Besides, a much better way to get back at them would be to hack their display, no? Imagine the Mircosoft Drone extolling the virtues of their operating system, when all of the suddent a message box pops up on their screen: "This would never happen on a Linux machine" Followed by the BSOD.
Why throw eggs, when you can make them look bad on a technological level, which is where Linux and the Linux crowd excells anyways?
I might agree with you, but the article states that their looking at using it for portable devices, such as digital cameras, etc.
In which case, smaller is better. Plus, they claimed that using the same technology on a normal sized CD would yeild 27GB of storage. I think I'd rather have a DVD/CD/Blue-laser thingy drive than just a straight DVD.
I know I would have loved it had my school done this. Of course, lacking that, we would just all congregate at a friends house and set up a LAN party there, or spend our evenings crawling through the UNIX servers of our ISPs or using BBSs (this was the days before TCP/IP at your workstation -- it was a terminal program dialed into someone elses machine and everything was text based).
In retrospect, it would have sucked to have our school do something like this as all the machines there would barely play Doom in the lowest possible resolution and with all the features turned off. No, much better to stick to our machines.
Don't worry, I'm using IE 6.0 (at work), and I get the same error message you do. Apparently, it "don't support nuthin".
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This is cool: according to Sun, when you buy StarOffice, you get versions for Linux, Windows, and Solaris. That means I can run it on my Linux laptop, my two Windows machines, and my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 8.
All for only $75. Where's that 'add to my cart' button....
Anyone who reads Arstechnica knows that you can just log in using ID 'Arstechnica', and password of the same. But, yeah, it'd be cooler if you didn't have to go through that step.
You and my wife would get along well -- she loves Coling (although I don't think it's entirely for his driving abilities). At any rate, I'm hoping that Citroen does some serious damage this year (although only contesting 7 events will hurt them - that and they're only great on tarmac). The one standout entry this year may very well be Tommi in the Subaru - 2nd O/A at Monte, nice work.
Do what we do when registering racecars -- find someone in your club/family/friends who lives outside of the DEQ area and register it there. I have a friend who has 15 cars registered at his house, and only 3 are his!
Ya know, one argument to stuff like this that doesn't hold water for me is the 'What do you value your time at?' argument. Honestly, if I'm building a system like the one described, I'm doing it for me and my own education/geek factor. I'm not going to sell the damn thing, I'm going to use it for me, therefore my time costs nothing. And here's why: It's MY time...I already own it, therefore it costs nothing!!
People seem to be so obsessed with placing a value on things that they forget that some people do stuff like this for a hobby, and therefore it is more likely to cost money than pay for itself. By definition a hobby shouldn't really pay for itself, otherwise it's a business, aka work.
If I were to build one, it wouldn't be work. But, then again, maybe I'm one of the few people who spend my day working on computers, then go home and work on computers for fun.
Agreed. I discovered shn when looking for live recordings online. Much to my surprise I found that quite a few people use this lossless format, and it sounds great when burned out to a CD. Like the original poster said, if you can afford the space (it's cheap!) you should go with shn.
You don't even have to be in a small town. My fathers office would like to get a business rate DSL connection for their 10 or so employees on the outskirts of a fairly large city. Called the phone company - sorry, you're too far from the CO (15,000 feet or so). Call the cable company -- sorry, cable modem isn't available in your area. Thought about a fractional T1 -- too expensive. Same with ISDN.
The solution? Satellite. At DirectPC.com, we found that, after the initial equipment purchase, it was about the same price as a DSL connection, and it's up and downstream over the satellite. If you're having trouble getting a broadband connection, you might want to check them out...
When will you use it correctly? Hacking refers to the act of making something do what it wasn't originally designed to do. For example, making a Coke machine powered by a computer that you can trigger to give out a Coke via a network is an exceptionally cool hack.
Modifying a web page to say "i aM l33t!" is not a hack.
I was at Disney World in April for a Disney Cruise (4 days in the park, 3 days on the cruise ship). They already have something similar to this.
First off, you only have to check in once, and they give you two room key cards. You use them to get into your room, get into the park, purchase things (anywhere they take a credit card, you can use your 'Key to the World' card). When it came time to get on the boat, we used that as our boarding pass, and it also got us into our stateroom. Everything on the cruise ship could be put on this card.
When you originally checked in, you had the option of putting everything that went on the card onto a credit card. Worked great and I barely needed cash the entire time. Very cool.
I hang out with my coworkers every now and again. We share something in common - a general distaste for the users. I've had BBQs at my bosses, go to concerts with them, drink for no apparent reason - heck, I even bought a parts car from one of them.
I've found that we have a lot in common, actually, and not just computers and stupid users. We come from similar backgrounds, believe it or not, and thus have similar tastes. Maybe my company just got lucky to get a core group that works well together. Who knows...what I do know, though, is that it makes work much more enjoyable.
But wouldn't that technically turn the geeks into the bullies? I mean, realistically, the only people I know who would put that kind of thought into a project like this are highly geeky in nature.
Thus, this technology could be the thing that turns the tides and turns the geeks into the bullies and the bullies into the kid who's lunch money gets stolen.
I'm in the process of building a similar beast. Not for the car, though, but to drive a projector that will be my main television. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 (built-in TV tuner and DVD hardware decoding) and a DVD drive. Add a good sound card and an ethernet card, all driven by a PII 350, and we have a machine that we can set with the rest of the components (stereo, etc) in a cabinet. Hook up a wireless keyboard and mouse, and we won't even have to get off the couch.
I had one that was fun. After the third time an AT&T rep called trying to sell us the same damn thing, I decided to scare them out of calling us. Here's how:
AT&T rep calls, starts into her sales pitch (which, by this time, I have memorized). I let her get about 10 words in, and then interrupt her with my best authoritative voice.
"How did you get this number?!"
She's a bit shocked, so doesn't produce the answer right away, but manages to mumble "It just showed up on my screen, the computer--"
Me: "No one is supposed to have this number, and we are not supposed to be receiving commercial calls on it"
I can hear her stammering a bit, quite taken aback by all this. I'm loving it, trying my hardest not to laugh. My wife is thinking I'm nuts, but figures hey, if they stop calling us. I push on:
"Take this number off your list, and DON'T call it again." Then, slam down the receiver.
...the computer should be able to predict climate for the entire planet for thousands of years in a short amount of time."
Okay, then what do you do with the computer? You spent billions of dollars on it, and it chugs and churns for 3 days straight, gives you the climate for the next 4000 years -- then what? Shut it down? Play Quake?
(And yes, I know, the climate will need to be constantly recalculated, so the machine will never be not used)
The thing is that in some places, $12,000 a year is a great living wage. Let's face it, there are several places in the world that have a lower cost of living. Friends of mine from India say they could live well on a $12,000/year salary, depending on where they want to live.
I, too, know a gentleman who works for SGI (writes the tech manuals - specifically on clusters), and he tells me that he's expecting to be gainfully unemployed by Thursday. That's when they are, it is rumored, having a round of layoffs.
Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell.
Ack! I still have a Zenith 286 laptop -- the case got cracked somehow, so I pulled the guts out and hung it on the wall. Still works, I might add -- just hook up the keyboard, plug in the power, and away you go.
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Nelly....Nelly...I don't think I've heard of that artist.
Time to fire up Kazaa and see what they sound like.
I agree with all your points.
Besides, a much better way to get back at them would be to hack their display, no? Imagine the Mircosoft Drone extolling the virtues of their operating system, when all of the suddent a message box pops up on their screen:
"This would never happen on a Linux machine"
Followed by the BSOD.
Why throw eggs, when you can make them look bad on a technological level, which is where Linux and the Linux crowd excells anyways?
I might agree with you, but the article states that their looking at using it for portable devices, such as digital cameras, etc.
In which case, smaller is better. Plus, they claimed that using the same technology on a normal sized CD would yeild 27GB of storage. I think I'd rather have a DVD/CD/Blue-laser thingy drive than just a straight DVD.
I know I would have loved it had my school done this. Of course, lacking that, we would just all congregate at a friends house and set up a LAN party there, or spend our evenings crawling through the UNIX servers of our ISPs or using BBSs (this was the days before TCP/IP at your workstation -- it was a terminal program dialed into someone elses machine and everything was text based).
In retrospect, it would have sucked to have our school do something like this as all the machines there would barely play Doom in the lowest possible resolution and with all the features turned off. No, much better to stick to our machines.
But we were geeks. YMMV.
that should give you plenty of links to play with.
Actually, no, since the first link you posted is the same guy and the same SDK, just different pages for it. But the devrs.com one is new...
Don't worry, I'm using IE 6.0 (at work), and I get the same error message you do. Apparently, it "don't support nuthin".
This is cool: according to Sun, when you buy StarOffice, you get versions for Linux, Windows, and Solaris. That means I can run it on my Linux laptop, my two Windows machines, and my Sun Ultra 10 running Solaris 8.
All for only $75. Where's that 'add to my cart' button....
Anyone who reads Arstechnica knows that you can just log in using ID 'Arstechnica', and password of the same. But, yeah, it'd be cooler if you didn't have to go through that step.
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You and my wife would get along well -- she loves Coling (although I don't think it's entirely for his driving abilities). At any rate, I'm hoping that Citroen does some serious damage this year (although only contesting 7 events will hurt them - that and they're only great on tarmac). The one standout entry this year may very well be Tommi in the Subaru - 2nd O/A at Monte, nice work.
For info on rally in the US, check out Special Stage [specialstage.com] or Ben's Rally Page [bensrallypage.com].
Do what we do when registering racecars -- find someone in your club/family/friends who lives outside of the DEQ area and register it there. I have a friend who has 15 cars registered at his house, and only 3 are his!
Ya know, one argument to stuff like this that doesn't hold water for me is the 'What do you value your time at?' argument. Honestly, if I'm building a system like the one described, I'm doing it for me and my own education/geek factor. I'm not going to sell the damn thing, I'm going to use it for me, therefore my time costs nothing. And here's why: It's MY time...I already own it, therefore it costs nothing!!
People seem to be so obsessed with placing a value on things that they forget that some people do stuff like this for a hobby, and therefore it is more likely to cost money than pay for itself. By definition a hobby shouldn't really pay for itself, otherwise it's a business, aka work.
If I were to build one, it wouldn't be work. But, then again, maybe I'm one of the few people who spend my day working on computers, then go home and work on computers for fun.
Agreed. I discovered shn when looking for live recordings online. Much to my surprise I found that quite a few people use this lossless format, and it sounds great when burned out to a CD. Like the original poster said, if you can afford the space (it's cheap!) you should go with shn.
You don't even have to be in a small town. My fathers office would like to get a business rate DSL connection for their 10 or so employees on the outskirts of a fairly large city. Called the phone company - sorry, you're too far from the CO (15,000 feet or so). Call the cable company -- sorry, cable modem isn't available in your area. Thought about a fractional T1 -- too expensive. Same with ISDN.
The solution? Satellite. At DirectPC.com, we found that, after the initial equipment purchase, it was about the same price as a DSL connection, and it's up and downstream over the satellite. If you're having trouble getting a broadband connection, you might want to check them out...
When will you use it correctly? Hacking refers to the act of making something do what it wasn't originally designed to do. For example, making a Coke machine powered by a computer that you can trigger to give out a Coke via a network is an exceptionally cool hack.
Modifying a web page to say "i aM l33t!" is not a hack.
I was at Disney World in April for a Disney Cruise (4 days in the park, 3 days on the cruise ship). They already have something similar to this.
First off, you only have to check in once, and they give you two room key cards. You use them to get into your room, get into the park, purchase things (anywhere they take a credit card, you can use your 'Key to the World' card). When it came time to get on the boat, we used that as our boarding pass, and it also got us into our stateroom. Everything on the cruise ship could be put on this card.
When you originally checked in, you had the option of putting everything that went on the card onto a credit card. Worked great and I barely needed cash the entire time. Very cool.
I hang out with my coworkers every now and again. We share something in common - a general distaste for the users. I've had BBQs at my bosses, go to concerts with them, drink for no apparent reason - heck, I even bought a parts car from one of them.
I've found that we have a lot in common, actually, and not just computers and stupid users. We come from similar backgrounds, believe it or not, and thus have similar tastes. Maybe my company just got lucky to get a core group that works well together. Who knows...what I do know, though, is that it makes work much more enjoyable.
But wouldn't that technically turn the geeks into the bullies? I mean, realistically, the only people I know who would put that kind of thought into a project like this are highly geeky in nature.
Thus, this technology could be the thing that turns the tides and turns the geeks into the bullies and the bullies into the kid who's lunch money gets stolen.
I'm in the process of building a similar beast. Not for the car, though, but to drive a projector that will be my main television. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 (built-in TV tuner and DVD hardware decoding) and a DVD drive. Add a good sound card and an ethernet card, all driven by a PII 350, and we have a machine that we can set with the rest of the components (stereo, etc) in a cabinet. Hook up a wireless keyboard and mouse, and we won't even have to get off the couch.
I had one that was fun. After the third time an AT&T rep called trying to sell us the same damn thing, I decided to scare them out of calling us. Here's how:
AT&T rep calls, starts into her sales pitch (which, by this time, I have memorized). I let her get about 10 words in, and then interrupt her with my best authoritative voice.
"How did you get this number?!"
She's a bit shocked, so doesn't produce the answer right away, but manages to mumble "It just showed up on my screen, the computer--"
Me: "No one is supposed to have this number, and we are not supposed to be receiving commercial calls on it"
I can hear her stammering a bit, quite taken aback by all this. I'm loving it, trying my hardest not to laugh. My wife is thinking I'm nuts, but figures hey, if they stop calling us. I push on:
"Take this number off your list, and DON'T call it again." Then, slam down the receiver.
Needless to say, AT&T doesn't call us anymore.
...the computer should be able to predict climate for the entire planet for thousands of years in a short amount of time."
Okay, then what do you do with the computer? You spent billions of dollars on it, and it chugs and churns for 3 days straight, gives you the climate for the next 4000 years -- then what? Shut it down? Play Quake?
(And yes, I know, the climate will need to be constantly recalculated, so the machine will never be not used)
The thing is that in some places, $12,000 a year is a great living wage. Let's face it, there are several places in the world that have a lower cost of living. Friends of mine from India say they could live well on a $12,000/year salary, depending on where they want to live.
It's all relative to the local economy.
Agreed! And with some MD recorders, you can put 340 minutes of audio on standard media. I fail to see the draw of this new toy...
I, too, know a gentleman who works for SGI (writes the tech manuals - specifically on clusters), and he tells me that he's expecting to be gainfully unemployed by Thursday. That's when they are, it is rumored, having a round of layoffs. Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell.
Ack! I still have a Zenith 286 laptop -- the case got cracked somehow, so I pulled the guts out and hung it on the wall. Still works, I might add -- just hook up the keyboard, plug in the power, and away you go.