If you're planning on a 600 for you first bike, please take it easy! Plenty foke got splattered last year during the hot summer we had. Do advanced training, and leave the nutter stuff for the track - it's safer, and legal. Or alternatively, get a 400cc bike, and cane the tits off it everywhere you go. Top banana.
My mobo has onboard sound. I bought a cheepo sound card to replace it, for two reasons; 1), Quality was shite, and 2) System bells got routed through my rather loud speakers, so if the speakers were on and I then booted up, I got knocked off my chair by an almighty BEEP!. Quality issues may not have been apparent under Win*, but I was never in a position to try it. I've still got 4 PCI slots left, after NIC and 3D card, so WTF.
Probably 3D apps, seeing as it's got a Geforce FX in it. Compaq do a nice range of "mobile workstations" (i.e. the 80w) that look better than this one.
Because individuals have different preferences, some are always going to be doing stuff others find frivolous.
Of course, and I have no problem with this (or I wouldn't be writing comments on/. ). I just feel the balance has tipped too far towards frivolity, and too many people don't regard things in a proper perspective.
That's a very dispassionate response. Excepting circumstances of disability and the like, if you can afford to buy robots to clean your house, you can afford a spare bit of cash to help people in need. Tying this to the story author's opinion on the uselessness of some tech, what's more valuable; lives, which cannot be replaced, or automatic vacuum cleaners? Some tech is useful, and good; some is pointless, or at least, the application of it is flawed.
I don't mean to ramble, but I guess the crux of what I'm getting at, is why does humanity expend effort, great amounts of time and money, on comparitively frivolous gadgets, when there are plenty other things we could be trying to sort out? I know, that the answer comes done to $$$ - like the author says, this has to do with buying "more stuff to reduce the space in which we might contemplate our shame".
When is luxury not luxury? When it's available 24x7, at every mall and shopping centre, in every town, and every state. Then that's just plain decadence, endemic to an entire country. Technology is a tool like any other, creating wonderful things, but also some socially desructive, needless things, ususally produced at the expense of some Third World country. Look at the 5000 children dying each month of Malaria, and tell me you need an automatic hoover.
Sometimes I feel ashamed to be in the country I am.
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Most car drivers I see don't pay enough attention on the road as it is, and that's without the ability to plug in household applicances. Multi-car pileups because someone was checking their email or pr0n?
In the Marathon trilogy of games from Bungie, there were 3 completing A.I.s, with their own motivations, i.e. one wanted to save the spaceship "Marathon" from an enslaving alien race, while another was taking advantage of the situation to develop itself, and as the story progressed, to find a way of escaping the end of the universe, as mentioned in the article. It was one of the few uses of an A.I. in a computer game that seemed plausible to me.
I doubt that the entire world is now functioning digitally - in the poorer parts of the world, I'm sure that older analog, manual wind-on cameras still have great use - there's no battery to run down (of course the film can still degrade), for example. Perhpas the photographer doesn't have a computer to make use of digital photographs.
More to the point, keyboard bindings let me do most of my work anyway. Mouse is fine for graphical web browsing and games, but that's what it's mostly for.
I agree. More often than not, my head doesn't actually move that much when I'm looking at my screen, whereas my eyes are always looking at the currently focussed (sorry) window.
This is hardly news for the/. crowd. Isn't it supposed to be "News for Nerds"?. More interesting, IMHO, is the fact that Photoshop is out for MacOS X. I'll be interested in what effect this has on the uptake of the OS, and whether it might ever lead to Photoshop on *NIX.
You make it sound like the id folk deserve nothing for the engine they wrote - the mods wouldn't be possible without the engine, and as you say yourself, the mods wouldn't be half as good if the engine didn't let mod designers do so much. I'm willing to bet that there's more people that can (or are willing to) create mods than advanced 3D game engines...
You've almost got the right idea. IMHO you're better off using something like DocBook (SG|X)ML, then you can generate a variety of output formats from text sources.
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OpenGL is just an API, that card drivers can implement. It's the same idea as DirectX.
If you're planning on a 600 for you first bike, please take it easy! Plenty foke got splattered last year during the hot summer we had. Do advanced training, and leave the nutter stuff for the track - it's safer, and legal. Or alternatively, get a 400cc bike, and cane the tits off it everywhere you go. Top banana.
... the G-spot :)
Nope! ;)
What a fantastic article! That describes my workplace perfectly...
My mobo has onboard sound. I bought a cheepo sound card to replace it, for two reasons; 1), Quality was shite, and 2) System bells got routed through my rather loud speakers, so if the speakers were on and I then booted up, I got knocked off my chair by an almighty BEEP!. Quality issues may not have been apparent under Win*, but I was never in a position to try it. I've still got 4 PCI slots left, after NIC and 3D card, so WTF.
Probably 3D apps, seeing as it's got a Geforce FX in it. Compaq do a nice range of "mobile workstations" (i.e. the 80w) that look better than this one.
Because individuals have different preferences, some are always going to be doing stuff others find frivolous.
/. ). I just feel the balance has tipped too far towards frivolity, and too many people don't regard things in a proper perspective.
Of course, and I have no problem with this (or I wouldn't be writing comments on
Thanks for a good conversation,
That's a very dispassionate response. Excepting circumstances of disability and the like, if you can afford to buy robots to clean your house, you can afford a spare bit of cash to help people in need. Tying this to the story author's opinion on the uselessness of some tech, what's more valuable; lives, which cannot be replaced, or automatic vacuum cleaners? Some tech is useful, and good; some is pointless, or at least, the application of it is flawed.
I don't mean to ramble, but I guess the crux of what I'm getting at, is why does humanity expend effort, great amounts of time and money, on comparitively frivolous gadgets, when there are plenty other things we could be trying to sort out? I know, that the answer comes done to $$$ - like the author says, this has to do with buying "more stuff to reduce the space in which we might contemplate our shame".
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When is luxury not luxury? When it's available 24x7, at every mall and shopping centre, in every town, and every state. Then that's just plain decadence, endemic to an entire country. Technology is a tool like any other, creating wonderful things, but also some socially desructive, needless things, ususally produced at the expense of some Third World country. Look at the 5000 children dying each month of Malaria, and tell me you need an automatic hoover.
Sometimes I feel ashamed to be in the country I am.
Most car drivers I see don't pay enough attention on the road as it is, and that's without the ability to plug in household applicances. Multi-car pileups because someone was checking their email or pr0n?
There's also the Mailing Preference Service, which does the same for junk mail. I rate this very highly!
In the Marathon trilogy of games from Bungie, there were 3 completing A.I.s, with their own motivations, i.e. one wanted to save the spaceship "Marathon" from an enslaving alien race, while another was taking advantage of the situation to develop itself, and as the story progressed, to find a way of escaping the end of the universe, as mentioned in the article. It was one of the few uses of an A.I. in a computer game that seemed plausible to me.
No so, AMD Opteron now has premlinary support, which is a start. The story was on /. recently, wasn't it?
MP3s are not inherently illegal. I download classical music for which there are no copyright issures that I'm aware of.
I doubt that the entire world is now functioning digitally - in the poorer parts of the world, I'm sure that older analog, manual wind-on cameras still have great use - there's no battery to run down (of course the film can still degrade), for example. Perhpas the photographer doesn't have a computer to make use of digital photographs.
Include vlc as a great DVD / VCD player, and maybe MPlayer too.
I have a friend who experienced a lot of pain from using mice as his pointing device. He switched to a Logitech trackball, and it stopped.
More to the point, keyboard bindings let me do most of my work anyway. Mouse is fine for graphical web browsing and games, but that's what it's mostly for.
I agree. More often than not, my head doesn't actually move that much when I'm looking at my screen, whereas my eyes are always looking at the currently focussed (sorry) window.
This is hardly news for the /. crowd. Isn't it supposed to be "News for Nerds"?. More interesting, IMHO, is the fact that Photoshop is out for MacOS X. I'll be interested in what effect this has on the uptake of the OS, and whether it might ever lead to Photoshop on *NIX.
You make it sound like the id folk deserve nothing for the engine they wrote - the mods wouldn't be possible without the engine, and as you say yourself, the mods wouldn't be half as good if the engine didn't let mod designers do so much. I'm willing to bet that there's more people that can (or are willing to) create mods than advanced 3D game engines...
Think if Ford charged you every time you started your car. A lot of people would take the bus.
Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad thing; less pollution and use of resources. I wonder how that maps back to software and M$?
You've almost got the right idea. IMHO you're better off using something like DocBook (SG|X)ML, then you can generate a variety of output formats from text sources.
You can perhaps use
http://www.geocities.com/rozmanov/ntlm/
Unfortunately I can't get it to do DNS lookups through the proxy. Worth experimenting with though.