Of course though, these would only help for jobs where someone actually has to *think*. You need to remember that not everyone is a fellow nerd and there are many jobs that are fairly robotic or artistic. I can see little help from IQ enhancing for people like builders, butchers, plubmers,...etc. Although there is thought in a lot of these jobs, most of it is plain old experienc. "Abnormally long grass in the back corner of your yard hey? Looks like a sewage leak".
Well, first I need a good reason to upgrade...And I have to bother writing one:p. Right now I'm content just to use the older version sorry...But if I do ever end up doing It I'll post it somewhere.
Perhaps, but think about how long you actually drive for in the day. Most people would drive less than an hour in the morning and evening to and from work while through the day and through the night the car can be charging. All it takes is a little organisation to bother plugging it in at both ends (or induction via coils in the concrete and car body maybe?...hmm, transparent charging that's vandel resistant.).
Obviously there are transport applications that will require conventional fossil fuel powered cars/trucks unless some sort of really psycho battery tech is developed but for now there are a lot of people out there who could reasonably use a pure-electric car. That and H_2 fuel cells could take over the higher capacity veichles anyway (as it is in Perth, Western Australia where they are running a fuel cell bus trial, info http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/fuelcells/ and http://www.herelectricvehicle.com/fuelbustrial.htm l
I know that Debian has an apt repository that's something like security.debian.org, if it's in your sources.list apt will get updates from it when you ask it (apt-get dist-upgrade for example). I'm fairly sure Redhat has a similar thing via some update program but I've only opened it and had a poke around, never acutally used it for anything.
Cost to copy a 500k tarball: Cost to fab a graphics card: $Hundreds
Bascilly one of the things that makes free software popular is that it's so easy to make thousands of copies of it. Hardware would be much harder to take off as it requires the consumer to actually fork out money to try it.
What about the charged particles that are shot out by the Sun? In both cases they would hit the sail and transfer an amount of energy to it but would this be more dominant than the momentum from the photons? Say the sail accelerates out of out solar system and eventually enteres another, assuming no breaking force at the remote solar system from particles it will travel some distance closer to the remote star if one side was black. However it could get unlucky and get right in the path of a solar erruption.
I'm just blabbing my thoughts without regard to speeling, move along now.
IMO Linux is not *really* faster than Windows but only *appears* faster (and does a good job of it). Lets take a simple example. Say I click the Firefox icon on both a Windows and Gnome desktop, both will probably load at about the same speed but while it's loading the superior multitasking in Linux means that my desktop is still useable while it's loading. Windows seems to really shove the user responsiveness out of the way whenever it feels like it while in linux even if you have very high load due to runaway programs and a crashed X you can still ctrl+alt+F1 outta there to kill something in a few seconds. And when you kill -9 something it does actually die then and there (with few exceptions like when I/O has to finish in the kernel etc). While Windows still seems to make you wait 20s before it lets you kill something forcefully.
Maybe they should appease the masses by actually putting a site at googlesex.com. Yes, I checked it before reading the comments...indeed before reading the article or even the rest of the/. summary!
It is interesting however to notice that porn has not taken a full grasp of 3d computer generated scenes. They are out there...well "so I've heard", but other media such as ASCII porn or even really shit looking mobile phone porn seems more popular that openGL/direct 3d porn.
Possibly yes, but are you really sure that the Linux world is ready for 100 million tech support e-mails a day from people's relatives asking "how the hell do I setup xyz piece of hardware?". I know that for now I'm happy to sit in my own little Linux world where I have all the good fun of not worrying about virii and pretenting that I have a learning dissability whenever anyone asks me for me for help.
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Just goes to show how many people must try to read the article before posting :).
Of course though, these would only help for jobs where someone actually has to *think*. You need to remember that not everyone is a fellow nerd and there are many jobs that are fairly robotic or artistic. I can see little help from IQ enhancing for people like builders, butchers, plubmers, ...etc. Although there is thought in a lot of these jobs, most of it is plain old experienc. "Abnormally long grass in the back corner of your yard hey? Looks like a sewage leak".
Well, first I need a good reason to upgrade...And I have to bother writing one :p. Right now I'm content just to use the older version sorry...But if I do ever end up doing It I'll post it somewhere.
Oh, and having wayyyy too much time on my hands as an on-holliday uni bum :D.
What the hell? Nuts to upgrading. I'm glad I learnt GTK recently so I can hack it back to what it used to be. Ahhh, the beauty of OSS.
So by there logic since they define piracy they cause it's existance therefore they should be destroyed?
Meh, so I'm a lazy bastard. I deserved that :p.
http://www.cybersource.com.au/about/linux_vs_windo ws_tco_comparison.pdf
Linked to in the article.
Perhaps, but think about how long you actually drive for in the day. Most people would drive less than an hour in the morning and evening to and from work while through the day and through the night the car can be charging. All it takes is a little organisation to bother plugging it in at both ends (or induction via coils in the concrete and car body maybe?...hmm, transparent charging that's vandel resistant.).
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Obviously there are transport applications that will require conventional fossil fuel powered cars/trucks unless some sort of really psycho battery tech is developed but for now there are a lot of people out there who could reasonably use a pure-electric car. That and H_2 fuel cells could take over the higher capacity veichles anyway (as it is in Perth, Western Australia where they are running a fuel cell bus trial, info http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/fuelcells/ and http://www.herelectricvehicle.com/fuelbustrial.ht
Heh, a bit like when you're writing a makefile, and you accidentally put:
.o
clean:
rm *
instead of:
clean:
rm *.o
Shhh, I like my unrealistic view on reality.
Well, given an average breast (not work safe) is about 200x200 pixels = 40000 pixels and at 24bpp = 960000 bits. So at 10Gb this is about 10400Bps.
I know that Debian has an apt repository that's something like security.debian.org, if it's in your sources.list apt will get updates from it when you ask it (apt-get dist-upgrade for example). I'm fairly sure Redhat has a similar thing via some update program but I've only opened it and had a poke around, never acutally used it for anything.
It's quite simple,
Cost to copy a 500k tarball:
Cost to fab a graphics card: $Hundreds
Bascilly one of the things that makes free software popular is that it's so easy to make thousands of copies of it. Hardware would be much harder to take off as it requires the consumer to actually fork out money to try it.
cat /dev/random > /dev/drum
What about the charged particles that are shot out by the Sun? In both cases they would hit the sail and transfer an amount of energy to it but would this be more dominant than the momentum from the photons? Say the sail accelerates out of out solar system and eventually enteres another, assuming no breaking force at the remote solar system from particles it will travel some distance closer to the remote star if one side was black. However it could get unlucky and get right in the path of a solar erruption.
I'm just blabbing my thoughts without regard to speeling, move along now.
I believe "and thanks for all the gif's" would have flowed better in parallel with the original quote...I'll go back to the shadows now.
Finally! Geeks have a reason to buy condoms!
IMO Linux is not *really* faster than Windows but only *appears* faster (and does a good job of it). Lets take a simple example. Say I click the Firefox icon on both a Windows and Gnome desktop, both will probably load at about the same speed but while it's loading the superior multitasking in Linux means that my desktop is still useable while it's loading. Windows seems to really shove the user responsiveness out of the way whenever it feels like it while in linux even if you have very high load due to runaway programs and a crashed X you can still ctrl+alt+F1 outta there to kill something in a few seconds. And when you kill -9 something it does actually die then and there (with few exceptions like when I/O has to finish in the kernel etc). While Windows still seems to make you wait 20s before it lets you kill something forcefully.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's weird that I can make a meaning out of that headline :p.
Maybe they should appease the masses by actually putting a site at googlesex.com. Yes, I checked it before reading the comments...indeed before reading the article or even the rest of the /. summary!
It is interesting however to notice that porn has not taken a full grasp of 3d computer generated scenes. They are out there...well "so I've heard", but other media such as ASCII porn or even really shit looking mobile phone porn seems more popular that openGL/direct 3d porn.
There seems to be a growing list of non-reversible, heavy brain damage inducing, computing phenomena:
BASIC
COBOL
Windows
...
Possibly yes, but are you really sure that the Linux world is ready for 100 million tech support e-mails a day from people's relatives asking "how the hell do I setup xyz piece of hardware?". I know that for now I'm happy to sit in my own little Linux world where I have all the good fun of not worrying about virii and pretenting that I have a learning dissability whenever anyone asks me for me for help.