If I wanted a terminal in my living room, I'd mount a moniter, keyboard, & mouse to an old 300MHz processor to a small little linux box with KDE & Konqueror on it.
You can hide it all in a cabinet, run RJ45 under the carpet to it, making it a nice little kiosk, and all that would still be less than a laptop with a wireless connection....
Maybe even put in a touchscreen monitor instead of the keyboard & mouse.... hmmmmm....
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I've had opportunity to train in the Close Combat Tactical Trainer at Ft Knox, and it's one of the best things I ever encountered in my military career.
The world went on without Transformers, I think it'll do fine without LEGOs. I'm sure some genius will think up of a toy that is fun but still academically accels the child... just wait and see...
When it was first posted, Hemos forgot to close the italics flag, causing the entire front page to be in italics. It was fixed within 3 minutes of my original posting.
...If you haven't tried 7.2 professional, I found it mindnumbingly simple to install and get everything running quite nicely. I am very impressed with its newest release. Hopefully, it can continue on with the new CTO.
The subject of this article is misleading. When I see "desktop toy" I think of esheep or something that I can put on my desktop. I thought it was a game I could play on my desktop vs. other people on the net, while I'm taking coding breaks...
if the "Great Programmer" was so great, he'd design for the first couple days and avoid the whole "compile and get 1,024 errors." This dude didn't learn to code correctly.
I hate how people see professional coders as people that sit down and just start coding without any planning. I spend weeks designing before I start coding. I like having UML, sequence diagrams, and use cases before I write a line of code.
I've found that once I do this, I have very few errors (mostly typos). I used to do it the old way back in college, and, yeah, you get a million errors, but not if you use good design...
I've heard of hacks that can upgrade the primary harddrive AND add a secondary to provide OVER 200 hours on a single TiVo. And I'm sure it'll cost less than two grand, and that's if you make a mistake and roast everything and have to buy ANOTHER TiVo and two new harddrives.
Lets look into the future. We have an image of the year 2003:
If you are contemplating releasing a product, you must first check with the patent offices (very minor, they let everything through), then to the RIAA and government to determine if it affects the music industry in any possible way. If it does, then you can't release it and all doc on it is incinerated. The RIAA also goes into research facility to determine if any scientist is using "Sound waves on the "air" medium (they patented that on Dec.14, 2002)", and any violators are sued, raped, then incinerated.
Anyone have a link to the "The Onion" article about Kid Rock starving to death because of MP3's? That'd really fit in....
How True.
Halo was a PC title, but, as I understand it, Bungie was bought by Microsoft in the process of developing the game, then told to make it X-Box only.
So if Microsoft forces good gaming companies to make X-Box only games, then X-Box could dominate the console market...
I'll admit that I don't know everything about math, physics, and chemistry even though I've studied them all a good deal. But anyone care to explain this constant? Why its significant? What is it used for?
Just pointing a link to a constant isn't really telling me much.
even worse. "sudo vi", then drop to shell in vi (works with emacs, too). Too many workarounds with sudo.
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I'm thinking its time to build my game machine.
If you are talking the latest and greatest games for your "gaming machine", that more than likely means that its a Windows box. Now I admit that my gaming machine is a windows box, but can you, Taco???
You always whine about quicktime movies that you can't play, yet you talk about playing "Black & White" (which I believe is only playable on a windows partition). Now, I know you have at least a small windows partition, but won't admit it. Will you admit taht you are going to have a windows gaming machine??
Loki has just filed chapter 11 (protection from creditors) not chapter 7 (liquidation). Please don't call Loki gone until they do. They still have a very good chance to pull through.
Other major organizations have filed chapter 11, and still are major companies to this day. Sorry this is a touch off topic, but Loki ain't dead yet.
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If I wanted a terminal in my living room, I'd mount a moniter, keyboard, & mouse to an old 300MHz processor to a small little linux box with KDE & Konqueror on it.
You can hide it all in a cabinet, run RJ45 under the carpet to it, making it a nice little kiosk, and all that would still be less than a laptop with a wireless connection....
Maybe even put in a touchscreen monitor instead of the keyboard & mouse.... hmmmmm....
I've had opportunity to train in the Close Combat Tactical Trainer at Ft Knox, and it's one of the best things I ever encountered in my military career.
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Which is why my nick is just too cool
It makes sense to me. Lower MHz Athlons are always compaired to higher MHz P4's in benchmarking and stuff. It just proves the MHz isn't everything.
Which is the marketing scheme? The faster MHz? Or the better chip????
Funny they went for functional programming over OO programing. Seeing as this is the company that made Java...
The world went on without Transformers, I think it'll do fine without LEGOs. I'm sure some genius will think up of a toy that is fun but still academically accels the child... just wait and see...
If you enjoy your job, it doesn't matter where you sit...
If you absolutely can't stand being in a cube, you don't like your job.
No offense to you slashdot editors, but you guys have no idea what life in a cube farm is like. It isn't all that bad...
Add some desktop items and toys from a good place (like thinkgeek), maybe a nice Aeron chair, and everything is peachy for your day to day work.
When it was first posted, Hemos forgot to close the italics flag, causing the entire front page to be in italics. It was fixed within 3 minutes of my original posting.
...If you haven't tried 7.2 professional, I found it mindnumbingly simple to install and get everything running quite nicely. I am very impressed with its newest release. Hopefully, it can continue on with the new CTO.
:-P
And a little </I> would be nice
The subject of this article is misleading. When I see "desktop toy" I think of esheep or something that I can put on my desktop. I thought it was a game I could play on my desktop vs. other people on the net, while I'm taking coding breaks...
How can you trust the NSA after playing a complete game of Deus Ex???
I was contemplating your sig (a good one!), and started thinking aobut it. To enlarge it:
All coders want are fast cars, fast women, and fast algorithms, but what they get are efficent cars, efficent women, and efficent algorithms.
if the "Great Programmer" was so great, he'd design for the first couple days and avoid the whole "compile and get 1,024 errors." This dude didn't learn to code correctly.
I hate how people see professional coders as people that sit down and just start coding without any planning. I spend weeks designing before I start coding. I like having UML, sequence diagrams, and use cases before I write a line of code.
I've found that once I do this, I have very few errors (mostly typos). I used to do it the old way back in college, and, yeah, you get a million errors, but not if you use good design...
Maybe I got 7 2's in my pid??
I've heard of hacks that can upgrade the primary harddrive AND add a secondary to provide OVER 200 hours on a single TiVo. And I'm sure it'll cost less than two grand, and that's if you make a mistake and roast everything and have to buy ANOTHER TiVo and two new harddrives.
Just don't make metroid a cartoon... that's all I care about...
Lets look into the future. We have an image of the year 2003:
If you are contemplating releasing a product, you must first check with the patent offices (very minor, they let everything through), then to the RIAA and government to determine if it affects the music industry in any possible way. If it does, then you can't release it and all doc on it is incinerated. The RIAA also goes into research facility to determine if any scientist is using "Sound waves on the "air" medium (they patented that on Dec.14, 2002)", and any violators are sued, raped, then incinerated.
Anyone have a link to the "The Onion" article about Kid Rock starving to death because of MP3's? That'd really fit in....
How True.
Halo was a PC title, but, as I understand it, Bungie was bought by Microsoft in the process of developing the game, then told to make it X-Box only.
So if Microsoft forces good gaming companies to make X-Box only games, then X-Box could dominate the console market...
As long as Metroid is still going to be GameCube only, the delay shouldn't affect sales.
Mmmmmm.... Metroid.....
I'll admit that I don't know everything about math, physics, and chemistry even though I've studied them all a good deal. But anyone care to explain this constant? Why its significant? What is it used for?
Just pointing a link to a constant isn't really telling me much.
even worse. "sudo vi", then drop to shell in vi (works with emacs, too). Too many workarounds with sudo.
I'm thinking its time to build my game machine.
If you are talking the latest and greatest games for your "gaming machine", that more than likely means that its a Windows box. Now I admit that my gaming machine is a windows box, but can you, Taco???
You always whine about quicktime movies that you can't play, yet you talk about playing "Black & White" (which I believe is only playable on a windows partition). Now, I know you have at least a small windows partition, but won't admit it. Will you admit taht you are going to have a windows gaming machine??
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But in Turing's time, computers were slow and cumbersome devices, utterly incapable of fulfilling his vision.
It was my belief that computers never existed until years after Turings death. Am I mistaken??
It's just like chatting with an 18 month old child! Doesn't know how to type, read, or write at all!
Truely an incredible step in toddler AI!
Will they befall the same fate as Covad and Loki?
Loki has just filed chapter 11 (protection from creditors) not chapter 7 (liquidation). Please don't call Loki gone until they do. They still have a very good chance to pull through.
Other major organizations have filed chapter 11, and still are major companies to this day. Sorry this is a touch off topic, but Loki ain't dead yet.