Even on 6-monthly releases, ubuntu has proven to be somewhat unreliable in terms of feature/usability/overal stability. Moving to monthly releases doesnt seem like a way to improve this in my eyes.
Mint is better then 11.04 since it just keeps gnome 2.4 as the default, not forcing its users to relearn the GUI all over again, but i have no illusions that at some point Mint will be forced down the ubuntu path to flashiness for flash's sake
1) Ask slashdot what fanless hardware to use for emulation 2) Casually mention you previously tried a mini, but it was too loud 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!
Seriously though, what would be the point in trolling this? Most slashdotters wil get stuck in designing mini-itx system or suggest modded consoles for solving the problem, like the good little geeks they are. The Apple Defense Squad might hook on to the "mini was too loud" bit, but there are much more fun ways to troll those guys.
As for the mini blu-ray thing, you have a point, i'm guessing external blu-ray drive?
like the AC below me wrote, the xbox used a 733 MHz cpu, specifically a somewhat gimped pentium 3 (in between a real p3 and a celeron in terms of cache/buss).
You are right though, dolphin emulates a gamecube, which had a 485 powerpc cpu. It is up for debate which of the two cpu's has better performance, so trying to emulate one on the other is pretty much not gonna happen. The ps1 is an order of magnitude slower, so emulation should be possible, WITH sufficient amounts of optimization, that last part might be missing in most psx emulators though.
Perhaps a linux'ed PS3 might be a better match for the OP, but you know... Sony nixed that capability.
On topic, i'd say the first step is establishing what kind of software you want to run, and what the minimum hardware required is. If you want to run Dolphin, see what kind of hardware it needs, use that as a baseline, seek components from there.
somehow (sysadmin == !stupid) doesnt compute with me. There are plenty of people who can learn how to do certain (to the lay, very difficult and incomprohensible) tasks, but still qualify for the idiot card.
right, derp, i dont know how i missed the third soyuz-11 member. And you are right for the whole mir-exchange stuff. Doing that kind of research late at night after a ten hour day is just asking for trouble.
Anyway, i would still prefer going up in a soyuz rather then a shuttle. Even if the two have similar death rates, the only two lethal soyuz incidents where very long ago, in the first flights of the platform, which is by now very mature. By comparison, the shuttle had its two failures spread out far more across its life, with the the columbia crash pretty much saying that even as late as 2005 there were still rather serious design issues with the platform.
not every shuttle flight had the max crew of seven, STS-135 for instance, had only four crewmembers, since there was no back-up shuttle available if some malfunction prevented normal de-orbit. The plan in case of failure was to stay over on the ISS and use soyuz's to come back down. All test flights with enterprise (which arent counted in the 135 number) had two crew, the four initial flights for columbia were 2-man missions. Counting up all STS flights on wikipedia comes to 816 crew members. 14 dead on 816 makes a 1.7% death rate
Also, starting with soyuz flight TM-2, every flight (which is 60-70 flights since) except two have been crewed with three, Prior to the pressure loss of Suyoz-11, the lack of pressure suits allowed for a few three crew flights as well on the older models. I count 55 two man soyuz flights, two one man flights and 53 three man flights for 271 cosmonauts.
Also, Soyuz 1 was crewed by one, soyuz 11 by two, which makes three dead kosomonauts on 272, for a 1.1% death rate.
I will flat out refuse to drik heineken/amstel if that is all they have, even if its free. In terms of normal beer all i drink is jupiler and grolsch, with the occasional exception if i really want a beer and nothing else is available.
I have a PSP, and i love the thing to bits. Compared to my DS, the psp actually has some worthwhile games and stuff. Then in the meantime, Sony did the whole otherOS thing, and the PSN hack happened, and i am very adamant that sony wont receive any money from me, ever again.
Which is a shame for them, by now the PS3 is in a price bracket where i would gladly buy it, if only to scratch my recurring "i want some new hardware" itch. The PSV (i refuse to call it a the vita for now) looks cool too, but their business practices means i dont want to deal with sony.
Ok, i didnt know that. Wiki says the weight for Zond-5 is 5 tons (metric), and i thought modern soyuz's are somewhere around 7, then again, Proton M has two tons extra launch weight, so it should be possible allright
that's what i was thinking, if any bit of the rocket propellent is making it ways into the payload enough to poison the kosmonauts, then the vacuum you are launching into might prove problematic as well.
Ariane 5 has a similar LEO mass to proton, both of which are only a sixth(!) of the LEO payload capacity of a saturn V. A single shot moon mission using a soyuz like capsule and a proton/ariane launcher is pretty much limited to only a flyby, if it is possible in the first place.
Actually, the way my life is, i'm having trouble even seeing myself driving a car worth more then 50k. That's not to say i'm poor, but after buying a house and having a family, those kind of things suddenly seem pipe-dreams. Never mind milions for a space-trip.
There are apparently vans out there scanning completely oblivious and innocent people, with technology that is extremely suspect for the risk is represents to ones health, possibly causing cancer, and your problem with that is you might get halted/arrested for walking around the street with a gun?
Honestly, with the airport shit you can at least chose not to fly in order to not expose yourself to those porkbarrel scanners, these vans driving out there exposing completely oblivous people to radiation sounds like something out of 60s anti-commie propaganda.
As for the gun thing, i understand the US is a different place from europe, but all this concealed-carry stuff doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me.
Honestly a highly skilled IT guy that understand virus writing can infect all the machines with a timebomb and you would never know it
This guy would not have had a squeaky clean past if he did stupid crap like this.
These two quotes are pretty much contradictory, if an IT guy is good enough to pull a stunt without you finding out who did it, how would any past employers? At a company with any sort of normal turnover rate, setting your timebom within a two year timeframe will mean there are dozens of suspects.
Thursday the froyo flavor is going to cake batter, should be a high note to go out on.
Is this some kind of spaceX code meaning the dragon will use android 2.2 on its main computers? (yes, google's naming conventions for android releases have ruined me, they are even worse then ubuntu with their leprose lemurs and demented donkeys)
Also, hats off to you rocket scientist guys, makes me wish i was made of sterner stuff and actually went to aeronautics school instead of electronics.. Being a programmer seems very menial right now.
JFK says we'll go to the moon within the decade, and sure enough, with plenty of money and effort, they got to the moon when a decade before human spaceflight was a fantasy.
just a wild tangent here, but this thread (combined with some stuff i read about assassinations) made me wonder how JFKs death affected the whole thing. What if JFK had served out the rest of his term normally, and in the end turned out to be a bit of a let-down (like say, the current guy in the white house isnt exactly living up to expectations, for whatever reason). What if in 1964, the repubs would have won the elections, and the race to the moon wasnt the legacy of a martyr?
Honestly, i dont know enough about US politics back then to be sure, but i think it must have played some part in it, if only a few guys saying "if we dont get to the moon like JFK said, the communists will have won!"
AMD is substantially less scammy then intel though. Intel does/did a whole bunch of product differentiation by disabling features on their cheaper cpu's which didnt just impact performance. for a good while intel sold "cheap" chips without their virtualization extensions enabled, which in turn bit people in the ass with windows 7s XP mode (and yes, i know MS eventually patched it to also run without vt extensions).
Binning chips for clock-speed and selling chips with core/cache defects for lower prices with those cores/caches disabled is one thing, willfully disabling features on your cheaper chips just sucks
Most of the crud which needs to be loaded on most business machines is loaded after log-in. The initial starup isnt really that bad (even though my work machine completely sucks because of full disk encryption). All the stuff like the ultra-paranoid mcaffee only starts after login.
As a dutchman, i know some background (i didnt know they are back to testing this shit though, it was shot down previously)
Tax is already a significant part of our fuel price, ridiculously so. normal petrol costs $9.10 per gallon right now, but was even higher a few weeks back. One of the rationales for not doing even more fuel tax, is that currently people living near the german/belgian border drive significant distance to fuel up over the border. Raising fuel taxes even more would just make that situation worse. Besides, a flat tax on fuel wouldnt allow the government to give unfair benefits to hybrids like they currently do.
Honestly i hope this plan dies. I am not opposed to taxing for use rather then posession of a car, but i am very much against installing a GPS tracker in a car. How long till they use the thing to just fine you every time you speed automatically?
buying a second DS for his kid was justified by the fact that the ipod is sturdier?
Fail, if your kid breaks his DS (and it wasnt a freak accident, just basic carelessness), dont just give them a new one, teach them the value of the thing, by doing weekly chores / having them save up for a new one.
that wont work very well. Nintendo is already taking flack from their loyal fanbase for only bringing out rehashed old stuff and casual games (with the occasional new zelda / mario thrown in between). If their killing feature for a system would basically be a nes/snes/n64 emulator, im willing to bet whatever nintendo has left of their old fanbase will be running to the hills
I'm mildly interested in getting a hold of one just to see how well the 3d works
bring some asperin. I tried one out in a store for two minutes, and while the 3D effect is cool (with your head positioned correctly, which pretty much sucks for a portable), i got a headache within a those two minutes.
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Even on 6-monthly releases, ubuntu has proven to be somewhat unreliable in terms of feature/usability/overal stability. Moving to monthly releases doesnt seem like a way to improve this in my eyes.
Mint is better then 11.04 since it just keeps gnome 2.4 as the default, not forcing its users to relearn the GUI all over again, but i have no illusions that at some point Mint will be forced down the ubuntu path to flashiness for flash's sake
1) Ask slashdot what fanless hardware to use for emulation
2) Casually mention you previously tried a mini, but it was too loud
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Seriously though, what would be the point in trolling this? Most slashdotters wil get stuck in designing mini-itx system or suggest modded consoles for solving the problem, like the good little geeks they are. The Apple Defense Squad might hook on to the "mini was too loud" bit, but there are much more fun ways to troll those guys.
As for the mini blu-ray thing, you have a point, i'm guessing external blu-ray drive?
like the AC below me wrote, the xbox used a 733 MHz cpu, specifically a somewhat gimped pentium 3 (in between a real p3 and a celeron in terms of cache/buss).
You are right though, dolphin emulates a gamecube, which had a 485 powerpc cpu. It is up for debate which of the two cpu's has better performance, so trying to emulate one on the other is pretty much not gonna happen. The ps1 is an order of magnitude slower, so emulation should be possible, WITH sufficient amounts of optimization, that last part might be missing in most psx emulators though.
Perhaps a linux'ed PS3 might be a better match for the OP, but you know... Sony nixed that capability.
On topic, i'd say the first step is establishing what kind of software you want to run, and what the minimum hardware required is. If you want to run Dolphin, see what kind of hardware it needs, use that as a baseline, seek components from there.
somehow (sysadmin == !stupid) doesnt compute with me. There are plenty of people who can learn how to do certain (to the lay, very difficult and incomprohensible) tasks, but still qualify for the idiot card.
Your nick seems dutch enough, so i'll assume you are a fellow dutchman, but seriously? I can't even remember seeing a video on a govt website...
And OMG triple fallback, now i feel even worse about paying taxes
right, derp, i dont know how i missed the third soyuz-11 member. And you are right for the whole mir-exchange stuff. Doing that kind of research late at night after a ten hour day is just asking for trouble.
Anyway, i would still prefer going up in a soyuz rather then a shuttle. Even if the two have similar death rates, the only two lethal soyuz incidents where very long ago, in the first flights of the platform, which is by now very mature. By comparison, the shuttle had its two failures spread out far more across its life, with the the columbia crash pretty much saying that even as late as 2005 there were still rather serious design issues with the platform.
not every shuttle flight had the max crew of seven, STS-135 for instance, had only four crewmembers, since there was no back-up shuttle available if some malfunction prevented normal de-orbit. The plan in case of failure was to stay over on the ISS and use soyuz's to come back down. All test flights with enterprise (which arent counted in the 135 number) had two crew, the four initial flights for columbia were 2-man missions. Counting up all STS flights on wikipedia comes to 816 crew members. 14 dead on 816 makes a 1.7% death rate
Also, starting with soyuz flight TM-2, every flight (which is 60-70 flights since) except two have been crewed with three, Prior to the pressure loss of Suyoz-11, the lack of pressure suits allowed for a few three crew flights as well on the older models.
I count 55 two man soyuz flights, two one man flights and 53 three man flights for 271 cosmonauts.
Also, Soyuz 1 was crewed by one, soyuz 11 by two, which makes three dead kosomonauts on 272, for a 1.1% death rate.
Not to me it's not
I will flat out refuse to drik heineken/amstel if that is all they have, even if its free. In terms of normal beer all i drink is jupiler and grolsch, with the occasional exception if i really want a beer and nothing else is available.
I have a PSP, and i love the thing to bits. Compared to my DS, the psp actually has some worthwhile games and stuff. Then in the meantime, Sony did the whole otherOS thing, and the PSN hack happened, and i am very adamant that sony wont receive any money from me, ever again.
Which is a shame for them, by now the PS3 is in a price bracket where i would gladly buy it, if only to scratch my recurring "i want some new hardware" itch. The PSV (i refuse to call it a the vita for now) looks cool too, but their business practices means i dont want to deal with sony.
is the a bright side then?
Ok, i didnt know that. Wiki says the weight for Zond-5 is 5 tons (metric), and i thought modern soyuz's are somewhere around 7, then again, Proton M has two tons extra launch weight, so it should be possible allright
thanks for the info!
that's what i was thinking, if any bit of the rocket propellent is making it ways into the payload enough to poison the kosmonauts, then the vacuum you are launching into might prove problematic as well.
Ariane 5 has a similar LEO mass to proton, both of which are only a sixth(!) of the LEO payload capacity of a saturn V. A single shot moon mission using a soyuz like capsule and a proton/ariane launcher is pretty much limited to only a flyby, if it is possible in the first place.
I want photos of the military bases on the dark side.
The alien ones.
Dont you mean the nazi moonbase?
http://www.ironsky.net/
Same here.
Actually, the way my life is, i'm having trouble even seeing myself driving a car worth more then 50k. That's not to say i'm poor, but after buying a house and having a family, those kind of things suddenly seem pipe-dreams. Never mind milions for a space-trip.
There are apparently vans out there scanning completely oblivious and innocent people, with technology that is extremely suspect for the risk is represents to ones health, possibly causing cancer, and your problem with that is you might get halted/arrested for walking around the street with a gun?
Honestly, with the airport shit you can at least chose not to fly in order to not expose yourself to those porkbarrel scanners, these vans driving out there exposing completely oblivous people to radiation sounds like something out of 60s anti-commie propaganda.
As for the gun thing, i understand the US is a different place from europe, but all this concealed-carry stuff doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me.
Honestly a highly skilled IT guy that understand virus writing can infect all the machines with a timebomb and you would never know it
This guy would not have had a squeaky clean past if he did stupid crap like this.
These two quotes are pretty much contradictory, if an IT guy is good enough to pull a stunt without you finding out who did it, how would any past employers? At a company with any sort of normal turnover rate, setting your timebom within a two year timeframe will mean there are dozens of suspects.
Thursday the froyo flavor is going to cake batter, should be a high note to go out on.
Is this some kind of spaceX code meaning the dragon will use android 2.2 on its main computers? (yes, google's naming conventions for android releases have ruined me, they are even worse then ubuntu with their leprose lemurs and demented donkeys)
Also, hats off to you rocket scientist guys, makes me wish i was made of sterner stuff and actually went to aeronautics school instead of electronics.. Being a programmer seems very menial right now.
JFK says we'll go to the moon within the decade, and sure enough, with plenty of money and effort, they got to the moon when a decade before human spaceflight was a fantasy.
just a wild tangent here, but this thread (combined with some stuff i read about assassinations) made me wonder how JFKs death affected the whole thing. What if JFK had served out the rest of his term normally, and in the end turned out to be a bit of a let-down (like say, the current guy in the white house isnt exactly living up to expectations, for whatever reason). What if in 1964, the repubs would have won the elections, and the race to the moon wasnt the legacy of a martyr?
Honestly, i dont know enough about US politics back then to be sure, but i think it must have played some part in it, if only a few guys saying "if we dont get to the moon like JFK said, the communists will have won!"
if i hadnt already posted, you would have gotten a +1 insightfull
Sadly though, you will have to make do with this comment.
AMD is substantially less scammy then intel though. Intel does/did a whole bunch of product differentiation by disabling features on their cheaper cpu's which didnt just impact performance. for a good while intel sold "cheap" chips without their virtualization extensions enabled, which in turn bit people in the ass with windows 7s XP mode (and yes, i know MS eventually patched it to also run without vt extensions).
Binning chips for clock-speed and selling chips with core/cache defects for lower prices with those cores/caches disabled is one thing, willfully disabling features on your cheaper chips just sucks
Most of the crud which needs to be loaded on most business machines is loaded after log-in. The initial starup isnt really that bad (even though my work machine completely sucks because of full disk encryption). All the stuff like the ultra-paranoid mcaffee only starts after login.
As a dutchman, i know some background (i didnt know they are back to testing this shit though, it was shot down previously)
Tax is already a significant part of our fuel price, ridiculously so. normal petrol costs $9.10 per gallon right now, but was even higher a few weeks back. One of the rationales for not doing even more fuel tax, is that currently people living near the german/belgian border drive significant distance to fuel up over the border. Raising fuel taxes even more would just make that situation worse. Besides, a flat tax on fuel wouldnt allow the government to give unfair benefits to hybrids like they currently do.
Honestly i hope this plan dies. I am not opposed to taxing for use rather then posession of a car, but i am very much against installing a GPS tracker in a car. How long till they use the thing to just fine you every time you speed automatically?
buying a second DS for his kid was justified by the fact that the ipod is sturdier?
Fail, if your kid breaks his DS (and it wasnt a freak accident, just basic carelessness), dont just give them a new one, teach them the value of the thing, by doing weekly chores / having them save up for a new one.
that wont work very well. Nintendo is already taking flack from their loyal fanbase for only bringing out rehashed old stuff and casual games (with the occasional new zelda / mario thrown in between). If their killing feature for a system would basically be a nes/snes/n64 emulator, im willing to bet whatever nintendo has left of their old fanbase will be running to the hills
I'm mildly interested in getting a hold of one just to see how well the 3d works
bring some asperin. I tried one out in a store for two minutes, and while the 3D effect is cool (with your head positioned correctly, which pretty much sucks for a portable), i got a headache within a those two minutes.