Re:Linux compatibility?
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No shit, Sherlock. As always, the question is: "ARE said drivers available for Linux?"
Linux compatibility?
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"The OQO Model 01 ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-functional Windows XP computer."
Yet another wonderful toy being sold with the word "Windows" plastered all over its site, just because that's necessary to sell anything nowadays...
I remember an old joke that stated, basically, that Apple could come up with an amazing computer that fits in your pocket, is more powerful than a supercomputer, and makes your penis bigger, but the first question people would ask is "Yes, but does it run Windows?"
Will this thing be Linuxable/BSDable?
What's the answer?
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...is to be a teeny-tiny niche market, like Linux handhelds (compare and contrast: Number of Zauruses sold vs. number of iPaqs sold).
The Masses don't understand RPN, don't understand why anyone would want to use a "backwards" syntax, and aren't interested in listening to us nerds when we explain the very real benefits of grokking stack-based systems.
What the fuck is the point of NASA -existing- if they aren't doing human space travel? Commercial entities are already doing unmanned stuff in space (read: satellites out the wazoo) better and cheaper than NASA ever could. NASA's great claim to fame is its achievements with humans in space-- not robots! It's no big deal to put a 'bot in space (unless that 'bot is something spectacular like Hubble), but landing men on the moon is something special...
This is getting fucking RIDICULOUS. The astronauts who go up into space do so with full knowledge of the fact that they might not return alive. Yet despite the danger, there are many who are willing to risk their necks. Just send a fucking shuttle! I'd like to know what mental midget suggested that we shouldn't send humans into space in the shuttle any more, since it's "risky". (And was this individual formerly an insurance adjuster, a lawyer, or some other sort of simple-minded human scum?)
The public (even in Europe, where in theory the average schmuck on the streets isn't as apathetic/uncultured as Joe Sixpack here in the US) will just see this as a bunch of lunatic computer geeks rambling on about some meaningless computer-industry "thing", and will let it go in one ear and out the other.
I'm really thinking that it's impossible to fight the tide in Europe, the US, and Australia. (Southeast Asia's next.) It might very well be that the only way to live in a country that doesn't have a repressive "intellectual property" institution designed around the needs of barristers would be to start a geeks-only nation and outlaw lawyers and lawyer-like behaviour via Constitutional edict...
Any nice islands up for sale on which to build Geektopia?
Yes, when they're enforced by the DMCA and jail sentences for those who reverse-engineer them. (Remember DeCSS? The outcry over DeCSS was just a preview; things are going to get a lot worse, not better.)
StarROMs is a fucking joke. Let's not beat around the bush. If they really want to combat piracy, then they need a much, much bigger selection. A more sane pricing scheme (e.g. a sliding scale based on the age of the ROM-- 1970s and early 1980s ROMs like Pong and Pac-Man for $5, late 1980s ROMs for $10, early 1990s ROMs for $15-- with all prices decreasing as time goes on) would help too.
CNN is an American TV network. The average American thinks that Bill Gates invented the personal computer (and that he is a national hero and a role model to be looked up to), that Excel is a general-purpose database program, that SQL is a Microsoft product ("SQL Server"), and that there is some inherent difference between Dell and Compaq. They randomly attribute any type of computer flakiness to "viruses" or "hackers", since those are the only causes for bork-ups that they understand. And just now their mass-market news network is discovering that WiFi is insecure. Is this any surprise? I'm just hoping that some day CNN will "discover" that Microsoft didn't invent the GUI, and that AOL isn't the Internet...
As flattering a photo of RMS as there'll ever be
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...can be found here (it's inlined in the article). Not bad, for RMS. He kinda looks Jedi-ish. Or like a philosophical gnu;)
It only matches the speed of a modern PC at the single task it was designed for. Think of it as a very old, very interesting DSP. (I recall the stories on SlashDot about how the GPUs on modern ATI/nVidia cards are "many times faster than P4s"... well, yes, but you can't run Linux on them...)
I feel like my intelligence is being insulted by the pervasive labeling of these devices by Linksys as "Wireless G" and "Wireless B" (as opposed to "802.11g" and "802.11b"). Why can't any technical term ever remain unadulterated by end-users and marketeers? Yeesh. What's next, they'll start referring to the "Linux Kernel 2.6" as "PenguinPopper 2004"?
No, seems to me that the ONLY way to do a truly "secure" e-Voting scheme would be for people to actually RUN THE VOTING SOFTWARE ON THEIR HOME COMPUTERS. Which I don't see happening any time soon, given government-types' fetishistic fascination with centralised control...
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No shit, Sherlock. As always, the question is: "ARE said drivers available for Linux?"
"The OQO Model 01 ultra personal computer (uPC) is a fully-functional Windows XP computer."
Yet another wonderful toy being sold with the word "Windows" plastered all over its site, just because that's necessary to sell anything nowadays...
I remember an old joke that stated, basically, that Apple could come up with an amazing computer that fits in your pocket, is more powerful than a supercomputer, and makes your penis bigger, but the first question people would ask is "Yes, but does it run Windows?"
Will this thing be Linuxable/BSDable?
"Oh Kwo"? "Oh koh"? "Ock oh"? "Oh Queue Oh"?
Irak?
Is there some worldwide stupidity epidemic or something? Can anyone spell anything now?
Your parents have "know" idea how a computer works? "They're" computer got the Sasser worm?
Learn to write, moron.
Have you tried http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/?
Umm, I'm American, and we spell "routes" as "routes". How the hell else would you spell it? "roots"? "ruotes"? "raeioutes"? :>
Repeat after me:
There is no such thing as "Max (sic) OS X".
There is no such thing as "Max (sic) OS X".
There is no such thing as "Max (sic) OS X".
I know the theory is that quantum encryption is totally secure, as observing the data in transit actually changes it.
Can someone please explain how on earth this works?
...is to be a teeny-tiny niche market, like Linux handhelds (compare and contrast: Number of Zauruses sold vs. number of iPaqs sold).
The Masses don't understand RPN, don't understand why anyone would want to use a "backwards" syntax, and aren't interested in listening to us nerds when we explain the very real benefits of grokking stack-based systems.
What the fuck is the point of NASA -existing- if they aren't doing human space travel? Commercial entities are already doing unmanned stuff in space (read: satellites out the wazoo) better and cheaper than NASA ever could. NASA's great claim to fame is its achievements with humans in space-- not robots! It's no big deal to put a 'bot in space (unless that 'bot is something spectacular like Hubble), but landing men on the moon is something special...
This is getting fucking RIDICULOUS. The astronauts who go up into space do so with full knowledge of the fact that they might not return alive. Yet despite the danger, there are many who are willing to risk their necks. Just send a fucking shuttle! I'd like to know what mental midget suggested that we shouldn't send humans into space in the shuttle any more, since it's "risky". (And was this individual formerly an insurance adjuster, a lawyer, or some other sort of simple-minded human scum?)
The public (even in Europe, where in theory the average schmuck on the streets isn't as apathetic/uncultured as Joe Sixpack here in the US) will just see this as a bunch of lunatic computer geeks rambling on about some meaningless computer-industry "thing", and will let it go in one ear and out the other.
I'm really thinking that it's impossible to fight the tide in Europe, the US, and Australia. (Southeast Asia's next.) It might very well be that the only way to live in a country that doesn't have a repressive "intellectual property" institution designed around the needs of barristers would be to start a geeks-only nation and outlaw lawyers and lawyer-like behaviour via Constitutional edict...
Any nice islands up for sale on which to build Geektopia?
Linux isn't a "product".
I can't tell if you're just being a troll, or if you're just weird, or both...
You seem to have bought the line that DeCSS was "just a pirates' tool".
Yes, when they're enforced by the DMCA and jail sentences for those who reverse-engineer them. (Remember DeCSS? The outcry over DeCSS was just a preview; things are going to get a lot worse, not better.)
StarROMs is a fucking joke. Let's not beat around the bush. If they really want to combat piracy, then they need a much, much bigger selection. A more sane pricing scheme (e.g. a sliding scale based on the age of the ROM-- 1970s and early 1980s ROMs like Pong and Pac-Man for $5, late 1980s ROMs for $10, early 1990s ROMs for $15-- with all prices decreasing as time goes on) would help too.
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Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition...
Shit, if Intel invented numbers, we'd count like:
Zero, zero, one, two, three, four, five, five pro, five II, five III, five 4, five 4 extreme....
CNN is an American TV network. The average American thinks that Bill Gates invented the personal computer (and that he is a national hero and a role model to be looked up to), that Excel is a general-purpose database program, that SQL is a Microsoft product ("SQL Server"), and that there is some inherent difference between Dell and Compaq. They randomly attribute any type of computer flakiness to "viruses" or "hackers", since those are the only causes for bork-ups that they understand. And just now their mass-market news network is discovering that WiFi is insecure. Is this any surprise? I'm just hoping that some day CNN will "discover" that Microsoft didn't invent the GUI, and that AOL isn't the Internet...
...can be found here (it's inlined in the article). Not bad, for RMS. He kinda looks Jedi-ish. Or like a philosophical gnu ;)
It only matches the speed of a modern PC at the single task it was designed for. Think of it as a very old, very interesting DSP. (I recall the stories on SlashDot about how the GPUs on modern ATI/nVidia cards are "many times faster than P4s"... well, yes, but you can't run Linux on them...)
That still doesn't explain "Wireless B".
I feel like my intelligence is being insulted by the pervasive labeling of these devices by Linksys as "Wireless G" and "Wireless B" (as opposed to "802.11g" and "802.11b"). Why can't any technical term ever remain unadulterated by end-users and marketeers? Yeesh. What's next, they'll start referring to the "Linux Kernel 2.6" as "PenguinPopper 2004"?
printf("Compiled with: %s\nHash: %s\n", FAKE_COMPILED_WITH, FAKE_HASH);
No, seems to me that the ONLY way to do a truly "secure" e-Voting scheme would be for people to actually RUN THE VOTING SOFTWARE ON THEIR HOME COMPUTERS. Which I don't see happening any time soon, given government-types' fetishistic fascination with centralised control...