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Everyone here keeps saying "But wait, I don't want to watch TV on my computer, I want to watch it on my TV" is like saying "I don't want to listen to music I downloaded of off the Internet on my computer, so the CD still has a market for portable applications" that argument became irrelevant when they invented the MP3 player, and so will the TV one once those MythTV/Hulu/Youtube boxes become more mainstream.
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Your forgetting upstream. Yes will this might work for downstream connections, you need an upstream connection to send data out. Simple logic says if you have a big high power antenna to send from A to B then you need a equally high powered antenna to send from B to A.
Cant wait until they invent teleporters
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I can see it now, at first bandwidth will only allow them to send stuff non-living stuff. That would shut down the mail system and companies like UPS. Then I will become viable for personal transport and shut down car companies.
Does anyone have any experience with NX. From what I have looked into its basically X with a lot of the overhead taken out. Because if that would work , you might be able to have one Linux box whose only job is to run NX and rdesktop. You can then connect to that machine and use rdesktop to connect to the other machines graphically.
Ironically enough I tried to make that argument to a physics professor who was borrowing a computer cluster of mine. He was kinda a grey beard so he was envisioning a world of VAXen vs Commodores.
One thing that always annoys be about some of the non technical people at work(I work for a product testing lab) is that they have this strange urge to save stuff to there desktops and My Documents folders on there local machines. Because were a smaller org we have a hodge podge of computers that are not all setup in a uniform fashion so its difficult to make sure everyone is on the Domain and doing it The Right Way . So I see some combination of thin clients and virtualization as the solution to this. I still hate how Windows apps save 75% of user specific data in 25 random places that may or may not link to there User folder, making roaming a pain. I can not think of one major Linux app that doesn't save user setting to the home directory of the user.
Live free or Die...and pay what the price tag says, not a cent more...That's the New Hampshire Way.
we also don't have a state income tax...which makes for an interesting situation when out of staters (read Massholes) want to move right across the border to be closer to the cheap liquor and demand crazy things like police protection from deer, and seat belt laws. Then get mad when there property taxes shoot go through the roof.
I know at least at the schools I have been to the easiest(and cheapest) way to become Title IX complaint is to simply cut teams. Because you see in Title IX math 0/0 does in fact exist and it equals pass.
I have a better idea, instead of setting quotas on the number of a certain gender we let in. Why don't we set quotas on the number of smart people we let in.
Like most things that change configuration setting, you don't need to restart the whole system. They just tell you that because its easier then explaining what needs to be restarted. For example here at my University when they show you how to set up your computer to access the full university network they tell you to restart it after registering it on a web site, when in reality all you have to is run ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew (ifdown and ifup in linux). They could explain that to you, or they could just tell you to restart your computer.
They other problem is with bad firmware. With most of the small routers and switches I use for work or personal use I usually check every few months for firmware updates. That something alot of people don't think about, but its does help a lot with bugs in addition to providing new functionality.
Also the Windows problem is a little more wide spread, trust me they aren't using WRTs as enterprise routers, or Dlinks as enterprise switches. Were, as the article you were referring to states Windows is everywhere. It would get really interesting if they started putting Windows on you home router (yea Internet connection sharing) like they have Linux on now, then started moving up the chain to enterprise routing systems(Minesweeper on a Cisco CRS1 anyone)
<rant> One last thing. We really need to come up with another name for these $40 home "routers". I am sick of having to train new employees and have them call anything from a $5000 enterprise grade switch to a <$10 repeater "routers" </rant>
I always consider gamers to be the equivalent of a rich guy buying a fast boat just to show off. Or people who buy off road SUVs to goto the mall. They kind of people who when they buy something will brag about the specs and such and not know what there talking about. At a very early age I set aside video games and decided to learn how to use a computer. I have never been interested in many of the video games on the market due to the odd learning curve. Its hard to pick up games when there isn't much literature on how to play them, just cheat sheats . There is no use asking other gamers because they tend to be self centered and socially awkward, or they just don't know them selves . Were as Linux people tend to be very knowledgeable and there is a lot of literature out there about cool things you can do with Linux.
I will warn you thou I do have a slight bias. I once gave a lobbied the CS department here at my school not to target to gamers because I was sick of the them dropping out because they were annoyed that we didn't learn graphics in intro courses. Computer science is a science not a entertainment industry.
One of the primary components of the Acid test are to see if a browser will properly handle out of spec code.In this case "proper handling" means ignore it. IE is counter intuitive in this sense because it has facilities to "guess" what should happen.
<rant>
Today I was borrowing someones computer and i went on a few websites with IE. When they came back they were disappointed because all of the sites i went to messed up there "recently visited" listing in IE. They were frustrated that that there would have to manually type the URLs of the pages to go to. Then I introduced them to the wonderful world of Favorites/Bookmarks, something I learned about back in 97. Now when I was in High School i tested out of all the intro to computer courses in order to take programming, so can anyone tell me what they teach in these classes. I mean seriously. Sometimes it surprises me how little people know about computers. Maybe its because I grew up in a city whose major employers included HP, Oracle, and BAE Systems( who bought Sanders, the inventors of the Magnavox Odyssey) . So maybe I just used to most people having a general understanding. It seems when I went to college the average computer skill per person I associate with dropped.
So it is in standards mode by default? You mean how Windows Firewall and UAC are enabled by default and 99% of software guides tell you to disable("opt in") them because they were poorly designed.
While older forms of Ethernet net used Manchester, MLT and PAM5 encoding. new 10TbaseT does away with any sort of encoding or electrical signals. 1TbBase t creates a 4 black holes on each side of the wire. Only 2 pair of holes are used while the other 4 can be used to carry physical objects.
10BaseT works with a different field of quantum craziness. Each tranciever contains a array of photons that were split from other photons which are on other cards. any action on a set of these photons will effect other photons on other cards. Half duplex operation is allow only.
10BaseT also require a new MAC layer which implements MAEM(MAC address encoding messaging). A MAC address is a 16*x10e28 array of photons. when a transceiver sets it photons to 1 or 0. A array of photons will be set to 1 or 0 on all machines, everywhere.
What ever happen to knowing how to use a product before buying it? How do exspect Joe Sixpack to research a product when most of the data on that product has to do with amount of ram and size of HD. Espcecially since Vista wasn't even out yet there was no way for him to find out what exactly vista needed, or for him to consult his cousin Larry Poweruser, about it, because larry hasn't even used it either. The only way was to blindly follow the company. Its the equivilant of selling a TV in 1980s that claims to be year 2012 compliant(analog switch off), when the technology isn't even available.
void rant(){
When most people buy pre bundled computers (laptops the exception for power users) they now very little about what there actually buying. The computers available to the average consumer are very powerful in there raw form, they are just loaded with blotted software. I guess the analogy i draw is the to buying a European sports car with a super-duper charged V16 engine and putting governor on it so you can go to the grocery store and take the kids to soccer. Can you amagine what most consumer grade PC are capable of doing with just a basic no frills install of Linux . We could cure cancer }
I think I remeber having an old Mac II when I was a kid. I took it apart a few times and put it back together(and i worked), that how I learned about computers. The computer rules in my house were as followed:
Dont touch dad/moms computer
Dont touch sisters computer
If dad brings a computer home from work that you can play with, dont hurt yourself.
Of course that was years ago when the only time i went online (AOL) was to download shareware games for my computer. It seems weird today that kids are given more or less the same computers there parents have. I think I got my first x86 system when I was 12. anyways, I think that whovever AC needs to let there parent be parents. I wonder what the girls teacher said when he explained why the sister needed to memorize complex passwords.
One thing I have noticed about some MS fanboys i know is they seem to wait for MS to develop/release something and when there do the say now they can finally do XYZ. Linux people don't wait, they develop. I always love it when the brag about all the cool feature the new versions of Windows have.
cases in point:
Remote Desktop connection 2000
X windows 1980 something
Windows PowerShell 2007?
Unix shells 1970
TCP/IP support
Windows 1995
UNIX 1970's, maybe the 80's im not sure
Multiuser
Windows never, you cant have 20 users logged into the same Windows box from 6 locations.
Unix nearly forever, if you belive the U in UNIX stands for Uniplexed (see MULTICS)
keep in mind most of the "cool" stuff i mention is avalible in Windows, its just only available in the server editions which cost tons more then the standard editions. I shouldn't have to shell out more $$$ just to do multi seat, because in Linux its a 5 line edit to your xorg.conf file and your done.
FTP sucks. I would rather tunnel X11 over SSH using a DSL internet connection to get to the IDE then have to touch a ftp client. Of course i could just vpn into my companies network and mount the directory(NFS or SMB whichever pleases you) were stuff is stored and use my IDE at home. Or use SVN. Or just... wait were talking about Windows... I guess ftp is your best/only option then, never mind.
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Hey its not like it hasn't been done before, I propose we call the new version Post-Modern Physics.
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Everyone here keeps saying "But wait, I don't want to watch TV on my computer, I want to watch it on my TV" is like saying "I don't want to listen to music I downloaded of off the Internet on my computer, so the CD still has a market for portable applications" that argument became irrelevant when they invented the MP3 player, and so will the TV one once those MythTV/Hulu/Youtube boxes become more mainstream.
Your forgetting upstream. Yes will this might work for downstream connections, you need an upstream connection to send data out. Simple logic says if you have a big high power antenna to send from A to B then you need a equally high powered antenna to send from B to A.
I can see it now, at first bandwidth will only allow them to send stuff non-living stuff. That would shut down the mail system and companies like UPS. Then I will become viable for personal transport and shut down car companies.
The Internet...Making shit obsolete since 1969.
I wonder if it would be OK with NX. I also don't think it would be bad with WiFi.
Can you do X forwarding? Aka have your display on one machine and your client on another, or vice versa.
Although, we could get a money pool going to run Linux ads in the malls with stores, then take pictures for Internet posting reasons
We do this:
http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/
It will be a lot more challenging since its a smaller store, but that's were the fun come from.
Does anyone have any experience with NX. From what I have looked into its basically X with a lot of the overhead taken out. Because if that would work , you might be able to have one Linux box whose only job is to run NX and rdesktop. You can then connect to that machine and use rdesktop to connect to the other machines graphically.
Most of the newer scopes, the ones you are looking to get,we have at my work all run Windows. So you can play Minesweeper on them.
Ironically enough I tried to make that argument to a physics professor who was borrowing a computer cluster of mine. He was kinda a grey beard so he was envisioning a world of VAXen vs Commodores.
One thing that always annoys be about some of the non technical people at work(I work for a product testing lab) is that they have this strange urge to save stuff to there desktops and My Documents folders on there local machines. Because were a smaller org we have a hodge podge of computers that are not all setup in a uniform fashion so its difficult to make sure everyone is on the Domain and doing it The Right Way . So I see some combination of thin clients and virtualization as the solution to this. I still hate how Windows apps save 75% of user specific data in 25 random places that may or may not link to there User folder, making roaming a pain. I can not think of one major Linux app that doesn't save user setting to the home directory of the user.
Live free or Die...and pay what the price tag says, not a cent more...That's the New Hampshire Way.
we also don't have a state income tax...which makes for an interesting situation when out of staters (read Massholes) want to move right across the border to be closer to the cheap liquor and demand crazy things like police protection from deer, and seat belt laws. Then get mad when there property taxes shoot go through the roof.
In other news, electricity outages found to effect more then just the lights
I know at least at the schools I have been to the easiest(and cheapest) way to become Title IX complaint is to simply cut teams. Because you see in Title IX math 0/0 does in fact exist and it equals pass.
I have a better idea, instead of setting quotas on the number of a certain gender we let in. Why don't we set quotas on the number of smart people we let in.
Like most things that change configuration setting, you don't need to restart the whole system. They just tell you that because its easier then explaining what needs to be restarted. For example here at my University when they show you how to set up your computer to access the full university network they tell you to restart it after registering it on a web site, when in reality all you have to is run ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew (ifdown and ifup in linux). They could explain that to you, or they could just tell you to restart your computer.
They other problem is with bad firmware. With most of the small routers and switches I use for work or personal use I usually check every few months for firmware updates. That something alot of people don't think about, but its does help a lot with bugs in addition to providing new functionality.
Also the Windows problem is a little more wide spread, trust me they aren't using WRTs as enterprise routers, or Dlinks as enterprise switches. Were, as the article you were referring to states Windows is everywhere. It would get really interesting if they started putting Windows on you home router (yea Internet connection sharing) like they have Linux on now, then started moving up the chain to enterprise routing systems(Minesweeper on a Cisco CRS1 anyone)
<rant>
One last thing. We really need to come up with another name for these $40 home "routers". I am sick of having to train new employees and have them call anything from a $5000 enterprise grade switch to a <$10 repeater "routers" </rant>
I always consider gamers to be the equivalent of a rich guy buying a fast boat just to show off. Or people who buy off road SUVs to goto the mall. They kind of people who when they buy something will brag about the specs and such and not know what there talking about. At a very early age I set aside video games and decided to learn how to use a computer. I have never been interested in many of the video games on the market due to the odd learning curve. Its hard to pick up games when there isn't much literature on how to play them, just cheat sheats . There is no use asking other gamers because they tend to be self centered and socially awkward, or they just don't know them selves . Were as Linux people tend to be very knowledgeable and there is a lot of literature out there about cool things you can do with Linux.
I will warn you thou I do have a slight bias. I once gave a lobbied the CS department here at my school not to target to gamers because I was sick of the them dropping out because they were annoyed that we didn't learn graphics in intro courses. Computer science is a science not a entertainment industry.
One of the primary components of the Acid test are to see if a browser will properly handle out of spec code.In this case "proper handling" means ignore it. IE is counter intuitive in this sense because it has facilities to "guess" what should happen.
Today I was borrowing someones computer and i went on a few websites with IE. When they came back they were disappointed because all of the sites i went to messed up there "recently visited" listing in IE. They were frustrated that that there would have to manually type the URLs of the pages to go to. Then I introduced them to the wonderful world of Favorites/Bookmarks, something I learned about back in 97. Now when I was in High School i tested out of all the intro to computer courses in order to take programming, so can anyone tell me what they teach in these classes. I mean seriously. Sometimes it surprises me how little people know about computers. Maybe its because I grew up in a city whose major employers included HP, Oracle, and BAE Systems( who bought Sanders, the inventors of the Magnavox Odyssey) . So maybe I just used to most people having a general understanding. It seems when I went to college the average computer skill per person I associate with dropped.So it is in standards mode by default? You mean how Windows Firewall and UAC are enabled by default and 99% of software guides tell you to disable("opt in") them because they were poorly designed.
While older forms of Ethernet net used Manchester, MLT and PAM5 encoding. new 10TbaseT does away with any sort of encoding or electrical signals. 1TbBase t creates a 4 black holes on each side of the wire. Only 2 pair of holes are used while the other 4 can be used to carry physical objects. 10BaseT works with a different field of quantum craziness. Each tranciever contains a array of photons that were split from other photons which are on other cards. any action on a set of these photons will effect other photons on other cards. Half duplex operation is allow only. 10BaseT also require a new MAC layer which implements MAEM(MAC address encoding messaging). A MAC address is a 16*x10e28 array of photons. when a transceiver sets it photons to 1 or 0. A array of photons will be set to 1 or 0 on all machines, everywhere.
What ever happen to knowing how to use a product before buying it? How do exspect Joe Sixpack to research a product when most of the data on that product has to do with amount of ram and size of HD. Espcecially since Vista wasn't even out yet there was no way for him to find out what exactly vista needed, or for him to consult his cousin Larry Poweruser, about it, because larry hasn't even used it either. The only way was to blindly follow the company. Its the equivilant of selling a TV in 1980s that claims to be year 2012 compliant(analog switch off), when the technology isn't even available.
void rant(){
When most people buy pre bundled computers (laptops the exception for power users) they now very little about what there actually buying. The computers available to the average consumer are very powerful in there raw form, they are just loaded with blotted software. I guess the analogy i draw is the to buying a European sports car with a super-duper charged V16 engine and putting governor on it so you can go to the grocery store and take the kids to soccer. Can you amagine what most consumer grade PC are capable of doing with just a basic no frills install of Linux . We could cure cancer
}
I think I remeber having an old Mac II when I was a kid. I took it apart a few times and put it back together(and i worked), that how I learned about computers. The computer rules in my house were as followed: Dont touch dad/moms computer Dont touch sisters computer If dad brings a computer home from work that you can play with, dont hurt yourself. Of course that was years ago when the only time i went online (AOL) was to download shareware games for my computer. It seems weird today that kids are given more or less the same computers there parents have. I think I got my first x86 system when I was 12. anyways, I think that whovever AC needs to let there parent be parents. I wonder what the girls teacher said when he explained why the sister needed to memorize complex passwords.
One thing I have noticed about some MS fanboys i know is they seem to wait for MS to develop/release something and when there do the say now they can finally do XYZ. Linux people don't wait, they develop. I always love it when the brag about all the cool feature the new versions of Windows have.
cases in point: Remote Desktop connection 2000
X windows 1980 something
Windows PowerShell 2007?
Unix shells 1970
TCP/IP support
Windows 1995
UNIX 1970's, maybe the 80's im not sure
Multiuser
Windows never, you cant have 20 users logged into the same Windows box from 6 locations.
Unix nearly forever, if you belive the U in UNIX stands for Uniplexed (see MULTICS)
keep in mind most of the "cool" stuff i mention is avalible in Windows, its just only available in the server editions which cost tons more then the standard editions. I shouldn't have to shell out more $$$ just to do multi seat, because in Linux its a 5 line edit to your xorg.conf file and your done.
FTP sucks. I would rather tunnel X11 over SSH using a DSL internet connection to get to the IDE then have to touch a ftp client. Of course i could just vpn into my companies network and mount the directory(NFS or SMB whichever pleases you) were stuff is stored and use my IDE at home. Or use SVN. Or just ... wait were talking about Windows... I guess ftp is your best/only option then, never mind.