I belong to a sci-fi / philosophy club. There a guy showed us a sketch of a mind-controlled OS. It was a combination of commandline plus drop-down menus. The motor was focused on typing and some auxiliary buttons. Type in some predefined commands (with your mind), and the computer does everything. In fact, it could be a plugin for your favorite GUI OS.
How much acoustic power did you generate? Well a loud whistle is about 100dbA, about a hundredth of a watt.
From the article:
When heated, the device generated sound at 120 decibels -- the level produced by a siren or a rock concert.
Assumming many devices can be put to work in parallel, it might not be a wild goose chase after all. Just imagine how much waste heat ALREADY GENERATED (i.e. in car engines) could be reused into electricity. That would make your car more energy-efficient, since you wouldn't need to use more gas to play your latest MP3 on the car stereo.
This is where the Ramathan's nanolayer bonding comes into play. Because the nanoglue forms such a strong bond and also prevents the copper and silica from mixing, the use of tantalum can be eliminated from the equation, effectively shrinking the space between the two materials from about 15 nanometres to one nanometre.
One nanometer. Current Flash memory can't go below 40 nm right now. If/when Ramathan's discovery gets applied to the industry, it'll be quite a boost for reaching smaller and more energy-efficient computers.
This reminds me of a famous song... let's see what we can do with it.
*ahem* *ahem*
Turn around Look at what you see In their face The keyword of your dreams Make believe they're everywhere Just encrypted in the lines Written on the DVD's Is the answer to our never ending story ah ah ah
See the cracks In their fantasy crush their dream show them what they'll be Codes that keep their secrets Will unfold behind a yarr zero nine eff nine one one... Is the answer to our never ending story ah ah ah
Show no fear For they may fade away In your hands The birth of a new age Codes that keep their secrets Will unfold behind a yarr zero nine eff nine one one... Is the answer to our never ending story... ah ah ah Never ending story... ah ah ah Never ending story.
The big problem with NT is its "Message Passing" architecture, whereby various components of the OS talk to each other by putting messages on queues... The weakness of the architecture is that the component handling any one message queue is automatically single threaded and tied to a single processor.
IANAOSA (I am not an Operating Systems Architect), but I'm worried about this. Since I'm particularly interested in ReactOS as an alternative to Windows, do you think there's a way to optimize this and retain software compatibility?
Good ol American here. Any good online news sites you can recommend then? I've been checking out the BBC, but even they are pretty filtered these days...
Try newspaper and news channel websites around the world - of course, there's the issue of translating them:-/
For Mexico, there's Proyecto 40, El Universal and La Cronica (right-wing tendency). La Jornada has a left-wing tendency. (No subscription needed for any of them). Of course, you can translate most of them via Google Language tools.
Google news is also a nice source for news - the key is finding a proxy for the country of your choice to fool Google (just in case of great firewalls) and/or including it in the url. Example: http://news.google.com/news?ned=es_mx&topic=w gives you world news tailored for Mexico, in spanish.
We aren't running out of space -- it's just over allocated.
Curiously, that's just what's happening with world resources: Food, money, land, etc. A few bunch of greedy guys are ruining everything for the rest of us.
This alone gives base enough to insinuate the 'Linux is crap' statement. Nice try with your wikipedia link, but definitely not applicable here.
You don't get it, do you. I'm NOT saying Linux is crap. I'm just saying WHY I don't like it. And just as I, there are thousands of Windows Joe users that don't like it either. It is a valid answer for the question "Why don't users switch to Linux?". I never promised you'd like the answer. But it's an answer anyway. If you want more users to switch to Linux, you better listen to our demands^H^H^H^H^H^H^H suggestions instead of putting words in my mouth. So far my impression of linux zealots^H^H^H^H^H^Henthusiasts (reaffirmed by people like you) is something like this:
- Why aren't you switching to Linux? Are you stupid or what? It's FREE!!!!
- Well, Windows is free for me, because I already paid for it, so what do I gain by switching? Also, I don't want to spend additional time relearning something. See, Linux is so different and I have to relearn all of this stuff that I've been doing for several years.
- (Gone mad) AH! So just because it's different it's crap, right!? well STFU you n00b!
- O.o??
Seriously, I can't understand why you get so mad at us Windows users for not liking your precious OS. My primary concern about Linux is not its technical issues, but the issues of enthusiasts that worship the commandline and emacs, editing config files and recompiling everything. If they like doing it, fine. But they're not making me do all of that stuff just because Linux is free and an oportunity to get rid of the devil incarnate known as Bill Gates.
And if you're not improving things in Linux for us Windows users, then why the heck are you being aggressive with us? You're just another guy who is part of the problem and not of the solution. At least I'm trying to help.
1) Windows security ain't so bad... if you have a firewall:)
So far, my windows xp (sp2) firewall has kept my machine free from viruses. That, and I don't download shady software from entertainment websites. I scan regularly my machine with Ad-Aware, Clamwin and once in a while Hijack this, or a rootkit finder, just to be sure. So far I haven't found any evil zombifying my PC, and I've been using it for years.
2) The problem with Linux is that the learning curve is too steep (or actually too shallow?) for Windows users. It's not that things are hard, just VERY DIFFERENT.
The problem is when Linux zealots or megalomaniac linux programmers refuse to accept the fact that many users DON'T WANT or DON'T HAVE TIME to relearn things.
For example: When selecting text, if you press shift and move the arrows, you select text. And if you press ctrl+shift+arrows, you select whole words. In Linux i try this and end up typing numbers. WTF?
Another example: For dialogs, OK is at the left and Cancel is at the right. But on some window managers (or whatever they're called), OK is at the right and Cancel is at the left, and there's no way to change that. Cutting and pasting in a shell window is so different from using a DOS prompt. And where the heck is Control panel?
In short, I want something that looks and feels IDENTICAL to Windows. Having to learn a different way to do what I was accustomed to do is so much annoying, and I don't have time for that. Hey! Haven't you heard the phrase "the customer is always right?" I'm sick tired of Linux brainiac overlords telling me how I should do things, instead of helping me do things MY WAY. If you want ME to use YOUR operating system, just stop lecturing me, k? And if I ever hear the phrase "RTFM" or "program it yourself" again, then screw you. It's not my obligation to use Linux. If *YOU* complain that *I* don't use it, that's *YOUR* problem. Capicci?
3) But the most important factor to consider is software that is Windows-only. I love winamp. I've grown accustomed to like its interface (the classic 2.0, not the new one), and I like the plugins to play other formats, for example, amiga mod files.
I tried XMMS and other alternatives. Sometimes I couldn't play at all (I know, i used an old distro, but anyway, it didn't "just work".
Another windows-only program I love is Irfanview. And virtualdub, and the list goes on and on. I have a full set of software that I've grown to like and feel comfortable with for doing my daily tasks. If I switch, it's starting all over again, and sometimes there isn't an equivalent software at all (For virtualdub, there's AVIDemux, but the last time i tried to use it, it crashed on me).
How to solve this? Cross-platform programs is IMO the best of both worlds. If I like a program, I can be 100% sure that when I switch, I can use it again and keep working on it. But it's so frustrating to find that some apps are Linux-only, or cross-platform attempts are done so bad that they mess up the whole interface (in my experience the best cross-platform apps are made with wxWidgets. They feel so natural on windows...)
So, why don't they make the apps cross-platform? Until I find myself comfortable enough, I won't be able to use them. And I really don't want to reboot every time i want to do something specific (If I have to reboot, what's the point of having a multitasking OS?). And I don't want to reformat my hard drive to use FAT32 because the Linux distro can't read NTFS drives.
And where the heck can I find a Gambas for Windows? So far I've seen NO open source alternatives to Visual Basic for Windows. No, I _HAVE_ to switch to Linux before GETTING STARTED with them! Nice move, eh?
My conclusion is that when Linux programmers are open-minded enough so that they build cross-pla
The problem with software piracy isn't that it's wrong or that it's supposed to take revenues from companies. It's that companies don't want to embarrass themselves admitting that they LIKE being pirated.
It's being two-faced. And Microsoft's been doing it for years. (How else could they get a market so big?)
I expected something along the lines of "posting and you". Instead i got a bunch of video cuts that, even when they were brilliant, the words weren't clear enough. If he only had used subtitles...
Shaggy: Look like we solved another software piracy mystery, Scoobs! Scooby: Ruff! Yeah! Indian computer retailer: And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids! Bill Gates: To the Mystery machine! I'll invite some scooby snacks!
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Dear RIAA:
Your business model is doomed to extinction.
Sincerely,
The Truth.
I belong to a sci-fi / philosophy club. There a guy showed us a sketch of a mind-controlled OS. It was a combination of commandline plus drop-down menus. The motor was focused on typing and some auxiliary buttons. Type in some predefined commands (with your mind), and the computer does everything. In fact, it could be a plugin for your favorite GUI OS.
You said:
How much acoustic power did you generate? Well a loud whistle is about 100dbA, about a hundredth of a watt.
From the article:
When heated, the device generated sound at 120 decibels -- the level produced by a siren or a rock concert.
Assumming many devices can be put to work in parallel, it might not be a wild goose chase after all. Just imagine how much waste heat ALREADY GENERATED (i.e. in car engines) could be reused into electricity. That would make your car more energy-efficient, since you wouldn't need to use more gas to play your latest MP3 on the car stereo.
...for which you're not sure whether you have permission (but isn't protected), but it still won't rip the DVD I purchased. Nice. Thanks.
Oh, but it WILL rip material downloaded from pirate sites! OH the irony... B-)
Check out this part of the article:
This is where the Ramathan's nanolayer bonding comes into play. Because the nanoglue forms such a strong bond and also prevents the copper and silica from mixing, the use of tantalum can be eliminated from the equation, effectively shrinking the space between the two materials from about 15 nanometres to one nanometre.
One nanometer. Current Flash memory can't go below 40 nm right now. If/when Ramathan's discovery gets applied to the industry, it'll be quite a boost for reaching smaller and more energy-efficient computers.
This reminds me of a famous song... let's see what we can do with it.
*ahem* *ahem*
Turn around
Look at what you see
In their face
The keyword of your dreams
Make believe they're everywhere
Just encrypted in the lines
Written on the DVD's
Is the answer to our never ending story
ah ah ah
See the cracks
In their fantasy
crush their dream
show them what they'll be
Codes that keep their secrets
Will unfold behind a yarr
zero nine eff nine one one...
Is the answer to our never ending story
ah ah ah
Show no fear
For they may fade away
In your hands
The birth of a new age
Codes that keep their secrets
Will unfold behind a yarr
zero nine eff nine one one...
Is the answer to our never ending story...
ah ah ah
Never ending story...
ah ah ah
Never ending story.
The big problem with NT is its "Message Passing" architecture, whereby various components of the OS talk to each other by putting messages on queues ... The weakness of the architecture is that the component handling any one message queue is automatically single threaded and tied to a single processor.
IANAOSA (I am not an Operating Systems Architect), but I'm worried about this. Since I'm particularly interested in ReactOS as an alternative to Windows, do you think there's a way to optimize this and retain software compatibility?
The key is to put Jack Bauer in the plane, DUH!
Will they try to prosecute across borders like the States does?
No, they'll send giant robots after us.
Alright, I couldn't resist. SOMEBODY had to do it.
(warning: rated PG-13)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Good ol American here. Any good online news sites you can recommend then?
:-/
I've been checking out the BBC, but even they are pretty filtered these days...
Try newspaper and news channel websites around the world - of course, there's the issue of translating them
For Mexico, there's Proyecto 40, El Universal and La Cronica (right-wing tendency). La Jornada has a left-wing tendency. (No subscription needed for any of them). Of course, you can translate most of them via Google Language tools.
Google news is also a nice source for news - the key is finding a proxy for the country of your choice to fool Google (just in case of great firewalls) and/or including it in the url. Example:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=es_mx&topic=w gives you world news tailored for Mexico, in spanish.
Hope that helps.
Sounds like a zealot extremist ... Move along, nothing to see here.
Your mind tricks won't work on me. I live outside the US and information like this is COMMON on our news broadcasts.
I'm still amazed at how much corporations can brainwash american couch potatoes.
So by "balance" you mean "tip even further in the wrong direction"
:D
Well, Darth Vader brought balance to the Force!
Where's all the hearty IE bashing that I've come to know and love around here?
What's an IE?
We aren't running out of space -- it's just over allocated.
Curiously, that's just what's happening with world resources: Food, money, land, etc. A few bunch of greedy guys are ruining everything for the rest of us.
This alone gives base enough to insinuate the 'Linux is crap' statement. Nice try with your wikipedia link, but definitely not applicable here.
You don't get it, do you. I'm NOT saying Linux is crap. I'm just saying WHY I don't like it. And just as I, there are thousands of Windows Joe users that don't like it either. It is a valid answer for the question "Why don't users switch to Linux?". I never promised you'd like the answer. But it's an answer anyway. If you want more users to switch to Linux, you better listen to our demands^H^H^H^H^H^H^H suggestions instead of putting words in my mouth. So far my impression of linux zealots^H^H^H^H^H^Henthusiasts (reaffirmed by people like you) is something like this:
- Why aren't you switching to Linux? Are you stupid or what? It's FREE!!!!
- Well, Windows is free for me, because I already paid for it, so what do I gain by switching? Also, I don't want to spend additional time relearning something. See, Linux is so different and I have to relearn all of this stuff that I've been doing for several years.
- (Gone mad) AH! So just because it's different it's crap, right!? well STFU you n00b!
- O.o??
Seriously, I can't understand why you get so mad at us Windows users for not liking your precious OS. My primary concern about Linux is not its technical issues, but the issues of enthusiasts that worship the commandline and emacs, editing config files and recompiling everything. If they like doing it, fine. But they're not making me do all of that stuff just because Linux is free and an oportunity to get rid of the devil incarnate known as Bill Gates.
And if you're not improving things in Linux for us Windows users, then why the heck are you being aggressive with us? You're just another guy who is part of the problem and not of the solution. At least I'm trying to help.
but I hope they destroy Jack Thompson.
:)
Why the low expectations? Just let them destroy each other
Short summary: Linux is crap because it is not Windows
I never said it was crap. Just different. There ya go, another straw man.
1) Windows security ain't so bad... if you have a firewall :)
So far, my windows xp (sp2) firewall has kept my machine free from viruses. That, and I don't download shady software from entertainment websites. I scan regularly my machine with Ad-Aware, Clamwin and once in a while Hijack this, or a rootkit finder, just to be sure. So far I haven't found any evil zombifying my PC, and I've been using it for years.
2) The problem with Linux is that the learning curve is too steep (or actually too shallow?) for Windows users. It's not that things are hard, just VERY DIFFERENT.
The problem is when Linux zealots or megalomaniac linux programmers refuse to accept the fact that many users DON'T WANT or DON'T HAVE TIME to relearn things.
For example: When selecting text, if you press shift and move the arrows, you select text. And if you press ctrl+shift+arrows, you select whole words. In Linux i try this and end up typing numbers. WTF?
Another example: For dialogs, OK is at the left and Cancel is at the right. But on some window managers (or whatever they're called), OK is at the right and Cancel is at the left, and there's no way to change that. Cutting and pasting in a shell window is so different from using a DOS prompt. And where the heck is Control panel?
In short, I want something that looks and feels IDENTICAL to Windows. Having to learn a different way to do what I was accustomed to do is so much annoying, and I don't have time for that. Hey! Haven't you heard the phrase "the customer is always right?" I'm sick tired of Linux brainiac overlords telling me how I should do things, instead of helping me do things MY WAY. If you want ME to use YOUR operating system, just stop lecturing me, k? And if I ever hear the phrase "RTFM" or "program it yourself" again, then screw you. It's not my obligation to use Linux. If *YOU* complain that *I* don't use it, that's *YOUR* problem. Capicci?
3) But the most important factor to consider is software that is Windows-only. I love winamp. I've grown accustomed to like its interface (the classic 2.0, not the new one), and I like the plugins to play other formats, for example, amiga mod files.
I tried XMMS and other alternatives. Sometimes I couldn't play at all (I know, i used an old distro, but anyway, it didn't "just work".
Another windows-only program I love is Irfanview. And virtualdub, and the list goes on and on. I have a full set of software that I've grown to like and feel comfortable with for doing my daily tasks. If I switch, it's starting all over again, and sometimes there isn't an equivalent software at all (For virtualdub, there's AVIDemux, but the last time i tried to use it, it crashed on me).
How to solve this? Cross-platform programs is IMO the best of both worlds. If I like a program, I can be 100% sure that when I switch, I can use it again and keep working on it. But it's so frustrating to find that some apps are Linux-only, or cross-platform attempts are done so bad that they mess up the whole interface (in my experience the best cross-platform apps are made with wxWidgets. They feel so natural on windows...)
So, why don't they make the apps cross-platform? Until I find myself comfortable enough, I won't be able to use them. And I really don't want to reboot every time i want to do something specific (If I have to reboot, what's the point of having a multitasking OS?). And I don't want to reformat my hard drive to use FAT32 because the Linux distro can't read NTFS drives.
And where the heck can I find a Gambas for Windows? So far I've seen NO open source alternatives to Visual Basic for Windows. No, I _HAVE_ to switch to Linux before GETTING STARTED with them! Nice move, eh?
My conclusion is that when Linux programmers are open-minded enough so that they build cross-pla
Knowing this, too, will not help you pick up chicks in a bar....
But I'm fluent in javascript as well as klingon!
The problem with software piracy isn't that it's wrong or that it's supposed to take revenues from companies. It's that companies don't want to embarrass themselves admitting that they LIKE being pirated.
It's being two-faced. And Microsoft's been doing it for years. (How else could they get a market so big?)
Well, thanks to Microsoft there are mail servers in every home... in South Korea ;-)
I expected something along the lines of "posting and you". Instead i got a bunch of video cuts that, even when they were brilliant, the words weren't clear enough. If he only had used subtitles...
MS now stands for Mystery Shopper!
OH NO, look what you've done to my mind!
Shaggy: Look like we solved another software piracy mystery, Scoobs!
Scooby: Ruff! Yeah!
Indian computer retailer: And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
Bill Gates: To the Mystery machine! I'll invite some scooby snacks!
alleging that Spyware Doctor removes Zango's software without warning users that it will be deleted.
What about Zango's spyware installing itself WITHOUT WARNING USERS that it will be installed?
Truth is stranger than fiction, that's for sure.