While true, and cool, remember that not everyone lives in the US. Google's movie search is useless to me, but Yahoo's knows my Canadian town precisely.
And I don't know what you're smoking, but my Yahoo movie search results link directly to my local theatre. I can only assume it would do the same in the US.
Imagine this - if Google could provide a good UI and simple but feature rich interface, I could log onto the equivalent of Google FeedReader and add my feeds there.
A sort of Google-news for RSS feeds, of sorts.
If you are willing and able to get into the wire room by any means ( either by breaking in, or sneaking in, or even walking in ), why would you bother with the password? You could just insall a hidden tap and be done with it.
Rights are a human invention, and what "fundamental rights" you *think* you have or should have or should not have are a direct result of the culture in which you were raised.
As another intelligent poster put it - The only right you are born with is the right to die.
The main reason people buy a wireless mouse and is not so that they can cart their stuff off to a remote chair 30 feet away at will ( why would you ever do that? Could you even see the screen??? ), it is simply because a wireless mouse means no more fighting with the cord when you are dragging it around and the cord gets lightly jammed against something on the desk.
A mouse pad does not move. Hence no problems with it's cord being tangled.
Imagine we do indeed have atom-by-atom replicating software in thr future.
If I take a coffee mug, and replicate it atom-by-atom, it is still not the original. It is a copy. It is a perfect copy, to be sure, but a copy nonetheless.
If you could indeed copy your consciousness to a computer before death, that would not save you from dieing. *You* would still die. *You* will lose consciousness and fade into nothing. The copy will live on.
You, as your current self, will gain nothing at all from this procedure. You will still die and not have any idea what the copy does or thinks, because you will cease to exist. Maybe if you consider youself to be a great man, then you could argue that society gains from not having lost your presence. But who would be that vain? Not me.
GCJ can already compile and run Eclipse, which is one of the most complex Java apps out there. I doubt compiling OPenOffice 2.0's Java code into.so format would be a huge hurdle.
Er... so this means that if I disconnect my local phone service, then the line to my house will oxidize and I would be unable to re-connect it next year?
Yeah... total BS. You need the *voltage* but not *dial tone*. The only thing standing in the way of naked DSL in Canada is that Bell wants to force you to get a landline.
There is a reason none of these VR interfaces never go anywhere. The human body is not designed to hold it's arms suspended in mid-air for extende dperiods of time.
Try it yourself - stick your hands in front of the monitor, a bit below level with your shoulders. Feel free to move them around as if you are "manipulating".
Now, see how long you can hold them up there before your shoulders give out.
Now compare that to how long you can use a keyboard and mouse in one session.
.. where to copy a file from one side of the room to the other, they essentially use a ***giant floppy disk***? Sure, it was a cool floppy disk, with live action video playing on it, but still... its a floppy disk.
You'd have thunk that by the time they had perfected 3D holography and VR manipulation, they could at least have kept up with some high-capacity networking. I guess not - floppys are the future!
Moreover, there is no reason to believe that operation
should not extend all the way down to absolute zero.
Isn't there a limit as to the speed increase you can achieve by cooling electronics? Surely as you approack 0k, the speed of the electrons themselves must be being reduced.
This paves the way for Linux users to be vulnerable to a virus that spreads by sending itself as email attachments which unsuspecting users then open. Could the first real Linux virus be drawing near?
No. Not unless you are for some ungodly reason running your OpenOffice as root and reading your email with it. The virus could not replicate to the operating system, so it's impact is minimal . Yes, it *could* delete the contents of your ~/. But you have that backed up, right? Right.
No, its only strange because you have to learn it from scratch. Is not more difficult than a current WIMP "point-and-click" interface is for novice users. Actually it's easier - more consistent, more simple, you don't have to think what you want to do in advance.
I am really wick of this argument - namely, because there *are* no users anymore who don't know the WIMP interface. It is what everyone in the world has used for the past 30 years to control their PC. The ship has sailed guys - seriously. The mouse has drawbacks, but not enough to justify the cost required to adopt a non-WIMP interface - and there is always a cost. Even if you are somehow a novice who has never used a WIMP interface before (who is this again? Two year olds are using WIMP these days...) you would still be at a disadvantage, because even if you were marginally more productive with this interface, the fact that you are now incompatible with the rest of the world makes it not worth it. It like someone coming along today proclaiming they have a great new interface for driving a car, that uses something other than a wheel. It doesn't matter *how* good the idea is, or how simple the UI is - the cost to adopt is too great.
Short of whenever we get direct brain manipulation, it is highly doubtful that there is ever going to be any major use of a non-WIMP interface in computing, ever.
CentOS is just re-compiled RHE - as such, you can be assured that the kernel and patchsets it comes with is rock-solid and tested through and through. You can not say the same thing about Fedora and Ubuntu - no matter how good you perceive them to be, they have simply not had the same rigorous QA cycle.
When you are talking about deploying an OS onto a crapload of workstations at either a University or company, it is not important if they support the latest USB doo-dads out of box, or that they have the fanciest desktop effects. What is important is that they are stable and solid, because you as the administrator don't want to be messing with them all day.
More like they can have *their* bandwidth whenever they want. Read your TOS more closely, the liklihood of there *not* being a clause that allows them to change or ammend the TOS at will is extremely low.
ISPs resell bandwidth according to the 80/20 model - that only 20% of their users use 80% ore more of their capacity. As soon as users start skewing those numbers, they begin to lose money, and if they are skewed enough, they can start to be actually selling the bandwidth at a loss.
An ISP is a business. BUsinesses do not like to lose money. As soon as it is not profitable for you to be consuming the bandwidth anymore (say if, for example, projected costs of lawsuits against them outweigh the revenue from you as a customer), they will drop you. And don't pretend they will lose any sleep over it either - if losing a customer amounts to a net gain in profit margin, then they won.
Seeing how Portage's temp location where it extracts it's archives and does all its compiling is/var/tmp, I would think that would be the key area to optimize, not/tmp. Portage doesn't use/tmp for anything important.
Other thean resolution issues ( where have you seen a webcam that can capture at 1600x1200??? ) this is trivial to do in *NIX. Just use mplayer to play your webcam feed using their v4l input, and play it on the root window.
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Great, unless you can't find it on the web when you need it. Or you need a newer version since you upgraded some software, or you need an older version than the one you did burn, or you can't install just the driver without having the super-duper-install-drivers and-tons-of-crap-you-don't-need CD.
You are totally missing the point. The parent said to get all the latest versions of the drivers off the web and burn them to one CD. There is no need to keep 15 CDs around for 15 piceces of hardware when the drivers only take 20MB or less on each CD.
I can back up everything important on one CD. It's much easier to do a full backup once a week than to do an incremental backup since I don't have any backup software to figure out which of the 8,000 files changed. Some of us work from home and might just need to grab some file from a month ago.
So you can back up everything on one CD - fantastic! So, why do you ever need more than 2 backup CDRWs then? One for current backup, one for the last one. If everything you need to back up fit son one CD, you don't need to keep a stockpile of old backups around.
What? And jettison my 400 SVCD collection of my former VHS collection of crappy sci-fi movies?!? Why, just yesterday I watched episode 3 of Space:1999 ("Black Sun"), and I liked it!
You need to look at this logically. Assuming you are an averagely busy person who has time to watch 2-3 movies a week, if you have a 400 SVCD collection of movies, even assuming that you watched only those movies for an entire year, the odds of you watching any given one of those movies is less than 0.5%. Assuming you do other things than watch crappy old movies (like watch crappy new ones), your eyes will probbaly never even look at 75% of that colleciton for your whole life.
Go through them, pick out your true favorites, toss the rest. You will thank yourself later when your GF stops calling your place a hellhole and starts spending time there.
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While true, and cool, remember that not everyone lives in the US. Google's movie search is useless to me, but Yahoo's knows my Canadian town precisely.
And I don't know what you're smoking, but my Yahoo movie search results link directly to my local theatre. I can only assume it would do the same in the US.
"backpack" (nylon/cloth).
You will be needing it to carry your umpteen devices.
I'll stick with my GX32 that does all that and fits in my palm, thanks.
Imagine this - if Google could provide a good UI and simple but feature rich interface, I could log onto the equivalent of Google FeedReader and add my feeds there. A sort of Google-news for RSS feeds, of sorts.
You mean like this?
My Yahoo! has been doing this for 2+ years now. Google is playing catch-up.
Or you could just do wget -m 'http://somesite/gallery/' and save yourself both typing and exec time.
If you are willing and able to get into the wire room by any means ( either by breaking in, or sneaking in, or even walking in ), why would you bother with the password? You could just insall a hidden tap and be done with it.
BS
Rights are a human invention, and what "fundamental rights" you *think* you have or should have or should not have are a direct result of the culture in which you were raised.
As another intelligent poster put it - The only right you are born with is the right to die.
The main reason people buy a wireless mouse and is not so that they can cart their stuff off to a remote chair 30 feet away at will ( why would you ever do that? Could you even see the screen??? ), it is simply because a wireless mouse means no more fighting with the cord when you are dragging it around and the cord gets lightly jammed against something on the desk.
A mouse pad does not move. Hence no problems with it's cord being tangled.
Imagine we do indeed have atom-by-atom replicating software in thr future.
If I take a coffee mug, and replicate it atom-by-atom, it is still not the original. It is a copy. It is a perfect copy, to be sure, but a copy nonetheless.
If you could indeed copy your consciousness to a computer before death, that would not save you from dieing. *You* would still die. *You* will lose consciousness and fade into nothing. The copy will live on.
You, as your current self, will gain nothing at all from this procedure. You will still die and not have any idea what the copy does or thinks, because you will cease to exist. Maybe if you consider youself to be a great man, then you could argue that society gains from not having lost your presence. But who would be that vain? Not me.
GCJ can already compile and run Eclipse, which is one of the most complex Java apps out there. I doubt compiling OPenOffice 2.0's Java code into .so format would be a huge hurdle.
Er... so this means that if I disconnect my local phone service, then the line to my house will oxidize and I would be unable to re-connect it next year?
Yeah... total BS. You need the *voltage* but not *dial tone*. The only thing standing in the way of naked DSL in Canada is that Bell wants to force you to get a landline.
For one thing, an orchestra conductor's hands are *frequently* at his sides for periods throughout the piece.
For another, I don't know of many people conducing 8 hour symphonys 5 nights a week.
There is a reason none of these VR interfaces never go anywhere. The human body is not designed to hold it's arms suspended in mid-air for extende dperiods of time.
Try it yourself - stick your hands in front of the monitor, a bit below level with your shoulders. Feel free to move them around as if you are "manipulating".
Now, see how long you can hold them up there before your shoulders give out.
Now compare that to how long you can use a keyboard and mouse in one session.
It is not even in the same ballpark.
.. where to copy a file from one side of the room to the other, they essentially use a ***giant floppy disk***? Sure, it was a cool floppy disk, with live action video playing on it, but still... its a floppy disk.
You'd have thunk that by the time they had perfected 3D holography and VR manipulation, they could at least have kept up with some high-capacity networking. I guess not - floppys are the future!
Moreover, there is no reason to believe that operation should not extend all the way down to absolute zero.
Isn't there a limit as to the speed increase you can achieve by cooling electronics? Surely as you approack 0k, the speed of the electrons themselves must be being reduced.
This paves the way for Linux users to be vulnerable to a virus that spreads by sending itself as email attachments which unsuspecting users then open. Could the first real Linux virus be drawing near?
No. Not unless you are for some ungodly reason running your OpenOffice as root and reading your email with it. The virus could not replicate to the operating system, so it's impact is minimal . Yes, it *could* delete the contents of your ~/. But you have that backed up, right? Right.
No, its only strange because you have to learn it from scratch. Is not more difficult than a current WIMP "point-and-click" interface is for novice users. Actually it's easier - more consistent, more simple, you don't have to think what you want to do in advance.
I am really wick of this argument - namely, because there *are* no users anymore who don't know the WIMP interface. It is what everyone in the world has used for the past 30 years to control their PC. The ship has sailed guys - seriously. The mouse has drawbacks, but not enough to justify the cost required to adopt a non-WIMP interface - and there is always a cost. Even if you are somehow a novice who has never used a WIMP interface before (who is this again? Two year olds are using WIMP these days...) you would still be at a disadvantage, because even if you were marginally more productive with this interface, the fact that you are now incompatible with the rest of the world makes it not worth it. It like someone coming along today proclaiming they have a great new interface for driving a car, that uses something other than a wheel. It doesn't matter *how* good the idea is, or how simple the UI is - the cost to adopt is too great.
Short of whenever we get direct brain manipulation, it is highly doubtful that there is ever going to be any major use of a non-WIMP interface in computing, ever.
CentOS is just re-compiled RHE - as such, you can be assured that the kernel and patchsets it comes with is rock-solid and tested through and through. You can not say the same thing about Fedora and Ubuntu - no matter how good you perceive them to be, they have simply not had the same rigorous QA cycle.
When you are talking about deploying an OS onto a crapload of workstations at either a University or company, it is not important if they support the latest USB doo-dads out of box, or that they have the fanciest desktop effects. What is important is that they are stable and solid, because you as the administrator don't want to be messing with them all day.
More like they can have *their* bandwidth whenever they want. Read your TOS more closely, the liklihood of there *not* being a clause that allows them to change or ammend the TOS at will is extremely low.
ISPs resell bandwidth according to the 80/20 model - that only 20% of their users use 80% ore more of their capacity. As soon as users start skewing those numbers, they begin to lose money, and if they are skewed enough, they can start to be actually selling the bandwidth at a loss.
An ISP is a business. BUsinesses do not like to lose money. As soon as it is not profitable for you to be consuming the bandwidth anymore (say if, for example, projected costs of lawsuits against them outweigh the revenue from you as a customer), they will drop you. And don't pretend they will lose any sleep over it either - if losing a customer amounts to a net gain in profit margin, then they won.
Seeing how Portage's temp location where it extracts it's archives and does all its compiling is /var/tmp, I would think that would be the key area to optimize, not /tmp. Portage doesn't use /tmp for anything important.
Other thean resolution issues ( where have you seen a webcam that can capture at 1600x1200??? ) this is trivial to do in *NIX. Just use mplayer to play your webcam feed using their v4l input, and play it on the root window.
Great, unless you can't find it on the web when you need it. Or you need a newer version since you upgraded some software, or you need an older version than the one you did burn, or you can't install just the driver without having the super-duper-install-drivers and-tons-of-crap-you-don't-need CD.
You are totally missing the point. The parent said to get all the latest versions of the drivers off the web and burn them to one CD. There is no need to keep 15 CDs around for 15 piceces of hardware when the drivers only take 20MB or less on each CD.
I can back up everything important on one CD. It's much easier to do a full backup once a week than to do an incremental backup since I don't have any backup software to figure out which of the 8,000 files changed. Some of us work from home and might just need to grab some file from a month ago.
So you can back up everything on one CD - fantastic! So, why do you ever need more than 2 backup CDRWs then? One for current backup, one for the last one. If everything you need to back up fit son one CD, you don't need to keep a stockpile of old backups around.
What? And jettison my 400 SVCD collection of my former VHS collection of crappy sci-fi movies?!? Why, just yesterday I watched episode 3 of Space:1999 ("Black Sun"), and I liked it!
You need to look at this logically. Assuming you are an averagely busy person who has time to watch 2-3 movies a week, if you have a 400 SVCD collection of movies, even assuming that you watched only those movies for an entire year, the odds of you watching any given one of those movies is less than 0.5%. Assuming you do other things than watch crappy old movies (like watch crappy new ones), your eyes will probbaly never even look at 75% of that colleciton for your whole life.
Go through them, pick out your true favorites, toss the rest. You will thank yourself later when your GF stops calling your place a hellhole and starts spending time there.
That you recently moved to the US from Bulgeria?
Hotmail method: Collect information on people, send databases to advertisers, so that they can target ads based on groups.
GMail method: Get advertisers to say to whom they want ads to show based on keywords. Automated process selects ads based on keywords. No databases involved.
I hear they have a few Linux servers.
They'd better get to work on rebuilding that cluster on Windows Server 2003. After all, we need it to be secure!
I Wouldn't mind the cookies and ads if it knew extacly what I wanted. (finace yes, fashion no)
You mean like this?
http://my.yahoo.com
Only been aorund for 3+ years...