Ummm... Out of utter curiosity, and a spare Qwerty keyboard, I actually turned one into a Dvorak keyboard. It was fun and all, but, while I haven't put the keys back, I've set my computer back to Qwerty mode. So I am actually typing Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard.
Bad idea! When using a VPN, the packet is encrypted and wrapped on the client. Thus, T-Mobile can't see what is in the origional packet. It could be VoIP, or it could be IM packets, but it is most likely standard network communications for which the link was origionally bought (such as transfer of documents, tranceiving email, etc...). If they starts dropping packets at random, since they can't tell if it is VoIP or not, their customers would drop T-Mobiile faster than you could say "IPSec".
There is a minor problem with your idea - openGL is only a programing API. It makes it a simpler task to write 3d-accelerated applications/interfaces. The problem lies in the fact that you still need the video card drivers from the manufactures (ATI/NVIDIA) to interface the openGL API with the hardware.
Personally, I would like to see nVidia and/or ATI take up the cell proccessor for graphics cards. Granted, I'm no expert on the subject, but since these things are built for floating point calc's, it seems very suited for the task.
I'll agree with you in that the non-article link should not point to www.cnn.com, which is what the origional point was. If there is a homepage associated with the topic of the article, not the host of the article, then it should be pointed to as well.
As for bad spelling and grammer, I've come to expect it of the web crowd, so unless I genuinely can't understand what they are trying to say, I generally ignore it.
A piece of crap running on a piece of crap! If you want some good performance, you're going to have to go with the AMD Opteron. Admittedly, *Windows* probably won't run much better, but that's just because it won't know what to do with all of that extra performance.
You might want to check your math. Take, for example, 1 week: 7 days/week X 24 hours/day X 60 minutes/hour = 10080 minutes. So if this cluster runs at about 1000x as fast as a standard Windoze computer, then you'll need to reboot about every 10 minutes.
On the other hand, it would probably only take about 1-2 second to boot up (excluding the post'ing)
I can understand why a school district might want to give out laptops, or at least make them availible to students. But to force them on the students as part of the education proccess, disallowing them to make any system changes or even simply use their own laptop is going too far. And the part about using laptops on the school bus being a safety hazard - that one was funny.
True - San Disk mini's will actually last through a run of the laundry - it happened to me as well. However, make absolutely sure that it doesn't happen again, as I did run it through twice, and it didn't last very long after the second run.
Ok, So I hear that the free accounts are being raised to 250MB, and that the paid "plus" accounts are being raised to 2GB. So what happens to the users like me that currently have (from Verizon online dsl) a 25 MB "Premium" account. What will we be raised to (if they ever actually get around to it)?
I don't know why I keep them around, but I've still got the welcome emails from yahoo mail, and geocities (back before those two merged).
I don't know that I'll ever need a gigabyte of storage space - 100 MB is really pushing it for me, but at least I know that all that junkmail that I keep getting won't completely render my address useless (after letting it sit for a week or two). And now with the larger attachment size, maybe I can use it more as a storage space than "Yahoo! Briefcase" (which by the way is only 30 MB).
Many experts are now saying that spyware
(also known as adware)...
I found this in the first sentence on a web page I read while doing some random searches on the net. The page is here. The article even labels Gator as spyware, so apparently Gator isn't pushing the "Ad-ware" title too much.
Personally, I would really like a completely costomizable interface. I agree with the comments made on linux, that it is not ready to be a main-stream interface, mostly because it is too complex. However, there are two things I would like to see from Microsoft. First, I would like to see Windows completely re-written from scratch. Yes, it would take some work, but think about it. Longhorn is probably directly based off of WinXP, along with the.NET framework and some patches. I know that there might be some problems with my idea, but between a re-written OS vs a patched-upgrade, the re-written OS would be much more stable - no need to write work-arounds for previous problems. Second, the interface needs to be completely costomizable. Not neccessarily skinnable, though that could be an option, but something where a business user could have easier access to e-mail, appointments, and other office tools through integration, where-as the media-user could easily watch movies, view pictures, or syncronize their MP3 player. Basically, (as was previously pointed out) not forcing everyone into this media-driven computing experience. I am using Win2K partly because I don't like most of what Microsoft forces on people in WinXP.
I must admit that when I looked at one of the pictures of Longhorn on the site, my first reaction was, "Are you sure this isn't MacOS?" Too much of Windows is being based off the Mac these days (not that I have anything against the MacOS, it's just that I think Bill should try to come up with some more origional ideas instead of ripping off MacOS). However, I think I like some of what the interface is turning into, simply because it is a little sleeker. For one, it doesn't have the huge taskbar and start-button from WinXP, and I think with a little tweaking, they might be able to turn the side-bar into something actually useful (though, being Microsoft, they'll probably screw that up too).
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Whilst I am actually a bit curious as to what they might be doing to their interface, I have to agree with the alexo. Give us IMAP support.
Ummm... Out of utter curiosity, and a spare Qwerty keyboard, I actually turned one into a Dvorak keyboard. It was fun and all, but, while I haven't put the keys back, I've set my computer back to Qwerty mode. So I am actually typing Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard.
Bad idea! When using a VPN, the packet is encrypted and wrapped on the client. Thus, T-Mobile can't see what is in the origional packet. It could be VoIP, or it could be IM packets, but it is most likely standard network communications for which the link was origionally bought (such as transfer of documents, tranceiving email, etc...). If they starts dropping packets at random, since they can't tell if it is VoIP or not, their customers would drop T-Mobiile faster than you could say "IPSec".
Would you mind posting a link to the project?
There is a minor problem with your idea - openGL is only a programing API. It makes it a simpler task to write 3d-accelerated applications/interfaces. The problem lies in the fact that you still need the video card drivers from the manufactures (ATI/NVIDIA) to interface the openGL API with the hardware.
Pretty bad result: Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939 - best time: 87 seconds
Personally, I would like to see nVidia and/or ATI take up the cell proccessor for graphics cards. Granted, I'm no expert on the subject, but since these things are built for floating point calc's, it seems very suited for the task.
I'll agree with you in that the non-article link should not point to www.cnn.com, which is what the origional point was. If there is a homepage associated with the topic of the article, not the host of the article, then it should be pointed to as well.
As for bad spelling and grammer, I've come to expect it of the web crowd, so unless I genuinely can't understand what they are trying to say, I generally ignore it.
A piece of crap running on a piece of crap! If you want some good performance, you're going to have to go with the AMD Opteron. Admittedly, *Windows* probably won't run much better, but that's just because it won't know what to do with all of that extra performance.
Then stay on windows. If you hate linux so much, leave it to the real geeks.
You might want to check your math. Take, for example, 1 week:
7 days/week X 24 hours/day X 60 minutes/hour = 10080 minutes.
So if this cluster runs at about 1000x as fast as a standard Windoze computer, then you'll need to reboot about every 10 minutes.
On the other hand, it would probably only take about 1-2 second to boot up (excluding the post'ing)
I can understand why a school district might want to give out laptops, or at least make them availible to students. But to force them on the students as part of the education proccess, disallowing them to make any system changes or even simply use their own laptop is going too far. And the part about using laptops on the school bus being a safety hazard - that one was funny.
True - San Disk mini's will actually last through a run of the laundry - it happened to me as well. However, make absolutely sure that it doesn't happen again, as I did run it through twice, and it didn't last very long after the second run.
Just to let you know, the default start page is located on the google website, and would not be counted towards a hit on the firefox website.
Ok, So I hear that the free accounts are being raised to 250MB, and that the paid "plus" accounts are being raised to 2GB. So what happens to the users like me that currently have (from Verizon online dsl) a 25 MB "Premium" account. What will we be raised to (if they ever actually get around to it)?
I don't know why I keep them around, but I've still got the welcome emails from yahoo mail, and geocities (back before those two merged).
I don't know that I'll ever need a gigabyte of storage space - 100 MB is really pushing it for me, but at least I know that all that junkmail that I keep getting won't completely render my address useless (after letting it sit for a week or two). And now with the larger attachment size, maybe I can use it more as a storage space than "Yahoo! Briefcase" (which by the way is only 30 MB).
I found this in the first sentence on a web page I read while doing some random searches on the net. The page is here. The article even labels Gator as spyware, so apparently Gator isn't pushing the "Ad-ware" title too much.
I agree - Gator is nothing but Spyware and Adware!
Please send me a nastygram. My career is stalled, and I could really use the publicity.
I'm still in school, and don't have a job - so there. What can they do to me?
Gator is spyware. Plain and simple!
I must admit that when I looked at one of the pictures of Longhorn on the site, my first reaction was, "Are you sure this isn't MacOS?" Too much of Windows is being based off the Mac these days (not that I have anything against the MacOS, it's just that I think Bill should try to come up with some more origional ideas instead of ripping off MacOS). However, I think I like some of what the interface is turning into, simply because it is a little sleeker. For one, it doesn't have the huge taskbar and start-button from WinXP, and I think with a little tweaking, they might be able to turn the side-bar into something actually useful (though, being Microsoft, they'll probably screw that up too).