Wow! First of all there are no comments listed! Of course by the time I type this, they'll be 30 but oh well;)
I don't quite know what to say except that's one hell of a changelog. My only question is where are the comments telling you what changed in each patch?
My other comment is it seems like emacs is getting closer and closer to being a do-all (not a bad thing if you ask me.) Has anyone ever tried to make emacs into a full fledged OS? Seems to me right now all you need is the Linux kernel and a copy of emacs and you're all set for most anything.
It true that the MiniDisc never became too big (although it still has a major following), but I think that the DataPlay discs will succede for a few reasons.
The first (and as I see it the biggest) reason why the MD never got too big was that it couldn't be used for data (for the most part). A drive was releast but was extreemly expensive and you had to use data MDs, which you couldn't swap for music MDs. Basically, there were two formats which caused problems. The DataPlay discs are all identicle. You can take a data disc and the erase it and use it to record audio, or vice versa.
The second major problem with MDs was their audio quality. Yes, they did sound great, but even an untrained ear could tell the diference between a CD and a MD. The reason is that MDs don't hold much data (under 300MB I think), so to hold a full CD, the data is compressed. The compression is not nearly as good as the raw audio. As I understand it the dataplay discs can hold a full CD uncompressed (~500mb), or you could use WMA, OggVorbis, or MP3 so you could hold more.
The last major problem as I see it is that MDs didn't have much use; in that they didn't have a good niche. They're best attempt was as "recordable CDs", but that wasn't perfect. Now with DataPlay discs, they would make IDEAL media for cell phones, gameboy type things (hello hand-held FF-VII), and of course MP3 players. They'd work great in laptops too.
There were other small problems too. First of all they were quite expensive. You have never been able to get much music on them (mostly things produced under Sony only), and they players were (and still are) expensive as hell. I think that the DataPlay discs would make excelent CDs. Not only because they could hold as much as a CD and sound just as good, but because they are MUCH smaller and more convient.
So, all I'm saying is good luck DataPlay. They seem to have a good product that could be the next CD/Floppy/Coaster for Shot Glasses/etc.
Note: I like MDs, but I can't wait to try DataPlay discs.
I think that one of the things holding Linux back is games. Yes there are some good games, but none of the phenominalo games (such as HL/CS/TFC/etc) are availible, or they come out a year plus later than the Windows version, so most people will have already played it if they're going to. Sure you can buy WineX, but then you have to hope you can set it up correctly. But to bundle that with a great distro like Mandrake (my favorite non-debian distro) is ingenious. To include The Sims is also smart. Good going guys, I look forward to the reviews. Maybe this will help Linux become more mainstream, IMHO. I mean, what's a desktop OS without Counter-Strike? Nothing! He he he.
OK, this sounds good but I think that there is one problem: with my luck my chip would be defective. And then I wouldn't be able to return it because it had a "genetic defect" and I'm not allowed to "discriminate" on that basis. Of course, with organic chips the term "virus" will take on a whole new meaning.
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Well, I'm not quite sure what to say. The idea of the keyboard is a good idea for PSO, but I think that it would be very unweildly to use to move around in the game if you have to do that much (I haven't played the game because I'm too cheap to buy it, I only rent. It's not rentable because the serial number of the game is tied to the serial number of the DreamCast, but I digress). I know that it's the name of the company that probably made it (since they're an old controller company), but it seems a little funny to put "ASCII" on the top of a keyboard.
On a slightly different note, I think that if (read: when) someone hacks the gamecube to run Linux/BSD/etc. and X, this would be a great keyboard/mouse combo.
Here are my thoughts on how you can get bandwidth:
1. Can you get T1 lines? They'll work just fine.
2. Is there some kind of government grant or something that you can sign up for to pay for something more expensive? Or is that how you got the money in the first place?
3. I assume you're too far out for DSL, correct?
4. What about pooling 2 or 3 cable modems?
5. The CPP (Carrier Pigeon Protocall) can work well, plus teach the student's responsibility (that means make them take care of the pigeons for you). Of course your bandwidth will grow every year this way. But you won't have any during very cold months.
This should go great with my inflateable couch, pillows, and girl:)
All I need now is an inflateable stero and some inflateable CDs. Seriously though, how cool is this? And wouldn't it be awesome to inflate/deflate them while their ON? Bet that would sound awesome.
Six hours of battery life? My current linux watch only gets 2! Of course it also weights 6 pounds, has MS office on the Windows partition, can play Counter-Strike, and is called a "Laptop" in all the supplied literature but still...
Seriously though, I think this would be awesome if they could get the battery life up. If it was ~24 hours that'd be fine, I could recharge it every nite. But 6 is just inconveinent. Unless of course that 6 hours of DOING things, it can act as nothing more than a watch for maybe 48 hours straight. That'd be good.
IDEA: Maybe we could get GPS built in and use that as an Etch-A-Sketch! I'd look weird walking around staring at my watch to see if I'd made a good smiley face yet though;)
Wow! Now I can carry a floppy with me and over 15 planets! OK, so floppy's are passe, but who needs to carry a CD with 7200 planets on it? This seems impossible but I guess since it's nothing but fractals who's equations take up a couple of dozen bytes each, it does make sense. Oh well. Now on to a realistic part of my message:
<SARCASM><RANT> They can put a dozen planets on a disk but they can't figure out cold fusion! What's the world comming to?</RANT></SARCASM>
...now he's looking for a few of the million stories in the naked net.
It was a cold, bianary day on the naked net. At least I think the 'net was naked, all the URLs I visit seem to be that way, even the White House. Just pics of girls so hot they'd melt the GLH* off of Ron Popiel. But of course there were also lots of pics of girls so ugly I'd swear my monitor whinced. Pics of guys looking like girls, girls looking like guys; it was obvious to me that the naked net was a dangerous and confusing place to be...
To Be Continued...
*GLH = Great Looking Hair - "Hair in a can" kind of thing
There is only one problem with this. I type with my thumb on my cell phone. That way I can hold it in my hand and type with my thumb, useing only one had. To do this you would have to hold the phone in one hand and type with the other, there by makeing it less convenient. Maybe you could do something like four buttons on the side of the phone and the combination you press them in let's you do different things. Like a cording keyboard.
I agree that the themesong needs changing. I like the instrumentals that have been in every other series. I also questioned that soft-porn and think that the "armor plating going off line" was a little odd. But all in all I thought that it was great. I like Scott Bakula (I know that's spelled wrong, I'm terrible with that kind of thing). For me the series really captured that child-like wonderment of space travel. I liked the little "flashbacks" and I hope they do more of those and explain a little more back story. The only other think that I disliked was when the captain got shot the sound he made was a flat, emotionless "oooo", almost like a monotone. That really stood out as not fitting in (odd sentence, huh?). All and all, I hope the series has a good long run.
Good for Maxis for canning a "bad" game instead of releasing it like so many companies do. I think that the problem here is that they might have aimed just a little too high. Maybe in a few years, eh Maxis?
Yes, 72% of uninformed Americans think that. I, as a technophile and geek, think that this is a terrible idea. Do the people in this poll know what they are talking about? Are they informed to the issues? I got the feeling that this was like asking dentists about the latest developments in nuclear regulation. While they may have an opinion, and some may know alot about nuclear regulation, they are mostly dentitsts and don't know much about the subject.
I realize that what I'm saying here is going to be somewhat controversial, but it's my never-to-be-humble-opinion.
This is great! In what other country than america do you have the law forceing public instiutions to provide perverts and underaged children with objectionable/illegal images!
This has got to be a first! We've been/.ing sites for a long time but now we've/.ed a bathroom! I'm glad I don't live in that dorm, as we all know it can take upto a day or two for a/.ing to wear off.;)
Seriously though. This is like many other things on the internet: kind of cool, kind of weird, and completely pointless. We've seen wired coffee makers, Coke machines, and now this. Cool! Where can I find plans to wire my mousepad to figure out which part my mouse is over most of the time? Or how to wire my fridge so people on the other side of the planet can find out the average fat content or my frozen meatloaf?
What more can they do? Intel has huge marketing and for every mom and pop that wants a PC and is trying to decide which number do you think will impress them more? The one that says "2,000,000,000" or the one that says "1,500,000,000"? Intel could make an 8008 run a 2ghz and I sware to god morons would buy it over anything else on the market. Let's face it guys, people who really "get" computers are becomming the minority FAST.
Now I don't object to AMD doing this, I think that it's a great move on their part to "keep up" with intel. The only problem is that they don't have the real number ANYWHERE. It should be in the BIOS, etc. The only thing that I'm worried about is lawsuits like the one mentioned as possible in the article (bob buys "Athalon 1600" PC, finds out it runs at 1400, and sues) will get common fast by people who think that they are being ripped off when instead it's just the opposite. The performance is just as good if not better than a 1.6ghz P4 and at what, half the cost (don't quote me on this, let's not start a flame war on how I don't feel like checking pricewatch right now).
I not only know how to type, I can type quite fast! That means that she is not disabled, I am! I disereve the dissability pay! I should get the press coverage and the book deal and the movie of the week! "The Terror of Typeing up a Tempest", sounds like an award winner to me!
Or maybe it's reverse discrimination! I know how to type so people will give me jobs! Maybe I should fight for my constitutional right to NOT GET JOBS BECAUSE I DISERVE THEM.
I am really getting sick of this country. (*sigh*)
Isn't a disablility something that can't be fixed? By that I mean that someone who is disabled and can't walk is stuck like that. They can't just decided one day to learn to walk. But that is exactly what this lady is claiming. If this lawsuit went thruogh then I would have sued because I don't know how to do brain surgery and therefor diserve disability. This is just another moronic lazy person trying to get off easy. Learning to type isn't that bad. Besides, what is she typeing? Would her boss really care if she used dictation software? What about hand writing recignition software? If I was a boss I wouldn't care how she did it as long as it met two conditons:
They did the job, and did it with reasonable/acceptable speed
Any extra hardware/software they need to perform this task, they pay for.
Now obviously if she didn't have hands, that would be something different, but from reading the article the impression that I got was that she was perfectly fine physically.
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I don't quite know what to say except that's one hell of a changelog. My only question is where are the comments telling you what changed in each patch?
My other comment is it seems like emacs is getting closer and closer to being a do-all (not a bad thing if you ask me.) Has anyone ever tried to make emacs into a full fledged OS? Seems to me right now all you need is the Linux kernel and a copy of emacs and you're all set for most anything.
The first (and as I see it the biggest) reason why the MD never got too big was that it couldn't be used for data (for the most part). A drive was releast but was extreemly expensive and you had to use data MDs, which you couldn't swap for music MDs. Basically, there were two formats which caused problems. The DataPlay discs are all identicle. You can take a data disc and the erase it and use it to record audio, or vice versa.
The second major problem with MDs was their audio quality. Yes, they did sound great, but even an untrained ear could tell the diference between a CD and a MD. The reason is that MDs don't hold much data (under 300MB I think), so to hold a full CD, the data is compressed. The compression is not nearly as good as the raw audio. As I understand it the dataplay discs can hold a full CD uncompressed (~500mb), or you could use WMA, OggVorbis, or MP3 so you could hold more.
The last major problem as I see it is that MDs didn't have much use; in that they didn't have a good niche. They're best attempt was as "recordable CDs", but that wasn't perfect. Now with DataPlay discs, they would make IDEAL media for cell phones, gameboy type things (hello hand-held FF-VII), and of course MP3 players. They'd work great in laptops too.
There were other small problems too. First of all they were quite expensive. You have never been able to get much music on them (mostly things produced under Sony only), and they players were (and still are) expensive as hell. I think that the DataPlay discs would make excelent CDs. Not only because they could hold as much as a CD and sound just as good, but because they are MUCH smaller and more convient.
So, all I'm saying is good luck DataPlay. They seem to have a good product that could be the next CD/Floppy/Coaster for Shot Glasses/etc.
Note: I like MDs, but I can't wait to try DataPlay discs.
I think that one of the things holding Linux back is games. Yes there are some good games, but none of the phenominalo games (such as HL/CS/TFC/etc) are availible, or they come out a year plus later than the Windows version, so most people will have already played it if they're going to. Sure you can buy WineX, but then you have to hope you can set it up correctly. But to bundle that with a great distro like Mandrake (my favorite non-debian distro) is ingenious. To include The Sims is also smart. Good going guys, I look forward to the reviews. Maybe this will help Linux become more mainstream, IMHO. I mean, what's a desktop OS without Counter-Strike? Nothing! He he he.
OK, this sounds good but I think that there is one problem: with my luck my chip would be defective. And then I wouldn't be able to return it because it had a "genetic defect" and I'm not allowed to "discriminate" on that basis. Of course, with organic chips the term "virus" will take on a whole new meaning.
On a slightly different note, I think that if (read: when) someone hacks the gamecube to run Linux/BSD/etc. and X, this would be a great keyboard/mouse combo.
Here are my thoughts on how you can get bandwidth:
1. Can you get T1 lines? They'll work just fine.
2. Is there some kind of government grant or something that you can sign up for to pay for something more expensive? Or is that how you got the money in the first place?
3. I assume you're too far out for DSL, correct?
4. What about pooling 2 or 3 cable modems?
5. The CPP (Carrier Pigeon Protocall) can work well, plus teach the student's responsibility (that means make them take care of the pigeons for you). Of course your bandwidth will grow every year this way. But you won't have any during very cold months.
All I need now is an inflateable stero and some inflateable CDs. Seriously though, how cool is this? And wouldn't it be awesome to inflate/deflate them while their ON? Bet that would sound awesome.
Seriously though, I think this would be awesome if they could get the battery life up. If it was ~24 hours that'd be fine, I could recharge it every nite. But 6 is just inconveinent. Unless of course that 6 hours of DOING things, it can act as nothing more than a watch for maybe 48 hours straight. That'd be good.
IDEA: Maybe we could get GPS built in and use that as an Etch-A-Sketch! I'd look weird walking around staring at my watch to see if I'd made a good smiley face yet though ;)
Wow! Now I can carry a floppy with me and over 15 planets! OK, so floppy's are passe, but who needs to carry a CD with 7200 planets on it? This seems impossible but I guess since it's nothing but fractals who's equations take up a couple of dozen bytes each, it does make sense. Oh well. Now on to a realistic part of my message:
<SARCASM><RANT> They can put a dozen planets on a disk but they can't figure out cold fusion! What's the world comming to?</RANT></SARCASM>
It was a cold, bianary day on the naked net. At least I think the 'net was naked, all the URLs I visit seem to be that way, even the White House. Just pics of girls so hot they'd melt the GLH* off of Ron Popiel. But of course there were also lots of pics of girls so ugly I'd swear my monitor whinced. Pics of guys looking like girls, girls looking like guys; it was obvious to me that the naked net was a dangerous and confusing place to be...
To Be Continued...
*GLH = Great Looking Hair - "Hair in a can" kind of thing
There is only one problem with this. I type with my thumb on my cell phone. That way I can hold it in my hand and type with my thumb, useing only one had. To do this you would have to hold the phone in one hand and type with the other, there by makeing it less convenient. Maybe you could do something like four buttons on the side of the phone and the combination you press them in let's you do different things. Like a cording keyboard.
Don't fuel cells give off water? What do they plan to do with that?
I agree that the themesong needs changing. I like the instrumentals that have been in every other series. I also questioned that soft-porn and think that the "armor plating going off line" was a little odd. But all in all I thought that it was great. I like Scott Bakula (I know that's spelled wrong, I'm terrible with that kind of thing). For me the series really captured that child-like wonderment of space travel. I liked the little "flashbacks" and I hope they do more of those and explain a little more back story. The only other think that I disliked was when the captain got shot the sound he made was a flat, emotionless "oooo", almost like a monotone. That really stood out as not fitting in (odd sentence, huh?). All and all, I hope the series has a good long run.
Good for Maxis for canning a "bad" game instead of releasing it like so many companies do. I think that the problem here is that they might have aimed just a little too high. Maybe in a few years, eh Maxis?
I realize that what I'm saying here is going to be somewhat controversial, but it's my never-to-be-humble-opinion.
With the number of developers on linux, it amazes me that this wasn't caught.
If you'll excuse me, I have to pack for Canada.
Seriously though. This is like many other things on the internet: kind of cool, kind of weird, and completely pointless. We've seen wired coffee makers, Coke machines, and now this. Cool! Where can I find plans to wire my mousepad to figure out which part my mouse is over most of the time? Or how to wire my fridge so people on the other side of the planet can find out the average fat content or my frozen meatloaf?
Now I don't object to AMD doing this, I think that it's a great move on their part to "keep up" with intel. The only problem is that they don't have the real number ANYWHERE. It should be in the BIOS, etc. The only thing that I'm worried about is lawsuits like the one mentioned as possible in the article (bob buys "Athalon 1600" PC, finds out it runs at 1400, and sues) will get common fast by people who think that they are being ripped off when instead it's just the opposite. The performance is just as good if not better than a 1.6ghz P4 and at what, half the cost (don't quote me on this, let's not start a flame war on how I don't feel like checking pricewatch right now).
Praise the Lord!
Now while I think that this is the best looking cartoon-rendered game I know of, but still, this is NOT a good idea.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
Now if only I was an expirianced case modder...
Or maybe it's reverse discrimination! I know how to type so people will give me jobs! Maybe I should fight for my constitutional right to NOT GET JOBS BECAUSE I DISERVE THEM.
I am really getting sick of this country. (*sigh*)
Now obviously if she didn't have hands, that would be something different, but from reading the article the impression that I got was that she was perfectly fine physically.