Why should he appoint anybody? Since he probably invented Linux anyway(that Torvalds dude just stole his idea), Al himself should take on this responsibility. That'd be great.
Hey! Cool idea! With a little more ingenuity, you could come up with a way to actually control the car's major functions through a telnet session, look out the windshield with the streamed video connection, and drive your car from your desktop!
It's the wave of the future - you can drive anywhere you want, and never leave your desk!
*vroom* Me:"Hey, this works pretty well!" Realplayer: Net Congestion Detected, dropping framerate by 75.3 percent Me:"Dang it!" telnet> echo stop>/dev/engine telnet> echo stomp>/dev/brakes telnet> echo pull>/dev/emergencybrake *SKREEEEEECH* Connection lost.
Eh, a cheap case is no fun to work on. When I was a hardware techie guy at my university, I used to hate working on those lame 20 buck cases all our PCs had. Sharp metal edges, cheap plastic siding, bizzaro mounting mechanisms that break too easy - bah.
The case I use in my home box, OTOH, cost me 99 bucks with PS, but it's a dream to play around in- 3 5" bays, 3 3" bays, either 2 or 3 internal 3" bays, big, heavy, lots of metal, solid as a brick wall. The sliding moboard tray is nice too. A-Pro ATX-196PX, btw. It's not beige, either.
These still don't look as nifty as the ones from Colorcase( www.colorcase.com), especially the Phoenix Gold and Phoenix Blue. Unfortunately, the Colorcase models are a bit pricy and have gotten some pretty bad reviews(complaining about poor construction, etc). Oh well.
I'm curious why you would need to believe these performance numbers to be interested in the system?
Why, I don't, it seems to be an interesting little box. I'm just generically leery of manufacturers that say things like "323542897 bozillion polys/sec", before the hardware hits the market. I believe it was NVidia that said their TNT chipset would run at 125 mhz, and cited some sweet benchmarks based on that. When it came to ship-time, the chips were too unstable at that clock speed, so they dogged them down to 90(in some cases 110 I think). The TNT is still an awesome board(I have a Spectra 2500 and love it), but the initial numbers they cited were a bit premature. You can't put too much stock in numbers until real hardware and software hits the street.
Being a person of a highly suspicious and paranoid nature, I'll believe these(admittedly impressive) PSX2 numbers only after I see a real-world game running on production hardware, not a hand-coded, down-to-the-last-cycle-optimized tech demo running on tricked-up demo hardware.
Um, the part about running Linux and TCP is called humor. I'm trying to express frustration with the closed, unupgradable nature of console boxes. It would take a bigger nut than me to try to run Linux on one of these...
Speaking only about the console I have any experience with(the n64), I have yet to find a game that are even close to being as entertaining as the majority of titles on the PC. Some friends and I tried last weekend to play 007 multiplayer. After spending 45 minutes piddling with the awful controllers, the microscopic screen area, and the wonderful framerate that would dip everytime somebody fired a weapon, we brought the game back and got Mario Cart. At least that's somewhat playable. I guess we're all spoiled from playing weekly LAN games of Quake and Shogo.
When you buy a console you're guarenteed that any games will work, regardless of how old it is.
I can play Kroz(Apogee's ancient clone of Zork), Scorched Earth, F117a Stealth Fighter, Wolfenstein, Heretic, etc, etc, etc, on my brand new PC. What does that prove?
I suppose consoles are fine, as long as you don't mind forcing yourself into obsolence. Your only hope of extending the functionality of the box is through manufacturer-approved upgrades- rumble paks, memory cards, extra controllers - that are only add-ons. Once the next better console comes out, the only option is to plunk! - throw it away. Wasteful.
Another scenario: The SegSonyTendoVisionPro 2000(tm) is about to come out. All the game mags promote it-gorgeous screenshots come out-promises of massive developer support are made. The console comes out, and everybody buys one. Oddly though, the promised flood of games at rollout is only a trickle of 5-10...most are new revs of older stuff. More promises are made, deadlines slip, developer support falls apart - and you're stuck with a $250 paperweight. Oops. Now what? It happened to me and a couple hundred thousand other people with Atari's last gasp(Jaguar).
Anyway, thank God we live in a free country so opinionated buttheads like me can freely spout.
Yay. Just what the world needs - another closed, proprietary, non-upgradeable, worthless hunk of plastic. Yawn. Wake me when I can run Linux and do TCPIP networking on it...zzzzzzzz
Am I the only one that sees console gaming slowly riding off into the sunset, in the face of today's $399 PCs?
My only question is, what in the heck were they feeding this connection with? That's a bunch of data to either read or generate in one second. Their test system must have a stupidly fast hard drive.:)
Um, yeah, I did read the web site. It appeared to me that what they did was shoot all 32-48-64 etc frames in one shot, one frame per camera, string them together and that's it. What I'm saying is to have every camera take multiple shots over time. Perhaps^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprobably I misunderstood^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscrewed up
Take a bunch of ordinary, motor-drive cameras. Rig them up in a circle around the subject. Use some hardware to command the cameras to fire en masse. Repeat until out of film. Put all the frames together sequentially(E.G. camera 1, frame 1 -> camera 2 frame 1 -... - camera n frame 1 -> camera 1 frame 2 ->... -> camera n frame m). Tada! You've got rotating slow motion.
With different camera paths and firing sequences, you could do other wacky stuff.
The Garbage video for "Push It" did something very similar to this as well. In it, they had the image moving very fast, then it would freeze and they'd pan around it. I'm not sure if this was done with the same tech or not...
You all laugh. Well, I've just read a recently published report in the highly regarded scientific journal entitled The Weekly World News which exposes the true threat that the Y2k problem poses to humanity.
Although the article states that the real reasons are "too complex for the average layman to understand", top scientific minds have stated that upon the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, 1999, the very core of our civilization will collapse. Thousands of aircraft will fall out of the sky, nuclear missiles will arm and fire themselves indiscriminately, and, most frightening of all, OUR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WILL TURN AGAINST US!!!! That's right friends. Due to the "embedded micro-processor units" in nearly all consumer products, highly placed officials say, these very devices that we depend on for day to day life will assume a consciousness of their own and begin to attack us. Everything from our vaccum cleaners to our toasters will rise up and seek retribution for their years of indentured servitude. Western Civilization itself will grind to a halt, signalling the beginning of a new, thousand-year Dark Ages.
It's all in print, people. I don't know about you, but before I go to bed on New Years, I'm putting the blender under the sink and taking the hypoallergenic filter bag out of my Hoover.
This lawsuit is completely and utterly bogus, and will only serve to stifle the creativity of some obviously talented coders. Unfortunately, I think it may have a fair chance in court if Nintendo manages to convince everyone that emulators are illegal and exist only to play illegal, pirated games.
C'mon Nintendo, lighten up. The thought that people are going to quit buying N64 games and download warezed roms for their PCs is absurd.
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--John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Why should he appoint anybody? Since he probably invented Linux anyway(that Torvalds dude just stole his idea), Al himself should take on this responsibility. That'd be great.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
Hey now, no Slackware bashing! I like Slackware and I'm perfectly normal. Except for those damn pixies flying around the room.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
Slashdot. Yum. Make problems. Hehehehehe.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
Hey! Cool idea! With a little more ingenuity, you could come up with a way to actually control the car's major functions through a telnet session, look out the windshield with the streamed video connection, and drive your car from your desktop!
It's the wave of the future - you can drive anywhere you want, and never leave your desk!
*vroom*
Me:"Hey, this works pretty well!"
Realplayer: Net Congestion Detected, dropping framerate by 75.3 percent
Me:"Dang it!"
telnet> echo stop>/dev/engine
telnet> echo stomp>/dev/brakes
telnet> echo pull>/dev/emergencybrake
*SKREEEEEECH*
Connection lost.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
Eh, a cheap case is no fun to work on. When I was a hardware techie guy at my university, I used to hate working on those lame 20 buck cases all our PCs had. Sharp metal edges, cheap plastic siding, bizzaro mounting mechanisms that break too easy - bah.
The case I use in my home box, OTOH, cost me 99 bucks with PS, but it's a dream to play around in- 3 5" bays, 3 3" bays, either 2 or 3 internal 3" bays, big, heavy, lots of metal, solid as a brick wall. The sliding moboard tray is nice too. A-Pro ATX-196PX, btw. It's not beige, either.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
These still don't look as nifty as the ones from Colorcase( www.colorcase.com), especially the Phoenix Gold and Phoenix Blue. Unfortunately, the Colorcase models are a bit pricy and have gotten some pretty bad reviews(complaining about poor construction, etc). Oh well.
--jwriney
John Riney
jwriney@awod.com
I'm curious why you would need to believe these performance numbers to be interested in the system?
Why, I don't, it seems to be an interesting little box. I'm just generically leery of manufacturers that say things like "323542897 bozillion polys/sec", before the hardware hits the market. I believe it was NVidia that said their TNT chipset would run at 125 mhz, and cited some sweet benchmarks based on that. When it came to ship-time, the chips were too unstable at that clock speed, so they dogged them down to 90(in some cases 110 I think). The TNT is still an awesome board(I have a Spectra 2500 and love it), but the initial numbers they cited were a bit premature. You can't put too much stock in numbers until real hardware and software hits the street.
All IMHO of course.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
By definition, it's vapor until you can go to the local EB/Babbages/Fry's/Best Buy/etc, plunk down the cash and buy one.
Remember the N64 disk drive?
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Being a person of a highly suspicious and paranoid nature, I'll believe these(admittedly impressive) PSX2 numbers only after I see a real-world game running on production hardware, not a hand-coded, down-to-the-last-cycle-optimized tech demo running on tricked-up demo hardware.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Well said.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
I wonder what Atari developed 2600 games on back in the day...
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Um, the part about running Linux and TCP is called humor. I'm trying to express frustration with the closed, unupgradable nature of console boxes. It would take a bigger nut than me to try to run Linux on one of these...
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Nothing beats a console system for gaming.
Speaking only about the console I have any experience with(the n64), I have yet to find a game that are even close to being as entertaining as the majority of titles on the PC. Some friends and I tried last weekend to play 007 multiplayer. After spending 45 minutes piddling with the awful controllers, the microscopic screen area, and the wonderful framerate that would dip everytime somebody fired a weapon, we brought the game back and got Mario Cart. At least that's somewhat playable. I guess we're all spoiled from playing weekly LAN games of Quake and Shogo.
When you buy a console you're guarenteed that any games will work, regardless of how old it is.
I can play Kroz(Apogee's ancient clone of Zork), Scorched Earth, F117a Stealth Fighter, Wolfenstein, Heretic, etc, etc, etc, on my brand new PC. What does that prove?
I suppose consoles are fine, as long as you don't mind forcing yourself into obsolence. Your only hope of extending the functionality of the box is through manufacturer-approved upgrades- rumble paks, memory cards, extra controllers - that are only add-ons. Once the next better console comes out, the only option is to plunk! - throw it away. Wasteful.
Another scenario: The SegSonyTendoVisionPro 2000(tm) is about to come out. All the game mags promote it-gorgeous screenshots come out-promises of massive developer support are made. The console comes out, and everybody buys one. Oddly though, the promised flood of games at rollout is only a trickle of 5-10...most are new revs of older stuff. More promises are made, deadlines slip, developer support falls apart - and you're stuck with a $250 paperweight. Oops. Now what? It happened to me and a couple hundred thousand other people with Atari's last gasp(Jaguar).
Anyway, thank God we live in a free country so opinionated buttheads like me can freely spout.
Peace
--jwriney
John Riney III
Yay. Just what the world needs - another closed, proprietary, non-upgradeable, worthless hunk of plastic. Yawn. Wake me when I can run Linux and do TCPIP networking on it...zzzzzzzz
Am I the only one that sees console gaming slowly riding off into the sunset, in the face of today's $399 PCs?
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
I never meet a single one, and I know a lot of Linux users.
Well, my name's John, nice to meet you.
See there? You just met one.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
My only question is, what in the heck were they feeding this connection with? That's a bunch of data to either read or generate in one second. Their test system must have a stupidly fast hard drive. :)
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Here you are.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Um, yeah, I did read the web site. It appeared to me that what they did was shoot all 32-48-64 etc frames in one shot, one frame per camera, string them together and that's it. What I'm saying is to have every camera take multiple shots over time. Perhaps^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprobably I misunderstood^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscrewed up
/me slinks back to his corner
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
What about this?
... - camera n frame 1 -> camera 1 frame 2 -> ... -> camera n frame m). Tada! You've got rotating slow motion.
Take a bunch of ordinary, motor-drive cameras.
Rig them up in a circle around the subject.
Use some hardware to command the cameras to fire en masse.
Repeat until out of film.
Put all the frames together sequentially(E.G. camera 1, frame 1 -> camera 2 frame 1 -
With different camera paths and firing sequences, you could do other wacky stuff.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
The Garbage video for "Push It" did something very similar to this as well. In it, they had the image moving very fast, then it would freeze and they'd pan around it. I'm not sure if this was done with the same tech or not...
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
Care to explain 2048?
Yup.
K = "kilo" = 1024
2K = 2 * 1024 = 2048
Therefore Y2K = Year 2048
Sigh.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
You all laugh. Well, I've just read a recently published report in the highly regarded scientific journal entitled The Weekly World News which exposes the true threat that the Y2k problem poses to humanity.
Although the article states that the real reasons are "too complex for the average layman to understand", top scientific minds have stated that upon the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, 1999, the very core of our civilization will collapse. Thousands of aircraft will fall out of the sky, nuclear missiles will arm and fire themselves indiscriminately, and, most frightening of all, OUR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WILL TURN AGAINST US!!!! That's right friends. Due to the "embedded micro-processor units" in nearly all consumer products, highly placed officials say, these very devices that we depend on for day to day life will assume a consciousness of their own and begin to attack us. Everything from our vaccum cleaners to our toasters will rise up and seek retribution for their years of indentured servitude. Western Civilization itself will grind to a halt, signalling the beginning of a new, thousand-year Dark Ages.
It's all in print, people. I don't know about you, but before I go to bed on New Years, I'm putting the blender under the sink and taking the hypoallergenic filter bag out of my Hoover.
--jwriney
John Riney III
jwriney@awod.com
This lawsuit is completely and utterly bogus, and will only serve to stifle the creativity of some obviously talented coders. Unfortunately, I think it may have a fair chance in court if Nintendo manages to convince everyone that emulators are illegal and exist only to play illegal, pirated games.
C'mon Nintendo, lighten up. The thought that people are going to quit buying N64 games and download warezed roms for their PCs is absurd.