I feel the need to nitpick the title: "UK Music Fans Can Copy Own Tracks". This would imply that other music fans, or UK fans previously, could not copy their own tracks. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to use the cd burner? A correct title would be: "UK Music Fans Allowed To Copy Own Tracks".
Don't get your hopes up too high. Although this does mean that it's ok for you to burn a copy of your friend's cd, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is ok to file share. Depending on how you look at it P2P, for example bittorrent, could be seen as making copies for other people (as you upload data to them).
I could see Linux taking over the kiosk (and ATM) world. There are no set-up issues, no compatibility issues, and users don't need to install software/games. Really only one program needs to run, and as long as the OS doesn't crash all is well.
No, because the users are already experianced with Solaris, which is not exactly a typical desktop OS, so these are not your typical desktop users. They may love Linux, but it doesn't tell us anything about the average desktop user who doesn't have a Solaris background.
Ok it's cool that people are moving to Linux, but on the other hand its not a migration from windows or mac, so it is not exactly evidence that Linux is ready for the desktop yet either.
There are basically three positions you can have with respect to Duke Nukem
1: It will never be released, in which case no, not this year.
2: It is honestly being worked on, in which case maybe.
3: It's about to be done, any day now, in which case yes.
Obviously these positions are rather broad, and one might even say baseless, but that is just the point. We don't have any way to distinguish between them, we can only guess. All we know is that they keep saying that they are working on it and making progress, but honestly that is compatible with all three positions. Personally I hope Duke Nukem will never come out, for if it does I will have to re-write all my vaporware jokes.
Experience tells me that such predictions are more wrong than they are right. It's part of the nature of advancement to take us places that we didn't even know existed before (ex: computers). As a company it would seem to be more prudent to pay for real research on real products than to worry about what may or may not come about. You really only need to be looking about a year into the future to roll with the punches, and you can to that by reading academic journals (so that you know what areas are expecting breakthroughs).
Glickman: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Barlow: He told me enough, he told me you killed him.
Glickman: I am your father! Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Barlow: Nooooooooo! That doesn't even make sense in the context of this analogy.
I hope HP doesn't become a big name in computers, because it is my experience that their computers are of poor quality. For example see here. If HP becomes as big as IBM was it is a sign that flashy marketing is triumphing over substance again.
Is this just a safety thing or are there other improvements? Surely there must be, since it was so long ago that the original shuttle was designed? Ligher? Stronger? Better colors?
Now everyone can own a batmobile! Ok minus the jset engine. On a more serious note it might be nice for laptops, so that they will never break when dropped ever again.
Most people own laptops because they can go places with them, which for the most part means fitting them in a backpack or other bag. (weight is less of an issue, students carry loads of textbooks arround all the time on their backs, so what is a few more pounds?) However with a 20 inch screen I have problems imagining the kind of bag it would fit.
Yes, but you couldn't form 3D structures out of a 2D field of atoms, in the sense that the STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS couldn't make use of the third dimension.
I think 2D cells yould have been much more interesting, as it would imply that cells could operate with only one atom's worth of height. Unfortunately the submitter meanst 2D arragements of cells, which is much less cool. For example read: The Planiverse.
But I, and soon Vista users, have 1GB of RAM, and I doubt that I am using 256 of it (I usually have a lot of apps open when I hibernate, as this is the point of hibernation, that you don't have to stop what you are doing when you want to turn off the computer).
Hibernation works by writing the contents of the RAM to the hard drive, so this would only work if you had = 256 MB RAM. I don't think too many new systems meet that requirement, and even less will after Vista comes out. Similarly if you want to save time on boot-up you would need to store all the necessary system files in that space, and few modern operating systems can cram themselves into that space.
Let me get this straight, the programmers behind Debian are threatening to give their legal team the boot? So it could be good, because sometimes lawyers suck, or it could be bad, because it implies Debian is about to make a huge legal mistake. Does anyone have a link to what the actual dispute is about, because the summary is lacking in details? (although it does have more than its fair share of alphabet soup: DPL, SPI, JDL)
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I feel the need to nitpick the title: "UK Music Fans Can Copy Own Tracks". This would imply that other music fans, or UK fans previously, could not copy their own tracks. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to use the cd burner? A correct title would be: "UK Music Fans Allowed To Copy Own Tracks".
Don't get your hopes up too high. Although this does mean that it's ok for you to burn a copy of your friend's cd, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is ok to file share. Depending on how you look at it P2P, for example bittorrent, could be seen as making copies for other people (as you upload data to them).
I like how this got modded "offtopic". Classy.
I could see Linux taking over the kiosk (and ATM) world. There are no set-up issues, no compatibility issues, and users don't need to install software/games. Really only one program needs to run, and as long as the OS doesn't crash all is well.
No, because the users are already experianced with Solaris, which is not exactly a typical desktop OS, so these are not your typical desktop users. They may love Linux, but it doesn't tell us anything about the average desktop user who doesn't have a Solaris background.
Ok it's cool that people are moving to Linux, but on the other hand its not a migration from windows or mac, so it is not exactly evidence that Linux is ready for the desktop yet either.
I assume, and hope, that the systems broken into were completely independant from launch control.
You mean like Vista, but even those are becoming old hat fast.
There are basically three positions you can have with respect to Duke Nukem
1: It will never be released, in which case no, not this year.
2: It is honestly being worked on, in which case maybe.
3: It's about to be done, any day now, in which case yes.
Obviously these positions are rather broad, and one might even say baseless, but that is just the point. We don't have any way to distinguish between them, we can only guess. All we know is that they keep saying that they are working on it and making progress, but honestly that is compatible with all three positions. Personally I hope Duke Nukem will never come out, for if it does I will have to re-write all my vaporware jokes.
Experience tells me that such predictions are more wrong than they are right. It's part of the nature of advancement to take us places that we didn't even know existed before (ex: computers). As a company it would seem to be more prudent to pay for real research on real products than to worry about what may or may not come about. You really only need to be looking about a year into the future to roll with the punches, and you can to that by reading academic journals (so that you know what areas are expecting breakthroughs).
Glickman: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Barlow: He told me enough, he told me you killed him.
Glickman: I am your father! Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Barlow: Nooooooooo! That doesn't even make sense in the context of this analogy.
I hope HP doesn't become a big name in computers, because it is my experience that their computers are of poor quality. For example see here. If HP becomes as big as IBM was it is a sign that flashy marketing is triumphing over substance again.
Yes, you have to wonder: was this article secretely written by Dvorak?
Is this just a safety thing or are there other improvements? Surely there must be, since it was so long ago that the original shuttle was designed? Ligher? Stronger? Better colors?
Now everyone can own a batmobile! Ok minus the jset engine. On a more serious note it might be nice for laptops, so that they will never break when dropped ever again.
Most people own laptops because they can go places with them, which for the most part means fitting them in a backpack or other bag. (weight is less of an issue, students carry loads of textbooks arround all the time on their backs, so what is a few more pounds?) However with a 20 inch screen I have problems imagining the kind of bag it would fit.
Yes, but you couldn't form 3D structures out of a 2D field of atoms, in the sense that the STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS couldn't make use of the third dimension.
Obviously not (duh), but a one atome layer is effectively two dimensional, since no 3D structures/molecules could be formed.
I think 2D cells yould have been much more interesting, as it would imply that cells could operate with only one atom's worth of height. Unfortunately the submitter meanst 2D arragements of cells, which is much less cool. For example read: The Planiverse.
But I, and soon Vista users, have 1GB of RAM, and I doubt that I am using 256 of it (I usually have a lot of apps open when I hibernate, as this is the point of hibernation, that you don't have to stop what you are doing when you want to turn off the computer).
Hibernation works by writing the contents of the RAM to the hard drive, so this would only work if you had = 256 MB RAM. I don't think too many new systems meet that requirement, and even less will after Vista comes out. Similarly if you want to save time on boot-up you would need to store all the necessary system files in that space, and few modern operating systems can cram themselves into that space.
They should hire you to write the summaries instead.
Let me get this straight, the programmers behind Debian are threatening to give their legal team the boot? So it could be good, because sometimes lawyers suck, or it could be bad, because it implies Debian is about to make a huge legal mistake. Does anyone have a link to what the actual dispute is about, because the summary is lacking in details? (although it does have more than its fair share of alphabet soup: DPL, SPI, JDL)
Let me put it another way: would you rather have an RPG that started you out at max level with all your gear, or is it more fun to work for it?
It's better than nothing, so I'll take what I can get.