that i can agree with. the drive is rather slow and the controllers are uncomfortable (especially for large hands)... sega was criticized heavily for not putting a faster drive in the machine when it came out. i suppose you have to take into consideration though that drive speeds were (and still are to a lesser degree) getting faster and faster by the week. so i'd guess they just stuck with their original design and didn't bother to go with anything faster (since i would imagine that would have taken renegotiation with their drive supplier)... pure speculation though:)
just like how the ps2 'knocked our socks off' when the specs were announced? yeeaahh, i dunno...
most of the time when specs are announced, people need to take them with a large grain of salt. the ps2 took a long time before graphics that came anywhere near the announced specs (before it was released) started appearing in games (people have a knack for revisionist history when remembering this). even the demos that were released were of far less interest than the kind of stuff sony claimed it could do.
keep in mind, companies announce this info to stir up press. they really don't care that often whether or not the info is accurate as long as it puts their name in the spotlight for a while, taking it off their competition...
as for only having a gamecube to link to your gba, don't you think that is a bit of an umm... extravagant waste?
i live in southern california, so i see lots of cars being 'tinkered' with all the time. mostly people adding stupid looking kits or custom mufflers to make their civic look cool.
i drive a civic, but jeeze, i don't make any bones about the fact that its a base model, no mods.
anyway...
i was watching a show on new cars and concepts shown at last weeks la auto show. one manufacturer (i can't for the life of me remember who it was, but i believe it was a gm brand) was talking about a modular approach to this specific car they were showing. the rep said that they would sell the basic model and allow you to easily upgrade the car to add various features. so if a kid got the base model and got money for his birthay, he could get the nicer looking dash instruments, or a radio upgrade. it sounded like it would be an easy to do by yourself kind of thing... interesting (though i'm sure not entirely original) idea anyway.
here's a good reference to the conference webcasts so you can skip to the section you want to listen to...
Session 1
0:00:30, Teodor Zlatanov, spam.el Maintainer, "Gnus vs. Spam" 0:10:00, Bill Yerazunis, MERL, "Sparse Binary Polynomial Hash Message Filtering and The CRM114 Discriminator" 0:32:30, Jason Rennie, MIT AI Lab, "Adaptive Spam Filtering" 0:52:00, John Graham-Cumming, POPFile, "The Spammers' Compendium"
Session 2
0:00:00, John Draper, ShopIP, "Following Their Patterns"
0:14:00, Paul Judge, CipherTrust, "The Case for Spam Research Infrastructures" 0:37:00, Paul Graham, Arc Project, "Better Bayesian Spam Filtering" 0:56:00, Robert Rothe, eleven GmbH, "eXpurgate: a different approach in filtering E-Mail and detecting SPAM"
Session 3
0:01:30, Matt Sergeant, MessageLabs, "Spam Filtering at the Network Level"
0:21:30, Barry Warsaw, Pythonlabs at Zope Corporation, "Anti-Spam Techniques at Python.org" 1:05:00, Jean-David Ruvini, e-lab Bouygues SA, "Smartlook: An E-Mail Classifier Assistant for Outlook" 0:41:00, Barry Shein, The World, "Spam: Threat or Menace? An ISP's View" 1:23:00, Eric Raymond, Open Source Initiative, "Lessons from Bogofilter" 1:44:30, Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research, "Spam Filtering: From the Lab to the Real World"
Session 4
0:00:00, Michael Salib, MIT, "Integrating Heuristics with n-grams using Bayes and LMMSE"
0:22:00, David Lewis, Independent Consultant, "Forty Years of Machine Learning for Text Classification" 0:34:00, Jon Praed, Internet Law Group, "How Lawsuits Against Spammers Can Aid Spam-Filtering Technology: A Spam Litigator's View From the Front Lines" 1:01:30, David Berlind, CNET, "Desperately Seeking: An Anti-Spam Consortium" 1:26:30, Ken Schneider, Brightmail, "Fighting Spam in Real Time" 1:47:00, Panel Discussion
there is a hack documented online (google for it you lazy ass) that tells how you can open up the back of the modem and you'll find a regular ethernet port that you can plug into, sans all their software. the hack details how to do it for a linux machine, and yes, there is still a bit of software you'll have to install on it...
here are some keywords to help ya out: direcpc linux ethernet hack
i should ammend my comment by saying i'm aiming this comment at people who deserve what's coming to them.
however, everyone deserves due process unless you can really prove their intentions are say, for terrorist means. and in my book changing the homepage of the riaa isn't terrorism.
i think one could argue that by virtue of ones own actions they can 'ruin their life'. if you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing, whatever your reasons, you have to accept the chance that you will get caught and you will be punished for those actions, whatever they may be. i guess i take exception to the way that is phrased (just like when people say 'the teacher failed me', when they really mean 'the teacher gave me an f because i'm a retard'.)
however, i must say for example, giving someone the death penalty say, for hacking into a hospital computer and crashing critical systems that resulted in the death of a patient would be a sticky issue, especially if they don't realize the importance of the system they are in.
there was a version of os/2 for ppc a long time ago, but it didn't last long. as i remember it was specific to their ppc602 based thin client machines they were trying to sell a number of years back (someone correct me on this if i'm mistaken on the details). anyway, i don't think you could get it to run on a mac g3 w/o significant changes to the code and new drivers...
two reasons: drivers and no need to upgrade. first, os/2 1.3 supports the host communication protocol drivers that most atm interfaces require. there's no need to upgrade. second, what do you need warp 4 for a relatively simple machine? 1.3 is inexpensive and does the job. microsoft is trying to break into this market with embedded nt, but their is little reason to switch...
i can attest to banks using os/2 as i worked at one for quite some time. however, in our it dept., well, their was no *love* for os/2, it was more of a necessary evil. there were a number of things that required os/2, such as our check imager/sorter and our document imaging system. at the time (about 2 years ago) there was no upgrade out of os/2 for those systems, although an nt system was announced, but not anywhere near shipping. their were lots of other things that used os/2 as well in the bank, but i can assure you, nobody was clamoring to keep it around...
Nice that/. is supporting this conference, but jeeze, you'd think they would keep a better eye out for dupes. I posted this *same article* on the 16th... Have the readers of/. such a short attention span? I suppose it is all of the flashing lights in all that anime you kids watch that is slowly deteriorating your memory... =)
P.S. It would also have been nice if the poster would have researched his/her links a little better. For instance, the current page for POPFile is at http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
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that i can agree with. the drive is rather slow and the controllers are uncomfortable (especially for large hands)... sega was criticized heavily for not putting a faster drive in the machine when it came out. i suppose you have to take into consideration though that drive speeds were (and still are to a lesser degree) getting faster and faster by the week. so i'd guess they just stuck with their original design and didn't bother to go with anything faster (since i would imagine that would have taken renegotiation with their drive supplier)... pure speculation though :)
just like how the ps2 'knocked our socks off' when the specs were announced? yeeaahh, i dunno...
most of the time when specs are announced, people need to take them with a large grain of salt. the ps2 took a long time before graphics that came anywhere near the announced specs (before it was released) started appearing in games (people have a knack for revisionist history when remembering this). even the demos that were released were of far less interest than the kind of stuff sony claimed it could do.
keep in mind, companies announce this info to stir up press. they really don't care that often whether or not the info is accurate as long as it puts their name in the spotlight for a while, taking it off their competition...
as for only having a gamecube to link to your gba, don't you think that is a bit of an umm... extravagant waste?
atari exists only in name today. the company that once was atari has long since disappeared...
not sure how you come up w/ the dreamcast being 'light years' behind the ps2, because they are actually quite comparable hardware speed wise...
i live in southern california, so i see lots of cars being 'tinkered' with all the time. mostly people adding stupid looking kits or custom mufflers to make their civic look cool.
i drive a civic, but jeeze, i don't make any bones about the fact that its a base model, no mods.
anyway...
i was watching a show on new cars and concepts shown at last weeks la auto show. one manufacturer (i can't for the life of me remember who it was, but i believe it was a gm brand) was talking about a modular approach to this specific car they were showing. the rep said that they would sell the basic model and allow you to easily upgrade the car to add various features. so if a kid got the base model and got money for his birthay, he could get the nicer looking dash instruments, or a radio upgrade. it sounded like it would be an easy to do by yourself kind of thing... interesting (though i'm sure not entirely original) idea anyway.
pmachine is an inexpensive and powerful system for this kind of stuff. well worth the money i think.
"I have been following them on and off for years."
I bet if you keep that up, they'll be following you...
Bayesian filters could just as easily be written in Perl
:)
enter my fave project, popfile.
yeah, it would be nice if the article submitter bothered to watch the webcasts so he actually knew what he was talking about...
here's a good reference to the conference webcasts so you can skip to the section you want to listen to...
:)
Session 1
0:00:30, Teodor Zlatanov, spam.el Maintainer, "Gnus vs. Spam"
0:10:00, Bill Yerazunis, MERL, "Sparse Binary Polynomial Hash Message Filtering and The CRM114 Discriminator"
0:32:30, Jason Rennie, MIT AI Lab, "Adaptive Spam Filtering"
0:52:00, John Graham-Cumming, POPFile, "The Spammers' Compendium"
Session 2
0:00:00, John Draper, ShopIP, "Following Their Patterns"
0:14:00, Paul Judge, CipherTrust, "The Case for Spam Research Infrastructures"
0:37:00, Paul Graham, Arc Project, "Better Bayesian Spam Filtering"
0:56:00, Robert Rothe, eleven GmbH, "eXpurgate: a different approach in filtering E-Mail and detecting SPAM"
Session 3
0:01:30, Matt Sergeant, MessageLabs, "Spam Filtering at the Network Level"
0:21:30, Barry Warsaw, Pythonlabs at Zope Corporation, "Anti-Spam Techniques at Python.org"
1:05:00, Jean-David Ruvini, e-lab Bouygues SA, "Smartlook: An E-Mail Classifier Assistant for Outlook"
0:41:00, Barry Shein, The World, "Spam: Threat or Menace? An ISP's View"
1:23:00, Eric Raymond, Open Source Initiative, "Lessons from Bogofilter"
1:44:30, Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research, "Spam Filtering: From the Lab to the Real World"
Session 4
0:00:00, Michael Salib, MIT, "Integrating Heuristics with n-grams using Bayes and LMMSE"
0:22:00, David Lewis, Independent Consultant, "Forty Years of Machine Learning for Text Classification"
0:34:00, Jon Praed, Internet Law Group, "How Lawsuits Against Spammers Can Aid Spam-Filtering Technology: A Spam Litigator's View From the Front Lines"
1:01:30, David Berlind, CNET, "Desperately Seeking: An Anti-Spam Consortium"
1:26:30, Ken Schneider, Brightmail, "Fighting Spam in Real Time"
1:47:00, Panel Discussion
thanks to schmelzle.net for the table.
i store all my data on punch cards and keep them in a cardboard box for easy retrieval...
yeah, but consider this...
say it were a business's old machine they used in the accounting dept. where they keep track of all the biz cards...
also home user's with quicken...
lots of people aren't very smart about their data.
there is a hack documented online (google for it you lazy ass) that tells how you can open up the back of the modem and you'll find a regular ethernet port that you can plug into, sans all their software. the hack details how to do it for a linux machine, and yes, there is still a bit of software you'll have to install on it...
here are some keywords to help ya out:
direcpc linux ethernet hack
i should ammend my comment by saying i'm aiming this comment at people who deserve what's coming to them.
however, everyone deserves due process unless you can really prove their intentions are say, for terrorist means. and in my book changing the homepage of the riaa isn't terrorism.
i think one could argue that by virtue of ones own actions they can 'ruin their life'. if you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing, whatever your reasons, you have to accept the chance that you will get caught and you will be punished for those actions, whatever they may be. i guess i take exception to the way that is phrased (just like when people say 'the teacher failed me', when they really mean 'the teacher gave me an f because i'm a retard'.)
however, i must say for example, giving someone the death penalty say, for hacking into a hospital computer and crashing critical systems that resulted in the death of a patient would be a sticky issue, especially if they don't realize the importance of the system they are in.
there was a version of os/2 for ppc a long time ago, but it didn't last long. as i remember it was specific to their ppc602 based thin client machines they were trying to sell a number of years back (someone correct me on this if i'm mistaken on the details). anyway, i don't think you could get it to run on a mac g3 w/o significant changes to the code and new drivers...
two reasons: drivers and no need to upgrade. first, os/2 1.3 supports the host communication protocol drivers that most atm interfaces require. there's no need to upgrade. second, what do you need warp 4 for a relatively simple machine? 1.3 is inexpensive and does the job. microsoft is trying to break into this market with embedded nt, but their is little reason to switch...
i can attest to banks using os/2 as i worked at one for quite some time. however, in our it dept., well, their was no *love* for os/2, it was more of a necessary evil. there were a number of things that required os/2, such as our check imager/sorter and our document imaging system. at the time (about 2 years ago) there was no upgrade out of os/2 for those systems, although an nt system was announced, but not anywhere near shipping. their were lots of other things that used os/2 as well in the bank, but i can assure you, nobody was clamoring to keep it around...
actually, you might find this article interesting as it mentions woz's visicalc hack...
i hear 1.4 will go one better and display right into your mind.
camelbones = perl -> obj-c/cocoa bridge framework. still needs lotso work, but an interesting project nonetheless.
popfile it!
i predict it will be...
here!
Nice that /. is supporting this conference, but jeeze, you'd think they would keep a better eye out for dupes. I posted this *same article* on the 16th... Have the readers of /. such a short attention span? I suppose it is all of the flashing lights in all that anime you kids watch that is slowly deteriorating your memory... =)
P.S. It would also have been nice if the poster would have researched his/her links a little better. For instance, the current page for POPFile is at http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
yes indeedly rick it will be. =)