Personally after being lost in the delta quadrant for years on voyager, I thought trek would get back to some basic Treking. Klingon's (Bad ones, nasty ones, Enterprise's Klingons are more like TNG's, which in my opinion ought not to be the case). Bad Ass Romulans, and the discovery of thier link with the vulcans (this was touched on Briefly, very Briefly, and really ought to get more attention as well. They really need to round up the writers and directorys that made some of the DS9, TNG episodes that really stick out as Classics. Best of Both Worlds, the Bell Riots, The entire Bajorian Religious Arc at the end of DS9 (the final season was one of the best seasons of Trek ever). I also feel like Enterprise has quickly degenerated into the Captain Archer Show, which some Trip and T'Pol thrown in here and there. They need to open up the cast more let us get into the other characters heads, and perhaps even give us a few more characters. It looked like they were headed that way they had that ensign (Cartright? maybe?) who seemed to get some focus in a couple episodes (on an away mission in the episode with the slave race, and the episode where she has a crush on Flox)...ah well I hope they work something out and we get a season 4 and perhaps they can strighgten this out...
I suspect that if there is a 7,8,9 looming, that the reins of control will likely be handed over to Rick McCallum the producer of the 1,2,3 trilogy. In interviews he has always struck me as the true driving force these days behind Star Wars. I also suspect that with Lucas out of the way the movies would fair much better.
If there is a 7,8,9 Lucas will probably lay down the most basic story outlines, perhaps take on exec-producer/creative consultant role, the meat of the writing, directing, etc will be handed off to a trusted lutenent
I love my legos, but honestly I have not seen one damned basic building set that has fit my desires in years. The mindstorms are, and technics are great...and I'll miss them alot...however its been years since I have seen a basic set (or a space themed set, remember all the get ones in the 80's) that suited my custom building needs. They need to go back to what they were doing in the late 70's and early to mid 80's...although they oughta keep mindstorms...
Speaking of which I'd love to see a card or oprion on the otherboard that would allow for 3 or more SATA connections (5 or 6 preferably) and do RAID 5 in hardware. Hell I'd take just having enough SATA connections to setup a RAID 5 in OS land. Raid 0,1 which most boards provide is not at all interesting to me.
I honestly had not thought that far yet, but you are right. If one were to build a machine entirely built on SATA tech, there would be a problem of where do you connect the CD-ROM/R/RW, DVD/R/RW...or even IDE Zip drive for that matter. It is probably getting hear time for these devices to start coming equiped with SATA connections. Which rasies and interesting question what if anything keeps them from coming with both connectors so they could be used with either IDE bus type. Other than price of putting the extra connector on the drive (and perhaps if needed embeding the converter from one connection type to another)
I have a modified version of this...I have high blood pressure and they put me on a water pill...now I CAN'T go more than about 6 - 7 Hours without taking a piss! I'm pretty much always up on time, because my body starts screaming I need to take a piss about an hour before the alarm goes off...I fight the need till the alarm does go off, but when it does its pretty much go time...I will not go into how this has screwed up my sleep cycle...I have always been one of those that needs to be sleep almost as long as I have been awake...and made up the difference on the weekend, however thats not possible anymore.
My wife started listening to King's Gunsliger Series in the car. Due to her talking about it I took the first four books(paper since I see audio books as something for after I have actaully read the books, for car drives and going to sleep), which us on Vaca as fluff reading(paperback = fluff reading, hardcover = Non-fluff due to weight of book). I had figured that a story bascially boiling down to a western wouldn't apeal to me (That and I have never read a king book before so I wasn't sure I'd like his style)...I was toally surprised, these are damn good books, and it actually makes me interested to read them (something few books do lately, perhaps I am tireing of Sci-Fi Fantasy)...I am in the middle of Wizard and Glass nw, and its shaping up to be as good as the rest, and I am hurriedly trying to get through it so I can red Wolves of Callah(sp?) the next book which my wife has promised (but is getting itchy) to not start on audiobook till I catchup.
Doesn't this pretty much legalize the distrobution of ROM's for use with MAME! Thats the way It reads to me. "(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
...by the corporations... What a disgusting nation we have become, its supposed to be we the people, but our law makers really only legislate for a small minority. The industries that want something, and have the money to buy it!
How do you show what you are capable of to a perspective employeer when everything you have written at a high techinical level is property of the companies you have worked for, and for internal use only...
Their Symmetrix Products phone home, when their is a fault on the box, in hardware, firmware, or software I believe. They recently enhanced it in partnership with oracle I believe to cause the box to phone home to Oracle if something goes wrong with the Oracle databases hosted on the box.
I seem to rememeber about a year ago or so hearing that Anthony Stewart Head (aka Giles, of Buffy Fame) was being considered as a possible new doctor, which I thought was an excellect choice for the role.....
The approrite place would be on the LKML... In One of two ways.... 1. Post the patch to the list explaining what its for and what it does... 2. Post to the list asking who the maintainer of the USB realm for that device is, send the patch to them...
or 3. Check the Kernel Maintainers file for same information as #2
The Schrodenbug...named after the Theroy of Schrodinger's cat...where by if you put a cat in a box, its not truely dead until you look at it again...
This is a bug which while in existance in your code has no effect until you happen to notice it, in the code. Then suddenly the effect of having this bug begins to appear. While until you noticed it, the effect never appeared and the program ran as intended.
...the driving force of sci-fi is things that seem almost sci-fi going on in the real world, and then extending that idea...however there is practically none of this going on, people don't care about reading about our future in space anymore, because we are not drving to get there like we used to...it was easy to imagine going to another world when NASA, and the USSR, where actually doing things to make it possible...now its routine and boring, we circle the earth endlessly, but we never fucking go anywhere!
...I work in a cube farm and I use my Speakerphone for everything! I'm a programmer, and when people call its typically because they have found a bug, or something similar that needs to be addressed in the code. I NEED! both hands when trying to address such a phone call.
So...
1. Shutup and Deal!
2. Encourge companies to realize this and either use high wall cubes(The Walls are 7-8 feet instead of the standard 4 1/2 - 5)...or put programmers in offices...and managers in CUBES!
I have a logitech trackman Optical and find that I need to pop the ball out at least once a week to clean the little plastic balls that provide a mount for the speckle ball to ride on. The Ball will get sticky and not travel well. A quick cleaning of the contact balls and it rides well again.
I see it says Ogg/Flac...anyone know if it still has MP3 support or does it just support those formats....and can anyone point to documentation that says it supports Ogg, and MP3....
We have these things called "movin' cools" basicly A/C on wheels...it does need to be plugged in, but you could run it off a generator and a long cord....
They have a Dryer hose like outflow pipe for the hot air which we can connect at various points to the sent system...you could probably micky mouse it to your vents with some cardboard and Duct tape....
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Personally after being lost in the delta quadrant for years on voyager, I thought trek would get back to some basic Treking. Klingon's (Bad ones, nasty ones, Enterprise's Klingons are more like TNG's, which in my opinion ought not to be the case). Bad Ass Romulans, and the discovery of thier link with the vulcans (this was touched on Briefly, very Briefly, and really ought to get more attention as well. They really need to round up the writers and directorys that made some of the DS9, TNG episodes that really stick out as Classics. Best of Both Worlds, the Bell Riots, The entire Bajorian Religious Arc at the end of DS9 (the final season was one of the best seasons of Trek ever). I also feel like Enterprise has quickly degenerated into the Captain Archer Show, which some Trip and T'Pol thrown in here and there. They need to open up the cast more let us get into the other characters heads, and perhaps even give us a few more characters. It looked like they were headed that way they had that ensign (Cartright? maybe?) who seemed to get some focus in a couple episodes (on an away mission in the episode with the slave race, and the episode where she has a crush on Flox)...ah well I hope they work something out and we get a season 4 and perhaps they can strighgten this out...
I suspect that if there is a 7,8,9 looming, that the reins of control will likely be handed over to Rick McCallum the producer of the 1,2,3 trilogy. In interviews he has always struck me as the true driving force these days behind Star Wars. I also suspect that with Lucas out of the way the movies would fair much better.
If there is a 7,8,9 Lucas will probably lay down the most basic story outlines, perhaps take on exec-producer/creative consultant role, the meat of the writing, directing, etc will be handed off to a trusted lutenent
I have a VT 320 connected to my Linux machine, does that count.
I also have a working apple 2e that I turn on from time to time that has the original apple branded monitor.
I love my legos, but honestly I have not seen one damned basic building set that has fit my desires in years. The mindstorms are, and technics are great...and I'll miss them alot...however its been years since I have seen a basic set (or a space themed set, remember all the get ones in the 80's) that suited my custom building needs.
They need to go back to what they were doing in the late 70's and early to mid 80's...although they oughta keep mindstorms...
Speaking of which I'd love to see a card or oprion on the otherboard that would allow for 3 or more SATA connections (5 or 6 preferably) and do RAID 5 in hardware. Hell I'd take just having enough SATA connections to setup a RAID 5 in OS land. Raid 0,1 which most boards provide is not at all interesting to me.
I honestly had not thought that far yet, but you are right. If one were to build a machine entirely built on SATA tech, there would be a problem of where do you connect the CD-ROM/R/RW, DVD/R/RW...or even IDE Zip drive for that matter.
It is probably getting hear time for these devices to start coming equiped with SATA connections. Which rasies and interesting question what if anything keeps them from coming with both connectors so they could be used with either IDE bus type. Other than price of putting the extra connector on the drive (and perhaps if needed embeding the converter from one connection type to another)
I have a modified version of this...I have high blood pressure and they put me on a water pill...now I CAN'T go more than about 6 - 7 Hours without taking a piss! I'm pretty much always up on time, because my body starts screaming I need to take a piss about an hour before the alarm goes off...I fight the need till the alarm does go off, but when it does its pretty much go time...I will not go into how this has screwed up my sleep cycle...I have always been one of those that needs to be sleep almost as long as I have been awake...and made up the difference on the weekend, however thats not possible anymore.
My wife started listening to King's Gunsliger Series in the car. Due to her talking about it I took the first four books(paper since I see audio books as something for after I have actaully read the books, for car drives and going to sleep), which us on Vaca as fluff reading(paperback = fluff reading, hardcover = Non-fluff due to weight of book). I had figured that a story bascially boiling down to a western wouldn't apeal to me (That and I have never read a king book before so I wasn't sure I'd like his style)...I was toally surprised, these are damn good books, and it actually makes me interested to read them (something few books do lately, perhaps I am tireing of Sci-Fi Fantasy)...I am in the middle of Wizard and Glass nw, and its shaping up to be as good as the rest, and I am hurriedly trying to get through it so I can red Wolves of Callah(sp?) the next book which my wife has promised (but is getting itchy) to not start on audiobook till I catchup.
Of the Books I have read this year this was my hands down favorite.
I hope they decide to carry this product so I can put it on my wishlist.
Doesn't this pretty much legalize the distrobution of ROM's for use with MAME! Thats the way It reads to me.
"(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
Got a fax number to send it too? I know I know its on the site someplace, I wanna help, complain and be lazy OK.
...by the corporations...
What a disgusting nation we have become, its supposed to be we the people, but our law makers really only legislate for a small minority. The industries that want something, and have the money to buy it!
How do you show what you are capable of to a perspective employeer when everything you have written at a high techinical level is property of the companies you have worked for, and for internal use only...
Their Symmetrix Products phone home, when their is a fault on the box, in hardware, firmware, or software I believe. They recently enhanced it in partnership with oracle I believe to cause the box to phone home to Oracle if something goes wrong with the Oracle databases hosted on the box.
I seem to rememeber about a year ago or so hearing that Anthony Stewart Head (aka Giles, of Buffy Fame) was being considered as a possible new doctor, which I thought was an excellect choice for the role.....
The approrite place would be on the LKML...
In One of two ways....
1. Post the patch to the list explaining what its for and what it does...
2. Post to the list asking who the maintainer of the USB realm for that device is, send the patch to them...
or
3. Check the Kernel Maintainers file for same information as #2
The Schrodenbug...named after the Theroy of Schrodinger's cat...where by if you put a cat in a box, its not truely dead until you look at it again...
This is a bug which while in existance in your code has no effect until you happen to notice it, in the code. Then suddenly the effect of having this bug begins to appear. While until you noticed it, the effect never appeared and the program ran as intended.
...the driving force of sci-fi is things that seem almost sci-fi going on in the real world, and then extending that idea...however there is practically none of this going on, people don't care about reading about our future in space anymore, because we are not drving to get there like we used to...it was easy to imagine going to another world when NASA, and the USSR, where actually doing things to make it possible...now its routine and boring, we circle the earth endlessly, but we never fucking go anywhere!
Yeah thats what I need another wire running across my desk....NOT!
...I work in a cube farm and I use my Speakerphone for everything! I'm a programmer, and when people call its typically because they have found a bug, or something similar that needs to be addressed in the code. I NEED! both hands when trying to address such a phone call.
So...
1. Shutup and Deal!
2. Encourge companies to realize this and either use high wall cubes(The Walls are 7-8 feet instead of the standard 4 1/2 - 5)...or put programmers in offices...and managers in CUBES!
I have a logitech trackman Optical and find that I need to pop the ball out at least once a week to clean the little plastic balls that provide a mount for the speckle ball to ride on. The Ball will get sticky and not travel well. A quick cleaning of the contact balls and it rides well again.
I see it says Ogg/Flac...anyone know if it still has MP3 support or does it just support those formats....and can anyone point to documentation that says it supports Ogg, and MP3....
We have these things called "movin' cools" basicly A/C on wheels...it does need to be plugged in, but you could run it off a generator and a long cord....
They have a Dryer hose like outflow pipe for the hot air which we can connect at various points to the sent system...you could probably micky mouse it to your vents with some cardboard and Duct tape....
That logic can be built I build similar logic everyday for web programs here where I work that need to modify files behind the scenes...
If you know what the file used to look like (from the previous install) you can read the standard stuff out, update it, add new entries, etc....