mount a little LCD display on the front, a little chip to control it. A microcontroller attatched to a tiny wireless reciever.. Map out the company floorpan for him. Send a message to Bill in accounting that 'suits' are the root of all evil. See how upset the suit is when he has no idea who sent that little bugger with the LCD in.
See Bill run. Funny, funny Bill. See techies laugh. Silly, silly techies.
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
A hardware only solution takes 1 driver to write. To implement a new feature on a software driven device, you must build and debug the driver for windows(all the different versions), linux, BeOS, and any others... after a short time, when a newer model appears, or profits slow, there is much less incentive to spend all this time writing multiple drivers... bad drivers = bad product = unhappy geeks!! Even though they will be offering Linux support, I can't help but think about Diamond Multimedia. Has anyone ever seen a good driver for a diamond card?? How about and updated driver?? Since they got bought by S3, they stopped updating their drivers for even their most top of the line cards that were made by competing companies, (aka viper 770 with TNT2 chip)
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
>>PS: I want a portable MP3 ZipDisk player...sure it's only 100 megs...but still...portable has hell...no? I think that the most difficult part of a ZIP disk mp3 player is the battery life. As far as I know (I admit not much)ZIPs are kinda like floppies in that they both have mechanical, moving parts. Moving parts suck down battery power, a precious commodity in a mobile device. A CD has moving parts also, but due to portable walkman type players, much more research has gone into making them use as little power as possible.
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Most of our boxes are Donated by HP and Intel. Actually, We have a very good Hardware Engineering Program. (all of our grads are usually hired by spring term) and our Laser Optical Engineering is one of the best in the nation. The bitch is that we are a small public school. only 2500 students, maybe 300 or so in computer and lasers(3 degree tracks). We do not get the kind of funds that a larger University would get (OSU and UofO have over 20k students at each!!) but we are very good because our classes are so small. check us out! Oregon Institute of Technology
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
we have a couple of PA-RISC HP workstations for graduate level stuff, but too expensive to hand out.. we use Xilinx and Altera on NT systems most of the time.... most senior projects take less than 1 hour to compile on a PII 400....
------------------------------------------ If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I have been Evaluating Windows 2000 for the computer department at my university, and at our current state of hardware, it would be rather silly for us to put it on our systems. The cost of upgrading 200+ machines to be able to efficiently run the OS is absolutely staggering. Right now we have one lab of 20 machines that are cabable of running it, however, the ASIC Design tools that the lab has are not well tested on W2k yet. I can understand using planned obsolence.. no one wants to write software for a P75 anymore, but the schools cannot afford to upgrade all their equipment every 2 years either. bigger is not always better. I hope that efficiency has finaly been addressed in this implementation. (c'mon 1GB + for a full install of Visual Studio 6?)
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Finaly, something that will be big enough to install windows 2003 with IE 7!!! thank god they won't be limited to only 15GB, think of all the "features" they'd have to cut out then!!!!
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mount a little LCD display on the front, a little chip to control it. A microcontroller attatched to a tiny wireless reciever.. Map out the company floorpan for him. Send a message to Bill in accounting that 'suits' are the root of all evil. See how upset the suit is when he has no idea who sent that little bugger with the LCD in.
See Bill run. Funny, funny Bill. See techies laugh. Silly, silly techies.
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
A hardware only solution takes 1 driver to write. To implement a new feature on a software driven device, you must build and debug the driver for windows(all the different versions), linux, BeOS, and any others... after a short time, when a newer model appears, or profits slow, there is much less incentive to spend all this time writing multiple drivers... bad drivers = bad product = unhappy geeks!! Even though they will be offering Linux support, I can't help but think about Diamond Multimedia. Has anyone ever seen a good driver for a diamond card?? How about and updated driver?? Since they got bought by S3, they stopped updating their drivers for even their most top of the line cards that were made by competing companies, (aka viper 770 with TNT2 chip)
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
>>PS: I want a portable MP3 ZipDisk player...sure it's only 100 megs...but still...portable has hell...no? I think that the most difficult part of a ZIP disk mp3 player is the battery life. As far as I know (I admit not much)ZIPs are kinda like floppies in that they both have mechanical, moving parts. Moving parts suck down battery power, a precious commodity in a mobile device. A CD has moving parts also, but due to portable walkman type players, much more research has gone into making them use as little power as possible.
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
Most of our boxes are Donated by HP and Intel. Actually, We have a very good Hardware Engineering Program. (all of our grads are usually hired by spring term) and our Laser Optical Engineering is one of the best in the nation. The bitch is that we are a small public school. only 2500 students, maybe 300 or so in computer and lasers(3 degree tracks). We do not get the kind of funds that a larger University would get (OSU and UofO have over 20k students at each!!) but we are very good because our classes are so small. check us out! Oregon Institute of Technology
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
we have a couple of PA-RISC HP workstations for graduate level stuff, but too expensive to hand out.. we use Xilinx and Altera on NT systems most of the time.... most senior projects take less than 1 hour to compile on a PII 400....
------------------------------------------
If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
I have been Evaluating Windows 2000 for the computer department at my university, and at our current state of hardware, it would be rather silly for us to put it on our systems. The cost of upgrading 200+ machines to be able to efficiently run the OS is absolutely staggering. Right now we have one lab of 20 machines that are cabable of running it, however, the ASIC Design tools that the lab has are not well tested on W2k yet. I can understand using planned obsolence.. no one wants to write software for a P75 anymore, but the schools cannot afford to upgrade all their equipment every 2 years either. bigger is not always better. I hope that efficiency has finaly been addressed in this implementation.
(c'mon 1GB + for a full install of Visual Studio 6?)
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
its easy to be bold when your an anonymous coward!
Finaly, something that will be big enough to install windows 2003 with IE 7!!! thank god they won't be limited to only 15GB, think of all the "features" they'd have to cut out then!!!!
maybe Microsoft worked on this nasa project. there awesome at making things crash on purpose....