Amen to that. Never before have I had multiple family members PC's decide to die w/ a kernel falure if Word or the directory Explorer were opened... Windows ME, I would choose 3.1 over you... Or OS/2..... Well.... Maybe not 3.1....
I remember in HS we once watched a play on DVD on Fermat's Last Theorem. It was called
Fermat's Last Tango . It was a rather interesting thing seeing mathematics portrayed in a musical form, and to this day, I still recall parts of the lyrics.....
Spreadsheets are a great tool, but they are one of the easiest things to make mistakes with. Between absolute/non absolute references and the autofill tool, I can see how many mistakes would be made. Many people have probably gotten into the habit that dragging this down to their will perform the same calculation on the data using info from cell D5, while it really shifts location relative to the result location. I know I've almost messed up on a few physics reports w/ that, and if you did spreadsheets all day, I can see how you might not go over everything with a fine tooth comb to find problems.
True we don't do breaking news. I recall a story in the past year about a "computer/cat maintenence guide" that linked to a page that hadn't been modified since 02. Some commented how old it was, but was new to me, and a lot of the other readers.
For those that don't know, Tiger is a geographic information systems package that allows the management of geograpical information that can be based on a variety of different statistical data. I haven't done too much with it, but when I was in early HS, my uncle (Who is an imaging science person, and did mapping related stuff at the time for surrounding counties) had me work for him one summer updating address ranges and directions that would be used by various county functions including emergency dispatch services. I remember I used Tiger GIS software. Interesting how much of that stuff works for geographical information management.
For 60 year old grandmother? Tie MSN into it and have MSN display pics of her grandkids as her homepage, and for 16 year old girls, just display the current hot pop guy. Then MSN will have them for sure....
You make some good points, but with more organization and a nice GUI, software such as portage could be an excellent way to distribute software to the masses. Click "paint program", you get a list of a dozen or so paint programs, each with a rating. Download the best rated one, it's good to go. Much like download.com with much of the confusion and and legwork left out. It can be likened to shopping. What's easier, going to a few dozen different stores to get all the stuff you need, or going to a single place? I'd much rather go to a single place if it had adiquate supply of what I needed.
I do completely agree with that. You know how much time (and effort since you have to manually swap discs/download files/setup crap) it takes to install apps on a Windows system when you first install it w/o a boot disc? If you have enough software, it can take quite a while. I'll enjoy my "emerge -a `less world`" and let it sit around all day compiling instead of sitting in front of it putting in discs and stuff while it installs everything. And then just copying most of your old user directory into the new one. Time consuming for compiling, but so simple and effortless (if you do a stage 3 gentoo install).
As I have learned from classes, following IEEE standards to the T!!!!! Go 830-9993........... What? You mean there's more to writing a good document then following the standards? Impossible.......
You know what I hate? When a flash ad bogs your computer down. I have an o/c Barton equal to 3000+, and this one site (rpgamer I think) had an ad for a game... An Eq Playstation one... It was maxing my CPU usage to almost 100%!!!!! I couldn't even scroll w/o having massive speed problems.
Technology should be primarily geared towards work. Having it all around you in the home and stuff makes you extremely unproductive, and sometimes in bad shape. It'd be nice to see a day when technology is strewn through our lives neatly, not our lives revolving around technology as it seems to often today.
This technogy reminds me of some higher-ups in a war huddled around one, planning there next move... Or some Vulcans and Humans planning some exploration....
Dear god, i remember the old CD-ROM in my dad's old computer.... POS..... Hardly ever worked right. I remember once, I felt so violent towards it. I got a new game, that I of course wanted to play. The POS didn't want to read it!! I sat there for 20 minutes (sadly) putting the tray in and out, in and out, until it eventually read it........ So to put it shortly, no, you are not....... I've also had other drives show signs of trouble.
True. Even Soviet Communism had the right idea until Stalin took control and caused more deaths then Hitler and the Nazis. There are a few things in the US I think could use some communistic practices, such as limitations on just how much someone can make (Such as person x can only make 8x as much as the lowest payed employee in the company. You know how much top sports stars salaries could help the world?), I won't even get into healthcare since it cuts a lot of people off, but still causes great advances in the private sector. When you get down to it, pure Democracy is evil and doomed just as much as Communism without some Socialist elements being present in the system like most current stable governments.
Slightly off topic, but still worth saying. Another thing is, you can't be the first with technology and expect to lead it for long. After one country makes something, the rest of the world begins to use it, and can improve upon it. It happened in the US with Automobiles, Communications, computers, and various other technological achievements. It only takes an idea for most technological innovation, and as the US has had many good ideas, many other countries have innovated them. (I've always considered the US to be more of a technological leader in basic components such as microprocessors and similar technologies, while Japan has been good at innovating many things we make in a similar comparison.)
I agree with you partially, but a majority of business applicatons have equivilants with Macs, and they really aren't that expensive in comparison to the competition. Considering the performance of a $1000 iBook (PPC) compared to Intel/AMD chipsets, they are pretty attractively priced IMHO.
I installed a low-end Nvidia card on a friends Window machine. It had an option to turn on transparency in Windows. Yet my high-end ATI card can't do transparency in Linux at all. Seems kinda unfair in concept....
I remember when I worked at a bank, we were told of penetration tests that happened there. The whole concept of being payed to sneak around and try to gain access to what your not supposed to have seems like a fun concept to me.
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Amen to that. Never before have I had multiple family members PC's decide to die w/ a kernel falure if Word or the directory Explorer were opened... Windows ME, I would choose 3.1 over you... Or OS/2..... Well.... Maybe not 3.1....
I remember in HS we once watched a play on DVD on Fermat's Last Theorem. It was called Fermat's Last Tango . It was a rather interesting thing seeing mathematics portrayed in a musical form, and to this day, I still recall parts of the lyrics.....
You ever backed up into someone? It's quite shocking when the impact happens...... BAM!!!!!
Spreadsheets are a great tool, but they are one of the easiest things to make mistakes with. Between absolute/non absolute references and the autofill tool, I can see how many mistakes would be made. Many people have probably gotten into the habit that dragging this down to their will perform the same calculation on the data using info from cell D5, while it really shifts location relative to the result location. I know I've almost messed up on a few physics reports w/ that, and if you did spreadsheets all day, I can see how you might not go over everything with a fine tooth comb to find problems.
Already been partially implemented w/ the various Longhorn alpha leaks on the net.
True we don't do breaking news. I recall a story in the past year about a "computer/cat maintenence guide" that linked to a page that hadn't been modified since 02. Some commented how old it was, but was new to me, and a lot of the other readers.
For those that don't know, Tiger is a geographic information systems package that allows the management of geograpical information that can be based on a variety of different statistical data. I haven't done too much with it, but when I was in early HS, my uncle (Who is an imaging science person, and did mapping related stuff at the time for surrounding counties) had me work for him one summer updating address ranges and directions that would be used by various county functions including emergency dispatch services. I remember I used Tiger GIS software. Interesting how much of that stuff works for geographical information management.
For 60 year old grandmother? Tie MSN into it and have MSN display pics of her grandkids as her homepage, and for 16 year old girls, just display the current hot pop guy. Then MSN will have them for sure....
You make some good points, but with more organization and a nice GUI, software such as portage could be an excellent way to distribute software to the masses. Click "paint program", you get a list of a dozen or so paint programs, each with a rating. Download the best rated one, it's good to go. Much like download.com with much of the confusion and and legwork left out. It can be likened to shopping. What's easier, going to a few dozen different stores to get all the stuff you need, or going to a single place? I'd much rather go to a single place if it had adiquate supply of what I needed.
I do completely agree with that. You know how much time (and effort since you have to manually swap discs/download files/setup crap) it takes to install apps on a Windows system when you first install it w/o a boot disc? If you have enough software, it can take quite a while. I'll enjoy my "emerge -a `less world`" and let it sit around all day compiling instead of sitting in front of it putting in discs and stuff while it installs everything. And then just copying most of your old user directory into the new one. Time consuming for compiling, but so simple and effortless (if you do a stage 3 gentoo install).
Oh dear god, flashbacks back to Computer Organization and Probability & Statistic classes in one post... How evil....
As I have learned from classes, following IEEE standards to the T!!!!! Go 830-9993........... What? You mean there's more to writing a good document then following the standards? Impossible.......
You know what I hate? When a flash ad bogs your computer down. I have an o/c Barton equal to 3000+, and this one site (rpgamer I think) had an ad for a game... An Eq Playstation one... It was maxing my CPU usage to almost 100%!!!!! I couldn't even scroll w/o having massive speed problems.
Technology should be primarily geared towards work. Having it all around you in the home and stuff makes you extremely unproductive, and sometimes in bad shape. It'd be nice to see a day when technology is strewn through our lives neatly, not our lives revolving around technology as it seems to often today.
This technogy reminds me of some higher-ups in a war huddled around one, planning there next move... Or some Vulcans and Humans planning some exploration....
I would have to agree. For the first time in history, some slashdot readers could at least see porn the way it was meant to be seen!!
Dear god, i remember the old CD-ROM in my dad's old computer.... POS..... Hardly ever worked right. I remember once, I felt so violent towards it. I got a new game, that I of course wanted to play. The POS didn't want to read it!! I sat there for 20 minutes (sadly) putting the tray in and out, in and out, until it eventually read it........ So to put it shortly, no, you are not....... I've also had other drives show signs of trouble.
True. Even Soviet Communism had the right idea until Stalin took control and caused more deaths then Hitler and the Nazis. There are a few things in the US I think could use some communistic practices, such as limitations on just how much someone can make (Such as person x can only make 8x as much as the lowest payed employee in the company. You know how much top sports stars salaries could help the world?), I won't even get into healthcare since it cuts a lot of people off, but still causes great advances in the private sector. When you get down to it, pure Democracy is evil and doomed just as much as Communism without some Socialist elements being present in the system like most current stable governments.
Slightly off topic, but still worth saying. Another thing is, you can't be the first with technology and expect to lead it for long. After one country makes something, the rest of the world begins to use it, and can improve upon it. It happened in the US with Automobiles, Communications, computers, and various other technological achievements. It only takes an idea for most technological innovation, and as the US has had many good ideas, many other countries have innovated them. (I've always considered the US to be more of a technological leader in basic components such as microprocessors and similar technologies, while Japan has been good at innovating many things we make in a similar comparison.)
I agree with you partially, but a majority of business applicatons have equivilants with Macs, and they really aren't that expensive in comparison to the competition. Considering the performance of a $1000 iBook (PPC) compared to Intel/AMD chipsets, they are pretty attractively priced IMHO.
All your moonbase are belong to us!!!
I installed a low-end Nvidia card on a friends Window machine. It had an option to turn on transparency in Windows. Yet my high-end ATI card can't do transparency in Linux at all. Seems kinda unfair in concept....
Random? A lot of these look like carbon copies of things I have seen on slashdot..
*w00ts in agreement* Almost makes me feel like I'm doing something here at RIT w/ us being listed with a lot of top-class schools for something.
I remember when I worked at a bank, we were told of penetration tests that happened there. The whole concept of being payed to sneak around and try to gain access to what your not supposed to have seems like a fun concept to me.