anything resembling a vote. Paper pencil and wooden box are quite sufficient. worked for centuries. I like tech, but I like simple too. The only *need* for diebold is to hack elections, that's it. all the stuff that has leaked out about diebold screams "hacked elections on mass scales for fun and profit". Obvious as all get out. I don't think it was a coincidence that the first state wide all e-voting (georgia) also resulted in major poll busting differences in the vote, all *conveniently* in favor of the party currently enjoying power. Now I am not a D,nor an R, none of my guys every hardly gets elected, but... but this was fairly easy to see happen. It just sucks. pre and post polling for years was always pretty accurate,not perfect, but usually nailed it well. Then all of a sudden these polls "failed" the same time we started using diebold machines.
uh huh
I just don't believe in coincidences with power politics, not with the stakes as high as controlling large states and the federal government. It is beyond even putting a numerical value in dollars to estimate what control of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government are 'worth", and if that continues for some time, then control of the judiciary, then that's it, you got it wrapped up. Only two parties is dismal enough, but just one party would be a disaster, and with the vote controlled, it would stay a disaster.
what you say is true, but the project appears to be an effort to help migration from what these corps have now-your aforementioned closed source, no evaluation, expensive, etc stuff, to open source and free or cheap stuff. They *already have software* they are using now, and paid for. it's part psychological, people assume free=cheap as in shoddy. These people with the decision making powers want reviews to look at, printouts that make some sense to themselves and their bean counters. They can't just go "swell, I see this free stuff on this website here my nephew showed me that alleges we can do x,y,z, lets migrate all 15,000 desktops to it tomorrow!" That just ain't gonna work too well. They have to be eased into it, and some sort of certification from a review process will help things along for some people.
i.e. "consumer reports" for business software of the FOSS brand. They already have a ton of "reports" for the expensive closed source stuff.
actually I would think the combination of a live cd distro that had many games, along with basic surfing and IM, etc might get the ball rolling more. It's something that could be sold for reasonable at the retail level, say ten bucks,(not 90$ or whatever, keep it in impulse purchase level) and people after they booted it up would have a linux to play with. People in the aisle *are* looking for games, I noticed it this last weekend when I made the rounds of stores that sell computers and accessories, etc around here while they were running the state "no sales tax" weekend. As long as the directions are clearly on the box to set your boot parameters correctly, I think most kids could figure it out, and they could show their parents, etc..
random links pulled off of google news just now
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http://pakistantimes.net/2005/07/05/top6.htm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=sto
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,1
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8424511/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/cont
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?
In some areas of the world, main stream news website sources from the west are considered hate filled propoganda arms of the governments there, and one can safely assume that aerial bombardment and assaults from "the west" and etc against entire cities *might* qualify as "violence".
Just depends which side of the fence you are on and which way you are looking.
interesting coinky-dink. Few weeks back all of paks internet went down when their main undersea cable "broke" and needed "fixing".
uh huh, it "broke"
I live out in rural bubba land, so there aren't any coffeeshops like as described, but the nearest truckstop has paid-for wifi and also ethernet connections at some of the indoor dining tables. They charge by the hour, day or year. If I lived close enough to get a signal I would have bought a year, 100 clams, decent deal. Anyway, they also have a couple of boxes set up kiosk style that take dollar bills. Every time I've been in there that stuff was getting used, truckers like their email and weather and road reports, etc. When we first moved here before I got my net connection I used to drive over twice a week or so just to get some surfin time in. (much closer than the nearest freebie public library net connection). It seems to be another niche product that makes the truckstops money in that regard, I can't imagine it costing them that much for it to get it set up.
maybe contact these guys see if they have any protypes to test out
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
there's also
http://www.freeplayfoundation.org/
I own two of their radios, great stuff! Multiband, no batteries required
And maybe visit a few solar dealers, see if you can get some donated stuff, panel or two, charge controller, etc. snag a truck battery once you are there.
Oh ya, good water filter! I use a royal berkefield with the "black berky" filter elements.
If you get Roblimo's "point and click linux", you get a dvd with him going through the tutorial, as well as the distro. Saved me a ton of tech calls from the other room from my GF.. I can go "n00b, RTFM AND WTFDVD" heh. I have both a simply mepis and a linspire live cd, and I must say the mepis works marginally better than the linspire, but they are very close to being equally easy. With that said for me I'd rather a full Knoppix for a live CD, but for newbs, Mepis and Linspire are perfectly acceptable. Well, anyone really, they are both decent Linuxes. Never tried Xandros so can't comment. Don't really care for Ubuntu.
Neither made my new all-in-one USB printer work though....grumble. Thought I had the model number correct, transposed it in my mind, got one that just doesn't work. Back to de sto'....Not jumping through hoops with hardware any longer. I'll spend and hour or two, after that, nope. This is 2005, stuff should just work. Including ME, double heh.
....accepts costly software products with NO warranty. They don't accept anything tangible without warranty, but for some reason software gets a free skate, people keep buying it, despite the huge number of bugs and the security issues, etc that are plain to see with various softwares. If they eat that, then patents on that stuff are so far down the radar it won't be noticed even if it's pointed out. That and joe consumer has been completely (and righteously) browbeat and brainwashed into accepting just about anything big business and the government throws at them. The population now has a collective mindset of like this: "what can you do about it?". This is because there isn't anything you can do about it, practically speaking. In theory there might be market pressures, in practice the industry as a whole profits from the phenomenon, so there is no pressure to reform, nor any pressure to inform. A consumer kept in ignorance is a consumer you can keep hustling.
...ever agree to the presentation in the first place then? That is one of the weirder aspects here. Both Cisco and ISS management knew about and condoned the paper and talk right up until the last minute. It was given to the defcon show people to publish, it was in the written and digitized media, THEN removed. What changed at the last minute?
you have everyone pull out two hundred bucks and lay it on the table. Layout a copy of xp pro. boot up a preinstalled version of that and flash through the menu selection. Let them stare at it for a few minutes. they will get the connection. A piece of plastic, a disk. Two hundred bucks. Now, pull out some more disks, then you hand them each a knoppix disk (the new DVD would be nice) and have them boot it up on their computers (or a demo box, whatever). Let them check it out, show it off a little. No commentary, just let them *look* at it. Then tell them they can put their 200$ back in their wallets, they get to keep the disks.
Should make for some interesting conversation with the folks who have never seen it before.
Who cares? How about cost to Joe and Josephine Six Pack in sheer aggravation with windows bugs and malewarez leading to mostly non functional machines? Figure it out at minimum rage by the hour of hosed machine, times number of maachines, I bet it's a lot higher than 10 billion.
Ya, they want patents, copyrights, and maximum profit, yet they have NO WARRANTY for their "products". Seriously bogus "industry standard" compared to other industries.
Via tech is designed this way. Low power, quiet, either totally passive cooling or very small quiet fans.
...the past week determining they don't have any idea what caused the Shuttle fuel sensor to read wrong. So they have decided to just ignore it if it happens again, more or less, when they try to launch tomorrow.
Too bad they couldn't have dropped the coin on the Pioneer analysis for past paid-for launches that were ALREADY successful.
to have dual encrypted data? note: IANAC, so bear with me here. You have your seekrit stuff encrypted, but wait there's more! One layer is medium innocuous, the second layer is where the real stuff lives. The first key unveils the stuff that is meant to be found,if some authority figure and or badguy demands your "key". Swell, give it to them, the data gets unencrypted, they can look at it. But what if what they are now looking at is still encrypted, and in such a way it doesn't look like it? Perhaps what they are looking at now looks like data that you might be expected to have, but in reality it is from a one time pad maybe?
little hazy on the time frames now but:
late 50's-going to see a mainframe for the first time, where my dad worked, thinking it was just spectacular. Took up a whole building basically, don't remember the make/model though. I *think* at the time it was an IBM, he worked there before going on to RCA.
early 60's, another mainframe, some RCA model, MUCH more blinkenlights
70's, arguing with dad that these new personal computers would be BIG, he countered saying they were a fad, no one really would want one for long or find a use for them....
89-first time I used a box with a GUI- Slickerness!! thinks me. Bought the machine, a mac 512, still got it. Had used various peecees before then but didn't like DOS nor the command line, still don't.
Currently a lot of free software is freely downloadable at no cost, but it seems eventually as more and more people use it that the actual infrastructure cost to provide "free downloads" will have to change. You already see it with all the "please donate" links on various "free software" pages. When it's a small single digits worth of people getting new releases and updates it is already expensive. This is roughly now. Who pays for this once half a billion people (some random very large number) all need some new version of whatever?
....getting it home and hooked back up to the internet they are owned again and back to square one with an infested computah.
We farm, and get no subsidies. What we do get is almost monthly new regulations that *cost* us money, or outright theft when some 'stakeholders" decide the flying three eyed newt is more important so the land just gets seized or put out of production, with no compensation. The vast majority of those subsidies you mention go to humongous good ole boy corporate farms, or international agro biz run through daisy chained paper corporations. They should be classed in with defense department cost overruns on no bid contracts and the like. Leave real merkun farmers out of it, we work harder for less money than about any common occupation and your food is still cheap, despite the packers and "move it around and retail it" industry taking a bigger bite than we do. Believe me, if you saw how much we get compared to what you pay for it you'd understand.
And the Africans don't want ag aid because it's GM, they don't want their farmers to get tied in with GM patented seeds,which would put them into serfdom, and I don't blame them one bit, I think it sucks too. Besides that, Africans got their own problems with tribalism and other forms of ridiculous backwards thinking and their version of the tin pot dictator du juor, THOSE are their biggest economic problems, which they are going to have to solve themselves. The best thing we could do there (IMO) is "tough love", just ignore it, neither exploit them like we have been doing for generations nor try to "help". Example, zimbabwe. Let those folks over there get desparate enough they'll hang mugabwe and his drinkin buds eventually, but if we keep shipping that doofus aid, including food aid when they used to have fantastic farms, it will just prolong things.
What's the boiling point of ethanol? Roughly 160 F? Pretty low in other words? Seems like combining solar thermal into the equation you can get a decent net gain. It's using fossil fuel to evaporate out the alky from the mash that takes the most energy and gives those skewed numbers, that and made from natgas fertilizers. Use a total plant based driven fertilizer scheme with it and you can get methane, alcohol, biodiesel, and whatever is left over as fertilizer, all from the same stuff.
Now if they could stop with the corn and look at doing it with industrial hemp....
Seems like you could get a battery operated atomic clock and stick it on your computer now with some double sided foam or velcro or something like that. It would be nifty if it synced with your clock in the machine somehow (bluetooth?).
Keyboard-cpu. Yes, that would be a nice form factor. It's a laptop basically if you think about it, sans screen. So if you could get a laptop form factor generic box (with the retractable mouse, that's good too) and pay much less by NOT having an integral LCD screen and use your existing monitor it might be neat as a low watt space saver desktop. Aren't the screens still a big part of laptop costs now?
funny stuff man! I'm still krakkin up!
They not only don't look, they don't *know* to look. Most people I know have zero clue that linux exists, or that there is any other way to compute except microsoft with intel inside. They get machines, that is what it says. I know other people who have heard of linux but think it's a program you run on your wintel computer, like a game or something.
This stuff ain't gonna crack until dell and hp-paq, etc, ship mass quantities of desktops and laptops with some flavor linux pre installed. Even the attempts by linspire, etc to get on hardware are good, but it's very small numbers, and mostly web based sales.
I can go into around half a dozen stores locally to me, whitebox shops, a walmart and an office depot. ALL you see is XP, that's it. And the whitebox shops in no way want to give up the cash cow that malware hosed xp installs is. That's how they make most of their money now.
It's like going down the canned foods aisle at the supermarket and only seeing "corn". After seeing that for years in every grocery store most folks would be convinced that "corn" is the only vegetable that exists, and it would be the stores fault.