My eeepc 900 with 2 gigs of ram runs regular Ubuntu with Compiz just fine. This is the perfect device. Light and portable yet powerful enough to run all my regular desktop applications. SSD so it is rugged enough to accompany me everywhere. Tethers with my Blackberry when no wifi available. What more could you want?
It has never been confirmed by the govt, but if I recall, it was the Blaster worm which caused the big power failure of '03.
I believe the computers which were supposed to prevent a cascading failure were down with Blaster that day, as were a number of other prominent world-wide networks.
I can't help but wonder how much of our critical infrastructure is still running Windows?
And don't give me crap about open office solutions. It took most of these people 10 or 20 years to just get by with Office, you really think they are going to want to essentially re-learn everything?
Yeah, like Office 2007?
It's an incredible time sink and absolutely crazy that you can't enable a 'classic' interface so you don't spend 45 minutes doing some simple task that you could do with 2 clicks before.
Unfortunately, in the Netherlands we do not have access to the Kindle. But even with the risks of allowing Amazon to retain control to remotely delete items you have purchased I would definitely be a customer for the device. I suppose that with products like these you have to decide whether you trust a supplier or not.
A friend at work purchased one of these. She paid more than I did for my eeepc. My little computer currently holds 80+ books (in pdf-no DRM), several audio books and even a few movies. I also have wifi for web browsing and an office suite for documents. I cannot understand the lure of these devices. They seem like an expensive, proprietary, single use item.
This is not a troll. Please help me understand why anyone would want one of these instead of a less costly yet more versatile netbook?
Large businesses and media companies have tried to do to the Internet what they did to Christmas...turn it into a cash machine. Unfortunately, the Internet was not designed as a profit vehicle, it was designed to share information and facilitate communication. As a user above mentioned, there are plenty of people who contribute content for free, as I am doing now, or who host their own websites, as I also do.
Personally, I look forward to the day when the net returns to a library and public square instead of a shopping mall, where I am charged for looking in the windows.
I have noticed that problem with the new moderation widget. If you accidently select the wrong choice from the drop-down menu (easy to do on a trackpad), there is no way to confirm before the mod gets posted. Theres no way to undo it without a voiding moderation on the whole thread.
There should be a confirmation or at least an opportunity to change the selection before the moderation is counted.
Its also possible that with the vomiting and the combination of chemicals the paramedics may have decided to play it safe and send everyone with severe symptoms to the hospital.
When you are dealing with a chemical stew, it may be better to assume the worst until they knew otherwise.
"...Evolution is the unifying principle for all the biology, past and present, in our halls," Kremer said. "That is the foundation of the research we conduct at the museum."
Oh God! Mental note: Don't hire anyone from Liberty University, VA.
A perfect example of how the religious nuts are no only limiting their own children's' careers, but by pushing this stuff into the public schools, are putting our childrens futures at risk too.
I know this was meant as a joke, but combined with the scary 42% that believe this stuff...no wonder we are falling behind in the sciences.
Interesting to listen to all these males theorizing why women have babies. It is not out of 'habit' or 'instinct.' Women have babies because evolution has designed them to be the givers of life. They are the loving nurturers. They are the fierce lioness defending her cubs.
It is impossible to explain to a non-parent the satisfaction to your soul seeing your progeny grow, thrive and finally set out on their own. It is the hardest and most wonderful job you will ever have.
Perhaps many men feel that getting that big promotion or gaining more power than the other guy is the path to satisfaction in life. Others may find that acquiring piles of money will lead to happiness. While they are struggling to out-compete each other, women are focused on what most consider their most important job: their families. Thank God they still do.
We can all speculate on this forever, but lets all hope that women continue to have babies, to be good moms to our kids and maybe teach something to men about parenting in the process.
Perhaps the problem is not with women having babies, but with the family-unfriendly demands of the job and the lack of help many women get from their career-minded spouses.
Two year olds can definitely learn to use and respect the computer. I have taught each child and later, my grandkids to use them. Thirteen years ago, my three year old could bring up her games in DOS, now she is designing the school sweatshirts in photoshop. My son has his own computer repair shop.
I usually start with the keyboard. The concept of one finger/key at a time is tough, but they get that pretty fast. Just putting up a word processor with big colorful lettering is a good start. There used to be an old DOS game called Dannys First Program, which was perfect for little ones. Each key launched some colorful, noisy event. I wish I could find a modern equivalent.
Once they get the idea of respecting the keyboard, they can practice the mouse. I put an 'X' with a Sharpie on the left click button. There are lots of simple (flash type) matching games online and this is a great way for little ones to learn to point and click. My three year old grandson is already a master at pbskids, noggin and cartoon network, all have lots of fun and educational games for kids.
Little ones see us use the computers all the time, and they are so curious. You might as well teach them early to respect the computer and how to use it. Those skills can help them for the rest of their lives.
"..Exactly... like the adult who bullied a kid so much they they lit the bomb the kid was holding. Instead, said adult should have been offering support to clearly take away said metaphorical bomb, not purposely trying to inflict mental harm.."
The important difference here is that this was an adult, manipulating a child to hurt, humiliate and ultimately, cause her death. No adult should be allowed to torture a child, to prey on her known weaknesses.
This woman deserves to be punished. This is intentional cruelty to a child and gross negligence and probably should have been charged as such, instead of fraud, which can have long range consequences for the online community.
But Congress refuses to bring impeachment hearings. The night of the election in '06, Polosi declared that 'Impeachment is off the table'. Why? Well it's because they knew what the Administration was doing and did nothing about it. Like the rest of the gutless politicians, they were too afraid to speak out against the Administration, the war or the illegal tactics being used because the Republicans and the media whipped the country into a frenzy of blind 'Patriotism'. It took a brave politician to go against the tide.
Congress will do nothing because it will expose their own complicity.
As someone above stated, perhaps next year with a more activist Congress and the Bushies out of power, then maybe some of the truth will start to trickle out. We will probably never know how bad things really got. Thanks for nothing, Congress.
Don't vote for any incumbents unless they spoke out when it was unpopular to do so.
I think you are missing the idea of a 'hobby'. Hobbies are something people do for enjoyment in their own time. Some lucky ones find a way for their hobby to pay the bills, but most don't make money from them. In fact many hobbies are quite expensive. My father was a skilled woodworker. He spent thousands on tools and equipment over the years. He spent hours in his shop creating beautiful and useful things. And then giving them away. I don't remember him ever getting paid for any of these things, yet many are still in use today.
If you don't code for enjoyment, no one is expecting you to contribute to OSS. However, for many people, this is what we enjoy. Our computers are our workshops. We get to do what we love and get the satisfaction out of seeing other people enjoy and use our creation.
Somehow, I think if this needs to be explained to you, you will never truly understand.
Science is built by standing on the shoulders of those who came before you. From banging two rocks together to make tools and fire to modern medicine and our wonderful tech toys. This article made me think of what would have happened if patents and copyright were around back then. What if the wheel or the gear had been patented? This is the great danger of patents on scientific work. They stifle future innovation and force everyone to 'reinvent the wheel' which is a great waste of resources and mind power. Those who patent science stood on the shoulders of those who came before, but their shoulders are off limits to anyone else.
The stupidest thing is Windows being configured by default to restart for updates after the user doesn't respond for some very short amount of time...
grrrr...this one bit me at work again last week. I was in the middle of a big project and had probably half a dozen windows open. I cannot imagine why MS thought this was a good idea. Can I turn it off?
A much more likely explanation is that lots of people with different motivations run things, and sometimes they work against each other and sometimes they screw up...
I think a more likely explanation is pure arrogance. The neocons. believed their day had finally come. They believed they owned the Whitehouse and they would rule for decades. They never believed they would have to answer for the things they did and the laws they broke.
A core neo-con belief is that the US is the last superpower and we should make no apologies for using whatever means necessary, including our military, to further our goals. They simply believed that taking over the mid-east would be a cake walk. They planned to take over 7 countries in 5 years. Iraq was supposed to be just the first domino to fall. Unfortunately for the neo-cons, things didn't go as they planned.
We wound up getting bogged down in Iraq, but due to the arrogance of total power, they could not admit they had made mistakes in planning so we continued down a doomed path, spiraling out of control for years.
Arrogance is what brought us to this place. It gave us torture, domestic spying, rendition, ignoring Habeas corpus, abuse of free speech and free press and a host of other violations of Bill of Rights.
I don't believe it is incompetence or conflicting interests. Just pure arrogance at the highest levels which permeated through all layers of government.
The only good thing to come of this disaster of an administration, is the total and complete discredit of the neo-cons. Hopefully no one will ever listen to them again.
Watch "The Power of Nighmares".
Nope, not all Ubuntu users are MS 'runaways'. I have used Linuxes of various flavors for 7 years and found Debian and apt-get was the best fit for me. However I got tired of fighting my Debian desktop to do simple things like mounting a cd or a flash drive. So I tried Breezy and have stuck to Ubuntu on my desktops and Deb on the server ever since. I like the desktop to be easy to use, but scratch the surface it is still Debian Linux and, with the exception of sudo, the command line works just like it always has.
"Every day there are large protests against the government in the USA, and the police show up to PROTECT them..."
Thats funny. I had the opportunity to attend a protest during a visit by the Prez to a city near me. There were over 1000 people there. It was a peaceful demonstration and things went well for awhile. (Although the trenchcoat/dark glasses guys taking pictures of everyone was a little disturbing.)
From down the road there approached a line of riot police, complete with helmets, shields and long clubs. They moved steadily toward the line of protesters. They were certainly not there to 'protect' us.
I'm sorry I can't tell you how it all ended, as I left at that point. I had my teenage daughter and her friend with me and I didn't want them getting hurt. The point is, your are kidding yourself if you think those guys were there for anything except breaking up a peaceful protest which was attracting some media attention.
Today, US citizens can walk out of any hospital, and into another. Money talks. But not under government health care, you'll be assigned to a hospital...
Ha! What kind of insurance do you have? Most plans specify the doctors, hospitals and specialists you can see. Don't like the choices? Pay for it yourself.
I've seen $50 for a 1N4001 diode, should cost a buck at Radio Shack. With the government in charge, it will be $200 for a rubber glove, and only go up from there...
Hate to break it to you, but you and I are already paying those ridiculous costs. Insurance companies routinely overcharge for everything from band-aids to Tylenol because insurance companies usually pay the bills. Which, of course is passed on to the insured, to the tune of the US paying more for health care than any other country in the world. ($5000 per year, per person. Compare to Canada at about $2500)
The "Medicare reform" by GWB was actually a gift to the pharmaceutical companies as it prohibited the government (the largest purchaser of heath care in the country) from negotiating on any prices. And the 'lower prices' for medicines is offset by increases in other drugs, as the companies were assured no net loss in profit.
The health care crisis of spiraling insurance costs is devastating everyone it touches. Doctors, hospitals, and especially patients. It is bankrupting individuals and hampering our ability to compete with countries, or even other companies which don't pay these costs. Did you know that GM spends more on health care than the steel to make its cars and trucks?
The travesty which is the health care system in this country is an embarrassment, and the public has been brainwashed into fearing any kind of true reform. Unfortunately, the people who like the system the way it is (insurance and pharmaceutical companies), pour huge amounts of money into politics to keep things just the way they are.
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My eeepc 900 with 2 gigs of ram runs regular Ubuntu with Compiz just fine. This is the perfect device. Light and portable yet powerful enough to run all my regular desktop applications. SSD so it is rugged enough to accompany me everywhere. Tethers with my Blackberry when no wifi available. What more could you want?
"22 new from $14.41 / 4 used from $15.39"
Ok..if only 1 survived, how come there are 4 used copies available on Amazon?
It has never been confirmed by the govt, but if I recall, it was the Blaster worm which caused the big power failure of '03.
I believe the computers which were supposed to prevent a cascading failure were down with Blaster that day, as were a number of other prominent world-wide networks.
I can't help but wonder how much of our critical infrastructure is still running Windows?
And don't give me crap about open office solutions. It took most of these people 10 or 20 years to just get by with Office, you really think they are going to want to essentially re-learn everything?
Yeah, like Office 2007?
It's an incredible time sink and absolutely crazy that you can't enable a 'classic' interface so you don't spend 45 minutes doing some simple task that you could do with 2 clicks before.
Unfortunately, in the Netherlands we do not have access to the Kindle. But even with the risks of allowing Amazon to retain control to remotely delete items you have purchased I would definitely be a customer for the device. I suppose that with products like these you have to decide whether you trust a supplier or not.
A friend at work purchased one of these. She paid more than I did for my eeepc. My little computer currently holds 80+ books (in pdf-no DRM), several audio books and even a few movies. I also have wifi for web browsing and an office suite for documents. I cannot understand the lure of these devices. They seem like an expensive, proprietary, single use item.
This is not a troll. Please help me understand why anyone would want one of these instead of a less costly yet more versatile netbook?
Large businesses and media companies have tried to do to the Internet what they did to Christmas...turn it into a cash machine. Unfortunately, the Internet was not designed as a profit vehicle, it was designed to share information and facilitate communication. As a user above mentioned, there are plenty of people who contribute content for free, as I am doing now, or who host their own websites, as I also do.
Personally, I look forward to the day when the net returns to a library and public square instead of a shopping mall, where I am charged for looking in the windows.
I have noticed that problem with the new moderation widget. If you accidently select the wrong choice from the drop-down menu (easy to do on a trackpad), there is no way to confirm before the mod gets posted. Theres no way to undo it without a voiding moderation on the whole thread.
There should be a confirmation or at least an opportunity to change the selection before the moderation is counted.
Its also possible that with the vomiting and the combination of chemicals the paramedics may have decided to play it safe and send everyone with severe symptoms to the hospital.
When you are dealing with a chemical stew, it may be better to assume the worst until they knew otherwise.
http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1134
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Oh God! Mental note: Don't hire anyone from Liberty University, VA.
A perfect example of how the religious nuts are no only limiting their own children's' careers, but by pushing this stuff into the public schools, are putting our childrens futures at risk too.
I know this was meant as a joke, but combined with the scary 42% that believe this stuff...no wonder we are falling behind in the sciences.
Interesting to listen to all these males theorizing why women have babies. It is not out of 'habit' or 'instinct.' Women have babies because evolution has designed them to be the givers of life. They are the loving nurturers. They are the fierce lioness defending her cubs.
It is impossible to explain to a non-parent the satisfaction to your soul seeing your progeny grow, thrive and finally set out on their own. It is the hardest and most wonderful job you will ever have.
Perhaps many men feel that getting that big promotion or gaining more power than the other guy is the path to satisfaction in life. Others may find that acquiring piles of money will lead to happiness. While they are struggling to out-compete each other, women are focused on what most consider their most important job: their families. Thank God they still do.
We can all speculate on this forever, but lets all hope that women continue to have babies, to be good moms to our kids and maybe teach something to men about parenting in the process. Perhaps the problem is not with women having babies, but with the family-unfriendly demands of the job and the lack of help many women get from their career-minded spouses.
Ha! Without a doubt, the very best easter egg ever. I know they are considered bloat nowadays, but I always enjoyed them.
Two year olds can definitely learn to use and respect the computer. I have taught each child and later, my grandkids to use them. Thirteen years ago, my three year old could bring up her games in DOS, now she is designing the school sweatshirts in photoshop. My son has his own computer repair shop.
I usually start with the keyboard. The concept of one finger/key at a time is tough, but they get that pretty fast. Just putting up a word processor with big colorful lettering is a good start. There used to be an old DOS game called Dannys First Program, which was perfect for little ones. Each key launched some colorful, noisy event. I wish I could find a modern equivalent.
Once they get the idea of respecting the keyboard, they can practice the mouse. I put an 'X' with a Sharpie on the left click button. There are lots of simple (flash type) matching games online and this is a great way for little ones to learn to point and click. My three year old grandson is already a master at pbskids, noggin and cartoon network, all have lots of fun and educational games for kids.
Little ones see us use the computers all the time, and they are so curious. You might as well teach them early to respect the computer and how to use it. Those skills can help them for the rest of their lives.
"..Exactly... like the adult who bullied a kid so much they they lit the bomb the kid was holding. Instead, said adult should have been offering support to clearly take away said metaphorical bomb, not purposely trying to inflict mental harm.."
The important difference here is that this was an adult, manipulating a child to hurt, humiliate and ultimately, cause her death. No adult should be allowed to torture a child, to prey on her known weaknesses.
This woman deserves to be punished. This is intentional cruelty to a child and gross negligence and probably should have been charged as such, instead of fraud, which can have long range consequences for the online community.
My eeepc is the first keyboard/computer that I've had which didn't have a Windows key. The 'Super Key" uses a Linux type 'Home' icon.
But Congress refuses to bring impeachment hearings. The night of the election in '06, Polosi declared that 'Impeachment is off the table'. Why? Well it's because they knew what the Administration was doing and did nothing about it. Like the rest of the gutless politicians, they were too afraid to speak out against the Administration, the war or the illegal tactics being used because the Republicans and the media whipped the country into a frenzy of blind 'Patriotism'. It took a brave politician to go against the tide.
Congress will do nothing because it will expose their own complicity.
As someone above stated, perhaps next year with a more activist Congress and the Bushies out of power, then maybe some of the truth will start to trickle out. We will probably never know how bad things really got. Thanks for nothing, Congress.
Don't vote for any incumbents unless they spoke out when it was unpopular to do so.
I think you are missing the idea of a 'hobby'. Hobbies are something people do for enjoyment in their own time. Some lucky ones find a way for their hobby to pay the bills, but most don't make money from them. In fact many hobbies are quite expensive. My father was a skilled woodworker. He spent thousands on tools and equipment over the years. He spent hours in his shop creating beautiful and useful things. And then giving them away. I don't remember him ever getting paid for any of these things, yet many are still in use today.
If you don't code for enjoyment, no one is expecting you to contribute to OSS. However, for many people, this is what we enjoy. Our computers are our workshops. We get to do what we love and get the satisfaction out of seeing other people enjoy and use our creation.
Somehow, I think if this needs to be explained to you, you will never truly understand.
Science is built by standing on the shoulders of those who came before you. From banging two rocks together to make tools and fire to modern medicine and our wonderful tech toys. This article made me think of what would have happened if patents and copyright were around back then. What if the wheel or the gear had been patented? This is the great danger of patents on scientific work. They stifle future innovation and force everyone to 'reinvent the wheel' which is a great waste of resources and mind power. Those who patent science stood on the shoulders of those who came before, but their shoulders are off limits to anyone else.
The stupidest thing is Windows being configured by default to restart for updates after the user doesn't respond for some very short amount of time...
grrrr...this one bit me at work again last week. I was in the middle of a big project and had probably half a dozen windows open. I cannot imagine why MS thought this was a good idea. Can I turn it off?
A much more likely explanation is that lots of people with different motivations run things, and sometimes they work against each other and sometimes they screw up...
I think a more likely explanation is pure arrogance. The neocons. believed their day had finally come. They believed they owned the Whitehouse and they would rule for decades. They never believed they would have to answer for the things they did and the laws they broke.
A core neo-con belief is that the US is the last superpower and we should make no apologies for using whatever means necessary, including our military, to further our goals. They simply believed that taking over the mid-east would be a cake walk. They planned to take over 7 countries in 5 years. Iraq was supposed to be just the first domino to fall. Unfortunately for the neo-cons, things didn't go as they planned.
We wound up getting bogged down in Iraq, but due to the arrogance of total power, they could not admit they had made mistakes in planning so we continued down a doomed path, spiraling out of control for years.
Arrogance is what brought us to this place. It gave us torture, domestic spying, rendition, ignoring Habeas corpus, abuse of free speech and free press and a host of other violations of Bill of Rights.
I don't believe it is incompetence or conflicting interests. Just pure arrogance at the highest levels which permeated through all layers of government.
The only good thing to come of this disaster of an administration, is the total and complete discredit of the neo-cons. Hopefully no one will ever listen to them again. Watch "The Power of Nighmares".
Nope, not all Ubuntu users are MS 'runaways'. I have used Linuxes of various flavors for 7 years and found Debian and apt-get was the best fit for me. However I got tired of fighting my Debian desktop to do simple things like mounting a cd or a flash drive. So I tried Breezy and have stuck to Ubuntu on my desktops and Deb on the server ever since. I like the desktop to be easy to use, but scratch the surface it is still Debian Linux and, with the exception of sudo, the command line works just like it always has.
"Every day there are large protests against the government in the USA, and the police show up to PROTECT them..."
Thats funny. I had the opportunity to attend a protest during a visit by the Prez to a city near me. There were over 1000 people there. It was a peaceful demonstration and things went well for awhile. (Although the trenchcoat/dark glasses guys taking pictures of everyone was a little disturbing.)
From down the road there approached a line of riot police, complete with helmets, shields and long clubs. They moved steadily toward the line of protesters. They were certainly not there to 'protect' us.
I'm sorry I can't tell you how it all ended, as I left at that point. I had my teenage daughter and her friend with me and I didn't want them getting hurt. The point is, your are kidding yourself if you think those guys were there for anything except breaking up a peaceful protest which was attracting some media attention.
Today, US citizens can walk out of any hospital, and into another. Money talks. But not under government health care, you'll be assigned to a hospital...
Ha! What kind of insurance do you have? Most plans specify the doctors, hospitals and specialists you can see. Don't like the choices? Pay for it yourself.
I've seen $50 for a 1N4001 diode, should cost a buck at Radio Shack. With the government in charge, it will be $200 for a rubber glove, and only go up from there...
Hate to break it to you, but you and I are already paying those ridiculous costs. Insurance companies routinely overcharge for everything from band-aids to Tylenol because insurance companies usually pay the bills. Which, of course is passed on to the insured, to the tune of the US paying more for health care than any other country in the world. ($5000 per year, per person. Compare to Canada at about $2500)
The "Medicare reform" by GWB was actually a gift to the pharmaceutical companies as it prohibited the government (the largest purchaser of heath care in the country) from negotiating on any prices. And the 'lower prices' for medicines is offset by increases in other drugs, as the companies were assured no net loss in profit.
The health care crisis of spiraling insurance costs is devastating everyone it touches. Doctors, hospitals, and especially patients. It is bankrupting individuals and hampering our ability to compete with countries, or even other companies which don't pay these costs. Did you know that GM spends more on health care than the steel to make its cars and trucks?
The travesty which is the health care system in this country is an embarrassment, and the public has been brainwashed into fearing any kind of true reform. Unfortunately, the people who like the system the way it is (insurance and pharmaceutical companies), pour huge amounts of money into politics to keep things just the way they are.