micro = 10e-6 pico = 10e-12 micro = 10e+6 * pico 1 micro sat is presumably 1 microunit cubed. or 10e+6 pico units cubed...ie, 10e+18 picocubes...or 10e+18 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) picosats no just 10,000. I need a life.
Hey, were not talking cubic satellites here - well, yes, we are. But, er, its a different meaning of cubic.
If your unit is one satellite (not one cubic satellite, multiplying things by things by things is rather hard), a microsatellite is just a million picosatellites. Er.
As a German who has had exposure to SuSE, I agree only in part.
Yes, it is extremely poular, to the point that if a linux distro is included with a book, mag, etc. it usually means SuSE.
Yes, there is some great effort towards localization (mostly docs, but ISDN support was a very strong point for them for some time).
But they use that ugly proprietary yast thing the impact of which is not to be underestimated - a central configuration file is just plain wrong, for example. This is a M$-like abomination. I prefer Linux over the M$-crap for its continuous/steady learning curve ("steep" leads to misunderstandings), meaning there isnt such a great gap in configuration between "clickable" and "arcane". Yast is the opposite. Either it knows about what you want to to, or it will break it, unless you disable it, leaving the SuSE-documented paths, entering normal use ("hey, is this still a SuSE? I disabled yast..."). Every time I recommend it to one of my friends (because they do not understand enough english to RTFM in it) I hate myself for it.
I dimly recall hearing about anti-sound. IIRC, it could more easily be achieved by hollow tubes reflecting part of the signal and retransmitting it at -1, but that would require knowledge of the frequency you want to suppress etc...
Also, maybe someone like Red Hat could pull it off, but it would violate their company constitution. I wouldn't be worried about smaller players doing this, as they'll just get laughed-and-pointed-at.
false assumptions detected.
SuSE is not a small player here in Europe (where localization matters, which was what SuSE got its start from). Expect the czech market to change radically in their favour if this works out the way they planned.
Mebbe its also a matter of testing grounds for marketing techniques they could use when the situation returns.
In theory, you could use virtually any chips to build a motherboard with built-in components.
An integrated chipset means you can do that with less chips, because basically what your multi-I/O, NI, modem, graphics adapter etc. would normally do with many chips is added onto a few chips that need to be there anyway (RAM hub, PCI-controller etc.), and these are also joined together in order for mainboard manufacturers to need less chips to put on their mainboards, making them cheaper to build.
Yes, this has been done for a long time.
Think of it as an ongoing process. Usually cheap systems are built with higher integration because at first, integrated chips tend to be inferior to specialist setups. Later they catch up - when the specialists have developed to a point where their development slows down to allow for that. Then they just become integrated parts (when did you last think about your serial I/O chips?).
the fact that even AOL don't use Netscape says a lot about how awful Netscape is
In fact, AOL dont use Netscape because they made a contract with Microsoft to exclusively use IE for several years before they thought of buying Netscape. There are no quality issues involved there.
That's fine, but it means anything there is highly experiential and rather useless as a reference tool (look up the entries for Linux, RMS, and Microsoft...).
Various views of the Smart (and of some customizations on this particular owners car) can be seen (use the horrible babelfish translation) at an enthusiasts site.
You are probably alluding to the relative amount of doze boxes in companies likely to hire people who were subject to a charity training programme. Most of what the prospective trainees lack, however, is not skills specific to doze-maimed machines, but rather generic skills needed for virtually all systems designed by people with a programmer state of mind (i.e. all systems). I would definitely not have them write TeX in vi or worse (EMACS), but an installation using StarOffice on Linux would hardly do any harm, while at the same time having several advantages over an M$ solution:
stability
less maintenance overhead once set up properly
an easy way to provide defined environments whenever necessary
when going beyond those first steps, all the possibilities you may want
a wealth of software at the best possible price (==free beer)
trainees get a chance to look "over the rim" into that great world of unknown possibilities
they get a new competitive advantage on the job market (exposure to "other OSs")
Linux encourages them (once they have been led the first steps into it) to learn much more than the bit of point-and-click most get stuck at in wonderdoze (an important reason for the present lack of really computer literates), possibly setting some of them on the way to computer wizardry and your own job (well, maybe Im getting a bit overenthusiastic here...)
Now that could be more pretty than a penguin to hide the boot messages, and a great show-off:
Lets play gframebufferBill while Linux is booting - and see if Redmond has got an answer to that!
As for World War I, well... there isn't so much on the History Channel about it as there is World War II and I'm too lazy to do anything but remember facts off the top of my head. However, in WWII at least, we were helping out before we were officially involved...
As a matter of fact, when the US entered World War I, the powers of the entente were deeply in debt to them, so their losing the war would have been most unfortunate to the US themselves.
This was largely due to military supplies shipped to Europe by Lusitania and the like (it has been argued that Lusitania was not sunk by the torpedo but rather her ammunition cargo ignited by the torpedo).
L.R. H*bb@rd's books should not be bought for a library - even though you might want them for your Humor & SF section, it means financial support for the so-called "church", besides not being by any means harmless reading.
Free speech can be interpreted in various ways. Media companies tend to reach a slightly larger audience than your average citizen does when speaking from the sidewalk. This is why in Germany (I dont know if there are US equivalents) the right to free speech led to public TV and radio stations (Offener Kanal, "open channel") everybody asking has the right to use, broadcasting his or her own local TV programme, possibly created with equipment lent from the station, all for free.
This is supposed to provide Klaus Average Guy with a reasonable opportunity to actually exercise his right to free speech in a way that matters.
The Internet is *the way* to do the same thing much easier (and probably cheaper), if everybodys got a chance to access it at an affordable price (not that of a $1000 "cheap" computer + ISP + telephone etc.). Thus, internet terminals in libraries make a *lot* of sense UNLESS ACCESS IS RESTRICTED.
By the way, whoever complains about children not being protected from possibly harmful content should just ask themselves whether they are spending enough time guiding and protecting them.
Its even worse. Moody was stupid enough to take the correct figure (Linux aggr., which already discounts duplicates) and ADD THE REDHAT BUG COUNT TO THIS TOTAL. This way, he managed to get a figure with all redhat bugs counted twice, even if they did not turn up anywhere else - clever, isnt it?
Unfortunately, most media is much less interactive than e.g. slashdot. Moody can get away with not thoroughly reading the pages he bases his article on because his readers do not see, as they would here, modded-up posts pointing out the sh*t, just a single PgDn away.
Unlike present-day mass media, slashdot discourages the posting of stirred dung (well, mostly).
I sincerely hope this model will be developed into something that can be used by the masses. It would probably not work the same way (imagine all the penis birds...), but were going the right way.
Funny thing is, if you pay for the service of a software running on your system (as in "rent"), the one you get it from is likely to be responsible for its working state. No disclaimers of the "provided as is" type here... if it didnt work, and it was rented, theyd fix it, or you wouldnt pay.
These "lawyers fees" are supposed to be a reimbursement for their effort in writing you off, so you pay them in any case. The current debate is about allowing them to charge $500-$1000 for serial letters.
IIRC, they coupled this with an offer of a payed licensing of the term for future use (e.g. in the case of Microsoft and "Explorer") or, worse, they required an agreement to pay a contract fine (say, $25,000) for any subsequent occurrence (e.g. in the case of inches used instead of centimetres for specifying, of all things, screen sizes in advertisements [remember, CRT screens are manufactured in 14", 15", 17"...], while meters are the official unit of length, so customers where supposed to be confused by inch specifications [which, of course, everybody uses], allegedly making it "unfair competition").
This practice, brought to us by munich lawyer Günther Frhr. (Freiherr) von Gravenreuth (who may try to sue me for using his name), is considered by many to abuse law for personal profit.
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Hey, were not talking cubic satellites here - well, yes, we are. But, er, its a different meaning of cubic.
If your unit is one satellite (not one cubic satellite, multiplying things by things by things is rather hard), a microsatellite is just a million picosatellites. Er.
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Kiwaiti
700K$????
not just what id like to pay for a distro...
Kiwaiti
Yes, it is extremely poular, to the point that if a linux distro is included with a book, mag, etc. it usually means SuSE.
Yes, there is some great effort towards localization (mostly docs, but ISDN support was a very strong point for them for some time).
But they use that ugly proprietary yast thing the impact of which is not to be underestimated - a central configuration file is just plain wrong, for example. This is a M$-like abomination. I prefer Linux over the M$-crap for its continuous/steady learning curve ("steep" leads to misunderstandings), meaning there isnt such a great gap in configuration between "clickable" and "arcane". Yast is the opposite. Either it knows about what you want to to, or it will break it, unless you disable it, leaving the SuSE-documented paths, entering normal use ("hey, is this still a SuSE? I disabled yast..."). Every time I recommend it to one of my friends (because they do not understand enough english to RTFM in it) I hate myself for it.
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
false assumptions detected.
SuSE is not a small player here in Europe (where localization matters, which was what SuSE got its start from). Expect the czech market to change radically in their favour if this works out the way they planned.
Mebbe its also a matter of testing grounds for marketing techniques they could use when the situation returns.
THIS MATTERS!
Kiwaiti
An integrated chipset means you can do that with less chips, because basically what your multi-I/O, NI, modem, graphics adapter etc. would normally do with many chips is added onto a few chips that need to be there anyway (RAM hub, PCI-controller etc.), and these are also joined together in order for mainboard manufacturers to need less chips to put on their mainboards, making them cheaper to build.
Yes, this has been done for a long time.
Think of it as an ongoing process. Usually cheap systems are built with higher integration because at first, integrated chips tend to be inferior to specialist setups.
Later they catch up - when the specialists have developed to a point where their development slows down to allow for that. Then they just become integrated parts (when did you last think about your serial I/O chips?).
Kiwaiti
In fact, AOL dont use Netscape because they made a contract with Microsoft to exclusively use IE for several years before they thought of buying Netscape. There are no quality issues involved there.
Kiwaiti
Whats your point?
I think theyre great!
Kiwaiti
read all mail, real fast
This is just for democracies, not for the US.
To run a democracy, you need lots of literates, some of them with the additional qualification of being able to count (Fingers?).
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Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
- stability
- less maintenance overhead once set up properly
- an easy way to provide defined environments whenever necessary
- when going beyond those first steps, all the possibilities you may want
- a wealth of software at the best possible price (==free beer)
- trainees get a chance to look "over the rim" into that great world of unknown possibilities
- they get a new competitive advantage on the job market (exposure to "other OSs")
- Linux encourages them (once they have been led the first steps into it) to learn much more than the bit of point-and-click most get stuck at in wonderdoze (an important reason for the present lack of really computer literates), possibly setting some of them on the way to computer wizardry and your own job (well, maybe Im getting a bit overenthusiastic here...)
KiwaitiLets play gframebufferBill while Linux is booting - and see if Redmond has got an answer to that!
Kiwaiti
usually I put the shiny side up to use them as beermats.
Kiwaiti
As a matter of fact, when the US entered World War I, the powers of the entente were deeply in debt to them, so their losing the war would have been most unfortunate to the US themselves.
This was largely due to military supplies shipped to Europe by Lusitania and the like (it has been argued that Lusitania was not sunk by the torpedo but rather her ammunition cargo ignited by the torpedo).
Kiwaiti
He was dragged to Alberta, but didnt die, so they tried again...
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Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
This is supposed to provide Klaus Average Guy with a reasonable opportunity to actually exercise his right to free speech in a way that matters.
The Internet is *the way* to do the same thing much easier (and probably cheaper), if everybodys got a chance to access it at an affordable price (not that of a $1000 "cheap" computer + ISP + telephone etc.). Thus, internet terminals in libraries make a *lot* of sense UNLESS ACCESS IS RESTRICTED.
By the way, whoever complains about children not being protected from possibly harmful content should just ask themselves whether they are spending enough time guiding and protecting them.
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
Unlike present-day mass media, slashdot discourages the posting of stirred dung (well, mostly).
I sincerely hope this model will be developed into something that can be used by the masses. It would probably not work the same way (imagine all the penis birds...), but were going the right way.
Kiwaiti
If they cannot afford as many missions in a safe way asthey have planned, they should put up less missions. Thats all.
Kiwaiti
Kiwaiti
IIRC, they coupled this with an offer of a payed licensing of the term for future use (e.g. in the case of Microsoft and "Explorer") or, worse, they required an agreement to pay a contract fine (say, $25,000) for any subsequent occurrence (e.g. in the case of inches used instead of centimetres for specifying, of all things, screen sizes in advertisements [remember, CRT screens are manufactured in 14", 15", 17"...], while meters are the official unit of length, so customers where supposed to be confused by inch specifications [which, of course, everybody uses], allegedly making it "unfair competition").
This practice, brought to us by munich lawyer Günther Frhr. (Freiherr) von Gravenreuth (who may try to sue me for using his name), is considered by many to abuse law for personal profit.
Kiwaiti
where are you?
this one is ART!!!
long live The Beatles!
Im buyiiiiing....
Kiwaiti