ipad is more proprietary, less powerful and has no flash plugin. a netbook has small keys and is fragile. this thing has a dual core x86, 2GB ram, and is basically a bigger tablet with a stand built-in, USB ports and keyb/mouse included. what's your point exactly?
This obviously is some rebranded hardware built by a taiwanese/chinese company-with-a-thousand-names, you can bet the same hardware is old under other brands (such as acer, asus or another altogether)
It fits the bill but the microphone doesn't, because it's a physical device that needs quality and doesn't benefit from Moore's law. it makes the most sense for old people as they wish to hear and be heard when talking over it
I believe we do need cards. even if 80% people don't need them or don't need them know, it's just too convenient being able to turn any PC into a workstation, server, router, have a good sound card, or all of the above. also industry types need their special equipement and serial ports, rs232 or something other.
Maybe low profile ATX with no optical would be good.
People owning only one computer increasingly have a laptop or netbook these days, if not they run some beat up or low end desktop. I can see a lot of people running smartphones as their only computer in Africa, India in the near future (they don't all need to cost 500 euros and have a fruit logo on them) but only as a kind of cheaper, lower power and limited computing. It's more easy to charge from a small solar panel, and the deeply integrated 3G modem is mandatory for internet access.
With electricity and a better internet connexion? a PC is decently cheap (about the cost of a bicycle), has an easier choice of OS (windows or linux, both updatable), isn't such a moving target and is better at doing CAD, word processing, audio production, web browsing etc. Doesn't lack support for printing, sound cards, network cards and huge storage either.
Bradley Manning was a soldier directly implicated in a systematic torture system, as his job was coming up with lists of people to arrest and dedain. He went much farther than claiming to be a valid target, he has basically forsaken his life, and betrayed his country so as to no longer commit these crimes and offer the world additional evidence of this war's horrors.
He knows about the lies and nefarious goals that started all that, and you know that too. We know the investigators of the war planned or are still planning further unprovoked wars, and have allegiance to powerful private corporations, not the US. The untold damages that were done, including the present results of unfinanced trillions of war spending, were done in the name of freedom of democracy, thus in your name. Democratic rules don't tolerate wars of agression, and it's your responsibility to prevent them, as well as sanction the economic and financial crimes which have been committed.
So here I believe we have a case of legitimate treason, a virtual mutiny done by data transfer through computer networks, if you wish. He chose Humanity over White House and Department of Defense. Claiming that soldiers are legitimate targets is benign next to that act, your job is actually defined by the acceptance of being injured or killed, or worse.
although the feature is still vaporware, chinese Loongson 3 CPU stand to benefit from this as they feature hardware-assisted x86 emulation (using QEMU on the process). it's broken on the loongson 3A, but hopefully will work on 3B and up.
comments about/lib32,/lib64 miss some of the point, here we would want to run most things on MIPS 64, and some stuff, maybe windows games through wine, on i386 arch. that's potentially two arch with both 32bit and 64bit variants. another case would be running on a 32bit ARM CPU and run 32bit x86 software through emulation.
in general terms, debian run on a lot of architectures anyway, so supporting only two sub-archs as on other distros doesn't cut it:)
it's already done, but lower in the spectrum. 95GHz waves, or 3.2 mm ones are used in the "Pain Ray" to remotely provoke unbearable pain in an outer layer of the skin. It's sold as the way of the future to quell protests, though good old water cannon and bullets are cheaper. There's even a commercial about it.
what combinaisons do give you working 3D acceleration? windows guest on linux host, windows host and linux guest, nvidia driver on the host, or non-nvidia driver on the host.. they should provide a compatibility list for us to know.
I never could play even Quake 3 under virtualbox. any game either doesn't work or give you software OpenGL.
A 18650 battery you buy on the store's shelf will come without charge, and if you store for years it will die or be severely limited, even though it has never been used.
Non-replaceable batteries don't suffer as much of this problem. Alternatively, a supercapacitor might be a good candidate, it may discharge over time but shouldn't degrade. You could build an actually useful crank-activated LED flashlight this way.
no tinfoilhatry needed, all the stuff that happens overtly is enough. when Sarkozy dined on his election's eve with billionnaires and major elites, then went on yachting vacations and visited W. Bush's ranch, he was clearly stating his allegieances. When lots of neocons draw up documents and publish them for all to see, stating their goal is complete military domination in every domain, and that they reserve the right to attack any country, that's right in the open. When Obama claims the power to assassinate any individual in any part of the world without due process, that right in the open. and so on.
the lack of AMD factories and sites in Israel was one reason to buy AMD CPUs over Intel ones. now I hope that VIA can ramp up production, their Nano X2 is a close equivalent to AMD bobcat fusion, and they have a X4 as well.
Did we forget what happened to Iraq already? Israeli leaders play from the same textbook as the PNAC criminals who destroyed, piilaged and tortured that country. Netanyahu was councelled by Richard Perle many years ago, and his atrocious speeches feel like they are from Dick Cheney.
This isn't about antisemitism, or even terrorism. Israel is controlled by global ennemies of humanity, just like the US congress, german or french government, WTO, IMF, what have you, or mega banking corporations. You want democracy, freedom, human rights? they can only gained by getting rid of those criminals.
But what's the difference between a server OS and a desktop OS? nothing. in the nineties editing a registry entry would turn one into another if you ran a microsoft NT OS. even know you can install a "server OS" (debian, red hat, even solaris) and only use it for 3D gaming if you wish.
Likewise, a "mobile OS" shouldn't have to be different. the hardware is the same (a computer with all needed performance and features), the software component are the same (you need processes/threads, file systems, libraries etc.). What only changes is the UI, and here microsoft bundles both GUIs (plus two CLI and the management console).
You ought to try Seamonkey 2.1, it's mostly Firefox 4 with a classic interface:). the theme is slightly updated over the old mozilla 1.x suite.
there may be less extensions but you can live with that. It also runs quick on older computers (e.g. pentium 3 with 256MB), an improvement over firefox 3.x
wrong, the NTVDM is still there even on windows 7, albeit in the 32bit edition only. this is because of a hardware limitation, as 64bit mode drops the ability to run 16bit applications by virtualizing a 8086 processor.
Youtube all too often give me the "sorry, this content is not available in your country" or "this has been blocked for no reason", or has video restricted by copyright locality. Granted I'm willing to watch silly nazi propaganda and hitler parodies but hell, why should I be disallowed to?
I'll miss Google Video, as you could find some of the blocked content on it.
The highest value is in cheap microsoft mice, they seem to have a ridiculous high build quality for the price, excellent shape and flawless behavior.
for about a decade I used microsoft trekker wheel mouse, a ridiculously good ball mouse that sold for 8 euros and later 5 euros before disappearing, and then I'm currently using a "wheel mouse optical 1.1" that costs 11 euros. I like lightweight mice with classical shape and three buttons and this is it. No parasitical movement when you lift it, even by a few millimeters!
h264 doesn't work, you need a low latency codec. Computing the motion compensation between N keyframes means you're introducing N frames of latency.
So you need to transfer still images, encoded in MJPEG or something similar but more advanced. Is it possible?
of course it is! One solution was introduced recently with the windows SP1, the other one is open source and has been available for some years.
doing it from the cloud (i.e. fancy word for the internet) isn't so interesting, the technology sounds so much desirable on the company's lan, then on the home network. But it still is workable over the internet within conditions of bandwith and latency, i.e. you need a home connexion that both qualifies for HDTV over DSL and a good game of counterstrike. Good DSL may do, fiber would be much better. That's why it already exists again, and sold under the name of "OnLive".
Fox News is a propaganda mouth piece for war criminals and arms dealers disguised as politicians, routinely promotes actual violent warfare and hatred against other nations, yet they dare publish in a sensational way those "think of the children" articles about video game violence?
This is sickening. On other hand you try to scare people to death with "terrorists", fake missile threats and so on so that the audience feels foreign policy issues as fight-or-flee animal situations, and support extreme violence against the "terrorists". On another hand, violence is always taboo when mentioning or depicting it would not serve the propaganda interest - this is true of even mainstream french media for instance. Showing the mutilated corpses, widespread destruction and suffering of Iraq or Gaza isn't permitted because it's deemed offensive! But cheerleading for the bombs is patrotic.
a dual media purchase just like you might buy vinyl + 320k mp3 in one package, would be welcome.
Allow us the convenience of a digital form at no additional cost, and provide additional benefits such as a translation or original version, just like we get with DVD movies. Give me the hard copy as well, so I don't need to own and carry fragile, environmentally hazardous computers, and have the superior durability and flexibility of paper.
Inertial confinement may give some limited insight, but I believe it's mainly built for nuclear weapons research in the age of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
NIF in the US, and Mégajoule in France are twin factories. Mégajoule's cost is about 5 billion euros. (or so was it last time I read on its cost.)
App vendors and music producers are urged by Apple to stop selling products online. The comments in the Japanese business newspapers suggest that Apple believes online shopping confers an aura of 'cheapness' on their products. But surely killing the Apple stores must have entered into the calculation. As of today, most of the largest retailers have notices on their Apple catalog pages asking you kindly not to visit the online shop if you want to acquire a piece of magic. It seems that for the moment the campaign is aimed at the big fish, as smaller artists and programmers still seem to be selling Apple products.
Then why didn't you try Gnumeric?, it's renowned for its usefulness in statistics, and is trivially found on lightweight linux distros or in the "software center".
Software have reputations, OO.o is known to be not great but if you're not in the 90% people who might use it, then it's your responsibility to use something else.
Great rant anyway! instructive and deserved.
But, I feel the "buttongate" to be ridiculous. Slashdot users that will insult you if you don't know how to quit the vi editor are flaming like mad, whereas it's a single click change, likewise for the wallpaper. Insane to hear that coming from nerds who long for their old non functional systems, that came with a worse-than-windows-3.1 interface and a moiré "wallpaper", requiring unix guru skills to modify.
Meanwhile, I like to see a little change in that good old windows clone desktop, and I've gain a new corner to stretch windows from.
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ipad is more proprietary, less powerful and has no flash plugin. a netbook has small keys and is fragile. this thing has a dual core x86, 2GB ram, and is basically a bigger tablet with a stand built-in, USB ports and keyb/mouse included. what's your point exactly?
This obviously is some rebranded hardware built by a taiwanese/chinese company-with-a-thousand-names, you can bet the same hardware is old under other brands (such as acer, asus or another altogether)
It fits the bill but the microphone doesn't, because it's a physical device that needs quality and doesn't benefit from Moore's law. it makes the most sense for old people as they wish to hear and be heard when talking over it
I believe we do need cards. even if 80% people don't need them or don't need them know, it's just too convenient being able to turn any PC into a workstation, server, router, have a good sound card, or all of the above. also industry types need their special equipement and serial ports, rs232 or something other.
Maybe low profile ATX with no optical would be good.
People owning only one computer increasingly have a laptop or netbook these days, if not they run some beat up or low end desktop. I can see a lot of people running smartphones as their only computer in Africa, India in the near future (they don't all need to cost 500 euros and have a fruit logo on them) but only as a kind of cheaper, lower power and limited computing. It's more easy to charge from a small solar panel, and the deeply integrated 3G modem is mandatory for internet access.
With electricity and a better internet connexion? a PC is decently cheap (about the cost of a bicycle), has an easier choice of OS (windows or linux, both updatable), isn't such a moving target and is better at doing CAD, word processing, audio production, web browsing etc. Doesn't lack support for printing, sound cards, network cards and huge storage either.
Bradley Manning was a soldier directly implicated in a systematic torture system, as his job was coming up with lists of people to arrest and dedain. He went much farther than claiming to be a valid target, he has basically forsaken his life, and betrayed his country so as to no longer commit these crimes and offer the world additional evidence of this war's horrors.
He knows about the lies and nefarious goals that started all that, and you know that too. We know the investigators of the war planned or are still planning further unprovoked wars, and have allegiance to powerful private corporations, not the US. The untold damages that were done, including the present results of unfinanced trillions of war spending, were done in the name of freedom of democracy, thus in your name. Democratic rules don't tolerate wars of agression, and it's your responsibility to prevent them, as well as sanction the economic and financial crimes which have been committed.
So here I believe we have a case of legitimate treason, a virtual mutiny done by data transfer through computer networks, if you wish. He chose Humanity over White House and Department of Defense. Claiming that soldiers are legitimate targets is benign next to that act, your job is actually defined by the acceptance of being injured or killed, or worse.
although the feature is still vaporware, chinese Loongson 3 CPU stand to benefit from this as they feature hardware-assisted x86 emulation (using QEMU on the process). it's broken on the loongson 3A, but hopefully will work on 3B and up.
comments about /lib32, /lib64 miss some of the point, here we would want to run most things on MIPS 64, and some stuff, maybe windows games through wine, on i386 arch. that's potentially two arch with both 32bit and 64bit variants. another case would be running on a 32bit ARM CPU and run 32bit x86 software through emulation.
in general terms, debian run on a lot of architectures anyway, so supporting only two sub-archs as on other distros doesn't cut it :)
I used Teraterm quite a bit, it is little known but is fully free software, and a revival of an old project. it's good, and mature :)
it's already done, but lower in the spectrum. 95GHz waves, or 3.2 mm ones are used in the "Pain Ray" to remotely provoke unbearable pain in an outer layer of the skin. It's sold as the way of the future to quell protests, though good old water cannon and bullets are cheaper. There's even a commercial about it.
Did you try gnome's evince? it has a little known windows version, which is easy and very decent.
Being free software makes it free of toolbar, ads and clutter. plus using the same software no matter the OS is nice.
what combinaisons do give you working 3D acceleration? windows guest on linux host, windows host and linux guest, nvidia driver on the host, or non-nvidia driver on the host.. they should provide a compatibility list for us to know.
I never could play even Quake 3 under virtualbox. any game either doesn't work or give you software OpenGL.
A 18650 battery you buy on the store's shelf will come without charge, and if you store for years it will die or be severely limited, even though it has never been used.
Non-replaceable batteries don't suffer as much of this problem. Alternatively, a supercapacitor might be a good candidate, it may discharge over time but shouldn't degrade. You could build an actually useful crank-activated LED flashlight this way.
no tinfoilhatry needed, all the stuff that happens overtly is enough. when Sarkozy dined on his election's eve with billionnaires and major elites, then went on yachting vacations and visited W. Bush's ranch, he was clearly stating his allegieances. When lots of neocons draw up documents and publish them for all to see, stating their goal is complete military domination in every domain, and that they reserve the right to attack any country, that's right in the open. When Obama claims the power to assassinate any individual in any part of the world without due process, that right in the open. and so on.
the lack of AMD factories and sites in Israel was one reason to buy AMD CPUs over Intel ones. now I hope that VIA can ramp up production, their Nano X2 is a close equivalent to AMD bobcat fusion, and they have a X4 as well.
Did we forget what happened to Iraq already? Israeli leaders play from the same textbook as the PNAC criminals who destroyed, piilaged and tortured that country. Netanyahu was councelled by Richard Perle many years ago, and his atrocious speeches feel like they are from Dick Cheney.
This isn't about antisemitism, or even terrorism. Israel is controlled by global ennemies of humanity, just like the US congress, german or french government, WTO, IMF, what have you, or mega banking corporations. You want democracy, freedom, human rights? they can only gained by getting rid of those criminals.
But what's the difference between a server OS and a desktop OS? nothing. in the nineties editing a registry entry would turn one into another if you ran a microsoft NT OS. even know you can install a "server OS" (debian, red hat, even solaris) and only use it for 3D gaming if you wish.
Likewise, a "mobile OS" shouldn't have to be different. the hardware is the same (a computer with all needed performance and features), the software component are the same (you need processes/threads, file systems, libraries etc.). What only changes is the UI, and here microsoft bundles both GUIs (plus two CLI and the management console).
You ought to try Seamonkey 2.1, it's mostly Firefox 4 with a classic interface :). the theme is slightly updated over the old mozilla 1.x suite.
there may be less extensions but you can live with that. It also runs quick on older computers (e.g. pentium 3 with 256MB), an improvement over firefox 3.x
wrong, the NTVDM is still there even on windows 7, albeit in the 32bit edition only. this is because of a hardware limitation, as 64bit mode drops the ability to run 16bit applications by virtualizing a 8086 processor.
Youtube all too often give me the "sorry, this content is not available in your country" or "this has been blocked for no reason", or has video restricted by copyright locality. Granted I'm willing to watch silly nazi propaganda and hitler parodies but hell, why should I be disallowed to?
I'll miss Google Video, as you could find some of the blocked content on it.
The highest value is in cheap microsoft mice, they seem to have a ridiculous high build quality for the price, excellent shape and flawless behavior.
for about a decade I used microsoft trekker wheel mouse, a ridiculously good ball mouse that sold for 8 euros and later 5 euros before disappearing, and then I'm currently using a "wheel mouse optical 1.1" that costs 11 euros. I like lightweight mice with classical shape and three buttons and this is it. No parasitical movement when you lift it, even by a few millimeters!
h264 doesn't work, you need a low latency codec. Computing the motion compensation between N keyframes means you're introducing N frames of latency.
So you need to transfer still images, encoded in MJPEG or something similar but more advanced. Is it possible?
of course it is! One solution was introduced recently with the windows SP1, the other one is open source and has been available for some years.
doing it from the cloud (i.e. fancy word for the internet) isn't so interesting, the technology sounds so much desirable on the company's lan, then on the home network. But it still is workable over the internet within conditions of bandwith and latency, i.e. you need a home connexion that both qualifies for HDTV over DSL and a good game of counterstrike. Good DSL may do, fiber would be much better. That's why it already exists again, and sold under the name of "OnLive".
Fox News is a propaganda mouth piece for war criminals and arms dealers disguised as politicians, routinely promotes actual violent warfare and hatred against other nations, yet they dare publish in a sensational way those "think of the children" articles about video game violence?
This is sickening. On other hand you try to scare people to death with "terrorists", fake missile threats and so on so that the audience feels foreign policy issues as fight-or-flee animal situations, and support extreme violence against the "terrorists". On another hand, violence is always taboo when mentioning or depicting it would not serve the propaganda interest - this is true of even mainstream french media for instance. Showing the mutilated corpses, widespread destruction and suffering of Iraq or Gaza isn't permitted because it's deemed offensive! But cheerleading for the bombs is patrotic.
a dual media purchase just like you might buy vinyl + 320k mp3 in one package, would be welcome.
Allow us the convenience of a digital form at no additional cost, and provide additional benefits such as a translation or original version, just like we get with DVD movies. Give me the hard copy as well, so I don't need to own and carry fragile, environmentally hazardous computers, and have the superior durability and flexibility of paper.
Then interest will surely pick up!
Inertial confinement may give some limited insight, but I believe it's mainly built for nuclear weapons research in the age of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
NIF in the US, and Mégajoule in France are twin factories. Mégajoule's cost is about 5 billion euros. (or so was it last time I read on its cost.)
-1, Chewbacca defense.
App vendors and music producers are urged by Apple to stop selling products online. The comments in the Japanese business newspapers suggest that Apple believes online shopping confers an aura of 'cheapness' on their products. But surely killing the Apple stores must have entered into the calculation. As of today, most of the largest retailers have notices on their Apple catalog pages asking you kindly not to visit the online shop if you want to acquire a piece of magic. It seems that for the moment the campaign is aimed at the big fish, as smaller artists and programmers still seem to be selling Apple products.
Then why didn't you try Gnumeric?, it's renowned for its usefulness in statistics, and is trivially found on lightweight linux distros or in the "software center".
Software have reputations, OO.o is known to be not great but if you're not in the 90% people who might use it, then it's your responsibility to use something else.
Great rant anyway! instructive and deserved. But, I feel the "buttongate" to be ridiculous. Slashdot users that will insult you if you don't know how to quit the vi editor are flaming like mad, whereas it's a single click change, likewise for the wallpaper. Insane to hear that coming from nerds who long for their old non functional systems, that came with a worse-than-windows-3.1 interface and a moiré "wallpaper", requiring unix guru skills to modify.
Meanwhile, I like to see a little change in that good old windows clone desktop, and I've gain a new corner to stretch windows from.