> TiVo feels, and many people agree, that the > three-step FF/RW functionality is easier to use > than 30-second skips
funny, i have a replay and i use the 30sec skip all the time. 90% of the time you can hit it right on the spot w/ 2+skip (which takes you 2min forward, or any other number you press).
replay has the same "ff then jump back a few secs" but the skip is just nicer.
the price i quoted included a wellsgarner
monitor.
these are VGA monitors that have the same
dot-pitch as arcade monitors, but you can still
use them to boot X (or windows if you have to)
i think the url is: www.wellsgarner.com but it doesn't seem to be working...
better than dealing with TV-out and not=TVout, when do you switch, having two displays hooked up...etc. _maybe_ w/ the matroxfb stuff you could set the frequency of the console to work with a vga->rgb converter and see your boot messages on the TV otherwise it gets to be tough...
i went out and bought a cabinet, 2 joysticks,
8 buttons (1p start, 2p start, 3buttons/player)
for $25
stuck my sister's amd K6-300 in it (she was out
of town:) and a 14" monitor that i had (max
resolution 640x480).
another $40 later (2 keyboards and a mouse) i
had a working arcade box.
it's a blast, i don't think i've played a "normal"
computer game since. plus it's great for partys.
now if i could only get my pinball machine to
display the scores correctly....
You could build a _really_ nice cabinet for about
$800 (19".71dot-pitch monitor, p3-600) plus
you could use it as an mp3 jukebox (just add
an irman) if it's next to a stereo!
you could get more use out of it by making it
the ipmasq box for the house...
the only problem w/ my cab is that it makes too
much noise (i spin down my hd, no powersupply fan
only the cpu fan) when the TV and stereo are
off in the living room. if only Via would release
their latest Cyrix chip that can run w/ only
a heat sink.....
$25 seems to be a bit much for a repackaging of GNOME....
i didn't click enough to see if that included shipping, but i think that Helix should have worked something out with CheapBytes and sold the 2CD set for $5 or something...
put your data in any database you want and connect to it via jdbc. One way would be to keep the access db on an NT box and whenever you get new data connect to it via jdbc, grab the data, stick it in more robust database (also via jdbc)
Richard Gabriel: Am I permitted to take Linux, change the kernel and make an NT out of it? Hard to say whether Torvalds would tolerate it.
Eric Raymond: Not hard at all. As long as you GPLed your changes, Linus would not object.
Shouldn't this read :
"Linus COULD not object." i mean, he could object, but there isn't anything he could do about it, as long as the changes are released under the GPL it's up to the users to choose which kernel to use... [might not be able to call it Linux anymore]
i don't like sun's ultra 5's either. but i do like the knock offs... can't remeber the name of them now, but the place i do some work for has a 5 333mhz boxes in nice rack mount cases w/ scsi running the website (all behind a crisco local director).
these babies have a very nice price/performance level (running 2.6 not 7)
crap, i can't remember the name of the reseller who builds them... the case comes off easy, easy to get at stuff.
my take is that he isn't interested in the ui at all. from linux-g200 mailing list it seems that his goal is (direct quote):
"I think we have an honest shot at matching (or even exceeding) matrox's win9x driver. Currently, they are over 2x as fast."
i don't even think he plays it in windowed mode, so while he is testing he doesn't see any ui, while coding he just sees the IDE.
code is code, but once you get used to an environment it's hard to change (i can't code in anything but emacs and have no interest in learning any new key bindings)
i have dsl (256k) in tempe, don't use USWest... go w/ primenet. it's $5 more expensive a month, but you get a static ip (ie, it's not dhcp keyed to the MAC so if you change computer/network card you still got the same ip).
also, their connection to the net is faster, i had uswest.net for 2 months and have had primenet for 5, in the 2 months of uswest i had about 10 15-45 min outages (a router on their side would go down), other than one problem w/ primenet (a cable got cut or something sat night, fixed sunday noon) i have been very happy w/ their service.
i had a totally different experiance than justin, called up, got the stuff in the mail, called again to ask what day i was going to be turned on, it worked the day they said it would. the only thing that pissed me off was the $45 fee to change ISP (now down to $35) and it took a few calls to uswest to get that done (the magic words are "I want to change Mega Central")
Carmak has been quite active on the g200 mailing list... (talked general driver opt. looked at the code, etc.)
it's really cool to have his input and point of view on, what is arguably, his domain...
you don't see guys like tim sweeny (sp?) (of unreal) looking at the g200 code the day q3test is supposed to ship for windows!
i believe that he (they - id) has made it (obviously) and has realized that he has made it, and now wants to do 'the right thing' (in their eyes, obviously not opensource q3, but q1 soon). cross platform, help support work on linux, push mac to get off their asses, looked at M$ and decided that if anyone was going to get openGL sorted out (driver wise) that id was going to have to do it themselves, or even push that the graphic card co's put out full opengl drivers... q3 uses a limited subset of openGL (like 90% of the calls are to one method, so that driver guys can easily optimize) and he could have stuck w/ the miniGL hacks that people had, but instead he has single handedly forced all the major card manufactorers to supply the world w/ working openGL drivers, this benifits the end user more than anyone else (ok, the M$ end user).
i wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, he has a few words w/ someone like matrox on behalf of the g200 group (i can dream at least)
i got bit by the handling... i checked the price of the shipping and quoted him that, then forgot that i had to buy a box and padding and take the time out of my day to go and pack it etc...
i used to bitch about handling, but not anymore, now i bitch when people charge $10 for handling.
there are a few cases where Java is faster than C++.
one is when your system has a lot of object creation and destruction. C++ has to run the destructor every time, plus has to deal w/ the memory freeing overhead. Java ('cause of the garbage collection) can put it off till the system load is a bit lower, or if you have _lots_ of ram for ever.
i'm not trying to say that java is faster than c++, just that c++ is not _always_ faster than java.
you move it out to production, 10000 people hit it. boom it dies. why? your SINGLE computer can't handle the load.
so you start to distribute chunks of it, i'll open a socket to this other computer and that way we can spread the load!
so you spend hours/days/weeks writing and testing and breaking your code up into smaller chunks that can run independently of each other and writing a general protocol between them so you don't have to re-write the distribution part every time....
hmmm... starting to look familiar.
wouldn't it have been easier to use some sort of 'component spec' that hides the transfer protocol, has been tested, is documented, and could possibly work with some other vendors components? (and _maybe_ you could use some 'opensource off the shelf' components and save yourself some time and effort in the first place.)
you can still write your code in C, look at GNOME (jeez, i hope that's not written in C++ or i'll look kinda foolish here)
Slashdot Mirror
i knew i shouldn't have waited till i got home to register...
> TiVo feels, and many people agree, that the
> three-step FF/RW functionality is easier to use
> than 30-second skips
funny, i have a replay and i use the 30sec skip all the time. 90% of the time you can hit it right on the spot w/ 2+skip (which takes you 2min forward, or any other number you press).
replay has the same "ff then jump back a few secs" but the skip is just nicer.
henri
the price i quoted included a wellsgarner monitor.
these are VGA monitors that have the same
dot-pitch as arcade monitors, but you can still
use them to boot X (or windows if you have to)
i think the url is: www.wellsgarner.com but it doesn't seem to be working... better than dealing with TV-out and not=TVout, when do you switch, having two displays hooked up...etc. _maybe_ w/ the matroxfb stuff you could set the frequency of the console to work with a vga->rgb converter and see your boot messages on the TV otherwise it gets to be tough...
i went out and bought a cabinet, 2 joysticks,
:) and a 14" monitor that i had (max
.71dot-pitch monitor, p3-600) plus
8 buttons (1p start, 2p start, 3buttons/player)
for $25
stuck my sister's amd K6-300 in it (she was out
of town
resolution 640x480).
another $40 later (2 keyboards and a mouse) i
had a working arcade box.
it's a blast, i don't think i've played a "normal"
computer game since. plus it's great for partys.
now if i could only get my pinball machine to
display the scores correctly....
You could build a _really_ nice cabinet for about
$800 (19"
you could use it as an mp3 jukebox (just add
an irman) if it's next to a stereo!
you could get more use out of it by making it
the ipmasq box for the house...
the only problem w/ my cab is that it makes too
much noise (i spin down my hd, no powersupply fan
only the cpu fan) when the TV and stereo are
off in the living room. if only Via would release
their latest Cyrix chip that can run w/ only
a heat sink.....
$25 seems to be a bit much for a repackaging of GNOME....
i didn't click enough to see if that included shipping, but i think that Helix should have worked something out with CheapBytes and sold the 2CD set for $5 or something...
I hope this isn't part of their biz plan.
maybe when nvidia gets their act together and publishes the complete specs....
check the glx mailing list archives for complete details.
henri
advantages over perl:
henri
wow,
when i wrote the response no one else had posted anything, by the time i hit submit you got pounded...
sorry bout that.
henri
um, maybe you should read a bit about Servlets before posting...
Servlets are serverside only, you have no control over what the server is using to build the page your are seeing.
henri
Richard Gabriel: Am I permitted to take Linux, change the kernel and make an NT out of it? Hard to say whether Torvalds would tolerate it.
Eric Raymond: Not hard at all. As long as you GPLed your changes, Linus would not object.
Shouldn't this read :
"Linus COULD not object." i mean, he could object, but there isn't anything he could do about it, as long as the changes are released under the GPL it's up to the users to choose which kernel to use... [might not be able to call it Linux anymore]
henri
comments? am i way off here?
now that you have spent some time working with an open source (the glx module) do you have any thoughts as to:
the quality of code that is being produced
the rate at which it is being produced / debugged
thanks
henri
www.hoontech.com has some.
henri
anyone know where i can find a cheap stand-alone DAC?
i don't like sun's ultra 5's either. but i do like the knock offs... can't remeber the name of them now, but the place i do some work for has a 5 333mhz boxes in nice rack mount cases w/ scsi running the website (all behind a crisco local director).
these babies have a very nice price/performance level (running 2.6 not 7)
crap, i can't remember the name of the reseller who builds them... the case comes off easy, easy to get at stuff.
henri
my take is that he isn't interested in the ui at all. from linux-g200 mailing list it seems that his goal is (direct quote):
"I think we have an honest shot at matching (or even exceeding) matrox's win9x driver. Currently, they are over 2x as fast."
i don't even think he plays it in windowed mode, so while he is testing he doesn't see any ui, while coding he just sees the IDE.
code is code, but once you get used to an environment it's hard to change (i can't code in anything but emacs and have no interest in learning any new key bindings)
henri
i have dsl (256k) in tempe, don't use USWest... go w/ primenet. it's $5 more expensive a month, but you get a static ip (ie, it's not dhcp keyed to the MAC so if you change computer/network card you still got the same ip).
also, their connection to the net is faster, i had uswest.net for 2 months and have had primenet for 5, in the 2 months of uswest i had about 10 15-45 min outages (a router on their side would go down), other than one problem w/ primenet (a cable got cut or something sat night, fixed sunday noon) i have been very happy w/ their service.
i had a totally different experiance than justin, called up, got the stuff in the mail, called again to ask what day i was going to be turned on, it worked the day they said it would. the only thing that pissed me off was the $45 fee to change ISP (now down to $35) and it took a few calls to uswest to get that done (the magic words are "I want to change Mega Central")
henri
Carmak has been quite active on the g200 mailing list... (talked general driver opt. looked at the code, etc.)
it's really cool to have his input and point of view on, what is arguably, his domain...
you don't see guys like tim sweeny (sp?) (of unreal) looking at the g200 code the day q3test is supposed to ship for windows!
i believe that he (they - id) has made it (obviously) and has realized that he has made it, and now wants to do 'the right thing' (in their eyes, obviously not opensource q3, but q1 soon). cross platform, help support work on linux, push mac to get off their asses, looked at M$ and decided that if anyone was going to get openGL sorted out (driver wise) that id was going to have to do it themselves, or even push that the graphic card co's put out full opengl drivers... q3 uses a limited subset of openGL (like 90% of the calls are to one method, so that driver guys can easily optimize) and he could have stuck w/ the miniGL hacks that people had, but instead he has single handedly forced all the major card manufactorers to supply the world w/ working openGL drivers, this benifits the end user more than anyone else (ok, the M$ end user).
i wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, he has a few words w/ someone like matrox on behalf of the g200 group (i can dream at least)
henri
i hit
slashdot.org/index.pl and it worked fine... (after black screens on the main / page)
Ever sell anything on ebay?
i got bit by the handling... i checked the price of the shipping and quoted him that, then forgot that i had to buy a box and padding and take the time out of my day to go and pack it etc...
i used to bitch about handling, but not anymore, now i bitch when people charge $10 for handling.
henri
there are a few cases where Java is faster than C++.
one is when your system has a lot of object creation and destruction. C++ has to run the destructor every time, plus has to deal w/ the memory freeing overhead. Java ('cause of the garbage collection) can put it off till the system load is a bit lower, or if you have _lots_ of ram for ever.
i'm not trying to say that java is faster than c++, just that c++ is not _always_ faster than java.
I agree 100% about the use of OO languages.
henri
uh, yeah....
you write your code in c, compile it and run it.
it works when you and 2 other people test it.
you move it out to production, 10000 people hit it. boom it dies. why? your SINGLE computer can't handle the load.
so you start to distribute chunks of it, i'll open a socket to this other computer and that way we can spread the load!
so you spend hours/days/weeks writing and testing and breaking your code up into smaller chunks that can run independently of each other and writing a general protocol between them so you don't have to re-write the distribution part every time....
hmmm... starting to look familiar.
wouldn't it have been easier to use some sort of 'component spec' that hides the transfer protocol, has been tested, is documented, and could possibly work with some other vendors components? (and _maybe_ you could use some 'opensource off the shelf' components and save yourself some time and effort in the first place.)
you can still write your code in C, look at GNOME (jeez, i hope that's not written in C++ or i'll look kinda foolish here)
henri
hey,
if you compile mpg123 w/ the 3DNow! optimizations you only get about 4~7% cpu utilization.
i wonder if x11amp has the same optimization stuff in it.
henri
6. $99 for a proprietary secure web server.
a good chunk of this goes to R$A's pocket... there is no way to give this away for free in the US.
i disagree that this is a complaint.
henri
and didn't fit in the moving van.....
i had them in Beirut Lebanon and am now in Tempe Arizona... so yeah, unfortunatly i had to leave them behind...
henri
I assume that the comment headers look different, but is there anything to tell you that you have been chosen as a moderator on the main page?
henri
I think he was just talking about the layout of the site, not the mechanics...
/. looks a lot nicer. and is a 'cleaner' site than the current IMDb.
henri