No, both of those shows seem to be well within my time; alas I did not have a television. I haven't even heard of these sitcoms, prior to your mentioning them.
Looks like it's time to hunt for some DIVXs of them. Har har.:)
Wow. That casio sounds very cool, and way ahead of it's time.
My favorite watch, for the wow factor of it, was my dad's old watch (can't seem to find the name of it). It was an aviator's chronograph, with a calculator interfaced to the rotating bezel (which had 100 ticks in it).
There were 3 buttons on the right side of it that put the watch into a different mode (add, multiply, divide, one to clear the memory also, IIRC). To do a calculation, you moved the bezel to the initial value, and hit one of the buttons, then moved to the next value, and hit another button to get the answer.
The cool thing was--to subtract, you added negative values, same analogue for the other operations. Since there were 100 ticks per rotation, with a bit of practice you could do calculations without even looking at the watch. It was a strange watch, because most chronographs only rotate one direction, but it was damn cool.
Hey, wouldn't ya know, but apple already co-invented your vibrator idea in the Harmon/Kardon SoundSticks
Hehe.
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Boy, tell me about it. The 2 10k RPM drives in my O2 really drive me nuts.
When I'm doing a DB query it sounds like it's cookin' popcorn.
I think its' time to build a noise reducing cabinet for my louder systems (or move my databases onto a computer in another room).
Yeah, thanks for the input! I did have to change the way I work, and my symptoms have largely gone away.
Sometimes my wrists still get a little inflamed, but it's usually from working on a laptop, or school computers, or just plain not getting away from the computer as often as I really should. I think that some of my symptoms may have been due to excessive archery practice, and I've kinda' slowed down on that. (Doing my best to be in the Athens Summer Olympics eh!).
In the past I've scoffed at people who whine excessively(or so I thought) about RSI. It sure wasn't funny when I felt the pain. I just think that it's important that others do what they can to avoid it completely, it's no fun to be in pain whilst you do something you love!
I have to agree that fast and accurate typing is essential to people who actually use computers.
But I'll have to argue that having the next generation keyboarding from the age of 4 is a bad thing. As a young programmer-to-be, and a computer user who has been using computers and the internet for longer than nearly all of my peers, I'm starting to experience carpal-tunnel, or RSI (Repeated Stress Injury).
If you have the kids in an ergonomically sound environment, maybe the chanes of injury are lessened. Still, over their lifetimes, if they don't get the excercise and pay attention to their bodies (as so many hackers don't [what we call engineer ass]), the children of the future are going to be unhealthy as adults.
Yeah, that's all great for you Debian users. Point is, there's many hundreds of thousands of devices on the internet (not just Desktop machines running linux, ya know?) that use SNMP.
It's a really great and useful protocol, but if you have any intelligence at all, you firewall off all SNMP enabled devices from anyone you don't trust anyway.
Either way, it's going to take a bit of work to patch all the machines using SNMP.
Alright, this liberal/conservative issue just bewildered the hell out me.
I'll have to admit that I'm a US citizen, and here liberals, as defenition, tend towards a socialized state. Conservatives tend to dislike government interference and regulation (although they are more than happy to implement all the interference and regulation to forward their cause).
What I digest from your and other posters comments, is that Australian liberals are quite conservative.
However, I just realized that this perfectally parallels the Australian "Down Under" way of mind. In Australia, South is North, and instead of being on the bottom of the world, they are on the top. The toilet water flushes the opposite way. They have the Platypus, the mammal that has a bill! They call Fosters "Beer". I could probably go on forever!
As I see it, everything else is backwards down there, so the government may as well be also.
(just kidding to all the Aussies in the crowd, hope you can take a little prodding in the ribs)
I should think that any PC motherboard with a 64bit/66Mhz PCI bus could handle that task quite handily. The feature of SGIs and Suns that they may have been referring to is the backplane, or the main memory bus.
PCs are just now catching up to technology that has been used in SGIs and Suns for a bvery long time. Also, the SCSI controllers on both manufacture's computers are usually provided by a mainstream company (Adaptec comes to mind, especially for SGI equipment). And those devices typically interface over a regular 'ol PCI bus.
Sun is an excpetion, as some of their equipment uses a PCI bus that isn't quite PCI. IIRC, they further overclock the bus/pump more bits thru it to make it faster than standard; also requiring special drivers from your OEM.
So, if you could find a PC server motherboard with a few 64bit/66Mhz PCI slots, and PCI-SCSI controllers to do the job, it becomes more of an issue of working the software.
As another poster noted, there are many great CD duplicator towers around, that can hook up to a computer or network, or operate stand-alone. If I needed a quick and cheap (time wise) solution, I'd go for that.
If I needed to make alot of cds, I might look into making a custom burning machine with a robotic loader (who really wants to flip CDs all the time?). But it would have to be more economical than letting another company handle it.
IIRC, the crusaders didn't really even want to be there.
It was yet another case of Catholic power struggles. The nobility and curch always had power battles at this time, and the Crusades were an attempt to silence the nobility.
The pope, and his goons, basically told the nobility that if they would not go fight for the holy land, they would be ex-communicated. So, all the nobility sailed off to go fight (some took the land route too). Of course, to some of them, the crusades were a great opportunity to expand their wealth and territory.
I'd have to say that to the great many of nobles that went to fight were not there for god. There are a few examples of those who were, however, such as Fredrich Barbarosa. But, even in his case (being the so-called Holy Roman Emperor [of the Germanic tribes]), it was more of an ego-booster than anything else. He wasn't even invited, but had to go so not to loose face.
Face it, the only people who cared about god back then were either poor (and thus naieve, and that almost certianly meant you could not read--especially the Bible, which was next to impossible for even a noble to obtain), or were the type of extremist zealots that we see today (meaning that they were probably mentally ill or something).
But, I wholly agree with your point. It's far too easy for most people to do something wrong, then either shrug it off, or buy forgiveness from the local spiritual dealer.
As an aside, I think that alot of the things muslim people do, or have done, is as much a public phallic fencing match as the christians, or anyone else. They feel they have to defend the good word of Mohammed (or even worse, prove themselves superrior), just like the people who bomb abortion centers convince themselves that killing a doctor justifies saving another fetus; when in reality it dosen't. They all ultimately hurt their cause, however noble and moral it really is.
I say let Allah, God, Jehovah, or whoever the hell runs this joint sort 'em out in the end.
/end mindless blabbering
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I'm not sure, but if it ever does get to that point, wee's in bIg troble.
Well, except that you can release drivers (that need to interact with the kernel) as kernel modules [in binary form]. Nvidia, and lots of other companies have drivers in the form of binary kernel modules.
One thing that I have not seen any thought towards here in slashdot on this topic: radio astronomy. Radio astronomers (or most of them) already strongly dislike Earthbound radio signals. I'm not a Radio Astronomer, but in concept, this technology seems that it would be quite devastating to their efforts if it were too overpowered.
Just an observation from a non-too-keen-on-radio-stuff geekoid.
All windows lameness aside, I just picked up one of the new Apple iBooks, which has an ATI chipset in it. I have to say that it works quite wonderfully in MacOS 9/X, and under linux. The drivers behind the display may be some kind of cludge, but from the speed at which my desktop is accelerated, I cannot attest to that point. I'll admit that 3D dosen't work nicely on it, but nor did I expect it too; it has only 8MB of ram, and it's a portable chipset. 2D on the other hand is quite nice, and speedy. YMMV, of course.
Agreed, the ammount of suckage this move exhibits is unmeasureable. Someone at AMD must be more dense than your average black hole, bucause this sucks really really bad. *Noises of planet sized vacuum cleaner* (Use the schwartz!)
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Maybe my letter was a "Letter to the Editor", however, in this particular news paper, the Editorials coloumn seldom reflects the "official position" of the newspaper, as the articles come from non-newspaper employed people. I don't feel particularly intrestered in arguing semantics, as (I believe, anyway) you (and hopefully most of the rest of the/. audience) understood what I was saying. If I could, I'd rather express my opinion in much less ambigious language, and maybe for once people would'nt always glare at me with glassy eyes and slacked jaws. Unfortunately, English is what passes for communication around here; therefore I do as the Romans do.
Thanks for the correction anyway.:)
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For what it's worth, I wrote editorials to both of the local newspapers here when all this was first going down. Iv'e yet to see either story anywhere. Of course, I wasn't really expecting to have them published; half the editorials posted in both papers are innane ramblings by elderly women who got woke up bu a burgler (dog, racoon, cat , insert favorite animal here) and are demanding more police protection -- or something equally lame... This case really does need to get more conventional media attention before anyone will acknowledge it. I suspect that even then the premise of the case will still be over the heads of the laymen in the U.S.... Oh well. Maybe if someone can explain it in the media spotlight, people will be informed that their rights are subject to the whims of large corporations. *shrug*
If you want to embrace his curiosity so much, give him a 396, a slackware disc, a dark room, lots of books on the good old fun stuff (asm, C, etc.), and some strong coffe. When hee's old enough (say 5 or 6?) get him his own beer fridge, and a few cartons of cigs, and a new computer. Teach 'em to 1337 young, my dad always said.
*Disclaimer: If you can't tell that I'm kidding, you really need to get a life. On a more serrious note, sonny (or missy, -go geek chix!) shouldn't need the most up to date machine to learn to be competant with computers, or increace their other skills. I agree, however, that they should be kept up to date with what they will be using in school, as they will be more familiar with it. BTW, a similar junkpile cast-off is working really swell as a router/email/www/ftp server for me right now. Handing a kid a 1Ghz plus computer for playing typing tutor, or whatever the hell kids use nowadays is serrious overkill, IMO.
Hrmmm....24" *drewl*
Too bad that it probably sterilizes it's users, and either allows one to get bulk energy discounts from the California Energy Commission, or makes Govner' Gray Davis beg you to use it only on colder days...
I think its a neat idea, but heck - USB was supposed to reduce the rats nest around my PC too and hasn't so far - I'm still waiting for
monitors with USB ports that your keyboard and mouse connect to - I knwo they exist, but its not widely done (nor are keyboards and
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When I was shopping for monitors recently, I found the converse to be true, most monitors at consumer level do have USB. Only when you look at the more professional variety of monitors (presumably for artists, CAD types) does the USB support lack.
I agree on the keyboard issue, Iv'e not seen many USB only keyboards outside of the Apple realm, but many keyboards do have a built in USB hub (a la Microsoft ergo line), but still interface over the standard PS/2 interface. On mice, however, there are many many mice that have USB support, with great variety; I'm particullarly fond of my Logitech Optical mouse.
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No, both of those shows seem to be well within my time; alas I did not have a television. I haven't even heard of these sitcoms, prior to your mentioning them.
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Looks like it's time to hunt for some DIVXs of them. Har har.
In no particular order:
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Animaniacs, Pinky & The Brain, The Tick (cartoon version), Seinfeld.
'Nuff said
Wow. That casio sounds very cool, and way ahead of it's time.
My favorite watch, for the wow factor of it, was my dad's old watch (can't seem to find the name of it). It was an aviator's chronograph, with a calculator interfaced to the rotating bezel (which had 100 ticks in it).
There were 3 buttons on the right side of it that put the watch into a different mode (add, multiply, divide, one to clear the memory also, IIRC). To do a calculation, you moved the bezel to the initial value, and hit one of the buttons, then moved to the next value, and hit another button to get the answer.
The cool thing was--to subtract, you added negative values, same analogue for the other operations. Since there were 100 ticks per rotation, with a bit of practice you could do calculations without even looking at the watch.
It was a strange watch, because most chronographs only rotate one direction, but it was damn cool.
Hey, wouldn't ya know, but apple already co-invented your vibrator idea in the Harmon/Kardon SoundSticks
Hehe.
Boy, tell me about it. The 2 10k RPM drives in my O2 really drive me nuts.
When I'm doing a DB query it sounds like it's cookin' popcorn.
I think its' time to build a noise reducing cabinet for my louder systems (or move my databases onto a computer in another room).
Yeah, thanks for the input! I did have to change the way I work, and my symptoms have largely gone away.
Sometimes my wrists still get a little inflamed, but it's usually from working on a laptop, or school computers, or just plain not getting away from the computer as often as I really should. I think that some of my symptoms may have been due to excessive archery practice, and I've kinda' slowed down on that. (Doing my best to be in the Athens Summer Olympics eh!).
In the past I've scoffed at people who whine excessively(or so I thought) about RSI. It sure wasn't funny when I felt the pain. I just think that it's important that others do what they can to avoid it completely, it's no fun to be in pain whilst you do something you love!
I have to agree that fast and accurate typing is essential to people who actually use computers.
But I'll have to argue that having the next generation keyboarding from the age of 4 is a bad thing. As a young programmer-to-be, and a computer user who has been using computers and the internet for longer than nearly all of my peers, I'm starting to experience carpal-tunnel, or RSI (Repeated Stress Injury).
If you have the kids in an ergonomically sound environment, maybe the chanes of injury are lessened. Still, over their lifetimes, if they don't get the excercise and pay attention to their bodies (as so many hackers don't [what we call engineer ass]), the children of the future are going to be unhealthy as adults.
What the hell does this have to do with SNMP? I mean.. Really.
Yeah, that's all great for you Debian users. Point is, there's many hundreds of thousands of devices on the internet (not just Desktop machines running linux, ya know?) that use SNMP.
It's a really great and useful protocol, but if you have any intelligence at all, you firewall off all SNMP enabled devices from anyone you don't trust anyway.
Either way, it's going to take a bit of work to patch all the machines using SNMP.
Alright, this liberal/conservative issue just bewildered the hell out me.
I'll have to admit that I'm a US citizen, and here liberals, as defenition, tend towards a socialized state. Conservatives tend to dislike government interference and regulation (although they are more than happy to implement all the interference and regulation to forward their cause).
What I digest from your and other posters comments, is that Australian liberals are quite conservative.
However, I just realized that this perfectally parallels the Australian "Down Under" way of mind. In Australia, South is North, and instead of being on the bottom of the world, they are on the top. The toilet water flushes the opposite way. They have the Platypus, the mammal that has a bill! They call Fosters "Beer". I could probably go on forever!
As I see it, everything else is backwards down there, so the government may as well be also.
(just kidding to all the Aussies in the crowd, hope you can take a little prodding in the ribs)
Sorry for the terrible formatting. Eh.
I should think that any PC motherboard with a 64bit/66Mhz PCI bus could handle that task quite handily. The feature of SGIs and Suns that they may have been referring to is the backplane, or the main memory bus. PCs are just now catching up to technology that has been used in SGIs and Suns for a bvery long time. Also, the SCSI controllers on both manufacture's computers are usually provided by a mainstream company (Adaptec comes to mind, especially for SGI equipment). And those devices typically interface over a regular 'ol PCI bus. Sun is an excpetion, as some of their equipment uses a PCI bus that isn't quite PCI. IIRC, they further overclock the bus/pump more bits thru it to make it faster than standard; also requiring special drivers from your OEM. So, if you could find a PC server motherboard with a few 64bit/66Mhz PCI slots, and PCI-SCSI controllers to do the job, it becomes more of an issue of working the software. As another poster noted, there are many great CD duplicator towers around, that can hook up to a computer or network, or operate stand-alone. If I needed a quick and cheap (time wise) solution, I'd go for that. If I needed to make alot of cds, I might look into making a custom burning machine with a robotic loader (who really wants to flip CDs all the time?). But it would have to be more economical than letting another company handle it.
IIRC, the crusaders didn't really even want to be there.
It was yet another case of Catholic power struggles. The nobility and curch always had power battles at this time, and the Crusades were an attempt to silence the nobility.
The pope, and his goons, basically told the nobility that if they would not go fight for the holy land, they would be ex-communicated. So, all the nobility sailed off to go fight (some took the land route too). Of course, to some of them, the crusades were a great opportunity to expand their wealth and territory.
I'd have to say that to the great many of nobles that went to fight were not there for god. There are a few examples of those who were, however, such as Fredrich Barbarosa. But, even in his case (being the so-called Holy Roman Emperor [of the Germanic tribes]), it was more of an ego-booster than anything else. He wasn't even invited, but had to go so not to loose face.
Face it, the only people who cared about god back then were either poor (and thus naieve, and that almost certianly meant you could not read--especially the Bible, which was next to impossible for even a noble to obtain), or were the type of extremist zealots that we see today (meaning that they were probably mentally ill or something).
But, I wholly agree with your point. It's far too easy for most people to do something wrong, then either shrug it off, or buy forgiveness from the local spiritual dealer.
As an aside, I think that alot of the things muslim people do, or have done, is as much a public phallic fencing match as the christians, or anyone else. They feel they have to defend the good word of Mohammed (or even worse, prove themselves superrior), just like the people who bomb abortion centers convince themselves that killing a doctor justifies saving another fetus; when in reality it dosen't. They all ultimately hurt their cause, however noble and moral it really is.
I say let Allah, God, Jehovah, or whoever the hell runs this joint sort 'em out in the end.
/end mindless blabbering
I'm not sure, but if it ever does get to that point, wee's in bIg troble.
Well, except that you can release drivers (that need to interact with the kernel) as kernel modules [in binary form]. Nvidia, and lots of other companies have drivers in the form of binary kernel modules.
There is just no such problem, imho.
One thing that I have not seen any thought towards here in slashdot on this topic: radio astronomy. Radio astronomers (or most of them) already strongly dislike Earthbound radio signals. I'm not a Radio Astronomer, but in concept, this technology seems that it would be quite devastating to their efforts if it were too overpowered.
Just an observation from a non-too-keen-on-radio-stuff geekoid.
All windows lameness aside, I just picked up one of the new Apple iBooks, which has an ATI chipset in it. I have to say that it works quite wonderfully in MacOS 9/X, and under linux. The drivers behind the display may be some kind of cludge, but from the speed at which my desktop is accelerated, I cannot attest to that point. I'll admit that 3D dosen't work nicely on it, but nor did I expect it too; it has only 8MB of ram, and it's a portable chipset. 2D on the other hand is quite nice, and speedy. YMMV, of course.
Agreed, the ammount of suckage this move exhibits is unmeasureable. Someone at AMD must be more dense than your average black hole, bucause this sucks really really bad.
*Noises of planet sized vacuum cleaner* (Use the schwartz!)
Maybe my letter was a "Letter to the Editor", however, in this particular news paper, the Editorials coloumn seldom reflects the "official position" of the newspaper, as the articles come from non-newspaper employed people. I don't feel particularly intrestered in arguing semantics, as (I believe, anyway) you (and hopefully most of the rest of the /. audience) understood what I was saying. If I could, I'd rather express my opinion in much less ambigious language, and maybe for once people would'nt always glare at me with glassy eyes and slacked jaws. Unfortunately, English is what passes for communication around here; therefore I do as the Romans do.
:)
Thanks for the correction anyway.
For what it's worth, I wrote editorials to both of the local newspapers here when all this was first going down. Iv'e yet to see either story anywhere. Of course, I wasn't really expecting to have them published; half the editorials posted in both papers are innane ramblings by elderly women who got woke up bu a burgler (dog, racoon, cat , insert favorite animal here) and are demanding more police protection -- or something equally lame... This case really does need to get more conventional media attention before anyone will acknowledge it. I suspect that even then the premise of the case will still be over the heads of the laymen in the U.S.... Oh well. Maybe if someone can explain it in the media spotlight, people will be informed that their rights are subject to the whims of large corporations. *shrug*
If you want to embrace his curiosity so much, give him a 396, a slackware disc, a dark room, lots of books on the good old fun stuff (asm, C, etc.), and some strong coffe. When hee's old enough (say 5 or 6?) get him his own beer fridge, and a few cartons of cigs, and a new computer. Teach 'em to 1337 young, my dad always said.
*Disclaimer: If you can't tell that I'm kidding, you really need to get a life. On a more serrious note, sonny (or missy, -go geek chix!) shouldn't need the most up to date machine to learn to be competant with computers, or increace their other skills. I agree, however, that they should be kept up to date with what they will be using in school, as they will be more familiar with it. BTW, a similar junkpile cast-off is working really swell as a router/email/www/ftp server for me right now. Handing a kid a 1Ghz plus computer for playing typing tutor, or whatever the hell kids use nowadays is serrious overkill, IMO.
Hrmmm....24" *drewl*
Too bad that it probably sterilizes it's users, and either allows one to get bulk energy discounts from the California Energy Commission, or makes Govner' Gray Davis beg you to use it only on colder days...
I think its a neat idea, but heck - USB was supposed to reduce the rats nest around my PC too and hasn't so far - I'm still waiting for monitors with USB ports that your keyboard and mouse connect to - I knwo they exist, but its not widely done (nor are keyboards and mice over USB)
When I was shopping for monitors recently, I found the converse to be true, most monitors at consumer level do have USB. Only when you look at the more professional variety of monitors (presumably for artists, CAD types) does the USB support lack.
I agree on the keyboard issue, Iv'e not seen many USB only keyboards outside of the Apple realm, but many keyboards do have a built in USB hub (a la Microsoft ergo line), but still interface over the standard PS/2 interface. On mice, however, there are many many mice that have USB support, with great variety; I'm particullarly fond of my Logitech Optical mouse.
Because they stand to benefit more form the persecution of freedom lovers, than to have those freedoms themselves.
That's an amazing 64% more square feet than I already have.
That sould of been 46%, but it's still quite a signifigant ammount!