I use hosting called ServerBeach... They've done some advertising on slashdot, so I'm sure they're gaining awareness slowly.
I like them a lot. $100 / month for a dedicated server that's a 1ghz duron with 512 meg of ram and 60 gig hard drive. That's more than enough power for the sites I host. For $1000/month with them, I could get a site that can't be slashdotted.
The downside is support. They only have a mail ticketing system, and you're pretty much left to handle your own problems, but that's okay. I pretty much considered it a learning experience installing / configuring my own BIND, Apache, Mysql, and GD.
The best part of this is that they include 400gig/month in bandwidth to use. It would take some serious bandwidth to suck all that up. It's burstable too.
FYI they're based in Texas. If you're looking for discounted hosting, go for it!
Of course, don't cry to me if you run a commerce site with them. It's my belief that any site that's a breadwinner for a company should run at a place that has 24/7 support. A ticketing system is fine, just make sure there's always someone there to answer it.
Overall, I like them. Cheap enough to keep me happy, and it's my own machine with root so I can install/config and run whatever I want.
...was first proposed by President Reagan in 1984... begs the question of what else could have been done with the same money and far superior management.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd find it incredibly ironic if with another 40 billion in funding we'd be able to cure Alzheimers....
Between now and 2012, expect major controversy on whether employers, schools and advertisers should have access to your ``presence.''
I worry more about what the police would do with it. I also worry about what kind of blackmailing is possible if people can see online that I'm going to a dark alley downtown for something.
People hawk it as a matter of convenience, and a matter of safety. But you know, it should be my right to drop off the radar, and EVERYONE'S radar...
Even if only for a little while.
I am not a celebrity. I am not a criminal. I am nobody important.
The software that you're trying to run (Doom3.exe) is not compatable with current Microsoft Standards. We at Microsoft believe that one program should "Do it all", and therefore should be integrated into the Operating System's kernel.
The integrated version of Doom3.exe will appear in your kernel once the authors of said file adapt the program for use with Direct3d.
Installation of OpenGL or any software that uses OpenGL is in direct violation of your EULA. Violation of said EULA will be severely punished.
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Thank you for using Longhorn. There are 15 days remaining until Skynet becomes self-aware. Your extra CPU-cycles are appreciated, even if required.
(Hemos at the Helm)
It appears that Enterprise D is trying to flood us with tachyon radiation using their holodeck.
(CmdrTaco)
Take us out of reposting the story, and prepare to fire Trolls and Flamers, full spread, maximum yield. Take aim at the technical writers quarters.
(Timothy)
But that will disable their ability to speak technobabble
(CmdrTaco)
Precisely. And when their technical writers are destroyed, their ability to do technobabble will be disabled, and they'll be left defenseless.
(CleverNickName)
I won't let you do this. If you destroy them, they won't let me be cameo on Enterprise.
(CmdrTaco)
Shut up Wheaton! And get off my bridge!
NON-PHOTOREALISTIC VOLUME RENDERING USING STIPPLING TECHNIQUES
This is obviously a compromise approach. There's no way this would be able to make photorealistic games.
The difference between medicine and gaming is that with medicine, you have a real-life object whose structure whose PROPERTIES you're trying to recreate realistically, regardless of how off-color or computer generated it appears.
With gaming you have an object that's computer generated, whose APPEARANCE you're trying to recreate, with lesser regard to the properties within that object. For instance, most gaming models consisting of polygons have hollow insides...
People at Id don't bother to render and model the organs. People in medicine don't care about having models of human hearts bumpmapped or glossy.
This is supposed to be news for nerds. What's with all the mindless generated hype?
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Chernobyl: The results of a Russian Homer Simpson working at a nuclear power plant :P
Until then, there's no point drooling at something that is more stylish, but doesn't have the punch.
You mean, it takes T-1000's and sends them off to be on the X-Files?
I'd hardly call that "destroying".
But then, I'd call anyone who could banish a T-800 to the world of Last Action Hero to be one mean bitch.
I think I saw Data's remains burning in the upper atmosphere...
"You get the easy missions Jean Luc."
Sure Janeway... "Now tell me Kathryn, how many lights do you see?"
"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!"
Does it count as a double post?
1.0ghz for $1000? Where do you do your computer shopping? Macy's?
Maybe it's me, but MORE POWERFUL, not smaller should dictate the expense of computer parts.
You can put a 286 inside a wristwatch, it doesn't make it worth 5000 USD.
Just my $.02
You: Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
I hope the microbes in this book get some lawyer while he's on the can...
I don't like spoilers, but anyone read this? I must know if there's a lawyer eating involved, and if the book is worth my time.
Thank you, slashdot folks. You have always proven yourselves helpful.
Glad it's all done for a good cause. I just hope it's tax deductible
I like them a lot. $100 / month for a dedicated server that's a 1ghz duron with 512 meg of ram and 60 gig hard drive. That's more than enough power for the sites I host. For $1000/month with them, I could get a site that can't be slashdotted.
The downside is support. They only have a mail ticketing system, and you're pretty much left to handle your own problems, but that's okay. I pretty much considered it a learning experience installing / configuring my own BIND, Apache, Mysql, and GD.
The best part of this is that they include 400gig/month in bandwidth to use. It would take some serious bandwidth to suck all that up. It's burstable too.
FYI they're based in Texas. If you're looking for discounted hosting, go for it!
Of course, don't cry to me if you run a commerce site with them. It's my belief that any site that's a breadwinner for a company should run at a place that has 24/7 support. A ticketing system is fine, just make sure there's always someone there to answer it.
Overall, I like them. Cheap enough to keep me happy, and it's my own machine with root so I can install/config and run whatever I want.
I would have paid good money to hear him go "Shut Up Wesley."
That would have been sweet.... 2/5 captains... I hope they send questions to Kate Mulgrew next week :)
Well, if not that, at least the whole red light district of it </sarcasm>
The moment I get mysql running on my webcam is the moment I realize I'll be single for life.
You mean I've been sacrificing my social life for nothing? Say it ain't so!
You bastard... You cruel, cruel bastard... Can't you break things to the slashdot community gently?
Maybe it's just me, but I'd find it incredibly ironic if with another 40 billion in funding we'd be able to cure Alzheimers....
Take that, Reagan!
But at least my penis will grow by an inch or two.
And it'll always be hard thanks to those free viagra trials.
Oh, I guess his mommy took the computer away for a few months.
I can get a dreamcast with 500 or so SMS built into it if I burn a mame cd and tape the cd player shut..
Huh huh, that'd be cool.
Between now and 2012, expect major controversy on whether employers, schools and advertisers should have access to your ``presence.''
I worry more about what the police would do with it. I also worry about what kind of blackmailing is possible if people can see online that I'm going to a dark alley downtown for something.
People hawk it as a matter of convenience, and a matter of safety. But you know, it should be my right to drop off the radar, and EVERYONE'S radar...
Even if only for a little while.
I am not a celebrity. I am not a criminal. I am nobody important.
Why do I have to be tracked like I am?
The software that you're trying to run (Doom3.exe) is not compatable with current Microsoft Standards. We at Microsoft believe that one program should "Do it all", and therefore should be integrated into the Operating System's kernel.
The integrated version of Doom3.exe will appear in your kernel once the authors of said file adapt the program for use with Direct3d.
Installation of OpenGL or any software that uses OpenGL is in direct violation of your EULA. Violation of said EULA will be severely punished.
---
Thank you for using Longhorn. There are 15 days remaining until Skynet becomes self-aware. Your extra CPU-cycles are appreciated, even if required.
It appears that Enterprise D is trying to flood us with tachyon radiation using their holodeck.
(CmdrTaco)
Take us out of reposting the story, and prepare to fire Trolls and Flamers, full spread, maximum yield. Take aim at the technical writers quarters.
(Timothy)
But that will disable their ability to speak technobabble
(CmdrTaco)
Precisely. And when their technical writers are destroyed, their ability to do technobabble will be disabled, and they'll be left defenseless.
(CleverNickName)
I won't let you do this. If you destroy them, they won't let me be cameo on Enterprise.
(CmdrTaco)
Shut up Wheaton! And get off my bridge!
Don't physicists realize that at a certain point their work blends with philosophy... The answer to Quantum Gravity is 42...
Now for the question...
I'll name him Mickey out of spite of Disney.
But instead of Pluto, I will give him a four-assed monkey for a pet, as an homage to South Park.
Abstract
NON-PHOTOREALISTIC VOLUME RENDERING USING STIPPLING TECHNIQUES
This is obviously a compromise approach. There's no way this would be able to make photorealistic games.
The difference between medicine and gaming is that with medicine, you have a real-life object whose structure whose PROPERTIES you're trying to recreate realistically, regardless of how off-color or computer generated it appears.
With gaming you have an object that's computer generated, whose APPEARANCE you're trying to recreate, with lesser regard to the properties within that object. For instance, most gaming models consisting of polygons have hollow insides...
People at Id don't bother to render and model the organs. People in medicine don't care about having models of human hearts bumpmapped or glossy.
This is supposed to be news for nerds. What's with all the mindless generated hype?