I have a collection of 60 laserdiscs, and I still buy a lot of imported anime on laserdisc. What's this about laserdiscs degrading over time? Where'd you hear about this?
You know SCSI 160 is totally useless unless you have a drive that can saturate that channel. So far, there's no single drive that can, so you look to RAID options. Right now, there's ATA-to-SCSI adapters such as the Medea setup that my friend is using. It lets you hook up ATA drives to an Ultra2Wide SCSI card, so you're getting an equivalent of a SCSI RAID using much cheaper ATA drives. Because of stuff like this, SCSI drives are losing more of its edge over ATA drives. Of course, you'll still need SCSI for those dozen-removable-drive servers and for external stuff, but at least now there's cheaper alternatives to some of the stuff SCSI was good for.
How can you have a "Favorite Slashdot Poster" award without Signal 11 as one of the candidates? Of course, I mighta still voted for BOredAtWork, but Signal 11 certainly has more of a clue than that other candidate, AC.
I'd undergo surgery myself if I could have heat beams implanted in my eyes! I'd have sunglasses on and be able to set someone's hair on fire and nobody would be the wiser. Or how about being able to see through clothing? Endless hours of fun!!!
Although at 40 million dollars a pop it IS a wee bit steep.
Actually, it's $40 million for the first guy who goes up. Everyone after that only has to pay $25 million, so that should bring it a little closer to your price range.
AFAIK, the biggest bottleneck in SMPin' is the OS. According to my blurry recollection, BeOS is supposed to be the most efficient at utilizing the multiple processors, NT does a half-decent job, and Win9X doesn't do SMP at all. I don't know anything about how well Linux does, but I suggest you do some more research if you want hard numbers.
Go over there and scroll down on the first page a little. Some of the guys have gotten their hands on this little puppy and had good things to say about it.
It was only offered once, and I'm really lucky to have been in it. At the University of California, Riverside, it was called something like Film & Visual Culture 173e, and it was mostly about the cultural impact that all the various Star Trek series and movies have had on American culture. My favorite moment in the class was when we were talking about subtle racism in Star Trek and we watched that one In Living Color spoof of TOS where Jim Carrey was Capt. Kirk and Farrakhan came on board. I think it was called the Wrath of Farrakhan...
Anyways, just sharing. Classes that show movies are cool.
Artistic license happens in fictional works... you know, stuff that's "art" uses "artistic license." This does not fall into the same category as news coverage. If they're going to alter video footage and try to pass it off as news, then yes, that is unethical. If they don't like NBC's logo, they had the option to blur or mosaic it out in a way that lets the viewer know that it was altered.
Normally when you're watching news coverage, there's a trust that the audience puts into the news that they're getting the real deal. It's an implied agreement that the news will present us with facts (both stated and visual), and that we viewers come to expect that. This is one of the things that separates news from sitcoms and drama series. This is why we don't raise a flap if we get computer special effects in the movies. This is why we get pissed if the news gives us doctored footage.
Or does this guy sound like he works for @Home? He's the only @Home customer who's had something good to say about the service, and it sounds like the complete opposite of what everyone else's experience is...
You have to call them. They're too lazy to check their email on a regular basis. I'd ordered brochures from them online on three occasions. Since I didn't get a response, I called and told them I wanted a catalog and that they should check their email more often. The next week, I got four copies of their brochure in separate envelopes.
Just FYI, their cases are generally $80 with 250W power supplies, and $100 with 300W supplies.
My Black PC right here. Of course, I have yet to paint the drives black, but the case itself looks really nice. My only problem with it was that it was a sort of coffee color instead of gray, but oh well. Myself, I like black computers, as evidenced by my other computer, the Blackintosh. I think with all these colorful cases coming out, one color that hasn't gotten enough attention is black.
I am sure that this type of effect (and the systemwide transparency too) is only possible because of openGL.
Actually, SJ mentioned during the keynote that it was possible because of Quartz, not OpenGL. Quartz is Apple's implementation of Adobe's PDF format into the system. Everything in the system is based on Quartz, so these sorts of effects can be applied everywhere.
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Have any of you taken a look at it? You need an iron liver just to make it through a 50k page of comments!
Fifty years from now, my grandchildren are going to ask me what I was doing on the eve of 2000. With a tear in my eye, I'll truthfully tell them that I was working to make sure that nothing bad happened.
What, that's not something to be sad about! That's something you tell your grandkids with pride!
Don't worry about it man. Usually when a grip of people submit a story, they accept the first submission and reject everyone else who punched the submit button a second too late. Sometimes they'll even reject the first guy who submitted it if they feel like writing up their own story introduction instead of using the one that the story submitter wrote.
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I have a collection of 60 laserdiscs, and I still buy a lot of imported anime on laserdisc. What's this about laserdiscs degrading over time? Where'd you hear about this?
You know SCSI 160 is totally useless unless you have a drive that can saturate that channel. So far, there's no single drive that can, so you look to RAID options. Right now, there's ATA-to-SCSI adapters such as the Medea setup that my friend is using. It lets you hook up ATA drives to an Ultra2Wide SCSI card, so you're getting an equivalent of a SCSI RAID using much cheaper ATA drives. Because of stuff like this, SCSI drives are losing more of its edge over ATA drives. Of course, you'll still need SCSI for those dozen-removable-drive servers and for external stuff, but at least now there's cheaper alternatives to some of the stuff SCSI was good for.
I bought a pair of those and started watching Baywatch. All I could see was a glass tube.
The guy simply paid for Microsoft's fee. NSI doesn't care where they get the money, and the guy didn't want to make any claim to the domain name.
How can you have a "Favorite Slashdot Poster" award without Signal 11 as one of the candidates? Of course, I mighta still voted for BOredAtWork, but Signal 11 certainly has more of a clue than that other candidate, AC.
I'd undergo surgery myself if I could have heat beams implanted in my eyes! I'd have sunglasses on and be able to set someone's hair on fire and nobody would be the wiser. Or how about being able to see through clothing? Endless hours of fun!!!
Although at 40 million dollars a pop it IS a wee bit steep.
Actually, it's $40 million for the first guy who goes up. Everyone after that only has to pay $25 million, so that should bring it a little closer to your price range.
AFAIK, the biggest bottleneck in SMPin' is the OS. According to my blurry recollection, BeOS is supposed to be the most efficient at utilizing the multiple processors, NT does a half-decent job, and Win9X doesn't do SMP at all. I don't know anything about how well Linux does, but I suggest you do some more research if you want hard numbers.
Go over there and scroll down on the first page a little. Some of the guys have gotten their hands on this little puppy and had good things to say about it.
It was only offered once, and I'm really lucky to have been in it. At the University of California, Riverside, it was called something like Film & Visual Culture 173e, and it was mostly about the cultural impact that all the various Star Trek series and movies have had on American culture. My favorite moment in the class was when we were talking about subtle racism in Star Trek and we watched that one In Living Color spoof of TOS where Jim Carrey was Capt. Kirk and Farrakhan came on board. I think it was called the Wrath of Farrakhan...
Anyways, just sharing. Classes that show movies are cool.
Artistic license happens in fictional works... you know, stuff that's "art" uses "artistic license." This does not fall into the same category as news coverage. If they're going to alter video footage and try to pass it off as news, then yes, that is unethical. If they don't like NBC's logo, they had the option to blur or mosaic it out in a way that lets the viewer know that it was altered.
Normally when you're watching news coverage, there's a trust that the audience puts into the news that they're getting the real deal. It's an implied agreement that the news will present us with facts (both stated and visual), and that we viewers come to expect that. This is one of the things that separates news from sitcoms and drama series. This is why we don't raise a flap if we get computer special effects in the movies. This is why we get pissed if the news gives us doctored footage.
Bill Gates is staying on as Chairman, not President.
It was Entrega (who no longer exists BTW). Entrega simply let Intel handle most of the advocacy since they had more resources. Just a little nitpick.
Or does this guy sound like he works for @Home? He's the only @Home customer who's had something good to say about the service, and it sounds like the complete opposite of what everyone else's experience is...
"Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer, do
I'm half crazy
All for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
Of a Bicycle built for two"
Like this.
You have to call them. They're too lazy to check their email on a regular basis. I'd ordered brochures from them online on three occasions. Since I didn't get a response, I called and told them I wanted a catalog and that they should check their email more often. The next week, I got four copies of their brochure in separate envelopes.
Just FYI, their cases are generally $80 with 250W power supplies, and $100 with 300W supplies.
My Black PC right here. Of course, I have yet to paint the drives black, but the case itself looks really nice. My only problem with it was that it was a sort of coffee color instead of gray, but oh well. Myself, I like black computers, as evidenced by my other computer, the Blackintosh. I think with all these colorful cases coming out, one color that hasn't gotten enough attention is black.
I am sure that this type of effect (and the systemwide transparency too) is only possible because of openGL.
Actually, SJ mentioned during the keynote that it was possible because of Quartz, not OpenGL. Quartz is Apple's implementation of Adobe's PDF format into the system. Everything in the system is based on Quartz, so these sorts of effects can be applied everywhere.
Have any of you taken a look at it? You need an iron liver just to make it through a 50k page of comments!
Fifty years from now, my grandchildren are going to ask me what I was doing on the eve of 2000. With a tear in my eye, I'll truthfully tell them that I was working to make sure that nothing bad happened.
What, that's not something to be sad about! That's something you tell your grandkids with pride!
"Frequently updated tech news with a large portion of mostly informed opinion on the side. "
Haha, and check what they said about Drudge:
"Matt Drudge has bragged that he likes to go where the stink is. Something stinks, all right."
Don't worry about it man. Usually when a grip of people submit a story, they accept the first submission and reject everyone else who punched the submit button a second too late. Sometimes they'll even reject the first guy who submitted it if they feel like writing up their own story introduction instead of using the one that the story submitter wrote.
Haha, now I wish I had kids of my own so I could play funny tricks on them like that too!