So was Mercedes-Benz. My grandfather, who is Dutch, was taken to a work camp when the Nazis occupied his town. A lot of his time in work camps was spent working in a Mercedes-Benz factory that was making engines and things for all sorts of Nazi vehicles.
One time, he and I were watching TV and a Mercedes commercial came on. He said, "They are good cars! I know, I used to work there".:)
One of the worst parts about having to work in the factories was that they were very important to the Germans. So of course they were favorite bombing targets of the Allies. Sucked to be my Grandpa... enslaved by the bad guys, and the GOOD GUYS are trying to bomb the shit out of the factory where he's working! Talk about feeling alone.....
Come to think of it, maybe d.net on here WOULD make them worth buying...
Well, the CPU on the dreamcast only runs at ~200mhz. Supposedly it's got great floating-point performance, but then again, d.net (at least the RC5 challenge) pretty much relies on integer calculations only. So your keyrate on here would be nothing to write home about.
But then again, suppose you found the winning key on a Dreamcast? LOL. Now that would be a marketing coup for Sega.;)
"Must be a good reader......to have read them all. "
Huh? What? That doesn't make any sense out of context. Jon, it helps if you reply to the post you're referring to, or at least quote the original post... so that we have some what you're talking about. Thanks, bud.;)
Of course, there is a thin line between "leaving 'em wanting more" and performing the artistic equivalent of coitus interruptus.... hehehe.... http://www.bootyproject.org
I liked the abruptness of the ending. I like a movie that lets me walk away from the theater thinking. It's nice to see a director that doesn't have to spell everything out for his audience.
Besides... as anyone who's ever performed knows, one of the top rules is... "Always leave 'em wanting more!" Any good stand-up comedian, director, band, etc., knows this. Hell, I'm don't even fit into any of the categories I just named, and I know that.:P
If he were truly evil, and not just insane, the last thing he would want is to find a hero, for it would interfere with his evil actions
Okay.... spoilers ahread.... you've been warned....
I disagree! At the end of the movie, Mr. Glass is says how the biggest crime of all is to not know who you are, and that now that he's finally found Bruce Willis, his opposite, the hero, he finally knows who he, himself is.
See, I think that's part of what made the movie so good. It wasn't about Hero A stopping Villian B. It was about two very human characters and some supernatural-tinged circumstances.
Personally, even though the ending of the movie just screamed, "SEQUEL!", I kind of hope they don't make one. I like the way it was sort of up to our imagination to think about the direction that Dunn's life took after the end of the movie...
Unbreakable was like a comic-book movie told as a story for adults. That's what I loved about it... it was a pretty complex drama, full of totally human charcters. But with a twist of the supernatural, it turned into the most unbelievably realistic movie about the whole superhero/archvillan theme I've ever seen. Plus I love the way zillions of lame people who would never go near anythign with a "comic book"-type theme are going to see this movie. Nice piece of trojan-horse filmmaking.
Trojan-horse aspects aside, it was a damn fine movie. Awesome story, plenty of creeping and uplifting moments. The movie did drag in places, and I thought it was unecessarily dreary in parts. However... I loved the ending so much, it made the entire rest of the movie worthwhile. It's one of those movies I'm still thinking about, 24 hours after seeing it.:)
If you want to believe that the riots in Philadelphia were a "protest" then I will cede that argument
"Riots"? They weren't even close to being riots. They were just protests... I think maybe one or two windows were broken, max. I think you most have them confused with the Seattle riots a few months earlier. Basically the Philly police were nervous after the Seattle riots and were basically arresting everyone in sight. Nothing even remotely approached "riot" status.
Nobody else believes me, but I once took my bike wheel to a bike shop to have them calibrate it (ie, bang it back into shape). In order to make sure the wheel was perfectly "true", they hooked it up to some sort of electronic measuring device.
There were a couple of wires leading from the device into a Nintendo catridge, which was plugged into a NES that was displaying some sort of digital readout on the TV screen.
Cool, huh? I like this Singer/GameBoy story, since maybe now people will believe my bike calibration/NES story.
If I ever see a Sega Master System in my proctologist's office, I'm leaving.
Hmmm, maaaaaybe. Rendering a final, finished frame is out of the question. If the scene they're rendering requires, say, 300mb of textures... you'd need to D/L all 300MB in order to render that frame. Also, people would find a way to hack the returned stream to grab screenshots of movies before they're released...
But maybe there's a way to have distributed clients work with some other CPU-intensive aspect of the rendering process. Radiosity calculations would be a good candidate! You wouldn't need to DL all the textures-- just the wireframe models, surface attribute info, and lighting info.
That's still a lot of bandwidth, but it might actually be feasible with broadband connections...whatever...:)
Interesting to see how mainstream distributed computing has become even in just the past 12 or so months. Fold proteins, find aliens, break crypto... what else?
"If I'm not mistaken, all of the progress in Direct3d, from v1-v6 was to *catch* up to OpenGL.
Which means, as of D3d6, MS is starting to reach parity with OpenGL"
Well, if (according to you) they caught up to OpenGL around version 6, I guess they're PASSING OpenGL now, since D3D 7 has been out forever, and D3D 8 is on its way.
Then again, I think you just got your version numbers mixed up. I haven't done any D3D since version5, which was a complete mess. I did a little OpenGL too, and it was very simple and clean. I guess I'll have to try some D3d 8 programming soon, just to see how it will progress. Yeah, I'll be a game programmer someday, suuuuuuure I will....
"I hate to nitpick a nitpick, but maybe she was using Windows NT 4.0. No USB support last time I checked."
That may be true, but now that we're recursively nitpicking, the original statement in the RedHat article is still wrong.
The Kodak DC280 comes with a serial adapter, too. You can directly connect it to Windows (even NT) via the serial port. They mention having to "put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port" which is kind of an interesting solution, since they could have just plugged the Kodak directly into the serial port. WTF?
So, like a previous poster said, welcome to the world of Linux-distro-anti-M$-FUD-FUD. Ah, what the hell, maybe I'm just mad because I bought a DC280, instead of the DigitaOS-equipped DC260 that can run MAME. DC280 is a damn fine camera though,I'm in love with it.
Somehow I fail to see the connection between "ridiculously huge boxes" and security holes in the software. WTF are you talking about?!? Please elaborate, sounds intriguing.:-P
"USB support, or the lack there of, has proven to be one of the negative aspects surrounding Linux as a consumer OS. Development for USB support has gone into high gear lately, and Claiborne says Red Hat handles it nicely -- even surpassing the competition in some cases.
"I was a bit surprised when I tried my Kodak DC 280," Claiborne said. "In Windows I have to put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port and then Windows sees it as another drive and I have to take them off one by one. In Linux, I hook my camera up to my USB slot, run Gphoto and there are all my files."
Not true... I have a KodakDC280 and it works fine in Windows via a direct USB connection. No need for a separate CompactFlash card reader. Kodak even finally released Win2K drivers a little while back. I hate to nitpick, but it's better than having inaccuracy in the story...:D
You can definitely notice improvements above 40fps. True, you get diminishing returns after the 30-40fps point, but there's something silky-smooth about 60+ fps that puts 40fps to shame.
Obviously the eye and the brain can process information MUCH faster than 30 or 40hz.... why do you think monitors look better at 80hz than 60hz? I'm not sure where that conventional wisdom (anything over 30-40fps doesn't matter) got started, but it's totally wrong.
Even if you couldn't tell the difference between 40 and 60fps, a card with excess power is going to be more future-proof. A card that can only run today's games at 30fps is going to have a hard time with next year's games. Today's monster card that runs today's games at 200fps is going to work nicely with next year's games, too.:-)
Whoa, that troll almost bit my hand off when I fed him!
If you ran Windows on your box, it wouldn't even need to defeat the other bots. It would just absorb them, and become stronger.
Of course, that strategy would only work for a little while. Eventually your robot would become so bloated that it could easily be defeated by a smaller, nimbler bot.
Whilst this is a piece of technology and as such falls within the domain of "News for Nerds" it most certainly isn't "Stuff that matters" is it?
WTF dude, get the chip off of your shoulder. How the hell could a geek NOT be excited about 320GB of storage?
In my office full of geeks, I passed around this story and we were all pretty excited. We did a little math and it would easily hold all of our personal CD collections compressed to MP3. Hell, most of our individual collections would fit on there uncompressed. And then we talked about other uses for it (pr0n, movies, etc, etc) for 5-10 minutes. We decided you could fit contents of the average small record store, uncompressed, onto a couple of terabytes. A whole record store in less than $15,000 of storage.... jesus...
So yeah, I'd say it passed the "geek interest test". Good story!
Sure, maybe it's not as "important" as another GPL licsense violation story, but are we allowed to have some fun around here? Lighten up, dude. Take the rolled-up copy of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" out of your ass and enjoy being a geek for a change, OK?
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So I pretty much promised myself it wouldn't happen again. And the second time, when I got the phone call that I was hired, the very next day I brought a cardboard box, packed my things, and said good-bye on the way out.
Not sure what you really gain by doing this. You probably cost yourself a good reference. Unless you're so incredibly pissed at your employer that screwing them over in a small way is more important than scoring yourself a good reference you might need later, why do it?
Managers I've worked for really value good references- they value character as much as skill. Then again, simply walking out on a job is kind of fun. I did it once...
Them: "John, we were wondering why you didn't come in today. Did you know you were on the schedule?"
Me: "Yep. Just didn't feel like it"
Them: "What?"
Me: "You heard me, just didn't feel like it. And stop calling me. [click]"
Still, interviewers get a little suspicious when there are certain managers on your resume that you'd "rather not have them call".:-)
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So was Mercedes-Benz. My grandfather, who is Dutch, was taken to a work camp when the Nazis occupied his town. A lot of his time in work camps was spent working in a Mercedes-Benz factory that was making engines and things for all sorts of Nazi vehicles.
One time, he and I were watching TV and a Mercedes commercial came on. He said, "They are good cars! I know, I used to work there". :)
One of the worst parts about having to work in the factories was that they were very important to the Germans. So of course they were favorite bombing targets of the Allies. Sucked to be my Grandpa... enslaved by the bad guys, and the GOOD GUYS are trying to bomb the shit out of the factory where he's working! Talk about feeling alone.....
http://www.bootyproject.org
"WordStar2000, released in 1985, fared poorly against rival WordPerfect, and the company fell from its lead position. "
They released WordStar2000 in 1985?
I guess it was just ahead of its time.
http://www.bootyproject.org
Come to think of it, maybe d.net on here WOULD make them worth buying...
Well, the CPU on the dreamcast only runs at ~200mhz. Supposedly it's got great floating-point performance, but then again, d.net (at least the RC5 challenge) pretty much relies on integer calculations only. So your keyrate on here would be nothing to write home about.
But then again, suppose you found the winning key on a Dreamcast? LOL. Now that would be a marketing coup for Sega. ;)
http://www.bootyproject.org
Is there any quicker way to get modded up than to start off a post with,
"I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but.... [insert righteous-sounding, semi-controversial statement here]"
I don't think there is a quicker way. Damn, I'm probably going to get modded down for this.....hehehe
http://www.bootyproject.org
"Must be a good reader... ...to have read them all. "
Huh? What? That doesn't make any sense out of context. Jon, it helps if you reply to the post you're referring to, or at least quote the original post... so that we have some what you're talking about. Thanks, bud. ;)
http://www.bootyproject.org
Of course, there is a thin line between "leaving 'em wanting more" and performing the artistic equivalent of coitus interruptus.... hehehe....
http://www.bootyproject.org
I liked the abruptness of the ending. I like a movie that lets me walk away from the theater thinking. It's nice to see a director that doesn't have to spell everything out for his audience.
Besides... as anyone who's ever performed knows, one of the top rules is... "Always leave 'em wanting more!" Any good stand-up comedian, director, band, etc., knows this. Hell, I'm don't even fit into any of the categories I just named, and I know that. :P
http://www.bootyproject.org
If he were truly evil, and not just insane, the last thing he would want is to find a hero, for it would interfere with his evil actions
Okay.... spoilers ahread.... you've been warned....
I disagree! At the end of the movie, Mr. Glass is says how the biggest crime of all is to not know who you are, and that now that he's finally found Bruce Willis, his opposite, the hero, he finally knows who he, himself is.
See, I think that's part of what made the movie so good. It wasn't about Hero A stopping Villian B. It was about two very human characters and some supernatural-tinged circumstances.
Personally, even though the ending of the movie just screamed, "SEQUEL!", I kind of hope they don't make one. I like the way it was sort of up to our imagination to think about the direction that Dunn's life took after the end of the movie...
http://www.bootyproject.org
Unbreakable was like a comic-book movie told as a story for adults. That's what I loved about it... it was a pretty complex drama, full of totally human charcters. But with a twist of the supernatural, it turned into the most unbelievably realistic movie about the whole superhero/archvillan theme I've ever seen. Plus I love the way zillions of lame people who would never go near anythign with a "comic book"-type theme are going to see this movie. Nice piece of trojan-horse filmmaking.
Trojan-horse aspects aside, it was a damn fine movie. Awesome story, plenty of creeping and uplifting moments. The movie did drag in places, and I thought it was unecessarily dreary in parts. However... I loved the ending so much, it made the entire rest of the movie worthwhile. It's one of those movies I'm still thinking about, 24 hours after seeing it. :)
http://www.bootyproject.org
If you want to believe that the riots in Philadelphia were a "protest" then I will cede that argument
"Riots"? They weren't even close to being riots. They were just protests... I think maybe one or two windows were broken, max. I think you most have them confused with the Seattle riots a few months earlier. Basically the Philly police were nervous after the Seattle riots and were basically arresting everyone in sight. Nothing even remotely approached "riot" status.
"It's worth doing because it keeps a working system up, and Linux should have that"
Huh? Isn't ECC functionality handled in the BIOS, not the OS? So... Linux does have that functionality, eh?
Nobody else believes me, but I once took my bike wheel to a bike shop to have them calibrate it (ie, bang it back into shape). In order to make sure the wheel was perfectly "true", they hooked it up to some sort of electronic measuring device.
There were a couple of wires leading from the device into a Nintendo catridge, which was plugged into a NES that was displaying some sort of digital readout on the TV screen.
Cool, huh? I like this Singer/GameBoy story, since maybe now people will believe my bike calibration/NES story.
If I ever see a Sega Master System in my proctologist's office, I'm leaving.
"Every one should work at mcdonalds for at least 6 months to know what a shitty job really means!! "
Marnuke, I wish I had moderator points, because I'd spend them all on modding that post up. Truer words have selcom been spoken. :)
heheh... New moderation option? (-1,Bad Pun) :-)
Hmmm, maaaaaybe. Rendering a final, finished frame is out of the question. If the scene they're rendering requires, say, 300mb of textures... you'd need to D/L all 300MB in order to render that frame. Also, people would find a way to hack the returned stream to grab screenshots of movies before they're released...
But maybe there's a way to have distributed clients work with some other CPU-intensive aspect of the rendering process. Radiosity calculations would be a good candidate! You wouldn't need to DL all the textures-- just the wireframe models, surface attribute info, and lighting info.
That's still a lot of bandwidth, but it might actually be feasible with broadband connections...whatever... :)
Interesting to see how mainstream distributed computing has become even in just the past 12 or so months. Fold proteins, find aliens, break crypto ... what else?
What else?
HOW ABOUT FINDING ME A GOD DAMN DATE?
"If I'm not mistaken, all of the progress in Direct3d, from v1-v6 was to *catch* up to OpenGL.
Which means, as of D3d6, MS is starting to reach parity with OpenGL"
Well, if (according to you) they caught up to OpenGL around version 6, I guess they're PASSING OpenGL now, since D3D 7 has been out forever, and D3D 8 is on its way.
Then again, I think you just got your version numbers mixed up. I haven't done any D3D since version5, which was a complete mess. I did a little OpenGL too, and it was very simple and clean. I guess I'll have to try some D3d 8 programming soon, just to see how it will progress. Yeah, I'll be a game programmer someday, suuuuuuure I will....
"I hate to nitpick a nitpick, but maybe she was using Windows NT 4.0. No USB support last time I checked."
That may be true, but now that we're recursively nitpicking, the original statement in the RedHat article is still wrong.
The Kodak DC280 comes with a serial adapter, too. You can directly connect it to Windows (even NT) via the serial port. They mention having to "put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port" which is kind of an interesting solution, since they could have just plugged the Kodak directly into the serial port. WTF?
So, like a previous poster said, welcome to the world of Linux-distro-anti-M$-FUD-FUD. Ah, what the hell, maybe I'm just mad because I bought a DC280, instead of the DigitaOS-equipped DC260 that can run MAME. DC280 is a damn fine camera though,I'm in love with it.
OK, good point. Your previous post made it sound like the big, wasteful, game-like boxes themselves were the source of the security holes. :D
Somehow I fail to see the connection between "ridiculously huge boxes" and security holes in the software. WTF are you talking about?!? Please elaborate, sounds intriguing. :-P
Noticed a small inaccuracy in the story...
"USB support, or the lack there of, has proven to be one of the negative aspects surrounding Linux as a consumer OS. Development for USB support has gone into high gear lately, and Claiborne says Red Hat handles it nicely -- even surpassing the competition in some cases.
"I was a bit surprised when I tried my Kodak DC 280," Claiborne said. "In Windows I have to put the flash card into an adapter which connects via a serial port and then Windows sees it as another drive and I have to take them off one by one. In Linux, I hook my camera up to my USB slot, run Gphoto and there are all my files."
Not true... I have a KodakDC280 and it works fine in Windows via a direct USB connection. No need for a separate CompactFlash card reader. Kodak even finally released Win2K drivers a little while back. I hate to nitpick, but it's better than having inaccuracy in the story... :D
You can definitely notice improvements above 40fps. True, you get diminishing returns after the 30-40fps point, but there's something silky-smooth about 60+ fps that puts 40fps to shame.
Obviously the eye and the brain can process information MUCH faster than 30 or 40hz.... why do you think monitors look better at 80hz than 60hz? I'm not sure where that conventional wisdom (anything over 30-40fps doesn't matter) got started, but it's totally wrong.
Even if you couldn't tell the difference between 40 and 60fps, a card with excess power is going to be more future-proof. A card that can only run today's games at 30fps is going to have a hard time with next year's games. Today's monster card that runs today's games at 200fps is going to work nicely with next year's games, too. :-)
Whoa, that troll almost bit my hand off when I fed him!
If you ran Windows on your box, it wouldn't even need to defeat the other bots. It would just absorb them, and become stronger.
Of course, that strategy would only work for a little while. Eventually your robot would become so bloated that it could easily be defeated by a smaller, nimbler bot.
Whilst this is a piece of technology and as such falls within the domain of "News for Nerds" it most certainly isn't "Stuff that matters" is it?
WTF dude, get the chip off of your shoulder. How the hell could a geek NOT be excited about 320GB of storage?
In my office full of geeks, I passed around this story and we were all pretty excited. We did a little math and it would easily hold all of our personal CD collections compressed to MP3. Hell, most of our individual collections would fit on there uncompressed. And then we talked about other uses for it (pr0n, movies, etc, etc) for 5-10 minutes. We decided you could fit contents of the average small record store, uncompressed, onto a couple of terabytes. A whole record store in less than $15,000 of storage.... jesus...
So yeah, I'd say it passed the "geek interest test". Good story!
Sure, maybe it's not as "important" as another GPL licsense violation story, but are we allowed to have some fun around here? Lighten up, dude. Take the rolled-up copy of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" out of your ass and enjoy being a geek for a change, OK?
So I pretty much promised myself it wouldn't happen again. And the second time, when I got the phone call that I was hired, the very next day I brought a cardboard box, packed my things, and said good-bye on the way out.
Not sure what you really gain by doing this. You probably cost yourself a good reference. Unless you're so incredibly pissed at your employer that screwing them over in a small way is more important than scoring yourself a good reference you might need later, why do it?
Managers I've worked for really value good references- they value character as much as skill. Then again, simply walking out on a job is kind of fun. I did it once...
Them: "John, we were wondering why you didn't come in today. Did you know you were on the schedule?"
Me: "Yep. Just didn't feel like it"
Them: "What?" Me: "You heard me, just didn't feel like it. And stop calling me. [click]"
Still, interviewers get a little suspicious when there are certain managers on your resume that you'd "rather not have them call". :-)