I've actually had the synchronised multiple-angle thought myself... can't quite understand why it can't be done, but I'm sure there's a technical reason somewhere.
The diving Mark Waugh catch would be cool, though. And it is nice to combine/. and cricket for once:)
Going off on a tangent with your mention of cricket, this would actually be a huge help for the third umpire in cricket - it's not uncommon that a decision will go to the third umpire and there isn't a camera angle that shows all of the things the umpire needs to see to make a decision. It seems that this technology would go a long way towards eliminating that.
Actually, unless I'm missing a shop selling zip media very cheaply, zip disks are inordinately expensive in Australia compared to what I'm hearing from the US. A$25 sounds about right - although I'd go looking for another shop to get CDRs from: A$2 is pretty expensive (I can get no-name ones for 70 cents, and the failure rate isn't too extreme).
It's $3 crack now? Jeez, last time I had mod points it was $2 crack. I'd better start posting so I can get some mod points and some of that really awesome $3 crack!
OK, I'm 99% convinced you're a troll having read some of your comments, but hey, I'll bite anyway, because I'm in that sorta mood.
Fine, there's filth on IRC. Well, there's plenty of filth available on the Net via other means - WWW, Usenet. Do we just shut down the whole Net?
I agree totally with what some of the other posters to this thread have said: there really are rewarding places to be on IRC. The people in the programming channels on some of the networks are insanely knowledgable. Some of the chat channels have really great people to talk to (and meet, if you're in the same meatspace area). Many organisations use IRC to plan, meet, play, whatever. Besides, mailing lists just aren't the same as real-time chat, and chat is more suitable for some discussions.
As for the undesirable stuff (warez, child porn), well, it's there, that's life. In my experience, though, it doesn't tend to just fall in your lap, so presumably (not needing warez, and not being the slightest bit interested in child porn), you need to go looking for it.
Finally, since you are a parent, may I point you to the standard disclaimer many servers on many networks carry (including the server I'm an IRCop on): IRC is an unmoderated medium. Anyone who leaves their children (thinking sub-teens in particular) on IRC without keeping an eye on them is asking for trouble, IMHO.
You know, I thought Channel 7 (Australian TV network) sucked badly, but I think NBC has actually managed to surpass them in the suckiness stakes. Good work, America!
We've known about this for a while, and although I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before, this is definitely a bad thing for tech support types.
At the moment, I'm working on a help desk for an ISP. One of the checks we tend to use for connection problems is ping (both in the absence of an nslookup to check DNS status, and also to test data throughput - although that can obviously be done from our end, too). I certainly hope that you can still run ping from the Start/Run box, otherwise it's going to cramp my style.
More seriously, it's going to be a problem for network and system administrators. Certainly being able to drop to DOS mode has saved my arse a few times, and I'm sure that's true of others, too.
You have to wonder about the logic (OK, it's Microsoft, so there may not be any logic involved, but hey) behind this: in my experience newbies take one look at a DOS prompt and run screaming for the hills, so leaving it in doesn't cause them any grief, and really, its omission just hurts the users who grew up with DOS and who still find it more natural for some tasks.
Finally, people do still play games which only run in DOS mode, which means that you'll need a boot disk (quite possibly from 98, too... can you do a command-line boot disk in ME? Doesn't sound like it). Obviously these are older games, but I for one still enjoy some of those games quite a bit more than current games. (That's not to say current games are bad.)
Anyway, I guess the point of this rambling passage is basically just to reaffirm that I think removing the DOS prompt is a bad thing.
By the way, I'm also a writer, and the same thing works for me with that too (although I usually have to leave it alone for a bit longer than with programming projects).
I have the same thing. With coding, I can normally get up, maybe have a nap, or at worst, a day or two's break, and I'm good to go again. With writing, though, I've been known to stop writing halfway through an important piece of dialogue, get up, then not go back to it for months.
Finding myself unable to code, I started writing the code in english on paper. I would sit down in a corner of the room and start writing in english. "check the user permissions. if the guy is an admin, show this and that screen. for each line in the screen, make sure it's bla bla." and so on. Once I was done and saw that I had something that could work, I took the text, pasted it into the existing source code and started translating it to code (Java in this case).
Umm, I think that's called pseudocode, dude. You're supposed to write that before you start coding. At least, that's why I keep being told;)
Another good text browser is Links, which supports tables and frames (in the 0.9x versions, anyway). It's also got a pretty decent interface, with mouse support and proper menus, but still supports Lynx-like shortcuts for those of us who can't be bothered with menus;)
If you think that, then you're no sysadmin. It may well be that the software is fantastic, runs for 500 years without failing, and makes you a cup of coffee every hour on the hour.
However, if the software does fall over, or something related to it goes wrong, you want that second level of support there so that you know you're going to get help from specialists who spend all day working with this stuff. If it's 24/7, so much the better. After all, you might be a guru, but it's always good to have a level of super-gurus on the software you've bought backing you up. Plus, it makes economic sense for the company, since downtime is likely to be less if it's fixed by specialists rather than normal gurus.
Finally, as many other people have pointed out, $2k is nothing for support and the guarantee that problems will be fixed, compared to the $60-$80k for the super-guru to work for you full time (and probably be bored witless).
I have a feeling I've rambled a bit, but there's a point in there somewhere.:)
Try living in Perth. Even if you're in the small areas with cable, they haven't turned on Internet access over cable anyway (apart from Ellenbrook, which is a new housing estate and they're trialling it there).
As for DSL, even when Tel$tra does roll it out it's only going to be in limited areas, so it looks like I'm going to be limited to my crappy phone lines and 40-42k connections for some time yet.
Yay, 64 kbps satellite here I come. Well, that's broadband, isn't it? </sarcasm>
Guinness have actually just announced that the version they've been selling in Australia for years is being discontinued and replaced with the real Irish recipe, which is good news for us Aussie Guinness drinkers who don't want to travel halfway around the world just for a good pint:)
Yeah. In '89 I was living in Albany, Western Australia (about 38S, from memory), and one night I was outside and we had the most magnificent aurora imaginable - which is unusual that far north, solar maximum or no.
So for those of us who live at lower latitudes (I'm in Perth now, which is a few degrees further north again), this is really the only chance we'll get to see the aurora without travelling a long way.
Incidentally, this storm probably isn't quite strong enough for us Aussies to see (possibly the southern tip of Tasmania might get some activity), but hopefully we will get some good aurorae in the near future.
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In many open source projects, including the Linux kernel, the minor version number (ie the 3 in 2.3) is used to indicate whether a software version is a stable or development release. In most cases, an odd number denotes a development series, and an even number denotes stables releases.
So in this case 2.2.x kernels are the stable releases, and the 2.3.x kernels are the development releases.
The cops in this town (Wee Waa, from memory) basically figured out that the evil prick^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H suspect was a resident of the town. There was enough outrage in the town that they decided to do mass DNA testing. It wasn't compulsory to take the test, but because almost of the men in the town did take the test, it pressured the guy who did this to turn himself in.
taking away IRC from them for a day will provide the same effect of denying a cocaine user drugs for a day. It would, but IRCnet isn't taking IRC away from them, it's just taking IRCnet away from them. The script kiddies will just take their crap elsewhere for a day, and then probably come back in greater numbers. Does IRCnet gain anything? Nope.
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The diving Mark Waugh catch would be cool, though. And it is nice to combine /. and cricket for once :)
Going off on a tangent with your mention of cricket, this would actually be a huge help for the third umpire in cricket - it's not uncommon that a decision will go to the third umpire and there isn't a camera angle that shows all of the things the umpire needs to see to make a decision. It seems that this technology would go a long way towards eliminating that.
Actually, unless I'm missing a shop selling zip media very cheaply, zip disks are inordinately expensive in Australia compared to what I'm hearing from the US. A$25 sounds about right - although I'd go looking for another shop to get CDRs from: A$2 is pretty expensive (I can get no-name ones for 70 cents, and the failure rate isn't too extreme).
Shoes? What are these shoes I keep hearing about?
It's $3 crack now? Jeez, last time I had mod points it was $2 crack. I'd better start posting so I can get some mod points and some of that really awesome $3 crack!
Anyone want to lay bets on how long it takes for this story to be posted again with slightly different wording? It's the Slashdot spirit! ;)
Fine, there's filth on IRC. Well, there's plenty of filth available on the Net via other means - WWW, Usenet. Do we just shut down the whole Net?
I agree totally with what some of the other posters to this thread have said: there really are rewarding places to be on IRC. The people in the programming channels on some of the networks are insanely knowledgable. Some of the chat channels have really great people to talk to (and meet, if you're in the same meatspace area). Many organisations use IRC to plan, meet, play, whatever. Besides, mailing lists just aren't the same as real-time chat, and chat is more suitable for some discussions.
As for the undesirable stuff (warez, child porn), well, it's there, that's life. In my experience, though, it doesn't tend to just fall in your lap, so presumably (not needing warez, and not being the slightest bit interested in child porn), you need to go looking for it.
Finally, since you are a parent, may I point you to the standard disclaimer many servers on many networks carry (including the server I'm an IRCop on): IRC is an unmoderated medium. Anyone who leaves their children (thinking sub-teens in particular) on IRC without keeping an eye on them is asking for trouble, IMHO.
You know, I thought Channel 7 (Australian TV network) sucked badly, but I think NBC has actually managed to surpass them in the suckiness stakes. Good work, America!
At the moment, I'm working on a help desk for an ISP. One of the checks we tend to use for connection problems is ping (both in the absence of an nslookup to check DNS status, and also to test data throughput - although that can obviously be done from our end, too). I certainly hope that you can still run ping from the Start/Run box, otherwise it's going to cramp my style.
More seriously, it's going to be a problem for network and system administrators. Certainly being able to drop to DOS mode has saved my arse a few times, and I'm sure that's true of others, too.
You have to wonder about the logic (OK, it's Microsoft, so there may not be any logic involved, but hey) behind this: in my experience newbies take one look at a DOS prompt and run screaming for the hills, so leaving it in doesn't cause them any grief, and really, its omission just hurts the users who grew up with DOS and who still find it more natural for some tasks.
Finally, people do still play games which only run in DOS mode, which means that you'll need a boot disk (quite possibly from 98, too... can you do a command-line boot disk in ME? Doesn't sound like it). Obviously these are older games, but I for one still enjoy some of those games quite a bit more than current games. (That's not to say current games are bad.)
Anyway, I guess the point of this rambling passage is basically just to reaffirm that I think removing the DOS prompt is a bad thing.
I have the same thing. With coding, I can normally get up, maybe have a nap, or at worst, a day or two's break, and I'm good to go again. With writing, though, I've been known to stop writing halfway through an important piece of dialogue, get up, then not go back to it for months.
Umm, I think that's called pseudocode, dude. You're supposed to write that before you start coding. At least, that's why I keep being told ;)
If that is observed, I'd like to request a Programmer Appreciation Day, too :)
Another good text browser is Links, which supports tables and frames (in the 0.9x versions, anyway). It's also got a pretty decent interface, with mouse support and proper menus, but still supports Lynx-like shortcuts for those of us who can't be bothered with menus ;)
However, if the software does fall over, or something related to it goes wrong, you want that second level of support there so that you know you're going to get help from specialists who spend all day working with this stuff. If it's 24/7, so much the better. After all, you might be a guru, but it's always good to have a level of super-gurus on the software you've bought backing you up. Plus, it makes economic sense for the company, since downtime is likely to be less if it's fixed by specialists rather than normal gurus.
Finally, as many other people have pointed out, $2k is nothing for support and the guarantee that problems will be fixed, compared to the $60-$80k for the super-guru to work for you full time (and probably be bored witless).
I have a feeling I've rambled a bit, but there's a point in there somewhere. :)
As for DSL, even when Tel$tra does roll it out it's only going to be in limited areas, so it looks like I'm going to be limited to my crappy phone lines and 40-42k connections for some time yet.
Yay, 64 kbps satellite here I come. Well, that's broadband, isn't it? </sarcasm>
Repeat after me: you can never have too much RAM :)
Guinness have actually just announced that the version they've been selling in Australia for years is being discontinued and replaced with the real Irish recipe, which is good news for us Aussie Guinness drinkers who don't want to travel halfway around the world just for a good pint :)
No, I'm getting them too. It's really beginning to piss me off.
So for those of us who live at lower latitudes (I'm in Perth now, which is a few degrees further north again), this is really the only chance we'll get to see the aurora without travelling a long way.
Incidentally, this storm probably isn't quite strong enough for us Aussies to see (possibly the southern tip of Tasmania might get some activity), but hopefully we will get some good aurorae in the near future.
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1. vi :)
2. Gnome
3. GPL
4. C++/Java
5. Whatever
6. Linux
7. Big-endian
8. Buy
9. Boxers
10. Brunette
11. Paper
12. Who cares
13. Tastes great
14. NFI
15. DS9/B5
16. Shaken
17. One of those funky 50s printers which did punched tape and paper
18. No frames (or at least a NOFRAMES section)
19. Both suck
20. Walk
21. Dr Seuss
22. Keyboard
23. You had to ask? Deathmatch!
24. POP3
25. Hex
26. Yeah, you did get carried away.
27. Troll
So in this case 2.2.x kernels are the stable releases, and the 2.3.x kernels are the development releases.
The server's not all they're likely to be pounding... :P
The cops in this town (Wee Waa, from memory) basically figured out that the evil prick^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H suspect was a resident of the town. There was enough outrage in the town that they decided to do mass DNA testing. It wasn't compulsory to take the test, but because almost of the men in the town did take the test, it pressured the guy who did this to turn himself in.
taking away IRC from them for a day will provide the same effect of denying a cocaine user drugs for a day. It would, but IRCnet isn't taking IRC away from them, it's just taking IRCnet away from them. The script kiddies will just take their crap elsewhere for a day, and then probably come back in greater numbers. Does IRCnet gain anything? Nope.