'cause it only mirrors the first page. If that's a text story, it hardly ever needs mirroring. If that's a photo gallery, only thumbnails are mirrored, the real photos remain slashdotted even faster than normally.
AMD is providing hardware platform and providing a method to hide Microsoft...
What is being sold? Is it a small, minimalistic platform by AMD, running third party (Microsoft's) OS? Or is it crippled WinCE bundled with a third party (AMD) platform it can run on?
Yep. Putting things simply, it's a crippled Microsoft demo almost-giveaway product.
They use it to show Windows and MS products. People CAN'T use it for anything else. This way if they want more, they need to pay real money and next time they buy something "bigger" they certainly won't get any fancy "linux" or "Mac", because they know Windows already.
1) By using MSIE you support the evil of the Microsoft empire and make it more widespread. 2) By clicking on annoying ads you support them and make them more widespread.
Those who switched to Firefox know the first - and are quite more likely to know the second as well, than those who didn't.
Uhh, wouldn't taking the pictures with a digital camera instead of making slides in the first place just cut it?
The only reason for using analog camera+slides+slide scanner is its far superior quality over any digital camera available on the market today.
Single-use chemistry of the slide provides much higher resolution, much better color matching at similar or better speed, as any digital medium. The problem is there ARE digital sensors that CAN provide better quality than chemical film. But they are slow. You can't catch a moment, make a still photo of a moving object using such a sensor, before it has the image, the object will be long gone. But you can make a chemical photo and then use the sensor to transfer data from the photo... taking enough time to retain the quality - in a scaner.
where I can download an application, and just double-click it to run it.
That is: Open web browser. Click "google search" Type [yourappname] Click first link. Click "download" Click "Download Now". Choose target folder. Wait for download to finish. Open target folder. Doubleclick installer. Click through the installer. Wait for installation to finish. Doubleclick the application.
How is it faster from
Click "terminal icon" (optional, usually I keep one open already) Type sudo apt-get install appname Type password. (optional, depends on sudo setup) Wait for download and install to finish type appname.
If you do heavy number crunching, this isn't much. If you do 3D rendering, that's about "reasonable". If you play games, you use Windows anyway.
In most other cases, this setup is overkill. Certainly overkill for scanning images and editing photos.
You can find a Mac that costs as much and does the task of editing photos way better than your Linux box - with less "horsepower" but with better dedicated software.
It's like saying "No way I'm getting a truck to move the furniture, trucks just can't go as fast as my Ferrari" and keep lugging your desk on top of your Testarossa. Using right tools for right tasks, dual P4 running Linux may go faster and be cheaper, but it wasn't made for some tasks.
No, these aren't "essentials". You can easily live without them. Sure they are nice, but they aren't something you really miss when you're "cut off".
What you miss is information. Plain and simple, google for answer for a question at hand. Be it Bloody Mary recipe, method of calculating 15^17, tomorrow train departure, retail price of a phone your friend offers you as "real bargain", people's opinions about a bank you're going to choose, any of hundreds or thousands daily questions, that required significant effort before Internet. It's like an extra limb or extra sense, something you do instinctively, "But what a problem, this is obvious?" you say surprised to a person who's not net-savvy, who thinks some question will be hard to answer. And without access to the net you feel very helpless, just like missing a limb or a sense, when you need a chip datasheet, address of a public service office, map of some other town, when your ISP cut you off or something like that - you're used to that data just being there, and when you can't access it it feels just as bad as if you forgot something very important...
Here (a small town in Poland), we have two sets of such "smart" traffic lights already. And ironically, they were installed because there was not enough money in the town budget to afford synchronizing the old traffic lights (so that you get green light at about the time you get from one to the other), which actually required pulling maybe 600m of cable.
Interesting, how people "reinvent" things that are in use for a long time in other parts of the world, and interesting how nobody notices...
..."rejected a call for Internet filtering to 'protect' Australians from child pornography"... "teach parents about the perils of the Internet."
So... some or all australians are endangered by the possiblity they could view child pornography... right? And they need to be protected... right? So government decides to pass over the responsiblity to parents and educate them how to do it... right? So parents are to protect whom from the child pornography...? Children it seems?
Why do they assume it's children who would be most interested in seeking child pornography? Maybe the government thinks "child pornography" would be something like "teen movies", Winnie the Pooh screwing Piglet or Snow White doing it with all 7 dwarves at once?
Right now I'm about to use Gentoo in "production" environment.
Reason: I need to squeeze every cycle off the CPU. It works on a dedicated LAN separated from the outside world and from security risks, so security updates are least of my concern. As well as software upgrades - it is supposed to run the same, custom setup of several simple programs for years. Sure I lose -a bit- on reliablity, though software I'm going to use doesn't belong to "risky bleeding edge". But the ability to exclude all compile-time options I don't need, to compile it for the particular top-notch CPU to be used in the server, with all its features, to match the system with the hardware 1:1, without any flexiblity but with totally maximum efficiency.
Thirty million spams sent times 10s on average (connect, download, see, delete, admin's work, network overhead etc) wasted by each one, makes about 9 years of lifetime wasted, the damage spread over a large part of the population.
That seems like an equal payback for the harm done.
Put a single pin into someone's ass, you hardly hurt them. Stuff them with 1000 pins and you're a cruel murderer. Now what is the difference between putting that 1000 pins in one person or spreading it equally over a group of 1000 people?
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Not really. This laser "sweeps" too, true it points at your eye all the time, but the beam hits only a small fraction of your retina a time, different groups of receptors get "heated" and despite the ray returning to the same point over and over while displaying sequence of frames of a still image, the delay between "frames" should be quie enough for receptors to "cool down". Also note laser is mostly about coherent, very narrow beam of light, not about power - you can make the beam as weak as you want, to and beyond point when it's absolutely safe for it to shine right at your retina without causing any damage. Except, if you move it fast enough then, it won't be visible at all...
1) power 2) speed. A CD-ROM laser could hardly hurt your eye. And if I take a laser pointer and quickly "sweep" it over your eyes, you won't feel a thing too. That's how "disco lasers" that are projected into crowd work - the beam power would be enough to damage retina of someone whose eye would accidentially enter it, but it sweeps displaying "shapes" so quickly that even if it hits someone's retina, it won't be harmful - the flash lasts too short to cause any damage. (think photo camera flash, your eyes survive it easily, but if you were exposed to light of such brightness for a second or two, you'd go blind permanently.
Everyone knows Rubik's Cube is a smart toy that helps kids train thinking and generally extends intelligence. Now, if kids start using it, they grow smart and intelligent. And intelligent people start to question questionable orders from the government, protest against warfare, lobby towards upbringing that makes smart kids, may listen to reason instead of blindly following propaganda...
This toy is definitely danger to homeland security. (but such reasons can't be stated clearly so the dept had to think of some other bogus reasons like the patent or such...)
Slashdot Mirror
'cause it only mirrors the first page. If that's a text story, it hardly ever needs mirroring. If that's a photo gallery, only thumbnails are mirrored, the real photos remain slashdotted even faster than normally.
AMD is providing hardware platform and providing a method to hide Microsoft...
What is being sold?
Is it a small, minimalistic platform by AMD, running third party (Microsoft's) OS?
Or is it crippled WinCE bundled with a third party (AMD) platform it can run on?
Yep. Putting things simply, it's a crippled Microsoft demo almost-giveaway product.
They use it to show Windows and MS products. People CAN'T use it for anything else. This way if they want more, they need to pay real money and next time they buy something "bigger" they certainly won't get any fancy "linux" or "Mac", because they know Windows already.
Remember, the first one is free.
Two more options:
- Fill in a ready resume template.
- Buy your resume from a professional resume writer. (yes, there are such services)
Ur, the ancient city near Babilon...
1) By using MSIE you support the evil of the Microsoft empire and make it more widespread.
2) By clicking on annoying ads you support them and make them more widespread.
Those who switched to Firefox know the first - and are quite more likely to know the second as well, than those who didn't.
Uhh, wouldn't taking the pictures with a digital camera instead of making slides in the first place just cut it?
The only reason for using analog camera+slides+slide scanner is its far superior quality over any digital camera available on the market today.
Single-use chemistry of the slide provides much higher resolution, much better color matching at similar or better speed, as any digital medium. The problem is there ARE digital sensors that CAN provide better quality than chemical film. But they are slow. You can't catch a moment, make a still photo of a moving object using such a sensor, before it has the image, the object will be long gone. But you can make a chemical photo and then use the sensor to transfer data from the photo... taking enough time to retain the quality - in a scaner.
where I can download an application, and just double-click it to run it.
That is:
Open web browser.
Click "google search"
Type [yourappname]
Click first link.
Click "download"
Click "Download Now".
Choose target folder.
Wait for download to finish.
Open target folder.
Doubleclick installer.
Click through the installer.
Wait for installation to finish.
Doubleclick the application.
How is it faster from
Click "terminal icon" (optional, usually I keep one open already)
Type sudo apt-get install appname
Type password. (optional, depends on sudo setup)
Wait for download and install to finish
type appname.
If you do heavy number crunching, this isn't much.
If you do 3D rendering, that's about "reasonable".
If you play games, you use Windows anyway.
In most other cases, this setup is overkill. Certainly overkill for scanning images and editing photos.
You can find a Mac that costs as much and does the task of editing photos way better than your Linux box - with less "horsepower" but with better dedicated software.
It's like saying "No way I'm getting a truck to move the furniture, trucks just can't go as fast as my Ferrari" and keep lugging your desk on top of your Testarossa. Using right tools for right tasks, dual P4 running Linux may go faster and be cheaper, but it wasn't made for some tasks.
Heh, and I'm planning to run the christmas postcards through the printer so my relatives and friends wouldn't have to suffer my UGLY handwriting :)
No, these aren't "essentials". You can easily live without them. Sure they are nice, but they aren't something you really miss when you're "cut off".
What you miss is information. Plain and simple, google for answer for a question at hand. Be it Bloody Mary recipe, method of calculating 15^17, tomorrow train departure, retail price of a phone your friend offers you as "real bargain", people's opinions about a bank you're going to choose, any of hundreds or thousands daily questions, that required significant effort before Internet. It's like an extra limb or extra sense, something you do instinctively, "But what a problem, this is obvious?" you say surprised to a person who's not net-savvy, who thinks some question will be hard to answer. And without access to the net you feel very helpless, just like missing a limb or a sense, when you need a chip datasheet, address of a public service office, map of some other town, when your ISP cut you off or something like that - you're used to that data just being there, and when you can't access it it feels just as bad as if you forgot something very important...
Here (a small town in Poland), we have two sets of such "smart" traffic lights already.
And ironically, they were installed because there was not enough money in the town budget to afford synchronizing the old traffic lights (so that you get green light at about the time you get from one to the other), which actually required pulling maybe 600m of cable.
Interesting, how people "reinvent" things that are in use for a long time in other parts of the world, and interesting how nobody notices...
..."rejected a call for Internet filtering to 'protect' Australians from child pornography"... "teach parents about the perils of the Internet."
So... some or all australians are endangered by the possiblity they could view child pornography... right? And they need to be protected... right?
So government decides to pass over the responsiblity to parents and educate them how to do it... right? So parents are to protect whom from the child pornography...? Children it seems?
Why do they assume it's children who would be most interested in seeking child pornography? Maybe the government thinks "child pornography" would be something like "teen movies", Winnie the Pooh screwing Piglet or Snow White doing it with all 7 dwarves at once?
Some misunderstanding?
...except it will produce about $30k a month.
Right now I'm about to use Gentoo in "production" environment.
Reason: I need to squeeze every cycle off the CPU. It works on a dedicated LAN separated from the outside world and from security risks, so security updates are least of my concern. As well as software upgrades - it is supposed to run the same, custom setup of several simple programs for years. Sure I lose -a bit- on reliablity, though software I'm going to use doesn't belong to "risky bleeding edge". But the ability to exclude all compile-time options I don't need, to compile it for the particular top-notch CPU to be used in the server, with all its features, to match the system with the hardware 1:1, without any flexiblity but with totally maximum efficiency.
Thirty million spams sent times 10s on average (connect, download, see, delete, admin's work, network overhead etc) wasted by each one, makes about 9 years of lifetime wasted, the damage spread over a large part of the population.
That seems like an equal payback for the harm done.
Put a single pin into someone's ass, you hardly hurt them. Stuff them with 1000 pins and you're a cruel murderer. Now what is the difference between putting that 1000 pins in one person or spreading it equally over a group of 1000 people?
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While Arenstorf's approach looks promising, an error in one particular step of the proof (...) has recently been pointed out by (...) Tenenbaum
Damn him, he claims Linux design is wrong too!
err, does he?
...to allow DRM encryption of movies to become standard :)
Not really. This laser "sweeps" too, true it points at your eye all the time, but the beam hits only a small fraction of your retina a time, different groups of receptors get "heated" and despite the ray returning to the same point over and over while displaying sequence of frames of a still image, the delay between "frames" should be quie enough for receptors to "cool down". Also note laser is mostly about coherent, very narrow beam of light, not about power - you can make the beam as weak as you want, to and beyond point when it's absolutely safe for it to shine right at your retina without causing any damage. Except, if you move it fast enough then, it won't be visible at all...
Could someone explain?
1) power 2) speed. A CD-ROM laser could hardly hurt your eye. And if I take a laser pointer and quickly "sweep" it over your eyes, you won't feel a thing too. That's how "disco lasers" that are projected into crowd work - the beam power would be enough to damage retina of someone whose eye would accidentially enter it, but it sweeps displaying "shapes" so quickly that even if it hits someone's retina, it won't be harmful - the flash lasts too short to cause any damage.
(think photo camera flash, your eyes survive it easily, but if you were exposed to light of such brightness for a second or two, you'd go blind permanently.
The patent has expired over 1000 years ago so they still can't come up with an excuse good enough.
Everyone knows Rubik's Cube is a smart toy that helps kids train thinking and generally extends intelligence.
Now, if kids start using it, they grow smart and intelligent. And intelligent people start to question questionable orders from the government, protest against warfare, lobby towards upbringing that makes smart kids, may listen to reason instead of blindly following propaganda...
This toy is definitely danger to homeland security.
(but such reasons can't be stated clearly so the dept had to think of some other bogus reasons like the patent or such...)