Only the English are inconsistent with their acronyms where they capitalize BBC but not NASA. So much for the cradle of their namesake language.
I wasn't aware that the English used here was to be based solely on U.S. rules or else be subject to flaming. I'm American, but I know that the English tend not to use all caps if an acronym is pronounced like any other word, like NASA or NATO. Will you flame them for using "colour" (a mis-spelling!), "lory" (a girl's name?), or "fag" (how dare they be so insensitive and homophobic!) as they often do? Chill, or at least stop thinking you are so clever.
NEWSFLASH: Slashdot attracts a global audience, and people sometimes make grammatical, speling, or syntactical errors. Deal with it.
Also, I'm curious as to how anyone can criticize the English, in general, for not speaking English correctly. I'd find them rather boring if they didn't "talk funny".
Seriously - 1GB ram (512MB for low end installs) seems like an awful lot to me....
You'll need it, what with all the spyware, bloated code, and the new inroads for viruses the initial release will undoubtedly open you up to. Besides, it wouldn't be a "new and improved" Windows if it didn't make 50% of all PCs obsolete. Don't you think PC makers/sellers and Intel absolutely love it when MS releases a new version of anything?
Call me crazy, but I think it is very difficult to teach adults to write in a highly fluid, grammatically correctly manner. People who write well generally learned to do so beginning in middle school. Surely writing classes can help most folks improve, but I'd guess that a LOT of the people I studied with in college are never going to write in a truly effecient and technically-correct way. It is not easy for one to change his writing style once it is established, just as it is much more difficult for an adult to master a non-native language than for for someone younger as less experienced to do so.
ounce u write 1 way u get comfterable and it wrks 4 u an u c no reason 2 really change er thats how i see it as how many ppl prblby look at it like it doesnt matter u no what i mean jus my 2 cents like u never understand how u need to write in a standardized way or you learn 2 do it however but yer pplz kno what u mean right and organization of thoughts is overrated cause this shit worx 2
AOL Phone = plenty of incoming calls that are mysteriously lost, a staggering number of incoming telemarketing calls that get through to sell you replica watches and internet porn (despite your number being on the national "do not call" list), having to listen to ads before you get to your voicemail, you eventually paying way too much, and intelligent people nolonger taking you seriously.
Not agreed. I don't know why so many replies have been modded toll. 'Why' is a completely justified question because the hack is trivial (you only have to know the pinout of the processor), not particularly elegant and doesn't serve an obvious goal. It is an insult to real hacks, be them in software (e.g. trying to run Linux on everything) or hardware (e.g. making a super high-res camera of a flatbed scanner) that anything anyone does is automatically wonderful.
I'm not sure running Linux on everything is the be-all, end-all for hacks either, but I must agree that this isn't very meaningful.
Now, to ask a more important question, does the SNES run BSD yet?;)
The goal of these experiments is to reduce the adverse effects that space travel can have on astronauts' physical heath.
My department worked on early prototypes of this astounding mahcine, and I got a ride on one. It physically crushed the heath bar I had in my pocket, and made my lunch relocate to the floor behind my feet. If space travel is indeed like this, it is certainly not good for your physical health, or your heath, physically (only physically bad, since it is still a yummy treat, even if it is all smashed and broken).
For me, studying BASIC on trash-80's and Apple II's was something fun and unique, since it was my first exposure to computers and few people had any real experience with computers in the early 1980's, so I felt special. I had the choice of writing pitiful little programs or practicing handwriting or multiplication, so programming was a no-brainer. Now, computers are so much a part of western culture that kids are raised with computers that play music, video and fancy games, and programming is going the way of books.
Maybe we need to make coding cool (or 1337 or k-r4d) again? Should we pimp geeksta rap, like MC Plus+ and Spamtec, or something? Coding reality TV shows? Real DG's and CSOG's to interest the kiddies? Everything "old-sk00l" is cool, right?
Or maybe everything is fine, and I'm becoming a cranky old man who tells stories about walking up hill through the snow to get to school.
there are separate downloads for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora? Well, ok, there are actually two different downloads for Fedora.
And if one is running Mandriva? Suse?
In my opinion, what it means is you may want to avoid it, at least for now, regardless of which distro you are currently running.
Neopallium writes to tell us that in a recent announcement at the Desktop Linux Summit the Free Standards Group reports fourteen of the leading Linux vendors have pledged support for the newest release of the Linux Standards Base.
Wowa....You mean that traffic patterns and delays can vary, depending on the time of day?!?!? That's quite a revelation. Who would have thought that timing could affect travel times in urban areas?
And I always thought people were just afraid of the moon, which meant less traffic in my way at midnight, and that the sun caused bad mojo because it hated me, and therefore it produced delays just after sunrise and a bit before sunset. (It still likes ot burn me if I taunt its power by staying outside all day and blind me if I look at it for too long.) Now I can beat this new-fangled, city expressway business!
$250 to see Madonna from 100 yards away? No thanks. She's have to pay me at LEAST $50 to go to one of her "concerts". Maybe if such "artists" would stop selling crap and put out a good product we'd buy it?
I enjoy music, and I still buy the same amount of CDs that I bought 15 years ago: very few. I usually download new artists first to make sure I'm not getting ripped off, then I buy anything I intend to listen to again. There should be no entitlement in the music industry. Rather, those who succeed should be happy, and those who don't should blame their own lack of ability to create something people value.
There is far less performance difference between reasonable gear and the best gear. This applies to most sporting equipment.
Excellent point. Golf is not free, but it does not have to break the bank (for most people). This is why most of us don't buy all new equipment every year, even though the manufacturers are always hocking their new warez. This is also why I give away or sell the Pro V1s I get for free: I am just as good (er, bad) with Dunlop LoCos or Nikes (or even my old stand by, Titleist X-outs) that cost 1/4 as much.
Why should an avid golfer, who doesn't make a living playing golf, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars more to shoot 77 regularly when he can shoot 79 with cheap or mid-priced gear? This does NOT make sense!
I mean, my car already runs on a credit-card-sized device. It's called a credit card.
Following that line of reasoning, I can argue that my car is essentially human-powered, and an employer is a catalyst and lots of greenbacks are a more refined form of human. Unfortunately, it appears rather obvious that I need to work on the efficiency of this means of transportation, since I seem to be working awful damn hard and using more and more energy per mile as time goes on.
If it had a keyboard, I'd buy one right away. Without keyboard, what's it good for?It's like chewbacca: it does -NOT- make sense!
Hmm, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, a TABLET should come with a KEYBOARD. Now this is what does NOT make sense.
Seriously, it's a TABLET, which is generally a device that is supposed to be free of any large keyboard. This thing doesn't burn DVDs or make toast either, so buy a laptop or toaster if that's what you want.
My Honda Civic's off-road capabilities are disappointing, too, but guess what? It wasn't designed to leave paved roads very often.
"So... this isn't something I should use as a cat toy?"
That depends: is your cat an imminent threat to national security, or does it ALWAYS seem to find your shoes with its hairballs? It's probably a good thing this technology isn't available to me, though my cat's aren't too much of a danger to The United States, or America.
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an even nigger advantage
Is this some new street slang I'm not down with?
Oh dear...it seems my computer has been taken over by the Whitey.KKK virus, which distorts text with white supremacist-redneck typos. My sincere apologies. (And the "b" and "n" keys are next to each other on my keyboard, which doesn't help!)
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GMail Email Client: 5,100,000 results
Pine Email Client: 2,080,000 results
And when you divide users by the number of years the client has been freely available you get an even nigger advantage for GMail. Clearly it is gaining users at a much faster rate, though if I had to guess whether Pine was gaining users at all I'd say no.
The real difference is that GMail is accessible for almost anyone, and is a reasonably competent client/interface, while most people don't have the OS, let alone the knowledge, to run Pine. Your 80286 or Atari mut prefer Pine, but who really uses one of those on a regular basis as their only means of exchanging email? I can use GMail even from my companies crappy, old-ass point-of-sale machines, if I don't mind being without a real keyboard, no telnet required.
Sure, maybe life does move "just a bit slower" in Canton because it is not like a big city...except for around the NUMEROUS crack houses, where life moves real freakin fast. You are right, it is not a big city: it is like the ghetto and surrounding areas of a big city without all the nice areas and economic centers. Canton has way more important problems than DoS "attacks" on crappy high school web pages with crappy servers.
> Yeah but can you browse the web AND run all your spyware at the same time with
> a 4 year old processor? That's what your average home user does.
Yes, the system I use for email, downloading and browsing, like right now, is a 5+ year-old PIII-800. With 512MB RAM it is more than sufficient for everyday use, like word processing, web browsing, running spyware, countering the spyware and viruses with firewalls, spyware detection and antivirus software, etc. I can't play Quake 5, Final Fantasy XXX, or The Sims: You're Addicted to Crappy Games on this system, but it is good for almost everything else, even burning DVDs if little editing is involved. Hell, even my MD K6-200 with 128MB ran Mandrake and that internet thing okay until I spilled coffee into it.
You are right: these won't be what "most people" (ie those of us who read slashdot or use computers on a daily basis for work, etc.) think of when they think laptop. However, these $100 machines are not intended for us, but instead for poor people who can't afford what we use and for folks in poor countries where trchnology is otherwise too expensive. Of course these won't replace WIntel mahcines, but that is not the targeted market. They don't currently have computers because they can't afford to shell-out a year's wages for one, not because they don't want them or have uses for them.
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I wasn't aware that the English used here was to be based solely on U.S. rules or else be subject to flaming. I'm American, but I know that the English tend not to use all caps if an acronym is pronounced like any other word, like NASA or NATO. Will you flame them for using "colour" (a mis-spelling!), "lory" (a girl's name?), or "fag" (how dare they be so insensitive and homophobic!) as they often do? Chill, or at least stop thinking you are so clever.
NEWSFLASH: Slashdot attracts a global audience, and people sometimes make grammatical, speling, or syntactical errors. Deal with it.
Also, I'm curious as to how anyone can criticize the English, in general, for not speaking English correctly. I'd find them rather boring if they didn't "talk funny".
You'll need it, what with all the spyware, bloated code, and the new inroads for viruses the initial release will undoubtedly open you up to. Besides, it wouldn't be a "new and improved" Windows if it didn't make 50% of all PCs obsolete. Don't you think PC makers/sellers and Intel absolutely love it when MS releases a new version of anything?
ounce u write 1 way u get comfterable and it wrks 4 u an u c no reason 2 really change er thats how i see it as how many ppl prblby look at it like it doesnt matter u no what i mean jus my 2 cents like u never understand how u need to write in a standardized way or you learn 2 do it however but yer pplz kno what u mean right and organization of thoughts is overrated cause this shit worx 2
AOL Phone = plenty of incoming calls that are mysteriously lost, a staggering number of incoming telemarketing calls that get through to sell you replica watches and internet porn (despite your number being on the national "do not call" list), having to listen to ads before you get to your voicemail, you eventually paying way too much, and intelligent people nolonger taking you seriously.
I'm not sure running Linux on everything is the be-all, end-all for hacks either, but I must agree that this isn't very meaningful.
Now, to ask a more important question, does the SNES run BSD yet? ;)
My department worked on early prototypes of this astounding mahcine, and I got a ride on one. It physically crushed the heath bar I had in my pocket, and made my lunch relocate to the floor behind my feet. If space travel is indeed like this, it is certainly not good for your physical health, or your heath, physically (only physically bad, since it is still a yummy treat, even if it is all smashed and broken).
Maybe we need to make coding cool (or 1337 or k-r4d) again? Should we pimp geeksta rap, like MC Plus+ and Spamtec, or something? Coding reality TV shows? Real DG's and CSOG's to interest the kiddies? Everything "old-sk00l" is cool, right?
Or maybe everything is fine, and I'm becoming a cranky old man who tells stories about walking up hill through the snow to get to school.
In my opinion, what it means is you may want to avoid it, at least for now, regardless of which distro you are currently running.
What's a Xesbian? And where on the Start menu is apt-git?
-The General PublicALL YOUR LINUX STANDARD BASE ARE....
And I always thought people were just afraid of the moon, which meant less traffic in my way at midnight, and that the sun caused bad mojo because it hated me, and therefore it produced delays just after sunrise and a bit before sunset. (It still likes ot burn me if I taunt its power by staying outside all day and blind me if I look at it for too long.) Now I can beat this new-fangled, city expressway business!
I enjoy music, and I still buy the same amount of CDs that I bought 15 years ago: very few. I usually download new artists first to make sure I'm not getting ripped off, then I buy anything I intend to listen to again. There should be no entitlement in the music industry. Rather, those who succeed should be happy, and those who don't should blame their own lack of ability to create something people value.
Excellent point. Golf is not free, but it does not have to break the bank (for most people). This is why most of us don't buy all new equipment every year, even though the manufacturers are always hocking their new warez. This is also why I give away or sell the Pro V1s I get for free: I am just as good (er, bad) with Dunlop LoCos or Nikes (or even my old stand by, Titleist X-outs) that cost 1/4 as much.
Why should an avid golfer, who doesn't make a living playing golf, spend hundreds or thousands of dollars more to shoot 77 regularly when he can shoot 79 with cheap or mid-priced gear? This does NOT make sense!
The idea is very cool though, and I applaud the effort.
"If no one has ever been able to describe you as 'intellectually curious', you might be a redneck"
Following that line of reasoning, I can argue that my car is essentially human-powered, and an employer is a catalyst and lots of greenbacks are a more refined form of human. Unfortunately, it appears rather obvious that I need to work on the efficiency of this means of transportation, since I seem to be working awful damn hard and using more and more energy per mile as time goes on.
Hmm, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, a TABLET should come with a KEYBOARD. Now this is what does NOT make sense.
Seriously, it's a TABLET, which is generally a device that is supposed to be free of any large keyboard. This thing doesn't burn DVDs or make toast either, so buy a laptop or toaster if that's what you want.
My Honda Civic's off-road capabilities are disappointing, too, but guess what? It wasn't designed to leave paved roads very often.
"So... this isn't something I should use as a cat toy?" That depends: is your cat an imminent threat to national security, or does it ALWAYS seem to find your shoes with its hairballs? It's probably a good thing this technology isn't available to me, though my cat's aren't too much of a danger to The United States, or America.
Oh dear...it seems my computer has been taken over by the Whitey.KKK virus, which distorts text with white supremacist-redneck typos. My sincere apologies. (And the "b" and "n" keys are next to each other on my keyboard, which doesn't help!)
And when you divide users by the number of years the client has been freely available you get an even nigger advantage for GMail. Clearly it is gaining users at a much faster rate, though if I had to guess whether Pine was gaining users at all I'd say no.
The real difference is that GMail is accessible for almost anyone, and is a reasonably competent client/interface, while most people don't have the OS, let alone the knowledge, to run Pine. Your 80286 or Atari mut prefer Pine, but who really uses one of those on a regular basis as their only means of exchanging email? I can use GMail even from my companies crappy, old-ass point-of-sale machines, if I don't mind being without a real keyboard, no telnet required.
Yes.
No, of course not.
But there's no switching teams.
Sure, maybe life does move "just a bit slower" in Canton because it is not like a big city...except for around the NUMEROUS crack houses, where life moves real freakin fast. You are right, it is not a big city: it is like the ghetto and surrounding areas of a big city without all the nice areas and economic centers. Canton has way more important problems than DoS "attacks" on crappy high school web pages with crappy servers.
> a 4 year old processor? That's what your average home user does.
Yes, the system I use for email, downloading and browsing, like right now, is a 5+ year-old PIII-800. With 512MB RAM it is more than sufficient for everyday use, like word processing, web browsing, running spyware, countering the spyware and viruses with firewalls, spyware detection and antivirus software, etc. I can't play Quake 5, Final Fantasy XXX, or The Sims: You're Addicted to Crappy Games on this system, but it is good for almost everything else, even burning DVDs if little editing is involved. Hell, even my MD K6-200 with 128MB ran Mandrake and that internet thing okay until I spilled coffee into it.
You are right: these won't be what "most people" (ie those of us who read slashdot or use computers on a daily basis for work, etc.) think of when they think laptop. However, these $100 machines are not intended for us, but instead for poor people who can't afford what we use and for folks in poor countries where trchnology is otherwise too expensive. Of course these won't replace WIntel mahcines, but that is not the targeted market. They don't currently have computers because they can't afford to shell-out a year's wages for one, not because they don't want them or have uses for them.