I read an article where a guy did that with a 600MHz VIA M12000 unit on a 12cm x 12cm Nano-ITX board. He had no HDD, no opticals, and the chip required no HSF. Totally silent and he had a Silvestone case. He used a 512MB USB stick and a CF card to boot and provide storage on the machine. He put Puppy on it and it ran okay, but not great- his opinion was that it was more of a proof-of-concept unit.
He later put an optical drive and a 3.5" HDD on it and ran Mepis on it. I just wish I could find the URL...
All of you are forgetting one *very* important physical law: conservation of matter.
ALL processes are "carbon-neutral" because unless some asteroid crashes into the Earth and releases carbon, there is a SET amount of carbon in the Earth. Only the form varies, not the amount.
Can you put Linux on the WRT54GC? It's the compact version of the WRT54G but I do not think that it currently runs Linux at all (the F/W download page has the GPL Code button all grayed out.) Anybody knows what this model really runs?
This will fly like a lead balloon when people suddenly find that sites that are not huge commercial sites (such as this one, Wikipedia, university sites, or the government) load so poorly. They will gripe and whine like crazy because their Net performance suddenly went down the john. And if some enterprising ISP decides NOT to do this, people will likely flock to them and thus erode the customer base of BellSouth, et al.
People will only generally put up with things that inconvenience them only if they feel that they are getting much more in return. BellSouth would have to have 8Mbps access for about $15 a month for this to fly, and they better have a standard service available at regular rates and regular bandwidths available for people who want regular Net access unless they want to see everybody jump elsewhere.
"How can a technology company not release a major product revision in nearly three years? Instead of releasing new products, Tivo seems to be worrying a lot more about partnering, catering to content companies(DRM), fiddling with the pricing model, and minor software updates rather than producing any real innovations."
Hmm. Maybe they're just taking a page from Microsoft's book.
I'd say you're right. My laptop has the occasional game of Half-Life 1 played on it, but for the most part, I use Writer, Calc, Firefox, and Evolution and maybe play some music off my hard drive or online.
They should have tested the 100GB version of the Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 instead of the 80GB. I paid under $150 for it in September (after my original 4200 rpm 60GB HDD died) and it is a little faster than the 80GB version that a friend has in his laptop.
I run Folding@Home and I calculate that it "costs" my laptop an extra 5W in power consumption. It's usually on between 10 and 14 hours a day (start it up in the morning and turn it off at night). So if I use 12 hours a day, I use an extra 21.9kW/hr, which in my neck of the woods costs about a buck fifty per year.
Now if you have a space heater like a P4 Prescott, you'll pull an extra 100W or so between idle and CPU nice time at 100%. If I was to use one of those instead of my laptop, I'd use 20 times the extra power, and that would be about $30/year. The big energy difference comes if you'd ordinarily leave your computer off but now you have it on to run SETIand it eats 300W of power. But if it's already on, the cost is mimimal.
Yeah, the only computers we see now with AMD chips are either low-ball budget units or high-end gaming machines. VERY few laptops run AMD chips at all, which is what a lot of us college students have. That is a shame as the Turion 64 is at least the equal of the Pentium M and it is 64 bits to boot.
Maybe now Dell will start making AMD laptops. I really look forward to it as my school has a 12% discount with Dell...
I was running a cross-country race in the sticks when this good 'ol boy in overalls holds a half-full pint of Jack out at me when I ran by like the water boys hold out cups of waters for runners. I almost took it just to see what that fat guy would do if I did.
Yes, that's 100% correct. Of course the magazines use lithography, where a rubber-faced sheet of about 44" x 60" is fastened over a rotating drum (this is called a press blanket). The metal plate is inked and the blanketed drum rolls over it, transferring an inked negative of the plate to the blanket. The blanket then rolls against the paper that is being fed through the press so that negative on the blanket gets transferred to the paper as a positive.
Each color of ink is applied separately with a separate plate- cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and then usually a glossy coating. Sometimes special metallic colors are applied in subsequent press units. So, you would never put the whole lemur like they did on one plate unless it was a black-and-white printing. This was a very SMALL plate laser etcher as magazines are pretty small and do not run on standard presses, which are about 40-48" wide and print things such as cereal boxes, beer cases, and the like.
I can type a lot faster than I can write, and it is so much easier to find a specific thing when you just have to do a "find text" search in a directory rather than flip through 60 pages of scribbled notes. Also, most professors give half-completed outlines in.doc format so it's IDEAL to just type the holes and additional notes in on your laptop! So as a result I take my big old heavy laptop to class where the notes are largely text (I take paper notes in classes like biochem and fluid mechanics).
Some of my classes have WiFi, some do not. Where there is WiFi, I usually keep the adapter on where there is WiFi so that I can have Evolution retreive e-mails for me but I never look at it DURING class. Only a quick peek after the professor finishes or before they start. I make sure to kibosh the sound and turn Gaim off when I take it to class too. Sure, I might be one of the few who does not goof off with a laptop in class, but just because they do doesn't mean that I do and that they shouldn't ban it because there are those who do use it as intended.
BTW, cells are a LOT worse than laptops. I see about 50 people start to play Snake or text message friends when the lecture gets boring.
1. You can defrag ext2 filesystems: the command "defrag" does that. ext3 and Reiser can't be defragged. 2. There is token ring adapter support in the Linux kernel. 3. Only a program that incorporates GPL code into it has to be released. You can link to or even use GPL tools to make a proprietary program. That's even in the GPL itself. 4. Oh, and GPL stands for "GNU Public License" not "GNU Protective License."
1. Any non-tangible thing (i.e. ideas, art, music, computer programs) cannot be patented.
Those are to be copyrighted which means that nobody can directly copy your work but create something that can compete in the market against the first person. That's capitalism. IP patents would lead to situations where there would only be one rock song, one love movie, and one spreadsheet program. That would be a monopoly, which are the dearth of capitalism.
2. Copyrights need to expire in 15 or 20 years like patents do. Not in 75 or 120 years.
This was the original letter and certainly the intention of the law- that the copyright was supposed to allow the holder from getting something ripped off (so that there would be an incentive to invent new things) but eventually place the knowledge in the public domain so that it could benefit society. I think that is a very fair tradeoff and so did the original writers of the copyright laws. This perpetual copyright holding that is going on is all take from society ($$$) and no give (the IP). Relationships can't happen like that or people will cheat (and pirate.)
3. The public needs to be let to use their fair use rights for the materials.
Much DRM and licensing schemes do not allow somebody to even make a backup or transfer a program from a broken device to a working one. So, that technically goes against the Electronic Materials Copyright Act of 1976 and any EULA or DRM scheme that goes against that should be prosecuted. If people take advantage of the ability to break the laws, they should be punished.DRM is analogous to the government or an automaker limiting the maximum speed of its cars to 15mph so that nobody can speed anywhere instead of allowing people go whatever speed they want and fining the ones who speed.
4. Guns don't induce people to kill others, the person used the gun as the tool to kill the other person."
The same reasoning holds true with the Induce Act. Devices should not be illegal if they have any legitimate use, even if they are frequently used illegally. Only things that have NO legal use (like cocaine or land mines) should be made illegal to posses. Prosecute the people who use things illegally.
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I read an article where a guy did that with a 600MHz VIA M12000 unit on a 12cm x 12cm Nano-ITX board. He had no HDD, no opticals, and the chip required no HSF. Totally silent and he had a Silvestone case. He used a 512MB USB stick and a CF card to boot and provide storage on the machine. He put Puppy on it and it ran okay, but not great- his opinion was that it was more of a proof-of-concept unit.
He later put an optical drive and a 3.5" HDD on it and ran Mepis on it. I just wish I could find the URL...
All of you are forgetting one *very* important physical law: conservation of matter.
ALL processes are "carbon-neutral" because unless some asteroid crashes into the Earth and releases carbon, there is a SET amount of carbon in the Earth. Only the form varies, not the amount.
Can you put Linux on the WRT54GC? It's the compact version of the WRT54G but I do not think that it currently runs Linux at all (the F/W download page has the GPL Code button all grayed out.) Anybody knows what this model really runs?
Actually, Claria STILL offers Gator eWallet. It's featured on their Software page at http://www.claria.com/products/software
This will fly like a lead balloon when people suddenly find that sites that are not huge commercial sites (such as this one, Wikipedia, university sites, or the government) load so poorly. They will gripe and whine like crazy because their Net performance suddenly went down the john. And if some enterprising ISP decides NOT to do this, people will likely flock to them and thus erode the customer base of BellSouth, et al.
People will only generally put up with things that inconvenience them only if they feel that they are getting much more in return. BellSouth would have to have 8Mbps access for about $15 a month for this to fly, and they better have a standard service available at regular rates and regular bandwidths available for people who want regular Net access unless they want to see everybody jump elsewhere.
Water is the product with the biggest user base.
MT-37 is 2.0GHz, MT-40 is 2.2GHz.
"How can a technology company not release a major product revision in nearly three years? Instead of releasing new products, Tivo seems to be worrying a lot more about partnering, catering to content companies(DRM), fiddling with the pricing model, and minor software updates rather than producing any real innovations."
Hmm. Maybe they're just taking a page from Microsoft's book.
Yes, they do. This 2002-vintage Gateway 600 has been since '04 and runs better on Linux than it ever did on XP.
I'd say you're right. My laptop has the occasional game of Half-Life 1 played on it, but for the most part, I use Writer, Calc, Firefox, and Evolution and maybe play some music off my hard drive or online.
They should have tested the 100GB version of the Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 instead of the 80GB. I paid under $150 for it in September (after my original 4200 rpm 60GB HDD died) and it is a little faster than the 80GB version that a friend has in his laptop.
I run Folding@Home and I calculate that it "costs" my laptop an extra 5W in power consumption. It's usually on between 10 and 14 hours a day (start it up in the morning and turn it off at night). So if I use 12 hours a day, I use an extra 21.9kW/hr, which in my neck of the woods costs about a buck fifty per year.
Now if you have a space heater like a P4 Prescott, you'll pull an extra 100W or so between idle and CPU nice time at 100%. If I was to use one of those instead of my laptop, I'd use 20 times the extra power, and that would be about $30/year. The big energy difference comes if you'd ordinarily leave your computer off but now you have it on to run SETIand it eats 300W of power. But if it's already on, the cost is mimimal.
How long before you have to pay to breathe the freakin' AIR??? I take it you do not live in California...
Naw, I thought HURD was dead.
Yeah, the only computers we see now with AMD chips are either low-ball budget units or high-end gaming machines. VERY few laptops run AMD chips at all, which is what a lot of us college students have. That is a shame as the Turion 64 is at least the equal of the Pentium M and it is 64 bits to boot.
Maybe now Dell will start making AMD laptops. I really look forward to it as my school has a 12% discount with Dell...
Hey, you guys are pretty good! Too bad the sound quality is pretty bad.
How many managers can actually READ code? Good code and bad code looks the same to them- gibberish.
I was running a cross-country race in the sticks when this good 'ol boy in overalls holds a half-full pint of Jack out at me when I ran by like the water boys hold out cups of waters for runners. I almost took it just to see what that fat guy would do if I did.
It wasn't DeBeers that really convinced men that they had to spend 2 months' salary on an engagement ring, it was DeWomen.
Naw, real men do it with a pencil. Or on their fingers...
Yes! B&O and Reading Railroad too!
Yes, that's 100% correct. Of course the magazines use lithography, where a rubber-faced sheet of about 44" x 60" is fastened over a rotating drum (this is called a press blanket). The metal plate is inked and the blanketed drum rolls over it, transferring an inked negative of the plate to the blanket. The blanket then rolls against the paper that is being fed through the press so that negative on the blanket gets transferred to the paper as a positive.
Each color of ink is applied separately with a separate plate- cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and then usually a glossy coating. Sometimes special metallic colors are applied in subsequent press units. So, you would never put the whole lemur like they did on one plate unless it was a black-and-white printing. This was a very SMALL plate laser etcher as magazines are pretty small and do not run on standard presses, which are about 40-48" wide and print things such as cereal boxes, beer cases, and the like.
Yes, it's the newest part of the Microsoft TCPA platform ;) Prevents the user from seeing inappropriate material...
I can type a lot faster than I can write, and it is so much easier to find a specific thing when you just have to do a "find text" search in a directory rather than flip through 60 pages of scribbled notes. Also, most professors give half-completed outlines in .doc format so it's IDEAL to just type the holes and additional notes in on your laptop! So as a result I take my big old heavy laptop to class where the notes are largely text (I take paper notes in classes like biochem and fluid mechanics).
Some of my classes have WiFi, some do not. Where there is WiFi, I usually keep the adapter on where there is WiFi so that I can have Evolution retreive e-mails for me but I never look at it DURING class. Only a quick peek after the professor finishes or before they start. I make sure to kibosh the sound and turn Gaim off when I take it to class too. Sure, I might be one of the few who does not goof off with a laptop in class, but just because they do doesn't mean that I do and that they shouldn't ban it because there are those who do use it as intended.
BTW, cells are a LOT worse than laptops. I see about 50 people start to play Snake or text message friends when the lecture gets boring.
This is a joke:
1. You can defrag ext2 filesystems: the command "defrag" does that. ext3 and Reiser can't be defragged.
2. There is token ring adapter support in the Linux kernel.
3. Only a program that incorporates GPL code into it has to be released. You can link to or even use GPL tools to make a proprietary program. That's even in the GPL itself.
4. Oh, and GPL stands for "GNU Public License" not "GNU Protective License."
So...RTFL!!!
My thoughts on solving the matter:
1. Any non-tangible thing (i.e. ideas, art, music, computer programs) cannot be patented.
Those are to be copyrighted which means that nobody can directly copy your work but create something that can compete in the market against the first person. That's capitalism. IP patents would lead to situations where there would only be one rock song, one love movie, and one spreadsheet program. That would be a monopoly, which are the dearth of capitalism.
2. Copyrights need to expire in 15 or 20 years like patents do. Not in 75 or 120 years.
This was the original letter and certainly the intention of the law- that the copyright was supposed to allow the holder from getting something ripped off (so that there would be an incentive to invent new things) but eventually place the knowledge in the public domain so that it could benefit society. I think that is a very fair tradeoff and so did the original writers of the copyright laws. This perpetual copyright holding that is going on is all take from society ($$$) and no give (the IP). Relationships can't happen like that or people will cheat (and pirate.)
3. The public needs to be let to use their fair use rights for the materials.
Much DRM and licensing schemes do not allow somebody to even make a backup or transfer a program from a broken device to a working one. So, that technically goes against the Electronic Materials Copyright Act of 1976 and any EULA or DRM scheme that goes against that should be prosecuted. If people take advantage of the ability to break the laws, they should be punished.DRM is analogous to the government or an automaker limiting the maximum speed of its cars to 15mph so that nobody can speed anywhere instead of allowing people go whatever speed they want and fining the ones who speed.
4. Guns don't induce people to kill others, the person used the gun as the tool to kill the other person."
The same reasoning holds true with the Induce Act. Devices should not be illegal if they have any legitimate use, even if they are frequently used illegally. Only things that have NO legal use (like cocaine or land mines) should be made illegal to posses. Prosecute the people who use things illegally.
That's my solution, what do you think?