Yes. Bluetooth was designed to replace IR, which in turn replaced short wires. It was purely a personal wireless protocol, short range between paired objects. Wireless USB is designed for higher bandwith, although I don't see it being a competitor to WiFi - mainly because they can exist in the same way that wired USB and Ethernet do.
You may ask why we can't have one all encompassing protocol - the answer, cost. Bluetooth is the cheapest, GPRS and WiFi cost more. So for a BT headset the cost would rocket up if it had to do be fully compliant with a new protocol.
Anyway, in the grand scheme it's all a bit pointless. There's more interesting things in life, like mountains, women and fast cars. Who cares about wireless!
The ISO come in 3 flavours, desktop and server are obvious - what is Alternate? All three types are available in a range of architectures. Couldn't find a simple answer. Will be trying this out on my new laptop (an HP) as according to the Ubuntu website there is an HP customized version of ubuntu - which hopefully will now have the native broadcom wireless drivers.
XGL (developed behind closed doors by Novell replacement for X) is built arround the two main proprietry Linux GL drivers (nVidia and ATI). AIGLX (the Xorg extension started by redhat) is built to work on the open source hardware GL drivers (like Intel 855gm). When the projects exchange code (which is happening) then this will be great. Fancy X effects for those with good and better graphics. I'm looking forward to trying AIGLX when Fedora Core 5 comes out next week.
It's certainly a step in the right direction. Perhaps next they'll make Gecko render the Acid test. And then really push the boat out and actually make the lightweight browser lightweight on memory.
Actually, I think distance and time are equally used, perhaps only in English speaking countries (eg UK) and not English-derived languages (like Americanese). I would say that "time" is generally used when describing development, and distance when refering to effort. So "Linux is years ahead of Windows" and "Team X is miles ahead of Team Y at cracking that code".
Basically what I'm trying to say is, you tried to be smart but you failed.
They should have pointed out that in addition to a Centrino laptop, one also needs GNU/Linux, Kismet and Aircrack utils to get "the internet anywhere". Oh and 733t h4x0r skills not usually found at PCWorld.
If they don't know, why ask us? Everyone knows slashdot crowd knows nothing. But we'll always comment. So I'll say it's costing them at least a hundred pigs a month in tribute. Maybe some biscuits (you Yanks call them cookies).
Web 3.0 is for Fedora fan-boys. Debian users will continue with Web 1.0 (or rather 1.1), which has the same interface as 1.0 but all of the security fixes of 2.0 backported.
The info it was supposedly spying on (what music you bought - it was used to make suggestions for other people) can be obtained perfectly easily by logging your purchases. For example Amazon offers me "suggested titles" and also uses my purchases to tell others "people who bought... also bought...", and they do that without using spyware to look at my bookshelf:-)
Now if iTunes spied on the music you ripped then that might be news, but still not that important. I mean all they'll do is say "people who have Take That mp3s also buy other tasteless crap" etc.
Amazon recommended some adult entertainment to go with the Madagascar (rated U) when I ordered the other day. My other interest was nature books, so how it put two and two together no one knows.
Actually Google is only 4.8 % Evil (The 5% of AOL is 4.8% of the 105% you get from adding 5% AOL to 100% Google). Google bought some of AOL, not swapped for it.
If you subtract the acronyms, company names and numbers from that story you aren't left with any real words.
DRM is good. It fuel piracy. Without DRM geek wouldn't care about ripping disks - there'd be no challenge - they'd all renounce their computers and go outside and make friends, pass through puberty and do all the other things humans do. As it is, thanks to DRM, you can watch Harry Potter 4 the week before it comes out in the cinema.
Ha! I didn't spot the typo until I typed "thick as two short blanks" into Google. It's been one fo those days. Watching someone explain the effect of moving at high speed to another whilst sat inside a wooded box that's vibrating is real comedy. Shame I missed the whole "computers vs humans" debate - would have been interesting especially as my laptop is quite capable of telling when it's accelerating.
One of the 4 is American and was eulogising on the power of the human brain.
The girl has just said "I lived in Birmingham all my life, until I was 17".
A bloke says "I waited until I was 22 before I met my wife"
It's pretty obvious these people are as thick as the proverbial 2 short blanks. Watching one of them explaining about G-forces in a fighter plane while not noticing they are in a wooden "space ship" was very funny.
Slashdot is getting worse. I read this 12 hours ago on the BBC. Come on editors, in this day and age could we have stories when they're fresh. Soon the newspapers will be beating you.
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Yes. Bluetooth was designed to replace IR, which in turn replaced short wires. It was purely a personal wireless protocol, short range between paired objects. Wireless USB is designed for higher bandwith, although I don't see it being a competitor to WiFi - mainly because they can exist in the same way that wired USB and Ethernet do.
You may ask why we can't have one all encompassing protocol - the answer, cost. Bluetooth is the cheapest, GPRS and WiFi cost more. So for a BT headset the cost would rocket up if it had to do be fully compliant with a new protocol.
Anyway, in the grand scheme it's all a bit pointless. There's more interesting things in life, like mountains, women and fast cars. Who cares about wireless!
The ISO come in 3 flavours, desktop and server are obvious - what is Alternate? All three types are available in a range of architectures. Couldn't find a simple answer. Will be trying this out on my new laptop (an HP) as according to the Ubuntu website there is an HP customized version of ubuntu - which hopefully will now have the native broadcom wireless drivers.
Post you VISA card number, expiry date and 3 digit security number, we'll credit you. Please ignore any temporary additions to your statement.
XGL (developed behind closed doors by Novell replacement for X) is built arround the two main proprietry Linux GL drivers (nVidia and ATI). AIGLX (the Xorg extension started by redhat) is built to work on the open source hardware GL drivers (like Intel 855gm). When the projects exchange code (which is happening) then this will be great. Fancy X effects for those with good and better graphics. I'm looking forward to trying AIGLX when Fedora Core 5 comes out next week.
It's certainly a step in the right direction. Perhaps next they'll make Gecko render the Acid test. And then really push the boat out and actually make the lightweight browser lightweight on memory.
Actually, I think distance and time are equally used, perhaps only in English speaking countries (eg UK) and not English-derived languages (like Americanese). I would say that "time" is generally used when describing development, and distance when refering to effort. So "Linux is years ahead of Windows" and "Team X is miles ahead of Team Y at cracking that code".
Basically what I'm trying to say is, you tried to be smart but you failed.
Dan Brown is not being sued.
RandomHouse, the publisher is being sued.
Foreign and Spanish - amazing!
Well done that man!
They should have pointed out that in addition to a Centrino laptop, one also needs GNU/Linux, Kismet and Aircrack utils to get "the internet anywhere". Oh and 733t h4x0r skills not usually found at PCWorld.
The world has enough proof that there is no intelligent life in the US.
( ) Cowboy Neal personally relays my packets.
( ) I don't have the internet you insensitive clod (will obviously get zero votes - within error)
If they don't know, why ask us? Everyone knows slashdot crowd knows nothing. But we'll always comment. So I'll say it's costing them at least a hundred pigs a month in tribute. Maybe some biscuits (you Yanks call them cookies).
Web 3.0 is for Fedora fan-boys. Debian users will continue with Web 1.0 (or rather 1.1), which has the same interface as 1.0 but all of the security fixes of 2.0 backported.
Deus ex machina
The info it was supposedly spying on (what music you bought - it was used to make suggestions for other people) can be obtained perfectly easily by logging your purchases. For example Amazon offers me "suggested titles" and also uses my purchases to tell others "people who bought ... also bought ...", and they do that without using spyware to look at my bookshelf :-)
Now if iTunes spied on the music you ripped then that might be news, but still not that important. I mean all they'll do is say "people who have Take That mp3s also buy other tasteless crap" etc.
In short, yes, FUD.
Amazon recommended some adult entertainment to go with the Madagascar (rated U) when I ordered the other day. My other interest was nature books, so how it put two and two together no one knows.
Actually Google is only 4.8 % Evil (The 5% of AOL is 4.8% of the 105% you get from adding 5% AOL to 100% Google). Google bought some of AOL, not swapped for it.
Anyone care to speculate on how soon GAIM will have Google voip capability?
A man with one watch knows what time it is, a man with two doesn't have a clue.
If you subtract the acronyms, company names and numbers from that story you aren't left with any real words.
DRM is good. It fuel piracy. Without DRM geek wouldn't care about ripping disks - there'd be no challenge - they'd all renounce their computers and go outside and make friends, pass through puberty and do all the other things humans do. As it is, thanks to DRM, you can watch Harry Potter 4 the week before it comes out in the cinema.
Ha! I didn't spot the typo until I typed "thick as two short blanks" into Google. It's been one fo those days. Watching someone explain the effect of moving at high speed to another whilst sat inside a wooded box that's vibrating is real comedy. Shame I missed the whole "computers vs humans" debate - would have been interesting especially as my laptop is quite capable of telling when it's accelerating.
I just put the show on (it's live on E4).
One of the 4 is American and was eulogising on the power of the human brain.
The girl has just said "I lived in Birmingham all my life, until I was 17".
A bloke says "I waited until I was 22 before I met my wife"
It's pretty obvious these people are as thick as the proverbial 2 short blanks. Watching one of them explaining about G-forces in a fighter plane while not noticing they are in a wooden "space ship" was very funny.
I'm only replying to the parent so that this post is high up the screen.
3 5.pdf
Look at page 31 of this PDF. Microsoft publish benchmark statistics showing Linux (and FreeBSD) to be better than Windows.
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-1
So have I. I downloaded rc3 only yesterday though. Doesn't seem to be a 64 bit version yet - does anyone have any news about this?
Slashdot is getting worse. I read this 12 hours ago on the BBC. Come on editors, in this day and age could we have stories when they're fresh. Soon the newspapers will be beating you.