A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a flexible data communications system that can either replace or extend a wired LAN to provide added functionality. A traditional, wired local area network (LAN) sends packets of data from one piece of equipment to another across cables or wires. A wireless local area network (WLAN) relies instead upon radio waves to transfer data. Data is superimposed onto a radio wave through a process called modulation, and this carrier wave then acts as the transmission medium, taking the place of a wire."
In related news, Ubuntu users have surged past the Gentoo community to become the #1 source of annoying, off-topic distro cheerleading. Whether it's the parent responding to statistics for webserver hosting with DistroWatch numbers or this guy [slashdot.org] responding to a question about JES vs. OES with "[Ubuntu] is the first linux distro that I've recommended to my mom!", they can be counted on for their two cents regardless of the topic.
Once again, you see what it looks like when a new distro really starts to get some traction. That's why I don't believe that there are serious numbers of Lindows, TurboLinux or Xandros users out there -- if there were, we'd hear from them.
They have a history of being pretty convincing towards striking deals with other computer giants. Microsoft, anyone? Still, I understand where you're coming from. Component-wise, Intel only makes the processors. But, in their years of smooth talking the fatcat software (AHEM! M$) companies and manufacturers, they've come to have a say in how their computers are made. Hell, if it isn't enough that they make the PROCESSORS for all x86 platform PCs, they're also pretty buddy-buddy with Dell, Gateway, and DRM-nazis Micro$oft. I'm not taling about anti-piracy processors here. I'm talking about anti-piracy computers. Now, I'm no hardware specialist, but wouldn't it be easy to cripple CD burners and USB ports when coupled with M$? I mean, the MPAA is always researching new ways to make the music ripped off their CDs more and more traceable. The RIAA now require that trackers be put in promo DVDs...
The possibilities are endless. Again, AMD, who have always been the underdog (kind of like Linux in the early days), may be the way to go from here. Only time will tell...
Yeah, thanks for the corrections. I too saw the article, and I was just trying to remember the dates off the top of my head. I still can't wait to see how AMD will fare in the end of all this (if there is an end:P)
Yes, but a nanometer is a unit of spatial measurement that is 10-9 meter, or one billionth of a meter, so we can't rush this. While commercial products are starting to come to market, some of the major applications for nanotechnology are five to ten years out. Private investors look for shorter-term returns on investment, more in the range of one to three years.
I'd be interested in hearing what the course covered with respect to environmental, health and safety issues around nanomaterials. While these new materials bring interesting properties, they could also present some interesting, unexpected health hazards.
By virtue of their size, nanoparticles can cross the blood/brain barrier. For some materials this new route of entry could be the difference between toxic and nontoxic. Materials that previously were thought of as nontoxic in the micron and above particle range could now have toxic effects. - Material data safety sheets generally don't consider a material's particle size, except to state "dusty" type warnings.
That the nanoparticles can have this new route of entry is proven - that this results in new toxic effects for previously nontoxic compounds is not (at least not that I've seen in the lit) - so there may be no issue - or there may be a big issue. Hopefully we don't find out the asbestos way where we make the material ubiquitous then be stuck with huge remediation and civil lawsuit issues!
Now, ever since the early 1990s, the relationship between Intel and the DMCA has been a tad hazy. I mean, sure, we'll never really know what happened in 1992 with the whole MPAA/RIAA/DMCA scandal, but I think there's a few things we missed this time 'round. With Intel lately seeming a bit cozier than usual with the idea of Linux on the desktop, and the RIAA cracking down on movie theater security, it seems pretty plausible that Intel may even go so low as to implement anti-movie/music (yes, the MPAA is in on this too, methinks) piracy in their new machines.
Will this spark more interest in AMD-powered machines in the casual consumer? This is where the DMCA comes into play.
In late 2004, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz was spotted at a DMCA gala-banquet, obviously there for brownie points. Now, where does the RIAA come into play? Well, as previously stated, we all know about the 1992 scandal, and I'm a monkey's uncle if these two incidents aren't somewhat related.
I'm a bit hazy on details at the moment, but I do know that Intel VP Dadi Perlmutter, at a Wednesday press conference, vaguely mentioned that "...it's much better to ally yourself with respectable organizations than with competeitors." If this whole shady octagon of government/industry relations is actually true, and was in fact what Perlmutter was talking about, I think we may know when Ruiz takes to the mic next February.
No offense taken, though I think you should at least try an Ubuntu Breezy LiveCD. It wouldn't hurt, and you'd see what I'm talking about. I mean, it may just be my opinion, but Gnetoo doesn't agree with me. Ubuntu, as it is their mission, is accessible to anyone and everyone. Hell, my 5-year-old son knows how to use it! So, if nothing else, you'd see another point of Jew. Just my opinion.
You know, I resent that. I've had a lot of experience with both Fedora and Gentoo, and I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. Both (especially Gentoo) are very maleable distros, and it's just sad you have to rely on your precious package manager to apt-get anything done. The reason you have to compile everything for Gentoo is that it enables much more cross-platform software and programming. But I wouldn't expect you to understand any of this. Just let your Ubuntu lull you into a false sense of security...
Who said I'd never tried Gentoo? The very reason I'm complaining about it is that I used to be a Gentoo user myself. I mean, apart from the hours upon hours it took to install it, and the laziness that went into it's design (I mean, no package manager? You want me to compile WHAT!?), it's just not a very solid distro. Not to be too cliche, but Ubuntu is the way to go these days. Not since the early days of Debian have I seen such functionality and elegance. You should give it a try.
Now, I find that quite ofensive! I've been a Gentoo user for three years now, and I've had nothing but good experiences.
Have you even TRIED Gentoo? I find it bad enough that you complain about other peoples' distros, but when you;ve never tried them?
Maybe this is just me, but I've never understood why people need "turkey giblets" for things like these.
Largely, I think it boils down to - 'because they don't understand the culinary arts as we do'. Take a simple, kitchen requirement: boiling. You or I might see that in terms of the components: such as a stove, a pot, deboning, some means of boiling, monitoring the temperature, etc.
A $chef sees the requirement as a big pot, they don't care about the internals. They've probably been told by some dishwasher/waiter that it will address some problem they have. For this person the turkey seems perfect, $restaurant sells $dish which is billed as a 'Turkey Giblet in White Sauce'. A magic black pot solution to a black box pot, their work is done - now it is the manager's problem.
Updating your pots, pans, stove and oven stocks manually isn't exactly hard as it is. If you want to make it easy to set up multiple workstations with this setup, just use cheap labour (or a shell script on NFS...).
To you it isn't, but what happens when you leave? It's much easier to recruit someone to maintain a push button solution, than a partly bespoke ecology of stoves and pots. Often the solution and the ecology are similar in complexity, but the solution hides that behind good food and glossy marketting material.
Diners often chose to spend their money on specialised meals (solutions), hopefully saving time. We often choose to spend our time customising general purpose food, hopefully saving money.
Fedora?
I mean, come on. It's like installing Gentoo, Hell, it's like USING Gentoo. Fedora is just for the boss who heard awesome things about 'TEH LN1UX' and wants to jump on the corporate Linux bandwagon. He only trusts it because it comes from a big company.
AHEM. Fedora: deafeating the purpose of Linux, one release at a time.
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According to the Intel website
"What is Wireless LAN Networking?
A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a flexible data communications system that can either replace or extend a wired LAN to provide added functionality. A traditional, wired local area network (LAN) sends packets of data from one piece of equipment to another across cables or wires. A wireless local area network (WLAN) relies instead upon radio waves to transfer data. Data is superimposed onto a radio wave through a process called modulation, and this carrier wave then acts as the transmission medium, taking the place of a wire."
Seem familiar to anyone?
In related news, Ubuntu users have surged past the Gentoo community to become the #1 source of annoying, off-topic distro cheerleading. Whether it's the parent responding to statistics for webserver hosting with DistroWatch numbers or this guy [slashdot.org] responding to a question about JES vs. OES with "[Ubuntu] is the first linux distro that I've recommended to my mom!", they can be counted on for their two cents regardless of the topic. Once again, you see what it looks like when a new distro really starts to get some traction. That's why I don't believe that there are serious numbers of Lindows, TurboLinux or Xandros users out there -- if there were, we'd hear from them.
They have a history of being pretty convincing towards striking deals with other computer giants. Microsoft, anyone? Still, I understand where you're coming from. Component-wise, Intel only makes the processors. But, in their years of smooth talking the fatcat software (AHEM! M$) companies and manufacturers, they've come to have a say in how their computers are made. Hell, if it isn't enough that they make the PROCESSORS for all x86 platform PCs, they're also pretty buddy-buddy with Dell, Gateway, and DRM-nazis Micro$oft. I'm not taling about anti-piracy processors here. I'm talking about anti-piracy computers. Now, I'm no hardware specialist, but wouldn't it be easy to cripple CD burners and USB ports when coupled with M$? I mean, the MPAA is always researching new ways to make the music ripped off their CDs more and more traceable. The RIAA now require that trackers be put in promo DVDs...
The possibilities are endless. Again, AMD, who have always been the underdog (kind of like Linux in the early days), may be the way to go from here. Only time will tell...
AlexYeah, thanks for the corrections. I too saw the article, and I was just trying to remember the dates off the top of my head. I still can't wait to see how AMD will fare in the end of all this (if there is an end :P)
Yes, but a nanometer is a unit of spatial measurement that is 10-9 meter, or one billionth of a meter, so we can't rush this. While commercial products are starting to come to market, some of the major applications for nanotechnology are five to ten years out. Private investors look for shorter-term returns on investment, more in the range of one to three years.
I'd be interested in hearing what the course covered with respect to environmental, health and safety issues around nanomaterials. While these new materials bring interesting properties, they could also present some interesting, unexpected health hazards. By virtue of their size, nanoparticles can cross the blood/brain barrier. For some materials this new route of entry could be the difference between toxic and nontoxic. Materials that previously were thought of as nontoxic in the micron and above particle range could now have toxic effects. - Material data safety sheets generally don't consider a material's particle size, except to state "dusty" type warnings.
That the nanoparticles can have this new route of entry is proven - that this results in new toxic effects for previously nontoxic compounds is not (at least not that I've seen in the lit) - so there may be no issue - or there may be a big issue. Hopefully we don't find out the asbestos way where we make the material ubiquitous then be stuck with huge remediation and civil lawsuit issues!
Now, ever since the early 1990s, the relationship between Intel and the DMCA has been a tad hazy. I mean, sure, we'll never really know what happened in 1992 with the whole MPAA/RIAA/DMCA scandal, but I think there's a few things we missed this time 'round. With Intel lately seeming a bit cozier than usual with the idea of Linux on the desktop, and the RIAA cracking down on movie theater security, it seems pretty plausible that Intel may even go so low as to implement anti-movie/music (yes, the MPAA is in on this too, methinks) piracy in their new machines.
Will this spark more interest in AMD-powered machines in the casual consumer? This is where the DMCA comes into play. In late 2004, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz was spotted at a DMCA gala-banquet, obviously there for brownie points. Now, where does the RIAA come into play? Well, as previously stated, we all know about the 1992 scandal, and I'm a monkey's uncle if these two incidents aren't somewhat related.
I'm a bit hazy on details at the moment, but I do know that Intel VP Dadi Perlmutter, at a Wednesday press conference, vaguely mentioned that "...it's much better to ally yourself with respectable organizations than with competeitors." If this whole shady octagon of government/industry relations is actually true, and was in fact what Perlmutter was talking about, I think we may know when Ruiz takes to the mic next February.
AlexGoatse. Gaotse. Ggoatse. Gaaaotsey.
No offense taken, though I think you should at least try an Ubuntu Breezy LiveCD. It wouldn't hurt, and you'd see what I'm talking about. I mean, it may just be my opinion, but Gnetoo doesn't agree with me. Ubuntu, as it is their mission, is accessible to anyone and everyone. Hell, my 5-year-old son knows how to use it! So, if nothing else, you'd see another point of Jew. Just my opinion.
OK, then. I hear ya. It just looked like you were an ignorant troll :P
You know, I resent that. I've had a lot of experience with both Fedora and Gentoo, and I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. Both (especially Gentoo) are very maleable distros, and it's just sad you have to rely on your precious package manager to apt-get anything done. The reason you have to compile everything for Gentoo is that it enables much more cross-platform software and programming. But I wouldn't expect you to understand any of this. Just let your Ubuntu lull you into a false sense of security...
Who said I'd never tried Gentoo? The very reason I'm complaining about it is that I used to be a Gentoo user myself. I mean, apart from the hours upon hours it took to install it, and the laziness that went into it's design (I mean, no package manager? You want me to compile WHAT!?), it's just not a very solid distro. Not to be too cliche, but Ubuntu is the way to go these days. Not since the early days of Debian have I seen such functionality and elegance. You should give it a try.
Now, I find that quite ofensive! I've been a Gentoo user for three years now, and I've had nothing but good experiences. Have you even TRIED Gentoo? I find it bad enough that you complain about other peoples' distros, but when you;ve never tried them?
Maybe this is just me, but I've never understood why people need "turkey giblets" for things like these.
Largely, I think it boils down to - 'because they don't understand the culinary arts as we do'. Take a simple, kitchen requirement: boiling. You or I might see that in terms of the components: such as a stove, a pot, deboning, some means of boiling, monitoring the temperature, etc.
A $chef sees the requirement as a big pot, they don't care about the internals. They've probably been told by some dishwasher/waiter that it will address some problem they have. For this person the turkey seems perfect, $restaurant sells $dish which is billed as a 'Turkey Giblet in White Sauce'. A magic black pot solution to a black box pot, their work is done - now it is the manager's problem.
Updating your pots, pans, stove and oven stocks manually isn't exactly hard as it is. If you want to make it easy to set up multiple workstations with this setup, just use cheap labour (or a shell script on NFS...).
To you it isn't, but what happens when you leave? It's much easier to recruit someone to maintain a push button solution, than a partly bespoke ecology of stoves and pots. Often the solution and the ecology are similar in complexity, but the solution hides that behind good food and glossy marketting material.
Diners often chose to spend their money on specialised meals (solutions), hopefully saving time. We often choose to spend our time customising general purpose food, hopefully saving money.
AlexFedora? I mean, come on. It's like installing Gentoo, Hell, it's like USING Gentoo. Fedora is just for the boss who heard awesome things about 'TEH LN1UX' and wants to jump on the corporate Linux bandwagon. He only trusts it because it comes from a big company. AHEM. Fedora: deafeating the purpose of Linux, one release at a time.