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Comment WHOA!!! (Score 1) 570

by madcat_sun (#44613117) Attached to: The Steady Decline of Unix
Seriously this is one of the greatest lies I ve ever seen!!!!! Someone pay to post here??? What happen?!!!!!! Even if this is not certified unix, linux kernel/ ios kernel are sons of unix, as well the HPuX, the IRIx and the solaris are.
Medicine

Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils 72

Posted by samzenpus from the trying-to-listen dept.
sciencehabit writes "Lying in bed, unable to move a muscle, so-called locked-in patients have few ways to communicate with the outside world. But researchers have now found a way to use the widening and narrowing of the pupils to send a message, potentially helping these patients break the silence. The trick is a webcam-like setup that tracks pupil dilation. When people focus on a hard problem--say a math problem--their pupils dilate. Employing the approach, some locked-in patients could answer 'yes' and 'no' questions just by dilating their eyes."

Comment Re:What we'd really need (Score 1) 74

It depends in what you are meaning for " a very basic system on top of which all other distros are based." Why the same basic system has to be the same for a student, for a group, for a school or a goverment server? This is more marketing . It reminds me the time, after a gazillion bugs/error or hardware misconfiguration you used ti fullfil a w95 setup. Whoa!!!! and then what? You have the very basic system...doing nothing. Cmon men, just fire up a network installation disc, grab the packages you need and its done. Why do you need a ring to make things????

Comment no touch-whatever beats a good keyboard (Score 1) 913

by madcat_sun (#42717007) Attached to: Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure
IMHO: the win8 has suffered the same thing (in a diferent scale) that happen to gnome3. They made a Os (if this can be called so) for Apps (not aplications) and media Consumption not development, not creation thus sterile. You have to push menu after menu afeter menu to find another menu that says you what the machines is thinking you want to do, not that you want to do (I remeber in win95 and gnome 2.x you went after a right click et voila) I really think its a backdrop instead of add more hardware power and better software, you get the apus and apps for doing nothing!!! the only diference, if you want, is that gnome 3 its a graphic environment and win8 is... win8. =p
Linux

Submission + - less troublesome gpus on linux

Submitted by madcat_sun
madcat_sun writes: yo there. I own a aspire 5553 with a turion II X2 but unfortunately the screen got smashed by who knows... Then Im looking for a replacement but unfortunately, I have seen only these so called gpus thingys around(the A-x of amd and the iX of intel) Im afraid this things isnt at the same performance level that the old "pures" mics. I have 2 questions.
-does this SoC's (pun intended=) offer a benefit or are merely a whole bunch of marketing. I mean whats the purpose of this consuming 12 or 20 W if I cant do what I want to.
-since Im a linux friki, there are some rumors there saying these guys have several trouble to get up and running properly in linux (even bugs)
can you tell me some chipsets proved (or at least you think) it will not be so hard to work on? (I dont want fancy desktop effects or tablet like enviroments, only want to do my code right and see one vid.)
Thanks in advance!!!!

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