On the contrary, I think the issue is that if people can't consistently implement CSS _now_, then they sure as hell won't as it gets more and more complicated with CSS3.0 and beyond (and I am not looking forward to using 3) Yeah, CSS is a pain, but it isn't going to get better later if things aren't done about the sad condition of it now.
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The http://www.cappuccinopc.com/ has been out long before the Mac Mini, and the original was even a smaller form-factor, with modern P4 variants just slightly larger.
Anyway, this whole article is missing the point. Cheap OS X is good for everybody! I wouldn't buy a PC that small even though there's the option...
VOD are actually available to most/all comcast people I know, and it has been in my area since shortly after they introduced digital cable + internet service. They are indeed full episodes, but there are only full episodes of selected things at the moment...typically there is an ad for the channel the show you aired on (that you can fast forward) about a minute long, but no ads during the episode at all.
For some things, like the Anime Channel (a channel not in their normal lineup), they have many many episodes and it works out pretty well... I just wish they'd catch on and run japanese+subtitles...but that's dreaming.
The scary thing is, I don't think the broadcast flag will be a failure. Hopefully time will prove me wrong!
The mac mini is hardly the first PC it's size, in fact, for years there have been comparable / slightly smaller (The original P3 ones, anyway)...remember the cappuccino PCs at thinkgeek? they still make those with up to date P4's (although those are just a tad bit larger, but same basic dimensions)
"If they don't want to get maimed or killed, maybe they should have picked a different job."
Does that go for any policemen, firemen, small children, spouses, relatives, housesitters, etc, who might actually have a reason to be there too
Yet if you get back to the reason for this thread, people have NO reason to NOT pay for this guy's software other than they don't feel like it. Read: guilty. This is the same reason copyright issues cannot be described with analogies to thievery. It doesn't follow entirely.
I think the excuse that users lose their keys and use ones listed on the internet is entirely BS, as well. I have never lost a single CD key. I still have my Legend of the Red Dragon DOOR game key that I received in the mail 8 years ago in the BBS days. Any digital downloads I have multiple backups of keys in simple.txt files as well as via archived email. It's not hard keeping data for long periods of time, even on windows.
My vote? More power to him until the day there's actually a legitimate case where his software 'accidentally' deletes a user's home directory.
The problem with a small independent project like Echelon NOT doing anything to protect itself is the guy won't even be able to pay the rent!
How much has internet use increased in the last 3 years? I'm sure tripling the amount of broadband users is a big deal, and I'm part of those statistics, but how many are still without broadband (and still will be without in another 3 years)? Most who don't either: A) Can't (lack of availability) *** this is big B) Don't know the benefits C) Haven't used it before D) All of the above? I know a family that pays for multiple phone lines and TWO $20+/m ISPs...they could have DSL for both computers for $30-40/m from verizon.
3x increase in 3 years is nice and all, but we're still way behind some other countries due to all the rural areas. Rural areas not having broadband won't change because there's no profit in expanding there. I'm talking out in the sticks. I'm guessing in 3 years one of my friends still won't even have the OPTION of broadband if he still lived where he does now. Luckily for him he probably won't live there.
I've had a (personal) domain or two for 6 years or so, which just happens to have also had some domain contacts associated with it...and man oh man the spam. At one point there was a catch-all account, but now? HELL NO.
We accidently left it on for a month once and got 6,000+ in the catch-all account. No human being is going to sift through that many emails to see if ANOTHER stupid human being sent an email to the wrong address. If it's important, they'll make sure they sent it right.
I didn't even mention "learn" in my original post. Fiddling with it involves experience, not hardcore mastery. homebrew GBA development? Getting some experience here is the key.
Also, last I checked, there was no free C compiler for ARM processors. Buying one would involve a lot of zeros...which left ASM.
It looks like GCC may now be an option. I'm not sure how complete or incomplete the functionality is.
It certainly, from a quick glance, has some niceties that x86 ASM lacks. Like perform operations from two locations and store in a third. Yummy. Gotta love the negativity of slashdot, though! Probably the only positive reply I got, despite not even SAYING "learn" the ASM.
It has nothing to do with schools being best. I've been to two, and it's a blast! My groups didn't do too well, we ran into some stupid issues and the second time we didn't even have a full team, but regardless it was a great time taking a crack at the problems.
I just went to an intramural competition at my school today and that was also fun and it renewed the good feelings coding and solving problems gives me.
to an extent, I agree with you. People get way too offended...
but think of it this way, if someone publicly posted that you were a pedophile, or something seriously offbase, especially if it was related to career, you WOULDN'T care at all? Some kids can be smacktards and way overdue it, so I can see there being a "possibility" that this is not just someone getting too offended, but getting rightly offended because it's slander. In this case it was "bipolar paranoid schizophrenic" which, while not as bad as my example, it's certainly total BS. It shouldn't be a big deal to take down crap like that.
How about adding a listing that says "we have removed xx reviews for this professor"...students can still judge if they think the prof is, in fact, an idiot.
You could have fun with any new game of your choice. The key thing is that games with 5, even 7 years of a playerbase, everyone who still plays is going to be DAMN GOOD. There isn't much you can do to get around that, unless you purposely seek out servers with no skill level or improve your level of skill to the point you can have some good fun with the hardcore players.
More recent games are: Call of Duty, MoH games, etc? I play Battlefield 1942 and after a few weeks I got to around the top 10 on a popular server. (granted, I played for more than 30 minutes at a time)
Playing with people you know is the best way to have fun; things are usually more lighthearted that way.
I know a lot of married couples that play Everquest together. You can pick classes that complement eachother and hang out by yourself leisurely, and then just use something like teamspeak to talk instead of type.
DVD playing? that's an extra $30 on the xbox...which for $50, you can get a quality DVD player that will also do CDR/CDRW, VCDs and SVCDs all with no work.
I'm not going to get into whether or not the country should spend that much money on the network when it has many other problems, but...
People saying 100Mbps won't be fast in 7 years? Screw that. If you think we'll have even 1/10th of that in even 1% of the US in 2010 you're out of your mind. Huge areas of the nation don't even have 56k-capable telephone lines, let alone broadband. This won't change until it's profitable for the businesses to do otherwise. Monopolies own all the lines, and there is no government incentive. There won't be, either. (Which is good and bad)
I've got 1.5Mbps right now, with planned 3Mbps in a year or so. I've only had it for a few months. I don't see it going up much more by then, considering how long it took me to get above dialup...and certainly not to or above 100Mbps. Hell I bet 20Mbps will be a lot in 7 years if you live in the states and we're talking average residential internet speeds. Same goes for globally.
Note also that IDE drives in general are "tuned for desktop usage patterns". I'm not entirely sure what that entails, but I suspect it involves a lot of read-ahead caching; single-user systems tend to be actively reading only one or two things at a time. SCSI is tuned for server performance, and the test of "read lots of small files" is probably much closer to a "server" load than to a "desktop" load.
I'd have to disagree. I think logic dictates that "desktop usage" includes opening up your email client, browsing the web, and running small applications. All everyday stuff deals with small files and frequent accesses...which is what you just said SCSI excels at. Granted this is just unknowledgeable reasoning by me, but it seems to make sense...which is why within a year I hope to finally go to SCSI for my OS/applications drive, and keep IDE for storage (video, etc).
Granted, the guy's test was hardly scientific...I'm not basing opinions on it at all. I'm surprised no one has mentioned how easy it is to compare drives at http://www.storagereview.com
Right. I fault the coders for using that damn preview pane in Outlook. EVERYONE doing any kind of coding should be savvy enough to know about that...best to avoid it all together, as I do now with Mozilla.
I'm sure these numbers can't include all the custom built rigs that all the power users make. There's really no good way to put together your own laptop, either... so that adds more sales. I'd go to CompUSA for a laptop, but never for a desktop. In fact, my family did buy our laptop there last year.
IIRC, you should also be fine if you install Cat5E (note big E) which is perfectly capable of gigabit. I know The Cat5E my house got wired with is ready for gigabit...I've got the NIC now, just need the new switch.
I'm sick of these small yet proprietary mini ITX boxes. Yes, they're small, but you can't put much in them. Read the review, he couldn't even put in a corsair 512MB DIMM because the heat spreader made contact with the chassis?space? That's CRAMPED.
My box is 5.5" by 11.5" by 11.5", houses a 300W power supply INSIDE IT (not externally, ala ZPC), can handle any standard micro atx formfactor motherboard, as much RAM as I want, a full size AGP videocard, etc. It will hold whatever hard drive and CDROM I want...Oh, and it weighs less than the ZPC since it's aluminum. I have expandability and as much power as I want. Did I mention the geargrip for small PCs works beautifully with this?
I'm not sure if you plan on running them, but with a 3 day event I imagine you would. Be ready. I know with the LAN I help plan and setup, one of our biggest issues has been with tournaments. UT2k3 has been particularly troublesome, even with webadmin.
Definitely try for sponsors. It will help a lot, and if you're hosting a 100+ person event then it should be easy to get companies interested
Crowd control will be necessary with that large of an event. Be it cheaters or lamers, you've gotta protect the equipment of the LANgoers.
Tech support should be included for all attendees, although you should make an effort to keep a community (forum) going so people are prepared to setup their network settings and have the latest patches.
Don't call it a marathon, since weekend LANs aren't all that uncommon. Marathon, to me, implies something like a week. In which case people would start hurting their health...
I think the USB idea is great and all, but as some said, the LAKS isn't the nicest looking watch in the world.
What I'd really like to see is a really teched out digital watch in an oldschool silver pocket watch enclosure. Maybe I'm the only one... but I don't put things on my wrists.
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On the contrary, I think the issue is that if people can't consistently implement CSS _now_, then they sure as hell won't as it gets more and more complicated with CSS3.0 and beyond (and I am not looking forward to using 3) Yeah, CSS is a pain, but it isn't going to get better later if things aren't done about the sad condition of it now.
The http://www.cappuccinopc.com/ has been out long before the Mac Mini, and the original was even a smaller form-factor, with modern P4 variants just slightly larger.
Anyway, this whole article is missing the point. Cheap OS X is good for everybody! I wouldn't buy a PC that small even though there's the option...
VOD are actually available to most/all comcast people I know, and it has been in my area since shortly after they introduced digital cable + internet service. They are indeed full episodes, but there are only full episodes of selected things at the moment...typically there is an ad for the channel the show you aired on (that you can fast forward) about a minute long, but no ads during the episode at all.
For some things, like the Anime Channel (a channel not in their normal lineup), they have many many episodes and it works out pretty well... I just wish they'd catch on and run japanese+subtitles...but that's dreaming.
The scary thing is, I don't think the broadcast flag will be a failure. Hopefully time will prove me wrong!
The mac mini is hardly the first PC it's size, in fact, for years there have been comparable / slightly smaller (The original P3 ones, anyway)...remember the cappuccino PCs at thinkgeek? they still make those with up to date P4's (although those are just a tad bit larger, but same basic dimensions)
PC makers won't be the ones mimicking that one...
comparably sized and priced:
http://www.cappuccinopc.com/
I will say I'm sure the sonoma would rock in one.
Have people sign release forms when they get to your event. Simple as that.
Oh, and reasonable cover fees will hopefully let you break even. Anything more and you can give out prizes w/ the extra.
"If they don't want to get maimed or killed, maybe they should have picked a different job."
.txt files as well as via archived email. It's not hard keeping data for long periods of time, even on windows.
Does that go for any policemen, firemen, small children, spouses, relatives, housesitters, etc, who might actually have a reason to be there too
Yet if you get back to the reason for this thread, people have NO reason to NOT pay for this guy's software other than they don't feel like it. Read: guilty. This is the same reason copyright issues cannot be described with analogies to thievery. It doesn't follow entirely.
I think the excuse that users lose their keys and use ones listed on the internet is entirely BS, as well. I have never lost a single CD key. I still have my Legend of the Red Dragon DOOR game key that I received in the mail 8 years ago in the BBS days. Any digital downloads I have multiple backups of keys in simple
My vote? More power to him until the day there's actually a legitimate case where his software 'accidentally' deletes a user's home directory.
The problem with a small independent project like Echelon NOT doing anything to protect itself is the guy won't even be able to pay the rent!
How much has internet use increased in the last 3 years? I'm sure tripling the amount of broadband users is a big deal, and I'm part of those statistics, but how many are still without broadband (and still will be without in another 3 years)?
Most who don't either:
A) Can't (lack of availability) *** this is big
B) Don't know the benefits
C) Haven't used it before
D) All of the above?
I know a family that pays for multiple phone lines and TWO $20+/m ISPs...they could have DSL for both computers for $30-40/m from verizon.
3x increase in 3 years is nice and all, but we're still way behind some other countries due to all the rural areas. Rural areas not having broadband won't change because there's no profit in expanding there. I'm talking out in the sticks. I'm guessing in 3 years one of my friends still won't even have the OPTION of broadband if he still lived where he does now. Luckily for him he probably won't live there.
I've had a (personal) domain or two for 6 years or so, which just happens to have also had some domain contacts associated with it...and man oh man the spam. At one point there was a catch-all account, but now? HELL NO.
We accidently left it on for a month once and got 6,000+ in the catch-all account. No human being is going to sift through that many emails to see if ANOTHER stupid human being sent an email to the wrong address. If it's important, they'll make sure they sent it right.
I didn't even mention "learn" in my original post. Fiddling with it involves experience, not hardcore mastery. homebrew GBA development? Getting some experience here is the key.
Also, last I checked, there was no free C compiler for ARM processors. Buying one would involve a lot of zeros...which left ASM.
It looks like GCC may now be an option. I'm not sure how complete or incomplete the functionality is.
It certainly, from a quick glance, has some niceties that x86 ASM lacks. Like perform operations from two locations and store in a third. Yummy. Gotta love the negativity of slashdot, though! Probably the only positive reply I got, despite not even SAYING "learn" the ASM.
With that amount shipping a year... I really should get around to fiddling with ARM assembly more. Not a bad way to land a job, I bet.
It has nothing to do with schools being best. I've been to two, and it's a blast! My groups didn't do too well, we ran into some stupid issues and the second time we didn't even have a full team, but regardless it was a great time taking a crack at the problems.
I just went to an intramural competition at my school today and that was also fun and it renewed the good feelings coding and solving problems gives me.
movieoke sounds really lame.
...then it might have some relation to karoake, which means off key.
Is there a word for "bad acting?"
to an extent, I agree with you. People get way too offended...
...students can still judge if they think the prof is, in fact, an idiot.
but think of it this way, if someone publicly posted that you were a pedophile, or something seriously offbase, especially if it was related to career, you WOULDN'T care at all? Some kids can be smacktards and way overdue it, so I can see there being a "possibility" that this is not just someone getting too offended, but getting rightly offended because it's slander. In this case it was "bipolar paranoid schizophrenic" which, while not as bad as my example, it's certainly total BS. It shouldn't be a big deal to take down crap like that.
How about adding a listing that says "we have removed xx reviews for this professor"
You could have fun with any new game of your choice. The key thing is that games with 5, even 7 years of a playerbase, everyone who still plays is going to be DAMN GOOD. There isn't much you can do to get around that, unless you purposely seek out servers with no skill level or improve your level of skill to the point you can have some good fun with the hardcore players.
More recent games are: Call of Duty, MoH games, etc? I play Battlefield 1942 and after a few weeks I got to around the top 10 on a popular server. (granted, I played for more than 30 minutes at a time)
Playing with people you know is the best way to have fun; things are usually more lighthearted that way.
I know a lot of married couples that play Everquest together. You can pick classes that complement eachother and hang out by yourself leisurely, and then just use something like teamspeak to talk instead of type.
DVD playing? that's an extra $30 on the xbox...which for $50, you can get a quality DVD player that will also do CDR/CDRW, VCDs and SVCDs all with no work.
Now if PS2 was $99...maybe you'd have a point.
I'm not going to get into whether or not the country should spend that much money on the network when it has many other problems, but...
People saying 100Mbps won't be fast in 7 years? Screw that. If you think we'll have even 1/10th of that in even 1% of the US in 2010 you're out of your mind. Huge areas of the nation don't even have 56k-capable telephone lines, let alone broadband. This won't change until it's profitable for the businesses to do otherwise. Monopolies own all the lines, and there is no government incentive. There won't be, either. (Which is good and bad)
I've got 1.5Mbps right now, with planned 3Mbps in a year or so. I've only had it for a few months. I don't see it going up much more by then, considering how long it took me to get above dialup...and certainly not to or above 100Mbps. Hell I bet 20Mbps will be a lot in 7 years if you live in the states and we're talking average residential internet speeds. Same goes for globally.
Note also that IDE drives in general are "tuned for desktop usage patterns". I'm not entirely sure what that entails, but I suspect it involves a lot of read-ahead caching; single-user systems tend to be actively reading only one or two things at a time. SCSI is tuned for server performance, and the test of "read lots of small files" is probably much closer to a "server" load than to a "desktop" load.
I'd have to disagree. I think logic dictates that "desktop usage" includes opening up your email client, browsing the web, and running small applications. All everyday stuff deals with small files and frequent accesses...which is what you just said SCSI excels at. Granted this is just unknowledgeable reasoning by me, but it seems to make sense...which is why within a year I hope to finally go to SCSI for my OS/applications drive, and keep IDE for storage (video, etc).
Granted, the guy's test was hardly scientific...I'm not basing opinions on it at all. I'm surprised no one has mentioned how easy it is to compare drives at http://www.storagereview.com
Right. I fault the coders for using that damn preview pane in Outlook. EVERYONE doing any kind of coding should be savvy enough to know about that...best to avoid it all together, as I do now with Mozilla.
I'm sure these numbers can't include all the custom built rigs that all the power users make. There's really no good way to put together your own laptop, either... so that adds more sales. I'd go to CompUSA for a laptop, but never for a desktop. In fact, my family did buy our laptop there last year.
IIRC, you should also be fine if you install Cat5E (note big E) which is perfectly capable of gigabit. I know The Cat5E my house got wired with is ready for gigabit...I've got the NIC now, just need the new switch.
I'm sick of these small yet proprietary mini ITX boxes. Yes, they're small, but you can't put much in them. Read the review, he couldn't even put in a corsair 512MB DIMM because the heat spreader made contact with the chassis?space? That's CRAMPED.
My box is 5.5" by 11.5" by 11.5", houses a 300W power supply INSIDE IT (not externally, ala ZPC), can handle any standard micro atx formfactor motherboard, as much RAM as I want, a full size AGP videocard, etc. It will hold whatever hard drive and CDROM I want...Oh, and it weighs less than the ZPC since it's aluminum. I have expandability and as much power as I want. Did I mention the geargrip for small PCs works beautifully with this?
I'm not sure if you plan on running them, but with a 3 day event I imagine you would. Be ready. I know with the LAN I help plan and setup, one of our biggest issues has been with tournaments. UT2k3 has been particularly troublesome, even with webadmin.
Definitely try for sponsors. It will help a lot, and if you're hosting a 100+ person event then it should be easy to get companies interested
Crowd control will be necessary with that large of an event. Be it cheaters or lamers, you've gotta protect the equipment of the LANgoers.
Tech support should be included for all attendees, although you should make an effort to keep a community (forum) going so people are prepared to setup their network settings and have the latest patches.
Don't call it a marathon, since weekend LANs aren't all that uncommon. Marathon, to me, implies something like a week. In which case people would start hurting their health...
I think the USB idea is great and all, but as some said, the LAKS isn't the nicest looking watch in the world.
What I'd really like to see is a really teched out digital watch in an oldschool silver pocket watch enclosure. Maybe I'm the only one... but I don't put things on my wrists.