Bush wants to ban human cloning and stem cell research. How is his position on those items not relevant to this story? How is his reaction to this story not likely to be obvious to the rest of us, and exactly what the parent poster said?
Just like he used to be young and cranky? Seriously, look into how this man behaves in public (and has done so for decades), and you'll realize that despite being a brilliant author, he's a complete asshole and this is par for the course.
If they do it was unintentional. I looked up the damn books and linked to them as I found them. I don't play the Amazon referral game, at least not intentionally.
He asserts, over and over again, that his models map to the real world ("Look, Leaves!" etc.) but does not actually use those models to solve any real world problem. If this is a "New Kind of Science" it'd better have some further application than "look, leaves!" That's what I mean about the mapping. Certainly, he has a great grasp of CA and all that, but THAT'S NOT NEW.
The book doesn't point out anything more than hints and allegations of what you said. As other people have pointed out, he solves nor resolves NO existing problem with his approach, he just shows how CA behavior maps to real systems behavior and says "aha!" and moves on.
When you combine that with the VAST amount of self-horn-tooting that he engages in, you get a fairly dull book.
Nobody (sane) questions Wolfram's intelligence, however that doesn't mean that NKS is really as groundbreaking as he claims it is. I bought a copy, found it thick, heavy, dense, in turns fascinating and confusing, but damn if I can see anything in it that justifies Wolfram's claims of "new science". One can be utterly brilliant and still overly arrogant and in some cases even wrong. In fact, I question any "genius" who is unable to notice when s/he's wrong. Whether Wolfram falls in that category is yet to be seen.
I don't agree. They looked like PCI Card screws to me, which aren't always necessarily the same as case screws (may not have the lock nuts on them for example). All the CD-ROMs I have use the same screws as my hard drives....
Hidden Charges There is no such thing as a hidden charge.... provided you read the contract.
That's just goddamn doubletalk. If you bury the charges deep in the legalese of the contract instead of having a straightforward matrix explaining all the charges and how they apply, you're being a lying lawyerly shark scumbag of a company, and that's all there is to it. Is there any EXCUSE to complain about "hidden charges" if you didn't read the contract? No. But consumers have a legitimate expectation that pricing structures will be explained clearly in the open and not buried under layers and layers of obfuscation. For your average human, contracts are written in the language of legal obfuscation.
Point to point, yes. Using one of the machines as a router to the internet, the internet won't get any faster than that 10bT/100bT drop. Unless the original poster is dealing with enormous files (say video) the hassle involved in getting this to work is worth way more than the $25 or so to buy a blinkin switch.
Sorry, but by the time you subscribed to Byte it was little more than a trade rag, and had been for ages. The Golden Age of Byte was back in the early 80's when they actually put out articles of general interest to electronics/computer geeks.
Which distros? It's developed on Debian; I'd recommend you use Debian for the smoothest install. The right hardware is not hard to identify (just about any common BT878 cap card and a fast enough CPU, i.e. 1.2 GHz or higher, will work fine. With a hardware cap card you don't need as much CPU). Don't try using your old 486, get enough memory and a fast enough CPU and disk, and you shouldn't have any big troubles. As for XMLTV and MySQL....dunno what your problem is, but my KnoppMyth install took care of all that except for one easy to solve regexp problem with XMLTV.
I'll toss in with the "me toos". You have some kind of hardware problem, not a software problem. The only complaint I have about Myth was the installation was insanely complicated (way too many choices; how do I set up a lightweight window manager? Why isn't this or that piece working well with the others?) the first time I tried it 6 months ago. I gave up. But then around Christmas I became aware of KnoppMyth and used that to install and 90% of the problems went away. There were still a handful of issues (bad xmltv script regexp for zap2it, issues with my particular video cap card wanting to capture the Second Audio Program instead of normal audio) but nothing that took very long to find the answer to on the KnoppMyth and Myth forums.
At this point I'm a very happy MythTV user, in danger of filling up my 120G hard drive...
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I suppose I should say, if you don't want to drag it back to where you have that serial port set up.
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Good luck troubleshooting that SS10 without a console when it's hosed.
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FTA: Unfortunately, you're stuck with Sun keyboards and mice, as the connector is Sun-specific, as well as certain specialty keys. There may be adapters, but I don't know how well they'll work with the specialized keys.
Not true. I've been using a Logitech TrackMan Pro for several years now, with the aid of a nifty box that converts PS/2 devices (has an input for a keyboard and for a mouse) into the Sun connector. It was a Sun part number, somewhat obscure, but definitely available and useful. It's called the "Sun Interface Converter" and the Sun part number is 595-3692. I'd recommend you go looking for one if you are having trouble coming up with Sun Keyboards & Mice or if you want to use your Sun system with a standard KVM switch (which is what I do at home).
But that's the thing, if I'm bad at it, fine, but I *should* get better as I play, and I'm not. As far as I can tell, skill has nothing to do with it because the opponents are so effective I can't believe they're not cheating.
Ok, then you need to find another server where more newbies hang out. I have played servers where I was confident that no one was cheating, and had the exact same experience. The only solution is 1) tough it out (though depending on the skill differential, you're right, you may never improve) or 2) find another server with people who play at your skill level. The way to do 2 is to keep trying different servers. There are literally thousands of Half-Life servers out there, so unless you're playing one of the less popular mods, finding others may not be too tough.
I agree though, it'd be nice if there were some rating system where you could not only see who was playing on any given server, but also what their skill levels were, and avoid the places where you're sure to be dominated.
Sounds to me like 1) you're not picking the right maps and 2) not picking the right servers. And if you think the place to "learn how to play the game" is online, you're sadly mistaken. That's why there's single player mode of most games (haven't played much CounterStrike, so I don't remember if that holds directly, but certainly you can learn the engine well enough with the Half-Life single player game).
in games, snipers are given a ludicrous advantage over everyone else.
Only if you can find a sniping spot that gives you good views of a high traffic area and doesn't leave you vulnerable. While you're zoomed in, you can't see what's going on around you very effectively. In my experience, only a few poorly designed maps actually have spots that are surefire sniping heaven. All the others, you try to camp, anyone who's familiar with the map can figure out where you are, sneak up on you from another direction and put your sniping to an end.
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Don't get a mouse. Get one of these Trackballs. Small, compact, nifty.
Bush wants to ban human cloning and stem cell research. How is his position on those items not relevant to this story? How is his reaction to this story not likely to be obvious to the rest of us, and exactly what the parent poster said?
Just like he used to be young and cranky? Seriously, look into how this man behaves in public (and has done so for decades), and you'll realize that despite being a brilliant author, he's a complete asshole and this is par for the course.
It's a shame that, unlike some of his story titles, Harlan has a mouth. A very large one. And yes, he IS a lunatic.
If they do it was unintentional. I looked up the damn books and linked to them as I found them. I don't play the Amazon referral game, at least not intentionally.
Maybe The Non-Designer's Design Book? 'Course, it doesn't deal with color.... You might also try Don't Make Me Think.
And never mind the nightmare of the configuration engine.
He asserts, over and over again, that his models map to the real world ("Look, Leaves!" etc.) but does not actually use those models to solve any real world problem. If this is a "New Kind of Science" it'd better have some further application than "look, leaves!" That's what I mean about the mapping. Certainly, he has a great grasp of CA and all that, but THAT'S NOT NEW.
Personally I prefer 5 * 9 = 42. In base 13, this is true. In base 10 it is not. How does that mean anything in reality?
The book doesn't point out anything more than hints and allegations of what you said. As other people have pointed out, he solves nor resolves NO existing problem with his approach, he just shows how CA behavior maps to real systems behavior and says "aha!" and moves on.
When you combine that with the VAST amount of self-horn-tooting that he engages in, you get a fairly dull book.
Nobody (sane) questions Wolfram's intelligence, however that doesn't mean that NKS is really as groundbreaking as he claims it is. I bought a copy, found it thick, heavy, dense, in turns fascinating and confusing, but damn if I can see anything in it that justifies Wolfram's claims of "new science". One can be utterly brilliant and still overly arrogant and in some cases even wrong. In fact, I question any "genius" who is unable to notice when s/he's wrong. Whether Wolfram falls in that category is yet to be seen.
If you knew how many DAPCentral episodes of various TV Shoes I've burned to VCD's you wouldn't say that.
It's called "scripting". A pain only once.
I don't agree. They looked like PCI Card screws to me, which aren't always necessarily the same as case screws (may not have the lock nuts on them for example). All the CD-ROMs I have use the same screws as my hard drives....
That's just goddamn doubletalk. If you bury the charges deep in the legalese of the contract instead of having a straightforward matrix explaining all the charges and how they apply, you're being a lying lawyerly shark scumbag of a company, and that's all there is to it. Is there any EXCUSE to complain about "hidden charges" if you didn't read the contract? No. But consumers have a legitimate expectation that pricing structures will be explained clearly in the open and not buried under layers and layers of obfuscation. For your average human, contracts are written in the language of legal obfuscation.
Point to point, yes. Using one of the machines as a router to the internet, the internet won't get any faster than that 10bT/100bT drop. Unless the original poster is dealing with enormous files (say video) the hassle involved in getting this to work is worth way more than the $25 or so to buy a blinkin switch.
Sorry, but by the time you subscribed to Byte it was little more than a trade rag, and had been for ages. The Golden Age of Byte was back in the early 80's when they actually put out articles of general interest to electronics/computer geeks.
Which distros? It's developed on Debian; I'd recommend you use Debian for the smoothest install. The right hardware is not hard to identify (just about any common BT878 cap card and a fast enough CPU, i.e. 1.2 GHz or higher, will work fine. With a hardware cap card you don't need as much CPU). Don't try using your old 486, get enough memory and a fast enough CPU and disk, and you shouldn't have any big troubles. As for XMLTV and MySQL....dunno what your problem is, but my KnoppMyth install took care of all that except for one easy to solve regexp problem with XMLTV.
At this point I'm a very happy MythTV user, in danger of filling up my 120G hard drive...
I suppose I should say, if you don't want to drag it back to where you have that serial port set up.
Good luck troubleshooting that SS10 without a console when it's hosed.
Not true. I've been using a Logitech TrackMan Pro for several years now, with the aid of a nifty box that converts PS/2 devices (has an input for a keyboard and for a mouse) into the Sun connector. It was a Sun part number, somewhat obscure, but definitely available and useful. It's called the "Sun Interface Converter" and the Sun part number is 595-3692. I'd recommend you go looking for one if you are having trouble coming up with Sun Keyboards & Mice or if you want to use your Sun system with a standard KVM switch (which is what I do at home).
Ok, then you need to find another server where more newbies hang out. I have played servers where I was confident that no one was cheating, and had the exact same experience. The only solution is 1) tough it out (though depending on the skill differential, you're right, you may never improve) or 2) find another server with people who play at your skill level. The way to do 2 is to keep trying different servers. There are literally thousands of Half-Life servers out there, so unless you're playing one of the less popular mods, finding others may not be too tough.
I agree though, it'd be nice if there were some rating system where you could not only see who was playing on any given server, but also what their skill levels were, and avoid the places where you're sure to be dominated.
Sounds to me like 1) you're not picking the right maps and 2) not picking the right servers. And if you think the place to "learn how to play the game" is online, you're sadly mistaken. That's why there's single player mode of most games (haven't played much CounterStrike, so I don't remember if that holds directly, but certainly you can learn the engine well enough with the Half-Life single player game).
Only if you can find a sniping spot that gives you good views of a high traffic area and doesn't leave you vulnerable. While you're zoomed in, you can't see what's going on around you very effectively. In my experience, only a few poorly designed maps actually have spots that are surefire sniping heaven. All the others, you try to camp, anyone who's familiar with the map can figure out where you are, sneak up on you from another direction and put your sniping to an end.