I thought the Chinese would beat India on this important issue. Do you really think having a car is an important issue in a country that still has extreme poverty? The mobility of a car is nice, but it's usually a money-sink for the owner... and remember, despite the PR, this isn't about helping people, it's about Tata reaching a larger market and selling more cars. Meanwhile, the Chinese have bigger fish to fry than putting people into cars, and they realize their cities are jammed with the things already.
Wrong to who? The minority hobbiest? The people who really need the specs have their boss pay for them as well as agree to all the needed NDAs. They're not the ones complaining. Um, yes they are. Name me ONE 3rd party X-server vendor that supports current ATI graphics products.
Hopefully they will also be more commercial-source friendly as well. I've "resorted" to buying XiG's product in the past, because Xorg wasn't working quite right for me... but I (and many others with driver problems) simply don't have that option unless AMD passes the info to commercial vendors such as these as well. Yes, I know FOSS is all that, but when you need things to Just Work, sometimes it's easier to pay the money.
Am I the only one who read this and wondered where the rest of the article is? I found this kind of empty. They only wrote about four products and five technologies out of the 2000 vendors. No, the article was complete. You can buy the other 1991 products at Walmart.
As long as it increases my false sense of security with a token effort aimed at the appearance of security, with no substance, I'm okay with it. I'm all for doing whatever it takes to defeat Osama Bin Laden and his gang of music pirates in Iraq. And yet somehow, that wasn't moderated funny. I weep for America.:-(
To me, that is far more troubling than the guy with his hunting rifle being afraid the police or army would kick his ass in an armed revolt.
FWIW, I agree about the troubling part, but I'd almost wonder if the Armed Forces would be among those at the front of a revolt. I figure (hope) there's enough good men there to serve their country, as opposed to serving their country's politicians, and maybe enough of them have had a gutsfull of their current deployment. Certainly plenty of Vets would be. Seems strange to imagine though, an armed coup of the US government. It's happened elsewhere though, so why not?
This is not about controlling your dishwasher through a web browser. That's fucking stupid and everyone in the industry knows it's stupid. Unfortunately, things are dumbed down for the consumer to understand.
Hold on there cowboy, some of the consumers of which you speak is right here on this website. Dumbing it down for guys like us is a really bad idea... for that matter, calling us "consumers" is a pretty bad idea too. Anyway, I was going to post something about the (lack of) need to talk to the grid, because I don't like the idea of the supplier "managing" my usage... but I guess being able to request current rates from them is useful. The grid querying aside (and that part might be doable with some screen scraping via their websites), there's nothing here that can't be done with off-the-shelf components and some clever embedded computing.
Blue/Gene L is rated at 500 TFLOPS, which is impressive, however if you don't need double-precision to do this stuff, you can run very fast on much cheaper hardware. I was looking at Nvidia Tesla cards and boxes recently, and those are claimed to pump out 500 GFLOPS per CPU... with a 4 CPU device (1 TFLOP) taking up 1U of rackspace. I think this technology will ramp up a lot faster than people expect.
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Will the Tk widgets now integrate with the rest of the desktop, in terms of using the same theme settings that other programs use?
More seriously, I don't care who the authors are, who they are working with, when it was discovered, or when the official patches will be out. I care about disclosure so I can rectify or mitigate the problem, and that's something the "good guys" have not done. So far, I've read a fucking marketing extract, designed to drum up some interest in a little fund-raiser for the boys? *My* computers, networks, servers, and reputation may be vulnerable, but these assholes want paid before they'll tell me about it? Fuck them. Flash just got disabled - everywhere. Why? Because as someone who has had a glimpse into the world of IT security, I'm *sure* the "bad guys" will know all about it by now, without buying the book.
What the fuck happened? Commercialisation of news media is what happened. Pop culture and social news gets more eyeballs than hard news, so that's what they play. The News is an advertising delivery system, and the talking heads are just there to fill the gaps between ads. They don't care if what the president said was true, as long as you watched the segment. If you want real news, you gotta look harder now... although BBC News makes a pretty good effort, as do many local newspapers and channels. National and much international news is a joke, just recycled press releases and news wire feeds.
Well, if it's a reasonable thing to do in public...
All we need is a home-brew version, and to "advertise" to the staff and management and stockholders of the company involved. Park in the street. Hit them with it everyday as they come in to work.... fill them with little bits of doubt about what they're doing, remind them that what they're doing is intolerable. Recreate the conscience they have clearly lost. IOW, fighting fire with fire.
It would make a brilliant social control trick too... Makes me wonder if the tin-foil hatters were right after all.
That might be part of the problem. There are *lots* of coders out there that can't or won't accept that they don't have the first idea about what makes a pleasant and usable UI, but don't try telling them that. I would much rather be handed a nice UI developed by a graphic designer or usability expert that knows what they're doing and asked to code it rather than doing it myself and screwing it up. I agree, although I'd prefer a nice UI developed by a graphic designed AND a usability expert. Either one alone could easily screw it up catastrophically - just look at Nielsen's website!
It's almost the inverse of a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy episode -- instead of getting a great design from three flaming queers, you get a flaming queer design from a bunch of straight guys. Well, maybe not that bad, but still. Hmmm. Do you think we could convince Carson, Thom, Jai, Kyan and Ted to join the KDE project?
I'm only half joking. There ARE good designers out there, gay or otherwise, so why couldn't a professional design team pull a decent looking desktop together? Not a massively market researched project that everyone accepts but nobody really loves, but something genuinely stylish. Make KDE 4 the Alfa Romeo to Gnome's Camaro. Dammit, where are the Italians when you need them?!
The transition to alternatives has already begun. There's quite a bit of interest and investment in using vegetable oil as a diesel replacement. Unfortunately, parts of Asia are already in trouble because of this. For example, in Indonesia, rubber tree farmers were forced of their land by companies with heavy machinery and corrupt politicians, so they can plant more Palm trees for Palm oil... and we're only at the beginning. You might be living in an insulated country, but don't misunderstand, it IS going to be ugly for a while, and our lives ARE going to have to change significantly.
Free travel is becoming far less so. I guess that's one other "benefit" of soaring fuel prices. It puts even domestic travel on land beyond the reach of many, while private international travel is beyond the reach of most already. Must be nice to be a) super-rich, and/or b) tax-payer funded.
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Hopefully they will also be more commercial-source friendly as well. I've "resorted" to buying XiG's product in the past, because Xorg wasn't working quite right for me... but I (and many others with driver problems) simply don't have that option unless AMD passes the info to commercial vendors such as these as well. Yes, I know FOSS is all that, but when you need things to Just Work, sometimes it's easier to pay the money.
To me, that is far more troubling than the guy with his hunting rifle being afraid the police or army would kick his ass in an armed revolt.
FWIW, I agree about the troubling part, but I'd almost wonder if the Armed Forces would be among those at the front of a revolt. I figure (hope) there's enough good men there to serve their country, as opposed to serving their country's politicians, and maybe enough of them have had a gutsfull of their current deployment. Certainly plenty of Vets would be. Seems strange to imagine though, an armed coup of the US government. It's happened elsewhere though, so why not?
This is not about controlling your dishwasher through a web browser. That's fucking stupid and everyone in the industry knows it's stupid. Unfortunately, things are dumbed down for the consumer to understand.
Hold on there cowboy, some of the consumers of which you speak is right here on this website. Dumbing it down for guys like us is a really bad idea... for that matter, calling us "consumers" is a pretty bad idea too. Anyway, I was going to post something about the (lack of) need to talk to the grid, because I don't like the idea of the supplier "managing" my usage... but I guess being able to request current rates from them is useful. The grid querying aside (and that part might be doable with some screen scraping via their websites), there's nothing here that can't be done with off-the-shelf components and some clever embedded computing.
Here you go then: Tempest For Eliza.
You can use your (CRT) monitor to generate tones that can be received on an AM radio. It shouldn't be a stretch to make it play Jingle Bells.
Crikey. That is very cool.
And yes, I know, I typoed.... 4 x 500 GFLOPS is 2 TFLOPS per 1U of rackspace.
Blue/Gene L is rated at 500 TFLOPS, which is impressive, however if you don't need double-precision to do this stuff, you can run very fast on much cheaper hardware. I was looking at Nvidia Tesla cards and boxes recently, and those are claimed to pump out 500 GFLOPS per CPU... with a 4 CPU device (1 TFLOP) taking up 1U of rackspace. I think this technology will ramp up a lot faster than people expect.
Will the Tk widgets now integrate with the rest of the desktop, in terms of using the same theme settings that other programs use?
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I need some example code. Uh, for my research.
It's all in the book. You just have to buy it...
More seriously, I don't care who the authors are, who they are working with, when it was discovered, or when the official patches will be out. I care about disclosure so I can rectify or mitigate the problem, and that's something the "good guys" have not done. So far, I've read a fucking marketing extract, designed to drum up some interest in a little fund-raiser for the boys? *My* computers, networks, servers, and reputation may be vulnerable, but these assholes want paid before they'll tell me about it? Fuck them. Flash just got disabled - everywhere. Why? Because as someone who has had a glimpse into the world of IT security, I'm *sure* the "bad guys" will know all about it by now, without buying the book.
Fair enough. To me, it's not so much about complexity.... it just becomes a philosophical question, not a scientific one.
It would only answer so much... If they (or we) were designed, it only changes the question to, "How did the designed come to be?"
Well, if it's a reasonable thing to do in public...
All we need is a home-brew version, and to "advertise" to the staff and management and stockholders of the company involved. Park in the street. Hit them with it everyday as they come in to work.... fill them with little bits of doubt about what they're doing, remind them that what they're doing is intolerable. Recreate the conscience they have clearly lost. IOW, fighting fire with fire.
It would make a brilliant social control trick too... Makes me wonder if the tin-foil hatters were right after all.
I'm only half joking. There ARE good designers out there, gay or otherwise, so why couldn't a professional design team pull a decent looking desktop together? Not a massively market researched project that everyone accepts but nobody really loves, but something genuinely stylish. Make KDE 4 the Alfa Romeo to Gnome's Camaro. Dammit, where are the Italians when you need them?!
The transition to alternatives has already begun. There's quite a bit of interest and investment in using vegetable oil as a diesel replacement. Unfortunately, parts of Asia are already in trouble because of this. For example, in Indonesia, rubber tree farmers were forced of their land by companies with heavy machinery and corrupt politicians, so they can plant more Palm trees for Palm oil... and we're only at the beginning. You might be living in an insulated country, but don't misunderstand, it IS going to be ugly for a while, and our lives ARE going to have to change significantly.
Personally I don't find it at all surprising that Linux is taking off in the public sector, be it schools, hospitals, government etc.
You can't serious call the medical industry the public sector can you?
This needs an experiment. Get me 100 flying squirrels and a PAC7500-XL, stat!
I would say it's the only challenge actually. Gliding around in any winged suit is fun and safe as long as you still open the chute at the end.
Good point. How do the squirrels do it?