Why? It's a good deal. I've been looking at a Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB. Best price I can find after taxes, shipping, etc. is about $140. HL2 will be about $50, and I'll be buying that when it comes out.
So, that's $190 for the game+older graphics card or $199 for game+newer (and better I'll assume... I'll wait for the reviews) graphics card. I'm just doing the math.
Yeah, waiting will suck, but I mostly want the new card for HL2 and D3 anyway. Also, I'm hoping that I won't have to wait to get my HL2 shipped if I download it.
SF Bay Area folks: notice the new BART ticket machines at certain stops (Montgomery and such)? I walked by one the other day and the screen was displaying a Windows NT boot screen.
Can't WAIT get BSOD'ed when I'm desperately trying to load a ticket... "My train's freakin' BOARDING come ON take the money you piece of... *** STOP: 0X0000000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL..."
Damn... just think about how much damage I did in high school chem lab. We used to make H on almost a daily basis, though our purpose was not to let it escape, of course.
Thankfully, we always made oxygen in the next beaker+burner, and by combining the two with a little dish soap, we managed to keep that evil ozone depleting gas from escaping!
Until we hit it with a burning brand. And released it with enough force to give me permanent hearing damage. Almost every day. For a semester.
Next headline: Spending A Semester Making Glass Pipette Sculptures Causes Acid Rain! Ohhhhhh crap.
I'd be impressed if it was 3+GB, but 1.5? Use 1GB compact flash or some other form of solid state. It's heading towards 2GB soon, most likely. Who want's moving parts?
But that said, it does seem likely the capacity of these little suckers will go up, way faster than Flash, so it'll be worth it soon. But 1.5GB? It's too late to be impressive, kinda like... Don't make me say it.... Zip GIZZMO DRIVE! Remember when those seemed big?
Overhead vs. performance boost?
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Quick cluster question, can't find a fast answer on their site: how fast does the performance boost degrade as you add nodes? Using their technology, does it "top out"? That is, does the over head of maintaining more and more nodes, scheduleing the jobs, etc., eventually kill any performance boost you get from adding the node...
... rewind live radio. Tivo has changed my entire outlook and expectation of anything broadcast.
Often I'm listening to my fav. morning radio show, or NPR news, and miss something, and find myself actually looking for the rewind button. Pisses me off when I realize (a microsecond later) that it isn't there.
On another note, I also find that, when reading a book or magazine, that I want to CTL-F and search for a word, especially with techie books when I'm looking for a particular phrase or term. Guess I'm waiting for E-Ink and electronic paper.
I can't help but notice that, in all the articles that I've seen on this over the past year, including the 3 links listed by/., there is not a single photo or computer-generated example of this so-called "roll-up TV".
I'm suspiciouse of any physical product that get's this kind of press, but still cannot show some sort of demo, hell, even some FakeWare cardboard cutout or something! I mean, my God... it's a TV -- show it to me. You'd think if they were making real progress that they would be all over showing people the future, rather than talking about it.
I believe I heard that in order to recreate a "real" film photograph, as they are printed today, would take 20 megapixles. It's amazing to thing that we are half way there.
This technology makes me think of a mid-90's show that was on Fox for a while: Tech-Factor, or Sy-Tech, or something like that? It was very cyberpunk.
People's "laptops" were cylinders about he diameter of a soda can, and about a "keyboard" wide. They unrolled the screen one side of the tube and the keyboard from the other. When they "folded it up" it made a sound like you were raising those pull-and-let-go blinds. That would be cool!
Haven't read the book, but I wonder if there is any mention of Eclispe and TogetherJ, both Java IDEs. Both have refactoring built in (highlight code--> right-click--> extract method, and such), and also have integrated support for JUnit, CVS (Eclipse, anyway), and other XP-loving features.
This Start Wars CG stuff is crap. Did you see some of those graphics? Taking a bite of CG fruit from 3 inches way? Gimme a break.
I say bring back scale models! Watch the old movies. See how the X-Wings look real? That's because they are! How about that AT-AT or "Chicken-Walker"? They looked great, too. They're just small, but hell, WE can't tell.
Yoda as a CG didn't look as real (shaddows and debth looked off), the vehicles, cities, characters, monsters, animals... everything CG looked horrible, except maybe for the light-sabers and lasers.
Wait, I take it back: R2-D2 and C3P0 looked good... oh yeah, they were real! My bad.
I would love it if Lucus, for Epesode III, tossed the CG and brought back the models, rubber masks, and puppets.
Re:I was just reading this at the bookstore...
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While it is true that lightweight/Agile methodologies such as XP are based on the idea that communication is key, but there is another core value: discipline! There are many principles that any programer can use to improve their productivity, if your are disciplined enought to do them without a team of people keeping you honost. Here's a list of techniques I use as an XP guy when I'm working by myself:
Test-First Programming: write some unit tests before your write the code they test. Then write the actual code and work on it until the tests pass; go back and write more tests. BTW: if you are saying "test-first programming doesn't work!" then you've never tried it, right? Tell me if I'm wrong.
Itterative Development/Refactoring: always re-evaluate your code and look to make it better, easier to read and understand, and more modular. Develope in small steps that produce a working system quickly and often, even if the system doesn't do much at first. Big-bang development = Big-bomb development.
Implement the simplest solution that will work: don't overengineer the system when you don't need to, even if you have some cool, but complicated, ideas. If you need a more elaberate solutions later, refactor it in.
Deliver the most value-producing code first: give the users the thing they need the most first. Don't work on the coolest part of the system first unless it's the most valuable.
Like I said, anyone can do these things if they are disciplined enough to do them, and you don't need a pair/team to do them, though it's easier.
I had Go-Bots, too! But get this: Go-Bots had this cheesie magagize that you could subscribe too, and little kids could write letters saying stupid stuff like "RoboMax is my favorate Go-Bot because he always saves the day!" That's more or less what I wrote and I got published in the letter's section.
The funny thing is that I didn't care about the letter; I drew a picture of one of the bots and wanted them to publish that! They didn't.
Transformers were my life when I was in second grade. Soundwave! Braun! Starscream! Damn, I couldn't do math or read out loud worth a crap, but I could transform those sucksers in about 1 second. I still have a box of them in the basement back home where I grew up... maybe I'll drag them out next time I'm home and pop in the dvds:)
Oh yeah, anyone remember MASK? I really got into these, too, after Transformers. Cars turning into tanks, cool little action figures, fun story... still love that crap and I'm 26 years old! Ahhhhhh....
Most likely old news to many here but state Department of Moter Vehicles used to, as a general practice, sell personal information collected from people's driver's licences to marketing organizations. That was pretty lame, as the DMV has a monopoly on driver's licences, of course.
I say used to, as the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled it to be wrong in early 2000.
... because even though the financial records should be made avaliable since there's nothing to hide (right?), Karl could easily use the policy for political reasons.
If he sees that requesting the information would be rejected, he could do it on purpose, be refused, and then raise a huge stink about it in hopes of drawing attention to himself as a poor guy getting trounced by THE MAN. Kind of like saying "... so you won't tell me your secerets? What are you hiding? Hey everone, this guy is hiding something, he must be evil!"
I agree that the organization should cough up the information out of principle, but if Karl is requesting them becasue he can see that he would get personal (and political) gain out of it, we're choosing between two evils.
My personal favorite productivity measture: lines of code I've DELETED!
Yeah, I know this isn't any new revalation either, but I'm a believer in Refactoring[?]: improving code without adding functionality. Refactoring improved efficientcy, understandability, and removed coded duplication.
Read Martin Folwer's awsome book, and/or practice Extreme Programming[?], it'll change the way you program.
... any organization that approves TLDs named ".museum", ".pro", and ".aero" needs reform.
I have some proposals: *.minime -- for all mini-clones of people. *.geek -- geeks only. Just as clear as ".pro", isn't it? *.bomb -- for dot-coms that have folded. Maintaned by ex employees of the company who constantly say "... if the bubble haddn't popped, we would have been HUGE!!!"
What do you think? Will you elect me to the ICANN board?
I totally agree; in fact the small form-factor seems to have a "gadget effect" that bumps up the price. I was really surprised at how expensive the Espresso computers were.
But, I will say that I would love an Espresso-sized computer that could plug into my KVM setup. I reciently converted an older machine (AMD 333mhz Emachines) into a Linux box and and plan to use it for my web server, blah blah blah... but the thing is louder than hell and takes up a lot of space.
I would much rather have a Linux-server-stuffed-behind-my-couch form-factor, but I'm not willing to pay for it.
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I'LL BUY IT.
Why? It's a good deal. I've been looking at a Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB. Best price I can find after taxes, shipping, etc. is about $140. HL2 will be about $50, and I'll be buying that when it comes out.
So, that's $190 for the game+older graphics card or $199 for game+newer (and better I'll assume... I'll wait for the reviews) graphics card. I'm just doing the math.
Yeah, waiting will suck, but I mostly want the new card for HL2 and D3 anyway. Also, I'm hoping that I won't have to wait to get my HL2 shipped if I download it.
SF Bay Area folks: notice the new BART ticket machines at certain stops (Montgomery and such)? I walked by one the other day and the screen was displaying a Windows NT boot screen.
Can't WAIT get BSOD'ed when I'm desperately trying to load a ticket... "My train's freakin' BOARDING come ON take the money you piece of... *** STOP: 0X0000000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL..."
Damn... just think about how much damage I did in high school chem lab. We used to make H on almost a daily basis, though our purpose was not to let it escape, of course.
Thankfully, we always made oxygen in the next beaker+burner, and by combining the two with a little dish soap, we managed to keep that evil ozone depleting gas from escaping!
Until we hit it with a burning brand. And released it with enough force to give me permanent hearing damage. Almost every day. For a semester.
Next headline: Spending A Semester Making Glass Pipette Sculptures Causes Acid Rain! Ohhhhhh crap.
I'd be impressed if it was 3+GB, but 1.5? Use 1GB compact flash or some other form of solid state. It's heading towards 2GB soon, most likely. Who want's moving parts?
But that said, it does seem likely the capacity of these little suckers will go up, way faster than Flash, so it'll be worth it soon. But 1.5GB? It's too late to be impressive, kinda like... Don't make me say it.... Zip GIZZMO DRIVE! Remember when those seemed big?
Quick cluster question, can't find a fast answer on their site: how fast does the performance boost degrade as you add nodes? Using their technology, does it "top out"? That is, does the over head of maintaining more and more nodes, scheduleing the jobs, etc., eventually kill any performance boost you get from adding the node...
Just had to say it: Zionpalooza... I crack my self up! Felt up to this point the movie dragged a but, but then, with the Burly Brawl, I was rivetted
... rewind live radio. Tivo has changed my entire outlook and expectation of anything broadcast.
Often I'm listening to my fav. morning radio show, or NPR news, and miss something, and find myself actually looking for the rewind button. Pisses me off when I realize (a microsecond later) that it isn't there.
On another note, I also find that, when reading a book or magazine, that I want to CTL-F and search for a word, especially with techie books when I'm looking for a particular phrase or term. Guess I'm waiting for E-Ink and electronic paper.
I can't help but notice that, in all the articles that I've seen on this over the past year, including the 3 links listed by /., there is not a single photo or computer-generated example of this so-called "roll-up TV".
I'm suspiciouse of any physical product that get's this kind of press, but still cannot show some sort of demo, hell, even some FakeWare cardboard cutout or something! I mean, my God... it's a TV -- show it to me. You'd think if they were making real progress that they would be all over showing people the future, rather than talking about it.
PINK EYE
I believe I heard that in order to recreate a "real" film photograph, as they are printed today, would take 20 megapixles. It's amazing to thing that we are half way there.
This technology makes me think of a mid-90's show that was on Fox for a while: Tech-Factor, or Sy-Tech, or something like that? It was very cyberpunk.
People's "laptops" were cylinders about he diameter of a soda can, and about a "keyboard" wide. They unrolled the screen one side of the tube and the keyboard from the other. When they "folded it up" it made a sound like you were raising those pull-and-let-go blinds. That would be cool!
Teletubbies!!!
My God, has our society come to this? Teletubbies as the dawn of a new age; LaLa, the technological Jesus.
Haven't read the book, but I wonder if there is any mention of Eclispe and TogetherJ, both Java IDEs. Both have refactoring built in (highlight code--> right-click--> extract method, and such), and also have integrated support for JUnit, CVS (Eclipse, anyway), and other XP-loving features.
This Start Wars CG stuff is crap. Did you see some of those graphics? Taking a bite of CG fruit from 3 inches way? Gimme a break.
I say bring back scale models! Watch the old movies. See how the X-Wings look real? That's because they are! How about that AT-AT or "Chicken-Walker"? They looked great, too. They're just small, but hell, WE can't tell.
Yoda as a CG didn't look as real (shaddows and debth looked off), the vehicles, cities, characters, monsters, animals... everything CG looked horrible, except maybe for the light-sabers and lasers.
Wait, I take it back: R2-D2 and C3P0 looked good... oh yeah, they were real! My bad.
I would love it if Lucus, for Epesode III, tossed the CG and brought back the models, rubber masks, and puppets.
Test-First Programming: write some unit tests before your write the code they test. Then write the actual code and work on it until the tests pass; go back and write more tests. BTW: if you are saying "test-first programming doesn't work!" then you've never tried it, right? Tell me if I'm wrong.
Itterative Development/Refactoring: always re-evaluate your code and look to make it better, easier to read and understand, and more modular. Develope in small steps that produce a working system quickly and often, even if the system doesn't do much at first. Big-bang development = Big-bomb development.
Implement the simplest solution that will work: don't overengineer the system when you don't need to, even if you have some cool, but complicated, ideas. If you need a more elaberate solutions later, refactor it in.
Deliver the most value-producing code first: give the users the thing they need the most first. Don't work on the coolest part of the system first unless it's the most valuable.
Like I said, anyone can do these things if they are disciplined enough to do them, and you don't need a pair/team to do them, though it's easier.
I had Go-Bots, too! But get this: Go-Bots had this cheesie magagize that you could subscribe too, and little kids could write letters saying stupid stuff like "RoboMax is my favorate Go-Bot because he always saves the day!" That's more or less what I wrote and I got published in the letter's section.
The funny thing is that I didn't care about the letter; I drew a picture of one of the bots and wanted them to publish that! They didn't.
The memories flood back...
Transformers were my life when I was in second grade. Soundwave! Braun! Starscream! Damn, I couldn't do math or read out loud worth a crap, but I could transform those sucksers in about 1 second. I still have a box of them in the basement back home where I grew up... maybe I'll drag them out next time I'm home and pop in the dvds :)
Oh yeah, anyone remember MASK? I really got into these, too, after Transformers. Cars turning into tanks, cool little action figures, fun story... still love that crap and I'm 26 years old! Ahhhhhh....
Damn my fault!!
Make that [LeftShift + Space] gives you the | (pipe)
While we're at it, one more important one, especially if you are playing with the console:
Fn + Space gives you the | (pipe)
Most likely old news to many here but state Department of Moter Vehicles used to, as a general practice, sell personal information collected from people's driver's licences to marketing organizations. That was pretty lame, as the DMV has a monopoly on driver's licences, of course.
I say used to, as the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled it to be wrong in early 2000.
Firewire?
USB 2.0, baby! Chain as many as you want (well... almost) together and get BETTER THAN FIREWIRE SPEEDS!
... because even though the financial records should be made avaliable since there's nothing to hide (right?), Karl could easily use the policy for political reasons.
If he sees that requesting the information would be rejected, he could do it on purpose, be refused, and then raise a huge stink about it in hopes of drawing attention to himself as a poor guy getting trounced by THE MAN. Kind of like saying "... so you won't tell me your secerets? What are you hiding? Hey everone, this guy is hiding something, he must be evil!"
I agree that the organization should cough up the information out of principle, but if Karl is requesting them becasue he can see that he would get personal (and political) gain out of it, we're choosing between two evils.
My personal favorite productivity measture: lines of code I've DELETED!
Yeah, I know this isn't any new revalation either, but I'm a believer in Refactoring[?]: improving code without adding functionality. Refactoring improved efficientcy, understandability, and removed coded duplication.
Read Martin Folwer's awsome book, and/or practice Extreme Programming[?], it'll change the way you program.
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I can't spell. What else is new?
... any organization that approves TLDs named ".museum", ".pro", and ".aero" needs reform.
.minime -- for all mini-clones of people. .geek -- geeks only. Just as clear as ".pro", isn't it? .bomb -- for dot-coms that have folded. Maintaned by ex employees of the company who constantly say "... if the bubble haddn't popped, we would have been HUGE!!!"
I have some proposals:
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What do you think? Will you elect me to the ICANN board?
I totally agree; in fact the small form-factor seems to have a "gadget effect" that bumps up the price. I was really surprised at how expensive the Espresso computers were.
But, I will say that I would love an Espresso-sized computer that could plug into my KVM setup. I reciently converted an older machine (AMD 333mhz Emachines) into a Linux box and and plan to use it for my web server, blah blah blah... but the thing is louder than hell and takes up a lot of space.
I would much rather have a Linux-server-stuffed-behind-my-couch form-factor, but I'm not willing to pay for it.