I assumed that "Perl script" meant Unix-only (or at least -mostly)
That is interesting as I did the same. I was surprised that the three Examples of installation was Windows Email clients. I think that a lot of people has the same mental link Perl == Unix, and what could (should?) be done to change this.
Does Knoppix make it easy to add new things into the cd image?
Yes, As long as you keep inside the size limit. I removed some of the Demos on the ISO and included a brainwave relaxing program AutoZen to run on my my Girlfriend's Windows machine. Worked fine.
WmWare workstation is only 11Meg so you should be OK.
Anyone know where I can pick up parts to build an alpha system?
Try Ebay they have 533Mhz boards from DEC. I bought a system for $150 or so a year ago. They can be installed in a normal ATX box just remove the backplate with the I/O ports etc. You will need ECC SDRAM but they can be gotten cheaply and the system is quite fast.
your monthly wages is less than $125 USD and you want to do 3D graphics
Why do you think you have a right to do 3D graphics?
If you feel hungry and wants to go to a restaurant. Do you bring a gun and have them serve you at gunpoint? Why not steal form someone elses mother? Just just need 3 mom's and you can afford Maya.
You might want to check todays story over at theInquirer where shoddy workmanship at a lowcost Hungarian plant sunk IBM's diskdrive division.
There is much more to the equation than cost of labor. Today labor only constitute 15% +- of cost of product. A few month earlier to market will negate any cost advantage that you will find off-shore. Maybe the stagnant PC industry is an exception as the concept of early to market has gone. Read: No innovations.
The SETI project is being done for religious reasons. (not organized religion...just a general feeling that if we discovered intelligent life we would feel we had a purpose)
Why wouldn't the "knowledge" that we are unique in the universe give you the same sense of "purpose"?
As an atheist I think the search is very worthwhile in its own right, it fuels the thinking about other sentient beings and by implication to ourselves.
Who know maybe the SETI and the Folding project might compliment each other one day. The more we know about life in this part of the universe the better we will be able to strategize about life elsewhere.
Go to the local post office where they have a display of AOL disks and grab a few.
It really bothers me that a quasi government institution advertise for AOL.
It even looks like they are "approved" by USPS, as the boxes are sitting next to posters mentioning ability to check deliviry via Internet.
That being said the box you get from AOL once a month or so is very sturdy and excellent to mail home made CD's to friends and family. Send the CD's back to AOL but keep the box.;-)
Good point. Try RadialContext ig you haven't already. I love this feature. Wish that this could be incorporated into normal Apps. This is a much better approach than a normal toolbar.
"no one can do to Disney as Disney did to the Brothers Grimm."
This is a real bad example even though I agree with Lessig. The Grimm Bothers didn't invent or created the stories as such. They collected and wrote up old German folk tales and made them available so they could be read and cherished.
A much better example is H.C. Andersen. He created the story about the Little Mermaid, The Little Tin soldier, etc.
No sure what Disney stole other than the Mermaid.
By the way. Steamboat Willie aka Mickey was lifted from a Buster Keaton film.
After multi billion Class action suit win against Riaa and Disney upheld by the Supreme court Human Brain Space is no longer free.
Copyrighted material owners will have to pay a minimum of 25 Cents per song that an individual carries in his or hers head.
Advertising being too costly for random dissimination will find itself effectively restricted to special YYY cinemas located in seedy areas of any metropolis.
That is interesting and a good point. My experience is mostly in PC class stuff. I guess for very expensive items like SGI stations you can do a fair amount of due diligence before sending the money. Like verifying address, maybe bank reference etc. Your effort would be amortized over a much larger amount.
It is fairly dumb to buy anything tech oriented at eBay. The marketplace is too effective and you will never get a good deal. Often the lack of knowledge of the current pricing for will cause the final prices on eBay to be higher than you can get them at say NewEgg or Thompson. Often the refurbished dept. at reputable shops like Newegg is a much better deal and 100% safe.
These guys have a superb rating on ResellerRating , so why deal with some amateur / potential crook at Ebay?
Sending money goes straight into corruption and local crime families.
Sending food ruins local economy as it works as would dumping of say memories into this country. The local companies (farmers in this case) can not survive the drop in prices resulting from "Food aids" and will stop producing. Then what?
he Apple number might just be right. The PC market this year is estimated at 135MU, assume 6 years life time and 10% annual growth (Corporate is 4 or so) that gives you approx. 700Mu out there.
3.1% for Apple is 20Mu+- and assume same life span corrected for no real unit growth over last 6 years, gives approx 4Mu / year or 1Mu/ Qtr. That is exactly what Apple is reporting.
Now using the knowledge that Linux as been in the "mainstream" for only 3 years or so. That means the 3.9% equates to 27Mu users or 9mu added each year. That sounds high to me. Remember we are talking people using Linux as Desktop not Servers of various kinds.
I think we are doing the GUI development wrongly. MS, Apple. KDE etc all have a tops-down approach with varying degree of provision for tailoring to individual needs.
The basic GUI is fixed and any innovations originates from the respective companies or developers based on their understanding / thinking about users behavior and preferences.
Why not try and turn this on its head and use a Darwinian development model. Start with a very simple IU and Meta Configuration files that has to ability to be combined with other Meta Configuration files and thereby create a "derived" or "evolved" IF. Then use the net to exchange the Interface DNA if you like. The "Survival of the fittest" will be measured in "usage time" for the specific phenotype of that GUI.
There should be a lifespan of any Interface after which time it will die and the user needs to procure a new. The new could be a derivative from the original.
This might or might not work but I think its worthwhile to try and see if it has merits. We would probably see clusters evolving based on typical usage. The clusters would not be normal tops down thinking like Office / Game station / Development but rather reflect the real world mixed usage.
Radical new ideas could be introduced as "mutations" and their survivability could be ascertained effectively. Second the radical new ideas need not be perfect initially and they could evolve via usage tweaking. (Kind of a LaMarckian approach in a predominantly Darwinian world).
I am a bit further along on this and if anyone has an interest drop me a line. (lamarck@s-tadil.com remove -)
Slashdot Mirror
Places where efforts is underway to replace Microsoft on the desktop with Linux is where the Rubber meets the road.
That is interesting as I did the same. I was surprised that the three Examples of installation was Windows Email clients. I think that a lot of people has the same mental link Perl == Unix, and what could (should?) be done to change this.
It might be smarter to read the article, than killing someone.
You could have installed the program for Outlook in the time it took you to type your rant, but then you would not get any Mod point would you.
Yes, As long as you keep inside the size limit. I removed some of the Demos on the ISO and included a brainwave relaxing program AutoZen to run on my my Girlfriend's Windows machine. Worked fine.
WmWare workstation is only 11Meg so you should be OK.
What if you have two things?
Better to understand one Thing than clueless about two. -- Anonymous Coward
I am just grateful they didn't use the Right to innovate defense.
Try Ebay they have 533Mhz boards from DEC. I bought a system for $150 or so a year ago. They can be installed in a normal ATX box just remove the backplate with the I/O ports etc. You will need ECC SDRAM but they can be gotten cheaply and the system is quite fast.
Why do you think you have a right to do 3D graphics?
If you feel hungry and wants to go to a restaurant. Do you bring a gun and have them serve you at gunpoint? Why not steal form someone elses mother? Just just need 3 mom's and you can afford Maya.
There is much more to the equation than cost of labor. Today labor only constitute 15% +- of cost of product. A few month earlier to market will negate any cost advantage that you will find off-shore. Maybe the stagnant PC industry is an exception as the concept of early to market has gone. Read: No innovations.
Why wouldn't the "knowledge" that we are unique in the universe give you the same sense of "purpose"?
As an atheist I think the search is very worthwhile in its own right, it fuels the thinking about other sentient beings and by implication to ourselves.
Who know maybe the SETI and the Folding project might compliment each other one day. The more we know about life in this part of the universe the better we will be able to strategize about life elsewhere.
Is your friends name Bruce by any chance?
I believe six of then are called Bruce
It really bothers me that a quasi government institution advertise for AOL.
It even looks like they are "approved" by USPS, as the boxes are sitting next to posters mentioning ability to check deliviry via Internet.
That being said the box you get from AOL once a month or so is very sturdy and excellent to mail home made CD's to friends and family. Send the CD's back to AOL but keep the box. ;-)
Good point. Try RadialContext ig you haven't already. I love this feature. Wish that this could be incorporated into normal Apps. This is a much better approach than a normal toolbar.
Now if only the spellchecker worked with 1.2b ;-)
This can not be right. 50% for PS2 is WAY low.
PS2 has sold 40Mu worldwide, 10Mu in last 4-5 month.
XBox total sale WW is around 3.0 Mu, of which 2Mu or so is in the US.
PS2's US sales are 40% or so of total, equal to 16Mu (give or take) in the US. This gives PS2 80% share and 20% for Xbox, assuming GC same as XBox.
Maybe it is not such a bad example after all.
This is a real bad example even though I agree with Lessig. The Grimm Bothers didn't invent or created the stories as such. They collected and wrote up old German folk tales and made them available so they could be read and cherished.
A much better example is H.C. Andersen. He created the story about the Little Mermaid, The Little Tin soldier, etc.
No sure what Disney stole other than the Mermaid.
By the way. Steamboat Willie aka Mickey was lifted from a Buster Keaton film.
Copyrighted material owners will have to pay a minimum of 25 Cents per song that an individual carries in his or hers head.
Advertising being too costly for random dissimination will find itself effectively restricted to special YYY cinemas located in seedy areas of any metropolis.
The point I was trying to make was more that Ebay often is not a place to find bargains, using an etailer like NewEgg as reference to make the point.
That is interesting and a good point. My experience is mostly in PC class stuff. I guess for very expensive items like SGI stations you can do a fair amount of due diligence before sending the money. Like verifying address, maybe bank reference etc. Your effort would be amortized over a much larger amount.
These guys have a superb rating on ResellerRating , so why deal with some amateur / potential crook at Ebay?
Sending food ruins local economy as it works as would dumping of say memories into this country. The local companies (farmers in this case) can not survive the drop in prices resulting from "Food aids" and will stop producing. Then what?
No sending computers is actually a good idea,
Try changing from XP normal view to Classic after you have "remove" IE,
Voila it back on your desktop.
3.1% for Apple is 20Mu+- and assume same life span corrected for no real unit growth over last 6 years, gives approx 4Mu / year or 1Mu/ Qtr. That is exactly what Apple is reporting.
Now using the knowledge that Linux as been in the "mainstream" for only 3 years or so. That means the 3.9% equates to 27Mu users or 9mu added each year. That sounds high to me. Remember we are talking people using Linux as Desktop not Servers of various kinds.
The basic GUI is fixed and any innovations originates from the respective companies or developers based on their understanding / thinking about users behavior and preferences.
Why not try and turn this on its head and use a Darwinian development model. Start with a very simple IU and Meta Configuration files that has to ability to be combined with other Meta Configuration files and thereby create a "derived" or "evolved" IF. Then use the net to exchange the Interface DNA if you like. The "Survival of the fittest" will be measured in "usage time" for the specific phenotype of that GUI.
There should be a lifespan of any Interface after which time it will die and the user needs to procure a new. The new could be a derivative from the original.
This might or might not work but I think its worthwhile to try and see if it has merits. We would probably see clusters evolving based on typical usage. The clusters would not be normal tops down thinking like Office / Game station / Development but rather reflect the real world mixed usage.
Radical new ideas could be introduced as "mutations" and their survivability could be ascertained effectively. Second the radical new ideas need not be perfect initially and they could evolve via usage tweaking. (Kind of a LaMarckian approach in a predominantly Darwinian world).
I am a bit further along on this and if anyone has an interest drop me a line. (lamarck@s-tadil.com remove -)