dude, go look at pro audio racks. i've seen racks as small as 3u, and there's plenty of selection around 12u. plus, you won't have to worry about bolting it to the wall or some such thing as you do with some larger racks, just for stability. plenty of racks are designed shoved into plane cargo bays, much less get kicked around in the bottom of your closet. plus, there are many units for power scrubbing in the pro audio world, and even racks with such devices built in. if you're looking for cheap, you'll even be able to find plenty of stuff used. go visit a reputable music store. and good luck.
is it wrong, as in unethical? i say no. they have done nothing unethical. you chose to believe them, and you know, as any halfway informed viewer, that there is always going to be artistic license; any even minor student of philosophy will tell you that it's impossible for someone to be without bias. since when do we persecute the tabloids for dramatizing even the most trivial? granted, i don't read them, but are they doing something unethical? no. and it all goes into how much faith and realiance you put into the program your watching, the electronic signal that comes through your screen. if you really want to know what's going on, then go. if not you're not gonna go, then you gotta trust someone. but they never promised that they wouldn't alter the image. did you think that the logo for the channel was actually "there" and floating around in mid-air? it's about on the same level.
why didn't columbus patent the america's? of course, it probably would have been challenged in court 'cause he/thought/ that he'd reached the east indies. but it strikes me as being on just about the same level--ludicrous.
i'm just glad that the media recognized linux as a decent alternative in their article. public perception is sometimes more important than the actual ease of use. (take microsoft vs. the world, beta vs. vhs, etc.).
alright, to all of you who replied to my original posts concerning the convection nature of lava lamps:
the lava drops not because it is colder--that is only an indirect cause. the real reason is that it's relatively less dense when compared the the surrounding lava and fluid.
same with the beer, people. the air carries it up. (there are issues of momentum, resistance, etc. which i won't discuss here). if the bubble (combination of gases and liquids which for now we'll consider as a unit) finds that it's density is greater than the surrounding, it will proceed downwards, but if it is lesser, then it will stay at the top. the critical size in this case is cited.
but please, people, convection is just one way of changing the density. the fundamental problem can easily be seen in your lava lamp.
unfortunately, the way things stand right now, there are a lot of teachers who don't do much personal caring for students. then again, it's not the teachers job, it's the responsibility of the parents. (then again, there are quite too many parents who are selfish as hell and don't give a rat's ass about their kids).
now how does this relate to computers? well, we can never expect something programmed and created by a human to have the depth, the love to nurture a child; it just ain't gonna happen. to try to have a computer raise a child is akin to setting the kid in front of the boob tube 12-16 hours a day and expecting him/her to grow up healthy and stable. come on now, people.
ya, it's opened a lot of doors, some of which i'm sure they wished were closed--i just know that at school we watch fills right after they open at the theatres without paying a dime (except the $80 we pay at the beginning of the semester for telephony, etc.) people go into the theatre, videotape it, rip it onto a couple of mpegs about a gig long each, and throw them on the network. granted, they're a little bit grainy, but when you're a poor college student you don't really care. i mean, come on now, to the pragmatist it's scotch-free.
so, ya, it's opened a lot of doors. the guy with the nice vid card that sported video out and the 21" tv was pretty popular.
i must admit, i was rather proud of myself when i managed the impossible--setting up one single partition on a hd as read-only despite how hard the operating system tried to write to it. i mean, i and a group of other knowledgables could/not/ get that thing to mount as write.
i haven't personally used it, but from what i understand from a friend of mine, who's a developer for mac, you can open up a quote-on-quote xterm and work from a shell, exploiting all the powers of unix, something that's neither as powerful or convenient in dos/windows.
also, mac plus system V should make for a really secure box.
i agree that, yes, sliders are definately superior for use on a computer, but being a pro audio guy i'd also argue that they're better than dials in every way except for size for dealing with analog signals; there are some neat things you can do with dials controlling digital signals that you can't with sliders for obvious reasons. in fact, you'll be hard presssed to find any decent board, except for maybe a little 8x2 or something, that doesn't use sliders instead of dials for the main control.
ya, i thought the article was a very good survey, as well. what i really thought was missing, though, was some info on the security advantages of *nix os's over that other crap most pc's are running. being able to actually have a secure box is priceless. i just know that when i portscan a windows box, the program basically laughs, whereas *nix systems generally get respect. plus the ability to set permissions for those of us who have multiple accounts (not to mention the dangers of constantly logging in as root, especially on X).
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dude, go look at pro audio racks. i've seen racks as small as 3u, and there's plenty of selection around 12u. plus, you won't have to worry about bolting it to the wall or some such thing as you do with some larger racks, just for stability. plenty of racks are designed shoved into plane cargo bays, much less get kicked around in the bottom of your closet. plus, there are many units for power scrubbing in the pro audio world, and even racks with such devices built in. if you're looking for cheap, you'll even be able to find plenty of stuff used. go visit a reputable music store. and good luck.
the lava drops not because it is colder--that is only an indirect cause. the real reason is that it's relatively less dense when compared the the surrounding lava and fluid.
same with the beer, people. the air carries it up. (there are issues of momentum, resistance, etc. which i won't discuss here). if the bubble (combination of gases and liquids which for now we'll consider as a unit) finds that it's density is greater than the surrounding, it will proceed downwards, but if it is lesser, then it will stay at the top. the critical size in this case is cited.
but please, people, convection is just one way of changing the density. the fundamental problem can easily be seen in your lava lamp.
now how does this relate to computers? well, we can never expect something programmed and created by a human to have the depth, the love to nurture a child; it just ain't gonna happen. to try to have a computer raise a child is akin to setting the kid in front of the boob tube 12-16 hours a day and expecting him/her to grow up healthy and stable. come on now, people.
so, ya, it's opened a lot of doors. the guy with the nice vid card that sported video out and the 21" tv was pretty popular.
also, mac plus system V should make for a really secure box.
i agree that, yes, sliders are definately superior for use on a computer, but being a pro audio guy i'd also argue that they're better than dials in every way except for size for dealing with analog signals; there are some neat things you can do with dials controlling digital signals that you can't with sliders for obvious reasons. in fact, you'll be hard presssed to find any decent board, except for maybe a little 8x2 or something, that doesn't use sliders instead of dials for the main control.
then again, to make real use of a good machine, you need a real operating system, and this card can only run with win98?
it's a start, but it definately needs work.
ya, i thought the article was a very good survey, as well. what i really thought was missing, though, was some info on the security advantages of *nix os's over that other crap most pc's are running. being able to actually have a secure box is priceless. i just know that when i portscan a windows box, the program basically laughs, whereas *nix systems generally get respect. plus the ability to set permissions for those of us who have multiple accounts (not to mention the dangers of constantly logging in as root, especially on X).