Do you still pay $25+ a month for you cell phone? You know that's about $300 a year right plus a new phone is $300 or so and you upgrade based on their plan.
Translation: You need n...
Besides no one trusts the idea of a mesh network yet, we need to develop n or i quickly for the 1,000,000 laptop project and to scare the telecoms into 100Mbit...
Thanks Traiklin,
You're right but I don't need you defending me from trolls. These guys are dumb, most Slashdot posters already know that and that was there QED to their questions.
Teleco's auto lawsuit, everytime someone stops using phone service they sue your company.
Next "Device": Auto legal, program in legal filings to respond to outside legal attacks... It's the new Legal Firewall (I'm seriously copywriting that don't get any ideas).
Coming soon: The legal/legal/legal/legal firewall buster buster buster. (It busts the other guy's Legal Brief Who's Briefing your breif!).
No American's don't get it. INNOCENT as in there is no proof she did anything wrong and it's illegal (And arguably unethical) to treat the person as if they did something wrong.
World Trade Centre = Centre of imperialist American commerce (Think world bank but without the illusion of humanitarianism, this is the place where child labour comes from).
Pentagon = Centre of American military system.
If those are your symbols then you've got some pretty serious problems.
Solution, (Disclaimer everyone seems to hate this)
Knock people out for the flight!
I'm totally serious sleeping coffins and some kind of drug to knock people out, it would make flights really really cheap and safe.
Drugs could be set up to wake you every 8 hours for food and washrooms on intercontinental flights (staggered passenger wakeups could actually negate the need for stewardesses and fewer washrooms).
Best part, drugs controlling your wakeup time could totally destroy jet lag!
Well buddy you can support 10 diffrent distros across 22000 machines. You test the patches, apps, installers. You maintain the shared resources the application groups and the Operating Units.
You manage the permissions across diffrent systems. Heck Let's throw BSD and OSX in there.
This is going to cost 10 IT people's lives in Tech support, and for what Biodiversity? Give me a break, it doesn't matter which distro they learn if they make something useful it'll roll out to all of them.
The Linux community is hugely fractured because none of them is clearly better and none of them are ready for the desktop so this whole arguement is moot.
If the linux community had a distro that was ready for the mainstream that the linux crowd backed and couldn't get acceptance then we would have a problem, but joe sixpack will just call it what everyone calls linux. Linux.
These people are devoting their time to making this software, they aren't getting paid.
I'm sure many of you think they're just crazy hippies but the fact is they have motivations, often political/spiritual for why they want people to have access to this software.
This will affect how the software is developed, it's unavoidable, and you would do well to spend a little time actually investigating the mindset of the FOSS community.
These people are giving you certain abilities you didn't have before, that's why you use their software. And they're hoping you won't use those abilities to say steal someone's identity or take away people's jobs... perhaps they are being naive.
Distro's like Ubuntu have interesting names because they hope you'll check wikipedia before complaining and actually take a look at the philosophy underlying the software they are giving you for free.
"pple's marketshare for laptops has doubled in the last quarter compared to a year ago. so apple is simply selling more computers than ever before."
As a Pc user used to listening to Apple groupie comments like the one above I've got to say that yes there are probably a whole bunch of people who sucked up to buy an Apple laptop and hoped for the best and have been SEVERELY DISAPOINTED and because they don't yet want to blow Jobs (Or know about Apple's seemingly great Tech Support).
I bet that is where A LOT of complaints are coming from, giving up office and all your apps is fine if the new stuff works, if it's crap too you're learning new crap, no one likes new crap. It's soft and crappy.
Let's say the average person can type 6-7 key strokes a second that's about 120ms a keypress.
Now let's assume that it's possible to monitor packet delay over a dedicated connection to within.5ms (Not unreasonable.
Now all you need to encode into the keyboard is that it tries to transit a packet every 100ms + keyvalue x.5ms (forwards and backwards can double this number I.E. 5ms before = 10x2 5ms after = 10 etc.)
Seems pretty smooth, you don't even need to know the latency of the system because it should be constant (Unless microsoft sends another packet every time you type bomb).
Wouldn't count on this being entirely practical though.
All too often the Prince of all Cosmos is merely a cheap attempt to interest us and we lose interest in the character when his two dimensionality and divergence from anything human become apparent.
First there were stories and tales which had meaningful messages (Don't do blah, Do do Blah, etc) then came literature which is in some way defined by not doing that, video games are a LONG way away.
(Disclaimer, comp Sci. / English Major working on Macbeth text game.
You see Macbeth. :Kill Macbeth Dagger. MacBeth is dead. :Return to wife for comfort.
You mean that they focus on emotional problems in a deep and meaningful manner?
People don't like to do that, they like to watch other people fail at doing that.
As far as high brow goes, we have Patrician, Total War, Civilization, and the Sims.
All of which offer some pretty interesting insights if you look deeply into them.
One of the largest factors is probably that in a book a grammatical mistake is something from the author that might lead you to think about something diffrently, a bug in a game totally spoils your ability to analyse the small points that are so important for real understanding of the artist.
Really the key thing about this is you're going to be having 1,000,000 users learning to use Linux SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Their experiences won't be perfectly identical but they will be similar, the linux community needs to LISTEN as these 1,000,000 users stumble in unison over a whole bunch of crap.
I use the number 1,000,000 because that's the number of people likely to speak each language, where are the projects to check that there is enough documentation in each language and to port education software and guides for these users.
100 commited educators could add 1,000,000 linux users to the community in a few months, users who could become technically sufficient and work with each other.
But it will take a level of management that Linux never seems to be able to muster, get some Spanish speakers, Nigerian speakers and others get one laptop and start from scratch to really prepare for what seems likely to be the biggest tech support disaster in the history of mankind.
Cluless noobs on IRC, "Dude Lol check init.d, NOOB!".
Can we please stop having discussions about how these people would be better served by giving them $100 of food?
I'm sure many slashdotters have great ideas about how these laptops could be used.
Example, in Thailand on a long bus ride we stopped for lunch and the tourists were swarmed by little girls who had pineapple in clear plastic bags.
The pineapples were obviously from the same source because of identical packaging and were all of a similar size but the girls were selling them at drastically diffrent prices, the tourists being familiar with basic economics walked through the crowd and got the higher priced girls to lower their prices first and slowly bought up the pineapples as the girls became increasingly desperate thinking they would be left out.
Average sale was approximately 10 baht while the tourists would have easily paid 20 baht (50c) immediately I thought it would be great if the girls had some form of stock exchange or some way to track the prices of pineapple, not only would it have taught them something they could have made more money.
Now also they'll be able to track how many tourists will be on those busses and exploit the tourist stupidity better.
Another example is the millions of coffee and chocolate growers who are buried under dozens of middlemen so they get almost no profit.
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I can't imagine why they can't ratify this standard faster!
Make them cross of backwards compatible, just put in an extra bit when you set up the connection to check...
Unless they switch to a radically diffrent structure and then you still have cross compatibility with that gen...
Do you still pay $25+ a month for you cell phone? You know that's about $300 a year right plus a new phone is $300 or so and you upgrade based on their plan.
Translation: You need n...
Besides no one trusts the idea of a mesh network yet, we need to develop n or i quickly for the 1,000,000 laptop project and to scare the telecoms into 100Mbit...
Thanks Traiklin,
You're right but I don't need you defending me from trolls. These guys are dumb, most Slashdot posters already know that and that was there QED to their questions.
Killer App Followup:
Teleco's auto lawsuit, everytime someone stops using phone service they sue your company.
Next "Device": Auto legal, program in legal filings to respond to outside legal attacks... It's the new Legal Firewall (I'm seriously copywriting that don't get any ideas).
Coming soon: The legal/legal/legal/legal firewall buster buster buster. (It busts the other guy's Legal Brief Who's Briefing your breif!).
No American's don't get it. INNOCENT as in there is no proof she did anything wrong and it's illegal (And arguably unethical) to treat the person as if they did something wrong.
If Sony is losing money on each console and Nintendo is making money... Does not compute /-1 error!
Bottom line market share won't matter as much with this gen, at 800$ people won't be buying games.
Developing for an $800 console just seems like a bad bad idea.
World Trade Centre = Centre of imperialist American commerce (Think world bank but without the illusion of humanitarianism, this is the place where child labour comes from).
Pentagon = Centre of American military system.
If those are your symbols then you've got some pretty serious problems.
Solution, (Disclaimer everyone seems to hate this)
Knock people out for the flight!
I'm totally serious sleeping coffins and some kind of drug to knock people out, it would make flights really really cheap and safe.
Drugs could be set up to wake you every 8 hours for food and washrooms on intercontinental flights (staggered passenger wakeups could actually negate the need for stewardesses and fewer washrooms).
Best part, drugs controlling your wakeup time could totally destroy jet lag!
Well buddy you can support 10 diffrent distros across 22000 machines. You test the patches, apps, installers. You maintain the shared resources the application groups and the Operating Units.
You manage the permissions across diffrent systems. Heck Let's throw BSD and OSX in there.
This is going to cost 10 IT people's lives in Tech support, and for what Biodiversity? Give me a break, it doesn't matter which distro they learn if they make something useful it'll roll out to all of them.
Sad truth, which will cost more to use next month...
Already installed vs has to be installed.
There was Enlightenment, that sucker WAS SEXY!
:(
Still one of the sexiest in existence, people with 2 button mice suffered and they never really fixed that but it's a pretty pretty baby.
It's also one of the smallest and quickest GUI's around.
Wish it shipped standard
* Translation : Godzilla!
The Linux community is hugely fractured because none of them is clearly better and none of them are ready for the desktop so this whole arguement is moot.
If the linux community had a distro that was ready for the mainstream that the linux crowd backed and couldn't get acceptance then we would have a problem, but joe sixpack will just call it what everyone calls linux.
Linux.
To the I want it to just work folks.
These people are devoting their time to making this software, they aren't getting paid.
I'm sure many of you think they're just crazy hippies but the fact is they have motivations, often political/spiritual for why they want people to have access to this software.
This will affect how the software is developed, it's unavoidable, and you would do well to spend a little time actually investigating the mindset of the FOSS community.
These people are giving you certain abilities you didn't have before, that's why you use their software. And they're hoping you won't use those abilities to say steal someone's identity or take away people's jobs... perhaps they are being naive.
Distro's like Ubuntu have interesting names because they hope you'll check wikipedia before complaining and actually take a look at the philosophy underlying the software they are giving you for free.
"pple's marketshare for laptops has doubled in the last quarter compared to a year ago. so apple is simply selling more computers than ever before."
As a Pc user used to listening to Apple groupie comments like the one above I've got to say that yes there are probably a whole bunch of people who sucked up to buy an Apple laptop and hoped for the best and have been SEVERELY DISAPOINTED and because they don't yet want to blow Jobs (Or know about Apple's seemingly great Tech Support).
I bet that is where A LOT of complaints are coming from, giving up office and all your apps is fine if the new stuff works, if it's crap too you're learning new crap, no one likes new crap. It's soft and crappy.
Mechanism depends, on timing data in packet.
.5ms (Not unreasonable.
.5ms (forwards and backwards can double this number I.E. 5ms before = 10x2 5ms after = 10 etc.)
Let's say the average person can type 6-7 key strokes a second that's about 120ms a keypress.
Now let's assume that it's possible to monitor packet delay over a dedicated connection to within
Now all you need to encode into the keyboard is that it tries to transit a packet every 100ms + keyvalue x
Seems pretty smooth, you don't even need to know the latency of the system because it should be constant (Unless microsoft sends another packet every time you type bomb).
Wouldn't count on this being entirely practical though.
It's Mario!
All too often the Prince of all Cosmos is merely a cheap attempt to interest us and we lose interest in the character when his two dimensionality and divergence from anything human become apparent.
:Kill Macbeth Dagger.
:Return to wife for comfort.
:(
First there were stories and tales which had meaningful messages (Don't do blah, Do do Blah, etc) then came literature which is in some way defined by not doing that, video games are a LONG way away.
(Disclaimer, comp Sci. / English Major working on Macbeth text game.
You see Macbeth.
MacBeth is dead.
A long way
You mean that they focus on emotional problems in a deep and meaningful manner?
People don't like to do that, they like to watch other people fail at doing that.
As far as high brow goes, we have Patrician, Total War, Civilization, and the Sims.
All of which offer some pretty interesting insights if you look deeply into them.
One of the largest factors is probably that in a book a grammatical mistake is something from the author that might lead you to think about something diffrently, a bug in a game totally spoils your ability to analyse the small points that are so important for real understanding of the artist.
Gravity + Macroscope + Nuke the Moon = Profit.
Textbook 1: Sex Ed.
Chapter 1: Aids
a. You get Aids from having sex with someone who has AIDS.
b. You can't cure aids by having sex with a baby.
Chapter 2: etc.
Might be worth something
Cough, opera vs Firefox.
Cough..
If history is an indication THIS is what will make Linux sucessful.
Really the key thing about this is you're going to be having 1,000,000 users learning to use Linux SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Their experiences won't be perfectly identical but they will be similar, the linux community needs to LISTEN as these 1,000,000 users stumble in unison over a whole bunch of crap.
I use the number 1,000,000 because that's the number of people likely to speak each language, where are the projects to check that there is enough documentation in each language and to port education software and guides for these users.
100 commited educators could add 1,000,000 linux users to the community in a few months, users who could become technically sufficient and work with each other.
But it will take a level of management that Linux never seems to be able to muster, get some Spanish speakers, Nigerian speakers and others get one laptop and start from scratch to really prepare for what seems likely to be the biggest tech support disaster in the history of mankind.
Cluless noobs on IRC, "Dude Lol check init.d, NOOB!".
Still bullshit.
It's sad out there, well just got a call. Dead Keyboard.
Can we please stop having discussions about how these people would be better served by giving them $100 of food?
I'm sure many slashdotters have great ideas about how these laptops could be used.
Example, in Thailand on a long bus ride we stopped for lunch and the tourists were swarmed by little girls who had pineapple in clear plastic bags.
The pineapples were obviously from the same source because of identical packaging and were all of a similar size but the girls were selling them at drastically diffrent prices, the tourists being familiar with basic economics walked through the crowd and got the higher priced girls to lower their prices first and slowly bought up the pineapples as the girls became increasingly desperate thinking they would be left out.
Average sale was approximately 10 baht while the tourists would have easily paid 20 baht (50c) immediately I thought it would be great if the girls had some form of stock exchange or some way to track the prices of pineapple, not only would it have taught them something they could have made more money.
Now also they'll be able to track how many tourists will be on those busses and exploit the tourist stupidity better.
Another example is the millions of coffee and chocolate growers who are buried under dozens of middlemen so they get almost no profit.