Having traveled through Europe a bit I can tell you that the easiest way to get access is to stay at a major hotel and use their business centers or use an internet cafe.
Barring that you might want to just go for the adapters and modem (The adapters is not that big of a deal, just a small bag very light). I used a PSION gold card which has country switching and a GSM option. worked well in Germany, France and England.
You can always feed it anamorphic widescreen DVDs and get a picture better than anything a standard TV can produce. Plus DSS systems are starting to broadcast HD signals for select channels now. Go for it.
You can get the Toshiba TW40X81 for about $2500. The OTA tuner will be about $1k. About 2x the cost of an equivalent standard TV setup, not the $6k they are claiming in the article.
Gates would never win, have you seen those cheesy commercials that MS is running with him telling everybody how great they are? Horrible public speaker, that fake plastic smile at the end just turns my stomach.
Forget all that, just implement MPEG 4, it is amazing, no sense in reinventing the wheel.
For some idea at how good MPEG 4 is you need to install the DivX codec on a windows machine and sample some of the movie trailers that are out their, they look WAY better than QT w/ sorenson.
Maybe it is just me, but it doesn't work, the host page does not pass a host to the php script, so it defaults to 192.168.100.100, obviously a bogus host. You can add a host to the search by inserting a host=& into the search URL, so you get something like this:
Maybe it is just me, but I thought that American Beauty was NOT about life in Suburbia. It is about the life of a bunch of people who happen to live in the suburbs (they honestly could have lived in the city, same story would have worked with a couple of small tweaks, like change the occupation of the wife).
More than that it is about how everybody goes through life oblivious to the magic and beauty that is in front of our eyes every day. That is what the whole end monologue by Spacey is about. That is what that kid who films everything is in there for, to show everyone what they are ignoring.
I never had a problem with pieces getting stuck together. I figured out that you can stick one of the tall block pieces onto the stuck together pieces and then sort of use it as a handle to pry the pieces apart. No biting required. Works reasonably well, occasionally it would take several attempts as you loosen the stuck pieces.
I have a bunch of the old space lego, used to make big space ships and have battles, I would throw one against the wall to simulate a spectacular crash, pieces would go flying everywhere, it was fun!
I have used Win2k a bit. There are two things which are good:
Active Directory is pretty handy. Not as good as NDS, but it is useful, however you need to upgrade all your system to Win2k to take full advantage of it, along with all your apps.
Actual DirectX support is VERY beneficial to developers who have had to develop on win9x to get decent DX support.
This sort of story has been flitting through the press for years. A slightly new spin though, at least they are starting to get a little inventive.:) It is not going to happen. You cannot telnet to navigation.uss-cybersub.mil and take control of a nuclear sub. These systems are not connected to public networks. I am not particularly knowledgeable about what they use, but my guess is HEAVILY encrypted satelite transmission. So you basically need to hi-jack a satelite, break the governments encryption, hope they aren't using some obscure ass language:), fake some command orders, and hope that the commander of the unit is generally clueless and doesn't ask the superiors why they are suddenly attacking Canada. Not exactly something a script-kiddie is going to be able to do.
They need to break up the certs into different certification levels ala Cisco. The top level should require actually setting up a network with several systems. I the current test only format is stupid. There is a reason that CCIE's command HUGE salaries and respect, the test is freaking hard.
Arggh, I had a nice long comment all typed out and Mozilla crashed. Oh well, try again. I have windows and Linux RealPlayer on machined next to each other so we can compare the two.
The installer (and later on, RealPlayer) seems to want to bind itself to every file extension the developers could think of at the moment of release.
Yeah, see, there is this option during the install to NOT associate itself with all the file types. Same with Linux, you can choose not to install it in your mime.types.
Then, it loads a memory-hogging piece of itself to load every time you start the OS, which newbies don't know how to get rid of (or probably don't even notice).
OK, there is this option in the preferences menu to turn this off. don't know what a preferences menu is? Well, try looking around the applications menues, you should be able to find it. Still don't know, well try looking in the "Common Questions" section of the help menu, it is listed there how to turn it off. Still don't know? OK, pick up your computer and throw it out the window, you are truly too stupid to own a computer. Linux doesn't have this.
It attempts to bombard you with ads.
Hmmm...uhh...??? What ads? I just looked around at a few different realmedia streams from the Real.com site, no ads. Been using RealPlayer for several years, no ads. Are you talking about that useless content panel? Uhh, well I turn that off, it is useless after all. Don't know how to turn it off? See above.
To download the free version on the Realmedia site, you have to go through a maze of pages asking you to pay for the player.
OK, lets go visit real.com and see if we can find the cheese at the end of the maze...OK, they have ads for their pay player at the top, not surprising, they are trying to make money after all. OK, lets scroll down a little, there is a Free Real player button we can click, OK, lets click that. Oh, those bastards, asking us to buy their player again, but wait, at the bottom there is a link "RealPlayer 7 Basic is our free player". Well lets click that. OK that is it, just have to fill out that stupid form every website makes you fill out now. Wow, had to go through 2 whole pages, that is a maze? I will give you that they shouldn't have the pay player at the top when you click the free player button.
After Realmedia claimed to have fixed the "bugs" in the last version, I have seen a comment that RealPlayer quietly installs the dreaded Comet Cursor with it.
Nope, they give you an option if you want to download the Comet Cursor. I chose not to, no Comet Curosr on my machine. Linux doesn't have this.
So pretty much the only really annoying thing the Linux version is missing is the "Favorites" menu. Haven't used it enough to comment on the quality of the playback, but it looks OK so far.
Uhh, 4-digit PIN is a requirement if you travel anywhere. It is the standard for much of the world.
But yeah, a lot of people are fooling themselves about this. I presonally don't even shop anywhere but online now anyway, except for large purchases. So much more convenient, don't have to waste any time in a store. I hate shopping.
Yes, wavetracing is nifty, but it is a serious CPU hit, and honestly it is not that much greater than 3D audio with EAX.
Maybe you do not trust Creative, but right now this is all we have, Aureal would be much worse frankly, they are going to release A3D for Linux, it is going to be closed, who wants that? Aureal is free to write their own OpenAL drivers for their soundcards, just as they are free to write their own EAX drivers (did they ever release these, they have been promising them for a year now).
Intel pretty much HAS to undercut AMD now, the only officially supported platform is the i820/i840 which is Rambus only. That is $800+ for 128 MB of RAM. That lower price Intel is charging for the processor vanishes very quickly when you put the system together.
An interesting note, if you look at this article at Tom'sHardware you will see that the best platform for the copermine is actually an old BX chipset overclocked to 133 MHz bus.
Again as the previous poster mentioned, go to www.gw2k.com, click there little "Introducing the Worlds First 1GHz PC" blurb at the bottom. Damn, only $3k, I wonder how much that HP system is going to be. I am guessing $4k at least with that insanely expensive RDRAM they are using.
Hey, even more amusing is the fact that if you install Office 2000 onto Windows 2000 which has file protection running, Windows 2000 will complain that the install has modified critical system files and prompt you to insert your Windows 2000 CD to fix the error. Pretty funny, seems that the OS and APP divisions don't see eye to eye here.:)
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Actually it will have ZERO potential for Win2k Datacenter. Microsoft is not developing Win2K for Alpha, and neither is Compaq.
Hmmm, tastes like google.
As far as I know every distro now ships with QT or gtk, so pick one and use it.
Actually as far as I know a minor cannot enter into a contract without their parents/guardians consent.
Hi,
Having traveled through Europe a bit I can tell you that the easiest way to get access is to stay at a major hotel and use their business centers or use an internet cafe.
Barring that you might want to just go for the adapters and modem (The adapters is not that big of a deal, just a small bag very light). I used a PSION gold card which has country switching and a GSM option. worked well in Germany, France and England.
You can always feed it anamorphic widescreen DVDs and get a picture better than anything a standard TV can produce. Plus DSS systems are starting to broadcast HD signals for select channels now. Go for it.
You can get the Toshiba TW40X81 for about $2500. The OTA tuner will be about $1k. About 2x the cost of an equivalent standard TV setup, not the $6k they are claiming in the article.
Yeah, and I suppoe Smith & Wesson is aiding and abetting your local armed robber?
And hey, Kodak is aiding and abetting your local kiddie pornographer?
And Jon Johansen is aiding and abetting all those evil DVD pirates?
Sure...let's not actually blame the criminal, it is not their fault they commited those crimes...
Gates would never win, have you seen those cheesy commercials that MS is running with him telling everybody how great they are? Horrible public speaker, that fake plastic smile at the end just turns my stomach.
You know you can rename any icon on your desktop, fix the spelling on NN.
Forget all that, just implement MPEG 4, it is amazing, no sense in reinventing the wheel.
For some idea at how good MPEG 4 is you need to install the DivX codec on a windows machine and sample some of the movie trailers that are out their, they look WAY better than QT w/ sorenson.
damn I goofed my post, their should be after host=. :)
Maybe it is just me, but it doesn't work, the host page does not pass a host to the php script, so it defaults to 192.168.100.100, obviously a bogus host. You can add a host to the search by inserting a host=& into the search URL, so you get something like this:
r ch.php?query=mp3&maxresults=10
http://capnbry.dyndns.org/gnutella/gnutella_sea
So you insert host=& after the php?
I don't know any gnutella hosts, so beats me if it works.
Or maybe I am pressing the submit button wrong?
Maybe it is just me, but I thought that American Beauty was NOT about life in Suburbia. It is about the life of a bunch of people who happen to live in the suburbs (they honestly could have lived in the city, same story would have worked with a couple of small tweaks, like change the occupation of the wife).
More than that it is about how everybody goes through life oblivious to the magic and beauty that is in front of our eyes every day. That is what the whole end monologue by Spacey is about. That is what that kid who films everything is in there for, to show everyone what they are ignoring.
But that is just my opinion...
Take the bear suit, add some actuators or hydraulics to move the limbs, throw on a weapon and your ready to kick some ass! :)
I never had a problem with pieces getting stuck together. I figured out that you can stick one of the tall block pieces onto the stuck together pieces and then sort of use it as a handle to pry the pieces apart. No biting required. Works reasonably well, occasionally it would take several attempts as you loosen the stuck pieces.
I have a bunch of the old space lego, used to make big space ships and have battles, I would throw one against the wall to simulate a spectacular crash, pieces would go flying everywhere, it was fun!
I have used Win2k a bit. There are two things which are good:
Active Directory is pretty handy. Not as good as NDS, but it is useful, however you need to upgrade all your system to Win2k to take full advantage of it, along with all your apps.
Actual DirectX support is VERY beneficial to developers who have had to develop on win9x to get decent DX support.
This sort of story has been flitting through the press for years. A slightly new spin though, at least they are starting to get a little inventive. :) It is not going to happen. You cannot telnet to navigation.uss-cybersub.mil and take control of a nuclear sub. These systems are not connected to public networks. I am not particularly knowledgeable about what they use, but my guess is HEAVILY encrypted satelite transmission. So you basically need to hi-jack a satelite, break the governments encryption, hope they aren't using some obscure ass language :), fake some command orders, and hope that the commander of the unit is generally clueless and doesn't ask the superiors why they are suddenly attacking Canada. Not exactly something a script-kiddie is going to be able to do.
They need to break up the certs into different certification levels ala Cisco. The top level should require actually setting up a network with several systems. I the current test only format is stupid. There is a reason that CCIE's command HUGE salaries and respect, the test is freaking hard.
Arggh, I had a nice long comment all typed out and Mozilla crashed. Oh well, try again.
I have windows and Linux RealPlayer on machined next to each other so we can compare the two.
The installer (and later on, RealPlayer) seems to want to bind itself to every file extension the developers could think of at the moment of release.
Yeah, see, there is this option during the install to NOT associate itself with all the file types. Same with Linux, you can choose not to install it in your mime.types.
Then, it loads a memory-hogging piece of itself to load every time you start the OS, which newbies don't know how to get rid of (or probably don't even notice).
OK, there is this option in the preferences menu to turn this off. don't know what a preferences menu is? Well, try looking around the applications menues, you should be able to find it. Still don't know, well try looking in the "Common Questions" section of the help menu, it is listed there how to turn it off. Still don't know? OK, pick up your computer and throw it out the window, you are truly too stupid to own a computer. Linux doesn't have this.
It attempts to bombard you with ads.
Hmmm...uhh...??? What ads? I just looked around at a few different realmedia streams from the Real.com site, no ads. Been using RealPlayer for several years, no ads. Are you talking about that useless content panel? Uhh, well I turn that off, it is useless after all. Don't know how to turn it off? See above.
To download the free version on the Realmedia site, you have to go through a maze of pages asking you to pay for the player.
OK, lets go visit real.com and see if we can find the cheese at the end of the maze...OK, they have ads for their pay player at the top, not surprising, they are trying to make money after all. OK, lets scroll down a little, there is a Free Real player button we can click, OK, lets click that. Oh, those bastards, asking us to buy their player again, but wait, at the bottom there is a link "RealPlayer 7 Basic is our free player". Well lets click that. OK that is it, just have to fill out that stupid form every website makes you fill out now. Wow, had to go through 2 whole pages, that is a maze? I will give you that they shouldn't have the pay player at the top when you click the free player button.
After Realmedia claimed to have fixed the "bugs" in the last version, I have seen a comment that RealPlayer quietly installs the dreaded Comet Cursor with it.
Nope, they give you an option if you want to download the Comet Cursor. I chose not to, no Comet Curosr on my machine. Linux doesn't have this.
So pretty much the only really annoying thing the Linux version is missing is the "Favorites" menu. Haven't used it enough to comment on the quality of the playback, but it looks OK so far.
Uhh, 4-digit PIN is a requirement if you travel anywhere. It is the standard for much of the world.
But yeah, a lot of people are fooling themselves about this. I presonally don't even shop anywhere but online now anyway, except for large purchases. So much more convenient, don't have to waste any time in a store. I hate shopping.
According to the OpenAL page they are implementing the IASIG guidelines. Aureal is a member of IASIG as is about every other audio manufaturer. Also accor ding to Jon Taylor of creative, they are planning on setting up an ARB for spec development.
Yes, wavetracing is nifty, but it is a serious CPU hit, and honestly it is not that much greater than 3D audio with EAX.
Maybe you do not trust Creative, but right now this is all we have, Aureal would be much worse frankly, they are going to release A3D for Linux, it is going to be closed, who wants that? Aureal is free to write their own OpenAL drivers for their soundcards, just as they are free to write their own EAX drivers (did they ever release these, they have been promising them for a year now).
Intel pretty much HAS to undercut AMD now, the only officially supported platform is the i820/i840 which is Rambus only. That is $800+ for 128 MB of RAM. That lower price Intel is charging for the processor vanishes very quickly when you put the system together.
An interesting note, if you look at this article at Tom'sHardware you will see that the best platform for the copermine is actually an old BX chipset overclocked to 133 MHz bus.
Again as the previous poster mentioned, go to www.gw2k.com, click there little "Introducing the Worlds First 1GHz PC" blurb at the bottom. Damn, only $3k, I wonder how much that HP system is going to be. I am guessing $4k at least with that insanely expensive RDRAM they are using.
I mean comeon, a DVD movie and 4 CD-Roms??? How about a DVD which includes the movie and the game on one disc?
Hey, even more amusing is the fact that if you install Office 2000 onto Windows 2000 which has file protection running, Windows 2000 will complain that the install has modified critical system files and prompt you to insert your Windows 2000 CD to fix the error. Pretty funny, seems that the OS and APP divisions don't see eye to eye here. :)