I'd say the killer app is full HD decoding on the chip on 4 Watt/hr usage (from the last 2012 LXF issue). Not sure if it has been reverse-engineered yet, but there's a proprietary media player available.
for the many (majority?) of people with bad eyesight and different sight on each eye?
I remember going to SEGA world 15 years ago. The VR rides were popular, but the helmets could not fit the glasses inside, so it was a blurry experience to say the least.
+ a few years, ditto with Avatar, but at least I could get through the film wearing two glasses.
Try explaining 'walled garden' to an iFanatic and s/he will tell you how only a miniscule portion of humanity could possibly want something outside the walls.
Not only is it not realistic, it isn't even desirable.
Should IT professionals also learn to cut hair? Police men grow potatoes?
I wrote a few hundred lines in VisualCE (I didn't choose the language) an Excel-macro like language with a lot of clicking property boxes. It was painful. Why not choose a real language and hire a programmer?
I got my T61 in 2006 with two point something dual core and 4GB Ram. The nvidia card gets a little hot these days (thermal paste?) but it boots in >20 seconds on the Intel 220 SSD.
At some point in time people think A. At a later point in time B. A and B can be explained from either viewpoint but only one held to be true.
Kuhn missed the generation in-between, those that had to live with both systems after one had been vindicated.
It's like war and forgiveness. A generation usually has to grow old and die before forgiveness is possible. But it still leaves a before and after. To focus on a date of history is futile, however, as far as group psychology is concerned.
Are you on something? Historically it was yesterday Einstein's theory of relativity was vindicated. At the time people were writing thesis on the ether.
Kuhn's thought is that science is done in a scientific community. The one community's worldview is incommensurable with the next because the principles of what Newton thought creates a world so different from that resulting from Einstein's. The semantic content of gravity is wholly different between the two. In fact they are two different gravities.
So the first community will not (or simply refuse to) understand the next after a so-called revolution.
Kuhn later struggled to point out any actual example of such a revolution. From this it is common to point out that science happens gradually. But I think he was looking in the wrong place.
AFAIK there are no consumer grade Free computers. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be desirable. If people could download shape files to print their own computer in e.g. a country of few resources for their benefit it would be great.
Atm, we must take reality into account and use what we can.
You are referring to positive freedom, as in being able to go where you want etc.
Stallman's Freedoms are meant to be a protection of positive freedoms beyond just using it (being able to construct a bicycle to go where you want even faster etc).
Freedom and doing whatever you want are not identical. You may choose to blow your head out to cure a headache or other such things that are harmful to your freedom, even if it is what you want.
Stallman is idealistic and not very pragmatic. His message, however, is worth reflecting on.
Or perhaps he distinguishes between working for the betterment of mankind versus patting the right people on the back for narrow gains.
I've studied philosophy part time since 2005 while working a 120% position in IT. Today I study 100% while working weekends. I've yet to find a job so challenging and stressful as studying.
In a job you need only balance tasks, and if you reflect on your days after you win experience. In studying you are supposed to gain experience every day. It's not about reading x pages or get through 200 e-mails, but to actually understand what you are reading.
Why is it that execs ask me why I bother studying when they earn 120K/y without formal education? And why is it I think people are missing out a lot when they choose to leave academia with a Bachelor?
People are different. But the system favours little education, thus the few working in academia will usually work the equivalent of 200% of what you say is normal. That is the nugget.
New Public Management, yes. I worked at a private research institute and its scientists spent 70% of their time trying to get funding.
The new "point per publication" national system didn't help. They usually have to choose between family life and academic careers to stay at a reasonable pay. Typically the cafeteria employees made more money.
Should civilization favour knowledge and truth, or comfortable living for they who merely accepts what people tell them because they want a good life? In a society run by economy, mediocrity rules.
Not on the first (or first couple of) publications. A former associate , quite the genius, wrote articles for our boss before he disappeared to one of Europe's most prestigious universities. Anyway, it was usually published without his name.
I asked him how he felt about it, and he didn't mind. In fact, he didn't care, because he (and our boss) knew who had written it.
.. when I were a kid, my mother would distribute us randomly on a plane, _but we knew_ our grandma was waiting on the other end with 2 months worth of chores for us.
I have a temp job at an ISP and last year saw a significant growth of Ubuntu users calling paid support. Some of them seem to think they run a re-dressed Windows (probably because Windows is the only thing that exist for PCs in stores). Others run obscure Slackware derivatives and just some advice.
Ironically, the mobile broadband offering works best on GNU/Linux (plug and play in *Ubuntu), whereas the Win and Mac drivers are unstable and the software requires frequent reinstall. So few callers on free support.
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Can somebody please tell me what possible advantage this has over an e-ink reader?
Better yet, what possible advantage does this have over scribblings on a paper?
PS3 + LSD?
The technology is already here!
I'd say the killer app is full HD decoding on the chip on 4 Watt/hr usage (from the last 2012 LXF issue). Not sure if it has been reverse-engineered yet, but there's a proprietary media player available.
for the many (majority?) of people with bad eyesight and different sight on each eye?
I remember going to SEGA world 15 years ago. The VR rides were popular, but the helmets could not fit the glasses inside, so it was a blurry experience to say the least.
+ a few years, ditto with Avatar, but at least I could get through the film wearing two glasses.
Well, I for one, welcome our 1000 snakes and 1000 gorillas releasing overlords!
*sigh *
If only grammar discussions could put out great fires..
Try explaining 'walled garden' to an iFanatic and s/he will tell you how only a miniscule portion of humanity could possibly want something outside the walls.
Not only is it not realistic, it isn't even desirable.
Should IT professionals also learn to cut hair? Police men grow potatoes?
I wrote a few hundred lines in VisualCE (I didn't choose the language) an Excel-macro like language with a lot of clicking property boxes. It was painful. Why not choose a real language and hire a programmer?
Most games I see kids (under 15) playing requires Adobe Flash or HTML5 browser.
Kids know what fun is, and are not impressed by polygons and pixels like you and me.
Kids around 30 however.. gimme that high-end graphics card, I can do another week on mac and cheese!
Rural areas. Dialup and satellite internet suck in this application.
You already need decent broadband on current consoles for some DRM-laden games.
And SSH into girlfriend's PC to kill Transmission (or equivalent).
Guns don't kill people. Lag kills people.
Win is great for business, just turn off every bells and whistle and you will have an XP like experience.
OpenSUSE is better IMHO, but win7 should not be overlooked.
Recently did some work on a pristine Win8. It works just like Unity..
Got one, put debian on it, lying in the drawer.. it didn't handle calls well.
But I will turn it into an SMS gateway for my PC. Gotta love Linux and F/OSS!
I got my T61 in 2006 with two point something dual core and 4GB Ram. The nvidia card gets a little hot these days (thermal paste?) but it boots in >20 seconds on the Intel 220 SSD.
At some point in time people think A. At a later point in time B. A and B can be explained from either viewpoint but only one held to be true.
Kuhn missed the generation in-between, those that had to live with both systems after one had been vindicated.
It's like war and forgiveness. A generation usually has to grow old and die before forgiveness is possible. But it still leaves a before and after. To focus on a date of history is futile, however, as far as group psychology is concerned.
Are you on something? Historically it was yesterday Einstein's theory of relativity was vindicated. At the time people were writing thesis on the ether.
Kuhn's thought is that science is done in a scientific community. The one community's worldview is incommensurable with the next because the principles of what Newton thought creates a world so different from that resulting from Einstein's. The semantic content of gravity is wholly different between the two. In fact they are two different gravities.
So the first community will not (or simply refuse to) understand the next after a so-called revolution.
Kuhn later struggled to point out any actual example of such a revolution. From this it is common to point out that science happens gradually. But I think he was looking in the wrong place.
AFAIK there are no consumer grade Free computers. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be desirable. If people could download shape files to print their own computer in e.g. a country of few resources for their benefit it would be great.
Atm, we must take reality into account and use what we can.
You are referring to positive freedom, as in being able to go where you want etc.
Stallman's Freedoms are meant to be a protection of positive freedoms beyond just using it (being able to construct a bicycle to go where you want even faster etc).
Freedom and doing whatever you want are not identical. You may choose to blow your head out to cure a headache or other such things that are harmful to your freedom, even if it is what you want.
Stallman is idealistic and not very pragmatic. His message, however, is worth reflecting on.
I'm too tired atm but you get the point.
Linux is an operating system, not a belief system.
Heretic! Heathen! Infidel!
If you repent and say three Hail Stallmans we'll let you off this time...
Whoa there! I wasn't expecting a Spanish Inquisition!
This caters to parents who are thinking "I want to buy a Steam"!" because they have heard about it.
As far as I can tell, this will be _in addition to_ their computer offering. Anything else would be tossing out the baby with the bathwater.
If it is subsidized, it may have a great future in hacking projects too!
Or perhaps he distinguishes between working for the betterment of mankind versus patting the right people on the back for narrow gains.
I've studied philosophy part time since 2005 while working a 120% position in IT. Today I study 100% while working weekends.
I've yet to find a job so challenging and stressful as studying.
In a job you need only balance tasks, and if you reflect on your days after you win experience. In studying you are supposed to gain experience every day. It's not about reading x pages or get through 200 e-mails, but to actually understand what you are reading.
Why is it that execs ask me why I bother studying when they earn 120K/y without formal education? And why is it I think people are missing out a lot when they choose to leave academia with a Bachelor?
People are different. But the system favours little education, thus the few working in academia will usually work the equivalent of 200% of what you say is normal. That is the nugget.
New Public Management, yes. I worked at a private research institute and its scientists spent 70% of their time trying to get funding.
The new "point per publication" national system didn't help. They usually have to choose between family life and academic careers to stay at a reasonable pay. Typically the cafeteria employees made more money.
Should civilization favour knowledge and truth, or comfortable living for they who merely accepts what people tell them because they want a good life? In a society run by economy, mediocrity rules.
Yes, but did you check it?
Not on the first (or first couple of) publications. A former associate , quite the genius, wrote articles for our boss before he disappeared to one of Europe's most prestigious universities. Anyway, it was usually published without his name.
I asked him how he felt about it, and he didn't mind. In fact, he didn't care, because he (and our boss) knew who had written it.
.. when I were a kid, my mother would distribute us randomly on a plane, _but we knew_ our grandma was waiting on the other end with 2 months worth of chores for us.
I have a temp job at an ISP and last year saw a significant growth of Ubuntu users calling paid support. Some of them seem to think they run a re-dressed Windows (probably because Windows is the only thing that exist for PCs in stores). Others run obscure Slackware derivatives and just some advice.
Ironically, the mobile broadband offering works best on GNU/Linux (plug and play in *Ubuntu), whereas the Win and Mac drivers are unstable and the software requires frequent reinstall. So few callers on free support.