I saw this at the bottom of the article. NVIDIA is going to enhance the graphics for devices using Cobalt and Garnet. They're going to "bring advanced multimedia support to the OS". I thought it was pretty cool; although it makes my PDA sound so old and boring.
PalmSource also announced Palm OS Garnet, an enhanced version of the popular Palm OS 5, designed to accelerate the development of Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones.
I think that's what you can get for that...Its a good reason to upgrade your hardware!
I don't like that if a girl can do it, any man can...I can do a lot of things with a computer that many men can't do. I work hard to learn all that I can and I don't like that when I am up against a man, everyone automatically listens to what he says over me. I know what I'm talking about, I've been using computers longer than everyone that I know. When I go into a computer store all the clerks swarm to help the poor, defenseless, dumb girl buy expensive things for her computer. It really bugs me. Don't question my intelligence, I know what I'm doing.
I think its an excellent way to market linux to a bunch of men, but it still bugs me that people think like that.
Are you kidding? Our military budget was seriously cut during the Clinton years and is just starting to recover. While saying "we're going to cut research and development on weapons sytems so everyone else in the world should too" is a happy thought, its not a reality. Our servicemen are underpaid and our equipment is evolving slowly. If we spent more money on research, we could develop better defensive weapons, better offensive weapons (that don't require Americans to man them), and we could pay military families better for risking their lives for the benefit of our nation.
You don't have to agree with the war, but you have to think about the lives that are on the line all around the world. Remember, we aren't just in Iraq; we're still in Germany, Japan, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc. Its not safe in many of those places and our troops deserve whatever we can do for them. Bush sent us to Iraq, but he didn't start the wars in all those other countries that we still have troops in, so you can't blame just him.
I thought flat screen monitors still used a CRT. Its LCD that doesn't. I've noticed a lot of people seem to get that mixed up. Mind you, I could be mistaken.
I'm sure we'll have lots of posts about "animal cruelty". Is it better to test on mice or humans? Which life is worth more? Would it be fair to send humans to Mars and just watch their bodies essentially turn to jello from the lack of gravity? Those that spent time on the ISS are dealing with the consequences of little or no gravity for an extended period of time.
I'm not saying that it is necessarily "right" to test on animals, but from a scientific point of view, it will bring us much closer to knowing the effect of the conditions on Mars and will bring us closer to having manned missions and even maybe a space station there one day.
My site for a long time wasn't ranked on Google, MSN, yahoo! search. Then one day I was on the first page for Google. Amazingly enough, I was in exactly the same place on msn and yahoo searches. They all supposedly have their own crawlers, but why was it until I was listed on Google that I was listed on the rest? Just a theory I have...it probably means nothing.
They also tend to look down on you when you ask a question. Ok, I may not like "pop" music, I may not be as knowledgeable about music as I should be. But when I go into a store and ask the clerk a question, I don't want to be looked at like the gum on the bottom of their shoe. I have enough social difficulties as it is, I don't need to feel inferior to a "clerk" making minimum wadge.
The last time I was in a Tower Records store they wanted $16 for a cd. Back in 1988 I paid $16 for a cd because it was still a new thing. Why would I pay that much when I could pay so much less at Wal-mart? The people who work at Tower (at least by me) are not music aficiodos, they know their particular genre, that's it. Plus, they were scary, not the type of people you feel confortable going to up and asking a question. To me, the "service" is not worth the extra cost.
I'm much more comfortable sitting in front of my computer and ordering the cds that I want and waiting for my best friend to bring them to me, Mr. UPS man.
If he's got a girlfriend, he may already be getting the sex part. And if blowjobs or sex are used as a valentine's day gift, you are limiting what he'll get every other regular day of the year.
From the NASA website, "NASA's budget will increase by $1 billion over the next five years when compared with the President's 2004 plan. That is an increase of approximately five percent per year over the next three years, and approximately one percent for the following two years."
I don't see how the tax cuts are cutting the budget when NASA is saying that their budget will be increasing over the next 5 years with the President's plan.
I don't recall where I heard it, but the other day I heard that NASA scientists were discussing dropping the current space shuttle as we know it. Why are we using a craft that hasn't changed all that much in decades? They were talking about redesigning it from top to bottom and come out with a space craft that is a little more up to date with our current technology and is safer for the poeple traveling in it. I know talk of this came around the anniversary of the Columbia. Maybe the budget for current space shuttles is getting phased out to make way for better space travel.
When I was a kid, my brother and I fought constantly and visiously. For Christmas one year we got an atari. Then all the energy spent fighting went into getting that frog across the road.
It never gave me the urge to steal my mom's car and go run over animals...
non tech people like to click. Clicking makes them feel special. If its a link, they'll click it. They won't know where it leads, I don't think they care. If I send out an email to the parents at my school with a link to my website in it, every single recipient will click on it, even if they have no actual interest in the email. That's why mice have buttons...to click on links.
The same goes for attachments. Its not a virus, its a fun screensaver or a cute little cartoon that installs itself on your computer. No matter how many times I say "don't open attachments unless you are expecting a specific document" they don't listen. They don't understand why someone they know would send them a virus. They don't want to play by the rules, they want to look at document that their friend sent them. And it doesn't matter how much effort they have to put in to looking at the attachment, if they have to click, then they are using their computer properly.
I'm a computer teacher, my whole job is to teach...children. I have all the patience in the world for kids. I can't take all the adults around me constantly asking for help but never listening to it.
The BBC's biggest problem now is they have accused a group of people who are informed about what the virus was really about. We aren't just journalists trying to make the front page story, we can correct them. Send them feedback, explain how they are wrong. If they get enough, they'll have to change it. Or, the will at least research a little better before posting a story like this again.
There are bad windows users/programmers, there are bad linux users/programmers. No one said everyone who uses a particular os was perfect or that they were all evil. Its just one story highlighting what we have been joking about on/. for weeks. I don't think it will have any big effect on people's perception of linux users.
But the problem is no one wants to have an adequate system...they want a super leet system. They want something to brag about, who cares if its over the top for what they use it for. I can't say I'm any different. I'm a sucker for the newest, coolest technology.
Most (average, non-tech) people won't need to upgrade their processors, but its new so they think they should. They don't fully use the processors they have now. Email and Internet browsing can be done quite happily on a 100 mhz. Its not what you need, its what you "need"!
I have a samsung, phone. It has a color screen, but not all the features that a lot of phones have now. I can't chat on aim, I can't check my email... I thought it was a nice, vanilla phone with few features, and a fun color screen. Well, that fun screen seems to kill the battery, it lasts a whole work day well, if I don't make any calls. I had a nokia for years that would hold a charge for a week at a time and still work great. And the service sucks! I can barely make a call in my car the entire way home from work (a 25 mile trip). I fell for the "fancy features" and now I am regretting it. I wish a cell phone was just a cell phone. If I wanted to play games, I'd get a gameboy advance.
Unfortunately, they are just going to get more bloated and the actual phone service will continue to deteriorate.
I run FreeBSD on a webserver and I have been quite satisfied with it. I tried 5.2 and ran into some problems so I currently run 4.8. I think it makes a great server, I had a decent uptime, until the #$@#$ power was tripped, but it recovered perfectly. I'm glad that they are continuing to work to develop it and I will definitely install 5.2 once it is in stable release.
Ok, I'm a software developer. I want to port my software, written for windows, to linux so that the average joe will be able to use it. Is it so simple? Well, which distro will I do first? Mandrake? Redhat? Suse? Debian? Then what about those who use *BSD? There are so many choices. I mean its a great kernel, I use different distrobutions for all of my servers. I have no desire to mess with Active Directory or IIS.. But how can it take over the mainstream market when each distro is different.
As the token Mormon here, I must enlighten you on a little bit of information about the church (which I'm sure will be modded down quite fast).
The church doesn't "punish" you, God does. And God doesn't need a database to know what you've been doing. The Church has a pretty good position about people who do things they refer to as "inappropriate", they try to help you. They don't judge you for what you do or don't do. They'll invite you over for dinner, they'll take you to a movie, they don't care what you do, its your business not theirs.
I don't know what you mean by Mormons are "taught" to support the Goverment. Mormons are taught to not defy the laws of the government. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with supporting the ruling organization of your country? If the government is doing something that violates the laws of the land, its every American's right and duty to seek out the source and to try to fix the problem. Its an American thing to do, not a Mormon thing.
The only way to ensure privacy is to not collect the data in the first place.
But, most of the information is just common information that has to be collected. The phone company has to have your name and address for you to have phone service. The local tax administration has to have your social security number to tax your income...etc. Its all in how the information is compiled and used. They didn't spy on you to collect information that wasn't already out there and they can't just stop taking the information they are currently getting. Unless you buy a shack in the mountains with no phone or electricity and sit there with your tinfoil hat on rocking in the corner quietly.
Despite what you all think, the mormon religion does not condone plural marriage. If you take part in a plural marriage, you are excommunicated. That comment merely shows your ignorance and is not really funny at all.
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I saw this at the bottom of the article. NVIDIA is going to enhance the graphics for devices using Cobalt and Garnet. They're going to "bring advanced multimedia support to the OS". I thought it was pretty cool; although it makes my PDA sound so old and boring.
PalmSource also announced Palm OS Garnet, an enhanced version of the popular Palm OS 5, designed to accelerate the development of Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones.
I think that's what you can get for that...Its a good reason to upgrade your hardware!
I do too...
I don't like that if a girl can do it, any man can...I can do a lot of things with a computer that many men can't do. I work hard to learn all that I can and I don't like that when I am up against a man, everyone automatically listens to what he says over me. I know what I'm talking about, I've been using computers longer than everyone that I know. When I go into a computer store all the clerks swarm to help the poor, defenseless, dumb girl buy expensive things for her computer. It really bugs me. Don't question my intelligence, I know what I'm doing.
I think its an excellent way to market linux to a bunch of men, but it still bugs me that people think like that.
cut military expenditure
Are you kidding? Our military budget was seriously cut during the Clinton years and is just starting to recover. While saying "we're going to cut research and development on weapons sytems so everyone else in the world should too" is a happy thought, its not a reality. Our servicemen are underpaid and our equipment is evolving slowly. If we spent more money on research, we could develop better defensive weapons, better offensive weapons (that don't require Americans to man them), and we could pay military families better for risking their lives for the benefit of our nation.
You don't have to agree with the war, but you have to think about the lives that are on the line all around the world. Remember, we aren't just in Iraq; we're still in Germany, Japan, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc. Its not safe in many of those places and our troops deserve whatever we can do for them. Bush sent us to Iraq, but he didn't start the wars in all those other countries that we still have troops in, so you can't blame just him.
I thought flat screen monitors still used a CRT. Its LCD that doesn't. I've noticed a lot of people seem to get that mixed up. Mind you, I could be mistaken.
I'm sure we'll have lots of posts about "animal cruelty". Is it better to test on mice or humans? Which life is worth more? Would it be fair to send humans to Mars and just watch their bodies essentially turn to jello from the lack of gravity? Those that spent time on the ISS are dealing with the consequences of little or no gravity for an extended period of time.
I'm not saying that it is necessarily "right" to test on animals, but from a scientific point of view, it will bring us much closer to knowing the effect of the conditions on Mars and will bring us closer to having manned missions and even maybe a space station there one day.
I think they already are...
My site for a long time wasn't ranked on Google, MSN, yahoo! search. Then one day I was on the first page for Google. Amazingly enough, I was in exactly the same place on msn and yahoo searches. They all supposedly have their own crawlers, but why was it until I was listed on Google that I was listed on the rest? Just a theory I have...it probably means nothing.
They also tend to look down on you when you ask a question. Ok, I may not like "pop" music, I may not be as knowledgeable about music as I should be. But when I go into a store and ask the clerk a question, I don't want to be looked at like the gum on the bottom of their shoe. I have enough social difficulties as it is, I don't need to feel inferior to a "clerk" making minimum wadge.
The last time I was in a Tower Records store they wanted $16 for a cd. Back in 1988 I paid $16 for a cd because it was still a new thing. Why would I pay that much when I could pay so much less at Wal-mart? The people who work at Tower (at least by me) are not music aficiodos, they know their particular genre, that's it. Plus, they were scary, not the type of people you feel confortable going to up and asking a question. To me, the "service" is not worth the extra cost.
I'm much more comfortable sitting in front of my computer and ordering the cds that I want and waiting for my best friend to bring them to me, Mr. UPS man.
If he's got a girlfriend, he may already be getting the sex part. And if blowjobs or sex are used as a valentine's day gift, you are limiting what he'll get every other regular day of the year.
From the NASA website, "NASA's budget will increase by $1 billion over the next five years when compared with the President's 2004 plan. That is an increase of approximately five percent per year over the next three years, and approximately one percent for the following two years."
I don't see how the tax cuts are cutting the budget when NASA is saying that their budget will be increasing over the next 5 years with the President's plan.
I don't recall where I heard it, but the other day I heard that NASA scientists were discussing dropping the current space shuttle as we know it. Why are we using a craft that hasn't changed all that much in decades? They were talking about redesigning it from top to bottom and come out with a space craft that is a little more up to date with our current technology and is safer for the poeple traveling in it. I know talk of this came around the anniversary of the Columbia. Maybe the budget for current space shuttles is getting phased out to make way for better space travel.
Seen this before?
Are you trying extra hard to get your point across?
When I was a kid, my brother and I fought constantly and visiously. For Christmas one year we got an atari. Then all the energy spent fighting went into getting that frog across the road.
It never gave me the urge to steal my mom's car and go run over animals...
non tech people like to click. Clicking makes them feel special. If its a link, they'll click it. They won't know where it leads, I don't think they care. If I send out an email to the parents at my school with a link to my website in it, every single recipient will click on it, even if they have no actual interest in the email. That's why mice have buttons...to click on links.
The same goes for attachments. Its not a virus, its a fun screensaver or a cute little cartoon that installs itself on your computer. No matter how many times I say "don't open attachments unless you are expecting a specific document" they don't listen. They don't understand why someone they know would send them a virus. They don't want to play by the rules, they want to look at document that their friend sent them. And it doesn't matter how much effort they have to put in to looking at the attachment, if they have to click, then they are using their computer properly.
I'm a computer teacher, my whole job is to teach...children. I have all the patience in the world for kids. I can't take all the adults around me constantly asking for help but never listening to it.
The BBC's biggest problem now is they have accused a group of people who are informed about what the virus was really about. We aren't just journalists trying to make the front page story, we can correct them. Send them feedback, explain how they are wrong. If they get enough, they'll have to change it. Or, the will at least research a little better before posting a story like this again.
There are bad windows users/programmers, there are bad linux users/programmers. No one said everyone who uses a particular os was perfect or that they were all evil. Its just one story highlighting what we have been joking about on /. for weeks. I don't think it will have any big effect on people's perception of linux users.
But the problem is no one wants to have an adequate system...they want a super leet system. They want something to brag about, who cares if its over the top for what they use it for. I can't say I'm any different. I'm a sucker for the newest, coolest technology.
Most (average, non-tech) people won't need to upgrade their processors, but its new so they think they should. They don't fully use the processors they have now. Email and Internet browsing can be done quite happily on a 100 mhz. Its not what you need, its what you "need"!
I have a samsung, phone. It has a color screen, but not all the features that a lot of phones have now. I can't chat on aim, I can't check my email... I thought it was a nice, vanilla phone with few features, and a fun color screen. Well, that fun screen seems to kill the battery, it lasts a whole work day well, if I don't make any calls. I had a nokia for years that would hold a charge for a week at a time and still work great. And the service sucks! I can barely make a call in my car the entire way home from work (a 25 mile trip). I fell for the "fancy features" and now I am regretting it. I wish a cell phone was just a cell phone. If I wanted to play games, I'd get a gameboy advance.
Unfortunately, they are just going to get more bloated and the actual phone service will continue to deteriorate.
and these are the people who refer to themselves as "tech savvy". Imagine how the people are who admit they don't know anything about computers.
I run FreeBSD on a webserver and I have been quite satisfied with it. I tried 5.2 and ran into some problems so I currently run 4.8. I think it makes a great server, I had a decent uptime, until the #$@#$ power was tripped, but it recovered perfectly. I'm glad that they are continuing to work to develop it and I will definitely install 5.2 once it is in stable release.
Ok, I'm a software developer. I want to port my software, written for windows, to linux so that the average joe will be able to use it. Is it so simple? Well, which distro will I do first? Mandrake? Redhat? Suse? Debian? Then what about those who use *BSD? There are so many choices. I mean its a great kernel, I use different distrobutions for all of my servers. I have no desire to mess with Active Directory or IIS.. But how can it take over the mainstream market when each distro is different.
As the token Mormon here, I must enlighten you on a little bit of information about the church (which I'm sure will be modded down quite fast).
The church doesn't "punish" you, God does. And God doesn't need a database to know what you've been doing. The Church has a pretty good position about people who do things they refer to as "inappropriate", they try to help you. They don't judge you for what you do or don't do. They'll invite you over for dinner, they'll take you to a movie, they don't care what you do, its your business not theirs.
I don't know what you mean by Mormons are "taught" to support the Goverment. Mormons are taught to not defy the laws of the government. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with supporting the ruling organization of your country? If the government is doing something that violates the laws of the land, its every American's right and duty to seek out the source and to try to fix the problem. Its an American thing to do, not a Mormon thing.
The only way to ensure privacy is to not collect the data in the first place.
But, most of the information is just common information that has to be collected. The phone company has to have your name and address for you to have phone service. The local tax administration has to have your social security number to tax your income...etc. Its all in how the information is compiled and used. They didn't spy on you to collect information that wasn't already out there and they can't just stop taking the information they are currently getting. Unless you buy a shack in the mountains with no phone or electricity and sit there with your tinfoil hat on rocking in the corner quietly.
Despite what you all think, the mormon religion does not condone plural marriage. If you take part in a plural marriage, you are excommunicated. That comment merely shows your ignorance and is not really funny at all.