Although people's moves into suburbia is undoubtedly part of the problem, you have to think about the COST of living in cities. Sometimes it is simply too expensive to have an apartment, and to get an apartment at a value to rival that of a suburbian house, well, it's just not possible.
So long as more high-rises are built, hopefully city living costs will go down... but we can't pack as you suggest, we can't be a bunch of little Tokyo's.
Why? Well, quite simply, using biodiesel not only are you saving money and the environment, but you boost the economy via the agriculture industry!
From what I hear they are using it a lot in the midwest states, but I really would like to see some mainstream biodiesel technology.
Fuel cells, meh, they have their place. But accident safety with a hydrogen bomb under your hood is an interesting diversion from the subject in itself...
The thing with school is that you really don't have a choice as to what you learn, you just learn.
I was never particularly fond of the study of the English language, but I loved discussion of meanings of stories and the like.
I was never fond of Geometry but loved Algebra...
It all has to do with being a dynamic learner, and you will find yourself a hell of a field in some technology setting, which is arguably the most dynamic sector in the world.
Even though the record companies have ultimate control over their portion of the price, something inherent as an Apple users tells me that Apple would either lower their profits from each song to keep the price lower, or possibly raise incentives to purchase songs, like giving the Music Store a refreshed look, or increasing play quality as an option for high-speed users.
I truly doubt that Apple would just raise prices to $1.25 without a fight, there is nobody who is more pro-music in the technology sector than Steve Jobs himself.
This is just great for all of us tweakers, but for there to be a real surge in people going past what is considered normal with their iPods, there must be one or two alternative GUIs that are... say it with me now... user-friendly.
Until then it'll be just us regular Slashdotters and geeks who will have any interest at all in this sort of thing. I still won't put it on, for the pure fact that it won't serve me well in day-to-day purposes, though it is cool.
Hey, it might be frightening if you were a little person.
Or a baby.
But I don't see the "dragon" resemblance...looks more to me like the robot from Lost in Space paired with 4 spider legs and a...well...I'll leave you to decide what the small, skinny, football shaped thing in the front is.
I guess it is supposed to be a head. Now, isn't that an interesting coincidence...
Hey, I loved OS 9 too, and even the older Mac OS' got my heart beating fast.
But I mean, OS X just has to be the next step. There's only so much Apple could have improved OS 9. I do VERY much agree with some here about the way OS 9 looked, I like it as much as/more than I like the look of OS X. If Windows XP is the "Playschool" interface, then OS X is the "Mattel" interface.
I really, really wish Apple would provide ways to completely skin the OS from System Preferences, such as making it look like OS 9 while keeping the features set. That would be nice. Even though some programs now can do that, I'd love Apple to do it.
In the future I can only see good things for Apple. And who knows, maybe they will get closer and closer to integrating Linux, though BSD isn't a bad option as it stands.
People look at Mars these days, almost as the "next Earth"...dreams and hopes from businesses the world over of exotic minerals, huge deposits of iron and whatnot, and this drives many to support Mars exploration
There are also those who of course, believe that Mars is chiefly where we will dump those extra billions of people we are going to have in the next 100 years.
But Venus should not be forgotten, it is a legitimate testing ground for technology and a potential "gold mine" in itself.
Very rarely do you see Mac users toting non-Palm OS handhelds, thanks to new synchronization from such companies as mark|space now there are ways to seamlessly hook up with a Pocket PC or WinCE device....
Palm's products have a huge base of Mac users. I don't know what the hell they are doing with this, but it has to be one of the stupidest business decisions(SCO aside) that I've ever seen in my life.
My Windows XP using friend called me 3 times before I got his call, and he was urgent to tell me as I entered the supermarket about this...I tried to restrain my foul language in such a public place. He couldn't believe they are doing this either.
Mac users make up about 3% of the total PC market, and more than 3% of Palm users are Mac users, I guarantee you that.
Apple sells Palm handhelds, for God's sake!
Don't be surprised if HP(Apple's new partner, they are now bundling iTunes) lends Mac OS X support to their iPaq line somehow, Apple will surely be scrambling to get some handheld native on their system.
I own some shares of PalmOne, thankfully this is more PalmSource...but get ready for a dive, Palm, you dumbasses.
These spamming companies, whether it be via faxing, telemarketing, or e-mail spamming, will never go away unless we the concerned people of the world take it upon ourselves to act out against these vultures of communication!
We need to be spamming the spammers, flooding the telemarketers, and faxing the faxers.
I mean, I don't want to sound too harsh, but really, if we the affected people do not speak out against this, who will?
There's something to be said for buying a name-brand DVD player at a respectably high price...I mean a good model over or around $100.
While you could buy one of these cheaper DVD players, considering that it has fewer features anyway than the higher-end, and more expensive models, when it won't last long, why would you?
It reminds me of the Mac vs. PC cost debate, because Macs need less overall maintenance and therefore end up being the same cost or cheaper than competing PCs.....
So I say, go for a higher-end model from a name brand manufacturer like Sony, Philips, etc. and have something that you can enjoy for years(with much better support from the company and industry), instead of something that will work for a while and eventually break down after 6-12 months because of bad parts....that's not a nice thing to have happen.
Mandrake has always been my favorite distro for it's useability, while still maintaining the features that a Linux guru(not myself) would love, it's truly a distro for everyone.
But a Live CD is just awesome, think of all the new users who can try Linux for the first time, not as Knoppix, which is translated from German, but Mandrake! What a great way to learn about and be introduced to Linux!
Most new "modern" appliances with features that are anything near digital are already too difficult for the run-of-the-mill house caretaker, whether that be a woman or a man.
People want something simple that WORKS....I doubt there will be a widespread acceptance of this until the technology generation, the kids of the 90s, grow old enough to have to use household appliances(and take care of a house/apartment), which won't be for another 10 to 15 years.
Until then, therefore, I predict these things won't catch on too well. But you can never really predict consumer acceptance of a radical new idea, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I have a 12" Powerbook G4(original model), and let me tell you, the AC adapter is just excellent. It is very solidly built, and unlike some of my Apple AC adapters of the past, the wire has not frayed at all. I wrap and unrwap it every day, too, so this is even more impressive.
The small prongs that flip out from the brick are very handy for winding the wire around, and the design is simple, small, and much more durable than other companies' adapters I've used/seen.
But for this fellow to say the yo-yo design was "great" is just silly. The design was good for its time, but I have one, and the wire frayed eventually, and compared to the current white-brick adapter I own, it is a piece of crap.
Why not just get a digital SLR? Digital has so many advantages over film, and especially going into the future...I could be naive in saying that "film is dead", but I believe that's pretty much the truth. Especially for someone like yourself.
Also, to make the "search", easier for you, I'll go ahead and recommend the Canon EOS-10D. One of my good friends(amateur photographer) has one, and swears by it.
They are doing this to take ABSOLUTE control of the chip market. Think about it: AMD can't come close to 10ghz just yet, and if Intel puts AMD out of business, they will secure their place atop the chip market once and for all.
My sources are accurate--several big-level consultants who work for numerous large corporations, as well as much personal research I've done in the past.
Quantum computing adds I believe, 26 different levels to the traditional "on/off", "yes/no", "1s and 0s" approach to the transistor. It doesn't use transistors in the traditional sense, however...it uses quarks, and taps into the power of the multiple universes linked to our own.
A good book to read is Timeline by Michael Crichton, if you are interested in quantum computing.
Intel said many years ago that 10ghz was a rational barrier. Well, I have an inside connection to Intel, knowing several people who work closely with the company--and next year they will release 4-and-10 ghz chips.
I assume these will be manufactured on a 90 nm process but I'm not sure...anyway, after 10ghz is hit then what?
Do they just keep adding cache? OR, how about putting some R&D into something that actually NEEDS a speed boost, like perhaps, RAM, or hard drives!
My father has a 2003 BMW 7 series, and it has broken down 5 times.
I kept wondering why, however I guess Microsoft Windows CE must be one of the problems....and I say this as seriously as I can, well, without, you know, laughing.
Sometimes it doesn't start, it chokes up gas, and it steers like a steer(that is, a cow). BMW's are supposed to be reliable, but I guess they just tossed that reputation out the window, huh? I know he'll never buy a BMW ever again...
We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
Oh, please. Evidence? C'mon, Darl. Just because the code is SIMILAR to UNIX doesn't mean that it has been copied and modified.
By the same logic, I guess that I could say that since MS Office 2003 and OpenOffice.org are both office suites, and they can both modify and import/export the same kinds of documents, then my goodness! I guess some jerk at Microsoft must have copied code from MS Office and made an open-source alternative!
Seriously, does this have any merit at all? How dare they insult IBM's intelligence like that...
....are always the ones to solve the major problems, and always, by accident it seems. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, my favorite computer college "accidents" to cite, but there are many more, such as, for example, the kids in Japan who thought they solved ?(but unconfirmed).
Look, while most homes have PCs, most of those PCs aren't able to play games very well, and so the situation that many people who are just either jumping into games for the first time or casual gamers have, is the decision to buy a $1000+ PC that can play PC games well for a while(until it is obsoleted), or a $200 console that will always be able to play games well that are designed for it(which should be for at least 4-5 more years into the future).
Thus, you see the more economical, frugal players going with consoles, and the much higher-end players going with PCs.
Not that consoles aren't made for "serious gamers", however they hit the mass market, every kind of gamer, much better than a PC, which plays high-end games for players who are more serious at gaming.
A while back I had to help a friend choose between a $600 PC and a $200 PS2 and he chose the PS2, and although skeptical of its capabilities/staying power at first, he is very happy with it today, over a year later, and he says he will continue to use it instead of upgrading his old PC for games for quite some time.
SCO won't win, they have no legal or moral claims to UNIX, in fact I wonder how solid this "copyright really is!
SCO's going down, they're trying to take every other big company in the world to buy them or come down with 'em.
IBM doesn't want to buy you out, Darl, you dumbass!
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Lower-education will be the short-term future of linux in my opinion. It's already hit the corporate server level, the governmental level, the ranks of high education, now what?
I've suggested to our [poor] school district that we should switch to Linux, using the old hardware we have, and they liked they idea but said it would be "too hard to implement". Oh, come now. I think that any kid could easily circumnavigate a Linux interface, especially if it is an easy one, like Mandrake 9.x or Lycoris! I sure would want my kids to learn Linux, and this is a cheap(free, actually) solution for those school districts that just can't seem to raise any money. In addition, get a good IT guy at the helm, fire all the low-waged IT guys who don't know what they're doing, and get that network running smoother than ever with Linux!
It's a SHOCK to me that school districts haven't at least started putting in an "Operating Systems 101" class in high school for everyone to learn about alternative OS's. Linux, Macintosh OS, Solaris, FreeBSD, UNIX, just imagine how much that would open up the minds of those kids!
My goodness, you would have never thought that the maker of such *cough* secure operating systems such as the rock-solidWindows 95, the one the kiddies love,Windows ME("Mommy it's made just for ME!"), and the interface that only a 3 year old Teletubbies addict could navigate through, Microsoft Windows XP!.
Seriously, though. If Microsoft was a car, every time you went over a speed bump the radiator would dislodge.
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Although people's moves into suburbia is undoubtedly part of the problem, you have to think about the COST of living in cities. Sometimes it is simply too expensive to have an apartment, and to get an apartment at a value to rival that of a suburbian house, well, it's just not possible.
So long as more high-rises are built, hopefully city living costs will go down... but we can't pack as you suggest, we can't be a bunch of little Tokyo's.
Personally I've always leaned towards Biodiesel.
Why? Well, quite simply, using biodiesel not only are you saving money and the environment, but you boost the economy via the agriculture industry!
From what I hear they are using it a lot in the midwest states, but I really would like to see some mainstream biodiesel technology.
Fuel cells, meh, they have their place. But accident safety with a hydrogen bomb under your hood is an interesting diversion from the subject in itself...
As Google keeps expanding, they are looking more and more like a simplified Yahoo!.
Will Google put people off by losing the one thing that made them extremely individual in the big wide world of web search engines/portals?
The thing with school is that you really don't have a choice as to what you learn, you just learn.
I was never particularly fond of the study of the English language, but I loved discussion of meanings of stories and the like.
I was never fond of Geometry but loved Algebra...
It all has to do with being a dynamic learner, and you will find yourself a hell of a field in some technology setting, which is arguably the most dynamic sector in the world.
Even though the record companies have ultimate control over their portion of the price, something inherent as an Apple users tells me that Apple would either lower their profits from each song to keep the price lower, or possibly raise incentives to purchase songs, like giving the Music Store a refreshed look, or increasing play quality as an option for high-speed users.
I truly doubt that Apple would just raise prices to $1.25 without a fight, there is nobody who is more pro-music in the technology sector than Steve Jobs himself.
This is just great for all of us tweakers, but for there to be a real surge in people going past what is considered normal with their iPods, there must be one or two alternative GUIs that are... say it with me now... user-friendly.
Until then it'll be just us regular Slashdotters and geeks who will have any interest at all in this sort of thing. I still won't put it on, for the pure fact that it won't serve me well in day-to-day purposes, though it is cool.
Hey, it might be frightening if you were a little person.
:-P
Or a baby.
But I don't see the "dragon" resemblance...looks more to me like the robot from Lost in Space paired with 4 spider legs and a...well...I'll leave you to decide what the small, skinny, football shaped thing in the front is.
I guess it is supposed to be a head. Now, isn't that an interesting coincidence...
Hey, I loved OS 9 too, and even the older Mac OS' got my heart beating fast.
But I mean, OS X just has to be the next step. There's only so much Apple could have improved OS 9. I do VERY much agree with some here about the way OS 9 looked, I like it as much as/more than I like the look of OS X. If Windows XP is the "Playschool" interface, then OS X is the "Mattel" interface.
I really, really wish Apple would provide ways to completely skin the OS from System Preferences, such as making it look like OS 9 while keeping the features set. That would be nice. Even though some programs now can do that, I'd love Apple to do it.
In the future I can only see good things for Apple. And who knows, maybe they will get closer and closer to integrating Linux, though BSD isn't a bad option as it stands.
People look at Mars these days, almost as the "next Earth"...dreams and hopes from businesses the world over of exotic minerals, huge deposits of iron and whatnot, and this drives many to support Mars exploration
There are also those who of course, believe that Mars is chiefly where we will dump those extra billions of people we are going to have in the next 100 years.
But Venus should not be forgotten, it is a legitimate testing ground for technology and a potential "gold mine" in itself.
Very rarely do you see Mac users toting non-Palm OS handhelds, thanks to new synchronization from such companies as mark|space now there are ways to seamlessly hook up with a Pocket PC or WinCE device....
Palm's products have a huge base of Mac users. I don't know what the hell they are doing with this, but it has to be one of the stupidest business decisions(SCO aside) that I've ever seen in my life.
My Windows XP using friend called me 3 times before I got his call, and he was urgent to tell me as I entered the supermarket about this...I tried to restrain my foul language in such a public place. He couldn't believe they are doing this either.
Mac users make up about 3% of the total PC market, and more than 3% of Palm users are Mac users, I guarantee you that.
Apple sells Palm handhelds, for God's sake!
Don't be surprised if HP(Apple's new partner, they are now bundling iTunes) lends Mac OS X support to their iPaq line somehow, Apple will surely be scrambling to get some handheld native on their system.
I own some shares of PalmOne, thankfully this is more PalmSource...but get ready for a dive, Palm, you dumbasses.
These spamming companies, whether it be via faxing, telemarketing, or e-mail spamming, will never go away unless we the concerned people of the world take it upon ourselves to act out against these vultures of communication!
We need to be spamming the spammers, flooding the telemarketers, and faxing the faxers.
I mean, I don't want to sound too harsh, but really, if we the affected people do not speak out against this, who will?
Your beloved politicians? Please.
There's something to be said for buying a name-brand DVD player at a respectably high price...I mean a good model over or around $100.
While you could buy one of these cheaper DVD players, considering that it has fewer features anyway than the higher-end, and more expensive models, when it won't last long, why would you?
It reminds me of the Mac vs. PC cost debate, because Macs need less overall maintenance and therefore end up being the same cost or cheaper than competing PCs.....
So I say, go for a higher-end model from a name brand manufacturer like Sony, Philips, etc. and have something that you can enjoy for years(with much better support from the company and industry), instead of something that will work for a while and eventually break down after 6-12 months because of bad parts....that's not a nice thing to have happen.
Mandrake has always been my favorite distro for it's useability, while still maintaining the features that a Linux guru(not myself) would love, it's truly a distro for everyone.
But a Live CD is just awesome, think of all the new users who can try Linux for the first time, not as Knoppix, which is translated from German, but Mandrake! What a great way to learn about and be introduced to Linux!
Most new "modern" appliances with features that are anything near digital are already too difficult for the run-of-the-mill house caretaker, whether that be a woman or a man.
People want something simple that WORKS....I doubt there will be a widespread acceptance of this until the technology generation, the kids of the 90s, grow old enough to have to use household appliances(and take care of a house/apartment), which won't be for another 10 to 15 years.
Until then, therefore, I predict these things won't catch on too well. But you can never really predict consumer acceptance of a radical new idea, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I have a 12" Powerbook G4(original model), and let me tell you, the AC adapter is just excellent. It is very solidly built, and unlike some of my Apple AC adapters of the past, the wire has not frayed at all. I wrap and unrwap it every day, too, so this is even more impressive.
The small prongs that flip out from the brick are very handy for winding the wire around, and the design is simple, small, and much more durable than other companies' adapters I've used/seen.
But for this fellow to say the yo-yo design was "great" is just silly. The design was good for its time, but I have one, and the wire frayed eventually, and compared to the current white-brick adapter I own, it is a piece of crap.
Why not just get a digital SLR? Digital has so many advantages over film, and especially going into the future...I could be naive in saying that "film is dead", but I believe that's pretty much the truth. Especially for someone like yourself.
A good site to check out for reviews of Digital cameras(including SLRs) is Digital Photography Review.
Also, to make the "search", easier for you, I'll go ahead and recommend the Canon EOS-10D. One of my good friends(amateur photographer) has one, and swears by it.
They are doing this to take ABSOLUTE control of the chip market. Think about it: AMD can't come close to 10ghz just yet, and if Intel puts AMD out of business, they will secure their place atop the chip market once and for all.
My sources are accurate--several big-level consultants who work for numerous large corporations, as well as much personal research I've done in the past.
Quantum computing adds I believe, 26 different levels to the traditional "on/off", "yes/no", "1s and 0s" approach to the transistor. It doesn't use transistors in the traditional sense, however...it uses quarks, and taps into the power of the multiple universes linked to our own.
A good book to read is Timeline by Michael Crichton, if you are interested in quantum computing.
Intel said many years ago that 10ghz was a rational barrier. Well, I have an inside connection to Intel, knowing several people who work closely with the company--and next year they will release 4-and-10 ghz chips.
I assume these will be manufactured on a 90 nm process but I'm not sure...anyway, after 10ghz is hit then what?
Do they just keep adding cache? OR, how about putting some R&D into something that actually NEEDS a speed boost, like perhaps, RAM, or hard drives!
My father has a 2003 BMW 7 series, and it has broken down 5 times.
I kept wondering why, however I guess Microsoft Windows CE must be one of the problems....and I say this as seriously as I can, well, without, you know, laughing.
Sometimes it doesn't start, it chokes up gas, and it steers like a steer(that is, a cow). BMW's are supposed to be reliable, but I guess they just tossed that reputation out the window, huh? I know he'll never buy a BMW ever again...
From the article:
We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
Oh, please. Evidence? C'mon, Darl. Just because the code is SIMILAR to UNIX doesn't mean that it has been copied and modified.
By the same logic, I guess that I could say that since MS Office 2003 and OpenOffice.org are both office suites, and they can both modify and import/export the same kinds of documents, then my goodness! I guess some jerk at Microsoft must have copied code from MS Office and made an open-source alternative!
Seriously, does this have any merit at all? How dare they insult IBM's intelligence like that...
....are always the ones to solve the major problems, and always, by accident it seems. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, my favorite computer college "accidents" to cite, but there are many more, such as, for example, the kids in Japan who thought they solved ?(but unconfirmed).
Look, while most homes have PCs, most of those PCs aren't able to play games very well, and so the situation that many people who are just either jumping into games for the first time or casual gamers have, is the decision to buy a $1000+ PC that can play PC games well for a while(until it is obsoleted), or a $200 console that will always be able to play games well that are designed for it(which should be for at least 4-5 more years into the future).
Thus, you see the more economical, frugal players going with consoles, and the much higher-end players going with PCs.
Not that consoles aren't made for "serious gamers", however they hit the mass market, every kind of gamer, much better than a PC, which plays high-end games for players who are more serious at gaming.
A while back I had to help a friend choose between a $600 PC and a $200 PS2 and he chose the PS2, and although skeptical of its capabilities/staying power at first, he is very happy with it today, over a year later, and he says he will continue to use it instead of upgrading his old PC for games for quite some time.
SCO won't win, they have no legal or moral claims to UNIX, in fact I wonder how solid this "copyright really is!
SCO's going down, they're trying to take every other big company in the world to buy them or come down with 'em.
IBM doesn't want to buy you out, Darl, you dumbass!
Lower-education will be the short-term future of linux in my opinion. It's already hit the corporate server level, the governmental level, the ranks of high education, now what?
I've suggested to our [poor] school district that we should switch to Linux, using the old hardware we have, and they liked they idea but said it would be "too hard to implement". Oh, come now. I think that any kid could easily circumnavigate a Linux interface, especially if it is an easy one, like Mandrake 9.x or Lycoris! I sure would want my kids to learn Linux, and this is a cheap(free, actually) solution for those school districts that just can't seem to raise any money. In addition, get a good IT guy at the helm, fire all the low-waged IT guys who don't know what they're doing, and get that network running smoother than ever with Linux!
It's a SHOCK to me that school districts haven't at least started putting in an "Operating Systems 101" class in high school for everyone to learn about alternative OS's. Linux, Macintosh OS, Solaris, FreeBSD, UNIX, just imagine how much that would open up the minds of those kids!
My goodness, you would have never thought that the maker of such *cough* secure operating systems such as the rock-solid Windows 95, the one the kiddies love, Windows ME("Mommy it's made just for ME!"), and the interface that only a 3 year old Teletubbies addict could navigate through, Microsoft Windows XP!.
Seriously, though. If Microsoft was a car, every time you went over a speed bump the radiator would dislodge.
hit me with a rimshot scottie!
*Bah-dum swish!*