Charles Stross would be elated to hear that someone of power at IBM took his novel and made it real. The next step is their Cell Processor AI array (Sure it exists!) starts auto creating meta-corporations based on their new "whitespace" ventures.
PC: GBox Blue http://www.amselectronics.com/Products/PC_Servers/ CF-968.html SPECS: 2.4Ghz P4, 512MB DDR, 80GB EIDE, Linksys Wireless PCI INPUT(s): This took some research and $$ Gyration mouse and keyboard wireless RF worth every penny http://www.gyration.com/ultragt-compact.htm VIDEO: ATI AIW 9600 RADEON 128MB w/Remote Wonder AUDIO: GBox offers onboard SPDIF output to my RCA head unit w/5.1 surround DVR SOFTWARE: Currently using the barely functional ATI Multimedia Center software which is slaphacked into GemStar TVGuide (no automatic updates) and is absolutely ignorant when it comes to importing new videos, if it can't be done from the remote control, it's not a home theatre solution. MP3 JUKEBOX(ish): Trusty ol' Winamp running in double size mode and a plugin for Remote Wonder
"She ain't pretty but she puts out" Waiting till the day i have the $$ to buy a HDTV so I can never leave my couch...
Don't forget about the friggin heat that a pc will put out vs. a tivo unit. I built a small formfactor unit, complete with ATI AIW 9600 (didn't know about Myth at time of purchase) and it has been great! For those who "mistakenly" built a home entertainment PC using windows and love the look/feel/functionality of MythTv try http://myhtpc.net/
I seriously just dropped a chunk of change on the baddest ass 8200 money could buy yesterday and now those bastards come out with the 8500 with a better video card?
Being a graphic designer you have an edge on those of us who end up doing the coding half the time. Enlightenment has one of the most edgy design elements i've seen in the *nix world. KDE and GNOME have the fluffy stuff while being extremely functional. (I converted to KDE from blackbox, I feel I know the spectrum pretty well.)
Use your creative juices and make some mock-up screenshots with your ideal looking desktop. Make sure to integrate various IM's, Office suites, browsers, and the like. Take existing screenshots where people have obviously taken countless hours to customize to the smallest detail and work from there.
Programmers are amazing people with amazing talent, we just lack creativity sometimes when it comes to original, artistic, creativity. NOT TO SAY OUR CODE IS NOT ART, OR CREATIVE.
What a let down
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Starcraft
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· Score: 0, Redundant
Just when I thought a book was written based on the thick storyline surrounding Blizzard's excellent RTS game.:P
In all of 5 min I have been shown the self proclaimed heaven & hell of the internet.
Thanks Slashdot, I was wondering where I'd get my daily dose of disgust. Next time just vomit up a link to goatse.cx or something to forewarn us 'normals' so we can keep our what's left of our sanity.
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Charles Stross would be elated to hear that someone of power at IBM took his novel and made it real. The next step is their Cell Processor AI array (Sure it exists!) starts auto creating meta-corporations based on their new "whitespace" ventures.
Free downloadable book
http://www.accelerando.org/
Wow! Thanks to CivIII and CivIV, I understand what he just said!
PC: GBox Blue http://www.amselectronics.com/Products/PC_Servers/ CF-968.html
SPECS: 2.4Ghz P4, 512MB DDR, 80GB EIDE, Linksys Wireless PCI
INPUT(s): This took some research and $$ Gyration mouse and keyboard wireless RF worth every penny http://www.gyration.com/ultragt-compact.htm
VIDEO: ATI AIW 9600 RADEON 128MB w/Remote Wonder
AUDIO: GBox offers onboard SPDIF output to my RCA head unit w/5.1 surround
DVR SOFTWARE: Currently using the barely functional ATI Multimedia Center software which is slaphacked into GemStar TVGuide (no automatic updates) and is absolutely ignorant when it comes to importing new videos, if it can't be done from the remote control, it's not a home theatre solution.
MP3 JUKEBOX(ish): Trusty ol' Winamp running in double size mode and a plugin for Remote Wonder
"She ain't pretty but she puts out"
Waiting till the day i have the $$ to buy a HDTV so I can never leave my couch...
Don't forget about the friggin heat that a pc will put out vs. a tivo unit. I built a small formfactor unit, complete with ATI AIW 9600 (didn't know about Myth at time of purchase) and it has been great! For those who "mistakenly" built a home entertainment PC using windows and love the look/feel/functionality of MythTv try http://myhtpc.net/
Why can't Hormel change the name of their product to SLURM.
Mmmmm Slurmmm...
Does anyone else see this as a pre-registry registry?
I seriously just dropped a chunk of change on the baddest ass 8200 money could buy yesterday and now those bastards come out with the 8500 with a better video card?
Ass-hats oops, can I say that?
This may be the stupidest idea ever but...
Being a graphic designer you have an edge on those of us who end up doing the coding half the time. Enlightenment has one of the most edgy design elements i've seen in the *nix world. KDE and GNOME have the fluffy stuff while being extremely functional. (I converted to KDE from blackbox, I feel I know the spectrum pretty well.)
Use your creative juices and make some mock-up screenshots with your ideal looking desktop. Make sure to integrate various IM's, Office suites, browsers, and the like. Take existing screenshots where people have obviously taken countless hours to customize to the smallest detail and work from there.
Programmers are amazing people with amazing talent, we just lack creativity sometimes when it comes to original, artistic, creativity. NOT TO SAY OUR CODE IS NOT ART, OR CREATIVE.
Just when I thought a book was written based on the thick storyline surrounding Blizzard's excellent RTS game. :P
In all of 5 min I have been shown the self proclaimed heaven & hell of the internet.
Thanks Slashdot, I was wondering where I'd get my daily dose of disgust.
Next time just vomit up a link to goatse.cx or something to forewarn us 'normals' so we can keep our what's left of our sanity.
sl0w