I can easily think of a use. First one that came to mind was to put one of these in my//gs. Or better, put one in all 6 of them. Yeah, it's just for 8-bit right now, but I'd bet somebody will create a driver for GS/OS before long.
So, the first time you hopped on a bike and fell down you gave up? How about the 10th time? Eventually you figured out how to ride a bike, but it took a couple of times to get it right. (for those who can't actually ride a bike, substitute something appropriate, such as learning to read).
Honestly, when I first saw the name I thought Lin-dows. Admittedly it only took a couple of seconds to turn it into L-indows, but I mainly think of it the first way.
These toys aren't dangerous because of small parts... They're "dangerous" because they promote violence in kids.
Pooking at the site's main page, that is exactly what they are talking about. sorry,/.er reading MORE than the article here.
I have yet to see any well-controlled study linking violent toys/games with violent behavious later in life.
Personally, I don't really need a study to tell me shat I can see from my own thoughts. When Doom first came out, I could get really drawn into the game, and I could easily see how somebody with less maturity than myself could get really freaked out by what went on in the game. I was about 25 at the time, and I would NEVER let a child of mine anywhere near similar games. True, the article is about action figures (mostly), but I think violence can still affect kids.
Foreverbright? lights are built with patent pending circuitry to maximize efficiency of their LEDs. This revolutionary design concept eliminates the use of traditional components that add to cost and generate heat. While details are proprietary, in essence the circuitry allows the LEDs to flash on and off with AC power.
Let me guess, and LED in parallel with a regular diode running n the oposite direction, and a resistor.
I was reading through the article, and one question kept coming to my mind. It's great that they are coming up with higher bw busses, but it seems it will only help for I/O. What about memory? I know we have the 266MHz (I think) DDR memory, but how much is that really helping? How will memory access be affected by all of this?
So, why can't we just do like something that the article kind of hints at: +5,0,-5, or some similar? On the hardware level this doesn't seem like it would be overly hard to do, as we already do something similar in serial communication.
As far as I am aware there are no vendors that offer an ssh-like encrypted login for network equipment.
Actually, Cisco's higher end equipment does allow ssh-encrypted logins. I know for a fact that the 6509 line allows this, as I use it almost daily. You may have to pay for the upgrade, but it IS possible
I'd like to add another dimension to this arguement. I've been wondering something, and I haven't heard/seen it mentioned elsewhere. Assume that the US government passes laws to require backdoors. Do they honestly expect some terrorist, who already has some encryption software, be it GPL or otherwise, to suddenly decide that he needs to be inline with law, and get some new software with a backdoor? In other words, how will this help. Those who are 'law abiding' would get the newer software, but the lawbreakers won't. Seems rather pointless to me.
Looks like the keyboard would be great to use for short term stuff - quick memos, notes, whatnot - but I'm wondering what sorts of problems people might have with long term use of one of these. With two hands, each hand is working about 1/2 as hard, and people still end up with carpal tunnel and such. What will using one hand exclusively do?
Sounds like a good idea, but I'd be worried about the peer review part of the publishing process. Assume somebody finds some errors (minor or otherwise) in a particular paper. How would the 'good' paper be put in to circulation and the 'bad' paper removed? Unless I misunderstand Napster, etc., both copies would be running around causing confusion about which is the correct paper.
I think his point was that the need for commercial vendors to either program for multiple GUIs or choose one GUI is what will prevent them from offering much software for Linux (and the various BSDs, for that matter). Now, whether the above statement is actually true or not is another matter. For instance, Netscape seems to work equally well in both KDE and Gnome, as do many other packages.
As to the interview on a whole, I think some things he answered fairly well, and some he completely missed the question (i.e. Kerberos). It was, at least, somewhat interesting to hear another point of view to the general MS vs. Everybody Else question.
I bring all of my dead batteries to Rat Shack. Yes, they actually have a purpose. Also, I recall hearing somewhere that legally, any place that sells batteries are supposed to accept old batteries for recycling, although I've never actually tries bringing one to Target to find out. I'm afraid they'd just throw it away, defeating the purpose.
I just moved down to Madison, and was reminded of another stupid Ameritech policy: In order to remain unpublished, and therefore off their lists to sell to everybody, I'd have to pay over $4 a month to keep my privacy! Even better, IMHO, is that there is no way to prevent caller id from being used on me whenever I call. Yes, I can dial *67, or whatever, per call, but I can never remember to do so. Telcos can be so annoying. At least I can get the anti-slam thing.
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I can easily think of a use. First one that came to mind was to put one of these in my //gs. Or better, put one in all 6 of them. Yeah, it's just for 8-bit right now, but I'd bet somebody will create a driver for GS/OS before long.
So, the first time you hopped on a bike and fell down you gave up? How about the 10th time? Eventually you figured out how to ride a bike, but it took a couple of times to get it right. (for those who can't actually ride a bike, substitute something appropriate, such as learning to read).
-I know I've got a sig around here somewhere...
Honestly, when I first saw the name I thought Lin-dows. Admittedly it only took a couple of seconds to turn it into L-indows, but I mainly think of it the first way.
and this is not the same as this how?
So, how long before the tree gets /.-ed? "Yeah, I was crusing the 'net, and I crashed a tree!" 'Tis the season, I guess :)
Merry Christmas all!
Joe
Pooking at the site's main page, that is exactly what they are talking about. sorry, /.er reading MORE than the article here.
I have yet to see any well-controlled study linking violent toys/games with violent behavious later in life.
Personally, I don't really need a study to tell me shat I can see from my own thoughts. When Doom first came out, I could get really drawn into the game, and I could easily see how somebody with less maturity than myself could get really freaked out by what went on in the game. I was about 25 at the time, and I would NEVER let a child of mine anywhere near similar games. True, the article is about action figures (mostly), but I think violence can still affect kids.
Let me guess, and LED in parallel with a regular diode running n the oposite direction, and a resistor.
is that radiation at one level is used to kill cancer, but at another level is able to create cancer. Just felt like saying that. Thank you.
I know I've got a sig around here somewhere...
I was reading through the article, and one question kept coming to my mind. It's great that they are coming up with higher bw busses, but it seems it will only help for I/O. What about memory? I know we have the 266MHz (I think) DDR memory, but how much is that really helping? How will memory access be affected by all of this?
sigged out...
So, why can't we just do like something that the article kind of hints at: +5,0,-5, or some similar? On the hardware level this doesn't seem like it would be overly hard to do, as we already do something similar in serial communication.
As far as I am aware there are no vendors that offer an ssh-like encrypted login for network equipment.
Actually, Cisco's higher end equipment does allow ssh-encrypted logins. I know for a fact that the 6509 line allows this, as I use it almost daily. You may have to pay for the upgrade, but it IS possible
I'd like to add another dimension to this arguement. I've been wondering something, and I haven't heard/seen it mentioned elsewhere. Assume that the US government passes laws to require backdoors. Do they honestly expect some terrorist, who already has some encryption software, be it GPL or otherwise, to suddenly decide that he needs to be inline with law, and get some new software with a backdoor? In other words, how will this help. Those who are 'law abiding' would get the newer software, but the lawbreakers won't. Seems rather pointless to me.
Joe
Sorry, can't think of a good sig right now
Looks like the keyboard would be great to use for short term stuff - quick memos, notes, whatnot - but I'm wondering what sorts of problems people might have with long term use of one of these. With two hands, each hand is working about 1/2 as hard, and people still end up with carpal tunnel and such. What will using one hand exclusively do?
Sounds like a good idea, but I'd be worried about the peer review part of the publishing process. Assume somebody finds some errors (minor or otherwise) in a particular paper. How would the 'good' paper be put in to circulation and the 'bad' paper removed? Unless I misunderstand Napster, etc., both copies would be running around causing confusion about which is the correct paper.
I think his point was that the need for commercial vendors to either program for multiple GUIs or choose one GUI is what will prevent them from offering much software for Linux (and the various BSDs, for that matter). Now, whether the above statement is actually true or not is another matter. For instance, Netscape seems to work equally well in both KDE and Gnome, as do many other packages.
As to the interview on a whole, I think some things he answered fairly well, and some he completely missed the question (i.e. Kerberos). It was, at least, somewhat interesting to hear another point of view to the general MS vs. Everybody Else question.
I bring all of my dead batteries to Rat Shack. Yes, they actually have a purpose. Also, I recall hearing somewhere that legally, any place that sells batteries are supposed to accept old batteries for recycling, although I've never actually tries bringing one to Target to find out. I'm afraid they'd just throw it away, defeating the purpose.
I just moved down to Madison, and was reminded of another stupid Ameritech policy: In order to remain unpublished, and therefore off their lists to sell to everybody, I'd have to pay over $4 a month to keep my privacy! Even better, IMHO, is that there is no way to prevent caller id from being used on me whenever I call. Yes, I can dial *67, or whatever, per call, but I can never remember to do so. Telcos can be so annoying. At least I can get the anti-slam thing.