it sure seems like it. i mean, we've been talking digital convergence since ~95/96 and this sounds like the first real contender. sure, pcs have tried to look more like consoles, and vice versa, and excluding the dell webappliance, this seems like the first reasonable stab at it.
although, as i type this i seem to remember intel trying something similar to this in ~97, a big black box and a giant tv screen, but back then DVD still had small penetration.
maybe the market will be ripe in 2 years when the xbox becomes passe.
Quit being a cheap ass, and go buy McAfee Viruscan for $29.99 at WalMart. You must be one of those guys with like a killer box and all, but you have to sit on an upside down cardboard box and eat ramen noodles.
Let me clarify: there has been quite a bit of press about NAV and McAfee supporting the FBI backdoor, that is: letting the fed's virus slip by undetected. The reason why I asked about freeware should be obvious at this point.
so we know they can now break in and install a device as well as slip in a trojan.
what solutions are there? as for software, i've seen one site about free-ware antivirus, but it was linux only (like linux needs av software!). it would be nice if there was open-source AV for windows. any pointers?
as for hardware, other than having intimate knowledge of your own hardware (always checking your keyboard cable connection and keeping your chassis open for inspection), i can only think of sealed, tamper proof computer chassis.
Well, I've always thought that if I ever needed a prosthetic limb (mostly the forearm), that I wouldn't hesitate to cram it full of digital devices. Roll up your sleeve to expose a PDA screen, etc. I might even go for grasping apparatus for the hand if I could overcome the awkwardness of people staring at me. And no, I'm not thinking about the dildo that the villan from Kentucky Fried Movie had.
Of course, the concept of embedding a PA/GPS device in a prosthetic limb gives a whole new meaning to the term 'palm-top'.
What a terrible article. With the exception of the power supply, there is absolutely nothing new! There are three really good articles on this in/. already. And he doesn't even mention the 5-1/4" sleeves for HDDs! Why is this article even posted?!
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Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC by Hemos with 397 comments on Wednesday October 31, @08:30AM
Building the Quiet PC by CmdrTaco with 171 comments on Sunday July 01, @02:08PM
Building Quieter Computers by Hemos with 398 comments on Monday June 04, @06:51AM
She started taking bookings for people, arranging marriage receptions, promising excellent deals
i don't buy that story. if someone dials the wrong number and you take them for a ride, i think a judge would be inclined to spank you pretty hard for fraud.
Re-read the first book. This is discussed ad nauseum at Rivendell and Lorein. They discuss all the possible scenarios other than sending it to Mordor with a hobbit. (Hiding it with the Elves or Bombadil, sending it across the sea to the West, casting it into the Sea, using it to defeat Sauron, etc...)
In answer to your first question, the party was small and the ring bearer insignificant so that Sauron would not be able to detect him. They discuss giving the ring to an army of elves, but that would be to detectable and easily thwarted by the huge armies of Mordor. A sole hobbit and a tiny party has the advantage of stealth, well, for a while.
Second question: Frodo doesn't need a map because Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf and Boromir all know the way to Mordor. Gandalf has been to Mordor before. Boromir is from Gondar, which borders Mordor to the West. Legolas spent time at Minas Tirith for a while, which guards entry to Mordor. Plus, Mt. Doom is visible from hundreds of miles away.
radio shack makes a $0.50 blinker LED (circuitry in the package), probably uses something similar, but there's got to be a transformer/power supply in the circuit already. it's probably cheaper to make them blink than not: save money on the rectifier!
it seems rather close to land to be a sunken continent. i mean, if atlantis were a continent, it would be fairly big, like australia. but these ruins are very close to cuba, which seems to me like cuba would be part of the same continent. if that were the case then there would be similar artifacts in cuba, like the 6000 year old megalith unearthed in '66. although, the disney atlantians did look a bit aztekian.
What?! At what point did you think I was anti-military? Don't be so quick to judge. I totally support the war (especially leveraging the N.A. rather than putting our own troops at risk), I just never expected the death tool from friendly fire to be higher than that inflicted by the enemy.
Sad, really, how some people just draw their own conclusions from their own malicious bias.
minesweeper was directly responsible for.4 point drop in my overall GPA.
of course it isn't a chemical addiction like nicotine or heroin (maybe they will prove that it is some day) but anything that alters your state of mind could potentially become an addiction, like, just thinking about people who spent ungodly amounts of time on things in highschool:
* gearheads building their camaros and firebirds (i think it's hondas and accuras today)
* weightlifters and obsessive athletes
* musicians who play guitar all day and cut classes
no one ever called these 'addictions' did they?
the first and last groups were at least crafting something, the other group just wasted lots of cycles damaging themselves.
gamers seem to fall into the 'obsessive athlete' category. i can see why this would be a pointless waste of time. if they were actually writing code 5-10 hours a day for fun, then at least they'd be learning something applicable in life. advancing your character is just as useless as being able to bench press 5,000 pounds.
It's about time someone improved on the 16-channel 32 kiloBIT per second MIDI standard. Although there are still quantization issues on low frequency strings (don't try this on a bass), I'm glad to see MIDI adopting a proven standard. After all, MIDI is just a simple network (device ids, packets, etc). Traditionally it required very little hardware compared to ethernet, but that's changed soooo much in the past decade that i bet it is just as easy to hook up the hardware to ethernet.
100% behind you on all of your statements, especially the upkeep costs. As for books and teachers, maybe Maine doesn't have the same teacher retention problems other states/large cities have?
no kidding. i've been playing Bard's Tale for the past two weeks. new games do so much automapping and autosaving, you get spoiled. some of the BT mazes are so nasty. i bought all the 10x10 rule graph paper that they had at my local officeMax.
I can't believe no one brought up HG Wells yet, so I'll make an esoteric reference.
In "The New Accelerator", a short story, Wells proposes an elixer that speeds up metabolism to the point where people see the world around them slow to a crawl (bees' wings flapping, pitch of marching band slowing down, etc.)
See the parallels to modern drugs like crystal which didn't exist then.
...assuming it doesn't check the window class passed to the windows registration function (when the wndclass is created). that would always be the same regardless of the filename/execname. of course you can hexedit that too (or recompile).
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they've trumped everyone else...
it sure seems like it. i mean, we've been talking digital convergence since ~95/96 and this sounds like the first real contender. sure, pcs have tried to look more like consoles, and vice versa, and excluding the dell webappliance, this seems like the first reasonable stab at it.
although, as i type this i seem to remember intel trying something similar to this in ~97, a big black box and a giant tv screen, but back then DVD still had small penetration.
maybe the market will be ripe in 2 years when the xbox becomes passe.
-s
Why should you be worried about Magic Lantern? Are you a terrorist?
/. terrorists overnight.
In cause great terror in the eyes of small minded right-wingers, but in the popular sense: no, I am not a terrorist.
Remember that on a whim Ashcroft made most people on
Quit being a cheap ass, and go buy McAfee Viruscan for $29.99 at WalMart. You must be one of those guys with like a killer box and all, but you have to sit on an upside down cardboard box and eat ramen noodles.
;-)
Let me clarify: there has been quite a bit of press about NAV and McAfee supporting the FBI backdoor, that is: letting the fed's virus slip by undetected. The reason why I asked about freeware should be obvious at this point.
Now back to my oh so tasty Ramen...
so we know they can now break in and install a device as well as slip in a trojan.
what solutions are there? as for software, i've seen one site about free-ware antivirus, but it was linux only (like linux needs av software!). it would be nice if there was open-source AV for windows. any pointers?
as for hardware, other than having intimate knowledge of your own hardware (always checking your keyboard cable connection and keeping your chassis open for inspection), i can only think of sealed, tamper proof computer chassis.
- the discovery of the troll statues in that one shot (alluded to in the movie during Bilbo's tale to the children).
- gifts from Galadriel (Gimli and her hair maybe? The giving of the cloaks and string?)
- more elaboration of race relations with elves/dwarves (the blindfolding prior to entering Lothlorein)
- a few more minutes of sombreness after Gandalf dies, rather than cutting from tears to smiles in Lorien...
D'oh!
Sorry, I just realized you were being blindingly sarcastic.
Ya got me, sink, line, and hooker!
-S
Well, I've always thought that if I ever needed a prosthetic limb (mostly the forearm), that I wouldn't hesitate to cram it full of digital devices. Roll up your sleeve to expose a PDA screen, etc. I might even go for grasping apparatus for the hand if I could overcome the awkwardness of people staring at me. And no, I'm not thinking about the dildo that the villan from Kentucky Fried Movie had.
Of course, the concept of embedding a PA/GPS device in a prosthetic limb gives a whole new meaning to the term 'palm-top'.
ba-dum-bum ching... (sorry)
If the people of Anniston simply stopped buying products from Monsanto, then they could use their "market forces" to stop this kind of activity.
You missed one small point: what if there is no alternative?
This type of attitude is the _only_ problem I have with the Libertarian party, however, it is so huge and important that I can't overlook it.
What a terrible article. With the exception of the power supply, there is absolutely nothing new! There are three really good articles on this in /. already. And he doesn't even mention the 5-1/4" sleeves for HDDs! Why is this article even posted?!
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Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC by Hemos with 397 comments on Wednesday October 31, @08:30AM
Building the Quiet PC by CmdrTaco with 171 comments on Sunday July 01, @02:08PM
Building Quieter Computers by Hemos with 398 comments on Monday June 04, @06:51AM
Anyone know if thing is very loud?
Pepsi is more like the MacOS of the soda world.
last i checked MacOS was 4% of the market, compared to ~50% for Pepsi.
She started taking bookings for people, arranging marriage receptions, promising excellent deals
i don't buy that story. if someone dials the wrong number and you take them for a ride, i think a judge would be inclined to spank you pretty hard for fraud.
Re-read the first book. This is discussed ad nauseum at Rivendell and Lorein. They discuss all the possible scenarios other than sending it to Mordor with a hobbit. (Hiding it with the Elves or Bombadil, sending it across the sea to the West, casting it into the Sea, using it to defeat Sauron, etc...)
In answer to your first question, the party was small and the ring bearer insignificant so that Sauron would not be able to detect him. They discuss giving the ring to an army of elves, but that would be to detectable and easily thwarted by the huge armies of Mordor. A sole hobbit and a tiny party has the advantage of stealth, well, for a while.
Second question: Frodo doesn't need a map because Legolas, Aragorn, Gandalf and Boromir all know the way to Mordor. Gandalf has been to Mordor before. Boromir is from Gondar, which borders Mordor to the West. Legolas spent time at Minas Tirith for a while, which guards entry to Mordor. Plus, Mt. Doom is visible from hundreds of miles away.
radio shack makes a $0.50 blinker LED (circuitry in the package), probably uses something similar, but there's got to be a transformer/power supply in the circuit already. it's probably cheaper to make them blink than not: save money on the rectifier!
thought that said "Terminex" when i first read it, and then thought, "Hm, that's odd product placement." whew, I really need that monday AM coffeee...
it seems rather close to land to be a sunken continent. i mean, if atlantis were a continent, it would be fairly big, like australia. but these ruins are very close to cuba, which seems to me like cuba would be part of the same continent. if that were the case then there would be similar artifacts in cuba, like the 6000 year old megalith unearthed in '66. although, the disney atlantians did look a bit aztekian.
"...the anti-military folks... ...Sad, really."
What?! At what point did you think I was anti-military? Don't be so quick to judge. I totally support the war (especially leveraging the N.A. rather than putting our own troops at risk), I just never expected the death tool from friendly fire to be higher than that inflicted by the enemy.
Sad, really, how some people just draw their own conclusions from their own malicious bias.
...maybe these can defend against friendly fire. so far all but one american military casaulty in the new war have been due to errant american bombs.
granted the frontline is a deadly place to be, but i'm shocked by how many of our own soldiers we're killing.
then again, i remember the same stories in the Desert Storm, Desert Fox, and the action against Milosovich (choppers downed/stealth fighters downed)
minesweeper was directly responsible for .4 point drop in my overall GPA.
of course it isn't a chemical addiction like nicotine or heroin (maybe they will prove that it is some day) but anything that alters your state of mind could potentially become an addiction, like, just thinking about people who spent ungodly amounts of time on things in highschool:
* gearheads building their camaros and firebirds (i think it's hondas and accuras today)
* weightlifters and obsessive athletes
* musicians who play guitar all day and cut classes
no one ever called these 'addictions' did they?
the first and last groups were at least crafting something, the other group just wasted lots of cycles damaging themselves.
gamers seem to fall into the 'obsessive athlete' category. i can see why this would be a pointless waste of time. if they were actually writing code 5-10 hours a day for fun, then at least they'd be learning something applicable in life. advancing your character is just as useless as being able to bench press 5,000 pounds.
my $0.02
So long USB/joystick-port MIDI!!
It's about time someone improved on the 16-channel 32 kiloBIT per second MIDI standard. Although there are still quantization issues on low frequency strings (don't try this on a bass), I'm glad to see MIDI adopting a proven standard. After all, MIDI is just a simple network (device ids, packets, etc). Traditionally it required very little hardware compared to ethernet, but that's changed soooo much in the past decade that i bet it is just as easy to hook up the hardware to ethernet.
100% behind you on all of your statements, especially the upkeep costs. As for books and teachers, maybe Maine doesn't have the same teacher retention problems other states/large cities have?
no kidding. i've been playing Bard's Tale for the past two weeks. new games do so much automapping and autosaving, you get spoiled. some of the BT mazes are so nasty. i bought all the 10x10 rule graph paper that they had at my local officeMax.
For example:
1st season family guy: peter griffin goes back to school as a greaser and shreds his hand when he tries to smack a jukebox into operation.
Last week's Simpsons: same thing.
Family Guy a few weeks ago: they husbands go to a lesbian bar and make crude jokes.
Simpsons: Homer searching for a new bar to hang out at stumbles into the She-She lounge, similar.
There are more occurances like this, but my feeble short-term memory can't keep them all inside my head.
It bothers me that the two are ripping each other off, but IMHO The Family Guy is much more crass, which is a good thing.
I can't believe no one brought up HG Wells yet, so I'll make an esoteric reference.
In "The New Accelerator", a short story, Wells proposes an elixer that speeds up metabolism to the point where people see the world around them slow to a crawl (bees' wings flapping, pitch of marching band slowing down, etc.)
See the parallels to modern drugs like crystal which didn't exist then.
...assuming it doesn't check the window class passed to the windows registration function (when the wndclass is created). that would always be the same regardless of the filename/execname. of course you can hexedit that too (or recompile).