Hrm.. wow, thats surprising.
I know from personal experience that my video card performs badly in linux compared to windows, but then again, its a crappy video card (by todays standards) to boot. Its a Geforce2 GTS 64mb.
My friend has an ATI card and for whatever reason, he cannot get it to work right under linux. It likes to detect it as the ati card thats one model down from his.
Thats strange.. I would almost suspect your hardware to be the culprate (sp?).
I have a SB Live! running in my linux box with no problems. I also have the AC97 onboard audio on the mobo working also (both at the same time too). They are both working in SuSE, but they also both work in Mandrake and Knoppix. I had no problems setting them up either. In fact, just like windows, I didnt need to do anything. The automated install worked perfectly.
Even the obscure sound chipset used in my Laptop works perfectly under several linux distros.
Linux may be a bitch to get to work with some hardware (the USB and WiFi on my laptop come to mind...) but I dont think Sound support is a big issue.
If your going to rag on linux about anything, I would say that it needs better video support. It sucks when you go out and buy a fancy video card and when you set it up on Linux you get half the performance out of it that you would get from windows.
Well, I think that using magnesium on car parts is genious. But maybe not for any part that requires significant strength.
The magnesium, if grounded properly, will act as a rust-magnet (if you will) because it has a lower oxydizing potential than the metal used in the cars. So... if it is properly connected to the car, it *should* rust before the car does. However, once it rusts/weakens/deteriorates, the car will start to rust (and your magnesium part will be gone).
Maybe Ford was thinking of this when they made the parts out of magnesium? Or maybe they were just stupid. Another small flaw with using magnesium car parts however is that the stuff is rediciously flammable. Just hope that your F150 never has an engine fire or that radiator mount will be burning as bright as a flare.
"In today's example, think how convenient it would be to have snuffed that new troublemaker in Iraq?"
Hrm.. sounds like assasination to me. Which could have just as easily been accomplished in Iraq with a well placed sniper. Seems though, that there are "international treaties" against this sort of thing... Wouldnt using a beam from space be no different?
What I could invision is an EMP sataelite that will detonate over top of enemy troops frying radar, and certain rocket-launching-computers. Either that, or the slighlty less elegant weapon of a nuke-bearing sataelite that will drop nukes with only a couple minutes of warning time for the enemy beneath. Just hope they use some uber-secure system for these sataelites that can't easily be taken control of by rogue terrorist hackers...
Somehow I find it hard to believe that you have to pay your babysitter " $1/minute, DOUBLING every minute" for every min your late. If your 15 mins late, that would mean you have to pay your babysitter $32,768. If you were half an hour late, this number would be up in the millions.
Step 1) Babysit this guys kids Step 2) Hire someone to make sure he's late (maybe bribe his manager to give him overtime?) Step 3) ???? Step 4) PROFIT!!!!!
Perhaps there idea is to give 1gb of email only space, meaning that they will have a per message limit of a couple mb. Sure this system still could be abused to distribute 1 - 2mb rar files as someone mentioned above, but it would really be very impractical.
This limit would still allow virtually unlimited honest use of the system (how often do you send files over 2mb? by email?) And most people will probably abandon their accounts well before they reach the 1gb limit.
It seems to me that alot of people arent putting much thought into these Hydrogen powered car alternatives.
Sure, their only biproduct is H2O, but the hydrogen has to come from somewhere. It takes quite a bit of power to get H2 via electrolysis of water. And all that power has to come from somewhere.
Hydrogen powered cars wouldnt really be more environmentally friendly, it would just make the consumer believe it is by shifting the responsibility from the consumer to the company in charge of generating the H2.
Nah, no need for a big needle. Just put in a USB port, or if you really want to move fast, a firewire port... Just be careful to always be running virus scanners to be scanning everything that goes through your brains I/O buffer or we could end up with a bunch of Agent Smith's running around killing things.
Yup.. I hear ya about the calculus through the wazoo.. I am actually in the process of cramming for a calculus exam tomorrow. Taking my "slashdot break" he he he .
I am a first year computer engineering student in Canada and I found it a very difficult decision to make.
I dont think that Comp. Eng. is going to be offshored nearly as much as Comp. Sci jobs will be, which is one of the main reasons why I chose comp eng. I was reading up some statistics from the US government about average salleries and the such, and despite the "offshoring" theory, Computer Engineering remains one of the fastest growing engineering job sectors in america. They also start with the highest pay of all engineering degrees.
I am not sure what those stats really mean, but I couldnt really picture myself doing anything else, and I think that if you are truly good at what you do, you will get a very good paying job. Same goes for comp. sci. in my opinion. Although the sallaries may be lower, and theres more graduates than comp. eng, if you are truly good at it, then chances are you will get a decent North American job.
I mean, you cant really offshore EVERYBODY can you?
Will they release a "Groove P2P lite" that will allow me to login and track who is downloading my info?
And then I can start random lawsuits suing people for downloading my personal info without paying me royalties...
Oh wait... sounds vaguely fammilliar...
1) Post private personal info on Kazaa
2) Start a bunch of lawsuits
3) ????
4) Profit!!!
I find that there is a great demmand for this sort of thing. I have been "dabbling" in this by fixing some of my dads co-workers friends computers for them.
They pay me $20 / hour for doing basic maintenance on their pc downloading and running spybot, adaware, norton, defrag, learing their startup programs from crap,/uninstalling useless applications, etc...
It almost feels bad taking their money, but when you think about it, it would cost them alot more if they were to take the computer in for servicing and then they would be out of action for at least a week.
A friend of mine decided to put out a bunch of flyers around spring break (which happens to be in Feb. for me), and he was just raking in the dough from people getting him to fix their computers. He even got the odd senior who wanted him to teach them how to use their new computers.
I think that this is a great way for teens to make some quick dough. As long as your a few bucks cheaper and faster than the next best alternative, you will make a killing.
Nobody is saying that Mac's are perfect or "100% invulnerable to all variety of problems".
The sole reason that they are easier to avoid malicious software (ie Viruses and/or Spyware) is because of the fact that 90% of the world uses Windows. Not many viruses are written for Macs because typically the virus/spyware writer will want their code to be executed by as many machines as possible, and lets face it, writing it for a Mac isnt the very best way to do it.
Although, if you are carefull it is possible to get a PC to run virus/spyware clean, if you know what your doing. But alot of newbs. arent knowledgable enough to realize that maybe clicking "yes" to every security popup you get in IE, skipping the odd virus def. update and/or scan (assuming that someone was on the ball and install ed the virus scanner in the first place) isnt the best idea, and thats how they end up plugging their system full of garbage.
So in my opinion, its a trade off. Mac may be a bit less mainstream than PC, but may be a bit more practical in terms of support time required to remove spyware/viruses.
I think that the current set of protocol's may have their weakneses, but I seriously doubt that anybody who has experienced "free" email will ever pay per message. Although I am sure new users wouldnt know the difference and would more than willingly cough up the cash, I dont think any existing users would.
Chances are, this whole system would require a new protocol, and in that case, I think the majority of people would just keep the existing protocols.
Actually, I bought a cd mp3 player back in 2000. It set me back a good $200 at the time, but I have yet to find a better player.
It plays cd-r as well as cd-rw's and has all the features (and more) that many solid state players have. For instance, you can construct playlists and it will also read playlists from winamp. It has a handy resume feature that will remember up to 20 discs so you can swap discs and it will pick up with the same settings, track, and track time that you had when you pulled the disc out. It has very decent 45seccond anti-skip that works great for most all of my purposes.
Finally, the best thing that I found about it is the fact that it is very customizable. You can change all kinds of settings like the delay on the backlight for the screen, sleep timer, custom equalizers, digital volume increments, etc.. Which all came in a firmware update a while back. You can even change the buffer if you like from a 30s to 60s.
This little machine has served me very well and as I said earlier, I have yet to find a machine that will surpass it. The only reason I could see of having anything else is if you needed like a 40gb ipod. But really, who listens to that many songs in their rotation? I burn three or four cd-rw's with 400 songs each and I am set.
Wouldnt the speed that you can achieve using optical chips be limited to the speeds that you can transmit/interpret the optics? I dont see how that could make things any faster seeming how the speed of the reciever portion of the chip would be bounded by the same laws of current chips, and thus would be limited to the same speed as existing chips.
Unless there have been actual optical logic gates designed (ie two optical sources going into a single non-electric device that will only output a single value (bounded by and/or/xor/xand theory), I dont see how this can increase speed.
Not sure if this thing actually does, but it sounds to me like this cannon would cost quite a bit of coin. Perhaps it would be cheaper to cover the lot with a tent-like canvas roof? Hail would roll off leaving the cars undammaged. Requires no fancy technology, no electricity, and keeps the cars clean and dry.
Sounds alot like me.. Although the difference is that I am currently in College, but I still live at home. Now I get to emerse myself in computers and school work 24/7. Yay! No time for friends... sigh... just slashdot.
I really dont see the need for another generation of consoles yet so soon. Could they have really made that many mistakes on the xbox1 that warrants a complete new system??
Come on, get serious. Lets see them concentrate on making good games rather than cramming the games full of high end 3D graphics.
A good game doesnt need to rely on quality of graphics to be good. I still play the various mario series (for snes/nes) and I think they are alot better than most of the junk thats come out recently.
I thought that Microsoft was selling their consoles below cost anyways. Why would it be profitable for them to get another system (which will probably be sold at cost as well) when have just finished getting the xbox1 out there?
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Free parking as in, you dont have to pay? Or Free parking as in Monopoly where you get money for parking? I like the seccond option...
Go Directly to jail. Do not pass go.. do not collect $200.
Hrm.. wow, thats surprising. I know from personal experience that my video card performs badly in linux compared to windows, but then again, its a crappy video card (by todays standards) to boot. Its a Geforce2 GTS 64mb. My friend has an ATI card and for whatever reason, he cannot get it to work right under linux. It likes to detect it as the ati card thats one model down from his.
Thats strange.. I would almost suspect your hardware to be the culprate (sp?).
I have a SB Live! running in my linux box with no problems. I also have the AC97 onboard audio on the mobo working also (both at the same time too). They are both working in SuSE, but they also both work in Mandrake and Knoppix. I had no problems setting them up either. In fact, just like windows, I didnt need to do anything. The automated install worked perfectly.
Even the obscure sound chipset used in my Laptop
works perfectly under several linux distros.
Linux may be a bitch to get to work with some hardware (the USB and WiFi on my laptop come to mind...) but I dont think Sound support is a big issue.
If your going to rag on linux about anything, I would say that it needs better video support. It sucks when you go out and buy a fancy video card and when you set it up on Linux you get half the performance out of it that you would get from windows.
Well, I think that using magnesium on car parts is genious. But maybe not for any part that requires significant strength.
The magnesium, if grounded properly, will act as a rust-magnet (if you will) because it has a lower oxydizing potential than the metal used in the cars. So... if it is properly connected to the car, it *should* rust before the car does. However, once it rusts/weakens/deteriorates, the car will start to rust (and your magnesium part will be gone).
Maybe Ford was thinking of this when they made the parts out of magnesium? Or maybe they were just stupid. Another small flaw with using magnesium car parts however is that the stuff is rediciously flammable. Just hope that your F150 never has an engine fire or that radiator mount will be burning as bright as a flare.
I wonder if you sent up 10kg of Blue Ink/Powder if you could see it from an earth telescope. That would be kinda cool.
"In today's example, think how convenient it would be to have snuffed that new troublemaker in Iraq?"
Hrm.. sounds like assasination to me. Which could have just as easily been accomplished in Iraq with a well placed sniper. Seems though, that there are "international treaties" against this sort of thing... Wouldnt using a beam from space be no different?
What I could invision is an EMP sataelite that will detonate over top of enemy troops frying radar, and certain rocket-launching-computers. Either that, or the slighlty less elegant weapon of a nuke-bearing sataelite that will drop nukes with only a couple minutes of warning time for the enemy beneath. Just hope they use some uber-secure system for these sataelites that can't easily be taken control of by rogue terrorist hackers...
Somehow I find it hard to believe that you have to pay your babysitter " $1/minute, DOUBLING every minute" for every min your late. If your 15 mins late, that would mean you have to pay your babysitter $32,768. If you were half an hour late, this number would be up in the millions.
Step 1) Babysit this guys kids
Step 2) Hire someone to make sure he's late (maybe bribe his manager to give him overtime?)
Step 3) ????
Step 4) PROFIT!!!!!
Hrmm..
This could have two possible meanings..
a) It can physically access a computer system, pop in a CD and install linux.
or, slightly less interesting...
b) Have linux installed and running on its onboard CPU.
Perhaps there idea is to give 1gb of email only space, meaning that they will have a per message limit of a couple mb. Sure this system still could be abused to distribute 1 - 2mb rar files as someone mentioned above, but it would really be very impractical.
This limit would still allow virtually unlimited honest use of the system (how often do you send files over 2mb? by email?) And most people will probably abandon their accounts well before they reach the 1gb limit.
It seems to me that alot of people arent putting much thought into these Hydrogen powered car alternatives.
Sure, their only biproduct is H2O, but the hydrogen has to come from somewhere. It takes quite a bit of power to get H2 via electrolysis of water. And all that power has to come from somewhere.
Hydrogen powered cars wouldnt really be more environmentally friendly, it would just make the consumer believe it is by shifting the responsibility from the consumer to the company in charge of generating the H2.
Nah, no need for a big needle. Just put in a USB port, or if you really want to move fast, a firewire port... Just be careful to always be running virus scanners to be scanning everything that goes through your brains I/O buffer or we could end up with a bunch of Agent Smith's running around killing things.
=)
Yup.. I hear ya about the calculus through the wazoo.. I am actually in the process of cramming for a calculus exam tomorrow. Taking my "slashdot break" he he he .
I am a first year computer engineering student in Canada and I found it a very difficult decision to make.
I dont think that Comp. Eng. is going to be offshored nearly as much as Comp. Sci jobs will be, which is one of the main reasons why I chose comp eng. I was reading up some statistics from the US government about average salleries and the such, and despite the "offshoring" theory, Computer Engineering remains one of the fastest growing engineering job sectors in america. They also start with the highest pay of all engineering degrees.
I am not sure what those stats really mean, but I couldnt really picture myself doing anything else, and I think that if you are truly good at what you do, you will get a very good paying job. Same goes for comp. sci. in my opinion. Although the sallaries may be lower, and theres more graduates than comp. eng, if you are truly good at it, then chances are you will get a decent North American job.
I mean, you cant really offshore EVERYBODY can you?
Oh wait...
Just remembered, I am Canadian... there go my plans for world domination...
Will they release a "Groove P2P lite" that will allow me to login and track who is downloading my info?
And then I can start random lawsuits suing people for downloading my personal info without paying me royalties...
Oh wait... sounds vaguely fammilliar...
1) Post private personal info on Kazaa
2) Start a bunch of lawsuits
3) ????
4) Profit!!!
I find that there is a great demmand for this sort of thing. I have been "dabbling" in this by fixing some of my dads co-workers friends computers for them.
/uninstalling useless applications, etc...
They pay me $20 / hour for doing basic maintenance on their pc downloading and running spybot, adaware, norton, defrag, learing their startup programs from crap,
It almost feels bad taking their money, but when you think about it, it would cost them alot more if they were to take the computer in for servicing and then they would be out of action for at least a week.
A friend of mine decided to put out a bunch of flyers around spring break (which happens to be in Feb. for me), and he was just raking in the dough from people getting him to fix their computers. He even got the odd senior who wanted him to teach them how to use their new computers.
I think that this is a great way for teens to make some quick dough. As long as your a few bucks cheaper and faster than the next best alternative, you will make a killing.
This is good news for me, I am a Canadian on shaw cable. Its good to know that someones sticking up for my rights..
Nobody is saying that Mac's are perfect or "100% invulnerable to all variety of problems".
The sole reason that they are easier to avoid malicious software (ie Viruses and/or Spyware) is because of the fact that 90% of the world uses Windows. Not many viruses are written for Macs because typically the virus/spyware writer will want their code to be executed by as many machines as possible, and lets face it, writing it for a Mac isnt the very best way to do it.
Although, if you are carefull it is possible to get a PC to run virus/spyware clean, if you know what your doing. But alot of newbs. arent knowledgable enough to realize that maybe clicking "yes" to every security popup you get in IE, skipping the odd virus def. update and/or scan (assuming that someone was on the ball and install ed the virus scanner in the first place) isnt the best idea, and thats how they end up plugging their system full of garbage.
So in my opinion, its a trade off. Mac may be a bit less mainstream than PC, but may be a bit more practical in terms of support time required to remove spyware/viruses.
I think that the current set of protocol's may have their weakneses, but I seriously doubt that anybody who has experienced "free" email will ever pay per message. Although I am sure new users wouldnt know the difference and would more than willingly cough up the cash, I dont think any existing users would.
Chances are, this whole system would require a new protocol, and in that case, I think the majority of people would just keep the existing protocols.
Actually, I bought a cd mp3 player back in 2000. It set me back a good $200 at the time, but I have yet to find a better player.
It plays cd-r as well as cd-rw's and has all the features (and more) that many solid state players have. For instance, you can construct playlists and it will also read playlists from winamp. It has a handy resume feature that will remember up to 20 discs so you can swap discs and it will pick up with the same settings, track, and track time that you had when you pulled the disc out.
It has very decent 45seccond anti-skip that works great for most all of my purposes.
Finally, the best thing that I found about it is the fact that it is very customizable. You can change all kinds of settings like the delay on the backlight for the screen, sleep timer, custom equalizers, digital volume increments, etc.. Which all came in a firmware update a while back. You can even change the buffer if you like from a 30s to 60s.
This little machine has served me very well and as I said earlier, I have yet to find a machine that will surpass it. The only reason I could see of having anything else is if you needed like a 40gb ipod. But really, who listens to that many songs in their rotation? I burn three or four cd-rw's with 400 songs each and I am set.
Wouldnt the speed that you can achieve using optical chips be limited to the speeds that you can transmit/interpret the optics? I dont see how that could make things any faster seeming how the speed of the reciever portion of the chip would be bounded by the same laws of current chips, and thus would be limited to the same speed as existing chips.
Unless there have been actual optical logic gates designed (ie two optical sources going into a single non-electric device that will only output a single value (bounded by and/or/xor/xand theory), I dont see how this can increase speed.
Not sure if this thing actually does, but it sounds to me like this cannon would cost quite a bit of coin. Perhaps it would be cheaper to cover the lot with a tent-like canvas roof? Hail would roll off leaving the cars undammaged. Requires no fancy technology, no electricity, and keeps the cars clean and dry.
Screw that, me and my friends frequently use the term "LOL" (in person). It requires less effort than actually laughing. he he he.
Sounds alot like me.. Although the difference is that I am currently in College, but I still live at home. Now I get to emerse myself in computers and school work 24/7. Yay! No time for friends... sigh... just slashdot.
I really dont see the need for another generation of consoles yet so soon. Could they have really made that many mistakes on the xbox1 that warrants a complete new system??
Come on, get serious. Lets see them concentrate on making good games rather than cramming the games full of high end 3D graphics.
A good game doesnt need to rely on quality of graphics to be good. I still play the various mario series (for snes/nes) and I think they are alot better than most of the junk thats come out recently.
I thought that Microsoft was selling their consoles below cost anyways. Why would it be profitable for them to get another system (which will probably be sold at cost as well) when have just finished getting the xbox1 out there?