Right, it's bullshit. People like to bitch and moan about having to replace TV's but by 2006 DTV tuner set top boxes will be as cheap as VCR's and will work fine on their existing analog sets. People will of course eventually WANT to buy new TV's when they see all the awesome HDTV content they are missing out (and when they get tired of black bars on their 4:3 sets).
How eerie, I just finished reading the section in Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Time where young genius children built a device to capture a quark nugget!
Try Dedicated-Host.net, they have good prices ($25/mo for 500MB/20GB) and offer extra bandwidth if you need it for a reasonable price. They also don't have any restrictions on what types of content you host on your website as long as it's not illegal of course!
Pan and scan is an abomination and I'm glad they aren't going to waste space on the widescreen version for that crap. It is too bad the general public isn't better informed about what P&S really is: the butchering of the director's art and original vision. And it's also unfortunate that video rental places will most likely not stock the widescreen version.:(
When you look at some of the previous New Line attempts to fit as much as possible onto one DVD (see any Infinifilm title), you will realize this is a good thing! They will have more bits available to make the video and sound quality the highest they can be.
Everyone's favorite retailer amazon.com is already doing a popup this month plugging their "fast cheap shipping". It looks like they set a cookie so you only get it once per browser, but I think I've seen it several times so it may be a very short cookie.
I think some other big online stores are doing this too, but I can't think of any specific examples at the moment.
Did anyone consider that maybe the CIO just misplaced or lost his laptop and data? C*O's are usually the kind of people who would blame someone else for their own mistakes.
We do. Unless you work on the NT helpdesk team, we are almost 100% Solaris and just about every developer has a Linux box on their desk.:) We hire plenty of interns from what I've seen.
actually it's 740.. it's only 650 if you put data on it, which uses less of the available bits on the cd (the rest are used for error correction, etc). Try ripping a 74 min audio cd and see how much space it takes up:)
Nope, 1 CD = 740 MB of audio. So you could fit about 28 more minutes of audio before this 1 gig drive is full. Best to keep your music in MP3 for now:)
You mention on WWN that this is coming "soon". I know the drawbacks of using this on a pager is that you cannot call to request info, but I would be more than happy with the ability to setup some sort of recurring info. Once an hour headlines from Slashdot, once a day weather, etc. What's the timeframe for this?
Don't forget Axiomatic, Quarantine and his new book Teranesia. There is also his first book, An Unusual Angle, but it isn't as hardcore sci-fi as the rest. Some of the older books are out of print so try the library.
You might want to consider multiple hard drives in a striped configuration for increased I/O performance. (Striping is the same as RAID 0, using multiple hard drives for a single partition, thereby increasing, depending on your bus bandwidth of course, your disk performance.) Uncompressed digital video requires loads of disk space and a fairly high transfer rate to/from your hard drive(s). Of course with a fast enough CPU and a good enough encoding algorithm you could probably get by with only 1 hard drive. If you have money to burn, though, and want top-of-the-line, I recommend an 8-bay fibre channel disk array. Stick 6-8 36-gig Seagate Cheetahs in there and you can hit ~90MB/sec striped:)
I like the "under construction" future links such as "Get the source", "Build it" and "Report a bug". Seems like they found a typical open-source software site and copied all the links. Would the "source" in this case be full hardware schematics to building your own LEO sat? I'd like to report a bug in these people's heads.
I find it strange that there is not 1 name on the site of someone taking credit...
I am still waiting for a cheap CD player that will play both audio and MP3 cd's. I think I saw one advertised once but I assume it ended up in the vaporware bin. Forget this hard drive crap.. 80 hours is nice, but 12 hours * unlimited CD's is nicer! Anyone got any info about something like this?
I wonder if your legal fees per email you sue for would be more than $10...most likely yes. However this might be a good way to make money if you are a lawyer:)
While I can usually already tell by the subject line what is spam and what isn't, having a clear ADV: in the subject would make it almost trivial to immediately filter out all spam to the deleted items folder.
One thing I am curious about though. Any internet advertiser who wants to send an email now has to respect this law, correct? They would have no way of knowing who on their list lives in Colorado. What if another state passed a similar law requiring not ADV: but SPAM: for example? What would they have to do then? ADV/SPAM: ?
I'm waiting for the ENTIRE show, all 7 seasons + movie(s), on DVD. (What's that, like 49 discs?) hehe.. I think just having the first season would be cool, but I know they'll release some sort of box set with all of them eventually. I'm sure it won't be cheap, though!
I can't link to the i386 library on my (Linux/Alpha, Linux/PPC, etc). Can I reverse engineer the library so it does? That would qualify as interoperability, wouldn't it?
looks like these are behind a firewall.. can't get any kind of net access outgoing. Would be nice too.. I could store a lot of stuff on that 60 gig drive:) [tiny@spe110 tiny]$ quota Disk quotas for user tiny (uid 1535): none [tiny@spe110 tiny]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 253871 66916 173848 28% / /dev/sdb2 2157444 20 2047832 0%/scratch1 /dev/sdb7 2324680 20 2206572 0%/scratch2 /dev/sda7 2064208 473112 1486240 24%/tmp /dev/sdb8 2634320 1061200 1439304 42%/usr /dev/sda8 3308472 96 3140316 0%/usr/local /dev/sda6 1032088 22564 957096 2%/var spe81:/home 61222740 4741980 53370780 8%/home
I got on a 4x500mhz Alpha box.. 975.17 bogomips is not too shabby! Now if only that guy would quit using up 99.9% of the cpu with his "makecover" process....
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Right, it's bullshit. People like to bitch and moan about having to replace TV's but by 2006 DTV tuner set top boxes will be as cheap as VCR's and will work fine on their existing analog sets. People will of course eventually WANT to buy new TV's when they see all the awesome HDTV content they are missing out (and when they get tired of black bars on their 4:3 sets).
How eerie, I just finished reading the section in Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Time where young genius children built a device to capture a quark nugget!
Try Dedicated-Host.net, they have good prices ($25/mo for 500MB/20GB) and offer extra bandwidth if you need it for a reasonable price. They also don't have any restrictions on what types of content you host on your website as long as it's not illegal of course!
Pan and scan is an abomination and I'm glad they aren't going to waste space on the widescreen version for that crap. It is too bad the general public isn't better informed about what P&S really is: the butchering of the director's art and original vision. And it's also unfortunate that video rental places will most likely not stock the widescreen version. :(
If the 4-disc set doesn't contain the original theatrical cut you may want to have both versions around. :)
:)
Or you could always sell the 8/6 version on half.com, or just rent it a few times to hold yourself over until November.
When you look at some of the previous New Line attempts to fit as much as possible onto one DVD (see any Infinifilm title), you will realize this is a good thing! They will have more bits available to make the video and sound quality the highest they can be.
For a lot more historical info on Marconi, see marconicalling.com
Heh, on his P166?
Everyone's favorite retailer amazon.com is already doing a popup this month plugging their "fast cheap shipping". It looks like they set a cookie so you only get it once per browser, but I think I've seen it several times so it may be a very short cookie.
I think some other big online stores are doing this too, but I can't think of any specific examples at the moment.
Did anyone consider that maybe the CIO just misplaced or lost his laptop and data? C*O's are usually the kind of people who would blame someone else for their own mistakes.
We do. Unless you work on the NT helpdesk team, we are almost 100% Solaris and just about every developer has a Linux box on their desk. :) We hire plenty of interns from what I've seen.
Yeah that is a really cool idea!
actually it's 740.. it's only 650 if you put data on it, which uses less of the available bits on the cd (the rest are used for error correction, etc). Try ripping a 74 min audio cd and see how much space it takes up :)
Nope, 1 CD = 740 MB of audio. So you could fit about 28 more minutes of audio before this 1 gig drive is full. Best to keep your music in MP3 for now :)
You mention on WWN that this is coming "soon". I know the drawbacks of using this on a pager is that you cannot call to request info, but I would be more than happy with the ability to setup some sort of recurring info. Once an hour headlines from Slashdot, once a day weather, etc. What's the timeframe for this?
Don't forget Axiomatic, Quarantine and his new book Teranesia. There is also his first book, An Unusual Angle, but it isn't as hardcore sci-fi as the rest. Some of the older books are out of print so try the library.
You might want to consider multiple hard drives in a striped configuration for increased I/O performance. (Striping is the same as RAID 0, using multiple hard drives for a single partition, thereby increasing, depending on your bus bandwidth of course, your disk performance.) Uncompressed digital video requires loads of disk space and a fairly high transfer rate to/from your hard drive(s). Of course with a fast enough CPU and a good enough encoding algorithm you could probably get by with only 1 hard drive. If you have money to burn, though, and want top-of-the-line, I recommend an 8-bay fibre channel disk array. Stick 6-8 36-gig Seagate Cheetahs in there and you can hit ~90MB/sec striped :)
I like the "under construction" future links such as "Get the source", "Build it" and "Report a bug". Seems like they found a typical open-source software site and copied all the links. Would the "source" in this case be full hardware schematics to building your own LEO sat? I'd like to report a bug in these people's heads.
I find it strange that there is not 1 name on the site of someone taking credit...
I am still waiting for a cheap CD player that will play both audio and MP3 cd's. I think I saw one advertised once but I assume it ended up in the vaporware bin. Forget this hard drive crap.. 80 hours is nice, but 12 hours * unlimited CD's is nicer! Anyone got any info about something like this?
I wonder if your legal fees per email you sue for would be more than $10...most likely yes. However this might be a good way to make money if you are a lawyer :)
While I can usually already tell by the subject line what is spam and what isn't, having a clear ADV: in the subject would make it almost trivial to immediately filter out all spam to the deleted items folder.
One thing I am curious about though. Any internet advertiser who wants to send an email now has to respect this law, correct? They would have no way of knowing who on their list lives in Colorado. What if another state passed a similar law requiring not ADV: but SPAM: for example? What would they have to do then? ADV/SPAM: ?
I'm waiting for the ENTIRE show, all 7 seasons + movie(s), on DVD. (What's that, like 49 discs?) hehe.. I think just having the first season would be cool, but I know they'll release some sort of box set with all of them eventually. I'm sure it won't be cheap, though!
I can't link to the i386 library on my (Linux/Alpha, Linux/PPC, etc). Can I reverse engineer the library so it does? That would qualify as interoperability, wouldn't it?
heh, the login message is:
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Be nice and keep that rc5 / seti stuff off my network.....
Thank you and enjoy.
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Besides, without outgoing net access what good would it be?
looks like these are behind a firewall.. can't get any kind of net access outgoing. Would be nice too.. I could store a lot of stuff on that 60 gig drive :) /scratch1 /scratch2 /tmp /usr /usr/local /var /home
[tiny@spe110 tiny]$ quota
Disk quotas for user tiny (uid 1535): none
[tiny@spe110 tiny]$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 253871 66916 173848 28% /
/dev/sdb2 2157444 20 2047832 0%
/dev/sdb7 2324680 20 2206572 0%
/dev/sda7 2064208 473112 1486240 24%
/dev/sdb8 2634320 1061200 1439304 42%
/dev/sda8 3308472 96 3140316 0%
/dev/sda6 1032088 22564 957096 2%
spe81:/home 61222740 4741980 53370780 8%
I got on a 4x500mhz Alpha box.. 975.17 bogomips is not too shabby! Now if only that guy would quit using up 99.9% of the cpu with his "makecover" process....