I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining. If you will note, BSD actually got the easy-install win in my 1:00 am install fest.:) Debian wouldn't boot on the thing.
Eventually, I will read the docs, and get everything set up real purty, but I didn't care to take the time to do things right at that particular moment. Hell, I jury rigged the chassis switch so I could use a hard drive without the proper drive bracket, with the skins off!:)
It was a new toy, and I intended o play with it directly, after all.
I didn't have another system handy at that moment to get any docs, and I wasn't familiar with BSD. I'm sure if I had a handy web browser, it would have been trivial to use google and figure out how to install lynx... But, I'm sure you see my dilemma. I'm sure I'll install some form of BSD on it again before I am through with the box, I just won't start at 1:00 am, without any docs handy the next time I do it...:)
Oddly enough, I actually did my first FreeBSD install early this morning. I just got an AlphaServer yesterday, so I figured I'd try something new. While the basic OS setup went fine, it just rebooted itself when I tried to get into X. Dunno why.:( And, aparently, lynx isn't part of the base install, so I just gave up, and tried to install debian. For some reason the debian installer is fine, but I get a kernel panic when I reboot after the initial install. I guess BSD wins on ease of installation on my Alpha, but not by much.
Of course, I've owned the alpha for less than 24 hours, so I assume it is something of my inexperience that makes it not work right...
Indeed, I am unsure just what myths they are trying to dispell. IT is geeky. IT usually means you will have to work late to rebuild a server, or trackdown a network problem, cutting into being social with anything other than your favorite router. IT is only exciting if you think that 100 users screaming at you when the Intarweb is broken is "exciting." As for limitations? Well, if you spend all your time worrying about being geeky, how much time you will have for socialising, and how exciting your job should be, then you will probably not enjoy great deals of advancement.
I'm all for helping young people realise that being geeky isn't a bad thing, especially foxy young ladies. IT could use more foxes. I say that because I'm lonely, and at my current pace, I'll still be lonely by the time these ninth graders are out of school, and in the work force.
I think the greater value than "dispelling myths" would be in teaching young women to proudly declare themselves geeks and hackers. Even if they wind of as fashion geeks, or makeup hackers, teaching them to feel good about being a member of the literati in whatever field they choose can never be a bad thing.
Wow, that would have been creepy if they kept the original idea for delenn, and went through with the romance plot. IMHO, the original makeup for delenn was more interesting, and alien than what they used in the series. I would have loved it if they managed to go straight from the original movie, into production, and keep more of the original feel.
Also, the getting rid of the commander at the end of the first season wasn't planned. And, as far as I know, Delenn and Sheridan hooking up wasn't planned at first. (Delenn was originally supposed to be voiced by a man, after all...)
So, a lot of people insist that it had a complete 5 year story arc that was set in stone from the beginning, but they changed it around a lot as production progressed. I don't dislike the show, but I think the people who rave about the perfection of the story arc are over stating how impressive it really was.
Yup, pretty much. But, some of us do more than play games. Also, as multiprocessing hardware becomes more common, game makers will begin to take advantage of the benefits. For me personally, when I want to use my box for general-purpose stuff, and it is running the mythtv backand and transcoding some files into MPEG4, and I am rendering a 3D animation, and so on... Well, having SMP sure isn't a bad thing!
You can buy some DVD players that allow you to skip the 'unskippable' ads, so I guess at least some manufacturers responded appropriately to their customer's outrage.
MAME doesn't have the same level of widespread use as Xerox Machine, or Kleenex in the general population. But, a much greater percentage of the population blows their noses than use arcade emulators.
If we restrict the thought to only the group of people who would use any sort of arcade emulator, then yes, pretty much all of them are well aware of the name. What's more, nobody uses it in a general way. I've never heard anybody refer to SNES9x as "a type of MAME" or anything like that. I have only ever heard it used to refer specifically to the one and only MAME. Thus, I would suppose MAME has a quide readily defensible trademark, and ought to be able to sue the nostrils off anybody who tries to misappropriate their mark.
Oh, no! Much safer just to dump the output, headers and all, to/dev/null, rather than reading it. You wouldn't want to risk being infected with a viral meme, after all!
This PSA brought to you by the 1984 society, because we have always been at war with Iraq^h^h^h^hEastasia.
I am right there with you. I'm sorry, but there just aren't any websites that are so important to me that I feel the need to beg for bullshit by turning on a bunch of pointless features.
The very concept of a pop-up blocker is stunning to anybody who has been using the web since before Javascript became common. (To say nothing of the folks who have been using the Internet since before it had websites on it!) I can think of very few features that were so bad that users begged for ways to prevent the feature from being used... And said feature wasn't removed from the product!
Can you imagine if car makers started including bombs in all their cars, and you had to get or make a special explosion-blocker? You'd think that it would occur to the manufacturer to just not install the bomb, rather than working on the ultimate explosion blocker!
I'm using more exclamations points than is my habit, but only because I find the situation so excrutiatingly baffling. If, in IE6, MS had simply not bothered to include the code to open new windows automatically, the world would be a better place, and few people would have felt the need to switch to better browsers. Any sane web designer has come to realise that their user's hate popups. Further, any sane web designer has to deal with the fact that their 'legitimate' popups are likely to be blocked. Thus, any sane web developer should just stop using popups as part of the actual site, so all popups can be assumed ads, and we can just abandon the feature entirely.
To quote Mr. Jeff Foxworthy's guide to UI design... When you have features that make front page news when they get used, because your users hate those features so vehemently, you might be a bloat-peddler.
Mod him up! Except for the silly thing about custom players. Give me standard MPEG-4. You have no more certainty people will skip the commercials than you had with people muting, or leaving the room for water/pee during the standard broadcast.
And, the distribution costs are so negligible with a bit torrent type system! Think about what it costs to run a full broadcast system, versus hosting a torrent.
Weep silently? I added the first steps of primitive network play into the RTS I've been working on. The one good thing about Valentine's weekend is that I can always plan on getting work done, because I know I won't be bothered by other people. It's *great!*
Oh, hell, I just realised you are serious. Sure, I can just *not watch* the show, but then I realised... I'll keep hearing about it on slashdot, I'll keep hearing people bring it up in conversation. I'll see ads for the new series during BattleStar Galactica! Think of the children!
Okay, I'm selling my car, and moving into the park. I will pay everything I have to keep Enterprise going! As long as nobody watches Enterprise, I'll hear about it fairly seldom, and I won't have to deal with whatever comes next!
Honestly, it seems like OS-X is specifically engineered to sell high end hardware. Things like it's impossible to have square-edged windows, or turn off drop shadows, mean that I would need a much higher end piece of hardware to effectively do 3D and such, because so many system resources are going to UI.
This is why I only trust a very few people with the knowledge that I like the way Klingon sounds when mixed with German. If I let that secret get out, people might realise that my passphraze is actually (english translation - I won't tell which parts are german and which are Klingon!) "Give me two beers and a photon torpedo, because this is a good day to die, and eat sausages"
Something like pixar's prman could theoretically do quite well on a system like this. During shading, the renderer breaks all the geometry into tiny fragments, and runs a shader program on each fragment. Basically, the cell should be able to work on 8 fragments simultaneously. Memory access can be reasonably small, as you would only need to fetch a few pixels from your texture maps, and the actual code for the shader, and so the bandwidth limitations probably wouldn't kill you... Could make a fun fun platform for rendering.
Like a lot of Apps on Mac OS X, it wants RAM. I've only got 256 MB on my iBook, and Safari seems downright pokey. OTOH, I've seen it on systems with a gig of RAM, and it seemed pretty snappy. I swear, if I have a lot of tabs open, with my "little" amount of RAM, it can take over a minute to switch tabs while the hard drive grinds away. Firefox on my windows box may be slower for the first tab, but it sure seems to degrade more gracefully, using much less RAM with each additional tab, so once I get to 30 or more open tabs, the difference is dramatic.
Yeah, the cops got angry with me when I mounted my 19" CRT in my windshield. They just didn't see how watching StarGate, reading slashdot, and watching MP3 visualisations along side my digital speedometer utility was a good thing...
Yeah. She started doing Molly Shannon impressions, but she still didn't talk to me at work. Oh, you mean WINE, not wine? sorry, I have a Mac, can't test it for you.
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I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining. If you will note, BSD actually got the easy-install win in my 1:00 am install fest. :) Debian wouldn't boot on the thing.
:)
Eventually, I will read the docs, and get everything set up real purty, but I didn't care to take the time to do things right at that particular moment. Hell, I jury rigged the chassis switch so I could use a hard drive without the proper drive bracket, with the skins off!
It was a new toy, and I intended o play with it directly, after all.
I didn't have another system handy at that moment to get any docs, and I wasn't familiar with BSD. I'm sure if I had a handy web browser, it would have been trivial to use google and figure out how to install lynx... But, I'm sure you see my dilemma. I'm sure I'll install some form of BSD on it again before I am through with the box, I just won't start at 1:00 am, without any docs handy the next time I do it... :)
Oddly enough, I actually did my first FreeBSD install early this morning. I just got an AlphaServer yesterday, so I figured I'd try something new. While the basic OS setup went fine, it just rebooted itself when I tried to get into X. Dunno why. :( And, aparently, lynx isn't part of the base install, so I just gave up, and tried to install debian. For some reason the debian installer is fine, but I get a kernel panic when I reboot after the initial install. I guess BSD wins on ease of installation on my Alpha, but not by much.
Of course, I've owned the alpha for less than 24 hours, so I assume it is something of my inexperience that makes it not work right...
Indeed, I am unsure just what myths they are trying to dispell. IT is geeky. IT usually means you will have to work late to rebuild a server, or trackdown a network problem, cutting into being social with anything other than your favorite router. IT is only exciting if you think that 100 users screaming at you when the Intarweb is broken is "exciting." As for limitations? Well, if you spend all your time worrying about being geeky, how much time you will have for socialising, and how exciting your job should be, then you will probably not enjoy great deals of advancement.
I'm all for helping young people realise that being geeky isn't a bad thing, especially foxy young ladies. IT could use more foxes. I say that because I'm lonely, and at my current pace, I'll still be lonely by the time these ninth graders are out of school, and in the work force.
I think the greater value than "dispelling myths" would be in teaching young women to proudly declare themselves geeks and hackers. Even if they wind of as fashion geeks, or makeup hackers, teaching them to feel good about being a member of the literati in whatever field they choose can never be a bad thing.
Wow, that would have been creepy if they kept the original idea for delenn, and went through with the romance plot. IMHO, the original makeup for delenn was more interesting, and alien than what they used in the series. I would have loved it if they managed to go straight from the original movie, into production, and keep more of the original feel.
Also, the getting rid of the commander at the end of the first season wasn't planned. And, as far as I know, Delenn and Sheridan hooking up wasn't planned at first. (Delenn was originally supposed to be voiced by a man, after all...)
So, a lot of people insist that it had a complete 5 year story arc that was set in stone from the beginning, but they changed it around a lot as production progressed. I don't dislike the show, but I think the people who rave about the perfection of the story arc are over stating how impressive it really was.
Yup, pretty much. But, some of us do more than play games. Also, as multiprocessing hardware becomes more common, game makers will begin to take advantage of the benefits. For me personally, when I want to use my box for general-purpose stuff, and it is running the mythtv backand and transcoding some files into MPEG4, and I am rendering a 3D animation, and so on... Well, having SMP sure isn't a bad thing!
Those qualify as Talking Head programs under the GP's schema. They just don't have as much footage of the head itself, as they do stock WWII footage.
I saw that movie. It was called, I Robot, and Will Smith was in it.
You can buy some DVD players that allow you to skip the 'unskippable' ads, so I guess at least some manufacturers responded appropriately to their customer's outrage.
MAME doesn't have the same level of widespread use as Xerox Machine, or Kleenex in the general population. But, a much greater percentage of the population blows their noses than use arcade emulators.
If we restrict the thought to only the group of people who would use any sort of arcade emulator, then yes, pretty much all of them are well aware of the name. What's more, nobody uses it in a general way. I've never heard anybody refer to SNES9x as "a type of MAME" or anything like that. I have only ever heard it used to refer specifically to the one and only MAME. Thus, I would suppose MAME has a quide readily defensible trademark, and ought to be able to sue the nostrils off anybody who tries to misappropriate their mark.
Oh, no! Much safer just to dump the output, headers and all, to /dev/null, rather than reading it. You wouldn't want to risk being infected with a viral meme, after all!
This PSA brought to you by the 1984 society, because we have always been at war with Iraq^h^h^h^hEastasia.
I am right there with you. I'm sorry, but there just aren't any websites that are so important to me that I feel the need to beg for bullshit by turning on a bunch of pointless features.
The very concept of a pop-up blocker is stunning to anybody who has been using the web since before Javascript became common. (To say nothing of the folks who have been using the Internet since before it had websites on it!) I can think of very few features that were so bad that users begged for ways to prevent the feature from being used... And said feature wasn't removed from the product!
Can you imagine if car makers started including bombs in all their cars, and you had to get or make a special explosion-blocker? You'd think that it would occur to the manufacturer to just not install the bomb, rather than working on the ultimate explosion blocker!
I'm using more exclamations points than is my habit, but only because I find the situation so excrutiatingly baffling. If, in IE6, MS had simply not bothered to include the code to open new windows automatically, the world would be a better place, and few people would have felt the need to switch to better browsers. Any sane web designer has come to realise that their user's hate popups. Further, any sane web designer has to deal with the fact that their 'legitimate' popups are likely to be blocked. Thus, any sane web developer should just stop using popups as part of the actual site, so all popups can be assumed ads, and we can just abandon the feature entirely.
To quote Mr. Jeff Foxworthy's guide to UI design... When you have features that make front page news when they get used, because your users hate those features so vehemently, you might be a bloat-peddler.
Only when he installs his own implants to use the robot arm.
you are liable to get quite a sloshdotting, if you want a bunch a virgins to come your way... Just post a URL!
Mod him up! Except for the silly thing about custom players. Give me standard MPEG-4. You have no more certainty people will skip the commercials than you had with people muting, or leaving the room for water/pee during the standard broadcast.
And, the distribution costs are so negligible with a bit torrent type system! Think about what it costs to run a full broadcast system, versus hosting a torrent.
Weep silently? I added the first steps of primitive network play into the RTS I've been working on. The one good thing about Valentine's weekend is that I can always plan on getting work done, because I know I won't be bothered by other people. It's *great!*
Oh, hell, I just realised you are serious. Sure, I can just *not watch* the show, but then I realised... I'll keep hearing about it on slashdot, I'll keep hearing people bring it up in conversation. I'll see ads for the new series during BattleStar Galactica! Think of the children!
Okay, I'm selling my car, and moving into the park. I will pay everything I have to keep Enterprise going! As long as nobody watches Enterprise, I'll hear about it fairly seldom, and I won't have to deal with whatever comes next!
No, for the people paying for the ad, it would be like losing their *only* friend. It isn't good.
Honestly, it seems like OS-X is specifically engineered to sell high end hardware. Things like it's impossible to have square-edged windows, or turn off drop shadows, mean that I would need a much higher end piece of hardware to effectively do 3D and such, because so many system resources are going to UI.
This is why I only trust a very few people with the knowledge that I like the way Klingon sounds when mixed with German. If I let that secret get out, people might realise that my passphraze is actually (english translation - I won't tell which parts are german and which are Klingon!) "Give me two beers and a photon torpedo, because this is a good day to die, and eat sausages"
Something like pixar's prman could theoretically do quite well on a system like this. During shading, the renderer breaks all the geometry into tiny fragments, and runs a shader program on each fragment. Basically, the cell should be able to work on 8 fragments simultaneously. Memory access can be reasonably small, as you would only need to fetch a few pixels from your texture maps, and the actual code for the shader, and so the bandwidth limitations probably wouldn't kill you... Could make a fun fun platform for rendering.
Like a lot of Apps on Mac OS X, it wants RAM. I've only got 256 MB on my iBook, and Safari seems downright pokey. OTOH, I've seen it on systems with a gig of RAM, and it seemed pretty snappy. I swear, if I have a lot of tabs open, with my "little" amount of RAM, it can take over a minute to switch tabs while the hard drive grinds away. Firefox on my windows box may be slower for the first tab, but it sure seems to degrade more gracefully, using much less RAM with each additional tab, so once I get to 30 or more open tabs, the difference is dramatic.
Yeah, the cops got angry with me when I mounted my 19" CRT in my windshield. They just didn't see how watching StarGate, reading slashdot, and watching MP3 visualisations along side my digital speedometer utility was a good thing...
Yeah. She started doing Molly Shannon impressions, but she still didn't talk to me at work. Oh, you mean WINE, not wine? sorry, I have a Mac, can't test it for you.