How fucking dense are you? Windows XP is a couple of interface changes on top of the Windows 2000 codebase which itself goes back to the Windows NT 3/4 codebase. The NT design paradigm is one where if you want to add features you just add system services. Want to do some funky.NET strategy? Just add a set of services to handle SOAP requests for DCOM objects. You don't just jam a Unix kernel onto some hardware and suddenly the system serves web pages, crunches d.net keys, and makes coffee.
As for the points you bring up, you can't possibly understand writing software meant to be sold. Bugs are a part of anything, do you think your mom's care rolled out of the factory absolutely bug free? Features do drive sales, sales provide a means for continued development and the feeding of one's family. Not everyone lives with mommy and daddy. Completely trashing old code is often times retarded, clean up dirty patches and whatnot but you don't scrap working code entirely. Writing ultra efficient software is often a waste of time since you're hammered by schedules. Today's screamer is a POS in 18 months, product life cycles are often only a little bit longer than that especially in business environments. People running Windows 95B on old 166 Pentiums are probably still using Office 95 or 97, they don't give a shit about new features. New features are the concern of people who really rely on new dodads and whistles. Customers know shit about development most of the time and you often times know what they are going to say. Read the fucking article man, he goes into why customer's suggestions mean shit.
Wait, why again is passport so bad? For as opposed to it as you are you don't give any clear reason why you are so opposed to it. Don't bother saying it lets websites track you, it's been done before.
Two words. Realtime. The 802 spec was not designed for realtime interaction between nodes. It also runs into problems when there's alot of nodes in a single "cloud". Humans don't like audio pauses longer than about a quarter of a second to unless you can figure out some packet routing technology other than GSM/GPRS than can get voices to my ear in under 250ms you've got a real problem. Bandwidth is NOT scalable when you're talking radio waves. A single band only has that much bandwidth, the more people on that band the less portion of that band they get thats where multiplexing comes in. The 802 project was just designed for wired networks, it would be complete shit if it were implimented as a realtime data carrying medium. Network applications can be patient waiting for data to arrive that they are expecting, the human ear however is a different story.
From reading through the posts on this you can get a sense for the age of most of the people posting. Somewhere between 14 and 17 who think they're 1337 for installing Linux (or probably just using Windows and bashing Microsoft). You can tell because their first computer experience wasn't with an Apple IIc they learned to write BASIC on. I also get a kick out of all the "Macs suck" posts. What is it exactly that is wrong with Macs?
Apple won Maine's bid fair and square and I think it will work out pretty well. The iBook is a sturdy little worker that can connect to just about anything you can think of. Not only is it pretty durable but it is really light and easily fits into a backpack or messenger bag. As for the software, there's little MacOS can't do that Windows can do, especially OS10. It will connect to just about any sort of network you want to connect to, shit you can base your whole backend on any Unix system you want and OS10 will talk to it with no problems. The iBooks need not Microsoft because AppleWorks 6.1 and up read and write Office documents and will suit any sort of educational purpose you use it for. If you've ever cared to look which I can tell few of you have, there is a literal ton of educational software available for MacOS. Nearly all computer interfaces are pretty much the same damn thing. Whether the GUI is called Explorer, Finder, or X doesn't mean crap. They all act pretty much the same way. You press buttons and things do different things on your monitor. Web browsers and e-mail clients work the same way, there's little real difference between Lynx and OmniWeb when you get down to it.
There are others who think giving laptops to kids won't help them learn anything. Have you seen Maine? It is a pretty damn rural place. I bet a good portion of the kids getting the iBooks would have never had gotten a computer at home. Giving kids the laptops is pretty cost effective if you sit and think about it. The demands of educational software aren't really changing a whole bunch past the "multimedia" phase. It has a moderate level of interactivity and a pretty small memory footprint. Thus it can be used a really long damn time. The 8th graders getting iBooks this year can probably still use them when they are seniors in high school. Besides longevity it isn't a particular OS you learn it is the computer concepts that are important. For an area not rife with computers in the home laptops for students makes alot of sense. Any assignment involving computers can be continued at home without much hassle. There's alot more to increasing teacher salaries than just diving up a lump of cash. Bitch to the unions about teacher's pay.
I've been doing simulation stuff too much and the "animation" package analogs are usually called preprocessors. It's all the same fucking thing anyway none of it related to programming. What I was saying is fre renderers and modelers don't mean much without an animation package. As far as I know there's no 3D animation programs under the GPL.
There's a bunch of GPL renderers out there if you care to look, mostly because renderers follow alot of the same mathematical concepts everyone in a 3D modeling class is supposed to know about. There's Aqsis and GMan both of which are compatible with the RenderMan specs. There is though a lack of preprocessors that have a good amount of features. Reason being you need pretty good 3D hardware acceleration to make a REALLY functional preprocessor. Modelers can be a dime a dozen because as with renderers they follow some basic rules. Preprocessors are where alot of companies make their money or spend alot of time developing. In the preprocessor you do stuff like sync 3D animation with flat video elements or just make your 3D models actually do something. This is where stuff like motion capture and the AI stuff in the article comes in.
Well I don't want my DSS picking up your fucking wireless networking signals. I also don't want some jackass installing a microwave relay over my fucking house. Radio spectrum is controlled because people on average are too fucking stupid to have it unregulated. Far too many things you don't even see rely on radio communication and if suddenly everybody could broadcast on any frequency they wanted alot of this stuff would fuck up. True the FCC can act like a bastard when it comes down to meting out bandwidth to groups, mostly because it is a government organization and thus VERY prone to political workings. If you want to complain use UWB:)
Infrared cameras can be found pretty cheap from most security type places. You can get a IR camera that displays heat as colour from RadioShack for 200$, it has about 330 lines of vertical resolution IIRC. Black and white IR cameras are usually about 50$ cheaper but it's cool because they usually have RCA outputs and USB or Cardbus video capture devices work pretty well on most laptops. If you'd like something cheaper pick up a copy of Electronic Sensor Circuits & Projects by Forrest Mims III. It's a pretty keen book with good diagrams and explainations of the concepts behind the projects.
I agree with you there, Crystalis was a weird game coming from SNK but it was alot of fun. I kept renting Crystalis but we ended up getting Faxanadu for some odd reason. I think they are comparable in genre but Crystalis was definitely a better game. I think Zelda holds the top spot for me because it was the first game I ever beat on my own. My uncle had to go finish a whole fricken section in Metroid!
Some people just don't fucking get it. The RIAA has proved over and over they are going after "piracy" merely for their own gain. They refuse to pay attention to the reports saying CD sales are up due to the increased exposure of their contracted artists. All of the people chatting away on Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL usually talk to one another because they share some likes and dislikes. Thus is Jonny Coolkid in Citytropolis gets Upandcomingband's New Album makes a copy and sends the best songs to all of his friends on AOL. They say "wow Jonny Coolkid that band rawks!" and soon afterwards look for a copy of that cd for their very own listening pleasure. Count the number of albums you've bought because somebody other than some jackass radio personality suggested it to you.
As for trading music files that just isn't going to stop. No amount of "copy protection" is going to do shit because every audio stream gets to a point where it can't be encrypted any longer. Besides that people won't buy shit if they know they can't make their own copies of it. Not only do I make MP3s of all the CDs I get but I make an exact copy of them as well. I haven't listened to popular radio in a couple years because I couldn't stand the shit they played on any of the stations. I go through alot of CDs because I drive alot. The passenger side of my car ends up littered with little shiny disks because I'm too cheap to buy a CD changer that I'd only get frustrated with anyways. Thus I make copies of everything so it isn't a big deal if a CD ends up with a giant gash on it because I just make another copy when I get home.
Dispite the INCREASED sales of RIAA produced CDs they need to do something about the driven that they fucking sell. Alot of the artists they sign suck and often times aren't very indicitive of the quality of music in a particular genre and then once the artist is done pouring shit into a microphone some jackass engineer gets ahold of it. In order to get the attention of radio listeners they fuck with the gain to make it louder. Not only does this make for louder airplay but it also hides the fact some dude can't sing or play guitar worth a shit. If I want my ass blown off I'll go to a Tenacious D concert thank you very much.
Many cable companies however DO own all of the hardware on their end of the line which makes @Home a liability at this point. The pipe the cable company connects to it also not usually owned by the ISP, most @Home affiliates were regional cable companies that wanted to provide cable internet service but didn't want to waste money building service provider infrastructure. @Home commoditized the internet aspect and most cable companies provide the pipes. Same sort of deal as DSL providers, the phone company provides the pipe and the ISP provides actual network access.
I've seen the TabletPC before and it is pretty interesting and comes close to my criteria. It is essencially a notebook PC with no default attached keyboard and most designs will probably lack a hard drive. They even claim it is the evolution of the laptop. However I the particular design of it makes it a little less than what I'd really like. The TabletPC spec aims to run WinXP software with no modification, I could jam Photoshop onto one and edit away. This means an x86 compatible processor (wow maybe someplace the Crusoe MIGHT actually work) and plenty of drive space. Flash memory is quickly becoming very cheap and could be speedier if it were embedded onto a main board rather than as an expansion module. Even so I don't want to have to pay for 512 megs of FlashROM in a TabPC. Also with WinXP TabPC edition, Microsoft hasn't yet learned that their GUI just doesn't fit in some screens. WinXP's Luna interface theme looks like shit on a 800x600 screen because everything is so crowded together. Likewise apps with lots of MDI spawns look like shit when you don't have alot of screen real estate. For my TabPC-ish Tab I'd like a more customized toolkit(s) optimized for the small screen. As well as the option of a less juice consuming processor, something like a PPC 750cx which gets fine performance with little power consumption. Shit a StrongARM or old MIPS core would work fine with a clock somewhere between 200 and 300MHz. That's just me being a bit picky though, the TabPC is really cool and that was a good suggestion.
Excite@Home is just a fucking ISP that affiliated with a bunch of local cable companies. The cable companies run the physical network and @Home provides DNS servers and e-mail. If Excite shuts down services tonight cable companies will be free to sign up to just about any other ISP they want since the cable modems and coax lines aren't going to magically disappear. Watch Eathlink and MSN pick up a shitload of contracts if Excite bites the dust. Poor service from an ISP is often times poor service from the people that run your local dial-up, LEC, or cable carrier.
What I REALLY want in a handheld device is something akin to the PADDs in ST. Ever since I first saw a Newton Messagepad I've been waiting for something that would really fit that sort of roll. Palm based devices are too fucking small for my hands and I can't exactly read the text at a glance. A handheld ought to be something you can store a bunch of notes on, control presentations from, and interface with other systems by. Here's what I would spend some dough on:
The size of a good notepad, 6"x9" with screen real estate being most of that area.
A screen with good contrast but not necessarily colour, preferably reflective with a switchable backlight.
An internal antenna set, a set of them maybe three in the housing each tuned for a different band
Multiple expension modules, specifically so I could have a AirPort/PCS/GSM/ect modules hooked to the antenna set (hence multiple band antennas) and I could also have other expansion modules in.
Serial port and bus connectors somewhere so I can plug it into just about anything and use it as a terminal or storage device or use something else as a storage device.
Really thin with a long battery life.
I also want to be able to remotely control the Enterprise with it too. Or at least play Nettrek on it.
Yay for the addition of filtering, it's on of the strengths of ISAPI is the ability to set up filters on either incoming or outgoing data. To some people this seems like crap but if you're scripting in an OO language it's cool to have a really simple filter than can objectify POST and/or GET requests. Or you can jam the output of stuff into an SSI and then nobody has to worry about funky shit inside HTML.
Sony and Nintendo both cater to different markets with only a little bit of overlap. There's probably a bunch of PS2 owners that just bought GCs because they want to play some of the games they know will be coming out for it. Unlike full fledged computer systems consumers can afford to buy more than one system, they're loyal more to the 3rd party game companies than they are to the actual console. The PS2 sold spectacularly because several million Gran Tourismo, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken Tag, and Resident Evil fans knew they would have something to play on the system. Same goes for Nintendo, several million Pokemon watching households will own one before the year is out because they're going to have something to play on the system. Consoles generate intense franchise loyalty thus franchises are where the real money is. I own a PSX, N64, GBA, and GC. I rent games alot of the time or buy them used so I don't end up shelling out 50$ for a game I don't like. I play FF8 and 9 on the PSX and my brother plays MGS and GT2. I bought the N64 for Zelda and Pokemon. When I can find a PS2 cheap on ebay with some games I'll pick one up so I can play MGS2, GT3, and FF10 and 11.
Microsoft hasn't been in the game long enough to understand their market. A console doesn't sell worth shit without games to play on it. In the console world the most important thing you've got are your licensees and the franchises they control. The Playstation's early hits were the games fresh out of the arcades from Capcom and Konami. There were a bunch of arcade games the Genesis and SNES couldn't come close to touching so there was demand for a more powerful system. Then it came into its own with games you couldn't get on any other system (FF7, MGS, GT1&2, Tekken, lots more) or games that really whomped the Saturn's ass. When they launched the PS2 everyone knew the money making franchises were going to have new games for the system so there was a huge demand for it. The fact it's sold 20 million units is testament to that. Sega unfortunately didn't have that sort of demand because they just didn't have the franchises everybody wanted. Nintendo is similar to Sony, they've got franchises that are nearly 20 years old. With the GC there's a be demand because they've got everything from Metroid to Pokemon and that is really selling the system. If the XBox survives long enough to develop its own franchises Nintendo and Sony will be releasing another generation of console. I really think dispite all of the cash Microsoft can infuse into the XBox it is going to go the way of the Jaguar. The Jaguar was a badass system but it was expensive and had no franchise support from anybody. It had really awesome specs but no games so it died a sad death as did Atari.
Uh, the question was about encrypted file systems which has little or NOTHING TO FUCKING DO WITH NEWBIW INSTALLATIONS OF THE FUCKING OS. In fact I'd go so far as to venture that wondering about encrypted file systems is something no newbie to any OS would ever wonder about. The original topic has nothing to do with fucking configuration apps. Not to mention the dude also suggest Solaris which is pretty easy to install on supported hardware and it has a mature encryption system. Geez man don't attack someone who dares question the omni power of Linux.
That's sort of a ridiculous premise considering for the price of a XBox or PS2 you can get a GameCube and DVD player as separate units. Matsushita (Panasonic) is going to release a DVD player with GameCube guts eventually (like Sega was going to let people do for a while). The GameCube has from the start been aimed specifically at games rather than trying to be a home theater component like the PS2. The GC also has something Microsoft doesn't even come close to having and that is franchise support. Nintendo itself has the huge money makers like Donkey Kong, Zelda, Mario, and Metroid. Just about anyone in their 20s buying a GC will remember their first console which was probably a NES and playing those games. Oh yeah and the big one, Pokemon. The next Pokemon game that comes out for the GBA will have a sister game on the GC which means mommy and daddy will end up buying little Jonny and little Susie GameBoys and GameCubes so they can play Pokemon on both. I'm waiting for a cool game I can connect my GBA to so I can do something else with it besides play Pokemon Crystal. Microsoft is going to get its ass spanked when it learns the accessory lesson. The GameCube comes with only the stuff you need to play games right now. They don't include shit for networking or anything of that kind in the box. They'll wait a little while until they can get their modems and NICs for 3$ a pop and sell them for 25$ and make a crazy profit. Microsoft won't sell more than a handful of their DVD adapter kits because it is less of a hassle just to have a dedicated DVD component. I think Sony and Nintendo will easily capture the market in 2002 because between the two of them they have just about every game in demand.
The GameCube only has 43 megs of RAM, not 64. The XBox is the one with 64 megs of RAM which is unified so the CPU and GPU share the same memory. The GameCube has 24 MB of low latency SRAM for the GPU plus 3 MB of embeded even lower latency memory on the chip itself. Main system memory tops off with 16 MB of higher latency RAM but it is used for actual game data. I think what Nintendo did right was stick with making a console system. Microsoft is shipping a miniature PC for 300$. Nintendo's got a box they can put together fairly cheap and it's something developers can have alot of flexibility with.
In the asteroid field avoid the fighters if at all possible. Have your wingmen take care of them and go after the shield generator things. Strafe right over the energy field and try to hit three consecutive generators with the ion canon. Be careful when strafing over the energy field because about by the time you waste two of the generators a Lamda class shuttle hops on your ass and starts shooting up your pipe. I pulled some fancy footwork and slid behind him and blasted him with my lasers until he pulled way up then i got the third generator and went on with the mission.
The Earth's got a bunch of sodium too but what used to be in the atmosphere ended up in rocks and the ocean for the most part. The outer gas giants have quite a bit of sodium in various forms (oxides, chlorides, and hydroxides) though percentage wise not having more than the Sun. Rich sodium lines in the atmosphere could mean massive nimbus like clouds full of sodium dioxide rain or some such. Looking at atmospheric components of the planet will lead to a much better understanding of that solar system's dynamics and maybe a bit of its history. If we can get a better idea of the chemical components of extra solar planets we can start looking for trends and maybe figure out where the best place to look for new planets and for that matter where to find terrestrial planets. It may also lead to a reassertion of our solar system. If every other solar system has more of some element in it than ours we might say "how odd" but then realize it is our solar system that is odd and maybe why we're living in it currently.
Venus dingbat. S o d i u m D i o x i d e. It was first detected by scientists way back when by watching it pass in front of the Sun and watching what light got absorbed. The Sun even has detectable amounts of sodium in itself.
that's called van Eck phreaking and has been around for a while now. With a sophisticated enough antenna array you can get basically a screen dump from someone's CRT monitor. With even better equipment and the right processing you can monitor closed circuit signals just by listening to the EMR they give off when current in run through them. Radioshack has the parts to build a toy that can tap a telephone line without splicing wire or having access to cables or trunks.
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How fucking dense are you? Windows XP is a couple of interface changes on top of the Windows 2000 codebase which itself goes back to the Windows NT 3/4 codebase. The NT design paradigm is one where if you want to add features you just add system services. Want to do some funky .NET strategy? Just add a set of services to handle SOAP requests for DCOM objects. You don't just jam a Unix kernel onto some hardware and suddenly the system serves web pages, crunches d.net keys, and makes coffee.
As for the points you bring up, you can't possibly understand writing software meant to be sold. Bugs are a part of anything, do you think your mom's care rolled out of the factory absolutely bug free? Features do drive sales, sales provide a means for continued development and the feeding of one's family. Not everyone lives with mommy and daddy. Completely trashing old code is often times retarded, clean up dirty patches and whatnot but you don't scrap working code entirely. Writing ultra efficient software is often a waste of time since you're hammered by schedules. Today's screamer is a POS in 18 months, product life cycles are often only a little bit longer than that especially in business environments. People running Windows 95B on old 166 Pentiums are probably still using Office 95 or 97, they don't give a shit about new features. New features are the concern of people who really rely on new dodads and whistles. Customers know shit about development most of the time and you often times know what they are going to say. Read the fucking article man, he goes into why customer's suggestions mean shit.
Wait, why again is passport so bad? For as opposed to it as you are you don't give any clear reason why you are so opposed to it. Don't bother saying it lets websites track you, it's been done before.
Two words. Realtime. The 802 spec was not designed for realtime interaction between nodes. It also runs into problems when there's alot of nodes in a single "cloud". Humans don't like audio pauses longer than about a quarter of a second to unless you can figure out some packet routing technology other than GSM/GPRS than can get voices to my ear in under 250ms you've got a real problem. Bandwidth is NOT scalable when you're talking radio waves. A single band only has that much bandwidth, the more people on that band the less portion of that band they get thats where multiplexing comes in. The 802 project was just designed for wired networks, it would be complete shit if it were implimented as a realtime data carrying medium. Network applications can be patient waiting for data to arrive that they are expecting, the human ear however is a different story.
From reading through the posts on this you can get a sense for the age of most of the people posting. Somewhere between 14 and 17 who think they're 1337 for installing Linux (or probably just using Windows and bashing Microsoft). You can tell because their first computer experience wasn't with an Apple IIc they learned to write BASIC on. I also get a kick out of all the "Macs suck" posts. What is it exactly that is wrong with Macs?
Apple won Maine's bid fair and square and I think it will work out pretty well. The iBook is a sturdy little worker that can connect to just about anything you can think of. Not only is it pretty durable but it is really light and easily fits into a backpack or messenger bag. As for the software, there's little MacOS can't do that Windows can do, especially OS10. It will connect to just about any sort of network you want to connect to, shit you can base your whole backend on any Unix system you want and OS10 will talk to it with no problems. The iBooks need not Microsoft because AppleWorks 6.1 and up read and write Office documents and will suit any sort of educational purpose you use it for. If you've ever cared to look which I can tell few of you have, there is a literal ton of educational software available for MacOS. Nearly all computer interfaces are pretty much the same damn thing. Whether the GUI is called Explorer, Finder, or X doesn't mean crap. They all act pretty much the same way. You press buttons and things do different things on your monitor. Web browsers and e-mail clients work the same way, there's little real difference between Lynx and OmniWeb when you get down to it.
There are others who think giving laptops to kids won't help them learn anything. Have you seen Maine? It is a pretty damn rural place. I bet a good portion of the kids getting the iBooks would have never had gotten a computer at home. Giving kids the laptops is pretty cost effective if you sit and think about it. The demands of educational software aren't really changing a whole bunch past the "multimedia" phase. It has a moderate level of interactivity and a pretty small memory footprint. Thus it can be used a really long damn time. The 8th graders getting iBooks this year can probably still use them when they are seniors in high school. Besides longevity it isn't a particular OS you learn it is the computer concepts that are important. For an area not rife with computers in the home laptops for students makes alot of sense. Any assignment involving computers can be continued at home without much hassle. There's alot more to increasing teacher salaries than just diving up a lump of cash. Bitch to the unions about teacher's pay.
I've been doing simulation stuff too much and the "animation" package analogs are usually called preprocessors. It's all the same fucking thing anyway none of it related to programming. What I was saying is fre renderers and modelers don't mean much without an animation package. As far as I know there's no 3D animation programs under the GPL.
There's a bunch of GPL renderers out there if you care to look, mostly because renderers follow alot of the same mathematical concepts everyone in a 3D modeling class is supposed to know about. There's Aqsis and GMan both of which are compatible with the RenderMan specs. There is though a lack of preprocessors that have a good amount of features. Reason being you need pretty good 3D hardware acceleration to make a REALLY functional preprocessor. Modelers can be a dime a dozen because as with renderers they follow some basic rules. Preprocessors are where alot of companies make their money or spend alot of time developing. In the preprocessor you do stuff like sync 3D animation with flat video elements or just make your 3D models actually do something. This is where stuff like motion capture and the AI stuff in the article comes in.
Well I don't want my DSS picking up your fucking wireless networking signals. I also don't want some jackass installing a microwave relay over my fucking house. Radio spectrum is controlled because people on average are too fucking stupid to have it unregulated. Far too many things you don't even see rely on radio communication and if suddenly everybody could broadcast on any frequency they wanted alot of this stuff would fuck up. True the FCC can act like a bastard when it comes down to meting out bandwidth to groups, mostly because it is a government organization and thus VERY prone to political workings. If you want to complain use UWB :)
Infrared cameras can be found pretty cheap from most security type places. You can get a IR camera that displays heat as colour from RadioShack for 200$, it has about 330 lines of vertical resolution IIRC. Black and white IR cameras are usually about 50$ cheaper but it's cool because they usually have RCA outputs and USB or Cardbus video capture devices work pretty well on most laptops. If you'd like something cheaper pick up a copy of Electronic Sensor Circuits & Projects by Forrest Mims III. It's a pretty keen book with good diagrams and explainations of the concepts behind the projects.
I agree with you there, Crystalis was a weird game coming from SNK but it was alot of fun. I kept renting Crystalis but we ended up getting Faxanadu for some odd reason. I think they are comparable in genre but Crystalis was definitely a better game. I think Zelda holds the top spot for me because it was the first game I ever beat on my own. My uncle had to go finish a whole fricken section in Metroid!
Some people just don't fucking get it. The RIAA has proved over and over they are going after "piracy" merely for their own gain. They refuse to pay attention to the reports saying CD sales are up due to the increased exposure of their contracted artists. All of the people chatting away on Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL usually talk to one another because they share some likes and dislikes. Thus is Jonny Coolkid in Citytropolis gets Upandcomingband's New Album makes a copy and sends the best songs to all of his friends on AOL. They say "wow Jonny Coolkid that band rawks!" and soon afterwards look for a copy of that cd for their very own listening pleasure. Count the number of albums you've bought because somebody other than some jackass radio personality suggested it to you.
As for trading music files that just isn't going to stop. No amount of "copy protection" is going to do shit because every audio stream gets to a point where it can't be encrypted any longer. Besides that people won't buy shit if they know they can't make their own copies of it. Not only do I make MP3s of all the CDs I get but I make an exact copy of them as well. I haven't listened to popular radio in a couple years because I couldn't stand the shit they played on any of the stations. I go through alot of CDs because I drive alot. The passenger side of my car ends up littered with little shiny disks because I'm too cheap to buy a CD changer that I'd only get frustrated with anyways. Thus I make copies of everything so it isn't a big deal if a CD ends up with a giant gash on it because I just make another copy when I get home.
Dispite the INCREASED sales of RIAA produced CDs they need to do something about the driven that they fucking sell. Alot of the artists they sign suck and often times aren't very indicitive of the quality of music in a particular genre and then once the artist is done pouring shit into a microphone some jackass engineer gets ahold of it. In order to get the attention of radio listeners they fuck with the gain to make it louder. Not only does this make for louder airplay but it also hides the fact some dude can't sing or play guitar worth a shit. If I want my ass blown off I'll go to a Tenacious D concert thank you very much.
Many cable companies however DO own all of the hardware on their end of the line which makes @Home a liability at this point. The pipe the cable company connects to it also not usually owned by the ISP, most @Home affiliates were regional cable companies that wanted to provide cable internet service but didn't want to waste money building service provider infrastructure. @Home commoditized the internet aspect and most cable companies provide the pipes. Same sort of deal as DSL providers, the phone company provides the pipe and the ISP provides actual network access.
I've seen the TabletPC before and it is pretty interesting and comes close to my criteria. It is essencially a notebook PC with no default attached keyboard and most designs will probably lack a hard drive. They even claim it is the evolution of the laptop. However I the particular design of it makes it a little less than what I'd really like. The TabletPC spec aims to run WinXP software with no modification, I could jam Photoshop onto one and edit away. This means an x86 compatible processor (wow maybe someplace the Crusoe MIGHT actually work) and plenty of drive space. Flash memory is quickly becoming very cheap and could be speedier if it were embedded onto a main board rather than as an expansion module. Even so I don't want to have to pay for 512 megs of FlashROM in a TabPC. Also with WinXP TabPC edition, Microsoft hasn't yet learned that their GUI just doesn't fit in some screens. WinXP's Luna interface theme looks like shit on a 800x600 screen because everything is so crowded together. Likewise apps with lots of MDI spawns look like shit when you don't have alot of screen real estate. For my TabPC-ish Tab I'd like a more customized toolkit(s) optimized for the small screen. As well as the option of a less juice consuming processor, something like a PPC 750cx which gets fine performance with little power consumption. Shit a StrongARM or old MIPS core would work fine with a clock somewhere between 200 and 300MHz. That's just me being a bit picky though, the TabPC is really cool and that was a good suggestion.
Excite@Home is just a fucking ISP that affiliated with a bunch of local cable companies. The cable companies run the physical network and @Home provides DNS servers and e-mail. If Excite shuts down services tonight cable companies will be free to sign up to just about any other ISP they want since the cable modems and coax lines aren't going to magically disappear. Watch Eathlink and MSN pick up a shitload of contracts if Excite bites the dust. Poor service from an ISP is often times poor service from the people that run your local dial-up, LEC, or cable carrier.
I also want to be able to remotely control the Enterprise with it too. Or at least play Nettrek on it.
Yay for the addition of filtering, it's on of the strengths of ISAPI is the ability to set up filters on either incoming or outgoing data. To some people this seems like crap but if you're scripting in an OO language it's cool to have a really simple filter than can objectify POST and/or GET requests. Or you can jam the output of stuff into an SSI and then nobody has to worry about funky shit inside HTML.
Sony and Nintendo both cater to different markets with only a little bit of overlap. There's probably a bunch of PS2 owners that just bought GCs because they want to play some of the games they know will be coming out for it. Unlike full fledged computer systems consumers can afford to buy more than one system, they're loyal more to the 3rd party game companies than they are to the actual console. The PS2 sold spectacularly because several million Gran Tourismo, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken Tag, and Resident Evil fans knew they would have something to play on the system. Same goes for Nintendo, several million Pokemon watching households will own one before the year is out because they're going to have something to play on the system. Consoles generate intense franchise loyalty thus franchises are where the real money is. I own a PSX, N64, GBA, and GC. I rent games alot of the time or buy them used so I don't end up shelling out 50$ for a game I don't like. I play FF8 and 9 on the PSX and my brother plays MGS and GT2. I bought the N64 for Zelda and Pokemon. When I can find a PS2 cheap on ebay with some games I'll pick one up so I can play MGS2, GT3, and FF10 and 11.
That's worldwide and a viable number. Japan sold a bunch and so did the US and oddly enough even EU sales were pretty high over the past year.
Microsoft hasn't been in the game long enough to understand their market. A console doesn't sell worth shit without games to play on it. In the console world the most important thing you've got are your licensees and the franchises they control. The Playstation's early hits were the games fresh out of the arcades from Capcom and Konami. There were a bunch of arcade games the Genesis and SNES couldn't come close to touching so there was demand for a more powerful system. Then it came into its own with games you couldn't get on any other system (FF7, MGS, GT1&2, Tekken, lots more) or games that really whomped the Saturn's ass. When they launched the PS2 everyone knew the money making franchises were going to have new games for the system so there was a huge demand for it. The fact it's sold 20 million units is testament to that. Sega unfortunately didn't have that sort of demand because they just didn't have the franchises everybody wanted. Nintendo is similar to Sony, they've got franchises that are nearly 20 years old. With the GC there's a be demand because they've got everything from Metroid to Pokemon and that is really selling the system. If the XBox survives long enough to develop its own franchises Nintendo and Sony will be releasing another generation of console. I really think dispite all of the cash Microsoft can infuse into the XBox it is going to go the way of the Jaguar. The Jaguar was a badass system but it was expensive and had no franchise support from anybody. It had really awesome specs but no games so it died a sad death as did Atari.
Uh, the question was about encrypted file systems which has little or NOTHING TO FUCKING DO WITH NEWBIW INSTALLATIONS OF THE FUCKING OS. In fact I'd go so far as to venture that wondering about encrypted file systems is something no newbie to any OS would ever wonder about. The original topic has nothing to do with fucking configuration apps. Not to mention the dude also suggest Solaris which is pretty easy to install on supported hardware and it has a mature encryption system. Geez man don't attack someone who dares question the omni power of Linux.
That's sort of a ridiculous premise considering for the price of a XBox or PS2 you can get a GameCube and DVD player as separate units. Matsushita (Panasonic) is going to release a DVD player with GameCube guts eventually (like Sega was going to let people do for a while). The GameCube has from the start been aimed specifically at games rather than trying to be a home theater component like the PS2. The GC also has something Microsoft doesn't even come close to having and that is franchise support. Nintendo itself has the huge money makers like Donkey Kong, Zelda, Mario, and Metroid. Just about anyone in their 20s buying a GC will remember their first console which was probably a NES and playing those games. Oh yeah and the big one, Pokemon. The next Pokemon game that comes out for the GBA will have a sister game on the GC which means mommy and daddy will end up buying little Jonny and little Susie GameBoys and GameCubes so they can play Pokemon on both. I'm waiting for a cool game I can connect my GBA to so I can do something else with it besides play Pokemon Crystal. Microsoft is going to get its ass spanked when it learns the accessory lesson. The GameCube comes with only the stuff you need to play games right now. They don't include shit for networking or anything of that kind in the box. They'll wait a little while until they can get their modems and NICs for 3$ a pop and sell them for 25$ and make a crazy profit. Microsoft won't sell more than a handful of their DVD adapter kits because it is less of a hassle just to have a dedicated DVD component. I think Sony and Nintendo will easily capture the market in 2002 because between the two of them they have just about every game in demand.
The GameCube only has 43 megs of RAM, not 64. The XBox is the one with 64 megs of RAM which is unified so the CPU and GPU share the same memory. The GameCube has 24 MB of low latency SRAM for the GPU plus 3 MB of embeded even lower latency memory on the chip itself. Main system memory tops off with 16 MB of higher latency RAM but it is used for actual game data. I think what Nintendo did right was stick with making a console system. Microsoft is shipping a miniature PC for 300$. Nintendo's got a box they can put together fairly cheap and it's something developers can have alot of flexibility with.
In the asteroid field avoid the fighters if at all possible. Have your wingmen take care of them and go after the shield generator things. Strafe right over the energy field and try to hit three consecutive generators with the ion canon. Be careful when strafing over the energy field because about by the time you waste two of the generators a Lamda class shuttle hops on your ass and starts shooting up your pipe. I pulled some fancy footwork and slid behind him and blasted him with my lasers until he pulled way up then i got the third generator and went on with the mission.
The Earth's got a bunch of sodium too but what used to be in the atmosphere ended up in rocks and the ocean for the most part. The outer gas giants have quite a bit of sodium in various forms (oxides, chlorides, and hydroxides) though percentage wise not having more than the Sun. Rich sodium lines in the atmosphere could mean massive nimbus like clouds full of sodium dioxide rain or some such. Looking at atmospheric components of the planet will lead to a much better understanding of that solar system's dynamics and maybe a bit of its history. If we can get a better idea of the chemical components of extra solar planets we can start looking for trends and maybe figure out where the best place to look for new planets and for that matter where to find terrestrial planets. It may also lead to a reassertion of our solar system. If every other solar system has more of some element in it than ours we might say "how odd" but then realize it is our solar system that is odd and maybe why we're living in it currently.
Venus dingbat. S o d i u m D i o x i d e. It was first detected by scientists way back when by watching it pass in front of the Sun and watching what light got absorbed. The Sun even has detectable amounts of sodium in itself.
that's called van Eck phreaking and has been around for a while now. With a sophisticated enough antenna array you can get basically a screen dump from someone's CRT monitor. With even better equipment and the right processing you can monitor closed circuit signals just by listening to the EMR they give off when current in run through them. Radioshack has the parts to build a toy that can tap a telephone line without splicing wire or having access to cables or trunks.