No, really! I can see my house! It's in one of the Santa Monica pictures. My AP was probably one of the detected ones, no WEP, but I use MAC filtering, so maybe not. I'm not sure if unregistered MACs can see the AP, actually. Hmm... BUT I CAN SEE MY HOUSE!
I've been working on Windows practically my whole life (I was about 8 when 3.1 came out). At the beginning, it's just what I had, and then it was more what made sense--I played lots of games. I had a couple Macs in middle school, along side the family PC, but I didn't use them for anything more than word processing.
Then early on in high school, a buddy turned me on to Linux. I installed an early version of Red Hat, and was intrigued. It was nice hacking fun, but it didn't work as predictably (predictably unpredictable) as Windows did for me, nor did it have the software I wanted, but rather ugly open-source reverse-engineered clones.
Now I'm waiting for my new Powerbook G4 with a superdrive and OS X. Why did I switch to Mac? Well, I didn't. It's not replacing my desktop, because, well, I still play games. I got the Mac to do music on, and to burn DVDs, and it's just so freaking sexy and little and light and sweet and cool, and image-concious, and all those things. WAY better than my crappy Dell Inspiron.
Oh, Janie Porche really turns me on with her girl-next-door good looks, and if I were like, two years younger, I'd be all over Eileen Fiess.
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Yeah, the Apache has had the tech for a while now, but only on the nose-mounted cannon, and that only had a 160 degree or so range of motion. The fact that they can aim missles now in directions other than the path of flight is really amazing. Those mf's must have some crazy powerful rockets....
Sorry, but... no. If Sega stops selling Dreamcasts, game companies will stop making games, so people won't want to buy a system with no backing. These aren't standard pieces of electronics, they're game systems. If they were, for example, Roland TR-909 drum synths, which will always make that old-school hip-hop sound, then yeah, there will be a great demand for the small supply. But if Sega stopped making the Dreamcast (which it isn't), nobody would want one because there would be no more games being released. When it comes to entertainment technology, people want the biggest and the best, not the old and nostalgic.
I think the major problem with HDTV is the cable companies. They don't want to shell out the dough to bring fiber to the curb, so HD over cable is still not feasable. I just got Adelphia Digital Cable, and while it's a nice image, almost DVD quality, my $5000 Mitusbishi HD1080 is going to waste. People don't want to put up ugly antennae on their roofs just to see Leno's chin in glorious 1080i, nor do they really want to shell out the outrageous cash needed for DirectHD. If cable companies were bringing HD into the home over cable people already have, then we'll definitely see a lot more people buying TVs they know they'll get good use out of without a whole lot of extra costs (I still haven't bought an HD decoder, because, why do I need it?). When people have the TVs, then we'll see full broadcast schedules in HD. Maybe even with some interactive features!
It's okay that they put religion on the disk as a prototype, but come on... Future civilizations will laugh at us if the Bible is our recorded history.
We need technical information about our societies, laws, census data, etc. That's what would be helpful in the future. The great works of history should be placed on these disks, in ONE language. Why 1,000? Because they could do it, that's why. I think it's plain wasteful, and I hope they get some responsibility and realize that this is the history of the world here. Not the drunken babblings of some ancient middle-easterners.
(Not to offend anyone if I did, sorry, I just still don't think the bible is an accurate reflection of our world.)
How are you going to get a decent connection on an off-shore anti-aircraft bunker? Is BT going to run some fiber to you? If so, wouldn't that just put you right back under the surveilance you were trying to avoid?
au contraire, you CAN change the resolution in X, other than by using ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt--. I run Corel Linux 1.1, (no flames, please, it's just the first distro I've found to run Samba perfectly) and it has a nice little monitor logo in the system tray, which when I double click it gives me the display properties. For all of you that have been jumping out of windows these days, display properties is basically a fancy name for Xconfigurator or XF86Config. There's a little slider for choosing resolutions, and two drop-down menus for color-depth and refresh rates. It even has a handy dandy test button to make sure nothing goes wrong. I don't know if you can get this utility for any other distro other than Corel (Debian?), but it would be great if you could, it's very helpful.
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No, really! I can see my house! It's in one of the Santa Monica pictures. My AP was probably one of the detected ones, no WEP, but I use MAC filtering, so maybe not. I'm not sure if unregistered MACs can see the AP, actually. Hmm... BUT I CAN SEE MY HOUSE!
I've been working on Windows practically my whole life (I was about 8 when 3.1 came out). At the beginning, it's just what I had, and then it was more what made sense--I played lots of games. I had a couple Macs in middle school, along side the family PC, but I didn't use them for anything more than word processing.
Then early on in high school, a buddy turned me on to Linux. I installed an early version of Red Hat, and was intrigued. It was nice hacking fun, but it didn't work as predictably (predictably unpredictable) as Windows did for me, nor did it have the software I wanted, but rather ugly open-source reverse-engineered clones.
Now I'm waiting for my new Powerbook G4 with a superdrive and OS X. Why did I switch to Mac? Well, I didn't. It's not replacing my desktop, because, well, I still play games. I got the Mac to do music on, and to burn DVDs, and it's just so freaking sexy and little and light and sweet and cool, and image-concious, and all those things. WAY better than my crappy Dell Inspiron.
Oh, Janie Porche really turns me on with her girl-next-door good looks, and if I were like, two years younger, I'd be all over Eileen Fiess.
----------------
Yeah, the Apache has had the tech for a while now, but only on the nose-mounted cannon, and that only had a 160 degree or so range of motion. The fact that they can aim missles now in directions other than the path of flight is really amazing. Those mf's must have some crazy powerful rockets....
Sorry, but... no. If Sega stops selling Dreamcasts, game companies will stop making games, so people won't want to buy a system with no backing. These aren't standard pieces of electronics, they're game systems. If they were, for example, Roland TR-909 drum synths, which will always make that old-school hip-hop sound, then yeah, there will be a great demand for the small supply. But if Sega stopped making the Dreamcast (which it isn't), nobody would want one because there would be no more games being released. When it comes to entertainment technology, people want the biggest and the best, not the old and nostalgic.
I think the major problem with HDTV is the cable companies. They don't want to shell out the dough to bring fiber to the curb, so HD over cable is still not feasable. I just got Adelphia Digital Cable, and while it's a nice image, almost DVD quality, my $5000 Mitusbishi HD1080 is going to waste. People don't want to put up ugly antennae on their roofs just to see Leno's chin in glorious 1080i, nor do they really want to shell out the outrageous cash needed for DirectHD. If cable companies were bringing HD into the home over cable people already have, then we'll definitely see a lot more people buying TVs they know they'll get good use out of without a whole lot of extra costs (I still haven't bought an HD decoder, because, why do I need it?). When people have the TVs, then we'll see full broadcast schedules in HD. Maybe even with some interactive features!
It's okay that they put religion on the disk as a prototype, but come on... Future civilizations will laugh at us if the Bible is our recorded history.
We need technical information about our societies, laws, census data, etc. That's what would be helpful in the future. The great works of history should be placed on these disks, in ONE language. Why 1,000? Because they could do it, that's why. I think it's plain wasteful, and I hope they get some responsibility and realize that this is the history of the world here. Not the drunken babblings of some ancient middle-easterners.
(Not to offend anyone if I did, sorry, I just still don't think the bible is an accurate reflection of our world.)
How are you going to get a decent connection on an off-shore anti-aircraft bunker? Is BT going to run some fiber to you? If so, wouldn't that just put you right back under the surveilance you were trying to avoid?
au contraire, you CAN change the resolution in X, other than by using ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt--. I run Corel Linux 1.1, (no flames, please, it's just the first distro I've found to run Samba perfectly) and it has a nice little monitor logo in the system tray, which when I double click it gives me the display properties. For all of you that have been jumping out of windows these days, display properties is basically a fancy name for Xconfigurator or XF86Config. There's a little slider for choosing resolutions, and two drop-down menus for color-depth and refresh rates. It even has a handy dandy test button to make sure nothing goes wrong. I don't know if you can get this utility for any other distro other than Corel (Debian?), but it would be great if you could, it's very helpful.