"Doesn't need a backlight because it's reflective"? - doesn't that mean it needs some light to reflect? I thought it must be emissive to be truly backlight free like oleds.
I can see how this directly impacts mapquest and how it is a nice addition to their search/ads empire, but how it signifies taking over Microsoft is not obvious.
If anything, they appear to have their sights on Yahoo. Google dominates in search engines, but I still use yahoo for my homepage/portal for their rss feeds/mail/stocks/financial information.
I guess the similarity with Microsoft is their show of dominance in their respective arenas, but to me those arenas are still distinctly separate.
Personally, if anyone 'takes on' microsoft, I hope its debian.
A more effective way of spreading opensource for windows users, especially those who have *never* used linux, is to not have them try linux at all. Rather, give them a gnuwinCD. GNUwin rulez. Example apps include putty, VideoLan Client, Gimp, OpenOffice, mplayer, audacity, winLAME, ghostscript, Cdex, Octave, gnuplot and TightVNC just to name my faves. No new commands to learn. All in the same, familiar MS Windows environment they are comfortable with. Just point and click and before they know it, they're hooked on open source.
Take audacity+Lame for example... I have used it to record some foreign language vocabulary words to a wav file, and then used winLAME to convert it to mp3 to listen on my mp3 player. Ghostscript to convert *any* document to pdf. CDex is the *most* straightforward CD ripper, period. Gimp works great for me as a Photoshop substitute. I use gnuplot for automated plot generation that leaves Excel in the dust. For math/engineering students that use matlab but can't afford a (legal) copy - octave is a formidable replacement which can use many scripts with little alteration. When you look at the software that these applications can replace - you are looking at a very useful, valuable gift that requires minimal time investment to learn. Live distros are cute, but I haven't found much use for them.
I dunno how many people really appreciate how incredible the contributions that Intel has made.
I recently learned that thier 3GHz processors possess 1.2nm (12Angstroms) gate oxide thickness. I'm not exactly calibrated, but it can't be more than a Si atom conected to an Oxygen connected to a Si atom conected to an Oxygen along the thickness direction. And this is *consistently* done across a 300mm wafer (~1 foot!). It's just insane!
Let it be known that by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03, @09:55AM (#5423923) - it was posted the most dumb shit fucking ass ill-concieved flame post *EVER*
Look Troll,
You are the absolute dumbest person on earth. As many have pointed out - it says so on the first sentence of the post. I just wanted to add salt to your wound as well we all should since you are a complete moron for posting such pathetically dumb-shit post.
You even have the AUDACITY to reprimand "trolls" in your sig. For this you should shrivel up a crawl away, you pathetic "Facktard"
As Nelson says on Simpsons - "HA-ha!"
REDMOND, WA -- In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
...
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
...
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
Spinal Tap LIVES!!!
Did anyone else catch the name of the head scientist working on it??!?!?!
His name is *Nigel*!!
"That's not real is it? They can't say that!"
- Nigel Tufnel when asked for response to two-word review of album, "Shark Sandwich" which was simply: "Shit Sandwich"
This is total bullshit and goes to show how many people can be so guillible and take things as they are without questioning them. *Many* howtos are out of date and POORLY WRITTEN. Information is disjointed, incomplete, and written without the likely audience in mind.
Call me a punk... but I KNOW what good instructional writing is and many HOWTO's do NOT qualify.
Greedy, Morally-Corrupt, Thoughtless, Wasteful Bastards in the Biology/Life Sciences dept at University of Oregon in Eugene are charging $33 photocopies of crappy hand drawn molecules and chicken scratch notes.
Has anyone else noticed this tragedy going on at their local colleges and universities? It's f**in' putting a pricetag on knowledge!
Here's my letter to the Prof. Karen Sprague:
To whom it may concern,
I apologize in advance if you are not accountable for the issue which I raise in this e-mail. I don't know who else to send it to... so here goes.
I am a student in your Bio class. I am writing this e-mail to express my extreme frustration in regards to the lecture notes which are *required* class materials. I was STRUCK tonight when opening the plastic packaging to find nothing more than 113 pages of handwritten drawings and notes.
My first thought was... "I paid $32.90 for this?!?!" Then I calculated, at 5 cents a page (which is more than reasonable), 113 copied pages (b/w) should cost no more than $5.65. The disparity in cost between what I (a minimum wage earning undergraduate student) am REQUIRED to PAY vs. what is REASONABLE is nothing less than astounding and arguably morally reprehensible.
I urge, no - *BEG* you to consider more affordable solutions to reproducing these lecture notes. (university copying service, scan to pdf version and make available for download) Why, on earth, should students have to pay so much money for something that they have received for *FREE* in other situations? After all... what else are we paying for in our tuition and fees?
Again - I warmly apologize if you are not responsible for the unfair pricing of the lecture notes. (pricing of *lecture notes*... this is sad...) If this is the case, please forward my message to those responsible.
The reality is that I have no choice in this situation. I must pay... But I refuse to pay without shedding some light on what I see to be a real injustice to students. If nothing is ultimately done... it would not be hard to report this to other parties which may draw due attention to the issue. At the very least, as a temporary measure... give some justification to the students who are probably and quite rightly asking themselves, "why did I pay so much for this?".
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"Doesn't need a backlight because it's reflective"? - doesn't that mean it needs some light to reflect? I thought it must be emissive to be truly backlight free like oleds.
I can see how this directly impacts mapquest and how it is a nice addition to their search/ads empire, but how it signifies taking over Microsoft is not obvious.
If anything, they appear to have their sights on Yahoo. Google dominates in search engines, but I still use yahoo for my homepage/portal for their rss feeds/mail/stocks/financial information.
I guess the similarity with Microsoft is their show of dominance in their respective arenas, but to me those arenas are still distinctly separate.
Personally, if anyone 'takes on' microsoft, I hope its debian.
The article says that you already have the burner. It's in the CD.
A more effective way of spreading opensource for windows users, especially those who have *never* used linux, is to not have them try linux at all. Rather, give them a gnuwin CD. GNUwin rulez. Example apps include putty, VideoLan Client, Gimp, OpenOffice, mplayer, audacity, winLAME, ghostscript, Cdex, Octave, gnuplot and TightVNC just to name my faves. No new commands to learn. All in the same, familiar MS Windows environment they are comfortable with. Just point and click and before they know it, they're hooked on open source.
Take audacity+Lame for example... I have used it to record some foreign language vocabulary words to a wav file, and then used winLAME to convert it to mp3 to listen on my mp3 player. Ghostscript to convert *any* document to pdf. CDex is the *most* straightforward CD ripper, period. Gimp works great for me as a Photoshop substitute. I use gnuplot for automated plot generation that leaves Excel in the dust. For math/engineering students that use matlab but can't afford a (legal) copy - octave is a formidable replacement which can use many scripts with little alteration. When you look at the software that these applications can replace - you are looking at a very useful, valuable gift that requires minimal time investment to learn. Live distros are cute, but I haven't found much use for them.
I recently learned that thier 3GHz processors possess 1.2nm (12Angstroms) gate oxide thickness. I'm not exactly calibrated, but it can't be more than a Si atom conected to an Oxygen connected to a Si atom conected to an Oxygen along the thickness direction. And this is *consistently* done across a 300mm wafer (~1 foot!). It's just insane!
I assumed they do this for those who are running 3.0r1 and, for whatever reason, don't want to upgrade to 3.1. They can still upgrade to 3.0r2.
I think it's great that due diligence is put on the old releases as well as the new ones.
Let it be known that by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03, @09:55AM (#5423923) - it was posted the most dumb shit fucking ass ill-concieved flame post *EVER*
Look Troll, You are the absolute dumbest person on earth. As many have pointed out - it says so on the first sentence of the post. I just wanted to add salt to your wound as well we all should since you are a complete moron for posting such pathetically dumb-shit post. You even have the AUDACITY to reprimand "trolls" in your sig. For this you should shrivel up a crawl away, you pathetic "Facktard" As Nelson says on Simpsons - "HA-ha!"
REDMOND, WA -- In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
"That's not real is it? They can't say that!" - Nigel Tufnel when asked for response to two-word review of album, "Shark Sandwich" which was simply: "Shit Sandwich"
This is total bullshit and goes to show how many people can be so guillible and take things as they are without questioning them. *Many* howtos are out of date and POORLY WRITTEN. Information is disjointed, incomplete, and written without the likely audience in mind. Call me a punk... but I KNOW what good instructional writing is and many HOWTO's do NOT qualify.
So how did that work for you... did it help?... did learning BSD first help with learning linux? Just curious...
riigght.... what does 'suborned' mean?
The site www.mp.nic.in is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
Greedy, Morally-Corrupt, Thoughtless, Wasteful Bastards in the Biology/Life Sciences dept at University of Oregon in Eugene are charging $33 photocopies of crappy hand drawn molecules and chicken scratch notes.
... "I paid $32.90 for this?!?!" Then I calculated, at 5 cents a page (which is more than reasonable), 113 copied pages (b/w) should cost no more than $5.65. The disparity in cost between what I (a minimum wage earning undergraduate student) am REQUIRED to PAY vs. what is REASONABLE is nothing less than astounding and arguably morally reprehensible.
... what else are we paying for in our tuition and fees?
... this is sad...) If this is the case, please forward my message to those responsible.
... it would not be hard to report this to other parties which may draw due attention to the issue. At the very least, as a temporary measure... give some justification to the students who are probably and quite rightly asking themselves, "why did I pay so much for this?".
Has anyone else noticed this tragedy going on at their local colleges and universities? It's f**in' putting a pricetag on knowledge!
Here's my letter to the Prof. Karen Sprague:
To whom it may concern,
I apologize in advance if you are not accountable for the issue which I raise in this e-mail. I don't know who else to send it to... so here goes.
I am a student in your Bio class. I am writing this e-mail to express my extreme frustration in regards to the lecture notes which are *required* class materials. I was STRUCK tonight when opening the plastic packaging to find nothing more than 113 pages of handwritten drawings and notes.
My first thought was
I urge, no - *BEG* you to consider more affordable solutions to reproducing these lecture notes. (university copying service, scan to pdf version and make available for download) Why, on earth, should students have to pay so much money for something that they have received for *FREE* in other situations? After all
Again - I warmly apologize if you are not responsible for the unfair pricing of the lecture notes. (pricing of *lecture notes*
The reality is that I have no choice in this situation. I must pay... But I refuse to pay without shedding some light on what I see to be a real injustice to students. If nothing is ultimately done
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