If somebody came along and made a lightweight, dynamic windowing system and desktop environment for Linux, with real usability and minimalism, I'd shit my pants!
May I suggest Windowmaker? Please post pictures of your feces-encrusted jeans by 12:00 GMT tommorrow.
Decoding video requires a lot more horsepower than audio. My Egoman MP3/VCD player will only play VCD when plugged into the wall. RCA jacks take up a lot of room on the board, it's easier to use a minijack -> RCA adapter cable (they're cheap)
At least in a server environment, I don't see the requirement for many gigs of memory (on a single chip no less) without also having better technology to access it quickly.
Ok.. Now imagine those many gigs of memory on on-die with the CPU itself. Get's interesting, yes?
Name 5 great software products to have come out of Bangalore.
You assume that the product will come with a "Made in India" sticker on the shrinkwrap. Much of the software on the shelves is, at least partially, written by geeks in India. Much more custom and vertical market apps too.
Being that there's coffee in
Kahlua I can rest assured that
when I have cirrhosis induced jaundice I won't have to suffer through
the ravages of Type II diabetes!
oh.. there are only 2
Fs in "Caffeine", Taco. Please get it right when you
dupe the story in 2 hours.
..they could probably raise just as much money with a blackmail
scheme.
I was thinking along the lines of:
Dearest Sir or Madam, Our names are Sergey Brin and Larry Page. We created Google. This letter may come as a suprise to you being as we have never met. A mutual friend, however, suggested we contact you. There is an impending IPO which will make our firm worth 12 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($12,000,000,000). To release this money, we ask that you join us in a business partnership....
If you have an nvidia card with the latest 3D stereo drivers you can run 3D LCD shutter glasses (assuming your monitor can run ~120 hz or better) and view JPS images in "real" 3D. All JPS images are are 2 JPGs side by side which the viewer splits in half and displays one half at a time per screen refresh.
I've made a few of my own JPS images simply by taking two pictures with my digital camera a few centimeters offset and combining the two resulting JPGs into one JPS file.
In The Day I was looking quite seriously at a device which clamped to an IBM Selectric typewriter. Basically it was a box with a load of solenoids which "typed" the data it received from the computer. True letter quality. Heh, thinking about that stuff now is almost embarassing.
Apple ][+ in 1980. 48K RAM (later upgraded to 64K with a US$99 16K card
I bought on a trip to Las Vegas), two 143K floppies, TV with
composite in. No cassette, I was a rebel even then:) Oh, bought an
Apple Super Serial Card to drive my external, manual 110/300 baud
modem (dial, listen for the carrier, flip switch, hang up phone).
Oh, I got a printer with it too, an Epson MX80 which was driven by a
Grappler card in the Apple. That printer was an absolute battle tank
and still works although it's out of use now.
In 83 or 84 or so I got a 10 MB hard drive for the Apple and thought I'd never need more.. how quick we forget.:)
True
Story: In 1982 or so I had a job stocking shelves (hey, I was 16)
Anyhow, I got pretty stoned at dinner break and had a great
idea.. I bought a can of gold spray paint in the store then proceeded
to completely spray paint a urinal in the men's room. Then I wrote in
felt marker
"The Gold Urinal" "A [my surname] Concept"
Needless to say when my boss called me in the next day and I
was straight I didn't think the idea was too smart.
No, post-war industrialization and the cold war buildup is what made America a superpower. With no obvious "us or them" enemy (ie: the USSR) the economy will suffer. They can't justify spending billions on arming up to protect against an enemy that doesn't exist.
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If somebody came along and made a lightweight, dynamic windowing system and desktop environment for Linux, with real usability and minimalism, I'd shit my pants!
May I suggest Windowmaker? Please post pictures of your feces-encrusted jeans by 12:00 GMT tommorrow.
Decoding video requires a lot more horsepower than audio. My Egoman MP3/VCD player will only play VCD when plugged into the wall. RCA jacks take up a lot of room on the board, it's easier to use a minijack -> RCA adapter cable (they're cheap)
All for only $3000. They could really built a small, inexpensive cluster with a couple thousand of those.
That'd be $6 million. I wish I could afford an "inexpensive cluster" such as that.
It's you. This may be more suitable.
At least in a server environment, I don't see the requirement for many gigs of memory (on a single chip no less) without also having better technology to access it quickly.
Ok.. Now imagine those many gigs of memory on on-die with the CPU itself. Get's interesting, yes?
You could make a supercomputer the size of your current computer tower
But... but.. Steve Jobs said my current computer tower is a supercomputer!
The smart people with low ID numbers left long ago
I always suspected I wasn't smart, thanks for confirming that.
Name 5 great software products to have come out of Bangalore.
You assume that the product will come with a "Made in India" sticker on the shrinkwrap. Much of the software on the shelves is, at least partially, written by geeks in India. Much more custom and vertical market apps too.
That's super news!
Being that there's coffee in Kahlua I can rest assured that when I have cirrhosis induced jaundice I won't have to suffer through the ravages of Type II diabetes!
oh.. there are only 2 Fs in "Caffeine", Taco. Please get it right when you dupe the story in 2 hours.
I was thinking along the lines of:
If you have an nvidia card with the latest 3D stereo drivers you can run 3D LCD shutter glasses (assuming your monitor can run ~120 hz or better) and view JPS images in "real" 3D. All JPS images are are 2 JPGs side by side which the viewer splits in half and displays one half at a time per screen refresh.
I've made a few of my own JPS images simply by taking two pictures with my digital camera a few centimeters offset and combining the two resulting JPGs into one JPS file.
"The law was not written for a commercial e-mailer," he said. "I don't think what they are doing is fair."
I think that's the point, Mr. Ralsky..
Those 8 Golden Rules are quite a good deal for only $699.
In The Day I was looking quite seriously at a device which clamped to an IBM Selectric typewriter. Basically it was a box with a load of solenoids which "typed" the data it received from the computer. True letter quality. Heh, thinking about that stuff now is almost embarassing.
Apple ][+ in 1980. 48K RAM (later upgraded to 64K with a US$99 16K card I bought on a trip to Las Vegas), two 143K floppies, TV with composite in. No cassette, I was a rebel even then
In 83 or 84 or so I got a 10 MB hard drive for the Apple and thought I'd never need more.. how quick we forget.
Haha! My sides are sore, thank you. :)
Suprisingly not. I wasn't in the boss' good books for that stunt though.
has anyone done something like this before?
True Story: In 1982 or so I had a job stocking shelves (hey, I was 16) Anyhow, I got pretty stoned at dinner break and had a great idea.. I bought a can of gold spray paint in the store then proceeded to completely spray paint a urinal in the men's room. Then I wrote in felt marker Needless to say when my boss called me in the next day and I was straight I didn't think the idea was too smart.
How about a vibrator that runs off of Linux instead of batteries? That thing would never die...
You'll have second thoughts after this thing chips all your teeth.
He should have set up some kind of royalty agreement, he'd be cashing in on it now.
Don't be giving SCO any ideas..
How about the sound at the end of Doom II, when the spawn-cubes shoot out??
YES! I hear that sound in movies all the time now.
manufacturing is what made America a superpower
No, post-war industrialization and the cold war buildup is what made America a superpower. With no obvious "us or them" enemy (ie: the USSR) the economy will suffer. They can't justify spending billions on arming up to protect against an enemy that doesn't exist.
Hollywood has been slow to embrace downloads
Understatement of the year.
coffee.. out.. nose..
it's still unfortunately the case that open source software is automatically worse the proprietry software
All software sucks, the degree of suckiness is what matters.