I've a lazy friend that when he needs to do some paperwork from school he just copy some text from internet and use auto-shrink resource from M$ word, so it texts become different from other people that ocasionally copy their homework from the same site.
One thing this tecnology is able to do is improve homework cheating.
Put them in your bag, not in the hand bag, there is much less hassle than carring them with you, because it isn't checked every time, maybe just once on the check-in.
And it would botter me so much if someone ask me to turn the notebook on because the battery is dead for a long time ago (does anyone knows how to recover it btw)
8MB is ok too, but i don't think it worth to send just two modules, specially of that size, to here. Maybe if someone in the US is willing to send too, you can send to him or he can send to you, and then send to Brazil. I'll keep you in touch if anyone else mail me. Thanks.
I think the major problem is an organized way to make it, in other words: some ngo to put a lot of equipment togheter to ship them at lower prices. Sending a computer abroad can be very expensive, if you send them the traditional way (mail or something) or don't have many computers to fill a container (or the minimum box size they ship by sea that fit about 5 complete computers).
Other problem is receiving. It's needed another ngo to receive (to don't pay taxes/customs for it) and it needs to be in a city with a major dock (in Brazil there is about 4 cities like that) to receive the computers.
And distributing may also be a problem, like having contact with other NGOs in the country not just those in your city.
In Brazil I know two NGOs that recycle computers: *
CDI - but they use only windows (have a contract with microsoft), have some burocracy to give the computers to NGOs (like use only windows and need someone 40hours/week dedicated to computer courses) and often trow useful parts away (because can't use windows with them).
* MetaReciclagem - they use linux, have a nice structure but aren't national (altought it's located on a huge city that can absorb any amount of computers sent to them)
In US i know ACCRC - they use linux, i know they have sent computers abroad, but until what i know just to political organizations that eventually redistribute them (don't know if you have something against that)
Sending complete computers is expensive, although it's not very expensive to send small valuable parts, like you can send several memory modules or one motherboard with processor, or even harddisk and pay U$6. Use the usps site to calculate (and use Economy Letter Post).
It may look it don't worth to pay that much, but here hardware is more expensive, like, an used 1gb hard disk would cost no less than 25-30U$.
In my particular case I'm volunteer on a small NGO here in Brazil and we use some computers for teaching (in fact 4, we don't have room for more). They have low memory (32MB), so sometimes is boring wait for openoffice and other software loads. They also have 2 free slots each, so it would be interesting to receive some EDO memory modules, of over 8MB each. If you have many EDO memory modules around and is willing to send them, they're welcome:)
One way to save a few watts is to charge/power your laptop off of 12 volts. and tap off a pair of the batteries in your array instead of using 110VAC that is converted from your 48volt battery array...
A lot of people said that "don't loss energy on inversion use 12V DC eletric equipment" but i'm wondering if that way (using 12v instead of 110V) (the same amount of) energy is wasted on transmission.
I'm not saying that it does, just asking, because i remember (but not why) that higher voltages are better for transmission.
Bringing the information to a thread more specific to the subject, i'd like to inform that #7806067 previously posted a link to a interesting Battery FAQ
Use an onboard graphic card for your desktop (if you decide to use one), they use much less power (2W against 10W) than offboard ones. Use one ram module with all memory you need (eg.: one 512M instead of 2 256MB), don't know how much it saves but it saves somethig. And use a 5400RPM disk instead ou 7200RPM.
it's not diversity what makes linux less vulnarable, that's may be a reason but i don't think is the major one. The major one is user behaviour, almost anyone use linux as root, just use it when need to make changes in the system. But in windows almost every one uses it as admin (or some login that belongs to the admin group), so if you run a virus on windows your hole system is compromissed, on linux just your data and some binaries you may have.
Sue they for "illegal use of private property": using your computer without your authorization to display their ads.
I've threatened sue some real big company with that and it worked.
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After all, I prefer liberty than human control.
I've noted that don't matter how useful technology can be it can be harmful under human hands. I've being around with a lot of technology supposely made to make our lifes better, but it just needs a human hand to screw it up.
How useful are surveillance devices if there are stupid persons making the (supposed to protect) rules?
And even if it's very directed to my safety (like drownings) if the thechnology is not perfect, which means they don't protect us from who should be protecting, they're bad.
I bet that cameras on the pool will be used by security personal to watch women bikinis, make "funny" or malicious comments about swimmers behaviour, asure that stupid rules are being followed and avoid virtual violation of that rules (or rules they think should exist).
I've a safeguard on my pool, i know how they behave (and i don't blame them, i can't say i would be perfect on their position), i feel bothered with them outside the pool, i don't wan't them secretly spying me from inside the pool.
I don't want people secretly spying me everywhere.
You're not very well informed (i live in Brazil too), the information on the news and on interviews, explicity says it isn't *just* a case of free as in beer, brazilian government also wants to develop the brazilian software companies (by offering support and modifications/adptations on the code).
The government executive responsable for IT stated very clear if Microsoft representatives come by and offer M$ products for free or very cheap (as they have been doing in cases like this for marketing purposes) they won't accept it.
Pardonu al mi, mi ne ridis via teksto ankau^. Mi parolas maltre, mi eklernis sed mi haltis c^ar nun mi ne havas tempo. Vi povas paroli esperanton en #esperanto en la reto "freenode" (irc.freenode.net). La personaj tie ne prozas ofte sed g^i estas ie al prozi.
Translation: Sorry, i didn't read your article before. I speak a little, i started to learn but stopped because now i don't have time. You can speak esperanto on #esperanto on freenode network. The people there don't talk often but it's a place to talk.
Is there any cheap reading device? I don't like digital books because i can read them while i'm away from the computer or in the bed (my free times).
And also i think is a waste of resources to spend 70 Watts (a 17" crt) to read them or paper and ($) ink, to something i'll use only for 10 minutes.
I want a read device not a handheld because i just need (and can afford) reading device funcionalities, 256KB memory (10 or 15 pages) and a "half A4" black and white screen (no grayscale or color).
As US needed more know how and money than the other countries.
The problem is that intel processors are more expensive than AMD, and in those "less rich" countries, more expensive enough to they don't buy it. So intel is losing market.
recognizes the fatal user flaw of not applying patches
I think the major problem is how patches are structured, i have no idea of how many and which patches i need to install because microsoft site is very confuse and there is always a new bug on the news
Another is the way microsoft sells their OS, the version i bought on store is the same of one year ago. So just after install i need to download and install tons of patches, this is a problem while handling several machines (or several installs on the same one:). If i could download the latest version (which all patches included) and install it it wouldn't have that much problem
And there is another one ( i think that's the one i don't update:): A lot of security patches include a lot of unuseful (read heavy) stuff. I just want a patch to my system, i don't want more animations or a lot of tools that i won't use and will just bloath the code.
Examples are: MS WindowsMediaPlayer 6.x vs 7 and up, MSIexplorer 5.5 vs 6.x. I can't patch them, i need to install a new one (often the installing process says it's a patch but is just a install of a newer version).
It wouldn't be possible if global means linking and processing all global information avaible. Take a look at those huge weather computers, try to measure the impact of maximize their input data, and you'll know what i'm talking about.
But if global means remote access to the information of some specific (small number of) sensors, it's ok.
Don't know what the author was talking about but it seens to be the first one.
What is the average time of processing with just these textures (without needing to download new ones)? Because if the transference time is bigger than the processing time it won't worth.
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I've a lazy friend that when he needs to do some paperwork from school he just copy some text from internet and use auto-shrink resource from M$ word, so it texts become different from other people that ocasionally copy their homework from the same site.
One thing this tecnology is able to do is improve homework cheating.
Put them in your bag, not in the hand bag, there is much less hassle than carring them with you, because it isn't checked every time, maybe just once on the check-in.
And it would botter me so much if someone ask me to turn the notebook on because the battery is dead for a long time ago (does anyone knows how to recover it btw)
If you was a good boy, and behaved well the whole year Santa could give you something ... but being you a beard old geek you got nothing :-)
8MB is ok too, but i don't think it worth to send just two modules, specially of that size, to here. Maybe if someone in the US is willing to send too, you can send to him or he can send to you, and then send to Brazil. I'll keep you in touch if anyone else mail me. Thanks.
Other problem is receiving. It's needed another ngo to receive (to don't pay taxes/customs for it) and it needs to be in a city with a major dock (in Brazil there is about 4 cities like that) to receive the computers. And distributing may also be a problem, like having contact with other NGOs in the country not just those in your city.
In Brazil I know two NGOs that recycle computers:
* CDI - but they use only windows (have a contract with microsoft), have some burocracy to give the computers to NGOs (like use only windows and need someone 40hours/week dedicated to computer courses) and often trow useful parts away (because can't use windows with them).
* MetaReciclagem - they use linux, have a nice structure but aren't national (altought it's located on a huge city that can absorb any amount of computers sent to them)
In US i know ACCRC - they use linux, i know they have sent computers abroad, but until what i know just to political organizations that eventually redistribute them (don't know if you have something against that)
Sending complete computers is expensive, although it's not very expensive to send small valuable parts, like you can send several memory modules or one motherboard with processor, or even harddisk and pay U$6. Use the usps site to calculate (and use Economy Letter Post).
It may look it don't worth to pay that much, but here hardware is more expensive, like, an used 1gb hard disk would cost no less than 25-30U$.
In my particular case I'm volunteer on a small NGO here in Brazil and we use some computers for teaching (in fact 4, we don't have room for more). They have low memory (32MB), so sometimes is boring wait for openoffice and other software loads. They also have 2 free slots each, so it would be interesting to receive some EDO memory modules, of over 8MB each. If you have many EDO memory modules around and is willing to send them, they're welcome :)
A lot of people said that "don't loss energy on inversion use 12V DC eletric equipment" but i'm wondering if that way (using 12v instead of 110V) (the same amount of) energy is wasted on transmission.
I'm not saying that it does, just asking, because i remember (but not why) that higher voltages are better for transmission.
Bringing the information to a thread more specific to the subject, i'd like to inform that #7806067 previously posted a link to a interesting Battery FAQ
Use an onboard graphic card for your desktop (if you decide to use one), they use much less power (2W against 10W) than offboard ones.
Use one ram module with all memory you need (eg.: one 512M instead of 2 256MB), don't know how much it saves but it saves somethig.
And use a 5400RPM disk instead ou 7200RPM.
I don't know about those but i heard flexible sillicon last much longer, if you also have that in mind ...
it's not diversity what makes linux less vulnarable, that's may be a reason but i don't think is the major one.
The major one is user behaviour, almost anyone use linux as root, just use it when need to make changes in the system.
But in windows almost every one uses it as admin (or some login that belongs to the admin group), so if you run a virus on windows your hole system is compromissed, on linux just your data and some binaries you may have.
Sue they for "illegal use of private property": using your computer without your authorization to display their ads.
I've threatened sue some real big company with that and it worked.
After all, I prefer liberty than human control.
I've noted that don't matter how useful technology can be it can be harmful under human hands.
I've being around with a lot of technology supposely made to make our lifes better, but it just needs a human hand to screw it up.
How useful are surveillance devices if there are stupid persons making the (supposed to protect) rules?
And even if it's very directed to my safety (like drownings) if the thechnology is not perfect, which means they don't protect us from who should be protecting, they're bad.
I bet that cameras on the pool will be used by security personal to watch women bikinis, make "funny" or malicious comments about swimmers behaviour, asure that stupid rules are being followed and avoid virtual violation of that rules (or rules they think should exist).
I've a safeguard on my pool, i know how they behave (and i don't blame them, i can't say i would be perfect on their position), i feel bothered with them outside the pool, i don't wan't them secretly spying me from inside the pool.
I don't want people secretly spying me everywhere.
You're not very well informed (i live in Brazil too), the information on the news and on interviews, explicity says it isn't *just* a case of free as in beer, brazilian government also wants to develop the brazilian software companies (by offering support and modifications/adptations on the code).
The government executive responsable for IT stated very clear if Microsoft representatives come by and offer M$ products for free or very cheap (as they have been doing in cases like this for marketing purposes) they won't accept it.
There's varicad for cad, gimp and photoshop(with wine) for image editing.
Pardonu al mi, mi ne ridis via teksto ankau^. Mi parolas maltre, mi eklernis sed mi haltis c^ar nun mi ne havas tempo.
Vi povas paroli esperanton en #esperanto en la reto "freenode" (irc.freenode.net). La personaj tie ne prozas ofte sed g^i estas ie al prozi.
Translation: Sorry, i didn't read your article before. I speak a little, i started to learn but stopped because now i don't have time.
You can speak esperanto on #esperanto on freenode network. The people there don't talk often but it's a place to talk.
And also i think is a waste of resources to spend 70 Watts (a 17" crt) to read them or paper and ($) ink, to something i'll use only for 10 minutes.
I want a read device not a handheld because i just need (and can afford) reading device funcionalities, 256KB memory (10 or 15 pages) and a "half A4" black and white screen (no grayscale or color).
available in formats such as .txt, .doc or .html
.ps or .pdf and you're done, unless it's chm and you can't open them on linux (first transform them to html using a windows machine)
Just print them to
As US needed more know how and money than the other countries.
The problem is that intel processors are more expensive than AMD, and in those "less rich" countries, more expensive enough to they don't buy it. So intel is losing market.
I think the major problem is how patches are structured, i have no idea of how many and which patches i need to install because microsoft site is very confuse and there is always a new bug on the news
Another is the way microsoft sells their OS, the version i bought on store is the same of one year ago. So just after install i need to download and install tons of patches, this is a problem while handling several machines (or several installs on the same one
And there is another one ( i think that's the one i don't update
Examples are: MS WindowsMediaPlayer 6.x vs 7 and up, MSIexplorer 5.5 vs 6.x. I can't patch them, i need to install a new one (often the installing process says it's a patch but is just a install of a newer version).
Don't you mean crackers?
It wouldn't be possible if global means linking and processing all global information avaible.
Take a look at those huge weather computers, try to measure the impact of maximize their input data, and you'll know what i'm talking about.
But if global means remote access to the information of some specific (small number of) sensors, it's ok.
Don't know what the author was talking about but it seens to be the first one.
It looks like Smart Dust.
But why to make such thing global? And i think there isn't computer power to process or store such amount of information.
pleasen mod Parent UP
What is the average time of processing with just these textures (without needing to download new ones)?
Because if the transference time is bigger than the processing time it won't worth.
I hope they can borrow Weta Digital's render farm to perfect some of the characters
I've thought about an internet distributed render farm, something like SETI@home, where regular people would add processing power to it.
A while ago I've talked to blender people about that but they didn't look interested, so that's an idea i spread around.