I was lucky. I bought the last 5 cleaning kits from my local store for 10p each (weren't they £9.99 or something daft originally)
Actually I did love that, basically they were making £9.99 a pop out of their own inability to design a console, my Sega Master System 2 hasn't had so much as a blow and it's soldiering on 10 years in its life.
Actually I do wonder about this. In general CARTS were bullet proof things. How easy is it going to be to find less trivially download sized old PSX games in 10 years, is there any project to dump these now while the CDs nearly work?
Indeed, the problem with piggy backing is you have to fit extra lines, which like all this will be done in cities first.
I.e - Totally fscking useless for the purpose at hand. In the majority of places they have power lines. As may these days might have phone lines but DSL technology isn't the answer for range reasons.
What this is about is effectively a "DSL for power lines". Using the EXISITNG lines to do something cool.
(Obviously the parent poster knew this, but I felt it was more a reply to him than the grandparent poster)
Or rather they used it as one about a decade ago in a Computing Magazine.
Bet they're embarassed. This isn't the first I've heard of this, it keeps popping up, energis were planning it in the UK in the late 90s but no-one seems to have cracked a proper commercial solution.
And even if they do, there's still quite large startup costs.
In the UK, where you'd expect semi-similar salarys, I've been out of university 18months, and I'm on £15k (maybe $24k). Of the people I know in my graduating class, that's about on a par. Off hand I can list £12k/£14k/£14k for others.
I think my favorite part was upgrading the kernel from 2.2.x to 2.4.x and Debian was told me "hey modify your/etc/lilo.conf", so I did it, then went back to dselect and finished the install. I rebooted. It was magically in 2.4.x.... It modifys the config FOR you.
They only had to worry about their own machines. Sure it's a lot of hardware but it probably doesn't cover 1% of the stuff that's in the insane range of PCs.
They didn't have to be aware of tiny differences between AMD and Intel, a million in use video card chipsets, 9 trillion weird PC cards etc.
Yes you have to take classes to drive. Thats because a car can kill people. When was the last time you heard of not knowing how to print your MS Word document leading to a 41 car pileup on the highway?
I was trying to print a "Warning : ICE" sign for the highway...
Ignore Mac because there's zero software for a sec.
Windows is 1000x easier to use than your average Linux. It doesn't ask insanly complex questions during install, it doesn't blind you with 90million avaliable file formats. It doesn't worry you about user accounts if you don't want them.
It doesn't require EVER that you know your monitors horizontal refresh rate or plunge through a list of 1000 packages to try and find if it installs a notepad.
It has ONE desktop which people know and which, by and large allows them to do what they want better than either KDE or Gnome. It avoids jargon usually. It doesn't in general stop people doing what they want to their computer just to make them type a root password.
It supports 99.9% of hardware immediately. You don't need hardware addresses, or to compile weird modules. You just know "Windows XP" not Linux-but-its-this-distribution-with-this-obscure- kernal. It doesn't throw 9000 slightly different web browsers each reading a different subset of pages at them. And it doesn't make you do anything more complex than insert a CD to install most stuff.
99% of the time it "just works".
(Of course that 1% is pure hell)
This isn't why Windows is better. Lord knows a lot of the time it REALLY isn't. It IS however why it's still easier to use (even sometimes at the expense of security and power) than Linux and probably always will be.
Lindows is a start but it's install still hung on one of my machines for no visible reason. Knoppix is probably a better one as far as ease of getting it up and running goes (once they perfect an easier HD inst). But certainly for the moment Linux isn't within 100 billion miles of being easy enough for my mother to use.
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I was lucky. I bought the last 5 cleaning kits from my local store for 10p each (weren't they £9.99 or something daft originally)
Actually I did love that, basically they were making £9.99 a pop out of their own inability to design a console, my Sega Master System 2 hasn't had so much as a blow and it's soldiering on 10 years in its life.
Actually I do wonder about this. In general CARTS were bullet proof things. How easy is it going to be to find less trivially download sized old PSX games in 10 years, is there any project to dump these now while the CDs nearly work?
I always thought the older one was the "mouth loading NES"
And yes I did wonder precisely what I was shoving the power lead into.
Now you can make your 8Bit NES as reliable as your linux kernel.
Believe me, my NES is EXACTLY as reliable as my linux kernal.
Now if you'll excuse me I'll be attempting to get the fscking thing to survive a boot sequence...
The RIAA has been actively threatening sites that carry high res album art. Several of them have closed.
Whether it's actually illegal or people without time/money to fight I don't know.
It puts its perspective well certainly. Unfortunately an R2 DVD release looks as unlikely as a story only appearing once on slashdot
You missed out the MOBOs....
* runs
Indeed, the problem with piggy backing is you have to fit extra lines, which like all this will be done in cities first.
I.e - Totally fscking useless for the purpose at hand. In the majority of places they have power lines. As may these days might have phone lines but DSL technology isn't the answer for range reasons.
What this is about is effectively a "DSL for power lines". Using the EXISITNG lines to do something cool.
(Obviously the parent poster knew this, but I felt it was more a reply to him than the grandparent poster)
Do you mean what Cisco amoungst others do? My Cisco WAP has just an ethernet in and the power it carried on that.
It's injected either by a Cisco switch or in my case by a little adapter at the other end.
Very handy to only run one wire under the carpet.
Your next segfault takes down an entire countys power that what!
:)
Now THAT'S extreme programming
Or rather they used it as one about a decade ago in a Computing Magazine.
Bet they're embarassed. This isn't the first I've heard of this, it keeps popping up, energis were planning it in the UK in the late 90s but no-one seems to have cracked a proper commercial solution.
And even if they do, there's still quite large startup costs.
Again, 4 computers, from the K6-2 that was its home and another K6-2 to a Celeron to a Duron some time later. Same issue.
:)
And it was a 300W PSU
My Geforce 1 has a truly bizzare fault.
:p
It works fine until you try to do anything 3D. I.e - you can pootle around Windows or Linux as long as you like and it's rock stable.
The second you start a D3D or OpenGL app? BLAM. PC Hangs.
And I've tried it in 4 totally seperate PCs now with the same result.
Still, nice server card
Absolutely.
In the UK, where you'd expect semi-similar salarys, I've been out of university 18months, and I'm on £15k (maybe $24k). Of the people I know in my graduating class, that's about on a par. Off hand I can list £12k/£14k/£14k for others.
Doom for the Zx Spectum worked in 128Kbytes
Well it's not that bad.
My 40,000 word word2002 doc was just under half a meg. There's just a high "fixed cost"
And I can even get laid in the real world!
;)
How?
I'm Famous!
What he means is he didn't abuse any trust he legitamately aquired.
He certainly did abuse trust he never had.
I.e - If they were stupid enough to blindly trusty him (i,e - the card number story) then he abused THAT.
Which would actually have made it even EASIER to do it for you :P
:)
I was just feeling sarcastic
I think my favorite part was upgrading the kernel from 2.2.x to 2.4.x and Debian was told me "hey modify your /etc/lilo.conf", so I did it, then went back to dselect and finished the install. I rebooted. It was magically in 2.4.x. ... It modifys the config FOR you.
Consistent hardware.
They only had to worry about their own machines. Sure it's a lot of hardware but it probably doesn't cover 1% of the stuff that's in the insane range of PCs.
They didn't have to be aware of tiny differences between AMD and Intel, a million in use video card chipsets, 9 trillion weird PC cards etc.
Yes you have to take classes to drive. Thats because a car can kill people. When was the last time you heard of not knowing how to print your MS Word document leading to a 41 car pileup on the highway?
I was trying to print a "Warning : ICE" sign for the highway...
Ignore Mac because there's zero software for a sec.
- kernal. It doesn't throw 9000 slightly different web browsers each reading a different subset of pages at them. And it doesn't make you do anything more complex than insert a CD to install most stuff.
Windows is 1000x easier to use than your average Linux. It doesn't ask insanly complex questions during install, it doesn't blind you with 90million avaliable file formats. It doesn't worry you about user accounts if you don't want them.
It doesn't require EVER that you know your monitors horizontal refresh rate or plunge through a list of 1000 packages to try and find if it installs a notepad.
It has ONE desktop which people know and which, by and large allows them to do what they want better than either KDE or Gnome. It avoids jargon usually. It doesn't in general stop people doing what they want to their computer just to make them type a root password.
It supports 99.9% of hardware immediately. You don't need hardware addresses, or to compile weird modules. You just know "Windows XP" not Linux-but-its-this-distribution-with-this-obscure
99% of the time it "just works".
(Of course that 1% is pure hell)
This isn't why Windows is better. Lord knows a lot of the time it REALLY isn't. It IS however why it's still easier to use (even sometimes at the expense of security and power) than Linux and probably always will be.
Lindows is a start but it's install still hung on one of my machines for no visible reason. Knoppix is probably a better one as far as ease of getting it up and running goes (once they perfect an easier HD inst). But certainly for the moment Linux isn't within 100 billion miles of being easy enough for my mother to use.
So by the same token we should occupy germany forever because they were mean to use several generations ago?
Well, there's no reason you want to watch it if you think animation is just for kids.
Presumably you think books are only for spotty people with glasses too.