Because Oled's can be used as power efficent computer monitors( ie laptop monitors), and televisions. It definately has applications in mobile military functions (that computer screen thing again). It promises to be extremely cheap because they can produce it in huge sheets like construction paper. It has the ability to be extremely flexible, as in saran wrap. Also, OLEDs are are brightness adjustable. Sodium lamps throw out 10's of thousands of lumens with no way to dim it.
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I am excited about these Oleds.
hey don't make me feel bad, I know of at least person that switching is a lot harder, A whole new set of commands to remember with tons of switches, I remember buying Mandrake like 6.2 or something and having a really ugly UI and it only would run Quake 2 in software mode and I remember spending hours trying to figure how for it to work in mesaGL and finally reading that it was impossible,( the nv driver hadn't been around or matured or something).
4 years later the programmers have sorted out my hardware but what about new stuff. What about all those people who really can't figure out how to get all the cups servers stuff to print and can't figure stuff out a whole S load of other stuff. What about all those things that are supposed to work but don't. Sure things have been easy as pie for you but others have had to go through the agony of the drivers not working, non-stardard hardware that they didn't know about in their computers, (it was pretty obscure and they didn't think it would be a problem then it turned out to be neccessary for the whole system.) What about the disk partitioners that screw up! and you lose everything(albiet you have a backup).
Indeed I am now after finally giving a huge finger to Windows 98 I am running Linux. But I tried many times b4 I had enough experience to really be able to use it.
Linux is not easy, not at all. A modern example of stuff to cry about is the fact that adobe's acrobat reader doesn't work on modern linux's and that the gpdf that gnome has doesn't print or allow editing of pdf files. I have to manually pdf2ps and then ggv
if I want to be able to get to kind of print them. That is RIDICULUS! and I know some people who would switch right back out of irritation. Please enlighten me if you can if you know of a modern open source pdf program that can edit or print.
And also stop making the switch seem like a piece of cake. Because really it is not. Don't you dare insult my brainpower, unless you are noting that I am not studying for my Physics midterm tomarrow. A now adept Linux User
Look, I am not prescient but here's whats going to happen.
First: This is going to end up in a large pile of faxes of people wanting everything from tax breaks to legalization of narcotics.
Second: Once an intern or secretary gets around to looking at it, they might, might show it to their boss/legislator.
Third: Even if this legislator has never heard of this SCO debacle, the legislator is going to realize by this letter that SCO is in court. And that is probably when it'll get filed away for another day.
Fourth: Even if the legislator thinks SCO qualifies for any legislation, that legislator is going to have one of his interns do some research on SCO. In which case that intern is going to look at the massive amount of corporate backing behind open-source and massive amount of press about how SCO is full of it. In which case, there is no popular support for any legislation, from the little guy or corperations. In which case, this will get relayed back to the legislator, and promptly filed away or dustbinned.
Fifth: Even if you tried to legislate against open source... you couldn't because you would have to do a massive reworking of copyright law. I won't go into this in depth but the GPL is a distribution liscense not a copyright of any sort. Contributers to any GPL'd project copyright the code, which grants them rights to restrict distribution of their code. The GPL is a distribution liscense that waives many of the restrictions that a copyright holder has rights to. So therefore you'd have to destroy the copyright holder's right to distribute his/her material as he/she pleases to restrict open source. There is not much a legislater could do.
Sixth: A legislator will realize they will have to fight against some major corporations and alliances to get anything passed. And I don't think I know any legislator that really would want do that.
It isn't illegal to remove the tires from a chevy and put them on a ford, as long as you own the chevy and the ford. In this case, those who own a Windoze and therefore ntfs.sys can use this hack. Those who don't own the ntfs.sys can't use one. You can't distribute an ntfs.sys because that would be taking the tires off every chevy that you didn't own and putting them on every ford that you give away, or sell for profit. (Which is stealing) And with this SCO stuff we can't afford to have those kinds of rumors flying around. We're going to be a great OS on our own steam.
I guess I don't know if I am being made fun of or not. But I recalled Quantum Computing from some article from Scientific American. Which is too bothersome to site directly, those interested may be able to look through the back issues.
And it doesn't have anything to do with parallel universes, you probably got it from your fiction read. I think your were right about the 26 levels of values that would replace binary. Check out the SA article.
4 and 10 Ghz is a huge jump. I doubt Intel would release them that close together. It would be horrible marketing sense. Why make such a big bang jump to 4 and 10 when Intel can suck much more money producing a 4 Ghz then a 5 Ghz and the 6 and so on. Indeed I am questioning your source, but time will tell if you are correct about these releases. As far as Moore's law: In the past when people have said Moore's law must stop it was because researchers were having harder and harder times finding ways to product smaller chips. Now we are getting close to the point that we are arranging the silicon semiconductors atom by atom. Once your organizing atoms you physically cannot do much more. You cannot work with smaller components than on an atom by atom basis. Researchers have trouble even isolating the constituent parts of an atom, and the components of an atom are still highly theoretical. And those components that have been identified are highly unstable. Supposedly though there is something called quantum computing. I don't understand it but maybe quantum computing which doesn't use transistors (as far as I know) will be the future.
The pick between gnome and kde reappt does not matter. Gnome supports kde programs and kde does gnome. The programs will work the same. Really this 'corporate' standardization is about the libraries to be used. Anyone with his head in the linux pool knows about the Troll-Tech/Open-Source question and its accompaning arguements. The fact is that corporations are going to drive linux down the road to full desktop acceptance. At this point the linux desktop acceptance is needed to accelerate their growth or for example, Sun needs it just to start becoming profitable again. These corporations feel uncomfortable developing an open source platform that from stupid CEO perspective is questionably under control of Troll-Tech. For a stupid CEO (there are a lot out there) there is some uncertainty surrounding the KDE stuff. Companies are going to feel a lot better knowing that the code they are running was open source from the beginning and that there are minimal liscensing questions.
Everyone knows that the GTK+ libs are a bear. I really doubt that Redhat, Sun, Suse,... don't know that. But these corporations may feel programming the GTK+ may become easier or would be more conducive for their business for the future.
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Because Oled's can be used as power efficent computer monitors( ie laptop monitors), and televisions. It definately has applications in mobile military functions (that computer screen thing again). It promises to be extremely cheap because they can produce it in huge sheets like construction paper. It has the ability to be extremely flexible, as in saran wrap. Also, OLEDs are are brightness adjustable. Sodium lamps throw out 10's of thousands of lumens with no way to dim it. ------- I am excited about these Oleds.
4 years later the programmers have sorted out my hardware but what about new stuff. What about all those people who really can't figure out how to get all the cups servers stuff to print and can't figure stuff out a whole S load of other stuff. What about all those things that are supposed to work but don't. Sure things have been easy as pie for you but others have had to go through the agony of the drivers not working, non-stardard hardware that they didn't know about in their computers, (it was pretty obscure and they didn't think it would be a problem then it turned out to be neccessary for the whole system.) What about the disk partitioners that screw up! and you lose everything(albiet you have a backup).
Indeed I am now after finally giving a huge finger to Windows 98 I am running Linux. But I tried many times b4 I had enough experience to really be able to use it. Linux is not easy, not at all. A modern example of stuff to cry about is the fact that adobe's acrobat reader doesn't work on modern linux's and that the gpdf that gnome has doesn't print or allow editing of pdf files. I have to manually pdf2ps and then ggv if I want to be able to get to kind of print them. That is RIDICULUS! and I know some people who would switch right back out of irritation. Please enlighten me if you can if you know of a modern open source pdf program that can edit or print.
And also stop making the switch seem like a piece of cake. Because really it is not. Don't you dare insult my brainpower, unless you are noting that I am not studying for my Physics midterm tomarrow. A now adept Linux User
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Look, I am not prescient but here's whats going to happen. First: This is going to end up in a large pile of faxes of people wanting everything from tax breaks to legalization of narcotics. Second: Once an intern or secretary gets around to looking at it, they might, might show it to their boss/legislator. Third: Even if this legislator has never heard of this SCO debacle, the legislator is going to realize by this letter that SCO is in court. And that is probably when it'll get filed away for another day. Fourth: Even if the legislator thinks SCO qualifies for any legislation, that legislator is going to have one of his interns do some research on SCO. In which case that intern is going to look at the massive amount of corporate backing behind open-source and massive amount of press about how SCO is full of it. In which case, there is no popular support for any legislation, from the little guy or corperations. In which case, this will get relayed back to the legislator, and promptly filed away or dustbinned. Fifth: Even if you tried to legislate against open source... you couldn't because you would have to do a massive reworking of copyright law. I won't go into this in depth but the GPL is a distribution liscense not a copyright of any sort. Contributers to any GPL'd project copyright the code, which grants them rights to restrict distribution of their code. The GPL is a distribution liscense that waives many of the restrictions that a copyright holder has rights to. So therefore you'd have to destroy the copyright holder's right to distribute his/her material as he/she pleases to restrict open source. There is not much a legislater could do. Sixth: A legislator will realize they will have to fight against some major corporations and alliances to get anything passed. And I don't think I know any legislator that really would want do that.
It isn't illegal to remove the tires from a chevy and put them on a ford, as long as you own the chevy and the ford. In this case, those who own a Windoze and therefore ntfs.sys can use this hack. Those who don't own the ntfs.sys can't use one. You can't distribute an ntfs.sys because that would be taking the tires off every chevy that you didn't own and putting them on every ford that you give away, or sell for profit. (Which is stealing) And with this SCO stuff we can't afford to have those kinds of rumors flying around. We're going to be a great OS on our own steam.
I guess I don't know if I am being made fun of or not. But I recalled Quantum Computing from some article from Scientific American. Which is too bothersome to site directly, those interested may be able to look through the back issues. And it doesn't have anything to do with parallel universes, you probably got it from your fiction read. I think your were right about the 26 levels of values that would replace binary. Check out the SA article.
I was talking beyond that, Barons, Mesons, etc... Individually arranged electrons or neutrons etc. is pretty much what we are moving toward right now.
4 and 10 Ghz is a huge jump. I doubt Intel would release them that close together. It would be horrible marketing sense. Why make such a big bang jump to 4 and 10 when Intel can suck much more money producing a 4 Ghz then a 5 Ghz and the 6 and so on. Indeed I am questioning your source, but time will tell if you are correct about these releases. As far as Moore's law: In the past when people have said Moore's law must stop it was because researchers were having harder and harder times finding ways to product smaller chips. Now we are getting close to the point that we are arranging the silicon semiconductors atom by atom. Once your organizing atoms you physically cannot do much more. You cannot work with smaller components than on an atom by atom basis. Researchers have trouble even isolating the constituent parts of an atom, and the components of an atom are still highly theoretical. And those components that have been identified are highly unstable. Supposedly though there is something called quantum computing. I don't understand it but maybe quantum computing which doesn't use transistors (as far as I know) will be the future.
The pick between gnome and kde reappt does not matter. Gnome supports kde programs and kde does gnome. The programs will work the same. Really this 'corporate' standardization is about the libraries to be used. Anyone with his head in the linux pool knows about the Troll-Tech/Open-Source question and its accompaning arguements. The fact is that corporations are going to drive linux down the road to full desktop acceptance. At this point the linux desktop acceptance is needed to accelerate their growth or for example, Sun needs it just to start becoming profitable again. These corporations feel uncomfortable developing an open source platform that from stupid CEO perspective is questionably under control of Troll-Tech. For a stupid CEO (there are a lot out there) there is some uncertainty surrounding the KDE stuff. Companies are going to feel a lot better knowing that the code they are running was open source from the beginning and that there are minimal liscensing questions. Everyone knows that the GTK+ libs are a bear. I really doubt that Redhat, Sun, Suse, ... don't know that. But these corporations may feel programming the GTK+ may become easier or would be more conducive for their business for the future.