Yes, they make laptops with two hard drive bays (plus an optical drive).
Interesting! Who made your one, and would you recommend it? I'll probably be looking to upgrade soonish, and hadn't previously considered this possibility.
You're correct. GE and the USSR both started producing artificial diamonds decades ago. Most industrial diamonds are synthetic. The USSR was selling synthetic gem diamonds in the 70s -- see http://edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap17.htm .
I'll make sure to let our Linux support lead know. He's been bashing his head against a wall trying to get SimpleScalar to compile on our systems for a class to use.
Right. Let's just recall what you were asserting here: that the "everyman" won't use Linux because he finds the command line "scary". Now your "everyman" (who, it suddenly turns out, is also your Linux support lead) wishes to install SimpleScalar, a "system software infrastructure used to build modeling applications for program performance analysis, detailed microarchitectural modeling, and hardware-software co-verification". Despite his evident technical acumen, Everyman is terrified by the notion that he must run a compiler to perform detailed microarchitectural modelling.
"Sod this" says Everyman. "I'm going back to Windows!".
Then he discovers that, on Windows, you also have to build SimpleScalar from source. Poor old Everyman! He should never have applied for that job as Linux Support Lead.
On the off-chance that this blows up into some high-tech conspiracy-theory spy thriller, Mila Parkour has the perfect name for the protagonist of said thriller. I assume the whole thing will culminate in a white-knuckle chase across the rooftops of Paris as Ms Parkour skilfully evades MediaFire's hired goons.
You have to realize the military cryptographers and DRM hackers are pretty good at pulling digital information outta sources when the source tries their best to stop them... given a dataset where no one is trying to stop them, your average cryptographer is just going to laugh at how easy it is.
I'm sorry, perhaps I was unclear. I didn't mean that it would be an unbreakable code. I'm sure that future archaeologists will be able to reverse-engineer the QR codes. And I'm sure it would be an entertaining challenge for them.
On the other hand, for the regular schmucks who just want to read great-grandpa's tombstone, it would be a ludicrous and utterly pointless inconvenience, since you could just write the text on the tombstone instead.
So encode in text instead of a zip file of a rar file of a par2 archive of a DRMed video codec.
Exactly. Except that by "encode in text", I mean "encode in text", not "encode in ASCII in a QR code".
QR codes are the right tool for the job. Whether the job itself needs doing is a different matter entirely.
Well, that depends what you think "the job" is. If it's "letting little Suzie use her iphone to retrieve some kind of posthumous Facebook page for her late grandma, for the next five years or so", then yes.
If it's any kind of long-term storage, then no. If it's encoding an actual potted biography rather than a URL, then absolutely no. We have an excellent encoding for that already; it's called the alphabet.
QR codes can store more data than just a website address. In addition to a URL, name, dates, and a brief biography are reasonable things to include in a large QR code.
But at that point you may as well write the brief biography in English, and save your descendants from having to figure out how to read a QR code.
If our forebears had done this a hundred years ago, great-great-grandad's brief biography would be encoded on a bronze punch-card in an encoding nobody can find the documentation for. Text, on the other hand, has been working just fine for millenia.
Valve's structure seems like it's modeled after the 20th Century Motor Company from Atlas Shrugged. Everyone evaluated everyone else and decided who was productive and who wasn't It eventually imploded on itself as there was less and less incentive to actually work and more and more to just please your friends and groups to make sure you maintained a paycheck.
I wish them luck, but just like every other socialist plan it works great for a shot while, perhaps even a few decades, but it always falls to ruin faster than a free market based on incentive to do great.
So what you're saying is: this real company, which is doing great in reality, is doomed because it happens to remind you of a fictional company, which failed in a fictional universe.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Raspberry Pi pretty much what you're looking for?
fuck no, it's not. buying him a raspberry would be like buying someone a nes to get him into games industry. buying him a shitbox x86 and loading it with linux would work much better for all the things the rasp could teach him.
I guess having 2 other major manufacturers of chips is just way too many to keep track of or they'd have realized there's already chips called A8 and A10 from AMD. In fact, I think they just recently released A10 chips.
ARM Cortex A8 came out in 2010, and AMD announced their A-series in 2011. So perhaps AMD's marketing department should have done their homework, hmm?
With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?
Because most users don't install Windows themselves?
And here we have it: the simple answer.
The way to have more people using the Linux desktop is to HAVE IT PREINSTALLED by vendors, because most people are unwilling to install an OS themselves from scratch, no matter how incredible it is. Of course, this is much easier said than done, but I think that blaming GNOME/KDE/Unity for Linux's 1% market share is missing the point by a mile.
Nice for some because, well, quality production lines so hopefully less of a problem with supply. Horrible for others because, well, ZOMG BOYCOTT SONY.
Naah, it's even good for those people: they can find something to whine about withiout too much effort. Just think how disappointed they'd be if the board were being manufactured from fairtrade components and PCBs made of sustainably harvested pressed hemp, by a local co-operative which shelters kittens and supports the orphanage down the road.
Sure, there would be an outraged campaign against the fact that the hemp wasn't 100% certified organic, but it doesn't quite have the satisfying ring of ZOMG BOYCOTT SONY.
Thanks, I'd missed that bit of news! That would be a massive boost for them -- probably a necessary one too, given the size of the app ecosystems they're up against. Hmm, think I'll hold off on the Galaxy Nexus purchase for a little while longer...
For once I agree with Elop on something. I can fully believe that Nokia are "nimble" these days. Same way a gnat is more nimble than an 800-pound gorilla.
Personally I'm more interested to see what Jolla come up with.
.... *(mouse, keyboard and large HDMI LCD panel for your room not included)
Also not included: electricity to run the LCD panel, a room to put it in, food and drink to nourish yourself while using the Pi, room heating, toilet paper, organic fair trade coffee with unlimited free refills, jumbo size jar of dill pickles, free haircut, health insurance, manicure, or personal trainer.
Seriously though, if you're being given a free thing, it's a little churlish to complain that you're not being given more free things. Anyone who doesn't want their RasPi can probably sell it to a fellow student who wants an extra one...
Is GCJ actually capable of running any Java desktop applications these days? Last I heard it had kind of been left behind by improvements in Java.
I doubt you could use it as a drop-in replacement for a modern JRE. I did manage to compile a (very) small Swing application unmodified a year or two ago, but the Swing component implementations proved to be a bit buggy. AIUI, gcj was mainly created to address Java's non-freedom and slow execution speed; OpenJDK removed the first selling point, and JIT the second.
pdftk is the only program I use day-to-day which I know to be gcj-compiled. This illustrates perhaps gcj's sole remaining niche: smallish non-interactive command-line utilities where the start-up time of a JVM would impose a significant slow-down.
Code written during the normal working day, with constant interruptions, will never soar like that.
About half an hour before reading your post, I suddenly realized that Monday is Labor Day. My first thought was "fuck yeah, no office-mate, no visitors, finally I'll get some real work done".
Amen to that. As any/. Java comment thread demonstrates, the chief functionality of the Java browser plugin these days is tarnishing the reputation of the entire Java platform and ecosystem.
Doubtless there are still websites out there that need the plugin, but I don't remember the last time I saw one. Definitely time to make it opt-in, not opt-out.
Same old jokes and criticisms. Reading these posts, you'd think Java was relegated to driving outhouse fans in Siberia and not the #3 language by popularity in the world.
Jokes and criticisms mainly seem to be coming from those who conflate the JVM, the Java language, the JRE, the Oracle Java browser plugin, and more or less anything else with a J in the name. "Browser plugin compromised, omg that means your GCJ desktop application is broken!"
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Yes, they make laptops with two hard drive bays (plus an optical drive).
Interesting! Who made your one, and would you recommend it? I'll probably be looking to upgrade soonish, and hadn't previously considered this possibility.
You're correct. GE and the USSR both started producing artificial diamonds decades ago. Most industrial diamonds are synthetic. The USSR was selling synthetic gem diamonds in the 70s -- see http://edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap17.htm .
That article is an excerpt from Epstein's book The Diamon Invention, which is available in full online on the author's website. It's an amazing read.
I'll make sure to let our Linux support lead know. He's been bashing his head against a wall trying to get SimpleScalar to compile on our systems for a class to use.
Right. Let's just recall what you were asserting here: that the "everyman" won't use Linux because he finds the command line "scary". Now your "everyman" (who, it suddenly turns out, is also your Linux support lead) wishes to install SimpleScalar, a "system software infrastructure used to build modeling applications for program performance analysis, detailed microarchitectural modeling, and hardware-software co-verification". Despite his evident technical acumen, Everyman is terrified by the notion that he must run a compiler to perform detailed microarchitectural modelling.
"Sod this" says Everyman. "I'm going back to Windows!".
Then he discovers that, on Windows, you also have to build SimpleScalar from source. Poor old Everyman! He should never have applied for that job as Linux Support Lead.
A big problem is just the concept of source distribution and the command line.
"Source distribution"? "Command line"? Where are you posting from, 1995?
as long as a legit response to a problem is "Oh just recompile your kernel," then it is forever destined not to be the everyman's OS
Good thing that stopped being the case about ten years ago, then...
On the off-chance that this blows up into some high-tech conspiracy-theory spy thriller, Mila Parkour has the perfect name for the protagonist of said thriller. I assume the whole thing will culminate in a white-knuckle chase across the rooftops of Paris as Ms Parkour skilfully evades MediaFire's hired goons.
You have to realize the military cryptographers and DRM hackers are pretty good at pulling digital information outta sources when the source tries their best to stop them... given a dataset where no one is trying to stop them, your average cryptographer is just going to laugh at how easy it is.
I'm sorry, perhaps I was unclear. I didn't mean that it would be an unbreakable code. I'm sure that future archaeologists will be able to reverse-engineer the QR codes. And I'm sure it would be an entertaining challenge for them.
On the other hand, for the regular schmucks who just want to read great-grandpa's tombstone, it would be a ludicrous and utterly pointless inconvenience, since you could just write the text on the tombstone instead.
So encode in text instead of a zip file of a rar file of a par2 archive of a DRMed video codec.
Exactly. Except that by "encode in text", I mean "encode in text", not "encode in ASCII in a QR code".
QR codes are the right tool for the job. Whether the job itself needs doing is a different matter entirely.
Well, that depends what you think "the job" is. If it's "letting little Suzie use her iphone to retrieve some kind of posthumous Facebook page for her late grandma, for the next five years or so", then yes.
If it's any kind of long-term storage, then no. If it's encoding an actual potted biography rather than a URL, then absolutely no. We have an excellent encoding for that already; it's called the alphabet.
QR codes can store more data than just a website address. In addition to a URL, name, dates, and a brief biography are reasonable things to include in a large QR code.
But at that point you may as well write the brief biography in English, and save your descendants from having to figure out how to read a QR code.
If our forebears had done this a hundred years ago, great-great-grandad's brief biography would be encoded on a bronze punch-card in an encoding nobody can find the documentation for. Text, on the other hand, has been working just fine for millenia.
If the QR idea takes hold memorials will be able to tell much more to future generations.
Uh huh. How many future generations? For how long are QR codes going to be a popular format, and for how long are these companies going to be around?
Valve's structure seems like it's modeled after the 20th Century Motor Company from Atlas Shrugged. Everyone evaluated everyone else and decided who was productive and who wasn't It eventually imploded on itself as there was less and less incentive to actually work and more and more to just please your friends and groups to make sure you maintained a paycheck.
I wish them luck, but just like every other socialist plan it works great for a shot while, perhaps even a few decades, but it always falls to ruin faster than a free market based on incentive to do great.
So what you're saying is: this real company, which is doing great in reality, is doomed because it happens to remind you of a fictional company, which failed in a fictional universe.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Raspberry Pi pretty much what you're looking for?
fuck no, it's not. buying him a raspberry would be like buying someone a nes to get him into games industry. buying him a shitbox x86 and loading it with linux would work much better for all the things the rasp could teach him.
Saven-year-olds are already writing software using the Raspberry Pi.. It's say it would be absolutely ideal.
I guess having 2 other major manufacturers of chips is just way too many to keep track of or they'd have realized there's already chips called A8 and A10 from AMD. In fact, I think they just recently released A10 chips.
ARM Cortex A8 came out in 2010, and AMD announced their A-series in 2011. So perhaps AMD's marketing department should have done their homework, hmm?
With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?
Because most users don't install Windows themselves?
And here we have it: the simple answer.
The way to have more people using the Linux desktop is to HAVE IT PREINSTALLED by vendors, because most people are unwilling to install an OS themselves from scratch, no matter how incredible it is. Of course, this is much easier said than done, but I think that blaming GNOME/KDE/Unity for Linux's 1% market share is missing the point by a mile.
Nice for some because, well, quality production lines so hopefully less of a problem with supply. Horrible for others because, well, ZOMG BOYCOTT SONY.
Naah, it's even good for those people: they can find something to whine about withiout too much effort. Just think how disappointed they'd be if the board were being manufactured from fairtrade components and PCBs made of sustainably harvested pressed hemp, by a local co-operative which shelters kittens and supports the orphanage down the road.
Sure, there would be an outraged campaign against the fact that the hemp wasn't 100% certified organic, but it doesn't quite have the satisfying ring of ZOMG BOYCOTT SONY.
I just bought one a month ago. And NOW they release an updated board? Com'n, you couldn't warn us it was coming???
No.
In Wales by Sony to be exact
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1925
Nice! That would have been a far more interesting headline than "RasPi gets mounting holes and minor bugfixes".
They're also saying that the Jolla phone will be able to run Android applications, and if so that'll be an exciting development:
Thanks, I'd missed that bit of news! That would be a massive boost for them -- probably a necessary one too, given the size of the app ecosystems they're up against. Hmm, think I'll hold off on the Galaxy Nexus purchase for a little while longer...
For once I agree with Elop on something. I can fully believe that Nokia are "nimble" these days. Same way a gnat is more nimble than an 800-pound gorilla.
Personally I'm more interested to see what Jolla come up with.
.... *(mouse, keyboard and large HDMI LCD panel for your room not included)
Also not included: electricity to run the LCD panel, a room to put it in, food and drink to nourish yourself while using the Pi, room heating, toilet paper, organic fair trade coffee with unlimited free refills, jumbo size jar of dill pickles, free haircut, health insurance, manicure, or personal trainer.
Seriously though, if you're being given a free thing, it's a little churlish to complain that you're not being given more free things. Anyone who doesn't want their RasPi can probably sell it to a fellow student who wants an extra one...
Is GCJ actually capable of running any Java desktop applications these days? Last I heard it had kind of been left behind by improvements in Java.
I doubt you could use it as a drop-in replacement for a modern JRE. I did manage to compile a (very) small Swing application unmodified a year or two ago, but the Swing component implementations proved to be a bit buggy. AIUI, gcj was mainly created to address Java's non-freedom and slow execution speed; OpenJDK removed the first selling point, and JIT the second.
pdftk is the only program I use day-to-day which I know to be gcj-compiled. This illustrates perhaps gcj's sole remaining niche: smallish non-interactive command-line utilities where the start-up time of a JVM would impose a significant slow-down.
Code written during the normal working day, with constant interruptions, will never soar like that.
About half an hour before reading your post, I suddenly realized that Monday is Labor Day. My first thought was "fuck yeah, no office-mate, no visitors, finally I'll get some real work done".
I think it's going to be the iProduct.
Amen to that. As any /. Java comment thread demonstrates, the chief functionality of the Java browser plugin these days is tarnishing the reputation of the entire Java platform and ecosystem.
Doubtless there are still websites out there that need the plugin, but I don't remember the last time I saw one. Definitely time to make it opt-in, not opt-out.
Same old jokes and criticisms. Reading these posts, you'd think Java was relegated to driving outhouse fans in Siberia and not the #3 language by popularity in the world.
Jokes and criticisms mainly seem to be coming from those who conflate the JVM, the Java language, the JRE, the Oracle Java browser plugin, and more or less anything else with a J in the name. "Browser plugin compromised, omg that means your GCJ desktop application is broken!"