I think you miss some of the main selling points of netbooks: they are incredibly cheap, incredibly light, and can still do almost everything you would use a standard computer for (but that couldn't be done on an ipad). These things include
writing a report/essay
basic statistics work
PDF annotation
ssh to a more powerful computer
The people that buy netbooks already have other computers, but want an extremely portable way to do all of the above, and do it using the same software they use on their 'main' computer.
Yes, but once rendered, it should be pretty easy on the cpu. (on my computer it constantly hits at about 50% of one processor)
Interestingly, with Safari on Mac, if you zoom in or out it does a sort of recurrent zoom in or out, so maybe tiger image continually rerenders...
I'm also surprised there's no "disorderly conduct" in there. That's usually a pretty good catch-all for "we don't really like you or what you're doing"
IQ test is supposed to measure 'raw' intelligence. My point is that that's a ridiculous thing to try to measure. Intelligence is an interpretation humans put on other humans, not an objective quality like mass or location. It's like trying to construct an 'interestingness quotient' and then making absolute statements about the 'raw' interestingness of one person vs another.
Of course not, I'm simply replying to the gp's argument that African Americans and European Americans come from the "same culture", and that IQ tests are therefore some sort of objective measure of intelligence. I deliberately picked an example that conflates race and wealth to make the point that 'culture' is not some homogeneous substance that is based exclusively on political boundaries.
The even more obvious solution is just running some simple copper in the same cable. DC power over copper is extremely easy to transmit, won't interfere with the optical data transmission, and has no practical distance limits. Also, it'd be way more efficient than photovoltaics.
Untrue! Anyone in the admin group (including the default user) can overwrite anything in the global/Applications directory with no authentication required. That's how "drag to install" works in the first place!
That's right, but to avoid further misinformation,/Applications/ is the only system-wide directory it can hit (also/Developer/ if you have XCode installed). Actual OS files can't be affected.
I think applications are a sort of awkward part of the *nix security/permissions model. On a desktop machine you really want them to be both user-editable, but also accessible across logins.
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How about Nature?
The people that buy netbooks already have other computers, but want an extremely portable way to do all of the above, and do it using the same software they use on their 'main' computer.
right you are, ac.
McHammer... who?
Indeed. Is McHammer some sort of Irish rapper who wears a super baggy kilt?
Interestingly, with Safari on Mac, if you zoom in or out it does a sort of recurrent zoom in or out, so maybe tiger image continually rerenders...
in any case very cool piece of software.
I'm also surprised there's no "disorderly conduct" in there. That's usually a pretty good catch-all for "we don't really like you or what you're doing"
umm... nevermind.
why isn't there a moderation category for 'creepy'?
Is it spam, or is it shellcode? things like "this treatementOur goal" look fishy to me.
wow, i didn't know such a (relatively) stable mac version was available... thanks for the link.
zing
IQ test is supposed to measure 'raw' intelligence. My point is that that's a ridiculous thing to try to measure. Intelligence is an interpretation humans put on other humans, not an objective quality like mass or location. It's like trying to construct an 'interestingness quotient' and then making absolute statements about the 'raw' interestingness of one person vs another.
Of course not, I'm simply replying to the gp's argument that African Americans and European Americans come from the "same culture", and that IQ tests are therefore some sort of objective measure of intelligence. I deliberately picked an example that conflates race and wealth to make the point that 'culture' is not some homogeneous substance that is based exclusively on political boundaries.
Visit a boarding school in Connecticut and then a public school on the south side of Chicago, then try to make the 'same culture' argument.
If you're getting over 101% of all phishing scams with your filters turned off, then you might want to consider a new email address.
The even more obvious solution is just running some simple copper in the same cable. DC power over copper is extremely easy to transmit, won't interfere with the optical data transmission, and has no practical distance limits. Also, it'd be way more efficient than photovoltaics.
Flip I sure hope debian, will jump on this, for the next release.
Kirk? Is that you?
Untrue! Anyone in the admin group (including the default user) can overwrite anything in the global /Applications directory with no authentication required. That's how "drag to install" works in the first place!
That's right, but to avoid further misinformation, /Applications/ is the only system-wide directory it can hit (also /Developer/ if you have XCode installed). Actual OS files can't be affected.
I think applications are a sort of awkward part of the *nix security/permissions model. On a desktop machine you really want them to be both user-editable, but also accessible across logins.
can we tag this with 'compoundword'?
"organic" meaning carbon-based is as much a neologism as "organic" meaning non-synthetic, so get down of your highly educated horse already.
Is that supposed to be an argument that we shouldn't care about ethics? Most other species also don't cook their food.
Where is this evolutionary totem pole you refer to?
(I'm not sure 'evolution' means what you think it does)
rfid? door opener? the device you mention is neither of these.
The new result leads to the possibility that the prior results are not accurate
Or Fermilab's results may not be accurate.
The link in the summary links to a digg article that links to the actual content at moblin.org.
That should be fixed.