The problem for getting OSx86 to run on commodity hardware right now is that an essential part of the display server has not be ported, and thus runs through rosetta. However, the kernel boots fine, and people have been able to get OSx86 to work on commodity hardware in console mode.
These same articles have been spewing out for pretty much all of the time that linux has been a major os. Each one adds little to the rest (and this one is no exception); they focus on several things: the difficulty of installing applications, the difficulty of migrating from windows, and the need to resort to the command lines.
For the first, in any modern distro installing applications is much easier than it is in windows. In windows, if I want to install an application, I have to find the download, download it, double click the icon, then click "next" a whole bunch of times. Then I likely will be asked to reboot. On linux it's either apt-get install xxx or yum install xxx. And if you're not comfortable with the commandline, there're several guis available (the best IMO is synaptic.) Which one is more daunting?
For the second, these people generally complain that the KDE or Gnome desktop is not exactly like windows. This is true. However, I would say that this is a good thing; certaintly the windows desktop shell is not perfect, or anywhere near perfection, and steps to make it better are not a bad thing. I have seen poor computer users pick up KDE in a few hours.
For the third, this is also false. Nearly every task which an ordinary user would be doing has a gui; even more outlandish things such as setting up a web server or ftp daemon have guis. For doing the stuff that most computer users do it is never needed to go to the command line.
While it's true that some things are difficult to do on linux for an ordinary computer user, things like setting up a mail server, web server, etc., how many people actually do that on windows? It's not something that the normal desktop user will do.
Linux on the desktop is ready. We have a free version of every major application group (office, graphics, music, etc.), the interfaces are easier than ever to use (look at the KDE command center). We just have to get people using it.
What? No mention of the huge dabacle that is Battlefield 2?
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Sure many people do succeed in our society. But that number pales in comparison to those who are bogged down by debt, are unemployable, can't keep a steady jog, etc. Just because some people manage to succeed in spite of the system doesn't mean it's a good system.
The biggest problem with our schools is that it forces everybody through the same track. While it may not be PC to suggest that some kids are just smarted than others, and capable of much more, this is indeed the case. Forcing both the intelligent kids and the less so to take the exact same path throughout all of k-12 (a path which is optimal for neither of them) is detrimental to nearly everybody. For instance, in a middle school English class (a time during which I was many grades above my own in reading level) I was put in a class of which about half were Latino, and spoke little English (I live in California.) The result was that I, and the other five or so good readers in the class had to slog through a year of junk way below our level, and most of the Latinos failed anyways.
In many other countries (look as the Swiss education system) kids who are not intellectual are allowed to at a certain age, instead of continuing with their studies, become apprentices, and thus learn a trade. Instead, in America everybody is forced to go to college, even those who would be much better suited to a trade; many of which will pay as much as jobs learned a university. Another effect of this is that our universities have turned into vocational schools; it is felt that the classes must point directly to a job, instead of solely for the sake of learning.
The solution, therefore, is to reduce the pressure of going to college, to assign classes based on ability as opposed to age, and allow kids to attend more vocationally-oriented schools in high-school.
Here in Santa Cruz (central coast) we didn't feel anything (heck, I didn't know there had been an earthquake until reading the story), so the epicenter was far enough from the coast to do any real damage. Despite this, an earthquake that's a 7 on the richter scale is scary--most of Santa Cruz was destroyed in the loma prieta 15 years ago, and that was a 7.1.
While HD TVs may not now have a wide distrabution, they are very obviously the future. What Nintendo is setting themselves up for is a console that is obsolete in a couple of years when everybody starts to get HD. However brilliant their graphics are, they still can't look that good at 720x480.
Because analog television is extremely wasteful of the EM spectrum. With digital, the fcc can start getting back some of the spectrum that they have leased, and it can be used for something more productive.
As if anybody shrewd enough to be stealing corporate secrets (and presumably selling them to the highest bidden?) isn't smart enough to encrypt it, or, god forbid, send it through another mail server.
Definitely. I've only had one computer over the past five years. But this computer has had its CPU, mainboard, vid card, memory, case, etc. replaced over those five years.
"Mozilla Foundation to ban Firefox derivative browsers?" is the headline for the second article. First of all, Mozilla Foundation can't, because of the license of their code (and if they were to relicense it, they likely would face an XFree86-like split). Secondly, they're not: this is just one developer (albeit a prominent one) making a comment on his blog about the security of Netscape's. I fail to see the big deal here.
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
No, Microsoft did not profit. Remember, they're selling the xbox at a loss, expecting to make to money back on the games. It's entireley in their interest to make it difficult to pirate games for their system.
I know this may sound redundant but wouldn't it be much easier to just GOOGLE the lyrics of the song and wait for results?
That's great if your songs have lyrics. But what about instrumental pieces? I listen to a lot of celtic, swedish, old-timey, etc. fiddle tunes which do not have those handy indentifiers.
You've obviously never played any of the Jedi Knight games. They take place after the end of 6, and they focus on the rebuilding of the galaxy after the war. Also, just because the emperor and Vader are dead doen't mean that all of the Sith are. That, and the Empire's huge infrastructure is still around. Another leader could rise and rejuvenate the movement.
Sorry--that was a little too nerdy. But If they want to, they'll find a plot.
The PS3 does not use PPC. It uses the cell architecture, and while IBM was part of the STI that created the Cell (which also includes Sony and Toshiba, as the 'S' and the 'T'), which in no way is the power pc archetecture.
I have an HP ze5790US laptop, which came preinstalled with XPhome, but which I now dual boot with Ubuntu (and hardly ever boot into XP.) However, something which (despite spending several days recompiling the kernel with the right drivers) I have not been able to get the wireless card to work. Nor does putting the laptop to sleep (it will go to sleep, but not come out of it.) So if they are able to get these things to work with their laptops hopefully they will gpl their software, and make it available to others with their laptops.
Two years ago he was still struggling with speech.
You must understand that that is not what Asberger's is like. In fact, asperger's kids tend to very adept with language, as well as math and science. Their main deficiency is in the social realm, and they tend to have difficulty understanding the subtext of body language and the like. They also tend to have very good memories, and tend to memorize redicolous amounts of facts about subjects of interest.
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The problem for getting OSx86 to run on commodity hardware right now is that an essential part of the display server has not be ported, and thus runs through rosetta. However, the kernel boots fine, and people have been able to get OSx86 to work on commodity hardware in console mode.
These same articles have been spewing out for pretty much all of the time that linux has been a major os. Each one adds little to the rest (and this one is no exception); they focus on several things: the difficulty of installing applications, the difficulty of migrating from windows, and the need to resort to the command lines. For the first, in any modern distro installing applications is much easier than it is in windows. In windows, if I want to install an application, I have to find the download, download it, double click the icon, then click "next" a whole bunch of times. Then I likely will be asked to reboot. On linux it's either apt-get install xxx or yum install xxx. And if you're not comfortable with the commandline, there're several guis available (the best IMO is synaptic.) Which one is more daunting? For the second, these people generally complain that the KDE or Gnome desktop is not exactly like windows. This is true. However, I would say that this is a good thing; certaintly the windows desktop shell is not perfect, or anywhere near perfection, and steps to make it better are not a bad thing. I have seen poor computer users pick up KDE in a few hours. For the third, this is also false. Nearly every task which an ordinary user would be doing has a gui; even more outlandish things such as setting up a web server or ftp daemon have guis. For doing the stuff that most computer users do it is never needed to go to the command line. While it's true that some things are difficult to do on linux for an ordinary computer user, things like setting up a mail server, web server, etc., how many people actually do that on windows? It's not something that the normal desktop user will do. Linux on the desktop is ready. We have a free version of every major application group (office, graphics, music, etc.), the interfaces are easier than ever to use (look at the KDE command center). We just have to get people using it.
Those benchmarks were heavily biased. The benchmarking utility that they used was being emulated by rosetta, screwing up the results.
What? No mention of the huge dabacle that is Battlefield 2?
Sure many people do succeed in our society. But that number pales in comparison to those who are bogged down by debt, are unemployable, can't keep a steady jog, etc. Just because some people manage to succeed in spite of the system doesn't mean it's a good system.
The biggest problem with our schools is that it forces everybody through the same track. While it may not be PC to suggest that some kids are just smarted than others, and capable of much more, this is indeed the case. Forcing both the intelligent kids and the less so to take the exact same path throughout all of k-12 (a path which is optimal for neither of them) is detrimental to nearly everybody. For instance, in a middle school English class (a time during which I was many grades above my own in reading level) I was put in a class of which about half were Latino, and spoke little English (I live in California.) The result was that I, and the other five or so good readers in the class had to slog through a year of junk way below our level, and most of the Latinos failed anyways.
In many other countries (look as the Swiss education system) kids who are not intellectual are allowed to at a certain age, instead of continuing with their studies, become apprentices, and thus learn a trade. Instead, in America everybody is forced to go to college, even those who would be much better suited to a trade; many of which will pay as much as jobs learned a university. Another effect of this is that our universities have turned into vocational schools; it is felt that the classes must point directly to a job, instead of solely for the sake of learning.
The solution, therefore, is to reduce the pressure of going to college, to assign classes based on ability as opposed to age, and allow kids to attend more vocationally-oriented schools in high-school.
That's because with Windows XP, Microsoft set an option that, by default, reboots the computer immediately instead of showing the blue screen.
Here in Santa Cruz (central coast) we didn't feel anything (heck, I didn't know there had been an earthquake until reading the story), so the epicenter was far enough from the coast to do any real damage. Despite this, an earthquake that's a 7 on the richter scale is scary--most of Santa Cruz was destroyed in the loma prieta 15 years ago, and that was a 7.1.
Yeah, except that these consoles have 6 years lifespans. So Nintendo better hope that their console isn't obsolete in three years.
While HD TVs may not now have a wide distrabution, they are very obviously the future. What Nintendo is setting themselves up for is a console that is obsolete in a couple of years when everybody starts to get HD. However brilliant their graphics are, they still can't look that good at 720x480.
Because analog television is extremely wasteful of the EM spectrum. With digital, the fcc can start getting back some of the spectrum that they have leased, and it can be used for something more productive.
As if anybody shrewd enough to be stealing corporate secrets (and presumably selling them to the highest bidden?) isn't smart enough to encrypt it, or, god forbid, send it through another mail server.
The dev machines being sent out right now to developers are pentium 4s.
Definitely. Nothing worse than, on your Bar Miztvah, finding that the ink of a large portion of your parsha has blurred.
Definitely. I've only had one computer over the past five years. But this computer has had its CPU, mainboard, vid card, memory, case, etc. replaced over those five years.
We slahdot their server. Go figure.
Maybe because they don't want to shell out $200 for what is essentially a new skin (which you just said they wouldn't use) for 2k?
"If operated at 3 GHz, Cell's theoretical performance reaches about 200 GFLOPS, which works out to about 400 GFLOPS per board"
From TFA. Interesting, considering that they're claiming that the PS3 will run 5-10 faster than this.
"Mozilla Foundation to ban Firefox derivative browsers?" is the headline for the second article. First of all, Mozilla Foundation can't, because of the license of their code (and if they were to relicense it, they likely would face an XFree86-like split). Secondly, they're not: this is just one developer (albeit a prominent one) making a comment on his blog about the security of Netscape's. I fail to see the big deal here.
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
No, Microsoft did not profit. Remember, they're selling the xbox at a loss, expecting to make to money back on the games. It's entireley in their interest to make it difficult to pirate games for their system.
I know this may sound redundant but wouldn't it be much easier to just GOOGLE the lyrics of the song and wait for results?
That's great if your songs have lyrics. But what about instrumental pieces? I listen to a lot of celtic, swedish, old-timey, etc. fiddle tunes which do not have those handy indentifiers.
You've obviously never played any of the Jedi Knight games. They take place after the end of 6, and they focus on the rebuilding of the galaxy after the war. Also, just because the emperor and Vader are dead doen't mean that all of the Sith are. That, and the Empire's huge infrastructure is still around. Another leader could rise and rejuvenate the movement. Sorry--that was a little too nerdy. But If they want to, they'll find a plot.
The PS3 does not use PPC. It uses the cell architecture, and while IBM was part of the STI that created the Cell (which also includes Sony and Toshiba, as the 'S' and the 'T'), which in no way is the power pc archetecture.
I have an HP ze5790US laptop, which came preinstalled with XPhome, but which I now dual boot with Ubuntu (and hardly ever boot into XP.) However, something which (despite spending several days recompiling the kernel with the right drivers) I have not been able to get the wireless card to work. Nor does putting the laptop to sleep (it will go to sleep, but not come out of it.) So if they are able to get these things to work with their laptops hopefully they will gpl their software, and make it available to others with their laptops.
Two years ago he was still struggling with speech.
You must understand that that is not what Asberger's is like. In fact, asperger's kids tend to very adept with language, as well as math and science. Their main deficiency is in the social realm, and they tend to have difficulty understanding the subtext of body language and the like. They also tend to have very good memories, and tend to memorize redicolous amounts of facts about subjects of interest.