Even on DVD; a 4th generation copy is like a movie that has had compression added 4 times, and each copy is progressively worse. Ideally, you want the cleanest print possible before you add lossy compression.
Then you aren't doing it right. You should only have to re-compress once at most.
once it has been recompressed to fit on a 4.7GB blank (and of course had CSS removed in the process) you should then be able to do an exact duplicate from then on. (of course physical damage/fingerprints on the blanks not withstanding)
You could install a VNC server on your Linux box and have them log in via VNC if you really want to let the Windows guys into the TEG tourney.
That's the nice thing about Linux and other *nix OS's they really are multi-user. (unlike XP which claims to be multi-user, but only one at a time can be actively using it.)
MS is going to use PNG for something? Does this mean they are finally taking PNG seriously? Will this mean We'll finally see an MS browser that fully supports PNG? (with alpha channels and all that jazz?)
I've always thought of the PC's advantages as being keyboard and mouse, and high resolution progressive scan monitor.
My PS2 has a keyboard and mouse (and even a hard drive) now, and by the time PS3 rolls out I will likely be able to get a nice high res monitor (HDTV) for it.
That said, I think today's PC vs. PS2/3 arguement is PC beats PS2 in graphics (but so does the Xbox, but Sony still sells more units than MS) and PC beats PS3 by virtue of being here now rather than just rumoured to be coming in 2006.
However, PS2/3 beats PC in ease of use. I'm a Linux guy, and gaming on Linux is still in it's infancy, and I can't stand having to maintain 2 different operating systems, so a box I can just switch on and play a game beats any PC any day of the week.
You have to check out FFXI I thought that the hard drive would make things a lot more complicated, but really it doesn't. you get the same browser menu for the hard drive as you do for your memory cards... if you can launch a program off a CD/DVD from the browser you can do it from the HDD. There's really not much of a difference.
1. waiting to see how popular the product is in the developer's home country, in order to gather data for an analysis of whether localization would be profitable
That argument doesn't explain why different countries with the same official language are in different zones though does it?
I'm not sure what the zones for Playstation are but DVD puts Hong Kong, UK, and Australia in 3 different regions, but they are all english speaking, PAL, and 220-224V 50Hz power.
Considering the fact that I would want my PDA if I got a new one to have either OpenZaurus with Opie or Familiar with Opie, IPAQ is no further behind in the race on the REAL OS or tonnes of opensource apps area... so that leaves it down to this list of differences:
IPAQ: Can be flashed back to WinCE to make it easier to sell on eBay when I decided to upgrade Smaller Easier to find accessories for
Zaurus: Better screen (480x640 vs 240x320) hidden keyboard with REAL buttons that doesn't take away screen real estate CF slot built in (I have CF memory cards) smaller than IPAQ with CF sleave attached Nicer looking (subjective I know, but it still makes a difference)
That said, I'll wait till I can get one off ebay for $300 or less.
I have to disagree with you there. I work for a municipal government and we chose Verisign over Thawte for our site that actually takes credit card payments (despite it being twice the price) simply because of brand recognition. You can publish a Verisign Logo that links to your certificate and people DO notice it and DO trust the site more because of that. Like it or not Verisign in a lot of people's minds = trustworthy.
Not everyone who runs a server is a commercial entity that can afford co-loc (or needs co-loc) I pay $37/month (Canadian) for a DSL connection with Static IP that I can run a mail server off of. Considering just a DSL connection is about that much anyway, that is well within my budget. Off that Server I currently host 2 domains with plans to expand into several more, but none of them are for-profit business domains, and thus increasing my monthly outlay by $166 per month is out of the question.
There are a number of reasons why I host my own mail, one of them being increased privacy and security. Another, I admit is Vanity, (why else would one get their own domain names for personal use?) but regardless of the reasons, I fully support keeping the internet open to everyone, if you want a corporate controlled network get on AOL and leave the internet alone.
...use spaces to line things up... Once done, save into Word 97 format. Now get OpenOffice to open that and make it look like it did in Word. It's just about impossible....or go to a windows machine with word but a different printer...
That's why I like OO.o if it does ever get corrupted you can fix it in a text editor. XML is great for that. I use the Gramps family tree database which is XML and I had a problem with it once after a version upgrade. I just opened it in vi and fixed a couple lines that were not formatted properly for some reason... and voila the database was back and fully useable with no data lost and only a few minutes of my time wasted on repairing the file.
MS is starting to see the benefits of XML files, but it's still not the default option yet.
Just stick it in a Pentium Pro compatible PC and type setup, if you have an nvidia card or nForce motherboard run install-nvidia and add Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" to your/etc/X11/XFConfig-4... the rest is done for you.
You can even just boot right from the CD to get a frontend machine.
I know it's not the geek thing to do but when you see a phone that you think you might like, walk up to the sales guy's desk and ASK to see a working one. I've yet to come across a place that doesn't have them there and a battery charged up ready to demo. They just put the $5 shells out in the open so kids won't swipe a $200 cell phone.
A paper cup works well enough for a small coffee, two paper cups, one inside the other, for large or extra-large coffees. The only time my Tim Hortons coffee (always in a paper cup) ever gets cold is when I order an extra large and they double cup it with a small cup so it's enough I can hold onto it comfortably, but not enough to keep the heat in long enough for me to actually consume an extra large.
double cupping sounds wasteful, but at least the paper can biodegrade.
Cool, I'll have to try Quicktaxweb.ca next year. (I'm Canadian, so Intuit only has the one online option... but that's one more than I thought they had.)
I know what you mean about the games, I kept a windows partition for about a year just for Everquest... and I wasn't as big an EQ bum as most people I know who play it.
Then when I stopped playing EQ I bought a WineX subscription and moved to Linux full time.... Then I got myself a PS2 and stopped playing PC games altogether and cancelled my WineX subscription....but recently I've gone back to dual booting, first to try some Windows based video editing software and then to do my taxes (you can't netfile from Linux yet) Both Windows and Linux have their strengths, but I personally prefer to spend most of my time in Linux....then again I'm a bit of a techie geek and I like to explore the inner workings of my programs rather than use wizards for everything.
I'm the kind of guy who will spend days or weeks setting up his system and getting it to work exactly as I want it rather than the type who would prefer to have an image disk from Dell to go back to.
I use Gentoo and Debian both on different machines for different purposes for exactly the reason I dual boot Windows and Linux.... each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Gentoo lets me pump a little more efficiency out of my desktop and Debian gives me a relatively quick install and quick upgrades for my server without installing crap I don't want. (gentoo doesn't install crap either, but Mandrake, which is what I recommend to newbies does install a lot of junk.
Yes, in Linux it's either it works out of the box, you download and COMPILE something and it works well thereafter, or it just doesn't work at all.
In windows there are many more levels, but fewer pieces of hardware in the Just doesn't work at all category....but that's just because it is in the manufacturer's interest to support windows in some way or another. Even if the support for your version of windows is pretty crappy.
I remember buying a server once that was designed for Linux use and trying to upgrade from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 I think it was, and finding that the driver for the disk controller only existed in binary form on the install disks and that only worked with the kernels in Redhat 6.2:( I was a little peeved, but managed to figure out how to get it working by downloading some rather new drivers and compiling, but that's kind of a rare case... then there is the printer I bought last year BECAUSE OF THE PENGUIN ON THE BOX! (can you tell I'm still peeved about that one?)...a Lexmark Z55, again it came with drivers that only work in a handful of Linux versions and on the website they don't even provide the option to get drivers that are generic.. after fighting with it for a long time I bought an HP printer and it worked out of the box, no driver install needed (just emerge cups on my gentoo box and away I went.)
If you can build a self contained habitat in space you can build one on the moon and the moon provides it's own gravity. (while much lower gravity than we are used to, at least it's free gravity)
Do you have any idea how much hardware and how many people are involved in going from rocks to spaceships? _ALL_ of that would have to be shipped to the moon, simply to avoid the cost of sending maybe a thousand tons of spaceship directly into orbit from Earth. That's insane.
That depends on what the ultimate goal is. If the ultimate goal is just to be a waystation then you're probably right. If the ultimate goal is to work toward colonization of other planets then building factories on the moon is not insane, just hugely more time consuming than utilizing existing factories here on Earth, but the long term (50-100 years or more) benefit of trying to build factories on the moon would probably be a lot more significant than a quick and easy trip to Mars... for that matter if we really want to save money and speed things up why not just launch from Earth? It's already a proven launch point and has all the factories in place. If all we want to do is put bootprints on Mars lets do it from here and skip the whole waypoint non-sense.
didn't need to make any port mappings at all. Take SIP box as shipped from Primus, plug phone into box, plug box into NAT and power, wait a few minutes for it to boot up and all, pick up handset to get dial tone.
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Even on DVD; a 4th generation copy is like a movie that has had compression added 4 times, and each copy is progressively worse. Ideally, you want the cleanest print possible before you add lossy compression.
Then you aren't doing it right.
You should only have to re-compress once at most.
once it has been recompressed to fit on a 4.7GB blank (and of course had CSS removed in the process) you should then be able to do an exact duplicate from then on. (of course physical damage/fingerprints on the blanks not withstanding)
You could install a VNC server on your Linux box and have them log in via VNC if you really want to let the Windows guys into the TEG tourney.
That's the nice thing about Linux and other *nix OS's they really are multi-user. (unlike XP which claims to be multi-user, but only one at a time can be actively using it.)
MS is going to use PNG for something?
Does this mean they are finally taking PNG seriously? Will this mean We'll finally see an MS browser that fully supports PNG? (with alpha channels and all that jazz?)
YAY!
I've always thought of the PC's advantages as being keyboard and mouse, and high resolution progressive scan monitor.
My PS2 has a keyboard and mouse (and even a hard drive) now, and by the time PS3 rolls out I will likely be able to get a nice high res monitor (HDTV) for it.
That said, I think today's PC vs. PS2/3 arguement is PC beats PS2 in graphics (but so does the Xbox, but Sony still sells more units than MS) and PC beats PS3 by virtue of being here now rather than just rumoured to be coming in 2006.
However, PS2/3 beats PC in ease of use. I'm a Linux guy, and gaming on Linux is still in it's infancy, and I can't stand having to maintain 2 different operating systems, so a box I can just switch on and play a game beats any PC any day of the week.
You have to check out FFXI
I thought that the hard drive would make things a lot more complicated, but really it doesn't. you get the same browser menu for the hard drive as you do for your memory cards... if you can launch a program off a CD/DVD from the browser you can do it from the HDD. There's really not much of a difference.
1. waiting to see how popular the product is in the developer's home country, in order to gather data for an analysis of whether localization would be profitable
That argument doesn't explain why different countries with the same official language are in different zones though does it?
I'm not sure what the zones for Playstation are but DVD puts Hong Kong, UK, and Australia in 3 different regions, but they are all english speaking, PAL, and 220-224V 50Hz power.
Considering the fact that I would want my PDA if I got a new one to have either OpenZaurus with Opie or Familiar with Opie, IPAQ is no further behind in the race on the REAL OS or tonnes of opensource apps area... so that leaves it down to this list of differences:
IPAQ:
Can be flashed back to WinCE to make it easier to sell on eBay when I decided to upgrade
Smaller
Easier to find accessories for
Zaurus:
Better screen (480x640 vs 240x320)
hidden keyboard with REAL buttons that doesn't take away screen real estate
CF slot built in (I have CF memory cards)
smaller than IPAQ with CF sleave attached
Nicer looking (subjective I know, but it still makes a difference)
That said, I'll wait till I can get one off ebay for $300 or less.
I have to disagree with you there.
I work for a municipal government and we chose Verisign over Thawte for our site that actually takes credit card payments (despite it being twice the price) simply because of brand recognition. You can publish a Verisign Logo that links to your certificate and people DO notice it and DO trust the site more because of that. Like it or not Verisign in a lot of people's minds = trustworthy.
If it's just for you and your friends you can publish your own certs for free and just have your buddies install your CA certificate.
Not everyone who runs a server is a commercial entity that can afford co-loc (or needs co-loc)
I pay $37/month (Canadian) for a DSL connection with Static IP that I can run a mail server off of. Considering just a DSL connection is about that much anyway, that is well within my budget. Off that Server I currently host 2 domains with plans to expand into several more, but none of them are for-profit business domains, and thus increasing my monthly outlay by $166 per month is out of the question.
There are a number of reasons why I host my own mail, one of them being increased privacy and security. Another, I admit is Vanity, (why else would one get their own domain names for personal use?) but regardless of the reasons, I fully support keeping the internet open to everyone, if you want a corporate controlled network get on AOL and leave the internet alone.
and Novell
...use spaces to line things up... ...or go to a windows machine with word but a different printer...
Once done, save into Word 97 format. Now get OpenOffice to open that and make it look like it did in Word. It's just about impossible.
Bet you it still looks like crap.
That's why I like OO.o if it does ever get corrupted you can fix it in a text editor. XML is great for that.
I use the Gramps family tree database which is XML and I had a problem with it once after a version upgrade. I just opened it in vi and fixed a couple lines that were not formatted properly for some reason... and voila the database was back and fully useable with no data lost and only a few minutes of my time wasted on repairing the file.
MS is starting to see the benefits of XML files, but it's still not the default option yet.
Have you looked at the KnoppMyth LiveCD?
/etc/X11/XFConfig-4... the rest is done for you.
Just stick it in a Pentium Pro compatible PC and type setup, if you have an nvidia card or nForce motherboard run install-nvidia and add
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
to your
You can even just boot right from the CD to get a frontend machine.
Introduced xDSL and then increased its speed.
Did they? which DSL did they increase?
AFAIK ASDL is still limited to 7Mbit. Dunno much about what's going on with SDSL though.
I know it's not the geek thing to do but when you see a phone that you think you might like, walk up to the sales guy's desk and ASK to see a working one. I've yet to come across a place that doesn't have them there and a battery charged up ready to demo. They just put the $5 shells out in the open so kids won't swipe a $200 cell phone.
They still do it for me, they just use a normal, non-contest cup for the outer cup.
A paper cup works well enough for a small coffee, two paper cups, one inside the other, for large or extra-large coffees. The only time my Tim Hortons coffee (always in a paper cup) ever gets cold is when I order an extra large and they double cup it with a small cup so it's enough I can hold onto it comfortably, but not enough to keep the heat in long enough for me to actually consume an extra large.
double cupping sounds wasteful, but at least the paper can biodegrade.
Cool, I'll have to try Quicktaxweb.ca next year. (I'm Canadian, so Intuit only has the one online option... but that's one more than I thought they had.)
I know what you mean about the games, I kept a windows partition for about a year just for Everquest... and I wasn't as big an EQ bum as most people I know who play it.
... Then I got myself a PS2 and stopped playing PC games altogether and cancelled my WineX subscription. ...but recently I've gone back to dual booting, first to try some Windows based video editing software and then to do my taxes (you can't netfile from Linux yet) ...then again I'm a bit of a techie geek and I like to explore the inner workings of my programs rather than use wizards for everything.
.... each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Gentoo lets me pump a little more efficiency out of my desktop and Debian gives me a relatively quick install and quick upgrades for my server without installing crap I don't want. (gentoo doesn't install crap either, but Mandrake, which is what I recommend to newbies does install a lot of junk.
Then when I stopped playing EQ I bought a WineX subscription and moved to Linux full time.
Both Windows and Linux have their strengths, but I personally prefer to spend most of my time in Linux.
I'm the kind of guy who will spend days or weeks setting up his system and getting it to work exactly as I want it rather than the type who would prefer to have an image disk from Dell to go back to.
I use Gentoo and Debian both on different machines for different purposes for exactly the reason I dual boot Windows and Linux
Yes, in Linux it's either it works out of the box, you download and COMPILE something and it works well thereafter, or it just doesn't work at all.
...but that's just because it is in the manufacturer's interest to support windows in some way or another. Even if the support for your version of windows is pretty crappy.
:( I was a little peeved, but managed to figure out how to get it working by downloading some rather new drivers and compiling, but that's kind of a rare case... then there is the printer I bought last year BECAUSE OF THE PENGUIN ON THE BOX! (can you tell I'm still peeved about that one?) ...a Lexmark Z55, again it came with drivers that only work in a handful of Linux versions and on the website they don't even provide the option to get drivers that are generic.. after fighting with it for a long time I bought an HP printer and it worked out of the box, no driver install needed (just emerge cups on my gentoo box and away I went.)
In windows there are many more levels, but fewer pieces of hardware in the Just doesn't work at all category.
I remember buying a server once that was designed for Linux use and trying to upgrade from Mandrake 7.2 to 8.0 I think it was, and finding that the driver for the disk controller only existed in binary form on the install disks and that only worked with the kernels in Redhat 6.2
if running custom windows software is part of his job, then I'm afraid Linux isn't going to do him much good. wine isn't that good yet.
If you can build a self contained habitat in space you can build one on the moon and the moon provides it's own gravity. (while much lower gravity than we are used to, at least it's free gravity)
Do you have any idea how much hardware and how many people are involved in going from rocks to spaceships? _ALL_ of that would have to be shipped to the moon, simply to avoid the cost of sending maybe a thousand tons of spaceship directly into orbit from Earth. That's insane.
That depends on what the ultimate goal is. If the ultimate goal is just to be a waystation then you're probably right. If the ultimate goal is to work toward colonization of other planets then building factories on the moon is not insane, just hugely more time consuming than utilizing existing factories here on Earth, but the long term (50-100 years or more) benefit of trying to build factories on the moon would probably be a lot more significant than a quick and easy trip to Mars... for that matter if we really want to save money and speed things up why not just launch from Earth? It's already a proven launch point and has all the factories in place. If all we want to do is put bootprints on Mars lets do it from here and skip the whole waypoint non-sense.
didn't need to make any port mappings at all. Take SIP box as shipped from Primus, plug phone into box, plug box into NAT and power, wait a few minutes for it to boot up and all, pick up handset to get dial tone.