Kinda reminds me of the old electric football game where the pieces just vibrated all over the field. Of course, the damn thing never worked right...:) Maybe after all this time, some game manufacturer can make an electric football game that actually works!
I had multiple machines in my rather smallish home office (9'x10') and the noise was really getting to me. What I finally did was put some shelves in the closet and put the two computers in there. Had to buy some extension cables for the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But fortunately, I had both machines hooked up to a switchbox, so I only needed to run one set of cables (from the switchbox) out to my desk. I also had to get a 1/8" stereo headphone extension to run sound/microphone out to my desk. Then, finally, a USB extension cable to run out to a hub that sits on my desk. (To plug my mp3 player, joysticks, etc into). This setup works great for me. It's a little inconvenient having to get up form the desk to change a cd in the drive, but that doesn't happen *that* often for me. A workaround for that would be to get a USB cd-rom drive and plug it into the hub.
One of my concerns is heat buildup in the closet when the door is shut, but it doesn't seem to be a problem yet. If I were really concerned, I suppose I could put in some sort of exhaust fan into the ceiling of the closet.
Well, at first I thought this was a joke, but it *appears* they might be legit, or at least put a lot of effort into the joke...:) http://www.powerskip.de/
This sounds like something Wile E. Coyote would buy... And probably anyone trying to use them would end up with the same fate the coyote has after trying any ACME product...
That's not entirely true... It's impossible to generate a random number using a pure software implementation. You can do it with hardware though. Just have a sensor that monitors some random "thing" in the surrounding environment and incorporate that into your random number generator.
Though not very practical, the decay of radioactive material is a totally random process which could be monitored to generate a truly random number.
I think there is a site on the web somewhere that has a hardware random number generator, which you can query for a string of random bytes. I'm not sure what their sensor was monitoring -- maybe temperature?
This guy should consider putting something on his suit so that the parachute can be deployed by remote control. Then, if he blacks out during the skydive, someone on the ground can open his chute for him. Or it could even be set to deploy automatically at a given altitude...
I can see it now... The MPAA will sue anyone distributing zip/gzip/arj/etc and file splitters/joiners because they allows their "undistributable" 300 GB movies to be packaged in little (compressed) chunks and sent over the internet...:)
What's the typical compression ratio for a movie (lossless)? How about lossy (eg MPEG) compression? Though I shudder to think how long it would take to MPEG-encode something that huge...
Isn't this what Sun was claiming JAVA was supposed to do? (Of course, they've since backed off on those claims...) "Write once, run anywhere!" "Speeds comparable to C programs!" Gimme a break...
"[W]hy should developers slave away writing one game over and over again when they can write it once, optimize it for specific platforms if desired (Amiga's operating system is real-time and thus quite fast), and release it on all major software platforms -- including Linux -- simultaneously. Suddenly Windows becomes a choice, not a given -- and the world will be well."
Was it just me, or did some of the games have about 100x the flicker as other games in that video?
Don't get me wrong, this is waaay cool! But I can just imagine large groups of people dropping the the ground in seizures after looking up and seeing someone playing tempest on the clouds...:)
Well, Microsoft just released their latest Office 10 beta (supposedly ahead of schedule, if you believe that... I wonder if it'll take just as long (or longer) for it to run WINE...
This is all a secret plot of the Russians to hold the winner captive on the space station and force him/her to watch cheesey movies...
Next step, they'll rename Mir to the Space Station of Love...
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Kinda reminds me of the old electric football game where the pieces just vibrated all over the field. Of course, the damn thing never worked right... :) Maybe after all this time, some game manufacturer can make an electric football game that actually works!
I had multiple machines in my rather smallish home office (9'x10') and the noise was really getting to me. What I finally did was put some shelves in the closet and put the two computers in there. Had to buy some extension cables for the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But fortunately, I had both machines hooked up to a switchbox, so I only needed to run one set of cables (from the switchbox) out to my desk. I also had to get a 1/8" stereo headphone extension to run sound/microphone out to my desk. Then, finally, a USB extension cable to run out to a hub that sits on my desk. (To plug my mp3 player, joysticks, etc into). This setup works great for me. It's a little inconvenient having to get up form the desk to change a cd in the drive, but that doesn't happen *that* often for me. A workaround for that would be to get a USB cd-rom drive and plug it into the hub. One of my concerns is heat buildup in the closet when the door is shut, but it doesn't seem to be a problem yet. If I were really concerned, I suppose I could put in some sort of exhaust fan into the ceiling of the closet.
Well, at first I thought this was a joke, but it *appears* they might be legit, or at least put a lot of effort into the joke... :) http://www.powerskip.de/
It's definitely not cheap, though -- check out the prices...
http://www.powerskip.de/pricelist.html
850 Euros =~ $750 USD
Not to mention that you have to start buying new soles for it every 50 hours of use, and a new spring every 100 hours of use...
http://www.powerskip.de/function.html
Cool idea (if it's legit) but kinda pricey...
This sounds like something Wile E. Coyote would buy... And probably anyone trying to use them would end up with the same fate the coyote has after trying any ACME product...
That's not entirely true... It's impossible to generate a random number using a pure software implementation. You can do it with hardware though. Just have a sensor that monitors some random "thing" in the surrounding environment and incorporate that into your random number generator. Though not very practical, the decay of radioactive material is a totally random process which could be monitored to generate a truly random number. I think there is a site on the web somewhere that has a hardware random number generator, which you can query for a string of random bytes. I'm not sure what their sensor was monitoring -- maybe temperature?
This guy should consider putting something on his suit so that the parachute can be deployed by remote control. Then, if he blacks out during the skydive, someone on the ground can open his chute for him. Or it could even be set to deploy automatically at a given altitude...
Actually, it was Fallout Boy that got his powers from x-ray radiation. Radioactive Man was exposed to an A-Bomb... :)
I can see it now... The MPAA will sue anyone distributing zip/gzip/arj/etc and file splitters/joiners because they allows their "undistributable" 300 GB movies to be packaged in little (compressed) chunks and sent over the internet... :)
What's the typical compression ratio for a movie (lossless)? How about lossy (eg MPEG) compression? Though I shudder to think how long it would take to MPEG-encode something that huge...
Isn't this what Sun was claiming JAVA was supposed to do? (Of course, they've since backed off on those claims...) "Write once, run anywhere!" "Speeds comparable to C programs!" Gimme a break...
"[W]hy should developers slave away writing one game over and over again when they can write it once, optimize it for specific platforms if desired (Amiga's operating system is real-time and thus quite fast), and release it on all major software platforms -- including Linux -- simultaneously. Suddenly Windows becomes a choice, not a given -- and the world will be well."
Was it just me, or did some of the games have about 100x the flicker as other games in that video? Don't get me wrong, this is waaay cool! But I can just imagine large groups of people dropping the the ground in seizures after looking up and seeing someone playing tempest on the clouds... :)
er... run on WINE, that is! :)
Well, Microsoft just released their latest Office 10 beta (supposedly ahead of schedule, if you believe that... I wonder if it'll take just as long (or longer) for it to run WINE...
This is all a secret plot of the Russians to hold the winner captive on the space station and force him/her to watch cheesey movies... Next step, they'll rename Mir to the Space Station of Love...