Actually, I'd like to use a really minimal operating system as the virtual machine host as well. I'd like to be able organize my entire "workspace" in to severable, portable pieces joined by a virtual network.
And this is different from X11 how exactly ? This is why unix like OS's use the concept of servers. It becomes transparent to the network because it is intrinsically network based in the first place. There is nothing stopping you from installing Damn Small or Puppy Linux as the machine host then virtualising everything else.
Intelligence is defined by the questions you ask, not what you already know. If you can't be bothered to even wonder privately how something works, then just asking someone else for the answers shows a lack of intelligence. People who at least try to build a model of their environment in their brains, deserve a lot more respect than those who blindly do what they're told or shut down until the environment is back in their comfort zone. Stupidity is doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different result.
There is an advert on the tv at the moment, where they're selling no win, no fee personal injury claim lawyer services. The illustration they use is a guy who was asked to fix a light fitting but "they gave me the wrong kind of ladder". He ended up on his ass and had to spend months off work. Well I don't know about you, but I cannot equate myself in any way to an idiot who can't use a ladder properly. I mean, if it's your neck on the block, it's up to you to look after yourself. Either find a better ladder, or secure the one you have so it can't fall over. It's not rocket science.
Another example. I used to work in a metal shop making tubular furniture. One machine was used to reduce the diameter of a tube so that it would fit inside a similar diameter tube. To hold the tube while this was done, there were two hydraulic clamps that held the tube tightly. Oil used to build up on these clamps which necessitated cleaning them occasionally. One bright spark, decided to clean the clamps without turning the machine off, and then managed to use the foot switch while his fingers were in the way. Voila, 3 fingers crushed (and later amputated). DICK HEAD ! The really sad part about this is that he more than likely works in IT these days. What is he going to break next ?
What I have a hard time accepting is that I am in any way superior intelligence wise than anybody else. Consequently, when something as basic as survival is at stake, surely everybody has the ability to consider their situation. That they obviously don't is what really saddens me. How can you trust anybody who doesn't even have the brain to look after themselves. The scary part is, we are all forced to trust these people, every day. Walking down the street you are mere feet away from the deadly force that is the motor car. A large proportion of the drivers controlling this deadly force are complete and utter mouth breathers. So what if they have ABS and airbags ? That's not going to help me as a pedestrian when they mount the pavement because their damn phone rang or they got a text message. Solution - always face into the direction of the traffic so at least you'll have a chance to save yourself. Automation is NOT the answer. That would be akin to never toilet training a child. Unless they learn to do it themselves, they will always rely on someone(or something) else to do it for them. And then the familiar refrain of "it's not MY fault" is heard yet again. You can train a cat to shit in a box for christs sake, and they are one of the least trainable animals available.
Without meaning to go all religious on your asses, the question "Am I my brothers keeper ?" springs to mind. Apparently, yes. Without someone who has a clue watching over all these lesser intelligences the world would be even more fucked up that it already is. But of course, they have a right to be an idiot, and they resent anyone who tries to keep them alive and in one piece. Then again, the Darwin Awards would be a lot duller without them.
I have come to the conclusion that the only real reason that there are idiots left in the world is because someone else likes it that way. It is to their nefarious benefit to have a large population of stupid robots who can't press a button without being trained to do so first. We control the horizontal, we control the vertical, what we say is the way it's going to be. I'm homing in on the difference between Windows and an open source OS. Windows only gives you so many options, any open source
More of an addendum than anything else... XP released at a time when 32-128MB of RAM on a system was fairly standard. XP required 64MB as a minimum to install, and didn't really start running very well until you had at least 256MB, which happened at large in the consumer market about 6 months after XP hit the shelves.
I don't remember it like that at all. I had 512MB RAM in Win98 and was running Win95 with 384MB with a 300MHz cyrix chip. I wasn't running leading edge gear by any means. My first ground up home build was a P75 chip with 32 MB EDO RAM and a 850 MB hard drive. Win 95 came on 14 floppys. I managed to skip 486s, after my 8086, 286 and 386 Compaqs.
Most XP era machines (2001) came with 256MB RAM which I remember thinking at the time was derisory. Some freaks on Ebay still mark 256MB RAM As *Massive* ?! I bought a Sony Vaio from CompUSA in November 2001 which came with 256MB RAM, and that's roughly a month after XP was released (to shoppers).
Have a look at the cost of LEDs here. Select by luminous intensity and see what you pay for a decent lumen level. Hint - the highest lumen level is 1500 and the LED costs over £500 ! Not to mention that that LED is only 7mm x 7mm.
You can contrast equivalent incandescent lumen levels here.
Yeah, what really gets me is that everything is written on the screen in front of them, yet they can't find an option in a menu, or find a help file anywhere. It's immediately "no, can't do it - not my fault". I will never have any respect for people like that, in any walk of life. People like that are why everything gets dumbed down. They seem to forget that the rest of us had to learn it at some stage.
I remember when my dad showed me the word processor on his 8086, and asked me "if you wanted to change the way this looks on the screen , where would you start ?" After a second looking at the screen, I replied "the view menu". He said, "it's nice to be intelligent, isn't it."
Too many people these days expect the answers to jump right out at them, instead of asking the right questions - ie, at least being methodical, if not logical. You for instance could make a small effort and make a note of what you are told, then in 6 months time you won't need to ask again. It's called *learning*.
My friend had a small telescope, which he was getting quite interested in. One day I visited, and found him in a complete fury. Apparently, he had been cleaning it and decided to polish the mirror. He was spitting fire because "the stupid fools put the silver on the wrong side !"...
I burst out with something like - FFS, it's SUPPOSED to be on that side, because of refraction if you go through the glass. Unfortunately, that was a bit too blunt for him to take as he had effectively fucked his favourite toy. I didn't mean to be rude, but I was mad that he could be so stupid. In retrospect it's easy to call someone stupid, but we all go there at some stage, especially if we are learning something new.
And there will be no intellectual property problems. It will come down to the fact that the only thing that producers produce is energy. If you want their design, you purchase their energy to construct the device. Even if you can reproduce the design, it won't matter. The money is made in the energy you paid for. Every time.
I'm sure I saw a report recently that demonstrated that although octopuses are very quick learners, they have very bad memories, and have to re-learn today, something that they were accomplished at yesterday. That kind of ruins any hope of passing on any knowledge to their young.
Two points.* Firstly, are you saying you don't ever recall seeing a speed limit sign ? Because that really should be part of the test, you know, observation. And to compound that, you have apparently never heard of speed cameras, because you seem intent on being surprised by them. If you know these things exist, and as a half decent driver you know what the limit is because you observed the signs, then surely only an idiot would get caught. Are you defending idiots ? If you have issue with the speed limits, get them changed politically, or provide real data to back your case. Just saying they suck is lame. Or do you advocate no speed limits at all ? If not that, are you prepared to obey the new revised limits if you win your case ? Do you want to spend more in police wages taken as taxes, just because you can't follow the rules. I take it you're not going to have an easy to read limit like 50 or 80, but something like 76.375 MAX. And if a precise definition of the speed is an issue, hell we've not even started on Time yet. Secondly, it amuses me that in the land of the free and the brave, who have decided to aim their whole culture at the heady heights of "convenience", there is now an outcry because you automatically get tickets through the post. Sounds pretty convenient to me.
* all mentions of the word "you " refer to those arguing against speed cameras on the grounds that you get caught speeding.
Well if they start running stupid ads for Linux, then I'm going back to BSD. Linux is an environment not a damn fashion statement, and anybody who is attracted by adverts is not in it for the right reasons. I don't want to be part of that world, that's why I use linux in the first place - it's all about what you can do with it, not how it looks to other people. Imagine trying to explain some aspect of linux when the people you are talking to have difficulty differentiating KBps and Kbps. As soon as you mention anything vaguely technical, their eyes glaze over, and they stop listening. The whole point of the linux ecosystem is that it lets you get as technical as you want. If you don't want technical, use a different OS, as you don't have an itch to scratch.
It should be "the century before last" anyway. The last but one means the 20th century, as we are in the "last" century at the moment. If you have the numbers 1 to 100, 99 is the last but one. The phrase depends on the direction of counting.
Those tail lights were not flickering to the naked eye, it was not a police vehicle - it only showed up through the video camera. And BTW, I can see flicker too, not the extent revealed by the video, but almost imperceptibly. I know it exists. Whether it's a DC circuit or not is irrelevant, as the flickering is to do with duty cycle not frequency.
You may not see the flicker, but that doesn't mean it's not there. I haven't tried it with traffic lights, but definitely cars with LED tail lights have flicker. It is invisible to the naked eye, until you video record it. Then you see a very noticeable flicker where the light is on roughly 3 times a second. This was noticed using an NTSC camera BTW. PoV takes care of the gaps, but that doesn't mean your brain isn't affected by the flicker at all.
You appear to be talking about the power of the signal between the cell phone and a tower. The article is nothing to do with that. It is regarding the signal between the cellphones transmitter circuit, and the cellphones antenna. Technically you could achieve a similar effect using an led and LDR to send data without wires or traces. But unless it saves power in receive mode as well, it won't help much overall. Receiving always needs more power, as I have found when working with 2.4GHz radio.
The top of Scotland is further north than Denmark, parts of Sweden and Norway, but there are no major glaciers. North is not the only factor. Stuttgart is a lot further south than Manchester but they have deep snow regularly. The North Sea only gets minor warming from the gulf stream, most of the effect is on the west of the UK and Eire.
Did you think that the fiber is one long piece stretching right across the ocean ? Because it isn't. There are repeater modules every kilometre (IIRC) which boost the signal and send it on. If a few of those are more than just repeaters (ie splitters) then it becomes trivial to grab a copy of all data that runs through that fibre. If there is redundant fibre in the cable, then conceivably, every fibre carrying data has a copy which runs right to where the govt. wants it. I used to work for Nortel, making these repeaters by the thousand. They don't have to splice anything into the cable because the taps were already put in during the construction phase.
The point might be that you can use the goggles to project a running linux system. Yes it would be silly if you are sitting at a desk, but a decent wearable computer with goggles could be quite nice. Eye tracking for HID and what else do you need ? Network the thing and crowds could be linked together, etc, etc.
And then waste a lot of power reducing the voltage. Better to put the right voltage in in the first place, via 1 regulator in the supply, than waste power and require bigger regulators in every device that uses the charger.
I bought an Antec case (Tx1050b) maybe 3 years ago for a media server I built. It has 10 built in drive bays, but I've added an Icy Dock 4 drive (in 3 bays) enclosure with SATA II and hot swap goodness. After about 6 months the 500W PSU died, which I replaced with a 400W by a firm I had never heard of called Xion. That replacement is still purring along quite happily, and I still have the brand new replacement 500W Antec sent me as a spare. Both PSUs have decent cable management. The case is excellent though, whatever you think about the PSU. Guess I'll have to wait a while to find out if the replacement Antec sent is any good. It's currently still in its cellophane wrap.
It's interesting looking back at the invoices now. I paid around £70 for a seagate 250GB SATA-I drive at the same time I bought the case. 6 months later (when buying the replacement PSU - 30 quid) I bought another 250GB seagate with SATA-II for around £55. A similar drive now, 2.5 years later with double the cache, is costing £35.
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And this is different from X11 how exactly ? This is why unix like OS's use the concept of servers. It becomes transparent to the network because it is intrinsically network based in the first place. There is nothing stopping you from installing Damn Small or Puppy Linux as the machine host then virtualising everything else.
Intelligence is defined by the questions you ask, not what you already know. If you can't be bothered to even wonder privately how something works, then just asking someone else for the answers shows a lack of intelligence. People who at least try to build a model of their environment in their brains, deserve a lot more respect than those who blindly do what they're told or shut down until the environment is back in their comfort zone. Stupidity is doing the same thing again and again, and expecting a different result.
There is an advert on the tv at the moment, where they're selling no win, no fee personal injury claim lawyer services. The illustration they use is a guy who was asked to fix a light fitting but "they gave me the wrong kind of ladder". He ended up on his ass and had to spend months off work. Well I don't know about you, but I cannot equate myself in any way to an idiot who can't use a ladder properly. I mean, if it's your neck on the block, it's up to you to look after yourself. Either find a better ladder, or secure the one you have so it can't fall over. It's not rocket science.
Another example. I used to work in a metal shop making tubular furniture. One machine was used to reduce the diameter of a tube so that it would fit inside a similar diameter tube. To hold the tube while this was done, there were two hydraulic clamps that held the tube tightly. Oil used to build up on these clamps which necessitated cleaning them occasionally. One bright spark, decided to clean the clamps without turning the machine off, and then managed to use the foot switch while his fingers were in the way. Voila, 3 fingers crushed (and later amputated). DICK HEAD !
The really sad part about this is that he more than likely works in IT these days. What is he going to break next ?
What I have a hard time accepting is that I am in any way superior intelligence wise than anybody else. Consequently, when something as basic as survival is at stake, surely everybody has the ability to consider their situation. That they obviously don't is what really saddens me. How can you trust anybody who doesn't even have the brain to look after themselves. The scary part is, we are all forced to trust these people, every day. Walking down the street you are mere feet away from the deadly force that is the motor car. A large proportion of the drivers controlling this deadly force are complete and utter mouth breathers. So what if they have ABS and airbags ? That's not going to help me as a pedestrian when they mount the pavement because their damn phone rang or they got a text message. Solution - always face into the direction of the traffic so at least you'll have a chance to save yourself. Automation is NOT the answer. That would be akin to never toilet training a child. Unless they learn to do it themselves, they will always rely on someone(or something) else to do it for them. And then the familiar refrain of "it's not MY fault" is heard yet again. You can train a cat to shit in a box for christs sake, and they are one of the least trainable animals available.
Without meaning to go all religious on your asses, the question "Am I my brothers keeper ?" springs to mind. Apparently, yes. Without someone who has a clue watching over all these lesser intelligences the world would be even more fucked up that it already is. But of course, they have a right to be an idiot, and they resent anyone who tries to keep them alive and in one piece.
Then again, the Darwin Awards would be a lot duller without them.
I have come to the conclusion that the only real reason that there are idiots left in the world is because someone else likes it that way. It is to their nefarious benefit to have a large population of stupid robots who can't press a button without being trained to do so first. We control the horizontal, we control the vertical, what we say is the way it's going to be. I'm homing in on the difference between Windows and an open source OS. Windows only gives you so many options, any open source
I don't remember it like that at all. I had 512MB RAM in Win98 and was running Win95 with 384MB with a 300MHz cyrix chip. I wasn't running leading edge gear by any means. My first ground up home build was a P75 chip with 32 MB EDO RAM and a 850 MB hard drive. Win 95 came on 14 floppys. I managed to skip 486s, after my 8086, 286 and 386 Compaqs.
Most XP era machines (2001) came with 256MB RAM which I remember thinking at the time was derisory. Some freaks on Ebay still mark 256MB RAM As *Massive* ?! I bought a Sony Vaio from CompUSA in November 2001 which came with 256MB RAM, and that's roughly a month after XP was released (to shoppers).
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Are you a complete idiot ?
You know cows have to be milked at least twice a day because their udders fill up and cause pain ?
Same principle, smaller udders.
It's no wonder intelligent design gets a fair shot, when there are people like you about.
Have a look at the cost of LEDs here. Select by luminous intensity and see what you pay for a decent lumen level. Hint - the highest lumen level is 1500 and the LED costs over £500 ! Not to mention that that LED is only 7mm x 7mm.
You can contrast equivalent incandescent lumen levels here.
Shame you didn't see fit to provide your name. It would be nice in a few years to see how you've been humbled.
so in NON-bizarro-world, you have to have a separate app to create a file from a screen shot ?
That seems pretty bizarre to me.
Yeah, what really gets me is that everything is written on the screen in front of them, yet they can't find an option in a menu, or find a help file anywhere. It's immediately "no, can't do it - not my fault". I will never have any respect for people like that, in any walk of life. People like that are why everything gets dumbed down. They seem to forget that the rest of us had to learn it at some stage.
I remember when my dad showed me the word processor on his 8086, and asked me "if you wanted to change the way this looks on the screen , where would you start ?" After a second looking at the screen, I replied "the view menu". He said, "it's nice to be intelligent, isn't it."
Too many people these days expect the answers to jump right out at them, instead of asking the right questions - ie, at least being methodical, if not logical. You for instance could make a small effort and make a note of what you are told, then in 6 months time you won't need to ask again. It's called *learning*.
My friend had a small telescope, which he was getting quite interested in. One day I visited, and found him in a complete fury. Apparently, he had been cleaning it and decided to polish the mirror. He was spitting fire because "the stupid fools put the silver on the wrong side !" ...
I burst out with something like - FFS, it's SUPPOSED to be on that side, because of refraction if you go through the glass. Unfortunately, that was a bit too blunt for him to take as he had effectively fucked his favourite toy. I didn't mean to be rude, but I was mad that he could be so stupid. In retrospect it's easy to call someone stupid, but we all go there at some stage, especially if we are learning something new.
Until they hit the barrier and end up directly across your path. Have fun.
And there will be no intellectual property problems. It will come down to the fact that the only thing that producers produce is energy. If you want their design, you purchase their energy to construct the device. Even if you can reproduce the design, it won't matter. The money is made in the energy you paid for. Every time.
I'm sure I saw a report recently that demonstrated that although octopuses are very quick learners, they have very bad memories, and have to re-learn today, something that they were accomplished at yesterday. That kind of ruins any hope of passing on any knowledge to their young.
Two points.*
Firstly, are you saying you don't ever recall seeing a speed limit sign ? Because that really should be part of the test, you know, observation. And to compound that, you have apparently never heard of speed cameras, because you seem intent on being surprised by them. If you know these things exist, and as a half decent driver you know what the limit is because you observed the signs, then surely only an idiot would get caught. Are you defending idiots ?
If you have issue with the speed limits, get them changed politically, or provide real data to back your case. Just saying they suck is lame. Or do you advocate no speed limits at all ? If not that, are you prepared to obey the new revised limits if you win your case ? Do you want to spend more in police wages taken as taxes, just because you can't follow the rules. I take it you're not going to have an easy to read limit like 50 or 80, but something like 76.375 MAX. And if a precise definition of the speed is an issue, hell we've not even started on Time yet.
Secondly, it amuses me that in the land of the free and the brave, who have decided to aim their whole culture at the heady heights of "convenience", there is now an outcry because you automatically get tickets through the post. Sounds pretty convenient to me.
* all mentions of the word "you " refer to those arguing against speed cameras on the grounds that you get caught speeding.
Well if they start running stupid ads for Linux, then I'm going back to BSD. Linux is an environment not a damn fashion statement, and anybody who is attracted by adverts is not in it for the right reasons. I don't want to be part of that world, that's why I use linux in the first place - it's all about what you can do with it, not how it looks to other people. Imagine trying to explain some aspect of linux when the people you are talking to have difficulty differentiating KBps and Kbps. As soon as you mention anything vaguely technical, their eyes glaze over, and they stop listening. The whole point of the linux ecosystem is that it lets you get as technical as you want. If you don't want technical, use a different OS, as you don't have an itch to scratch.
It should be "the century before last" anyway. The last but one means the 20th century, as we are in the "last" century at the moment. If you have the numbers 1 to 100, 99 is the last but one. The phrase depends on the direction of counting.
Oh really ?
Those tail lights were not flickering to the naked eye, it was not a police vehicle - it only showed up through the video camera. And BTW, I can see flicker too, not the extent revealed by the video, but almost imperceptibly. I know it exists. Whether it's a DC circuit or not is irrelevant, as the flickering is to do with duty cycle not frequency.
You may not see the flicker, but that doesn't mean it's not there. I haven't tried it with traffic lights, but definitely cars with LED tail lights have flicker. It is invisible to the naked eye, until you video record it. Then you see a very noticeable flicker where the light is on roughly 3 times a second. This was noticed using an NTSC camera BTW. PoV takes care of the gaps, but that doesn't mean your brain isn't affected by the flicker at all.
You appear to be talking about the power of the signal between the cell phone and a tower. The article is nothing to do with that. It is regarding the signal between the cellphones transmitter circuit, and the cellphones antenna. Technically you could achieve a similar effect using an led and LDR to send data without wires or traces. But unless it saves power in receive mode as well, it won't help much overall. Receiving always needs more power, as I have found when working with 2.4GHz radio.
The top of Scotland is further north than Denmark, parts of Sweden and Norway, but there are no major glaciers. North is not the only factor. Stuttgart is a lot further south than Manchester but they have deep snow regularly. The North Sea only gets minor warming from the gulf stream, most of the effect is on the west of the UK and Eire.
Did you think that the fiber is one long piece stretching right across the ocean ? Because it isn't. There are repeater modules every kilometre (IIRC) which boost the signal and send it on. If a few of those are more than just repeaters (ie splitters) then it becomes trivial to grab a copy of all data that runs through that fibre. If there is redundant fibre in the cable, then conceivably, every fibre carrying data has a copy which runs right to where the govt. wants it.
I used to work for Nortel, making these repeaters by the thousand. They don't have to splice anything into the cable because the taps were already put in during the construction phase.
The point might be that you can use the goggles to project a running linux system. Yes it would be silly if you are sitting at a desk, but a decent wearable computer with goggles could be quite nice. Eye tracking for HID and what else do you need ?
Network the thing and crowds could be linked together, etc, etc.
And then waste a lot of power reducing the voltage. Better to put the right voltage in in the first place, via 1 regulator in the supply, than waste power and require bigger regulators in every device that uses the charger.
I bought an Antec case (Tx1050b) maybe 3 years ago for a media server I built. It has 10 built in drive bays, but I've added an Icy Dock 4 drive (in 3 bays) enclosure with SATA II and hot swap goodness. After about 6 months the 500W PSU died, which I replaced with a 400W by a firm I had never heard of called Xion. That replacement is still purring along quite happily, and I still have the brand new replacement 500W Antec sent me as a spare. Both PSUs have decent cable management. The case is excellent though, whatever you think about the PSU. Guess I'll have to wait a while to find out if the replacement Antec sent is any good. It's currently still in its cellophane wrap.
It's interesting looking back at the invoices now. I paid around £70 for a seagate 250GB SATA-I drive at the same time I bought the case. 6 months later (when buying the replacement PSU - 30 quid) I bought another 250GB seagate with SATA-II for around £55. A similar drive now, 2.5 years later with double the cache, is costing £35.
7 times - try it.