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The capacity of harddrive has steadily improved over the years but the performance of harddrives has improved at an abysmally slow rate. Five years ago I would have not like to see the average desktop harddive at 7200 rpm with some into 10,000. I know better options are available, but those aren't in your average home computer either.
I can't see what sun can gain my pouring money into this research. It is obvious about the competitive edges Google and Lenova (left out of the summary) can get. But why is Sun in on this?
From the article they state it ranges from 70-78 F, thats not very uncomfortable of a range to me.
And with that said, the control systems to properly pressurize and disseminate the air would add complexity and energy requirements to the system. More complexity requires more maintenance, which implies more money. This in turn signifies it is not really a viable option.
I'm not quite sure how this post got moderated up, but I will bite.
1. How are they easier to use? Because you are more familiar with the Excel method? Have you actually tried to learn the OO method? If they really are more difficult to use, please site some useability problems that are not only as a result of your old habits. 2. This proves you have not tried to learn anything about openoffice. As another poster pointed simply go --> Table: Convert: Text to Table. The option is obviously there. The help documentation tells you this and a simple online search woul dhave too. 3. I have no problems with speed. I don't see any proof of your speed problems. Have you tried doing the bvious thing, disableing java? If you don't use the wizards that takes the startup times below pre-loaded Excel.
You must have either a very bad or very selective memeory because I recall a lot of hoopla about anthrax and hearing about people in the United States dying from it. And the Patriot Act never caught them either. It only infringed on our freedoms.
Just because they had it in Windows NT 3.5/3.51 does not mean they didn't copy the concept then as well. In fact it was no more original for them to introduce it then as it is unoriginal to introduce this today.
With that said, most of the "bashing" towards MS won't be against them for doing this, since it is necessary and so obvious it had to be done it hurts, but rather against how they market these changes and their disregard for others ideas. Ironically, this is why they have the market share they do today too: marketing.
After looking over all the pretty graphs, it seems the 74gb Western Digital Raptor spanks the other drives in everything but platter density. And to push this farther I saw nothing about its reliability published. The 500gb hd isn't using the new platter technology and the 160gb drive is crippled compared to the larger brethren because of its smaller cache. The only thing I got from this review was that if I needed a drive that performs I should buy a Raptor.
It is akin to offering cigarettes to school children for free. You get them hooked early then they pay for the rest of their life (yes I borrowed this from Stallman, and poorly paraphrased too I might add). These guys firmly believe common software should be open source. Especially those wanting to find an opportunity with computers, open source offers them a free way to learn coding methods and such that they may not have access to in their schools. They get free upgrades t their machines if they wish, and do no have to fall behind in the newer software. It is a win-win situation for them.
Whether you believe in open source or not, it is hard to argue it will not benefit those who are receiving these laptops. In the future if they want to use MacOS they can pay for it themselves and leave Linux behind if they feel it will make them more productive or happy.
Seriously, I know I am replying to a troll, but Linux is about choice. If you dislike KDE, just ignore it. Nobody asked you to care about this article.
And how will this even attempt to address the environmental issues concerned with smoking?
Not only is it a useless and harmful pastime to people, it greatly hurts the environment. Up here in New England (USA) we even have stories of deer venturing onto roads to eat cigarette butts and causing accidents, all because they are addicted. It is also just unsightly to see them all over roads and sidewalks. All things considered it is harmful to everything and everyone.
Socialistic programming. We could all bunch up in our own little socialist cities, with public funds paying for heat, electricity, and our own segways!
Used to be a time we'd go to war against things such as this communistic/socialistic ideal....
I guess it is a good thing we don't war against great ideas such as these still then, huh?
Deer park firefox (1.5) includes incremental patching instead of re-downloading the entire application again. For openoffice: wait, search for an improvement request report, or get working.
That was a competition and this is hiring someone.
Besides what is wrong with rewarding people who most likely would have done that work regardless of the monetary reward? It just enables students like myself to work our crap job/internship less and work on what we love more.
And at least here in New Hampshire, $9.30 an hour is enough for a student job. I made $15 welding in a sheet metal shop but most of my friends were doing worse work at $8 an hour, all before taxes.
Their pay seems decent for students, their target for the competition.
For most gamers, it will simply come down to innovation. If the indie game companies can produce a professional quality game that is innovative and not just another "Big Title 2501," then they will purchase it.
The, of course, there will be people like myself who only purchase games with linux binaries too...
This all sounds very good but how cost efficient will large, industry scale production of resin be? Just because they can successfully reproduce its chemical structure does not mean that they can do it in a cost efficient enough manner to break into any of the mentioned markets.
The log on page three is just PAINFUL to read. I'm not sure if M's repeated attempts to try and shove any system down a customers throat, the extremely high level of formal 'training-speak,' or their inability to type out simple words like 'you' brought on this stomach ache, but I sure need to go puke now...
And this is right after the new thunderbird 1.0.7 announcement. I never personally used Mulberry myself but it warms me to see opensource thriving so well in areas where everybody needs the applications (as opposed to extremely niche apps).
If this motion is not denied, regardless if he wins or not, at least this may make the extortion process a bit more expensiver per a person for RIAA, assuming this instills enough fear that they attempt to properly develop a case on a per-person basis. It maybe just whishful thinking on the other hand.
They are really pursuing a great cause but I would like to see some of these features, like the hand crank and black and white screen mode, in other laptops as well. Not paying out of your ass for higher levels of durability would be cool too...
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The capacity of harddrive has steadily improved over the years but the performance of harddrives has improved at an abysmally slow rate. Five years ago I would have not like to see the average desktop harddive at 7200 rpm with some into 10,000. I know better options are available, but those aren't in your average home computer either.
I can't see what sun can gain my pouring money into this research. It is obvious about the competitive edges Google and Lenova (left out of the summary) can get. But why is Sun in on this?
I believe yur understanding of the situation is weak at best. SInce when is a 7% share controlling a company?
From the article they state it ranges from 70-78 F, thats not very uncomfortable of a range to me. And with that said, the control systems to properly pressurize and disseminate the air would add complexity and energy requirements to the system. More complexity requires more maintenance, which implies more money. This in turn signifies it is not really a viable option.
I'm not quite sure how this post got moderated up, but I will bite.
1. How are they easier to use? Because you are more familiar with the Excel method? Have you actually tried to learn the OO method? If they really are more difficult to use, please site some useability problems that are not only as a result of your old habits.
2. This proves you have not tried to learn anything about openoffice. As another poster pointed simply go --> Table: Convert: Text to Table. The option is obviously there. The help documentation tells you this and a simple online search woul dhave too.
3. I have no problems with speed. I don't see any proof of your speed problems. Have you tried doing the bvious thing, disableing java? If you don't use the wizards that takes the startup times below pre-loaded Excel.
You must have either a very bad or very selective memeory because I recall a lot of hoopla about anthrax and hearing about people in the United States dying from it. And the Patriot Act never caught them either. It only infringed on our freedoms.
Just because they had it in Windows NT 3.5/3.51 does not mean they didn't copy the concept then as well. In fact it was no more original for them to introduce it then as it is unoriginal to introduce this today.
With that said, most of the "bashing" towards MS won't be against them for doing this, since it is necessary and so obvious it had to be done it hurts, but rather against how they market these changes and their disregard for others ideas. Ironically, this is why they have the market share they do today too: marketing.
After looking over all the pretty graphs, it seems the 74gb Western Digital Raptor spanks the other drives in everything but platter density. And to push this farther I saw nothing about its reliability published. The 500gb hd isn't using the new platter technology and the 160gb drive is crippled compared to the larger brethren because of its smaller cache. The only thing I got from this review was that if I needed a drive that performs I should buy a Raptor.
It is akin to offering cigarettes to school children for free. You get them hooked early then they pay for the rest of their life (yes I borrowed this from Stallman, and poorly paraphrased too I might add). These guys firmly believe common software should be open source. Especially those wanting to find an opportunity with computers, open source offers them a free way to learn coding methods and such that they may not have access to in their schools. They get free upgrades t their machines if they wish, and do no have to fall behind in the newer software. It is a win-win situation for them.
Whether you believe in open source or not, it is hard to argue it will not benefit those who are receiving these laptops. In the future if they want to use MacOS they can pay for it themselves and leave Linux behind if they feel it will make them more productive or happy.
For every glimmer of hope there seems to be a million more setbacks.
I only wish there was something I could do to stop companies doing this, but the nature of a free market doesn't allow for intervention really..
KDE is about as dead as BSD :)>
Seriously, I know I am replying to a troll, but Linux is about choice. If you dislike KDE, just ignore it. Nobody asked you to care about this article.
Now what do we make our hats out of??? Is there no way to stop them!?
And how will this even attempt to address the environmental issues concerned with smoking?
Not only is it a useless and harmful pastime to people, it greatly hurts the environment. Up here in New England (USA) we even have stories of deer venturing onto roads to eat cigarette butts and causing accidents, all because they are addicted. It is also just unsightly to see them all over roads and sidewalks. All things considered it is harmful to everything and everyone.
I guess it is a good thing we don't war against great ideas such as these still then, huh?
Deer park firefox (1.5) includes incremental patching instead of re-downloading the entire application again. For openoffice: wait, search for an improvement request report, or get working.
That was a competition and this is hiring someone.
Besides what is wrong with rewarding people who most likely would have done that work regardless of the monetary reward? It just enables students like myself to work our crap job/internship less and work on what we love more.
And at least here in New Hampshire, $9.30 an hour is enough for a student job. I made $15 welding in a sheet metal shop but most of my friends were doing worse work at $8 an hour, all before taxes.
Their pay seems decent for students, their target for the competition.
How can you apply Moore's law to a vacuum tube driven computer? I'm fairly certain his law only applied to transistor based computers.
Damn, now they really have a reason to block slashdot at work places: it adds to RSI and then "sick worker syndrome"
The, of course, there will be people like myself who only purchase games with linux binaries too...
Did you know that some things are a complete waste of technology and money?
Not to mention I'm sure this all puts us one step closer to having them embedded into people by law. This is just the beta version.
And they called me paranoid!
This all sounds very good but how cost efficient will large, industry scale production of resin be? Just because they can successfully reproduce its chemical structure does not mean that they can do it in a cost efficient enough manner to break into any of the mentioned markets.
The log on page three is just PAINFUL to read. I'm not sure if M's repeated attempts to try and shove any system down a customers throat, the extremely high level of formal 'training-speak,' or their inability to type out simple words like 'you' brought on this stomach ache, but I sure need to go puke now...
And this is right after the new thunderbird 1.0.7 announcement. I never personally used Mulberry myself but it warms me to see opensource thriving so well in areas where everybody needs the applications (as opposed to extremely niche apps).
If this motion is not denied, regardless if he wins or not, at least this may make the extortion process a bit more expensiver per a person for RIAA, assuming this instills enough fear that they attempt to properly develop a case on a per-person basis. It maybe just whishful thinking on the other hand.
They are really pursuing a great cause but I would like to see some of these features, like the hand crank and black and white screen mode, in other laptops as well. Not paying out of your ass for higher levels of durability would be cool too...