Consider however that this web count is likely (no, haven't RTFA) inclusive of things like e-mail - I e-mail lots of ODF documents for things like work-related material. Also, with college around the corner we're going to see more documents sent over the net between students and professors (though likely DOC and RTF)
I would have to argue with you about how difficult it is to find distros that are compatible with older hardware, as I used an old Tandy 286 laptop back in high school - bought it at a yard sale with a busted hard drive and 3.5" floppy drive. It took one night on Google to find a fitting distro - and this was about 6 years ago. I also had a slightly more up-to-date laptop after that, still relatively old though and sporting a Pentium and a whopping 32MB of RAM - 2 or 4MB of which were given to the display hardware - and I found a distro on linux.org that was wonderful - X, FVWM and a handfull of utilities. It networked fine and I was able to easily download floppy images to add more software. Kind of cumbersome as it was all installed from floppy, but it worked.
tl;dr - The distros are out there, somewhere, that can likely do what you need. Don't expect the big name, always up-to-date distros to work - do you expect Vista to run on your 386?
"[We can speculate about] a golden age... when horizontal gene transfer was universal and separate species did not yet exist. Life was then a community of cells of various kinds, sharing their genetic information... Evolution could be rapid...
Sounds a little like NGE, but whats this? No giant robots? The future is grim indeed.
Surprisingly the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales.
Surprisingly, my first Vista related experience was to install the Business upgrade over one of the more basic Vista packages already installed on a client's machine. But I couldn't. It said that, despite this being an upgrade for 2003, XP, and VISTA, her version was not supported for the upgrade (the box neglects to tell you what exactly is compatible.) So, my client had to purchase Vista Ultimate. Surprise surprise: "the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales [because trying to get the other versions to play nice was too much hassle]" - fixed
one does not simply walk into a quantum physics lecture and understands what is being discussed. Surely though you could learn about all of the advanced terminology from the ground-up using Wikipedia, and then understanding the advanced articles should be no problem, right?
Strange that a state law can trump a Constitutional right, no?
No. Well, I don't think its all that strange. In court, once this case were to reach a federal level things would probably be overturned, but if he doesn't appeal to a higher court then he's bound by California law.
um, to those considering this flamebait, irrelevant, or poorly spelled (or with too many Digg links): ITS SATIRE. Dumbfucks, you should listen to Swift and eat your babies.
Mod parent up! (I would, but I've already commented on this article.)/.'s editing is quite shallow - at least every sentence is properly capitalized. Maybe we need a 'Grammar or GTFO' meme... oh shi- this isn't eBaum's my bad.
(firmware updates to my bluRay player? and what kinda new 'security' hole is that?!?)
You may gawk at the idea, and though you are correct that it would probably present a security hole for hardware and networks aren't well protected, with more and more of the home becoming wired/wireless (TVs, toasters, media centers, stereo systems, the Wii/360/PS3) it won't be long before your cutting edge Blu-Ray players are also on-line 24/7, getting firmware updates while you sleep.
I'll start with what I agree with: Videogames and interactive media in general are the new MTV, not just one game.
What I will not agree with: I don't think this is specific to Guitar Hero.
Explain. From what I have read so far, this is key portions of the GH team, with MTV and EA teaming up, to release a game focused around expanding from just guitars to a full band. Now, if I'm not mistaken, this is KEY PORTIONS OF THE GH TEAM, WITH MTV AND EA TEAMING UP, TO RELEASE A GAME FOCUSED AROUND EXPANDING FROM JUST GUITARS TO A FULL BAND. Maybe I'm missing something - did they take the idea of playing a rhythm-based video-game with controllers that resemble real instruments and announce a game based off of that where you milk cows?
Well, suppose we start doing what they're talking about here - turning non-recognized input signals into recognizable brainwaves and such. So, we're really hacking the brain to work through channels that we know how to manipulate, we just have to have a translator (dare I say modem?) of some sort to go from non-brain signal A to brain-readable signal B. But what if we hack it better so that signal A doesn't have to piggyback on the senses we know about, but instead we learn how to interface with the proper areas of the brain?
Timothy Leary had an idea, that in the future, we'd have a little button on the back of our necks that would induce an immediate, pleasant reaction - it could be as mild as a good cup of coffee or as intense as LSD, depending on how you program it. So, this seems like it suggests the idea of figuring out how to trigger those areas of the brain through some kind of direct interface - what would the law do then? Could an interface to the brain be outlawed? Well, you're right, it depends on where the money is - the law goes where the green grows. Anyways, I'm getting sidetracked.
Sure, a recording sent into the brain would be great, but what about inducing the exact brain-state of a moment? A movie? A song? A drug experience? Not a recording, but more a programming for the brain - the difference being that with programming, as opposed to recording, you can tweak the code yourself to meet your brain's needs, especially since every 'video' would probably have to be tailored to every user, costing far too much for the experience.
It depends on where you work and who cares - at my job, I requested Linux and my boss said 'Go.' I can do the same job 110% better in Linux than Windows because everything I need is usually there with little or no hassle, whereas getting a clean windows system up to par with my needs as a developer is irritating at best.
However, if I had spent my developmental years as a developer (lulz) on Windows, I would be completely on the opposite end. If you have a preference - Win, Mac, *NIX, BeOS, DOS - you should check with your employer/project manager and see if you can easily integrate your talents into the work environment.
Check your GRAMMAR. Maybe Firefox needs little green squiggles in s?
First, tense: Zune had potential, but 5 months in it barely get passing grades.
I'm used to one little typo from/. every here and there, but twice in one article?
Tell newbies what is can do.
This bothers me, especially when the quality of articles isn't that great - it makes me want to stop reading sometimes. I hope you guys are using the 'Preview' button, and being editors I'm sure it couldn't hurt to have a friend proof-read articles before they go out (I mean, its what you are supposed to be doing for the people who submit articles, but...). It wouldn't hurt to reword that list, maybe even into a sentence even - its pretty choppy but thats just me splitting hairs now;)
Personally, this ad made me smile and made me even happier and affirmed in my decision to support Obama as much as I can in his (fingers-crossed) presidential campaign.
But he didn't bite the hand that fed him - in fact, he made an ad that will bring more publicity to Obama now than ever intended. Firing him was probably one of the best things his employer could have done to bring in more traffic for Barack. I mean, its on the Slashdot front-page, for one.
True, but then there have been many, many cases before this showing how the system is broken - and if it hasn't been fixed yet someone must think it still works. If it ain't broke [to me]...
Potentially, in the future, they could then convert the illegal users from the 'dark side' into legit users who obtain licenses.
Started with legit 3.11, pirated '95-XP (excluding ME, never touched it), now I use Linux. Microsoft: you lose and you always will, glad to see you finally admit defeat.
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I mean, the Guide to Mostly Harmless Hacking taught me how to forge an e-mail address...of course, your scam only has to be as smart as your target ;)
Consider however that this web count is likely (no, haven't RTFA) inclusive of things like e-mail - I e-mail lots of ODF documents for things like work-related material. Also, with college around the corner we're going to see more documents sent over the net between students and professors (though likely DOC and RTF)
You forgot this rather amusing tidbit: "but they work more like Windows does today "
I would have to argue with you about how difficult it is to find distros that are compatible with older hardware, as I used an old Tandy 286 laptop back in high school - bought it at a yard sale with a busted hard drive and 3.5" floppy drive. It took one night on Google to find a fitting distro - and this was about 6 years ago. I also had a slightly more up-to-date laptop after that, still relatively old though and sporting a Pentium and a whopping 32MB of RAM - 2 or 4MB of which were given to the display hardware - and I found a distro on linux.org that was wonderful - X, FVWM and a handfull of utilities. It networked fine and I was able to easily download floppy images to add more software. Kind of cumbersome as it was all installed from floppy, but it worked.
tl;dr - The distros are out there, somewhere, that can likely do what you need. Don't expect the big name, always up-to-date distros to work - do you expect Vista to run on your 386?
Sounds a little like NGE, but whats this? No giant robots? The future is grim indeed.
"...Dawn will be the first science mission powered by electric ion propulsion, the world's most advanced and efficient space propulsion technology."
Oh?
Surprisingly, my first Vista related experience was to install the Business upgrade over one of the more basic Vista packages already installed on a client's machine. But I couldn't. It said that, despite this being an upgrade for 2003, XP, and VISTA, her version was not supported for the upgrade (the box neglects to tell you what exactly is compatible.) So, my client had to purchase Vista Ultimate. Surprise surprise: "the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales [because trying to get the other versions to play nice was too much hassle]" - fixed
one does not simply walk into a quantum physics lecture and understands what is being discussed. Surely though you could learn about all of the advanced terminology from the ground-up using Wikipedia, and then understanding the advanced articles should be no problem, right?
Strange that a state law can trump a Constitutional right, no?
No. Well, I don't think its all that strange. In court, once this case were to reach a federal level things would probably be overturned, but if he doesn't appeal to a higher court then he's bound by California law.
um, to those considering this flamebait, irrelevant, or poorly spelled (or with too many Digg links): ITS SATIRE. Dumbfucks, you should listen to Swift and eat your babies.
Grammar time, /. editors!
"Remember all the fuss about SCO subpoenaing PJ of Groklaw, where they allege that she's funded"
Your tense is all off here and that first sentence should have been easier to read, anyways.
except possibly pets
Actually, my dog's shit coils in a very artistic way - he must have 60 copyrights for whats in the back yard
Mod parent up! (I would, but I've already commented on this article.) /.'s editing is quite shallow - at least every sentence is properly capitalized. Maybe we need a 'Grammar or GTFO' meme... oh shi- this isn't eBaum's my bad.
(firmware updates to my bluRay player? and what kinda new 'security' hole is that?!?)
You may gawk at the idea, and though you are correct that it would probably present a security hole for hardware and networks aren't well protected, with more and more of the home becoming wired/wireless (TVs, toasters, media centers, stereo systems, the Wii/360/PS3) it won't be long before your cutting edge Blu-Ray players are also on-line 24/7, getting firmware updates while you sleep.
...and certainly not the last. Beware, HD-DVD/Blu-Ray consumers, you're in for a bumby road of software patches and exploits that move twice as fast!
I'll start with what I agree with:
Videogames and interactive media in general are the new MTV, not just one game.
What I will not agree with:
I don't think this is specific to Guitar Hero.
Explain. From what I have read so far, this is key portions of the GH team, with MTV and EA teaming up, to release a game focused around expanding from just guitars to a full band. Now, if I'm not mistaken, this is KEY PORTIONS OF THE GH TEAM, WITH MTV AND EA TEAMING UP, TO RELEASE A GAME FOCUSED AROUND EXPANDING FROM JUST GUITARS TO A FULL BAND. Maybe I'm missing something - did they take the idea of playing a rhythm-based video-game with controllers that resemble real instruments and announce a game based off of that where you milk cows?
Well, suppose we start doing what they're talking about here - turning non-recognized input signals into recognizable brainwaves and such. So, we're really hacking the brain to work through channels that we know how to manipulate, we just have to have a translator (dare I say modem?) of some sort to go from non-brain signal A to brain-readable signal B. But what if we hack it better so that signal A doesn't have to piggyback on the senses we know about, but instead we learn how to interface with the proper areas of the brain?
Timothy Leary had an idea, that in the future, we'd have a little button on the back of our necks that would induce an immediate, pleasant reaction - it could be as mild as a good cup of coffee or as intense as LSD, depending on how you program it. So, this seems like it suggests the idea of figuring out how to trigger those areas of the brain through some kind of direct interface - what would the law do then? Could an interface to the brain be outlawed? Well, you're right, it depends on where the money is - the law goes where the green grows. Anyways, I'm getting sidetracked.
Sure, a recording sent into the brain would be great, but what about inducing the exact brain-state of a moment? A movie? A song? A drug experience? Not a recording, but more a programming for the brain - the difference being that with programming, as opposed to recording, you can tweak the code yourself to meet your brain's needs, especially since every 'video' would probably have to be tailored to every user, costing far too much for the experience.
Pop in a tape or push a button?
It depends on where you work and who cares - at my job, I requested Linux and my boss said 'Go.' I can do the same job 110% better in Linux than Windows because everything I need is usually there with little or no hassle, whereas getting a clean windows system up to par with my needs as a developer is irritating at best.
However, if I had spent my developmental years as a developer (lulz) on Windows, I would be completely on the opposite end. If you have a preference - Win, Mac, *NIX, BeOS, DOS - you should check with your employer/project manager and see if you can easily integrate your talents into the work environment.
Check your GRAMMAR. Maybe Firefox needs little green squiggles in s?
/. every here and there, but twice in one article?
;)
First, tense:
Zune had potential, but 5 months in it barely get passing grades.
I'm used to one little typo from
Tell newbies what is can do.
This bothers me, especially when the quality of articles isn't that great - it makes me want to stop reading sometimes. I hope you guys are using the 'Preview' button, and being editors I'm sure it couldn't hurt to have a friend proof-read articles before they go out (I mean, its what you are supposed to be doing for the people who submit articles, but...). It wouldn't hurt to reword that list, maybe even into a sentence even - its pretty choppy but thats just me splitting hairs now
What will they do next? Are they gonna be pissed that we went with Montgomery Burns's solar blocking panel instead of theirs? Sheesh...
Personally, this ad made me smile and made me even happier and affirmed in my decision to support Obama as much as I can in his (fingers-crossed) presidential campaign.
But he didn't bite the hand that fed him - in fact, he made an ad that will bring more publicity to Obama now than ever intended. Firing him was probably one of the best things his employer could have done to bring in more traffic for Barack. I mean, its on the Slashdot front-page, for one.
True, but then there have been many, many cases before this showing how the system is broken - and if it hasn't been fixed yet someone must think it still works. If it ain't broke [to me]...
Potentially, in the future, they could then convert the illegal users from the 'dark side' into legit users who obtain licenses.
Started with legit 3.11, pirated '95-XP (excluding ME, never touched it), now I use Linux. Microsoft: you lose and you always will, glad to see you finally admit defeat.
Lacky: "But, I am le tired..." MPAA: "Well, take a nap and then FIRE ZE LAWYERS!"