Obviously you haven't seen the Head-On commercials, or the E-surance commercial with that annoying asswipe with a guitar, or anything with Billy Mays. And don't forget the mother-of-all annoying ass commercials, the debt consolidation commercial with the flatlining EKG that makes my dog bark every time. Holy shit, I watch way too much TV...
to see these cars "broke down" on the side of the road because their $60,000 laptop battery is suffering from the lithium ion aging effect, and the batteries died halfway into their trip.
If the batteries in these cars last as long as my laptop batteries have, the owners are in for some serious disappointment.
I'm going to use this opportunity to rant about the minimum system requirements for modern Linux distros. Linux used to have the reputation of being able to run on older under-powered machines. Not true anymore. I loaded Ubuntu on my old Fujitsu tablet PC. It has a Pentium 233 with 96 megs of RAM. It starts using swap as soon as gdm loads. Useless. I have an AVR32 NGW100 board with 64megs of RAM on it and I can build the entire operating system with buildroot and it runs X with blackbox and still has plenty of RAM to spare to run a web browser or even the VICE emulator:-)
Look at the system requirements for XP Home compared to Ubuntu. The modern Linux distros are just as guilty of bloat as Windows is.
Download a copy of CircuitMaker 2000 http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~hy120/01f/cm2000.zip. Browse the Navy NEETS modules and play with the circuits in CircuitMaker. You will learn plenty.
I see it also contains the dreadful piece of crap that is the current KDE 4. I used Fedora 9 for three days before I had to wipe my drive and go back to Fedora 8. Kernel 2.6.25/26 are pieces of shit too. Super slow, and constantly freezing my system. Plus KDE is missing so many important features that it is almost completely useless. I'll pass, thank you.
I was an Aviation Electronics tech in the Navy, and I still work in electronics design and repair. Here are my recommendations.
First, find yourself a copy of CircuitMaker 2000, I don't care how you get it, it is invaluable because you don't need to breadboard anything or buy any components or equipment until you really know what you are doing. It is discontinued, but I bet you can find it in the dark corners of the 'net.
The Art of Electronics is good, but is a bit too terse. It doesn't get into a lot of the practical use of electronics. The Navy's NEETS modules are fantastic, I would recommend those above anything else. Get a subscription to Popular Electronics, or whatever it is called now. And if you want to go embedded, buy an STK500 and a NGW100 from www.digikey.com. And for a soldering iron, get a Weller soldering station, you'll be glad you did.
Show me the schematics of the "Open"Moko and only then will I agree that the project is truly "open". The wireless component market is a dirty and evil mafia. This is why you will not find schematics of the "Open"Moko, because the components are all under NDA. Total bullshit. Someone needs to come up with an open wireless chipset that doesn't infringe on some stupid ass WiFi patent.
If it were not for veterans, Google would likely not exist, along with the holidays they choose to honor. Nobody in America really gives a shit about the veterans anyway, just look how their deaths get two seconds of mention on the nightly news, if any at all. There will be no mention of the soldiers names. Take a look how many homeless veterans there are in America (over 1/3 of the homeless population). This simply should not happen in a country that actually respects it's defenders.
I can see why someone would/should attack Google over this.
Even the transformers on the utility poles consume power without being loaded. Not to mention all of the devices that use wall warts. I have noticed an increasing trend towards the switcher wall warts with newer devices, which is a step in the right direction.
Exactly. What about the BIOS in every motherboard on the market (made in China)? Put a trojan in the BIOS. Is someone actually looking through the hex code in the BIOS to make sure nothing is going on there? When I was in the US Navy, we had civilian contractors coming in and changing out CPU boards and other stuff in classified equipment. Nobody was interrogating them and checking out their stuff. The removable SCSI hard drive for one was classified secret (required two-man integrity to handle it), but the computer it plugged into was not protected. This is kind of ignorant in my opinion.
Windows Media isn't cracked anymore. M$ scared the crackster into hiding by threatening to sue his ass off, and then patched it. I don't think FairPlay is cracked anymore either. DRM will never stop. Nobody gives a shit whether or not you can play _your_ media in Linux either, or on any MP3 player you own for that matter.
I am an Ohioan as well, I don't foresee this being anything to talk about. There are so many rural areas that they can't possibly wire/fiber them all and some areas are just hills and valleys that wireless could never serve either. I second the WTF.
I have a SATA DVD drive in my new box here at work and it's fucked for booting from Linux Live CDs. "Can't find CD drive" Someone ought to fix that sometime.
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Obviously you haven't seen the Head-On commercials, or the E-surance commercial with that annoying asswipe with a guitar, or anything with Billy Mays. And don't forget the mother-of-all annoying ass commercials, the debt consolidation commercial with the flatlining EKG that makes my dog bark every time. Holy shit, I watch way too much TV...
to see these cars "broke down" on the side of the road because their $60,000 laptop battery is suffering from the lithium ion aging effect, and the batteries died halfway into their trip. If the batteries in these cars last as long as my laptop batteries have, the owners are in for some serious disappointment.
I'm going to use this opportunity to rant about the minimum system requirements for modern Linux distros. Linux used to have the reputation of being able to run on older under-powered machines. Not true anymore. I loaded Ubuntu on my old Fujitsu tablet PC. It has a Pentium 233 with 96 megs of RAM. It starts using swap as soon as gdm loads. Useless. I have an AVR32 NGW100 board with 64megs of RAM on it and I can build the entire operating system with buildroot and it runs X with blackbox and still has plenty of RAM to spare to run a web browser or even the VICE emulator :-)
Look at the system requirements for XP Home compared to Ubuntu. The modern Linux distros are just as guilty of bloat as Windows is.
Download a copy of CircuitMaker 2000 http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~hy120/01f/cm2000.zip. Browse the Navy NEETS modules and play with the circuits in CircuitMaker. You will learn plenty.
Too little, too late. ATI is dead to me. Plus their drivers suck anyway.
I see it also contains the dreadful piece of crap that is the current KDE 4. I used Fedora 9 for three days before I had to wipe my drive and go back to Fedora 8. Kernel 2.6.25/26 are pieces of shit too. Super slow, and constantly freezing my system. Plus KDE is missing so many important features that it is almost completely useless. I'll pass, thank you.
It's hollow AND full of oil! At $4.00 a gallon, that figures out to $1,148,400,000,000,000,000,000,000. I drink your milkshake!
Use Qt4 and forget about MONO and .NET. You won't regret it.
And the demo can be cracked, but you didn't hear that from me.
Here you go: http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~hy120/01f/simulator.html
I was an Aviation Electronics tech in the Navy, and I still work in electronics design and repair. Here are my recommendations. First, find yourself a copy of CircuitMaker 2000, I don't care how you get it, it is invaluable because you don't need to breadboard anything or buy any components or equipment until you really know what you are doing. It is discontinued, but I bet you can find it in the dark corners of the 'net. The Art of Electronics is good, but is a bit too terse. It doesn't get into a lot of the practical use of electronics. The Navy's NEETS modules are fantastic, I would recommend those above anything else. Get a subscription to Popular Electronics, or whatever it is called now. And if you want to go embedded, buy an STK500 and a NGW100 from www.digikey.com. And for a soldering iron, get a Weller soldering station, you'll be glad you did.
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Beware of including mono in any Linux distro.
Show me the schematics of the "Open"Moko and only then will I agree that the project is truly "open". The wireless component market is a dirty and evil mafia. This is why you will not find schematics of the "Open"Moko, because the components are all under NDA. Total bullshit. Someone needs to come up with an open wireless chipset that doesn't infringe on some stupid ass WiFi patent.
This ought to trip somebody out when they look at my report.
If it were not for veterans, Google would likely not exist, along with the holidays they choose to honor. Nobody in America really gives a shit about the veterans anyway, just look how their deaths get two seconds of mention on the nightly news, if any at all. There will be no mention of the soldiers names. Take a look how many homeless veterans there are in America (over 1/3 of the homeless population). This simply should not happen in a country that actually respects it's defenders. I can see why someone would/should attack Google over this.
Even the transformers on the utility poles consume power without being loaded. Not to mention all of the devices that use wall warts. I have noticed an increasing trend towards the switcher wall warts with newer devices, which is a step in the right direction.
Exactly. What about the BIOS in every motherboard on the market (made in China)? Put a trojan in the BIOS. Is someone actually looking through the hex code in the BIOS to make sure nothing is going on there? When I was in the US Navy, we had civilian contractors coming in and changing out CPU boards and other stuff in classified equipment. Nobody was interrogating them and checking out their stuff. The removable SCSI hard drive for one was classified secret (required two-man integrity to handle it), but the computer it plugged into was not protected. This is kind of ignorant in my opinion.
Don't put your swapfile on it, or you will be in for some fun.
What I'm worried about is when the investors pull the plug on vmplayer. They would be stupid not to.
Windows Media isn't cracked anymore. M$ scared the crackster into hiding by threatening to sue his ass off, and then patched it. I don't think FairPlay is cracked anymore either. DRM will never stop. Nobody gives a shit whether or not you can play _your_ media in Linux either, or on any MP3 player you own for that matter.
I am an Ohioan as well, I don't foresee this being anything to talk about. There are so many rural areas that they can't possibly wire/fiber them all and some areas are just hills and valleys that wireless could never serve either. I second the WTF.
does it run on Linux?
I have a SATA DVD drive in my new box here at work and it's fucked for booting from Linux Live CDs. "Can't find CD drive" Someone ought to fix that sometime.
Sometimes I wonder if people even know what Linux is, let alone the GPL