If it can cool a keg of beer, it can cool a graphics card or a CPU as well. Could this potentially be the end of Moore's law, if thermoelectric cooling elements could be built into a processor I daresay the problem of cooling powerful chips can be addressed very elegantly.
Anyone else amused by the fact this guy's from a Weslayan college? Methodism has often been asssociated with abstention from alcohol, bet the school loved the practical applications....
Here in the UK most cars - including convertibles - are available with turbocharged diesel engines. My Ford Mondeo is capable of 60 miles per gallon on motorway runs, and with 90 horsepower it's no slouch. Obviously, this isn't as eco-friendly as a petrol-electric in terms of emissions (Diesels make particulates) but in recent years the quality of diesel fuel and engine management has led to continuing reductions in diesel emissions.
Coupled with the availability of bio-diesel fuel made from vegetables (short carbon cycle - far better than using fossil-fuel diesel) I can't see a real future in Petrol-electric hybrids in Europe. I have seen less than a dozen Prius hybrid cars in the last few years but every 4th car sold in the UK is a Diesel.
I suppose you could try and dial an international call to an ISP in Japan, S.Korea or Russia?
Russians used to do that to access bulletin boards in the US back in the cold war, allegedly.
I call troll on this one, although possibly unwitting. Every release of Mozilla for quite some time (Since 1.1 I'd say) has had a faster load time and less bloat.. go read the changelogs if you don't believe me.
The new Moz family applications are proving grounds for features which may be re-integrated into the main Mozilla tree, as well as being useful stand-alone apps.
Surreal. I'm guessing OSNews lost the plot a bit there, I posted a question about this issue after it was questioned here, have just put a follow up FAO their editor as it wasn't answered.
If your friends were off Outlook and all other closed source programs (i.e. they switch to Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.) would they be comfortable then switching to Linux?
Not sure. Most are already using Mozilla FireFox because it's simply better than IE 6, but we don't use OpenOffice as we all have copies of MS Office. Personally I dabble in linux a few times a year but never found a compelling reason not to go back to Windows.
The problem Linux faces in our situation is that Windows 2000 *just works*. F/OSS can be driven by our choosing to convert to OSS software on our PCs but, although this makes it easier for us to switch to Linux it gives us few reasons to do so. With AVG or Norton Antivirus, Zonealarm, Media Player Classic and iTunes we're quite happy with our Windows desktops.
I'm genuinely looking forward to the release of the Ximian Evolution Windows port as it'll finally give a decent free mail client, which I can distribute to the several dozen friends' PCs I unofficially support.
I've been trying to get them off Outlook/OExpress for ages (for safety purposes) but most refused to go to Thunderbird as it was "too different"
1) People selling links to pyramid sites instead of products
2) Small groups of bidders buying things off each other to boost their ratings and add favourable comments before proceeding to rip off real buyers
3) People blatantly selling pirated software
4) Vendors promising to ship goods at cut-price rates from far-eastern countries - yeah, right
5) No facility to report plainly dishonest sales to eBay
Someone I know *ahem* downloaded an XP Pro ISO from KaZaA (took nearly 2 weeks on modem) then used WinISO to slipstream it with the Service Pack 1 full installer
This individual was going to try and google a key but then went into his local bank (Barclays) to arrange a loan for a car, and noticed that the Dell PC sitting on the adviser's desk had the usual Dell label on it, with serial numbers for Windows XP and 2000 on it....
And there was a pile of complimentary notepads and a pen on the desk. And the adviser was off getting some forms.
David is known to many as the Biblical character to slew Goliath, putting the Philistines into retreat and making David a favourite of the Hebrew people, who would one day be their king.
Following this, David was repeatedly attacked by the leaders of the Hebrew people for being too strong.
"For a while, David found himself in the rather bizarre situation of fighting Saul's enemies and fleeing Saul at the same time." - quoted from keyway.ca
No, I'm no sort of religious propagandist, it's just amusing how well this rings when read as an analysis of commercial software vendors targeting the OSS community.
Is there any significance in HP sending a rep with a laptop running Java Desktop System?
My understanding is that HP will offer Linux as an option on their systems but hasn't previously - to my memory - been associated with Sun's distribution.
That said, any Linux installation on laptops is a good thing.. lets hope it catches on. (personal note - A Sasser-infected Win2000 laptop knocked my network out yesterday)
Have the recent military actions taken by Western countries in the Islamic world affected attitudes towards software, bearing in mind the US-centric nature (Microsoft, Intel, Adobe) of commercial, closed-source software?
FLAMEBAIT? jesus guys, thought/. was meant to appreciate humour. Apologies to anyone who took offence at a new variety of the famed In Soviet Russia joke....
Could it just be that rather than being led by demand to move away from Windows*, we've just reached that critical mass where Kernel, Desktop Environment, Office Software (particularly Evolution) and Driver support are good enough to make a product like this?
*That said, a sales rep walked into my office with an infected laptop and knocked out 140 PCs today through the Sasser worm, so from me at least there's an increased interest in desktop linux.
If she's so poor at what she does, ask why her personal tech site is one of the few sites outside of Slashdot that can cause the Slashdot effect (web servers melting into pools of liquid metal and trickling under the door of the server room), and why its discussions frequently outclass/.'s for informative/interesting/insightful comments despite being a tenth of the size?
By requiring a notification Comcast is demanding that it's subscribers admit to having held an illegal file.. and supplying that information to others.
Not even in the USA so it's of little concern to me.. but I'd be very careful about what anyone puts into writing after receiving a DMCA notification.
It's an interesting point of view - that the political aspects of religion would affect things as secular in nature as IT and software
I guess a lot of people in middle-eastern countries like Egypt use linux because it isn't American and commercial as well - are we heading for an east-west split in software philosophy?
"Spoken language has been advanced for over ten thousand years because it is effective, efficient means of communicating precise information. The same cannot be said about a point and click interface."
Firstly, spoken language is only relevant to communication between sentient entities. However when the communication is between a human and a computer, which is easier?
1) Use a long series of commandline switches in a command prompt after navigating it to the location of the files
2) Click on the file and tick the graphical boxes to get the kind of install you like
Commandline switxhes you need to know, and you have to enter them with the right spaces and the right order. A graphical installer can show the available options spacially with details and descriptions, and help files on hand.
Put quite simply, the graphical installer wins for time-saving and efficiency every time.
Never going to if I have to do that, either.
I really get pissed off with you elitist assholes who insist things have to be difficult, as if you prove yourself a real man by installing KDE by manually typing in the source code from a printout.
I use my computer to compute, not to set me daily challenges
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If it can cool a keg of beer, it can cool a graphics card or a CPU as well. Could this potentially be the end of Moore's law, if thermoelectric cooling elements could be built into a processor I daresay the problem of cooling powerful chips can be addressed very elegantly.
Anyone else amused by the fact this guy's from a Weslayan college? Methodism has often been asssociated with abstention from alcohol, bet the school loved the practical applications....
All in all, I'd rather drive a TD
Here in the UK most cars - including convertibles - are available with turbocharged diesel engines. My Ford Mondeo is capable of 60 miles per gallon on motorway runs, and with 90 horsepower it's no slouch. Obviously, this isn't as eco-friendly as a petrol-electric in terms of emissions (Diesels make particulates) but in recent years the quality of diesel fuel and engine management has led to continuing reductions in diesel emissions.
Coupled with the availability of bio-diesel fuel made from vegetables (short carbon cycle - far better than using fossil-fuel diesel) I can't see a real future in Petrol-electric hybrids in Europe. I have seen less than a dozen Prius hybrid cars in the last few years but every 4th car sold in the UK is a Diesel.
I suppose you could try and dial an international call to an ISP in Japan, S.Korea or Russia? Russians used to do that to access bulletin boards in the US back in the cold war, allegedly.
I call troll on this one, although possibly unwitting.
Every release of Mozilla for quite some time (Since 1.1 I'd say) has had a faster load time and less bloat.. go read the changelogs if you don't believe me.
The new Moz family applications are proving grounds for features which may be re-integrated into the main Mozilla tree, as well as being useful stand-alone apps.
Surreal. I'm guessing OSNews lost the plot a bit there, I posted a question about this issue after it was questioned here, have just put a follow up FAO their editor as it wasn't answered.
Sorry for getting everyones hopes up - even mine!
If your friends were off Outlook and all other closed source programs (i.e. they switch to Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.) would they be comfortable then switching to Linux?
Not sure. Most are already using Mozilla FireFox because it's simply better than IE 6, but we don't use OpenOffice as we all have copies of MS Office. Personally I dabble in linux a few times a year but never found a compelling reason not to go back to Windows.
The problem Linux faces in our situation is that Windows 2000 *just works*. F/OSS can be driven by our choosing to convert to OSS software on our PCs but, although this makes it easier for us to switch to Linux it gives us few reasons to do so. With AVG or Norton Antivirus, Zonealarm, Media Player Classic and iTunes we're quite happy with our Windows desktops.
I'm genuinely looking forward to the release of the Ximian Evolution Windows port as it'll finally give a decent free mail client, which I can distribute to the several dozen friends' PCs I unofficially support.
I've been trying to get them off Outlook/OExpress for ages (for safety purposes) but most refused to go to Thunderbird as it was "too different"
They can hardly say that about Evolution.
1) People selling links to pyramid sites instead of products
2) Small groups of bidders buying things off each other to boost their ratings and add favourable comments before proceeding to rip off real buyers
3) People blatantly selling pirated software
4) Vendors promising to ship goods at cut-price rates from far-eastern countries - yeah, right 5) No facility to report plainly dishonest sales to eBay
Someone I know *ahem* downloaded an XP Pro ISO from KaZaA (took nearly 2 weeks on modem) then used WinISO to slipstream it with the Service Pack 1 full installer
This individual was going to try and google a key but then went into his local bank (Barclays) to arrange a loan for a car, and noticed that the Dell PC sitting on the adviser's desk had the usual Dell label on it, with serial numbers for Windows XP and 2000 on it....
And there was a pile of complimentary notepads and a pen on the desk. And the adviser was off getting some forms.
Priceless...
David is known to many as the Biblical character to slew Goliath, putting the Philistines into retreat and making David a favourite of the Hebrew people, who would one day be their king.
Following this, David was repeatedly attacked by the leaders of the Hebrew people for being too strong.
"For a while, David found himself in the rather bizarre situation of fighting Saul's enemies and fleeing Saul at the same time." - quoted from keyway.ca
No, I'm no sort of religious propagandist, it's just amusing how well this rings when read as an analysis of commercial software vendors targeting the OSS community.
I've been a prat.. that isn't KDE. I'm going outside to shoot myself now.
1) Is Ignalum a source distribution, built from LFs, or an enhanced version of an existing distribution?
2)Are exe files associated with WINE so Windows installers just work
3)Kernel version?
4)Obviously KDE 3.x from the s/shot linked above, but is it a full or stripped-down version?
5)Are they using a Windows driver wrapper to allow win32 device drivers to function as well?
Well, if like Obviousguy you disllike being surrounded by technology, it's no bad notion.....
Is there any significance in HP sending a rep with a laptop running Java Desktop System?
My understanding is that HP will offer Linux as an option on their systems but hasn't previously - to my memory - been associated with Sun's distribution.
That said, any Linux installation on laptops is a good thing.. lets hope it catches on. (personal note - A Sasser-infected Win2000 laptop knocked my network out yesterday)
Have the recent military actions taken by Western countries in the Islamic world affected attitudes towards software, bearing in mind the US-centric nature (Microsoft, Intel, Adobe) of commercial, closed-source software?
FLAMEBAIT? jesus guys, thought /. was meant to appreciate humour. Apologies to anyone who took offence at a new variety of the famed In Soviet Russia joke....
..then dot NET will become dot NYET and the Soviet Russia jokes start for real...
I bet they're compiling their case right now....
Could it just be that rather than being led by demand to move away from Windows*, we've just reached that critical mass where Kernel, Desktop Environment, Office Software (particularly Evolution) and Driver support are good enough to make a product like this?
*That said, a sales rep walked into my office with an infected laptop and knocked out 140 PCs today through the Sasser worm, so from me at least there's an increased interest in desktop linux.
If she's so poor at what she does, ask why her personal tech site is one of the few sites outside of Slashdot that can cause the Slashdot effect (web servers melting into pools of liquid metal and trickling under the door of the server room), and why its discussions frequently outclass /.'s for informative/interesting/insightful comments despite being a tenth of the size?
Selam, attaturk :-p
I bet the service will be set up so that Americans can only get series 1 and 2 of "The Good Life" and Noels House Party
I hope it is, anyway.
Can anyone say entrapment?
By requiring a notification Comcast is demanding that it's subscribers admit to having held an illegal file.. and supplying that information to others.
Not even in the USA so it's of little concern to me.. but I'd be very careful about what anyone puts into writing after receiving a DMCA notification.
It's an interesting point of view - that the political aspects of religion would affect things as secular in nature as IT and software
I guess a lot of people in middle-eastern countries like Egypt use linux because it isn't American and commercial as well - are we heading for an east-west split in software philosophy?
"Spoken language has been advanced for over ten thousand years because it is effective, efficient means of communicating precise information. The same cannot be said about a point and click interface."
Firstly, spoken language is only relevant to communication between sentient entities. However when the communication is between a human and a computer, which is easier?
1) Use a long series of commandline switches in a command prompt after navigating it to the location of the files
2) Click on the file and tick the graphical boxes to get the kind of install you like
Commandline switxhes you need to know, and you have to enter them with the right spaces and the right order. A graphical installer can show the available options spacially with details and descriptions, and help files on hand.
Put quite simply, the graphical installer wins for time-saving and efficiency every time.
how ironic, I make two very similar posts in the same sub-thread, one gets modded up as insightful, the other down, as flamebait.
Never going to if I have to do that, either.
I really get pissed off with you elitist assholes who insist things have to be difficult, as if you prove yourself a real man by installing KDE by manually typing in the source code from a printout.
I use my computer to compute, not to set me daily challenges