What's wrong with a luggable desktop? While I wouldn't want to use this in a subway, plane, bus, etc, it sounds ideal to set on your hotel room desk. I love my 12" iBook, but it is not a workstation. Its screen is too small and its keyboard too cramped. Its good for use in a cramped plane seat, but sucks trying to do real work in the hotel room. But this 20" laptop sounds like it could be my home system away from home.
Where the hell does Gartner get off telling Apple how to run their business? Back in the last century, when the word still had meaning, this behavior would be called "rude". Apple belongs to Apple, and is Apple's responsibility. It is none of Gartner's business. If they want it to be their business, then they need to start buying a bunch of Apple stock. Otherwise they can shut their piehole.
We've given up what it means to be free because we're terrorized cowards incapable of rational risk analysis. No sense of human rights, no idea of history not promulated by Fox News or equivalent.
Fox News conservatives don't ban traditional childhood games, "think of the children!" liberals do. Tag wasn't banned in red state Houston, but in a playground in blue state Boston. While conservative and liberal parents can both be idiots with regards to risk analysis, it tends to be the liberal parents who actively lobby for policies based on their faulty risk analysis.
Interesting. I'm not an OpenGL expert, I'm only repeating what a client said. He also showed me the visual difference between the cards, and it was striking.
You don't need complicated math to explain charity. People will "give away" goods if they feel they will gain more value from it by giving it away rather than keeping it. The value doesn't have to be monetary though. When I give a homeless man a dollar when he begs for it, I get several kinds of value in return, two of which are 1) the guy stops begging at me, and 2) I get a warm fuzzy feeling. Both of these are worth more to me than the dollar bill.
Charity is not advanced economics, it's economics at its very basic. It's just not emphasized in beginning texts, because it's much easier to quantify monetary values than non-monetary values.
Economics isn't about predicting anything. It's about understanding the behavior of people with regards to goods and services. There are a few basic laws that can be used for "prediction", but there are simply too many variables to make accurate predictions. But you CAN predict that people will always be people.
People DO give stuff away. People DO contribute to charity. In this sense, you CAN predict that charity will occur. Economics very easily explains this: if a person would receive more value giving away a good than by not giving away, then they will give it away. Linus Torvalds DID NOT impoverish himself by placing his kernel under the GPL. He IS NOT an hyper-altruistic ascetic defying the basic laws of economics. Instead he is acting as any rational self-interested human being would. The reason proprietary developers have not similarly Open Sourced their software is simply because they value things differently than Linus.
Economists who are surprised iat the existance of philanthropy or sharing are idiots. The grandparent's assertion that economics cannot account for charity is utterly wrong.
I was talking with a client the other day, and he mentioned their workstations cannot use NVidia or ATI drivers, because they need *REAL* OpenGL, not the fake GL that comes with consumer cards designed for games. Rendering a sphere using a triangular mesh doesn't cut it for them, they need a true OpenGL primitives. So while the consumer cards might have a limited subset of the OpenGL API, they aren't "real OpenGL".
If you gross misconception of economics was taught to you by your ECON 101 teacher, he/she should be fired! It is a poor and amateur model of economics that cannot account for charity, donations, bequeaths, and other forms of giving/sharing.
But I must also admit that it probably isn't the best implementation of KDE you will find...
That's for sure. I'm a huge fan of KDE, but my one Kubuntu install left me cold. I dumped it off my laptop and put on FreeBSD. I can't understand why so many Linux distros seem obsessed with mucking up KDE. Just use the plain vanilla KDE sources, add a wallpaper with the distro's logo, then LEAVE IT ALONE!
i mean, if there was an article in Socialist Worker complaining about an anti-bush video being 'censored' on youtube, i'd expect a similar caveat as well on a/. story about it.
Actually, if it were a "mainstream" liberal organization complaining about it, slashdot would never have bothered posting it.
It's also worth pointing out that WorldNetDaily could be described as just wee bit conservative
What kind of fucking excuse is that? Is the editor insinuating that it's okay to censor and limit the speech of conservatives? That it's okay to say anything you want if you're a liberal, but if you're a conservative you should not have free speech?
The new progressive definition of Free Speech: "the freedom to express any opinion you want, so long as it's a progressive opinion."
Slightly off topic. A few years ago at a company all-hands meeting, the CEO scolded us for wasting our time surfing the web instead of being productive. He revealed that he had the IT department create some statistics for him, and he flashed them up on the screen in nice a nice Perot-like chart.
"Look here," he said, "We have 1,672 visits to the Double Click site in the last month alone. I want you people working, not surfing to Double Click!"
Muffled giggles can be heard throughout the auditorium.
"And look at this this next site. I don't what kind of site Google is, but it doesn't sound like anything productive to me! This is your last warning, people. If this misuse of company time does not stop, we will block all internet access."
To this day I don't know if the IT guy charged with this "study" was making a deliberate joke, or just as clueless as the CEO.
I've been all over California, and I've never seen anything like this. I have occasionally seen illegal immigrants packed in tight, but never ever have I seen more than one middle class family per house, let alone living in the RV.
No California, just the SF/SJ area, and Menlo Park is one of the higher priced cities there. That $1700 Menlo Park garage would rent you a three bedroom house in Pasadena or Redding.
My problem is that I rate the movies I watch very high. Why? Because if they were crappy movies I wouldn't have rented them anyway! I usually know something about a movie before I rent it, even if it's just the viewer reviews on NetFlix. My ratings are 3, 4 or 5, only very rarely do I give out a 1 or 2.
Consequently NetFlix thinks I like everything. While the system is smart enough to not recommend Martin Lawrence movies, it usually gives me movies I'm simply not interested in. Or at the other extreme, it gives me excellent movies that I've already seen, just not rented at NetFlix. For example, right now it is recommending:
Anne of Green Gables - Ugh Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill - WTF? Eleanor & Franklin: The Early Years - I'm falling asleep... The 39 Steps - Good choice, too bad I've seen it 39 times
gzip is still the standard compression program on Unix systems. compress has gone away, but gzip is still here and will be for a while longer. But don't shit your pants over it, because no one is forcing you to use it.
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I'm starting to cry because I probably WILL be using it...
This doesn't seem to be so bad on Linux.
Weird, because on FreeBSD, sticking in a CD doesn't slow down anything!
Why not just get a nice big external display like everyone else does?
:-)
Because you still have the problem of opening that big external display in the economy-class airplane seat.
...or are they just luggable desktops?
What's wrong with a luggable desktop? While I wouldn't want to use this in a subway, plane, bus, etc, it sounds ideal to set on your hotel room desk. I love my 12" iBook, but it is not a workstation. Its screen is too small and its keyboard too cramped. Its good for use in a cramped plane seat, but sucks trying to do real work in the hotel room. But this 20" laptop sounds like it could be my home system away from home.
Where the hell does Gartner get off telling Apple how to run their business? Back in the last century, when the word still had meaning, this behavior would be called "rude". Apple belongs to Apple, and is Apple's responsibility. It is none of Gartner's business. If they want it to be their business, then they need to start buying a bunch of Apple stock. Otherwise they can shut their piehole.
We've given up what it means to be free because we're terrorized cowards incapable of rational risk analysis. No sense of human rights, no idea of history not promulated by Fox News or equivalent.
Fox News conservatives don't ban traditional childhood games, "think of the children!" liberals do. Tag wasn't banned in red state Houston, but in a playground in blue state Boston. While conservative and liberal parents can both be idiots with regards to risk analysis, it tends to be the liberal parents who actively lobby for policies based on their faulty risk analysis.
Interesting. I'm not an OpenGL expert, I'm only repeating what a client said. He also showed me the visual difference between the cards, and it was striking.
You don't need complicated math to explain charity. People will "give away" goods if they feel they will gain more value from it by giving it away rather than keeping it. The value doesn't have to be monetary though. When I give a homeless man a dollar when he begs for it, I get several kinds of value in return, two of which are 1) the guy stops begging at me, and 2) I get a warm fuzzy feeling. Both of these are worth more to me than the dollar bill.
Charity is not advanced economics, it's economics at its very basic. It's just not emphasized in beginning texts, because it's much easier to quantify monetary values than non-monetary values.
Economics isn't about predicting anything. It's about understanding the behavior of people with regards to goods and services. There are a few basic laws that can be used for "prediction", but there are simply too many variables to make accurate predictions. But you CAN predict that people will always be people.
People DO give stuff away. People DO contribute to charity. In this sense, you CAN predict that charity will occur. Economics very easily explains this: if a person would receive more value giving away a good than by not giving away, then they will give it away. Linus Torvalds DID NOT impoverish himself by placing his kernel under the GPL. He IS NOT an hyper-altruistic ascetic defying the basic laws of economics. Instead he is acting as any rational self-interested human being would. The reason proprietary developers have not similarly Open Sourced their software is simply because they value things differently than Linus.
Economists who are surprised iat the existance of philanthropy or sharing are idiots. The grandparent's assertion that economics cannot account for charity is utterly wrong.
I use IMAP. Unless my ISP filters at the server, it *ALL* ends up in my inbox.
I was talking with a client the other day, and he mentioned their workstations cannot use NVidia or ATI drivers, because they need *REAL* OpenGL, not the fake GL that comes with consumer cards designed for games. Rendering a sphere using a triangular mesh doesn't cut it for them, they need a true OpenGL primitives. So while the consumer cards might have a limited subset of the OpenGL API, they aren't "real OpenGL".
If your ECON 101 teacher was right...
If you gross misconception of economics was taught to you by your ECON 101 teacher, he/she should be fired! It is a poor and amateur model of economics that cannot account for charity, donations, bequeaths, and other forms of giving/sharing.
But I must also admit that it probably isn't the best implementation of KDE you will find...
That's for sure. I'm a huge fan of KDE, but my one Kubuntu install left me cold. I dumped it off my laptop and put on FreeBSD. I can't understand why so many Linux distros seem obsessed with mucking up KDE. Just use the plain vanilla KDE sources, add a wallpaper with the distro's logo, then LEAVE IT ALONE!
i mean, if there was an article in Socialist Worker complaining about an anti-bush video being 'censored' on youtube, i'd expect a similar caveat as well on a /. story about it.
Actually, if it were a "mainstream" liberal organization complaining about it, slashdot would never have bothered posting it.
I am the previous poster. My question still stands: why is it inappropriate to post this story in the BSD section, as ONE OF SEVERAL categorizations?
It's also worth pointing out that WorldNetDaily could be described as just wee bit conservative
What kind of fucking excuse is that? Is the editor insinuating that it's okay to censor and limit the speech of conservatives? That it's okay to say anything you want if you're a liberal, but if you're a conservative you should not have free speech?
The new progressive definition of Free Speech: "the freedom to express any opinion you want, so long as it's a progressive opinion."
You can run KDE on Linux too.
Which is why it was ALSO posted in the Linux section! Duh!
Yet you are NOT bitching about the story ALSO being posted to the Linux section. Consistancy in your behavior would be nice.
Please explain why BSD is not one of the appropriate categories to post this story.
Slightly off topic. A few years ago at a company all-hands meeting, the CEO scolded us for wasting our time surfing the web instead of being productive. He revealed that he had the IT department create some statistics for him, and he flashed them up on the screen in nice a nice Perot-like chart.
"Look here," he said, "We have 1,672 visits to the Double Click site in the last month alone. I want you people working, not surfing to Double Click!"
Muffled giggles can be heard throughout the auditorium.
"And look at this this next site. I don't what kind of site Google is, but it doesn't sound like anything productive to me! This is your last warning, people. If this misuse of company time does not stop, we will block all internet access."
To this day I don't know if the IT guy charged with this "study" was making a deliberate joke, or just as clueless as the CEO.
I've been all over California, and I've never seen anything like this. I have occasionally seen illegal immigrants packed in tight, but never ever have I seen more than one middle class family per house, let alone living in the RV.
No California, just the SF/SJ area, and Menlo Park is one of the higher priced cities there. That $1700 Menlo Park garage would rent you a three bedroom house in Pasadena or Redding.
My problem is that I rate the movies I watch very high. Why? Because if they were crappy movies I wouldn't have rented them anyway! I usually know something about a movie before I rent it, even if it's just the viewer reviews on NetFlix. My ratings are 3, 4 or 5, only very rarely do I give out a 1 or 2.
Consequently NetFlix thinks I like everything. While the system is smart enough to not recommend Martin Lawrence movies, it usually gives me movies I'm simply not interested in. Or at the other extreme, it gives me excellent movies that I've already seen, just not rented at NetFlix. For example, right now it is recommending:
Anne of Green Gables - Ugh
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill - WTF?
Eleanor & Franklin: The Early Years - I'm falling asleep...
The 39 Steps - Good choice, too bad I've seen it 39 times
Yeah, I wonder if the grandparent is also one of those that says harddrives are cheap so don't worry about saving bytes...
gzip is still the standard compression program on Unix systems. compress has gone away, but gzip is still here and will be for a while longer. But don't shit your pants over it, because no one is forcing you to use it.