I saw something on TV (sorry can't remember where, probably VH1 or MTV;-) about two Russian "scientists" who did a big survey to produce the "most preferred" and "least preferred" music. Well, the TV show people took both tapes into a local club and first played the "desirable" tape. (It was kinda schmoozy pop style music). The crowd danced and grooved and seemed to like it. Then they put on the horrible disonant annoying (gongs, opera, etc.) tape...and the (somewhat drunk) crowd looked puzzled for a moment and then started dancing and grooving to that, with the same glazed drunken looks as before. Quite funny.
The russian guys were all excited about having produced "democratic" music. gag me with a tuning fork, their "ideal" music pretty much sucked.
Well, I can't get to the article either, but it seems to me that if and when it's all done, it will be quite a triumph, that is, if all we hear about the quality is true. I sure hope so.
I'm going off to Coast Guard boot camp at the end of the month and when I get done with all my school (early spring) I expect to come back online and find the whole world straightened out.;-)
Oh foo! all i need is enough money for a nice new computer and a stereo and a bunch of cds and a truck and some acreage and a tractor and that nice taylor guitar and traveling to europe and paying off my school loans and donating to charity and i will be just dandy and comfortable. "i don't need anything!!...Except this chair!! All i need is this chair! and this lamp! but that's all!"
Yeah, I found this article to be lacking. I reached the end with a dry taste in my mouth...because instead of getting a good picture of DEFCON (and wanting to see how it compares to the X-Files version;-)) I got yet another warning about cDc and, as his big main ending point, "watch out for the scary email virus!!!" Let the man do what he wants with his hair, but come on...!
So this is kinda offtopic...but I wanna know how Solaris competes with Linux right now.
Looking to purchase a Toshiba Satelite 2595 (or something similar) in the next few months and it really grinds my eraser that the only options I seem to have when it comes to watching DVD movies on a laptop (don't laugh) is using Win98 or a Mac. Not even the wonderful Multimedia OS (Be) has it. So...remembering that Solaris is free for personal use...I trotted over to their webpage to see what they offer in terms of x86 notebook compatibility (ie drivers) and DVD Movie support. Didn't find much to help me.
Perhaps there isn't such a strong market desire for the DVD movie-on-a-computer under Linux. But Couldn't Corel or IBM or one of these big rich helpful companies buy the licenses and help things along...? I'd pay a bit of cash for a binary if it would let me watch The Matrix (barring other problems) on laptop in a bunk on a boat, without having to have WinClunk. (Which IMHO is not worth trashing a $2100 machine with. My old compaq play-machine that sits in front of me yes, but not such a long-term investment.)
Well, my father is a plant manager...his job is to keep buildings/groups of buildings running. A few years ago they tested their massive heating and cooling system (basically the heart and soul of a medium sized state government office building) and it just stopped. I'm sure that since then they have been working hard to fix it.
At the place he works now, the entire office staff (about 2 dozen people) spent about a month transfering records by hand and then learning the new Y2K safe computer system. The (unnamed) State (made (in)famous by a certain huge $oftware company) seems to have its head on straight and has been testing and fixing its systems for several years. Of course this is quite costly.
It's not a very scientific observation, but I've seen Redhat and sometimes other distros on the shelves in mall software stores and the like. Our university bookstore is still pretty behind it with computers...prices are insane for 3 year old software...but they have linux books (cd's bundled.)
I think perhaps the Distro people themselves could provide data on how many units are sold and how...
Costco tends to not diversify too much, they sell whatever they can get cheap. That's why their product line sometimes changes slightly over the months....
it's been at least three years since the populace were luddist, technophobic, ignorant masses
Sorry to mash yer post. I agree though, this seems like an odd product. "Let's take what our users are accustomed to, a desktop computer running an operating system, and remove nearly every function. Tie them to a proprietary and costly server/client system. Then return it to them at the same cost as what they had before. This is the wave of the future!!" I'm not biting.
SUN: Gimmie a sub-notebook with an ergonomic keyboard, a looong long battery life, and a built in printer. Then my portability needs will be met.;-)...Still trying to figure out how to get an Underwood to do email and icq.
I truly don't see a pressing need for this "technology." What exactly is the point? Yes, the ability to search a database is probably the most useful thing a computer can do (besides perhaps worprocessing/page layout) but what is the practical use here? Will a State Trooper have a(nother) computer in his (already crowded) vehicle that he will use to check the ID that I give him? Will store clerks tap into the database?
I just don't see the purpose. Perhaps this would allow me to lose the wallet...just remember my own personal Identification Number and let them figure out who I am. It's already possible for me to just memorize my VISA/phone/etc. numbers and use them without the card...
Quote from the article: A future in which everything "just works" might be a tad too utopian for everyone to believe in, but it's certainly worth working toward.
I've been dreaming for years now for a simple, easy to use, reliable computer, notebook or desktop, that I can buy/build now and have running nicely 10 years from now. My needs are these: A very good word processor, ppp connection (oughtta still be around in 10 years I hope...), email ability, and mp3 or mp2 playback. I've almost become so disgusted with this multifacted OS, upgrade-itis, and reliability dilemna that I've started looking into getting myself a nice old portable typewriter. Alas, I would miss email terribly much though.
Well, Prodigy was my first exposure to modem usage. Unfortunately we kids couldn't do much with it because we were warned that you could *click* and suddenly it drains yer VISA card. stupid parents I guess. (not mine!!)
Anyone remember the joke in one of the Space Quest games where theres a terminal in one if the screens that is sloooowly loading "Plodigy." I got a kick out of that one, waaay back when. Miss those games....
We've got an old guy at work here mowing lawns with us, and he's named Ken. One of the other nice old guys calls him Kenny and it's all i can do to not chuckle sometimes. They don't understand of course...both of em'd be appalled by SouthPark I know.
This is just too funny! Looks like somebody just got hisself a parallel port cam or perhaps a scanner. He just looks soooo pleased with himself. Hehehe.
Reminds me of our 5 person network Quake ][ bash in a friend's friend's apartment, all of us laying back in easy chairs and couches with our monitors on the floor, keyboard/mice in laps, and cpu boxen lost in a huge tangle of cables and networkingness. Man that was fun.
Oh, that was when we went to Seattle to watch Almost Live! live. Bastards! They just canceled the show after 15 years. All good people need to let forth a terrible sigh and then go burn down the KING5 studio. (HEHE. For those out of the Seattle area loop, they also own KONG TV. Get it?? King Kong. hahahahaha!)
*totally offtopic* Red Hot Chili Peppers New Cut Californication is a bumpin' disk!!!
Well, about 15 people beat me to the beowulf, penguin, BSOD, and beer jokes...but what if some script kiddie, cracker, or mutant cheese virus fubared yer food management operation???
"Security Notice! Beware the Fridgidaire Virus!!!!"
That's almost worth turning into a sig, cept it took me months to settle on the one I've got.;-)
I can imagine seeing a squad of those skeleton zombie things attacking a switchyard. Maybe you'd have the little troll or whatever ya call him hucking those incendiary bags of hooey at a locomotive. And that eery death music mixed with eery choo-choo and toot-toot noises.;-)
A question: how do these game makers cope with graphics display under linux? Do these new games for linux (and hopefully other *nixen) use The X Window System or svgalib (I think that's what it's called...) or what...? Maybe this isn't the big deal I imagine it is...
LinCity (a city/community/economy simulator) kicks some serious time-wasting arse. (Sorry, dunno the url. go dig around tucows or sumpin'.)
Of course, I gotta be first to ask, "wouldn't it be nifty to have a beowolf cluster in a briefcase??";-)
seriously though, i think these are cool. probably hella expensive and all though.
*offtopic* Dagnabit, I'm tired of waiting...waiting for xfree4, waiting for KDE 2, Koffice, slackware 5, corelinux, Berlin, friday, october...money for guitar...money for new puter...waiting waiting waiting...
Being a young person, I've moved (and foresee moving) often (college, work, etc) and it is difficult to maintain an email address. (It's difficult to switch 40 friends and relatives every few months.) So I just toughed it out and suffered through Hotmail. (It was fine before they were bought by you-know-who.)
Outlook Express integration of Hotmail is one of the major things keeping me with Win95 and IE5 (don't laugh, it's useful!) Now that feature hasn't worked for several days. I guess that's what "limited Beta" means. Another straw on the camel's back. Time to shop for a hardwareModem... and a distro again...hehe
I'll still use postal mail for small packages, special letters, and bills that i dont trust to electronica.
** Oh, anyone else think the "Submit" button oughta be removed so previewing is mandatory and we won't have the "oops, blank/incomplete post" phenomenon? *cough*;-)
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I saw something on TV (sorry can't remember where, probably VH1 or MTV ;-) about two Russian "scientists" who did a big survey to produce the "most preferred" and "least preferred" music. Well, the TV show people took both tapes into a local club and first played the "desirable" tape. (It was kinda schmoozy pop style music). The crowd danced and grooved and seemed to like it. Then they put on the horrible disonant annoying (gongs, opera, etc.) tape...and the (somewhat drunk) crowd looked puzzled for a moment and then started dancing and grooving to that, with the same glazed drunken looks as before. Quite funny.
The russian guys were all excited about having produced "democratic" music. gag me with a tuning fork, their "ideal" music pretty much sucked.
Well, I can't get to the article either, but it seems to me that if and when it's all done, it will be quite a triumph, that is, if all we hear about the quality is true. I sure hope so.
;-)
I'm going off to Coast Guard boot camp at the end of the month and when I get done with all my school (early spring) I expect to come back online and find the whole world straightened out.
dood thats scary! the microsoft remote mentioned elsewhere here has very few buttons, but one of them has a little "house" icon on it!!!
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http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/take
First, we collect underpants. ...
next,
third, PROFIT!!!!
yippee!!!
Oh foo! all i need is enough money for a nice new computer and a stereo and a bunch of cds and a truck and some acreage and a tractor and that nice taylor guitar and traveling to europe and paying off my school loans and donating to charity and i will be just dandy and comfortable.
"i don't need anything!!...Except this chair!! All i need is this chair! and this lamp! but that's all!"
Yeah, I found this article to be lacking. I reached the end with a dry taste in my mouth...because instead of getting a good picture of DEFCON (and wanting to see how it compares to the X-Files version ;-)) I got yet another warning about cDc and, as his big main ending point, "watch out for the scary email virus!!!"
Let the man do what he wants with his hair, but come on...!
So this is kinda offtopic...but I wanna know how Solaris competes with Linux right now.
Looking to purchase a Toshiba Satelite 2595 (or something similar) in the next few months and it really grinds my eraser that the only options I seem to have when it comes to watching DVD movies on a laptop (don't laugh) is using Win98 or a Mac. Not even the wonderful Multimedia OS (Be) has it. So...remembering that Solaris is free for personal use...I trotted over to their webpage to see what they offer in terms of x86 notebook compatibility (ie drivers) and DVD Movie support. Didn't find much to help me.
Perhaps there isn't such a strong market desire for the DVD movie-on-a-computer under Linux. But Couldn't Corel or IBM or one of these big rich helpful companies buy the licenses and help things along...? I'd pay a bit of cash for a binary if it would let me watch The Matrix (barring other problems) on laptop in a bunk on a boat, without having to have WinClunk. (Which IMHO is not worth trashing a $2100 machine with. My old compaq play-machine that sits in front of me yes, but not such a long-term investment.)
Well, my father is a plant manager...his job is to keep buildings/groups of buildings running. A few years ago they tested their massive heating and cooling system (basically the heart and soul of a medium sized state government office building) and it just stopped. I'm sure that since then they have been working hard to fix it.
At the place he works now, the entire office staff (about 2 dozen people) spent about a month transfering records by hand and then learning the new Y2K safe computer system. The (unnamed) State (made (in)famous by a certain huge $oftware company) seems to have its head on straight and has been testing and fixing its systems for several years. Of course this is quite costly.
It's not a very scientific observation, but I've seen Redhat and sometimes other distros on the shelves in mall software stores and the like. Our university bookstore is still pretty behind it with computers...prices are insane for 3 year old software...but they have linux books (cd's bundled.)
I think perhaps the Distro people themselves could provide data on how many units are sold and how...
Costco tends to not diversify too much, they sell whatever they can get cheap. That's why their product line sometimes changes slightly over the months....
i'm not waiting to find out what bad things might happen on "9" day. I'm just leaving now!! Gonna go spend the weekend in a cabin.
hahahahaha. losers.
waitaminute. no slashdot for 3 days. aaaaagghh!
i wonder if i oughtta change my sig...
I find this statement a bit amusing.
;-) ...Still trying to figure out how to get an Underwood to do email and icq.
it's been at least three years since the populace were luddist, technophobic, ignorant masses
Sorry to mash yer post. I agree though, this seems like an odd product. "Let's take what our users are accustomed to, a desktop computer running an operating system, and remove nearly every function. Tie them to a proprietary and costly server/client system. Then return it to them at the same cost as what they had before. This is the wave of the future!!" I'm not biting.
SUN: Gimmie a sub-notebook with an ergonomic keyboard, a looong long battery life, and a built in printer. Then my portability needs will be met.
I truly don't see a pressing need for this "technology." What exactly is the point? Yes, the ability to search a database is probably the most useful thing a computer can do (besides perhaps worprocessing/page layout) but what is the practical use here? Will a State Trooper have a(nother) computer in his (already crowded) vehicle that he will use to check the ID that I give him? Will store clerks tap into the database?
I just don't see the purpose. Perhaps this would allow me to lose the wallet...just remember my own personal Identification Number and let them figure out who I am. It's already possible for me to just memorize my VISA/phone/etc. numbers and use them without the card...
Quote from the article:
A future in which everything "just works" might be a tad too utopian for everyone to believe in, but it's certainly worth working toward.
I've been dreaming for years now for a simple, easy to use, reliable computer, notebook or desktop, that I can buy/build now and have running nicely 10 years from now. My needs are these: A very good word processor, ppp connection (oughtta still be around in 10 years I hope...), email ability, and mp3 or mp2 playback. I've almost become so disgusted with this multifacted OS, upgrade-itis, and reliability dilemna that I've started looking into getting myself a nice old portable typewriter. Alas, I would miss email terribly much though.
Oh, by cluster you must mean a Beo-*WHAP* [user slapped upside the head by self-moderation instinct.]
;-)
hehehehehe
I will volunteer my talents to such an endeavor!
Man that pick is cool. It just went onto my desktop.
well, i havent used it, but the screenshots make it look useful and full-featured enough.
But I don't care how i have to install my *nix, I'm just waiting for desktop applications. That's all that I really care about...
I fulfill none of the qualifications but I am willing to learn and I'm open to prefixing things I write if it pays! ;-)
Below is my GNU/sig.
Well, Prodigy was my first exposure to modem usage. Unfortunately we kids couldn't do much with it because we were warned that you could *click* and suddenly it drains yer VISA card. stupid parents I guess. (not mine!!)
Anyone remember the joke in one of the Space Quest games where theres a terminal in one if the screens that is sloooowly loading "Plodigy." I got a kick out of that one, waaay back when. Miss those games....
We've got an old guy at work here mowing lawns with us, and he's named Ken. One of the other nice old guys calls him Kenny and it's all i can do to not chuckle sometimes. They don't understand of course...both of em'd be appalled by SouthPark I know.
this using that new "open" IBM powerpc spec mothabored? That seems incredibly quick. Maybe I'm confused.
128 processers under MacOS!?!?! I'm skeptical about all this...
This is just too funny! Looks like somebody just got hisself a parallel port cam or perhaps a scanner. He just looks soooo pleased with himself. Hehehe.
Reminds me of our 5 person network Quake ][ bash in a friend's friend's apartment, all of us laying back in easy chairs and couches with our monitors on the floor, keyboard/mice in laps, and cpu boxen lost in a huge tangle of cables and networkingness. Man that was fun.
Oh, that was when we went to Seattle to watch Almost Live! live. Bastards! They just canceled the show after 15 years. All good people need to let forth a terrible sigh and then go burn down the KING5 studio. (HEHE. For those out of the Seattle area loop, they also own KONG TV. Get it?? King Kong. hahahahaha!)
*totally offtopic* Red Hot Chili Peppers New Cut Californication is a bumpin' disk!!!
Well, about 15 people beat me to the beowulf, penguin, BSOD, and beer jokes...but what if some script kiddie, cracker, or mutant cheese virus fubared yer food management operation???
;-)
"Security Notice! Beware the Fridgidaire Virus!!!!"
That's almost worth turning into a sig, cept it took me months to settle on the one I've got.
myth terrain. hehehe.
;-)
I can imagine seeing a squad of those skeleton zombie things attacking a switchyard. Maybe you'd have the little troll or whatever ya call him hucking those incendiary bags of hooey at a locomotive. And that eery death music mixed with eery choo-choo and toot-toot noises.
A question: how do these game makers cope with graphics display under linux? Do these new games for linux (and hopefully other *nixen) use The X Window System or svgalib (I think that's what it's called...) or what...? Maybe this isn't the big deal I imagine it is...
LinCity (a city/community/economy simulator) kicks some serious time-wasting arse. (Sorry, dunno the url. go dig around tucows or sumpin'.)
Of course, I gotta be first to ask, "wouldn't it be nifty to have a beowolf cluster in a briefcase??" ;-)
...waiting for xfree4, waiting for KDE 2, Koffice, slackware 5, corelinux, Berlin, friday, october...money for guitar...money for new puter...waiting waiting waiting...
seriously though, i think these are cool. probably hella expensive and all though.
*offtopic* Dagnabit, I'm tired of waiting
Being a young person, I've moved (and foresee moving) often (college, work, etc) and it is difficult to maintain an email address. (It's difficult to switch 40 friends and relatives every few months.) So I just toughed it out and suffered through Hotmail. (It was fine before they were bought by you-know-who.)
;-)
Outlook Express integration of Hotmail is one of the major things keeping me with Win95 and IE5 (don't laugh, it's useful!) Now that feature hasn't worked for several days. I guess that's what "limited Beta" means. Another straw on the camel's back. Time to shop for a hardwareModem... and a distro again...hehe
I'll still use postal mail for small packages, special letters, and bills that i dont trust to electronica.
** Oh, anyone else think the "Submit" button oughta be removed so previewing is mandatory and we won't have the "oops, blank/incomplete post" phenomenon? *cough*