A year or two ago, Microsoft didn't have a division of FUDmeisters browsing Slashdot and others trying (laughably) to defend their dubious business practices. I only drop in for a month or two once in a while, and it really looks like it's changed.
Aww come on, there's a little bit of Beavis in every one of us....
In an admittedly crude comparison to Hiroshima, where the area of destruction was somewhere near 3 miles and 1% of the matter in the bomb was converted to energy, would an antimatter bomb of equal size destroy 300 miles of landscape? Leave a crater 50-100 miles deep? Is that insane or what?
On the other side of the coin, would a bomb the size of a pack of smokes (a stick of gum?) destroy the entire sprawl of Los Angeles?
*Austin finishes a conversation with an innuendo laden one-liner and walks brisky away and around a corner where he runs straight into the chest of a very tall, thin man who's head sits above the frame of the shot.
Backing up, and looking up Austin says, "Well, excuse me, sir." Offering his hand, he continues, "My name is Austin Powers..."
The tall man takes his hand, "Randy Johnson."
"Excuse me? I thought you... Did you just say your name was, 'Randy Johnson'?"
In a new shot, the camera takes in the scene of the large sportsman towering above the dimunitive International Man of Mystery.
"Yes, I'm a Pitcher for a Major League Baseball team." Randy says matter-of-factly.
........
I'm sure someone that really is a writer can fill this in and make it funny, but damn... With a name like Randy Johnson, he HAS to at least have a cameo!
A mini hard drive (maybe?) type mp3 player that's the size of a cassette tape that you can pop into an in-dash tape deck. It could use AMS (that music sensor thing that stops FFD & REW between songs) to advance and backtrack between tracks with the stock FFD & REW buttons by just modifying the signal to the pickup head when the wheels are spun in one direction or the other.
There's a huge installed base of tape decks in cars all over the world, it would have a market waiting for it. I know I'd buy one if its memory was reasonably good. I'd buy a few...
I'm not implying anything about this book, but does anyone else tire of the kind of books that are built around, and exist only for, a gimmick?
Ringworld... I read that a few months ago and when I finished, it really seemed that Niven had thought of the idea and wrote a half-ass story to surround it. Couldn't believe it won an SF award. Same thing with RAMA, another gimmicky idea. This thing comes thru the solar system and a team of explorers goes in and is awed.
The ideas aren't all that bad, but there seemed to be nothing more to the books than what was needed to fluff the gimmick into a novel.
hmm, the analogy for what I've thought about the DSL thing is like if Ford owned the rights to the internal combustion engine and was the sole manufacturer because it owned the entire nation's supply of some critical part. Now, if GM & Chrysler wanted to compete, they'd have to buy engines from Ford, then package them with their own options and amenities. How can one compete like that?
Do the indie DSL companies have to buy time (space, whatever) from the telco and then hope to resell and still compete with the telco? How can anyone stay afloat like that? You'll be priced right out of the market... (if I'm full of sh|t on any of this, lemme know... I don't claim to be an expert!)
how about a government owned infrastructure?
bad: might make it easier for them to infringe on privacy
bad: 'socialism'
good: they can sell use (at a published, regular price) to service companies that can compete for the consumer's business across wide and overlapping areas, instead of having your phone company decided for you by where you live in the city. Which would lead to better customer service, not only on the phone, but in services offered (ooo that 1MB/sec dsl?)
John Carmack has an infinite credit limit... he could buy that thing and send a spider monkey into orbit with a little webcam...
Model Russian space capsule: Five Hundred Thousand dollars.
Spider monkey bought from Brazilian poachers: Six Hundred dollars.
Custom Solid Fuel Rocket Engine: Two Hundred Forty Thousand dollars
The look on said monkey's face as his brain is crushed passing 10Gs..... priceless.
It's easy to see the difference between "conservatives" (read: capitalists) and "liberals" (read: socialists) on eithermap. Just look at North and South Korea. It is easy to see where one begins and the other ends.
this card isnt about the higher FPS numbers, its about the programmable hardware.
The Carmack is wringing all the 31337 out of this thing and if you don't have one, then you aren't going to experience Doom3 as it will be meant to be experienced...
But by the time Doom3 ships (Christmas, 2002 anyone?)...the GF3 will be about $350 and the next best will be there to make us all turn green.
I can't relate to having 'very little control' over my left hand. No, I can't imagine what it'd be like to be thoroughily inept along one side of my body, if that's what you're saying. Do people live their lives with their non-dominant arm tied behind their back? How the hell to lefties drive stick shifts? To have 'very little control' over one's shifting arm would suck.
Geez... it's all about learned skills. You're a righty, you catch baseballs in a glove on your left hand because thats how you learned. Moving a mouse pointer on a screen is many degrees easier than consistently catching a baseball in flight.
If lefties want to torture themselves, fine. I just don't see why one can't spend a week with the mouse on the right side of the keyboard, learn to make your life easier.
I was teaching a friend to play guitar, she being a lefty thought she should play like lefties do, with the fretboard in the right hand. I told her it was an entirely new skill, and you are going to be equally akward either way, so instead of burdening yourself with having to buy specially made and strung guitars the rest of your life, why not just learn to play the customary way? She did, and now she rocks....and she'll still sign autographs with her left hand.
So... sorry you've become accustomed to a mouse in your left hand. That's your own fault.
Oh yea, and they do make teardrop mice, totally symmetrical. Logitech firstmouse+ and Micros~1 wheelmouse. But.... you don't seem to be after a solution, just a reason to bitch. nevermind.
So, a manufacturer completes and compiles a Linux driver for, say, the two most widely used kernels at compile time like Creative did then for the SBLive! Is there a way to make an app that would allow a manufacturer to take their closed source and compile it automagically six or eleven times, saving to different filenames, for six or however many different kernels without headache on their part? Make it as easy as possible for them to do what you'd like to see them do.
Or, maybe a small, spare-time company of you gents that can sign NDA's and run quad/pent boot machines with different versions of the kernel, compiling closed-source drivers for all kinds of kernel revisions and maybe even other OS'es.
...hey, just another stupid idea brought to you by my minimally-exceptional ass.
Start a data recovery buisness, then set your l33+ hax0rz to the task of creating a "uber-virus" that will format/fdisk on a certain day whenever. There will be pleanty of buisness for everyone, and lots of money to be made.
I read the idea down there about a railgun in the Andes. And the retort that it wouldn't alone be able to get something into orbit. But as yet another guy posted, we burn a lot of fuel in our 1st stage on the way up. Could a railgun launch replace the 1st stage? Put the 2nd stage in a railgun-friendly casing that you could pick up in the ocean after the rocket has left it and blasted itself the rest of the way into orbit. Is that not feasable? Is the 1st stage not the biggest expense in lifting something into orbit?
What's the data rate thru your monitor cable for 1024x768 32bit color @ 60fps? With this kinda bandwidth, I wonder if one day it'd be possible for people who don't want the 'hassle' of having a computer (read: your grandma) to just plug a monitor, kb, and mouse into the wall...
I said your tactic of, "he does it too!" isn't worth my time arguing. And you twist it into meaning that I said that I dont care about campaign finance reform.
Your paths of logic simply aren't. If you want to help forward campaign finance reform, please just sit down and shut up.
Never once did I say Republicans were blameless, and yet you still are trying hard as hell to make this a partisan debate. The fingers pointed at Clinton are far from "mindless." If you consider him blameless, check yourself for that "mindless" condition.
Republicans fight Democrats when Democrats are right, simply because they're the competition. Same thing happens the other way. There is no heed to what is right or wrong. Campaign finance reform is the right thing to do, but when the Republicans pushed it, Democrats sidestepped it. Now that Democrats are pushing it, Republicans will oppose them. Our system is fundamentally flawed... and I don't have a solution. All I do know is that no Democrat or Republican can unfuck it. We need an act of God, or a revolution.
...from those questionable Chinese sources seems to be paying off for them. Not to mention whoever else we happen to not have caught with their hands in Clinton's policy by virtue of them contributing to his media blitz that helped to entrance and ensnare the votes of the gullible American populace. Everyone knows, and yet noone wants to burn the traitor for his treason. He can lie, he can blackmail and push people to suicide (where's that link with the list of people connected to the Clintons that have met questionable, untimely deaths?)... and noone cares. Where will we draw the line? Is it America not giving a damn? Or is America being deluded and sidetracked by a media that dislodges any real, honest prying eyes into this scheister's life.
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A year or two ago, Microsoft didn't have a division of FUDmeisters browsing Slashdot and others trying (laughably) to defend their dubious business practices. I only drop in for a month or two once in a while, and it really looks like it's changed.
Aww come on, there's a little bit of Beavis in every one of us....
In an admittedly crude comparison to Hiroshima, where the area of destruction was somewhere near 3 miles and 1% of the matter in the bomb was converted to energy, would an antimatter bomb of equal size destroy 300 miles of landscape? Leave a crater 50-100 miles deep? Is that insane or what?
On the other side of the coin, would a bomb the size of a pack of smokes (a stick of gum?) destroy the entire sprawl of Los Angeles?
*Austin finishes a conversation with an innuendo laden one-liner and walks brisky away and around a corner where he runs straight into the chest of a very tall, thin man who's head sits above the frame of the shot.
Backing up, and looking up Austin says, "Well, excuse me, sir." Offering his hand, he continues, "My name is Austin Powers..."
The tall man takes his hand, "Randy Johnson."
"Excuse me? I thought you... Did you just say your name was, 'Randy Johnson'?"
In a new shot, the camera takes in the scene of the large sportsman towering above the dimunitive International Man of Mystery.
"Yes, I'm a Pitcher for a Major League Baseball team." Randy says matter-of-factly.
........
I'm sure someone that really is a writer can fill this in and make it funny, but damn... With a name like Randy Johnson, he HAS to at least have a cameo!
okay, nevermind.
sweeeeeeeeeeet!
A mini hard drive (maybe?) type mp3 player that's the size of a cassette tape that you can pop into an in-dash tape deck. It could use AMS (that music sensor thing that stops FFD & REW between songs) to advance and backtrack between tracks with the stock FFD & REW buttons by just modifying the signal to the pickup head when the wheels are spun in one direction or the other.
There's a huge installed base of tape decks in cars all over the world, it would have a market waiting for it. I know I'd buy one if its memory was reasonably good. I'd buy a few...
I'm not implying anything about this book, but does anyone else tire of the kind of books that are built around, and exist only for, a gimmick?
Ringworld... I read that a few months ago and when I finished, it really seemed that Niven had thought of the idea and wrote a half-ass story to surround it. Couldn't believe it won an SF award. Same thing with RAMA, another gimmicky idea. This thing comes thru the solar system and a team of explorers goes in and is awed.
The ideas aren't all that bad, but there seemed to be nothing more to the books than what was needed to fluff the gimmick into a novel.
By all means, correct me if I'm wrong.
hmm, the analogy for what I've thought about the DSL thing is like if Ford owned the rights to the internal combustion engine and was the sole manufacturer because it owned the entire nation's supply of some critical part. Now, if GM & Chrysler wanted to compete, they'd have to buy engines from Ford, then package them with their own options and amenities. How can one compete like that?
Do the indie DSL companies have to buy time (space, whatever) from the telco and then hope to resell and still compete with the telco? How can anyone stay afloat like that? You'll be priced right out of the market... (if I'm full of sh|t on any of this, lemme know... I don't claim to be an expert!)
how about a government owned infrastructure?
bad: might make it easier for them to infringe on privacy
bad: 'socialism'
good: they can sell use (at a published, regular price) to service companies that can compete for the consumer's business across wide and overlapping areas, instead of having your phone company decided for you by where you live in the city. Which would lead to better customer service, not only on the phone, but in services offered (ooo that 1MB/sec dsl?)
Has anyone given any speculative thought to who, in the future, might be trying to pull apart the Klingon Empire before it gets too powerful?
one of my friends in IRC clued me into this one:
Check out NYC in Wingdings
John Carmack has an infinite credit limit... he could buy that thing and send a spider monkey into orbit with a little webcam...
Model Russian space capsule: Five Hundred Thousand dollars.
Spider monkey bought from Brazilian poachers: Six Hundred dollars.
Custom Solid Fuel Rocket Engine: Two Hundred Forty Thousand dollars
The look on said monkey's face as his brain is crushed passing 10Gs..... priceless.
Oh baby.... thats what I'm talkin about.
It's easy to see the difference between "conservatives" (read: capitalists) and "liberals" (read: socialists) on either map.
Just look at North and South Korea. It is easy to see where one begins and the other ends.
this card isnt about the higher FPS numbers, its about the programmable hardware. The Carmack is wringing all the 31337 out of this thing and if you don't have one, then you aren't going to experience Doom3 as it will be meant to be experienced... But by the time Doom3 ships (Christmas, 2002 anyone?) ...the GF3 will be about $350 and the next best will be there to make us all turn green.
I can't relate to having 'very little control' over my left hand. No, I can't imagine what it'd be like to be thoroughily inept along one side of my body, if that's what you're saying. Do people live their lives with their non-dominant arm tied behind their back? How the hell to lefties drive stick shifts? To have 'very little control' over one's shifting arm would suck.
Geez... it's all about learned skills. You're a righty, you catch baseballs in a glove on your left hand because thats how you learned. Moving a mouse pointer on a screen is many degrees easier than consistently catching a baseball in flight.
If lefties want to torture themselves, fine. I just don't see why one can't spend a week with the mouse on the right side of the keyboard, learn to make your life easier.
dork...
...and she'll still sign autographs with her left hand.
I was teaching a friend to play guitar, she being a lefty thought she should play like lefties do, with the fretboard in the right hand. I told her it was an entirely new skill, and you are going to be equally akward either way, so instead of burdening yourself with having to buy specially made and strung guitars the rest of your life, why not just learn to play the customary way? She did, and now she rocks.
So... sorry you've become accustomed to a mouse in your left hand. That's your own fault.
Oh yea, and they do make teardrop mice, totally symmetrical. Logitech firstmouse+ and Micros~1 wheelmouse. But.... you don't seem to be after a solution, just a reason to bitch. nevermind.
yep.. you got me.
The signal to noise ratio is getting worse every day.
yes, but I also read that youd be able to toggle the transparent mode with a hotkey from in-game...
So, a manufacturer completes and compiles a Linux driver for, say, the two most widely used kernels at compile time like Creative did then for the SBLive! Is there a way to make an app that would allow a manufacturer to take their closed source and compile it automagically six or eleven times, saving to different filenames, for six or however many different kernels without headache on their part? Make it as easy as possible for them to do what you'd like to see them do.
Or, maybe a small, spare-time company of you gents that can sign NDA's and run quad/pent boot machines with different versions of the kernel, compiling closed-source drivers for all kinds of kernel revisions and maybe even other OS'es.
Start a data recovery buisness, then set your l33+ hax0rz to the task of creating a "uber-virus" that will format/fdisk on a certain day whenever. There will be pleanty of buisness for everyone, and lots of money to be made.
I read the idea down there about a railgun in the Andes. And the retort that it wouldn't alone be able to get something into orbit. But as yet another guy posted, we burn a lot of fuel in our 1st stage on the way up. Could a railgun launch replace the 1st stage? Put the 2nd stage in a railgun-friendly casing that you could pick up in the ocean after the rocket has left it and blasted itself the rest of the way into orbit. Is that not feasable? Is the 1st stage not the biggest expense in lifting something into orbit?
What's the data rate thru your monitor cable for 1024x768 32bit color @ 60fps? With this kinda bandwidth, I wonder if one day it'd be possible for people who don't want the 'hassle' of having a computer (read: your grandma) to just plug a monitor, kb, and mouse into the wall...
ok.. well...
I said your tactic of, "he does it too!" isn't worth my time arguing. And you twist it into meaning that I said that I dont care about campaign finance reform.
Your paths of logic simply aren't. If you want to help forward campaign finance reform, please just sit down and shut up.
Never once did I say Republicans were blameless, and yet you still are trying hard as hell to make this a partisan debate. The fingers pointed at Clinton are far from "mindless." If you consider him blameless, check yourself for that "mindless" condition.
Republicans fight Democrats when Democrats are right, simply because they're the competition. Same thing happens the other way. There is no heed to what is right or wrong. Campaign finance reform is the right thing to do, but when the Republicans pushed it, Democrats sidestepped it. Now that Democrats are pushing it, Republicans will oppose them. Our system is fundamentally flawed... and I don't have a solution. All I do know is that no Democrat or Republican can unfuck it. We need an act of God, or a revolution.
The only arguement you brought up was the typical modern, "hey they do it too!" defense. Is that worth my time? heh...
You may have noticed that I said nothing about Republicans or Democrats. That was your idea.
hey, where can I sign up for the Borg collective?
...looks like you've been assimilated.
...from those questionable Chinese sources seems to be paying off for them. Not to mention whoever else we happen to not have caught with their hands in Clinton's policy by virtue of them contributing to his media blitz that helped to entrance and ensnare the votes of the gullible American populace. Everyone knows, and yet noone wants to burn the traitor for his treason. He can lie, he can blackmail and push people to suicide (where's that link with the list of people connected to the Clintons that have met questionable, untimely deaths?)... and noone cares. Where will we draw the line? Is it America not giving a damn? Or is America being deluded and sidetracked by a media that dislodges any real, honest prying eyes into this scheister's life.