In fact, I've discovered (well, actually TiVo suggested to me) a couple programs that it turns out I like quite a lot, and I catch every episode, and I have no clue what time they're on
That's definately one of the funny aspects of having a TiVo. It's interesting to note that there are a lot of shows you don't hear much about (old and new) that run at weird hours so you don't normally get to see them. Last summer I got into watching the series Sports Night (same guy who made West Wing, good show) and started TiVoing it. Turns out it runs at like 4 in the morning on Comedy Central, so I ended up skipping over a lot of "girls gone wild" commericals:) But they showed it 5 times a week so with the help of the TiVo I was able to see the whole series run over the course of the summer.
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that are sitting on 100Mbit connection (hello student home, yes I mean you)
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and where most stuff is availible on the local network at blazing speeds. As far as I can tell, they basicly don't watch much TV at all. They're so used to having stuff on-demand they don't adapt to any schedule, and when they do find the time (no VCR/PVR since they watch so little TV) the ads bugs them. I think they and the TiVo users are pretty much the same group, ignoring certain legal differences.
I wouldn't say TV isn't watched at all; but I would agree with you to a large part. I don't know how many times I or a friend has said "ya know what was a good episode of the simpsons?" and then we got it off the network and watched it. Another friend of mine who loves West Wing doesn't even have a TV - she watches the new episodes as they show up on the network.
Will it extend to the general populace? I don't know about that, at least without a lot of stickiness about who gets paid for what and what kind of access. But it reminds me of how the Internet boom started -- not the.coms but the rise of ISPs. Used to be the Internet was something you had in school, but as the first generations of Internet college kids graduated, naturally they wanted to take it with them.
I've always been interested in Moebius strips and I have, in my idle moments, thought of the same thing. Do you possibly have any pictures of how they turned out>
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I'll vouch for this place. I haven't been down there in quite some time, but they have a decent array of all sorts of bits. Makes me wish I was a bit more electronically inclined...
I had a similar situation with an old 486 running as a modem NAT box under Linux. The hard drive started going bad and would, from time to time, make a loud click and spin down. Usually a good swift whack would start it up again, but as time went on, it became worse and worse. Fortunately, as you said, the networking stuff all lives in memory, so once the box had successfully booted it would perform its duties quite capably (at least, assuming you didn't want to ssh in and do something at the shell).
Lasted this way for a few months, until finally the drive died for good and I switched over to a Linux Router Project floppy.
Stop and think. Why do you need to listen to headphones at the same decibel range when they are a centimeter from your ear? And if you have good headphones, the clarity and detail will let you listen to your music at a *quieter* level and still hear more nuances than you could with your speaker system.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but $40 is nowhere near the head-end of headphones. And the ones you get for free with your walkman, forget it. There are lots of good moderately priced headphones that have straight connectors, which might be what you need. Read up a HeadWize or Head-Fi if you are interested in quality headphones.
That could be because of the lack of crossfeed. With speakers, you hear the right channel with both ears, but the left is slightly delayed. Since headphones go directly on your ear, you don't get this. There are, however, headphone amplifiers that do crossfeed processing to correct this. Here's a bit more about that concept.
Q:What are the differences between the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors?
A:The upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors are designed for different markets. For the server/workstation market, the AMD Opteron processor will undergo more stringent validation and reliability testing. Another difference will be in the number of HyperTransport links embedded on the chip. The AMD Athlon 64 processor will contain one HyperTransport link offering 6.4 GB/s data transfer while the AMD Opteron processor will offer three links. The processors will also contain different amounts of cache.
Strange. Myself, I found Islands of the Net extremely dull and slow; I really had to be diligant to keep reading. It got better towards the end but overall wasn't that great, in my opinion. Which surprised me alot, since I love Stephenson's works and Gibson is pretty good as well. Perhaps my expectations were too high, since I keep hearing how Sterling is the 'other' big name in cyberpunk.
Thanks for the suggestion. I came upon Varley's Titan trilogy and was very impressed. I wasn't aware he had done anything in the cyperpunk vein; I'm now looking forward to finding these. Unfortunately Varley is not a very well-stocked author at most places.
One of the really effective bits in Doom was the sound effects. In particular, one little trick - they would vary the pitch of the monster sounds by a bit each time they played it. Simple but very effective - when there were a dozen demons somewhere around the corner, it really sounded like a snorting snarling herd and not just one growling over and over and over.
I thought it was strange that I haven't seen this trick in any other games. Am I wrong?
Oops. That'd make me a dumbass, then. But I'd say the rest of it still figures. And, as someone else said, I'd be willing to bet it'll be rolled out in stores in the response to the web program is decent.
What a dumbass post. How will they buy them? See, there are these things called stores. Walmart has a few. In fact, Walmart has a lot. In fact, Walmart is the largest retail company in the world.
Walmart sells a wide range of products to the 'lowest comment denominator' customers. They may not have the money to buy high end but they're not dumbasses; they know if they buy a computer for $200 while Dell advertises computers for $1000, their computer is not going to be the newest and fasters and it's not going to run everything.
Leaving aside the traditional Walmart customer... Many Linux geeks I know run multiple boxes, often on old hardware. A cheap no-frills box you can pick up with a 20 minute trip and use for a mail server, firewall, database, etc isn't a bad deal.
Under the rug there's a trapdoor leading to the apartment below me.
Give up, it's hopeless. Believe me, I tried. Even if you board up all the doors, someone'll still find a way to sneak in through the kitchen window you left ajar and clean out all the treasures in you trophy case. You just can't win.
I second this idea. For $200, you aren't going to find anything of audiophile quality in speakers, at least not for a whole system. Read some more headphone reviews at the community forums head-fi and headwize.
Myself, I have a pair of Sennheiser HD-580 headphones (no glasses) and I am completely happy with them. You can also get some good deals on used headphones on the above forums as well.
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In fact, I've discovered (well, actually TiVo suggested to me) a couple programs that it turns out I like quite a lot, and I catch every episode, and I have no clue what time they're on
:) But they showed it 5 times a week so with the help of the TiVo I was able to see the whole series run over the course of the summer.
That's definately one of the funny aspects of having a TiVo. It's interesting to note that there are a lot of shows you don't hear much about (old and new) that run at weird hours so you don't normally get to see them. Last summer I got into watching the series Sports Night (same guy who made West Wing, good show) and started TiVoing it. Turns out it runs at like 4 in the morning on Comedy Central, so I ended up skipping over a lot of "girls gone wild" commericals
that are sitting on 100Mbit connection (hello student home, yes I mean you)
.coms but the rise of ISPs. Used to be the Internet was something you had in school, but as the first generations of Internet college kids graduated, naturally they wanted to take it with them.
Hi!
and where most stuff is availible on the local network at blazing speeds. As far as I can tell, they basicly don't watch much TV at all. They're so used to having stuff on-demand they don't adapt to any schedule, and when they do find the time (no VCR/PVR since they watch so little TV) the ads bugs them. I think they and the TiVo users are pretty much the same group, ignoring certain legal differences.
I wouldn't say TV isn't watched at all; but I would agree with you to a large part. I don't know how many times I or a friend has said "ya know what was a good episode of the simpsons?" and then we got it off the network and watched it. Another friend of mine who loves West Wing doesn't even have a TV - she watches the new episodes as they show up on the network.
Will it extend to the general populace? I don't know about that, at least without a lot of stickiness about who gets paid for what and what kind of access. But it reminds me of how the Internet boom started -- not the
I've always been interested in Moebius strips and I have, in my idle moments, thought of the same thing. Do you possibly have any pictures of how they turned out>
I'll vouch for this place. I haven't been down there in quite some time, but they have a decent array of all sorts of bits. Makes me wish I was a bit more electronically inclined...
I had a similar situation with an old 486 running as a modem NAT box under Linux. The hard drive started going bad and would, from time to time, make a loud click and spin down. Usually a good swift whack would start it up again, but as time went on, it became worse and worse. Fortunately, as you said, the networking stuff all lives in memory, so once the box had successfully booted it would perform its duties quite capably (at least, assuming you didn't want to ssh in and do something at the shell).
Lasted this way for a few months, until finally the drive died for good and I switched over to a Linux Router Project floppy.
The "google" vs "googol" thing, that is.
We need a "+1: Terrible" mod
Stop and think. Why do you need to listen to headphones at the same decibel range when they are a centimeter from your ear? And if you have good headphones, the clarity and detail will let you listen to your music at a *quieter* level and still hear more nuances than you could with your speaker system.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but $40 is nowhere near the head-end of headphones. And the ones you get for free with your walkman, forget it. There are lots of good moderately priced headphones that have straight connectors, which might be what you need. Read up a HeadWize or Head-Fi if you are interested in quality headphones.
That could be because of the lack of crossfeed. With speakers, you hear the right channel with both ears, but the left is slightly delayed. Since headphones go directly on your ear, you don't get this. There are, however, headphone amplifiers that do crossfeed processing to correct this. Here's a bit more about that concept.
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Strange. Myself, I found Islands of the Net extremely dull and slow; I really had to be diligant to keep reading. It got better towards the end but overall wasn't that great, in my opinion. Which surprised me alot, since I love Stephenson's works and Gibson is pretty good as well. Perhaps my expectations were too high, since I keep hearing how Sterling is the 'other' big name in cyberpunk.
Thanks for the suggestion. I came upon Varley's Titan trilogy and was very impressed. I wasn't aware he had done anything in the cyperpunk vein; I'm now looking forward to finding these. Unfortunately Varley is not a very well-stocked author at most places.
One of the really effective bits in Doom was the sound effects. In particular, one little trick - they would vary the pitch of the monster sounds by a bit each time they played it. Simple but very effective - when there were a dozen demons somewhere around the corner, it really sounded like a snorting snarling herd and not just one growling over and over and over.
I thought it was strange that I haven't seen this trick in any other games. Am I wrong?
Ahhh, thank you!
Ahhh, gracias!
He obviously searched slashdot to see if the topic had already been discussed here so as not to resubmit a previously posted question.
...wondering how good this human/mouse hybrid will be in Quake?
Don't complain about the .us; be glad that a country is not, for once, trying to extend their authority to legislate over the entire Internet.
Oops. That'd make me a dumbass, then. But I'd say the rest of it still figures. And, as someone else said, I'd be willing to bet it'll be rolled out in stores in the response to the web program is decent.
What a dumbass post. How will they buy them? See, there are these things called stores. Walmart has a few. In fact, Walmart has a lot. In fact, Walmart is the largest retail company in the world.
Walmart sells a wide range of products to the 'lowest comment denominator' customers. They may not have the money to buy high end but they're not dumbasses; they know if they buy a computer for $200 while Dell advertises computers for $1000, their computer is not going to be the newest and fasters and it's not going to run everything.
Leaving aside the traditional Walmart customer...
Many Linux geeks I know run multiple boxes, often on old hardware. A cheap no-frills box you can pick up with a 20 minute trip and use for a mail server, firewall, database, etc isn't a bad deal.
Under the rug there's a trapdoor leading to the apartment below me.
Give up, it's hopeless. Believe me, I tried. Even if you board up all the doors, someone'll still find a way to sneak in through the kitchen window you left ajar and clean out all the treasures in you trophy case. You just can't win.
I second this idea. For $200, you aren't going to find anything of audiophile quality in speakers, at least not for a whole system. Read some more headphone reviews at the community forums head-fi and headwize.
Myself, I have a pair of Sennheiser HD-580 headphones (no glasses) and I am completely happy with them. You can also get some good deals on used headphones on the above forums as well.
Wood is nice, but it's no bling bling.
here is all the information you should need. I used it myself when making a mp3-inspecting program.