What if the Linux that you can't boot already is Knoppix? Can you swap this recovery CD with your regular Knoppix CD during the boot process?
My advice? Sell your machine, and buy a Mac. It will just work(TM), and everything you could possibly want to do on a Linux box will work just as well, if not better. There's virtually no software you can run on Linux that won't run on a Mac - the inverse is not true.
Having a single architect means all the crap like is raised in this story is eliminated. Somebody else has ensured that the system will boot on your machine for you. They've chucked in a whole lot of other cool stuff for you too simply because they own the hardware - things like the OS monitoring system temperatures and fan speeds in a desktop machine. Aren't too many desktop systems that do that for you, are there?
I know this isn't a popular option, but there is only one way left to combat CO2 emissions without winding the planet back to the stone age.
It's nuclear power. There is no other technology available that has sufficient output, whilst not outputting CO2 that will put the Florida Quays any further underwater.
The common argument in return is saving CO2 isn't much use if you make the planet uninhabitable due to reactors melting down. Well, the Chinese, with some help from the Germans, have very kindly solved this problem for us. Go check the link out - it's to wired.com - they have developed a nuclear reactor that doesn't go critical when the coolant system is switched off.
We can save the planet, if we're willing to get over the Cold War era stereotypes.
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The fact is that I am not interested anymore, I just do not believe what they kept repeating while postponing their product.
So true.
And the world has changed a fair bit since that product was announced by the OQO (ex-Apple) guys so long ago. Their former employer came back to trump them with a portable device that people actually want - the iPod.
The thing that Apple now gets(TM) is that there's no point putting forward a product so far ahead of its time that people don't want it yet (e.g. the Newton). I'll bet that the OQO is going to fall squarely into this category; a great idea that's overpriced, underpowered and breaks too easily.
Virgin is getting confused. They're telling us the reasons they selected it, as opposed to the reasons we would select it. WMA is definitely not a selling point, not to anyone who knows shit about technology.
except, really, it doesn't do anything better than the king.
Branson of all people should know that if you don't differentiate, you won't beat the incumbent. Especially when the incumbent has a flock of rabid followers and is singularly considered the coolest tech gadget in the past ten years.
it is interesting as you say, but the biggest issue is how do you know that there's no inherent bias built into the system?
the only way to decide who to vote for is to make up your own mind. This may be a tool to help you, but please, it's like telling your neighbor/newspaper columnist/random person on the street your views on everything and let them tell you who you should vote for. Fine if it works, but how do you know they don't have a vested interest?
Schwartz (1988). He set out to compare customary teacher-based tutoring of reading and comprehension with practice on a set of computer games derived from analysis of the reading process. 24 primary school children were selected, who were of average intelligence and who were 18 months or more behind their peers in reading comprehension. The children were split into two groups and assigned to teacher-based tutoring or to a computer game training group where they received practice on four computer games. Training in both conditions focused on word decoding and phonics. The study found that almost all students improved their reading comprehension test scores after training, although the poorest readers made significantly greater gains in the computer game condition than in the teacher training condition
"Marble Madness" and effects on spatial skills: A study of 61 children, ages 10 to 11, compared the effects of two computer games on the development of spatial skills--the cluster of skills required for children to visualize and manipulate objects or images in their minds.1 Practice on Marble Madness was found to reliably improve the children's spatial performance, while practice on Conjecture, a computerized word game similar to the TV show Wheel of Fortune, did not. The children playing Marble Madness used a joystick to guide a marble along a three-dimensional grid, trying to keep the marble on the path and prevent it from falling off or being attacked by intruders. After playing the game, children were found to have improved their ability to anticipate targets and visualize spatial paths. ?"Concentration" and effects on iconic skill: A cross-cultural study carried out in Rome and Los Angeles examined the effects of playing a computer game on the development of iconic skills--the skills that enable people to read images such as pictures and diagrams.2Researchers found that after playing the game Concentration on a computer, undergraduate students offered more diagrams in their analysis of an animated simulation of electronic circuits, whereas those who played the game on a board offered more verbal descriptions. ?"Robot Battle," "Robotron," and effects on visual attention skills: A study compared the effects of computer game expertise on college students' visual attention skills, the skills required to keeping track of several different things at the same time--not unlike a pilot keeping track of a row of several engine dials simultaneously.3 Researchers measured participants' response time to two events at two locations on a computer screen, where one target icon appeared more often than another. Predictably, participants who were expert players of Robot Battle (scoring above 200,000) had faster response times than participants who were novice players (scoring below 20,000). But after five hours of playing the game Robotron, all participants responded significantly faster to the target at the low probability position on the screen, demonstrating a causal relationship between playing a computer game and improving strategies for keeping track of events at multiple locations.
So there's more than just getting a job - there's actually advancing mental development.
Don't they realize that something is wrong with their business when their news is about lawyers, and not musicians?!
Maybe it's just an outsiders point of view, but isn't that applicable to all of America? We're talking about the country where McDonalds got sued because its coffee was too hot!
I know Lucas isn't the most popular round here at the moment, but I still like this line by Sir Alec Guiness:
"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck"
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I always prefer the
;)
[i]"640k [of RAM] ought to be enough for anyone"[/i]
when it comes to being cynical about tech predictions.
For obvious reasons
-- james
What's given you the idea that this was a BSD vulnerability?
I'm not disputing that it might be the case (and yeah I know what BSD stands for) but how do you know it wasn't Windows or something else?
you're typically obtuse for an AC.
ok, who let that one through? :)
and here was me thinking "Steam" was just a Valve insider joke for the fact that HL2 was going to be Vaporware :)
-- james
My advice? Sell your machine, and buy a Mac. It will just work(TM), and everything you could possibly want to do on a Linux box will work just as well, if not better. There's virtually no software you can run on Linux that won't run on a Mac - the inverse is not true.
Having a single architect means all the crap like is raised in this story is eliminated. Somebody else has ensured that the system will boot on your machine for you. They've chucked in a whole lot of other cool stuff for you too simply because they own the hardware - things like the OS monitoring system temperatures and fan speeds in a desktop machine. Aren't too many desktop systems that do that for you, are there?
I know this isn't a popular option, but there is only one way left to combat CO2 emissions without winding the planet back to the stone age.
It's nuclear power. There is no other technology available that has sufficient output, whilst not outputting CO2 that will put the Florida Quays any further underwater.
The common argument in return is saving CO2 isn't much use if you make the planet uninhabitable due to reactors melting down. Well, the Chinese, with some help from the Germans, have very kindly solved this problem for us. Go check the link out - it's to wired.com - they have developed a nuclear reactor that doesn't go critical when the coolant system is switched off.
We can save the planet, if we're willing to get over the Cold War era stereotypes.
So true.
And the world has changed a fair bit since that product was announced by the OQO (ex-Apple) guys so long ago. Their former employer came back to trump them with a portable device that people actually want - the iPod.
The thing that Apple now gets(TM) is that there's no point putting forward a product so far ahead of its time that people don't want it yet (e.g. the Newton). I'll bet that the OQO is going to fall squarely into this category; a great idea that's overpriced, underpowered and breaks too easily.
-- james
It's not. For users, anyway.
Virgin is getting confused. They're telling us the reasons they selected it, as opposed to the reasons we would select it. WMA is definitely not a selling point, not to anyone who knows shit about technology.
except, really, it doesn't do anything better than the king. Branson of all people should know that if you don't differentiate, you won't beat the incumbent. Especially when the incumbent has a flock of rabid followers and is singularly considered the coolest tech gadget in the past ten years.
it is interesting as you say, but the biggest issue is how do you know that there's no inherent bias built into the system? the only way to decide who to vote for is to make up your own mind. This may be a tool to help you, but please, it's like telling your neighbor/newspaper columnist/random person on the street your views on everything and let them tell you who you should vote for. Fine if it works, but how do you know they don't have a vested interest?
Report 1; warninig pdf
Schwartz (1988). He set out to compare customary teacher-based tutoring of reading and comprehension with practice on a set of computer games derived from analysis of the reading process. 24 primary school children were selected, who were of average intelligence and who were 18 months or more behind their peers in reading comprehension. The children were split into two groups and assigned to teacher-based tutoring or to a computer game training group where they received practice on four computer games. Training in both conditions focused on word decoding and phonics. The study found that almost all students improved their reading comprehension test scores after training, although the poorest readers made significantly greater gains in the computer game condition than in the teacher training condition
study 2 - warning pdf:
"Marble Madness" and effects on spatial skills: A study of 61 children, ages 10 to 11, compared the effects of two computer games on the development of spatial skills--the cluster of skills required for children to visualize and manipulate objects or images in their minds.1 Practice on Marble Madness was found to reliably improve the children's spatial performance, while practice on Conjecture, a computerized word game similar to the TV show Wheel of Fortune, did not. The children playing Marble Madness used a joystick to guide a marble along a three-dimensional grid, trying to keep the marble on the path and prevent it from falling off or being attacked by intruders. After playing the game, children were found to have improved their ability to anticipate targets and visualize spatial paths. ?"Concentration" and effects on iconic skill: A cross-cultural study carried out in Rome and Los Angeles examined the effects of playing a computer game on the development of iconic skills--the skills that enable people to read images such as pictures and diagrams.2Researchers found that after playing the game Concentration on a computer, undergraduate students offered more diagrams in their analysis of an animated simulation of electronic circuits, whereas those who played the game on a board offered more verbal descriptions. ?"Robot Battle," "Robotron," and effects on visual attention skills: A study compared the effects of computer game expertise on college students' visual attention skills, the skills required to keeping track of several different things at the same time--not unlike a pilot keeping track of a row of several engine dials simultaneously.3 Researchers measured participants' response time to two events at two locations on a computer screen, where one target icon appeared more often than another. Predictably, participants who were expert players of Robot Battle (scoring above 200,000) had faster response times than participants who were novice players (scoring below 20,000). But after five hours of playing the game Robotron, all participants responded significantly faster to the target at the low probability position on the screen, demonstrating a causal relationship between playing a computer game and improving strategies for keeping track of events at multiple locations.
So there's more than just getting a job - there's actually advancing mental development.
I know Lucas isn't the most popular round here at the moment, but I still like this line by Sir Alec Guiness: "In my experience, there's no such thing as luck"
Please note: brown keyboard not included