Hibernation on linux at least used to work exactly like this (the newer version might just load the entire memory image, though). In my experience the problem with this system was that it takes long enough that you might as well just start from scratch. The thing is, ignoring the exact state of the applications you had open, there's no reason this should theoretically be faster than booting so it would probably just be better to but more effort into booting faster in the first place.
If Negroponte was unsatisfid with sugar, why not just ditch it for a normal linux distribution? At least that would preserve the openness, inexpensiveness, and allow the OLPC project control. It's not like the sugar project and windows xp were the only options.
If you don't know what sort of device you're looking at before you start studying it, then you've learned a great deal about what the creator was trying to accomplish when you understand that it is a TV.
The expected cost (probability of being sued * penalty) of a pirated game is still lower then the cost of buying the game. Unless they start suing several orders of magnitude more people, they will have to jack up the penalties pretty high to make it piracy have a higher expected cost. These expensive penalties always get publicized, but people forget that you have to consider the chance of getting sued as well.
In the book Consciousness Explained, published in 1991, Daniel Dennet described an experiment that had been done in which people were given a button that would cause something to happen when pushed, while their brains were being scanned in some way. However, in reality the button did nothing, and it was the scanning that triggered the result. The scientists found that if the set the delay between the scanning and the result short enough, people would feel like the result happened before they had actually decided to push the button.
The problem is, allowing the drm to expire basically requires either the drm to still be working when the copyright expires (to have the server change the restrictions to allow conversion to a normal format), trusting the company to distribute an open version when the copyright expires, or having some sort of escrow system. The first two options require too much trust, and the third one requires a major change in copyright law (back to mandatory registration) as well as a lot of infrastructure so the government can distribute public domain works.
Please, no. We have only recently gotten to the point where power management and suspend-to-ram work properly on linux. This is because buggy ACPI code has been the norm. Even now, so many laptops have bad cpu frequency scaling information in their bios; luckily, linux can throw this out and determine the correct values. This specific bug is also probably a result of bad bios code having problems with various kernels.
Windows has similar problems for the same reason; ACPI is a hideous monstrosity that is notoriously difficult to implement correctly.
There is an implementation of.net for linux called mono and it appears to have asp.net support. I don't know about asp.net specifically, or the quality of the support in monodevelop or other ide's, but mono is extremely impressive and you should definitely give it a try! Actually, you could even install mono on windows first to check it out. Don't listen to people who give you a hard time for wanting to use asp.net on linux; you should use whatever development tools work for you. Trying linux will also make it easier to try out other languages or web frameworks if you ever want to. Also, if you can insure your programs work under linux, it might be extremely beneficial for your company. Anyway, there's no reason not to give it a try, so good luck!
There is one linux distribution that has made a big deal out of renaming these directories, but the truth is that it's really not worth the effort. Regardless of the directories' names, you have to learn what's actually in them. Renaming "usr" to "Programs" isn't going to make it any easier for a new user to understand what's going on without reading documentation. This fact is illustrated by both OS X and Windows, whose filesystems, despite having somewhat more descriptive names, are nonetheless completely unintuitive. This is not to disparage those operating systems. Although much could be done to make windows's filesystem layout more sensible for example, there is no reason to expect it could ever be intuitive.
You are a moderate?! You would throw out the constitution and the fundamental principles of the American justice system just for the sake of preventing child pornography; that is the least moderate position I've ever seen on the issue. In reality, you are the one who believes that humans are perfect: you trust that given unlimited power the police wouldn't convict innocent men, when in reality they make such mistakes even with the limited power they have been granted. I'm sure you sincerely believe that catching every crime is more important than protecting the rights of the innocent, but consider th possibility that, as you say, you can't have one without the other.
The OP is wrong because there is no "The Community". However, you are also wrong if you believe Ubuntu, whose creators have certain ideological principles, has some obligation to you to include proprietary drivers. Moreover, considering the way companies tend to deprecate (and refuse to update proprietary drivers for) old cards, I'd say that linux actually has better hardware support than windows (consider how many graphics cards and printers won't work with xp or Vista!). Linux just lacks support for the most recent cards. Moreover, proprietary drivers create support problems and can make the system unstable.
In short, you are free to install the drivers yourself on an Ubuntu system or to use a different distribution. Just don't think that the people who dedicate their own time to improving linux owe you anything.
This is absolutely true. In fact, this is the purpose of encyclopedias in general! Every time wikipedia comes up on slashdot, people complain about students relying on wikipedia when writing papers. I find this somewhat amusing, since even in elementary school, when I was first taught about doing research, my teacher told me that encyclopedias should be used only to provide a broad overview of a topic to guide further investigation. The "pedia" is in "encyclopedia" because they were originally intended for children; that has changed somewhat, but expecting them to be authoritative is a mistake in the first place.
I believe they are actually talking about using normal DVI outputs on computers when playing hd content, since vista doesn't allow this for HD-DVDs normally.
Yeah, they'd better start suing public libraries; their catalogs tell people where to get copyrighted information, a clear violation of the creator's rights.
Uhh, no, that would be copyright infringement. It's more like you are showing ads before your squirrel movie and someone publishes at what time the actual movie starts. Do you think that should be illegal?
Actually, as long as a book is by a small publisher, even if it is very popular, the Book Fair usually won't have it; I guess since they sort by publisher, they don't bother ordering from publishers they don't have a shelf for. For example, consider the Dalkey Archive Press: their translation of the French novel Television, for example, was very well-received, had a very positive write-up in the New York Times, and is available in most libraries and bookstores, but I don't think the Book Fair has every had a single copy. I'm also fond of the small sci-fi publisher Nightshade Books, but you can't find any of their books there either. Frankly, the only reason to go to the Book Fair is the bargain books section which makes up for the other annoyances.
Try the scrapbook plugin for firefox. Most of the pages I've captured with it weren't too crazy, but I've never seen it fail. For example, I've used it to save pages from the new version of the amazon.com "search inside this book" feature, which is quite ajaxified.
In ubuntu, as in debian, there is complete source package for every binary package. Should you read the appropriate documentation, or even google, you could easily download the source package corresponding to the kernel package. Perhaps you were told to "fuck off" because you were too lazy to google before being rude?
The NYT ad was worth the money, because there was a ridiculous amount of press about this strange phenomenon where users of a browser were so moved as to donate money for its promotion.
Creations like these videos may not in and of themself attract users. However, the effort people put into promoting firefox will continue to raise awareness.
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Hibernation on linux at least used to work exactly like this (the newer version might just load the entire memory image, though). In my experience the problem with this system was that it takes long enough that you might as well just start from scratch. The thing is, ignoring the exact state of the applications you had open, there's no reason this should theoretically be faster than booting so it would probably just be better to but more effort into booting faster in the first place.
If Negroponte was unsatisfid with sugar, why not just ditch it for a normal linux distribution? At least that would preserve the openness, inexpensiveness, and allow the OLPC project control. It's not like the sugar project and windows xp were the only options.
If you don't know what sort of device you're looking at before you start studying it, then you've learned a great deal about what the creator was trying to accomplish when you understand that it is a TV.
The expected cost (probability of being sued * penalty) of a pirated game is still lower then the cost of buying the game. Unless they start suing several orders of magnitude more people, they will have to jack up the penalties pretty high to make it piracy have a higher expected cost. These expensive penalties always get publicized, but people forget that you have to consider the chance of getting sued as well.
In the book Consciousness Explained, published in 1991, Daniel Dennet described an experiment that had been done in which people were given a button that would cause something to happen when pushed, while their brains were being scanned in some way. However, in reality the button did nothing, and it was the scanning that triggered the result. The scientists found that if the set the delay between the scanning and the result short enough, people would feel like the result happened before they had actually decided to push the button.
C) give them a little money, stop distributing it, and don't release the source.
The problem is, allowing the drm to expire basically requires either the drm to still be working when the copyright expires (to have the server change the restrictions to allow conversion to a normal format), trusting the company to distribute an open version when the copyright expires, or having some sort of escrow system. The first two options require too much trust, and the third one requires a major change in copyright law (back to mandatory registration) as well as a lot of infrastructure so the government can distribute public domain works.
Please, no. We have only recently gotten to the point where power management and suspend-to-ram work properly on linux. This is because buggy ACPI code has been the norm. Even now, so many laptops have bad cpu frequency scaling information in their bios; luckily, linux can throw this out and determine the correct values. This specific bug is also probably a result of bad bios code having problems with various kernels. Windows has similar problems for the same reason; ACPI is a hideous monstrosity that is notoriously difficult to implement correctly.
There is an implementation of .net for linux called mono and it appears to have asp.net support. I don't know about asp.net specifically, or the quality of the support in monodevelop or other ide's, but mono is extremely impressive and you should definitely give it a try! Actually, you could even install mono on windows first to check it out. Don't listen to people who give you a hard time for wanting to use asp.net on linux; you should use whatever development tools work for you. Trying linux will also make it easier to try out other languages or web frameworks if you ever want to. Also, if you can insure your programs work under linux, it might be extremely beneficial for your company. Anyway, there's no reason not to give it a try, so good luck!
It is somewhat overly pedantic to claim that /boot is for "bootstrap", but "boot" actually derives itself as an abbreviation for that word.
There is one linux distribution that has made a big deal out of renaming these directories, but the truth is that it's really not worth the effort. Regardless of the directories' names, you have to learn what's actually in them. Renaming "usr" to "Programs" isn't going to make it any easier for a new user to understand what's going on without reading documentation. This fact is illustrated by both OS X and Windows, whose filesystems, despite having somewhat more descriptive names, are nonetheless completely unintuitive. This is not to disparage those operating systems. Although much could be done to make windows's filesystem layout more sensible for example, there is no reason to expect it could ever be intuitive.
You are a moderate?! You would throw out the constitution and the fundamental principles of the American justice system just for the sake of preventing child pornography; that is the least moderate position I've ever seen on the issue. In reality, you are the one who believes that humans are perfect: you trust that given unlimited power the police wouldn't convict innocent men, when in reality they make such mistakes even with the limited power they have been granted. I'm sure you sincerely believe that catching every crime is more important than protecting the rights of the innocent, but consider th possibility that, as you say, you can't have one without the other.
The OP is wrong because there is no "The Community". However, you are also wrong if you believe Ubuntu, whose creators have certain ideological principles, has some obligation to you to include proprietary drivers. Moreover, considering the way companies tend to deprecate (and refuse to update proprietary drivers for) old cards, I'd say that linux actually has better hardware support than windows (consider how many graphics cards and printers won't work with xp or Vista!). Linux just lacks support for the most recent cards. Moreover, proprietary drivers create support problems and can make the system unstable.
In short, you are free to install the drivers yourself on an Ubuntu system or to use a different distribution. Just don't think that the people who dedicate their own time to improving linux owe you anything.
This is absolutely true. In fact, this is the purpose of encyclopedias in general! Every time wikipedia comes up on slashdot, people complain about students relying on wikipedia when writing papers. I find this somewhat amusing, since even in elementary school, when I was first taught about doing research, my teacher told me that encyclopedias should be used only to provide a broad overview of a topic to guide further investigation. The "pedia" is in "encyclopedia" because they were originally intended for children; that has changed somewhat, but expecting them to be authoritative is a mistake in the first place.
I believe they are actually talking about using normal DVI outputs on computers when playing hd content, since vista doesn't allow this for HD-DVDs normally.
Yeah, they'd better start suing public libraries; their catalogs tell people where to get copyrighted information, a clear violation of the creator's rights.
Uhh, no, that would be copyright infringement. It's more like you are showing ads before your squirrel movie and someone publishes at what time the actual movie starts. Do you think that should be illegal?
Actually, as long as a book is by a small publisher, even if it is very popular, the Book Fair usually won't have it; I guess since they sort by publisher, they don't bother ordering from publishers they don't have a shelf for. For example, consider the Dalkey Archive Press: their translation of the French novel Television, for example, was very well-received, had a very positive write-up in the New York Times, and is available in most libraries and bookstores, but I don't think the Book Fair has every had a single copy. I'm also fond of the small sci-fi publisher Nightshade Books, but you can't find any of their books there either. Frankly, the only reason to go to the Book Fair is the bargain books section which makes up for the other annoyances.
Try the scrapbook plugin for firefox. Most of the pages I've captured with it weren't too crazy, but I've never seen it fail. For example, I've used it to save pages from the new version of the amazon.com "search inside this book" feature, which is quite ajaxified.
Considering that the article is talking about collaborative "blogs" such as slashdot and not personal blogs, your comment is somewhat ironic.
In ubuntu, as in debian, there is complete source package for every binary package. Should you read the appropriate documentation, or even google, you could easily download the source package corresponding to the kernel package. Perhaps you were told to "fuck off" because you were too lazy to google before being rude?
I do!
The NYT ad was worth the money, because there was a ridiculous amount of press about this strange phenomenon where users of a browser were so moved as to donate money for its promotion. Creations like these videos may not in and of themself attract users. However, the effort people put into promoting firefox will continue to raise awareness.
Or you could just shoot people with the very powerful laser..
The objection is that it is a national ID card!