Most hardware is relatively static. Except for gamers, tweakers and industry professionals, it is very rare that people replace MoBos, Processors or Buses.
When will Linux auto-detect the 'static' components of the hardware and do an install with a kernel compiled and optimized for that hardware - along with a vanilla kernel for emergency backup? (Something like Gentoo does)
I don't want to hear a station, I want to here a genre of station or a sports event or a specific artist or song - regardless of frequency or media.
I don't want to adjust the volume, I want the volume to adjust to a) number of people in the vehicle adjusting for people in the back seat, b) conversation in the vehicle, c) ambient road noise d) my 'usual' volume levels
I don't want to adjust the temperature, I want the vehicle to defog the windscreen and keep the car at a reasonable temperature. I want it to blow air on me or away from me or my passengers
I don't want to punch in directions, I want to go to a) work, b) friends, c) a store, d) when the gas is low, automatically look for the nearest, cheapest gas etc. I should simply say: "Costco" or "Mom's house"
I don't want to deal with communications, I simply want to call someone.
I don't want to look at speed limits, but I DO want to be warned when: a) I am over by xMPH or b) when the speed limit DROPS and puts me over
I don't want to worry about maintenance, I want the car to find the best deal on the maintenance and parts required and suggest a dealer/garage based on ratings
I don't want to lock or unlock the car or worry about leaving interior lights on. The car should know I am near it and that I want in.
I don't want to deal with parking fees or tolls, the car should have an account that is universal to all those and simply ask for confirmation to deduct monies - either by route chosen or by length of time parked.
I don't want to have an accident. The car should assist with monitoring traffic conditions, other drivers and blind spots
The biggest issue surrounding higher education is the lack of oversight of university administration over-spending.
There is also an enormous trend toward creating universities in towns and cities that are suffering economic collapse just for the sake of optics.
No one is looking at employment outcomes nor are they looking at job trends. Putting a tax on the lucky few employed graduates to subsidize fat-cat administrators, university contractors and their ilk does nothing to help the ones who need it most, the students.
When the Old Man was alive, I set him up with SuSE Linux and locked it (mostly) down.
He ran it for 5-6 years. It never crashed, got a virus or had any known breaches.
With the release of WIndows 8.1/8.2 which demands and tracks huge amounts of personal information, Microsoft's offering is contra-indicated.
I'll let better people than I argue about the details of which distro/browser combination to use...
When I was a kid in the 60s, we had an African student stay with us. He was studying climatology. He was also fascinated by space. After graduation he returned to his home country. Using the information he had acquired, he collected satellite data on weather conditions (which was very advanced thinking for that time). He went into the country-side and advised local farmers of impending droubts, locust infestations and floods. The first year he did it, they were, at best, dismissive. When he went back to them after his forecasts has proved correct, they eagerly listened to him and it changed the agrarian economy. He also advised fishermen of temperature changes off-shore indicating optimal times to fish. This allowed local fishermen to get out to the fish before the huge Japanese trawlers came and took everything.
He went on to have his own department at the local University.
Of course, because of his good work, his nation rewarded him with threats to the lives of himself, his wife and his family so I won't state his name or other information about him here.
We cannot be getting smarter. One quick scan of the spelling and grammar on facebook, Twitter and in many other online posts indicates a frightening drop in the most basic ability to communicate let alone convey a concept or idea.
This is sexism at its very worst. Funding one gender over another only serves to create animosity between them and suppress the gender that is not given preferential treatment. Why don't we put the funding towards researching how each gender takes up information and teach to those pedagogic methodologies? Education is one of the few areas where we have made minimal progress in the last 100 years. Students are NOT getting noticeably smarter. If we achieve the ability to learn more, faster, we all will win.
4.0 should consist of the following: The ability to decipher the hardware that it is installed into and then an automated optimization and re-compiling process for that hardware à la Gentoo with a bloated fall-back option in case of failure. Realistically, how often have ANY of you ever changed a bus, processor, network card, drive controllers and other hardware - especially on boards with much of that built in?
There is such a great contrast between the slow, steady, improvement-laden release of Linux and the article that precedes this on on Windows 8.1 which can't even get its mouse to work. You'd think that Microsoft is trying to push out Windows 95!
Overall, it speaks to the simple fact that, if the agenda is to improve things vs make money, improvements are the things that make money in the long run.
FYI: I run a bunch of different OSs: Apple, Linux - 4 or 5 distros, Win 8x, 7x, Vista, 2003 (server)
It's been a long, long time since I've had Linux crash or become unconfigurable - whether I upgrade from a previous version or do a clean install. Way to go, Linus!!
In the Great White North, there are two daylight zones: Mosquitoes and Winter. It's completely in tune with the environment and no one has to adjust a clock when the changeover comes.
They's a bunch of commies across the Pacific whore hackin our computers n such and youse is worried 'cause da Gov't is lookin at yer emails? Wese have gotta keep 'em commies in check. Da FBI 'n CIA 'n such r ther to protect r intrests an we gotta let 'em do ther job. Dats why we have 'em - 't pertect us, ya dummies!
The Undestroy button is not working. The fix is to re-establish the chat rooms, clear the clutter from Yahoo! Messenger, make mail actually function at a reasonable speed and eliminate the mindless Hollywood crap from the main page. I'd like my $$$ now, please.
For over 12 years, I have supported RIM/BlackBerry. However, over that time, my frustration has grown and grown. Products like the 9700 were offered with all sorts of feature like GPS navigation. Sadly, they barely functioned to the point where they were unusable in the real world.
Over time, I also discovered that calendar items were being automatically deleted as they aged - this, without any warning or prior information. Looking up past business meetings which had disappeared was pretty frightening.
The BlackBerry World App Store has never worked properly. Rather than a one-click install, most apps crash during install while leaving partial files in the system.
The 9700 routinely locks up due to lack of space - but there is never a warning or option to move software and data onto the MicroSD card (for example).
All of the above is extremely frustrating to the point where I don't want to continue (let alone upgrade) with the brand but I just love the keyboard.
Apart from the fact that, at the very basis of the concept, non latin alphabet words pose a problem, there is no relevance whatsoever to the words used.
We all pay taxes. Some of those taxes pay for road maintenance and construction. Countries, States, Provinces and Municipalities all have maps of said roads.
Let's get all these maps digitized and into OpenStreetMap.
Any and all updates, changes, repairs and road closures would then be immediately available and maintained by the bodies responsible.
Hound your elected official to get on the bandwagon.
Mental health is not a joke. The above is a classic case where an individual, probably extremely bright, is likely off their meds and suffering terribly. For the huge cost of the DHS, they should be doing something positive: track down the originating IP of the above missive, dispatch an emergency mental health team and give this individual the compassionate care and attention that they need instead of flagging every grandmother's email to her children back home that says "Allah be praised.".
I ran OS/2 for a couple of years during its heyday in our shop. The key was to put in lots of expensive RAM.
When we did so, our users were actually running 3-4 apps at once. For the time, this was very powerful.
Moreover, when one app crashed, it rarely took down the whole machine.
At a time when lots of things crashed for a lot of reasons, I got my users' uptime to about 90%.
In short, everyone in my office had higher productivity which more than paid for the expensive RAM: They were not constantly waiting for machines to re-boot.
If ever there has been a case for a class-action lawsuit, it should have been against Microsoft for all the business hours lost waiting for Windows to re-boot due to a windows bug. If our cars ran the way Windows used to, we'd all have walked to work.
Academia has been over-managed into a snarled knot of self-serving rules and regulations. Go to any School Board meeting and the discussion will centre on almost any topic except improving students' uptake of information. The cost of university has little to do with the actual outcome vis-à-vis employment. In short, much of the educational sector has lost focus.
What to do? In my humble opinion, gaming is the answer. Not the gaming we're used to, but real-world, immersive, progressive gaming where students go into virtual grocery stores and learn to shop on a budget. Where trucks are loaded with goods and students have to figure out the optimal route to transport the goods to market. Where students are confronted with tax forms and have to figure them out (and be scored on them). Where a grandparent takes ill and they have to figure out what to do to care for them. Where they are given a virtual puppy/horse/ox and learn to train it. Lastly, they need a program which takes them through numerous scenarios of wealth creation. This last is probably what is most lacking from our present educational system.
We are doing little if anything like this and yet, this is the world that we live in. If every school board on the planet put 0.05% of their budget towards the development of true AI-based educational gaming, our students would learn at a prodigious rate. Granted, we would have to adjust for region and language, but the essence of education is the same the world over.
What if every Computer Science student had to improve the code of a major open source software project, the world would be an amazing place.
Just think of how many bugs could be fixed - how many needed features created and how code could be refined and improved.
What if every Marketing Student had to help market a major open source software, just think of how many more users there would be.
What if every Language major had to write or edit part or all of the help manuals, just think of how much easier the software would be to use.
What if every economics major had to build a case for using open source software, just think of how many more companies would adopt it.
What if every Law student had to research existing software patents in order to disprove their originality, just think of how much we would save on software.
What if every student teacher were taught to use open source software so that those less fortunate than them could learn to download and install it, just think of how many more people would be using FOSS.
What if every geography major had a project to add to Open Street Maps, every History Major to add to Wikipedia and every engineer to add to the design of Open Hardware?
What we need is to change the mind-sets of our University Professors to include these projects in their curriculum.
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Most hardware is relatively static. Except for gamers, tweakers and industry professionals, it is very rare that people replace MoBos, Processors or Buses.
When will Linux auto-detect the 'static' components of the hardware and do an install with a kernel compiled and optimized for that hardware - along with a vanilla kernel for emergency backup? (Something like Gentoo does)
I don't want to hear a station, I want to here a genre of station or a sports event or a specific artist or song - regardless of frequency or media.
I don't want to adjust the volume, I want the volume to adjust to a) number of people in the vehicle adjusting for people in the back seat, b) conversation in the vehicle, c) ambient road noise d) my 'usual' volume levels
I don't want to adjust the temperature, I want the vehicle to defog the windscreen and keep the car at a reasonable temperature. I want it to blow air on me or away from me or my passengers
I don't want to punch in directions, I want to go to a) work, b) friends, c) a store, d) when the gas is low, automatically look for the nearest, cheapest gas etc. I should simply say: "Costco" or "Mom's house"
I don't want to deal with communications, I simply want to call someone.
I don't want to look at speed limits, but I DO want to be warned when: a) I am over by xMPH or b) when the speed limit DROPS and puts me over
I don't want to worry about maintenance, I want the car to find the best deal on the maintenance and parts required and suggest a dealer/garage based on ratings
I don't want to lock or unlock the car or worry about leaving interior lights on. The car should know I am near it and that I want in.
I don't want to deal with parking fees or tolls, the car should have an account that is universal to all those and simply ask for confirmation to deduct monies - either by route chosen or by length of time parked.
I don't want to have an accident. The car should assist with monitoring traffic conditions, other drivers and blind spots
There is also an enormous trend toward creating universities in towns and cities that are suffering economic collapse just for the sake of optics.
No one is looking at employment outcomes nor are they looking at job trends. Putting a tax on the lucky few employed graduates to subsidize fat-cat administrators, university contractors and their ilk does nothing to help the ones who need it most, the students.
Stop this lunacy before it starts.
I can just see it: "Yahoo develops new O/S, suicides soar!"
When the Old Man was alive, I set him up with SuSE Linux and locked it (mostly) down. He ran it for 5-6 years. It never crashed, got a virus or had any known breaches.
With the release of WIndows 8.1/8.2 which demands and tracks huge amounts of personal information, Microsoft's offering is contra-indicated.
I'll let better people than I argue about the details of which distro/browser combination to use...
He went on to have his own department at the local University.
Of course, because of his good work, his nation rewarded him with threats to the lives of himself, his wife and his family so I won't state his name or other information about him here.
We cannot be getting smarter. One quick scan of the spelling and grammar on facebook, Twitter and in many other online posts indicates a frightening drop in the most basic ability to communicate let alone convey a concept or idea.
This is sexism at its very worst. Funding one gender over another only serves to create animosity between them and suppress the gender that is not given preferential treatment. Why don't we put the funding towards researching how each gender takes up information and teach to those pedagogic methodologies? Education is one of the few areas where we have made minimal progress in the last 100 years. Students are NOT getting noticeably smarter. If we achieve the ability to learn more, faster, we all will win.
4.0 should consist of the following: The ability to decipher the hardware that it is installed into and then an automated optimization and re-compiling process for that hardware à la Gentoo with a bloated fall-back option in case of failure. Realistically, how often have ANY of you ever changed a bus, processor, network card, drive controllers and other hardware - especially on boards with much of that built in?
Overall, it speaks to the simple fact that, if the agenda is to improve things vs make money, improvements are the things that make money in the long run.
FYI: I run a bunch of different OSs: Apple, Linux - 4 or 5 distros, Win 8x, 7x, Vista, 2003 (server)
It's been a long, long time since I've had Linux crash or become unconfigurable - whether I upgrade from a previous version or do a clean install. Way to go, Linus!!
In the Great White North, there are two daylight zones: Mosquitoes and Winter. It's completely in tune with the environment and no one has to adjust a clock when the changeover comes.
Time to switch to BlackBerry!
They's a bunch of commies across the Pacific whore hackin our computers n such and youse is worried 'cause da Gov't is lookin at yer emails? Wese have gotta keep 'em commies in check. Da FBI 'n CIA 'n such r ther to protect r intrests an we gotta let 'em do ther job. Dats why we have 'em - 't pertect us, ya dummies!
The Undestroy button is not working. The fix is to re-establish the chat rooms, clear the clutter from Yahoo! Messenger, make mail actually function at a reasonable speed and eliminate the mindless Hollywood crap from the main page. I'd like my $$$ now, please.
Over time, I also discovered that calendar items were being automatically deleted as they aged - this, without any warning or prior information. Looking up past business meetings which had disappeared was pretty frightening.
The BlackBerry World App Store has never worked properly. Rather than a one-click install, most apps crash during install while leaving partial files in the system.
The 9700 routinely locks up due to lack of space - but there is never a warning or option to move software and data onto the MicroSD card (for example).
All of the above is extremely frustrating to the point where I don't want to continue (let alone upgrade) with the brand but I just love the keyboard.
April Fool's is actually celebrated August 18th in Canada.
" 'tis a silly thing."
That said, I live at:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.Antidisestablishmentarianism
which also proves that the concept has no merit.
Using / as the main way of navigating spreadsheets...
1-2-3 you gave me my start, not just in spreadsheets, but in computers. Thank you and goodbye, old friend.
Sniff.
Let's get all these maps digitized and into OpenStreetMap.
Any and all updates, changes, repairs and road closures would then be immediately available and maintained by the bodies responsible.
Hound your elected official to get on the bandwagon.
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We do do that, don't we?
The DHS deserves to ... because they've done such a fine job scanning us at airports.
In short, everyone in my office had higher productivity which more than paid for the expensive RAM: They were not constantly waiting for machines to re-boot.
If ever there has been a case for a class-action lawsuit, it should have been against Microsoft for all the business hours lost waiting for Windows to re-boot due to a windows bug. If our cars ran the way Windows used to, we'd all have walked to work.
What to do? In my humble opinion, gaming is the answer. Not the gaming we're used to, but real-world, immersive, progressive gaming where students go into virtual grocery stores and learn to shop on a budget. Where trucks are loaded with goods and students have to figure out the optimal route to transport the goods to market. Where students are confronted with tax forms and have to figure them out (and be scored on them). Where a grandparent takes ill and they have to figure out what to do to care for them. Where they are given a virtual puppy/horse/ox and learn to train it. Lastly, they need a program which takes them through numerous scenarios of wealth creation. This last is probably what is most lacking from our present educational system.
We are doing little if anything like this and yet, this is the world that we live in. If every school board on the planet put 0.05% of their budget towards the development of true AI-based educational gaming, our students would learn at a prodigious rate. Granted, we would have to adjust for region and language, but the essence of education is the same the world over.
What if every Computer Science student had to improve the code of a major open source software project, the world would be an amazing place.
Just think of how many bugs could be fixed - how many needed features created and how code could be refined and improved.
What if every Marketing Student had to help market a major open source software, just think of how many more users there would be.
What if every Language major had to write or edit part or all of the help manuals, just think of how much easier the software would be to use.
What if every economics major had to build a case for using open source software, just think of how many more companies would adopt it.
What if every Law student had to research existing software patents in order to disprove their originality, just think of how much we would save on software.
What if every student teacher were taught to use open source software so that those less fortunate than them could learn to download and install it, just think of how many more people would be using FOSS.
What if every geography major had a project to add to Open Street Maps, every History Major to add to Wikipedia and every engineer to add to the design of Open Hardware?
What we need is to change the mind-sets of our University Professors to include these projects in their curriculum.