Don't know, my parents use Linux mainly to play card games, browse the internet and do their email. On top of that there is this office thingy they do once in a while. Before my father got sick he was interested in photo-editing software. In other words, if you go easy on the multimedia, they would be served fine with Linux.
The only thing that is keeping me from installing it is actually (tadah) the banking site, which requires IE and the government tax application software, which requires Windows. My mother is a teacher and they use Word at school, but I guess I could explain the "save as word document" feature of Open Office without too much of a problem.
So the government and their bank force them to use Windows (while the EU fights Microsoft for using their monopolistic position). What a world.
And after running GNOME (now) and KDE before, I would strongly persue them to try KDE. GNOME is not as user friendly as KDE, and should be dropped ASAP for any such user. There are many more usefull KDE applications as well, it seams. The GNOME file manager crashed on me as well a couple of times (just like my current - up to date - Mozilla, darnit) which made me think back to my explorer problems.
Politics happen anytime you get 3 or more people working together.
I've seen it happen with just two. If you have multiple personalities, or if you take on multiple roles you could manage with just one. In that case, politics are better known as headaches.
"Instead, the force depends strongly on the coupling between the rotating and translational motions of the object."
Though this is a lightweight scientific breakthough, this sentence made me laugh a bit. So we have to take other forces into consideration than gravity if an object moves upward? Who would have thought. Coupling of rotating and translational motions? Come on guys, what other movements did you expect?
No, you've retained too little from the owners name. As you might know, the new owner wants to put a stamp on it. Therefore you should use more of the buyers name, such as:
In my job, not reading web pages will get me fired a lot quicker than browsing the web from time to time. Even if some % of that is for less related stuff.
Why not use the productivity of the worker to check if something is wrong? Restricting freedoms like that can have quite an impact on morale, and in the case of the internet, on the personal development of the employee.
Especially in computer related jobs, keeping up to date is quite essential.
Simple. You can buy a PC in parts. There is a well established market for it as well. Lots of upgrades are possible, while for the mac little to none are available. Not really a space most overclockers (who tend to buy their system from multiple vendors) are comformable with. Most of them will have grown into it as well. Start of with a DVD replacement, then multiple harddrives, and start overclocking sometime after. Also, the games industry for MAC's is way smaller than the PC games industry. This is a market where overclocking really counts. And since there is less of a market for mac internal parts, this will be double the case for mods.
They are using more transistors at a higher frequency to get the same job done. IT'S not a big secret that this will cost more power, which lets the chips run hotter. That's why Intel needed a completely new chip for their notebook lineup, whereas AMD can use their old designs.
Intel does seem to be somewhat more aware of the issue than AMD though. I like their CPU fans better (appart from the trash they put on their PII slot processor boards), they've got thermal shutdown inside the processor and if I may believe another thread, the CPU uses less power when there is not much to do.
I must admit that the computer I have at work with hyperthreading already feels more responsive then my machine at home. Even though the other specs are mostly the same (up to date 7200 RPM hdd, 1 GB memory etc) the P4 2600 HT clearly beats my Athlon 2400+. And from experience, that's not because of the 200 MHz (comparitive) MHz. I haven't done any testing on the systems, but the feel is clearly there. Lets hope that multi-core processors will provide the same feel, but even better.
Currently most software is pixel oriented (thus not really scalable). You would not want to have a crappy screen with that. A tuner module would be nice, but you can get those for USB if the need arises. I got a headache even using my MSX computer of old for too long at the time. A TV screen would mess up productivity suites (office) and internet browsing big time. And wasn't that what the computer was for?
I can remember a race between two students at the university to get the highest polygon count on an ISA VGA card using all kind of tricks. They got pretty far, but while playing UT2004 for a couple of seconds, I've probably used more polygons then they generated all that time tweaking that VGA adapter:). When first Vesa local bus and then PCI came out they lost count and left it to the game industry.
There are quite a lot of people that don't know how to detect spyware. Asking them if they have spyware will almost always result in a "no". Ask them about anoying popups even when visiting google, if they have an extra toolbar, if internet explorer stays always in memory etc. normally results in different responses.
On another story I posted a comment on why standards should be free and readily available. It's a bit of a shame that none of this can be found in the article. Availability to the general public (like the open source community) is in my opinion a must.
Not that I like the article which the parent pointed too interested me much. It seemed like a quickly configured list of generalisms about standards, without much reasoning behind it. Standards are important and would be better served by a better article.
If you look at how human beings are born in the (western) world, it might be that genetic engeneering might become a necesity. All effort is directed at letting babies live, even if they are unhealthy, born early etc.
After that, live. It doesn't matter if you have bad eyes, limp, have half a brain and various diseases. This society will let you reproduce anyway. If you look at the statistics here in the Netherlands, having half a brain is actually an advantage for having offspring (people with low IQ tend to have more children than those with a high IQ).
For now, that's fine. But in the (very) long run, it means that evolution as a means of selection has ended for the human race. This will also mean that (genetic) degradation of the human kind is a very big possibility. Genetic engeneering and selection *before* birth may once be a real necesity.
I know that there are quite some rather scary thoughts displayed above. But if you look at it rationally, then what's wrong with the above? If you think you know, please reply to this. Note that this is just a brain-wave and may not represent my personal view on the matter.
There are so many people subject to racism and mindless stereotypes that I don't think this would constitute a major change from the current situation. Sure, *different* people might be subject to racism and mindless stereotypes, but hey, society changes./sarcasm_on Luckily the basic features of mankind (look down upon other human beings) always stay the same./sarcasm_off
If it's 70 percent accurate in playing pong (70% for just up and down) I would not put in too strong a robot arm, and make pretty sure that the wheelchair cannot run into a lake or something.
These people have enough on their mind without their wheelchair going berserk. And I would put at least 256 bit WEB encryption on the wireless connection as well, otherwise it may become a rogue access point (har har.)
So if I stand in front of a store window and shout: "don't buy computers from this crap company!" you are actually stealing things. Mmmm. Interesting.
There are lots of ways to make profits disappear. A comedian in the Netherlands for instance completely destroyed a type of malt beer by making fun of it. Still, that's not stealing.
I'm afraid you have been brainwashed by the RIAA or something. I don't say it's right, and its certainly not legal. Pirating software is a good term, lets use that instead.
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Don't know, my parents use Linux mainly to play card games, browse the internet and do their email. On top of that there is this office thingy they do once in a while. Before my father got sick he was interested in photo-editing software. In other words, if you go easy on the multimedia, they would be served fine with Linux.
The only thing that is keeping me from installing it is actually (tadah) the banking site, which requires IE and the government tax application software, which requires Windows. My mother is a teacher and they use Word at school, but I guess I could explain the "save as word document" feature of Open Office without too much of a problem.
So the government and their bank force them to use Windows (while the EU fights Microsoft for using their monopolistic position). What a world.
And after running GNOME (now) and KDE before, I would strongly persue them to try KDE. GNOME is not as user friendly as KDE, and should be dropped ASAP for any such user. There are many more usefull KDE applications as well, it seams. The GNOME file manager crashed on me as well a couple of times (just like my current - up to date - Mozilla, darnit) which made me think back to my explorer problems.
Politics happen anytime you get 3 or more people working together.
I've seen it happen with just two. If you have multiple personalities, or if you take on multiple roles you could manage with just one. In that case, politics are better known as headaches.
"Instead, the force depends strongly on the coupling between the rotating and translational motions of the object."
Though this is a lightweight scientific breakthough, this sentence made me laugh a bit. So we have to take other forces into consideration than gravity if an object moves upward? Who would have thought. Coupling of rotating and translational motions? Come on guys, what other movements did you expect?
Maybe we should learn them how to write first. My apologies if you are dyslexic, but even then you could have someone look at your signature first.
No, you've retained too little from the owners name. As you might know, the new owner wants to put a stamp on it. Therefore you should use more of the buyers name, such as:
Goohole
In my job, not reading web pages will get me fired a lot quicker than browsing the web from time to time. Even if some % of that is for less related stuff.
Why not use the productivity of the worker to check if something is wrong? Restricting freedoms like that can have quite an impact on morale, and in the case of the internet, on the personal development of the employee.
Especially in computer related jobs, keeping up to date is quite essential.
Simple. You can buy a PC in parts. There is a well established market for it as well. Lots of upgrades are possible, while for the mac little to none are available. Not really a space most overclockers (who tend to buy their system from multiple vendors) are comformable with. Most of them will have grown into it as well. Start of with a DVD replacement, then multiple harddrives, and start overclocking sometime after. Also, the games industry for MAC's is way smaller than the PC games industry. This is a market where overclocking really counts. And since there is less of a market for mac internal parts, this will be double the case for mods.
They are using more transistors at a higher frequency to get the same job done. IT'S not a big secret that this will cost more power, which lets the chips run hotter. That's why Intel needed a completely new chip for their notebook lineup, whereas AMD can use their old designs.
Intel does seem to be somewhat more aware of the issue than AMD though. I like their CPU fans better (appart from the trash they put on their PII slot processor boards), they've got thermal shutdown inside the processor and if I may believe another thread, the CPU uses less power when there is not much to do.
Their is something to think about!
The bigger problem is how you define conciousness. Some people will sit and chat to Eliza-like programs and not realize it isn't a human.
Lets draw the line at the level which those people are on then.
I must admit that the computer I have at work with hyperthreading already feels more responsive then my machine at home. Even though the other specs are mostly the same (up to date 7200 RPM hdd, 1 GB memory etc) the P4 2600 HT clearly beats my Athlon 2400+. And from experience, that's not because of the 200 MHz (comparitive) MHz. I haven't done any testing on the systems, but the feel is clearly there. Lets hope that multi-core processors will provide the same feel, but even better.
Currently most software is pixel oriented (thus not really scalable). You would not want to have a crappy screen with that. A tuner module would be nice, but you can get those for USB if the need arises. I got a headache even using my MSX computer of old for too long at the time. A TV screen would mess up productivity suites (office) and internet browsing big time. And wasn't that what the computer was for?
I can remember a race between two students at the university to get the highest polygon count on an ISA VGA card using all kind of tricks. They got pretty far, but while playing UT2004 for a couple of seconds, I've probably used more polygons then they generated all that time tweaking that VGA adapter :). When first Vesa local bus and then PCI came out they lost count and left it to the game industry.
There are quite a lot of people that don't know how to detect spyware. Asking them if they have spyware will almost always result in a "no". Ask them about anoying popups even when visiting google, if they have an extra toolbar, if internet explorer stays always in memory etc. normally results in different responses.
On another story I posted a comment on why standards should be free and readily available. It's a bit of a shame that none of this can be found in the article. Availability to the general public (like the open source community) is in my opinion a must.
Not that I like the article which the parent pointed too interested me much. It seemed like a quickly configured list of generalisms about standards, without much reasoning behind it. Standards are important and would be better served by a better article.
Isn't there a law against using other slang than hacker slang on /. ? I thought I saw it somewhere...
About imperial threads, all I can say is: "don't give in to the dark side".
That's for better XOR for worse.
This in comparison with how close it is to the English word help?
If you remove ethics, how do you actually distinguish between good and bad?
If you look at how human beings are born in the (western) world, it might be that genetic engeneering might become a necesity. All effort is directed at letting babies live, even if they are unhealthy, born early etc.
After that, live. It doesn't matter if you have bad eyes, limp, have half a brain and various diseases. This society will let you reproduce anyway. If you look at the statistics here in the Netherlands, having half a brain is actually an advantage for having offspring (people with low IQ tend to have more children than those with a high IQ).
For now, that's fine. But in the (very) long run, it means that evolution as a means of selection has ended for the human race. This will also mean that (genetic) degradation of the human kind is a very big possibility. Genetic engeneering and selection *before* birth may once be a real necesity.
I know that there are quite some rather scary thoughts displayed above. But if you look at it rationally, then what's wrong with the above? If you think you know, please reply to this. Note that this is just a brain-wave and may not represent my personal view on the matter.
"Every sperm is sacred..." Monty Python song.
There are so many people subject to racism and mindless stereotypes that I don't think this would constitute a major change from the current situation. Sure, *different* people might be subject to racism and mindless stereotypes, but hey, society changes. /sarcasm_on Luckily the basic features of mankind (look down upon other human beings) always stay the same. /sarcasm_off
If it's 70 percent accurate in playing pong (70% for just up and down) I would not put in too strong a robot arm, and make pretty sure that the wheelchair cannot run into a lake or something.
These people have enough on their mind without their wheelchair going berserk. And I would put at least 256 bit WEB encryption on the wireless connection as well, otherwise it may become a rogue access point (har har.)
So if I stand in front of a store window and shout: "don't buy computers from this crap company!" you are actually stealing things. Mmmm. Interesting.
There are lots of ways to make profits disappear. A comedian in the Netherlands for instance completely destroyed a type of malt beer by making fun of it. Still, that's not stealing.
I'm afraid you have been brainwashed by the RIAA or something. I don't say it's right, and its certainly not legal. Pirating software is a good term, lets use that instead.
So? Start your keyboard...